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ven and heavenly things. Thus habituated to the exercises and duties of the Christian life, they will, at the awful hour of death, be properly fitted and prepared to receive the holy Eucharist, as the seal of God's final pardon, as their invaluable comfort and support under the agonies of a dying-bed, as the joyfu! pledge of a triumphant passage, through the grave and gate of death, to immortal blessedness and glory.

Vain and idle therefore, are all the pretences which keep us from the table of our Lord. By this neglect and contempt of his sacred injunction, we forfeit the most inestimable blessings, we incur the heaviest guilt.. No longer let us remain insensible to our dutyand our interest, to our present and eternal peace. The care of our souls is the one thing needful to work out our salvation, a concern. of supreme importance. In tender compassion, the Redeemer hath provided, in his holy Supper, the means of our reconciliation to our offended God, and of our restoration to holiness and immortal glory. Impressed with his infinite compassion for us, and earnestly desi- . rous to be partakers of his salvation, let us resolve to commemorate his love in the holy. Supper which he instituted, and receiving with penitent and believing hearts the symbols of his body and blood; become partakers of his mercy, his grace, his everlasting glory.

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A PRAYER

To be used by a person, who, having lived in forgetfulness of God, and in the neglect of his Christian obligations, is awakened to a sense of his guilt and danger, and is de-sirous to seal his pardon and reconciliation with God, in the holy Sacrament.

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O LORD GOD; to whom I am bound by the most -powerful and endearing ties! For thou art the author and preserver of my being, the source of all my mercies, my everlasting Redeemer and Judge-Thou hast lighted up in my soul those spiritual and immortal powers, by which I am rendered capable of the fruition of thee, the fountain of perfection and bliss-Thy gracious Providence has conducted me through the dangers and trials of life— Thy rich bounty has supplied all my wants, and crowned my lot with mercy and loving kindness-Thy unmerited grace has offered to me the infinite blessings of everlasting life and redemption. O my God! I acknowledge that the sincere, grateful, and ardent service of my past life would have been a feeble return to thee, for thine infinite love. With shame then, I confess, that even this inadequate tribute has been withheld from thee. With shame, I confess, that, though the solemn engagements and quickening grace of Baptism were imposed upon me, though the fountain of thy mercy has been opened to me in the Sacrament of the body and blood of thy Son, though the sacred obligations and exalted rewards of thy service have been continually displayed to me in the ministrations of the sanctuary, though thy Providence has called, thy holy Spirit warned me, I have yet continued insensible to the claims of thy love, to my own highest duty and happiness. O Lord, I have violated the most solemn obligations. I have been insensible to the most exalted privileges. I have resisted the solicitations of thy

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grace and mercy, though urged by the precious blood of thy beloved Son, which was poured forth a sacrifice for my sins. Forever blessed be thy long-suffering mercy O my God! that thou hast not given me up to the fruit of my own ways, that thou hast not inflicted upon me the awful punishment due to my ingratitude and guilt. Blessed be that grace, Almighty God, which has now 'awakened me to an apprehension of my guilt and danger, to a sense of thine infinite claims to my homage and obedience. O do thou strengthen my desires of returning unto thee, my humble but earnest resolutions of chusing thee, as my satisfying and eternal portion. And forasmuch as thou hast opened to the humble and penitent, in the holy Sacrament of the altar, the renovating fountain of grace and mercy; let me no longer neglect this sacred and endearing pledge of my Saviour's love. Prepare my heart, by the powerful operations of thy grace, for worthily receiving the crucified body and blood of my blessed Lord. Awaken my contrition, quicken my faith, enliven my love, confirm my resolutions of obedience, that going to the altar relying on my Redeemer's merits; and arrayed in the robes of his righteousness, I may obtain reconciliation with thee my God, may receive supplies of that quickening grace which will conduct me, through the sorrows and temptations of this mortal pilgrimage, to the blissful fruition, in the heavenly Zion, of the everlasting glories of the Godhead to whom, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, my Almighty Creator, my merciful Redeemer, my eternal Sanctifier, be ascribed, all power and might, majesty and dominion, henceforth and forever.

AMEN.

THE

WEEK'S PREPARATION

Monday Morning,

[Preparatory PRAYER, to be used every day.]

DIRECT ME, O LORD, in all my doings with thy most gracious favour, and further me with thy continual help, that in all my works, begun, continued, and ended in thee, I may glorify thy Holy Name, and finally, by thy mercy, obtain everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord. AMEN.

MEDITATION

ON THE NATURE AND BENEFITS OF THE

LORD'S SUPPER,

AND as they were eating, Jesus took bread and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. And he took the cup and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it: For this is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many, for the remission of sins.-Matt. xxvi. 26, 27, &c.

IT was in the moment when a cruel death was about to separate the blessed Jesus from his disciples, and when sorrow and despon

dency in the prospect of losing their beloved master had overwhelmed them-it was in this. solemn and interesting moment, that our Saviour instituted a holy rite to be the seal of his. mercy and grace, and enjoined it on his dis-ciples as the endearing memorial of his dying love. Engaged in celebrating the passover, a rite commemorative of the deliverance of the Jews from the wrath of the destroying angel, he had been offering up the paschal lamb, a memorial of that lamb, whose blood, sprinkled on the houses of the Jews, had been the pledge of their deliverance. But the time had arrived, when, the shadows and types of the law were to be all consummated in the glorious person of the Saviour, whom they had all, with impressive significance, foreshewn, to whom they had all, with radiant light, borne witness.. Instead of the legal victim, he substituted himself, as the true paschal lamb, and, to avert the wrath of divine justice from a guilty world, offered himself up an all sufficient sacrifice to his Almighty Father. He took bread, and consecrated it to be the symbol of his body which was to be given for the sins of the world. He blessed the cup of wine to represent his blood which was to be shed to atone for sin. He appointed these sacred elements to be the representative symbols of the sacrifice of the cross, the memorial of his precious sufferings and death by which our redemption was effected. And, that the blessings of this sacrifice

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