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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.
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.
Twelfthly, It argues you are not so wise for your Soul, as you are for your Body; not so wise for the things of Heaven, as for the things of this world; for after you have been trading for the things of this Life, you will cast up your accounts to see what are your gains, and what is added to your stock.
Thirteenthly, This will provoke God in after-duties to withdraw from you, and to deny that to you in following Ordinances, which you would not so much as enquire whether you had got in former Duties.
Fourteenthly, You may decline in Grace, and be on the losing hand, and not easily and quickly perceive it, and fall into a frame of dullness before you are aware.
Fourteenthly, You may decline in Grace, and be on the losing hand, and not easily and quickly perceive it, and fall into a frame of dulness before you are aware.