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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. This I fear, that my mourning for my sin ariseth from the fear of Hell.
S. You may quicken your heart to mourn for sin, from the Torments of Hell, that it hath deserved; but that this is not the principal ground of your mourning, appears, because you can mourn and grieve for other mens sins as well as for your own, and when you have no thoughts of Hell, and when you have greatest persuasions of Gods mercy to you, in saving you from wrath to come, you mourn most; and that you mourn as well for the power and filth of sin, as for your misery thereby, and are willing to accept of Christ for your Lord▪ as well as for your Saviour.
S. You may quicken your heart to mourn for sin, from the Torments of Hell, that it hath deserved; but that this is not the principal ground of your mourning, appears, because you can mourn and grieve for other mens sins as well as for your own, and when you have no thoughts of Hell, and when you have greatest perswasions of Gods mercy to you, in saving you from wrath to come, you mourn most; and that you mourn as well for the power and filth of sin, as for your misery thereby, and are willing to accept of Christ for your Lord▪ as well as for your Saviour.
W. I do not deny it to be thus with me, that I am willing to accept of Christ upon any terms ▪ Lord, a Christ upon any terms! But I […] Christ is not willing to give himself, nor G•d wi• ling to give his Son to such a one as I; and what should I do at the Sacrament, if Christ be not willing to give himself and his benefits unto me?