I come to teftify my Senfe of thy Love, O Heavenly Father, in fo loving the World, as to give up thy only Son to die for me.

I come to teftify my Faith in thee, and my Love towards thee, O bleffed Saviour, and thankfully to commemorate thy wonderful Love in dying for me.

I come, Lord, to teftify my Stedfaftnefs in the Communion of thy Church, and my Charity to all the World.

I come to thy Table, O Lord, out of the Senfe I have of the Want of that fpiritual Food, to which thou there inviteft me.

Alas, alas! I am foon apt to grow weary of Well-doing; a few Prayers, very little Duty is apt to tire me; every flight Temptation is apt to overcome me; and I know there is no Food can ftrengthen my Soul but thy Body, no Cordial can revive my drooping Obedience but thy Blood, and 'tis thy moft bleffed Body and Blood I hunger and thirft after: gracious Lord, grant that I, and

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all that Communicate with me, may feel its faving Efficacy. O feed, Ŏ refresh, O nourish our Souls with it to Life Everlasting, and that for thy own infinite Mercy fake, which mo ved thee to offer up thy Body and Blood for us. Amen, Amen.

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Prayer for Preparation. Leffed Lord Jefus! I even tremble when I confider that he that eateth and drinketh unworthily is guilty of thy Body and Blood, and eateth and drinketh Damnation to his own Soul, and this fevere Sentence on unworthy Communicants makes me afraid to come to thy Altar, 1 Cor. xi. 29.

But when I confider that thy Sentence is as fevere against thofe, who being invited refuse to come, for thou haft faid, They fhall not tafte of thy Supper; and unless we eat thy Flefh, and drink thy Blood, we have no Life in us, I am then afraid to keep away, John vi.

But bleffed be thy Mercy, O Lord, for in this Straight my Soul is in,

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thou art my Guide, thou by giving me this Opportunity of receiving, inviteft me to thy Table, thou calleft me to feek thy Face, and my Heart replies, Thy Face, Lord, will I feek.

If thou, Lord, fhouldest be extreme to mark what is done amifs, alas! alas! I am then unfit, not only to Communicate, but to fay even my daily Prayers.

I know, Lord, that if I fhould ftay till I am worthy to come, I fhould then never come; and therefore tho' I am unworthy of fo unspeakable a Mercy, yet I come to beg thy Grace to make me worthy, or at leaft fuch as thou wilt accept.

O Bleffed Jefus, do thou fo open my Eye of Faith, to difcern thy Body and Blood in the HolySacrament; do thou fo difpofe my Soul at this Time to Communicate, that I may feel all the happy Effects of thy own divine Inftitution; that my Soul may receive fuch lafting Impreffions of thy Goodnefs, and be fo ravifh'd with the Love of thee, and with the incomparable

comparable Delights of thy Service, and with fuch an early Foretafte of Heaven, that all the Pleafures of Sin, which in my growing Years may tempt me, may appear to me taftelefs and unwelcome.

O Heavenly Father, cloath me with the Wedding-Garment, even the Graces of my Bleffed Saviour; for then am I fure to be a welcome Gueft to thy Table, when I fhall come thither in the Likeness of thy only well-beloved Son, in whom thou art always well pleased.

O Heavenly Father, fill me with a lively Faith, profound Humility, filial Obedience, enflam'd Affections, and univerfal Charity: O raife in my Soul all thofe heavenly Transports of Zeal and Devotion, of Love and Defire, of Joy and Delight, of Praise and Thanksgiving, which become the Remembrance of a Crucified Saviour, which become one Redeem'd by the Blood of God, and that for his fake only that redeemed me; in whofe holy Words I fum up all the Graces and Bleffings I ftand in need of: Our Father which art in Heaven, &C. `This

This Prayer, Philotheus, is proper for you to add to your Morning Prayer, the Day on which you are to Receive.

Directions in Time of Receiving. N Time of Receiving, good Philotheus, labour all you can to keep your Heart affected with the Publick

Prayers, and to fill up all the vacant Minutes with holy Ejaculations, fuch as thefe which follow;

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At going to the Altar.

N the Multitude of thy Mercies, O Lord God, do I now approach thy Altar; O pardon my Sins, and receive me graciously. Amen, Amen.

At the Offertory.

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Leffed be thou, O Lord God; for all Things come of thee, and of thy own do I now give thee, 1 Chron. xxix. 14.