The worthy communicant, or, A discourse of the nature, effects, and blessings consequent to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper and of all the duties required in order to a worthy preparation : together with the cases of conscience occurring in the duty of him that ministers, and of him that communicates : to which are added, devotions fitted to every part of the ministration / by Jeremy Taylor ...

An Act of Love.

Thee alone O Lord my soul desires; thou art eternal sweetness in my soul. If the per∣fume of thy oyntment be sufficient to all the the world, what is the refection of thy Table? If we live by every word proceeding out of thy mouth, what felicity and joy is it to live upon thee the eternal Word, chewing thee by faith, and digesting thee by love, and enter∣taining thee in our hearts for ever? How shall not my bowels melt into thee the Sun of righ∣teousness? How is it that I do not forget all deliciousness besides thee?

A single pleasure, poor and empty, weary∣ing and unsatisfying, hath often made me to forget thee. Now that thou art truly and effectively present with me, how can any o∣ther pleasure in the world seem pleasant to

me any more? I will forget all the world, I will quit all the world to live on thee, if thou pleasest O dearest Saviour: but do thou open thy ark and repositories of sweetness, and fill my soul and all my desires, that there may be no room for any thing else.

Thou hast called unto me to open my hand and thou wouldst fill it: But I would not open it; I held the world fast, and kept my hand shut, and would not let it go. But do thou open it for me; not my hand only, but my mouth; not my mouth, but my heart also.