1 O let this Alms be an Odour of a fweet Smell, a Sacrifice acceptable and well pleafing to thee. Phil.iv. 18. At Confecration. Bleffed Jefu, in the Bread broken, I call to mind thy Body torn with Whips, and Thorns, and Nails; and in the Wine poured out, I call to mind thy precious Blood, fhed for my Sins. Glory be to thee, O Lamb of God, that didft offer thy felf a Sacrifice to take away the Sins of the whole World: Lord, have Mercy on me, and take away mine alfo. Whilft others are communicating. ven but thee? And there is none on Earth I defire in Comparifon of thee. Pfal. lxxiii. 25. As the Hart panteth after the Water-Brooks, fo panteth my Soul after thee, O God. Pfal. xlii. 1. My Soul is a-thirft for thee, O God, my God. Bleffed Bleffed Saviour, I am thine, I am wholly thine; for thou haft bought me with a Price, with the ineftimable Price of thy own Blood. I. Cor. vi. Lord, fuffer not the Price of thy own Blood to perifh, and I will always glorify thee in my Body, and in my Spirit, which are thine. If there be many Communicants, and thou haft much vacant Time, Philetheus, and doft want devout Matter to employ thy Thoughts till all have Communicated, thou mayft then repeat the Thanksgiving for Chrift's Sufferings, p. 84. either in whole, or in part, as thou feeft it needful. When the Prieft cometh towards you. Lord God, I now defire to renew my Covenant with thee, and to feal it in this Sacrament. Lord, put thy Laws into my Mind, and write them in my Heart; and for the Pallion of thy Son, which I now commemorate, be merciful to my Unrighteousness; my Sins and E my my Iniquities remember no more; and be thou my God, and I will be thy Servant. Amen, Amen. Heb. viii.Ia O my Soul, tafte now, and fee how gracious the Lord is. Pf. xxxiv. 8.. G After Receiving the Bread. Lory be to thee, O Lord, who I feedeft me with the Bread of Life. O Lord God, who didft fanctify us by the Offering of the Body of Jefus once for all, fanctify me, even me, O Heavenly Father. Heb. x. 10. G After Receiving the Cup. Lory be thee, O Lord Jefus, who permitteft me to drink of the Fountain of Life freely. My Beloved is mine, and I am his. Bleffed Saviour, thou haft loved us, and washed us from our Sins in thy own Blood, and therefore to thee be Glory and Dominion, for ever and ever. Amen, Amen. Rev. i. 6. Glory be to thee, O Jefus, my Lord, and my God, for thus feeding my Soul with thy moft bleffed Body and and Blood: O let thy Heavenly Food transfufe new Life, and new Vigour into my Soul, and into the Souls of all that Communicate with me, that our Faith may daily encrease, that we may all grow more humble and contrite for our Sins, that we may all love thee, and ferve thee, and delight in thee, and praise thee more fervently, more inceffantly than ever we have done heretofore, Amen, Amen. After the Congregation is dif mifs'd, Philotheus, if you cannot get Privacy in your own Chamber, I advife you at the firft Opportunity to go into the Chapel, and there to give God Thanks for that great Bleffing, of which he has now made you a Partaker. O A Thanksgiving after Receiving. How plentiful is thy Goodness, my Lord, and my God, which thou haft laid up for thofe that fear thee, which thou haft laid up for thofe that put their Truft in thy Mercy. Pf. xxxi. 19. E 2 Was Was it not Love infinite enough, deareft Lord, to give thy felf for me on the Crofs? Was not that Sacrifice of thy felf fufficient to expiate the Sins of the whole World?What Lord, couldeft thou then do more for me? All the mighty Hoft of Heaven ftood amazed to fee the Blood of God fhed, to fee their King of Glory; (to whom from the first Moment of their Being they had fung their Hallelujahs,) nailed to a Crofs; and all this to fave Sinners. Sure, Lord, none of all thofe blef fed Spirits, with all the glorious Illuminations they had, could ever have imagined how thou couldft give thy felf more to us than thou haft done: And yet for all this, thou haft wrought new Miracles of Love for us; and, as if it had not been Love enough to have given thy felf for us on the Crofs, thou haft found out a Way to give thy felf to us in the Holy Sacrament; to unite thy felf to us with the most intimate Union that 'tis poffible to conceive; to be come |