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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.
(2.) Such provoke God to inflict upon them oftentimes heavy and dreadful punishments in this life: So that though God will not send a Believer to Hell for this his sin, yet he might send him to his Grave for this sin, 1 Cor. 11.30 For this cause many are sickly among you, and many weak, and many are fallen asleep. It is thought that God sent a Plague among the ⟨p. 52⟩Corinthians for profaning the Lords Supper. It is not usual with people in their sickness to reflect upon their unworthy receiving as the Cause thereof: They say, such a time I did over heat my self, and caught cold, & so my sickness came: But not, I went to the Lords Table in my sin, or without actual preparation, and so my sickness came: If unworthy Receivers had no love unto their Souls, yet for the love they bear unto their Bodies, they should be persuaded to forbear till they were prepared. If Damnation and Hell being out of sight will not affright them, yet Death and the Grave, that is a nearer Object methinks should. Oh how careful should we be to prepare for that which else might be death to our bodies, and damnation to our Souls?
(2.) Such provoke God to inflict upon them oftentimes heavy and dreadful punishments in this life: So that though God will not send a Believer to Hell for this his sin, yet he might send him to his Grave for this sin, 1 Cor. 11.30 For this cause many are sickly among you, and many weak, and many are fallen asleep. It is thought that God sent a Plague among the ⟨p. 52⟩Corinthians for prophaning the Lords Supper. It is not usual with people in their sickness to reflect upon their unworthy receiving as the Cause thereof: They say, such a time I did over heat my self, and caught cold, & so my sickness came: But not, I went to the Lords Table in my sin, or without actual preparation, and so my sickness came: If unworthy Receivers had no love unto their Souls, yet for the love they bear unto their Bodies, they should be perswaded to forbear till they were prepared. If Damnation and Hell being out of sight will not affright them, yet Death and the Grave, that is a nearer Object methinks should. Oh how careful should we be to prepare for that which else might be death to our bodies, and damnation to our Souls?