and Fasts of thy Church as in the number of those happy days set apart for the remembrance of thy love Glory be to thee O Lord God who didst command the Sabbath or seventh day to be kept holy and strictly observed by the Jews as thy Sabbath in memory of the Creation of thy making Heaven and Earth the Sea and all that in them is and of thy resting the seventh day of thy blessing the seventh day and hallowing it We Christians O Lord God following the moral equity of thy Command and authorised by Apostolical Practice celebrate the Lord's day the first day of the week in memory of our Redemption in memory of thy Resurrection from the dead O most beloved Jesu when thou didst rest from the labours and sorrows of the New Creation O may I ever remember thy day and thee Glory be to thee O my God my Love who hast under the Gospel delivered us from the Rigours but not from the Piety of the Jewish Sabbath Lord since the blessing of everlasting Salvation which we Christians on thy day commemorate does wonderfully exceed the Creation commemorated by the Jews O let our love and praise and devotion and zeal proportionably exceed theirs also O my God O my Love let thy All-powerfull Love abound in my heart and in the hearts of all that profess thy Name that in all these and all other possible instances of thy love our Souls may be continually employ'd to praise and to love thee O my God O my Love I renounce and detest c. as p. 39. All profanations of thy hallow'd Day and of all other holy Times dedicated to thy praise and thy love All Jewdaizing Severities all Worldly-mindedness and unnecessary business or not allowing those under my care liberty and leisure for thy service on thy day All unmercifulness to my very Beasts All indevotion or forgetfulness of thee All the least tendencies From all these and the like c. as p. 39. Next to thy glorious self O my God O my Love and for the sake of thy supreme independent Love thou hast commanded me to love my Neighbour allied to me by nature or by grace all Strangers and Enemies as well as Friends To honour all men as being made after thy likeness and the greater likeness they retain to thee to honour them the more Glory be to thee Thou O my God O my Love hast commanded me to love my Neighbour as my self O for the sake of thy love give me love to relieve and assist him in all instances wherein he may need my help as freely as fully as affectionately as I my self would desire to be treated were I in his condition O my God O my Love for the sake of thy dearest Love give me grace to love my Neighbour not in word and in tongue onely but in deed and in truth to wish well to all men and to contribute my hearty prayers and endeavours and to give them for thy sake all lawfull and reasonable and necessary succours Glory be to thee O my God O my Love who by commanding me to love my Neighbour as my self dost imply the regular love of my self that I should doe all I can to preserve my self free and vigorous to glorify thee in my station 'T is for thy sake onely I can love my self and he does not wish or endeavour his own happiness he really hates himself that does not love thee Thou Lord by enjoining me to love my Neighbour as my self hast intimated my duty of loving those best which either in bloud are nearest my natural self or in grace nearest my Christian self O let thy love teach me to observe the true order of Charity in loving others O thou eternal source of Goodness give me grace to imitate that boundless Goodness let thy love work in me an universal propension to love and to doe good to all men to be mercifull to others as thou Lord art mercifull Q. Shew me how the love of your Neighbour is in the Second Table divided A. The love of my Neighbour which is the fulfilling of the Law of all the Commands of the Second Table is divided according to those different conditions of our Neighbour wherein we most exercise our love or hatred to him Q. In how many ruling Instances may we exercise that love or hatred A. Either in outward acts or inward disposition Q. How in outward acts A. Five several ways in respect of his superiority in the Fifth Commandment His Safety in the Sixth His Bed in the Seventh His Propriety in the Eighth or His good Name in the Ninth Q. How in our inward disposition A. By regulating our very Desires in relation to him as the Tenth obliges us to doe Q. Let me hear how Divine Love moves in each of these Commands A. It moves in such acts as follow The Fifth Commandment Let thy reverential Love O my God teach and incline me to shew respectfull Love to all my superiours in my inward esteem in my outward speech and behaviour Glory be to thee O Lord who hast comprehended all that are above me under the tender and venerable Names of Father and Mother that I looking on them as Resemblances and Instruments of thy Sovereign Power and Paternal Providence to me may be the more effectually engaged for thy sake to reverence and love them O my God give me grace to imitate thy Paternal Goodness and for the sake of thy Love to love and cherish and provide for to educate and instruct and pray for my Children to take conscientious care to give them medicinal correction and good example and to make them thy children that they may truly love thee O my God give me grace for the sake of thy love to Honour my Father and Mother to render them all love and reverence and thankfulness and all that regard which is due from a Child that I may pay obedience to their commands submission to their corrections attention to their instructions and succour to their necessities and may daily pray for their welfare Thou O Lord hast set our most Gratious King over us as our Political Parent as thy Supreme Minister to govern and protect us and to be a terrour to those that doe ill O grant Him a long and happy Reign that we may all live a peaceable and quiet life under Him in all godliness and honesty Defend Him from all His Enemies let Him be ever beloved by thee and let Him ever love thee and ever promote thy love Multiply O Lord God the blessings of thy love on our most Gratious Queen Mary Catharine the Queen Dowager their Royal Highnesses Mary Princess of Orange and the Princess Anne of Denmark and on all the Royal Family Give them grace to exceed others as much in Goodness as in
Bondage I. Thou shalt have none other Gods but me II. Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven Image nor the likeness of any thing that is in Heaven above or in the Earth beneath or in the water under the Earth Thou shalt not bow down to them nor worship them For I the Lord thy God am a jealous God and visit the sins of the Fathers upon the Children unto the third and fourth Generation of them that hate me and shew mercy unto thousands in them that love me and keep my Commandments III. Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain For the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his Name in vain IV. Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day Six days shalt thou labour and doe all that thou hast to doe but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God In it thou shalt doe no manner of work thou and thy Son and thy Daughter thy Man-servant and thy Maid-servant thy Cattel and the stranger that is within thy Gates For in six days the Lord made Heaven and Earth the Sea and all that in them is and rested the seventh day wherefore the Lord blessed the seventh day and hallowed it V. Honour thy Father and thy Mother that thy days may be long in the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee VI. Thou shalt doe no Murther VII Thou shalt not commit Adultery VIII Thou shalt not Steal IX Thou shalt not bear false Witness against thy Neighbour X. Thou shalt not covet thy Neighbour's House thou shalt not covet thy Neighbour's Wife nor his Servant nor his Maid nor his Ox nor his Ass nor any thing that is his Q. What dost thou chiefly learn by these Commandments A. I learn two things my duty towards God and my duty towards my Neighbour Q. What is thy duty towards God A. My duty towards God is I. II. To believe in him to fear him and to love him with all my heart with all my mind with all my Soul and with all my strength to worship him to give him thanks to put my whole trust in him to call upon him III. To honour his holy Name and his Word IV. And to serve him truly all the days of my life Q. What is thy duty towards thy Neighbour A. My duty towards my Neighbour is To love him as my self and to doe to all men as I would they should doe to me V. To love honour and 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 Governours Teachers spiritual Pastours and Masters To order my self lowly and reverently to all my betters VI. To hurt no body by word or deed VII To be true and just in all my dealings VIII To bear no malice nor hatred in my heart IX To keep my hands from picking and stealing X. And my tongue from evil-speaking lying and slandering XI To keep my body in temperance soberness and chastity XII Not to covet and desire other mens goods but to learn and labour truly to get mine own living and to doe my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me Q. You have shew'd me how the Creed presents to us the Motives shew me next how the Ten Commandments contain the Fruits or Effects of Divine love A. Jesus our Love the great Prophet of Love has given us this trial of our love If ye love me keep my Commandments Q. Are there not some general Rules very usefull to be observ'd in expounding the Commandments A. Divine Love does suggest to us the best Rules and is the best Expositour to teach us the full importance of every Command Q. Shew me how A. The Love of God does necessarily include these two things a tenderness to please and a fearfulness to offend our Beloved and this Love will be a sure guide to us in both the affirmative and the negative part of each Command Q. Express this more distinctly A. I shall doe it in these following Particulars 1. O my God when in any of thy Commands a duty is enjoin'd Love tells me the contrary evil is forbidden when any evil is forbidden Love tells me the contrary duty is enjoin'd O do thou daily increase my love to good and my antipathy to evil 2. Though thy Commands and Prohibitions O Lord are in general terms yet let thy love direct my particular practice and teach me that in one general are imply'd all the kinds and degrees and occasions and incitements and approaches and allowances relating to that good or evil which are also commanded or forbidden and give me grace to pursue or to fly them 3. O my God keep my love always watchfull and on its guard that in thy negative Precepts I may continually resist evil keep my love warm with an habitual zeal that in all thy affirmative Precepts I may lay hold on all seasons and opportunities of doing good 4. Let thy love O thou that onely art worthy to be belov'd make me carefull to persuade and engage others to love thee and to keep thy Commands as well as my self 5. None can