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A67627	A box of spikenard: or A little manual of sacramental instruction and devotion especially, helpful to the people of God, at and about the time of receiving the Lords Supper. With some other formes expedient for some peculiar occasions. The third edition, by Thomas Walmestry, Dean of Worcester.	Warmstry, Thomas, 1610-1665.	1660 (1660)	Wing W881; ESTC R218419	28,612	228

you may become good Communicants and use that holy and excellent Ordinance to Gods honour and your own comfort and salvation The first is to convince you of the necessity that lies upon you to make a frequent and a diligent use of that great means and pledge of your salvation and to perswade you that it is your duty to be constant therein and that you cannot neglect any oportunity whereby you are called thereunto in the Congregation of which you are members unlesse you have some weighty and innocent cause to the contrary without violating both the authority of Christs command and the love of his invitation in the institution of the Lords Supper and if you do but consider these obligations that Christ our Lord hath laid upon us and the great and excellent duties that we there are called to offer unto God and the great manifold graces mercies that God therein offers unto us and remember what I have often said unto you touching this matter I cannot see how you will be excusable if you shall wilfully without some very weighty warrantable impediment abstain from the use of this holy Ordinance of God assure your selves neither pride nor sloath nor love unto any sin nor wilfull ignorance when the means of instruction is offered and despised no nor servile fear nor the love of this world will be accepted for discharges of our attendance upon God in this Christian duty for all those are sinfull and therefore are not like to excuse us from duty The Second is that you be directed and perswaded to a due preparation of your selves unto this holy Sacrament that we may not eat that bread and drink that cup of the Lord unworthily least we bring thereby both great guilt and judgement upon our soules and make even that Table to be asuare unto us whilest we approach with impenitent unbelieving uncharitable unthākfull cold and earthly minds not discerning the body of Christ The Third is that we be rightly advised and assisted for the due disposition of our hearts imploy ment of our thoughts and affections in about the time of the receiving the holy Supper of the Lord. You will I hope finde somthing in this little Manuall that may be serviceable to you for all these purposes as in the little Catechism and some devotions that are added unto the former edition thereof and I do earnestly desire all of you from the eldest to the youngest that are capable to acquaint themselves with that little Catechisme so as to be able to give an account thereof and if they would exercise their humility so farr as to give me leave to receive it from them it would be a comfort to me I hope no hurt or dishonour unto them remember that of our blessed Saviour Except ye become as little children ye cannot enter into the Kingdom of God Mat. 18.3 And that of St. Peter Be ready to give an answer unto every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear 1 Pet. 3.15 But the first and peculiar business of this Book was to be helpfull unto you and others for their more easy and orderly delivery of holy thoughts about the time of the receiving of the Lords supper and after the use thereof The work that is done in that holy Solemnity is of that nature that though it aimes at the greatest unity and fellowship that can be in an holy Congregation which are all thereby gathered up close together into Christ yet it offers particular and retired employment to thoughts and affections of every particular receiver Unto whom being rightly quali fied and prepared it offers seals all that mercy grace which the Gospel promiseth in general unto all that are penitent Sinners true Believers and requires of every one a very serious attendance unto private and secret meditation and holy devotion There are in the time of that sacred Celebration many pauses and intermissions of the joynt imployment of the Congregation which doth as it were separate them unto their several works in their Soules Whilest some are Receiving it is the businesse of others to be in the holy preparation of themselves to the Duty And they that have thus passed through both these performances are to be exercised in the admiration of that mercy they have received in the inflaming of their hearts unto the holy praises of the Lord. Some course hath been taken heretofore in some Congregations to prevent the chasme that might be in the spiritual work the falling of thoughts for want of holy suggestions by the singing of a Psalm at the very time of the celebration But besides that the pattern of our Saviours practise Mat. 26.30 leads us to believe