The devout communicant, assisted with rules for the worthy receiving of the blessed Eucharist together with meditations, prayers and anthems, for every day of the Holy Week : in two parts / by Ab. Seller ...

A prayer for the Priest before he goes to consecrate; out of St. Chrys. Litur∣gy.

'TO minister to Thee, O thou King of Glory, in Holy Offices, is a great and terrible undertaking, and such as is dreadful to the powers of Heaven; but thou acted by thine unspea∣keable and Infinite Love, becamest our High-priest, and being Lord of all things, deputed'st men to the Ministry of this Sacrifice; Look down upon me a sinful and unfruitful servant of thine, cleanse me from an evil Conscience, and prepare me by the Powers of thy Holy Spirit to stand before thy Holy Table, and to mi∣nister thy sacred and uncorrupted body, and thy precious Blood; turn not thy Face away from me, nor reprobate me from the number of thy Children; Lord remember me when thou art in thy Kingdom; Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldst come under the polluted roof of my Soul; but as thou wert plea∣sed to lye down in the Manger among

the Beasts, and to sit at Meat in the House of Simon the Leper, and to receive the Harlot, a like sinner to my self, when she came unto thee, so vouchsafe to make thy entrance into my unreasonable Mind and into my defiled Body, which is dead as well as Leprous; and as thou didst not abominate the mouth of the Harlot when she kist thy unpolluted Feet, so O Lord my God, do not despise and abominate me a sinner, Pardon, blot out, and forgive all my sins, which I have committed, either willingly or unwillingly, whether they are sins of Knowledg or Ignorance, whether in Deed or in Word, or in my Will and Thoughts; forgive me all of them, as thou art Good and Gracious, and preserve me from condemnation, that the Obla∣tions of thy People may be acceptably offered unto thee by me thy unworthy and sinful servant; and that I my self may receive thy Precious Body and Blood, to the curing of my soul and Bo∣dy, and may distribute thy Mysteries to others to their benefit and salvation: For thine is the Kingdom, Power, and Glory; Thine, O Father, Son, and Ho∣ly Spirit, now and for ever, Amen.