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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.
Eleventhly, Eye the blood of Christ in the Sacrament, as sin mortifying blood▪ it is indeed soul saving blood, but it is sin killing blood; and therefore it saves your Soul, because it kills your Sin: As that Physic saves a mans life which removeth his Sickness: That which is life to your Soul, is death to your Sin. In the Sacrament you must look upon your sin, as that which was the death of your Lord, and look upon your Lord as one that is the death of your sin: Sin drew out the life-blood of Christ, and the blood of Christ shed, will draw out the life-blood of Sin: Here you may behold these two great Combatants both fighting, both bleeding, both dying, and they are reciprocal causes of each others death: Christ he bleeds, and sin it bleeds: Christ dies, and sin dies: But Christ gets the Victory, for Christ dieth, and rises again, and lives for evermore; but sin once dead, liveth never more.
Eleventhly, Eye the blood of Christ in the Sacrament, as sin mortifying blood▪ it is indeed soul saving blood, but it is sin killing blood; and therefore it saves your Soul, because it kills your Sin: As that Physick saves a mans life which removeth his Sickness: That which is life to your Soul, is death to your Sin. In the Sacrament you must look upon your sin, as that which was the death of your Lord, and look upon your Lord as one that is the death of your sin: Sin drew out the life-blood of Christ, and the blood of Christ shed, will draw out the life-blood of Sin: Here you may behold these two great Combatan•s both fighting, both bleeding, both dying, and they are reciprocal causes of each others death: Christ he bleeds, and sin it bleeds: Christ dies, and sin dies: But Christ gets the Victory, for Christ dieth, and rises again, and lives for evermore; but sin once dead, liveth never more.
Oh! come cast your sins, those cursed Egyptians, ⟨p. 112⟩into the Red Sea of Christs blood; and they shall be drowned to death, and never live to reign over you more; your Soul shall be safe by passing thorough this Red Sea, but your sins shall fall and die therein. This blood will kill your pride, and mortify your earthly mindedness, and subdue all your Inordinate Affections; yea, the whole body of sin by this blood shall be destroyed,