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Let us pray for the whole ftate of Chrifts church militant here in earth.

Lmighty and everlasting God, which by Athy holy apoftle haft taught us to make prayers and fupplications, and to give thanks for all men: we humbly beseech thee moft ere be no mercifully (to accept our almes, and to receive pure, then thefe our prayers which we offer unto thy dithe words vine majestie, befeeching thee to infpire continually the univerfall church with the spirit of truth, unitie, and concord: and grant that all they that do confeffe thy holy name, may agree in the truth of thy holy word, and live in unitie and godly love. We befeech thee alfo to fave and defend all Christian kings,princes, and governours, and fpecially thy fervant Charles, our king, that under him we may be godly and quietly governed: and grant unto his whole counsel,and to all that be put in authoritie under him, that they may truly and indifferently minifter justice, to the punishment of wickednes and vice, and to the maintenance of Gods true religion and vertue. Give grace (O heavenly Father) to all bifhops, paftours, and curates, that they may both by their life and doctrine, fet forth thy true and lively word,and rightly and duely adminifter thy holy facraments: and to all thy people give thy heavenly grace, and efpecially to this congregation here prefent, that with meek heart and due reverence they may heare and receive thy holy word, truly ferving thee in holineffe and righteoufneffe all the dayes of their life. And we most humbly beseech thee of thy goodneffe, O Lord, to comfort and fuccour all them which in this tranfitorie life be in trouble, forrow,need,fickneffe, or any other adverfitie: grant this, O Father, for Jefus Christs fake our onely Me diatour and Advocate. Amen.

Then fhall follow this exhortation,at certain times, when the curate shall fee the people negligent to come to the holy communion.

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at the Lords fupper, unto the which in Gods behalf I bid you all that be here prefent,and beseech you for the Lord Jefus Chrifts fake, that ye will not refufe to come thereto, being fo lovingly called and bidden of God himself. Ye know how grievous and unkinde a thing it is, when a man hath prepared a rich feaft, decked his table with all kinde of provifion,fo that there lacketh nothing but the guefts to fit down, and yet they which be called (with out any caufe) moft unthankfully refufe to come. Which of you in such a cafe would not be moved? Who would not think a great injurie and wrong done unto hini? Wherefore moft dearly beloved in Chrift, take ye good

heed, left ye, withdrawing your felves froma this holy fupper, provoke Gods indignation against you. It is an eafie matter for a man to fay, I will not communicate, becaufe I am otherwife letted with wordly bufineffe: but fuch excuses be not fo eafily accepted and allowed before God. If any man say, I am a grievous finner, and therefore am afraid to come: wherefore then do ye not repent and amend? When God calleth you, be you not afhamed to fay, You will not come? When you fhould return to God, will you excufe your felf, and fay that you be not ready? Confider earnettly with your felves, how little fuch, feigned excufes fhall avail before God. They that refufed the feaft in the gospel, becaufe they had bought a farm, or would trie their yokes of oxen, or because they were married, were not fo excufed, but counted unworthie of that heavenly feast. I for my part am here prefent, and according to mine office, I bid you in the name of God, I call you in Chrifts behalf, I exhort you as you love your own falvation, that ye will be partakers of this ho ly communion. And as the Sonne of God did vouchsafe to yeeld up his foul by death upon the crofle for your health: even fo it is your dutie to receive the communion together in the remembrance of his death, as he himfelf commanded. Now if you will in no wife thus do, confider with your felves how great ̈ injury you do unto God, and how fore punifhment hangeth over your heads for the fame. And whereas you offend God so fore in refu fing this holy banquet, I admonish, exhort, and beseech you, that unto this unkindneße ye will not adde any more: which thing ye fhall do, if ye ftand by as gazers, and lookers on them that do communicate, and be not partakers of the fame your felves. For what thing can this be accounted elfe, then a further contempt and unkindneffe unto God? Truly, it is a great unthankfulnesse to say nay when ye be called: but the fault is much

greater when men ftand by, and yet will nei

ther eat nor drink this holy communion with other. I pray you, what can this be elle, but even to have the mysteries of Chrift in derifion? It is faid unto all, Take ye,and eat; take and drink ye all of this, do this in remembrance of me. With what face then, or with what countenance fhall ye heare these words? What will this be elfe, but a neglecting, a defpifing and mocking of the teftament of Chrift? Wherefore rather then ye fhould fo do, depart you hence, and give place to them that be godly difpofed. But when you depart, I beseech you ponder with your felves, from whom ye depart; ye depart from the Lords table, ye depart from your brethren, and from

