our hearty Consent to it and Resolution to stand by it in all Sincerity and Faithfulness coming to it with that Repentance of all our Sins and those obedient Hearts which we profess and with a full purpose afterwards to make good all we promise And lastly we must Eat and Drink in confirmation of a League of Love and Friendship with all our Brethren laying aside all Envy and Malice towards them and making Restitution where we have wronged them and forgiving heartily where we have any Grudge against them and giving Alms as our Ability and their Necessities require them and so being in perfect Peace and Charity with all Men. And if we believe all these things and are thereby carried on to all these Tempers and Performances we have that Faith which will render us Worthy Communicants and acceptable to God at all other times If we believe Christ to be our Lord and Master and thereupon Reverence Honour and Obey him if we believe him to be our best Friend and Benefactor and thereupon love him and delight in him and are thankful to him if we believe he shed his own Hearts Blood for our Sins and for the Redemption of our Souls and thereupon are humbled with the sense of our own unworthiness and abhor our Sins which were so mischievous and resign up both our Souls and Bodies wholly to his use as they are his own Purchase if we believe his Death procured us the Grace and Blessings of the New Covenant which promises all Believers Pardon upon Repentance and the Spirits Help upon their own Endeavours and Eternal Life on their intire Obedience and thereupon heartily consent to it and perform that Repentance and Obedience which are the Condition of it and are faithful and sincere in our Promises and Resolutions to stand by it and lastly if we believe he requires us to love and live in peace with all the World and thereupon in this Sacrament confirm a League of Friendship with all our Brethren laying aside all Enmity and Hatred and being in perfect Charity with all Men If we have all this Faith I say which as appears is thorowly exercised in this Sacrament and can shew all these Fruits of it in these Tempers and Performances being effected by it we have that true saving justifying Faith the Scripture speaks of which purifies the Heart Act. 15.9 and works by Love Gal. 5.6 and is lively in Good Works Jam. 2.20 26 and this will make us Worthy Communicants at this Feast and welcom to God at all other times CHAP. III. A further Account of this Worthiness The Contents These recited Tempers are all necessary in the Person Communicating but not all necessary to be expresly exercised in the Time of Communion A Direction in which it may be fit to lay out our Devotion at that time All these are provided for in the Churches Prayers so that we may exercise them worthily if we go along devoutly at all the Parts of the Communion-Service IN the former Chapter I have reckon'd up those Tempers which render us Worthy Communicants and fit us to be bidden Welcome at the Lords Supper whensoever he invites and calls us thither But of them I must observe that altho ' they are all necessary in the Person Communicating yet are they not all of necessity to be particularly and expresly exercised in the Time of Communion They are all necessary I say in the Person Communicating and he is not worthy to remember such a Lord and Saviour to sign the New Covenant with Almighty God and a League of Amity and Friendship with all the Christian World who wants any of them They are altogether due from us as we have seen and may in all reason be expected of us as we stand in these Relations and are admitted to these Employments So that we act unworthily and fail of our Duty if our Souls are not endow'd with them when we are in those Capacities and about those Performances which do so justly challenge and call for them But they are not all necessary to be particularly and expresly exercised in the Time of Communion They will be all implied 't is true and virtually contained in what is then done but they are not all necessary to be particularly insisted on And for this there is a very good Reason because that Time doth not ordinarily allow sufficient Space for them For most Communicants are not of such active Minds and quick Apprehensions as that they can pursue so many Businesses or work themselves up into an express Fervour of so many particular Tempers at one Exercise And those that are chuse rather often-times to fix upon some few that so having the more time to stay upon them they may raise themselves up to greater Degrees and act them over in much higher Measures And because where all cannot be exercised it is of great use to know which are best and fittest to be singled out I shall here set down which of all those Tempers I conceive it were most proper to stir up at that time and vigorously to exert and heighten in our own Minds If any then who come to the Holy Communion find that they are either tired out with the length or distracted by the variety of many Particulars and that their Devotion in this Feast goes better on and is more full and perfect when they restrain it to a few I