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A65465	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 ...	Wesley, Samuel, 1662-1735.	1700 (1700)	Wing W1376; ESTC R38528	120,677	302

and even Heathens have been sensible of a Fall though they have been ignorant of the manner of it and means to recover from it and yet as before they generally used washing or sprinkling for Purification I believe they had it from Orpheus as he from the Phoenicians and they perhaps from Jacob. And it is no less certain that we all feel the Effects of this original Guilt tho' there may be difficulties in the manner of its propagation For no modest good Man can be insensible of an inward strong propension to Evil And the Scripture plainly asserts That we were shapen in Iniquity and in Sin did our Mothers conceive us Psal. 51. 5. That we were all by nature Children of wrath and dead in trespasses Ephes. 2. 1 3. and sins That none can bring a clean Iob 14. 4. and 25. 4. thing out of an unclean That in Adam all died 1 Cor. 15. 22. That by one Man's disobedience many that is all Rom. 5. 10 12. were made Sinners By one Man Sin entred into Rom. 3. 10 23. the world and Death by Sin which came upon all Men for that all have sinned and come short of the Glory of God Nay this almost in express Terms as to Infants who if they had not any Sin at all no original Sin How come they to die and what need would they have of a Saviour since they have no actual Sin But 't is said That Death reigned from Adam to Moses even in those who had not sinned actually according to the similitude of Adam's transgression Rom. 5. 13 14. which can relate to Infants only which Texts are allowed by all but Pelagians to be clear Proofs that the whole Race of mankind are obnoxious both to the Guilt and Punishments of Adam's Transgression To the Punishment as well as the Guilt of it which doubtless was not only temporal Death but extended likewise to spiritual and eternal The Scripture having concluded all under Sin as the Iews under Unbelief that God might have mercy upon all Gal. 3. 22. Rom. 11. 32. Which takes off any mistaken Imputation on God's mercy or his Iustice since the Remedy is as wide as the Wound the Obedience and Death of the second Adam have repaired the Ruins which were occasioned by the Crime of the first and brought mankind into a possibility and capacity of Salvation And as by the offence of one Iudgment came upon all Men to Condemnation so by the Righteousness of one the Free-Gift came upon all Men to Iustification of Life Rom. 5. 18. Which virtue of Christ's Death and Resurrection are applied to us in Baptism Rev. 1. 5. For he loved us and washed us from our Sins in his own Blood He gave himself for the Church that he might sanctifie and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word Ephes. 5. 25 26. namely by Baptism as an Instrument of our Iustification as our Church fully asserts in the Office of Baptism That all Men are conceived and born in Sin First Exhortation before Baptism in the old Adam Ministers certifying after private Baptism in original Sin and in the Wrath of God and prays That the Person to be baptised may be washed and sanctifyed with the Holy Ghost and delivered from God's Wrath and by Baptism receive Remission of Sins and enjoy the everlasting Benediction of God's heavenly washing and again That the Water may be sanctified to the mystical washing away of Sin Prayer immediately before Baptism and teaches us That those who are born in original Sin and in the Wrath of God are by the Laver of Regeneration in Baptism received into the Number of God's Children c. And accordingly does upon good Ground affirm in the Rubrick at the end of the Office That it is certain by God's Word that Children which are baptised dying before they commit actual Sin are saved and this is agreeable to the unanimous Opinion of the antient Fathers St. Cyprian Theophylact. Lactant Greg. Naz. Origen St. August St. Ambrose St. Ierom c. and of the Primitive Church which differ'd from the Pelagian Hereticks in this very point those Hereticks pretending that Children were baptised only that they might be admitted into the Kingdom of Heaven whereas the Orthodox held that they ought to be baptised especially in case of danger for the washing away the Guilt of original Sin § VII Another Benefit of Baptism is that we thereby enter into Covenant with God without which as has been said on the other Sacrament What has a sinful Creature to do with his offended Maker Into that everlasting Covenant which he has commanded for ever Psal. 109. 11. that New Covenant which he has promised to make with the spiritual Israel To give them a new Heart and a new Spirit new Principles new Inclinations to sprinkle clean water upon them that they may be clean and to remember their Sins and iniquities no more In short to be their God as he promised to Abraham in the Evangelical Covenant which he made with him and all his spiritual Offspring Gen. 17. 7 8. That Circumcision was then the way of admitting into Covenant with God and that Baptism is the same now I suppose none deny who own any Sacraments Baptism being also stiled in Scripture the Stipulation Contract or Covenant of a good Conscience as good Interpreters translate that place in St. Peter already mentioned § 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 stipulatio Luther Beza Grotius c. Our part of the Covenant which includes an Oath and a Vow is to renounce the Devil to believe what God has revealed to observe what he has commanded God's part to give us his Grace to perform what we promise and unspeakable Rewards for our imperfect Obedience § VIII By Baptism we are admitted into the Church and consequently made Members of Christ the Churches Head The Iews were admitted into the Church or made Proselytes by Circumcision the Christians by Baptism For as many as are baptised into Christ have put on Christ Gal. 3. 27. that is are mystically united to him and made one with him For by one Spirit we are all baptised into one Body 1 Cor. 12. 13. namely the Church which is called the Body of Christ Ephes. 4. 12. whence the Fathers stile Baptism the Door of the Church and the Sacrament of our initiation or entrance into Christianity From which vital more than political because spiritual mystical and sacramental Union with Christ proceeds the Influence of his Grace on those who are baptised the Honour and Exaltation of our Nature the Benefit of his Protection and Intercession for us with the Father as from our Union with the Church a share in its Instructions in its Privileges in all the Promises Christ has made to it in its Intercessions and Supplications and in the other Sacrament of the Lord's Supper as soon as we come to Age and Understanding to receive it § IX By Baptism we are made the Children of God who were

into unnecessary Debts without an honest Care and greatest Diligence to discharge them 6. Fraudulent Conveyances Forgeries Breach of Trust removing Landmarks extravagant or covetous Gaming neglecting to provide for our own 7. Refusing or delaying to make Restitution to any we have injured by any of these means without which no Repentance no Forgiveness whenever we are in a Capacity to do it or else giving it to the Poor or to Religious Uses if we cannot find the Person injured The Breaches of the ninth are 1. Bearing false Witness by direct Perjury 2. Pleading against our Conscience or not swearing the whole Truth and nothing but the Truth when required in Courts of Judicature 3. Slandering our Neighbour or lightly taking up an evil Report against him or spreading malicious Truth or any way speaking ill of him unless when God's Glory or our own Reputation or another's Welfare is concerned 4. Uncharitable Censures deriding or exposing any one's Infirmities 5. Tale-bearing and whispering the Vice of mean and ignoble Souls 6. Dissembling Flattering and Lying 7. Neglecting to defend our Neighbour's Reputation where we can do it with decency and honesty In the tenth are forbidden 1. The desiring any thing that 's my Neighbour's without a just Compensation or where he is not willing to part with it 2. Discontent and repining at our own Condition or envying our Neighbours 3. The first allowed pleasing motions to any Sin especially to Impurity or delightful Reflections on past Wickedness § XII Thus much for the chief Breaches of God's Commands upon all of which we would do well distinctly to examine our selves in our Preparation for the Sacrament especially as to those Sins whereunto we have formerly found our selves most strongly inclined and whereof we have been most frequently guilty We ought also to reflect on all the Aggravations of them how frequently how inexcusably against how much Goodness and Patience of God how many checks of our own Conscience and perhaps advice of Friends against how many Vows and Resolutions we have committed them Especially if after we have vowed against them formerly at the Holy Sacrament concerning which we are to make an exact Disquisition for God certainly remembers all those Vows tho' we may have broken them and forgot them And if we do not yet find our Hearts sufficiently affected for it if the Love of Christ and all his Sufferings for us cannot melt us into an ingenious Sorrow for our Offences let us consider God's dreadful Iudgment his terrible Indignation against impenitent Sinners and earnestly pray to God for the sake of his dear Son to take away our stony Hearts and give us that godly Sorrow which works Repentance to Salvation And proportionable to our Sins must be our Sorrow and our Repentance tho' here it may be necessary to interpose a Caution There are some pious Persons of such weak Iudgments and tender Consciences that they are it may be ready to accuse themselves of many Sins whereof they were never guilty But we must not lie to God nor belie our selves nor charge our selves any more than charge God foolishly And where we find in our Examination that God has preserved us from any Sins or given us more Strength against any which have formerly