that to be a work more proper and fit to succeed than accompany that holy Business The very noise of that service in those that are at leasure to be employed in it appears to be too great an Enemy unto that severe attention and holy sequestration of spirit that is required in those that are to be employed in Receiving which doth least of all admit of the offers of distraction I know no way better to prevent all inconveniencies to make up all gaps in that sacred celebration than to offer some variety of short Meditations Devotions into the hands and unto the hearts of the particular Receivers to be used according to those severall works that they have to doe which may be as so many several notes of the Spiritual Song which being composed in their right order and consent will make up an holy Harmony in the ears of the Almighty If any part seem too long there is nothing imposed but every Communicant may satisfie the bents of their own devotions answer the measure of their time and leasure by marking out some of the shortest forms unto themselves especially in that which is to be done about the time of the receiving Or if they have better of their own or from any other they may spare their troubling of themselves with this God I hope will pardon the infirmities and his people accept of the poore endeavours of him Who is a poore Sinner and an unworthy Labourer in Gods Vineyard Tho. Warmstry A Prayer for incitement of affection to attend upon the Lord in the use of the Lords Supper O Most gracious Saviour who hast not only vouchsafed in the great Mystery and work of thy Incarnation to take our humane flesh and blood together with an humane soul into the unity of thy divine person that God and man might be one Christ that so it might become possible for the immortal God to dye for us and for the spiritual God to be wounded pierced and to shed his blood for us nor yet only hast been pleased to give up thy blessed body to be crucified and thy precious blood to be shed for our Redemption but art pleased still to revive thy death

establisht in my union and Communion with Christ and his Church And enable me to discerne the body of the Lord Jesus put me into an holy extasy of heavenly longing after Christ And whilst he descendeth unto me in that holy reflection let me ascend unto him in heavenly devotion Let not my soul be satisfied with any thing but my Jesus Give me thy Christ O God take what thou wilt from me give me my Jesus and do what thou wilt unto me for in him I shall be sure of thy tender love let that love do what it will Thou bidst me love thee do what I will I say unto thee love me and do what thou wilt wound me chasten me kill me so that thou love me I aske nothing of thee but thy Christ and thy Love Oh my God I am undone I am lost for ever I am a fire-brand of hel it had been better for me that I had been a Toad a Serpent a Worm a dead clod of clay that I had never lived that I had never been conceived or born if thou shouldst with-hold my Jesus from me But if I have him I have thee and heaven and Angells and the world and life and all Oh my God give me my Jesus and give thy self unto me in him make me to give my self unto thee in him And oh make room for thy Christ in my Soule turn out the world and the flesh sin turn me out of my self that there may be room for my Jesus that my heart may be as a large upper-room furnished for my heavenly Saviour to keep his Passeover in my Soul Let it be a large room for my great Jesus let my heart contain him for whom the whole world is too little extend the grasp of my affections O God make me unsatiable in an holy covetousnesse after Christ and the more I taste of him the more I enjoy him the more make meto desire him And let my heart be an upper-room not an Earthly but an Heavenly minde For the entertainment of my heavenly Jesus for he can dwell no where but in an heavenly place Yea let his presence in my heart turn my heart into heaven for it is his presence that maketh heaven and this is the heaven of heavens it self Oh let all earthly things be vile unto me now that I look for my heavenly Jesus Give me an holy pride an holy ambition greatness of spirit that I may look upon all the things of this world as unworthy of my thoughts since my Jesus is pleased to think upon me to call for my heart and to come unto me Oh let my soul be a well furnisht room furnisht with all the furniture of heavenly love and of all thy heavenly Graces for the entertainment of my Glorious Jesus Yet withall give me an humble heart that I may put no trust at all in my self or in any thing that is in me or that can be or hath been perform'd by me But cast me down into an holy despair of my self and of all righteousnesse Wisdome Strength or Worthinesse or comfort in my self that I may trample my self as filthy sinfull dung under my feet before thee and cast my self down at the feet of thy mercy relying only upon thy goodness thy Christ for my acceptance and