hate me, and to pray for them that defpitefully ufe me, and perfecute me, in obedience to the command, and in imitation of the example of my great Lord and Master, Chrift Jefus. Amen.

Here may be added (if time will permit) the Morning Prayer, on page 135 of this FIRST Part.

OUR father which art in heaven, hallowed be

thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trefpafs against us. lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil. Amen.

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So far may be used every Morning before the Meditation.

The Meditation for Monday Morning. Upon our Saviour's loving invitation to the communion of his body and blood.

My little children, thefe things write I unto you, that ye fin not. And if any man fin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jefus Chrift the righteous. 1 John ii. 1..

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(Ome now, O my foul, and let us retire from the purfuits of this vain deceitful world; and let us well confider the gracious and condescending invitations wherewith

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our blefled Lord and only Saviour has called us, in his holy gofpel, to be partakers of his Holy Table. Why then this wavering, or coldnefs, O my foul! give ear to the eternal truth, who will remove all thy doubts and fears by the following invitation.

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Ome unto me all ye that labour and are heavy. laden and I will refresh you. The bread that 1 will give, is my flesh; which I will give for the lifeof the world. Take, eat, this is my body, which is given for you; this do in remembrance of me. He that cateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and Iin him. The words, which Ifpake unto you, they are fpirit, and they are life. Matth. xi. 28. John vi. 51. 1 Cor. xi. 24. John vi. 56, 63.

2. Rife then, my foul, and take thy fwifteft wings, fly to this great myftery. There we fhall fee the prince of peace facrifice himself to reconcile us with the Father: there we fhall fee, Oftupendous mercy! the Son of God with heavenly food entertaining the fons of men. Can we, O dear redeemer! believe the wonders of this mystery, and not be ravished with admiration of thy great goodnefs? can we acknowledge thy perfect veracity, and not believe this wonder of thy love? let us not then refufe

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refufe to believe our God, because his mercies tranfcend our capacities. None but infinite wisdom could ever have invented so strange and high, and prodigious a mystery. None but an inconceivable infinite goodness would ever have imparted fo dear, and tender, and rich a blessing.

3. When the impiety of men was at the height, and their treacherous heads plotting. to betray thee; then did thy wisdom mercifully confult to overcome our malice with thy bounty. Immediately thou contrivedft an admirable way to invite all the world to a feaft of wonders: a feaft! where thy facred body fhould be our food, and thy precious blood our drink. A feaft! in which are continually wrought new miracles of love for us. Thus, as if it had not been love enough to have given thyfelf on the crofs for us; thou haft found out a way to give thyfelf to us in the holy facrament: to unite us with thyfelf, by the most intimate union that is poffible for us to conceive, and which we can better feel than exprefs: to become the life, the ftrength, the fupport and comfort of our beings: nay, to become even one with me, and be unto me the very foul of my foul. O Lord my God! this is

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fo inconceivable a bleffing, this is fo divine a union, that the very angels, with awful admiration, contemplate thy wonderful condefcenfion in it.

4. Lord, who are we, unworthy finners, that thou thus regardeft our wretched duft ? what is all the world compared to thee, that thus thou feemeft to difregard thyself? it was for our fakes, and to draw us up to thy love, that thou haft commanded us to commemorate and represent thy paffion; and present the merits of it before thy father, on earth, as thou doft present them to him in heaven. It was for our fakes, and to help the infirmities of our nature, that thou didst appoint a commemorative facrifice, of that one oblation of thyfelf once offered upon the crofs; and bread and wine fo offered and bleffed as fymbols of thy body and blood. What great bleflings are thefe, Ó Jefu! that demand my praises!

5: Yet more bleffed is the heart that defires thy coming, and longs to fee thee in thy glorious felf. O my adored redeemer! when will that happy day appear, when mine eyes may behold thee without a veil? when will the clouds and shadows pass away, that thy beams may shine on me in their full brightness? ob

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ject not against me, deareft Lord, that none can fee thy face and live. Those fears thy love has changed, and my fixed hope is now to live by feeing thee. Say not, O thou mild and gracious majefty, if I approach thy prefence I muft die. Rather inftruct me fo to die, that I may live for ever in thy prefence.

Here, if thou defireft to know the reason why Chrift ordainea this Sacrament, confult the 2e WHOLE DUTY OF MAN, Sunday 6. Section I.

The Prayer on Monday Morning, to implore God's affiftance in the course of this week's preparation for receiving the holy facrament.

I acknowledge my faults, and my fin is ever before me. P.li. 3. Moft glorious and ever-bleffed God in

whose presence is fulness of joy, and at whose right-hand there are pleafures for evermore; vouchsafe, I befeech thee, to discharge my mind of all fuperfluous cares, and immoderate defires of the things of this world, and enable me fo to employ my time this week, as may effectually prevent or refift all temptations. Let thy grace, O Lord, fo powerfully affift my endeavours, and direct my will, and ftrengthen my intentions, that I may do fuch things as are agreeable to thee, and fuitable to the dignity of a chriftian: and that I may fill

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