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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

from those heavy Punishments that are due unto them but from their Power and prevailing Influence on my Mind from all my Sins even those which have been most dear unto me and am willing to cut off my Right Hand or pluck out my Right Eye so I may but enter into the Kingdom of Heaven My Saviour came to take away the Sins of the World He has born all our Griefs he has carried our Sorrows he was wounded for our Transgressions he was grieved for our Iniquities he has excepted none out of that General Pardon which he has purchased for Mankind and offered to all those who are qualified for receiving it I present the Merits of his inestimable Sacrifice before thee O offended Majesty of Heaven I have no Merits of my own I have nothing I am nothing but vile Dust and Sin But he is worthy for whose sake I beg Mercy of thee which I most humbly implore and expect only in that way which thou hast appointed and on those Conditions which thy Son has revealed in his Holy Gospel by an unfeigned Repentance a firm Faith a sincere and an impartial Obedience O therefore take away all mine Iniquities and receive me graciously who like the Prodigal desire to return to my Father's House And since 't is thou alone who dost both put into our Minds good Desires and canst also give us Grace to perform the same assist me now and ever in those Holy Resolves which I make of new and better Obedience Vouchsafe me thy Grace to avoid all those Occasions and Temptations whereby I have been too often drawn to Evil. Let thy Blessed Spirit evermore comfort and guide me and lead me into all Truth and all Goodness Let me henceforth Evidence my unfeigned Love to my Saviour by keeping his Commandments and let that and all other Graces be excited and encreased in me at this Time in my approaches to his Holy Table Pardon the frivolous and sinful Excuses which I have too often made for my Absence from it my want of Preparation for it the Deadness and Indevotion of my Soul in receiving it and my shameful Unprofitableness by it O that I may now sit under my Saviour's shadow with great Delight and that his Fruit may be sweet unto my Taste That I may in this Sacrament receive greater Strength than ever against my Sins and be thereby nourished up unto Everlasting Life that so after this painful Life is ended I may sit down with Abraham Isaac and Iacob in the Kingdom of Heaven for the sake of Jesus Christ who ever lives to make Intercession for us in whose most perfect Form of Word I conclude my unworthy and imperfect Prayers saying Our Father c. Collect for Perseverance O GOD of all Power and all Love who art the same yesterday to day and for ever and hast assured us in thy Holy Word that thou wilt not break the bruised Reed nor quench the smoaking Flax. Accept I beseech thee for the sake of thy Dear Son any weak beginnings of Goodness which thou mayst have wrought in me by thy Holy Spirit Despise not the Day of small things Help me to continue to the End that I may be saved And now that I have put my Hand to the Plough grant I may never look back lest I be accounted unworthy of the Kingdom of Heaven My Strength O Lord I ascribe unto thee for my own Heart has often deceived me and I know that all my Strength is weakness and my Wisdom folly Assist me therefore by the mighty Aids of thy Holy Spirit and while I am to wrestle not only against Flesh and Blood but against Principalites and Powers let the strong Man be bound by a stronger than he and the God of Love bruise Satan under my Feet Let me be content to suffer shame for thy sake and never be drawn away by the Number or Greatness of bad Examples Lead me not into Temptation and let me never be so hardy and presumptuous as to rush into it Keep me always sober and vigilant temperate and humble ever upon my Guard watching and praying that the Enemy may obtain no advantage against me Accept and confirm all my Vows and Resolutions of Obedience Let me have a constant Respect unto the blessed Recompence of Reward and by patient continuance in well doing seek for and at length obtain Glory Immortality and Eternal Life thro' thy Mercies in Jesus Christ my Lord. Amen! Amen For Faith O LORD who hast said that he who has but Faith as a Grain of Mustard-seed may remove Mountains and that without Faith it is impossible to please thee Increase my Faith and let me thereby overcome the World and the Flesh and quench all the fiery Darts of the Devil Let me firmly believe all thy Promises to the Penitent and Obedient and all thy Threatnings against impenitent Sinners Let me not rest in a dead Faith a presumptuous Opinion that I shall be pardoned or saved without performing all those good Works which thou hast prepared for me to walk in Give me that Faith which worketh by Love and by an impartial Obedience to thy Commands Let me firmly believe in the Lord Jesus that I may be saved and not trust in