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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.
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.
Therefore let it be your constant practice, as to examine your self before, that you may know your fitness for this Duty; so to examine your self afterwards, that you may know whether you are the better or the worse by this Duty; for every one is made better or made worse by coming to the Lords Table. Physic makes the Body better or worse: All God's Ordinances will have their operation. The Word is a savour of life or death to every one that •ears it, 2 Cor. 2 15, 16 So many are the worse by coming to the Lords Table, 1 Cor. 11.•7 You c•me together not for the better but the worse: That you are not better, is satis culpabile, sufficiently blame worthy; but that you are the worse, this is ⟨p. 140⟩mali auxesis, the aggravation of your sin. Grande id nefas, quando medicina non modo non proficit aegro, […] in venenum vertit. It goe ill with that man whose Food and Physic i turned into Poison, & proves to be his ban; not for his profit, but his detriment.