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Ratio disciplinae fratrum Nov-Anglorum. A faithful account of the discipline professed and practised; in…
Ratio disciplinae fratrum Nov-Anglorum. A faithful account of the discipline professed and practised; in the churches of New-England. : With interspersed and instructive reflections on the discipline of the primitive churches. : [Seven lines from Ezekiel]
Boston: printed for S. Gerrish, 1726
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He adds; And HE BLESSED it;—whereupon the Communicants now standing up, he now poureth out a Prayer before the Lord, filled with ⟨p. 98⟩the Acknowledgements of the Evangelical Truths, which this Institution invites us to think upon; and Supplications for the Divine Blessing, upon that Part of the Sacrament, now before them, and upon themselves in the Receiving of it. I may describe the Prayer in the Words of Justin Martyr; The Minister gives Praise and Glory to the Lord of all, through' the Son and the Holy Spirit; and in a large Manner renders particular Thanks for the present Mercies; who when he has ended his Prayers and Praises, the People say, Amen.
He adds; And HE BLESSED it;—whereupon the Communicants now standing up, he now poureth out a Prayer before the Lord, filled with ⟨p. 98⟩the Acknowledgements of the Evangelical Truths, which this Institution invites us to think upon; and Supplications for the Divine Blessing, upon that Part of the Sacrament, now before them, and upon themselves in the Receiving of it. I may describe the Prayer in the Words of Justin Martyr; The Minister gives Praise and Glory to the Lord of all, thro' the Son and the Holy Spirit; and in a large Manner renders particular Thanks for the present Mercies; who when he has ended his Prayers and Praises, the People say, Amen.
The Prayer being finished, the Communicants again sit down, and the Pastor says, Our Lord JESUS CHRIST having Blessed the Bread, He BROKE it. Whereupon he proceeds to the Breaking of the Bread, in the View of the Communicants, who for the most Part are silently left unto their own Meditations, during this Action; though some of the Pastors Excite and Assist the Meditations of the People, by now and then uttering a Sentence of the sacred Scriptures, or of their own Pathetic Thoughts, unto them.