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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.
W. If it be so, then tell me when my mourning for sin is right, and is the mourning of a true penitent.
S. When you mourn for sin as sin; for all sin, because it is against God, Psal. 51.4▪ as an evil greater than any affliction, Rom. 7.24. Paul never cried out so for the evil of affliction, as he did for the evil of sin. When you rejoice in the Law of God that doth discover ⟨p. 193⟩it, and bless God he ever wrote it, and that you ever know it, Rom. 7.12. When your mourning for sin makes you loath it & leave […], and prize Christ, and hasten to him, to close with him.
S. When you mourn for sin as sin; for all sin, because it is against God, Psal. 51.4▪ as an evil greater than any affliction, Rom. 7.24. Paul never cryed out so for the evil of affliction, as he did for the evil of sin. When you rejoyce in the Law of God that doth discover ⟨p. 193⟩it, and bless God he ever wrote it, and that you ever know it, Rom. 7.12. When your mourning for sin makes you loath it & leave 〈…〉, and pr•ze Christ, and hasten to him, to close with him.