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Short ExpPosiTioNn
OF THE
PRIMER or OFFICE
OF TR's
BLESSED VIRGIN MARY.
A: H E Offte of our B. Lady is of great antiquity, and
“A. was compofed by the church, direéted by the Holy
Ghoft; This book is called the Primer, from the Latin
word Primo, which fignifies, firft of ally to teach us,
that prayer fhould be the firfl work of the day. The
fice is divided into Pfalms, Hymns, Ganticles, Anthenis,
Verficles, Refponfories, and Prayers, for Order, Beauty,
and Variety-fake, and waranted by Scripture. (Col. 9.
16.) Sing you in your hearts to our Lord, in Spiritua!
Pialms, Hymns, and Canticles.
The Office is divided into feven feveral hours, accord-
ing to thatof the Prophet: Seven times in the day have
_] praifed thee: and likewife, to 1eprefent a daily me-
moual of the feven principal parts, and of the fiven
hours of our Saviouy’s Paffion. For our Saviour hung
three hours living on the crofs, other three hours he
‘hung dead on the crois, and the feventh hour wasipent
in nailing -him to, and taking him from the crofs,
By the Matins and Lauds, we commemorate his agony
- and binding in the garden. By the Prime, his {coffs
and falfe accufations ; by the third hour, his cloathing
with purple, and crowniog with thorns; by the fixth
_ hour, his condemning and nailing to the crofs ; by the
) ninth hour, his yielding up the Ghoft, and the opening
_ of his fide; by the Even-Song, his taking from the
~crofs; and by the Complin, his burial.
| Note, that the Matins (according to the precife canoni-
_ cal time) begin at midnight, and the Lauds are but as it
were
( iv}
avere an appendix to the Matins: the Prime begins at
fix of the clock in the morning, &c. But thele times
aie not punctually obferved, unlefs in religious houles.
The Doxology, or Glory be to the Father, and to the
Son, and to the Holy Gholt, we. is faid at the beginning
_of every hour, and at the end of every pfalm, to thew,
that the intention of the Office is, in the firft place, to
ive one equal Glory to the moft_ Bleffed. Trinity, and
to invite all creatures to do the like.
Alleluia isa Hebrew word, and ignifes, Praife ye our
‘Lord with joy and exultation of heart, and is the langues
age 6f the Bleffed in Heaven, according to Afoc. $. 6.
‘Lherefore the church has forbidden it to be tranflated
into any other Janguage: ‘It is uled for a great part of
the year,.efpecially betwixt Eafler and Whitfuntide ; be-
caufe that is a time of joy for our Saviour’s refurredion
and afcenfion. But fiom Septuagefima till Eaffer, in-
ftead of Alleluia, is faid Praifé be to thee, O Lord King
of Eternal Glory, becaufe that is a time of penance ;
therefore, God muft be praifed rather with tears, than
exultations Sack
‘The Invitatory, Hail Mary full of grace, our Lord
3s with thce 5 is to congratulate and ienew the memory of
our Bleffed Lady’s joy, conceived at the conception of
her.Son Fefus: and to invite all the communion of the
faithful to do the like. The five verfes which follow the
invitatory, and begin, Come let us Rejoyce, Uc. figni y
fhe five wounds of: Chrift, from which all our prayer
has its force and merit ; and in honour of which thole
veificles are faid. ®
The hymnsare a poetical expreffion of Se preted ie
and prailes of God and our!Bicifd Lady, and were com-
pofed, for the moft part, by St. Hilary, St. Anbrefe, and
St. Thomas of Aquine. ‘The ufe of them is warranted by
Scripture (Matih. 26.) where tis faid, that oyr Saviour
and his Ditciples, aftcr they had recited a hymo, went
» forth. oer.
The three pfalms in moft of the hours, and the three
. hours allotted to every canonical sour are in honour of
the Biefled Trinity, to whom chiefly the whole Oliice is
dire@ted- The Abfolution and Benedidtions, before the
-leflons,
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teffous, are fhort afpirations to beg divine affiflance, that’
we may worthily read the leffons following: and the
firft Benediflion is in honour of the Father, the fecond
in honour of the Son, the thitd-in honour of the Holy”
Ghoft. The leffons and chapters are taken out of Holy
Writ, and contain the myftical praife of Chrift and our
Bleffed Lady,
The Refponfories, or Anfivers, are fo called becaufe
one alone having fung a Leffon, all the Choir anfwers.
and fings the Refponfory, which uftally is taken out of
the fame part of Scripture, as the leffon, or othe: wile is’
compofed of certain pious affections towards God, and.
of fentences correfpondent to the nature of that day’s’
office. The letter R. ufually denotes a Refponfory, or
- Anfwer, asthe letter V. doth a Verficle.
An Anthem or Antiphona fignihes a Reciprocal Voice,
that is a voice which one wing of the Choir returns to”
the other, whence it comes’; finging i itin an exchanged”
order. Betore and after moft of the Pfalms is placed - am
Anthem, which Anthem is faid both- before and after
the Pialm, on a double Feaft-day; and only after, ona
fingle Fea. St. T/fdore faith, thefe Anthems were fit -
ufed in the Greek Church, add: afterwards introduccd into’
the Latin Church, by St. Ambrofe.
We rite up and ftand, while we fay or fing the Canti-*
cles or Songs; My foul magnibes our Lord, ” dsc. Bleffed
be the Lord God of Tfrael, &c. And, now Lord let thy’
fervant depart, Gc. to fienify our reverence to the
Golpel, out of which thofe are taken. The colle€ isthe
Prayer, fo called, becaufe it colle&ts and gathers together
the fum of all petitions and fiupplicaiions of the whole
Office. and is always ended with thefe words, Phiough
our Lord Jefus Ch rift, Gc. to fign: ify, that he is our
Mediator of Redemption, and priueipal Mediator of In-
terceflion, and that we cannot merit any thing by eur
Prayers, unlefs we make them in his name.
Tae Nodurns, or night office, are fo called, becanfe
they were wont to be (and in Catholic Countries ith
are) faid No€tuino Tempore, in the night time, accord-
( Az ing
( vii j
34S. Valentine, Prief and Martyr 3
¥5 St. Fauflin and Fovita, MM y |
= 18 S. Simeon, B'thop and Martyr
22 Chair of S. Peter at Antioch
29 Pigit
24 S. MATTHIAS Apolile |
N.B. On Leap Years February has 29 Days, and the Fea/?
of St. Mathias is kept on the 25.
March hath xxxi Days.
S. Cafimir, Confeffor, and S. Lucirs Pope and Mart.
S. Th. of Aguin, Dr. Perfet. and Fe. M.
S. Poin de Deo, Confeflor
S. Frances, Widow
10 Forty Martyrs.
iz S. Gregory, Pope, Confeffor and Dior
17 S. Putrick, Bilbop and Confeflor
19 S. JOSEPH, Conlelfor
80 S. Joachim, Con'ellor
21 S. Benedif, Abbot
25 ANNUNTIATION of the B.V. Mary
N.B. On Friday in P:fhon Weck, the Office of the
Scven Griefs of the’B. V. Mary.
April hath xxx Days,
2 S,. Francis of Paula, Confeflor +
¢ Se Lidore, B CG
S. Viacenlirt Ferreri: s, Confelfor
a1 S. Lio, Pope and Conteffor
23 S. Hermengild, Martyr |
aq S. Tiburtius, Cc. Martyr
: a7 S. Anicetus, Pope and Martyr .
opi St. Anfelm, Bthop, Conteffor and Doane
ag S. Soter and Caius, Popes and Martyrs
2; §. GEORGE, M2 tyr
25 §. Mark, Evangelift
96. §. Cletus and Maiceilinus, Popes and Martyrs
28 S$. Viralis, Mar yz
29 So Peter, Maryn :
So $. Catharine of Siena, Virgin
May hath xxxi Days,
a S. PHILIP aud JAMES, Apoliles
ND CON) te
2 S
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@ S. Athanafius, Bifhop and Conf for
3 FINDINGH. C. and}. Alex. M fuv. Band C
4 S. Monica, Widow
5. § Pius V. Pope and Confeflor
6 S. foln before the Latin Gate
3 S. Staniflaus, Bilhop and Martyr
$ Appaituon of S. Michael
og S$. Gregory Nazianzen, Bithop ant Conleffor
10 S. Antonine, BC, Gord. and Epima. MM
12 S. Nereus, Achilleus and Domitilia, MM
34 S. Boniface, Martyr
16 S. Ubald, Bifsop and Confeffor
aS S. Venantius, Martyr
29. S. Pet. Cocieft. P. and Con, and Pudent, Virgie
20 S. Bernardine, Eonfelfor
a, S. Mary Magdalen of Paz. Virgin, Se.
36 S. Philip Nirius, Conféffor, &c.
27 S. Jilin Pope and Martyr
go S. Flix, Pope and Martyr
31 S. PetvoniHa, Virgin
June hath xxx Days.
¢ S. Murcellin, Peter and Erafmus, MM.
6 S. Narbert, Bifhop ani nfeifor —
g 35. Primus and Felician, MM
io S Margaiet Queen of Scotland
11 S. Barnaby, Apofile
12 S. John of S. Fac. S. Bafilides, &e. MM
13S. Anthony of Padua, Confeffor
34 St. Bafil, Bifhop, and Confeffor, and DoQor
a5 S. Vitus, Modeitus, and Crefcentia, MM -
yS S. Mark and Marecilian, MM |
3g S. Gervafe and Protafe, MM
20 §. Silverius, Pope and Martyr
22 S$. Paulinas, bilhop aad Con!eflor
23
at NAFEVETY of S. FOUN BAPTIST
2 S. John and Paul. MM 3
28 S. Leo, Pupe and Gon ‘efor Vici?
2g S. PETER and PAUL, Apo'lles ¥
30 Commem. f St Paul —
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July hath xxxi Days.
1 O&ave of S. John Baprift
2 Vifiiation of th® B. V. Mary, and §, Pioceffus and
Martinian, MM
8 S. Elifabeth, Queen of Port. Wid.
10 Seven Biethren M. and S Ruf. and Sec. MM
vt $, Pius, Pope and Mariyr
12 §. Jo. Gua. Abbot, and S. Nab, and Fel. MM
12, S. Anacletus, Pope and Martyr ;
14 S. Bonaventure, Bithop, Conteffor and Du&or
15 S. Henry, Emperor and Conieflor
16 B.V.M. of Mount Carmel
17 S. Alexius, Confeflor
18 S. Symphor ofa, and her feven Sons, MM
20 S. Margaret, Virgin Martyr
93 §. Praxedes, Virgin.
92 S. Mary Magdalen
23 S. Apolinar. BM, andS.. Liborius OB
24 S, Chriitina, Virgin and Martyr Vigit
25 S, FAMES, Apolile
20 §. ANNE, Mother of the B. V. Mary»
27 S. Pantaleon, Martyr
28 Nazarius Cellus, &. MM
29 S. Martha V, and Felix. 6c. MM
3° S. Abdon and Sennen, MM
3t §. Ignatius, Gonfeffor
Auguft. hath xxxi Days..
- §. P.ter’s Chains, and H. Machab. MM
S. Stephen, Pope and Martyr
Finding of St Stephen, tft Martyr:
S. Dominick, Confeffor
Dedication of B. V. ad Nives
Transfiguration of our Lord, & Xyft. &c. MM
S. Caician, ©, and S$, Donatus, B. and Martyr
$. Cyriacus, Largus and Smaragdus MM
S. Romanus, Martyr Vigil
10 S. LAURENCE, Martyr
31 S$. Tiburtius and Sufanna, MM —
32 S. Clare, Virgin. .
13 S. Hippolitus and Caifianus, MM- A
14 S. Eulebius, Confeflor : Vigil
15 ASSUMPTION of the B, V. Mary |
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26 S. Hyacinthus, Confeffor
28 S, Agapite, Martyr .
20 §. Bernard, Abbot
2g Odave of Affumption, and S. Tim. ke. MM ae.
23 S. Philip Benitius, Confeflor : Vigit
24 §. BARTHOLOMEW, Apolile
z5 S. Lewis, King of France, Confeffor
20 S. Zephyrin, Pope and Martyr
2S S. Awlin, € Band Dy S$. Hermes. M
29 Beheading of S. John Baptift, S. Sabina, NG
20 S. Rofe of LimaV. S. Felix and Ada. MM
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31 S. Raymund, Confetfor
September hath xxx Days.
2 S. Giles, Abbot, and 12 Brethren, Mertyrs
2 §. Stephen King-of Hungary, Conteffor
7 Faft nm England *
S& NATIVITY of the B. V. Mary, S§. Adrian, M
On Sund. within this Od. the Name of the B. V. Mu
9 S. Gorgoutus, Martyr
ao S. Nicolas of Folentum, Confeffer.
¥t S. Protus and Hyacinthus, MM
14 Exabtation of the Holy Crofs
15 S. Nicom. Ma:tyr
40 S, Cornelius and Cyprian, Martyrs
17 The Holy Stigmas of S. Francis
18.S. Thomas of Villa Nov. Bifhop and Confeffor
19 S Januarius, &c. Martyrs Be
20 S, Eultachius, &c. Martyrs Vigil
zt S. MATTHEW, Apoftle and Evangelift _
22 §. Maurice, &c. Martyrs
23 S. Linus P and M, and S. Tecla. V. Martyrs
24. The B. V. Mary de Mercede
26 S. Cyprian aud Jaftina, Martyrs:
27 S. Cofmas and Damian, Martyrs
28 S. Wenceflaus,. Martyr
29 DEDICATION of S, Michael, Arch-Angel’
30 S. Hierom. Prieft, Confeffor and Door
Oétober hath xxxi Days.
1 S. Remigius, Bifhop and Confeffor
2 Angels Guard . (V Mary
3 The if Sun. of O&. the Feaft of the Rofary of the Bs
4 S&S. Francis, Confeflor )
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S, Placidus: &e. Martyrs »
S. Bruno, Ponleive
S. Mark, Pope and Conf, and S. Serg. ‘&e. MM
Ss. Bridait, Widow
s Deusic, &c, Martyrs
o S. Francis Borgia, Confeffor
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‘S. Califtus, Pope and Martyr
S. Terefa, Virgin
S Hedwige, Widow
18 §. Luke, Evangelift
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S$, Peter of Alcaniara, Confeffar »
S. Hilarion, Abbot, and S. Urfula. &c. Martyrs
8. Chryfanthus, and Daria, Martyrs
S. Evarift. Pope and Martyr
S. SIMON and JUDE, Apoftles
November hath xxx. Days,
. ALLSAINTS
* AW Souls —
S. Charles, Bifhop and Conf. and S. Vital, Martyr
Dedication of our Sav. Church, and S. The. M
S. Andr. Avel. C. fd. S$. Tryphon, &e. MM
| §. Martin, Bilhop and Conf flor
S. Martin, Pepe and Martyr, and S$. Men, M
S. Didacus, Gonfeffor — *
S. Greg. Phaumat. Bifhop and Confeflor
Dedica‘ion of §. Peter's and § Paul's Churches
S. Elf. ©. of Hung. Wid. and $. Pont. P and M
S. Felix Valois, Confeffor
Prefentation of the Blefled Virgin Mary
S. Cecily, Virgin Martyr
S. Clement, Pope and Martyr, and S. Feli icitas, M
.Chrylogonus, Martyr
Sv Catharine, Vigin and Martyr
S. Peter of Alexandria, Bifhop and Martyr
S. Saturnine, Martyr Vigil
S. ANDREW, Apofile
December hath xx xi Days.
S. Bibiana, Virgigand Martyr |
S. Franc: i Keverias. Confeffor
S. Peter Chry fologus, BC, S Bathesa VM
S. Sabbas, Abbot
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“G6 ~S. Nicolas, Bifop and Confeffor
7 S. Ambrofe,-Bifhop, Confeffor and Dolor
8 CONCEPTION of the B. V. Mary
10 S. Melchiades, Popeand Martyr
11 S. Damafus, Pope and Confeflor
19 S. Lucy, Virgin and Martyr
a, S. Eulebius, Bithop and Martyr
.20 Vigil
21 S. THOMAS, Apofile
93 NATIVITY of our Lord Jefus Chrift
sate S. STEPHEN, firft Martyr
97 §. JOHN, Apoftle and Evangelifts
eS HOLY INNOCENTS, Martyrs
te =: THOMAS, B ef Canterbury, Martyr
S. SILVESTER, gigi Confeflor
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ATAB re of all the Feafs that are to be obferved by the
Catholics of England, according to the lajt Regulations of
the Holy See: As well thofe that conti ine tn full Obliza-
Aion, as thofe in which we are-difpenfed vith in regard to
the Precept of hearing Ma/s, and refting from “fervile
Works; which neverthele/s are fiill to be confidered as
.Feafts of great Devotion, and as fuch are to be recom
mended from the Altar to the Attention of the Faithful,
whofe. Occupations will permit them to be prefent at the
great Sacrifice of the Mafs an thofe Days,
‘EF The Holidays of Obligation are.in Capital’ Letters.
All the SUNDAYS throughout the Year
Jan..1. The CIRCUMCISION, or New-Years ibe
6b. The EPIPHANY, or Twelfth Day
Feb. 2, The Purification, or Candlemas Day
24-St. Matthias, Apolile
Mar. 19 St. Jofeph
25, ANNUNCIATION ofthe B. V. or Lany-Day.
Apr. 23 St. George the Martyr
-St. Philip and St. Jimes, Apofiles
3 The finding of the Crofs
june “24 The Nativity of St. John Baptift
29 St, PETER and St. PAUL
July
‘( stv. j
‘July 25 St.’ James, Apoflle
26 St. Anne, Mother of the B. Virgin a 8
Aug. 10 St. Laurence, Martyr
15 ASSUMPTION of the B. VIRGEN
24 §. Bartholomew, Anofile
“Sept. S The Nativity of the B. Virgin
a1 St. Matthew, Apofile
29 «Michaelmas Day
O€&, 28 St. Simeon and St. Jude, Apofiles
Wov. 1 ALL SAINTS
30 St. Andrew, Apoflle
Dec. 8 The Conception of the B. Virgin, |
2% St. Thomas, Apoflle
2, CHRISTMAS DAY
26 St. Stephen, the Martyr
27 St. John, Apoftle
28 Holy Innocents
2g St. Thomas of Canterbury
MOVEABLE FEASTS.
EASTER MONDAY
- Eafter Tue'day
ASCENSION DAY .
WHITSUN MONDAY
Whidun Tuefday
CORPUS CHRISTI DAY.
THE FASTING DAYS.
1 Forty Days of Lent.
Ember-days at the Four Seafons, being the Wedne/day,
Friday, and Saturday of the fixft Weck in Lent; of
Whitfun-Week ; of the third Week in September, and
of the third Weck in Advent.
Wednefdays and Fridays of all the Four Weeks of
Advent.
4 Vigils or Eves of Whiifunday, of the Saints Peter and
Paul, of the Affumption of the Bleffed’Virgin, of All-
Saints, and ot Chri/imas-Day.
5 Fridays, except between Eafter and Whitfunday, and
between Chrifimas Day and the Odave of the Epipha-
BS
uo
ny ; and thofe upon which any of the Feftivals fet
down in the Table of Feafts chances to fall, unlefs it
bein Lent, Advent, or in Ember-Week,
THE
(xv )
THE ABSTINENCE DAYS.
1 Sundays in Lent.
2 Three Rogation-Days, being the Monday, Tuefday. te
Wednefday before Afcenjion-Day,
St. Mark, April 25, wnlefs it falls in Eafler-week..-
Fridays above excepted from the rule of Fafting. ;
Saturdays out of Lent, and the Ember. weeks, or fauch as
happen to be Vigis ; but if Chriftmas- Day falls upon
a Friday or Saturday, it is not Abflinence.
ADVENT.
The firft Sunday of Advent isalways that which either
falls-on St. Andrew s Day, or the next to it either be-
fore or after; that is, from the 27th of corer to the
third of December.
The Time of Marriage.
The folemnizing of Maniage is forbidden from the
Firfi Sunday of Advent, till after the Twelfih-day ; and
from the Beginning of Lent till Low-Sunday; all other
Tuncs it may be folemnized.
Cn ph Uo
5 A TABLE
fundays 1%Sun,
xvi A Table of Maveable Feafts.
ts |Septua-| Ath-
Year . ate Wea- Eafter-|Whit-
A Sunday nefday, Sunday|Sunday
1780 BA\ Jan. 23 Feb. 9}Mar.26|May 14
1781'G |Feb. 11 Feb. 28) Apr.15 ‘hint ‘
1782 F \Jan, 27 Feb. 13 Mar.g1|May 19
1783! E |Feb. 16\Mar. 5) Apr.col June 8
1784'DC\Feb. 8)Feb.25'/Apr.11)May go
4785 B \Jan. 23\Feb. 9 Mar.o7\May 15
3786 A |Feb, 12/Mar. 1/Apr,16\June 4
3787) G Feb. 4\Feb.21 Apr. §|May 27
1788 FEl|Jan, g0|/Feb. 6)/Mar,e3/May 11
1789} D'Feb. 8)Feb.25)Apr.19 May gt
1790] © \Jan, g1tFcb.17) Apr. 4\May 23
1791 B Eeb, 20)Mar. 9 Apr.24 Junete
1792 AG Feb. 5 keb. 22|Apr, 8 May 2
1793 F Jan. 27 Feb, 13 Mar.g1|May 19
1794! E [Feb, 161Mar. 5|Apr.eo June 3
1795| D ‘Feb, 1{Feb. 18 Apr. 5)May 24
.o4tFeb. 10|Mar,o7| May 15
b.22jMar, 1JApr.16)June 4
4 Feb, 21 Apr. 8
| F jJan.eo!Feb. 6|Mar.a4 May12
E iFeb. g\Feb. 26 Apr. 13 June 1
D Feb. 3/Feb. 18)Apr. 5 May 24
180
180
1804
B \Feb. 6'Feb.
AG Jan, 20 Feb.
1805 F ‘Feb. io Feb.
1806; E Feb. 2 Feb. 19 Apr, 6 May25
1807 D Jan. 25 Feb. 1 1 Mar. 29 May 17
1808iCB ‘Feb. 4 Feb. 24'Apr.17'june 5
1809] A Jan. 29 Feb. 15 Apr. 2; May 21
1810} C |Feb.18 Mar. 7,Apr.ge}june1o
1311| F |Feb, 10 Feb. 27'Apr.ig/June 2
1819] ED Jan. 26 Feb. 12'Mar.e9|May 17
1819] C Feb. 14 Mar. 3'Apr.18 6
38141 B Feb. 6 Feb. 23 Apr.10|/May 29
1815, A \Jan. 22 Feb, 8 Mar.o6)May 14
1816] GF Feb, 11, Feb, 23 Apr.iq|June
1817} E Feb. 2 Feb. 19'Apr. 6|May 25
1818, D Jan. 18/Feb. 4 Mar.o2e/May to
3819] C Feb. 7 Feb. 24/Apr.11}May 30
1820] BA Jan. go Feb. 15\Apr, g|May 21
38211 G ‘si oy sal Miss june10
°3 Apr.10 May 2g
15 Apr. 1 May2o
27 Apr.14 June 2
May 27}
C Feb, 14/Mare 3'Apr.i8 June 6}:
after | of
Pentec.' Advent
28 jDec. 3
25 \Dec. @
o7 |Dec. 4
24 |Novge
25 |Novods
27 |Nove7
25 Dec. 3
26 \Dec. 2
28 Jak 30
2H jaNOoVe
26 Nov 38
2 Nove
2 Dec.
27. \Dec. 1
24 |Nov go
£6 |Noveg
27 |Nove7
25 |Dec. 3
<6 |Dee. 2
28 Dec. 1
25 |Nov go
26 |Nov2g
24 |Nov 23
25 |Nove27
27 |Dec. @
25 |Dec. 1
26 |Nov go
27 |Nove2g
24 |Nov 27
27 Dec. g
24 {Dec 2
25 |Dec. I
27 |Nov29
24 |Nov28
25 |Nov 27
2§ Dec. 3
25 |Dec. 1
26 |Nov go
28 |Noveg
25 |Noved
27 'Dec. 3
24 ae 3
- ‘Plenary
(.° avai)
Plen. 1 » dod gences granted to the Faithful in the Fates
Dif.
I. N Chrifimas Day, and the twelve Days tition
ing to the Day of Epiphany inclufively.
Ll. In the firfi weck in Lent, begianing with the firft
Sunday, aud ending with the fecond Sunday inclulively.
Ill. At Eafter, 2. ¢. from Paim-Sunday inclufively to
Low-Sundiy inclufively.
IV. On Whit Sunday, and during the Odlave, in-
cluding Triaity-Sundav-
V. On Corpus Chrifti Day, and during the OGave.
VI. To the Indulgences formerly granted, his late
Holinefs Pope Clement XIF. was pleated to acd a new
one in favour of all the Faithful living in the Englifh
Miffions, who being truly penitent, and having confefled
their fins, fhall w orttiity receive the Holy Communion
on the Feaft of St. Poter and St. Paul (June ¢)) or on
any day within the D&ive, and fhall for fome fpace of
time pray to God with a fincere heart, for the conveifion
of Infidels and Hereticks, and for the free Propagation
of the Ho' y Faith. ’
VIL, On the Feaft of the hifohcaie of the blefd
Virgin Mary, and during the Ofave.
VII. On All Saints Day, and during the O&ave,
pees ‘
The CONDITIONS of the I. TH. 1V. VIL. are,
1. Toconfefs their fins with a fincere repentance toa
Prie& approved by the Bifhop. é
2. Devoutly aud worthily to receive the Holy, Com-
munion.
3. To vifit fome chapel or oratory, ea Mafs is ce-
Tebrated, and there offer up their prayers for the peace
and welfare of God?s church. is
4. That they be in a difpcfition, if their cautite be
ces will allow it, to affiftthe poor with alms in propor-
tion to th ir abilities ; or to fregnent catechifms or jere,
mons; orto vifit and comfort the fick, and fucli ds «re
near their end, if they have the opportunity.
Note
~~ » oa
( xviit: )
Note. It isnot required, for the gaining thefe Indul-
genes, that thefe works of mercy, corporal or fpiritual,
or this affiftimg at catechifm or fermons, be done on the
fame day with the communion ; but only that perfons
be then in a difpofition or readinefs of mind to do thefe
pret or fome of them at leaft, when opportunity fhall
gilcr.
Fhe CONDITIONS of II. V. and VIII. are,
1. To confefs their flns with a fincere repentance to
aPricft approved by the Bifhop. , af
2. Devoutly and worthily to receive the Holy Come
munion.
3- If their condition will allow it, to give fome alms
to the poor.
4+ On the day of their communion to offer up fome-
prayers to God, for the whole flate of the Catholic
Church throughout the world; for the bringing all
itraying fouls to the fold of Clift; for the general peace
of Chriflendom, and for the blefling of God upon this
Nation. )
In the Midland Diftridt.
HE I. IE. HI. VI. VIL. and VILE. as in the Lon-
don Difirsé.
IV. From Whitfunday to the Sunday within the Oc-
tave of Corpus Chiifti.
V. On the Nativity of the B. V. Mary, and during +he
Odiave.
| In the Weflern Diftria.
6 Bi Plenary Indulgences: are the fame as in the
London. ;
In the Northern Diflti.
HE I. Ib. U1. VI. Vil. VIII. as in the Bonden
Diltriet.
1V. From Whitfunday to the end of the Octave of
Corpus Chrifti.
V. On the Feait of St. Michacl, and during the
Odiave.
* THE
HRRAARAH AAR AKAANAT
Gen S UM an. Danii an Doctrine.
The Apofiles Creed.
