3. Prayer, at our comming to the Holy Communion.
DIdst Thou not invite me to thy Holy Table, O Lord! I durst not come. Now thou callest me, I dare
Sacred principles, services, and soliloquies or, a manual of devotions made up of three parts: I. The grounds of Christian religion, and the doctrine of the Church of England, as differing from the now-Roman. II. Daily, and weekly formes of prayers fortified with Holy Scriptures, meditations and rules to keep the soule from the common roads of sin, and carry it on in a mortified course. III. Seven charges to conscience, delivering (if not the whole body) the main limbs of divinity, which is the art not of disputing, but living well.
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- Sacred principles, services, and soliloquies or, a manual of devotions made up of three parts: I. The grounds of Christian religion, and the doctrine of the Church of England, as differing from the now-Roman. II. Daily, and weekly formes of prayers fortified with Holy Scriptures, meditations and rules to keep the soule from the common roads of sin, and carry it on in a mortified course. III. Seven charges to conscience, delivering (if not the whole body) the main limbs of divinity, which is the art not of disputing, but living well.
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- Brough, W. (William), d. 1671.
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- London :: Printed by J.G. for John Clark, and are to be sold at his shop under Saint Peters Church in Cornhill,
- 1650 [i.e. 1649]
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"Sacred principles, services, and soliloquies or, a manual of devotions made up of three parts: I. The grounds of Christian religion, and the doctrine of the Church of England, as differing from the now-Roman. II. Daily, and weekly formes of prayers fortified with Holy Scriptures, meditations and rules to keep the soule from the common roads of sin, and carry it on in a mortified course. III. Seven charges to conscience, delivering (if not the whole body) the main limbs of divinity, which is the art not of disputing, but living well." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A77634.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2025.
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not keepe away! And yet, when I doe consider, Who, and what is here, I fear and tremble to come. Thou O Lord! art a Holy and Dreadfull Majesty, and so Thy Mysteries be: Holy Bread, and Holy Wine; A most Holy Bodie, and Bloud. (No taint in His Bloud who is God and Lord as Thy selfe) The Lamb of God, Immaculate, Undefiled, with∣out Spot, all-pure (most High and Ho∣ly!) But alas! I am Uncleane, Un∣cleane, Uncleane! Originally, Actu∣ally; (every way) In Heart, Hand, Lips, (every part) Throughout, Child∣hood, Youth, Manhood (every Age;) Most unworthy to approach a Pre∣sence so pure, who am so unholy!
True Lord! But I lament my Un∣cleanness. I renounce my owne wor∣thinesse. I come; not because worthy, but needie! I come to be made cleane and worthy! That Bodie and Bloud can make me cleane (It is my Savi∣ours!) His Merits can make me wor∣thy. (They are thy Sons!) And here is a conveyance of that Blessed Body and Bloud (It is thy Sacrament!)
Lord! Thinke me worthy for his sake, and Make me worthy for thy Mercies sake, by my comming! Give
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my Sins thy Pardon; my Soul thy Grace, My selfe thy Acceptance, in thy Beloved. And what Thou dost convey, Seale to me by what I am to Receive from thee, The Blessed Body and Bloud of Jesus Christ our Lord! Amen.