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giving them both the gift of divers languages, and also boldnefs with fervent zeal, conftantly to preach the gospel unto all nations, whereby we have been brought from darkness and error, into the light and true knowledge of thee, and of thy fon Jefus Christ. Therefore with angels, &c.

¶Upon the feast of Trinity only.

Who art one God, one Lord; not only one person but three perfons in one fubftance; for that which we believe of the glory of the father, the fame we believe of the son, and of the holy ghoft, without any difference or inequality. Therefore with angels, &c.

¶ After each of which prefaces shall immediately be fung or faid, Therefore with angels and archangels, and with all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify thy glorious name, evermore praifing thee, and faying, Holy, holy, holy Lord God of hofts, heaven and earth are full of thy glory. Glory be to thee, O Lord, most high. Amen.

Rubrick.

Then fhall the priest, kneeling down at the Lord's table, fay in the name of all them that shall receive the communion, this prayer following.

The Minister.

Directions.

We do not prefume to When the priest acknowcome to this thy table, Oledges in this form of humiliation merciful Lord, trufting in his own, and the communicant's our own righteoufnefs, but unworthinefs, and God's unniein thy manifold and great rited kindness in admitting them hercies. We are not worto his holy table, make this act of ny fo much as to gather up humiliation your own by your he crumbs under thy table; most devout attention, and joining ut thou art the fame Lord,] with an hearty Amen. vhofe property is always to have mercy: grant us thereore, gracious Lord, fo to eat the flesh of thy dear fon Jefus

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Chrift, and to drink his blood, that our finful bodies may be made clean by his body, and our fouls wash'd through his most precious blood, and that we may evermore dwell in him and he in us. Amen.

Rubrick,

When the priest, flanding before the table, hath fo order d'the bread and wine, that he may with more readiness and decency break the bread before the people, and take the cup into his hands, he fall Jay the prayer of CONSECRATION as followeth,

The Minister. Directions. Almighty God our hea- This is the prayer of convenly father, who of thy ten-fecration, to be faid by the priest der mercy didft give thine alone; and whilft he is confecraonly fon Jefus Chrift to fuf-ting the bread and wine, raiseup fer death upon the crofs for thy foul to fee with the eye of faith our redemption, who made what great things the Lord bath left thee in that facrament; and there (by his one oblation of pray that they may be a means of himfelf once offered) a full, conveying into your foul all the be perfect, and fufficient facri-nefits of his precious death, faying fice, oblation, and fatisfac-fecretly,

tion for the fins of the whole End down thy spirit and world, and did inftitute, and S bleffing upon this means of in his holy gospel command grace and falvation, which thou us to continue a perpetual thyself, O Jefu, haft ordain'd. memory of that his precious death until his coming again: hear us, O merciful father, we most humbly befeech thee, and grant that we receiving these thy creatures of bread and wine, according to thy fon our Saviour Jefus Chrift's holy institution, in remembrance of his death and paffion, mav be partakers of his moft bleffed body and blood: who, i the fame night that he was betrayed, (a took bread; and when he had give thanks (b) he brake it, and gave it to hi difciples, faying, Take, eat, (c) this i

(a) Here the priest is to take the patten into

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(c) And here to lay his bands upon all the bread,

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my body which is given for you, do this in remembrance of me; likewife after fupper (d) he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them faying, Drink ye all of this; for this (e) is my blood of the New Teftament, which is fhed for you, *for mary, for the remiffion of fins: this as oft as ye fhall drink it, in remembrance of me. Amen.

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(d) Here he is to take the cup into his hands. (e) And bere to lay his band upon every veffel (be it chalice ur flagon) in which there is any wine to beconfe

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Be not difcouraged if you cannot fill up all faces with regular devotion, or with intense meditation between the prayer of confecration and the time of receiving the bread and wine; in this cafe do as well as you can: remember your own offences with as much forrow as you can, and the mercies of God to you in Chrift Jefus, with as much love, joy, and gratitude; recommend to God's mercy your parents, relations, friends, and all the world. Do any thing that is good and proper to fill up the time; and leave the reft to God, who is a bounteous rewarder of them that feek him.

Or when the prayer of confecration is over, if you have time before the bread and wine are brought to you,ufe the following prayer. A prayer immediately after the confecration of the bread and wine.

I will offer to thee the facrifice of thanksgiving: and will call upon the name of the Lord. I will pay my vows unto the Lord, in the fight of all his people; in the courts of the Lord's houfe, even in the midft of thee, O Jerufalem, praise the Lord. Pfalm cxvi. 14, 15, 16.

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Ow, O my God, proftrate before thine altar, I dare not fo much as look upon this mystery of our salvation, if thou hadst not invited me: I befeech thee therefore, accept of this reprefentation we make before

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thee of that all-fufficient facrifice, which thy Son our Saviour Jefus Chrift made upon the crofs: let the merit of it plead effectually for the pardon and forgiveness of all my fins, and render thee favourable and propitious to me a miferable finner; let the power of it prevail against all the powers of darkness; let the wifdom of it make me wife unto falvation; and let the peace of it reconcile me unto thee, and bring to me peace of confcience.

And then, O bleffed Jefus my redeemer, I fhall be enabled to adore thee, who didst endure the painful and shameful death of the crofs, to recover me from the state of fin and mifery: I admire thine infinite condefcenfion, who was pleased to be made miserable, that I might be made happy; poor, that I might be enriched; and didft die that I might live for ever. With all my foul, O dear Jefus, I love and praise thee, for the ftupendous expressions of thy bounty and goodnefs towards me: O lamb of God that takeft away the fins of the world, have mercy upon me; Olamb of God that takeft away the fins of the world, grant me thy peace. Amen. Lord Jefus. Amen.

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Then fhall the minister first receive the communion in both kinds himself, and then proceed to deliver the fame to the bishops, priefts, and deacons in like manner, (if any be prefent) and after at to the people alfo in order, into their hands, all meekly kneeling.

Directions.

The first person that receives is the minifter, who has a requeft to you in behalf of himself, namely, that as he prays for you with great fervency, you would comfort and encourage him with an hearty Amen upon your knees, to the petitions at his taking the holy elements: and in the interval between his receiving the bread and wine, ufe the following prayer.

A prayer to be faid when the priest is receiving the bread and the wine.

Let thy priests be cloathed with righteoufnefs: and let thy faints fing with joyfulness. Pfalm cxxxii. 9.

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Ivethy grace, O Lord, we humbly beseech thee, to all those who are called to any office or administration in thy church; and fo replenish them with the truth of thy doctrine, and endue them with innocency of life, that they may faithfully ferve before thee, to the glory of thy great name and benefit of thy holy church, thro' Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

Directions.

After the minifter has received the communion in both kinds, and is proceeding to deliver the fame to the people, lift up your heart to God in the following prayer.

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A prayer before receiving the holy facrament. Ehold, gracious Lord, I come to this holy table, as a fick man to the great phyfician of life; I beseech thee, O Lord, to cure my infirmities, and let me not only receive the outward and visible fign, but the inward and spi

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