Believe in God the Father Almighty,
Creator of Heaven and Earth, and in Je-
fus Chrift his only Son our Lord, who was
conceived by the Holy Ghoft, born of the
Virgin Mary, fuffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, dead and buried ; he defcended
‘into Hell, the Third Day he rofe again from
the Dead, he afcended into Heaven, and
fits at. the Right Hand of God the Father
Almighty, from thence he will come to
judge the Living and the Dead. I believe
in the Holy Gholt, the Holy Catholic Church,
~the Communion of Saints, the Forgivenels
of Sins, the Refurreétion of the Body, and
Life everlafting, Amen. : |
Our Lord’s Prayer.
UR Father, who art in Heaven, Hal-
lowed be thy Name, thy Kingdom
come, thy Will be done, on Earth as it is in
Heaven: Give us this Day our Daily
Bread, and forgive us our Trefpafles, as we.
_ alfo forgive them that trefpafs againft us, and
lead us not into Temptation, but deliver us_
from Evil. Amen, fa
| The
The Sum of Chriftian Doétrine.
The Angelical Salutation.
AIL"Mary, full of Grace, our Lord is
with thee: Bleffled art thou among
~ Women, and bleffed is the fruit of thy womb,
Jefus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray
for us Sinners, now, and at the Hour of our
Death. Amen. °
The ‘Ten Colhiepatidentoiel of Cod, called
| the Decalogue,
Lam ihe Lord thy God, who br ought thee out of
the Land of Egypt, ah of the anf of
Beni t e
he HOU -fhalt not ith Kank Gods
before me: Thou fhalt not make
to thy felf a * graven thing, nor any likenefs
that is in Heaven above, or in the Earth ©
below, or of things that are in the water un-
der the earth:' Thou fhalt not adore nor
worfhip them. I am the Lord thy God,
firong and jealous, vifiting the fins of the fa-
thers t upon their children, to the third and —
fourth generation of them that hate me; and
fhewing mercy to thoufands of thofe that
love me, and keep my commandments.
IL. Thou fhalt not take the Name of the
Lord thy God ‘in vain; for the Lord will
* The LXXI ice ttan Idol, that ts, ‘the Statue of
g jalje God; commenty carved in Wood er Stone, an _fres
gycntly caft in metal to be ey. oie
not
The Sum of Chriftian Doéirine.
not hold him innocent, that fhall take the
name of the Lord his God in vain.
III. Remember that thou keep holy the
Sabbath day.
IV. Honour thy Father and Mother.
V. Thou fhalt not kill.
~ WI. Thou fhalt not commit Adultery.
VIL. Thou fhalt not fteal.
VIII. Thou fhalt notbear falfe teftimony
againft thy Neighbour.
IX. Thou fhaltnot covet thy Neighbour’ s
Heals:
X. Thou fhalt not covet thy Neighbour’: s
wile nor fervant, nor handmaid, nor Ox,
nor afs, nor any thing that is his.) * 9 1) >
The Seven Sacraments. L-so)
Baptifm, Confirmation, Eucharift, Penance,
F xtreme Unétion, Holy Order, and siege
mon
The Ti coiekca! Virtues.
Faith, Hope, and Charity.
The Cardinal Virtues.
Prudence, Temperance, Juftice, and —
Fortitude.
The Gifts of the Holy Ghoft. -
Wifdom, Underftanding, Counlel, Forti-
tude, Knowledge, Piety, and the Fear of
our Lord.
The Fruits of the Holy Ghoft.
Charity, Joy, Peace, Patience, Benignity,
Goodnefs, Longanimity, Meekne&, Faith,
Modefty, Continence, and Chattity.
Be The
The Sum of Chriftcan Dotirine,
The Precepts of Chority.
Thou fhalt love the Lord ip ‘God with
thy wholesheart, with thy whole foul, and
with all thy mind.
Thou fhalt love thy Neighbour as thy felf
The Precepts of the Church.
t. To keep holy the appointed feflival
days of the Church, in abftaining from fer-
vile works, and hearing Mafs,
2, To fat Lent, Ember-Days, Eves, and
alfo, by the cuftom of England, Fridays ; and
on Saturdays to abftain from flefh.
3. Toconfefs your fins to your Paftor at
lealt once a year: to receive the Holy Eu-
charift at Eafter, between Palm-Sundny and.
Low- Sunday.
4. Not to folemnize marriage at timie
forbidden by the Church: nor within’ cer-
tain degrees of kindred; nor privately with-
out witnels.
The Sprritual Works of Mercy.
1, To teach the ignorant.
2. Tocorreét the finner.
3. To counfel the doubtful.
4. To comfort the affliGed.
5. Patiently to fuffer injurics.
6. To pardon offences, _
7. To pray for the living and the dead,
d thy perfecutors.:
- The Corporal Works of Mercy.
. t.°To feedtbe hungry. |
a, Togive drink to the thirlty. :
= | Be sD
The Sum of Chrifian Doctrine.
. To harbour the tare
_4. To cloath the naked.
5. To vilit the fick.
6. To vifit the sud sie gnui sth ahd to res
deem the captive.
7. To bury the dead.
| The Eight Beatitudes.
Blefled are the poor in {pirit ; for theirs i is
the kingdom.of heaven,
Blefled are the meek; for they fhall polfef
the Land.. |
Bleffed are they that mourn ; fos they fall
be comforted.
Bleffed are they that hunger and thirft after
juftice;. for they fhall be filled.
Bleffed are the merciful 5 | for they fall
obtam Mercy. .
Blefled are the clean of heat for hts
fhall lee God. |
. Bleffed.are.the peace. «makers ; for thew |
fhall be called the children of God:
Bleffed are they that fuffer perfecution for
jullice ; for theirs is the kangsiom of heaven,
The ‘Seven Capital Gia valach, are e comanenly
| » called Deadly.
Pride, covetoulnel, luft, envy, gluttony,
wrath, and floth.
The Four Taft. Things to be remembered.
“Death, The laft judgment, Hell, and i
kingdom of Heaven. +P
Bis | The
Sé. John’s Gofpel.
The beginning of the gofpel according
to St. John. . |
' Glory be to Thee, O Lord.
1 the beginning was the word, and the
word was with God, and God was the
word, . Thig was in the beginning with God.
_ All things were made by’ him, and without
him was made nothing, which was made. In
him. was life, and the hfe was the light of
men; and the light fhined in darknefs ; and
the darknefs did not comprehend it. There
‘was aman fent from God, whofe name was
Fohn. This man came for a teftimony, to
give teftimony of the light, that all might be-
lieve through him. He was not the light,
but to give teftimony of the light. It was
the true light, which enlightens every man
that comes into this world. He was in the
world, and the world was made by him, and
the world knew him not. He came into his
own, and his own received him not: But to
as many as received him, he gave power to
be made the fons of God, to thofe that be-
lieve in his name: who, not of blood, nor
of the will of the flefh, nor the will of man,
but of God are born,
And the Word was made Fleft, and dwelt
among us (and we faw the glory of him,
glory as it were of the only begotten sol the
Father) full of grace and truth.
Thanks be to God.
An
An Univerfal Prayer. 4
An Aét of Conérition,
Cc) Lord Jefus Chrift, true God and
“man, who art my Creator and Re-
deemer, thou being whom thou art, and for
that I love thee above all things, it grieves
me from the bottom of my heart, that I have
offended thy Divine Majefty: behold here
I fitmly purpofe never to fin any more; as
alfo to confefs my fins, and fulfilthe penance,
which fhall be enjoined me for the fame, and
for love of thee I freely pardon all my ene-
mies; and offer my life, my words and
works, in fatisfattion for my fins; wherefore
1 moft humbly befeech thee, trufting in thy
infinite goodnefs and mercy, that by the
merits of thy moft precious blood, death and
paffion, thou wouldeft pardon me, and give
me grace to amend my life, and to perfevere
therein until Death. Amen.
’
An Univerfal PRAYER. ‘
My God, I believe in you, but flrengthen my
faith ; L hope in you, but confirm my hope, Llove
you, but redouble my love; I am forry thatd have off-
ended you, but increafe my repentance.
Ladorc you, as the firft principle of my beirg, I defire
you as my lafl end; I give you thanks as my perpetual
benefactor ; Linvoke you as my fovereign defender.
~ My God vouchfafe to guide me by your wiiiom, to
reftrain me by your juitice, to comfort me by your
mercy, to protect me by your power.
I confecrate all my thoughts, words, actions and
fufferings, to you, to the end that henceforward I my
think
t
An Univerfal Prayer,
think of you, fpeak of you, act for you, and fuffer
for you, | ;
Lord, 1 defire that your will may be done, becaufe it
is your will,‘and*in the manner that you will. :
E befeech you to enlighten my underftanding, to en
fame my will, to purify my body, and fandify my foul.
_ My God, give me flrength to expiate my offences, to
evercome my temptations, to correct my predominant
paffions, and to pradiile the virtues proper to my ftate.
Fill my heart with tendernefs for your goodnefs,
averlion. for my. failings, love for my neighbour, and
contempt of the World. 7 ,
Let me remember, O God, to be fubmiffive to my
Superiors, condefeending to my Inferiors, faithful to my
friends. and charitable to my enemies.
_ Affift me to overcome fenfuality by mortification,
avarice ky alms.deeds, anger by fweetnels, tepidity by
devotion.
\ My God, make me‘prudent in my undertakings,
courageous in danger, ‘patient in afflictions, and humble:
an fuccels..( 5. ,.! re broad? to Ae
~ Let me never forget to join attention to my prayers,
temperance to my meals, exacinefs to my employments,
and conflancy to my refolutions. belhis
Lord, infpire me to keep an upright confcience, a
modeft extenor, an edifying converfation, anda regulay
condudt. ete |
Grant that I may continually apply mylelf to overcome
nature, to comply with thy grace, to keep thy com-
mandmenis aud work my falvation. 2
» Difcover to me, O God, the nothing of the world,
the greatnefs of heaven, the fhortnefs of time, and the
length of eternity. ,
Grant that | may prepare for death, that I may fear thy
jyodgments, that 1 may avoid damnation, andin the end obe
tain heaven ; by themeritsof our Lord Jefus Chrift Amen,
THE
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eke ted Mit Bis 0
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OF bul Cf
OF
OUR BLESSED LADY.
To be faid from the Day after the Purification, til) the
Even-Sonrg-of the Saturday before the furft Sunday of
Advent; exeept that on the Day of the Annunciation
the Office t is faid, as in Advent. |
A MATTINS. ‘
AIL, Mary, full of grace, our Lord
is with thee; bleffed art thou among
women; and bleffed is the fruit of thy womb,
Fefus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray
for us Sinners, now, and at the hour of our
death. Amen.
Which is ae Jfaid in the Beginning of all Hou of out
Bleffed Lai ly. .
V.T OR D, open my li |
L R. pleas savatied fhall declaré thy
praife. —
V. Incline to my aid, O God.
R. O Lord, make halte to help me.
Glory
2 The Office of our B. Lady,
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the: Holy Ghoft.
As it was in the beginning i is now, and
ever fhall be, world without end, Amen.
Alleluia.
Alleluia is faid at all Hours, from the Evening of Eafter-
Eve, to the Complin of the Saturday before Septnagefima-
Sunday. From then till the Even-Song of Eafler-Eve
is faid, Praife be to tltee, O Lord, King of mia iat
Glory. —
The Invitatory.
Hail Mary, full of grace, our era is
with thee. Again repeat, Hail Macy, fall of
grace, our Lord is with thee.
In time of Eafler is added Alleluia, both here and in the
End of the Anthems, Verf cles, and Refponfories.
Ps ALM 94. Venite exultemus.
This Pfalm without doubt was made by David, fince St:
Pau! cites it as his in the Epi iftle to the Heiicwe. Some
think it was made atthe time when he carried the Ark to
Mount Sion. It contains a lively Exhortation to pratfe
God with our Heart, our Voice and our Works, qud te
fubmit to his holy Laws.
C O ME let us rejoice to our Lord, ‘let
us make joy to God our Saviour;
_ let us approach his prefence in confeflion,
and in pfalms make joy before him.
- Bail Mary, full of grace, our Lord is with.
thee.
oer God is a great Lord, and a great
above all Gods; becaufe our Lord
en not his people; in his hand are -all
‘the bounds of the Earth, and he beholds the
heights of the Sch sarees a
Our
|
ee
ai Mattinse = 3
‘Our Lord is with thee,
The fea is his, he made it, and his hands
founded the dry land; come let us adore,
and fall down before God ; let us lament be-
fore our Lord, that made us, becaufe he is
the Lord our God; we are his people, and
the fheep of his patture.
Hail Mary, full. of grace,. our algand is
with thee,
To day if ye fhall-hear his voice, asden
not your hearts, as in the provocation, ac-
cording to the day of temptation in the defart,
where your fathers tempted me, proved, and
faw my works.
Our Lord is with thee.
Forty years was 1 nigh to this generation;
and faid, they always err .1n their heart, and
have not known my ways, to whom I fware
in my wrath, if they fhall enter into my reft.
Hail Mary, full of grace, our Lord is
with thee.
Glory be to the Father, Ge.
As it was in the beginning, &Fe.
Our Lord is with thee.
Hail Mary, full of grace, our Lord. is ath
thee.
The HY MN. Oneen Terra, Pontus, Swit.
HE Sovereign God whofe hands fuftain
The globeof heaven,the earthand main,
Ador’d and praifed by each degree,
Lies hid, O facred Maid, in thee.
He -
? -
4 The Office of our B. Lady.
He whom the fun and moon obey,
To whom all creatures homage pay,
The judgé of men and Angels doom
Refides within thy Virgin womb.
O happy parent, chofe to bear |
Thy Maker God’s eternal heir ;
Whofe fingers fpan this earthly round,
Whole arms the whole creation bound.
Bleft Maid, whom Gabriel’s voice avows
The facred fpirit’s fruitful fpoufe :
Thou gav'ft the world by human birth
The moft defir’d of Heav’n and earth.
‘May age to age for ever fing
The Virgin’s Son and Angels King,
And praife with the celeftial hoft
The Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft. Amen.
Thefe three Pfalms following are faid on Sundays, Mon-
days and Thurfdays, at the NoQurn.
The Anth. Blefled art thou.
Psatutm 8. Domine, Dominus nofler.
According to the Opinion of, the -moft learned Interpreters,
which the Scripture feems to confirm, this Palm princij ally
regards the Perfon of Fefus Chrift rifen from the dead,
in whom God did manifeft his greatefi Glory and Power.
Though it may alfo be applyed to other Men.
QO Lord our Lord, how wonderful is thy
name in the whole earth!
For thy magnificence is lifted up above
the Heavens. |
Out of the mouths of infants and fucklincs
. : oO
thou haft perfeéted praife, becaufe of thy
enemies, that thou mayeft deftroy the enemy
and revenger.
For
at Mattins.
For I fhall behold the heavens, the works
of thy fingers; the moon and the flars,
which thou haft founded.
What is man, that thou art mindful of
him; or the fon of man, that thou doft vifit
him ? | | ’
Thou haft diminifhed him a little lefs thar
_ Angels; with glory and honour thou hatft
crowned him, and appointed bim over the
works of thy hands. _ 7
Thou haft fubje&ted all things.under his
feet, fheep and oxen; and alfo the cattle of
the field.
The birds of the air, and fifhes of the fea,
that walk through the paths of the fea.
O Lord our Lord, how wonderful is thy
name in the whole earth!
Glory be to the Father, &c.
The Anth. Bleffled art thou among wo
men, and bleffed is the fruit of thy womb.
the Anth. Even as choice myrrh.
i :
Psaum 18, Coeli enarrant gloriam,
This Pfalm confifts of two Parts: In the firft we are taught
that the Power and Glory of God may be known -by con-
templating the celeflial Bodies, and efpecially the Sun. In
ihe fecond Pari ts defcribed. the Perfeétion and Efficacy
of the Divine Law. This Pfalm concludes with a Prayer
Sor the Pardon of hidden Sins.
ae 1 Bia E Heavens fhew forth the glory of
4 God, and the firmament declares the
works of his hands. |
The day. publifhes his word to the day,
C and
6 The Office of our B. Lady.
and night difcovers the knowledge of him to
the night.
There isno language, nor fpeech, whofe
voices may not be heard.
Their found has gone forth into all the
“earth, and their words to the ends of the
earth.
He has put his tabernacle in the 8un, and
~ himfelf as a bridegroom coming forth of his
chamber,
He has rejoiced as a giant, to run the way
his coming forth is from the higheft heaven.
And his courfe even to the top thereof;
neither is there any that can hide himfelf
irom his heat.
The law of our Lord is without fpot, con-
verting fouls; the teflimony of our Lord is
faithful, giving wifdom to little ones.
The juflice of our Lord is right, making
hearts joyful; the precept of our Lord is full
of light, enlightening the eyes.
The fear of our Lord i is holy, abiding for
ever and ever: the judgments of our Lord
are true, jufiified in themfelves.
To be defired above gold and precious |
-ftone; and more {weet than honey, and the
honey-comb.
For thy fervant bee them ; in keeping
them is great reward.
Sins who underftands ? Free ‘my. fecret
fins cleanfe me, and from other mens fins
{pare thy fervant,
| If
At Mattins. 7
If they fhall not have dominion over me,
then fhall I be without fpot, and be cleanfed
_ from the greateft fin.
And the words of my mouth fhall be plea-
fing to thee, and: the meditation of my heart
be always in thy fight.
O Lord my helper and Redeemer.
Glory be to the Father, @c.
The Anth. Even as choice Myrrh, thou
gavel the odour of fweetnefs, O-Holy Mo-
ther of Gcd.
The Anth. Before the ‘yea
Psatm 29. Domini eft Terra.
Moft believe that David made this Pfalm to be fing by the
People, when the Ark was carried to Meunt Sion? bit
all Interpreters agree, that the holy prophet had princi-
pally in his View “the Afce nfion pf aun Saviour Fefus Chiift
into Heaven.
HE Earth is our Lord’s, and the fulnef
thereef; the whole world, and all that
‘dwell therein.
-Becaufe he has founded it on thie feas,
and on c e floods has prepared it.
Who fhall afcend into the mount of our
Eord, or who fhail fland in his holy placer
"Phe innocentof hands, and clean of heart,
that has not taken his foul in vain, nor de-
ceitfully fworn to his neighbour.
He fkall receive a bleffing of our Lord,
and mercy of God his Saviour.
This is the generation of them that feck
; C2 .. hun,
8 The Office of our B. Lady,
him, of them that feek the face of the God
of Facob.
Lift up.your gates, ye Princes, and be ye
lifted up, O eternal gates; and the King of
Giory fhall enter in.
Who is the King of Glory ? Our Lord,
flrong and mighty,our Lord mighty in battle.
Lift up your gates, ye Princes, and be ye
lifted up, O eternal gates, and the King of
‘Glory {hall enter in.
Who is the King of Glory? The Lord
of Power, he is the King of Glory.
Glory be to the Father, &c.
The Anth. Before the Bed of this: Virgin
repeat to us.fweet fongs of meafure.
V, Grace is poured forth on thy lips.
R. Therefore God: has blefled thee for
ever. Our Father, &c.
The 4bfolution, By the prayers and merits,
&c. as followeth Page17. with the reft.
Thefe three Plalms following are faid on Tucfday and
Friday, at the Nofturn.
The Anih., In thy beauty.
Psaum 44. Eru€tavit cor meum.
§. Chryfolom, S$. Auflin, end almoft all the Interpretrs
agree that this Pfalmis a hind of a fpiritual Eptthalas
sium, reprefenting the facred Union between Jefus Chrift,
and his fpoufe the Church, 8S. Paultihewifein his: Epifite
to the Hebrews, makes ufe of this Pfalm to fhew the evera
lating Reign of the only Son of the Father over his Elect.
Some have thought that Solomon was the Author, and that
it was made upon the Occafion of his Marriage wath the
Daughter of Pharaoh, though others attribute wt to David.
But all agree in thes, that the true Senfe of it, intended ed
tae
Ai Maltin. =. HD
the A, Ghoft, regards the Myflery of the Incarnation, and the
Union of the Word with human Nature.
M* Heart has fpoke a good word; F
tell my works to the King, _
_ My tongue is the pen of arwriter, that
writes fwiftly.
Moft beautifulamongft the fons of men,
- grace is poured out on thy lips, therefore has
Ged bleffed thee for ever.
Be girded with thy fword upon thy thigh,
O moft mighty. s
In thy beauty and comelinefs goon, ad-
vance profperoufly and reign.
Becaule of thy truth, mildnefs and juflice ;
and the conduét of thy right hand fhall be
wonderfuk :
Thy fharp arrows into the Hearts of the
Kings enemies; the people fhall fall under
thee.
Thy feat, O God, isfor-ever and ever; the
rod of thy kingdom is a rod cf equity. |
Thou haft loved juflice, and hated iniquity 3
therefore God, thy God, has anointed thee
with the oil of gladnefs-above thy fellows: —
Myrrh and aloes, and caffia from thy
garments, from houfes of ivory, where the
daughters of Kings have delighted thee in:
_ thy, honour.
~The Queen ftood on thy right band int
golden robes, fet round with variety.
_ Hear, Daughter, and-fee, incline thine
ear, and forget thy people, and the houfe of
thy Father, .
CBs iii 00 ee
10 The Office of our 8: Lady,
And the King will be enamoured wiih
thy beauty, becaufe he is the Lord thy God,
and they fhall adore him,
And the Daughters of Tyre, all the rich of
the people, with offerings fhall pray to thee.
All the glory of the “King’s Daughter is
from within; in borders of gold, cloathed
about with varieties.
Virgins fhall be brought to the King after
her, her neigbours fhalt be brought to thee.
They fhall be brought in joy ‘and re]oic=
ing; they fhall be brought into the temple
of the King.
Inftead of thy Fathers, there are born
Sons to thee; thou fhalt make them. Princes
over all the earth.
They fhall be mindful-of thy name from
generation to generation.
Therefore fhall people praife thee. for
ever, world without end.
Glory be to.the Father, &e.
The Anth. In: thy beauty and’ comelinefs;
go on, advance profperoufly and reign,
The Anth. God: wall help her.
PsatM 45. Deus nofter Refugium:
‘Since almof all the Fathers agree, that this pfalm, according
to the deteral Senfe, regards the Church perfecuted by the
Hufdets, ane delivered from perfecution by the Affifiaree
of ow Lord, we ought rather to adhere to ths Opinica,
than to that of fome other Interpreters, who apply ths
plalm only to David vidlorious over his Enemies.
R Godis a refuge and firength,
helper in the tribulations, which have
failen upon us in gveat number.
At Maittins. Se
Therefore we will not. fear, wher the
earth fhalk be troubled, and .mountains be
tranfported into: the midft of the fea.
The waters made a noife, and were
troubled; the mountains were treubledsim
his ftrength. — : ,
The ftrong current of a river rejoices the
city of God; the Higheft has fanftified his
tabernacle.. ! | .
God isin the midft thereof, it fhall-not be
moved, God will help it in the morningearly.
Nations are troubled, and kingdoms ara
made to ftoop: he raifed his voice, and the
earthwas moved. —
_ The Lord of Holts is with us, the God of -
Facoh is our defender.
Come, and fee the works of ‘our Lord,
what. wohders he has done in the earth,
making wars to ceafe, even to the end of
the earth. 7
He fhall deftroy the bow, and break wea.
pons, and fhields fe fhall burn-with fire,
Attend and fee that -I am God; I fhall
be exalted among the Genitles, I fhall be ex-
alted in the earth. } |
The Lord of Hoftsis with us, the God of
Faceb is our defender.
Glory be to-the Father, te. |
The anth. God will help her. with his
countenance: God is in the midit of her,
fhe {half not be moved. )
the Auth. A habitation is in tree.
Psaim
ae = The Office of the B. Virgin:
Psatm 86. Fundamenta CNS. ys
David in this pfalm celebrates the praifes of the City of Je
rufalem, which in the prophénc Senfe may very ‘well be
* applied to the Church of Chrift, of which that City was-
the Fizure.
it HE Foundation thereof, in the holy
mountains; our Lord loves the gates
6f Sion above all the tabernacles of Facob.
Glorious things are faid of thee, O city
of God.
Iwili be mindful of Rahab and Babylon,
knowing me.
Behold the ftrangers and Tyre, and the
people of the Ethiopians: thefe were there.
Shall a Man fay to, Sion, that a Man is
born in her, who being the. higheft founded
her.
Our Lord will declare it in the regifter of
thofe people, and of Princes, that have been
in hér, = 5,
A habitatton is in thee, as it were of all
siofe who rejoice. *
‘Glory be to the Father, @c.
~The Anth. A’ habitation. is-in thee, as it:
were of all us, who rejoice, O- holy, mother
of God,"
V. Grace is poured forth-on thy lips.
_R. Therefore God ‘has blefled thee for
a er. Onr Father, c,
“The Abjolution.’ By the prayers and me-
bia asfollows Page 17. with the ref.
ati Ad’? | ) Lhefe
At Maitins. a
Thefe three Pfalms are to be faid on Wednefday and
Saturday, at the Notturn. pea
The Anth. Rejoice, O Virgin Mary.
Psatm 95. Cantate Domino.
Under the literal. Senfe of this pfalm, which expreffes the
Greatnefs of God, raifed infinitely above the Gods of the
. Nations, and viétorious over all the Enemies of his people,
all Interpreters agree, that in the propbetick Senfe it
contains the Myftery of the Coming of the Meffias, and
of the Eftablifhment of the Kingdom of Jefus Chriff,
which is the Church wpon the Earth.
IN G to our Lord a new fong, fing to
our Lord all the earth,
Sing to our Lord, and blefs his name ;
declare his falvation from day to day.
Declare his glory among the Gentiles, his
wonderful works in all nations.
Becaufe our Lord is great, and moft wor
thy of praife ; he is terrible above all Gods.
Becaule all the Gods of the Gentiles are
Devils; but our Lord made the Heavens.
Praife and beauty in his Sight, holinels
and magnificence in his fan€tification.
Bring to our Lord, ye countries of Gen-
tiles, bring to our Lord glory and honour;
bring to our Lord the glory of his name.
Take facrifice, and enter into his courts :
Adore our Lord in his hoty courts.
Let all the earth be moved before his
face: fay among the Gentiles, our Lord
hath reigned. |
For he has corre€&ted the whole world,
: which.
‘14 The Office of the B. Virgin.
which fhall not be moved; he will judge
people with equity.
Let thesHeavens be glad, and the earth
rejoice ;. let the fea be moved, and the fulnefs
thereof: the fields fhall be glad, and al!
things that are in them.
Then fhall all the trees of the woods re-—
yoice before the face of our Lord, becaufe
he comes, becaufe he comes to judge the
earth. |
He will judge the earth in equity, and
people in his truth,
Glory be to the Father, @&c.
The Anth. Rejoice, O Virgin Mary, thou
alone haft deftroyed all herefies in the whole:
world, The Anth, Vouchfafe:
Psaum 96. Dominus regnavit.
Tit is probable. that David made this plalm after fome fignat
Viélory. gained upon his Enemies, for which he magnifies
the power and Mercy of God. At the fame Time he
does very plainly fortell the Eftabli/hment of the fpiritual’
Kingdom of Fefus Chrift.. And he exhorts all Men to
prepare. themfelwes for it, by Haired to Sin, and Love
to fujtice. |
U R Lord has reigned; let the earth:
rejoice, let many iflands be glad.
A eloud and darknefsis round about him :
juftice and judgment is the correétion of his
feat. Wees. 3 |
Fire fhall go before him, and fhall burn
his enemies round about. | .
His lightning fhined to the whole earth ;
the earth faw, and was moved,
The
At Matzins. | 15
‘The mountains melted as wax before the
face of our Lord: before the face of our
Lord all the earth.
The Heavens have declared his juliice,
and all people have feen his glory.
~ Let them all be confounded, that adore
graven things; and that glory in their idols.
Adore him all ye his Angels: Stoz heard
and was glad.
And the daughters of Fuda rejoiced be-
caufe ofthy judgments, O Lord.