been too hard for us we ought not by any means to be unthankful for his Goodness but ascribe all to him and praise him for his Grace and endeavour so well to improve it and those Talents which we have that he may still bestow more upon us and make us perfect in Repentance and all good Works § XIII Having thus strictly examined our selves concerning our Breaches of God's Commands and our serious effectual Repentance for them we proceed in the next place to firm and Holy Resolves to do better for the future to avoid those Evils we have faln into to perform those Duties we have hitherto neglected We are to ask our selves in the presence of God whether we do indeed stedfastly purpose to lead a new Life without which 't is the highest presumption to approach these dreadful Mysteries And accordingly we are actually to make most solemn Vows as well as Resolutions of better Obedience The force of Resolution only is not small it gives new Strength and Energy to the mind and helps to perform what one would think at first sight almost impossible Bodily Diseases we are told have been cured by it which have been thought desperate and why may not also Diseases of the Mind There is a Spirit in Man and 't is the Breath of the Almighty and it has a noble Force if we will but stir it up and make use of it But when Vows are added to these Resolves when we resolve in God's Name and in his Sight and thro' his Strength and by the Assistance of his Grace and pray earnestly and faithfully for it and conscientiously use the means to obtain it to avoid Sin to encrease in Goodness all these make such a Cord as is not easily broken Nor are we to be discouraged from making New Resolves because we may have broken such as we have formerly made No we are to be troubled for our Fall but not to lie still in the Dirt but to rise immediately and endeavour to recover the Ground we have lost in our way towards Heaven We are to observe what was the occasion of our stumbling how we came to break our former Resolves against our Sins If it was ill Company that led us into it we are carefully for the future as much as possible to avoid such Company as we value the Favour of God and our own eternal Happiness And so if Love of this World have made us neglect our Duty to God or our Neighbour we are to resolve against that actually to draw off our Minds from these perishing Objects and fix them on the unfading Treasures of a better World And thus are we particularly to level our Holy Resolutions against those Sins which do most easily beset us most frequently prevail over us solemnly upon our Knees before God to Renounce those Works of the Devil or to renew that Solemn Renunciation of them which we made in our Baptism as well as to renew those Sacred Vows which we then made to keep God's Holy Will and Commandment and to walk in the same all the Days of our Lives Which will not only have a very great Influence on our future Actions to preserve us from running upon any Temptation to our former Sins or from the neglect of our Duty but will be also by God's Grace a mighty Guard upon us even when we are actually tempted the Impression of those good Resolves being still deep and fresh on our Minds and giving them a strong tendency to Good and aversion to Evil and the horrid Guilt of Perjury appearing before our Eyes if we should again break God's Commands Nor had the Psalmist himself any stronger Guard against Temptation than the Sense of his Vows and the

Church accordingly tells us That to the End we should always remember the exceeding great Love of our Master and only Saviour Jesus Christ in dying for us he has instituted and ordained Holy Mysteries as Pledges of it And the actual and lively Consideration hereof of Christ's wonderful Love towards us miserable Sinners so ungrateful so unworthy so often guilty of broken Faith and broken Vows who have loved the World and our own Lusts more than him who have grieved him who have wounded him who have crucified him by our Sins and who continue to do so for there is no Man that lives and sins not and all this to him who still loves us and still offers us Peace and Pardon and Grace and Heaven and even his own blessed Body and Blood in this heavenly Feast Shall not all this prevail with us to give him our worthless Love again for the rest of our Lives To give it him without exception and without reserve It must it will it cannot fail of having this happy effect if we carefully regard every part of this sacred Action and intently consider our Saviour's Death as represented therein especially while the Minister is consecrating the Elements the whole Prayer of Consecration being made up of a lively and thankful Recognition of our Saviour's sufferings and of his instituting the Sacrament in memory of them We are therefore in order to the exercising and encreasing of our Love to Christ diligently at that time to regard the Minister with our Eye and Christ with our Hearts When we see the Bread broken and the Wine poured out then to consider with all the Agonies