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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.
Sixthly, For want of this reflection after the Sacrament, you will not be so earnestly desirous after renewed opportunities of Receiving, nor have such longings in your Soul to come again. One would think that the entertainment which God gives unto his People at his Table, the smiles that there they see in his Face, the love that there they perceive to be in his Heart, and the favours there they receive from his Hands, should stir up in their hearts such earnest breathings as these. Oh when might I come again! Oh when shall I be thus […] again! Christ was exceeding sweet unto my Soul, his Comforts were delightful to my heart; Oh when shall I return again unto this Table, that I might have more of that which […] such a day I found! But if this be so much ⟨p. 137⟩out of your thoughts, the other will be too much out of your desires.
Sixthly, For want of this refl•ction after the Sacrament, you will not be so earnestly desirous after renewed opportunities of Receiving, nor have such longings in your Soul to come again. One would think that the entertainment which God gives unto his People at his Table, the smiles that there they see in his Face, the love that there they perceive to be in his Heart, and the favours there they receive from his Hands, should stir up in their hearts such earnest breathings as these. Oh when might I come again! Oh when shall I be thus 〈…〉 again! Christ was exceeding sweet unto my Soul, his Comforts were delightful to my heart; Oh when shall I return again unto this Table, that I might have more of that which 〈…〉 such a day I found! But if this be so much ⟨p. 137⟩out of your thoughts, the other will be too much out of your desires.
Seventhly, For want of this reflection after the Sacrament, you will be less experienced, and less acquainted with the workings of […] own hearts. If you reflect upon what your heart did promise when you were there, and how you have come short of your promise, how your heart did work in hatred unto sin, and how afterwards (if it be not strictly watched) it will be ready to consent and yield unto it: if you thus compare your self, what you are at the Sacrament, and what your heart would be if not heedfully observed afterwards, you would be more acquainted with the deceitfulness of your own heart.