my own Righteousness but in his Merits who is the Way the Truth and the Life Let me always hope in him for Pardon of what 's past and Grace to serve thee better for the future Let me have a lively and stedfast Faith in him when I approach to his Table that I may draw near and take the Holy Sacrament to my Comsort and that it may powerfully help me forward in the right way which leads unto Everlasting Life To the unfading Glories of that happy State where Faith shall be changed into sight where with Holy Souls who are departed this Life in the true Faith and Fear of thy Holy Name I may enjoy the End of my Faith the Salvation of my Soul and see and love thee to all Eternity thro' Jesus Amen A Thanksgiving before the Sacrament WHAT shall I render to thee O God of all Grace for the Riches of thy Goodness towards me a miserable Sinner How utterly unworthy am I even of the common Blessings of Life And yet art thou pleased out of thy infinite Mercies once more to permit me to invite me to tread thy Courts to sit at thy Table and to Feast on Angels Food O that my Heart could be fully possest with Thoughts of Gratitude and Love O let my Mouth be filled with Thanks and my Lips with Praise for those inestimable Benefits God will in very deed dwell with Man tho' the Heaven of Heavens cannot contain him My Saviour will fulfil his gracious Promise and be present with his Church in his own Institutions till the End of the World I have now one happy Opportunity more offered me to renew that Covenant which I have so often broken to obtain greater Strength against my Sins and to sacrifice

as they are in our Communion-Service and in the Versicle added to every one of them implore Pardon where you find any Breach and Grace for the future to observe them better And the same of any other Sin not so easily reducible under any particular Command such as Drunkenness neglect or abuse of the Sacrament and the like 4. Fix your main Battery against that Sin which you find the strongest whether discontent with your Condition hard Thoughts of God Intemperance Passion Pride Sloth Impurity or what ever else Most heartily lament it most earnestly resolve and implore Strength against it and draw near to the Holy Table with Faith to obtain it and fear not but your Saviour will meet and bless you A Prayer for one in Affliction and Want O GOD who art Infinite in Power and Compassion and Goodness and Truth who hast promised in thy Holy Word That thou wilt hear the Prayer of the poor distitute and wilt not despise his Desire Look down I beseech thee from Heaven the Habitation of thy Holiness and Glory upon me a miserable Sinner now lying under thy Hand in great Affliction and Sorrow who fly to thee alone for help and Comfort I am weary of my groaning my Heart faileth me the Light of my Eyes is gone from me I sink in the deep Waters and there is none to help me yet I wait still upon thee my God Tho' all the World forsake me let the Lord still uphold me and in him let me always find the truest the kindest the most compassionate unwearied Almighty Friendship to him let me ease my wearied Soul and unbosom all my Sorrows Help me O Lord against Hope to believe in Hope Grant that I may not be moved with all the Slights and Censures of a mistaken World Let me look by Faith beyond this Vale of Tears and Misery to that happy place which knows no Pain or Want or Sorrows as being assur'd that there is an End and my Expectation shall not be cut off I know O Lord that a Man's Life consists not in the abundance of Things that he possesses but that he who has the most here as he brought nothing with him into this World so he shall carry nothing out I bless thee that thou hast not given me my Portion among those who have received all their Consolation here whose Portion is in this Life only Neither let me expect those Blessings which thou hast promised to the Poor unless I am really poor in Spirit and meek and humble I know nothing is impossible with God and that it is thou alone who givest Power to get Riches and that thou canst by thy good Providence raise me from this mean Condition whenever thou pleasest and wilt certainly do it if it be best for me and therefore humbly submit all unto thy wise and kind Disposal I desire not Wealth or Greatness Give me neither extreme Poverty nor do I ask Riches of thee but only to be fed with Food convenient for me I desire earnestly to seek first the Kingdom of God and the Righteousness thereof well hoping that in thy good Time Food and Raiment all other things that be needful shall be added unto me I believe O Lord that thou who feedest the Ravens and clothest the Lilies wilt not neglect me and mine That thou wilt make good thy own unfailing Promises wilt give Meat to them that fear thee and be ever mindful of thy Covenant In the mean time let me not be querulous or impatient or envious at the Prosperity of the wicked or judge uncharitably of those to whom thou hast given a larger Portion of the Good