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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. Comparative, by way of Comparison, being more precious, than all the precious things in nature, as Silver and Gold, which are vile, corruptible, and contemptible in comparison of the Blood of Christ; of no worth and value to redeem Souls, as this is.
2. Absolute; Consider it absolutely in it self: and so the dignity and excellency of his person makes it so exceeding precious, being the Blood of that person that was God as well as Man, Acts 20.28.
3. Effective, by way of causality, because it doth produce precious effects: As, 1. It doth redeem precious Souls. 2. It doth make a precious people. 3. It doth confirm precious promises▪ ⟨p. 105⟩4. It doth purchase precious Privileges. 5. It is the meritorious ••use of precious Graces. 6. It is the foundation […] precious Comforts.
3. Effective, by way of causality, because it doth produce precious effects: As, 1. It do•h redeem precious Souls. 2. It doth make a precious people. 3. It doth confirm precious promises▪ ⟨p. 105⟩4. It doth purchase precious Priviledges. 5. It is the meritoriou• ••use of precious Graces. 6. It is the foundation precious Comforts.