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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.
2. This Consecration having a special respect to God the Father, in it we acknowledge his three grand Relations. 1. That he is the Creator, and so the Owner of all the Creatures; for we offer them to him as his own. 2. That he is our Righteous Governor, whose Law it was, that Adam and we have broken, and who required satisfaction, and hath received the Sacrifice and atonement, and hath dispensed ⟨p. 11⟩with the strict and proper execution of that Law; and will rule us hereafter by the Law of Grace. 3. That he is our Father or Benefactor who hath freely given us a Redeemer, and the Covenant of Grace, whose Love and Favour we have forfeited by sin, but desire & hope to be reconciled by Christ.
2. This Consecration having a special respect to God the Father, in it we acknowledge his three grand Relations. 1. That he is the Creator, and so the Owner of all the Creatures; for we offer them to him as his own. 2. That he is our Righteous Governor, whose Law it was, that Adam and we have broken, and who required satisfaction, and hath received the Sacrifice and atonement, and hath dispensed ⟨p. 11⟩with the strict and proper execution of that Law; and will rule us hereafter by the Law of Grace. 3. That he is our Father or Benefactor who hath freely given us a Redeemer, and the Covenant of Grace, whose Love and Favor we have forfeited by sin, but desire & hope to be reconciled by Christ.
3. As Christ himself was Incarnate and true Christ, before he was sacrificed to God, and was sacrificed to God, before that sacrifice be communicated for life and nourishment to Souls: So in the Sacrament, Consecration must first make the Creature to be the Flesh and Blood of Christ representative; and then the sacrificing of that flesh and blood must be represented and commemorated; and then the sacrificed flesh and blood communicated to the Receivers for their spiritual life.