love thee O Lord and endeavour to keep thy holy Commands but his daily failings in his duty his frequent involuntary and unavoidable slips and surreptions and wandrings afflict and humble him the infirmities of lapst nature create him a kind of perpetual martyrdom because he can love thee no more because he can so little serve thee But thou O most compassionate Father in thy Covenant of Grace dost require sincerity not perfection and therefore I praise and love thee O my God though I cannot love and obey thee as much as I desire I will doe it as much as I am able I will to the utmost of my power keep all thy Commandments with my whole heart and to the end O accept of my imperfect duty and supply all the defects of it by the merits and love and obedience of Jesus thy Beloved 6. Glory be to thee O thou supreme Law-giver for delivering these Commands to sinfull men they are the words which thou thy self O great Iehovah didst speak O let me ever have an awfull regard for every word thou hast spoken O let me ever love thee for speaking them and for giving us the Laws of Love 7. Glory be to thee O Lord God who to make every one of us sensible of our obligation hast given all thy Commands in the second Person and by saying Thou hast spoken in particular to every Soul that every Soul might love and obey thee Glory be to thee O my God who in this short abstract in these Ten Commandments hast compris'd the full extent of our Duty all the effects of Divine Love Teach me O Lord to examine my Love by thy Commands that I may know how to please thee that I may know
AN EXPOSITION ON THE Church-Catechism OR THE PRACTICE OF Divine Love COMPOSED For the Diocese of Bath Wells LONDON Printed for Charles Brome at the West-end of St. Paul's and William Clarke in Winchester 1685 Imprimatur Io. Battely RR mo P. D no. Wilhelmo Archiep. Cantuar. Ã Sacris domesticis Ex Aedibus Lamb. Aug. 9. 1685. To the Inhabitants within the Diocese of Bath and Wells THOMAS their Unworthy Bishop wisheth the Knowledge and the Love of God Dearly Beloved in our Lord THE Church has provided this short Catechism or Instruction to be learn'd of every person before he be brought to be Confirm'd by the Bishop wherein she teaches all things that a Christian ought to know and believe for his Soul's health and she has enjoyn'd All Fathers and Mothers Masters and Dames to cause their Children and Servants and Prentices to come to the Church at the time appointed and obediently to hear and be ordered by the Curate untill such time as they have learn'd all that is here appointed to be learn'd How seasonable and necessary this Injunction is in these days our wofull experience does sufficiently convince us when we reflect on the gross Ignorance and Irreligion of persons in those places where Catechizing is neglâ—cted which all sober Christians do sadly deplore Since then the Providence of God who is wont to glorifie his strength in the weakness of the Instruments he uses has caught me up from among the meanest Herdmen into the Pastoral Throne and has been pleased to commit you to my care The Love I ought to pay to the chief Shepherd obliges me to feed all his Lambs and his Sheep that belong to my flock and according to my poor abilities to teach them the Knowledge and the Love of God and how they may make them both their daily study and practice One thing onely I most earnestly beg of you all whether old or young that ye would help me to save your own Souls that ye would learn and seriously consider again and again the terms on which your Salvation is to be had As for you who have Families I beseech you to instill into your Children and Servants their Duty both by your Teaching and your Example In good earnest it is less cruel and unnatural to deny them Bread for their mortal Bodies than saving Knowledge for their immortal Souls Ye that are Fathers or Masters I exhort you to tread in the steps of Abraham the Father of the faithfull and the friend of God and like him to command your Children and Housholds to keep the way of the Lord. Ye that are Mothers or Mistresses I exhort you to imitate that unfeigned Faith which dwelt in young Timothy's Grandmother Lois and his Mother Eunice who taught him from a Child to know the Holy Scriptures which were able to make him wise to Salvation and like them to bring up your Children and Servants in the nurture and admonition of the Lord I passionately exhort and beseech you all of either Sex never to cease your conscientious zeal for their instruction till you bring them to Confirmation To renew their Baptismal vow To make open profession of their Christianity To discharge their Godfathers and Godmothers To receive the solemn Benediction of the Bishop To share in the publick Intercessions of the Church and to partake of all the Graces of God's Holy Spirit implor'd on their behalf that God who has begun a good work in them may perfect it till the day of Christ and that I my self at that dreadfull day may render an account of you with joy How much the Catechism of our Church may conduce to so desirable an end you will in some measure judge by the following Explication as imperfect as it is and which by God's gratious assistence I have so contriv'd that at one and the same time it may both inform your understanding and raise your affections and that it might the better sute with every ones leisure and infirmities it is Pen'd in short Forms of Devotion to be us'd in whole or in part in separate Collects or Ejaculations or