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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

for which it was instituted YOU will be the more inclined to this when you consider the Ends for which this Commemoration of Christ's Death was ordained Which were such as these First to profess that you are Christians and believe that Religion which Christ hath sealed by his Bloud to be the true and onely way to Happiness and that you mean to continue in it whatsoever it costs you though it should ingage you that is to follow Him to his Cross Secondly to give thanks to God the Father for sending his onely begotten Son into the world to be the Propitiation for our Sins And to God the Son our Blessed Saviour Jesus Christ for humbling himself so low as to die the death of the Cross where He offered his own Body to put away our sins by the Sacrifice of Himself And to God the Holy Ghost who hath brought us glad tidings from Heaven since our Saviour's ascension thither that having purged our sins by Himself He sate down on the right hand of the Majesty on high where He lives for evermore and is mindfull of us and of his Promises which He will certainly fulfill as we see by these Pledges He hath left us of his endless Love And therefore Thirdly you bind your selves by the remembrance of these things to be faithfull to Him and to keep that Holy Covenant wherein you are solemnly tied to be wholly His. For as the very coming to his Table naturally signifies you are of his Family and belong to Him so being there so kindly entertained by Him you stand bound to behave your selves as his Servants or rather Friends and engage so to doe Now ye are his Friends if you comply with his will in all other things as well as in this of commemorating his dying Love for your sake So He himself tells his Apostles in those memorable words XV. Joh. 13 14. where He represents to them in what consisted the greatness of his Love and the sincerity of theirs Greater love hath no man then this that a man lay down his life for his Friends Ye are my Friends if ye doe whatsoever I command you For Lastly being thus of the number of the Faithfull you have in this Holy Sacrament Communion with Christ in his Death and Passion and in the Merits of them For though the things you receive be in themselves but Bread and Wine yet by a Divine and spiritual grave they become the Body and Bloud of Christ to the Faithfull who are thereby made partakers of all the Benefits which He purchased by his Sacrifice which He made of Himself for our Sins Thus one of the Prayers after the Communion excellently instructs you that God vouchsafes to feed those who duly receive these holy Mysteries with the spiritual food of the most precious Body and Bloud of his Son our Saviour Jesus Christ and doth assure you thereby of his favour and goodness and that you are very Members incorporate in the mystical Body of his Son which is the blessed Company of all Faithfull people and are also Heirs through hope of his everlasting Kingdom by the merits of the most precious Death and Passion of his dear Son I need not adde that by doing this in remembrance of Him you have Communion with all your Christian Brethren for it is already expressed and that you beg his gracious assistence that you may continue as it follows in the Prayer now mentioned in this holy Fellowship and doe all such good works as He hath prepared for us to walk in for this holy action being a Sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving as it is in the Prayer going before wherein Christ's Sacrifice is commemorated it is in its own nature the most powerfull Prayer as all Sacrifices were 1 Sam. XIII 12. more powerfull then any other can be to supplicate for and to impetrate that is obtain the Divine Blessing upon us CHAP. IV. Of Preparation for it THIS may suffice one would think to excite all those who have any care of their future Salvation or present satisfacion to make it their buisiness to prepare themselves to be worthy Receivers of such great Benefits And that is not hard to doe For having learn'd your Catechism or the short Instruction in the Common-Prayer-Book to be learn'd by every person that is baptized and then seriously considered the Promise that was made at your Baptism in your name which is there explained you should in the next place take the first opportunity to have the benefit of Confirmation Wherein you both openly renew the solemn Promise and Vow made in your name at your Baptism ratifying and confirming the same in your own person and acknowledging your self bound to believe and doe all those things which your Godfathers and Godmothers then undertook for you and also by the Laying on of hands have more of the Divine Grace imparted to you to confirm and strengthen you in your Christian resolution that you may continue his for ever After this you may without any scruple look upon your self as having a right to the Sacrament of Christ's Body and Bloud And the best Preparation to it will be I. To endeavour faithfully to live according to your Baptismal Vow And for that end to call to mind every day how solemnly you did such a time in the presence of God and such a Congregation ratify and confirm that Vow and also promised that by God's grace you would always labour to observe such things as by your own confession you have assented unto They are these three First that you should renounce the Devil and all his works the pomps and vanities of this wicked world with all covetous desires of the same and the sinfull lusts of the flesh so that you will not follow nor be led by them Secondly that you should believe all the Articles of the Christian Faith And thirdly that you should keep God's holy will and Commandments and walk in the same all the days of your life II. Now those Commandments which you have promised to keep you are taught afterward contain your Duty towards God and your Duty towards your Neighbour Your Duty towards God you are instructed is this To believe in Him to fear Him to love Him with all my heart with all my mind with all my soul and with all my strength to worship Him to give Him thanks to put my whole trust in Him to call upon Him to honour his holy Name and his Word and to serve him truly all the days of my life Then follows your Duty towards your Neighbour in these words as you your self are taught to confess My Duty towards my Neighbour is to love him as my self so doe to all men as I would they should doe unto me to love honour and succour my father and mother to honour and obey the King and all that are put in authority under him to submit my self to all my Governours Teachers spiritual Pastours and Masters to order my self lowly and