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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.
3. It is plentiful water; there is but little in a Cistern, but abundance in the Fountain.
4. It is inexhaustible, and perpetual: it overflows, and yet it ever flows. Such is the ⟨p. 116⟩blood of Christ; Christ hath not expended all the virtue of his blood upon David, and Peter, and Paul, and the Saints that are already got to glory; but there is enough for you, it is a copious blood, if you consider the real quantity of blood which Christ at six several times did shed. Six times Christ bled for you.
4. It is inexhaustible, and perpetual: it overflows, and yet it ever flows. Such is the ⟨p. 116⟩blood of Christ; Christ hath not expended all the vertue of his blood upon David, and Peter, and Paul, and the Saints that are already got to glory; but there is enough for you, it is a copious blood, if you consider the real quantity of blood which Christ at six several times did shed. Six times Christ bled for you.
1. In his Circumcision. 2. In the Garden. 3. When he was Scourged. 4. When he was Crowned with Thorns. 5. When his hands and feet were nailed to the Cross. 6. When his side was pierced with a Spear. Thus if you consider the real quantity of his natural blood, it was much; but if you consider the supernatural efficacy and virtue of it, it was infinite.
1. In his Circumcision. 2. In the Garden. 3. When he was Scourged. 4. When he was Crowned with Thorns. 5. When his hands and feet were nailed to the Cross. 6. When his side was pierced with a Spear. Thus if you consider the real quantity of his natural blood, it was much; but if you consider the supernatural efficacy and vertue of it, it was infinite.