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The whole duty of a communicant eing rules and directions for a worthy receiving the most holy sacrament of the Lord's Supper. By the right reverend Father in God, John Gauden, late Lord Bishop of Exeter. He being dead yet speaketh.
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Gauden, John, 1605-1662.
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your knees God speak those words and said I am the Lord thy God thou shalt have none other Gods but me Lord have mercy upon me and incline my heart to keep this Law Self examination by the first Commandment If I have not absolutely denied Gods being or in a gross manner renounced him by Apostacy yet Have I not been angry with the Almighty murmuring and complaining against him in an adversity or trouble which he hath been pleased to lay upon me as though he were not both just and merciful Have I had such a confidence and trust in God as I ought to have had together with such a strength and consolation as ordinarily a lively confidence brings with it Have I not put all my confidence in the world and on the things which belong to it fearing man who can only kill the body more than God who can cast both Soul and Body into everlasting torments Have I not denyed my Maker by refusing to wait on him in his holy ordinances or if I have been there have I not been guilty of irreverence and cold devotion Lord have mercy upon me and pardon the breach of this Commandment II. Commandment Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven Image nor the likeness of any thing which is in Heaven above or in the Earth beneath or in the water under the Earth thou shalt not bow down to them nor worship them for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God and visit the sins of the Fathers upon the Children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me and shew mercy unto thousands in them that love me and keep my Commandments Lord have mercy upon me and incline my heart to keep this Law Self examination by the II. Commandment Though I have not set up a graven Image nor fallen down to worship any yet Have I not been troubled with the Fool in my heart in laying up treasures which a 〈…〉 liable to Corruption and idolizing the vain pomps and vanities of this wicked world by covetousness which is I do latry If I have abhorred Idols have I not been guilty of Sacrilege robbing of God in his Tithes and Offerings not extending my charity to the poor as I ought to do but fixing my mind more on the Creature then on the Creator Have I not made a God of my belly by luxuriousness indulging my self with carnal delights and sensual appetites and have been hurried away by every wind of Doctrin Lord have mercy upon me and pardon the breach of this Commandment Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain Lord have mercy upon me and incline my heart to keep this Law Self examination by the III. Commandment If I have not blasphemously profaned Gods nâ—mâ— yet Have I not taken his holy name in my mouth with much irreverence and jestingly and scoffingly abused his holy ordinances Have I not taken many false Oaths and Protestations and have been guilty of too frequent and customary swearing cursing by the dreadful name of God which is only to be mentioned for blessing and adoration Have I been careful to keep those lawful Oaths I have taken as my Baptismal vow or any other Oath which was administred lawfully to me without being guilty of the breach of them Have I not neglected to call upon that name whereby alone I must receive salvation and have turned the grace of God into wantonness to the destruction of my own Soul Lord have mercy upon me and pardon the breach of this commandment IV. Commandment Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day six days shalt thou labour and do all that thou hast to do but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God in it thou shalt do no manner of work thou and thy Son and thy Daughter thy Man servant and thy Maid-servant thy Cattle and the Stranger that is within thy Gates For in six days the Lord made Heaven and Earth the Sea and all that in them is and rested the seventh day wherefore the Lord blessed the seventh day and hallowed it Lord have mercy upon me and incline my heart to keep this Law Self examination by the IV. Commandment If I have not actually ossiciated on that day my worldly calling or employment yet Did I spend my time in the House of God as I ought to do to praise him for all his mercies bestowed upon me Have not I omitted Prayers and Sermons and followed my own idle imaginations not caring at all for the Church but being weary of the Lords day like those in Amos 8. 5. who ask when will the Sabbath be gone that we may set forth Wheat Have I not invented ways to draw others from the service and worship of God by vain sports and idle discourses not remembring to praise God on this day for the Creation and joyful Resurrection Have I at home instructed my Family as I ought to do but on the contrary have neglected those duties of prayers reading and meditation Lord have mercy upon me and pardon the breach of this Commandment V. Commandment Honour thy Father and thy Mother that thy days may be long in the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee Lord have mercy upon me and incline my heart to keep this Law Self examination by the V. Commandment If I have not grosly abused my parents by cursing or swearing at them yet Have I not spoken meanly and lightly of my superiors and instead of obeying them have made it my study to oppose and contradict them Have I not been undutiful to them in several respects as not hearkning to their Counsel not taking their reprooss with meekness and humility but have despised and mocked them refusing to practice their exhortations not remembring the words of the wise Man Pro. 30. 17. The eye that mockeâ—h his Father and despiseth to obey his Mother the Reavens of the valleys shall pick it out and the young Eagles shall eat it Have not I wisht my Parents death out of greediness of gaining their possessions when rich and have I not when they were poor been so unnatural as to turn my back upon their necessities Lord have mercy upon me and pardon the breach of this Commandment VI. Commandment Thou shalt do no Murther Lord have mercy upon me and incline my heart to keep this Law Self examination by the VI. Commandment If I have not actually committed Murther yet Have I not drawn many to intemperance and other vices which cause diseases or bring death or have I not made strife among men by which means they have engaged themselves in quarrelling and in the encounter come off maimed or killed Have I not out of malice and revenge strove to shorten many ones life or have I not taken a delight to grind the face of the poor making them work of necessity for that which can never maintain their
