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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.
Ninthly, For want of this Reflection after the Sacrament, you will be a grief to the Spirit of God, whether you did meet with God or no; whether it was well or ill with you when you were there; If you did meet with God, and if he did comfort your heart, or humble you for sin, and do not reflect, you grieve the Spirit of God, that he was so kind and loving unto you, and you so soon forget it, to be thankful for it; If you did not meet with God, and do not reflect, you grieve the Spirit, that though he absented himself from your Soul, you do soon forget it to be humbled for it.
Tenthly, It argues your end was not so right as it should have been; had you aimed indeed at Communion with God, and increase of Grace, would you not enquire whether you had attained your end?
Tenthly, It argues your end was not so right as it should have been; had you aimed indeed at Communion with God, and encrease of Grace, would you not enqui•e whether you had attained your end?
Eleventhly, It argues great carelessness of heart, and too great a slighting of the benefi•• of the Sacrament; did you esteem them, you ⟨p. 139⟩would enquire whether you had enjoyed them.