think they may do well to lay it out in these that follow In remembring our Saviour Christ who as then we are to believe died for us and purchased us the New Covenant by his Death offering us the Pardon of our Sins upon Repentâ—nce and his Grace and Spirit to help â—ut our Endeavours and Eternal Life upon our intire Obedience in remembring him I say we may do well to shew 1. A joyful and affectionate Thankfulness for this his unspeakable Love and Benefits particularly for his Dying for us 2. An intire Resignation of our selves both Souls and Bodies to his use as they are his own Purchase In which two consists the main Worthiness of this Part they being the Things which are most becoming us in this Remembrance And in confirming the New Covenant with Almighty God whereto we must believe we are then invited we may act 3. Repentance of all our Sins particularly of all those which we find are most apt to win upon us and make him Promises that in all the Instances of Duty but in them especially we will joyn our Endeavours to his Grace and obey his Laws and when we promise this it must be with a sincere and faithful Heart and with full Intentions of Performance which are the great Duty incumbent on us in these Engagements And in confirming a League of Love and Friendship with all our Brethren which we must think we are then called to likewise we may exercise 4. Charity towards all Persons forgiving all that have any ways offended us and laying aside all Envy Strife and malicious
Requisite to our worthy Commemoration of his Benefits in this Feast For Praising God is reckoned as one Particular of the Disciples Carriage in their Breaking Bread Act. 2. They continued daily breaking Bread says St. Luke which they eat with gladness praising God v. 46 47. Nay so great a share has Thanksgiving and Praise in this Business that the whole Action is called the Eucharist i. e. the Giving of Thanks to God for those Benefits which are therein Commemorated And these are the Things which must render our Remembrance worthy of him when we Commemorate him as our Friend and Benefactor in this Holy Supper We must love him for his Kindnesses and delight in his Benefits and be thankful for all his Favours particularly for that which is therein especially Commemorated his Dying upon our accounts bursting out into grateful Acknowledgments and Words of Praise and being ready and resolved by our Zeal in his Service our Observance of his Laws and our Kindness to his poor Members to make him all the small Requital we are able so that he may never have any cause to repent of what he has done for us But besides this Remembrance of his Friendship to us and Benefits in general which require in us these forementioned Tempers we are especially to commemorate the Benefit of his Dying for us which more particularly calls for certain others In Eating Bread and Drinking Wine in the Lords Supper I say we are to remember his Dying for us and shedding his Blood a Ransom for our Sins And to do this worthily we must be humbled under the sense of our own unworthiness and abhor our Sins which brought him to bleed and die for us and resign up our selves both Souls and Bodies to his use as we are bought with his Blood and thereby become his own Purchase 1 st We must remember his Dying for us in an humble and deep sense of our own unworthiness and in an utter abhorrence of our Sins which brought him to these Sufferings We must remember it I say in an humble and deep sense of our own unworthiness His Death was not for any thing that he had done but onely for our Sins and this shews what vile Wretches we are and how unworthy Persons It lets us see how hateful our Sins had made us unto God and what they had deserved at his Hands For he would not let them pass without inflicting the highest Shame and the most exquisite Pain and Tortures Yea when his own onely Begotten Son would intercede for them and bâ—ar the Burden of them in his own â—â—â—son so implacable was the 〈…〉 to them and so indispensable â—he Râ—â—sons that constrainâ—d him to punis◠〈…〉 that his most tender Love for him whom he valued as his own Right Eye could not hinder but that he should bleed and die for them It lets us see also how troublesom they had made us to our best Friends and how shamefully burdensom and expensive to the Blessed Jesus For when he long'd and labour'd to redeem us from them he could not be our Friend unless he would cease to be his own nor do us any good at all except he would give his own Life a Ransom And what Man now can ever think of this but he must hide his Face and be quite buried in a shameful sense of his own Unworthiness He may see how vile he was when God was so highly offended with him and thought no Punishment too heavy for him and would not be reconciled at the Intercession of his own Son unless he would die in stead of him and it was so dangerous and costly a thing no less than the laying down his own Life for his Saviour to shew himself a serviceable Friend to him And if this Sight doth not work shame and self-abasement in him he will be concluded by all to be the basest Man alive and