WEEK'S
PREPARATION

FOR A WORTHY RECEIVING OF THE

LORD'S SUPPER,

AS RECOMMENDED AND APPOINTED BY THE
CHURCH OF ENGLAND :

CONSISTING OF
SUITABLE MEDITATIONS, AND SOME
NECESSARY FORMS;

WITH A
COMPANION FOR THE ALTAR:

ALSO,
MeditaTIONS AND MORNING AND EVENING
PRAYERS for the Closet or Family, &c.

TOGETHER WITH
Instructions how we should conduct ourselves after

partaking of the Lord's Supper ; and a
Scriptural Explanation of the same.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED
AN ESSAY ON FAITH,
Shewing its NATURE, ORIGIN, Operation and Con-

NECTION with Good WORK3.

By the Rev. John ROTHERAM, M. A.

DUBLIN:
PRINTED BY PA WOGAN, No. 15, LOWER ORMOND

QUAY.

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1809.

T may not be improper to mention tlie

particular corrections and additions that have been made to this new Edition the whole has been revised, and such expressions have been altered, or expunged, as were not well adapted to that Purity of Prayer, necessary when we address the most intelligent of all Beings.

The directions for our conduct after our departure from the Lord's Table have been attended to, and such iná structions laid down, as will, it is hoped, be of service to young and less informed minds. There has been also added, amongst the num. ber of additions, one that we hope will be particularly acceptable, being an Essay on Faith, and its CONNEXION with Good WORKS; extracted from that excellent piece, written by the Rev. JOHN ROTHERAM, M. A. Chaplain to the Bishop of Durham. This piece first made its appearance before that respectable body, the University of Oxford, who requested its publication for the good of mankind, with regard to their eternal welfare. “ The Au. thor has chosen to lay before the public a plain and rational account of faith, hoping there. by to do more effectual service, than by a direct attempt to refute the various errors that have A 2