thee and the Holy Spirit ever one God World without end Amen BE pleased O God to accept this our bounden duty and service and command that the Prayers and Supplications together with the Remembrance of Christs Passion which we do now offer up unto thee may by the Ministry of the holy Angels be brought up into thy Heavenly Tabernacle and that thou not weighing our merits but looking upon the blessed Sacrifice of our Saviour which was once fully and perfectly made for us all mayest pardon our offences and replenish us with thy Grace and heavenly benediction through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ALmighty God the Fountain of all goodness from whom every good and perfect gift proceedeth and to whom all glory and honour should be returned I do desire most heartily to thank thee for that thou hast vouchsafed to feed me who have received these Holy mysteries with the spiritual food of the most precious Body and Blood of thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ and dost assure me thereby of thy favour and goodness towards me and that I am a very member incorporate in the mystical Body of thy Son which is the blessed Company of all faithful people and am also an Heir through hope of thine everlasting Kingdom by the merits of the most precious Death and Passion of thy dear Son O the height and depth of that unspeakable mercy of thine who art pleased to admit me a sinful wretch to have any part in those inestimable benefits which I have so often despised and trampled under foot I am not worthy O Lord of that daily Bread which sustains the body But thou hast made me partaker of that living Bread which came down from Heaven which nourisheth the Soul and of which whosoever eateth shall live for ever O grant that my Soul may relish this Divine Food with Spiritual ravishments and love great as the flame of Cherubims and grant that what thou hast given me for the Remission of my sins may not by any fault become the increase of them that this Holy Communion prove not unto me unto Judgement and Condemnation but may support and preserve me in every Temptation rejoyce and quiet me in every trouble enlighten and strengthen me in every good word and Work Comfort and defend me in the hour of my death against all oppositions of the Spirit of Darkness and further me in the attainment of everlasting Salvation through Jesus Christ Amen MOst Holy God who art of purer eyes than to behold Iniquity grant I pray thee that no unclean thing may be in me who have now Received thee into my heart and soul but let this Blood of Christ who through the Eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to thee purge my Conscience from dead works to serve thee the living God Give me Grace that from henceforth I put off concerning my former conversation the Old man which is corrupt according to the deceitful Lusts and be renewed in the Spirit of my mind and put on the New Man which after thee is created in Righteousness and true Holiness to which purpose be pleased to watch over me for good to keep me both outwardly in my Body and inwardly in my Soul O God thou seest I nave no power of my self to help my self thou knowest me also to be set in the midst of so many and great dangers that by reason of the frailty of my Nature I cannot always stand upright grant to me such strength and protection as may support me in all dangers and carry me through all Temptations through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen O Thou with whom is no variableness nor shadow of turning let thy holy Spirit direct me in all things let thy Grace always always prevent and follow me and preserve me against all assaults of my Spiritual enemies Especially of my own treacherous heart which is deceitful above all things wicked desperately wicked O Lord thou knowest it how often hath it betrayed me to the breach of thy holy Laws to the violation of all these Vows and promises which I have made to thee How often have I turned my back in the day of battel O let me no more thus start aside like a broken bow but be stedfast unmovable always abounding in the work of the Lord resisting the Devil that he may flee from me subduing my flesh and bringing it into subjection crucifying and overcoming the world And therefore let those solemn Vows which I have now made to forge my sins never depart from my mind but let the remembrance of them excite me to fight manfully under thy banner and continue thy faithful servant and Soulder unto my lives end Amen O Lord I do here humbly present unto thee my Soul and Body to be a living holy and reasonable Sacrifice unto thee I beseech thee sanctifie my Body that from a polluted Dunghil it may become the Temple of God Sanctifie my Soul and receive it for thy dwelling place the Seat of thy Spirit and an house of Prayer and holy Meditation Sanctifie me throughout that both my Body and Soul and Spirit may be preserved blameless unto the comming of our Lord Jesus Christ to whom with thee O Father and the Holy Ghost be all Honour and Glory World without end Amen FINIS
