giving them both the gift of divers languages, and also bold nefs with fervent zeal, conftantly to preach the gospel unte all nations, whereby we have been brought from darkness and error, into the light and true knowledge of thee, and of thy son Jefus Christ. Therefore with angels, & Upon the feast of Trinity only. Who art one God, one Lord; not only one perfon but three perfons in one fubftance; for that which we believe of the glory of the father, the fame we believe of the fon, and of the holy ghoft, without any difference or inequality. Therefore with angels, &c. After each of which prefaces shall immediately be fung or faid, Therefore with angels and archangels, and with all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify thy glorious. name, evermore praising thee, and saying, Holy, holy, ho ly Lord God of hofts, heaven and earth are full of thy glory. Glory be to thee, O Lord, most high. Amen. Rubrick. ¶Then fhall the priest, kneeling down at the Lord's table, fay in the name of all them that shall receive the communion, this prayer following. The Minister. Directions. We do not prefume to When the priest acknowcome to this thy table, ledges in this form of humiliation merciful Lord, trufting in his own, and the communicant's our own righteoufnefs, but unworthinefs, and God's unmein thy manifold and greatrited kindness in admitting them mercies. We are not wor-to his holy table, make this act of bumiliation your own by your thy fo much as to gather up the crumbs under thy table; most devout attention, and joining with an hearty Amen. but thou art the fame Lord, whose property is always to have mercy: grant us therefore, gracious Lord, fo to eat the flesh of thy dear fon Jefus F 2 Chrift Chrift, and to drink his blood, that our finful bodies may be made clean by his body, and our fouls wafh'd through his most precious blood, and that we may evermore dwell in him and he in us. Amen. Rubrick. When the priest, flanding before the table, hath fo order'd the bread and wine, that he may with more readiness and decency-break the bread before the people, and take the cup into his hands, he fall lay the prayer of CONSECRATION as followeth, The Finialer. Directions. Almighty God our hea- This is the prayer of convenly father, who of thy ten-fecration, to be faid by the priest der mercy didft give thine alone; and whilft he is confecraonly fon Jefus Chrift to fuf-ting the bread and wine, raise up fer death upon the cross for thy foul to fee with the eye of faith what great things the Lord hath our redemption, who made left thee in that facrament; and there (by his one oblation of himfelf once offered) a full, conveying into your foul all the be pray that they may be a means of perfect, and fufficient facri-nefits of his precious death, faying fice, oblation, and fatisfac-fecretly, tion for the fins of the whole End down thy spirit and world, and did inftitute, and bleffing upon this means of in his holy gofpel command grace and falvation,which thou us to continue a perpetual thyfelf, O Jesu, haßt ordain’d. memory of that his precious death until his coming again: hear us, O merciful father, we most humbly beseech thee, and grant that we receiving thefe thy creatures of bread and wine, according to thy fon our Saviour Jefus Chrift's holy inftitution, in remembrance of his death and paffion, may be partakers of his most blessed body and blood: who, in (a) Here the priest is the fame night that he was betrayed, (a) take the patten into took bread; and when he had given thanks (b) he brake it, and gave it to his difciples, faying, Take, eat, (c) this is bis bands. F) And bere to lay bis my (d) Here he is to te'e my body which is given for you, do this in remembrance of me; likewife after fupper (d) he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them faying, Drink ye all of this; for this (e) is my blood of the New Teftament, which is fhed for you, and for many, for the remiffion of fins: Do this as oft as ye flrall drink it, in remembrance of me. Amen. Directions. is crated Be not difcouraged if you cannot fill up all spaces with regular devotion, or with intense meditation between the prayer of confecras tion and the time of receiving the bread and wine; in this cafe do as well as you can: remember your own offences with as much forrow as you can, and the mercies of God to you in Chrift Jefus, with as much love, joy, and gratitude; recommend to God's mercy your pa rents, relations, friends, and all the world. Do any thing that is good and proper to fill up the time; and leave the reft to God, who is a bounteous rewarder of them that feek him. Or when the prayer of confecration is over, if you have time before the bread and wine are brought to you,ufe the following prayer. A prayer immediately after the confecration of the bread and wine. I will offer to thee the facrifice of thanksgiving and will call upon the name of the Lord. I will pay my vows unto the Lord, in the fight of all his people; in the courts of the Lord's house, even in the midst of thee, O Jerufalem, praise the Lord. Pfalm cxvi. 14, 15, 16. Ow, O my God, proftrate before thine altar, I dare not fo much as look upon this mystery of our salvation, if thou hadft not invited me: I beseech thee therefore, accept of this reprefentation we make before F 3 thee thee of that all-fufficient facrifice, which thy Son our Saviour Jefus Chrift made upon the cross: let the merit of it plead effectually for the pardon and forgiveness of all my fins, and render thee favourable and propitious to me a miferable finner; let the power of it prevail against all the powers of darknefs; let the wifdom of it make me wife unto falvation; and let the peace of it reconcile me unto thee, and bring to me peace of confcience. And then, O bleffed Jefus my redeemer, I fhall be enabled to adore thee, who didft endure the painful and shameful death of the crofs, to recover me from the state of fin and mifery: I admire thine infinite condefcenfion, who was pleased to be made miferable, that I might be made happy; poor, that I might be enriched; and didft die that I might live for ever. With all my foul, O dear Jefus, I love and praife thee, for the stupendous expreffions of thy bounty and goodness towards me: Olamb of God that takeft away the fins of the world, have mercy upon me; Olamb of God that takeft away the fins of the world, grant me thy peace. Amen. Lord Jefus. Amen. Rubrick. Then fhall the minifter first receive the communion in both kinds himself, and then proceed to deliver the fame to the bishops, priefts, and deacons in like manner, (if any be prefent) and after that to the people alfo in order, into their hands, all meekly kneeling. Directions. The first person that receives is the minifter, who has a requeft to you in behalf of himself, namely, that as he prays for you with great fervency, you would comfort and encourage him with an hearty Amen upon your knees, to the petitions at his taking the holy elements: and in the interval between his receiving the bread and wine, ufe the following prayer. A prayer to be faid when the priest is receiving the bread and the wine. Let thy priests be cloathed with righteousness: and let thy faints fing with joyfulness. Pfalm cxxxii. 9. G thee, Ivethy grace, O Lord, we humbly befeech thee, to all thofe who are called to any office or adminiftration in thy church; and fo replenish them with the truth of thy doctrine, and endue them with innocency of life, that they may faithfully ferve before thee, to the glory of thy great name and benefit of thy holy church, thro' Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. Directions. After the minifter has received the communion in both kind and is proceeding to deliver the fame to the people, lift up your bead to God in the following prayer. A prayer before receiving the holy facrament. Bo Ehold, gracious Lord, I come to this holy table, as a fick man to the great phyfician of life; I beseech thee, O Lord, to cure my infirmities, and let me not only receive the outward and vifible fign, but the inward and fpi F 4 ritual |