for my salvation Help me O God in the examination and in the reformation of my sinns Help me in the triall and in the exercise of thy graces that knowledg may be saving faith found and repentance true and love unfained and thankfullnesse sincere and reverence awfull and desire enflamed my soul truly humbled That thou mayest exalt me in the greatness of thy mercy and feed my soul with the riches of thy goodness and the delicates of thy heavenly joyes that I may returne refreshed with thy favour and enlightened beutified with thy truth holiness like Moses out of the Mount and strengthened with the might of thy strength from the holy table of thy Son Through the same thy dear Son and our blessed Saviour our Jesus Christ Amen A Prayer when the Bread and Wine is brought to the Table OH most Glorious God we praise thee we blesse thee we glorify thy sacred name here prostrate in our souls and bodys before thee we desire to present unto thee the homage of our thankfull hearts for thy great and wonderfull mercy that thou hast been pleased to shew unto us miserable sinners that lay in the Jaws of hell under the sentence of condemnation to eternal death for our sins in sending thy dearly beloved and only begotten Son Christ Jesus to become man for us and to offer up his precious Body and Blood upon the Crosse to be a Sacrifice unto thee for our sins where by he hath made an eternal 〈…〉 to practise it diligently to the benefit of my Soul and to the glory and honour of thy holy Name Prepare my heart for all holy approaches unto thy holy Table for the time to come Make me frequent and humble sincere and fervent in prayer Help we to follow and imitate all good patterns and holy examples which thou settest before me in thy Son and in thy Saints and preserve me from the contagion of all evill society Make me an ensample of all vertue unto others make me daily and hourely to grow in grace and forgetting those things that are behinde to presse toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus making it my great and onely businesse to serve thee my God and to set forward my self and others unto salvation Help me to give all diligence to make my Calling and Election sure and to pass my so journing here in feare Keep me within the bounds of that Calling to which thou hast called me that I may walk quietly obediently industriously chearefully and conscionably therein and as much as in me lieth live peaceably with all men Suffer me not to give offence or scandal unto any by the uncharitable or imprudent use of that liberty thou hast given me but grant unto me and all that have now received with me and to all that name the name of the Lord Jesus that we may depart from iniquity and walke in love and meeknesse in all humility and righteousness and holinesse before thee That we may be blamelesse and harmlesse as the children of God without rebuke in the midst of this untoward and perverse generation Help me and all of us to profit under all thy dispensations to be patient and confident in adversity to be humble and temperate and thankful and merciful in prosperity and in whatsoever state we are therewith to be content Make us holy to thee obedient to Magistrates all those whom thou hast set over us regardfull of thy Ministers esteeming them very highly for their workes sake conscionably respectfull to all our relations Make us just and loving and peaceable and comfortable towards one another

that he may stand with joy and comfort before the Tribunal of thy Sonne Christ Jesus and receive the blessed sentence of everlasting life and salvation give him a saving sight and sense of his sinns that he may mourn for them from the bottom of his heart and offer unto thee the sacrifice of a broken and contrite spirit which thou O God wilt not despise grant him that godly sorrow that worketh Repentance unto salvation not to be repented of let nothing be so grievous unto him as that he hath sin'd against thee his mercifull and gracious God the God of his life and of his being and of all the blessings and comforts that ever he hath enjoyed The God that didest not spare thine own Sonne but gavest him up to dye for him enable him to confesse his sins unto thee that he may mouth for his sinns and finde pardon from thee affect him with a perfect hatred against sin that he may hate it above death hell it self Help him to loath himself for all those offences that he hath committed against thee make him vile in his own eyes that he may be dear precious in thy sight and give him a true love unto thy Lawes and Commandements that it may be the joy of his heart to do thy heavenly will in all things and let the sense and horrour of the corruptions of his nature and the wickednesse of his life not drive him from thee but let it drive him unto thee that he may fly for refuge into the bosome of that rich mercy that thou hast opened unto him in the Lord Jesus Christ Help him to reforme every thing that is amisse and to give