N00755:332
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, 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 dis•comfort me; my sins they do discomfort me, an• my very duties as I do perform them, do discom•fort 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.
Alas, O Lord, my sins have not only made me filthy, but have hardened my heart▪ Sometimes I may feel it to relent, and to give a little, but other whiles it is hard and ston• within my breast; sometimes I think neve• heart so hard as mine; but is not here hear softening blood? if there be not, let me go away as hardened as I came; but if there be, let m feel the virtue & the power of it, in making i me a heart of flesh O Lord, I will lay my heart a sleeping in this blood, and will believ that then it shall be softened.