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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. It concerns a man before he dye, to get some evidences of his grace, and this is necessary to his more comfortable dying: a man may have grace, and so be delivered from the hurt of death; but if he have not some evidences of this Grace, he will lye under the fears of death. So a man, before he goes to the Lords Table, should endeavour to get the knowledge, sight and evidence of his interest in Christ, & this is necessary to his more comfortable receiving; without which, though he may receive worthily, yet not without some fears; I fear Christ did not dye for me, I fear this blood was not shed for me, I fear I do not love God; and so will be deprived of those joys and comforts which would come in by a particular application of Christ to himself; i• he can conclude, Here is blood, & it was shed for me; Here is righteousness, and it is imputed unto me: I think a man that is not fit to dye, is not •it to receive: A Man should sit down at the Lords Table ⟨p. 60⟩with as great care as he would lye down in his Grave; and be as serious for his Soul at this Ordinance as he would upon his dying Bed: You should go to the Lords Table, as carefully as if you were going into another World.
2. It concerns a man before he dye, to get some evidences of his grace, and this is necessary to his more comfortable dying: a man may have grace, and so be delivered from the hurt of death; but if he have not some evidences of this Grace, he will lye under the fears of death. So a man, before he goes to the Lords Table, should endeavour to get the knowledge, sight and evidence of his interest in Christ, & this is necessary to his more comfortable receiving; without which, though he may receive worthily, yet not without some fears; I fear Christ did not dye for me, I fear this blood was not shed for me, I fear I do not love God; and so will be deprived of those joyes and comforts which would come in by a particular application of Christ to himself; i• he can conclude, Here is blood, & it was shed for me; Here is righteousness, and it is imputed unto me: I think a man that is not fit to dye, is not •it to receive: A Man should sit down at the Lords Table ⟨p. 60⟩