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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.
CHAP. XII. Showing how Love, Des•••, and other Graces are to be exercised in the Sacrament.
CHAP. XII. Shewing how Love, Des•••, and other Gra•ces are to be exercised in the Sacrament.
II. When you thus consider the Blood of Christ, •hen draw forth holy Love to do its part, as Faith has done its. And indeed, when Faith goeth thus before […] will be more easy to act all the rest▪ Le• but Love see with Faiths Eyes, and it will quickly be inflamed. Let Faith make application, and love will quickly feel the benefit of it, and show it in its actings: O• how will Love flutter in your breast, whe• i• shall behold that precious blood that di• redeem you, and reconcile you unto God▪ Oh then bespeak your Love for God an• Christ: Look here, O my Soul! wha• love was this in God, to give his Son fo• thee! what love was this in Christ to give his life and blood for thee! precious blood for a vile and worthless sinner! O loo• again, O my Soul! here is pardoning blood for thee a sinner, here is softni•• blood for thee an hardened sinne, and […] is reconciling blood for thee, who wa once an Enemy to God Oh what lov is this! Oh never love like to this! Hath God and Christ thus loved thee, Oh m sinful Soul! and wilt not thou love hi