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THE Calice which thou (O sweetest Sa∣viour Jesus) didst drink, hath made thee infinitely amiable; it was the work of my redemption. Certainly nothing does more pleasingly invite, or more profitably require, or more vehemently affect me than this love: for
by how much lower thou didst for me descend in the declinations of humility, by so much art thou dearer to me in the exaltations of thy charity and thy glory. * Learn, O my soul, how thou oughtest to love Christ, who hath given us his flesh for meat, his blood for drink, the water of his side for our la∣vatory, and his own life for the price of our redemption. He is stark and dead cold who is not set on fire by the burning and shining flames of such a charity.
Blessed Saviour Jesus, the author and fi∣nisher of our faith, the fountain of life and salvation; by thee let us have accesse to thy Heavenly Father, that by thee he may accept us, who by thee is revealed to us. Let thy innocence and purity procure pardon for our uncleannesse and disobedience; let thy humility extinguish our pride and vanity; thy meeknesse extinguish our anger, and thy charity cover the multitude of our sins.
O blessed Advocate and Mediator, inter∣cede for us with thy Father and ours, with thy God and ours; and grant that by the grace which thou hast found, by the preroga∣tive
which thou hast deserved, by the mercy which thou hast purchased for us, that as thou wert partaker of our sufferings and in∣firmities, so we by thy death and resurrecti∣on, and by thy infinite gracious intercession, may be made partakers of thy holinesse and thy glory.
Let the brightnesse of the divine grace for ever shine upon thy servants, that we being purified from all errour and infidelity, from weak fancies and curious inquiries, may per∣ceive and adore the wisdom and the love of God in the truth and mysteriousnesse of this Divine Sacrament: And be pleased to light∣en in our spirits such a burning love, and such a shining devotion, that we may truly receive thee, and be united unto thee; that we may feed on thee the celestial Manna, and may with an eye of faith see thee under the cloud and in the vail; and at last may see thee in the brightest effusions of thy glory. Amen.
HOly, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Sabbaoth; Heaven and Earth are full of thy glory. Blessed art thou, O God, and blessed is thy Name for ever and ever, Amen.
For thou art holy, and in all things thou art sanctified and most exalted, and sittest on high a∣bove all for ever and ever.
Holy is thy only begotten Son our Lord Jesus Christ, who in all things did minister to thee his God and Father, both in the creation of the world, and in the excellent providence and con∣servation of it. He suffered not mankind to perish; but gave to him the Law of nature, and a Law written in Tables of stone, and reproved them by his Prophets, and sent his Angel to be their guards: And when men had violated the natural Law, and broken that which was writ∣ten; when they had forgotten the Divine Judg∣ment manifested in the deluge upon the old world, in fire from heaven upon Sodom and Go∣morrah, in many plagues upon the Egyptians, in
the slaughters of the Philistins, and when the wrath of God did hang over all the world for for their iniquity, according to thy will he who made man resolved to become a man; he who is the Law-giver would be subject to Laws; he that is the High Priest would be made a Sacri∣fice, and the great Shepherd of our souls would be a Lamb and be slain for us. Thee his God and Father he appeased, and reconciled unto the world, and freed all men from the instant anger: He was born of a Virgin, born in flesh; He is God, and the Word, the beloved Son, the first born of every creature; according to the Pro∣phecies which went before him, of the seed of of Abraham and David, and of the Tribe of Judah.
He who is the maker of all that are born, was conceived in the womb of a Virgin; and he that is void of all flesh, was incarnate and made flesh: He was born in time who was begotten from e∣ternity: He conversed piously with men and instructed them with his holy Laws and doctrine: He cured every disease and every infirmity: He did signs and wonders among the people: He slept and eat and drank, who feeds all the living with food, and fills them with his blessing: He declared thy Name to them who knew it not: He enlightned our ignorances: He enkindled Godliness, and fulfilled thy will, and finished all that which thou gavest him to do.
All this when he had done, he was taken by the hands of wicked men, by the treachery of false Priests and an ungodly people, he suffered many things of them, and by thy permission
suffered all shame and reproach. He was deli∣vered to Pilate the President, who judged him that is the Judge of the quick and dead, and con∣demned him who is the Saviour of all others. He who is impassible was crucified; and He died who is of an immortal nature; and they buried him by whom others are made alive; that by his death and passion he might free them for whom he came, and might dissolve the bands of the Devil, and deliver men from all his crafty ma∣lices.
But then he rose again from the dead, he con∣versed with his Disciples forty days together, and then was received up into heaven, and there sits at the right hand of God his Father.
We therefore being mindful of these things which he did and suffered for us, give thanks to thee Almighty God, not as much as we should, but as much as we can: and here fulfil his Ordi∣nance [
and believe all that he said, and know and confess that he hath given us his body to be the food, and his blood to be the drink of our souls; that in him we live and move and have our being; that by him we are taught, by his strength enabled, by his graces prevented, by his spirit conducted, by his death pardoned, by his resurrection justified, and by his intercession defended from all our ene∣mies, and set forward in the way of holinesse and life eternal.]
O grant that we and all thy servants, who by faith and Sacramental participation communicate with the Lord Jesus, may obtain remission of our sins, and be confirmed in piety, and may be de∣livered
from the power and illusions of the De∣vil; and being filled with thy Spirit, may be∣come worthy members of Christ, and at last may inherit eternal Life; through the same our Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.