himself up wholly unto thee to seek thy glory and to do thy heavenly will in all things purge and cleanse his soul from all evill thoughts ungodly affections distempered passions from all sinfull inclinations whatsoever and fill him full of holy thoughts of heavenly meditations devour affections and good inclinations toward thee his God wean him from the world and from all the vanities thereof and from all the sinfull pleasures of the flesh that he may set his affections wholly upon thee and upon things that are above where Christ Jesus sitteth at thy right hand seal unto him his pardon in the blood of thy Sonn by the inward testimony and grace of thy spirit let thy spirit of adoption cry Abba father in his heart strengthen his faith unto an holy and comfortable assurance of his interest in Christ crucified and in all thy mercies towards thy people in him make him to know that though he is a miserable sinner in himself yet the Death and Passion of thy Son hath satisfied thy Justice for all his iniquities and that though he hath no righteousnesse of his own to plead unto thee yet the righteousnesse of thy Son is his Justification in thy sight Oh Transcribe the promises of thy holy Gospel upon the Table of his heart that they may be unto him the sure evidence of his eternal inheritance in heaven Oh let the Mediation and Intercession of thy Sonne Christ Jesus at thy right hand prevaile with thee for all those mercies and graces and heavenly blessings that are needfull for him And let the sense of thy great mercies toward him and of thy great love unto him in the Lord Jesus his Saviour enflame his soul with an holy and fervent love unto thee that he may love thee with all his heart and with all his soule and with all his minde and with all his strength that he may love thee above his life and above his soul and that he may be willing to part with all that is dear unto him for thee that nothing may be dear unto him in respect of thee That he may love thee in all thy perfections in all thy mercies and all thy works in all thy dispensations in all thy corrections that thou art pleased to lay upon him Help him to discover thy tender mercy and Fatherly loving kindnesse unto his Soul shining forth unto him through all the clouds of that sickness and affliction that is or shall be upon him from thy hand and to taste thy sweetnesse in all the bitternesse of his trouble give him some comfortable relishes of those incomprehensible joyes and delights that are in thee that as the Hart panteth after the water-brooks so his soul may long and thirst and faint and languish after thee make him sick of love toward thee which is the only true health of his Soul Blessed God furnish thy servant with true Christian love charity to all thy people for thy sake Help him to forgive al that have wronged him to love his enemies to blesse them that curse him to do good to them that hate him to pray for them that despightfully use him and persecute him Give him reconciled affections to all with whom he hath had any difference make him desirous to do good unto all and as much as in him lyeth to live peaceably with all men Direct him and incline him readily willingly to seek reconciliation and to make satisfaction in case he hath done wrong or given any just cause of offence unto any Help him to settle his estate according to the rules of prudence righteousnes and charity to shew mercy to the poor as thou enablest him and to order all his affairs with discretion Bind him up in the Communion of thy Church and in the fellowship of a spiritual love and of a heavenly life with thy people give him tender affections towards thy Church and to those that are thine in faith and holinesse that he may be known to be thy disciple by his love unto thy people Give him patience to submit unto thy chastisements that he may bear them with a christian minde make him with a child like affection to accept of thy correction and to kiss every rod wherewith thou smitest him for his good give him an heart wholy resigned up unto to thy heavenly pleasure that he may refer himself entirely unto thee to choose for him and to deal with him as thou knowest to be most expedient that he may entrust thee as his merciful father reconciled to him in Christ and as the alwise and all sufficient God with his life and soul and all his happiness and with all his relations and concernments And deal with him in all things tenderly and graciously according to those bowells of compassion that thou bearest to thy people Be thou health unto him in all his sicknesse strength unto him in all his weaknesse comfort unto him in all his distresse life unto him in death it self stand by him in all temptations and trials to keep him from fainting and to give him the victory in Christ Jesus that he may obtain the Crown of thy heavenly glory Binde up Satan and all his spiritual enemies that they may not be able to hurt him make thou all his bed in his sicknesse and