things of this Life or be cruel to those who are in the same Circumstances with my self Let me never sink or despond under my heavy pressures and continued Misfortunes Tho' I fall let me rise again because the Lord taketh me up Let my Heart never be sunk so low that I should be afraid to own the Cause of despised Vertue Give me Diligence and Prudence and Industry and let me neglect nothing that lies in me to provide honestly for my own House least I be worse than an Infidel Help me carefully to examine my Life past and if by my own Carelesness or Imprudence I have reduced my self into this low Condition let me be more deeply afflicted for it but yet still hope in thy Goodness avoiding those Failures whereof I have been formerly guilty Or if for my Sins thou hast brought this upon me my unthankfulness for thy Mercies or abuse of them help me now with Submission and Patience to bear the Punishment of my Iniquity Or if by thy Wise Providence thou art pleas'd thus to afflict me for Tryal and for the Examples of others Thy Will O my God! not mine be done Help me and any who are in the same Circumstances in Patience to possess our Souls and let all thy Fatherly Chastisements advance us still nearer towards Christian Perfection teach us the Emptiness of all things here below wean us more and more from a vain World fix our Hearts more upon Heaven and help us forward in the right Way that leads to Everlasting Life Thro' Jesus Christ our Lord to whom with the Father and Holy Ghost be Glory Honour and Power now and for ever Amen! APPENDIX A LETTER concerning the Religious Societies SIR HAVING in Conversation accidentally mentioned those Religious Societies which have been for some time erected in and about the Cities of London and Westminster and of late in some other places you were pleased to desire a more particular Account concerning them of their Orders and manner of Life and what my Thoughts were as to what we then heard objected against them I must confess I have had the Curiosity to make a particular Enquiry about them and the Informations I have received have been from such Persons as I think I may entirely depend upon for the Truth of them and what I have from them I here very briefly give you referring them for a larger Account to Mr. Woodward's little Book on that Subject In the first place I find many Persons are in the same mistake which you were once in and confound these Religious Societies with the Societies for Reformation tho' they are quite different as to their Institution and immediate Ends and for the most part as to the Persons whereof they are composed The immediate Business of the Societies for Reformation is to assist the Civil Magistrates in putting the Laws in Execution against Profaneness and Immorality and consists of Sober Persons of any Persuasion among Protestants tho' most of them as far as I can observe of the Church of England But the Religious Societies as we call them for distinction from the other are composed of such as meet together wholly upon a Religious Account to promote true Piety in themselves and others and are all of them strict Members of the Church of England none being admitted or suffered to

Mercy we having need of it because all born Sinners and that it was free for all Persons to receive it Iust. Mart. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and therefore he must include Infants as well as others And to the same purpose Irenaeus Bishop of Lyons in France who was partly cotemporary with Iustin Martyr both of them flourishing near the middle of the Second Century for he mentions Infants Children young and old as born again unto God by Christ Now 't is notorious that by being born again or Regeneration the Fathers understand Baptism which is called in the Scriptures also as has been already observed The Laver of Regeneration Nor is it any valid Objection that several in the Primitive Church did delay their Baptism and some of them to the Hour of Death since this proves more than the Objectors would have it who are not for delaying it till this time and besides they did this upon particular Reasons See this elaborately handled by Mr. Walker in his excellent Treatise of Infant-Baptism some because they thought all Sins damnable which were committed after Baptism others because they were of Opinion that Baptism purg'd away all Sin original and actual and it may be more than either because they were unwilling to leave their Sins and live a strict and an holy Life but this no more shows the deferring of Baptism to have been the received Doctrine of the Church than it is the Doctrine of the Church of England that People may without Sin absent themselves from the other Sacrament because too many actually do it and 't is to be feared for the same Reason namely lest they should be obliged to forsake their Sins and lead a better Life But this we affirm that there is not one Instance to be found in Antiquity of any Orthodox Christian who