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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. 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.
S. It is so with you but sometimes. Besides as there may be tears in the eyes, when there is no sorrow in the heart; so when your eye is ⟨p. 198⟩dry, your heart may grieve. An Hypocrite, as he may have more words, so he may have more tears in prayer, than a true Child of God.