Excerpt from Officium Eucharisticum: A Preparatory Service to a Devout and Worthy Reception of the Lord's Supper
Good Reader,
This little manual of directions and prayers for the Holy Communion first designed for a private use, now shews itself in public, on presumption it may help thee in thy closet-retirements towards a pious preparation thereto, and a worthy reception thereof.
I will not be tedious in prefacing it; only I cannot say it is mine, but a collection; and recommends itself unto thee clothed in the language, not of any private conception, (of such the world is already full enough,) but of primitive Liturgies; of that of our holy Church and some of the most devout Fathers of it, Bishop Andrewes, Bishop Cosin, and that great and good man, Archbishop Laud, who lived a Patron of it, and died a Martyr for it.
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