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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56616	The Christian sacrifice a treatise shewing the necessity, end, and manner of receiving the Holy Commvnion : together with suitable prayers and meditations for every month in the year, and the principal festivals in memory of our Blessed Saviour : in four parts.	Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707.	1671 (1671)	Wing P760; ESTC R12843	198,857	536

returning thither again Thou hast richly loaden me with thy benefits endued me with principles of wisdom righteousness and goodness made a world of good things to wait upon me and minister to me and expectest only reasonable service and an easy obedience from me which thou hast sent thy Son to demand and to entreat and to give me an example of This is the surpassing heighth of thy love that thou wast pleased not to despise and reject us when we had despised all thy former favours but even to assume our Nature into an inconceivable nearness to thy own and send thy Son Jesus to seek and save us when we were lost I adore thine infinite condiscention O blessed Jesus Heb. 2.11 14. who art not ashamed to call us Brethren And for as much as we are partakers of flesh and blood hast also thy self likewise taken part of the same that through death thou mightest destroy him that had the power of death that is the devil Blessed be thy goodness that in all things thou wast made like unto us that thou mightest be a merciful and faithful high-Priest v. 17. to make reconciliation for our sins Let all the Angels in heaven still praise him for as high as the heaven is above the earth so great is his mercy above our thoughts We were not worthy that thou shouldst so much as look upon us or speak unto us and then in thine unbounded love thou wast pleased to dwell in our nature and to send thy Son in the likeness of sinful flesh Rom. 8.3 that by a Sacrifice for sin he might condemn sin in the flesh I see O Lord in that Sacrifice how hateful sin was to thee when thou wast so full of love to us and am going to thy Table to renounce utterly every evil way and devote my self to an holy and god-like life to acknowledg thy wise goodness who wouldst dwell in our flesh to sanctifie and cleanse it and give thy Son Jesus to die for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purifie to himself a peculiar people zealous of good works Accompany me O God by that mighty spirit through which he was conceived and offered himself without spot unto thee that I may have a lively conception of him and his holy Gospel in my mind and be made conformable to him in every thing and offered up intirely soul and body to be ordered and disposed of as pleaseth him It is but just and reasonable that his will not mine should be done And it is no less my happiness than my duty to be governed by him who is the wisdom of thee our God I deliver up therefore my understanding my will my affections and passions to be guided directed and ruled by his supream and immutable counsels Work in me a stedfast admiration and love of his purity lowliness meekness patience contentedness and charity that nothing may be so desirable to me as to have Christ Jesus in all his divine virtues formed in me Hold O Lord this image of him alway before mine eyes that my life may be nothing else but a constant imitation of him and both body and soul become the Temple of the holy Ghost wherein thou mayst be truly honoured heartily loved highly praised and exalted and purely worshipped and served O that my mind may be ever employed in pious or honest thoughts that my will may chuse the better part which can never be taken away from me that I may set my affections on heavenly things and not on things upon the earth that I may use the world as one that seeks a better countrey being chearful and yet composed diligent in my calling and yet working out my salvation doing good to my self with all the comforts of this life and likewise unto others Give me the grace good Lord never to be weary of well-doing to be just in all my dealings faithful in my promises mindful of my vows upright in the discharge of my trust inoffensive in word and deed and an useful and peaceable Member of Church and state Dispose me to be good in all my relations obedient to those who are over me kind to all my equals compassionate and pittiful to those that are in misery meek and lowly towards all men O that riches may never make me forget my self nor poverty tempt me to forget thee that health may not make me confident and secure nor sickness make me dejected and discontented But I may be patient and constant in all adversities Religious and thankful in prosperity and go through fulness and emptiness honour and disgrace good report and bad with the same evenness of mind till I come to receive praise and commendation as a good servant of Jesus Christ at the great day of his appearing In whose most powerful Name I continue to make my suits unto thee saying as he hath taught me Our Father c. The Meditation afterward IS not our heavenly Father very desirous that we should love him Would he else have appeared among us Would he have manifested himself to us Yea manifested himself in our flesh And more than that purchased us to himself by his own blood O how dear hath he paid for our love Love him love him exceedingly that he may not lose the great price wherewith we are bought But what love do we bear him if we be not like him What are we the better that a Saviour is born to us if he be not formed in us and dwell not in our heart by faith Was not this the end of his taking our Nature that he might purifie it and make us reverence our selves more than to defile that which is so near of kin to the Son of God O most wise goodness which by becoming like to us designed to make us like thy self I see the humility of the blessed Jesus who was born of a poor Virgin I see his sweetness in accommodating himself to the vilest of us and taking on him the form of a servant I see how little he valued the riches and the dignities and the pleasures of this world How contented he was in a mean condition how obedient to his parents how courteous to the meanest clients who came to receive not to give I see how liberal he was of his favours how unwearied in doing good how patient in suffering any evil how he loved righteousness and hated iniquity how dear the honest heart was to him and how odious hypocrisie I see how meek he was when he was affronted how loth his enemies should perish how little concern'd either in the calumnies or applauses of the world How absolutely resigned to the will of God and how desirous to do him honour O how often did he thank his heavenly Father How many hours did he spend in prayer and private converse with him How joyfully did he suffer great pains to do great good And at last laid down his life full of hope in God to see a glorious

