beseeching thee to give us grace so toffences to be such as are not only follow their good examples, that with against God, but also against your them we may be partakers of thy neighbours; then ye shall reconcile heavenly kingdom: Grant this, O Fa- yourselves unto them; being ready to ther, for Jesus Christ's sake, our only make restitution and satisfaction, Mediator and Advocate. Amen. according to the uttermost of your When the Minister giveth warning powers, for all injuries and wronga for the Celebration of the Holy Com-done by you to any other; and being munion (which he shall always do ikewise ready to forgive others who upon the Sunday, or some Holy day, immediately preceding) he shali read this Exhortation following; or so much thereof as, in his discretion, he may think convenient. DEARLY beloved, on day have offended you, as ye would have forgiveness of your offences at God's hand: For otherwise the receiving of the Holy Communion doth nothing else but increase your condemnation. Therefore, if any of you be a blasnext, I purpose, through God's phemer of God, an hinderer or slan assistance, to administer to all such lerer of his Word, an adulterer, or be as shall be religiously and devoutly in malice or envy,or in any other griev disposed, the most comfortable Sa-jous crime; repent ye of your sins, er crainent of the Body and Blood of else come not to that holy Table. Christ; to be by them received, in re- And because it is requisite that no membrance of his meritorious Cross man should come to the holy Comand Passion; whereby alone we ob-munion, but with a full trust in God's tain remission of our sins, and are mercy, and with a quiet conscience; made partakers of the kingdom of therefore, if there be any of you, who Heaven. Wherefore it is our duty to by these means cannot quiet his own render most humble and hearty thanks conscience herein, but requireth furto Almighty God, our heavenly Father comfort or counsel'; let him ther, for that he hath given his Son come to me, or to some other minister our Saviour Jesus Christ, not only to of God's word, and open his grief; die for us, but also to be our spiritual that he may receive such Godly counfood and sustenance in that holy Sa- sel and advice, as may tend to the crament. Which being so divine and quieting of his conscience, and the recomfortable a thing to them who re-moving of all scruple and doubtfulceive it worthily, and so dangerous to ness. those who will presume to receive it unworthily; my duty is to exhort you in the mean season, to consider the dignity of that holy Mystery, and the great peril of the unworthy receiving thereof; and so to search and ex- - intend, by God's grace, mine your own consciences, (and to celebrate the Lord's Supper; unto that not lightly, and after the manner which, in God's behalf, I bid you all of dissemblers with God; but so) that who are here present; and beseech ye may come holy and clean to such you for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, a heavenly feast, in the marriage-that ye will not refuse to come theregarment required by God in holy to, being so lovingly called and bidden scripture; and be received as worthy by God himself. Ye know how griev partakers of that holy Table. ous and unkind a thing it is, when a The way and means thereto is, First, man hath prepared a rich feast, deckto examine your lives and conversa-ed his table with all kinds of provitions by the rule of God's command- sion, so that there lacketh nothing but ments; and wherein soever ye shall the guests to sit down; and yet they perceive yourselves to have offended. who are called (without any cause) either by will, word, or deed, there to most unthankfully refuse to come. bewail your own sinfulness, and to Which of you in such a case would confess yourselves to Almighty God, not be moved? Who would not think with full purpose of amendment of a great injury and wrong done unto life. And if ye shall perceive vour of him? Wherefore, most dearly be 11 Or, in case he shall see the People negligent to come to the Holy Com munion, instead of the former, he shall use this Exhortation. DEARLY beloved brethren, on loved in Christ, take ye good heed, I selves, before they presume to eat of lest ye, withdrawing yourselves from that Bread, and drink of that Cup. this holy Supper, provoke God's in- For as the benefit is great, if with a dignation against you. It is an easy true penitent heart and lively faitn matter for a man to say, I will not we receive that holy Sacrament; so communicate, because I am otherwise is the danger great, if we receive the hindered with worldly business. But same unworthily. Judge therefore such excuses are not so easily accept-yourselves, brethren, that ye be not ed, and allowed before God. If any judged of the Lord; repent ye truly man say, I am a grievous sinner, and for your sins past; have a lively and therefore am afraid to come: where- steadfast faith in Christ our Saviour; fore then do ye not repent and amend? amend your lives, and be in perfect When God calleth you, are ye not charity with all men: so shall ye be ashamed to say, ye will not come ? meet partakers of those holy Myste When ye should return to God, will ries. And above all things, ye must ye excuse yourselves, and say, ye are give most humble and hearty thanks not ready? Consider earnestly with to God the Father, the Son, and the yourselves, how little such feigned ex- Holy Ghost, for the redemption of the cuses will avail before God. Those world by the death and passion of our who refused the feast in the Gospel, Saviour Christ, both God and man; because they had bought a farm, or who did humble himself, even to the would try their