peace to us wée returned again to Folly wée have deserved O Lord to bée cast out of thy presence And to bée forsaken as wée have forsaken thée and to hear to our confusion Depart from mée I know you not yée workers of iniquity Thou mayest justly tell us thou hast no pleasure in us nor wilt receive an offering at our hand But with thée there is abundant mercy And our Advocate Jesus Christ the Righteous is the propitiation for our sins who bare them in his body on the Cross and made himself an offering for them that hée might put them away by the sacrifice of himself Have mercy upon us and wash us in his blood Cloath us with his Righteousness take away our iniquities and let them not bée our ruine forgive them and remember them no more O thou that delightest not in the death of sinners heal our backslidings love us freely and say unto our souls that thou art our salvation Thou wilt in no wise cast out them that come unto thée receive us graciously to the Feast thou hast prepared for us cause us to hunger and thirst after Christ and his Righteousness that wée may bée satisfied Let his Flesh and blood bee to us Meat and Drink indéed And his spirit bée in us a well of living water Springing up to Everlasting life Give us to know thy Love in Christ which passeth knowledge Though wée have not séen him let us love him And though now wée see him not yet beleeving let us rejoyce with joy unspeakable and full of glory Though wée are unworthy of the crums that fall from thy Table yet féed us with the Bread of Life and speak and seal up Peace to our sinful wounded souls Soften our hearts that are hardened by the deceitfulness of sin Mortifie the Flesh and strengthen us with might in the inward man that wee may live and glorifie thy Grace through Jesus Christ our onely Saviour Amen Here let the Bread he brought to the Minister and received by him and set upon the Table and then the Wine in like manner or if they be set there before however let him bless them praying in these or the like words ALmighty God thou art the Creator and the Lord of all things Thou art the Soveraign Majesty whom wée have offended Thou art our most loving and merciful Father who hast given thy Son to reconcile us to thy self who hath ratified the New Testament and Covenant of Grace with his most precious blood and hath instituted this Holy Sacrament to bee celebrated in remembrance of him till his coming Sanctifie these thy Creatures of Bread and Wine which according to thy Institution and Command wee set apart to this holy use that they may bee Sacramentally The Body and Blood of thy Son Jesus Christ Amen Then or immediately before this Prayer let the Minister read the words of the Institution saying HEar what the Apostle Paul saith 1 Cor. 11. For I have received of the Lord that which also I deliver unto you that the Lord Jesus the same night in which hee was betrayed took Bread and when hee had given thanks hee brake it and said Take Eat This is my Body which is broken for you This do in remembrance of mee After the same manner also hee took the Cup when hee had supped saying This Cup is the New Testament in my Blood This do yee as oft as yee drink it in remembrance of mee For as often as yee eat this Bread and drink this Cup yee do shew the Lords death till hee come Then let the Minister say THis Bread and Wine being set apart and consecrated to this Holy use by Gods appointment are not now Common Bread and Wine but Sacramentally the Body and Blood of Christ Then let him thus Pray MOst merciful Saviour as thou hast loved us to the death and suffered for our sins the just for the unjust and hast instituted this holy Sacrament to bee used in remembrance of Thée till thy coming Wée beséech Thée by thine intercession with the Father through the Sacrifice of thy Body and Blood give us the pardon of our sins and thy quickening Spirit without which the Flesh will profit us nothing Reconcile us to the Father Nourish us as thy Members to Everlasting Life Amen Then let the Minister take the Bread and break it in the sight of the People saying THe Body of Christ was broken for us and offered once for all to sanctifie us Behold the sacrificed Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the World In like manner let him take the Cup and pour out the Wine in the sight of the Congregation saying WEE were redeemed with the precious Blood of Christ as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot Then let him thus Pray MOst holy Spirit proceeding from the Father and the Son by whom Christ was conceived by whom the Prophets and Apostles were inspired and the Ministers of Christ are qualified and called that dwellest and workest in all the members of Christ whom hou sanctifiest to the Image and for the service of their Head and comfortest them that they may shew forth his Praise Illuminate us that by Faith wée may sée him that is here represented to us Soften