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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.
S. It grieves me to see you in this distress of spirit, I am persuaded if you would go unto this Ordinance, you would in time hear God speaking peace and comfort to your Soul.
W. My desires and my fears are such, I know ⟨p. 190⟩not which exceeds. Fain I would, but I dare not. It is a grief unto my Soul, when I see the Children of God approach unto their Fathers Table, and I absent my self, as though not of his Family▪ But I am such a sinner, that I dare not go.
S. Why, what a sinner are you?
W. I am the chiefest of Sinners, should I therefore go?
S. So was St. Paul in his own esteem, yet such Christ came to save,