Becaufe thou, Lord, art mofl high over
all the earth: thou art highly exalted above
all Gods,
You, who love our Lord, hate evil: our
Lord keeps the fouls of his Saints; out of the
hand of the finner he will deliver them.
Light is rifen to the a and joy to the
right of heart.
“Be clad ye juft in our r Lord; and confefs
to the memory of his fan&tification.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son &c.
The Anth. VYouchlafe that I may praife
thee, O facred Virgin: give me force enn
thy enemies.
The Anih. Thou didft remain.
Psaum 97. Cantate Domino.
Thi is pfolm feems to have been made upon the fame Occasion
and upon the fame Subject with, the laft,, aud has.the,
fame fpiritual and propletick Meaning. ;
| S I N G to our Lord anew fong, wos
he has done wonderful things,
His -
15 The Office of our B. Lady,
His right hand and his holy arm have
wrought falvation to himfelf.
Our Lord has made known his falvation ;
in the fight of the Gentiles, he has rev éaled
* his juitice.
‘He has remembred his mercy, ‘and his
truth, to the houfe of J/rael.
Ail the ends of the earth have feen the
falvation of our God.
Make ye joy to God, all the earth; fing
and rejoice, and fing pfalms.
Sing te our Lord on the harp; on the
harp, and with voice of pfalm, on the trumpet
of metal, and with the voice e of the trumpet
of horn.
Make joy in the fight of the kingour Lord;
let the fea be moved, and the fulnefs thereof,
the earth, and they that dwell therein.
The rivers fhall applaud, the mountains
likewife fhall rejoice at the fight of our Lord,
becaufe he comes to judge the earth,
He will judge the earth in juftice, andthe
people in equity.
Glory be to the Father, &c,
The Anth. Thou didft remain an immzs
culate Virgin after thy child-bearing: O
Mother of God, pray for us
V, Grace 1s poured forth on thy lips.
R. Therefore God has bleffed thee for
ever. Our Father, @c.
V. And lead us not into iemptation,
R. But deliver us from evil,
: The
.
at Mattins, i7
The Abfolution.
B Y¥ the prayers. and merits of the ever-
blefled Virgin Mary,,and of all the
Saints, may our Lord conduét us to the
kingdom of heaven. R. Amen.
_ -—. Father-vouchfafe usa bleffing.
‘The Bleffing.. May the Virgin Mary, with
her pious Son bleis us. R. Amen.
The Fifi Leffon. Ecclef. 24.
LU N all things.I fought reft, and I fhall abide _
in the inheritance of our Lord. Then
the Creator of all commanded and faid to
me, and he that created me, refted in my
tabernacle: and he fald to me, inhabit in
Jacob, and inherit in J/rael, and take root in
my eleét. But thou, Lord, have mercy
upon us,
V. Thanks bé to God. R.O holy and
immaculate virginity, I know not with what
praifes to extol thee: becaufe whom the
Heavens could not contain, thou haft born
in thy womb. V. Bleffed art. thou among
women, and» blefled is the fruit of thy
womb. Becaufe whom thé Heavens could
not contain, thou haft born in thy womb,
_V. Father vouchfafe us a bleffing,
The Blefing. May the Virgin of Virgins
make interceffion for us to our Lord.
A. Amen,
- Lhe Second Leffon.
ND fo in Sion was I “Aablithed, and
. in the fanttified city likewife I refed,
D and
a8 The Office of our. B. Lady,
and my power was in Ferufalem ; and I took
root in an honourable people, and in the
portion ofmy God his inheritance, and -
abiding is in the full aflembly of Saints: but
thou, Lord, have mercy upon us. R.
Thanks be to God.
V. Blefled art thou, O Virgin Mary, who
haft born the Lord, Credtor-of the world:
thou haft brought forth him, that made thee,
and.ever remaineft a Vi irgin, . Hail Mary,
full .of grace, our Lord is with thee; thou
haft brought forth him that made thee: and
ever remaineft a Virgin.
When Te Deum is faid: In the end of this
Kefponfory is fad. V. Glery be to the Fa-
ther, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghoft:
Thowhatt brought forth him that made ‘thee,
ue. ever remaineft a Virgin.
. Father, vouchfafe us a bleffing.
ri Blefing. May our Lord, through his
Virgin- Mother's interceflion, grant us falva-
tion and peace. R. Amen.
The Third Leffon.
- Am exalted as a cedar in LInbanus, anid as
a cyprefs-tree in mount Szon. As a palm-
tree in Cades am I exalted. And asa rofe-
plant in Fertcho, as a fair olive-tree in the
fields, and as a plant-tree by the water, in
the ftreets am I exalted. 1 gave an odour
as cinnamon and aromatical paim; as cho-
fen myrrh have I given the {weetnefs of
_odour ; but thou, O Lord, have mercy on
us. R. Thanks be to God. q
| The =
At Mattins. 19
The Refponfory following is to be omitted’ when’ Te Deum
is faid. el
R: Thou art truly happy, O facred Virgin
Mary, and moft worthy all praife; vecaufe
Out of thee is rifen the Son of Juflice, Chrift
our God. /,. Pray for the people; plead in
behalf of the Clergy ; make, interceflion for
the devout female fex: let all people per-
ceive thy afliftance who celebrate thy holy:
commemoration: becavfe ontof thee is rifen
the Son of Juftice, Chrift our God.
V. Glory be to the Father, and to the
Son, &c. Becaufe out of thee is rifen, &c.
The Hymn, Te Deum following, may be faid, if you
pleafe, from Chrilimas to’ Septuagelima Sunday, and
from Ealter Day io Advent. And when it is faid, the
Lhird Refponfory is omitted, and in the Second Refpon-
fory, Glory be to the Father is /aid as above. But in
» Advent, and from Septuagefima to Eafter, it is not said,
except on the Feafts of the B. Virgin May. |
The Hymn of St. Ambrofe and St, Augufline,
Te Deum Laudamus.
“HEE, fov'reign God, our grateful accents praife,
+ We own thee Lord, and ble{s thy wondrous ways»
To thee, eternal Father, Earth's whole frame
With loudeft trumpets founds immortal fame :
Lord God of Hofts! for thee the heav'nly Pow'rs.
With founding Anthems fill thy vaulted tow’rs.
Thy Cherubims thrice Holy, Holy, Holy, cry,
_ Thrice Holy all the Seraphims reply ;
And thrice returning echoes endlefs fongs fupply.
Both Heav’n and Earth thy Maijefty difplay :
hey owe their beauty to thy glorious ray.
+ tae De _ Thy
20 The Office.of our B. Lady.
Thy praifes fll the loud Apoftles choir,
‘Phe train of Prophets in the fong confpiree —
Legions of Martyrs in the Chorus fhine,
And vocal blood with vocal mulic join.
By thefe thy Church infpir’ d with heav’nly atty
Around the world maintains a fecond part ;
And tunes her fweeteft notes, O God, for-thee,
The Father of unbounded Majefly.
‘The Son ador’d Go: partner of thy feat,
And equal everlafting Paraclete. ?
Thou King of Glory, Chrift : ‘Of the moh. higdss
Thou co- eterhal filial Deity.
Thou who to flave the world’s impending doom,
Vouchfafed’ft to dwell within a Virgin's womb.
Old tyrant Death difarm’d; before thee flew
‘The bolts of Heav'n, and back the foldings drew
‘Lo give accefs, and make the faithful way.:
From God'sright hand thy filial beams difplay |
Thou art to judge the living and the dead ;
- Then fpare thofe fouls for whom thy veins have bledy
O take us up amongtt the bleft above,
To fhare with them thy everlafting love.
Preferve, Q Lord, thy people, and inhance
Thy blefing on thy owninheritance.
For ever raife their hearts, and rule their ways:
Each day we blefs thee, and proclaim thy praifes
_ No. Age fhall fail to celebrate thy name:
Nor hour negle& thy everlafting fame.
Preferve our Souls, O Lord, this day from all's gi
Have mercy on us, Loid, have! mercy fill. ©
Aswe have hop'd, do thou reward our pain,
We've de ie thee, let not qur hope 4 Vaile”
AT
| ici,
AUd ids AS,
V. YNCLINE unto my aid, O God.
R.. O Lord, make hatte to help me.+
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,
c ; ee sca
The Anth. Mary is taken up.
Psarm 92. Dominus regnavit.
The Author of this Pfalm rep: ofents God's everlafling Kinge
dom, fets forth his Power, and the Truth of his Promi ifs
UR Lord has reigned, he has put on
beauty : our Lord has put on firength,
and girded himfelf.
For he has eftablifhed the globe of the
~ earth, which fhall not be moved. °
Sean that time was thy feat prepared,
thou art from everlafting.
The rivers, O Lord, have lifted up, the
rivers have lifted up their voice.
The rivers have lifted up their waves from
the voice of many waters.
Marvellous are the rifings of the fea;
marvellous is our Lord ‘on high.
Thy teftimonies are made very credible 4
holmefs becomes “ei houle,-O Lord, for
length of days. |
Glory be to the Father: Se.
- The Anth. Mary istaken up into heaven:
the Angels Sais and with prailes blefs our:
word, ©
The Anth, ‘The Virgin Mary. a
(2 Siew: ~PsaLm
Be The Office of owr B. Lady,
Psat gg. Jubilate Deo,
This isa Pfalm of Praife and Thank/{giving, which ine.
vites a the, People of the Earth to enter into the holy
Temple, which my ftically and truly is ihe Churchof Chrift.
M4. ye joy to God, all the Earth,
ferve our Lord in gladnefs..
Enter in before his fight with joy.
Know, that the Lord 1s God ; he made us,.
and not we ourfelves. — :
His people, and the-fheep of his pafture,
enter into his gates in confeffion, his courts
with hymns ; confefs ye to him...
Praife his name, becaufe our Lord is fweet,.
his mercy for ever, and his. truth, even from:
generation to generation, _
Glory he to the Father, &c.
The Anth. The Virgin Mary is taken up.
Ynto the heavenly chamber, where the King:
of Kings fits on his ftarry throne.
The Anth, We rumafter the odor,
| ce vigilo, «|
The moft Part of the Interpreters apply this. Pfalm to the
Time of Saul, and believe that David’ made it when. he
fled into the Defart of Ziph to avoid Sauls. Fury.
Though fome are of opinion at may have been made in the
Time of Ablalom’s Revolt, when he was likewife forced
to retire vito a Defart.. He deplores d2s Exile and his Aj-
fence from the Tabernacle and the Ark: At the fanie'time
confiders,-in a higher Senfe, bis Abfente’ from@his. true
County, which is Heaven sland therefore. the Prayer
‘which he makes is very proper for all the Fifty who look
upon this. Life but as a Banz/hment,
O God my God: to thee I watch from:
the morning light.
Psaim 62. Deus Deus meus, ad te de Lus
x
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My foul has thirfted after thee: my ficth
alfo very many ways.
Asina defart land, and inacceffible, and
without water + fo in the holy. place have I
appeared to thee, that F may behold’ thy
flrength and thy glory. :
- Becaufe thy mercy is: better than le, my-
lips fhall praife thee,
So will I blefs thee in my life, and in thy
name I will lift up my. hands.
Aswith marrow and fatnefs Jet my foul be.
ig and my mouth fhall praife with hps of
Oo
If I have been mindful of thee on my.
bed; in the morning I will meditate on. thee,
becaufe thou haft been my helper,
And under the cover of thy wings I will
Fejoice, my foul has cleaved after thee; thy
right hand has taken me under its prote€lions
But they in vain have fought my foul,
they fhall enter into the lower parts of the
earth; they fhall be delivered into the power
of the fword ; they fhall be the portions of
foxes.
But the, King fhall rejoice in God; all
fhall be praifed, that fwear on him; becaufe
the mouth of thofe tbat ae wicked. ae
is Roppedt.. ’
“Psarm 66. Dets fai eb atut ia, -
This Pe itm Seems to have Seen. mate when the Unaclites ~
were going, but not gone out of Babylon. All the Inter~
preters agree, that it reprefents, im the Spirit Scvfe, the
ardent
24 The Office of our B Lady,
ardent Defire which the Prophet had to the coming of the
Meffias, and the Redemption of Mankind, according ta
what Fefus Chrift Jaid to his Difciples, that many Prophets
and many Rings had defired to fee what they faw, but had
hand ite
OD, have mercy onus, and blefs us,
caufe his countenance to fhine upon
us, and have mercy on us.
‘That we may know thy way on earth; thy
falvation in all nations.
Let people, O God, confefs to thee; let
all people praife thee.
Let nations be glad and rejoice, becaule
thou judgeft people with equity, and direételt
. the nations on the earth, .
Let people, O God, ‘confefs “to thee ; let
all people praife thee : the earth has yielded
her fruit.
May God, our God, blefs us; may God
blefs us, and may all the ends of the earth
fear him.
Glory be to the Father, &c.
The Anth. We run after the odor of iy
ointments, young virgins -have loved: thee
exceedingly.
' The Anth. Thou, Daughter, art bleffed.
The Song of the three Children.
LL the works of our Lord ‘blefs our
Lord ;, praife and extol him for ever.
— Blefs our ‘Lord’ ye Angels of our Lord;
ye heavens blefs our rota’
All waters, that are aboye tlhe ee
. blefs
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blefs ye our Lord; blefs our Lord, all ye
Powers of our Lord.
Sun and moon blefs our Lord ; flars of
heaven blefs our Lord.
Showers and dew blefs our Lord; all.
fpirits of God blefs our Lord.
Fire and heat blefs our Lord; cold and:
Summer blefs our Lord.
_ Dews and hoary froft blefs our Lordz
froft and cold blefs our Lord. __
Ice and fnow blefs our Lord; nights and
days blefs our Lord.
Light and darknefs blefs our Lord;
lightnings and: clouds blefs our Lord.
Let the earth blefsour Lord; let it praife
and extol him for ever.
Mountains and-hills blefs our Lord; all
things that {pring in the earth blefs our Lord.
Biefs our Lord ye fountains; feas and
rivers blefs our Lord.
' Whales, ard all that move in, the waters,.
blefs our Lord; blefs our Lord all ye fowls
of the air,
All beafts.and cattle. ble& our 5 fons.
of men blefs our Lord.
Let Jfrael blefs our Lord 3, poets and ex
tol him for ever.
Priefts of our Lord, blef. our Seals ere
vants of our Lord, blefs our Lord.- .
Spirits and fouls of the uit blefs our
Lord; ye holy and napeils of heart blefs our.
Lord,
ANANAS.
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26 The Office of our B. Lady,
Ananias, Azarias, Mifael, blefs' our Lord;
praife and extol him for ever.
~~ Let us'Blefs the Father and the Son, with
the Holy Ghoft; let us praife and magnify
him for ever.
‘Bleffed art thou, Lord, in the firmament
of heaven; and praifed, and ashen and
extolled for ever.
The Anth. Thou, daughter, art bleffed
of our Lord; for by thee we have partaken
of the fruit of life. :
The Anth, Thou art fair.
Psaum 148. Laudate Dominum de Corlis,
piss! Pfalin alfo invites all Creatures to celebrate the Praifes-
of God.
R AISE our Lord from the heavens,
praife him in the high places.
Praife him all his Angels, praife him all
his powers.
Praife him Sun and Moon, praife him all
ye ftars and light. |
Praife him, O Heavens of Heavens, and
let the waters, that are above the Heavens,
praife the name of our Lord.
Becaufe he fpake, and they were made ;
he commanded, and they were created.
“He eftablithed them for ever, world with-
out end: he madea precept, and it hall
not be annulled. |
Praife our Lord from the earth, ye asad
> iat eH all eee. ;
Fire
: at Lauds. ~
Fire, hail, fnow, ‘ice, tempeftuous winds,
which obey his word.
Mountains and all hills, trees that bear
fruit, and all cedars. Petey he |
Beafts and all cattle, ferpents and winged
fowls: | |
Kings of the earth, and.all people, princes,
and all judges of the earth.
Young men and virgins, the old with the
oung! let them praife the name of our
Lord, becaufe his name alone is exalted.
The confeffion of him is above heaven
and earth, and he has exalted the horn of
his people, Tey ,
- A bymnto all his faints, to the fons of
Tfrael ;.a people that approaches to him,
PSALM 149.
This Pfalm alfo invites the Uraelites to fing the Praifes of
God, and foretells, that they fhall prevail over thetr Ene-
miles.
-I NG tto our Lord a new fong, let his
raife be in the church of faints. -
Let J/rael be joyful in bim that made him,
and the children of Szon rejoice in their
King. | AS
Let them praife his name in choir: on
timbrel and pfalter let them fing to him.
Becaufe our Lord is well pleafed with his
people, and he will exalt the meek to falva-
tion. “6
The faints fhall rejoice in glory, they fhall |
be joyful in their beds, :
| : | The
«
28 The Office of our B. Lady,
The praife of God fhall be in their mouths,
and two-edged {words in their hands.
~ To execute revenge on the nations, chaf-
tifements among the people.
To bind their Kings in dvmit and their
nobles in chains of iron.
That they may execute ‘on them the judg-
ment that is written : this glory is to all his
faints.
PsaLtm 1590. Laudate Dominum in Sanétis,
This Palm és upon the fame Subject with the former.
RATSE our Lord in his faints, praife
him inthe firmament of his ftrength.
Praife him in his. powers, praife him ace
cording to the multitude of his greatnels.
Praife him in the found of the trumpet,
praife him on pfalter and harp.
Praife him on timbrel, and in choir, praife
him on ftrings and organs. |
-Praife him on well-founding cymbals,
praife him on cymbals of joy; let every {pirit
praife our Lord.
Glory be to the Father, &c.
The Anth. Thou art fair and comely,
O daughter of Ferw/alem, terrible asan any
fet in order of battle;
The Chapter, Cant. 1.
6 Bt daughters of Szon beheld her,
and declared her moft bleffed, and
queens have praifed her.
R. Thanks be to God,
) : The
~ at Lauds. 29
The HY MN. O gloriofa Virginum.
Mary ! whilft thy Maker bleft
. Is nourifh’d at thy Virgin breaft,
Such glory fhines, that flars lefs bright
Behold thy face, and lofe their hight.
The lofs that man in £ve deplores,
Thy fruitful womb in Chrift reftores,
And makes the way to Heaven free
For them that mourn, to follow thee.
By thee the Heavenly gates difplay
And fhew the light of endlefs day :
Sing, ranfom’d nations, fing and own, ~
Your ranfom was a Virgin’s Son.
May age to age for ever fing
_ The Virgin’s Son and Angels King,
And praife with the celeftial hoft
The Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft. Amen,
— V. Bleffed art thou among women.
R. And bleffed is the fruit ofthy womb.
The Anth, O bleffled Mother of God.
In the time of Eafter. Anth. Triumph, O Queen.
The Song of Zach. Luke 1.
| LESSED beour Lord God of J/racl,
becaule he has vifited and wrought the
redemption of his people. — |
And raifed up a kingdom of falvation
to us, in the houfe of David, his fervant.
As he {poke by the mouth of his holy
prophets, that are from the beginning.
Salvation from our enemiés, and from the
hand of all that bate us, |
: E To
50. The Office of our B. Lady,
To work mercy with our Fathers, and to
remember his holy covenant.
The oath, which he fwore to Abraham
our Father, that be would grant himfelf to us,
That without fear, being delivered from
the hand of our enemies, we may ferve him.
In holinefs and jultice before him all our
aves | :
‘And thou, Child, fhalt be called the
Prophet of the Higheft; for thou fhalt. go
before the face of our Lord, to.prepare his
ways.
To give knowledge of falvation to his
people, for remiffion of their fins,
Through the bowels of the mercy of our
God; in which the rifing fun from on high
has vifited us. : ‘
To enlighten them that fit in darknefs,
and in the fhadow of death: to dirett our
feet in the way of peace.
Glory be to the Father, ©c,
The Anth, O blefled Mother of God,
Mary, perpetual Virgin, temple of our Lord,
the fanétuary of the Holy Ghoft, thou alone,
withoutexample, didft pleafe our Lord Jefus
Chrift: pray forthe People, plead in behalf
of the Clergy, make interceflion for the de-
vout female iex.
The Anth. in Time of Eafter.
‘Riumph, O Queen of Heavn, to fee, Alleluia.
. Tike facred infant born of thee, Alleluias
Return
at Lauds. eid
_ Return in glory from the tomb, Alleluia.
_ And witch thy prayers prevent our doom. Alleiuia.
Lord have mercy on us. Chrift have mercy
on us. Lord have have mercy onus. V.
Lord, hear my prayer. R. And let my cry
come to thee, .
Let us Pray.
O God, who wouldft have thy Word take
flefh in the womb of the bleffed Virgin Mary,
according to the declaration of the Angel ;
grant us, thy fuppliants, that we, who truly be-
heve her to be the Mother of God, may
find favour with thee, by her interceflion $
Through the fame Chrift our Lord.
For the Saints.
The Anth. All ye faints of God, vouch-
fafe to make interceffion for the falvation of
us, and ofall. V. Ye juft, rejoice in our
Lord, and be exceeding glad. R. And glory,
all ye right of heart.
Let us pray.
_. Protett, O Lord, thy people; and let the
_ confidence we have in the interceffion of thy
bleffed Apoftles, Pecer and Paul, and of thy
other Apoftles, prevail with thee, to preferve
and defend us for ever.
May all thy faints, O Lord, we befeech
thee, every where affift us, that, whilft we ce-
lebrate their merits, we may be fenfible of
their prote€lion: grant us thy peace in our
times, and repel all wickednefs from thy
church; profperoufly guide the fieps, atlions
: eee and
32 The Office of our B. Lady,
and defires of us and all thy fervants in the
way of falvation: give eternal bleffings to.
thofe whorhave done good to us, and ever-
lating reft to the faithful departed: ‘Thro’
our Lord Jefus Chrifl thy fon, @c, R. Amen,
V. Lord, hear my prayer.
R. And let my cry come to thee.
V. Blefs we our Lord.
R. Thanks be to God.
V. May the fouls of the faithful, through
the mercy of God, reft in peace.
R. Amen.
If here the Office be ended, that which follows is faid ;
vtherwife, if any Hour follows, in the end of the aft
flour, fay, Our Father, wholly in fecret.
V. May our Lord give us his peace. R,
And life everlafting. Amen. :
Here (as alfo at the End of Complin) one of the Anth.
following is faid kneeling, except on Sundays and in
Eafier time ; when they are faid flanding, in memory of
Chrifi’s Refurreétion.
From the Purification to the Complia of Eafler-Eve.
The Anthem. 4ve Regina Celorum.
AIL, fhining Queen of the celeftial train,
O’er Angel-pow’rs extend thy brighter reign.
Hail, fruiuful Root of Life: Hail, Orient Gate,
From whom Earth's better light derives its date.
O glorious Maid, rejoice! alone poffels
_ The higheft feat of creatures happinefs.
And crown ‘d with beauty, thence, implore thy Son
‘To grant our pray'rs from hisindulgent throne,
V. Vouchfafe that [ may praife thee, O
facred
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facred Virgin. R. Give me force againft
thy enemies,
Let us pray. : |
Trengthen us, O God of mercy, againft
all our weaknefs; and grant that we,
who celebrate the memory of the Bleffed
- Virgin Mary, Mother of our Lord, may, by.
the afliftance of her prayers, forfake all our
iniquities: Through the fame Chrift our
Lord. R. Amen.
May the divine help always remain with:
uss R. Amen.
From the Complin of Eafter-Eve, to the Ninth Hour of
: Trinity-Evee
» . .: The Anthem.
Riumph, O Queen of Heav’n, to fee, Alleluide
The facred Infant born of thee, A’eluia.
Return in glory from the tomb, Alleluia.
And with thy pray’rs prevent our doom, A’leluia.
V. Rejoice and be glad, O Virgin Mary,
Alleluia: R., Becaule our Lord is truly rie’
fen, Alleluza.
Let us pray.
God, who has vouchfafed to rejoice
the world by the refurre€tion of thy
Son, our Lord Jefus Chrift; Grant, we be-
feech thee, that by the interceffion of his —
Mother the Virgin Mary, we may obtain the
joys of eternal ike : Through the fame Chrift
our Lord. R. Amen.
_¥. May the divine help, &c.. |
Eg : Frony
B4 The Office of our B. Lady.
From the Complin on Trinity-Eve, to Advent.
The Anthem. Salve Regina Mater, @c.
AIL happy Queen: Thou mercy s Parent, hail
Life, Hope, and comfort-of this earthly vale.
To thee Eve's wretched children raile their cry,
In fighs a: dtears to thee we fuppliantsfly.
Rife, glorious Advocate, exert thy love,
And let our vows thofe eyes of pity move.
O {weet, O pious Maid! for us obtain, ?
For us who long havein our exile lain,
To fee thy Infant Jefus, and with him to reign. , (
V. Pray forus, O holy Mother of God.
R. That we may be made worthy of the
‘promifes of Chrift. !
Let us pray.
TA oasis eternal God, who, by the co-
operation of the Holy Ghoft, didft fo
prepare the body and foul of the glorious
Virgin Mary, that fhe might deferve to be
made the worthy habitation of thy Son:
Grant, that we, who rejoice in her comme-
moration, may, by her pious interceflion, be
delivered from prefent evils and everlalting
death: Through the fame Chrift our Lord.
‘R. Amen. |
V. May the divine help, &c.
AT..P RA M,E.
Z Hail May.
¥ NCLINE unto my aid, O God.
R. O Lord, make hafle to help me.
Glory be to the Father, &c.
vis it was in the beginning, &c.
4 Py The
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At Prime. a5
The HY MN. Memento rerum conditor. —
Emember, You, O gracious Lord,
Tl’ eternal God’s co-equal word,
In Virgin’s womb a creature made,
Our Nature wore for Nature’said.
O happy Mary, chofe to be
Mother of grace and clemency !
Proteét us at the bour of death,
And bear to Heaven our parting breath,
May Age to Age for ever fing
- The Virgin’s Son, and Angels King,
And praife, with the Celeftial Hoft, »
The Father, Son, and Holy Ghok, Amen,
The Anth. Mary is taken up.
Psa 53. Deus in nomine tuo. .
David feeing himfelf furrounded by - the troaps. of Saul, w*o
was advertifed by the Inhabitanis of Ziph, that David.
had made his Retreat in their Country, offered his Prayer
to God in fo extreme Danger, out of which the Divine
Power could onty refcue him. rat
Z God, fave me by thy name, and by
| thy ftrength judge'me.
- O God, hear my prayers; with thy ears
receive the words of my mouth.
Becaule ftrangers have -rifen up againft
me, and the ftrong have fought my foul:
and they have not fet God before:their eyes.
For behold, God helps me, and our Lord
is the prote€tor of my foul. , 7
Turn away the evils to my enemies, and
in thy truth deftroy them,
L will freely facrifice to thee, and will con=
fefs to thy name, O Lord, becaufe it is goo,
Becaufe >
36 The Office of our B, Lady.
Becaufe thou haft delivered me out of alk
tribulation; and my eyes have looked down
upon my enemies.
Glory be'to the Father, &c.
Psaum 84. Benedixifti Domine.
This Pfalm may be faid to contain a double Prediction, vize
of the Return from the Captivity of Babylon and of the
General Redemption of ‘de gio which was to proceed
from the Incarnation of the Wor
O Lord, thou haft blefled thy land; thou
haft turned away the captivity of “Facob.
Thou haft forgiven the imiquity of thy
people, thou haft covered all their fins.
Thou haft moderated all thy wrath, thou
haft turned away from the wrath of thy indig-
nation, |
Convert us, O God our Saviour, and
turn away thy anger from us.
Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? Or
wilt thou extend thy wrath from geficratjon
to generation ?
O God, thou being reconciled, thalt
quicken us, and thy people fhall rejoice in
‘thee.
shew us, O Lord, thy mercy, and give us
thy falvation,
I will hear what our Lord God fhall {peak
in me, becaufe he will fpeak peace to his
people.
