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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56605	A book for beginners, or, A help to young communicants that they may be fitted for the Holy communion, and receive it with profit. By S. Patrick, D.P.	Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707.	1680 (1680)	Wing P751; ESTC R218754	33,198	242

resolutions and devout affections which I now feel in my heart Keep them alive by the powerfull assistences of thy Holy Spirit of which Thou hast given me an assurance in thy precious Promises and in these sacred Pledges of thy Loving-kindness For which I again most humbly thank Thee and desire I may never forget how much I am indebted to Thee but be still praising Thee and saying I will extoll Thee my God O King of Heaven and I will bless thy Name for ever and ever Every day will I bless Thee and I will praise thy Name for ever and ever While I live will I praise the Lord I will sing praises to my God while I have any being My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord and let all flesh bless his holy Name for ever and ever Amen While others are Communicating you may say Preserve us all O Lord pure and acceptable Sacrifices unto Thee that we may be all presented spotless before the presence of thy glory with exceeding joy Or this As we being many are one bread and one body for we are all partakers of that one Bread and have drunk of the same Cup so help us to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace and to love one another with a pure heart fervently Or this Rom. 5 6. Now the God of patience and consolation grant us to be like-minded one towards another after the example of Christ Jesus That we may with one mind and one mouth glorify God even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ This may be added Let all the people praise Thee O God let all the people praise Thee From the rising of the Sun unto the going down of the same let the Name of our Lord be praised Blessed be the Name of the Lord from this time forth and for evermore Vpon Christmas day and seven days after you may adde this to your other Devotions More particularly I now remember O Lord thy stupendious Love in sending thy Son so unexpectedly to visit us when the World thought not of Thee but were Strangers or rather Enemies unto Thee Blessed be the Lord who hath so highly honoured our Nature as to dwell among us and to appear in the likeness of sinfull Flesh Preserve in me such a remembrance of it that I may never dishonour Him nor my self by consenting to any filthiness either of the flesh or spirit but alway behave my self sutably to the relation I have unto Him in righteousness and holiness before Him all the days of my life Amen V pon Easter day and seven days after I bless Thee O Lord who hast fulfilled thy promise unto our Saviour that Thou wouldst not leave his Soul in hell nor suffer thy Holy one to see Corruption Blessed be God who hath thereby confirmed our Faith in the Promises He hath made to us This is the day or time the Lord hath made I will rejoyce and be glad in it This is the day when my Saviour was begotten again from the dead and thereby hath begotten us again unto a lively hope of immortal Life This is the Lord 's doing and it is marvellous in our eyes The Lord hath shewed us light even the light of Life I will offer to Him therefore perpetually the Sacrifice of righteousness together with these Sacrifices of praise and thanksgiving for his Mercy towards us which I see by this endureth for ever Vpon Ascention day and seven days after Blessed be God that I see Jesus who was humbled a while and made lower then the Angels for the suffering of death crowned now with glory and honour Lift up my heart O Blessed Jesus to that high and holy place where Thou art exalted and keep it fixed there That setting my affections on things above where Thou art at God's right hand I may never doe any thing that is unworthy of my Christian Profession but have my Conversation in Heaven from whence I expect Thee O Blessed Jesus who hast told us Thou art onely gone before to prepare a place for us Where Thou art O Blessed Lord there let me be also And at last change this vile body that it may be fashioned like unto thy glorious Body according to the working whereby Thou art able even to subdue all things unto thy self Vpon Whitsunday and six days after I rejoyce in the comfort Thou hast brought us O Holy Spirit of Grace I rejoyce to hear as Thou hast testified by the wonderfull Gifts bestowed on the Apostles that my Dearest Saviour is alive and that He lives for evermore and will never cease his Love to us till we be there where He is O inspire me more and more with thy heavenly Grace that being stedfast in this Faith I may bring forth all the fruits of the Spirit and not onely resist but overcome all Temptations in my way to Heaven Guide me by thy Counsel strengthen me with thy Might support me with thy Comforts in all necessities streights and dangers that I may at last safely arrive at eternal glory Amen Vpon the Feast of Trinity onely Adored be the incomprehensible Majesty of the Eternal undivided Trinity in whose Name I was baptized and whom I humbly worship with praises and thanksgivings saying Blessed be thy Name O God the Father Almighty the Creatour of Heaven and Earth in whom we all live and move and have our being And blessed be the Eternal Son of the Father our Saviour and Redeemer the Prince of Peace who hath purchased an eternal Redemption for us And blessed be the Holy Ghost the Comforter who inspires me with good thoughts pious desires and godly resolutions and will conduct me I hope unto everlasting Life Amen CHAP. VII Meditations and Prayers afterward IF there be more time left before all have communicated as there is generally on these great Festivals and where many receive upon other days you may spend it in Meditating as well as you are able upon the Ends for which this Sacrament was ordained Turn to the Third Chapter of this Book and there reade them in order I. Saying to your self when you think that you have now solemnly owned your self to be a Christian c. O Lord truly I am thy Servant I am thy Servant I am sensible that I am not my own for I am bought with a great price and therefore ought to glorify God in my body and in my spirit which are God's And Good Lord assist me as becomes one who names the Name of Christ to depart from all iniquity II. And when you think of the next thing how thankfull you ought to be to God the Father Son and Holy Ghost you may easily turn those words you reade there into a Thanksgiving or have some such short Ejaculation as this What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits towards me especially for this that He hath not spared his own Son but delivered him up for us all III. To which you may give an