PART II. A Litany to be used before the Holy Com munion Advice for immediate Preparation The Liturgy down to the Communion A Prayer for the Church A Prayer for the Nation PAGE 55 60 64 106 106 107 A Prayer for Kindred, Friends, &c. . 108 Devotions after Receiving IIO Confession of Unworthiness The Post-Communion. Note on the Consumption of that which remains of the Consecrated Bread and Wine A Litany to be used after the Holy Commu nion 120 114 115 PART III. Prayers to be said after the Communion, ac cording to their subjects Fear and Joy Incense for the Altar. DIRECTIONS FOR THE USE OF IF it is your daily study to lead a strict and devout life, you need not fear to take this Holy Sacrament with little or no preparation. It may sometimes be your duty to receive it at a very short notice. But whenever you are able, you ought to prepare for it by special acts of earnest prayer and self-examination. The more carefully you cleanse and array your soul to meet the Divine Master of the Feast, the richer blessing may you hope to obtain from Him. It is the design of this book to assist you, if it please GOD, in that great work. The prayers which it provides may be used by persons communicating several times in the month, and even daily; as well as by those who receive but once a month or less frequently. B 66 (1.) Suppose, for example, that you communicate every day. In that case you are to take no notice of the days of the week, or of Morning" and "Evening," as they are named in the headings of the several sets of prayers; but you will be guided only by the capital letters (A), (B), &c., (A), (B), &c. Begin by saying the prayer marked (A) in Part I. before you go to Church, and after having communicated, in the course of the day, or after your evening devotions, say the corresponding prayer, viz. that marked (A), in Part III. The next day you will in the same manner say (B) in Part I. before Communion, and (B) in Part III. after. On the third day you will similarly say (C) and (C); and so on. You may also use the Litanies in Part II. on any day on which you communicate. In Part III. there are no prayers corresponding to (Y) and (Z) of Part I. Hence when these are used by daily communicants, they will have to select prayers from Part III. to be said after Communion. (2.) Or suppose that you receive every other day. Then on the morning of the vacant day, you will say (A) in Part III. as a thanksgiving for the Communion of the preceding day, and in the evening (A) in Part I. in preparation for the Communion of the morrow. On that day, you will say (B) before, and (B) after; on the third day (C) in the morning and (C) in the evening; on |