utterly unworthy that â—ver any thing of all this unparallell'd Kindness should have been done him We must also remember his Dying for us with an utter abhorrence of our Sins which were the Causes of his Sufferings For if we do not hate and abhor them when we consider what Tortures he endured for them we shew we are very little concerned for his Ease nor have any feeling of his Pains nor any Zeal at all against the Occasion of his Sorrows And this is a very bad Requital of his undergoing all those Pains for our sakes and a most unworthy Usage So that if we would worthily Commemorate his Dying for us we must be humbled and ashamed of our selves at the sense of our own Unworthiness seeing we had deserved such insupportable Punishments and have put him to such exquisite and intense Pains and particularly we must turn our abhorrence on our Sins which caused all this Mischief and made him if he would befriend us to undergo such heavy Tortures 2 ly We must remember his Dying for us with a Resignation of our selves both Souls and Bodies to his use as we are bought with his Blood and thereby become his own Purchase He died in our stead and his Blood was given to God for a Ransom to buy us off from it that we might not die also The Son of Man saith he is come to give his Life a Ransom for many Mat. 20.28 And since he has bought us and paid so dear for us to deliver us from Hell-torments and Eternal Death which is not his but our own Advantage in all Equity and Reason he ought to have the Use of us and we should be wholly devoted to his Service And this the Scripture requires of us The Love of God constrains us saith St. Paul to live to him because we thus judge that if one died for all then were all dead and that he died for all that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves but unto him that died for them 2 Cor. 5.14 15. And again Ye are not your own ye are bought with a Price therefore glorifie God in your Body and in your Spirit which are Gods 1 Cor. 6.19 20. And since his Dying for us has made us his own Propriety and acquired him an absolute Right over us to his own use which we had infinite Reason to desire but he had no need of if we would remember it worthily we must do it justly by honestly devoting our Souls and Bodies and assigning them over to him to be wholly at his Service And these are the Things which must render our Remembrance worthy of him when in the Holy Sacrament we Commemorate his Dying for us and shedding his most precious Blood a Ransom for our Sins We must be humbled with the sense of our own Unworthiness and abhor our Sins which brought him to these Sufferings and resign up our selves both Bodies and Souls to be wholly at his use and employed where and in what he pleases as thereby they are become his own Purchase And thus it appears what Tempers are becoming
desire to be forgiven O Holy Jesus according to thy boundless Mercy accept of these small returns of thy poor Servant which though very mean alas are yet the best I have to offer thee and supply me with a more abundant measure of thy Grace that I may be able to pay back something more worthy of thee Let this Holy Sacrament be the Comfort and Refreshment of my Heart conveying Pardon and Peace to it and the Enriching and Establishing of my Spirit with all the Benefits of thy Blood make it a great increase of present Grace to me and a certain pledge of Immortality to assure me that I shall even live with thee and be near to that Heart which Dyed for me Be it even so for thine own sake Blessed Jesu Amen In these or such like words may we act over all those Virtues which are to render us worthy Communicants before the Holy Mysteries are brought to us And at the receipt of them we may lift up our Hearts to God in these or the like Expressions After the Receiving of the Bread we may say to our Dearest Lord with an Affectionate Heart I Receive this O! my Lord in remembrance of thy Death and thank thee most intirely for laying down thine own Life for me O! how I rejoyce in thy marvellous Love and in this Remembrance of it I will always live to thee and utterly renounce every sin whereby I have most ungratefully pierced thy bleeding Heart and am Friends with all the World for thy sake and will extol thy matchless Bounty whilst I have a Tongue to speak giving all Honour Glory and Praise to thee the Lamb of God who wast slain and now sittest upon the Throne for evermore And in like manner after the receiving of the Cup. THe Remembrance of thy Blood-shedding O! sweetest Saviour is dear to me I can never forget it since it was altogether for my sake and I owe my very Life to it In all the Affection of an infinitely obliged heart I humbly thank thee for what thou hast done and gladly consent to those Terms of Life and Mercy which were purchased by it and will never willfully yield to do any thing that is unworthy of so great a Benefit and embrace all my Brethren with open Arms since thou so requirest it and desire after this sort to fulfill thy will in all things and adore thy Glorious Goodness and shew forth thy boundless Praise to my Lifes end O! keep me