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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.
Sixth Argument; God makes great preparations ⟨p. 55⟩for us in this Ordinance, therefore we should make great preparations when we come to partake of it; and shall not we be preparing to receive, what God is preparing to give? Doth the Great God make preparations to entertain poor Sinners at his Table, and shall we come rashly and carelessly to it? Matth. 22 4. Tell them that are bidden, Behold I have prepared my dinner, my Oxen and my Fatlings are killed, and all things are ready. Oh what delightful words are these! Oh that they were delighting to my Soul! Oh how refreshing are these things prepared! and how […] is the invitation of God to us to come and be partakers of them! Justice might have prepared Torments for us, but behold, Mercy hath prepared precious Privileges for us! Oh what great things were to be done, that this Supper might be prepared for us. The Son of God must come down from Heaven to Earth, and become the Son of Man; he must suffer and bleed, and dye, and have his garments dyed in blood, that this Ordinance might be prepared for Believers. Besides, here are great things prepared to be given to such as do prepare to come rightly to it; here is pardon of sin prepared for you; here is peace and comfort prepared for you; here is further increase of Grace prepared for you: But where are your preparations to receive them? Here is merit ready to justify you: Here is blood ready to wash and sanctify you; here is righteousness ready to be imputed to you: But is ⟨p. 56⟩your faith ready to receive them? Is your love ready to be acted towards this Go• that hath made them ready for you? […] your heart ready to give thanks and praises to this God that will bestow these things upon you? Or will you give occasion to your God to complain of you, and say, I am ready to give increase of Grace to yonder Believer, but he is not ready to receive it; he hath not enlarged the capacity of his Soul, by getting greater hungrings & thirstings after it: I am ready to give in peace and comfort, when his Soul wants both peace and comfort, but yet he is not ready to partake thereof.
Sixth Argument; God makes great preparations ⟨p. 55⟩