and my Soul which is polluted in every faculty wash'd through his most precious Blood which taketh away the Sins of the World Let me be so wholly purified that I may now begin to be inseparably united to Jesus and that I by Faith may evermore dwell in him abiding in his Love and that by his Spirit he may dwell in me always Amen A Prayer for Purity O Almighty God whose power is Terrible to all that approach thee with polluted Souls because thou art the Majesty unto whom the Thoughts and Imaginations of all hearts are open and apparent all desires and Wishes after any evil are known and evident and the God from whom no secrets in word or deed are hid or by any policy can be concealed The Remembrance of my Impurity makes me fear to draw near to thee till I have Implor'd thee who alone art able to keep me therein to cleanse and purge out all the evil which are so commonly the Guests of my Heart lest they provoke thy pure Eyes to pass me by with this abhorrence and deprive me of the comfort and benefit of this Communion Blessed Lord prepare thy Lodging in my Soul by the Inspiration of those pure thoughts and Heavenly desires which are the fruit of thy Holy Spirit and the Harbingers of the King of Glory that I may as it is my unfeigned desire at all times and above all things most sincerely and perfectly to love thee and not suffer any secret Sin to be thy Rival in my Heart and that I may also especially in this Sacrifice of praise worthily Magnifie and agreeably set forth the Glory of thy Holy Name in giving so Illustrious a Salvation to us through Christ Jesus for whose sake I beseech thee to hear me for he is thy Son and shall be my Lord for ever Amen A Meditation at the Offering O Lord I give thee a small part of thine own who hast given me all my Earthly Comforts yea thy own Son out of thy bosom to become my Salvation O that I could give a thousand times more thy Love deserves it for this I give not alas as a Requital of thy favour but a testimony how much more I owe unto thee my Charities cannot extend to thee who needest nothing only Holy Jesus I do gladly embrace my Poor Brethren and thy Friends whose Souls thou hast purchased with thy dearest Blood and made them Heirs with me of the same Salvation I rejoyce that thou acceptest so small a matter to them as done to thy self behold therefore a soul I beseech thee so Sick and Leprous poor and naked that it needs thy Mercy more than the most miserable Creature in all the whole World my Charity O how many and how earnest prayers do I need could I engage all the poor on Earth whose prayers soonest pierce the Clouds I need all this and as much more to make way for mine acceptance But O my Saviour this is a day in which thou Scatterest thy Bounties Wherefore Remember thou my Soul which is undone without thy pity and since thy Mercies are infinitely greater than ours Lord do not pass me by far be it from me to think so meanly of thy Love as to esteem mine Alms the purchase of it No no I do only by this small token give thee Livery and seisin of me and mine and having vowed to purchase a more glorious Interest and to seek thy Kingdom I do renounce the Riches of this World O happy Exchange and admirable way of Gain but so thou art wont to deal with us O God! to accept trifles from us and give Glories to us great and endless and Inexpressible I adore thee O my Lord and Love thee and because there is no Earthly gift that can bear proportion with such unspeakable Goodness I will give thee my Soul also and it shall be thine for Ever Amen Just after the Prayer of Consecration Say A MEN Lord it is done as thou hast commanded and I doubt not but the Mistery is Rightly accomplished I am perswaded here is It that my Soul longeth for a Crucified Saviour Communicating himself to poor penitent Sinners O let me be but reckoned amongst that number and then I shall assuredly receive the Holy Jesus Amen Lord thou hast set open this fountain and wilt thou suffer a wretched creature to dye for thirst in thy presence hast thou prepared such a Balm to heal me and shall I languish here before thee I know if thou wilt thou canst make me clean here is the very Instrument in thy Hand Grant me therefore Holy Jesus that I may rightly apply it and duly use it and it shall prepare me for Thee and unite me to thee with such inseparable bonds as can never break unless Eternity can have an End Blessed are they that so eat thy Flesh and so drink thy Blood as thou requirest and so as thy Saints of Old have done for they have been cleansed at this Fountain and here their Union with thee first began O happy season Excellent Opportunity Lord let me do it well this Once and I am thine for Ever Amen A Prayer before the Sacrament O Most Merciful God who hast in thy great goodness prepared this Spiritual Feast for sick and famished Souls make my desires and gaspings after it answerable to my needs of it I have with the Prodigal wasted that portion of Grace thou bestowedst upon me and therefore do infinitely want a supply out of this Treasury But O Lord how shall such a Wretch as I dare to approach this Holy Table I am a Dog how shall I presume to take the Childrens Bread or how shall this spiritual Manna this Food of Angels be given to me who have chosen to feed on Husks with Swine nay to one who hath already so often trampled these pretious things under foot either carelesly neglecting or unworthily receiving these Holy Mysteries O Lord my horrible guiltiness makes me tremble to come and yet makes me not dare to keep away For where O Lord shall my polluted Soul be washed if not in this Fountain which thou hast opened for sin and for uncleanness hither therefore I come and thou hast promised that he that cometh to thee thou wilt in no wise cast out This is O Lord the Blood of the New Testament Grant me to receive it that it may be to me for Remission of Sins and though I have so often and so wretchedly broken my part of that Covenant whereof this Sacrament is a Seal yet be thou graciously pleased to make good thine to be Merciful to mine unrighteousness and to remember my sins and my iniquities no more and not only so but to put thy Laws into my heart and to write them in my mind and by the power of thy Grace dispose my Soul to such a sincere and constant obedience that I may never again provoke thee Lord Grant that in these Holy Misteries I may not only commemorate but effectualy receive my