unalterable in this mind may a Devout Soul then go on and never suffer my own Corrupt Lusts to turn me from it I have now O! Holy Saviour taken thee into my Heart O let thy Presence banish them away that they may never pretend to it again since now 't is Holy to the Lord nor ever appear to pollute that place wherein so Divine a Guest is lodged Now thou art pleas'd to enter under my Roof have me always in thy keeping for I am safe in no other hands Preserve the place thou hast taken possession of and let not thy Enemies and mine any more invade it Pour into my Heart all the Benefits of thy Crucified Body and Blood since now by thy wonderful Grace I am made Partaker of them Thy Blood was shed for the Remission of sins O! let me know and feel that mine are all forgiven It obtained the Assistance of thy Spirit and Grace O! let me ever enjoy that as I stand in need of it It was the Price thou payedst down for Eternal Life O! let that finally be my Lot since thou hast paid so dear for it Bid me hope assuredly O Blessed Jesu that all this shall be made good unto thy Servant because now thou hast given thy self to me and fed me with thine own Body whereby mayest thou ever dwell in me and I in thee Amen And when this is done whilst others are receiving we may employ our selves in some of the foregoing Devotions or when we have enough of them joyn heartily in the Prayer which is made at the Delivery of the Bread and Wine to others or strike in affectionately with the Psalm of Praise which for the ease and exercise of all but of those particularly who have already received is wont at that time to be sung in most Places After this sort then may we lift up our Hearts to God and discharge all those Duties which are required in every worthy Communicant When we have no other helps we may acceptably express them all in a Devout Concurrence with the Churches Prayers since in them as I have shewn there is an actual exercise of all these Duties But when we can do more either by the help of Books or our own invention we may act them over still more fully in these or such like forms of Devotion And when all this is done and this solemn Feast is concluded we must not think tho work of worthy Receiving is at an end for one thing still remains that must employ us always afterwards and that is a careful performance of all those Promises which we made to God in this Holy Ordinance In the Sacrament as has been shew'd we seek not only a Pardon for what is past but also vow and promise Amendment for the Future and these Promises must be made good afterwards and it must be our care whilst we Live to fulfil them This we are higly concerned to do and it will greatly increase our Guilt and Condemnation if we fall short of it For if we return to our former sins again after we have thus solemnly vow'd to forsake them We are false to our Word and treacherous where we seem to be most sincere and seek more especially to be trusted We break our Faith with God and go about to delude his Expectation had he been capable to be imposed upon and believed as we would have had him which is as great an abúse as we can well put upon him And this doubles the sin which we commit and sets God further off from being intreated for now we have not only the Fault it self to answer for but also this Perfidiousness and breach of Vows which adds a new one to it and makes it greater So that after every Sacrament if we still continue Impenitent our Guilt is aggravated and our Souls more endanger'd and we are greater sinners than we were before Thus highly are we concerned to perform the Promises which we made at the Table of our Lord. And this we shall be very like to do if we think often of them every day for some time especially after we are gone from it Indeed if we forget all we did and all the Vows we made there to Almighty God we are like to be the same men still and must not expect that it should amend us For the Sacrament as I have shewn doth not better us without our own Care but by helping and ingaging us to Good endeavours after it is over It works not as a
Natural but as a Moral means and improves none but such as remember what they did thereat and labour after their own Improvements So that if we think all our work was done at Church and fall into a careless and secure state of mind when we get home again we shall be held still in the same sins and the matter is not like to be much mended with us by such Receiving But if afterwards we frequently remember what we promised there if we set our own Vows every day before our Eyes and call to mind our own ingagements that remembrance will give them Force and make them have their effect upon us For the thought of our having promised and solemnly undertook for any Duties is the readiest way to have them all performed To reap that Benefit then which God design'd and which we expect by it we must dwell much in our own Thoughts upon what passed there after the Feast is ended We must maintain that Acquaintance with our Blessed Lord which then we begun and look upon it not as a transient Act but as an entrance on a lasting State which ever