And to his faints, and to them that are
«converted to the heart,
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~ But his falvation is near to them that fear
him, that glory may inhabit our land.
Mercy and truth have met each other,
-juftice and peace have kiffed.
Truth is rifen out of the earth, and juflice ~
has looked down from heaven.
For our Lord will give plenty, and our
land fhall yield its fruit.
_Juftice fhall walk before him, and fet her
fleps in the way.
Glory be to the Father, Sc,
Psatm 116, Laudate Dominum.
This Pfalm is to be underftood of the Vocation of the Gene
tilis, and the Uniling all. the People of the Earth, pews
and Gentiles, inone Society, viz. the Church of Chrift.
RAISE our Lord all Gentiles, praife
) him all people. 7
Becaufe his mercy is confirmed on us,
and his truth remains for ever.
Glory be to the Father, &c.
The Anth. Mary is taken up into hea-
ven; the Angels rejoice, and with praifes.
blefs our Lord,
_ The Chapter, Cant. 6.
HO is fhe, that comes forth as the
morning rifing, fair as the moon,
_ elett as the Sun, terrible as the front of an
army fet in order of battle ? R. Thanks be
to God. | | |
V. Vouchfafe that I may praife thee, O
facred Virgin, .
~R, Give
38 The Office of our B. Lady,
R. Give me force againft thy enemies.
Lord, have mercy onus, Chrift, have
mercy on us. Lord, have mercy on us.
V. Lord, hear my prayer.
R. And let my cry come to thee.
Let us pray. |
) God, who. wait pleafed to make choice
of the chafte womb of the Bleffed Vir-
gin Mary, for thy abode: Grant, we befeech
thee, that being protetted by the affiftance
of her interceflion, we may celebrate her
memory with a {piritual joy. Who liveft and
reigneft, &e.
V. Lord, hear my prayer.
R. And let my cry come to thee,
V. Blefs we our Lord.
R. Thanks be to God.
V. May the fouls of the faithful, through
the mercy of God, reft in peace.
R, Amen. _ :
AT THE THIRD HOUR,
Hail Mary.
Qhseaey to my aid, O God.
A R. © Lord, make hafte to help me.
Glory be to the Father, &c.
The HYMN. Memento rerum Conditor.
Emember, You, O gracious Lord,
Th’ eternal God's co-equal Word, _
In Virgin’s womb a creature made |
Our Nature wore for Nature’s aid.
| | O happy
at the Third Hour. 85
O happy Mary, chofe to be
Mother of grace and clemency !
Prote& us at the hour of death,
And bear to Heaven our parting breath. |
May Age to Age for ever fing
The Virgin’s Son and Angels King
And praife with the Celeftial Holt
The Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft, Amen,
The Anth. The Virgin Mary,
Psaum 119. Ad Dominum cum tribularer.
This Pfalm and fourteen more that follow are called by the
Title of Gradual, though the Reafon does not appear, why
they are fe called. David Seems to have made. this Plalm
in the. Time of his Banifhment; he begs. of God to deliver
him from the Treachery of his Enemies, and deplores his
Exile among barbarous People.
HEN I was in tribulation, I cried to
our Lord, and he heard me.
‘Lord, deliver my foul from unjuft lips, and
froma deceitful tongue.
What will be given, or what recompence
can be made for a deceitful tongue ?
The fharp arrows of the mighty, with
coals of defolation.
Woe is me, that my banifhment i is pros
longed; I have dwelt with the inhabitants
of Cedar, my foul has been long a ftranger,
With them that hated peace, I was
peaceable: when I {poke to them, ned : 2
poled me without caufe.
Glory be tothe Father, &c,
As it was in the beginning, &e,
PsALm
40 The Office of our B. Lady,
Psatm i20- Levavi oculos meos.
Zhe Author of this Pfalmteacheth, that Help is only to be ex
pected fiomGod, who always takes Care of the Safely of
his People. OF dive:
] Have lifted up my. eyes to the mountains,
from whence help fhall come.to me.
My help is from-our Lord, who made hea-
ven and earth, :
Let bim not fuffer thy foot to be moved,
nor let him flumber that keeps thee.
Lo, he fhall not. flumber nor fleep, that
keeps J/rael.
Our Lord keeps thee, our Lord is thy
prote@tion on thy right hand.
By day the fun fhall not burn thee, nor
the moon by night. :
Our Lord keeps thee from all evil, may
our Lord keep thy foul.
Let our Lord keep. thy coming in, and
they going out; from henceforth, now, and
for ever. é )
Glory be to the Father, &c.
Psawum 121. Letatus fum. —
This Pfalm in the literal Senfe expreffes the Foy of the
People of Urael, when they went to offer their Sacrifices
in Jerufalem; and in the fpiritual Senfe it ought'to be
applied to the Defire the Faithful should have of entering
into the heavenly Jerufalem.
| Rejoiced at thofe things, which were
di faid to me; we fhall go into the houfe of
the Lord." gi
Our feet were ftanding in thy courts, O
¥ erufalem. ‘ :
J Ferufalem,
at the Third Hour. At
Ferufalem, which is built as a city; whofe
inhabitants are united together.
For thither did the tribes afcend, the tribes
of our Lord, the teftimony of J/rae; to
praife the name of our Lord.
Becaufe feats fat there in judgment, feats
upon the houfe of David. ,
Afk the things that are for the peace of
Ferufalem, and abundance to them that love
thee.
Let peace be made in thy ftrength, and
abundance in thy towers, |
For my brethren, and my neighbours, I
{poke peace of thee. |
For the houfe of the Lord our God, I
have fought good things for thee.
Glory be to the Father, Ge.
The Anth. The Virgin Mary is taken up |
to the Heavenly Chamber, in which the
King of Kings fits on his ftarry throne.
‘The Chapter, Ecclef. 24.
ND fo in Ston was I eftablifhed, and in
the holy city likewife I refted, and my
power was in Ferufalem.
R. Thanks be to God.
V. Grace is poured out on thy lips.
R. Therefore God hasbleffedthee for ever,
Lord, have mercy on us. Chrift, have mercy
onus. Lord, have mercy on us, at A
V. O Lord, hear my prayer.
R, And let my cry come to thee, ;
F Let
42 — The Office of our B. Lady.
3 Let us pray.
() God, who, by the fruitful virginity of
the Blefled Virgin Mary, haft given to
mankind the rewards of eternal falvation:
Grant, we befeech thee, that we may be fen-
fible of the benefit of her interceffion, by
whom we have received the Author of Life,
our Lord Jefus Chrift thy Son, who liveth
and reigneth,@c. R. Amen,
V: Lord, hear my prayer.
R: And let my cry come to thee:
V. Blefs we our Lord,
R. Thanks be to God.
V. May the fouls of the faithful, through
the mercy of God, reft in peace. R. Amen.
AT THE: 5224:7 82. HOUR:
Hail Mary.
NCLINE tomy aid, O God.
R. O Lord, make hafte to help me.
Glory be to the Father, &c. Al/eluza.
The H Y MN. Memento rerum Conditor,
Emember, You, O gracious Lord,
& Th’ eternal God's co-equal Word,
In Virgin’s womb a creature made
Our Nature wore for Nature’s aid.
O happy Mary, chofe to be
Mother of grace and clemency !
- Prote&t us at the hour of death,
And bear to Heaven our parting breath.
— May @
at the Sixth Hour. 43
May Age to Age for ever fing
The Virgin’s Son and Angels King
And praife with the Celeftial Hoft
The Father, Son, and Holy Gholt. Amen,
The Anth. We run after,
Psatm 122. Ad te levavi.
This Pfalm contains an onicelleut Prayer made to God by the
Fuft, when they are opprefJed by their Enemies.
T O thee have I lifted up my eyes; who
dwellef{t in the Heavens.
Behold, as the eyes of fervants are on the
hands of their matters ;
As the eyes of the band-maid on the hand
of her miftrefs: fo are oureyes to our Lord
God, until he have mercy onus.”
Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy
on us, becaufe we are overwhelmed with
contempt.
Becanfe our foul is overwhelmed; being
an object of reproach to fuch as abound,
and of contempt to the proud.
Glory be to the Father, &c.
Psaum 123. Nifi guia Dominus.
Ti's Pfalm appears to be a Thank{giving, which the Prophet
prt into the Mouth of the Jews “after their Return from
Babylon.
U T that our Lord was with us, let J/rae!
now fay, but that our Lord was with us.
When men rofe up again{t us, perhaps
they bad {wallowed us alive.
} er ee When -
44 The Office of our B. Lady,
When their fury was raifed againft us,
perhaps the waters had fwallowed us up.
Our foul has pafled through a torrent, per-
haps our foul had paffed through an intale-
rable water.
Bleffed be our Lord, who has not given
us for a prey to their teeth.
Our foul, asa fparrow, is delivered from
the {nare of the fowlers. |
The {nare is broken, andwe are delivered.
Our help isin the name of the Lord, who
made heaven and earth.
Glory be to the Father, &c.
_ Psatm 124. Quiconfidunt in Domino.
In this Pfalm God declares himfelf the Protector of his Peofle.
of Ifrael, and promifeth to fupport them againft all their
Enemies, which chiifly is to be underfiood of the Church,
while comprehends the true People of God, and which our
Lord has promifed to preferve to the End of the World.
FEYHEY that truft in our Lord, are as
mount Sion; he fhall not be moved
for ever that dwells in Ferufalem. - be
Mountains round about it, and our Lord
round about his people, from henceforth,
now, and for ever.
' Becaufe our Lord will not leave the rod of
finners on the lot of the juft; that the juft ex-
tend not their hands to iniquity.
Do well, O Lord, to the good and right
of heart.
- But our Lord will bring thofe that decline
to perverfe ways, with them that work ini-
muity, that peace may be upon J/rael,
Glory be to the Father, Xc.
ai the Sixth Hour.» + 4B
The Anth, We runafter the odorof thy
cintments, young virgins have loved thee
exceedingly.
The Chapter Ecclef. 24.
T Have taken root’ in an honourable peo-
ple, and in the portion of my God'his in-
heritance, and my abode 1s in the full ais
fembly of faints.
R. Thanks be to God:
V. Bleffed art thou among women.
R. And bléffed is the fruit of thy womb.
Lord, have mercy on us. ’ Chrift, have
mercy on us. Lord, have mercy on us.
V- Lord, hear my prayer.
R. And let my cry come to thee.
: Let us pray.
* Trengthen us, O God of mercy, againtt
all our weaknefs: and grant that we,
who celebrate the memory of the Blefied
Virgin Mary, Mother of our Lord, may, by
the afliftance of her prayers, forfake all our
- iniguities: Through the fame Jefus Chnift —
our Lord, &c.
V. Lord, bear my prayer.
R. And let my cry come to thee, °}
V. Blefs we our Lord.
R. Thanks be to God.
V. May the fouls of the faithful; through
the mercy of God, reft.in peace, R. Amen,
ye et : Ee
5 = =—- The Office of owr B, Lady,
AT THE NINTH HOUR,
: 3 . Hail Mary.
| eaves unto my aid, O God.
R. O Lord, make hafte to help me.
Glory be to the Father, &c.. Alleluia.
The HYMN. Memento rerum conditor,
Emember, You, O gracious Lord,
Th’ eternal God’s co-equal word,
In Virgin’s womb a creature made,
Our Nature wore for Nature's aid.
O happy Mary, chofe to be |
Mother of grace and clemency !
Protect us at the hour of death,
And bear to Heaven our parting breath.
May Age to Age for ever fing. _
The Virgin’s Son, and Angels King,
And praife, with the Celeftial Hof,
The Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft. Amen,
_. The Anth. Thou art fair.
PsAtm 125. In convertendo Dominus.
This Pfaln feems to relate to the Time when the Jews were
brought back from the finft Captivity of Babylon, end
therefore, the Author congratulates the People upon the
Greatne/s of fo unexpetted a Felicity; after which he prays
God to jnifh the Work he has begun, and foretells that
happy Days are at laft to fucceed.
ia gente ourLord turned back the cap-—
VV tivity of Sion, we were made as men
comforted.
Then ‘was our mouth replenifhed with
joy, and our tongue with joyfulnels,
3 Then
at the Ninth Hour.” ° = 47
Then Shall they fay among the Genivles,
the Lord has done great things for them.
Our Lord has done great things for us,
we are made joyful.
Turn our captivity, O Lord, as a torrent
in the South. |
They that fow in tears fhall reap in joy-
fulnefs. |
- Going out, they went and wept; cafling
their feed. ¥
But returning they fhall come. with joyful-
nefs, carrying their fheaves,
Glory be to the Father, &c,
Psatm 126. Nifi Dominus.
This Pfalm declares, that vain are the Labours of Men, unle/i
God give Succefs to them.
| F our Lord build not the houfe. they have
laboured in vain that built it.
If our Lord keeps not the city, he watches
in vain that keeps it. | .
It is in vain for you to rife before light:
rife after ye have fat, you who eat the bread
offorrow. .
_ When he fhall give fleep to his beloved,
_ behold children are an inheritance from our
Lord: and the fruit ofthewomb is a reward.
As arrows in the hand of the mighty, fo
are the children of them that are rejected,
© Blefied is the man that has filled his defire
of them: he fhall not be confounded, when
‘he {hall {peak to his enemies in the gate.
Glory be tothe Father, &c.
Psat
48 The Cffice of our B. Lady,
PsaLM.127. Beati omnes.
In this Pfalm the Prophet frews, that by fearing God we be:
come happy ewen in this Life, Fi rguratively as meant the
Happinefs of the Church of Jefus Chrift.
Leffed are all that fear our Lord, that
walk in his ways.
Becaufe thou fhalt eat the labours of thy
hands: bleffed art thou, and it fhall be well
withthee. |
Thy wife, asa plentiful-vine on the fides
of thy houfe.
Thy children, as young plants of clive.
trees, round about thy table.
Behold, fo ‘fhall the man be bleffed that
fears our Lord.
Let our Lord blels thee aut: of Sion, and
mayeft thou {ee the good things of Zerufalem
all the days of thy life.
Mayeft thou alfo fee thy childrens chil-
dren, peace on J/rael.
Glory be to the Father, Ge.
The Anth. Thou art fair and comely, O
daughter of Jerufalem ; terrible as the mone
of an army fet in order of battle.
The Chapier, Eeclef. 24.
Gave an odour as cinnamon and as aro-
matical balm 4 in the fireets: as chofen
mye have I given the {weetnefs of odour.
R. Thanks be to God.
V. Thou didft remain an inviolate virgin
after thy child-bearing.
R. O Mother of God, make interoethort
for us.
Lord
~
™ a ee ee ee ee ee
at the Ninth Hour. 49
Lord, have merey on us. Chrift, have
mercy on us. Lord, have mercy on us,
V. Lord, hear my prayer.
R. And let my cry come to thee.
Let us pray.
Lord, we befeech thee, forgive the of-
fences of thy fervants, that we, who are
not able to pleafe thee, by our own a€ts, may
be faved by the interceflion of the Mother
of thy Sonour Lord: Through the fame fe-
’ fus Chrift thy Son our Lord, who liveth and
reigneth one God with thee, and the Holy
Ghoit, world without end. Amen.
V. Lord, hear my prayer.
R. And let my cry come to thee,
V. Blefs we our Lord.
R. Thanks be to God. !
V. May the fouls of the faithful, thro’ the
mercy of God, reftin peace. R. Amen.
AT EVEN-SONG.
V. FNCLINE unto my aid, O God.
R. O Lord, make hafte to help me.
Glory be to the Father, ce. Alleluia.
The Anth. Whilfl the King was.
Psaum 109. Dixit Dominus.
This prophetic Pfalm, both by the Title, and by what our Sa-
viour himfelf faid of it, ts certainly of David's making. It
contains a Prophecy concerning the Meffias, as the Jews
themfelves did own, when our Saviour confuted them out of
at. It declares that the Meffas fhall fit at the Right Hand of
é God, and fhall reign among ft the Nations; That his Prieft-
hood fhall be eternal, That Kings fhall fall before him, and
that all fhall be overeome by him,
OUR
50 The Office of our B. ‘Lady,
O UR Lord faid to my Lord, fit on my
right hand. |
Until I make thy enemies thy footftool.
Our Lord will fend forth the f{ceptre of
thy power from Szon; rule thou in the midft
of thy enemies. |
The beginning with thee in the day of
thy ftrength, in the brightnefs. of the Saints:
from the womb, before the day-ftar, I be-
gat thee. ; ee
Our Lord {wore. and he will not repent:
thou art a. prieft for ever, according to the
order of Melchifedec. |
Our Lord on thy righthand, hath broken
kings in the day of his wrath.
He fhall judge in nations, he fhall fill
ruins, he fhall crufh the heads in the land of
many. }
Of the torrent in the way he fhall drink,
therefore fhall he lift up hts head.
Glory be to the Father, &c.
The Anth.. While the king was on his
bed, my fweet ointment did give an odour
of fweetnefs,
The Anth. His left hand.
“Psaum 112, Laudate pueri Dominum.
This Pfalm contains an Exhortation to praife God for his
Greatnefs and Glory, and above all for his Goodnefs towards
the Sons of Men, in taking care even of the meancft among ft
them, and raifing them fometimes to the Degree of Princes,“
as it happened in the Perfon of David himfelf/.
Raife our Lord, ye children. praife the
name of our Lord,
*] ; The
at Even-Song. BL
The name of our Lord be bleffed from
henceforth, now, and for ever. :
From the rifing of the fun, to its going
down; the name of our Lord 1 is worthy of
praife.
Our Lord is high abode all nations, and
his glory above the Heavens,
Who is like the Lord our God, that dwells
on high, and beholds the humble things in
Heaven and Earth.
Raifing up the needy from the earth, and
lifting up the poor out of the dung.
To place him with princes, with the princes
of his people.
Who makes the barren woman to dwell
in her houfe, a joyful mother of children.
‘ Glory be tothe Father, &c.
- The Anth. His left hand is cuir my
head, and his right hand fhall embrace me.
The Anth.” I am black. |
Psaum 122, Letatus fum.
] Rejoiced at thofe things, which were faid
tome: we fhall go into the houle of the
Lord.
Our feet were flanding in thy courts, O
Ferufalem !
Ferufalem, which is built as a city, whofe
inhabitants are united together. |
| For thither did the tribes afcend, the tribes
| of our Lord, the teftimony of Ifrael, to praife
‘| the name of our Lord,
- Becaufe
52 The Ofice-of our B. Lady,
Becaufe feats fat there in judgment, feats
upon the houfe of David.
Afk the. things that are for the peace
of Ferufalem: and abundance to them that
love thee.
Let peace be made in thy ftrength, and
abundance in thy towers.
For my brethren and my neighbours: I
{poke peace of thee.
For the houfe of the Lord our God; I
have fought good things for thee.
Glory be to the Father, &c.
The Anth. I am black, but beautiful, O
Daughters of Ferujfalem ; therefore the King
has loved me, and brought me into his
chamber.
The Anth. Winter is now palt.
Psaum 126. Nifi Dominus.
F our Lord builds not the houfe, they
have laboured in vain that built it.
If our Lord keeps not the city, he watches
in vain that keeps it,
It is in vain for you to rife before light :
rife after ye have fat, you that eat the bread
of forrow.
When he fhall give fleep to his beloved:
behold children are an inheritance from our
Lord: and the fruit of the womb isa reward.
As arrows in the hand of the mighty, fo
are the children of them that are rejetted.
Bleffed is the man that has filled his sg
re
at Even-Song.
of them: he fhall not be confounded, when
he fhall {peak to his enemies in the gate.
Glory be to the Father, &c.
The Anth. Winter is now paft, the rain
is gone and departed: arife my love, and
come. | ,
The Anth. Thou art made fair.
Psaum 147- Lauda Jerufalem,
This Pfalm was made when the Jews had rebuilt the Walls
of Jerufalem, in praife of Goa’s Providence over allhis
Creatures, and of his particular Mercy towards the
Ifraelites,
| () Ferufalem, praife our Lord: praife thy
God, O Sion,
Becaufe he has ftrengthened the locks of
thy gates, he has blefied thy children in thee.
Who has fet thy borders in peace: and
fills thee with the fat of corn.
Who fends forth his fpeech to the earth;
his word runs {wiftly- )
Who gives {now as wool; {catters mifts
as afhes. |
He cafts his cryftal.as morfels: before the
face of his cold who fhall abide ?
He fhall fend forth his word, and fhall melt
them : his fpirit fhall breathe, and the waters
fhall flow. |
Who declares his word to Facob, his
juftice and judgments to J/rael.
He has not done foto any nation ; and his
judgments he has not made manifeft to them,
Glory be to the Father, &c.
The Anth, Thou art made fair and fweet .
in thy delicatenefs, O Holy Mother of God.
CG Tc
5A The Office of our B. Lady.
The Chapter, Ecclef. 24.
aces the beginning, and before the
world was I created, and unto the
world to come I fhall not ceafe; and in the
holy habitation have I miniftred before him,
R. Thanks be to God.
The H Y MN. Ave Maris Stella.
Bre Mother of our Maker hail;
Thou Virgin ever bleft,
The ocean’s ftar, by which we fail,
And gain the port of reft.
Whilft we this Ave thus to thee
From Gabriel's mouth rehearfe -
Prevail, that peace our lot may be,
And Eva’s name reverfe.
Releafe our long entangled mind
From all the {nares of ill;
With heav’nly light inftu& the blind,
And all our vows fulfill,
Exert for us a mother’s care,
And us thy children own:
Prevail with him to hear our pray’r,
Who chofe to be thy fon.
O fpotlefs Maid! whole virtues fhine
With brighteft purity :
Each a€tion of our lives refine,
And make us pure like thee,
Preferve our lives unftain’d from iit
In this infeétious way ;
That Heav’n alone our Souls may fill
With joys that ne'er decay.
At Even-Song. , 55
To God the Father endlefs praife;
To God the Son the fame;
And Holy Ghoft, whofe equal rays
One equal Glory claim, Amen,
V. Grace is pour’d forth on thy lips.
R. Therefore God has blefled thee for
ever.
The Anth. O Blefled Mother,
{n the Time of Eafter, Anthem, Triumph, O Queen,
The Song of the B. Virgin Mary, Luke 1.
M Y foul does magnify our Lord.
And my fpirit has rejoiced in God
my Saviour.
_ Becaufe he has regarded the meannefs of.
his handmaid : for behold, from henceforth
all generations fhall call me blefled.
Becaufe he that is Mighty has done great
things to me; and holy is his name.
And his mercy, from generation to generze
tions, is on them that fear him. |
He has fhewed ftrength in his arm, he
has difperfed the proud in the imagination
of their hearts.
He has depofed the mighty from their
feat, and exalted the humble.
The hungry he has filled with good things,
and the rich he has fent away empty.
He has received ee his child, being
mindful of his merc
(As he fpoke to our fathers ;) to ean
and his feed for ever.
Glory be to the Father, &c,
G 2 The
56 The Office of our B. Lady,
The Anth. O Bleffed Mother, and ever
Virgin, Glorious Queen of the world, make
interceffion for us to our Lord.
In the time of Eafter. Anth. Triumph, O Queen, &c.
Page 33,
Lord, have mercy on us: Chrift, have
mercy on us. Lord, have mercy onus,
V. Lord, hear my prayer.
R. And let my cry come to thee,
Let us pray.
ORD God, we befeech thee, grant tha,
we thy fervants may enjoy perpetua
health of mind and body: and that, by the”
glorious interceffion of the ever bleffed Vir-
gin Mary, we may pafs from this prefent for-
row to the enjoyment of everlafting glad.
nefs: Through our Lord, Sc. Amen,
For the Saints. -
The Anth. All ye faints of God, vouch-
fafe to make interceffion for the falvation of
us, and of us all, V. Ye juft, rejoice in our
Lord, aud be exceeding glad. R. And
glory, all ye right of heart.
) Let us pray.
Prote&t, O Lord, thy people ;. and let the
confidence we have in the interceffion of thy
hleffed Apoftles, Peter and Paul, and of thy
other Apoftles, prevail with thee, to preferve
and defend us for ever.
May all thy faints, O Lord, we befeech
thee, every where aflift us, that whilft we ce-
lebrate their merits, we may be fenfible of
their protection; Grant us thy peace in our
} times,
at Compltn. ‘ B7
tres, and repel all wickednefs from thy
church; profperoufly guide the fleps,
aétions and defires of us and all thy fervants
in the way of falvation: give eternal bleflings
to thofe who have done good to us, and
everlafting reft to the faithful departed:
Through our Lord Jefus Chrift thy Son,
Sc. R. Amen.
V. Lord, hear my prayer.
R. And let my cry come to thee.
V. Blefs we our Lord.
R. Thanks be to God. ’
V. May the fouls of the faithful, thro’ the
mercy of God, reii in peace. R. Amen.
AT COMP LIN.
Hail Mary.
ONVERT us, O God, our Saviour,
R. Andturn away thy anger from us,
V. Incline unto my aid, O God.
R. O Lord, make hafte to help me.
Glory be to the Father, Wc. Ajleluia.
Psatm 128. Sepe expugnaverunt.
This Pfalm foretells the Punifhments which fhall fall upon
thofe who perfecute the Jujt .
FTEN have they affaulted me from my
youth; let Jfrael now fay.
Often have they aflaulted me from my
youth; but they have not. prevailed againft
me. |
Sinners have beaten on my back, as on an
anvil; they have prolonged their iniquity.
G3 Our
3
58 The Office of our B. Lady. |
Our juft Lord will cut the necks of fin-
ners: let all be confounded, and turned
backward, that hate Sion.
Let them be made as hay on the tops of
houfes: which is withered before it be
plucked up.
Whereof the reaper fhall not fill his hand,
nor he that gathers the fheaves, his bofom.
And they who paffed by, faid not, the
bleffing of the Lord be upon you: we have
blefled you in the name of our Lord.
Glory be to the Father, &c.
PsautmM 129. Deprofundis,
This Pfalm is an excellent Model for Sinners that implore the
Mercy of the Lord: And it is particularly applied to the
Church, to beg his Mercy for the Dead as well as for tke
Lwwing.
ROM the deep I havecried to thee, O
Lord; Lord, hear my voice.
Let thy ears be attentive to the voice of
my petition, — )
If thou regardeft iniquities, O Lord:
Lord, who fhail hear it ?
Becaufe with thee there is mercy: and be-
caufe of thy law, I have waited for thee, Q
Lord.
My foul has trufted in his word, my fout
has hoped in our Lord.
From the morning watch even till. night,
let [frael hope in our Lord,
Becaufe with our Lord there is mercy,
and with him plentiful redemption. :
) And
&
ai Complins = = ~—B9
And he fhall redeem J/rae! from all his
iniguities. |
Glory be to the Father, &c.
PsALM 30. Domine non eft exaltatum.
It is generally believed that David made this Pfalm, when he
was accufed by Saul and hes Courtiers of ambitious Defigns
to make himfelf King ; he appeals to God, that he was un-
juftly accufed ,and that his Heart was free from any fuck
Ambition.
ORD, my heartis not exalted, nor are
my eyes lofty.
- Nor have I walked in great matters, nor
in marvellous things above me,
If 1 was not humble-minded, but exalted
My foul 7
As the weaned child is for his mother, fo
let it be with my foul.
Let J/rael hope in our Lord, from hence-
forth, now, and forever.
Glory be to the Father, &c,
The H¥ MN. Memento rerum Conditor.
¥» Emember, You, O gracious Lord,
4 Th’ eternal God’s co-equal Word,
In Virgin’s womb a creature made
Our Nature wore for Nature’s aid.
O happy Mary, chofe to be
‘Mother of grace and clemency !
Proteét us at the hour of death,
And bear to Heaven our parting breath.
May Age to Age for ever fing
“The Virgin’s Son and Angels. King
Ang
60 The Office of our B. Lady,
And praife with the Celeftial Hoft
The Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft. Amen.
The Chapter, Ecclef: 24.
