refresh you with the wine of gladness and the bread of life.

4. But stay, am I arrayed like a friend of the bridegroom, that I may safely come to this marriage supper? Have I considered how chaste those eyes should be, which go to behold the God of purity? Have I considered how clean that mouth should be, which presumes to eat the bread of heaven? But most of all, have I considered how all-celestial that soul should be, which aspires to an union with the body of Christ?

5 Look, my heart, look well into thyself, and: strictly search every corner of thy breast: Alas! how poor, and dull, and empty are we; how infinitely unworthy of so divine a sacrament! yet are we called by him that can command, by him that sees and pities our infirmities; he bids us come, he surely will receive us, and with his bounteous fulness supply our defects.

6. Go then, my soul, to that sacred table, and take thy part of that delicious banquet: go all inflamed with divine love, and joy, and hope, and quench thy sacred thirst with that spring of life. And when thou hast tasted the everlasting sweetness of that holy sacrament, thou shalt feel the heavenly streams of Christ's blood flowing into thy truly repenting heart.

7. Let them sink deep to the root of thy heart, and turn thy barren soil into a fruitful land; fruitful in holy thoughts and pious words; fruitful in good, and just, and charitable deeds; fruitful to thyself in thine own improvement; fruitful

to others in thy good examples. Praise the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me praise his holy name, who saveth thy life from destruction, and feedeth thee with the bread of heaven, which is administered to the worthy receiver in the holy

sacrament.

A Prayer on Saturday Morning for Pardon and Grace to resist Temptations, that our Receiving of the Holy Sacrament may be found acceptable in the Sight of God.

Pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance. Exod. xxiv. 9.

O ALMIGHTY God, who art of purer eyes than to behold iniquity, who canst not look favourably upon sinners, neither shall any evil dwell with thee: how shall I a guilty polluted creature dare to approach thy presence! I blush, O Lord, to lift up mine eyes towards heaven; to me belongs nothing but shame and confusion of face, under which I ought to lie down before thee, if I reflected only upon the baseness of my descent, being the offspring of disloyal parents, who were rebels and traitors against thy divine majesty; with what dejection of spirit then ought I to think of, and mention all those offences, whereby I have justified that first rebellion, and still taken part with the devil and his angels, against thee and the motions of thy holy spirit in my heart!

Wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from this bond of death, from this bondage of corruption? Thy grace, I know, O Lord, is sufficient for me, and thy Son mighty to save me;

his office is to save his people from their sins; for this end he gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. O let the blood of Christ, who through the eternal spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge my conscience from dead works to serve the living God. Assist me by thy grace, that I may not only abominate all filthy vices, but also hate the garments infected with sin, and abstain from all appearance of evil. And do thou, O God of peace, sanctify me wholly, that my whole spirit, soul and body, may be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

Here observe the Directions given on Page 10, and more' particularly endeavour to improve your soul by reading a lesson out of the NEW WHOLE DUTY OF MAN, Sunday 6. Sections I. II. III. and IV.

Meditation for Saturday Evening.

On my Unworthiness to come to the Holy Sa

crament.

Whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. 1 Cor. xi. 27.

1. O MY soul, thou perceivest that my transgressions are innumerable, and the weight of them is intolerable: that my imperfections are shameful, my nature corrupted, cross and per-verse; and almost every temptation draws me from my God: that my sins both of omission and

of commission cry aloud against me, and are a burden too heavy for me to bear: what therefore can I do, what can I say unto thee! Let me flee unto thee, thou preserver of men, and confess that I am so vile, that I cannot express it; so loathsome and detestable, that I even abhor myself for my iniquities.

2. O my soul! make no longer tarrying, for we cannot expect that his purer eyes should condescend to look upon me, or that he should extend his favour to so polluted a wretch as I find myself to be. And should he leave me to myself, I were utterly undone, beyond all hope, or so much as possibility of recovery: But,

3. Blessed, for ever blessed, be thy name, O God! who hast opened a fountain for sin, and for uncleanness, and hast encouraged the very worst of men to hope for mercy upon their sincere conversion and amendment; and hast sent thy dearly beloved Son to take upon him our nature, and to call not the righteous but sinners to repentance; and hast bid all those come unto thee, that are weary and heavy laden. In a sense thereof of my own unworthiness and guilt I come trembling unto thee. For, I loath, I detest, I abominate my sins, and myself, because of them.

4. Wherefore, most merciful Lord, despise me not, but behold my misery, as the greater occasion of thy mercy. And let thy pardoning of so great, so vile, so wretched a sinner, shew the greatness of thy clemency and compassion. Thou alone art the healer of our wounds, the lifter up of our heads, and I cannot distrust thee since thy good

ness is infinite. Though my sins are great, thy mercies are greater; therefore with them cover all my guilt, I most humbly beseech thee.

5. I am not worthy to look up to heaven; but do thou look down from thence, and raise a miserable sinner from the dunghill, and out of all the mire of my sinful pollutions. Thus I cast all my care on thee, who didst ordain that Christ should die for all, that they who live, should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him who died for them and rose again: and therefore my strong hope is in thee: if I had not that confidence that Jesus would heal all my diseases, I must despair under their number and weight. Thus, I dare accept of the invitation of my Saviour to eat and drink at his table. Oh! thou God of all mercy and truth, receive me graciously through the mediation of my blessed Saviour, and let not mine iniquities work my everlasting ruin.

A Prayer on Saturday Evening for a worthy receiving of the Holy Sacrament.

I will wash my hands in innocency, O Lord, and so will I go to thine altar. Psalm xxvi. 6. ́.

O CRUCIFIED Jesu! who at thy last supper didst ordain the holy eucharist, the sacrament and bond of christian love, for the continual remembrance of the sacrifice of thy death? and hast commanded us to do this in remembrance of thee let that propitiatory sacrifice of thy death, which thou didst offer upon the cross for the sins of the whole world, and particularly for my sins, be ever fresh in my remembrance.