The pious communicant rightly prepar'd, or, A discourse concerning the Blessed Sacrament wherein the nature of it is described, our obligation to frequent communion enforced, and directions given for due preparation for it, behaviour at, and after it, and profiting by it : with prayers and hymns, suited to the several parts of that holy office : to which is added, a short discourse of baptism / by Samuel Wesley ...

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The pious communicant rightly prepar'd, or, A discourse concerning the Blessed Sacrament wherein the nature of it is described, our obligation to frequent communion enforced, and directions given for due preparation for it, behaviour at, and after it, and profiting by it : with prayers and hymns, suited to the several parts of that holy office : to which is added, a short discourse of baptism / by Samuel Wesley ...

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Wesley, Samuel, 1662-1735.

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London :: Printed for Charles Harper ...,

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Subject terms

Lord's Supper.

Baptism.

Theology, Doctrinal.

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Contents

• title page
• advertisement
• PREFACE.
• THE CONTENTS.
• THE Worthy Communicant.
  • INTRODUCTION.
  • CHAP. I. Of the Nature of the Sacrament.
  • CHAP. II. Of the perpetual Obligation that lies upon adult Christians to com∣municate, and even to frequent Communion.
  • CHAP. III. Of Examination before the Sacrament, and Preparation for it.
    • A Confession, when we are Prepa∣ring for the Communion.
    • Collect for Perseverance.
    • For Faith.
    • A Thanksgiving before the Sacrament.
    • A Collect for Charity.
  • CHAP. IV. Of our Behaviour immediately before the Communion, and when we receive it.
    • An Act of Penitence.
    • An Act of Faith.
    • An Act of Humility immediately before Receiving.
    • An Act of Praise after Receiving.
    • An Act of Love.
  • CHAP. V.
    • Questions for the Evening.
    • Questions for the Morning.
    • Short Directions for those who are (really) straightned for Time, and cannot go through the larger Methods of Exami∣nation already given.
    • A Prayer for one in Affliction and Want.
• APPENDIX.
  • A LETTER concerning the Religious Societies.
• APPENDIX.
  • Of BAPTISM.
  • The Great Hallel or Paschal Hymn, which was sung by the Jews at the Pas∣sover, and by our Saviour and his Apostles at the Institution of the Lord's Supper, consisting of Psalms 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118. The two for∣mer were sung towards the Beginning of the Feast, the rest at the End of it . The first of these Psalms (the 113.) is still used by the Tigu∣rine Churches at the Communion . And any of them, as they are here turned into Metre, may be sung, either in Private, or by a Fa∣mily, before or after Sacrament.
    • PSALM CXIII.
    • PSAM CXIV.
    • PSALM CXV.
    • PSALM CXVI.
    • PSALM CXVII.
    • PSALM CXVIII.
• BOOKS Printed for, and Sold by Charles Harper at the Flower-de-Luce over-against St. Dunstan's-Church in Fleetstreet.