AM the Mother of beautiful love, and
of fear, and of Knowledge, and of holy
hope.
R. Thanks be to God
V: Pray for us, Mother of God.
R. That we may be made worthy the ape
mifes of Chrift-
The Anth. Under thy aid.
In the Time of Eafter, Anih. Triumph, O Queen?
The Song of Simeon, Luke 2-
Nee Lord, let thy fervant depart in
peace, according to thy word.
Becaufe my eyes have feen thy falvation.
Which thou haf prepared before the face
of all people.
A light to enlighten the Gentiles: and for
the elory of thy people Jfrael.
Glory be to the Father, &c.
The Anth. Under thy proteétion, we take
our refuge, O holy Mother of God, defpife
not our petitions in our neceffities: but ever
deliver us from all dangers, O glorious and
bleffed Virgin.
The Anth. in the Time of Eafter.
A. oe O Queen of Heav’n, to fee, Alleluia,
The facred Infant born of thee, Alleluia.
Return in glory from the tomb, Alleluia.
And with thy Pray *1s preyent.our dooms Alleluia.
Lord.
in Advent, at Maitins. 61
Lord, have mercy on us. Chrift, have
mercy onus. Lord,have mercy on us,
V- Lord, hear my prayer.
R. And let my cry come to thee:
Let us pray.
E befeech thee, O Lord, that the
glorious interceffion of the ever-
bleffed and glorious Virgin Mary, may pro-
te€tus, and bring us to life everlafting :
Through our Lord Jefus Chrift, thy Son,
who, &c. R. Amen.
V. Lord, tear my prayer.
R. And let my cry come to thee.
V. Blef& we our Lord.
R. Thanks be to God.
The Blefing. May the almighty and mer-
ciful Lord, Father, Son, and Holy Ghoit,
blefs and keep us. R. Amen.
This being done, one of the refpeétive Anthems after Lauds
_ ts tobe faid kneeling, with the Verficle and Prayer, in
£- 33. and the Verficle (May the divine Help) decng
faid, Our Father, Hail Mary, and the Creed are to be
Said in fecret.
RANMA L EA AMAMKA MRAM
Tue OFFICE or our B. LADY.
To be fard from the Even-Song of the Saturday before the firft
Sunday zm Advent, tll the Even-Song of Chriftmas-Eve ?
and on the Day of the Annunciation of our B, Lady.
AT MATT.INS.,
Hail Mary.
V. Pyar open my lips,
R. And my mouth fhall declare thy
praife.
V. Incline
62 The Office of our B. Lady,
_ V. Incline to my aid, O God.
R. O Lord, make hafte to help me.
Glory be to the Father, &c. Alleluia.
~ The Invitatory.
Hail Mary, full of Grace, our Lord is with
thee. gain repeat, Hail Mary, full of grace,
our Lord is with thee.
Psatm 94. Venite exultemus.
seis let us rejoice to our Lord, Jet us
make joy to God our Saviour; let us
approach his prefence in confeffion, and in
pfalms make joy before him.
Hail Mary, full of grace, our Lord is with
thee.
For God isa great Lord, and a great
King above all Gods; becaufe our Lord re-
pels not his people: in his hand are all the
bounds of the earth, and he beholds the
heights of the mountains.
3 Our Lord is with thee.
The feais his; he made it, and his hands
founded the dry land; come let us adore,
and fall down before God; let us lament be-
fore our Lord, thet made us; becaufe he
is tbe Lord our God; we are his people,
and the fheep of his pafture.
Hail Mary, full of grace, our Lord is with —
thee.
‘Lo day, if ye fhall hear his voice, harden
not your hearts, as in the provocation, ac-
cording to the day of temptation in i Nee
art,
zn Adoent, at Mattins, 69
fart, where your fathers tempted me, proved
and faw my works.
Oar Lord is with thee.
Forty years was I nigh to this generation;
and faid, they always err in their heart, and
have not known my ways, to whom I {ware
in my wrath, if they fhall enter into my reft.
Hail Mary, full of grace, our Lord is with
thee, -
Glory be to the Father, &c,
As it was in the beginning, &c.
Our Lord is with thee.
Hail Mary, full of grace, our Lord is with
thee.
The HYMN, Quem Terra, Pontus, Sydera.
| Bie fov’reign God, whofe hands fuftain
The globe of heav’n, the earth and main,
Ador’d and prais'd by each degree,
Lies hid, O facred Maid, in thee.
Fie whom the fun and moon obey,
To whom all creatures homage pay,
The judge of men and Angels doom
Refides within thy Virgin womb.
O happy parent, chofe to bear
Thy Maker God’s eternal heir:
Whole fingers fpan this earthly round,
Whofe arms the whole creation bound.
Bleft Maid, whom Gebriel’s voice avows
The facred {pirit’s fruitful {poufe :
‘Thou giv'ft the world by human birth
The moft defir'd of Heav’n and Earth.
May
64 The Office of our B. Lady,
May age to age for ever fing
The Virgin’s Son and Angels King,
And prawe with the celeftial hoft
The Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft. Amen: |
| Thefe three Pfalms following are fatd on Sundays, Mondays
i and Thurfdays, at the Noéturn, se ,
The Anth. Bleffed art thou,
Psautm'8. Domine, Dominus nofter,
Lord our Lord; how wonderful is thy
name in the whole earth!
For thy magnificence is lifted up above
the Heavens.
Out of the mouths of infants and fucklings
thou haft perfected praife, becaufe of thy
enemies, that thou may’ft deftroy the enemy
and revenger. : |
For I fhall behold the Heavens, the works
of thy fingers; the moon and the flars, which
thou haft founded.
What is man, that thou art mindful of
him; or the fon of man, that thou doft vifit —
him ? ,
Thou haft diminifhed him a little lefs than
Angels; with giory and honour thou hatt
crowned him, and appointed him over the
works of thy hands. :
Thou haft {nbjected all things under his
feet, all fheep, and oxen; and alfo the cat-
tle of the field.
The birds of the air, and fifhes of the
fea, that walk through the paths of the fea.
O Lord ©
in Advent, at Matiins. 65
© Lord our Lord, how wonderful is thy
name in the whole earth!
Glory be to the Father, &c.
The Anth. Bleffed art thou among wo-
‘men, and bleffed is the fruit of thy womb.
The Anth, Even as choice myrrh.
Psaum 18, Cceli enarrant gloriam.
4 aes Heavens fet forth the glory of
God, and the firmament declares the
works of his hands. ©
The day publifhes his word to the day,
and night difcovers the knowledge of him
to the night. |
It is not a language, nor fpeech, whofe
voices may not be heard.
Their found has gone forth into all the
earth, and their words to the ends of the
earth. |
He has put his tabernacle in the Sun, and
himfelf as a bridegroom coming forth of
| his chamber. me :
He has rejoiced as a giant, to run the
way: his coming forth is from the higheit
| Heaven. |
| And his courfe, even to the top thereof,
| nor is there any that can hide himfelf fro
| his heat. . a
| The Law of our Lord is without fpot,
| converting fouls; the teltimony of our Lord.
| is faithful, giving wifdom to little ones.
| - The juftice of our Lord is right, making
hearts
65 The Office of our B. Lady,
hearts joyful: the precept of our Lord is
full of light, enlightning the eyes.
The Fear of our Lord is holy, abiding for
ever and ever : The judgments of our Lord
are true, guftified in themfelves.
To be defired above gold, and precious
{tone ; and more {weet than honey, and the
honey-comb.
For thy Servant keeps them; in keeping
them there is great reward.
Sins who underftand? From my _ fecret
fins cleanfe me, and from other mens fins
{pare thy fervant.
If they fhall not have dominion over me,
then fhall I be without fpot, and be cleanled
from the greateft fin.
And the words of my mouth fhall be
pleafing to thee, and the meditation of my
heart be alwaysin thy fight.
O Lord, my helper and Redeemer.
Glory, be.to the Father, &c.
The Anth. Even as choice myrrh, thou
gavel the odour of fweetnefs, O holy Mother
of God,
The Anth. Before the bed. .
PsaumM 23. Domini eft Terra,
H E earth is our Lord’s and the fulnefs
thereof; the whole world, and al! that
dwell therein.
Becaufe he has founded it on the fea
and on the floods has prepared it.
Wha
in Advent, at Mattins. 67
Who fhall afcend into the mount of our
Lord? Or who fhall fland in his holy place?
The innocent of hands, and clean of heart,
that has not taken his foul in vain, nor de-
ceitfully [worn to his neighbour.
He fhall receive a blefling of our Lord,
and mercy of God his Saviour.
This is the generation of them that feek
him, of them that feek the face of the God
of Facob.
_ Lift up your gates, ye Princes, and be ye
lifted up, O eternal gates; and the King of
Glory fhall enter in.
Who is the King of Glory? Our Lord,
{trong and mighty, our Lord mighty in battle.
Lift up your gates, ye Princes, and be ye
lifted up, O eternal gates, and the King of
Glory fhall enter in.
Who is the King of Glory? The Lord
of Power, he is the King of Glory.
Glory be to the Father, &c.
The Anth. Before the Bed of this Virgin
repeat to us {weet fongs of meafure. ;
_V. Grace is poured forth on thy lips.
R. Therefore God has bleffed thee for
ever. QOur Father, &c. prah
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Gc. as followeth Page 75. with the reft.
Thefe three Plalms following are feid on Tuefday and
. Friday, at the Nogturn,
The Anih. In thy beauty.
Bis He PsALM
€8 ‘The Office of our B. Lady,
Psatm 44. Erutavit cor meum.
M Y Heart has {poke a good word; ¥
tell my works to the King.
My tongue is the pen of a writer, that
writes {wiftly. |
Moft beautiful amongft the fons of men, ~
gtace is poured out on thy lips, therefore has —
God bleffed thee for ever. | |
Be girded with thy fword upon thy thigh,
O moft mighty.
In thy beauty and comelinefs go on, ade
vance profperoufly and reign. !
Becaufe of thy truth, mildnefs and juftices
and the condu& of thy right hand fhall be
wonderful.
Thy fharp arrows into the hearts of the
King’s enemies; the people fiaall fall under
thee.
Thy feat, O God, is for ever and ever;
the rod of thy kingdom is a rod of equity.
_ Thou haft loved juftice, and hated ini-
quity: therefore God, thy God, has anointed
thee with the oil of gladnefs above thy fel- _
Jows.
Myrrh and aloes, and caffia from thy gar-
ments, from houfes of ivory, where the
daughters of Kings have delighted thee in
thy honours |
The Queen ftood on thy right band in
golden robes, fet round with variety.
Hear, Daughter, and fee, incline thy ear,
and
in Advent, at Matiins 65
and forget thy people, and the houfe of thy
Father.
And the King will be enamoured with
thy beauty, becaufe he is the Lord thy God,
and they fhall adore him.
And the Daughters of Tyre, all the rich of
the people, with offerings {hall pray to thee.
All the glory of the King’s Daughter is
from within; in borders of gold, cloathed
about. with.varieties. :
Virgins fhall be brought to the King after
her, her neigbours fhall be brought to thee.
_ They fhall be brought in joy and rejoic-~
ing; they fhall be brought into the temple
of the King. |
Inftead of thy Fathers, there are born
Sons to thee; thou fhalt make them Princes
over all the earth, »
They fhall be mindful of thy name from
generation to generation.
Therefore fhall people praife thee for
eyer, world without end.
. Glory be to the Father, &e,
The Anth. In thy beauty and comelinefs,
“go on, advance profperoufly and reign.
The Anih, God will help her, ;
Psarm 45. Deus nofter Refugium:
Cus God is a refuge and ftrength, a
helper in the tribulations; which have
fallen upon. us in great number,
Therefore we will not fear; when the earth
H 2 bees thal}
Y
40 The Cfice of our B. Lady, |
fhall be troubled, and mountains be tran{- 4
ported i into the midft of the fea.
The waters made a noife, and were
troubled; the mountains were troubled in
his ftrength.
The ftrong current of a river rejoices the
city of God; the higheft has fanttified his,
tabernacle.
God is inthe midft thereof, it fhall not be
moved; God will help it in the morning
early.
Nations are troubled, and kingdoms are
made to ftoop: he raifed his voice, and the
earth was moved.
The Lord of Holts is with us, the Gad of
Facob is our defender.
Come, and fee the works of our Lord,
what wonders he has done in the earth:
making wars to ceafe, even to the end of the
earth.
He fhall deftroy the bow, and bredk's WER
pons; and fhields he fhall burn with fire. —
Attend and fee that I am God; I {hall be
exalted among the Gentiles, I fhall be ex salted
in the earth,
The Lord of Hofts is with us, the God of ©
Facob is our defender.
Glory be to the Father, &e.
The Anth. God will help her with his
countenance: God is in the midf- of hes,
~ fhe shall not be moved.
a he Anth. A habitation is in thee.
Psalm
| in Advent, at Mattins. oF
Psatm 86. Fandamenta ejus.
WHE foundation thereof, in the holy
| mountains; our Lord loves the gates
of Sion above all the tabernacles of Jacob.
~ Glorious things are faid of thee, O city of
God. aes ,
I will be mindful of Rahab and Babylon,
knowing me.
Behold the ftrangers and Tyre, and the
people of the Hihiopians : Thefe were there.
Shall a man fay to Szon, that a man is
born in her, who being the higheft founded
he
r.
Our Lord will declare it in the regifter of
thofe people, and of princes that have been
in her. |
A habitation is in thee, as it were of all
thofe who rejoice.
Glory be to the Father, &c.
The Anth. A habitation is in thee, as it
‘were of all us who rejoice, O holy Mother
of God.
V. Grace is poured out onthy lips,
R. Therefore God has blefled thee for ever,
Our Father, &c, : bigs
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rits, as follows Page 76. with the refi.
Thefe three Pfalms are to be faid on Wednefday and
Saturday, at the No€turn,
‘The Anth. Rejoice, O Virgin Mary.
Psatm 95. Cantate Domino.
@ ING toour Lord a new fong, fing to
our Lord all the earth, |
Ae LIFTS TEL IIT TE EL Te aS
Panel
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PRICE ES MER aE TR
Sing ;
92 The Office of our B. Lady,
Sing to our Lord, and blefs his name $
declare his falvation from day to day.
Declare his glory among the Gentiles, his
wonderful works in all nations. :
_ Becaufe our Lord is great, and maft wor-
thy of praife ; he is terrible above all Gods.
Becaule all the Gods of the Gentiles are
Devils; but our Lord made the Heavens,
Praife and beauty in his Sight, holinefs
and magnificence in his fan&tification.
Bring to our Lord, ye countries of Gen-
ules, bring to our Lord glory and honour ;
bring to our Lord the glory of his name.
Take facrifice, and enter into his courts :
Adore our. Lord in his holy courts.
Let all the earth be moved before his
face: fay among the Gentiles, our Lord
hath reigned. °
For he has corretted: the whole world,
which fhall not be moved; he will judge
people with equity.
-Let the Heavens be glad, and the earth
rejoice ; let the fea be moved, and the fulnefs
thereof: the fields fhall be glad, and all
things that are in them, RA: se
Then fhall all the trees of the woods re-
joice before the face of our Lord, becaufe
he comes, becaufe he comes to. judge the
earth, — :
He will judge the earth in equity, and
people in his truth,
Glory be to the Father, &c.
The Anth. Rejoice, OQ Virgin Mary, thou
alone
in Advent, at Mattins. 7%
alone haft deftroyed all herefies in the whole
world, The Anth, Vouchfafe,
PsAuM 96. Dominus regnavit.
UR Lord has reigned; let the earth:
rejoice, let many iflands be glad.
A cloud and darknefs is round about bim:
juftice and judgment is the corre€tion of his
feat. ;
Fire fhall go before him, and fhall burn
his enemies round about.
His lightning fhined to. the whole earth 5.
the earth faw, and was moved. :
The mountains melted as wax before the
face of our Lord: before the face of our
Lord all the earth.
The heavens have declared his juftice, and
all people have {een his glory.
Let them all be confounded, that adore ~
graven things; and that glory in their idols.
Adore him, all ye his Angels: Sion heard,
and was glad. _ .
Andthe daughters of Fuda rejoiced ; be-
caule of thy judgments, O. Lord.
Becaufe thou, Lord, art. moft high over
all the earth: thou art highly exalted above
all Gods,
You, who love our Lord, hate evil: our
Lord keeps the fouls of his faints; outof the
hands of the finner he will deliver them.
_ Light is rifen to the juft, and joy to, the
right of heart, — ;
: Be.
74 ‘The Office of our B. Lady,
Be glad, ye juft, in our Lord; and confefs
to the memory of his fan&tification.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, &c,
The Anth. Vouchfafe that I may praife
thee, O facred Virgin: give me force againft
thy enemies, |
The Anth. The Angel of our Lerd.
Psarm 97. Cantate Domino.
ING to our Lord a new fong, becaufe
he has done wonderful things. |
His right hand and his holy arm have
wrought falvation to himfelf.
Our Lord has made known his falvation ;
in the fight of the Gentiles, he has revealed
his juftice.
He has remembred his mercy, and his
‘truth, to the houfe of J/rael.
All the ends of the earth have feen the
falvation of our God.
Make ye joy to God, all the earth; fing
and rejoice, and fing palms. :
Sing to our Lord on the harp; on the
harp, and with voice of pfalm, ou the trum-
pets of metal, and with the voice of the
trumpet of horn, +
Make joy in the fight of the King our
Lord; let the fea be moved, and the fulnefs
thereof, the earth, and they that dwell
therein,
_ The rivers fhall applaud, the mountains
likewile fhall rejoice at the fight of our Lord,
becaufe he comes to judge the earth. ‘
| e
in Advent, at Matiins. "S
He will judge the earth in juftice, and the
cople in equity.» :
i Glory 4 to oe Father. Ge.
The Anth. The Angel of our Lord dow
clared unto Mary, and fhe conceived by the
Holy Ghoft. alleluza.
V. Grace is pour’d forth on thy lips.
R. Therefore God has bleffed thee for
ever. Our Father, &c.
V. And lead us not into temptation.
R. But deliver us from-evil.
The Abfolution.
+ the prayers and merits of the ever
bleffed Virgin Mary, and of all the
Saints, may our Lord conduét us to the
kingdom of heaven. R- Amen.
V. Father, vouchfafe us a bleffing.
The Bleffing. May the Virgin Mary, with
her pious Son, blefs us. R- Amen.
The Firft Leffon. Luke. 1.
ay HE Angel Gabriel was fent of God,
into a city of Galilee, called Nazareth,
to a Virgin efpoufed to a man, whofe name
was Fofeph, of the houfe of David; and the
Virgin’s name was Mary. And the Angel
being enered in, faid to her, Hail, full of
grace, our Lord is with thee, bleffed art thou
among women. But thou O Lord, have
mercy onus. R. Thanks be to God.
R. The Angel Gabriel was fent to Mary,
a Virgin efpoufed to Fofeph, fhewing to her
_ the word: and the Virgin is furprized at tbs
light :
976 The Office of our B. Lady. ;
light : fear not Mary , thou haft found grace —
with our Lord: behold, thou, fhalt conceive,
and bring forth, and he fhall be called the
Son of the moft High. ,
‘V. Our Lord will give him the feat of ©
David his Father, and he fhall-reign in the
houfe of Facob for ever. Behold, thou fhait
conceive, and bring forth, and he {hall be
called the Son of the moft High.
V. Father, vouchfafe us a bleffing.
The Bleffing. May the Virgin of Virgins
make interceflion for us-to our Lord.
R. Amen. |
The Second Leffon. |
H_ O having heard, was troubled at
his faying, and thought what manner ~
of Salutation this fhould be. Andthe Angel —
faid to her, Fear not, Mary, for thou haft —
found grace with God, behold thou fhalt —
conceive in thy womb, and fhalt bear a Son, ©
and thou fhalt call his name Fe/us. He fhall
be great, and fhall be called the Son of the
Mott High: and our Lord God will give him
the feat of Dawvd his Father, and he fhall
reign in the houfe of Jacob for ever ; and of
his kingdom there fhall be no end. But thou, —
© Lord, have mercy on us.
R, Thanks be to God.
R. Hail Mary, full of grace, our Lord —
is with thee. The Holy Ghoft fhall come
upon thee, and the power of the Moft High —
fhall overfhadow thee: for that, which of —
thee
in Advent, at Mattins. O°
thee thall be born holy, fhall be called the
Son‘of God. V. How fhall this be done;
becaufe I know not man? And the Angel
anfwering, faid to her, the Holy Ghoft fhall
come upon thee, and the power of the moft
High fhall overfhadow thee : for that, which
‘of thee fhall be born holy, fhall be called the
\Son of God.
| VV. Father, vouchfafe us a bleffing.
| The Bleffing. May our Lord, through: his
|Virgin-Mother’s interceflion, grant us falva-
jtion and peace. R. Amen.
| The Third Leffon. ,
ND Mary faid to the Angel, How fhall
this be done, becaufe I know not man?
nd the Angel anfwering, faid to her, the
oly Ghoft fhall come upon thee, and the
ower of the Moft High fhall overfhadow
‘thee; and therefore alfo that, which of thee
fhall be born holy, fhall be called the Son of
(God, And, behold Elizabeth thy coufin, fhe
hifo has conceived a fon in her old-age; and
this month is the fixth to her, that is called
barren, becaufe there fhall not be any word
-impoffible to God. And Mary faid, Behold
he handmaid of our Lord, be it done to me
“According to thy word. But thou, O Lord,
lave mercy on us.
R. Thanks be to God.
| R. Receive, O Virgin Mary, the word,
Which is brought to thee from our Lord, by
the Angel; thou fhalt conceive and bring
| I forth
Vs a a a Oe ee
initiate:
»8 ° The Office of our B. Lady,
forth beth God, and likewife Man, that thou
mayelt- be called blefled among all women,
V. Thou fhalt bring forth a fon, and fuf-
fer no detriment of thy virginity; ‘thou fhalt.
become with child, and be a Mother ever
untouched, that thou mayeft be called blef-
fed among all women. ;
Vv. Glory be to the Father, and to the
Son, and to the Holy Ghoft. That thou
mayeft be called blefled among all women,
Bet) ak a
NCLINE unto my aid, O God.
O Lord, make hafte to help me.
Hila y be to the Father, &c.
As it wasin, &c. Alleluia:
The Anth, The Angel.
*
Psawtm 92. Dominus regnavit. 4
UR Lord has reigned, he has put om
beauty: our Lord has put on flrength, 7
and girded himfelf. x
For he has eftablifhed the globe of the
earth, which fhall not be moved. 4
From that time was thy feat prepared, |
thou art from eternity. |
The rivers, O Lord, have lifted up: the
rivers have lifted up their voice.
The rivers have lifted up their waves from
the voice of many waters.
Marvellous are the rifings of the feaz
marvellous is our Lord on high.
ay
im Advent, at Lauds. 79
Thy teftimonies are made very credible:
holinefs becomes thy houfe, O Lord, for
length of days-
Glory be to the Father, @c,
The Anth. The Angel Gabriel was fent to
| Mary, a Virgin efpoufed to Fofeph.
| The Anth. Hail Mary.
PsatM 9g. Jubilate Deo.
AKE yejoy to God, all the Earth,
ferve our Lord in gladnels.
Enter in before his fight with joy.
Know, that the Lord is God; he made us,
and not we ourfelves.
‘His people, and the fheep of his pafture,
enter into his gates in confeffion, his courts
with hymns ; confefs ye to him.
Praife his name, becaufe our Lord is fw eet,
his mercy for ever, and his truth, even from
generation to generation,
‘Glory be to the Father, &c. »
- The Anth. Hail Mary, full of grace, our
Lord is with thee; blefled art thou among
women J4lleluza.
The Anth. Fear not, Mary.
PsaLm 62, Deus Deus meus, ad te ss Lup
ce vigilo.
God my God: to thee I watch: from
the morning light.
‘My foul has thirfted after thee: ay flefh
alfo very many ways. : a
I2- . As
80 The Office of our B. Lady, |
As ina defart land, and inacceffible, and «
without water: fo in the holy place have I
appeared to thee, that I might behold thy
{trength and thy glory.
Becaufe thy mercy is better than life, my
lips fhall praife thee.
So will 1 blefs thee in my life, and in thy
name I will liftup my hands.
As with marrow and fatnefs let my foul be
filled, and my mouth fhall praife with lips of
oy: |
If I have been mindful of thee on my
bed; in the morning I will meditate on thee,
becaufe thou haft been my helper.
And under the cover of thy wings I will
rejoice, my foul has cleaved after thee; thy
xight hand has taken me under its proteftion. -
But they in vain have fought my foul,
they fhall enter into the lower parts of the —
earth ; they fhall be delivered into the power _
of the {word ; they fhall be the portions of |
foxes. |
But the King fhall rejoice in God, all
fhall be prailed, that {wear on him; becaufe
the mouth of thofe that {peak wicked things
is {topped. |
Psaim. 66. Deus mifereatur noftri.
(> OD, have mercy on us, and blefs us,
| caufe his countenance to fhine upon
us, and have mercy on us, :
That we may know thy way, on earth;
thy falvation, in all nations,
Let
|
}
- in Advent, at Lauds, — Sy
Let people, O God, confefs to thee, let.
all people praife thee,
Let nations be glad, and rejoice, becaufe
thou judgeft people with equity, and direfielt —
the nations on the earth. |
Let people, O God, confefs to thee: let
all people praife thee: the earth has yielded
her fruit.
May God, our God, blefs us; may God
blefs us, and may all the ends of the eartht
fear him.
Glory be to the Father, &c.
The Anth. Fear not, Mary, thou haft
found grace with our Lord; behold, thou
fhalt conceive and bring fortha fon. Alleluia
The Anth. Our Lord.
The Song of the Three Childe en. Dan. 2:
LL the works of our Lord blefs our
Lord ; praife and extol him for ever.
Blefs our Lord, ye Angels of our Lord ;
ye heavens, blefs our Lord. _
All waters, that are above the heavens,
blefs ye our Lord ; biefs our Lord, all ye
powers of our Lord.
Sun and moon Diefs our Lord; ftars of
heaven blefs our Lord.
Showers and dew blefs our Lord; all
{pirits of God blefs our Lord.
Fire and heat blefs our Lord: cold and
fummer blefs our Lord.
Dews and hoary froft blefs our Lord;
froit and cold blefs our Lord.
I 3 Ice
So = The Office of our B. Lady,
Ice and inow blefs our Lord; nights and ;
days blefs our Lord.
Light and darknefs blefs our Lord; light- —
wings anc clouds blefs our Lord.
Let the earth blefs our Lord ; let it praife.
and extol bim for ever.
Mountains and hills blefs our Lord; all
Shings that {pring in the earth blefs our Lord. —
Blefs our Lord ye fountains ; feas and rie ©
yers blefs our Lord.
Whales, and all that move in the waters, —
blefs our Lord ; blefs our, Lord all ye fowls —
of the air,
All beafts.and. cattle blefs our Lord;. fons.
of men blefs our Lord.
Let J/rael blefs our Lord; praife and ex-
tol him for ever. 3
Priefisof oun Lord blefs our Lord; fer- .
Vants of our Lord blefs our Lord.
Spiritsand fouls of the juft blefs our Lord;
ye holy and humble of heart blefs our Lord. ©
_ Anamas, Azarias, Mifacl, blels our Lords.
pralfe and extol him for ever.
Let us blefs the Father and the Son, with
the Holy Ghoft;. let us praife and magnify
him for ever.
Bieiled art thou, Lord, in the firmament —
of heaven; aud praifed, and glorified, and
extolled for ever.
, The Anth. Our Lord will give him the feat
of David his Father,andhe fhall reign forever. _
The Anth. Behold the Handmaid of our
-Lord. |
Psat
in Advent, at Lauds, B>
Psat 148- Laudate Dominum de Ceelis.
RAISE our Lord from. the heavens,.
praife him in the high places.
