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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.
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.
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 •hatsoever his Accusations are, from some of •hese properties of the blood of Christ, you may put the Devil unto silence.
Doth the Devil cast your sins in your teeth, and rank them in order before your eyes ⟨p. 124⟩