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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.
4 Your own heart is apt to grow cold and dull again, after you have been warmed and heated in the Sacrament; Therefore you must be diligent after such a duty. The water that is heated by the fire still retains a principle that reduceth it to its former coldness, when it is removed from the fire; & so doth your heart▪
Secondly, •f you would walk and live as becometh one that hath been at the Table of the Lord, you must,
1. Endeavour to live and walk as Christ did when he was here upon the Earth. When, you have been commemorating Christs death, you must come away purposing to imitate his life. For as Christ in his sufferings hath left us an example how we ought to suffer, 1 Pet. 2 21. So Christ in his life hath left us an example how we ought to live, 1 John 2.6. Then you will walk suitably to that Ordinance, which is a Commemoration of Christs death, when you tread in his steps while he lived upon the Earth.