...and satisfaction for the sins of the whole,world, and did institute, and in his holy Gospel command ers, but <w the tenants ef Christ, doing the will cf God from the he nis coining again ; hear as, O merciful Father, we most humbly .beseech thee, and grant that we, receiving...

...and confirm the English prayer for consecration, which I now proceed to examine. It is as follows: " Hear us, O merciful Father, we most humbly beseech...be partakers of his most blessed body and blood." The petition of this prayer, that we " may be partakers of Christ's most blessed body and blood," in...

...thy Word and Holy Spirit, these thy gifts and creatures of bread and wine ; that we, receiving them according to thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ's holy...may be partakers of his most blessed body and blood. And we earnestly desire thy fatherly goodness, mercifully to .accept this our sacrifice of praise and...

...consecrating, that we, receiving these God's creatures of bread and wine in remembrance of Jesus Christ's death and passion, may be partakers of his most blessed body and blood. The notion of a sacrifice is also opposed by the declaration, that Christ's one oblation of himself...

...in Him, and He in us." The Priest also, blessing or consecrating the Bread and Wine, saith thus ; " Hear us, O merciful FATHER, we most humbly beseech...be partakers of His most blessed Body and Blood." .... The same, when he gives the Sacrament to the people kneeling, giving the bread, saith ; " The...

...thy Word and Holy Spirit' the'se thy gifts and creatures of bread and wine" that we' receiving them according to thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ's holy...be partakers of his most blessed Body and Blood'" And we ea'rnestly desire thy fatherly goodness' mercifully to ac'cept this our sacrifice of praise...

...agreed in which part of the prayer the consecration is intended, — whether by the supplication " grant that we, receiving these thy creatures of bread...thy Son our Saviour Jesus Christ's holy institution, may be partakers of his most blessed body and blood," (which seems rather a prayer for the inward grace...

...us." In the prayer of consecration we pray, " that we, receiving these creatures of bread and wine in remembrance of his death and passion, may be partakers of his most blessed body and blood." And, in the second prayer after the distribution of the elements (which I quote the rather as, perhaps,...

...and satisfaction for the sins of the whole world ; and did institute, and in his holy gospel command us to continue, a perpetual memory of that his precious death until his coming again," &c. In her second homily, concerning the death and passion of Christ, the church says — " We must...

...communion service; the word ing of it is very remarkable, and runs thus : " Hear us, O merciful Father, and grant that we, receiving these thy creatures of bread and wine, according to Jesus Christ's holy institution, in remembrance of his death and passion, may be partakers of his most...