TREATISE ON THE LORD'S SUPPER, DESIGNED AS A GUIDE AND COMPANION TO THE HOLY COMMUNION. BY THE REV. EDWARD BICKERSTETH, Edited, and adapted to the Services of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States, BY THE REV. LEWIS P. W. BALCH, One handsome volume. 12mo. 75c. CONTENTS.-PART I.-Chap. 1. The Appointment of the Lord's Supper -2. The Atonement made by the Death of Christ-3. Our Faith in Christ's Atonement-4. On the New Covenant-5. The Design of the Lord's Supper 6. The Obligation to Receive the Lord's Supper-7. Answers to the Excuses commonly made for not Coming to the Lord's Supper-8. On Receiv ing Unworthily-9. On the Benefits connected with a Due Reception of the Lord's Supper-10. The Happiness which would follow its General and Devout Observance-11. On Communion with Christ and His People on Earth-12. On the Heavenly Communion to be Hereafter enjoyed with our Lord. PART II.-Chap. 1. On Preparation for the Lord's Supper-2. Helps for Self-Examination, and Prayers-3. Meditations Preparatory to the Lord's Supper.-4. Hints for the Regulation and Employment of the Mind during the Communion Service-5. On the Communion Service of the Church-6. On the Remembrance of Christ at the Lord's Table-7. Meditations during the Communion-8. Texts selected for Meditation, and arranged under different Heads-9. Meditations and Prayers after Receiving 10. Psalms and Hymns suited to the Lord's Supper-11. The Due Improvement of the Lord's Supper. "It is indeed a cause of devout thankfulness, that books like Bickersteth's Treatise on the Lord's Supper' are in such demand. 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The Grecian colonists, whose more polished manners, and the simplicity of whose native speech, were endangered through the contaminations of barbarian intercourse, by assembling at stated seasons, to confess their degeneracy, and revive the thought of purer times, retained as well the language which was their common bond, as the superiority which was the birth-right of their race. Amidst the increasing turmoil of our days, the custom of daily worship may be looked to by Christians for a similar result. It has been shown, indeed, that this practice comes commended by the experience of former times. But if it were needed in a period of quiet and repose, how much more amidst the agitation by which our cities are now convulsed, and which shakes even the villages of our land! In tranquil days, the disciples were comforted by the presence of Christ; but it was amidst the waves of Gennesaret that they learned to appreciate that power which could hush the stormy elements into rest. It was when neither sun nor stars for many days appeared, and no small tempest lay upon him, that the captive apostle could be of good cheer, because there was with him the angel of that God, whose he was and whom he served." THORNTONS'S PRAYERS. AND PRAYERS ON THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. TO WHICH IS ADDED, ◆ FAMILY COMMENTARY UPON THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT. "The present volume contains two works, which have been separately published in England; the Family Commentary on the Sermon on the Mount having appeared there, about a year after the first edition of the Family Prayers. The arrangement now adopted wil it is thought, be found convenient for domestic worship; as combining within the same volume a Manual of prayer, and portions of scriptural exposition for reading. 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