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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.
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.
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 rejo•cing 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.
Seventhly, When corruption and sin is more hated, and becomes more loathsome to your Soul ▪ When the thoughts of sin are more loathsome to you than the actings of it formerly were▪ when you groan more under the weight and load of sin, and do set your self more resolvedly against it▪
Eighthly, When your desires after full enjoyment of God and •••ist in glory are more enlarged: Here you feel the workings of his Spirit, that makes you long to behold his face in his glorious Kingdom, that the little taste you have of Gods manifested love unto your Soul makes you almost impatient till God shall take you to himself.