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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.
Let Faith make use of this Blood in respect of, God, Satan, Your self.
Viz. In Appealing to God, Replying to Satan, Applying it to your self.
First, When you are at the Lords Table, •et your Faith be busied in appealing from this blood to God; after this manner:
Lord, of my self, I am exceeding vile, even by •in made worse than the very Beasts of the field, than the croaking Toad, or the most venomous Serpent; y•• is not here precious Blood, which thy Son hath shed to make me precious in thy ••ght? Though without it I acknowledge I am […] some and abominable before thee; yet by it I trust I shall become one of thy Jewels, one of •hose that are honourable in thine eyes: Lord, be not offended, for thou thy self thus speakest of thy people; else I durst not have thought it, had I not found thee thus speaking in thy Prophet,