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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.
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.
Secondly, Such as are truly converted, may yet be indisposed for this duty; therefore there must be preparation. It is not every one that hath true grace, is presently to be judged actually fit for this Ordinance: As a man that is asleep, is a living, real man, but yet •e it not fit to eat, and drink, and converse with men; so a man may have Faith, and Love, and Hope, and yet not be fit for this duty, if his Faith be asleep, and Love and Hope be asleep: For a man that is a worthy Receiver; might receive unworthily; my meaning is, That one that is habitually prepared by having the ⟨p. 49⟩truth of grace […] receive amiss, by being not actually pre•••ed by the drawing forth of his graces into act and exercise; and how much time must be spent in fervent prayer, in holy meditation, and other duties, before you can feel the actings of Faith and Love, Desire and Delight in God, before you can bring your heart to be broken for your sin, &c.
Secondly, Such as are truly converted, may yet be indisposed for this duty; therefore there must be preparation. It is not every one that hath true grace, is presently to be judged actually fit for this Ordinance: As a man that is asleep, is a living, real man, but yet •e it not fit to eat, and drink, and converse with men; so a man may have Faith, and Love, and Hope, and yet not be fit for this duty, if his Faith be asleep, and Love and Hope be asleep: For a man that is a worthy Receiver; might receive unworthily; my meaning is, That one that is habitually prepared by having the