BENEFIT OF YOUNG COMMUNICANTS, AND OF SUCH AS
HAVE NOT WELL CONSIDERED THIS HOLY ORDINANCE.

TO WHICH IS ANNEXED, THE

OFFICE OF THE HOLY COMMUNION,

With Proper Helps and Directions for joining in every
Part thereof with Understanding and Profit,

BY THE LATE RIGHT REV. FATHFR IN GOD,
THOMAS, LORD BISHOP OF SODOR AND MAN.

A New Edition.

DUBLIN:

PRINTED FOR A. & W. WATSON,

CAPEL-STREET.

CONTENTS.

SECTION I.

A Short Introduction to the true Understanding of the

Lord's Supper..

A Prayer of Thankfulness for God's sending his own Son

to redeem Mankind

SECTION II.

The End and Institution of the Lord's Supper

7

A Prayer for retaining a grateful Remembrance of what
Christ has done for us in this Institution

SECTION III.

How a Christian ought to prepare himself for this Sacra-

ment

The first Head of Self-examination concerning our Re-

Concerning our purposes of leading a new or a Christian

life

Prayers for the Grace of loving God with all our Heart,

&c.

Concerning our Duty to our Neighbour and Ourself

The Prayer on that Occasion

SECTION VI.

An Inquiry whether we have a lively Faith in God's

SECTION VIII.

An Inquiry whether we are in Charity with all the

World

The Prayer on that Occasion

SECTION IX.

General Observations pertinent to the Subject of the

foregoing Sections

Observations on receiving worthily, or unworthily, the

Sacrament of the Lord's Supper.

A Prayer adapted to this Occasion

SECTION X.

::

Meditations on several Texts of Scripture, proper to be
used a little before receiving

Introduction to the Order of Administration of the Lord's

Supper

The Order for Administration of the blessed Sacrament,
with suitable Observations and Directions

Private Devotions after the Sacrament, either in the
Church or at Home

Concerning Spiritual Communion

A brief and plain Paraphrase on the Lord's Prayer

Short Morning and Evening Prayers for Families,

and for particular Persons.

E vening Prayer for a Family

A Family Prayer for Sunday Evening..

Prayers for particular Persons, both Morning and Evening

INTRODUCTION

TO THE TRUE UNDERSTANDING OF THE

LORD'S SUPPER,

&c.

SECT. I.

THERE are two holy Ordinances or Sacraments appointed by Jesus Christ as most especial means of obtaining grace and salvation; which no Christian, who hopes to be saved, must wilfully neglect. These are, Baptism and the Lord's Supper.

It must be supposed, that you have already been made partakers of one of these two Sacraments, viz. That of Baptism; by which you were admitted into the congregation of Christ's flock, were restored to the favour of God, and had the Holy Spirit communicated to you, for a principle of a new and spiritual life, in order to awaken you, and to direct and assist that natural reason, with which God has endued all mankind.

But forasmuch as you have done many things contrary to the promise made in your name, when you were baptized, and will stand in need of greater degrees of grace and assistance, to enable you to resist the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil, and to do your duty in that state of life, unto which the providence of God shall call you;-You are, therefore, now called upon to be partaker of the other Sacrament, that of the Lord's Supper; by which, upon your sincere repentance, you

B