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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, Give to God the Glory of it; take you the Comfort, give God the Glory.
Secondly, The more good you get, the more frequent it: It is good to be often there where you meet with God.
Thirdly, Let your Conversation after the Sacrament witness the good that you receive in & by the Sacrament: You say so, live so, that all may see it: An holy, suitable conversation, in living up to Sacramental Obligations, will convince your self and others▪ that there is• some real good, that you do get by attending upon God therein
But alas! how few do live as becometh those that have been at the Table of the Lord! If you did but listen to their discourse as soon as they are gone from this Ordinance, you should hear some talking presently of the World, or of something impertinent to what ⟨p. 151⟩•hey have been about: If you did but follow them from the Lords Table to their wn, what unsavoury words should you ear from them! How frothy and vain i their discourse! And if you observe their actions, even upon the same day, and sometimes in the same hour that they have been eating and drinking at the Table of the Lord, you would perceive that they have presently forgot where they have been, and what they have been doing, and the obligations that thre was laid upon them to ve better. You should see one drunk with passion, another filled with carnal mirth, another careless in the after duties of the Sabbath: trace them in their lives in the week following, and you shall see them as worldly, as vain, as negligent as others that never had been at such an Ordinance.