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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. 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.
S. Then I do discern you will not suspect, that you your self are not willing, rather than that God is not willing, and so you have more reason to do; but though your heart be so deceitful, that you cannot understand all the particular sinful actings of your heart, yet by serious search, and Prayer unto God, you may know what it is that you do love, desire, and ⟨p. 195⟩choose above all things in the world, & what is the general bent & inclination of your heart and will.
S. Then I do discern you will not suspect, that you your self are not willing, rather than that God is not will•ng, and so you have more reason to do; but though your heart be so deceitful, that you cannot understand all the particular sinful actings of your heart, yet by serious search, and Prayer unto God, you may know what it is that you do love, desire, and ⟨p. 195⟩chuse above all things in the world, & what is the general bent & inclination of your heart and will.