of our Souls and with Hearts pierced and melted with the Love of Jesus what Agonies he himself endured for us both in his Body and Mind Then to look on him whom we have pierced and mourn for him and delight in him and hate those Sins which were the cause of this and which can only divide us from his Love and especially when we actually receive Then are our Souls to be intimately united to his Divine Person Then are we to embrace him as the chiefest of Ten Thousands and fairer than all the Children of Men to adore his infinite Perfections to be lost in the contemplation and admiration of them and to be wholly ravished with his Love § XIII Which will mightily assist us in the exercise of the other branch of Charity Love to our Neighbour for this cannot but be easie to us when our Minds are raised to this happy Temper The Love of Christ will subdue the Enmity of our Natures towards each other that Pride which is the cause of almost all Quarrels that bitterness of Spirit and Rancor and Malice and Revenge and Anger Those obscene Birds will all fly away before the Beams of the blessed Sun of Righteousness as did the Devils of old from their Oracles All our Hatred will be against our Sins all our Indignation our Resentments our Revenge for neither were those in vain implanted in our Minds will be turned quite another way O how happy would the World be did but the Body of Christians frequently and worthily receive the Communion I am confident nothing could sooner heal the wide Wounds of Christendom as I believe the neglect of it has been the great Original of them as well as of all our own Factions and Divisions All good Men must love one another if they often met at this Holy Table They could not they dared not there retain or nourish any pique against each other They would Love much both Christ and his Members because they so often considered that much was forgiven them And tho' this may seem a Digression yet the Truth and Consequences thereof appear so plain and so considerable that I knew not how to omit it But to return Charity is here to be actually exercised towards all Christ's Members especially towards those with whom we communicate We are to knit our Hearts most closely and intimately to them with the Bands of Holy Love Poor and Rich without exception only loving those most that love God most We are to pray for them all and not only in the Offertory but on other occasions to do them all the Good we can by faithful Counsel by tender and prudent Reproof and by all lawful and possible means promoting the welfare of their Souls and Bodies And lastly by devout Prayer to God for them as we are directed That all who are partakers of this Holy Communion may be filled with his Grace and heavenly Benediction But tho' our Charity is to begin there we are not to confine the Exercise thereof to those only who then actually communicate with us for we are also directed by the excellent Spirit of our Church shewing it self in those Holy Confessors and Martyrs who composed her Liturgy humbly to beseech God to grant by the Merits and Death of his Son Jesus Christ and thro' Faith in his Blood that not only we but also his whole Church may obtain Remission of our Sins and all other Benefits of his Passion Which may he grant who has so dearly purchased it for us to whom with the Father and Holy Ghost be all Glory Honour and Dominion now and to Eternal Ages Amen! If there be any time between the Consecration and actual Receiving the Communicant may make use of these following Devotions An Act of Penitence O Infinite offended Goodness who art a consuming Fire to the obstinate Sinner but infinite to pardon those who confess and forsake their Sins I desire earnestly to repent of all my Misdeeds I will acknowledge my Transgressions before thee and mine Iniquities will I not hide I have sinned I have sinned O Father against Heaven and before thee Against thy Mercies and thy Judgments the Thunder of thy Law and the still small Voice of thy Gospel Against the clearest Manifestations of thy wonderful Love in sending thy Son to shed his Blood as an attonement for the Sins of the whole World which precious Blood of his I have too often trampled under Foot and crucified the Son of God afresh by my repeated Iniquities Not all his bitter Agonies have been so far able to pierce my hard Heart as to make me entirely forsake my Sins which were the Cause of them Tho' he sweat Drops of Blood in the Garden tho' his Soul was exceedingly sorrowful even unto Death tho' he endured the Contradiction of Sinners tho' he was mocked and buffeted and spit on and crowned with Thorns and scourged and fainted under his Cross and was nailed unto it and raised in the Air a spectacle to Men and Angels tho' he there groaned under the weight of our Guilt and of our Sins imputed unto him tho' he thirsted tho' he fainted tho' he cried out as if thou thy self couldst have forsaken him tho' he bowed his Head and gave up the Ghost O! shall all this nothing move me shall my Heart be as hard as the nether Milstone