of me and let nothing ever take me out of his hand To this end be thou graciously ly pleased to watch over me and defend me from all assaults of my Spiritual Enemies but especially deliver me from my self from the Treachery of my own heart which is too willing to yield it self a prey and where thou seest I am either by Nature or Custom most weak there do thou I beseech thee magnifie thy power in my preservation Here mention thy most dangerous Temptations and Lord let my Saviours Sufferings for my sins and the Vows that I have now made against them never depart from my mind but let the Remembrance of the one enable me to perform the other that I may never make truce with those lusts which nailed his Hands pierced his Side made his Soul heavy to the Death but that having a new listed my self under his banner I may fight manfully and follow the Captain of my Salvation even through a Sea of Blood Lord lift up my hands that hang down and my feeble knees that I faint not in this Warfare O be thou my strength who am not able of my self to struggle with the slightest Temptations How often have I turned my back in this day of Battle how many of these Sacramental Vows have I violated and Lord I have still the same unconstant deceitful heart to betray me to the breach of this O thou who art yea Amen in whom there is no shadow of Change Communicate to me I beseech thee such a stability of mind that I may no more thus start aside like a broken bow but that having my heart whole with thee I may continue stedfast in thy Covenant that not one good purpose which thy Spirit hath raised in me this day may vanish as so many have formerly done but that they may bring forth fruit unto life Eternal Grant this O Merciful Father through the Merit and Mediation of my Crucified Saviour Amen Praise the Lord O my Soul and all that is within me praise his Holy Name for now I find the Mercy and the Peace the Comfort and the Grace which flows from the death of Christ let all the world know what he hath done for my soul he hath Rescued me and many of my poor Brethren round about me from the nethermost Hell wherefore I Love thee Holy Jesus more than I can express and I will love them for thy sake and since thou hast given thy self thy Merits and thy Graces to me and sealed a new Covenant with me in thine own Blood I do here bind my self by that Sacred Ordinance to be sincerely thine I will spend my time and strength in thy Service and Lord I beseech thee give me grace to shed my blood to bear witness to the truth if ever thou callest me to such a Tryal I will never eave thee nor forsake thee but live die with thee for I have sworn and am stedfastly purposed to keep thy Righteous judgments O let me never unhallow that Body nor defile that Soul in which the Lord Jesus delights to dwell let no lying or uncharitable speeches prophane those Lips no Intemperance pollute that Mouth by which those Holy Symbols have passed Grant me to find new desires and new hopes Grant my nature may be renewed my blood Refined O fit my Soul with such a Holy Vigour that through thy Mercy I may accomplish all my Resolutions Amen O Blessed Jesus I have Vowed my self thy servant but yet I fear in expectation of the most furious assaults which will be made upon me by the Enemy from whom I have withdrawn and alas I have too often Returned again to folly but if thou pleasest to plant thy Grace within me and send thy Blessing upon me I fear not his Policy nor power I have Received that Heavenly food which is the means to convey this Grace and I know that by this Celestial Remedy many of thy Servants have been dreadful to the powers of Darkness and thou didst never cast off any humble Soul O bless then this Life-giving Mistery unto every one of us that we may find such power and strength such courage and resolution flowing from thence that we may all stand firm to the purposes which we have made Holy Saviour we are now thy servants and O what quiet and comfort what Safety and Joy what Honour and Pleasure have we under so gracious a Lord how happy shall I be in injoying a freedom from anger c. O mark us all for thine own deny us not that grace which is necessary to make thee ours and us to be thine If we feel not some Effects thereof we shall sink for fear Lest thou hast rejected us and our oblation but who did ever seek thee and did not find who ever trusted in thee and was forsaken we are sure that in thee all fulness of Grace doth dwell O let it now overflow that of thy fulness we may all receive so shall we daily and always perform our Vows Amen O thou Allseeing and most Holy Lord God I have beheld the Esficacious and all-saving Sacrifice which thy Son hath offered for us I have remembred it and blessed thy Name for it as much as I was able though not so highly as I ought for the benefits thereof are inestimable O let them not all be lost to us for want of faith to believe and receive them there is no want of merit in Jesus to Deserve no want of Mercy in thee to bestow remission O let there not want in us or in any of those for whom Christ dyed Grace to accept this pardon Behold Lord how we struggle under a load of guilt a troubled Conscience doth perplex us our remaining corruptions oppose us the decay of our Graces doth deject us and lo here is an Effectual Remedy for all these evils help us every one I humbly beseech thee so to apply it that both we and our Brethren whom we love as our selves may find a blessed cure Who was ever reconciled to thee but by Jesus or who was ever so much thine Enemy but this Sacrifice hath made their peace and shall it be ineffectual only to us Dear father let us find the Efficacy thereof in our selves and discern the fruits thereof in all the Members of thy Church so shall we be ingaged to praise thee more and more for this great Salvation through Jesus Christ Amen A Prayer of Intercession O Most gracious Lord who so tenderly lovedst mankind as to give thy dear Son out of thy bosom to be a propitiation for the sins of the whole World grant that the effect of this Redemption may be as universal as the design of it that it may be to the Salvation of all O let no person by impenitence and willful sin forfeit his part in it but by the power of thy Grace bring all even the most obstinate Sinners to Repentance enlighten all that sit in Darkness all Jews Turks Infidels