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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49397	The plain man's guide to heaven containing his duty 1. Towards God. II. Towards his neighbour. With proper prayers, meditations, and ejaculations, designed chiefly for the countryman, trades-man, labourer, and such like.	Lucas, Richard, 1648-1715.	1692 (1692)	Wing L3406; ESTC R32885	42,925	180

over the Exhortations before the Sacrament and as you read consider if you be so prepared as they require Indeed the whole Communion Service is an excellent direction for our preparation to and meditations at the holy Sacrament for which cause I would have you read it over and make it your Rule endeavouring to understand it well and where you are ignorant go to your Minister to be more clearly informed which will be a means of your joyning in it in publick with the greater Devotion A short Example of applying the Communion Service the better to prevent the wandring of your Mind YE that do truly and earnestly repent Lord I repent perfect my repentance And are in Love and Charity with your Neighbour Encrease my Charity I forgive and desire to be forgiven by others And intend to lead a new Life c. Assisted by thy grace I resolve to keep thy Commandments and walk in thy holy ways Draw near with faith Confirm my faith that I may receive the holy Sacrament to my comfort as I humbly confess so graciously pardon all my sins After this manner you may apply the larger Exhortation before which I leave to your own devotion Then follows the Confession and other Prayers which you are to joyn in and the Prayer of Consecration to these words Who in the same night c. the rest being proper only to the Minister who is appointed alone to consecrate the Bread and Wine for this holy use Observe in the Prayer that Christ is said to be but once offered which was when he suffered on the Cross by which Sacrifice he made a full perfect and sufficient Oblation and Satisfaction for the sins of the whole World that is whoever shall repent and believe Observe also that he commands us to continue the remembrance of his Death till his coming again which ought to convince you of the duty of the frequent coming to the holy Table The reason of kneeling is only this being the most solemn time of Prayer that posture is most proper therefore ought not to be a cause of division As for your private devotion observe the following Rules Imploy some time in the Morning to consider how you must behave your self at the holy Table how to order your Meditations and renuing your Baptismal Covenant meditating on and applying the benefits of Christ's Death for your pardon and reconciliation with God what sin to be most humbled for what grace to beg most earnestly pray also that no temptation of the World the Devil or your own corrupt Nature may rob you of the fruit of this Communion no sinful worldly or wandring thoughts trouble you but that God would remove whatever may obstruct the operation of his grace When any of your Family go along with you to the Sacrament as you ought to endeavour they should when they are of years and throughly instructed say some Prayer relating to the Sacrament besides your ordinary Morning Prayer Take care to be at the Church in good time after Sermon till the Communion Service begins spend your time in humble confessing your sins and unworthiness of so great a favour So soon as the Minister begins leave off all private Prayer and joyn with him with all the attention and zeal you can possibly Attend to the Exhortation and apply it to your self as before observed for the Prayers you must joyn in them with Devotion After Consecration while the Minister is receiving and till he comes to you say your private Prayer first pray that God would except all present and make them partakers of the benefit of his holy Sacrament Secondly confess your sins and acknowledge that your due desert is death and destruction Look on Christ as the only propitiation for your sins believe that his Death was a full perfect and alsufficient Sacrifice for them present them to God as such desiring that the merits of his Sufferings may be imputed for your pardon and his Righteousness for your justification and acceptance with God believe firmly that God now offers to renew his Covenant and grants you pardon grace and glory if you are faithful on your part which is forsaking every sin and obeying all the commands of God to the utmost of your Power desiring to receive it according to the Institution of Christ Perplex not your self with nice definitions believe whatever God has promised his power is able to perform and that Christ and the benefits of his Death are communicated and given to the worthy receivers in such a manner as 't is best for him and his spiritual union with Christ most advanced In the act of receiving let your Soul be bowed down with a sense of its unworthiness Adore the mercy of God in Christ desire you may receive the holy Spirit love God for his goodness believe his promises and resolve to obey his holy commands After you have communicated let the rest of your time till publick Prayers again be imployed in Prayer for grace to keep your holy Resolutions for without God's assistance you can do nothing that is good praise God for the great mercy of this Communion and make earnest Intercession for all Mankind especially for their conversion and spiritual welfare for the destruction of the power of Sin and Satan and chastening the Kingdom of Christ and also for your Governours in Church and State for your Friends and Relations at least so many of these as time will give you leave to use saying the rest at home Short Prayers or rather Ejaculations according to the past Rules O God thou sawest me in my blood and saidst unto me live thou sawest me in my pollutions and thine eye pitied me and didst open the fountain for my uncleanness Glory be to thee O Lord most good and most high O holy and meek Jesus thou art the Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the World thou who knewest no sin didst become sin for us O may we be cleansed from all unrighteousness through thy Blood O Saviour of the World may all the ends of the Earth look up unto God through thee and be saved may the Kingdom of Darkness be broken down and thy Kingdom O Christ be enlarged and established through the whole Earth O Lord I believe that Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Light and therefore I come unto thee through him O cast me not off my Soul thirsteth after thy Salvation I come to thee in Faith Repentance and Charity O receive me and fill me with grace and comfort Amen blessed Jesus I come O my God to renew my Covenant with thee in the blood of Jesus O receive me a poor penitent Prodigal I have wandred from thee I have hewed out to my self Cisterns broken Cisterns that will hold no water but now my Soul gaspeth for thee O thou Fountain of living waters O give me thy Spirit that it may cleanse and refresh me that it may satisfie the desires of my Soul I will be

