that was ever vouchsaf'd to the Sons of Men was the coming of our Saviour to restore us the hopeful possibilities of Salvation to establish a new Covenant between God and us and to seal it by his Blood As in our Baptisin we were received into this Covenant of Grace and Mercy so have we since stained and polluted these white Robes by unholyness and disobedience and broken our part of the Covenant But now that we should refuse when we are called and invited to come and renew it in the Holy Sacrament that we should refuse to come with the rest oâ— our Brethren and commemorate the dying Love of this our Lord is equally strange and deplorable I shall therefore upon this consideration and because the great Festival set apart in memory of our Saviour's Resurrection from the Grave is at hand offeâ— you some Meditations touching that Holy and Comfortable that Divine anâ— Heavenly action that so we may coâ—â— to our Lord who has already invited uâ— willingly and chearfully faithfully and charitably humbly and penitently with Loâ—â— and Devotion and be found by him 〈◊〉 have that Wedding-Garment on whâ—â— may be accepted by him now and in 〈◊〉 day of Judgment Though there are some and thâ—◠†Dr. Hammond and Gomar Camero Synop. great Men that suppâ—â— the words of the Text 〈◊〉 not directly and propeâ—â—â— spoken of the Holy Saâ—â—â—ment because it was not then institutâ—â—â— yet because * Pro Carne Corpus habet Syrus quae vox in Euchar institutione legitur ad quam hic tanta quaedam allusio est Grot. in v. 53. others doubt not but there is a respect had to it being shortly after to be instituted and there are †Luc. Brugensis Mal. citant Synop. some that say expresly that it is to be understood and meant of the Sacramental eating and a * Dr. Sherlock of Religious Assemblies great and excellent persons sayes he does not in the least doubt of it I shall not therefore question to understand and take the words in the same sence also From which I might offer this Doctrine That worthily and with a due preparation to eat the Flesh and drink the Blood of our Saviour shall by placing him in our heart and us in his unite us more closely to him and is an happy earnest of Eternal Salvation For the Proof and Confirmation of which I might instance in St. Jo. 6.54.57.58 1 Cor. 10.16.17 and many other places of Holy Scripture But to make the Text more useful to our present designs I shall from it speak to 4 things First I shall briefly shew you that this is a necessary holy and Christian Duty to be frequently performed by us and the neglect of it infinitely dangerous Secondly I shall consider to what end it was instituted or appointed by our Blessed Saviour Thirdly Shew how we are to come prepared to partake of these holy Mysteries Fourthly and Lastly insist upon 4 or 5 Considerations after Receiving First that this is a necessary holy and Christian Duty to be frequently performed and the neglect dangerous For whatever we have an express Command of our Saviour unquestionably it requires our obedience and is ouâ— indispensable duty to be obeyed by unâ—â— readily and willingly with Sincerity and Constancy And this was one of the lasâ— injunctions which our dear Redeemer a little before his Death was pleas'd to leave with us Lu. 22.19 This do iâ— remembrance of me And that we might have the more full assurance of the truth of it the blessed Apostle when he speakâ—â— of this institution and command of ouâ— Saviour sayes I have received of thâ— Lord that which I also delivered unto you that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread c. 1 Cor. 11.23 24 25 26. I have sayes he received of the Lord as if he had said though I were not my self present when our Lord ordained and appointed this Memorial of his death and suffering by which we that name his Name are to shew forth his death till he come yet I do assure you Grot. that I received it that is either by the other Apostles who were both Ear and Eye-witnesses or by immediate Revelation from Heaven from our Saviour that the very same Night in which he was betrayed soon after to be buffeted reviled scourged spit on crucified for our Salvation that he instituted this holy Feast to be continued to the end of the World But then as this is a necessary and unquestionable Duty so is it to be performed not only once in the whole Course of our Lives once in this our present State and no more or once at the hour of Death as some of us are too apt to suppose and as willing to shew by their practice but a holy and heavenly Duty to be performed more frequently And for a Confirmation of this let us see First what the holy Scriptures say to the frequency of this action Secondly what was the Practice and the Custome of the first Worthies of the Christian Church shortly after our Saviour's time Thirdly Lay down some Reasons for our frequent attendance on those holy Mysteries And if from all these we find cause for our often Communicating at the Lord's Table if from Scripture from the practice of the first and purest ages of the Church of Christ and from Reason too then I hope that each soul present will lay this home to his own heart and take it into his most serious consideration and then ever for the time to come endeavour to make up his former too great neglects by his future frequency in this holy Duty First let us see what those Scripture are that either countenance or imply the frequent performance of this holy action for this let us consider