A petition for peace with the reformation of the liturgy, as it was presented…

This or the like Explication of the Nature, Use, and Benefits of this Sacrament, may be used at the discretion of the Minister, when he seeth it needful to the Instruction of the Communicants. That you may discern the Lords body, and understand the nature, use and benefits of this Sacrament, you must know that God created man in his own Image, to know, and love, and serve his Maker; That man fell under the guilt of sin and condemnation, and left his holy Fitness for the work for which he was created. That hereupon the wonderful love and wisdom of God provided us a Remedy in our Redeemer, to the end he might not lose the glory of his Creation, that he might pardon and save us upon terms. Securing the honour of his Justice, and attaining the ends of his Law and Government, and recover us to his love and service, by appearing to the world, in the greatest demonstrations of Goodness, Love, and Mercy; By the greatest Miracle of Condescension, he first promised, and then gave his only ⟨p. 47⟩Son the Eternal Word, to take mans nature into personal union with his God-head; that being God and Man, he might be a fit Mediator between God and Man, to restore us, and reconcile us to himself. Thus Jesus Christ, conceived by the Holy Ghost, and born of the Virgin Mary, became the second Adam, the Physician and Saviour of undone Sinners, the Captain of our Salvation, to be the glorious King and Head of all that are sanctified and saved. He revealed the Holiness, the Goodness, and the Love of God, by the perfect Holiness, Goodness, and Love of his Blessed Person, Doctrine, and Conversation, and by suffering for us all the Afflictions of this life, and at last the cursed death of the Cross, as a Sacrifice and Ransom for us. That all this might be effectual to our Recovery, he made for us a new and better Covenant, and preached it himself, undertaking the Pardon, Justification, and Sanctification of all that by unfeigned Faith do take him for their Saviour, repenting of their sins, and consenting to be sanctified by his Word and Spirit (by which also he inviteth, and draweth men to himself, and giveth them to believe) Into this blessed, pardoning, saving Covenant, we are first solemnly entered by Baptism.