The Act of Partaking

The act of partaking is passing and brief. The thoughts of those few instants must of course be short. The proper exercise must be such as may be compendious. It is plaiD therefore that your views at this juncture

1 Cor. 11: 29.

must be extremely simple. You will not greailj err, if you fix your regards on “Jesus Christ, and him cracified.”* Such childlike thoughts as these will properly arise:

“Lord Jesus, I remember thee!”

“Jesus, Saviour, I here remember thy
body broken for my sins.”

“Lamb of God, who takest away the sin of the world, have mercy upon mel’’

“Lord, I show forth thy death till thou come!”

“0 Lord Jesus Christ, I take this cup in memory of thee, as the new covenant in thy blood!”

“I, a wretched sinner, confide in thy blood, shed for many for the remission of sins.”

“Lord, I believe, help thou mine unbelief!”

“Blessed Jesus, who hast died for me, I here give myself away to thee!”

“God be merciful to me a sinner I”

“Let this cup of blessing be blessed unto

1 Cor. 2:2.

me, for the sake of my dying Lord, whom 1 thus remember!”

Any one of these ejaculations would be appropriate and edifying; and the sacied calm of the soul should not be interrupted by ingenious attempts to vary or multiply the thoughts. Indeed the soul that silently waits on God, must relinquish a portion of its activity, at such a time, leaving something to the suggestions of the Holy Spirit.