Praife him all his Angels, praife him all
his powers.
Praife him fun and moon, praife him all
ye flars and light.
Praife him, O heavens of heavens, and let
_ the waters, that are above the heavens, praile
the name of our Lord. ;
Becaufe he fpake, and they were made;
he commanded, and they were created.
| He eftablifhed them for ever, world witha
| outend: he made a precept, and it fhall.noe
| be annulled. | | inte
| Praife our Lord from the earth, ye dra+
| -gons, and all depths.
| Fire, bail, fmow, ice, tempeftuous winds;
| which obey his word.
| Mountains and all hills, trees that bear
| Fruit, and all cedars,
| — Beafts and all cattle: ferpents and winged.
) fowls. :
| — Kings of the earth, and all people, princes,
| sand all judges of the earth. ik}
| Young men and virgins, the old with the
| young; let them praife the name of -our
| Lord, becaufe his name alone is exalted.
| The confeflion of him is above heaven
| and earth,-and he has exalted the horn of his
‘| people. |
t A bymn to all his faints, to the fons of
\| dfrael; a people that approaches to him,
PsALM
84- The Office of our B. Lady.
PsaLM 149.
ING toour Lord anew fong, let his _
praife be in the church of faints.
Let /frael be joyful in him that made him,
and the children of Szon rgoice in their
King.
Let them praife his name in choir: on
timbrel and pfalter let them fing to him.
Becaufe our Lord is well pleafed with his
people, and he will exalt the meek to falva-
tion.
The faints fhall rejoice in g glory, they fhali
be joyful in their beds.
‘The praifeof God fhall be in theirmouths,
and two-edged {words in their hands.
To execute revenge on the nations, chaf-
tifements among the people.
To bind their kings in fetters, and their
noblesin chains of iron.
That they may execute on them the judg- ©
ment that is written: this glory is to all bis —
faints.
Psatm 120. Laudate Dominum in San@is,
RAISE our Lord in his faints, praife —
him in the firmament of his firength,
Praife him in his powers, praife him ac«
cordingto ihe multitude of his greatneds.
>,
ped
Praife him in the found of trumpet, praife —
him on the plalier and harp.
Praife him on :imbrel, and in choir, praife
him on firings and organs,
Praife t
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Praife him on well-founding cymbals,
| praife him on cymbals of joy, let every {pirit
praife our Lord. |
Glory be tothe Father, &c.
The Anth. Behold the handmaid of our
Lord; be jt to me, according to thy word.
The Chapter, Vaiah 11.
Rod fhall come forth of the root of
Feffe, and: a flower fhall rife up out of
his root, and the Spirit of our Lord fhall reft
upon him, .
R. Thanks be to God.
The HY MN. 0 gloriofa Virginum.
C) Mary ! whilft thy Maker bleft
Is nourifh’d at thy Virgin breaft,
Such glory fhines, that ftars lefs bright
Behold thy face, and lofe their light.
The lofs that man in Eve deplores,
Thy fruitful womb in Chrift reftores,
And makes the way to Heaven free
For them that mourn, to follow thee.
By thee the Heavenly gates difplay
And fhew the light of endlefs day :
_ Sing, ranfom’d nations, fing and own,
Your ranfom was a Virgin’s Son.
May age to age for ever fing
_ The Virgin’s Son and Angels King,
And praife with the celeftial hoft
The Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft. Amen.
V. Bleffed art thou among women.
R. And bleffed is the fruit of thy womb,
The Anth. The Holy Ghoft, a
: The
86 The Office of our B. Lady,
The Song of Zach. Luke 1-
|S fewsoene be our Lord God of Jfraef,
becaufe he has vifited: and wrought the
redemption of his people.
And raifed up a kingdom of falvation to
us, in the houfe of Dawid, his fervant.
As he {poke by the mouth of his holy
prophets, that are from the beginning.
Salvation from our enemies, and from the
hand.of all that hate us.
To work mercy with our fathers, and to
remember his holy covenant.
The oath, which he fw ore io Abraham our:
father; that be would grant to us.
That without fear, being delivered from
the hand four enemies, we may ferve him.
In holinefs and juftice before him all our
. days. |
dad thou, child, fhalt be called. the Pro-
phet of the Higheft; for thou fhalt go before
the face of our Lord, to prepare his ways. —
To give knowledge of falvation to his
people; for re miffion of their fins.
Through the bowels of the mercy of our
God; in which the rifing fun from on high
has vifited us.
To enlighten them that fit in darknefs,
and in the fhadow of death: to direét our
feet in the way of peace. |
_ Glory be to the Father, &c.
The Anth. The Holy Ghoft fhall defcend
upon thee, O Mary; fear not, thou er
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have in thy womb the Son of God. Alleluia.
Lord, have mercy-on us. Chrift, have mercy
on us. Lord, have mercy on us. V. Lord,
hear my prayer. R. And let my cry come
tothee. :
| Let us pray.
‘God, who wouldeft have thy word take
\ JF flefh inthe womb of the bleffed Virgin
Mary, acording to the declaration of. the
_ Angel; grant us thy fuppliants, that we, who
truly believe her to be the Mother of God,
may find favour. with thee, by her inter.
€eflfion: Through the fame Chrift our Lord,
Amen. |
For the Saints at Lauds and at Even Song only.
The Anth, Behold our Lord fhall come,
and all his Saints with him, and there fhall be
in that day a great light. Alleluca,
V. Behold our Lord fhall appear on a
white cloud. |
R. And with him thoufands of Saints,
| Let us pray.
pre O Lord, we befeech thee, our
# confciences by thy vifit ; that at the arri-
—val of our Lord Jefus Chrift with all his
faints, he my find in us a dwelling ready for
his reception: who liveth and reigneth
one God, with thee, and the Holy Ghoft,
_ world without end.
— R. Amen.
_V. Lord, hear my prayer.
R. Andiet my cry come to thee, |
~ Vz. Blefs
88 The Office of our B, Lady,
V. Blefs we our Lord.
R. Thanks be to God. |
V. May the fouls of the faithful, thro’ the
mercy of God, reftin peace. R. Amen,
of the Office ends here, the Anthem, Verficle, and Prayer
JSollowing are to be faid: elf2, if another Hour follows, —
in the end of the laft hour, fay, Our Father, wholly in
“Secret.
V. May our Lord give us his peace.
R. And life everlafting, men,
That done, the Anthem following is tobe faid Kneeling.
The Anthem. Alna Redemptoris Mater
YD Right parent of our Lord, whofe pray’rs difplay
AJ The Heav’nly Gates : whofe light direéts our way 3
Bright-ocean’s flar, with facred influence guide
Our firaggling courfe in fpite of nature’s tide.
Thou in whom nature ftood amaz'd to fee
Both God and Man, thy Maker born of thee ;
In whom alone the Maid and Mother meet,
Remember finners at thy Infant's feet.
V. The Angel of the Lord declared to
Mary. |
_R, And fhe conceived by the Holy Ghoft.
| Let us pray.
Lord, we befeech thee, pour forth in-
to our hearts thy grace ; that we, who,
_by the meflage of the Angel, have known
the incarnation of thy fon Chrift, may, by his
- paffion and crofs, be brought to the glory of
his refurre€tion: Thro’ the fame Chrift our
Lord. R. Amen.
V. May the divine help always remain
with us. R. Amen,
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AT PORE hy EK.
Hail Mary.
VY. YNCLINE unto my aid, O God.
& R.O Lord, make hafte to help me.
Glory be to the Father, &c.
As it was in the beginning, &c.
The HYMN. Memento rerum Conditor, -
Emember, You, O gracious Lord,
R Th’ eternal God’s co-equal Word,
In Virgin’s womb a creature made
Our Nature wore for Nature’s aid.
O happy Mary, chofe to be
Mother of grace and clemency!
Proteét us at the hour of death,
And bear to Heaven our parting breath.
May Age to Age for ever fing
The Virgin’s Son and Angels King
And praife with the Celeftial Holt
The Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft, Amen,
The Anth. The Angel Gabriel.
PsauM 53- Deus in nomine tuo,
QO God, fave me by thy name, and by thy
ftrength judge me.
_ OGod, hear my prayers; with thy ears
receive the words of my mouth. a
Becaufe ftrangers have rifen up againft
me, and the flrong have fought my foul:
and they have not fet God before their eyes.
- For behold, God helps me, and our Lord
is the prote€tor of my foul.
_ Turn away the evils to my enemies, and
in thy truth deftroy them.
K I will
30 = The ~Office of our B. Lady.
I will freely facrifice to thee, and will
confefs.to. thy name, O Lord, becaule it is
good. .
Becaufe thou haft Boered me out of all
tribulation; and my eyes have loaked down
“upon my enemies. |
Glory be to the Father, &c.
PsaLM 84: Benedixifti Domine. ‘
O Lord, thou haft bleffed thy land<_
thou haft turned away the captivity ©
Of Facob. . 4
Thou haft forgiven the imiquity of thys
people, thou haft covered all their fins.
Thou haft moderated all thy wrath, thou
haft turned away from the wrath of thy ins
dignation, - é
Convert us, O God our Saviour, and”
turn away thy anger from us. :
Wilt thou be angry with us for ever?
Or wiltthou extend thy wrath from genera-
tion to generation ? .
O God, thou tielng reconciled, fhalt.
quicken us, and thy people fhall “rejoice in
thee: ii
Shew us, O Lord, thy mercy, and give us.
thy falvation. | :
I will hear what our Lord God fhall foeald i
in me, Decaule he will fpeak peace to his”
| people. :
And to his (ints, and to them that are
converted to the heart. :
But his falvation is near to them that
. ~ fear
in Advent, at Prune. Qt
\fear him, that glory may inhabit our
| land.
Mercy and truth have met each other,
| juftice and peace have kiffed.
Truth is rifen out of the earth, and juftice
| has looked-down from heaven. :
- For our Lord will give plenty, and our
| land: fhall-yield its fruit.
Juftice fhall.walk before him, and fet her
| fteps in the way.
| Glory beto the Father. @c,
Psatm 116. Laudate Dominum.
RAISE our Lord ail Gentiles, praife
him all people. — .
_ Becaufe his mercy is confirmed on us, and
his truth remains for ever.
Glory be tothe Father, &c.
The Anth. The Angel Gabriel was fent to
Mary, a Virgin efpoufed to Féfeph.
The Chapter, Yfa- 7.
EHOLD a Virgin fhall conceive, and
bring forth a Son, and his name fhall
be called Emmanvetn; -he -fhall eat~ but-
ter and honey, that,he may know to refulé
evil, and chufe good. |
R. Thanks be to God.
V. Vouchfafe that I may praife thee, O
facred Virgin.
R. Give me force againft thy enemies.
Lord, -have mercy on us. Chrift, have
/mercy onus. Lord, have mercy on us. —
V. Lord, hear my prayer.”
K 2 R. And
o2 The Office of owr B. Lady,
R. And let my cry come to thee.
Let us pray.
God, who wouldeft have thy word take
flefh in the womb of the bleffed Virgin
Mary, acording to the declaration of the
Angel; grant us thy fuppliants, that we, wha —
truly believe her to be the Mother of God,
may find favour with thee, by her inter-—
ceffion Through the fame Chrift our Lord,”
R. Amen. |
V- Lord, hear my prayer.
R. And let my cry come to thee:
_V. Blefs we our Lord. |
RK. Thanks be to God. “Se
V. May the fouls of the faithful, through
the mercy of God; reft in peace. R. Anien,
AT THE THIRD HOUR.
Hail Mary.
FNCLINE unto my aid, O God.
4& R. O Lord, make hafte to help me-
Glory be tothe Father, &e-
The H Y MN. Memento rerum conditor.
“¥> Emember, You, O gracious Lord, :
ste. ‘Th’ eternal God’s co-equal word,
In Virgin’s womb a creature made,
Cur Nature wore for Nature’s aid.
O happy Mary, chofe to be
Mother of grace and clemency !
Proteé us at the hour of death,
And beat to Heaven our parting breath.
in Advent, at the Third Hour, 93
May Age to Age for ever fing
The Virgin’s Son, and Angels King,
And praife, with the Celeftial Hoft,
| The Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft. Amen.
- The Anth, Hail Mary.
Psatm 119. Ad Dominum cum tribularer.
HEN I was in tribulation, I cried to
our Lord, and he heard me. _
| Lord, deliver my foul from unjuf lips,
| and from a deceitful tongue.
What will be given, or what recompence
can be made fora deceitful tongue ?
The fharp arrows of the mighty, with coals .
of defolation.
Woe is me, that my banifhment is pro-
longed: I have dwelt with the inhabitants
of Cedar, my foul has been long a ftranger.
With them that hated peace, J was pea-
ceable: when I fpoke to them, they oppo-
fed me without caufe,
Glory be tothe Father, &c.
Psat 120, Levavi oculos meos.
Have lifted up my eyes to the moun-
tains, from whence help fhali come to
me
My help is from our Lord, who made
heaven and earth.
Let him not fuffer thy foot to be moved,
nor let him flumber that keeps thee.
Lo, he fhall not pominapen nor fleep, that
“Keeps Ufraele
Kg . Our
64 The Office of our B. Lady,
Our Lord keeps thee, our Lofd is hye
proteélion, on thy right hand,
By day the fun fhall not burn thee, nor —
the moon by night.
Our Lord keeps thee from all evil, may
our Lord keep thy foul |
Let our Lord. keep thy coming in, and~
thy going out; from henceforth, now, and_
for ever. :
' Glory be to the Father, &e,
Psat 121. Letatus fum. iz
I Rejoiced at thofe things, which were :
‘ A faid to me; we fhall go into the houfe of '
the Lord.
Our feet were ftanding in thy courts, Oo
Ferujfalem. : :
Ferufalem, which is built as a city, whofe
jnhabitants are united together. 4
For thither did the tribes afcend, the vibes .
of our Lord, the teflimony of J/r anid,
praife the name of our Lord. i
Becaule feats fat there in judginent, feats
upon the houle of David. )
Afk the things ‘that ‘are/for ‘the peace of
Fer ufalem, and abundance to them that lov c
thee. 4
Let peace be made in ms flrength, and ,
abundance in thy towers.
For my brethren, and my neighbours, I
{poke peace of thee.
For ‘the ‘houle%of the! Lord ctr God, Li
have fought good things for thee.
‘Glory be to the Father, &c,
The”
in Advent, at the Third Hour. 9
The Anth. Hail Mary, full of grace, our
Lord is with thee, bleffed art thou among
women. Alleluia.
The Chapter, Uaiah 11.
Rod fhall come forth of the Root of
Feffe, and a flower fhall rife up out of
his Root, and the fpirit of our Lord thall reft
upon him.
R. Thanks be to God.
4 Grace is poured forth on thy lips.
. Therefore God has bleffed thee for
ever. Lord, have mercy on us. Chrift, have
mercy on us. Lord, have mercy on us,
V. O Lord, hear my prayer.
R. And let my cry come to thee,
Let us pray.
O God, who wouldeft have thy word uke
fiefh in the womb of the bleffed Virgin
Mary, according to the declaration of the
Angel, grant us, thy fuppliants, that we, who
truly believe her to be the Mother of ‘Cha
may find favour with thee, by her intercef-
fion: ‘Yhrough the fame Chrift our Lord,
R. Amen.
V. Lord, hear my prayer.
R. Anddet my cry come to thee.»
Y. Blels we our Lord.
R, Thanks:be to God.
_ V. May the fouls of the faithfal; thibugh
‘@he mercy of God, reft in peace, R, Amen,
AT
96 The Office of our B. Lady,
AT THE: SiAPH: BO UR
Hail Mary.
NCLINE unto my aid, O God.
R. O Lord, make hafte to help me.
Glory be te the Father, &c. Allehua.
The HYMN. -Memento rerum Conditor. {
Ree You, O gracious Lord,
Th’ eternal God's co: equal word,
In Virgin's womb a creature made,
Our Nature wore for Nature’s aid.
O happy Mary, chofe to be
' Mother of grace and clemency !
Proteét us at the hour of death.
And bear to Heav’n our parting breath.
-May Age to Age for ever fing
The Virgin’s Son and Angels King,
_And praife with the Celeftial Hoft
The Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft. Amen. ¥
The Anth. Fear not, Mary.
PsALM 122. Ad te levavi.
“ae thee have I lifted up my eyes; who
dwelleft in the heavens.
Behold, as the eyes of fervants are on the
bands of their matters ;
As the eyes of ake hand-maid on) the
hands of her miftrefs: fo are our eyes to
our Lord God, until he have mercy on us.
Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy
on us, becaufe we are overwhelmed with
contempt:
Becaufle our foul is overwhelmed ; be= |
ing a
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| ing an obje€&t of reproach to fuch as a
bound, and ofcontempt to the proud,
Glory be tothe Father, Ge.
Psaum 129. Nifi quia Dominus,
1) UT that our Lord was with us, let
| Lfrael now fay, but that our Lord was
} with us,
| When men rofe up againft us, perhaps
| they had fwallowed us alive.
| When their fury was raifed againft us,
| perhaps the waters had fwallowed us up.
Our foul has paffed through a torrent,
| perhaps our foul had paffed through an in-
| tolerable water. |
| — Bleffed be our Lord, who has not given
us for a prey to their teeth.
Our foul, as a f{partow, is delivered from
the {nare of the fowlers.
The fhare is broken, and we are delivered.
Our help is in the name of the Lord,
who made heaven and earth,
Glory be to the Father, &c.
Psatm 124. Quiconfidunt in Domino.
HEY that truft in our Lord, are as
mount Szon; he fhall not be moved for
ever that dwells in Jerufalem. |
Mountains round about it, and our Lord
round about his people, from henceforth,
now, and for ever.
Becaufe our Lord will not leave the rod
. 7
8 The Office of our B. Lady,. |
of finmers onthe lot of the juft; that the jut
extend not their hands to iniquity.
Do well, O Lord, to the good and right
of heaft.
But our Lord will bring thofe that dee
_eline to perverfe ways, with them.that work
sig that peace may be upon J/rael,.
Glory be to the Father, &c. .
The Anth. Fear not, Mary, thou haft”
found grace with our Lord: behold, thou —
fhalt: conceive, and bring forth a Son. Ale”
leluia. +
- ‘The Chapter, Luke 1. y
CUR Lord God will give him the feat of
David his Father, and he fhall reign in :
the houfe of 7acod for ever, and of his king- i
dom fhall be no end.
R. Thanks be to God,
V. Blefled art thou among women. f
R. And bleffed is the fruit ofthy womb. —
Lord, have mercy on us. Chrift, have”
mercy on us. Lord,have mercy onus, ~
V. Lord, hear my prayer. .
R. And let my cry come to thee.
Let us pray. q
God, who wouldeft have thy word take ef
flefh in the womb of the bleffed Vir- :
gin Mary, according to the declaration of 4
the Angel; grantus, thy fuppliants, that we, —
who truly believe her tobe the Mother of
God, may find favour with thee, by her in-—
-terceffion: Thro’ the fame Chrift our Lord, |
-R, Amen,
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§
Lord, ,
tn Advent, at the Ninth Hour. 99
_ V. Lord, hear my prayer.
- ‘R. Andlet my cry come to thee,
V. Blefs we our Lord.
R,. Thanks be to God. |
R. May the fouls of the faithful, through
the mercy of God, reft in peace. Armen,
AT THE NINTH HOUR,
+ on pabhinly unto my aid, O God.
R. O Lord, make hafte to help me.
Glory be to the Father, @c.
As it was in the beginning &c.
The HYMN. Memento rerum Conditor.
Emember, You, O gracious Lord,
Th’ eternal God’s co-equal word,
| In Virgin’s womb a creature made
| Our Nature wore for Nature’s aid.
| O happy Mary, chofle to be
| Mother of grace and clemency ?
Prote& us at the hour of death,
And bear to Heaven our parting breath:
May Age to Age for ever fing
The Virgin's Son and Angels King;
| And praife with the celeftial Hoft
| The Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft, Amen,
Anth. Behold the handmaid,
ae —EaE——
Ps atm 125. In convertendo Dominus.
HE N our Lord turned back the
¥ captivity of Sion, we were made as
men comforted.
Then was our Mouth replenifhed with
joy, aud our tongue with joyfulnefs,
ee rep eS ae eee
Then
400 The Office of our B, Lady,
Then fhall they fay among the Genétles,
the Lord had done great things for them.
Our Lord has done great things for us,
we are made joyful.
Turn our captivity, O Lord, as a toners
in the fouth.
They that fow in tears fhall reap in joy.
fulnels.
Going out, they went and wept: os bingy
their feed.
But returning they fhall. come with joyful
ne{s, carrying their fheaves, |
Glory be to the Father &c.
Psautm 126. Nifi Dominus. |
F our Lord build not the houfe, they havell
‘laboured in vain that built it.
Ifour Lord keeps not the city, he watche@
in vain that keeps it-
It is in vain for you to rife before light:
rife after ye - have fat, you who eat the br cad
of forrow.
When he hall give fleep to his beloved,
behold children are an inheritance from”
our Lord: and the fruit of the womb is a
reward.
jolted.
fire of them: he fhall not be confounded,
when he fhall fpeak to his enemies in the
ate.
ee be to the Father, &c,
As arrows in the hand of the aia
fo are the children of them that are re-
Blefled is the man that has. filled his dell
PsALM
in Advent, ai the Ninth Howr- ict
Psat 127. Beati omnes.
LESSED are all that fear our Lord, that
walk in his ways.
Becaufe thou fhalt eat the labours of thy
hands: bleffed art thou, and it fhall be well
with thee.
Thy wife, as a plentiful vine on the fides.
of thy houfe.
Thy children, as young plants of olives
trees, round abd thy table.
Behold, fo fhall the man be bleffed, that
fears our Lord.
Let our Lord blefs thee out of Bion: and
mayeft thou fee the good things of Ferufan
lem, all the days of thy life.
Mayett thou alfo fee thy childrens children,
peace on Ifrael.
Glory be to the Father, &c.
The Anth. Behold the handmaid of our
Lord: be it to me according to thy word.
The Chapter, Ifaiah 7.
EHOLD, a Virgin fhall conceive, and
bring forth a Son, and his name fhall
ie called Emmanuel ; he fhall eat butter and
honey, that he may know to refufe evil, and
chufle good.
R. Thanks be to God.
V. The Angel of the Lord declared to
Mary.
R. And fhe conceived by the Holy
Ghoft.
Lord, have mercy on us: 7
L, Chrift;
102 The Office of our B. Lady,
Chrift, have mercy on us.
“Lord, have mercy on us.
Vv. Lord, hear my prayer. ‘
R. Andlet my cry come to thee.
Let us pray.
God, who wouldeft have thy word taka
flefh in the womb of the bleffed Virgin
Mary, acording to the declaration of the
Angel; grant us thy fuppliants, that we, who
truly believe her to be the Mother of God,
may find favour with thee, by her inter-
ceffion: Through the fame Chrift our Lord,
R. Amen.
V. Lord, hear my prayer.
R. And let my cry come to thee.
V. Blefs we our Lord.
R. Thanks be to God.
V. May the fouls of the faithful, heal
the mercy of-God, reft in peace. R. Amen,
AT EVEN-SONG.
Hail Mary.
t Relomtii tomy aid, O God. “
R. O Lord, make hafte to helpme.
_ Glory be tothe Father, &c. Alleluia. —
The Anth, The Angel Gabriel. ;
Psaum 10g. Dixit Dominus.
Cy = Lord faid to my Lord, fit on my
righit hand.
ntl I make thy enemies thy fom
{tool.
Our Lerd will fend forth the fceptre di
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thy power from Szon; rule thou in the mrdit
of thy enemies.
The beginning with thee in the day of thy
ftrength, in the brighynefs of the Saints >
from the womb, before the day-ftar, I begat
thee.
Our Lord fwore, and he will not repent:
thou art a prieft for ever, according to the
order of Melchifedec.
Our Lord on thy right hand, hath broken
kings in the day of his wrath.
He fhail judge in the nations, he fhall fill
ruins, he fhall crufh the heads in the land
of many. | |
Of the torrent in the way he fhall drink,
therefore fhall he lift up his head.
Glory be to the Father, &c,
The Anth. The Angel Gabriel was fent to.
Mary, a Virgin efpoufed to Fofeph.
| The Anth. Hail Mary.
\Psaum 1i2. Laudate pueri Dominum.
| PD>Raile our Lord ye children, praife the
| name of our Lord. .
| The name of our Lord be blefled from:
henceforth, now, and for ever. .
| From the rifing of the fun, to its going
jdown, the name of our Lord is worthy of
‘|praife.
| Our Lord is high above all nations, and
\his glory above the Heavens,
| Who is like the Lord our God, that dwells |
Le on
—-
404 The Office of our B. Lady,
on high, and beholds the humble things im
Heaven and Earth.
Raifing up the needy from the earth, i
lifting up the poor out of the dung.
To place him with princes, with the
princes of his people.
Who makes the barren woman to dwell i
her houfe, a joyful mother of children.
Glory be to the Father, &c.
The Anth. Hail Mary, full of grace, our
Lord is with thee, blefled art thou among
Women. Alleluia.
The Anth. Fear not, Mary. f
‘
PsAtm 121. Letatus fum-
i Rejoiced at thofe things, which were
faid to me; we fhall go into the houfe of
the Lord. i
Our feet were Plarsdin in thy courts, )
Fert ifalem. |
Ferwfalem, which is built as a city, whee
inbabitants are united together.
For thither did the tribes afcend, the ibs
of our Lord, the teftimony of ZJ/racl; t
praife the name of our Lord, 7
Becaule feats fat there in judgment, feats
upon the houfe of David. |
‘Afk the things that are for the peace of
Ferufalem, and abundance to them that love”
thee.
Let peace be made in thy ftrength, and.
abundance in thy towers,
é F or
in Advent, at Even-Song. tos
For my brethren, and my neighbours, I
fpoke peace of thee.
For the houfe of the Lord our God, J
have fought good things for thee. —
Glory be to the Father, &c.,
The Anth. Fear not, Mary, thou haf
found grace with our Lord: behold, thou
fhalt conceive, and bring forth a Son. l-
leluia.
The Anth. Our Lord will give.
Psatm 126. Nifi Dominus.
F our Lord build not the boufe, they have
laboured in vain tbat built it.
If our Lord keeps not the city, he watches
in vain that keeps it.
It is in vain for you to rife before light:
rife after ye have fat, you that eat the bread
ef forrow. :
When he fhall give fleep to his beloved :
behold children are an inheritance from
our Lord: and the fruit of the womb is a
reward.
As arrows in the hand of the mighty, fo
are the children of them that are rejected.
_ Blefled is the man that has filled his de-
fire of them: he fhall not be confounded,
when he fhall fpeak to his enemies in the
gate.
Glory be tothe Father, &c.
The Anth. Our Lord will give him the
feat of his Father David, and he fhall reign
for ever. |
. L 3 The
106 = The Office of our B.*Lady,
_ The Anth. Behold the handmaid.
Psatm 147. Lauda Jerufalem.
O Jerufalem, praife our Lord: praife thy
God, O Sion. ‘
Becaule he has ftrengthened the locks of
thy gates, he has bleffed thy children in-
thee. :
Who has fet thy bececdoee in peace : and
fills thee with the fat of corn. i
Who fends forth his fpeech to the earth 3
his word runs {wiftly. ‘
Who gives {now as wool; f{catters milts
as afhes. :
He cafts his cryftal as morfels : befaré the”
face of the cold who fhall abide ? 7,
He fhall fend forth his word, and fhall
melt them : his fpirit fhall breathe, and thes
waters fhall flow. E
Who declares his word to Facob, his
juftice and judgments to J/rael. .
- He has not done foto any nation: and
his judgments he has not made manifelt. to
them. :
Glory be to the Father, &c. f
The Anth. Behold the handmaid of our
Lord, be it to me according to thy word.
Fhe Chapier, Maiah 11.
