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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
OF THE LORDS SUPPER. › Chapter 2: Containing the first Conclusion, and Explication thereof.
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.
CHAP. II. Containing the first Conclusion, and Explication thereof.
1. IT is a necessary Duty incumbent upon Adult Believers to partake of the Lords Supper. 1. Necessary, as it is opposed to Arbitrary: It is not left to the pleasure of the people of God, that if they will they may; if they will not, they may refuse; but as it is their privilege that they may, so it is their duty, that they must receive it. We may, and we must pray; we may, and we must hear: so we may, and we must receive. Yet it is my Observation, that the same Christians that are much troubled if they omit praying, and hearing, and reading the Word of God, and their Conscience doth accuse them for the neglect of these, yet have for a long season absented themselves from the Table of the Lord, and seldom put the neglect thereof amongst their Confessions ⟨p. 11⟩of sin, as if it were not a sin of Omission and made them not guilty before the Lord,
1. IT is a necessary Duty incumbent upon Adult Believers to partake of the Lords Supper. 1. Necessary, as it is opposed to Arbitrary: It is not left to the pleasure of the people of God, that if they will they may; if they will not, they may refuse; but as it is their priviledge that they may, so it is their duty, that they must receive it. We may, and we must pray; we may, and we must hear: so we may, and we must receive. Yet it is my Observation, that the same Christians that are much troubled if they omit praying, and hearing, and reading the Word of God, and their Conscience doth accuse them for the neglect of these, yet have for a long season absented themselves from the Table of the Lord, and seldom put the neglect thereof amongst their Confessions ⟨p. 11⟩