occasionally as your Spiritual necessities shall require God of his infinite mercy bless the whole to his own Glory and to your Edification through Iesus the Beloved Amen Amen AN EXPOSITION ON THE Church-Catechism c. Question WHAT is your Name Answer N. or M. Q. Why do you answer by that Name rather than by your Sirname A. Because it is my Christian Name and was given me when I was made a Christian and puts me in mind both of the Happiness and duty of a Christian. Q. Where do you learn the Happiness and the Duty of a Christian A. The very next answer teaches me the Happiness and all the rest of the Catechism the Duty of a Christian. Q. Who gave you this Name A. My Godfathers and Godmothers in my Baptism wherein I was made a Member of Christ the Child of God and an Inheritour of the Kingdom of Heaven Q. Shew me from hence the Happiness of a Christian. A. The Happiness of a good Christian is altogether unutterable he is one who has Christ for his Head God for his Father and Heaven with all its joys and glories which are all eternal for his Inheritance Q. Shew me on the contrary the condition of a bad Christian. A. The misery of a bad Christian is altogether insupportable He has Christ for his Enemy the Devil for his Father and Hell with all its miseries and torments and despair which are all eternal for his Doom Q. Which of these Conditions do you chuse A. I adore the goodness of God who has set before me life and death blessing and cursing and in great compassion to my Soul has bid me chuse life and with all my heart I chuse life even life eternal Q. Are there not many in the World that chuse death A. It is too too visible there are such is the extreme madness and folly of obstinate Sinners that they chuse the Service of the Devil before the Service of God and Hell before Heaven the damnation of such men is wholly from themselves and having chosen death even death eternal it is most just with God to give them their choice Q. Blessed be God who has given you grace to make a right choice Tell me what you must doe to obtain that which you have chosen life eternal A. All that I am to doe is reduc'd to one word onely and that is Love This is the first and the great Command which comprehends all others the proper Evangelical Grace and eternal Truth has assured me This doe and thou shalt live So that if I truly love God I shall live beloved by God to all eternity Q. Tell me wherein the love of God doth consist A. The love of God is a grace rather to be felt than defin'd So that I can doe no
all goodness and sweetness all gentleness and long-suffering Fill me full of good wishes and compassion of liberality in Alms-giving according to my abilities and of readiness to succour and relieve and comfort and rescue and pray for all whom thy love or their own necessities or miseries or dangers recommend to my charity O let thy love thou God of Love make me peacefull and reconcilable always ready to return good for evil to repay injuries with kindness and easie to forgive unless in those instances where the impunity of the criminal would be injustice or cruelty to the publick O thou lover of Souls let thy love raise in me a compassionate zeal to save the life the eternal life of Souls and by fraternal and affectionate and seasonable advice or exhortation or correptions to reclaim the wicked and to win them to love thee O my God O my Love let thy All-powerfull love c. as p. 51. The Seventh Commandment O my God O my Love I renounce c. as p. 52. All adultery and violations of my neighbour's bed in the gross act robbing him of that he loves best All adultery and unchastity of the eye or the hand All the kinds and degrees of lust fornication pollution of our own bodies and works of darkness which it is a shame to mention All things that provoke or feed lust impure company discourse songs books or pictures All lascivious dresses or dances or plays all idleness or luxurious diet All the excesses or abuses of lawfull Marriage all unreasonable jealousies and all things that lessen the mutual kindness or alienate the affections of those that are married All the least tendencies to any of these impurities From all these c. as p. 52. O my God my Love let thy purest love who art Purity it self create in me a perfect abhorrence of all impurity that I may purifie my self as thou Lord art pure I know O Lord that I can never be partaker of the Divine Nature unless I escape the pollution that is in the world through lust O do thou therefore cleanse me from all filthiness of flesh and spirit that I may perfect holiness in thy fear Give me grace to possess my vessel in sanctification and honour and to keep thy Temple holy that thy Spirit of Love may always there inhabit O my God let my love be chast to thee chast to my self chast to my neighbour O my God may thy Love set a strict guard on my Senses turn away mine eyes stop mine ears bridle my tongue and restrain my hand from all uncleanness Lord give me grace to fly all incitements or opportunities or instruments of defiling either my neighbour or my self To beat down my body and to bring it into subjection O my Love let me live ever watching or praying or profitably employ'd or busied in thy love that I may leave no room if possible for any unclean Spirit to enter into my Soul and tempt me O my God O my Love let thy all-powerfull love abound in my heart and in the hearts of all that profess thy Name that in all these and in all other possible instances of duty our lives may be continually