Rod fhall come forth of the Root off
Jefe, and a flower fhall rife up out.of
his Root, and the fpirit of our Lord fhall reft
$i upon him. .
R.. Thanks, he to Cod, i
The
in Advent, at Even-Song. 107
The HYMN. Ave Maris Stella.
Right Mother of our Maker, hail;
Thou Virgin ever bleft,
The ocean’s ftar, by which we fail,
_ And gain the port of reft,
Whilft we this Ave thus to thee
From Gabriel’s mouth rehearfe 3
Prevail, that peace our lot may be,
And Eva's name reverfe.
Releafe our long entangled mind
From all the {nares of ill;
With heav’nly light inftuét the blind,
| And all our vows fulfill,
| Exert for us a mother’s care,
And us thy children own:
Prevail with him to hear our pray’r,
| Who chofe to be thy fon.
| © fpoilels Maid! whole virtues fhine
| With brightefl purity :
| Each aftion of our lives refine,
| And make us pure like thee.
| Preferve our lives. unftain’d from il}
| _ In this infe&tious way > i
| That Heav’n alone our Souls may fill —
| With joys that ne'er decay, : B
| ‘Fo God the Father endlefs praife ;
To God the Son the fame ;
find Holy Ghoft, whofe equal rays
One equal glory claim. Amen. -
W. Grace is. poured forth on thy lips.
R. There»
a
408 The Office ae our B. Lady.
R. Therefore God has bleffed thee for
ever.
The Anth. The Holy Ghoft. :
The Song of the B. Virgin Mary, Luke 4,
M Y foul does magnify our Lord.
And my {pirit has rejoiced in God my
Saviour.
- Becaufe he has regarded the meannefs of
his handmaid: for behold, from henceforth
all generations fhall call me bleffed. ?
Becaufe he that is mighty has done great.
things to me; and holy is his name. 7
And his mercy from generation to gene=
rations, is on them that fear him.
He has fhewed {trength in his arm, he hadf
difperfed the proud in the imagination of
their hearts.
He has depofed the siiahi from their
feat, and exalted the humble.
The hungry he has filled with. goods
things, and the rich he has fent away
empty.
He has received T/rael his child, being
mindful of his mercy. :
(As he fpoke to our fathers ;) to Abraham,
and his feed for ever. i |
Glory be to the Father, &c. f
The Anth. The Holy Ghoft fhall come.
upon thee; Mary, fear not, thou fhalt have.
in thy womb the Son of God. Alleluia
Lord, have mercy on us.
Chrift, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy onus,
V. Lord
in Advent, at Even-Song. 109
V. Lord, hear my prayer.
R. And let my cry come to thee.
| | Let us pray. |
| .) God, who wouldeft have thy word take
| flefh in the womb of the bleffled Vir-
|gin Mary, according to the declaration of
jthe Angel; grant us, thy fuppliants, that we,
| who truly believe her to be the Mother of
| God, may find favour with thee,.by her in-
|terceffion: Thro’ the fame Chrift our Lord,
R. Amen. |
For the Saints.
- The Anth. Behold, our Lord fhall come,
and all his faints with him, and there fhall be
inthat day a greatlight. Alleluia.
V. Behold, our Lord fhall appear on a
white cloud, |
R. And with him thoufands of faints.
- Let us pray.
pu O Lord, we befeech thee, our
eoniciences by thy vifit ; that at the arria
val of our Lord Jefus Chrift with all his
faints, he my find in us a dwelling ready for
his reception: who liveth and reigneth
one God, &c. R. Amen.
V. Lord, hear my prayer.
R. And let my cry come to thee,
V. Blefs we our Lord.
R, Thanks be to God.
V. May the fouls of the faithful, through
the mercy of God, reft in peace,
R. Amen, » |
| AT
1to =‘ The Office of our B. Lady;
AT: COM PLIN.
Hail Mary-
ONVERT us, O God, our Saviour,
R. Andturn away thy anger from us.
V. Incline unto my aid, O God. i
R. O Lord, make hafte-to help me:
Glory be to the Father, ce. lleluza.
Psaim 128. Szpe expugnaverunt.
FTEN have they affaulted me from mys
youth; let Z/rae/ now fay-
Often have they affaulted me from my
youth; but they have not prevailed agua
me.
Sinners have beaten.on my back, as onan
anvil ; they have prolonged their iniquity.
Our jouft Lord will'cut the necks of fins
ners: let all be confounded, and: turned
backward, that hate Sion.
Let them be made as hay on the tops”
of houfes: which is withered before it be
plucked up.
Whereof the reaper fhall not fill his”
hand, nor he that gathers the fheaves, his”
bofom. ;
And they who paffed by, faid not, the —
bleffing of the Lord be upon you: we have
bleffed you in the name of our Lord. .
Glory be tothe Father, &c.
PsALM 129. De profundis.
ROM the deep I have cried to thee, O
Lord; Lord, hear my voice, Z
et
after Advent, at Complin. zit
Let thy ears be attentive to the voice of
my petition. 4. 31¢
If thou regardeft iniquities, O Lord:
Lord, who fhall bear it ?
_ Becaufe with thee there is mercy: and
becaufe of thy law, I have waited for thee,
O Lord.
My foul has trufted in his word, my foul
has hoped in our Lord. -
From the morning watch even till night,
‘let J/rael hope in our Lord.
Becaufe with our Lord there is mercy, and
with him plentiful redemption.
And he fhall redeem Jfrael from all his
iniquities.
Glory be to the Father, &c.
Ps ALM 130. Domine non eft exaltatum.
es R D, my heart is not exalted, nor are
my eyes lofty.
Nor have I walked in great matters, nor
in marvellous things above me.
| IfIwasnot humble-minded, but exalted
my foul ; :
| As the weaned child is for his mother, fo
fl et it be with my foul. | | |
| Let Jfrael hope in our Lord, from hence-
| forth, now, and for ever, :
Glory be to the Father, &c.
The HYMN, Memento rerum Conditor.
eet member, you, O gracious Lord,
Th’ eternal.God’s co-equal word,
To
112 The Office of our B. Lady,
In Virgin’s womb a creature made
Our Nature wore for Nature’s aid.
O happy Mary, chofe to be
Mother of grace and clemency !
Proteét us at the hour of death,
_And bear to Heav’n our parting breaths
May Age to Age for ever fing
The Virgin's Son and Argels King,
And praife, with the Celeftial Hoft,
The Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft. Amen, —
The Chapter, Ifa 7
EHOLD a Virgin fhall conceive, andl
bring forth a Son, and his name fhall
be called Pav ah vHE he fhall eat bute
ter and honey, that he may know to refulé.
evil, and chufe good. R. Thanks be to God.
v. The Angel of our Lord brought
word to Mary. R, And the conceived of
the Holy Ghoft.
The Anth. The Holy Ghoft.
p
The Song of Simeon, Luke 2.
N O W, Lord, let thy Servant depart i?
peace, according to thy word.
Becaufe my eyes have feen thy falvation 3
Which thou haft prepared before the a |
of all people.
A light to enlighten the Gentiles : and for )
the glory of thy people Hrael.
Glory be to the Father, &c.
The Anth. The Holy Ghoft fhall come
upon thee, O Mary; fear not, thou have |
ve
in Advent, at Conrplin. 113
| have in thy womb the Son of God. Al
| leluia. | !
| Lord, have mercy on us.
Chrift, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy en us.
V. Lord, hear my prayer.
R. And let my cry come to thee.
Let us pray.
God, who wouldeft have thy word take
| flefh in the womb of the bleffed Vir-
|gin Mary, according to the declaration of
\the Angel; grant us, thy fuppliants, that we,
|who truly believe her to be the Mother of
| God, may find favour with thee, by her in-
|terceffion: through the fame Chrift our Lord.
|R. Amen.
V. Lord, hear my prayer.
R. And let my cry come to thee.
V. Blefs we our Lord.
R. Thanks be to God.
| The Bleffing. May the almighty and mer-
jciful Lord, Father, Son, and Holy Gholt,
|\blefs and keep us. R. Amen.
(| This being done, the Anthem, Bright Parent of our
|Lord, Sc. 2s fatd Kneeling, as in p. 88. and the Verficle
_|(May the divine Help) deing fard, Our Father, Hail Mary,
land the Creed are to be faidin Secrets
M Tus
Be ar a8.
PEECEECTEL ECCT TECTED
THE OFFICE oF ouR B. LADY,
To be faid from the Basti Song of Chrifimas-Eve to the
Feaft of tke Purification inclufive,
AT NAT PINS.
All ts to be faid as before Advent, Page 1,
Fiat) ha US:
V. FNCLINE unto my aid, O God.
R. O Lord, make hafte to help me. ©
Glory be to the Father, &e. t
As it wasin, &c. Alleluia: :
The ikedhioO aduirable intercourfe. |
PsaAtutm g2. Dominus regnavit. :
Cie Lord has reigned, he has put on
beauty: our Lord has put on frengii 4
and girded himfelf. |
For he has eftablifhed the globe of the
earth, which fhall not be avad :
From that time was thy feat prepared,
thou art from eternity. :
The rivers, O Lord, have lifted up: he
rivers have lifted up their voice,
The rivers have lifted up their waves fr om
the voice of many waters.
Marvellous are the rifings of the foal a
marvellous ts our Lord on high. 4
Thy teftimonies are made very credible:
holinefs becomes thy houfe, O Lord, for .
length of days- 4
Glory be to the Father, &c, a
re
after Advent, at Lauds. 115
|» The Anth. O admirable intercourfe, the ©
| Creator of Mankind taking a living body,
| youchfafed to be born of a Virgin; and
coming forth Man, without feed, has given to
—us his Godhead.
The Anth. When thou waft unfpeakably.
Psarm gg. Jubilate Deo.
M*. K E ye joy to God, all the Earth,
ferve our Lord in giadnefs.
Enter in before his fight with joy.
Know, that the Lord is God; he made us,
and not we ourfelves.
His people, and the fheep of his pafture,
enter into his gates in confeffion, his courts
with hymns ; confefs ye to him.
Praife his name, becaufe our Lord is fweet,
his mercy for ever, and his truth, even from
gencration to generation,
Glory be to the Father, &e. .
The Anth. When thou watt unfpeakably
born ofa Virgin, then were the {criptures
fulfilled ; dhot didft defcend hike rain into
the fleece; that thou mightelt fave mankind :
we praife our God.
‘The Anth- The bufh which Mofes fo
ei 62. Deus Deus meus, ad te de Lue
: ce vigilo.
God my God: to thee I watch from
the morning light.
; My foul has thirfled after thee: my flefh
we very many ways.
2 As
116 The Office of our B. Lady,
As inadefart land, and inacceffible, and
wnbout water: fo in the holy place have I
appeared to thee, that I might behold thy
{trength and thy glory.
Becaufe thy mercy is better than life, my ,
Jips fhall praife thee. )
So will 1 blefs thee in my life, and m thy
name I will hftup my hands.
As with marrow and fatnefs let my foulbe —
filled, and my mouth fhall praife with lips of
jo
Tey have been mindful of thee on mye
bed; in the morning I will meditate on thee
becaufe thou haft been my helper.
And under the cover of thy wings I will
rejoice, my foul has cleaved after thee ; thy
right hand has taken me under its pro-_
teclion. a
But they in vain have fought my foul,
they fhall enter into the lower parts of the
earth; they fhall be delivered into the power :
of the fword; they fhall be the portions of ‘
foxes.
But the King fhall rejoice in God, aun
fha'l be prailed, that {wear on him ; becaule :
the mouth of thofe that {peak wicked things”
is {topped. :
Psaim 66. Deus mifereatur noftri.
OD, have mercy on us, and blefs us, —
caufe his countenance to fhine upon
us, and have mercy on us. 2
That —
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That we may know thy way, on earth ;
thy falvation, in all nations.
Let people, O God, confefs to thee, let
all people praife thee. :
Let nations be glad, and rejoice, becaufe
thou judgeft people with equity, and direételt
the nations on the earth.
Let people, O God, confefs to thee: let .
all people praife thee: the earth has yielded —
her fruit.
May God, our God, blefs us; may God
blefs us, and may all the ends of the earth
fear him. eet
Glory be to the Father, Kc.
The Anth. The bufh which Mofes faw
burn, without confuming, we acknowledge
thy laudable virginity preferved ; O Mother
of God, make interceffion fer us.
The Anth. The Root of Je/fe has budded.
The Song of the Three Children. Dan. 3-
; LL the works of our Lord blefs our
"& Lord ; praife and extol him for ever.
Biefs our Lord, ye Angels of our Lord ;
ye heavens, blefs our Lord.
All waters, that are above the heavens,
blefs ye our Lord; blefs our Lord, all ye
powers of our Lord, ;
Sun and moon blefS our Lord; ftars of
heaven blefs our Loyd.
Showers and dew blefs our Lord; all
{pirits of God blefs our Lord.
| M3 Fire
He The Office of our B. Lady, “*
Fire and. heat blefs our Lord ; : cold and
fummer blefs our Lord. 4
Dews and hoary froft blefs our Lords |
froft and cold blefs our Lord.
Ice and fnow blefs our Lord; nights i |
days blefs our Lord.
Light and darknefs blefs our Lord; light |
- mings and clouds blefs our Lord.
Let the earth blefs our Lord; let it praile
and extol him for ever.
Mountains and hills blefs our Lord; all
things that fpring in the earth blefs oul
Lord. |
Blefs cur Lord ye fountains ; feas and rie |
vers blefs our Lord.
Whales, and all that move in the waters,
blefs our Lord ; biefs our Lord all ye fow Is.
of the air. a
Ail beafts and eattle blefs our Lord; fons
of men blefs our Lord. s
Let I/rael blefs our Lord; praifé and eX<
tol him for ever. 4
Priefts of our Lord blefs our Lotds fore
vants of our Lord blefs our Lord.
Spiritsand fouls of the juft blefs our Lord :
ye holy and humble of heart blefs our
Lord.
Ananias, Azarias, Mifael, blefs our Lordi
praife and extol bim for ever. 3
Let us blefs the Father and the Son, w ich
the Holy Ghoft; let us praife ane magnify
him for ever. |
Ble fed
- ‘ iy
es
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Bleffed art thou, Lord, in the firmament
of heaven; and praifed, and glorified, and
extolled fot ever.
The Anth. The Root of Feffe has budded
out, a Star is rifen from Facob, a Virgin hath
brought forth a Saviour: we praife thee our
God. ;
The anth. Behold Mary.
Psautm 148. Laudate Dominum de Ceekts;
RAISE our Lord from the heavens,
praife him in the high places.
Praifé him all his Angels, praife him all
his powers:
Praife bim fun and moon, praife him all
ye ftars and light.
Praife him, O heavens of heavens, and let
| the waters, that are above the heavens, praife
| the name of our Lord.
|; Becaufe he fpake, and they were made; .
| he commanded, and they were created.
| He eftablifhed them for ever, world with-
j-out end: he made a precept, and it fhall not
be annulled, — :
|. Praife our Lord from the earth, ye dra-
| gons, and all depths, ;
|. Fire, hail, fpow, ice, tempeftvous winds,
| which obey his word.
|~ Mountains and-all hills, trees that bear
| fruit, and all cedars.
| Beafts and all cattle: ferpentsand winged
| fowls,
Kings
4:20 The Office of our B. Lady. eid,
Kings of the earth, and all people, princes,
and all judges of the earth. .
Young men and virgins, the old with the —
-youngs let them praife the name of our —
Lord, becaufe his name alone is exalted. —
and earth, and he has exalted the horn of his
people.
A hymn to all his faints, to the fons of
Ifrael;, a people that approaches to him, "—
ae 149.-
‘C\ING toour Lord a new fong, let his”
praife be in the church of faints. £
Let J/rael be joyful in him that made him, —
and the children of Szon rejoice in their
King. ee
Let them praife his name in choir :.0 i
timbrel and plalter let them fing to him. 4
Becaufe our Lord is well pleafed with his)
people, and he will exalt the meek to falva- -
tion. Ee
The faints fhall rejoice in glory, they fhalt
be joyful in their beds. Le
The praifeof God fhall be in their mouths, _
and two-edged {words in their hands. .
To execute revenge on the nations, chaf=_
tifements among the people. 4
To bind their kings .in fetters, and their
nobles in chains of iron. §
That they may execute on them the judg-
| after Advent, at Lauds) . ag
ment that is written: this glory is to all his
faints.
Psat 150. Laudate Dominum in San&tis.
RAISE our Lord in his faints, praife
him in the firmament of his ftrength.
| Praife him in his powers, praife him ac-
Lordingto the multitude of his greatnefs.
| Praife him in the found of trumpet, praife
im on the pfalter andharp.
| Praife him on :imbrel, and in choir, praile
him on ftrings and organs.
Praife him on well-founding cymbals,
raife him on cymbals of joy, let every fpirit
raife our Lord. |
Glory be to the Father, &c.
| The Anth. Behold, Mary has brought
forth to us a Saviour, whom Fohn feeing,
tried out, faying, Behold the Lamb of God,
behold him, who takes away the fins of the
world. Alleluia.
: The Chapter, Cant. 1.
HE daughters of Sion beheld her, and
declared her moft bleffed ; and Queens
‘lid praife her.
| R. Thanks be to God.
| The HY MN. 0 gloriofa Virginum.
W \ Mary! whilft thy Maker bleft
i Is nourifh’d at thy Virgin breaft,
‘Such glory fhines, that ftars lefs bright
‘Behold thy face, and lofe their light.
122 The Office of our B. Lady,
The lofs that man in Eve deplores,
Thy fruitful womb in Chrift reftores,
And makes the way to Heaven free
For them that mourn, to follow thee.
By thee the Heavenly gates difplay
And fhew the light of endlefs day :
Sing, ranfom’d nations, fing and own,
Your ranfom was a Virgin’ s Son.
May age to age for ever fing
The Virgin’s Son and Angels King, 8
And praife with the celeftial holt £
The Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft. Amer, \
V. Bleffed art thou among women,
R. And bleffed is the fruit of thy womby!
The Anth. A wonderful myftery.
The Song of Zach, Luke 1.
LESSED be our Lord God of Jfrae)
becaufe he has vifited and wrought the)
xedemption of his people.
And raifed up a kingdom of Givationl to
us, in the houfe of Dawzd, his fervant. ¥
he he {poke by the mouth of his hom i
prophets, that are from the beginning.
Salvation from our enemies, and from th
hand of all that hate us.
To work mercy with our fathers, and 0
remember his holy covenant.
The oath, which he fwore to Abraham our
father, that he would grant to us.
That without fear, being delivered snail
the hand of our enemies, we may ferve hie
ne
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Inholinefs and juftice before him all our
S. §
And thou, child, fhalt be called the Pro-
het of the Higheft; for thou fhalt go
efore the face of our Lord, to prepare his
ways.
MT give knowledge of falvation to his
eople, for remiffion of their fins.
Through the bowels of the mercy of our
God; in which the rifing fun from on high
has vifited us.
| To enlighten them that fit in dit bnl
hnd in the fhadow of death: to direét our
feet in the way of peace. ;
| Glory be to the Father, &c.
| ‘The Anth. A wonderful myftery i is de-
clared this day: Natures are renewed, God
is made man; he remained what he was, _
nd affumed what he was not, fuffering nei-
her mixture nor divifion.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Chrift, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us.
V. Lord, hear my prayer. 7
_R. And let my cry come to thee.
Let us pray.
God, who, by the fruitful virginity of
the bleffed Virgin Mary, haft given to
mankind the rewards of eternal falvation:
Grant, we befeech thee, that we may be
fenfible of the benefit of her interceffion,
whom we have received the author of life,
our
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our Lord Jefus Chrift thy Son, who lived
and reigneth one God with thee, &c,
R, Amen.
. For the Saints.
The Anth. All ye faints of God, vou
fafe to make interceflion for the falvation of
us, and of all. V. Ye juft, a in our
Lord, and be exceeding glad. R. And
glory, alt ye right of heart.
Let us pr op
Proteét, O Lord, thy people ; and let the:
confiderice we have in the interceffion of thy |
bleffed Apoftles, Peter and Panl, and of thy |
other Apoftles, prevail with thee, to prefer
and defend us for ever.
May all thy faints, O Lord, we befeech |
thee, every where affift us, that whilft we.
celebrate their merits, we may be fenfible of |
their prote€tion : Grant us thy peace in our |
time, and repel all wickednels from thy”
church ; profperoufly guide the fteps, ace
tions and defires of us and all thy fervants in |
the way of falvation: give eternal bleflings |
to thofe who have’ done good to us, and
everlafting reft to the faithful departed
Through our Lord Jefus Chrift thy Son |
&c. R- Amen. ‘
V. Lord, hear my prayer. '
R. And let my cry come to thee,
V. Blefs we our Lord.
R, Thanks be to God. a
| V. May ©
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V. May the fouls of the faithful, thro’ the
jmercy of God, reft in peace. R, dinen,
| This being done, the Anthem following isto be [aid
Kueeling.
| The Anthem. Alna Redempioris Mater
| By parent of our Lord, whofe pray’rs difplay
j The Heav'nly Gates » whofe light dire&s our way ;
| Bright ocean’s flar, with facred influence guide
| Our ftrageling courfe in fpite of nature’s. tide.
| Thou in whom nature.ftood amaz'd to fee
Both God and Man, thy Makerborn of thee ;
Ia whom alone the: Maid and Mother meet,
| Remember finners at thy Infant's feet. |
V. Thou didft remain an idvichate Virgin
after thy child-bearing.
R. O Mother of God, make interceflion
for us,
Let us pray.
O God, who, by the fruitful virginity, as
before, p.123. .R. Amen.) *
Ve ae the divine help ever remain
with us, R. Amen,
The following Anthem is faid in the End of Complin, till
the Day of the Purification inclujive.
The Anthem. Ave Regina Coban’ |
HA: ; thining Queen of the celeftial hain,
O’er Angel-pow’rs extend thy brighter reign.
Hail, fruiiful Root of Life: Hail, Orient Gate,
From whom Earth's better Jight derives its date.
O glorious Maid, rejoice! alone poflets
The ished feat of creatures happinelis
ant N Anj
426 The Office of our B. Lady.
And crown’d with beauty, thence, implore thy Son
Yo grant our pray'rs from his indulgent throne.
« WV. Wouchfafe that I may praife thee, O |
facred Virgin. R. Give me force againft
thy enemies,
Let us pray.
ee us, O God of mercy, againft —
all our weaknefs; and grant that we,
who celebrate the memory of the blefled |
Virgin Mary, Mother of our Lord, may, |
by the affiftance of her prayers, forfake all |
our iniquities: Through the fame Chrift |
our Lord. R. Amen. vf
V.. May the divine help always remain | |
with us. R, Amen, q
AT FUR dM
Hail Mary.
V.. FNCLINE unto my aid,O God.
R. O Lord, make hafle to help me.”
Glory be to the Father, &c.
As it was in the beginning, ce. 4
The HYMN. Memento rerum Conditor, |
Emember, You, O gracious Lord, 7
Th’ eternal God’ s co-equal Word,
In Virgin’s womb a creature made
Our Nature wore for Nature’s aid.
O happy Mary, chofe to be
Mother of grace and clemency !
Prote€t us at the hour of death,
And bear to Heayen our parting breath.
May
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May Age to Age for ever fing |
|The Virgin’s Son and Angels King .
-|And praife with the Celeftial Hoft , ,..
|The Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft. . Amen.
The anth. O admirable intercourfe,
Psawum 53. Deus in nomine tuo,
O God, fave me by thy name, and by thy
4
ftrength judge me. ,
O God, hear my prayers; with thy ears
|receive the words of my mouth;
Becaule ftrangers have rifen.up againf
me, and the ftrong have fought my foul :
|and they have not fet God before. their eyes.
For behold, God helps me, and our Lord
|is the prote€tor of my foul.
| good,
_ Turn away the evils to. my enemies, and
| 4n thy truth deftroy them. —
Iwill freely facrifice to thee, and wil
confefs to thy name, O Lord, becaufe it is
Becaufe thou haft delivered me out of all
tribulation; and my eyes have looked down
upon my enemies. )
Glory be to the Father, &c.
~Psaum 84- Benedixifti Domine.
Lord, thou haft bleffed thy land:
thou haft turned away the captivity
of Facod.
Thou haft forgiven the iniquity of thy
| people, thou haft covered all their fins.
‘Thou haft moderated all thy wrath, thou
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ty
128 «= The Office of our B. Lady. — |
haft turned away from the wrath of thy ine |
dignation. |
Convert us, O God our Saviour, and —
turn away thy anger from us.
Wik thou be angry with us for ever? |
Or wilt thou extend thy wrath from genera- |
tion to generation ?
QO God, thou being reconciled, fhalt —
quicken us, and ny people fhall rejoice in |
thee.”
Shew us, O Let, ‘thy mercy, and give us
thy falvation: :
I will hear what our Lord God fhall {peak
in me, becaufe he will fpeak peace to his
fopler Oo
Aw to his Faint and to them that are —
converted to the beart. a
But his falvation is near to them that 5
fear him, that glory may inhabit our”
land. 3 q
Mercy and ae have met each other, ~
jultice and peace have kiffed. q
Truth is rifen out of the earth, and juftice
has looked down from heaven. a
For our Lord will give plenty, and ou 4
land fhall yield its fruit, 4
Juttice thall wa Ik before him, and fet her
fteps in the way. |
Glory beto the Father. &c.
Toe
“
Psarm 116. Laudate Dominum.
RAISE our Lord all Gentiles, praile
him all people.
Becaule —
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| Becanfe his mercy is confirmed on us, and
this truth remains for ever,
| Glory be tothe Father, &c.
The Anth. O admirable intercourfe, the
|Creator of mankind, taking a living body,
vouchlafed to be born of'a Virgin, and com-
ing forth man without feed, has given to us
his Godhead.
The Chapter, Cant. 6,
HO is fhe, that comes forth as the
morning rifing, fair as the moon,
eleét as the Sun, terrible as the front of an
army fet in order of battle? R. Thanks
be to God.
V. Vouchfafe that I may praife thee, O
facred Virgin.
R. Give me force againft thy enemies.
Lord, have mercy on us, Chrilt, have
mercy on us. Lord, have mercy on us,
V. Lord, hear my prayer. .
R. And let my cry come to thee.
Let us pray.
() God, who, by the fruitful virginity of
the bleffed Virgin Mary, haft given to
mankind the rewards of eternal falvation:
Grant, we befeech thee, that we may be
fenfible of the benefit of her interceffion, by
whom we have received the author of life,
our Lord Jefus Chrift thy Son, who liveth.
and reigneth one God with thee, &c.,
R., Amen. |
VY: Lord, hear my prayer.
R. And let my cry come ‘oxhee.
N 3 V. Blefs
130 © The Office of our B, Yes,
~V~. Blefs we our Lord. a
R. Thanks be to God. , |
V. May the fouls of the faithful, er
the mercy of God, reft in peace. R. Amen, |
AT THE THIRD HOUR, ©
: Hail Mary. .
b Beene unto my aid, O God.
R. O Lord, make hafte to help me-
Glory be tothe Father, &c.
The HYMN. Memento rerum conditor.
Emember, You, O gracious Lord,
Th’ eternal God’s co-equal word,
In Virgin’s womb a creature made,
Our Nature wore for Nature’s aid. s
O happy Mary, chofe to. be ‘
Mother of grace and clemency! i
Protec us at the hour of death, - +
And bear to Heaven our parting breath.
May Age to Age for ever fing
The Virgin’s Son, and Angels. King,
And praile, with the Celeftial Hott, .
The Father, Son, and Holy Gholt. Amen, —
The Anth. When thon walt enfpeakablya
Psatm 219. Ad Dominum cum ribularenl
HEN I was in tribulation, I cried to
our Lord, and he heard mex |
_ Lord, deliver my foul from Unjult lips.
and from a deceitful tongue.
What will be given, or what recompence
ean be made fora deceitful tongue ?