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the banquet of most heavenly food. Thefe things if ye earneftly confider, ye thall by Gods grace return to a better minde: for the obtaining whereof, we shall make our humble petitions, while we thall receive the holy com

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And fometime shall this be said also, at the difcretion of the curate.

Early beloved, forasmuch as our dutie is to render to Almighty God our heavenly Father most hearty thanks, for that he hath given his Sonne our Saviour Jefus Chrift, not onely to die for us,but also to be our (pirituall food and fuftenance, as it is declared unto us, as well by Gods word, as by the holy facra ments of his bleffed body & bloud, the which being fo comfortable a thing to them which receive it worthily, and fo dangerous to them that will prefume to receive it unworthily: my dutie is to exhort you to confider the dignitie of the holy myfterie, and the great peril of the unworthie receiving thereof, and fo to fearch and examine your own confciences, as you should come holy and clean to a moft godly and heavenly feaft, fo that in no wife you come but in the marriage garment required of God in holy fcripture,and fo come and be received, as worthie partakers of fuch a heavenly table. The way and means thereto is: First, to examine your lives and converfation by the rule of Gods commandments, and wherein foever ye shall perceive your felves to have offended either by will,word,or deed, there bewail your own finfull lives, and confeffe your felves to Almighty God, with full purpose of amendment of life. And if ye fhall perceive your offences to be fuch, as be not onely against God, but alfo against your neighbours: then ye fhall reconcile your felves unto them, ready to make reftitution and fatisfaction according to the uttermoft of your powers, for all injuries and wrongs done by you to any other, and likewife being ready to forgive other that have offended you, as you would have forgiveneffe of your offences at Gods hand: for otherwise the receiving of the holy communion,doth nothing elfe but increase your damnation. And because it is requifite that no man should come to the holy communion, but with a full trust in Gods mercie, and with a quiet confcience: therefore if there be any of you, which by the means aforesaid cannot quiet his own conscience, but requireth further comfort or counsel, then let him come to me, or fome other difcreet and learned minister of Gods word, and open his grief, that he may receive fuch ghoftly counfel, advice, and com

fort, as his confcience may be relieved, and that by the minifterie of Gods word he may receive comfort,and the benefit of absolution, to the quieting of his confcience, and avoiding of all fcruple and doubtfulnelle.

Then fball the priest say this exhortation.

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Early beloved in the Lord, ye that mind to come to the holy communion of the body and bloud of our Saviour Chrift, must consider what Saint Paul writeth to the Corinthians, how he exhorteth all perfons diligently to try and examine themselves, be fore they prefume to eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. For as the benefit is great, if with a true penitent heart and lively faith we receive that holy facrament: (for then we fpiritually eat the flesh of Chrift, and drink his bloud;then we dwell in Chrift, and Chrift in us; we be one with Christ, and Christ with us) fo is the danger great, if we receive the fame unworthily: for then we be guilty of the body and bloud of Chrift our Saviour; we eat and drink our own damnation, not confidering the Lords body: we kindle Gods wrath againft us: we provoke him to plague us with diverse diseases, and fundry kindes of death. Therefore if any of you be a blafphe mer of God, an hinderer or flanderer of his word, an adulterer, or be in malice, or envy, or in any other grievous crime, bewail your finnes, and come not to this holy table; left after the taking of that holy facrament, the devil enter into you, as he entred into Judas, and fill you full of all iniquities,and bring you to deftruction both of body and foul. Judge therefore your felves (brethren) that ye be not judged of the Lord. Repent you truly of your finnes paft: have a lively and ftedfaft faith in Chrift our Saviour. Amend your lives, and be in perfe&t charitie with all men, fo fhall ye be meet partakers of thofe holy myfteries. And above all things, ye must give moft humble and hearty thanks to God the Father, the Sonne, and the holy Ghoft, for the redemption of the world by the death and paffion of our Saviour Christ, both God and man,who did humble himself even to the death upon the croffe for us miserable finners, which lay in darknesse and shadow of death, that he might make us the children of God, and exalt us to everlasting life. And to the end that we should alway remember the exceeding great love of our Master and onely Saviour Jefus Chrift, thus dying for us, and the innumerable benefits which by his precious bloud,shedding he hath obtained to us: he hath inftituted and ordained holy myfteries, as pledges of his love, and continuall