Act. 2.42 They continued stedfastly in the Apostles doctrine in breaking of bread and prayers We read Act. 2.7 that on the first day of the Week they usually came together to break Bread So also 't is said 1 Cor. 11.25 Do this as often as ye shall drink it is remembrance of me The word stedfastly as is observed by a * Dâ—â— P. Christian Sacrifice Pious and Learned Person denotes the frequency of the action and the words as often may imply it also Oh here then before we pass any further let us six our thoughts and consider if those who first named the Name of Christ continued in it so stedfastly if at least on the first day of the week out of their flaming Love and Affection to their dear Lord and Master they remembred his Death with praise and thanksgivings how ill Copiers out of so holy and blessed an Example are some of us They were it seems so ready to commemorate their dying Lord so full of Zeal so willing and forward to go forth to meet him at his Table that they scarce ever put off their Wedding Garment but their whole lives were a constant and
our Baptismal Covenant when our Lord is yet so willing to renew it with us No longer let it be said of us that we should be so inconsiderate as to live in the omission and neglect of a duty which if frequented would convey so many benefits and advantages to us as we have mentioned O let it no more be said of us that we should ever hereafter live in the constant neglect of that solemn act of Christian Worship which if frequently performed would be so evident a sign of our great love to Religion and Piety and of our deep apprehensions of another World and our concernment for a joyful Immortality Never never let it be said of us in the day of Judgment that while we dwelt upon Earth we were alway loath and backward and unwilling to present our selves whenever we were invited to that holy and heavenly and pleasant duty by the frequenting of which we might so plainly have shewn our greater love to Jesus by our readiness to take all opportunities of commemorating his dying bleeding affection to us And then O let it never be said of any of us that the only reason why we should or could be supposed to refuse it was because we would not be at the pains of putting on the Wedding-Garment or endure the thoughts and consideration of stripping our selves of the old spotted rayment of Sin and Irreligion No the old acquaintance must be parted with the old Dalilahs divorced the darling Iniquity that has long been near and dear to thee must be thrown off But may it be henceforth never said of us that we had rather part from the sweet Communion with the holy Jesus than renounce our fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness Why shall any of these things be ever said of any one of us in the hour of death or day of our Accompts May they never be said to us or remembred in that day and hour when it shall be impossible to reform them To conclude this head O that sometimes we would withdraw our selves from the World and look beyond the Grave and then look upon our selves as those that are hastning to Eternity and then in that serious thought let us consider that e'r long we shall find it to have been the best and most satisfactory imployment in the World to have been frequent and devout Communicants O that sometimes we would shut our Eyes or take them off from the World and then think how vast that Eternity is that depends upon the holy management of this moment and having so done then tell me how great the necessity and advantages of this holy Duty do begin to appear O that sometimes we would look upon our selves only as Strangers and Pilgrims here and that two or three ages hence we shall all be forgotten that then nothing shall be remembred of us any more but either our horrid unreformed Iniquities or our sincere holiness and Conformity of heart and life to the Gospel of our Saviour and then upon such a close and piercing thought as this instantly consider how does this holy and heavenly Duty appear to thee and wouldst thou not willingly have it then remembred of thee that thou wert here below a devout frequenter of these holy Mysteries O that Sometimes we could seriously fix our eyes in a holy Meditation on that glorious day in which our Lord shall come to place his faithful Servants beyond all further doubts or fears possibility of sin or temptations infelicities or Scruples of Conscience Tell me in such a thought as this would it not be a blessed consideration to be in a State in which we could be truely able to love his appearing 2 Tim. 4.8 why never shall it be thus with us 'till we come to be devout and frequent attenders on these holy Mysteries Nay I will appeal to thine own Soul in the Case when wert thou ever able so heartily and truely to love the thoughts of thy Lord 's appearing as when thou wert but just come from his holy Table Couldst thou not have been willing then that all thy business in this World might have been over and that he might have then come and taken thee into the air with him and set thee down in the Mansions of eternal Holyness and why then should not thy frequency in this holy action be such as that he may almost even at any time come and not fail to find thee so doing O that sometime we would look upon this life as a state and condition in which we are plac't by the eternal God to fit and trim the Soul for the society of those holy Worthies that are gon up before us and then in