partakers of the kingdom of heaven. or envy, or in any other grievous Wherefore it is our duty to render crime; repent ye of your sins, or most humble and hearty thanks to else come not to that holy table. ALMIGHTY GOD, our heavenly Fa- And because it is requisite that no ther, for that he hath given his Son man should come to the Holy Comour Saviour JESUS CHRIST, not munion, but with a full trust in only to die for us, but also to be our God's mercy, and with a quiet conspiritual food and sustenance in that science; therefore, if there be any of holy sacrament. Which being so you, who by these means cannot divine and comfortable a thing to quiet his own conscience herein, but them who receive it worthily, and so requireth further comfort or counsel; dangerous to those who will presume let him come to me, or to some other to receive it unworthily; my duty is minister of God's word, and open to exhort you in the mean season, to his grief; that he may receive such consider the dignity of that holy godly counsel and advice, as may mystery, and the great peril of the tend to the quieting of his conscience, unworthy receiving thereof; and so and the removing of all scruple and to search and examine your own con- doubtfulness. sciences, (and that not lightly, and Or, in case he shall see the people negligent to after the manner of dissemblers with GoD; but so) that ye may come holy and clean to such a heavenly feast, in the marriage-garment required by GOD in holy Scripture; and be received as worthy partakers of that holy table.

The way and means thereto is, First, to examine your lives and conversations by the rule of GOD's commandments; and whereinsoever ye shall perceive yourselves to have of fended, either by will, word, or deed, there to bewail your own sinfulness,

come to the Holy Communion, instead of the former, he shall use this Exhortation.

DEARLY beloved brethren, on

I intend, by GOD's grace, to celebrate the Lord's Supper; unto which, in God's behalf, I bid you all who are here present; and be. seech you for the Lord JESUS CHRIST'S sake, that ye will not refuse to come thereto, being so loving. ly called and bidden by GOD himself. Ye know how grievous and unkind a thing it is, when a man hath prepared a rich feast, decked his table

and to confess yourselves to AL- with all kinds of provision, so that MIGHTY GOD, with full purpose of there lacketh nothing but the guests amendment of life. And if ye shall to sit down; and yet they who are perceive your offences to be such as called (without any cause) most unare not only against GOD, but also thankfully refuse to come. Which against your neighbors; then ye shall of you in such a case would not be reconcile yourselves unto them; be moved? Who would not think a ing ready to make restitution and great injury and wrong done unto satisfaction, according to the utter- him? Wherefore, most dearly bemost of your powers, for all injuries loved in CHRIST, take ye good heed, and wrongs done by you to any lest ye, withdrawing yourselves from other; and being likewise ready to this holy Supper, provoke GOD's inforgive others who have offended dignation against you. It is an easy you, as ye would have forgiveness of matter for a man to say, I will not your offences at God's hand: for communicate, because I am otherwise otherwise the receiving of the Holy hindered with worldly business. But Communion doth nothing else but such excuses are not so easily acincrease your condemnation. There- cepted, and allowed before GoD. If fore, if any of you be a blasphemer of any man say, I am a grievous sinner, GOD, a hinderer or slanderer of his and therefore am afraid to come: word, an adulterer, or be in malice wherefore then do ve not repent and amend? When GOD calleth you, are so is the danger great, if we receive ye not ashamed to say, ye will not the same unworthily. Judge there. come? When ye should return to fore yourselves, brethren, that ye be GOD, will ye excuse yourselves, and say, ye are not ready? Consider earnestly with yourselves, how little such feigned excuses will avail before GOD. Those who refused the feast in the gospel, because they had

not judged' of the LORD; repent ye truly for your sins past; have a lively and steadfast faith in CHRIST our Saviour; amend your lives, and be in perfect charity with all men: so shall ye be meet partakers of those

bought a farm, or would try their holy mysteries. And above all yokes of oxen, or because they were things, ve must give most humble and married, were not so excused, but hearty thanks to GOD the FATHER, counted unworthy of the heavenly the SON, and the HOLY GHOST, for feast. Wherefore, according to mine the redener of the world by the office, I bid you in the name of GOD, death and passion of our Saviour