our hearts and humble us for our sins Sanctifie and quicken us That wée may rellish the Spiritual Food and feed on it to our Nourishment and growth in Grace Shed abroad the Love of God upon our hearts and draw them out in love to him Fill us with thankfulness and holy Joy and with love to one another Comfort us by witnessing that wée are the Children of God Confirm us for New Obedience Bée the Earnest of our Inheritance and seal us up to Everlasting Life Amen Then let the Minister deliver the Bread thus Consecrated and broken to the Communicants first taking and eating it himself as one of them when hee hath said TAke yée Eat yée This is the Body of Christ which is broken for you Do this in remembrance of him In like manner hee shall deliver them the Cup first drinking of it himself when hee hath said THis Cup is the New Testament in Christs Blood or Christs Blood of the New Testament which is shed for you for the remission of sins Drink yee all of it in remembrance of him Let it be left to the Ministers choice whether hee will consecrate the Bread and Wine together and break the Bread and pour out the Wine immediately or whether hee will consecrate and pour out the Wine when the Communicants have eaten the Bread If hee do the latter hee must use the fore-going Prayers and Expressions twice accordingly and let it bee left to his discretion whether hee will use any words at the breaking of the Bread and pouring out the Wine or not And if the Minister chuse to pray but once at the Consecration Commemoration and Delivery Let him pray as
of his that do his pleasure Bless the Lord all his Works in all places of his Dominions Bless the Lord O my soul my mouth shall speak the Praises of the Lord And let all Flesh bless his holy Name for ever and ever Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise yee the Lord. The Order of Celebrating the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ This or the like Explication of the Nature Use and Benefits of this Sacrament may bee used at the discretion of the Minister when hee seeth it needful to the Instruction of the Communicants THat you may discern the Lords body and understand the nature use and benefits of this Sacrament you must know that God created man in his own Image to know and love and serve his Maker That man fell under the guilt of sin and condemnation and left his holy Fitness for the work for which hee was created That hereupon the wonderful love and wisdome of God provided us a Remedy in our Redeemer to the end hee might not lose the glory of his Creation that hee might pardon and save us upon terms Securing the honour of his Justice and attaining the ends of his Law and Government and recover us to his love and service by appearing to the world in the greatest demonstrations of Goodness Love and Mercy By the greatest Miracle of Condiscension hee first promised and then gave his onely Son the Eternal Word to take mans nature into personal union with his God-head that being God and Man hee might bee a fit Mediator between God and Man to restore us and reconcile us to himself Thus Jesus Christ conceived by the Holy Ghost and born of the Virgin Mary became the second Adam the Physician and Saviour of undone Sinners the Captain of our Salvation to bee the glorious King and Head of all that are sanctified and saved Hee revealed the Holiness the Goodness and the Love of God by the perfect Holiness Goodness and Love of his Blessed Person Doctrine and Conversation and by suffering for us all the Afflictions of this life and at last the cursed death of the Cross as a Sacrifice and Ransome for us That all this might be effectual to our Recovery hee made for us a new and better Covenant and preached it himself undertaking the Pardon Justification and Sanctification of all that by unfeigned Faith do take him for their Saviour repenting of their sins and consenting to be sanctified by his Word and Spirit by which also hee inviteth and draweth men to himself and giveth them to beleeve Into this blessed pardoning saving Covenant wee are first solemnly entred by Baptism And when Christ was ready to leave the world and to give up himself a Sacrifice for us and intercede and exercise the fulness of his Kingly Power as the Churches Head and by his grace to draw men to himself and prepare them for his glory hee did himself institute this Sacrament of his body and blood at his last Supper to bee a continued Representation and Remembrance of his Death and therein of his own and his Fathers Love until his coming appointing his Ministers by the Preaching of the Gospel and Administration of these Sacraments to bee his Agents without and his Spirit within effectually to communicate his Grace The Lords Supper then is a holy Sacrament instituted by Christ wherein Bread and Wine being first by Consecration made Sacramentally or Representatively the body and blood of Christ are used by