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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. Indeed.
S. For you could not be willing, if Christ had not first been willing: And it is the intolerable pride of your heart, to think that you can be more willing to be, and receive good, than God and Christ is to give and make you good. Besides, then such a one may come & plead at the last day, Lord, I am not damned because I was not willing to accept of Christ, but because thou wouldest not give Christ to me, when I was willing to receive him.
W. Truly I think there shall be no such plea at the day of judgment.
S. Then your condition is good, if you be willing; for if you be willing to receive Christ, and God be willing to give him unto you, you have him, and yet will you not go to commemorate his death?
W. O Lord what strange conviction is this! surely I had Christ and did not know it: I was happy, and did not perceive it. But alas! no sooner did I perceive a little light to shine into my Soul, but it is clouded; for my heart is deceitful, and I may think that I am willing when I am not.