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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, When Commu•••• with God in the Sacrament is obtained, and God gives you the meeting. The Ordinance then will certainly do you good, when you find your grace go forth in exercise towards God, and the Spirit of God breathing upon your Soul by the powerful influences thereof affecting of you.
Fifthly, When your Spiritual delight and […] in God and Christ is more raised: Before you did delight too much is the World, and in your Friends▪ and in your Riches, and less in Christ; but now more in Christ, and less in these; When you think of God you can rejoice; when you speak of Christ, your Soul• triumpheth in him.
Fifthly, When your Spiritual delight and 〈…〉 in God and Christ is more raised: Before you did delight too much is the World, and in your Friends▪ and in your Riches, and less in C•rist; but now more in Christ, and less in these; When you think of God you can rejoyce; when you speak of Christ, your Soul• triumpheth in him.
Sixthly, When your Soul under the sight and sense of sin is more deeply humbled. If you have not joy in a Sacrament, yet if you have more ingenuous sorrow for your sin, God hath done you good thereby: If you do not come away with a rejoicing hear•, yet if you come away with a weeping eye, proceeding from a truly contrite Spirit, bless God for his mercy to you in that Ordinance.