after we are to continue in We must bethink our selves daily that when last we were with our Saviour we cut out work for our whole Lives and in that hour made many Promises which through all the remainder of our days are most Religiously to be performed by us This course will render it an Ordinance full of Grace and Heavenly Benefits which will set us on mightily in our virtuous Attainments And when we reap this profit by it it will cure all our Indifferency and Aversation to it and make us run to it the next time with edge of Appetite as we would to a most delicious and enlivening entertainment We shall no more account it a fruitless work when once we have tasted these sweet and wholesome effects of it but desire to share in it oftner as it can be had and bless the time that ever we came thereto The End HEADS OF SELF-EXAMINATION FOR The Use of those who would find out what Sins they have to Repent of either before a Sacrament or at any other Times The Particulars of Duty towards God and Men as they are briefly summ'd up in the Church-Catechism MY Duty toward God is to Believe in him i. e. to believe the Scriptures which are his Word taking all the Laws of Humility Charity c. there recited for his Laws and the Promises of Pardon and Happiness to the Penitent c. and the Threatnings of Eternal Death to all impenitent Sinners c. for his Promises and Threatnings which he will see fulfilled upon us To Fear him as every Man doth who dare not do any Evil thing which he sees is offensive to him To Love him with all my heart c. as those Persons do who for his sake do every thing which he bids them To Worship him to give him Thanks to put my whole Trust in him i. e. both in his Providence for outward Supplies as I need them in his Mercy for Pardon of Sins when I repent of them and in his Spirit for Grace and inward Aid when I endeavour together with him To Call upon him to Honour his Holy Name and his Word and to Serve him truly all the days of my Life My Duty towards my Neighbour is to Love him as my self or to do to all Men as I would have them do to me To Love Honour and when need is Succour my Father and Mother To Honour and Obey the King and all that are put in Authority under him To submit my self to all my Spiritual Pastors and all my Governours To shew Reverence to all my Betters To bear no Malice or Hatred in my Heart To hurt no body by Word or Deed To be True and Just in all my Dealings To keep my Hands from Picking and Stealing and my Tongue from Evil-speaking Lying and Slandering To keep my Body in Temperance Soberness and Chastity Not to covet other Mens Goods To be Diligent in my own Calling and do my Duty in that Relation State or way of Life unto which it has pleas'd God to call me A Particular Enumeration of Sins whether against God our Neighbour or our selves taken out of the Measures of Christian Obedience which are all there explained in the Second Book SIns against our selves are Pride i. e. too high a Conceit of our selves and Contempt of others Arrogance i. e. Assuming too much to our selves in setting off our own Praise Vain-glory i. e. Intemperate Affectation of the Praise of others Ambition i. e. A restless Pursuit of Honour and Great Places Haughtiness in contemptuous scornful Carriage Imperiousness i. e. A Lordly way of Behaviour in commanding Men no way subject to us Worldliness i. e. An over eager Care of Worldly things Gluttony Voluptuousness Drunkenness Revelling Inconvinence Lasciviousness Filthy or Obscene Jestings Vncleanness Sodomy Effeminateness Adultery Fornication Inoest Rape Covetousness i. e. Unsatisfiedness with our own and an impatient Desire of more or of what belongs to others Refusing the Cross i. e. Deserting a Duty to avoid it Idleness Sensuality i. e. An industrious Care to gratifie our Bodily Senses Carnality i. e. Subjection to our Fleshly Lusts and Appetites Sins against God are Atheism Denying Providence Blasphemy Superstition Idolatry Witchcraft Foolishness or gross Ignorance of our Duty Vnbelief Hating God Want of Zeal Distrusting him Not praying to him Vnthankfulness Discontent in our present Condition or Repining at his Ordering Fearlesness or Venturing on any thing tho' we know it will offend him Common Swearing Perjury Prophaneness Disobedience Sins against our Brethren at large where are Sins of Injustice as Murder False-witness Slander i. e. Defaming them with False things Lying Vnfaithfulness or Breach of Promise Theft Oppression i. e. Wronging one who cannot cope with us in Contention Extortion or Depressing in Bargaining Circumvention or going beyond our Brethren Vncharitableness as Wickedness i. e. A Delight in doing Mischief and making others Work Despising and hating them that are Good Giving Scandal to Weak Brethren i. e. Laying in their way an Occasion of Sin Envy Rejoycing in Evil Vncharitableness in Alms Suffering false Stains to stick upon them when 't is in our power to vindicate them Evil-speaking or Divulging any Ill we hear or know by them Censoriousness i. e. A proneness to Blame or Condemn them Back-biting Whispering Railing Vpbraiding them with our Kindnesses Reproaching them with their own Faults Mocking them for their Infirmities Difficulty of Access Affronting them Vncourteousness Vncondescention Vnhospitableness towards Strangers Surliness Malignity or putting the worst Sense on what is said or done by others Vnquietness Vnthankfulness Anger Variance Bitterness Clamour Hatred and Malice Implacableness or Difficulty in being appeased after any Offences Revenge or Returning Ill for Ill Cursing Enemies Hastiness and Rigour in exacting Punishments Discord as Vnpeaceableness Emulation or Provoking one another Pragmaticalness or being Busie-Bodies
