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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.
That you may know whether you receive benefit to your Soul by coming to the ⟨p. 146⟩Lords Supper, you must be careful that you do not Mistake; To prevent which, let me pr•mise.
THat you may know whether you receive benefit to your Soul by coming to the ⟨p. 146⟩Lords Supper, you must be careful that you do not Mistake; To prevent which, let me pr•mise.
First, Take heed that you do not conclude, you have no benefit at all because you have not so much as you perceive some other Christians to have: For Gods discoveries to his People are arbitrary and gradual, when he will, to whom he will, and in what measure he will.
Secondly, Take heed that you do not conclude, you have no benefit at all, if you have not so much as you hoped for, or expected You aimed at much, and found but little, ye• do not say it was altogether an emp•• Ordinance to your Soul