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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.
Eighteenthly, Eye the blood of Christ in the Sacrament, as perfecting blood: It was the fruit of Blood that you have any Grace, and it is the fruit of his Blood that your Grace is growing and increasing Grace. You complain your Grace is small, your Love is little unto God, your Faith is weak, and your desires feeble, and faint after Christ, but Christ's blood shall make you perfect. Christ will so moisten your Grace by laying his blood often at the root thereof, that it shall grow, and you shall go from grace to grace, till you come from grace to glory: Heb 13 20▪ 21. Now the God of peace that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ, that great shepherd of his sheep, through the blood of the Everlasting ⟨p. 117⟩Covenant, make you perfect in every good work, to do his will, &c.
Eighteenthly, Eye the blood of Christ in the Sacrament, as perfecting blood: It was the fruit of Blood that you have any Grace, and it is the fruit of his Blood that your Grace is growing and increasing Grace. You c•mplain your Grace is small, your Love is little unto God, your Faith is weak, and your desires feeble, and faint after Christ, but Christ's blood shall make you perfect. Christ will so moisten your Grace by laying his blood often at the root thereof, that it shall grow, and you shall go from grace to grace, till you come from grace to glory: Heb 13 20▪ 21. Now the God of peace that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ, that great shepherd of his sheep, through the blood of the Everlasting ⟨p. 117⟩Covenant, make you perfect in every good work, to do his will, &c.
Nineteenthly, Eye the blood of Christ in the Sacrament, as cementing blood; as that which solders the hearts and affections of Gods people one to another: We are all made to drink of one Blood, which should provoke us to be of one Heart. As Christ shed his blood, and thereby manifested, that be loved all his People; so when we partake of it in the Sacrament we are engaged to love one another as he hath loved us,