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to come to thy holy table, not trusting in my own righteousness, but in thy manifold and great mercies. I am sensible that I am not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs which fall from thy table. But thou art the same Lord, whose property is always to have mercy: grant me, therefore, gracious Lord, so to eat the flesh of thy dear son Jesus Christ, and to drink his blood, that my sinful body may be made clean by his body, and my soul washed through his most precious blood, and that I may evermore dwell in him, and he in me.

These, and whatever other mercies thou seest necessary for me, I intreat thou wilt grant for the sake of the same thy dearly beloved son Jesus Christ, my saviour. Amen.

See the concluding prayer and blessing on page 32 and 33.

*Meditation: Wednesday Morning. On the resurrection, as a means to excite a due veneration for the holy sacrament.

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 1 Cor. v. 8.

O COME now, my soul, and let us sing to our Lord a psalm of joy; sing praises to the

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God of our salvation; sing with a loud and cheerful voice; sing with a glad and thankful heart; say to the weak of spirit, be strong; say to the sorrowful, be of good comfort; tell all the world this soul-reviving truth, and may their hearts within them leap with joy to hear it. For,

The Lord of life is risen again, and hath clothed himself with immortal glory. He made the angels messengers of his victory, and vouchsafed even himself to bring us the joyful news. O my soul, adorn thyself with the garment of gladness, prepare thy most triumphant hymns to go forth to meet this great returning conqueror.

His warfare is now accomplished; and he hath passed through the scorn and cruelty of men; the malice and rage of devils; the just, but severe anger of God; yea, the shadow of death, and the regions of eternal horror: and after all this thy surety is set at liberty; for he hath paid thy debts, and cancelled all those dismal bonds by which thou wert forfeited to eternal ruin. Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

We receive thee, dearest Saviour, as born to us a second time, and this shall be thy birth

day also, the nativity of thy empire, thy restoration to a state of immortality. Thy former birth did show thee to be the son of man, but this declares thee to be the son of God; and now we know that thou our redeemer livest, for thou hast told us, I am he that liveth, and was dead; and behold I am alive for evermore.

The ways of thy mercy are unsearchable, O thou wise contriver of all our happiness! and thy wisdom is infinite who didst invent them to convince thy followers into this blest belief, and settle in their hearts a firm ground of hope: for, thou didst not only appear to the holy women in their return from the sepulchre, and openedst their eyes to know and adore thee; but thou didst purposely overtake, in their journey, two of thy disciples, that were discoursing of thee, and madst their hearts burn within them to hear thee. Thou didst condescend to eat before them, and invite them to touch thy sacred body. How didst thou sweetly invite the incredulous Thomas to thrust his hand into thy side, and hast thence taken occasion, from his hardness to believe, to facilitate the faith of thy church in these afterages.

Therefore, O my soul, being thus preinstructed in this great mystery of our faith,

by the revelation of Jesus Christ, make it the principal subject of thy studies, and the daily entertainment of thy most serious thoughts. Draw me, O dearest Lord, from the world and myself, that I be not entangled with any earthly desires. Draw me after thee, with a sure hope of eternal bliss, that I may run with delight in the way of thy commands, and especially to thy holy table. Draw me up finally to thee and thy throne of glory, that I may see thy face, and rejoice with thee for ever in thy kingdom. Amen.

A confession of sins on Wednesday morning, preparatory to receiving the holy sacrament.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us; but if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighte1 John i. 8, 9.

ousness.

O Most mighty God! how shall I, a poor miserable sinner, who am all over sin and pollution, dare to speak unto thee? O Lord, when I look back on my past life, I am astonished at thy mercy and longsuffering toward me; and am sensible, if I had been rewarded according to my misdeeds, that I had long before this been condemned to endless misery and forments. And lest I drop this opportunity of

repentance, I flee unto thee and cry, Lord, be merciful unto me a sinner!

I have been a rebellious and disobedient sinner, a contemner of thy laws, and one of those wretched fools, that have made a mock at sin, and would not hearken to reproof; my mind has been overspread with blindness, ignorance, and folly, and almost every power and faculty of my soul has been corrupted and defaced. But now as thou hast vouchsafed me this light of thy spirit to see mine infirmities, I flee unto thee, the author of my comfort, and say, Lord, be merciful unto me a sinner!

How have I preferred a life of folly and madness, of extravagance and disorder; a life that has yielded me shame and much remorse, sorrow and affliction, before the peace and pleasure, and serenity of a sober, virtuous, and re ligious conversation! how have I preferred the pleasures and profits of this world to the ways of virtue and religion! but now I repent, and say, Lord, be merciful unto me a sinner!

O Lord! I dare not plead, that I have spent any one day of my life solely to thy honour and glory; but how many days, nay, years, have I spent in the service of sin? how many are my lusts, and how great my intemperance? how oft have I profaned thy sabbaths,

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