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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. Sense of hardness of heart is some degree of softness of heart, Isa 63.17. Pharaoh co• plained of his Judgments, not of the hardness of his heart▪ You are sensible, and do grieve ⟨p. 191⟩for the hardness of your heart, or do you not; if you do not, why then do you complain? if you do, your hardness is not the hardness that there is in Reprobates, but such as may be, and is, in the People of God: and this Sacrament is a means to have it softened.
S. Sense of hardness of heart is some degree of softness of heart, Isa 63.17. Pharaoh co• plained of his Judgmen•s, not of the hardness of his heart▪ You are sensible, and do grieve ⟨p. 191⟩for the hardness of your heart, or do you not; if you do not, why then do you complain? if you do, your hardness is not the hardness that there is in Reprobates, but such as may be, and is, in the People of God: and this Sacrament is a means to have it softned.
W. This doth a little help me, I pray you proceed to discover what things do difference hardness in a Child of God, from the hardness that is in a wicked man.
S. Sense of Sin, and of Gods dishonour, a judging of your self for sin, and unfeigned turning from sin, earnest Prayers for softening grace, a rolling your self upon Christ, tenderness of Conscience, an holy fear of sinning against God; holy care to pease him, teachableness of heart and holy restlessness till you have Christ, do distinguish your hardness from the hardness of heart in a wicked man.