{15} In a prayer of preparation, by the pious and excellent Bishop Kenn, in his Manual, which has fallen in my way, since I wrote the above, I find this passage: “If thou, Lord, shouldst be extreme to mark what I have done amiss, alas, alas, I am then unfit, not only to communicate, but to say even my daily prayers: I know, Lord, that if I should stay till I am worthy to come, I should then never come; and, therefore, though I am unworthy of so unspeakable a mercy, yet I come to beg thy grace _to make me worthy_, or, at least, such as thou wilt accept.”—Since the third edition of this tract was published, I have met with an excellent sermon of Dr. Benjamin Calamy on this subject, who draws a very sensible distinction between _unworthy receivers_, and _receiving unworthily_. _Unworthy receivers_ the best of men ever must be, but it does not follow that the Holy Sacrament is therefore received _unworthily_. {19} Taylor’s Art of Holy Living, chap. iv. sect. 10. {20} The now worthy Dean of Canterbury and Rector of St. James’s Westminster, the Rev. Gerrard Andrewes, D.D. {21} The Magdalen Hospital.