fice which then is facramentally reprefented to God. Give Thanks for the Paffion of our dearest Lord : Remember all its Parts, and all the Inftruments of your Redemption: And beg of God, that by a holy Perfeverance in Well-doing, you may from Shadows país on to Substances, from eating his Body, to feeing his Face, from the Typical, Sacramental and Tranfient, to the Real and Eternal Supper of the Lamb.

13. After the Solemnity is done, let Christ dwell in your Hearts by Faith and Love, and Obedience, and Conformity to his Life and Death: As you have taken Chrift into you, fo put Chrift on you, and confirm every Faculty of your Soul and Body to his holy Image and Perfection. Remember that now Chrift is all one with you; and therefore when you are to do an Action, confider how Chrift did or would do the like, and do you imitate his Example, and tranfcribe his Copy, and understand all his Commandments, and chufe all that he propounded, and defire his Promifes, and fear his Threatnings, and marry his Loves and Hatreds, and contract his Friendships: For then you do every Day communicate; efpecially when Chrift thus dwells in you and you in Christ, growing up towards a perfect man in Chrift Jefus.

14. Do not inftantly upon your Return from Church return alfo to the World, and fecular Thoughts and Employments; but let the remaining Parts of that Day be like a Poft-Communion, or an After-Office, entertaining your bleffed Lord with all the Careffes and Sweetneffes of Love and Colloquies, and Entercourfes of Duty and Affection, acquainting him with all your Needs, and revealing to him all your Secrets, and opening all your Infirmities: And as the Affairs of your Perfon or Employment call you off, fo retire again with often Ejaculations and Acts of Entertainment to your beloved Gueft..

The Effects and Benefits of worthy Communicating.

When I faid that the Sacrifice of the Crofs which Chrift offer'd for all the Sins and all the Needs of the World

world is reprefented to God by the Minister in the Sacrament, and offered up in Prayer and facramental Memory, after the Manner that Christ himself intercedes for us in Heaven (fo far as his glorious Priefthood is imitable by his Minifters on Earth,) I must of Neceffity alfo mean, that all the Benefits of that Sacrifice are then conveyed to all that communicate worthily. But if we defcend to Particulars, Then and there the Church is nourished in her Faith, ftrengthned in her Hope, enlarged in her Bowels with an encreafing Charity. There all the Members of Chrift are joyned with each other, and all to Chrift their Head: And we again renew the Covenant with God in Jefus Chrift, and God feals his Part, and we promife for ours, and Chrift unites both, and the Holy Ghoft figns both in the Collation of thofe Graces which we then pray for and exercife and receive all at once. There our Bodies are noutifhed with the Signs, and our Souls with the Myftery Our Bodies receive into them the Seed of an immortal Nature, and our Souls are joyned with him who is the first Fruits of the Refurrection; and never can die. And if we defire any thing elfe and need it, here it is to be prayed for, here to be hoped for, here to be received. Long Life and Health, and Recovery from Sickness, and competent Support and Mainte nance, and Peace and Deliverance from our Enemies, and Content, and Patience, and Joy, and fanctified Riches, or a chearful Poverty, and Liberty, and whatfoever elfe is a Bleffing, was purchafed for us by Christ in his Death and Refurrection, and in his Interceffion in Heaven. And this Sacrament being that to our Particulars which the great Myfteries are in themselves, and by Defign to all the World, if we receive worthily, he fhall receive any of thefe Blef fings, according as God fhall chufe for us: And we will not only chufe with more Wisdom, but alfo with more Affection, than we can for ourselves.

After all this, it is advised by the Guides of Souls, wife Men and pious; that all Perfons fhould communicate very often, even often as they can without

Excufes or Delays. Every Thing that puts us from fo holy an Employment when we are moved to it, being either a Sin or an Imperfection, an Infirmity or Indevotion, and an Unactiveness of Spirit. All Chriftian People must come. They indeed that are l'Evefque de in the State of Sin must not come fo, but yet they Geneve in- must come. First, they must quit their State of trod à la vie Death, and then partake of the Bread of Life:

