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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.
2. Nor in the signification of it: That to put them in remembrance of their deliverance from Egypt, and Typically from Hell: This puts us in remembrance of the love of Christ, in bringing us from misery, and freeing us from torments infinitely worse than Egyptian slavery.
2. Nor in the signification of it: That to put them in remembrance of their deliverance from Aegypt, and Typically from Hell: This puts us in remembrance of the love of Christ, in bringing us from misery, and freeing us from torments infinitely worse than Aegyptian slavery.
3. Nor in the use and end of it, this being a seal of the Covenant of Grace, to convey to Believers an assurance of the blessings of the Covenant of promise.
4 Nor in the manner of its signification: That a sign of Christ that was to come and suffer; this, that Christ is come, and hath already suffered.
This is my first Argument why, and Motive that we should approach to the Lords Supper, after painful and serious preparation: No Preparation, no participation. It is not then putting on our finer Clothes on a Sacrament day, but the Trimming of our hearts, that God expecteth at our hands.