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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.
Secondly, The good Consequents are very great if you rightly receive it, with due preparation and care; and is not that your end in coming to it, that you may be better for it? He that aimeth not at this spiritual advantage in subordination to, and conjunction with the Glory of God, comes he knows not why▪ And to come for this, without preparation, is ⟨p. 53⟩to separate betwixt the end and the mean• ▪ Consider,
Secondly, The good Consequents are very great if you rightly receive it, with due preparation and care; and is not that your end in coming to it, that you may be better for it? He that aimeth not at this spiritual advantage in subordination to, and conjunction with the Glory of God, comes he knows not why▪ And to come for this, without prepartion, is ⟨p. 53⟩to separate betwixt the end and the mean• ▪ Consider,
1. Such as come in a right manner, shall receive more from God when they come: The time of preparation is your sowing times: When you should sow in tears, and the time of receiving is your reaping time; and he that prepares negligently, shall reap sparingly: he that prepares diligently, shall reap abundantly. For,
1. Such shall receive more grace from God, they shall come away with more love to God, with mre desires after God, with more faith in Christ, and hatred to their sins.