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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.
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.
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• softning blood? if there be not, let me go away as hardned as I came; but if there be, let m• feel the vertue & 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 softned.
Alas, O Lord, my sins are very strong and powerful within me, that sometimes I think they do not only rage but reign, sometime they act so mightily in my heart, that I am apt to think there is nothing but sin in my Soul, and no principle of Grace to check and to control it: My pride is strong, my passion is strong, and my lusts exceeding mighty;