my Soul fhould be ever longing after it, and that I should defire it with an Earneftness above all that belongs to earthly Things, and with Importunity pray for all thofe Helps that are neceffary to bring me to the unchangeable Poffeffion of Thee, my God, through the Merits of Jesus Christ, my only Saviour. Amen.

A Prayer when we offer our Alms.

Ir is, O Lord, the Effect of thy Goodness that I am enabled to relieve others; and the Effect of thy great Mercy that I am ready and willing to perform it. Accept, O Lord, of this Teftimony of my Love and Gratitude, and make me truly thankful for all thofe happy Opportunities thou giveft me of doing Good. Amen.

"In the following Part of the Communion "Service, we must be sure to join moft af"fectionately with the Prieft that officiates, " and never to use our private Prayers when "he calls upon us to accompany him; only "in the Exhortation, the Invitation, and the "Abfolution, we fhould not repeat the Words "after him; because in the two first he speaks "to us, and in the Abfolution, he exercises a

Part

"Part of the Prieft's Office, which does not "belong to us.

"When thofe Portions of Scripture are "read that follow the Abfolution, and are "defigned to beget in us a lively Faith and "Confidence in God's Mercy, we should "make fhort Ejaculations after them in the "following Manner, viz."

Come unto me, &c.

Refresh, O Lord, thy Servant wearied with the Burden of Sin.

So God loved the World, &c.

Lord, I believe in thy Son Jefus Chrift, and let this Faith purify me from all Iniquity.

This is a true faying, &c.

I embrace with all Thankfulness that Salvation that Jefus has brought into the World.

If any Man fin, &c.

Interceed for me, O bleffed Jefus! that my. Sins may be pardoned, through the Merits of thy Death.

A Prayer

A Prayer immediately after the Elements are confecrated.

I ADORE thee, O bleffed Jefus, who didft humble thyfelf to the Death of the Cross, that I might be redeemed from a State of Sin and Mifery: I remember with all Thankfulness this thy wonderful Condefcenfion for my Salvation. Bleffed be thy holy Name for this Chriftian Sacrifice thou haft provided for us, to convey to us the Benefits of that allfufficient Oblation once offered for the Sins of the World. Grant, O Lord, that the Power of it may ftrengthen my Weakness, and fortify me against all Temptations; that the Wisdom of it may enlighten my Mind, and cure my Ignorance; and that the Purity of it may fanctify me throughout in Body, Soul, and Spirit. Amen, Lord Jefu, Amen.

A Prayer after receiving the confecrated Bread.

I

ACKNOWLEDGE, O Lord, with all Humility, my great Unworthinefs to partake of this heavenly Feaft, where thou feedeft all devout Minds with the precious Body and Blood of thy Son Jefus Chrift; my many and great

Sins

Sins may juftly render me odious in thy Sight, as they make me contemptible in my own; and the Devil and my own Fears might fo magnify the Horror of them, that they would fink me into Defpondency and Dejection of Spirit, if I had not a fure Truft and Confidence in thy infinite Goodness, manifefted in the bleeding Wounds of my crucified Saviour. For his Sake therefore, O Lord, I humbly befeech Thee to have Mercy upon me; for the Merits of his Death to accept of my imperfect Repentance; and by the Virtue of his moft precious Blood, to cleanse me from all my Sins. Pardon, O gracious Father, my light and rafh Words, my vain and impure Thoughts, and all my wicked and impious Actions, and whatever I have committed against Thee at any Time before: with Shame and Confufion, with hearty Grief and Sorrow I reflect upon all my Tranfgreffions, and resolve, by the Affiftance of thy Grace, to avoid all Sin, as the greatest Evil, for the Time to come: enable me, by the Help of thy Holy Spirit, to be conftant and vigorous in this Purpofe of Mind, and to ferve Thee in Holinefs and Righteousness all the Days of my Life.

The Purity of Angels, and the "Devotion of Saints, is not fufficient to make me worthy of the Bleffings of thy Table; but thy Goodnefs has declared, that Thou wilt favourably receive thofe that are fincerely grieved for

their Sins, and groan under the Burden of them; that earneftly long for their Deliverance, and defire Power and Strength to refift them, fuch are affured to find in thee the Bowels of a tender Father, and to be received with the Welcome of fuch Bleffings and Graces as their Neceffity requires. Grant, O Lord, that nothing may be found in me that may obftruct the happy Effects of thefe thy gracious Intentions towards me.

Poffefs me, O Lord, with fuch a Senfe of thy Love, and fuch Thankfulness for all thy Favours, as may transform me into thy Likeness, and may make me ready and willing to do and fuffer any Thing for thy Honour and Glory:

What couldeft thou do more, O bleffed Jefu, than to die upon a Crofs for our Redemption, and before thy Death to institute this Pledge and Earneft of thy Love, this perpetual Memorial of thy Sufferings, that thy Church might never want the Benefits and Advantages of them?

Let that immortal Food which thou haft now prepared for me in the Holy Eucharift, inftil into my weak and languishing Soul new Supplies of Grace, that I may defire Thee above all Things as my chiefeft Good, and may delight in Thee as the only Happiness of my Soul; that I may continually think on thofe Joys thou haft prepared for those that love Thee, and undervalue all Things com

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