that thought consider how far short our practice comes of their daily and weekly communicating Or that lastly we would sometime look back too and consider again that among all our former days that are slid away from us those only shall shortly be remembred with joy in which we have done something in order to a joyful Resurrection and a safe Eternity Say now would we not in such a thought as this wish heartily that we had a better accompt in the Registers of Heaven than we yet have more especially that we had many more devout performances of this holy and heavenly duty recorded there than we have and if we find Reason thus to think of our past dayes Oh why should we henceforward have reason to think the same of our future days then when they also shall be over and we shall be brought to the Neighbourhood of the Grave I shall therefore in the name and words of our dear and holy mother the Church earnestly beseech you no longer to continue so much strangers to so wilful neglecters of this holy Duty and if any man neglect to hear the Church let him be unto thee as a heathen man and a Publican St. Mat. 18.17 and she invites us thus I bid you in the name of God I call you in Christ's behalf I exhort you as you love your own Salvation that you all be partakers of this holy Communion And as the Son of God did vouchsafe to yield up his Soul by death upon the Cross for your Salvation so it is your duty to receive the Communion in remembrance of the Sacrifice of his death as he himself hath commanded Which if ye shall neglect to do consider with your selves how great injury you do unto God and how sore punishment hangeth over your heads for the same when ye wilfully abstain from the Lord's Table and seperate from your brethren who come to feed on the Banquet of that most heavenly food And thus much of the first general head to shew that this is a necessary holy and Christian Duty to be frequently performed and the neglect of it infinitely dangerous CHAP. II. This do in remembrance of me SEcondly we come now to see to what end it was instituted or appointed by our blessed Saviour First it was instituted
St. Cypr. a Bishop of the Church of Christ who lived above two hundred and fifty years after our Saviour Christ he tells us that the Custom of receiving it daily was observ'd in his days Another who liv'd above three hundred years from our Saviour St. Ambro. says Receive that every day which may profit thee every day And no less than a whole Council or Assembly of Devout men at Antioch the place where the Disciples were first called Christians as we are told Act. 11.26 though not at the same time decreed some ages since our Saviour's time that those should be excommunicated cast out of the Church who came to other holy offices and divine Services but went away without receiving the Sacrament of the Lords Supper And to mention no more a Reverend Father of the Church St. Jerom. who liv'd about four hundred years from Christ's time saies the practice of daily receiving was continued to his time Let us then with eyes shut and arms folded when we are next alone and retir'd from the World in a serious thought consider Did those of old who owned the same crucifyed Jesus with our selves Did they as constantly do this in remembrance of him as they did publickly meet to pray together or hear the Word And is it come from once a day and once a week to once a year to once in our whole lives Is it come to this Is this all the sense and apprehension we have of the necessity and advantages of this duty Is this the obedience we shew to an Express Command of our Saviour either wholly to disobey it or perform as seldom as possible we can Is this the imitation of the practice of the first ages of Christianity Is this all the reckoning and accompt we make of that inestimable priviledge of being in Covenant with God or of being called and invited to come and renew it again when we have broken our terms and to have it signed and sealed to us again Was it for this O blessed Jesu that thou hast done and suffered so much for our sakes Was it for this that thou wert content for us to submit to an Agony and bloody sweat to the Cross and Passion to a Death and Burial And is it for this that we have so long owned thee for our Lord and our Redeemer a tender and merciful Saviour that some of us should stupidly live in an habitual neglect of doing this in remembrance of thee And have we no greater sense of and concernment for the last words of a dying Saviour shall the expiring breath of a dear Redeemer poured out for our eternal Interest be lost and in vain to any of us that call him so O how much Reason have we to say of such Father forgive them or rather father open their eyes for they know not what they do Bishop Taylor 's life of Christ But thus as is observ'd by an excellent Prelate now with God it hath fared with this Sacrament as with other Actions of Religion which have descended from Flames the Flames of the Devotion of the first ages to still Fires from Fires to Sparks from Sparks to Embers from Embers to Smoke from Smoke to Nothing But in the Name of God let me enquire are we willing to make any publick thankfull joyfull acknowledgments at all of the love of our crucifyed Jesus and the great things he has done and undergone for the redemption of us and of our Children after us if not we are monsters of Ingratitude and Impiety If we are at all willing so to do why shall we not fit our soul