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to all his apostles, and in their fight afcended up into heaven, to prepare a place for us, that where he is, thither might we alfo afcend, and reigne with him in glory. Therefore with angels, &c.

upon whitfunday, and fix dayes after. Hrough Jefus Chrift our Lord, according to whole moft true promife the holy Ghoft came down this day from heaven, with a fudden great found, as it had been a mightie winde, in the likeneffe of fiery tongues lighting upon the apostles, to teach them, and to lead them to all truth, giving them both the gift of divers languages, and alfo boldneffe with fervent zeal conftantly to preach the gofpel unto all nations, whereby we are brought out of darkneffe and errour, into the cleare light, and true knowledge of thee, and of thy Sonne Jefus Chrift. Therefore with angels, &c.

Upon the feaft of Trinitie onely. Tis very meet, right, and our bounden duItic, that we should at all times, and in all plices give thanks to thee, O Lord Almightie, and everlafting God, which art one God, one Lord, not one onely perfon, but three perfons in one fubftance. For that which we beleeve of the glorie of the Father, the famewe beleeve of the Sonne, and of the holy Ghoft, without any difference or inequalitie. Therefore with angels, &c.

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Therefore with angels and archangels, and with all the companic of heaven, we laud and magnifie thy glorious name, evermore prai fing thee, and faying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hofts. Heaven and earth are full of thy glorie, Glorie be to thee, O Lord moft High. Then fhall the prieft kneeling down at Gods board, fay in the name of all them that shall receive the communion, this prayer following WE do not prefume to come to thing hy table (O mercifull Lord) trusting in our own righteoufneffe, but in thy manifold and great mercies. We be not worthie fo much as to gather up the crumbes under thy table. But thou art the fame Lord, whose pro pertie is alwayes to have mercie: grant us therefore, gracious Lord, fo to eat the flesh of thy deare Sonne Jefus Chrift, and to drink his bloud, that our finfull bodies may be made clean by his body, & our fouls washed through his most precious bloud, and that we may evermore dwell in him, and he in us. Amen.

Then the priest standing up, shall

fay as followeth.

Lmightie God our heavenly Father, which of thy tender mercie didft give thy onely Sonne Jefus Chrift, to fuffer death upon

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Then fhall the minister first receive the communion in both kindes himself, and next deliver it to other minifters (if any be there prefent) that they may help the chief minifter,and after to the people in their hands, kneeling. And when he delivereth the bread, he fhall fay,

The bodie of our Lord Jefus Chrift,which was given for thee, preferve thy body and foul into everlasting life: and take and eat this in remembrance that Chrift died for thee, and feed on him in thine heart by faith with thanksgiving.

And the minister that delivereth the cup,
Shall fay,

The bloud of our Lord Jefus Chrift, which was fhed for thee, preferve thy bodie and foul into everlafting life: and drink this in remembrance that Chrifte bloud was thed for thee, and be thankfull.

Then fball the priest fay the Lords prayer, the people repeating after him every petition.

ur Father which art in heaven,Hallowed

be thy name. Thy kingdome come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven, Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trefpaffes, as we forgive them that trefpaffe against us. And lead us not into temptation: But deliver us from evil. Amen.

After shall be faid as followeth.

Lord and heavenly Father, we thy

Ohumble fervants entirely defire thy fatherly goodneffe, mercifully to accept this our facrifice of praife and thanksgiving,

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