Sacrament Week.

"Love. Let the Thoughts of thy wonder"ful Love, be ever sweet to our Souls, and

to my Soul, and let us Love to Meditate "thy Bitter Sufferings. [O fit and prepare Our Hearts whom thou dost now Invite to feaft with thee, at this Holy time approach

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ing, that our Hearts may burn within us "while thou art pleas'd to converfe with us, "that thou may'ft then vouchsafe to be known

to us in breaking of Bread. ] O Let us not "be of the World, as thou wert not of "it; keep us from the evil of it, till thou "fhalt bring us to thy felf in Peace.

"O my Father, O my God, I am in thy hand, and rejoice above all things in being "fo; do with me what feems good in thy fight; only grant me pardon for those "Sins which continually provoke thy Rod, and fanctifie every ftroke of it to me; ແ make it effectual to wean my Heart from the World, and from all finful Affecti- ' ons, and root out the remains of my finI fully contracted Habits, that I may be pure and holy before Thee, and unreprovable in thy fight.

"O be gracious to all thy poor Servants that are in Mifery and Distress of Mind, Body, or Estate, all that lye on the Bed "of Sicknefs, all that want the Comforts that I enjoy: Eafetthem, gracious Lord, and relieve them, give them Patience under thy Hand, Submiffion to thy Will, and a happy Iffue, in thy good time, out of all their Afflictions; and give me a heart

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a heart to affift and relieve them according to the Abilities thou giveft me, as a faithful Steward of thofe good things thou haft entrufted me with for their use.

"O Grant me a thankful Heart for all "thy Mercies; for thy Infinite goodnefs in making me thy own handy-work, ડ and giving me a Being capable to Love "Thee! For all thy Fatherly Tenderness “ to me, Care of me, and Gracious Dealte ings with me in my whole Life. For "thy wonderful Patience and Forbearance "in not Cutting me off in my Sins, but "exercifing me with thy adorable gracious "Providences, to awaken and bring off my "Soul from Sin and Folly; for delivering

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દ my Fears and Terrors. For making me σε thy Care hitherto, and giving me the "Comfortable Hopes that thou doft and "wilt continue me fo. For calling me to "rejoice before thee, for making me to fit c as an acceptable Gueft at thy Table, "treating me as a reconciled Friend, giv"ing me the Sacrifice of thy Dear Son, "whom my Sins had Slain, in token of thy "perfect reconcilement to me, and paffing

by all my Unworthiness. For loving us, " and that fo, as to give him, the Son of "Love, out of thy Bofom for our Redemp

tion. For finding thy felf a Ranfome for "us, which we cou'd not have thought of, which we dar'd not to have ask'd. For

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"that thy inconceivable Love, O most gra"cious Lord Jefu, Lamb of God, Son of "the Father, who takest away the Sins of "the World, which thou haft born, and "dost bear to us; which brought thee from "thy Fathers Glory to vifit us, to take up"on thee our Nature, to become miferable "with us, and to humble thy felf to the "loweft Condition of Men: For all the "good which thou haft done, and the evil "which thou haft fuffer'd for us in thy Bo"dy and in thy Soul. For all that bitter

Pain and Shame and Sorrow of thy Soul "unto Death: For the Agony and Bloody

Sweat, and Terrors and Dereliction of "thy Father, which thou haft endured for, "and from my Sins, in making Atonement "for them to thy Fathers Wrath, which

they had provoked, (O that I may add no "more to this fad weight, but may be faithful to thy Love for ever.) For those tender Expreffions of thy Love vouch"fafed to thy Servants and Followers, to "fhew us how much thou lovest Mankind, "and to provoke our Hearts to Love thee the tendereft of Lovers. For those Comforting and Encouraging words to them, while thy Soul fo much needed to be "Comforted. For those kind Invitations "to us to pray unto Thee, and in thy "Name; for praying for us upon Earth,inter"ceeding for us continually in Heaven. For promifing to vifit us, and to Comfort us with thy Spirit, and fulfilling thy word

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fo graciously to thy Servants. For pro"miling to prepare Places for us, and to "take us to thy felf, O fit us for thy felf:

and let our Souls long to be with thee.

"For granting me to be born in thy Church "and of Religious Parents, for wafhing me in thy Baptifm, making me a lively Mem"ber of thy Body, and inftructing me in thy "Doctrine of Truth and Holiness. For "permitting me to love Thee; for bringકંદ ing me to thy Table, and making me re66 joice before before thee: For pardoning ἐσ my Sins, and faying that thou art the "Propitiation for them, and prefenting me 66 to thy Father reconcil'd in thy felf. For "feeding my Soul with thy precious Body 46 and Blood, giving me thofe pledges of દ thy Love and affured conveyances of Grace, "and Strength, and Comfort, and immor"tal Happiness with thy felf; for faying "to my Soul fo graciously, that thou woud'ft "not have given me thefe good things if "thou wert not reconciled to me, that "thou art my Saviour and wilt be my Savi"our for ever, and that this thy precious "Blood fhall fave me from the Terrors of "the great Day. O Pardon my unworthi"ness of these thy ineftimable Favours and pardon my Sins against thy Love.

"Sanctifie the friendship which thou hast "granted me with [these] thy Servants; "O that our Prayers may be heard for each "other, while our Hearts are united in thy "Fear and Love, and graciously unite them

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more and more fo. Strengthen the Hearts "of us thy Servants against all our Corruptiet ons and Temptations, enable us to con"fecrate our felves faithfully and entirely. "to thy Service, grant that we may pro"voke each other to love and ferve thee, "and grow up together before thee in thy "Fear and Love to thy Heavenly King"dom, and by thy Infinite Mercies vouch"fafe to bring us to rejoice together before "thee for ever.

"Out of thy fulness, O moft Gracious "Lord Jefu, let me receive Grace for Grace, "Humility, Meeknefs, Purity, Holiness, Re"folutenefs and Conftancy in Devotion, "Attentivenefs and recollection of Mind in "coming before thee; Patience in waiting ct upon thee, Weanedness from the World; "Refignation to thy holy Will, and Con"tentedness in all Conditions; fincerity "and uprightness of Heart before thee my "God, and towards thee, my God, and "towards all Men, and univerfal Charity.

"I adore thy condefcending Love, O "Lord God our Sanctifier, in giving thy "felf to thy Creatures, and vouchsafing to "be with thy Church and Servants always; "to Affift, Sanctifie, Strengthen and Com"fort us; to carry on and perfect the "work of Redemption in each of our Hearts; "to Seal us to thy Heavenly Kingdom, to "unite us to thy Self and to each other, "by vouchsafing to be the Lord and Prin "cipal of all our Life: For thy gracious

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