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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.
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 ben•fi• 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 ⟨p. 147⟩[…] mourn more, and rejoice more afterwards, than when you were at the Table. Now to resolve your doubt, consider, you do g•t real benefit by the Lords Supper.
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 O•dinance; To have no ben•fi• 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 ⟨p. 147⟩〈…〉 mourn more, and rejoyce more afterwards, than when you were at the Table. Now to resolve your doubt, consider, you do g•t real benefit by the Lords Supper.
First, When you find your heart thereby much strongly engaged to inward and universal holines•• When you feel your heart more obliged to walk with God with more circumspection & ••re than you did before.