to take all possible opportunities while we are yet here below and at this distance from him to do this in remembrance of him How can we think that our other Devotions shall be prevalent with or acceptable to the Holy God without the Intercession of our Saviour and the merit of his sufferings and yet this is the way he hath appointed to give our prayers an Interest in his Sacrifice Can we reasonably suppose that indeed any Duties whatever and the performance of them shall be accepted when this great and solemn act of Religious worship shall be refused omitted and neglected O let us in our next retirements when we are withdrawn from the noise and tumult and business and thoughts of the world deeply think should we not have reason to be afraid that no Petitions of ours no Devotions no works of Mercy Piety or Charity no Fastings or Alms no hearings or readings shall be accepted without this part of our Christian Worship Would it not further be a sad and dismal consideration to remember in the hour of Death or day of Judgment that these and many other holy Actions shall fall to the ground being vain and lost only for our wilful neglect of this holy Sacrament Again in the same retirement from the World and in your next meditations consider what could you think of a rich and very wealthy person that never in all his life should be perswaded to bestow so much as the worth of a farthing to the poor and needy Or what thoughts should we have of him who never in the whole course of his life should offer up a prayer to God either in publick or in secret The same may we think of him that would never accept of an Invitation to fit and trim the Soul to come and with the rest of his Christian Brethren to partake of these holy Mysteries for they did but disobey a plain Command of our Saviour's the one only disobeyed the command of feeding the hungry and cloathing the naked the other only refused obedience to the Command of praying without ceasing So the wilfull absenter from the holy Supper of the Lord only dissobeys the Command of Do this Nay I look upon this to be a greater piece of disobedience because in this there is an obligation of love Love infinite and unspeakable an obligation of thanks and gratitude to engage us Do this in remembrance of me the Lord that bought you the Lord that pay'd down the dear price of his blood Wounds sweat and groans pains and death for you Give me leave to say further I shall never I can never truly believe you have any tolerable care of your souls till I see this Holy Sacrament more frequented till I see some evidence of your greater love to these holy Mysteries Not however as if I would perswade or give encouragement by this to wicked men while they continue such to approach this heavenly feast But for those who resolve heartily by divine Grace to reform their lives and amidst the disadvantages of this life are fully purposed to Devote themselves in sincerity though not in perfection to the Laws of our holy Religion whatever else you do yet I shall never I can never suppose you have any tolerable Love or Zeal for our Dear Redeemer while you habitually turn your back on his Holy Table
2.22 Can we not easily remember the time when we had wept over our Crimes and thought our Repentance had been deep and hearty that we instantly fell into them again upon the next temptation that look't fair and forgot our holy Resolutions Whereas a Reformation or change of life is the life of Repentance and without that at least in the Gospel measures that is in the most hearty sincerity though not entire perfection what we call Repentance is but the bowing down the head like a Bull-rush Then as to that other part of our Covenant Obedience how unsincere has this been too how partial have we been in it performing one duty and omitting two reforming one iniquity and then soon after entring upon another instead of it Thus can we not remember that we may have changed the Lusts of our Youth into the Covetousness of old age the intemperance and vanity of our younger days into revenge and malice in our growing years and so instead of a universal reformation often exchanging only one sin for another Then again how gross has our Ignorance been of our necessary and indispensable duties and yet of those that we have known how few have we faithfully discharged how has the World Flesh and Devil stept in between us and our former resolutions of Obedience So dismally have we broken our part of the Covenant But now does our God and Saviour call us to renew it once more and will he be reconciled to us yet if we heartily return and renounce iniquity and give up our selves to obey his commands and is he ready to give us an assurance of this and to confirm it in the holy Sacrament Come my Soul let us examine our selves and consider what our breaches have been of this gracious Covenant at least our greater and our more notorious heynous breaches that is what our omissions of our Duties have been what our known commissions have been that so we may come to a true and deep Humiliation of our selves before God and being sensible of our Crimes and heavy Laden we may come to Jesus to be eased of them and that so seeing them we may loath them that loathing them we may remember this when we come to the Table of the Lord and that we may remember it too when we are come off from that holy Table and are going abroad into the World again and throw them off forever That so we may ever