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A93578 The penitent Christian, fitted with meditations and prayers, for a the devout receiving of the Holy Sacrament of the Lords Supper, / by Lewis Southcomb, rector of Rose-Ash in the county of Devon. ; For the benefit of the people under his charge, and others. Southcomb, Lewis. 1682 (1682) Wing S4751A; ESTC R184495 64,495 181

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Mediator Jesus Thus 't is called the blood of the New Testament 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 St. Mat. 26.28 or of the new Covenant Now this new Covenant between God and us made by our Saviour is as was before said that God will give pardon of our Sins sanctifying Grace and everlasting Glory upon our Conditions of Faith Repentance and sincere Obedience Our Lord in those Mysteries Seals this to us and assures us as he is the God of Truth and cannot lye or deceive us that he will perform his part We on the other hand seal back this to him that we will sincerely and heartily endeavour to perform our part We are then to remember that thus it was promised for us in our Baptism when we knew nothing of it but here we come in our own persons to take those advantageous Conditions on our selves to renew them by our own hand our own act and our own choice This is my Blood of the new Covenant says our Saviour to this our Lord invites us to shew first his death till he come and next to renew our Covenant with him to Seal it again and to declare our resolutions to labour more effectually and diligently for the remainder of our dayes to stand to our engagements and discharge our Conditions of it O my Lord say now upon this consideration who am I that thou shouldest leave thy Fathers bosom to be the compassionate Mediator of a new Covenant between God and me but oh who am I that after so many breaches of it thou shouldst call and invite me once more to come and renew it with thee again who am I that thou shouldst speak to me to come and enter again into a further confirmation of it what a tender mercy is this how blest a priviledge is this that thou art pleased to call me once more to come and receive my Pardon if but yet for the future I do in an honest sincerity perform my part of the Covenant What long-suffering is this that thou shouldst still bid me to approach and have my Pardon sealed too if my terms be but yet performed and how far have I been from deserving any thing of this at thy hands And O my Jesu shall I refuse to come and humbly accept of those mercies which thou art yet pleased to offer me and though I have broken my part of that Covenant which this Sacrament is a seal of shall I not thankfully come and accept of thy desires to make good thine if after all this I am not yet wanting to my self Shall I not rejoyce in an opportunity of confirming and ratifying in my own person that which was done for me without my knowledge in my Baptism shall I not come and declare my desires to be found now and ever within the Covenant of Grace Or shall I voluntarily withdraw my self from it and not come and put my hand and seal to it with others of my Christian Brethren shall I by my refusal to renew it declare for Sin for the World Flesh and Devil Far be it from me say O my dear Redeemer far be such thoughts as those No I come willingly and readily and chearfully with a Soul and Heart and Mouth full of Praises and Adorations to renew this gracious Covenant to own my self thy Disciple thy Servant thy follower I come to see thy dying bleeding Love and to imprint it afresh upon my memory I come to see thy earnest desires of accomplishing my Redemption represented to me I come to behold thy Agony and bloody sweat thy Cross and Passion thy Body broken thy Blood poured out for me I come freely and openly to own my unworthyness to come at all to own how undeservingly I have walked of those benefits I come to sue a Pardon for my breaches of my terms of the new Covenant I come to seal it again with thee and humbly and thankfully adore thee for this mercy that thou callest me once more to do so O that instead of ever entertaining a thought of absenting our selves we would imploy it in some such meditations as these Dr. Sherlock Relig. Assemb or with the words following of that excellent person before mentioned That frequent Communions are as necessary to our spiritual growth and increase in holyness to repair the decays of our Graces and to renew our strength and vigour in serving God and to procure the pardon of Sin after a relapse and to call back the holy Spirit when he is withdrawn from us as bread is to keep our bodies in constant repair and did men love their Souls as they do their bodies they would no more neglect the Supper of our Lord than their daily food And if we have been guilty of any breach of Covenant with God by venturing on the commission of any Sin when we have with tears bewailed our Sin and renewed our Repentance here we must renew our Covenant and by approaching the Table of our Lord declare that though we are Sinners yet we are not Apostates that is we are not fallen from the Faith or the Christian Religion but that we still own our Covenant and by the Grace of God which we now implore and hope to receive resolve to continue stedfast in it while we live CHAP. III. Of Examination of our Selves I Come next in the third place to shew briefly how we are to come prepared to this holy Sacrament The chief parts of preparation are these First Examination of our selves Secondly To enter then into a holy Course of Life by Repentance and Resolutions of a future sincere Obedience Thirdly To bring with us a lively faith in God's mercy through Christ Fourthly To bring with us Charity to our Brethren Fifthly To bring with us Devotion and a pious frame of Soul Of each of these briefly First of Examination of our selves to this St. Paul adviseth Let a man examine himself and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that Cup. 1 Cor. 11.28 And here we are to examine as far as our memory can inform us what our breaches have been of that Covenant which we entred into with God and our Saviour in Baptism We told you that our part of the Covenant is Faith Repentance and sincere Obedience But alas we have most miserably gon astray and have often knowingly wittingly and willingly broken all these parts of that holy Covenant As to our Faith first how dull lifeless and unactive has that been how little have we shewed it by our works by works of Mercy Piety Charity or Devotion How little have we shewed our Faith by our Conformity of heart and life to those Gospel duties to God to others and our selves by which we should have shewn it St. Ja. 4.18 Again as to Repentance how unsincere has that been how have we return'd soon after our beginnings of it to our old iniquities like the Dog to his vomit or the Sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire 2 Pet.