CHRIST, both GOD and man; who did humble himself, even to the death upon the cross, for us miserable sinners, who lay in darkness and the 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 always remember the exceeding great love of our Master

I call you in CHRIST'S Lehalf, I exhort you, as ye love your own salvation, that'ye will be partakers of this Holy Communion. And as the SON OF GOD did vouchsafe to yield up his soul by death upon the cross, for your salvation; so it is your duty to receive the Communion in remembrance of the sacrifice of his death, as he himself hath commanded: and only Saviour JESUS CHRIST, which if ye shall neglect to do, con- thus dying for us, and the innumersider with yourselves, how great is able benefits which by his precious your ingratitude to God, and how blood-shedding he hath obtained for sore punishment hangeth over your us, he hath instituted and ordained heads for the same, when ye wilfully holy mysteries, as pledges of his love, abstain from the Lord's Table, and and for a continual remembrance of separate from your brethren who his death, to our great and endless come to feed on the banquet of that comfort. To him, therefore, with the most heavenly food. These things FATHER, and the HOLY GHOST, if ye earnestly consider, ye will by let us give (as we are most bounden) GOD's grace, return to a better mind; continual thanks; submitting ourfor the obtaining whereof we shall selves wholly to his holy will and not cease to make our humble peti. pleasure, and studying to serve him tions unto ALMIGHTY GOD, our hea- in true holiness and righteousness, all venly Father. the days of our life. Amen.

At the time of the celebration of the Com. munion, the Priest shall say nia Exhortation.

Then shall the Priest say to those who come to receive the Holy Communion,

DEARLY beloved in the LORD, YE who do truly and earnestly ye who mind to come to the Holy repent you of your sins, and are in Communion of the Body and Blood love and charity with your neighof our Saviour CHRIST, must consi- bors, and intend to lead a new life, der how Saint Paul exhorteth all per- following the commandments of GOD, sons diligently to try and examine and walking from henceforth in his themselves, before they presume to holy ways; draw near with faith, and 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 sacramer

take this holy sacrament to your comfort; and make your humble confession to ALMIGHTY GOD, devoutly kneeling.

Then shall this General Confession be made, thy of all men to be received, tha by the Priest and all those who are to receive the Holy Communion, humbly

THEREFORE with angels and archangels, and with all the company ALMIGHTY GOD, our heavenly of heaven, we laud and magnify thy Father, who of his great mercy hath glorious name; evermore praising promised forgiveness of sins to all those who with hearty repentance and true faith turn unto him, have mercy upon you; pardon and deliver you from all your sins; confirm and strengthen you in all goodness; and bring you to everlasting life, through JESUS CHRIST Our Lord. Amen.

This is a true saving, and wor- ted on Trinity Sunday.

tion of thy Son JESUS CHRIST our LY GHOST, the Comforter; who are Lord: for he is the very Paschal one with thee in thy eternal GoD.

Lamb, which was offered for us, and hath taken away the sin of the world; who by his death hath destroyed death, and, by his rising to life again, hath restored to us everlasting life: Therefore with angels, &c.

Upon Ascension-day, and seven days after.

HEAD: Therefore with angels, &c.
Then shall the Priest, kneeling down at th

Lord's Table, say, in the name of all those whe
shall receive the Communion, this Prayer fol-
lowing:

WE do not presume to come to this thy table, O merciful LORD, trusting in our own righteousness, but in thy manifold and great mercies. We are not worthy so much

THROUGH thy most dearly beloved Son JESUS CHRIST Our Lord; who, after his most glorious resur- as to gather up the crumbs under thy

rection, manifestly appeared to all his apostles, and in their sight ascend. ed up into heaven, to prepare a place for us; that where he is, thither we might also ascend, and reign with him in glory: Therefore with angels, &c.

Upon Whitsunday, and six days after.

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 most precious blood, and that we may ever. more dwell in him, and he in us. Amen.