remember how dear they cost us and if returned to again are like to cost us dearer how dear they cost our Jesus and yet how willing he is to be reconcil'd And when the Temptation returns again we may beat it off by divine aid with some of these considerations some of these remembrances and especially this That forgiveness belongs not to him who sins and repents repents and sins on still but to him who repents so as to forsake his Crimes and his Iniquities Plainly and in short the meaning of Examination is to consider these three things following First To examine whether you rightly understand that Vow and Covenant which you made with God in your Baptism and which you come to renew and Seal again with God in the Sacrament If you do not 't is I say it again briefly this Almighty God on his part graciously promises a free pardon of all your past-Sins Grace here and Salvation hereafter by Jesus Christ Upon Condition that we discharge our part that is seriously believe the truth of the Gospel of our Saviour Truly Repent of all our Sins and by sincere resolutions and constant endeavours of future Obedience give up our selves to follow him in Holyness and Righteousness all the dayes of our Lives Secondly To look into the Soul and as far as our memory will reach to enquire what our Iniquities especially our greater iniquities have been with reference to God Our selves Or our Neighbours that we can discover we have adventured upon either in Thought Word or Action Thirdly To enquire what Omissions of Duties especially what greater omissions either to God our selves or Neighbours we can charge upon our selves either of Thought Word or Action And when we have so done to bewail them heartily as well as our Secret-Sins with David Ps 19.12 to take new Resolutions against them to go and declare those our holy resolutions at the Holy Sacrament and when that is over to labour watchfully and sincerely to keep those pious Resolutions This is 〈◊〉 short the meaning of Examination as to the particular heads of Examination and helps to it Whole Duty of Man I refer you to the book mentioned in the Preface But then let us Examine not only what our iniquities have been but also how great they have been how they have been aggravated or increased in their guilt or made greater by several wayes and means For thus Examine have not some of them been against much light much knowledge have we not rusht into them foreseeing them plainly and done it wittingly and willingly Examine again has it not been a Sin or Sins not only of knowledge but of which we might easily consider before-hand the great guilt and dangers Nay possibly did weigh and consider it and yet after such consideration have resolved to choose it for some vain delight or trifling advanrage it brought with it Examine further was it not a Sin which when we adventured on our own Conscience flew in our face and stept in between us and it and yet we broke through all Resistances and oppositions of Conscience Examine again had not thy Sin this guilt to make it greater that it has frequently been committed so frequently that no vows no former purposes of amendment or obedience could restrain thee from it but didst wilfully break all these to come to thy crime Examine further it is not grown up to a greater height has it not this increase of its guilt that 't 'as been so frequently adventured upon as that it is grown into a custome a second Nature with thee strongly grafted and deeply rooted in thee Examine again is it not so deeply rooted in thee that thy Conscience is even hardened and seared against it that afflictions sent from God to reclaim thee have not wrought upon thee or it may be 't is of so Long continuance that the charitable and private admonitions of thy Friends and the Ambassadours of God have been in vain with thee so deeply rooted that notwithstanding these the long custom of the Sin has endeared thee to it so as to like it in thy self and others too Having inquired therefore what thy iniquities are examine whether they have not some of these aggravations that make them greater and more heynous If thou findest it so upon enquiry Oh let the consideration of it work thee into a deep sense of and humiliation for it and that humiliation for it lead thee to sincere Contrition to grief of heart that thou shouldest thus have requited the infinite mercies of a
united to thee That I may come back again from thy Table with joy and thanks and Love and adoration and comfort and satisfaction O that at last my Resolutions may be fixt and stedfast the conquest of these Sins which I can easily remember have often foiled me may be such that they may no more prevail against me and get the Dominion over me And that now thou mayest abide with me forever and the holy Spirit may guide me into the paths of a cheerful sincere and persevering Holyness that so having past my days that are to come in the watchfulness and diligence and Labours of Repentance and a holy Life I may live with thee and dye with thee and rise again with thee and then ever sit at thy Feet in the mansions of Glory O my dearest Saviour Amen A Thanksgiving and Prayer after Receiving OHoly and Eternal Jesu I praise thee I bless thee I worship thee I glorifie thee I give thee thanks for those invaluable mercies from the participation of which I lately came for these representations of thy bleeding dying love to me Love infinite Love unspeakable Love eternal Love for me before