employ'd to love thee and for thy sake to love our neighbour and to excite our neighbour to love thee O thou God of Love who hast ordain'd the marriage state for the cure of our passion and the comfort of our life and hast made it the embleme of that Divine Love and Union thou art pleas'd to bear towards thy Church Let the force of thy mystical love teach us to love each other and both of us to love thee O thou who hast made us one flesh make us but one Soul also let our love be mutual constant and inviolate full of compliance and condescensions and Sympathy and forbearance towards each other Fill us O God of Love with reciprocal care and zeal and charity for each others happiness temporal and eternal and with a delight in each other exclusive of all loves but thine Lord give us grace to keep our marriage always honourable and our bed undefiled let the affectionate authority of the one and the submissive sweetness of the other produce an entire friendship and harmony of dispositions and fervent intercessions for each other Give us O Lord an unafflicting foresight of our parting here and a passionate longing to be beatified near each other in neighbouring mansions above that from thenceforth our love to each other and to thee may be coeternal with thine The Eighth Commandment O my God O my Love I renounce as p. 52. All kinds of stealing by open Robbery Violence or Invasion All Oppression or Extortion or Rapine vexatious Law-suits or griping Usury All fraud in Trade and Contracts false Weights and Measures and Coin All concealing the defects of our own Goods or depretiating those of our neighbour All making haste to be rich or taking advantage of the ignorance or necessity of the persons we deal with All withholding our neighbours dues or detaining the hire of the Labourer All borrowing and not paying injurious keeping the goods of others and refusing to make restitution All bâ—each of Trust or removing Land-marks wastfull prodigality avaritious gaming or idle begging All outrages to the Fatherless the Widow and the Stranger All the least tendencies to any of the these acts of injustice From all these and the like hatefull violations of thy Love and of the Love of my neighbour and from the vengeance they justly deserve O my God O my Love deliver me and all faithfull people O my God O my Love let the love of thy eternal and amiable justice teach me a steddy justice in giving all men their due since I cannot love my neighbour if I am unjust to him Lord give me grace to use my neighbour as my friend as my self to buy and sell by just Weights and Measures and to be content with moderate gain To pay debts and wages and conscientiously to make restitution for injuries or wrongs or for goods unlawfully gotten Teach me O my God to use this world so as not to abuse it to receive and manage all thy temporal blessings with thankfulness to thee sobriety to my self and charity to all besides Make me ever O my God upright and faithfull in Trusts and Trade and Agreements diligent and honest in my station and Calling and according to my ability willing to lend and remit to my poor neighbours Whenever O my God I am forc'd to go to Law O let me ever contend more for right than victory and in all prosecutions preserve a charitable and an equitable disposition O my God O my Love let thy all-powerfull love abound in my heart and in the hearts of all that
generality of the World and therefore all Love all Glory be to thee Glory be to thee O all-powerful Love by whose inviâ—â—ble Grace we in Baptism die to sin to all carnal Affections renouncing and detesting them all and resolving to take no more pleasure in them than dead persons do in the comforts of life O may I ever thus die to Sin Glory be to thee O Jesu who from our death to Sin in our Baptism dost raise us to a new Life and dost breath into us the breath of Love 'T is in this Laver of regeneration we are born again by Water and the Spirit by a new Birth unto righâ—eoâ—â—ness that as the natural Birth propagated sin our spiritual Birth should propagate Grace for which all Love all Glory be to thee Glory be to thee O most indulgent Love who in our Baptism dost give us the holy spirit of Love to be the principle of new Life and of Love in us to infuse into our Souls a supernatural habitual Grace and ability to obey and love thee for which all Love all Glory be to thee Glory be to thee O compassionate Love who when we were conceived and Born in Sin of sinful Parents when we sprang from a root wholly corrupt and were all Children of Wrath hast in our Baptism made us Children of thy own Heavenly Father by Adoption and Grace When we were Heirs of Hell hast made us Heirs of Heaven even joynt Heirs with thy one self of thy own Glory for which with all the powers of my Soul I adore and love thee I know O dearest Lord that I am thine no longer than I Love thee I can no longer feel the saving efficacy of my Baptism than I am faithful to my Vow I there made no longer than I am a Penitent no longer am I Christian if I name the name of Christ I am to depart from Iniquity O do thou give me the Grace of True Repentance for all my Sin for my original Impurity and for all my actual Transgressions that I may abhor and â—â—rsake them all wound my Soul with a most affectionate sorrow for all the Injuries and Affronts and dishonours I have offered to infinite Love Glory be to thee O most liberal Jesu for all those exceeding great and pretious Promises of Pardon and Grace and Glory