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our Sins in his Blood (for thou haft redeemed us to God by thy Blood, out of every Kindred, and Tongue, and People and Nation!) and has made us Kings and Priests unto God and his Father, to him be Glory and Dominion for ever and everb, Amen.

Being returned to your Pew, you may thus address yourself to Jefus Chrift.

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Praife and glorify thy Name, O most merciful Saviour, for this fignal Favour of admitting me to thy holy Table, to commemorate thy Death, and receive the Pledges of thy Love. Altho' I am unworthy of the leaft of thy Mercies, thou haft abundantly fatisfied me with the Fatness of thine House, and thou haft made me drink of the River of thy Pleasure; therefore in the Midft of the Congregation will I praise thee: I will pay my Vows before them that fear thee.---O how plentiful is the Goodness which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee, and put their Trust in thee! dd

O how amiable are thy Tabernacles, O Lord of Hofts: A Day in thy Courts is better than a thoufand; Bleffed are they that dwell in thy Houfe. ---Lord, it is good for us to be here."-- As long as I live will I magnify thee in this Manner, and lift up my Hands in thy Name1. Thou art my God, and I will thank thee; thou art my God, and I will praife thee. I will love thee, O

(b) Rev. v, 12; i, 6; v, 1.. (c) Pf. xxxvii, 8, (d) Pf. xxii, 22, 25. (dil) Ibid. xxxi, 21. (e) Ibid. lxxxiv, 1. (ec) Matth. xvii, `4. [1] Ibid. Ixiii, 33. [2] ibid.cxviii, 28.

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Lord, my Strength and my Salvation"; I will bless thee, and fpeak good of thy Name 3.

I have now remembered the tragical Circumtances of thy Paffion, and it is my earnest Defire that they may be always fo prefent to my Mind, as to engage me to fhew forth a Thankfulness in fome Sort proportionate to thy Love. Imprint fo deeply in my Mind fuch a lively Senfe of thy Sufferings, that I may never crucify thee afresh, and put thee to an open Shame, by relapfing under the Power of Sin. I prefent unto thee my Body and Soul, for a living, holy, and acceptable Sacrifice, which is my reasonable Service. Accept this Offering abfolutely and without Referve. Strengthen my Refolution to be faithful unto Death: Let me be renewed in the Spirit of my Mind h, that being changed into thine own Image, I may abound in every good Work; fo that going from Strength to Strength, from one Degree of Perfection to another, I may at laft fit down at thy Table in Heaven with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and with all thy Saints and Servants who are departed in thy Fear and Love. Amen.

[The Reader fhould be here admonish'd not to fuffer thefe, or any other private Devotions, to interrupt or take from the Attention fo justly and preferably due to thofe of the Church; for thefe are intended only during the Interval of the Congregation's communicating, and must be immediately broke off when the Prieft begins again.]

[2] Pf. xviii, 1.. [3] Ib. c, 3. (f) Heb. vi, 6. (g) Rom. xii, 1. (h) Rev. ii, 10.`~(hh) Eph. iv, 23. (i) 2 Cor. iii, 18. (ii) Pf. lxxxiv, 7.

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"The following Meditations on our Saviour's "Offices may be used at any Time, either "the Morning we communicate, or during 66 any Intervals of the Service, whether be"fore we receive the facred Elements, or af"terwards."

A Meditation on the Prophetick Office of our Lord JESUS CHRIST.

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Ternally adored be the divine Counfels of Wisdom and Goodness, in the Recovery and Redemption of fallen Men! O the Length, and Depth, and Height of this unfathomable Mercy, that ever the glorious undivided Trinity fhould contrive a Way to fave us! a Way, as much beyond the Reach as beyond the Power of Men and Angels, of all created Beings whatfoever! That the Son of God himself should condescend to become Man for our Sakes, and take upon him our Nature, that he might die for our Sins! That he fhould vouchsafe to become our MEDIATOR, and ftoop fo low as to be our PROPHET, our PRIEST, and our KING! My Soul, let us contemplate thefe facred Offices, and fearch a little into this almighty Love, which is unmeasurable and inexhaustible, which furpaffes all Knowledge, and can never be thoroughly fearched out; which Angels themfelves defire to look into, and which fhall be to Men and Angels the moft exalted Subject of Thanks and Praife, and of Joy unfpeakable, and full of Glory, to eternal Ages!

Thou

Thou art indeed a Prophet, O my dear Redeemer; thou art of a Truth that Prophet which was to come into the World: A Prophet to inftruct us in thy Father's Will, and, as far as fuch Knowledge was neceffary for us, to let us into the Knowledge of Things that were to be hereafter, and to teach us Things to come "; to acquaint thy People with Things that should come to pass, that after they were come to pass they might believe that thou wert HE", the very Meffias, or Chrift, the Anointed, the Holy One of God", the Saviour of the World. Thou art, O Jefu, the true Light which lighteth every Man that cometh into the World; and it is thro' thee alone that we can know any Thing of God as a gracious and merciful Creator !---Thou haft inftructed us in all that it was neceffary for us to believe or do, in order to our present or future Happiness; and because our Obedience to thy divine Laws is abfolutely and indifpenfibly neceffary to our Happiness, thou haft bound it upon us by the most powerful Sanctions, by exceeding great and precious Promifes, that by thefe we might be Partakers of a divine Nature; and on the other Side, that, knowing the Terror of the Lord, we might be perfuaded to escape the Corruption which is in the World through Luft.

O the Purity and Sublimity of thy heavenly Doctrine! Thy Light is perfect, converting the Soul; thy Teftimony is fure, making wife the Simple; thy Statutes are right, rejoicing the

(k) John vi, 14‰ˆ (m) John xiii, 19. (d) 2 Cor. v, II,

(1) Rev. i, 19..
(n). Mark i, 24.
(q) 2 Pet. i, 4.

(11) John xvi, 13, (0) John i, 9.

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Heart; thy Commandment is pure, enlightening the Eyes; thy Fear is clean, enduring for ever; thy Judgments are true and righteous altogether! More to be defired are they than Gold, yea than much fine Gold; fweeter alfo than Honey, and the Honey-comb. Moreover by them is thy Servant taught, and in keeping of them there is great Reward. How incomparably preferable is thy Doctrine to all that ever went before; purged from the Idolatry and Superftition of the Gentile World, who had changed the Glory of the incorruptible God into an Image made like to corruptible Man, and to Birds, and four-footed Beafts, and creeping Things .---Thou haft freed us from the Yoke of Ceremonies and outward Obfervances, which the Jews of old were not able to bear. Blefied Jefu! thy Yoke is eafy, and thy Burthen is light": The Law was given by Mofes, but Grace and Truth came by Jefus Chrift: Life and Immortality were brought to Light by the Gospel: Here we are taught the Way of God most perfectly. We are beft inítructed in the Nature of God and his Attributes, and the Worship to be paid unto him; in the Original and Malignity, the great Danger and Demerit of Sin; the only Method of Atonement and Reconciliation; of our being fanctified here, in order to our being juftified and glorified hereaf ter.---Here we are beft inftructed in all moral and focial Virtues; the moft exact Juftice and Equity; the most exalted and extenfive Benevolence and Charity; and in all Duties relating

(r) Pf. 19, 8, &c. (u) Matth. xi, 30. (z) Acts xviii, 26..

(f) Rom. i, 23. (t) Acts 15, 10. (x) John 1,17. (y) 2 Tim. i, 10.

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