yokes of oxen, or be death upon the cross, for us miseracause they were married, were not so ble sinners, who lay in darkness and excused, but counted unworthy of the the shadow of death; that he might heavenly feast. Wherefore, accord- make us the children of God, and ex ing to mine office, I bid you in the alt us to everlasting life. And to the name of God, I call you in Christ's end that we should always remember behalf, I exhort you, as ye love your the exceeding great love of our Mas own salvation, that ye will be par-ter and only Saviour Jesus Christ, takers of this Holy Communion. And thus dying for us, and the innumera as the Son of God did vouchsafe to ble benefits which by his precious yield up his soul by death upon the blood-shedding he hath obtained for cross, for your salvation; so it is us, he hath instituted and ordained your duty to receive the Communion holy Mysteries, as pledges of his love, in remembrance of the sacrifice of his and for a continual remembrance of death, as he himself hath commanded: his death, to our great and endless Which if ye shall neglect to do, con-comfort. To him, therefore, with sider with yourselves, how great is the Father, and the Holy Ghost, let your ingratitude to God, and how sore us give (as we are most bounden) punishment hangeth over your heads continual thanks; submitting ourfor the same, when ye wilfully abstain selves wholly to his holy will and pleafrom the Lord's Table, and separate sure, and studying to serve him in from your brethren who come to feed true holiness and righteousness, all on the banquet of that most heavenly the days of our life. Amen. food. These things if ye earnestly T Then shail the Priest say to those consider, ye will by God's grace, re- who come to receive the Holy Com turn to a better mind; for the ob- munion, taining whereof we shall not cease to make our humble petitions unto Almighty God, our heavenly Father. At the time of the Celebration of the Communion, the Priest shall say this Exhortation. YE who do truly and earnestly re pent you of your sins, and are in love and charity with your neighbours, and intend to lead a new life, following the commandments of God, and walking from henceforth in his holy ways; draw near with faith, who mind to come to the Holy and take this holy Sacrament to your Communion of the Body and Blood comfort; and make your humble conof our Saviour Christ, must consider fession to Almighty God, devoutly how St. Paul exhorteth all persons kneeling. diligently to try and examine them DEARLY beloved in the Lord, ye Then shall this general Confession be made, by the Priest and all those cate with the Father, Jesus Christ the who are minded to receive the Holy righteous; and he is the propitiation Communiou, humbly kneeling. for our sins. 1 John ii. 1,2. ALMIGHTY God, Father of our After which the Priest shall proceed, saying, Lord Jesus Christ, Maker of all things, Judge of all men ; we acknow- Lift up your hearts. ledge and bewail our manifold sins Answer. We lift them up unto the and wickedness, which we from time Lord. to time most grievously have commit- Priest. Let us give thanks unto our ted, by thought, word, and deed, Lord God. against thy divine Majesty; provok- Answer. It is meet and right so to do. ing most justly thy wrath and indig-T Then shall the Priest turn to the nation against us. We do earnestly Lord's Table, and say, repent, and are heartily sorry for T is very meet, right, and our these our misdoings; the remem- bounden duty, that we should at brance of them is grievous unto us; all times, and in all places, give the burthen of them is intolerable. thanks unto thee, O Lord, [* Holy Have mercy upon us, have mercy, Father,] Almighty, everlasting God. upon us, most merciful Father; for T Here shall follow the proper Pre thy Son our Lord Jesus Christ's sake, face, according to the time, if there forgive us all that is past; and grant, be any specially appointed; or else that we may ever hereafter serve and immediately shall be said or sung by please thee in newness of life, to the the Priest and People, honour and glory of thy name, through "THEREFORE with Angels and Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Archangels, and with all the comThen shall the Priest (the Bishop, pany of heaven, we laud and magnify if he be present) stand up, and turn-lthy glorious name; evermore prais ing to the People, say, (ing thee, and saying, Holy, holy, holy, ALMIGHTY God, our heavenly Lord God of Hosts, heaven and earth Father, who of his great mercy are full of thy glory: Glory be to hath promised forgiveness of sins to thee, O Lord Most High. Amen. 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. Then shall the Priest say, Hear what comfortable words Saviour Christ saith unto all who truly turn to him. PROPER PREFACES. Christ, thine only Son, to be born las at this time for us; who, by the ourjoperation of the Holy Ghost, was made very man, of the substance of the Virgin Mary his Mother; and that without spot of sin, to make us clean from all sin: Therefore with Angels, &c. COME unto me, all ye that travel Upon Easter Day, and seven Days after. BUT chiefly are we bound to praise thee for the glorious resurrection of thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord: Hear also what St. Paul saith. For he is the very Paschal Lamb, This is a true saying, and worthy of which was offered for us, and hath all men to be received, that Christ taken away the sin of the world; Jesus came into the world to save sin-who by his death hath destroyed ners. 1 Tim. 1. 