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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. 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.
W. How then may I judge of my prayers, when I want these outward signs of sorrow, &c.
S. By your inward frame […] heart, when you cannot shed a tear, you feel your heart burdened with, and rising in hatred against your sin? and when you beg for Christ and Grace, you find your heart sincerely reaching forth after both Christ and Grace.