sinful sores, and to enable me for thy faithful services.

O that I may come in the humblest manner, with all reverence and godly fear; and with the most earnest longings after Christ Jesus; and the heartiest resolutions to live unto him, that was pleased to die for me! And do thou instruct me, O Lord, and assist me in the examination, the humiliation, and preparation of myself; in order to my safe and comfortable participation of this holy ordinance. Before I compass thy altar, wilt thou purify my heart by repentance, and faith in the blood of our great Redeemer. O let me receive a broken and bleeding Saviour with a broken and contrite heart. And make me so willing and obedient, that I may eat the good of the ordinance: so comfortable to thee; that I may find communion with thee; and may have not only representation, but a participation of Christ crucified. O turn in, my Lord, and be not as a stanger to the soul that is the purchase of thy own blood. Enrich thy ordinance with thy presence; that I may find him whom my soul desires to love, and whose love is better than wine: that Christ may appear and be known to my soul, in this breaking of bread: that I may receive such life from thee, as may enable me to live unto thee: and make me know that thou abidest in me, by the spirit which thou hast given me.

Blessed Saviour! weigh not mine, but thy own merits: for I have not deserved thee, but thou hast redeemed me. I can never be worthy of thee; but give me, I beseech thee, such

agreeable dispositions, apprehensions, affections, and resolutions, in my coming to thee, that I may eat and drink worthily of what I am to receive from thee: that I may participate of thy sacred body crucified, and thy precious blood shed for us, with such discerning, and reverence, and penitence, and faith, and love and thankfulness, as I ought to do. And what I am not in myself, O do thou make me, out of thy own infinite fulness; such a meet receiver at thy table, that I may find welcome with thee, to my present consolation and my everlasting salvation.

O thou that hast prepared a table in this wilderness, with heavenly provisions for our souls, prepare my soul, dear Lord, for these provisions; and give me spiritual appetite, as well as spiritual sustenance; that, as the hart pants after the water-brooks, my soul may pant after thee, O God: that with desire I may desire to eat this passover; and so open my mouth, that thou mayest fill my hungry soul with thy good things, and so lift up the everlasting doors of my heart, that the King of glory may come in; that Christ may dwell in my heart by faith, and abide with my spirit, as long as I am to abide here in the flesh.

O make thy ordinance healing, and the savour of live to my soul. And make it also a sealing ordinance, to clear up to me the pardon of my sins, and the assurance of thy love. And as thou sealest the covenant of grace, ✪ let me seal the covenant of obedience; and in such a devout and acceptable manner come un

to thy table, that I may return from it with my conscience quieted, my corruption subdued, my graces increased, and my soul encouraged, with an enlarged heart, to run the way of thy commands.

Ah! Lord, to whom should I repair but unto thee my life, my strength, and my Redeemer! O thou that calleft unto thee the labouring and heavy laden sinners, help me so to come to thee, that in thee I may find rest for my soul. Thou that hast commanded us to break our bread to the hungry, O break the bread of life to all of us that hunger and thirst after righteousness and give us, O Lord God, our heavenly Father, evermore give us this bread. And thou art pleased ftill to continue to us the liber

and advantage of this ordinance, to nourish and revive our souls, O work in our hearts a higher esteem for it, and a greater love to it. And in our preparations before we eat and drink at thy table, in our communicating there, and our conversation after, O teach and help us to carry beseeming the holy heavenly feast; and as becomes the redeemed and obliged of the Lord, and the very living members of Jesus Christ.

Hear me, O Lord my God, and forgive me; bless and direct me, quicken and assist me in the work now lying upon me: and be good to me, and deal graciously with me; that I may discharge all my offices heartily as to the Lord, and with good acceptance in the sight of God, through the beloved of my soul, the only Sa viour of men. Amen.

A Prayer for Grace to resign and give up ourselves to God.

MY great and glorious Maker and Redeemer, my continual preserver and keeper, my only Lord and owner! thine I am every way, by all the ties of duty and love, and not at my own disposal to do what I will with myself: for thou hast formed me for thyself, and dearly ransomed me, after I had lost myself. Yea, I have been solemnly devoted to thee, and vowed to renounce all tempters for my heart and service that would rival with my blessed Lord; and obediently to serve thy divine pleasure, and to walk in thy divine ways, all the days of my life. And to be so true and faithful in the covenant of my God, is not only my obligation, but my honour and interest, my highest perfection, my greatest bliss.

But with confusion and remorse I must acknowledge, O Lord, how I have sacrilegiously alienated myself from thee, and most foolishly and wickedly separated myself from thee, to serve other lords; yea, to be under the power and servitude, of my own vain humours and brutish lusts; not concerned so much to please thee as myself; as if I were so my own that I had no Lord over me, to whom belongs all the right and title to me. O my God; forgive and mortify this wicked and pernicious selfishness in me and let me no longer unjustly withold myself from thee; nor madly expose myself to ruin, by living in the world without thee; nor hang in a tremulous suspense between God and

mammon, vainly thinking to hold in with both; but make me so wise and considerate, notonly of my duty, but of my own felicity, as willingly, and chearfully to surrender and devote myself to the blessed Author of my being: that so I may both answer the end for which I was made and also attain the happiness whereof I am capable. Seeing all that are far from thee shall perish, as branches cut from the living root that feeds them; and I have no sufficiency in myself, but derive all my good from the union with my God. I am convinced, O Lord, that I am thine by thy undoubted right; and that I ought to yield up myself for such, by my own free choice, and voluntary act. It is best for me so to do; and I can never do well, in standing off from it. O bring me to it, and make me faithful and hearty in it.

My Lord! break all ties that detain me from thee, and scize and take me for thy own: yea, keep and continue me in thy fear to my life's end. And upon my mind and memory, upon my will and affection, upon my heart and conscience, O write holiness to the Lord; and every way make me willing wholly to be thine. Let thy will ever be mine in all things; and melt down this stubborn will into a ready compliance with thy holy pleasure, O let me love and hate, and joy and dislike, as thou dost.Let my soul and body, and all the faculties and powers of both, be under thy conduct, and employed to thy glory. Let all that I am, and all that I have, whatever is mine, O let it be thine, not in pretence only, but in deed and in