A 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 TO WHICH IS ANNEXED, THE OFFICE OF THE HOLY COMMUNION, With Proper Helps and Directions for joining in every Part thereof with BY THE LATE RIGHT REV. FATHER IN GOD, A NEW EDITION. DUBLIN MILLIKEN AND SON, GRAFTON-STREET, BOOKSELLERS TO THE ASSOCIATION FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE. 1839. CONTENTS. Page 5 11 How a Christian ought to prepare himself for this Sacrament 15 The first Head of Self-Examination concerning our Repentance Concerning our purposes of leading a new or a Christian life Prayers for the Grace of loving God with all our Heart, &c. . 20 Concerning our duty to our Neighbour and Ourself The Prayer on that Occasion 220 General Observations pertinent to the Subject of the foregoing Observations on receiving worthily, or unworthily, the Sacrament Introduction to the Order of Administration of the Lord's Supper 37 The Order for Administration of the blessed Sacrament, with suitable Observations and Directions Private Devotions after the Sacrament, either in the Church or Concerning Spiritual Communion A brief and plain Paraphrase on the Lord's Prayer Short Morning and Evening Prayers for Families, Morning Prayers for a Family A Family Prayer for Sunday Morning Evening Prayer for a Family A Family Prayer for Sunday Evening Prayers for particular Persons, both Morning and Evening 38 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 |