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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.
C. Sometimes I have some hopes that God doth call me to it, but sometimes I fear that I am not yet prepared for it, and therefore I beg your direction what I ought to do.
M You know that a Minister cannot look into your heart, nor infallibly discern, whether you have grace […] no, should you not than rather search and ⟨p. 162⟩examine your self, since you may know the state of your own Soul, which another cannot?
M You know that a Minister cannot look into your heart, nor infallibly discern, whether you have grace 〈…〉 no, should you not than rather search and ⟨p. 162⟩examine your self, since you may know the state of your own Soul, which another cannot?
C. I know that no man can know my heart, and whether I be sit before God; but you may take account of my knowledge in order to it, and if I speak the truth, and do not lye (which in the presence of God, at whose Tribunal I must shortly stand, I promise,) while I declare to you the workings of the Spirit of God upon my Heart, you may tell me from the Word of God, what my condition is; neither do I come to spare my pains in examining of my self, but that thereby I might be the better enabled for it.
C. I know that no man can know my heart, and whether I be sit before God; but you may take account of my knowledge in order to it, and if I speak the truth, and do not lye (which in the presence of God, at whose Tribunal I must shortly stand, I promise,) while I declare to you the workings of the Spirit of God upon my Heart, you may tell me from the Word of God, what my condition is; neither do I come to spare my pains in examining of my self, but that thereby I might be the better inabled for it.