I confefs, O Lord, my wedding garments are not without feam, but I come to repair them at thy crofs; from thy bitter forrows to derive into my foul a godly forrow, working repentance to falvation; from thy broken body a broken heart; from thy warm blood, flowing from thy wounded fide, zeal and fervency; that I may admire, love, and serve thee, my God, as I ought to do.

O good God, to whom every thing is poffible, fanctify my corrupt nature, and let thy gracious aids fupply all my defects, and fo help my infirmities, that I may live in thy love and fear, die in thy favour, and be prepared for receiving the great mystery on next Sunday, and for the great account I am one day to give, and be received with thy faithful fervants to the joy of thy kingdom, thro' Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Here observe the directions given on page 8, and more particularly endeavour to improve your soul by reading a lesson out of the NEW WHOLE DUTY OF MAN, Sunday 5. Section I

The Meditation for Thursday Evening. On receiving the most holy sacrament?)

I am the living bread, which came down from heaven : if any maneat of this bread, he shall live (or ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh; which I will give for the life of the world," John vi. 51.

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Will afcend with the bleffed Jefus up to Jerufalem, to eat the pafchal

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lamb with his difciples, which they made ready in a large upper-room ready furnished and prepared: I will entreat him to purge my foul, and to enable me alfo to prepare a large upper room, wherein to en tertain him, elevated from this filthy world, above the poor and empty fatisfactions of it.

2. O bleffed Jefus! infpire me with faith, fill me with the love of thee, illuminate me with knowledge, cleanfe me by repentance, in thy blood, that I may receive thee in the facrament, the Lamb flain from the beginning of the world, to the joy of my foul, to the eftablishment of it in all good, and for a protection against all evil.

3. Let us admire, O my foul, the conftancy and obedience of the bleffed Jefus, who, with great defire, did defire to eat bis pafover; tho' he knew that after this feast his paffion was then nigh at hand, would nevertheless go up to Jerufalem to the fame, as a faithful fon to his father's house, as a priest to the fanctuary, and a facrifice to the altar.

4. Let us endeavour to practife according to his pattern, who, after fupper was ended, did fhow a miracle of humility, washing the feet of his difciples with his own facred hands, to give us the most

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perfect example of humility, and to ex tinguish our pride: For

5 By this means I fhall partake of his' graces, and be filled with his abundant love. I fhall be washed from error and idle imaginations, my hands from all impure actions, my heart from all vain affections, my fenfes from all finful delights and defires: fo that thou, my foul, being purged by true repentance, I fhall, both body and foul, be cleanfed in his blood, and made partaker of all thofe glorious fruits which Chrift hath given me in this food of life.

6. O bleffed Jefus, what madness then is it to fet my affections upon the perithable things of this world, who may attain the joys even of eternal life by knowing thee! the hour is come, O Jefus, wean me from the world, and fecure me wholly unto thyfelf, and give me this life eternal to know and glorify thee. Make me fenfible that it is my intereft, as well as duty, to walk always before thee, and be always mindful of thy prefence with me. Let it be my meat and drink to do thy holy will, and my only joy to glorify thy name.

Here observe the directions given on page 8, and more particularly endeavour to improve your soul by reading a lesson out of the NEW WHOLE DUTY OF MAN, Sunday ô.

A Prayer

A prayer on Thursday Evening to implore God's mercy and assistance towards a worthy receiving of the most holy sacrament.

Let us draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. Heb. x. 22.

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RANT, almighty and moft merciful Lord God, that I may never draw down thy juft indignation upon myfelf, either by turning my back upon this ordinance, or by going to it without thought and unworthily. May thy mercy pardon what is past, and give me grace for the time to come, to confecrate my life to thee, and to embrace every occafion of remembering my Redeemer's love, and thereby fecuring thy favour, and my own falvation; and if it be thy will, grant that I may always find fuch comfort and benefit in this ordinance, as may encourage me to observe it with joy unto my life's end.

Bleffed be thy name, holy Father, for the opportunity thou haft this day vouch fafed me of humbling myfelf before thee. Pardon, I moft humbly befeech thee, all my failings and defects at this time. The wanderings of my prayers, the coldness of my affections, and the difproportion of my repentance to the heinoufnefs of thofe fins which I have committed. O

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let thy mercy and goodnefs fupply what is wanting in me, and be thou graciously pleased to pity my weakneffes, and forgive my infirmities, through the merits, and for the fake of thy beloved Son, and my blessed Saviour, Jefus Chrift the righteous; to whom with thee, and the Holy Ghost, be ascribed all honour and glory now and for evermore. Amen.

See the concluding prayer and blessing on pages 38 and 39.'

The Meditation for Friday Morning*. On the passion of our blessed Saviour, commemorated in the most holy sacrament of the Lord's Supper.

Being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Phil. ii. 3.

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I Propose now unto thee, O my foul, that thou mayft give me comfort by a devout meditation on the fufferings of our wounded Jefus, which were the wonder and aftonishment of heaven and earth! and thence learn of thy Saviour to be meek and lowly in heart; who being the great Lord of the world, condefcended with the profoundeft humility to undergo the punishment of flaves.

2. Behold with what patience this innocent lamb yields to have his body plough

Here you may observe the directions given on page 3.

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