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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.
H. Yes, or else I must go home and weep for this as well as you.
D. How doth that appear?
H. Because God doth work variously upon divers Persons, and variously upon the same Person at divers times. Sometimes he breaks the heart for sin, and reserves his comforts for another time: If you do not find your heart inflamed with love and filled with joy, yet if you do find your heart to rise more in hatred unto sin, and to be grieved for it, and more resolve and watch against it, you have received benefit by this Ordinance.
D. Then I must take heed of the stratagems of the Devil, that, as he might not cause me to conclude, I have that which I have not; so neither to deny that I have not that which through mercy God hath given to me.
H. That will be your wisdom, because it will be your way to get more from God, by being thankful for a little: God will another time give you peace and comfort, if now you will give him thanks that you have wept for your sin, and been grieved for the same.