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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. 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.
M Are you willing then that I should try your knowledge concerning the Lords Supper, and enquire into the grounds and Reasons of your hopes, why you think you are fitted for this duty?
C. I ought to be always ready to give an answer to every man that asketh me a reason of the hope that is in me, much more to such whom God hath set to watch for my Soul, and especially when I desire to partake of the Lords Supper.