The crucified Jesus, or, A full account of the nature, end, design and benefits of the sacrament of the Lords Supper with necessary directions, prayers, praises and meditations to be used by persons who come to the Holy Communion / by Anthony Horneck ...

The PRAYER.

O Blessed Redeemer, who didst remember me when I had forgetten thee, and thoughtest of me when I did not re∣gard thee! When I lay buried in the common Mass of Corru∣ption, thou didst not disdain to think on this forlorn Creature! Thou didst pity me, thou sawest my Misery, and it grieved thee at thy Heart: Thy Bowels yearn'd over me, and thou didst spread thy Mantle over me! O happy Remembrance! I had been lost if thou hadst not looked upon me, I had been undone if thou hadst not cast thine Eye upon me; yet how loth have I been to think of thee! What an Aversion have I had from re∣membring thee! How have I shifted off all serious Reflections on thy Love! I have more delighted in Trifles, than in thee! How sweet have the Thoughts of my Corn, and Wine, and Oil been to me; and how tedious, how irksome all Contemplation of tbee! When thou hast sometimes put me in mind of thy Suf∣ferings, how have I suffered Worldly Thoughts to drive thee out of my Mind! How justly mightest thou turn thy Eyes away, and hide thy Face from me! O Sweet, O Glorious Object! Ap∣pear in thy Beauty, appear in thy Glory to my Mind; that I may be throughly convinced that nothing deserves my Thoughts so much as thy self. I am resolved to remember thee with greater Delight and Constancy: Help thou me. Should not I remember thee, who hast in a manner forgotten thy self, to remember me! I can remember a Temporal Deliverance; and shall not the Deliverance of my Soul, procured by thy Death, be remembred by me! I can remember a Disaster, which hath some Years agone befallen me; and shall not I remember the infinite Misery, from which thou camest to rescue me! I will think of thee in the Night-Watches, I will think of thee when I lie down, when I awake, when I rise again. In the great Ordinance of thy Supper, I will in a most solemn manner think of thee. Teach me to remember thee here with Joy, with Pleasure, with Comfort to my Soul. Here let my Thoughts of thee be sweet. Whenever I think on thy Cross, let me re∣member how by thy Charity I was freed from the Curse of God. Thou becamest a Curse for me: Ought not this Mercy

to be remembred for ever! Write it in my Mind, engrave it upon my Heart, let this Remembrance be easie to me. Chase away all Unwillingness, all Backwardness to this Duty, from my Soul. Oh, let it become natural, and make this Remem∣brance profitable to me, that my Inward Man may be renewed by it Day by Day, and abound in Love; and the longer I live, the more conformable I may be to thee, sweet Jesu; to whom, with the Father, and the Holy Spirit, be all Honour and Glory, for ever, and ever. Amen.