When thou bestowest Good on others let not us envy but rejoyce in it and when thou addest any to our selves let us own thy Mercy and humbly thank thee for it Afford us convenient Supplies in all our reasonable Necessities and protect us against the approach of all Dangers make us diligent in all our Business and give such Success to our Endeavours as thou seest most expedient for us and teach us contentedly to submit and not to repine at any thing that happens by the Allotment of thy Providence In all our Passage thro' this World and our manifold Concerns in it suffer not our Hearts to be too much set upon it but always fix our Eye upon the Blessed Hope that as we go along we may make all the Things of this World minister to it and be careful above all things to fit our Souls for that pure and perfect Bliss which thou hast prepared for all that love and fear thee in the Glories of thy Kingdom Extend thy Grace we further beseech thee to all Men in all Places especially to the Governours and Subjects to all both High and Low Rich and Poor that pray for it or need it in these Kingdoms Bless all our Relations who are near us in the Flesh and all our Friends and Benefactors who are endeared to us by their Kindnesses Forgive all our Enemies give them Hearts to fear thee and to be kind to us And supply all us and all others with whatsoever else thou seest proper for us for Christ his sake in whose Blessed Name and Words we still recommend our selves unto thee saying Our Father c. An Evening Prayer for a FAMILY O Most Gracious God who daily multipliest upon us thy Mercies notwithstanding we every day renew our Provocations Accept we beseech thee of our most humble and hearty Thanks for thy unspeakable Kindness towards us Blessed be thy Goodness which has this day supplied us with Food and Necessaries and preserved us in Health the chiefest of all outward Enjoyments and prosper'd the Work of our Hands and lent us our Friends to be still a Support and Comfort to us Adored be thy Love and Patience which hast allowed us one Day more to amend our Ways and assisted us by the Suggestions of thy Spirit and thy gracious Providences to make up that Resignation Humility Contentedness Chastity Sobriety Meekness Charity and other Virtues which are yet wanting in our own Souls We desire to shew our selves duely sensible of these endearing Benefits by learning to depend upon thy Providence which has been so watchful over us and to be contented with thy Orderings which are so wisely fitted to our own Advantage and applying all Opportunities to the increase of that Righteousness and Holy Living which thou requirest at our Hands We fain would do it and are here sincerely resolved to endeavour it and thou hast promised to aid all those who labour in so good a Work Be it then O Lord unto thy Servants according to thy Word and enable us by thy Grace and Holy Spirit so to do We are sensible O God how highly we have offended thee altho' we stand thus indebted for all we have or hope to enjoy to thy Bounty How many ways have we dishonour'd our Profession and revolted from the Vows we made in Baptism by Pride and Envy and Anger and Discontent and Evil-speaking and serving divers Lusts which then we utterly renounced and promised never to live in again We are heartily grieved and ashamed for these and all other our Misdoings and are fully resolv'd by thy Grace hereafter to amend them We unfeignedly repent of them and for Christ's sake humbly beg to be forgiven and that thy Grace and Holy Spirit may rid us of them for the time to come Our full purpose is to endeavour it and thy Promise is to help us in it O let thine Arm be our Almighty Aid and then we shall return to them no more Keep us in thy good Providence this Night make our Sleep safe and refreshing to us Fit us for our great Change that it may not surprize us unawares but that having led holy Lives we may be happy in our Deaths and have Comfort and well-grounded Hope in thee Give all Men Grace to repent and become thy Servants Let all Christians live up to the Laws of that Religion which they profess Especially bless these Kingdoms wherein we live Let our Governours Rule with Justice and our People Obey with Chearfulness Make the Rich and Prosperous Temperate in Vsing and Charitable in Distributing of their Substance and the Poor and Afflicted Patient and Contented under their Burdens And cause us all to love as Brethren to be Pitiful and Tender-hearted towards all Men. 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