15. death, and, by his rising to life again, Hear also what St. John saith. hath restored to us everlasting life If any man ain, we have an Advo-Therefore with Angels, &c. • These words [Holy Father] must be omitted on Trinity Sunday. Upon Ascension Day, and seventher up the crumbs under thy Table Days after. But thou art the same Lord, whose HROUGH thy most dearly be-property is always to have mercy: loved Son Jesus Christ our Lord; Grant us therefore, gracions Lord, sa who, after his most glorious resurrec-to eat the flesh of thy dear Son Jesus tion, manifestly appeared to all his Christ, and to drink his blood, that Apostles, and in their sight ascended our sinful bodies may be made clean. up into heaven, to prepare a place for by his body, and our souls washed us; that where he is, thither we through his most precious blood, and might also ascend, and reign with him that we may evermore dwell in him, in glory: Therefore with Angels, &c. and he in us. Amen. Upon Whitsunday, and six Days after. 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 most 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 Apost!, ALL glory be to thee, Almighty to teach them, and to lead them to God, our heavenly Father, for all truth; giving them both the gift that thou, of thy tender mercy, didst of divers languages, and also bold-give thine only Son Jesus Christ te ness with fervent zeal, constantly to suffer death upon the cross for our repreach the gospel unto all nations; demption; who made there (by his whereby we have been brought out of one oblation of himself once offered) darkness and error, into the clear a full, perfect, and sufficient sacrifice, light and knowledge of thee, and oblation, and satisfaction, for the sins of thy Son Jesus Christ: Therefore of the whole world; and did institute, with Angels, &c. and in his holy gospel command us to Upon the Feast of Trinity only, may continue a perpetual memory of that be said, his precious death and sacrifice until WHO art one God, one Lord; not his coming again: For in the night one only person, but three per-in which he was Bons 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, without any difference or inequality: Therefore with Angels, &c." Or else this may be said, the words [Holy Father] being retained in the introductory Address. FOR the precious death and merits of thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord, and for the sending to us of the Holy Ghost the Comforter; who are one with thee in thy eternal Godhead: Therefore with Angels, &c.. betrayed, (a) he (a) Here the Priest (c) this is my (e) And here to lay ¶ Then shall the Priest, kneeling down WE do not presume to come to this (d) Here he is to ike the Cup into his hand. for (e) this is my (e) And here he is Blood, of the to lay his hand upon in thy manifold and great mercies. New Testa- every Vessel, in We are no worthy so much as to ga-ment, which is which there is any saed for you, Wine to be conse-1 through our manifold sins, to offer and for many, crated. for the remis sion of sins; Do this as oft as ye shall drink it, in remembrance of me. unto thee any sacrifice; yet we be seech thee to accept this our bounden duty and service, not weighing our merits, but pardouing our offences, through Jesus Christ our Lord; by whom, and with whom, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, alf 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. 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 Then shall the Priest first receive make here before thy divine Majesty, the Communion in both kinds himwith these thy holy gifts, which we self, and proceed to deliver the same now offer unto thee, the memorial thy to the Bishops, Priests, and DeaSon hath commanded us to make; cons, in like manner, (if any be prehaving in remembrance his blessed sent) and, after that, to the People passion and precious death, his mighty also in order, into their hands, all resurrection and glorious ascension; devoutly kneeling: And when he derendering unto thee most hearty livereth the Bread, he shall say, thanks, for the innumerable benefits THE body of our Lord Jesus procured unto us by the same. And we Christ, which was given for thee, The Invocation. most humbly be-preserve thy body and soul unto everseech thee, O mer-lasting life: Take and eat this in reciful Father, to hear us; and, of thy membrance that Christ died for thee, Almighty goodness, vouchsafe to bless and feed on him in thy heart by faith, and sancufy, with thy Word and with thanksgiving. the Cup, shall say, T If the consecrated Bread and Wine be spent before 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 Blood. Holy Spirit, these thy gifts and crea-T And the Minister who delivereth tures of bread and wine; that we, receiving them according to thy Son our THE blood of our Lord Jesus Saviour Jesus Christ's holy institu- Christ, which was shed for thee, tion, in remembrance of his Death and preserve thy body and soul unto everPassion, may be partakers of his lasting life: Drink this in rememmost blessed Body and Blood. And brance that Christ's blood was shed we earnestly desire thy fatherly for thee, and be thankful. 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 ob tain 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, any made one body with him, that he may dwell in them, and they in him. And although we are unworthy, When all have communicated, the Minister shall return to the Lord's Table, and reverently place upon it what remaineth of the consecrated Elements, covering the same with a fair Linen Cloth. Then shall the Minister say the Lord's Prayer, the People repeating after him every petition. UR Father, who art a Heaven, Hallowed be thy Name; Thy Kingdom come; Thy w be done Earth, as it is in Heaver Give this day our daily bread And for |