O blessed Saviour, let that mighty salvation thy love hath wrought for us, never slip out of my mind, but especially let my remembrance of thee in the holy sacrament be always most lively and affecting. So that if I love thee truly, I shall be sure to frequent thy altar, that I may often remember all the wonderful loves of my crucified Redeemer. Yet, forasmuch as I know, O my God, that a bare remembrance of thee is not enough: fix in me such a remembrance of thee, as is suitable to the infinite love I am to remember; work in me all those holy and heavenly affections, which become the remembrance of a crucified Saviour; and do thou so dispose my heart to be thy guest at thy holy table, that I may feel all the sweet influences of love crucified, the strengthening and refreshing of my soul by thy body and blood, as my body is by the bread and

wine

O merciful Jesu! let that immortal food, which in the holy eucharist thou vouchsafest me, pour into my weak and languishing soul new. supplies of grace, new life, new love, new vigour, and new resolutions, that I may never more faint or droop, or faulter in my duty. Amen, Lord Jesus, Amen.

See the concluding Prayer and Blessing on Page 33 and 34.

Meditation for Sunday Morning.

On the Love of God to Mankind, particularly manifested in this Sacrament.

Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us. 1 John iii. 16.

1. BEHOLD, Lord, thus encouraged, thus invited, I come; yet I do not presume to do so, trusting in my own righteousness, but in thy manifold and great mercies. I feel, alas! my weaknesses and wants, and betake myself to thee for relief; sick and diseased, I fly to the physician of souls; hungry and thirsty, to this fountain of living water and bread of life; poor and needy, to the bountiful king of heaven; a servant to his kind master! a creature to his compassionate creator, who hateth nothing that he hath made; and a forlorn disconsolate wretch, to thee the holy, the eternal, the only comforter.But,

2. Whence is this to me, that my God should vouchsafe to come unto me? Or, who am I that thou shouldest communicate to me thy own self? How shall a wicked sinner dare to appear before thee? Or how canst thou, who art of purer eyes than to behold iniquity, endure to make such condescending approaches to a soul polluted with sin and with uncleanness? Thou seest my very inward parts, and knowest I have nothing in me that is good; nothing to invite such mercy; no

* Here you may observe the Directions given on Page 3.

thing fit for the reception of so pure, so glorious a majesty.

3. I will therefore most humbly confess my own vileness and thy unspeakable goodness; I will most thankfully admire, and praise, and adore thy marvellous love, and exceeding abun-dant grace. For this is purely thine own act. Nothing on my part could deserve, nothing could move thee to it. The more unworthy I am, the more conspicuous is thy goodness, the more amazing thy mercy and condescension.

4. Since therefore thou art pleased to stoop so low, be it unto me according to thy word. Since thou hast thought fit to command my approach, I will most gladly testify my ready obedience; and only beg, that my own sinfulness may not render me odious in thy sight, nor frustrate these inestimable mercies to me. I will supply my want of ability by the earnestness of my zeal; and most humbly beseech thee to accept those hearty desires of the inestimable benefit, by which my soul and all its faculties thirst and pant most impatiently after thee and thy righteousness. I will turn my eyes into my own heart, and entertain myself with the mortifying prospect of my own unworthiness, laying my soul low before thee; and from the sense of my sin I will flee to thy mercy, that I may be made whole by the body and blood of my Redeemer.

5. How wise, how saving, was thy design, in the first institution of this holy supper! How rich, how delightful a banquet hast thou prepared for thy guests, by ordering thy own body and

blood for the mystical entertainment of the faithful! How astonishing are the operations of thy grace and power! How incomprehensible the methods of fulfilling thy most true promise!Thou spakest the word in the beginning, and all things were created! And by the same almighty word thou commandest bread and wine, and they nourish souls to life eternal.

6. And thou, my soul, rejoice, and be exceedingly glad for so noble a favour, so heavenly a refreshment, so rich a consolation to support and sweeten thy passage through this vale of tears and misery. For, every time thou attendest these holy mysteries, thou dost spiritually eat the flesh of Christ, and drink his blood; thou dost act, as it were, over again the work of thy redemption, and effectually partake of thy Saviour's merits and sufferings. For, his love continues always the same, and the excellence and worth of his propitation is an inexhaustible spring of mercy.Come therefore hither with new exalted zeal, enlarge thy heart and its desires, and doubt not, but thou shalt at every approach, return with fresh and plentiful accessions of grace.

7. Let not the frequency abate thy devotion: for this favour should always seem great, this feast always honourable, and the delights of it always new. And by the force of pious meditation, the mystery will affect thy wondering mind at every repetition, as if the Son of God were just that moment born from the womb of his mother; as if thy suffering Redeemer were in that instant labouring under all his agonies; and thine own

eyes beheld him hanging and bleeding, and dying

on the cross.

A Prayer on Sunday Morning, before the Communion.

Except ye eat the flesh of the son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. John vi. 53.

O ALMIGHTY God, and merciful Father, who hast given thy only son Jesus Christ to die for us, who did institute a holy feast in commemoration of that his most precious death, thereby to preserve in our minds a constant remembrance of his great love, in laying down his life for our sakes: I thy unworthy servant, who am now invited to thy holy table, do humbly adore thy divine majesty, acknowledging that I am not worthy of my daily bread, much less of that which came down from heaven, and which thou hast given to be the food and nourishment of our souls.

I confess, O Lord, my sins may justly cause me to tremble, when I appear before thee; but, O most merciful father, encouraged by thy wonderful goodness and love, in giving thy Son to die for all penitent and returning sinners, I present myself before thee at this time: beseeching thee, in great humility to continue to me that love, and admit me to thy holy table, that I may taste and see how gracious thou art, and how wonderful in thy doings towards the sons of men.

O make my longings and desires after this divine food, some way answerable to my great need of it; that my soul being sensible of all its wants, it may no longer seek for relief from the unsatisfy