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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.
1. Such do fearfully increase their guilt, in a very high degree, in making themselves guilty of the Body and Blood of Christ, though not as an Actor in his death, yet virtually as an Abetter and Consenter; for an unworthy Receiver, is a Christ murderer, as he that defaceth the Kings Picture, doth reflect upon his Person. He that dares rush upon the Sacrament with reigning-sin in his heart, would be a Judas unto Christ, if he were personally upon Earth; and had Judas his opportunity, temptations and other circumstances, he would wash his hands in the blood of Christ: that comes, but not to have his heart washed in the Sacrament, 1 Cor. 11.27. And will you ⟨p. 50⟩so come, to have your sin increased, instead of having of it pardoned?
O what a crying Sin is Blood guiltiness, tho' it be but the blood of a common man: But what will it be to be guilty of the Blood of the Son of God! Did not the Blood of Abel cry against Cain for vengeance? Oh what a voice and cry will there be then in the Blood of Christ! and will you have the Blood of Christ cry against you, instead of pleading for you? Nay, you will sin more than many of the Jews, that did actually crucify him, for many of them did it ignorantly; for had they known him, they could not have crucified the Lord of Glory, 1 Cor. 2.8. But you know and acknowledge him to be such, and yet will be guilty of his Blood; they did it in his state of humiliation, but you do it in his state of Exaltation. It would have been better for Judas if he had not been born, and it would be better for you if you never had received.
O what a crying Sin is Blood guiltiness, tho' it be but the blood of a common man: But what will it be to be guilty of the Blood of the Son of God! Did not the Blood of Abel cry against Cain for vengeance? Oh what a voice and cry will there be then in the Blood of Christ! and will you have the Blood of Christ cry against you, instead of pleading for you? Nay, you will sin more than many of the Jews, that did actually crucifie him, for many of them did it ignorantly; for had they known him, they could not have crucified the Lord of Glory,