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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. The Author of this Ordinance, the Lord ⟨p. 3⟩Jesus Christ, he alone hath power and Authority for the appointing of Ordinances in his Church, and for the Instituting of significant Sacramental Signs. He is the King and Prophet of his Church, and hath not left it to his Officers at their will and pleasure to introduce any thing that is a part of holy Worship; for Christ was neither short in wisdom that he could not, nor in goodness that he would not appoint whatsoever was sufficient for the Edifying of his Church, and the Comfort of his People: Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the Tabernacle, that he should make all things according to the pattern showed to him in the Mount, Heb 8.5. Exod. 25.40. And Paul delivered nothing but what he had received of the Lord.
1. The Author of this Ordinance, the Lord ⟨p. 3⟩Jesus Christ, he alone hath power and Authority for the appointing of Ordinances in his Church, and for the Instituting of significant Sacramental Signs. He is the King and Prophet of his Church, and hath not left it to his Officers at their will and pleasure to introduce any thing that is a part of holy Worship; for Christ was neither short in wisdom that he could not, nor in goodness that he would not appoint whatsoever was sufficient for the Edifying of his Church, and the Comfort of his People: Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the Tabernacle, that he should make all things according to the pattern shewed to him in the Mount, Heb 8.5. Exod. 25.40. And Paul delivered nothing but what he had received of the Lord.
2. The Time when this Ordinance was appointed by our Lord Jesus, that same night in which he was betrayed, when he was so near unto his death, and knew all that was to be done to him, and suffered by him; whereby you might perceive the greatness of the Love of your dying Lord, that when he was so full of Sorrow, he made provision for your Comfort; and the excellency of this Sacrament, that had its Original from Christ, when he was so near his end, that should be for the maintaining of his Peoples Spiritual Life, which was ordained by him now drawing near to death. Great and weighty things take up the thoughts of wise and serious dying Men; that sure is great and weighty which our dying