confirmed and exercised there repentance is employed and quickned faith is actuated and strengthned devotion and charity enflamed and kindled peace and concord is established there is the universal medicine for all our diseases and an ark of safety against all dangers there O my Soul thou mayest by the eye of faith behold thy crucified Lord and Saviour shedding his most precious Blood upon the Cross for thy sins and burning with an unspeakable desire of thy salvation There thou mayest look upon him whom thy sins have pierced and on him whom thou dost still crucifie afresh by thy sins dayly and hourly In the sufferings of thy Saviour O my soul thou mayest see as in a glass thy own vileness and deformities thy Saviours being mocked scorned and contemned discovers thy evil speaking lying and slandering his blessed Face being besmeared with spittle remembers thee of all thy unclean lusts and filthy communications that blessed Mouth which was guilty of no deceit was embittered with gall and vinegar which should mind thee of thy luxury and drunkennes his being scourged of thy stubbornness and disobedience III. O my soul dost thou not wonder that the King of glory should wear a Crown of thorns and for his Majestical Robes a little linnen for to cover his nakedness and thou to be guilty of pride and vain glory and affected with the pomps and vanities of this wicked World The Crown of Thorns which was platred on his Head with that rage and indignation should put thee in mind of the immoderate cares of the World with the sharp and piercing vexations issuing thence which eat up the consolation of the heart and all true sincere devotion of the spirit O let scorns 〈…〉 r thy sake be my glory and injuries and affronts my Crown lift up I pray thee upon thy Cross my miserable Soul which lies groveling on the ground out of this vale of misery O that thou would'st purge and thoroughly heal me with thy most precious Blood let thy wounds be a salve for my sinful soul and by thy stripes let her be healed of all her distempers let all thy pains grief and sorrows captivity humiliation and cross deliver me from Hell and purchase for me those joys and pleasures at thy right hand for ever and thy Death my life for evermore Amen A Prayer for Charity O Eternal God thou hast said that without charity we are nothing give me O Lord I beseech thee that Christian love and perfect charity that I may love thee O Lord my God with all my heart with all my mind with all my soul and with all my strength doing always in sincerity that which is pleasing in thy sight not returning evil for evil or raâ—ling for railing but loving my Neighbour as my self and being ready at all times to assist him in time of need administring to him according to his several necessities that at the last and great day I may give an account of my Steward ship with joy and not with grief grant this O Lord for thy Son Jesus Christ his sake Amen Our Father c. A Prayer for Saturday Evening on the most Holy Sacrament O Almighty God I beseech thee to seal unto me the pardon of all my sins and to grant all those petitions which I have asked in thy Sons name and let me now consider how transitory are all things how wicked is the World how impure is the flesh and how my self am deceitful grant that so I loose my affections from all such unworthy objects here below and then let me know how Eternal is thy nature how permanent is thy glory and how infinite is thy love bring me O bring me to morrow to thy royal feast with the badge of love and with the wedding garment so shall I be a welcome guest unto thee that eating thy flesh and drinking thy Blood I shall for ever dwell in thee my glorious Creator and thou in me thy blessed Creature Our Father c. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God the Father with the sweet and comfortable fellowship of God's Holy and Blessed Spirit bless preserve conserve and keep me this night and all the days of my life at the hour of death and in the day of Judgment Amen Sixthly how to receive it worthily The Morning thou art to receive after thy usual devotions breath forth this Meditation Sundays Meditation WIsdom hath killed her beasts mingled her wine and furnisht her table Man's folly wrought his fall by a bit and wisdom repairs it by a feast a fruit did corrupt us and flesh and blood do preserve us a Lamb is slain for the Goat the just for the unjust the Son of God for the Children of Men and is this day offered as meat for the life of many I will go to that feast to eat of that bread and drink of that wine which is mingled for me the fruit of the vine with the blood of Gods Lamb O then good Lord let me be found in that purity thou desirest in them that approach thine Altar wash thou my feet and cleanse my heart that I may be clean and have part with thee for ever Amen A Prayer for Sunday Morning before thou goest to Church O Lord prepare my heart to Prayer O Most glorious Lord God behold a miserable and wretched sinner is now approaching to thy most holy Table to feast my soul upon thy precious Body and Blood at the primitive eating thou said the day that thou eat est thou shalt surely dye but here in the day which I eat I shall surely live Joh. 6. O Lord I esteem my self unworthy of the least crum that falls from thy Table must the Childrens bread be given unto dogs must such a vile wretch as I sit at thy Holy Table who am laden with sin and over pressed with iniquity But I come O Lord to ease my self of sin and to cast off the burden of iniquity and to bury them all at the foot of thy Cross I come O Lord to be purged throughly from my iniquity and to be sorry for my sins which are without number but not more than my dear Saviours blood can expiate II. O thou brightest Morning Star arise now with healing in thy wings and say unto my soul I am thy salvation O do thou now arise and let thy Enemies be scattered which are my lusts and vile affections and let them that hate thee flee before thee which is the Devil envy hatred malice and all uncharitableness make clean my heart O my Redeemer and pull down every strong hold and bulwark which opposes thy heavenly will and make me a fit guest at thy Holy Table to receive thee with a pure heart and strengthen me that I may have such a lively faith to pass through the vale and confidently look into the holy of holies this I beg for thy alone sake my only Saviour and Redeemer Amen When thou art at Church before divine