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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. But alas! I cannot pray, how then should I receive?
S. Though you cannot word your desires, yet you can cry to God, and nothing will still you but a Christ. As the Infant cannot ask, yet crieth for the Breast. Some might utter words in Prayer, and not pray; & you might want words, and yet pray fervently, acceptably unto God; for Prayer doth not consist in the exercise of parts, memory, &c. but of grace.
S. Though you cannot word your desires, yet you can cry to God, and nothing will still you but a Christ. As the Infant cannot ask, yet cryeth for the Breast. Some might utter words in Prayer, and not pray; & you might want words, and yet pray fervently, acceptably unto God; for Prayer doth not consist in the exercise of parts, memory, &c. but of grace.
W. I cannot cry to God, my eyes are dry, and cannot drop a tear; sometimes when I am confessing my sins, though so many and so heinous; when others can shed many tears for one sin, I cannot shed one tear for many sins.
W. I cannot cry to God, my eyes are dry, and cannot drop a tear; sometimes when I am confessing my sins, though so many and so hainous; when others can shed many tears for one sin, I cannot shed one tear for many sins.