A26957:78
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.
5. Let your preparation to this Sacrament consist of these particulars following, 1. In your duty with your own consciences and hearts. 2. In your duty towards God. 3. And in your duty towards your Neighbour.
I. Your duty with your hearts consisteth in these particulars. 1. That you do your best in the close examination of your hearts about your States, and the sincerity of your Faith, Repentance, and Obedience: To know whether your hearts are true to God, in the Covenant which you are to renew and seal. Which may be done by these inquiries, and discerned by these Signs. 1. Whether you truly loath your selves for all the sins of your hearts and lives, and are a greater offence and burden to your selves, because of your imperfections and corruptions, than all the World besides is? Ez. 6. 9. & 20. ⟨p. 29⟩43. & 36. 31. Rom. 7. 24. 2. Whether you have no sin but what you are truly desirous to know; and no known sin, but what you are truly desirous to be rid of; and so desirous, as that you had rather be perfectly freed from sin, than from any affliction in the world? Rom. 7. 22, 18, 24. & 8 18. 3. Whether you love the searching and reforming Light, even the most searching parts of the Word of God, and the most searching Books, and searching Sermons, that by them you may be brought to know your selves, in order to your settled peace and reformation? John 3. 19, 20, 21: 4. Whether you truly love that degree of holiness in others which you have not yet attained your selves, and love Christ in his Children, with such an unfeigned love, as will cause you to relieve them according to your abilities, and suffer for their sakes, when it is your duty? 1 John 3. 14, 16.