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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 believers, before the Lords Supper, should take • competent measure of time to bethink themselves of the Love of God in delivering them from Sin and Hell, infinitely worse than Egyptian Bondage, and prepare themselves to commemorate the Death of Christ, and be partakers of the great Blessing that at the Lords Table true Believers have conferred upon them.
It is not sufficient to spend an hour the night before, or in the morning you are to approach unto it, but some day before to have it in your thoughts, that you may consider the greatness of the work you are to go about.
This Example of the Jews is cogent unto us, forasmuch as the Lords Supper is not inferior to the Passover.
This Example of the Jews is cogent unto us, forasmuch as the Lords Supper is not inferiour to the Passeover.
1. Neither in the Institution of it; the Passover was by Gods Ordination, and so is the ⟨p. 45⟩