which thou hast made to us Christians in the Sacrament of Baptism O may I ever stedfastly believe O may I ever passionately Love may I ever firmly rely on thy superabundant Love in all these Promises for which I will ever adore and love thee Glory be to thee O sweetest Love who in my infancy didst admit me to holy Baptism who by thy preventing Grace when I was a little Child didst receive me into the evangelical Covenant didst take me up into the arms of thy Mercy and bless me Glory be to thee who didst early dedicate me to thy self to prepossess me by thy Love before the World should seize and defise me Ah Gratious Lord how long how often have I polluted my self by my Sins But I repent and deplore all those Pollutions and I consecrate my self to thee againâ—t O thou most reconcileable Love pardon and accept me and restore me to thy Love O let the intenseness of my future Love not only Love for the time to come but retrieve all the Love I have lost Glory be to thee O tenderest Jesu who when by reason of my Infancy I could not promise to repent and believe for my self didst mercifully accept of the promise of my Sureties who promisâ—â— both for me as thou didst accept for good to the Paralytick the charitable intentions of those that brought him to thee and of the Faith of the Woman of Canaan for the Cure of her Daughter for which merciful acceptance all Love all Glory be to thee O my God my Lord the promise which was made by my Sureties for me I acknowledg that as soon as I came to a competent Age I was bâ—â—â—d my self to perform and I own and renew my Obligation I promise O my Lord with all the force of my Soul to Love thee O do thou ever keep me true to my own promise â—â—ce thou art ever â—â—alterably true to thine for which I will ever adore and love thee Q. Why was the Sacrament of the Lords Supper ordained A. For the continual remembrance of the Sacrifice of the death of Christ and of the benefits which we receive thereby Q. What is the outward part or sign of the Lords Supper A. Bread and Wine which the Lord hath commanded to be received Q. What is the inward part or thing signified A. The body and blood of Christ which are verily and indeed taken and received by the faithful in the Lords Supper Q. What are the benefits where-we are partakers thereby A. The strengthening and refreshing of our souls by the body and bloud of Christ as our bodies are by the bread and wine Q. What is required of them who come to the Lords Supper A. To examin themselves whether they repent them truly of their former sins stedfastly purposing to lead a new life have a lively faith in Gods mercy through Christ with a thankful remembrance of his death and be in charity with all men Glory be to thee O crucified Love who at thy last Supper didst ordain the Holy Eucharist the Sacrament and Feast of Love It was for the continual remembrance of the Sacrifice of thy death O blessed Jesu and of the Benefits we receive thereby that thou wast pleased to ordain this sacred and awful Rite all Love all Glory be to thee Ah dearest Lord how little sensible is he of thy Love in dying for us who can ever forget thee Ah wo is me that ever a Sinner should forget his Saviour and yet alas how prone are we to do it Glory be to thee O Gracious Jesu who to help our memories and to impress thy Love deep on our Souls hast instituted the blessed Sacrament and commanded us Do this in remembrance of me O Jesu let the Propitiatory Sacrifice of thy Death which thou didst offer upon the Cross for the Sins of the whole World and particularly for my Sins be ever fresh in my remembrance O blessed Saviour let that mighty Salvation thy Love has wrought for us never slip out of my mind but especially let my remmbrance of thee in the Holy Sacrament be always most lively and affecting O Jesu if I love thee truly I shall be sure to frequent thy Altar that I may often remember all the wonderful Loves of my Crucified Redeemer I know O my Lord and my God that a bare remembrance of thee is not enough O do thou therefore fix in me such a remembranâ—e of thee as is suitable to the infinite Love I am to remember Work in me all the holy and heavenly affections as become the remembrance of a Crucified
Saviour Glory be to thee O adorable Jesus who under the outward and visible part the Breâ—d and Wine things obvious and easily prepared both which thou hast commanded to be received dost communicate to our Souls the Mystery of divine Love the inward and invisible Grace thy own most blessed Body and Blood which are verily and indeed taken and received by the faithful in thy Supâ—eâ— for which all Love all Glory be to thee O God incarnate how thou canst give us thy Flesh to eat and thy Blood to drink How thy Flesh is Meat indeed and thy Blood is Drink indeed How he that eateth thy Flesh and drinketh thy Blood dwelleth in thee and thou in him How he shall live by thee and shall be raised up by thee to Life Eternal How thou who art in Heaven art present on the Altar I can by no means explain but I firmly believe it all because thou hast said it and I firmly rely on thy Love and on thy Omnipotence to make good thy Word though the manner of doing it I cannot comprehend I believe O Crucified Lord that the Bread which we break in the Celebration of the Holy Mysteries is the Communication of thy Body and the Cup of Blessing which we bless is the Communication of thy Blood and that thou dost as effectually and really conveigh thy Body and Blood to our Souls by the Bread and