I was born O compassionate Jesu who am I that thou shouldest please to receive me to renew my part of the Covenant of Grace with thee who have so frequently so miserably broken it O let the return which now I may ever hereafter make for so much love let it be Love and Obedience Love in some measure great like thine even to death it self and let my Obedience be as early as I can now make it and as chearful and universal sincere and constant O let the deep remembrance of this Love of thine constrain me to such an obedience Let neither the Love of the World the allurements and baits of the flesh or the temptations of the Devil ever force or draw me off from such an obedience O my dear Redeemer though I have now again resolved against all wilful known Sin particularly against the Sin of †Here you may mention the Sin to which you are most tempted and promised thee an obedience yet without the continuance of thy gracious aid and assistance I shall most certainly fall again upon the very next temptation Secure me therefore O Lord by that secure me save Lord or I perish Whatever thou pleasest to deny me here deny me not I beseech thee O Lord I beseech thee the assistance of that Grace of thine without which my Spiritual Enemies will soon prevail over me again Make me to see and consider the necessity of avoiding all appearance of evil all those occasions of my falling and to get instantly out of the way of Sin whatever I am like to lose by it whatever the disadvantage be in this World Let O let my Sacramental vows and promises and Resolutions be never so broken again as they have sometime been formerly but O my Jesu let my Sins and Iniquities ever hereafter appear so odious and hateful to me as they did then when I was at my Lord's Table O let them still be as vile and deformed as they then seemed to me Let none of my pious purposes and holy Resolutions be ever forgotten by me particularly †Here again if you think fit you may mention any holy Resolution made by you Let neither the cares of the World nor the disappointments of my expectations in the affairs of it nor the malice of my Enemies the charitable reproofs of my friends the trespasses of my Neighbours the hardness of my Labours the Importunity and earnestness of my Creditors the neglects and injustices of my Debtors any fears of being poor any distrusts concerning a provision for my posterity or my being despised or reproached by any man or my Losses of the World nor that World of Temptations through which I know I am to pass ever put my Soul out of frame or lead me to a discontented inconsiderate and troubled Spirit or put my holy purposes out of my mind but that in the midst of these and all other tumults of the World I may alway fly to Religion and take Sanctuary there and be safe and rest there and delight to do thy will and be ready to offer up my Soul and Body to thy Service That so the rest of my dayes that are yet to come in this World may be passed away in Humility and Charity in righteousness and holiness in mortification and self-denial in love and obedience to thee O holy and Eternal Jesu Amen A pious Resolution which may be solemnly made on their Knees by them who since their Baptism have had no opportunity to be confirmed by the Bishop but yet being ready and desirous to be confirmed are willing to receive the Holy Sacrament DRead Majesty of Heaven and Earth Forasmuch as thou hast received me in my Baptism into the Covenant of Grace sealed by the blood of Jesus when an Infant Lord I being now come to the knowledge of it do on my bended knees humbly and thankfully own and acknowledge that infinite favour and adore thy mercy And do really and heartily take upon my self what was then engaged for me and by the help of thy Grace which I earnestly beg do resolve to perform with an hearty sincerity my part of that Covenant to the end of my dayes I believe what was then promised I should believe Lord help my unbelief I renounce in my own person what was then promised I should renounce And for the conditions required on my part to wit a joynt performance of all the Gospel-Graces and Duties as Faith Hope Charity Self-denyal Repentance and the rest and an obedience to all of them in sincerity thô with weakness and Imperfection Lord I humbly and thankfully embrace and accept of them and declare my hearty desires and resolutions to discharge them acceptably through the holy Jesus And before thee O holy Trinity and the whole Court of Heaven I do solemnly make this Declaration and renew my Baptismal Covenant Promise and Engagement Amen If you are able to write you may write out a Copy of these Words and having repeated them before God with a deep humility and pious affections you may add these words to it and sign it on my bended knees And then before you rise subscribe your name to it and the day of the month January 1. 1681. N. N. Ever after remembring that now you have dedicated your self to God and that if you live the rest of your life according to these beginnings your passing over the World shall be safe and holy and you be intituled to the Merits of your Redeemer and qualified to receive the benefits of his death and sufferings An act of Resolution which may be humbly and devoutly made on their knees by those who since their last receiving the holy Sacrament have through the violence of a Temptation and it 's daily solicitation though constantly resisted sometime fallen into some one act of known