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A thanksgiving after the receiving of the Communion.

A thankesgeuinge after the receiuynge of the Communion.

JE thank the (O heavenly father) for the blessed passion and glorious death of thy dearly beloved son our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ,¹ by whom & by whose holy wounds we faithfully believe and are assuredly persuaded, that thy wrath is not only pacified toward us, but that thou also art now become our most merciful father, and haste freely forgiven us all our since, restored us to thy heavenly grace, and made us sons & heirs of thine eternal glory. And because we should not doubt of thy fatherly goodness toward us set forth in the death of thy son, the same thy son Christ Jesus our Lord hath left unto us not only his holy word,² but also a blessed memorial of his death, ⟨p. cxii⟩and passion, set forth in the holy bread and holy wine, which we at this present have received both for a remembrance of the breaking of his blessed body, and the shedding of his most precious blood, and also for the quietness of our conscience, and for the assurance of the remission of our since through faith. We beseech the (O heavenly father) that we be never unmindful of this thy exceeding great kindness, nor unthankful, for thy manifold & unspeakable mercies declared unto us in the glorious death of thy well-beloved son, but so work y• in us through thy holy spirit, that we maybe made worthy members of that body, whereof thy son and our saviour Christ Jesus is the head,³