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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.
IV. When you thus look upon the blood of Christ, let your Soul rejoice in God; and call upon all the powers of your Soul to joy and to delight in God and Christ Oh! Can you think that by this blood you are justified and pardoned, and not rejoice? that you are redeemed and reconciled by this blood, and not rejoice? Is it possible you should feel the quickening power, and comforting influences of thi• blood, and not rejoice? Is it possible you should believe that this blood is pleading for you, and not rejoice? O Lord, my Soul doth joy in thee; my Soul doth magnify the Lord my Redeemer: Oh how good it is to be here • Oh what comfort is this my Soul is thus delighted with! Oh what joy is this I feel so warm about my heart! There is no joy like unto it, I never found any like unto it.
IV. When you thus look upon the blood of Christ, let your Soul rejoyce in God; and call upon all the powers of your Soul to joy and to delight in God and Christ Oh! Can you think that by this blood you are justified and pardoned, and not rejoyce? that you are redeemed and reconciled by this blood, and not rejoyce? Is it p•ssible you should feel the quickning power, and comforting influences of thi• blood, and not rejoyce? Is it possible you should believe that this blood is pleading for you, and not rejoyce? O Lord, my Soul doth joy in thee; my Soul doth magnifie the Lord my Redeemer: Oh how good it is to be here • Oh what comfort is this my Soul is thus delighted with! Oh what joy is this I feel so warm about my heart! There is no joy like unto it, I never found any like unto it.
V. When you thus consider the blood of Christ in all those excellencies. Oh then be grieved that you have so long neglected it! that you did that which was the cause why precious blood was spi•t; that you should thrust your Sin into his side, to fetch this blood from his very heart O Lord, was I the cause is blood was, shed? was it my pride and vain glory, that did set a Crown of Thorns upon this Crucified bleeding Christ? Was it my ulief and