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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.
3. You do grieve the Spirit of God, if you live not holily after the Sacrament! Did not the Spirit of God come and bea• you witness that you were a Son of God, and did secretly and powerfully persuade your heart, that God through the death of his Son was reconciled to you, and that you• sins were pardoned, and that your Soul should be saved when you di••; and must not this be a grief unto him to see you walk so unworthy of his love?
3. You do grieve the Spirit of God, if you live not holily after the Sacram•nt! Did not the Spirit of God come and bea• you witness that you were a Son of God, and did secretly and powerfully p••swade your heart, that God through the d•ath of his Son was reconciled to you, and that you• sins were pardoned, and that your Soul should be saved when you di••; and must not this be a grief unto him to see you walk so unworthy of his love?
4 Y•u discredit your Prof•ssion, and cause the Holy ways of God to be evil spoken of: if you lead not an Holy life after you have been at the Table of the Lord, those that will not be holy themselves will blame you, ⟨p. 159⟩and reproach your profession if you be •o, holy. Such a man goes to the Sacraments and yet will be unjust, and yet is vain in hi• discourse, and we see but little difference betwixt his life and ours; and so will e hardened in their evil ways, and be prejudiced against Religion, by the Unsuitable Conversations of those that do profess it.