Wine as thou didst thy holy Spirit by thy Breath to thy Disciples for which all Love all Glory be to thee Lord what need I labour in vain to search out the manner of thy mysterious presence in the Sacrament when my Love assures me thou art there All the faithful who approach thee with prepared hearts they well know thou art there they feel the Vertue of Divine Love going out of thee to heal their infirmities and to enflame their affections for which all Love all Glory be to thee O Holy Jesu when at thy Altar I see the Bread broken and the Wine poured out O Teach me to discern thy Body there O let those Sacred and Significant actions create in me a most lively Remembrance of thy Sufferings how thy most blessed Body was scourged and wounded and bruised and tormented how thy most pretious Blood was shed for my sins and set all my powers on work to Love thee and to celebrate thy Love in thus dying for me Glory be to thee O Jesu who didst institute the Holy Eucharist in both Kinds and hast Commanded both to be received both the Bread and the Wine both thy Body broken and thy Blood shed thy Love O Lord has given me both and both are equally Significative and Productive of thy Love I do as much Thirst after the one as I Hunger after the other I equally want both and it would be grievous to my Love to be deprived of either Ah Lord who is there that truely Loves thee when thou givest him two distinct Pledges of thy Love can be content with one only what Lover can endure to have one half of thy Love withheld from him And therefore all Love all Glory be to thee for giving both O my Lord and my God do thou so dispose my heart to be thy Guest at thy Holy Table that I may feel all the sweet influences of Love Crucified the Strengthning and Refreshing of my soul as our Bodies are by the Bread and Wine for which I will ever Adore and Love thee O merciful Jesu let that immortal food which in the Holy Eucharist thou vouchsaâ—est me instil into my weak and languishing soul new supplies of Grace new Life new Love new Vigour and new Resolution that I may never more faint or droop or tire in my duty O Crucified Love raise in me fresh ardours of Love and Consolation that it may be henceforth the greatest torment I can endure ever to offend thee that it may be my greatest delight to please thee O amiable Jesu when I devoutly receive the outward Elements as sure as I receive them I receive thee I receive the Pledges of thy Love to quicken mine O Indulge me though but for a moment one Beatisick foretast of the deliciousness of thy Love that in the strength of that deliciousness I may perseveringly love thee Glory be to thee my Lord and my God who hast now given me an invitation to thy Heavenly Feast All Love all Glory be to thee Lord give me Grace that I may approach thy awful Mystery with Penitential preparation and with a heart sully disposed to love thee O my God my Judge give me Grace I most humbly beseech thee to Eâ—amine my whole life past by the Rule of thy Commandments before I presume to Eat of that Bread and Drink of that Cup give me Grace sadly to reflect on and deplore all my provocations lest coming to the Holy Eucharist impenitent and unprepared I receive Vnworthily and Eat and drink my own damnation O thou Great Searcher of Hearts thou knowest all the Load of Impiety and Guilt under which I lie O Help me so Impartially to Judge and Condemn my self so humbly to Repent and beg Pardon that I may not be Condemned at thy Tribunal when I shall appear there at the last day that I may be set at thy Right Hand amongst thy Lovers Lord give me Grace to search every secret of my Heart to leave no sin if possible unrepented of â—ill my Eyes full of Tears of Love that with those Tears I may lament all the Indignities I have offered thy Love But alas alas after the most strict examinatinon we can make who can number his impieties who can tell how oft he offendeth Lord therefore cleanse me from my secret faults which in general I renounce and bewail O my God thou who alone changest the Heart O be thou pleased to change 〈◊〉 change my aversion to thee into an intire Lâ—ve of thee O give me a filial Repentance that with a Broken and Contrite Heart I may Grieve and Mourn and Repent for all my â—ormâ—r sins and may for ever forsake them and return to my Obedience Let thy Love O my God so perfectly exhaust my soul that I may for the future stedfastly â—urpose to leâ—d a new life that I may renew my Baptismal Vow that I may hereafter live as a sworn Votary to thy Love O Heavenly Father settle in my soul a Livelâ— Faith in thy Mercy through Christ a steddy belief of all thy Love to sinners and an affectionate Reliance on the Merits and Mediation of thy Crucified Son of my being Accepted in the Beloved for whom I will ever Adore and Love thee O my Crucified God thou Soveraign Inflammative of Love let the Remembrance of thy Death set all the powers of my Soul on work that I may desire and pant after thee that I may Admire and Adore thee that I may