wilful Sin DRead Majesty of Heaven and Earth Forasmuch as I who was early dedicated to thee by Baptism and have frequently renewed that Covenant at thy holy Table have yet sadly fallen from my Baptismal holyness and broken my vows and resolutions even since the last Sacrament grieving thy holy Spirit wounding my Soul and provoking thy displeasure setting my self back deplorably in my journey toward Heaven by the Sin of † Here you may mention the Sin best known to thee when and where committed I do now heartily accuse and judge and condemn my self for it and for all other known and secret Sins and do earnestly repent my self of it and desire to rise from it again by a sincere Resolution of amendment of life a greater watchfulness and intire obedience and this I solemnly on my bended knees declare before thee O holy Trinity and do now likewise humbly beg fresh assistances of the holy Spirit to enable me to be more constant in my holy Resolutions and to please thee better And for my Lord Jesus sake and in his Name and for thy loves sake to mankind thy pitty and compassions sake humbly beg humbly hope my pardon may be as certainly now sealed in Heaven as I make this declaration here on earth Mercy O my God mercy for the sake of that immaculate Lamb that takes away the Sins of the World Amen Here again if you are able to write and sincerely do desire to rise from the Sin by Repentance you may before you go to the holy Table write out a Copy of these Words and having repeated them with a penitent heart subscribe your name on your bended knees as also the day when you made this Resolution January 1. 1681. N. N. That so you may the better discern what progress your soul makes in its Victory over all known Sin For no man can well observe his own growth in Grace Bishop Taylor Rule of holy dying but by accounting seldomer returns of Sin and a more frequent victory over temptations concerning which every man makes his observations according as he makes his inquiries and search after himself A Prayer before the Sacrament which may be used by them who never received it before O Blessed Saviour and Redeemer who wert pleased to adm●● me into thy holy Church by the Waters of Baptism in my Infant dayes before I knew it I do now being by thy Grace come to the knowledge of it from the bottom of my heart adore and bless thee for that mercy and with a penitent heart humbly and earnestly beg thy pardon for my great abuses of it that I should so wretchedly as I have stained and poluted those white and innocent Robes which I then put on and for my known and unknown breaches of those vows and promises which were then made in my name O my Lord I am accused judged and condemned by my own Conscience But O my Jesu whose sacred side once dropt Water and Blood for me as thou hast admitted me to the Water when I was baptized so be thou now graciously pleased to admit me to the Blood too and to partake of all the benefits of it that as I early partaked of the cleansing of the one so I may now receive the healing virtue of the other and let all my Iniquities I beseech thee that have been adventured on by me since my Baptism to this present hour be to thee as if they had never been at all O that I could now go to thy Table with the like innocence that I came from the waters of Regeneration But seeing I cannot O my Jesu who wert pleas'd to bring me to the honour and priviledge of Baptism before I could beg or desire it be thou likewise pleased by thy grace to carry me prepared to thy Table who can and do earnestly desire and beg this of thee and as thou wert pleased then to make me a lamb of thy flock so deny me not the favour how unworthy soever I have hitherto lived of it of being one of those faithful Sheep of thy fold that hear thy voice O my Lord as I was never yet at thy Table and come a stranger to this Heavenly feast so I intreat thee let me not miss of the mercy of being a welcome and acceptable guest there O make me to understand and consider the advantage that I have above many others who may now by thy Grace never be an unworthy Communicant Do thou therefore by thy gracious intercession supply my ignorance and by thy Mercy and Merits pitty and pardon the vanities and sins and follies of my youthful state particularly † Here you may mention the particulars and receive me with the Love and Compassion and Tenderness of a Parent that so I may love thee and adore thee and bless thee and obey thee betimes and may tast of the sweets and delicacies of an early Religion and Holyness I come then O my Jesu I come to give thee this first solemn Testimony of my Love to thee and to receive the first great tokens of thy Love to me O be pleased so feelingly to touch my heart now at the first with a deep sence of Love to thee and thy Religion that I may ever hereafter rejoyce in all opportunities of a holy Sacrament and have a never-ceasing Love to those holy Mysteries Do thou vouchsafe O my dear Redeemer at this our first most solemn meeting to bring all those Graces along with thee which thou would'st have my Soul to be fitted with and fix them there I beseech thee O my Lord I was early devoted to thee by others but suffer me now to dedicate my self to thee Come Lord Jesu come then take possession of my heart I beseech thee before ever the World Flesh or Devil get any more footing there and if either of them have got any already for my great neglects to present my self to thee and opening the door of it to thee sooner turn out O my Lord turn them out thence and with the rest of thy Church accept me even me also O my Father Let me take thee into my hand O my dear Lord and place thee in my heart before ever any more lusts or follies be admitted there and then be thou pleased to take me by the hand and place me in thy heart that there I may live and there I may dye Finally O my Lord let all my past Iniquities I beseech thee be so done away that thou mayst receive me so as if I were but now come from the Waters of Baptism With such hopes as these with such defires as these I come to lay my self at thy feet O blessed Saviour and Redeemer Amen A Prayer and Thanksgiving after the holy Sacrament to be used only by such as had never received it before O Holy and merciful Jesus by whom the mercies of Eternity are conveyed to mankind I bless and praise and thank thee with my whole heart and all the