breaking and pouring out to represent and commemorate the Sacrifice of Christs Body and Blood upon the Cross once offered up to God for sin and are given in the Name of Christ unto the Church to signifie solemnize the renewal of his holy Covenant with them and the giving of himself unto them to expiate their sins by his Sacrifice and sanctifie them further by his Spirit and confirm their right to everlasting life And they are received Eaten and drunk by the Church to profess that they willingly receive Christ himself to the Ends aforesaid their Justification Sanctification and Glorification and to signifie and solemnize the Renewal of their Covenant with him and their holy Communion with him and with one another It being the renewing of a mutual Covenant that is here solemnized as wee commemorate Christs Sacrifice and receive him and his saving benefits so wee offer and deliver to him our selves as his redeemed sanctified people to bee a living Acceptable Sacrifice thankfully and obediently to live unto his Praise Before the receiving of this holy Sacrament wee must examine our selves and come preparedly In the receiving of it wee must exercise holy affections suited to the work And after the receiving of it wee must by consideration of it indeavour to revive the same Affections and perform our Covenant there renewed The holy Qualifications to bee before Provided and in Receiving exercised and after Receiving are these 1. A true beleef of the Articles of the Christian Faith concerning the Father Son and Holy Ghost the Person Offices Works and Sufferings and Benefits of Christ 2. The sense of our sinful and undone condition as in our selves and of our need of Christ so as humbly to loath our selves for our transgressions with the sense of our present weaknesses to bee strengthened and sins to bee forgiven 3. A true desire after Christ for pardon and spiritual Nourishment and Salvation 4. A thankful sense of the Wonderful Love of God declared in our Redemption and in the present offers of Christ and Life 5. The exercise of holy love and joy in the sense of this unspeakable Love if these two bee not felt before wee come yet in and after the Sacrament we must strive to exercise them 6. A love to one another and forgiving wrongs to one another with a desire after the Communion of Saints 7. The giving up our selves in Covenant to God with resolution of renewed Obedience 8. A patient hope for the coming of Christ himself and of the Everlasting Kingdome where wee shall bee perfectly united in him and glorified with him Those onely are to bee invited to the Lords Table and to come that truly repent and beleeve and unfeignedly consent to the terms of the Covenant though all are not to bee invited thus to beleeve and repent and so to come But those are to be admitted by the Pastors if they come who having the use of reason to understand what they do and examine themselves have made a Personal Profession of Faith Repentance and Obedience and are Members of the Church and not justly for Heresie or scandalous sin removed from its present Communion The benefit of the Sacrament is not to be judged of onely by present Experience and Feeling but by Faith God having appointed us to use it and promised his Blessing wee may and must beleeve that hee will make good his Promise and what ever wee feel at present that wee sincerely wait not on him in
our daily bread our necessary sustentation and provision for thy service and let us use it for thée and not to satisfie the flesh Let us depend on thée and trust thée for it in the lawful use of means And bless thou our labours and give us the fruits of the Earth in season and such temperate weather as tendeth thereunto Deliver us and all thy Servants from such wants distresses griefes and sicknesses as will unseasonably take us off thy service and from untimely death And teach us to value and redéem our time and work while it is day Kéep us from Gluttony Drunkenness and all intemperance from sloth and idleness from inordinate desires of pleasures or abundance but having food and Rayment let us bée therewith contented Of thy abundant mercy through the sacrifice and merits of thy Son according to thy promise forgive us all our sins and save us from thy deserved wrath and condemnation Remember not O Lord our offences nor the offences of our fore-Fathers but though our Iniquities testifie against us spare us and save us for thy mercy sake O Let not our sin deprive us of thy spirit or of access unto thée or Communion with thée or of thy favour or comfort or the light of thy Countenance or of everlasting life Cause us to forgive from our hearts the Injuries done against us as wée expect to bée forgiven by thée the greatest debt Kéep us from all revengfull desires and attempts And do thou convert and pardon our Enemies slanderers oppressors persecutors and others that have done us wrong Keep us from running upon