Q. What is the Design of the Exhortations, and of the Invitation before the Sacrament?
A. The former is to increase the Number, and the latter to rectifie the Dispositions of the Communicants.
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A. The former is to increase the Number, and the latter to rectifie the Dispositions of the Communicants.
In the Invitation (the Guests being prepared) the Priest invites them to come near with Fear and Faith; and that God may ac∣cept them, he repeats those Graces with which they must be ador∣ned, viz. Repentance, Charity, and Holy Purposes, shewing them what is the first Duty to be done, viz. making an humble Con∣fession upon their Knees.