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They that are at Enmity with their Neighbours muft come, that is no Excufe for their not coming; only they must not bring their Enmity along with them, but leave it, and then come. They that have Variety of Secular Employments muft come; only they muit leave their Secular Thoughts and Affections behind them, and then come and converfe with God. If any Man be well grown in Grace he muft needs come, because he is excellently difpofed to fo holy a Feast: But he that is but in the Infancy of Piety. had Need to come, that fo he may grow in Grace. The ftrong muft come, left they become weak; and the weak, that they may become strong. The fick must come to be cured, the healthful to be preferved. They that have Leifure muft come, because they have no Excufe: They that have no Leifure muft come hither, that by fo excellent Religion they may fanctifie their Bufine fs. The penitent Sinners muít come, that they may be juftified; and they that are juftified, that they may be juftified ftill. They that have Fears and great Reverence to thefe Myfteries, and think no Preparation to be fufficient, must receive, that they may learn how to receive the more worthily; and they that have a lefs Degree of Reverence, muft come often to have it heightned. That, as thofe Creatures that live amongst the Snows of the Mountains turn white with their Food and Converfation with fuch perpetual Whiteneffes, fo our Souls may be transformed into the Similitude and Union with Chrift by our per petual feeding on him, and Converfations not only in his Courts, but in his very Heart, and moft fecrer Affections and incomparable Purities.i.

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Prayers for all Sorts of Men and all Neceffities relating to the feveral Parts of the Vertue of Religion.

A Prayer for the Graces of Faith, Hope, Charity.

Lord God of infinite Mercy, of infinite Excellency, who haft fent thy holy Son into the World to redeem us from an intolerable Mifery, and to teach us a holy Religion, and to forgive us an infinite debt: Give me thy holy Spirit, that my Understanding and all my Faculties may be fo refigned to the Dif cipline and Doctrine of my Lord, that I may be prepared in Mind and Will to die for the Teftimony of Jefus, and to fuffer any Affliction or Calamity that fhall offer to hinder my Duty, or tempt me to Shame or Sin, or Apoftafie, and let my Faith be the Parent of a good Life, a ftrong Shield to repel the fiery Darts of the Devil, and the Author of a holy Hope, of modeft Defires and Confidence in God, and of a never-failing Charity to thee my God, and to all the World; that I may never have my Portion with the Unbelievers, or uncharitable and desperate. Perfons; but may be fupported by the Strengths of Faith in all Temptations, and may be refreshed with the Comforts of a holy Hope in all my Sorrows, and may bear the Burthen of the Lord, and the In firmities of my Neighbour by the Support of Charity; that the Yoke of Jefus may become eafie to me, and my Love may do all the Miracles of Grace; till from Grace it fwell to Glory, from Earth to Heaven, from Duty to Reward, from the Imperfections of a beginning and little growing Love, it may arrive to the Confummation of an eternal and never-ceafing Charity, through Jefus Chrift the Son' of thy Love, the Anchor of our Hope, and the Author and Finisher of our Faith: To whom with thee, O Lord God, Father of Heaven and Earth, and with thy Holy Spirit, be, all Glory, and Love, and Obe dience and Dominion now and for ever.

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Acts of Love, by way of Prayer and Ejaculation ; to be used in private.

O God thou art my God, early will I feek, thee: My Soul thirfteth for thee, my Flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty Land where no Water is; To fee thy Power and thy Glory fo as I have feen thee in the SanEtuary. Because thy Loving-kindness is better than Life, my Lips fhall praise thee. Pfal. 63. 1, &c.

I am ready not only to be bound but to die for the Name of the Lord Jefus. Acts 21. 13.

How amiable are thy Tabernacles, thou Lord of Hofts? My Soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the Courts of the Lord: My Heart and my Flesh crieth out for the Living God. Blessed are they that dwell in thy House, they will still be praising thee. Pfal. 84. 1, 2, 4

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O Bleffed Jefu, thou art worthy of all Adoration, and all Honour, and all Love: Thou art the Wonderful, the Counsellor, the Mighty God, the Everlafting Father, the Prince of Peace; of thy Government and Peace there fhall be no End: Thou art the Brightness of thy Father's Glory, the exprefs Image of his Perfon, the appointed Heir of all Things. Thou upholdeft all Things by the Word of thy Power: Thou didst by thyfelf purge our Sins Thou art fet on the Right-Hand of the Majefty on high Thou art made better than the Angels; Thou haft by Inheritance obtained a more excellent Nanie than they. Thou, O dearest Jefus, art the Head of the Church, the Beginning and the First-born from the Dead: In all Things thou haft the Pre-eminence, and it pleafed the Fa. ther that in thee fhould all Fulnefs dwell. Kingdoms are in love with thee: Kings lay their Crowns and Scepters at thy Feet, and Queens are thy HandMaids, and wash the Feet of thy Servants.

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