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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, Be more frequent, and more fervent in your secret Addresses unto God. Besides your worshipping of God in your Family (which some that come to the Table of the Lord, do shamefully neglect) be much with God alone. Oh how should you love and delight to have Communion with God in secret, when no Eye doth […] you but the E•e of God, whom you hav• seen in the Sacrament, hath given his So• to you and for you!
First, Be more frequent, and more fervent in your secret Addresses unto God. Besides your worshipping of God in your Family (which some that come to the Table of the Lord, do shamefully neglect) be much with God alone. Oh how should you love and delight to have Communion with God in secret, when no Eye doth 〈…〉 you but the E•e of God, whom you hav• seen in the Sacrament, hath given his So• to you and for you!
Secondly, Labour after growth in Grace: This should have been in your desires before you went, and it should be your endea•vour ⟨p. 157⟩when you come from thence to have more love to God than you had before, •o have stronger Faith in Christ than you had before, to have more delight in God and Christ, and more ardent desire• than you had before