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 hands: he shall say the Prayer of Consecration, as followeth:

THROUGH JESUS CHRIST our Lord; according to whose inost true promise, the HOLY GHOST came down as at this time from heaven, with a sudden great sound, as it had been a mighty wind, in the likeness 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 also boldness with fervent zeal, constantly to preach the Gospel unto all nations; whereby we have been brought redemption; who made there (by his out of darkness and error, into the one oblation of himself once offered) clear light and knowledge of thee, a full, perfect, and sufficient sacrifice, and of thy Son JESUS CHRIST: oblation, and satisfaction, for the sins Therefore with angels, &c.

Upon the Feast of Trinity only, may be said, WHO art one GOD, One LORD; not one only person, but three persons in one substance; for that which we believe of the glory of the FATHER, the same we believe of the SON, and of the HOLY GHOST, with out any difference or inequality: Therefore with angels, &c.

Or else this may be said, the words (Holy
Father) being retained in the introductory

address.

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

a. Here the Priest

of the whole world; and did insti-
tute, and in his holy gospel command
us to continue, a perpetual memory
of that his precious death and sacri-
fice until his coming again: for in the
night in which he
was betrayed a he
took bread; and is to take the Paten
when he had given
thanks, b he brake
it, and gave it to break the bread.
his disciples, saying,
Take, eat, this is c And here to lay
his hand upon all
my Body, which is the bread.

FOR the precious death and merits given for you; do this of thy Son JESUS CHRIST Our Lord, in remembrance of and for the sending to us of the Ho- me. Likewise, after

into his hands.

b And here to

cup; and when he
had given thanks, he
gave it to them, say-

& Here he is to supper d he took the reasonable, holy, and living sacrifice lake the cup into his unto thee; humbly beseeching thee, hand. that we, and all others who shall be partakers of this Holy Communion, ing, drink ye all of may worthily receive the most pree And here he is this, for this is my cious Body and Blood of thy Son to lay his hand up- Blood, of the new JESUS CHRIST, be filled with thy on every vessel, in which there is any testainent, which is grace and heavenly benediction, and wine to be conse- shed for you, and for made one body with him, that he many, for the re- may dwell in them, and they in mission of sins; do this as oft as ye him. And although we are unwor shall drink it, in remembrance of me. thy, through our manifold sins, to offer unto thee any sacrifice; yet we

crated.

FATHER ALMIGHTY, world without end. Amen.

WHEREFORE, O beseech thee to accept this our boundThe Oblation. LORD and heavenly en duty and service, not weighing Father, according to the institution our merits, but pardoning our of of thy dearly beloved Son our Sav- fences; through JESUS CHRIST our iour JESUS CHRIST, we, thy hum- Lord; ty whom, and with whom, in ble servants, do celebrate and make the unity of the HOLY GHOST, all here before thy divine majesty, with honor and glory be unto thee, O 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 benefits procured unto us by the And we most humbly beseech thee, O merci

same.

Here shall be sung a Hymn, or part of a
Hymn, from the Selection for the Feasts and

Fasts, &c.

Then shall the Priest first receive the Com munion in both kinds himself, and proceed to deliver the same to the Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, in like manner, (if any be present,) and, after that, to the People also in order, into their hands, all devoutly kneeling and when he delivereth the Bread, he shall say,

THE Body of our Lord JESUS CHRIST, which was given for thee, preserve thy body and soul unto everlasting life: Take and eat this in remembrance that CHRIST died for thee, and feed on him in thy heart

The Invocation. ful 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 ac- by faith, with thanksgiving.

cording 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 good ness, 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, our. selves, our souls, and bodies. to be a

And the Minister who delivereth the Cup, shall

say,

THE Blood of our Lord JESUS

CHRIST, which was shed for thee,
preserve thy body and soul unto
everlasting life: Drink this in re.
membrance that CHRIST'S blood was
shed for thee, and be thankful.

If the consecrated bread and wine be spent be
fore all have communicated, the Priest is to
consecrate more, according to the form before
prescribed; beginning at-All glory be to thee,
Almighty God-and ending with these words
-partakers of his most blessed Body and
parla
Blood.

When all have communicated, the Minister
shall return to the Lord's Table, and reverent
ly place upon it what remaineth of the conse
crated elements, covering the same with a fair
linen cloth.