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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.
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
Thirdly, Take heed that you do not conclude, you have no benefit at all, if you have it not in that particular and kind that you looked for: It may be you may aim at a great deal of comfort and joy when you w•nt; and God may deny you that, and make you to sorrow and be broken more for your sins; this is spiritual benefit, though not in that way as you looked for it.
Fourthly, Take heed you do not conclude the Sacrament doth you no good at all, if you do not sensibly perceive it in the very act of Receiving. or while you are actually under the Ordinance; To have no benfi by it then, is very sad and uncomfortable; but yet limit not the efficacy of the Ordinance only to the time of receiving, but observe how it works with you after it is past; it may be sometimes you