sence with me.

Let it be my meat and drink to do thy holy will, and my only joy to glorify thy name.

Here observe the Directions given in page 8.

A prayer on Thursday Evening, to implore God's mercy and assistance, towards a worthy receiving the Holy Sacrament.

Let us draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, have our heart sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. Heb x. 22.

RANT, Almighty and most merciful Lord

God, that I may never draw down thy just indignation upon myself, either by turning my back upon this ordinance, or by going to it without thought and unworthily. May thy mercy pardon what is past, and give me grace for the time to come, to consecrate my life to thee, and to embrace every occasion of remembering my Redeemer's love, and thereby securing thy favour, and my own salvation; and if it be thy will, grant that I may always find such comfort and benefit in this ordinance, as may encourage me to observe it with joy unto my life's end. Blessed be thy name, Holy Father, for the opportunity thou hast this day vouchsafed me of humbling myself before thee. Pardon, I most earnestly beseech thee, all my failings. and defects at this time, the wandering of

my prayers, the coldness of my affections, and the disproportion of my repentance to the heniousness of those sins, which I have committed. O let thy mercy and goodness supply what is wanting in me, and be thou graciously pleased to pity my weakness, and forgive my infirmities, through the inerits, and for the sake of thy beloved Son, and my blessed Saviour, Jesus Christ the righteous; to whom with thee, and the Holy Ghost, be ascribed all honour and glory now and for evermore. Amen.

See the concluding Prayer and blessing, page 40.

*The Meditation for Friday Morning.

On the Passion of our blessed Savour commemorated in the most Holy Sacrament of the Lord's Supper.

Being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the Cross. Phil. xi. 6, 7, 8.

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Soul, Propose now unto thee, O that thou mayest give me comfort, by a devout meditation on the sufferings of our wounded Jesus, which were the wonder and astonishment of Heaven and Earth! And

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Here you may observe the Direct ons given page 3.

there learn of thy Saviour to be meek and lowly of heart; who being the great Lord of the world, condescended with the profoundest humility and silence, to undergo the punishment of slaves.

II. Behold with what patience this innocent Lamb yields to have his body ploughed and furrowed by merciless men! Behold him naked, helpless, and unpitied, whilst the

furious executioners tear his skin and tender flesh with scourges, to satisfy the cruelty of a barbarous multitude!

III. Behold this same blessed Jesus extended tortured, and nailed to the Cross between two thieves, where he hung. for the space of three long hours, [reviled by the Jews, and railed at by the very thieves] in anguish, grief, and shame; and all this for man, a miserable sinner.

IV. Behold those powerful hands, (which so lately had cured the blind and deaf, cleansed the lepers, and loosed them that were bound by Satan) extended in misery! behold those feet pierced with nails, which had continually gone about doing good!

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V. Behold that sacred body, wherein all the treasure of wisdom and power contained, hanging upon the cross, hungry and thirsty, naked and wounding, weeping. and bleeding, languishing and in torture, praying

praying and suffering itself to be sacrificed and exposed to all manner of shame and torment for thee! and let that vinegar and gall given unto him, quench all immoderate appetites in thee, and imbitter all sensual delights. Behold that face more beautiful than the sons of men, which comforted the afflicted, and the light of whose countenance the Fathers and Prophets had so much desired, changed into the paleness and horror of death! Behold him in the extremity of anguish crying unto his Father, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me ?-and then giving up the Ghost!

VI. Oh! how great in mercy, how abun dant in compassion was the Son of God, thus to die for thee! How great in Majesty, how terrible in power! For now did the Heaven's wax dark, the veil of the Temple rent asunder, the very stones clave, and the dead

arose.

How great was his power in his death, to produce such wonders by it, in it, and after it? How far did his merits and power extend?-eyen to the Sun in the Heavens, to the Veil in the Temple, to the Holy of Holies, to the Dead in the Graves, to the centre of the Earth, to Hell beneath;-yea, to the very hearts of the impenitent. For the Centurion now was convinced of his error, and converted.

VII. Oh! I will fly to the cross of my Saviour, and there with the pious, devout and afflicted Woman, and his beloved Disciple St. John, I will open the flood gate of my Eyes; I will water my couch with tears; I will bring my body into subjection, and rend my heart; lest by my evil deeds I should approve and become partaker of their sins, even the insatiable malice of the Chief Priest and Elders, who persuaded the multitude to cry out at once, Away with this man and release unto us Barabbas. What was this but to say, destroy the innocent, and give us a traitor and a thief? away with the prince of peace and universal charity, and leave unto us the author of sedition? put him to death who has raised up the dead before us, and give to us a known murderer.

VIII. But what hast thou done, O thou Lamb of God? and how hast thou deserved, thou Saviour of the world, to be thus exposed, villified and tormented! what is thy crime, and the cause of thy grief? what is it that has laid thee on the altar of the cross, naked, bleeding, tortured, and dying? the Lord hath laid on thee the iniqities of us all; thou art bruised for our sins: the heavy purchase of our peace is upon thee; and by thy stripes we are healed,

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