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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, When thou hast thus proceeded ⟨p. 91⟩to find out the truth of thy grace, then next go on to solemn meditation, to consider of those things which might excite and stir up thy graces, the truth of which thou findest to be already wrought in thy heart; that so thou mightest go unto this Ordinance with lively exercise of grace, that all thy graces might be ready to act according to thy duty in this work: For it will be thy Sin to go unto the Table of the Lord with dull affections, and deadness upon thy heart; and it is an aggravation of thy sin, if it be through want of diligent endeavour to get thy Soul affected and inflamed with love before thou goest. Now for thy help therein, I shall instance in some of those things which will be fit and suitable objects for thy thoughts before thou goest, and not unseasonable to meditate upon while thou art there.
First, Meditate and dwell in thy thoughts upon the Love of God in the great work of Mans Redemption. Consider that thou wast in a fallen and miserable estate, under the Curse of the Law, liable to the wrath of God, the Torments of Hell; under the power of thy lusts, and the bondage of the Devil; and couldst not help thy self, nor recover thy self to the Happiness from which thou didst fall: then get thy heart affected with the Love of God, who in the eternal project of his Counsel, hath contrived a way for thy Salvation: And here, if thy heart be not yet affected.
First, Meditate and dwell in thy thoughts upon the Love of God in the great work of Mans Redemption. Consider that thou wast in a fallen and miserable estate, under the Curse of the Law, liable to the wrath of God, the Torments of Hell; under the power of thy lusts, and the bondage of the Devil; and couldst not help thy self, nor recover thy self to the Happiness from which thou didst fall: then get thy heart affected with the Love of God, who in the eternal project of his Councel, hath contrived a way for thy Salvation: And here, if thy heart be not yet affected.