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strengthen me with thy Grace, that by Mond. the Innocency of my Life, and the Conftancy of my Faith, I may always glorify thy great and holy Name. Grant me the true Circumcifion of the Spirit; that, my Heart and all my Members being mortified from all worldly and carnal Lufts, I may in all Things obey thy bleffed Will. Enable me to love my Enemies, and to do Good to those that hate me, and to pray for them that defpitefully use me, and perfecute me, in Obedience to the Command, and in Imitation of the Example of my great Lord and Mafter, Chrift Jesus. Amen. Here may be added (if your Time will permit) the Morning Prayer on Page 159, &c.

UR Father which art in Heaven, Hallowed be thy Name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy Will be done in Earth, as it is in Heaven. Give us this Day our daily Bread. And forgive us our Trefpaffes, as we forgive them that trespass against us. And lead us not into Temptation; but deliver us from Evil. Amen.

So far may be used every Day in the Morning before
the Meditation.

Mond. The Meditation for Monday

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Morning.

Upon our Saviour's loving Invitation to the
Communion of his Body and Blood.

My little children, these things write I unto you, that fin not. And if any fin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jefus Chrift the righteous. 1 John ii. 1.

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COME now, O my Soul, and let us retire from the Pursuits of this vain deceitful World; and let us well confider the gracious and condefcending Invitations wherewith our bleffed Lord and only Saviour, has called us in his Holy Gofpel, to be Partakers of his Holy Table. Why then this Wavering, or Coldness, O my Soul! Give Ear to the eternal Truth, who will remove all thy Doubts and Fears by the following Invitation.

COME unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will refresh you. The Bread, that I will give, is my Flef; which I will give for the Life of the World. Take, eat, this is my Body, which

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is given for you, this do in Remembrance Mond. of me. He that eateth my Flesh, and drinketh my Blood, dwelleth in Me, and I in him. The Words, which I speak unto you, they are Spirit, and they are Life. Mat. xi. 28. John vi. 51. 1 Cor. ix. 24. John vi. 56, 63.

II. Rife then, my Soul, and take thy fwifteft Wings, fly to this great Mystery. There we fhall fee the Prince of Peace facrifice himself to reconcile us with the Father: There shall we fee, O ftupendous Mercy! the Son of God with heavenly Food entertaining the Sons of Men. Can we, O dear Redeemer! believe the Wonders of this Mystery, and not be ravished with Admiration of thy great Goodness? Can we acknowledge thy perfect Veracity, and not believe this Wonder of thy Love? Let us not then refuse to believe our God, because his Mercies tranfcend our Capacities. None but infinite Wisdom could ever have invented fo ftrange, and high, and prodigious a Myftery. None but an inconceiveable infinite Goodness would B 3

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Mond. ever have imparted fo dear, and tender, Morn and rich a Bleffing.

III. When the Impiety of Men was at the Height, and their treacherous Heads plotting to betray thee; then did thy Wisdom mercifully confult to overcome our Malice with thy Bounty. Immediately thou contrivedft an admirable Way to invite all the World to a Feast of Wonders: A Feast! where thy facred Body fhould be our Food, and thy precious Blood our Drink. A Feast! in which are continually wrought new Miracles of Love for us. Thus, as if it had not been Love enough, to have given thy felf on the Crofs for us; Thou haft found out a Way to give thy felf to us in the holy Sacrament: To unite us with thy felf by the most intimate Union that is poffible for us to conceive, and which we can better feel than express: To become the Life, the Strength, the Support and Comfort of our Beings : Nay, to become even one with me, and be unto me the very Soul of my Soul. O Lord my God! this is fo inconceiveable

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a Bleffing, this is so divine a Union, that Mond. the very Angels, with awful Admiration, contemplate thy wonderful Condescension in it.

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IV. Lord, who are we, unworthy Sinners, that thus thou regardeft our wretched Duft? What is all the World compared to thee, that thus thou feemeft to difregard thy felf? It was for our Sakes, and to draw us up to thy Love, that thou haft commanded us to commemorate and represent thy Paffion and present the Merits of it before thy Father on Earth, as thou doft present them to Him in Heaven. It was for our Sakes, and to help the Infirmities of our. Nature, that thou didst appoint a commemorative Sacrifice, of that one Oblation of thy felf once offered upon the Crofs; and Bread and Wine fo offered and blessed as Symbols of thy Body and Blood. What great Bleffings are these, O fefu! that demand my Praises.

V. Yet more Blessed is the Heart that defires thy coming, and longs to fee thee in thy glorious Self. O my adored Redeemer!

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