I will trust in him, I will love and honour him with all my heart and soul. I will spend the rest of my days wholly in his service, and to his glory. I will order all my conversation as becometh his Gospel; I will crucify the flesh; I will resist the devil; I will keep myself unspotted from the world; I will abstain from all appearance of evil, and do all such good works as he hath prepared for me to walk in. For his grace shall be sufficient for me, his strength shall be made perfect in my weakness, his power shall rest upon me, his Holy Spirit shall abide continually with me, and in me, to direct, sanctify, and govern both my heart and body in the ways of his laws, and in the works of his commandments; so that now, through his most mighty protection, I shall be preserved both in soul and body to everlasting life. AMEN. Hallelujah, salvation, and glory, and honour, and power be unto the Lord our God, and to the Lamb for ever and ever.

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PRIVATE DEVOTIONS

AT THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE HOLY COMMUNION.

Before going to the Altar.

MOST Gracious Father, thou invitest me, a vile sinner, unworthy of the least favour, to a spiritual banquet, to a feast of love: Lord, I am come upon thy gracious call, being poor and needy. weary and heavy loaden under the burthen of my sins; I come unto thee, O Lord, for relief and rest: help me to approach these holy mysteries with fear and reverence, deep humility, and ardent devotion; with an heart full of faith and sensible of thy infinite goodness, in sending thy Son to die for me, and of his inexpressible love in undertaking and accomplishing the work of my redemption; truly sorry for my manifold sins, and thoroughly resolved against them; and grant, holy Father, that hereby my graces may be strengthened, and my sins destroyed; that I may serve thee sincerely and acceptably all the days

of this mortal life, and in thy due time attain thy everlasting kingdom, through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ, my blessed Lord and Saviour

At going to the Altar.

In the multitude of thy mercies, O Lord, do I now approach thy altar: O pardon my sins, and receive me graciously. "Amen, Amen.

At prostrating before the Altar.

Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory, and honour, and power; for thou hast created all things, and for thy will's sake they are, and were created: blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanks, and honour, and power, be unto our God, and unto the Lamb for evermore. Amen.

Whilst others are coming up, and the Priest preparing to read the Sentences.

Almighty Lord, who hast of thine infinite mercies vouchsafed to ordain this sacrament, for a perpetual memory of that blessed sacrifice, which once thou madest

for us upon the cross; grant me, with such due reverence, to participate of this so holy and wonderful a mystery, that I may be made worthy by thy grace, to obtain the virtue and fruits of the same, with all the benefits of thy precious death and passion, even the remission of all my sins, and the fulness of all thy graces, which I beg for thy only merits, who art my only Saviour, God from everlasting, and world without end. Amen.

O Lord, our heavenly Father, Almighty and Everlasting God, regard, we beseech thee, the devotions of thy humble servants, who do now celebrate the memorial which thy Son and our Saviour hath commanded to be made in remembrance of his most blessed passion and sacrifice; that by the merits and powers thereof, now represented before thy divine majesty, we, and all thy whole Church, may be made partakers of all other the benefits of his most precious death and resurrection from the earth, and glorious ascension into heaven, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen.