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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 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.
W. I do not know my heart.
S. What would you ask of God, if he should say, Ask any one thing and thou shalt have it.