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A treatise concerning the Lords Supper
A treatise concerning the Lords Supper: with three dialogues for the more full information of the weak, in the nature and use of this sacrament. / By Tho. Doolittel [sic].
printed by B. Green for Samuel Phillips, 1700
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Parallel of this is, That we should reflect upon our sins, which made our lives bitter while we lived in them, and that now we should taste more bitterness in our sins, than ever we found sweetness, pleasure and delight therein.
Thirdly, Why do we eat it with unleavened bread? The Parents were to answer, Because the Dough of our Fathers had not time to be leavened.
The Parallel of this is, That we must make haste to Christ, and eat this New-Testament Passover with the unleavened Bread of sincerity and truth: That we must not delay to come out of spiritual-Egypt, nor go to Christ in hypocrisy, but in truth.
The Parallel of this is, That we must make haste to Christ, and eat this New-Testament Passeover with the unleavened Bread of sincerity and truth: That we must not delay to come out of spiritual-Egypt, nor go to Christ in hypocrisie, but in truth.
Thirdly, From the time there was betwixt the taking, and the killing of the Paschal ⟨p. 44⟩Lamb; the Lamb was taken the tenth day, and killed the fourteenth day of the month, Exod, 12.3. ad 7. And it is received as a Tradition among the Jews, that for the duration of those four days, the Lamb was tied to their Bed-posts, that in the Evening when they went to bed, and in the Morning when they arose, and in the day-time when they were private in their Chambers; the sight of the Lamb might affect their hearts, and put them in mind of the work they were to do, and bethink themselves of the greatness of Gods Mercy towards them, in delivering them from Egyptian Bondage.