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Monthly preparations for the Holy Communion by R.B
Monthly preparations for the Holy Communion by R.B. ; to which is added suitable meditations before, in, and after receiving ; with divine hymns in common tunes, fitted for public congregations or private families.Monthly preparations for the Holy Communion by R.B. ; to which is added suitable meditations before, in, and after receiving ; with divine hymns in common tunes, fitted for publick congregations or private families.
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1696
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
A Hymn for the Sacrament.
HYMN I.
I. A New and well composed Song, With raptures filled of Love, And ecstasies of Joy, let's tune Unto our Lord above. Awake my drowsy sleepy Soul, Awake dull heavy heart, And all my faculties and powers, Join, in and bear a part.
I. A New and well composed Song, With raptures fill'd of Love, And extasies of Joy, let's tune Unto our Lord above. Awake my drowsie sleepy Soul, Awake dull heavy heart, And all my faculties and powers, Joyn, in and bear a part.
II. Let judgment weigh the argument, Let fancy it adorn, Let memory bring forth its store, Thoughts, offer your first-born. God did assume the shape of Man, With flesh his glory veiled, ⟨p. 150⟩Himself he humbled unto death. He to the Cross was nailed.
II. Let judgment weigh the argument, Let fancy it adorn, Let memory bring forth its store, Thoughts, offer your first-born. God did assume the shape of Man, With flesh his glory vail'd,