ever And hath redeemed us from our enemies for his mercy endureth for ever I will praise thee with my whole heart the high praises of God shall be in my mouth Who hath raised up a mighty Salvation for us Rom 8.32 and hath not spared his own Son but delivered him up for us all Heb. 9.12 Who hath obtained for us an eternal redemption 2 Pet. 1.3 and given us all things that pertain unto life and godliness through the knowledg of him that hath called us by a glorious power Bless the Lord O my soul Psal 103.1 c. and all that is within me bless his holy name Bless the Lord O my soul and forget not all his benefits Who forgiveth all thy iniquities and healeth all thy diseases Who redeemeth thy life from destruction and crowneth thee with loving kindness and tender mercies Psa 111.1 I will praise the Lord with my whole heart in the assembly of the upright and in the Congregation While I live will I praise the Lord 146.2 I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being 145.21 My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever Thus I am come to a conclusion of the second part of my Discourse concerning the Nature End and Use of this Holy Sacrament The sum of what hath been said is this It is an holy Feast in commemoration of our Lord Christ especially of his Death In which we for our part make a solemn profession of his Religion and tie our selves in the strictest Covenant to follow him unto the death and to live in love and charity with all our Christian Brethren And he for his part makes a representation of his dying love to us and confirms the continuance of it giving us pledges that he will make us heirs of all the blessings which were the purchase of his body broken and blood shed for us So that when the Minister gives the Bread and the Cup to us we should think that Christ by him gives us tokens and assurances of his continued and everlasting love and kindness And when we take eat and drink that which he gives us we should look upon it as expressing our consent to continue his faithful Disciples in hope of that eternal life which God that cannot lie hath promised to us In short the whole Action is the renewing of a Covenant between Christ and us He by giving we by receiving ingage our selves to perform our mutual promises He his promises of giving us pardon power to do well and immortal bliss And we our promises of loving God with all our heart and soul and strength and our neighbor as our selves All which we are to reflect upon with the greatest love to God and our Saviour with thanksgiving blessing and praise and with an humble confidence that it shall be to us according to his word To promote which ends I have concluded every particular Head of this discourse with a brief Meditation which may be used in this manner The First of them may serve to excite our devout affections before we go to Church or when we have placed our selves conveniently just before the Communion begin or while the company are making their oblations to God The Second will be proper immediately after the Consecration while the Minister is receiving himself and giving the Communion to the other Ministers that may be there present with him The other Six half of them may be used after we have received the Bread and the other half after we have received the Cup. Or if any desire a more compendious form of Devotion wherein to lift up their Souls to God immediately after their receiving they may reserve those till they retire from the Holy Table to their seats again and in this manner address themselves to him just after the receiving of the Bread 2 Cor. 1.3 Blessed be God even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 1.3 the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort who according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead Col. 1.22.13 14. Who hath reconciled us in the body of his flesh through death to present us holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight Blessed be God who hath delivered us from the kingdom of darkness and translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son In whom we have redemption through his blood even the forgiveness of our sins I love thee O Lord I love thee I devote my self most unfeignedly unto thee I will ever cleave unto thee and unto all my Brethren with setled purpose of heart Search me O God and know my heart Psal 139.23 24. try me and know my thoughts See if there be any wicked way in me and lead me in the way everlasting Yea Psal 23 4 6. though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for thou art with me Thy power and thy care of thy flock they comfort me Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life 34● and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live I will sing praise to my God while I have my being My meditation of him shall be sweet I will be glad in the Lord. 67.3 And let all the people praise thee O God let all the people praise thee O that men would praise the Lord for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children of men 107.21 22. Let them Sacrifice the Sacrifices of thanksgiving and declare his works with rejoycing 117.2 For his merciful kindness is ever more and more towards us and his truth endureth for ever Praise ye the Lord. Or thus Lord Psal 8.3 4. what is man that thou art so mindful of him or the son of man that thou thus visitest him Thou hast made him a little lower than the Angels and crowned him with glory and with honour Thou hast given him dominion over the works of thy hands and hast put all things under his feet Many O Lord my God Psal 40.5 are thy wonderful works which thou hast done and thy thoughts which are to us ward they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee if I would declare and speak of them they are more than can be numbred Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not Heb. 10.5 But a body hast thou prepared for thy Son Jesus Who hath done thy will O God and made himself an offering for sin and made us one body with himself Blessing and honour and glory and power be unto thee O Lord God Almighty and unto thy Son for ever and ever I offer up my self intirely both Soul and body unto thee I consecrate my self here most faithfully to thy Service Psal