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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. 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.
2. Eye the Blood of Christ in the Sacrament, as it is satisfying blood: And this it is because it was such precious blood; it was most precious blood, therefore it was blood of value and merit: The Law of God was transgressed, the Covenant of Works by us was violated, the Justice of God was wronged, and the Sinner was indebted unto Justice, and did owe the suffering of the penalty due for the breach of the Law; which was all miseries in this life, death it self, and the torments of Hell for ever. But in the Sacrament, eye Christs Blood as the payment of our debt, as shed nostro bono, for our good; and nestro loc, in our stead. Christ hath endured as much as our sins had deserved; whose sufferings were satisfactory, though they were not eternal, and therefore were not eternal, because they were satisfactory: Eternity of torment not being essential to the punishment due to sin, but accidental, upon supposition, that the sufferings of sinners cannot satisfy; if the damned could satisfy Gods Justice by lying in Hell ten thousand millions of years, at the expiration of those years they should come forth; but because they can never satisfy, therefore they must for ever suffer.