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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. True, but if you can say with St. Paul, Rom. 7.15. That which I do, I allow not: For what I would, that do I not; but what I hate that do I, ver. 19. For the good that I would, I do not; but the evil which I would not, that I do. You may the• conclude with him, v. 20. Now if I do that which I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth (he saith not reigneth) in me: And if it rage when it doth not reign, you have the more need to go unto the Lord's Supper, that sin this usurping Tyrant (not your acknowledged Lord) might be taken down.
W. But sin hath great power in my thoughts, for not only vain, but blasphemous thoughts come frequently crowding in my mind, and I cannot sometimes remove them.
W. But sin hath great power in my thoughts, for not only vain, but blasphemous thoughts come frequently crouding in my mind, and I cannot sometimes remove them.
S. That they have power over your thoughts is your sin, but that they have not such power over your will, that proves your grace, for you would remove them when you cannot: And whether they be injected by the Devil, or do arise from your own heart, if grieved for, groaned under, and striven against, it is no otherwise with you, than with many others of God's dearest Children.