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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.
Lord, Sin hath stopped my mouth, and I cannot plead my own cause before thy Majesty, but is not here pleading blood? Let that plead for me, this is my Advocate; my sins […] plead against me, but here is blood that ⟨p. 122⟩pleadeth for me, and I do believe that wilt rather hear the pleadings of thy So•• blood for me, than the pleadings of my ow• sins against me.
Lord, Sin hath stopped my mouth, and I cannot plead my own cause before thy Majesty, but is not here pleading blood? Let that plead for me, this is my Advocate; my sins 〈…〉 plead against me, but here is blood that ⟨p. 122⟩pleadeth for me, and I do believe that wilt rather hear the pleadings of thy So•• blood for me, than the pleadings of my ow• sins against me.
Lord, my Soul is cast down within me, and • am often filled with thy terrors, till I am almos• distracted: There are many things that do discomfort me; my sins they do discomfort me, an• my very duties as I do perform them, do discomfort me; but is not here comforting blood? O• this blood it Aqua vitae to my swepning an• dejected Soul. I will lay the mouth of my faith, […] the bleeding wounds made in thy Son, and wi•• suck and draw till my Soul is comforted.
Lord, my Soul is cast down within me, and am often filled with thy terrours, till I am almos distracted: There are many things that do discomfort me; my sins they do discomfort me, an my very duties as I do perform them, do discomfort me; but is not here comforting blood? O this blood it Aqua vitae to my swepning an dejected Soul. I will lay the mouth of my faith, the bleeding wounds made in thy Son, and wi suck and draw till my Soul is comforted.