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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.
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, 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.
2. Such draw down great Judgments upon themselves; and no wonder if great guilt and great sin be followed with great Judgments; for God will proportion mens sufferings to their sinnings. He that cometh without the Wedding Garment on his Soul, shall go away with a Curse upon his Head and Heart.