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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 Second Argument for preparation for the Sacrament, is taken from the Author of it, which is God: The more he that doth invite you to his Table is your Superior, the more you prepare your selves to go to sit down thereat, more than if he be your Inferior, or your equal. God is infin•ely your Superior: Consider what this God is that prepares ⟨p. 46⟩this Banquet for you, and prepare for it.
The Second Argument for preparation for the Sacrament, is taken from the Author of it, which is God: The more he that doth invite you to his Table is your Superiour, the more you prepare your selves to go to sit down thereat, more than if he be your Inferiour, or your equal. God is infin•ely your Superiour: Consider what this God is that prepares ⟨p. 46⟩this Banquet for you, and prepare for it.
1. He is a great and a mighty God, a God of inconceivable Majesty, and transcendent Glory, whose perfection is infinitely above the most raised apprehensions of Angels & Men: and would you go unto the Table of a great King with filthy hands, and in your rags? And would you go to the Table of the great King of Heaven and Earth with a filthy heart, and in your sins?
2. He is a pure and an holy God: Indeed every thing here is holy, the Signs are holy Signs, the things signified are holy things, the Ends of the Institution are holy ends, and the Author of it is the holy God; and shall our hearts only be unholy? the very externals & utensils about it, are and should be clean; the Cups are clean, the Cloth is clean, else you would be offended, and should not your Heart be clean? If not, would not your God be offended?