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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.
Here you have to do with blood, and then if ever, you should be serious; but most of all when it is the Blood of God. Consider before you go, that you have to do with the Blood of Christ, and let that quicken you to preparation.
The fourth Argument for diligent preparation is from the subject that is to be partaker of it; as we may be considered in a twofold state or capacity.
What we were. What we are.
First, Every Man is born unfit for the Lords Table: We were Enemies to God, and therefore except we will come in our enmity to God, we m•st prepare and fit our selves, by being reconciled unto God: We are born spiritually dead, and it would not be so loathsome a sight to us to have a dead Corps full of plague sores set down at our Table, as a man dead in Sin to sit down at Gods Table, is loathsome unto God: Where there is no Life, there is no Appetite; and where there is no Appetite, there is no actual preparation to this duty.