other in worldly business therefore to those who are willing to follow my directions I recommend the doing of no more work then is needful not that the obligation is the same as on the Lord's day but only on an advantage of your growing in grace Therefore those that cannot read after the Family and Private Devotions is over had much better work themselves or find any innocent imployment then loose their time in idleness and sloth After your necessary business is done spend the rest of the Morning in reading to your Family who may at the same time do any quiet or sitting work or else catechise your Children and Servants but be sure if there is any Service in the Church to attend on that with willingness and devotion and cause your Family to do the like The rest of the day if you are able to afford so much time you may spend in seeing an honest Neighbour or Relation your Minister or Landlord but be sure on these days as on no other you eat nor drink not to excess for by that you make what was designed for God's Service and your good the cause of God's dishonour and your perdition the Devil's work ought to be done on no day and less on a day called holy and designed for holy uses therefore avoid such Company as will tempt you to excess 't is better work at home then go abroad for such purposes Come home early if you go abroad that you may have time to enlarge your Devotions by reading or praying something longer or singing Psalms but whatever part of these Devotions you want time for be sure that nothing but very great necessity hinders your going to Church on such days but when Harvest or other unavoidable business hinders read the same Scriptures you should hear at Church at home and at your work be much in singing Psalms good discourse on holy Meditations praying that God will accept your desires to worship him more solemnly and give you a share of those blessings others pray for But take care whenever you plead necessity to omit God's Worship that it be not a pretended necessity for that will be a great aggravation of your neglect if you can loose time in idleness and vanity and yet fancy you have none for God's Service this is plainly because you want a true love to God For we like to converse with those we love and are very ready to contrive means to do it if you will but try to be in the first place careful to serve God in the next industrious in your business dare promise that the time you so spend shall not be lost but be abundantly rewarded and is most likely to obtain the blessing of God on your labours a contented mind and sure hope of eternal happiness CHAP. III. Of preparation to the holy Sacrament SUpposing you live an honest holy life and sincerely endeavour to do your duty to God Of the Sacrament 1 Cor. 11.23 24 25 26. Luke 22.17 18 19 20. 1 Cor. 5.7 8. 11.27 28 29 30 your Neighbour and your self I would advise you to receive the holy Sacrament as often as it is administred in your Parish Church If your life is wicked you must not come at all till you reform and are prepared by repentance and good works So that there is no excuse for seldom receiving If you are unfit for the Sacrament you are unfit to die and then there is no time for delay but you must speedily mend and beg pardon and grace that you may be prepared for both But forasmuch as this Book is directed only to such as are ingaged in a holy life or resolve to be so for others will hardly submit to these Rules I shall suppose my Reader is in a state of grace and resolved to be God's faithful Soldier and Servant all the days of his life as he engaged in his Baptism But to avoid all scruple in judging of your right to this holy Ordinance take the advice of your Pastors and submit to it and if he admits you once you ought not after to neglect repeating of this Duty except you fall into some wilful sin temptation or doubt in which case 't is safest being advised by your Minister who will resolve your doubt and advise you how to overcome your temptation and in case of wilful sin will assist your repentance and judge when it is such as will admit your return to the holy Communion then you must deal sincerely else you deceive him and so are the cause of his deceiving you which will be your own misfortune When the warning is given rejoyce at the glad Tidings and hearken with reverence and attentention to the Exhortation and Instructions contained in it during the whole week have it often in your mind and as you are at work think how you are prepared what it is makes you most afraid or unwilling to come to this blessed Feast if it is any remaining love to sin if you find any beloved lust you are still loth to part with rest not in this dangerous state for your Salvation is in great hazard when your love to sin is greater then your love of God or Heaven or fear of Hell which it must needs be so long as you cannot resolve to part with it though you know that the wages of sin is death and that no unclean wicked man so long as he continues so can enter into the Kingdom of Heaven therefore if you live in Fornication Drunkenness Swearing Cheating Malice Lying Covetousness Unmercifulness the neglect of God's Worship reading and hearing his holy Word frequent Prayer breach of the Sabbath or any other known wilful sin come not to the holy Sacrament not only not frequently but not at all till you amend your ways nor immediately so soon as you think you repent but try your sincerity But the safest way in this case is as I said before to be advised and examined by some honest sober Minister both before your first admission and after in case of relapse into your old sins or doubts of sincerity in your spiritual state if your sins are only of infirmity and defects of doing good be not discouraged nor keep from this great means of strengthening your weak graces which the Enemy of your Soul will tempt you to that being without this spiritual Armour he may with the more ease overcome but in the days of your Preparation often call to mind and observe what imperfections you find most prevail and what temptations to them and think what may be the best means for the overcoming of them also think what is most apt to draw you from the Service of God and your Neighbour and fortifie your self against such temptations and by meditation of the Joys of Heaven and the Torments of Hell certainty of Death and uncertainty of Life quicken your Resolutions of sincere Obedience to all God's Commandments Fasting Matth. 6.16 17 18. Acts 10.30 What time