denied Baptism to Children when brought to be baptised and believe we may be positive that not one of the Fathers or antient Writers for the first Eight Hundred Years at least ever held it unlawful And that it has been the Practice of all the regular Churches ever since is as clear and manifest whereas we know that whenever the Popish Errors were brought into the Church they were neither early nor universally received For not only our own Ancestors when first converted to Christianity not only all our European Churches but the African too formerly did and still do baptise their Children both the Coptis in Egypt and the Abyssines in Ethiopia as well as the Churches of Asia and even those of St. Thomas who had for many Ages scarce any Correspondence with our Parts of the World The Matter of Fact being thus cleared we may reasonably conclude from it that since Infant-Baptism has been generally received and practised by the Church of God in all Places and Ages since we can track it up as high as those who lived in the purest Ages of the Church and were almost cotemporaries with some of the Apostles for Polycarp who was Irenaeus his Master lived in some part of the First Century for these Reasons we cannot think it unlawful we must believe as St. Austin says that it was certainly handed down from Christ and his Apostles and that as it has now continued without interruption in the Church of God for near Seventeen Hundred Years so it will by God's Grace continue therein in like manner to the End of the World Whereas on the contrary it would follow that if Infant-Baprism were not true Baptism there has been yet no true Church since our Saviour since there has been none which did not baptise Infants no entire Church which has thought it unlawful though some private Persons should have had private Opinions Not even those of Piedmont though it is true they often delaid Baptism when they could not have it without the superstitious Appendages of the Romanists and if there were any sheltered amongst them who did wholly deny Baptism to Infants they also denied Baptism it self and the other Sacrament I shall close this Head and the whole Argument for Infant-Baptism with this one Remark That if there be no true Church but that of the Antipoedobaptists that Promise has never yet been fulfilled That Kings should be nursing Fathers and Queens nursing Mothers to the Church for they never had but one King and Queen of their Opinion and those they do not love to hear of Now we are not to think that God has forgotten this Promise for 1700 Years together nor will they affirm it there having been many excellent Kings and Princes Protectors of Churches which have baptised Infants and have been in their Infancy themselves baptised whence it it follows that Infant-Baptism is true Baptism and that tthose are true Churches who use it if there ever yet were any since our Saviour § XXI To sum up the Evidence for Infant-Baptism If outward Baptism be generally and in an ordinary way necessary to Salvation if Infants may be saved as well as others and we ought to neglect no means to save them If our Saviour commands such to come to be brought unto him and did himself put his Hands upon them and bless them and called them Believers and says That of such is the Kingdom of Heaven and was angry with those that would have kept them from him and said It was better for any to have a Mill-stone tied about his Neck and be cast into the Sea than to offend them and it be the greatest Offence to keep them from Baptism which is the Gate to the Church and so to Heaven If the Children even of one believing Parent have Holiness federal Holiness by their Parents Charter and may have the beginnings of real actual Holiness wrought in them by the Holy Ghost because they have had extraordinary Gifts and are therefore much more capable of the ordinary if they are capable of making a Covenant or having a Covenant made for them by others with Privileges and Obligations annexed if they have right to be Members of a Church if they were in the Iewish Church and even in Abraham's Covenant which was a Covenant of Faith an Evangelical Covenant and were never excluded by Christ who would rather give them new Privileges than lessen the old if supposing our Saviour had designed that Children should not be baptised he must have expresly and formally excepted them from Baptism and have forbidden his Apostles to baptise them which otherwise they would certainly have done because the Iews did admit Children to be Proselytes by Baptism as well as grown Persons and yet 't is not so much as pretended that he ever did thus forbid them nay he commanded his Apostles to make Disciples out of all Nations by Baptism as the Iews did before them if it is highly probable even from the Letter of the sacred Scripture that the Apostles did baptise Children because they frequently baptised whole Housholds and it would be strange if there should be no Children among them and