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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.
Twel•thly, Eye the Blood of Christ in the Sacrament, as quickening blood. The blood that did flow from Christs heart, it was warm blood; and believe me, it will warm your heart. It is quickening blood, though it be killing blood: It lays your sin sprawling within you, and dying in your heart; but it will give life unto your heart. Joh. 6 53. Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you; if you drink it, then it will enliven you. Sin hath often deadened your heart, and the World hath often deadened your affections, but the blood of Christ will ⟨p. 113⟩put life into both. The blood of Christ it is the life of all your Duties; it will make you pray with life and hear with life, and discourse of the things of God, and the life to come, with life. The blood of Christ is the life of •ll […] will make you act faith with life, it will make you love with life, it will make you sorrow and repent with life; the blood of Christ is the life of your Comforts. Oh then bring your dead heart, and ••ll affections to the Blood of Christ, it will quicken and enliven them, for it is an enlivening blood.
Twel•thly, Eye the Blood of Christ in the Sacrament, as quickning blood. The blood that did flow from Christs heart, it was warm blood; and believe me, it will warm your heart. It is quickning blood, though it be killing blood: It lays your sin sprawling within you, and dying in your heart; but it will give life unto your heart. Joh. 6 53. Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you; if you drink it, then it will enliven you. Sin hath often deadned your heart, and the World hath often deadned your affections, but the blood of Christ will ⟨p. 113⟩put life into both. The blood of Christ it is the life of all your Duties; it will make you pray with life and hear with life, and discourse of the things of God, and the life to come, with life. The blood of Christ is the life of ll will make you act faith with life, it will make you love with life, it will make you sorrow and repent with life; the blood of Christ is the life of your Comforts. Oh then bring your dead heart, and ll affections to the Blood of Christ, it will quicken and enliven them, for it is an enlivening blood.