relations and friends Lord prosper us in our callings Lord bless us and keep us Lord make thy face to shine upon us and be gracious unto us Lord lift up thy countenance upon us and give us Peace both now and evermore for the sake of Iesus thy beloved in whose own blessed Words we sum up all our wants Our Father which art in Heaven c. The same form changing but one word is proper for the Night as well as the Morning to make Family Prayer the more easie to you That Prayer which I have set down wherein you pray for the King and pray for your selves also that you may be good Subjects I exhort you never to omit because you know that the Countrey wherein you live was the onely seat of the late Rebellion and the Tares of Sedition have been Industriously sown among you and you have the greater reason to pray that you may continue firm in your Allegiance besides St. Paul teaches you that to Pray for Kings is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour 1 Tim. 2.2 3. To your Family Prayers you may add as you see occasion one of these following Almighty and everlasting God give unto us the increase of Faith Hope and Charity and that we may obtain that which thou doest promise make us to love that which thou doest command through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Lord we beseech thee Grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the World the Flesh and the Devil and with pure hearts and minds to follow thee the only God through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Prevent us O Lord in all our doings with thy most gracious favor and further us with thy continual help that in all our works begun continued and ended in thee we may glorifie thy holy Name and finally by thy mercy obtain everlasting life through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen These and â—he like short Prayers may be said alone in the Closet as well as in the Family by changing onely the number and for we saying all along I and for us saying me As for Example when you read any part of the Holy Scripture either alone by your selves or with your Families both which you should do daily if you have leisure but if you have not see that you do both on the Lord's days and on Holy days and before Reading say this Prayer Blessed Lord who hast caused all Holy Scriptures to be written for our learning Grant that we I may in such wise hear them read mark learn and inwardly digest them that by patience and comfort of thy Holy Word we I may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life which thou hast given us in our Saviour Iesus Christ. Amen God of his infinite Mercy bless these Instructions to his Glory and to the furtherance of your Devotions through Jesus the Beloved Amen Amen FINIS See the Rubrick after the Catechism * Am. 1.1 John 21.15 16. * James 2.23 †Gen. 18.19 | 2 Tim. 1.5 * 3.15 †Eph. 6.4 * Phil. 1.6 †Heb. 13.17 The Happiness of a Christian. The Christian's Choice a Deut. 30.19 b Ezek. 23.11 Hos. 13.9 His Duty is Love c Luk. 10.27 28. The nature of Love The method of Love Expulsion of contrary Loves in our Baptismal Vow Repentance for our Vow broken d Rom. 2.4 e Psal. 51.17 f Ier. 9.1 g Luke 7.47 Our Vow renew'd h Psal. 38.18 1 Cor. 10.20 Eph. 2.2.12 k Iohn 13.2 l 2 Cor. 4.4 m Mat. 4.3 n Acts 19.19 o 1 Tim. 3.6 p Iohn 8.44 q 6.70 r Acts 13.10 s Iude 6. t Tit. 2.12 v 1 Cor. 7.30 31. w Rom. 12.2 x Prov. 1.10 1 Cor. 15.33 y Iohn 17.15 1 Iohn 5.19 z Iames 4.4 * Luke 14.26 †Rom. 7.18.25.8.7 a 1 Pet. 2.11 1 Iohn 2.15 Gal. 5.19 b 2 Cor. 7.1 c Pro. 15.9 d Psal. 97.10 e Ier. 31.18 f 2 Cor. 3.4 Iohn 15.5 g Phil. 4.13 h 1 Eph. 3. 1 Pet. 1.3 i Rev. 2.10 k Ps. 119.106 l 1 Cor. 12.13 27. m Eph. 1.23 n 4.15 2 Col. 19. o Luke 15.18 p Gal. 3.26 27. q Rom. 8.16 17. r Mat. 3.17 The Motives of Love Faith wâ—â—king by loâ—â— It s Object The Vnitâ— of God The Trim in Vnity * Gal. 5.6 Faith working by love †Deut. 32.4 Heb. 6.18 | Psal. 25.8 * Iam. 2.20 Its Objects * Deut. 4.35 Isa. 44.6.45.5 6. The Vnity of God The Trinity in Vnity †Mat. 3.17.28.19 Ioh. 1.5 7. * 2 Cor. 13.14 The first Person of the Trinity †Ioh. 1.18.5.18 His distinctive Property Father | Ioh. 3.16 His Attributes a Ioh. 4.23 24. b 1 Pet. 1.16 c Ps. 145.3 d Ps. 115.3 * Isai. 40.28 f Mat. 19.17 g Ps. 90.2 h Iames 1.17 i Psal. 139.1 c. k Ps. 147.5 l Rom. 2.6 m Psal. 16.11 n 1 Tim. 6.16 o 2 Cor. 12.9 p Tit. 3.4 Eph. 2.4 Psal. 51.1 q Cant. 5.16 1 Ioh. 4.8 16. His Works * Gen. 1.1 Heb. 11.3 Psal. 33.6 †Deut. 10.14 Psal. 89.11 | Acts 17.28 * Reade the 145 Psalm * Psal. 104.24 †Mat. 6.26 28.10.30 | Gen. 50.20 * Gen. 1.26 * Psal. 8. †Ps. 91.11 * Psal. 111.2 3 4. * Ps. 68.19 †Reade the 103 Psalm The second Person in the Trinity God the Son His Offices * Mat. 1.21 †1 Cor. 16.22 a Ioh. 1.41 Dan. 9.26 b Gen. 3.15 c Luk. 2.25 d Acts 10.43 * Col 2.17 f Hag. 2.7 g Acts 10.38 Heb. 1.9 h Ioh. 3.34 k 1.16 k 1 Sam. 15.1 l Lev. 4.3.5.16 m 1 Kings 19.16 n Mat. 3.16 o Ioh. 4.25 Acts 7.37 Luk. 4.18 p Luk. 1.33 q Act. 3.26 r Isa. 53.10 Eph. 5.2 Heb. 9.14 s Rom. 8.34 Heb. 7.25 His two Natures 1. Of God His Eternal generation t Heb. 1.5 Isa. 53.8 Iohn 1.1 v Heb. 1.3 w Ioh. 1.14.18.5.18 Rom. 8.32 Mat. 3.17 x Phil. 2.6 y 1 Io. 5.1 His Deity a Tit. 2.13 b 1 Io. 5.20 c Ier. 23.6 d Rom. 9.5 v Isa. 63.1 x Iohn 1.3 y Heb. 1.3 10. z Heb. 1.6 Phil. 2.10 Ioh. 5.23 a Rev. 19.16 b Eph. 1.21 22.2.10 c 1 Cor. 6.20 d Luk. 6.46 2 Of Man in his state of Humiliation His Conception e Luk. 1.31 34 35 42. His Birth f Luk. 2.6 7. g Luke 1.48 h 1 Iohn 2.1 2. i Iob 14.4 k Ioh. 1.29 l 1 Tim. 2.5 m Eph. 4.5 n Ioh. 1.14 His Life of sorrow a Luke 2.21 b Mat. 2.13 16. c Isa. 53.3 d Mat. 8.20 e Heb. 4.15 f Acts 10.38 g Mat. 4.17 Luke 4.18 h Mat. 10.1 5. i 11.5 k 2 Cor. 5.14 l Rom. 8.29 Phil. 2.5 His Sufferings previous to his Crucifixion Heb. 5.7 m Mat. 26.38 Luke 22.43 44. n Mat. 26.47.52.57 Iohn 18.4 o Mat. 26.49 56 70. p Iohn 18.12 q Mat. 26.57 59. Luke 22.66 r Mat. 26.67 Luke 22.63 s Mat. 27.2 t Luke 23.6.11.12 v Luke 23.14 18 19 21. Mat. 27.3 4.5 x Iohn