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SHORT AND PLAIN INSTRUCTION

FOR THE

BETTER UNDERSTANDING

OF

THE LORD'S SUPPER;

WITH THE

NECESSARY PREPARATION REQUIRED,

FOR THE

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. FATHER IN GOD,
THOMAS, LORD BISHOP OF SODOR AND MAN.

A NEW EDITION.

DUBLIN

MILLIKEN AND SON, GRAFTON-STREET,

BOOKSELLERS

TO THE ASSOCIATION FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE.

1839.

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Dublin: Printed by JOHN S. FOLDS, 5, Bachelor's-walk,

INTRODUCTION

TO THE

TRUE UNDERSTANDING OF

THE LORD'S SUPPER,

&c. &c.

SECTION 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 partaker 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

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