Temptations suffer not the tempter by subtilty or importunity to corrupt our judgements Wills Affections or Conversations Cause us to maintain a diligent and constant watch over our thoughts and hearts our senses and Appetites our words and actions and as faithful Souldiers by the conduct and strength of the Captain of our Salvation with the whole Armour of God to resist and overcome the world the Devil and the Flesh unto the End Save us from the Temptations of Prosperity and adversity let us not bée drawn from thée to sin by the pleasures profits or honours of the world strengthen us for sufferings let us not forsake thee or fall in time of tryal help us to deny our selves and take up our Cross and follow Christ Accounting the sufferings of this present time unworthy to bée compared with the glory to bée revealed Deliver us from the Enmity and Rage of Satan and his Instruments and give not up thy Servants their Souls or Bodies their Peace or Liberties Estates or Names to their Malicious Wills but save us and preserve us to thy Heavenly Kingdome Wée ask all this of thée O Lord for thou art the Universal King Holy and just to whom it belongeth in righteousness to judge the World and save thy people All power is thine to execute wrath upon thine Enemies and to deliver and Glorifie thy Flock and none is able to resist thée Of Thée and through Thée and to Thée are all things and the Glory shall bée Thine For Ever Amen The Churches Praise For our Redemption to bee used at Discretion OUr Souls do magnifie thée O Lord Our spirits rejoyce in God our Saviour who remembred us in our Low and lost Estates for his mercy endureth for ever By one man sin entred into the World and death by sin Wée kept not the Covenant of God and refused to walk in his Law For all have Sinned and come short of the Glory of God and Judgement came upon all men to Condemnation But Blessed bée the Lord God of Israel that hath visited and redéemed his people and hath raised up a mighty Salvation for us in the House of his servant David As hée spake by the Mouth of his Holy Prophets which have béen since the World began A Uirgin hath conceived and brought forth The Holy Ghost did come upon her the power of the Highest did over-shadow her therefore the Holy one that is born of her is called the Son of God His name is called Jesus for hée saveth his people from their sins To us is born a Saviour which is Christ the Lord. Hée is the Image of the Invisible God The first born of every Creature for by him All things are created that are in Heaven and in Earth visible and invisible whether Thrones or Dominions or Principalities or Powers All things were Created by him and for him and hée is before all things and by him all things do consist Hée is the Power of God and the Wisdome of God The true light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world The Word was made Flesh and dwelt among us and men beheld his Glory as the Glory of the onely begotten of the Father full of Grace and Truth For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell When the fulness of time was come God sent his Son made of a Woman made under the Law to redéem them that are under the Law This is the beloved Son in whom the Father is well pleased For such a high Priest became us who is Holy Harmless Undefiled separate from sinners hée did no sin neither was there any guile found in his mouth when hée was reviled hée reviled not again leaving us an Ensample Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the Trée For God layed on him the Iniquity of us all and by his stripes wée are healed When wée were without strength in due time Christ died for the ungodly the just for the unjust In this was manifest the Love of God towards us that God sent his only begotten Son into the World that wée might live by him Forasmuch as the Children were Partakers of Flesh and Blood hée himself likewise took part with them that hée might destroy through death him that had the Power of death that is the Devil and might deliver them who through fear of Death were all their life time subject to Bondage Having spoiled Principalities and Powers hée made shew of them openly triumphing over them in his Cross Hée was Buried and rose again the third day according to the Scriptures For God raised him having loosed the pains of death because it was not possible that hée should bée holden of it hée hath abolished death and brought life and Immortality to light by the Gospel O Death where is thy Sting O Grave where is thy Uictory All Power is given him in Heaven and Earth when hée asscended up on high hée led Captivity Captive and gave gifts to men And hee gave some Apostles and some Prophets and some Evangelists and some Pastors and some Teachers for the perfecting of the Saints for the work of the Ministry for the Edifying of the Body of Christ till wee all come in the unity of the Faith of the knowledge