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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.
Oh, my Lord, my heart is often dead and dull, that I cannot pray with life unto thee, that I cannot be lively in thy Service; fain I would, but lo my heart is dead, and cannot: But is not here quickening and enlivening blood? why then wilt thou suffer such a heart to be in me? Lord wilt thou give me leave to apply it to my self, that I may be quickened to thy▪ Service? Yea I know it is thy will I should so do: Now Lord, my heart is warm.
Oh, my Lord, my heart is often dead and dull, that I cannot pray with life unto thee, that I cannot be lively in thy Service; sain I would, but lo my heart is dead, and cannot: But is not here quickning and enlivening blood? why then wilt thou suffer such a heart to be in me? Lord wilt thou give me leave to apply it to my self, that I may be quickned to thy▪ Service? Yea I know it is thy will I should so do: Now Lord, my heart is warm.
Thus you may in respect of God, by Faith, make use of all the Properties of the blood of Christ, you may go on in all the rest. Let it suffice that I have showed you how Faith may be set on work in the former particulars.
Thus you may in respect of God, by Faith, make use of all the Properties of the blood of Christ, you may go on in all the rest. Let it suffice that I have shewed you how Faith may be set on work in the former particulars.
Secondly, When you thus consider the blood of Christ in the Sacrament, set Faith on work to reply unto the Devil. He will be with you at the Sacrament, to rob you of the comfort, and hinder you from that joy that there you might be filled with; but by faith in the •lood of Christ you may resist him. And whatsoever his Accusations are, from some of hese properties of the blood of Christ, you may put the Devil unto silence.