miliation, the Communicants acknowledge, through the Minister, their great unworthiness, and the unmerited mercy of God in admitting them to his Holy Table. In this act of humiliation, every communicant should secretly join with lively fervour and devotion.]

We do not presume to come to this thy Table, O merciful Lord, trusting in our righteousness, but in thy manifold and great mercies. We are not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs under thy Table. But thou art the same Lord, whose property is always to have mercy: Grant us, therefore, gracious Lord, so to eat the flesh of thy dear Son Jesus Christ, and to drink his blood, that our sinful bodies may be made clean by his body, and our souls washed through his precious blood, and that we may evermore dwell in him, and he in us.-AMEN.

[The Prayer of consecration now follows; and while the Priest is engaged in the solemn act of consecrating the bread and wine, the communicant should fix his devout affections on his Saviour, whose blood is an all-sufficient propitiation for the sins of the world. When the bread is broken; call to mind the grief and agony of him who was wounded for our transgressions, and bruised for our iniquities. When the cup of wine is blessed; think of him who, under the weight of our sins, sweat great drops of blood, and on the cross made his soul an offering for sin. When the consecrated bread and wine are offered to God, as a sacrifice commemorative of the one

great sacrifice of Christ; bless the Almighty Father who gave his Son for the sins of offending man, and who, through Christ, is reconciling the world unto himself. When the power of Divine Grace is invoked on the holy elements; devoutly adore and bless the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of Life, who applies to the soul the mercies of redemption. And let the surrender which you make of yourself to the service of God, your Creator, Redeemer, and Sanctifier, be sincere, ardent, and universal.]

¶ When the Priest, standing before the Table, hath so ordered the Bread and Wine, that he may with the more readiness and decency break the Bread before the people, and take the Cup into his hand; he shall say the Prayer of Consecration, as followeth :

All glory be to thee, Almighty God, our heavenly Father, for that thou, of thy tender mercy, didst give thine only Son Jesus Christ to suffer death upon the cross for our redemption; who made there (by his one oblation of himself once offered) a full, perfect and sufficient sacrifice, oblation, and satisfaction, for the sins of the whole world; and did institute, and in his holy gospel command us to continue a perpetual memory of that his precious death and sacrifice until his coming again: For in the night in which he was betrayed (a) he took bread; and when he had (a) Here the Priest is to take the Paten in- given thanks, (b) he brake it, and gave it to his disciples, saying, Take eat, (b) And bereto break (c) This is my Body, which is gi(c) And here to lay ven for you; Do this in remembis bands upon all the brance of me. Likewise after supBread,

to his Hands.

the Bread.

(d) Here he is to per (d) he took the cup; and when he take the cup into his had given thanks, he gave it to them,

band.

(e) And here he is to saying, Drink ye all of this; for (e) lay his hand upon every This is my Blood, of the New Vessel, in which there Testament which is shed for you, is any Wine to be consecrated. and for many, for the remission of sins: Do this as oft as ye shall drink it, in remembrance of me.

The Oblation.

Wherefore, O Lord and heavenly Father, according to the institution of thy dearly beloved Son our Saviour Jesus Christ, we thy humble servants, do celebrate and make here before thy divine Majesty, with these thy holy gifts, which we now offer unto thee, the memorial thy Son hath commanded us to make; having in remembrance his blessed passion and precious death, his mighty resurrection and glorious ascension; rendering unto thee most hearty thanks, for the innumerable be

The Invocation.

nefits procured unto us by the same. And we most humbly beseech thee, O merciful Father, to hear us; and, of thy almighty goodness, vouchsafe to bless and sanctify, with thy Word and Holy Spirit, these thy gifts and creatures of bread and wine; that we, receiving them according to thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ's holy institution, in remembrance of his Death and Passion, may be partakers of his most blessed Body and Blood. And we earnestly desire thy fatherly goodness, mercifully to accept this our sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving; most humbly beseeching thee to grant, that by the merits and death of thy Son Jesus Christ, and through faith in his blood, we, and all thy whole Church may obtain remission of our sins, and all other benefits of his passion. And here we offer and present unto thee, O Lord, ourselves, our souls, and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and living sacrifice

unto thee; humbly beseeching thee, that we, and all others who shall be partakers of this holy Communion, may worthily receive the most precious Body and Blood of thy son Jesus Christ, be filled with thy grace and heavenly benediction, and made one body with him, that he may dwell in them, and they in him. And although we are unworthy, through our manifold sins, to offer unto thee any sacrifice; yet we beseech thee to accept this our bounden duty and service, not weigh ing our merits, but pardoning our offences; through Jesus Christ our Lord; by whom, and with whom, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, all honour and glory be unto thee, O Father Almighty, world without end. AMEN.

Here shall be sung a Hymn, or Part of a Hymn, from the Selection for the Feasts and Fasts, &c.

[While the Priest, the Clergy, and others, are receiving the consecrated elements, the Communicant should be engaged in devoutly reading the following meditations.

St. Luke, xv. 2.-The Pharisees murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners and eateth with them.

I bless thee, O my Saviour, that thou didst not proudly contemn the company of sinners. I confess that I am indeed an unworthy sinner. O receive me, an unworthy guest at thy table, and make me partaker of the blessings of thy love.

St. John, vi. 58. He that eateth of this bread, shall live for ever.

Ŏ Jesus, who hast made the life of our souls to depend on the consecrated bread, the symbol of thy life-giving body; may I never ren

der myself unworthy of so great a blessing, or deprive myself of it through my own wilful negligence. May this sacred bread be a principle of immortal life to me, uniting me to thee for ever, my Saviour and my Lord.

Exodus, xii. 23.-When he seeth the blood of the Paschal Lamb on the door, he will not suffer the destroyer to come in to smite you.

O Jesus, the true Paschal Lamb, who, by thy precious blood, hast paid the debt due to Divine justice, and hast delivered us from the power of the Destroyer, sprinkle me with thy precious blood, that I may be rescued from the condemning sentence of thy justice.

Galatians, iii. 13.-Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us; that is-he was treated as one under the curse of the law.-Deuteronomy, xxi. 23.

Blessed God! how great was our misery! How great was thy mercy! The death of thy Son only could save us from ruin, and him thou didst willingly give. May I never deceive myself with the vain hope, that, while I continue in sin, thy mercy will spare me; when thou didst not spare thine own Son, who put himself in the place of sinners! May I never provoke, by transgression, thy justice! May I never forget thy mercies, and the infinite condescension of thy blessed Son, who, for my redemption, humbled himself even to the death upon the cross.

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