The
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The fharp arrows of the mighty, with coals
of defolation. |
- Woe isme, that my banifhment is pro-
longed: I have dwelt with the inhabitants
of Cedar, my foul has’been long a ftranger.
‘With them that hated peace, I was pea-
ceable: when I fpoke to them, they oppo-
fed me without caufe. :
Glory be to the Father, &c.
Psat 120. Levavi oculos meos:.
¥ Have lifted up my eyes to the moun-
tains, from whence help fhall come to
me.
My help is from our Lord, who made
heaven and earth. ;
Let him not fuffer thy foot to be moved,
nor let him flumber that keeps thee.
Lo, be fhall not flumber nor fleep, that
keeps I/rael. |
Our Lord keeps thee, our Lord is thy |
protcétion, on thy right hand.
By day the fun fhall not burn thee, nor
the moon by night,
Our Lord keeps thee from all evil, may
our Lord keep thy foul. -!
Let our Lord keep thy coming in, and
thy going out; from henceforth, now, and
for ever.
“Glory be to the Father, ¥,
Psatm —~
132 The Office of our B. Lady,
PsaLm 121. Letatus fum. |
I Rejoiced at thofe things, which were
faid to me; we fhall gointo the houle of |
the Lord.
Our feet were ftanding in thy courts, O |
Ferufalem.
Ferufalem, which is built as a city, whofe
inhabitants are united together.
For thither did the tribes afcend, the tribeal
af our Lord, the seftimony of Jfrael; to
praife the name of our Lord.
Becaufe feats fat there in judgment, feats |
upon the houfe of Davwd.
Afk the things that are for the peace olf
Ferufalem, and abundance to them that love
thee. i
Let peace be made in thy ftrength, and
abundance in thy towers: 4
For my brethren, and my neighbours, Nt
fpoke peace of thee. :
For the -houfe of the Lord our God, I
have fougbt good things for thee. |
Glory be to the F ather, &e.
The Anth. When thou waft unfpeakably.
born ofa Virgin, then were the {criptures_
fulfilled: thou didft defcend like rain into
the fleece, that thou mighteft fave mankind +
we praife our God.
The Chapter, Ecclef. 24.
ND. {fo in Sion was 1 -eftablifhed, and
in the fanétified city likewife I refted,
and my power was in Ferujfalem.
R. Thanks
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R. Thanks be toGod. — dans
V: Grace is poured forth on thy lips.
R- Therefore God has bleffed thee for
ver. Lord, have mercy on us. Chrift, have
ercy on us. Lord, have'mercy on us,
V. O Lord, hear my prayer. _
R. And let my ery come to thee.
Let us pray.
God, who, by the fruitful virginity of _
the bleffed Virgin Mary, haft given to
nankind the rewards of eternal falvation s
xrant, we befeech thee, that we may be fen-
ible of the benefit of her interceifion, by
hom we have received the author of life,
ur Lord Jefus'Chrift thy Son, who liveth
nd reigneth one’God, with thee, Ga
R. Amen. ) :
V. Lord, hear my prayer.
R. And let my cry come to thee.
‘V. Blels we our Lord.
R, Thanks be to Gok
V. May the fouls of the faithful, through
the mercy of God, reft in peace. R. Amen,
AT THE SIXTH HOUR,
- Hail Mary. |
Pee unto my aid, O God.
R. O Lord, make hafte to help me,
Glory be to the Father, &c. Alleluia.
The HYMN. Memento rerum Conditor:
mea omer You, O gracious Lord.
&%. Th’ eternal God’sco-equal word,
‘ In
294 The Office of our B, Lady,
In Virgin’s womb a creature made, ~
Our Nature wore for Nature’s aid.
O happy Mary, chofe to be
Mother of grace and clemency !
Prote& us at the hour of death,
And bear to Heav’n our parting breath.
May Age to Age for ever fing
The Virgin’s Son and Angels King,
‘And praife with the Celeftial Hoft
The Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft. Amen, -
. bhe Anth. The bufh which Mofes faw. —
Psatm 122. Ad te levavi.
© thee have I lifted up my eyes ; who
dwelleft in the heavens.
Behold, as the eyes of fervants are on the
hands of their matters ;
As the eyes of the hand-maid on the
hands of her miftrefs: fo are our eyes to
our Lord God, until he have mercy on us, —
Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy
on us, becaufe we are overwhelmed with
contempt: r'
Becaufe our foul is overwhelmed ; be-
ing. an obje& of reproach to fuch as a
bound, and of contempt tothe proud.
Glory be to the Father, Sc.
Psatm 129. Nifi quia Dominus.
U T that our Lord was with us, let
Tfrael now fay, but that our Lord was
‘syith us,
When
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When men rofe up againft us, perhaps
ey had fwallowed us alive.
When their fury was raifed againft us,
erhaps the waters had fwallowed us up.
Our foul has paffed through a torrent,
erhaps our foul had paffed through an in-
lerable water. !
Bleffed be our Lord, who has not given
s for a prey to their teeth,
Our foul, as a {parrow, is delivered from
e {nare of the fowlers.
‘The fare is broken, and we are de-
vered,
Our help is in the name of the Lord,
yho made heaven and earth.
Glory be to the Father, &c.
Psatm 124. Quiconfidunt in Domiro.
HEY that truft in our Lord, are as
mount Szon; he fhall not be moved for
ver that dwells in Ferujalem.
Mountains round about it, and our Lord
found about his people, from henceforth,
how, and for ever.
| Becaufe our Lord will not teave the rod
pf finners on the lot of the juft ; that the juift
xtend not their hands to iniquity.
Do well, O Lord, to the good and right
heart.
But our Lord will bring thofe that
‘{lecline to perverfe ways, with them that
work,
136 The Office of our B. Lady,
work iniquity, that peace may be upon
Ifrael, | |
Glory be tothe Father, &c.
The Anth. The bath which Mofes faw
burn, without confuming, we acknowledge
thy laudable Virginity preferved; O Mo.
ther of God, make interceffion for.us. |
The Chapter, Ecclef. 24.
I Have taken root in an honourable peo.
A ple, and in the portion ef my God his
inheritance, and my abiding is in the full!
affembly of faints. |
R. Thanks be to God.
V. Bleffed art thou.among women. |
R. And blefled is the fruit efthy womb, |
Lord, have mercy on us, © |
Chrift, have mercy on us,
lord, have mercy on us.
V. Lord, hear my prayer.
R. And let my cry come to thee,
Let us pray. ef
O God, who, by the fruitful virginity of |
” the blefled Virgin Mary, haft given to”
mankind. the rewards of eternal falvation: |
Grant, we befeech thee, that we may be fen- |
fible of the benefit of her interceflion, by
whom we have received the author of life,”
our Lord Jefus Chrift thy Son, who liveth, |
é&c. R. Amen, |
V. Lord, hear my prayer. |
-.R- And let my cry come to thee.
a - Y, Blefs i
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V. Blefs we our Lord.
R. Thanks be to God.
V. May the fouls of the faithful, through
the mercy of God, re{t in peace. Amen.
AT THE NINTH HOUR.
Hail Mary.
NCLINE unto my aid, O God.
R. O Lord, make halte to help me.
Glory be to the Father, Gc.
The HYMN. Memento rerum Conditor.
Emember, You,O gracious Lord,
Th’ eternal God’s co-equal word,
In Virgin’s womb a creature made
Our Nature wore for Nature’s aid.
O happy Mary. chofe to be
Mother of grace and clemency !
Prote& us at the hour of death,
And bear to Heaven our parting breath?
May Age to Age for ever fing
The Virgin’s Son and Angels King ;
And praife with the Celeftial Hoft
The Father, Son, and Holy Ghof, Amen.
Anth, Behold, Mary.
Psaum 125. In convertendo Dominus:
W HEN our Lord turned back the
captivity of Sion, we were made as
men comforted.
_ Then was our Mouth replenifhed with
joy, and our tongue with joytulnels.
OF sili chod Then
a “oe
= my
oe 4
2138 The Ofice of our B. Pudy,
Then fhall they fay among the Gentiles,
the Lord has done great things'for them, |
Our Lord has done great things for us,
we axe made joyful. 7
Turn our captivity, O Lord, as a torrent
in the fouth.
They that fow in tears fhall reap in joy
fulnels. if
Going out, they went and wept: cafting i
their feed. es
_ But returning they fhall come with joyfule”
nefs, carrying their fheaves, .
Glory be tothe Father &e,
Psatum'126. Nifi> Dominus. pi
F our Lord build not the: houfe, they bave e
laboured in vain that built it. x
Ifour Lord keeps not the city, he watches”
in vain that keeps it- 4
It is in vain'for -you'to rife before light!
rifeafter ye have fat, you who eat'the bread
of forrow. q
When he fhall give fleep to his beloved,
behold children are an inheritance from”
our Lord: and the fruit of the womb isa
reward.
As arrows in the hand of the mighty,
fo are the children of them © that are om
jeCted.
Bleffed is’ the man. that bax filled his deal
fire of them: he hall not! be confounded,
when he fhall fpeak:to his enemies in the
WOT cea a.
ae
Glory be to the Father, Se, :
PsALM
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~Psaum 127. Beati omnes.
LESSED are al! that fear our Lord, that
walk in his ways.
| Becaufe thou fhalt eat the labours of thy ©
ands: bleffed art thou, and’ it fhall be welf
ith thee. Vs : :
Thy wife, as a plentiful vine on the fides
f thy houfe.
Thy children, as young plants of olive-
rees, round about thy tabie,
Behold, fo fhall the man be bleffed, that
earsour Lord.
Let our Lord blefs thee out of Ston, and
mayeft thou fee the good things of Feruja-
lem, all the days of thy life. —
Mayett thou alfo fee thy childrens children,
peace on Jfrael.
Glory. be to the Father, @e.
- The Anth. Behold, Mary has brought
forth to us a Saviour; whom Fokn feeing,
cried out; faying, Behold the Lamb of God,
behold him who takes away the fins of the
world,
The Chapter, Ecclef. 24.
Gave an odour as cinnamon, and as aro-
matic balm in the ftreets, and as chofen
myrrh have I given the {weetnefs of odour.
R. Thanks be to God.
V. Thou didf remain an inviolate Virgin
after thy child-bearing, |
O 2 R. O
240 The Office of our B. Lady, |
R. O Mother of God, make interceffion
for us, i
Lord, have mercy on us.
Chrift, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us.
V. Lord, hear my prayer.
R. Andlet my cry come to thee.
| Lei us pray.
C) God, who, by the fruitful virginity off}
the Blefled Virgin Mary, &c. as bee
a
Sore, page. 136.
R. Amen. ,
V. Lord, hear my prayer. 4
R. And let my cry come to thee. 4
VY. Blels we our Lord. a
R. Thanks be to God. a
_V. May the fouls of the faithful, through _
the mercy of God, reft in peace. R. Amen, —
AT EVEN-SONG. 7
Hail Mary. a
pace to my aid, O God. t
R. O Lord, make hafte to help me. a
Glory be tothe Father, Sc. Alleluia,
The Anth, O admirable intercourfe. 4
Psaum 10g- Dixit Dominus.
ie a hei
Re
UR Lord faid to my Lord, fit on my '
right hand.
ftool.
Our Lord will fend forth the cep
ees
Until, I make thy enemies thy foot.
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thy power from Szon; rule thou in the midft
jof thy enemies.
| The beginning with thee in the day of thy
ftrength, in the brighine/s. of the Saints:
from the womb, before the day-ftar, I begat
thee. | ,
| Our Lord fwore, and he will not repent:
jthou art a pricft for ever, according to the
order of Melchifedec. x
} Our Lord on thy right hand, hath brokerr
ikings in the day of his wrath.
| He fhalljudge in the nations, he fhalh fill
fruins, be fhall crufh the heads in the land
|of many- | |
| Of the torrent in the way he fhall drink,
|therefore fhali he lift up his head.
| Glory be to the Father, &c. |
The Anth. © admirable intercourfe, the
Creator of mankind, taking a living body,
vouchfafed to be born of a Virgin, and com-
ing forth man without feed, has given'to us
his Godhead. 7
The Anth. When thou waft.
Psawum i112. Laudate pueri Dominum.
pre our Lord ye children, praife the
name of.our Lord. |
The name of our Lord be blefled from:
henceforth, now, and for ever.
From the rifing of the fun, to its going
down, the name of our Lord is worthy of.
praile. | |
O03 OWe
_. princes of his people.
448 The Office of our B. Lady,
Our Lord is high above all nations, and |
his glory above the Heavens,
Who is like the Lord our God, that dwell
on high, and beholds the humble things i in |
Heaven and Earth. |
Raifing up the needy from the earth, and |
lifting up the poor out of the dung.
To place him with princes, with the }
Who makes the barren woman to dwell i in
her houfe, a joyful mother of children.
Glory be to the Father, &c. a
The Anth. When thou waft unfpeakablyil
born ofa Virgin, then were the {criptures
fulfilled ; thou didft defcend like rain into
the fleece, that thou mighteft fave mankind =
we praife our God.
The Anth. The bufh which Mofes faw.
Psaum 121. Leetatus fum. i
Rejoiced at thofe things, which were
faid to me; we fhall gointo the houfe of
the Lord.
Our feet were fanding in thy courts, oO 4
‘Ferujalem. ;
Ferujalem, which is built as a city, whofe i
inhabitants are united together. %
For thither did-the tribes afcend, the tribes
of our Lord, the teftimony: of J/rad; te
praile the name of our Lord,
Beeaule feats:fat there in judgment, feats
upon the houfe of David. ,
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Afk the things that are for the peace of
erufalem, and abundance to them thatlove
hee.
| Let peace be made im thy ftrength, and
|bundance in thy towers.
| For my brethren, and my neighbours, 2
jpoke peace of thee,
| ¥or the houfe of the Lord our Ged, J
have fought good things for thee,
| Glory be to the Father, &c.
The Anth. The bufh which Mofes faw
urn, without confuming, we acknowledge
hy laudable Virginity preferved; O Mo-
ther of God, make interceffion for us.
The Anth. The Root of Feffe.
Psaum 126, Nils Dominus.
} F our Lord build not the houfe, they have
laboured in vain tbat built it.
If our Lord keeps not the city, he watches
in vain that keeps it.
It is in vain for you to rife before hight:
rife after ye have fat, you that eat the bread
of forrow. en ]
When he fhall give fleep to his beloved:
behold children are an inheritance frona
sour Lord: and the fruit of the womb is a
xeward. . : ;
As arrows in the hand of the mighty, fo
zare the children of them that are rejeGed.
Blefied is the man that has filled his de-
‘Bre of them: che fhall not be confounded,
when
<a8 3
ie ha
ae
444 The Office of our B. Lady.
when he fhall fpeak to his enemies in the
gate | a
Glory be to the Father, &c. :
The,Anth. The Root of Feffe has bud-
ded; a Star has {prung out from Facob ; a
Virgin has brought forth a Saviour : we
praife thee our God. |
The Anth. Behold, Mary:
O Jerufalem, praife our Lord: praife thy
God, O Sion. : :
Becaufe he has ftrengthened the locks of
thy gates, he has blefled thy children in”
thee, :
Who has fet thy borders in peace: and 7)
fills thee with the fat of corn. :
“Who fends forth his fpeech to the earth : e
his word runs fwiftly.
Who gives {now as wool; featters mifts
as afhes. |
He cafts his cryftal as morfels : before the a
face of his cold who fhali abide ? 4
He fhall fend forth his word, and fhall —
melt them : his fpirit fhall breathe, and the 4
waters fhall flow, 4
Who declares his word to Facob, his
. juftice and judgments to rath on ie
He has not done fo to any nation: and —
his judgments he has ‘not made manifelt to _
them. :
Glory be to the Father, &c,
~The
after Advent, at Even-Songe 145
| The Anth. Behold, Mary has brought
orth to us a Saviour, whom John feeing,
tried out, faying, Behold the Lamb of God,
behold him, who takes away the fins of the
World. Alleluia.
} The Chapter, Ecclef. 24.
ROM the beginning, and before the
world was I created, and unto the
lworld to come I fhall not ceafe: and in the
Iholy babitation have 1 miniftred before
him. .
) R. Thanks be to God.
The HYMN. Ave Maris Stella.
i pee Mother of our Maker, hail ;
| Thou Virgin ever bicit,
'| The ocean’s ftar, by which we fail,
| | And gain the port of reft.
| -whilft we this Ave thus to thee
From Gabriel’s mouth rehearfe 5
| Prevail, that peace our lot may be,
| And Eva's name reverie.
| Releafe our long entangled mind
‘| From all the {nares of ill;
_ | With heav’nly light inftu& the blind,
And all our vows fulfill.
Exert for us a mother’s care,
And us thy children own:
Prevail with him to hear our pray ls
Who chofe to be thy fon. :
© {potlefs Maid! whofe virtues fhine
With brightefl purity :
Each
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Each aétion of our lives refine;
And make us pure like thee. A}
Preferve our lives unflain’d from ill ‘4
In this infe€tious way. s A
That Heav’n alone our Soulsmay fill
With joys that’ne’er decay. 4
To God the Father endlefs praife ; 1
To God the Son the fame; iE
And Holy Ghoft, whofe equal rays. .
One equal glory claim. Amen. 4
V. Grace is poured forth on thy lips. i
' R. Therefore God has bleffed thee for”
ever.
The Anth. A ga
M Y foul sina ‘cilities our Lord. ‘
And my {pirit has rejoiced in God my
Saviour. 4
Becaufe he has regarded the meannefs of
his handmaid: for behold, from henceforth
all generations fhall call me bleffed. :
Becaufe he that is mighty has done great”
thingsto me; and holy is his name.
And his mercy from generation to geneds
‘
rations, is on them that fear him.
He has fhewed ftrength in bis arm, he has
difperfed the proud im the imagination of
their hearts, :
He has depofed the mighty from their
feat, and exalted the humble.
The
after Advent, at Even-Song. A247
‘The ‘hungry he has filled with good
hings, and the rich he thas fent away
|
bmpty
= has received Hiract his child, being
mindful of his mercy. :
(As he {poke to our fathers ;) to Abraham,
ind his feed for ever.
| Glory be to.the Father, &c.
The Anth- A great myftery of ‘his’:
Dice! the womb that never knew map,
s made the temple of the Holy Ghoft :
eis not polluted by taking flefh of her:.
ail nations fhall come, ying, Glory be to
‘thee, O Lord.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Chrift, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy onus.
V. Lord, hear my ‘prayer.
R. And let my cry come to thee,
Letus pray.
‘0 God, who, by the. fruitful virginity of
the bleffed. Virgin Mary, haft given to
|mankind the rewards of eternal falvation:
\Grant, .we befeech thee, that we may be fen-
|fible of the benefit of her interceflion, by |
|whom we have received the author of- life,
jour Lord Jefus Chrift thy Son, who liveth,
jand reigneth, one God with theé} &e.
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For the Saints.
The Anth. All ye faints of God, vouch-
fafe to make interceffion for the Givation of
of
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us, and of all. V. Ye juft, rejoice in our
Lord, and be exceeding glad. R, a
glory, all ye right of heart.
Let us pray. ia
Proteé, O Lord, thy people ; and let the
confidence we have i in the interceflion of thy
bleffed Apoftles, Peter and Paul, and of thy
other Apoftles, prevail with thee, to preferye”
and defend us for ever. %.
May all thy faints, O Lord, we befeech
thee, every where affift us, that whilft we
celebrate their merits, we may be fenfible of
their prote€tion: Grant us thy peace in our
time, and repel all wickednefs from thy
church ; profperoufly guide the fteps, ace
tions and defires of us and all thy fervants in
the way of falvation: give eternal bleffings |
to thofe who have done good to us, and
everlafting reft. to the faithful departed; ;
Through our Lord Jefus Chrift thy Son,
&c. R. Amen. |
V. Lord, hear my prayer.
R. And let my cry come to thee.
V. Blefs we our Lord.
R. Thanks be to God. ; +a
V. May the fouls of the faithful, thro’ . , 4
mercy of God, reft in peace. i
R. Amen.
afier Advent, at Complin. 449
; AT COMPLIN.
Hail Mary.
ONVERT us, O God, our Saviour,
z R. And turn away thy anger from us.
| V. Incline unto my aid, O God,
} R. O Lord, make hafte to help m
Giory be to the Father, Ge. U Wetuia.
Psaitm 128, Sape expugnaverunt.
() FTEN have they affaulted me from my
| Often have they aflaulted me from my
youth; let Jf/rae/ now fay.
youth; but they have not prevailed againit
Sinners have beaten on my back, as onan
anvil ; they have prolonged their iniguity.
| Our juft Lord will cut the necks of fin-
ners: let all be confounded, and turned
packward, that hate Sion.
| Let them be made as hay on the tops
of houfes : which | is withered before it be
olucked up.
| Whereof the reaper fhall not fill his
and, nor he that gathers the fheaves, his
bofom.
And they who paffed by, faid not, the
pleffing of the Lord be upon you: we have
blefled you in the name of our Lord,
Glory be tothe Father, &c.
Psautm 129. Deprofundis.
ROM the deep I have cried to thee, O
Lord; Lord, hear my voice,
§ Let
a50 The Office of our B. Lady,
Let thy ears be attentive to the voice 0 i
my petition. |
If thou regardeft iniquities, O Lord Hl
Lord» who fhall bear it ? nip
‘Becaule with thee there is mercy: and}
becaufe of thy law, I have waited for hee,
© Lord. :
My foul has trufted in his word, my foil a
has hoped in our Lord. P)
From the morning watch even till night
let J/rael hope in our Lord.
Becaufe with our Lord there is mercy, a
with him plentiful redemption.
And he fhall redeem J/rael from all hi
iniquities. —~
Glory be to the Father, &c.
Ps Atm 130. Domine non eft exaltatumy |
i he RD, my heart is not exalted, nor are
my. eyes lofty. as
Nor have 1 walked in great matters, nor
in marvellous things above me.
If I was not humble-minded, but cxale
my foul ;
As the weaned child is for his mother,
let it be with my foul,
Let Lfrael hope in our Lord, from henc 4
forth, now, and for ever.
Glory be to the Father, &c. .
_ The HYMN, Memento rerum Conditor. —
Emember,. you, O gracious Lord,
Th’ eternal God’s co-equal word,
after Advent, at Complin. ¥r%
n Virgin’s womb a creature made
Dur Nature wore for Nature’s aid.
O happy Mary, chofe to be
Mother of grace and clemency !
Protect us at the hour of death,
And bear to Heav’n our parting breath.
May Age to Age for ever fing
Fhe Virgin’s Son and Argels King,
And praife, with the Celeftial Hoft,
The Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft. Amen.
The Chapter, Ecclef 24.
Am the mother of beautiful love, and
of fear, and of knowledge, and of ho-
hope.
-R. Thanks be to God.
V. Pray for us, holy mother of God.
R. That we may be. made worthy the
sromifes of Chriit.
The Anth. A great myflery.
The Song of Simeon, Luke e@.
iN " OW, Lord, let thy Servant depart in
peace, according to thy word.
Becaufe my eyes have feen thy falvation ;
Which thou haft prepared before the face
fall people.
A light to enlighten the Gentiles : and for
he glory of thy people i/rael.
' Glory be to the Father, &c.
The Anth. A great myftery of inheri-
jtance! the womb that never knew man;
‘jis
cathe nnd
made the temple of the Holy Ghoft :
Po He ©
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he is not polluted by taking flefh of her, —
all nations fhall come, faying, Glory be to —
thee, O Lord. :
Lord} have merey on us.
Chrift, have merey on us.
Lord, have mercy on us.
V. Lord, hear my prayer.
R. And let my cry come to thee:
Let us pray. :
God, who, by the fruitful virginity of ©
the blefled Virgin Mary, haft given to ©
mankind the rewards of eternal falvation: —
Grant, we befeech thee, that we may be —
fenfible of the benefit of her interceflion, by
whom we have received the author of life, —
our Lord Jefus Chrift thy Son, who liveth
and reigneth one God with thee, &c. :
R. Amen,
VY. Lord, hear my prayer.
R. And let my cry come to thee.
V. Blels we our Lord.
R, Thanks be to God. A
The Bleffing. May the almighty and mer- |
ciful Lord, Father, Son, and Holy Gholt, —
lefs and keepus. R. Amen. |
Fags anes RR it
eat ae
This being done, fay Kneeling, the Anthem, which zs fet |
down after the Lauds, Page 195. and the Ver, (May the |
divine Help)-decng /aid, Our Father, Hail Mary, and the —
Creed are to be faid in fecret? |
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1. be faid intire with the \nvitatory and three No€turns,.-
ana the Anthems doubled, as well at Even-Song as az’
_ Mattins, on the Day of all the Faithjul departed, on the
Day of the Departure, and on the Anniverfary of anyone
deceased, with one only Prayer, as follows ; and then .at
Even-Song the Palm, Praife our Lord, és to be omitted ;
and at the Lauds the Pfalin, From. the Deep, Af other
Times the Office is faid as it 1s here fet down,
Even-Song is begun with the Anth. I will pleafe.
Psatm 114. Dilexi quoniam..
| Fite Prophet in this Pfalm gives Thanks to God for having de~-
livered him fromanimminent Danger; and prow) eth Sa--
crifices of Pravfe te God for his Mercy. fhewn to kine. |
Have loved, becaufe our Lord will hear
¢ the voice of my prayer.
Becaufe he has inelined his ear to me,.
and in my days I will call upon him,
The forrows of death have encompaffed:
ame, and the perilsof hell have found.me..
I have found tribulation and forrow, and-
J called upon the name of our Lord.
Ps © Lord,
154 The Office for the Dead.
O Lord, deliver my foul; our Lord is
merciful and jult; and our God does
mercy.
_ Our Lord keeps little ones; I was hum-
bled, and he has delivered: me.
Turn, O my foul, into thy reft, becaufe
our Lord has done good things to thee.
Becaufe he has delivered my foul from
death: my eyes from tears, my feet from
flipping. 3
I will pleafe our Lord in the country of
the living.
In the End of all the Pfalms is to be faid,
Give them, O Lord, eternal reft: and
let thy light fhine upon them for ever.
The Anth. I will pleafe our Lord in the
jand of the living.
The Anth. Woe is me.
Psaim ito. Ad Dominum cum tribularer,
ARGUMENT @s before, Page 39.
V HEN I was in tribulation, I cried to
our Lord, and he heard me.
Lord, deliver my foul from unjuft lips,
and from a deceitfuk tongue.
What will be given, or what recompence
can be made fora deceitful tongue ?
The {harp arrows of the mighty, with coals
of defolation.
Woe is me, that my banifhment is pro-
longed: I have dwelt with the inhabitanas
of Cedar, my foul has been long a ftranger.
With
—
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With them that hated peace, I was pea-
ceable: when I fpoke to them, they oppo-
fed me without caule,
Give them, O Lord, &c. as before.
The Anth. Woe is me, O Lord, that my
abode is prolonged.
The Anth. Our Lord,
Psatm 120. Levavi oculos meos,
ARCUMENT as before, page 40.
i Have lifted up my eyes to the moun.
tains, from whence help fhall come to
me.
My help is from our Lord, who made
heaven and earth.
Let him not fuffer thy foot to be moved,
nor let him flumber that keeps thee.
Lo, he fhall not flumber nor fleep, that
keeps Ifrael.
Our Lord keeps thee, our Lord is thy
proteélion, on thy right hand,
By day the fun fhall not burn thee, nor
tghe moon by night.
_ Our Lord keeps thee from all evil, may
“our Lord keep thy foul.
Let our Lord keep thy coming in, and
thy going out; from henceforth, now, and
‘for ever.
Give them, &c.
The Anth. Our Lord keeps thee from al
evil, may our Lord keep thy foul. 7
The Anth, [f thou, O Lord,
PsauM
a56 The Cfice for the Dead.
Psaim 129. De profundis.
ARCUMENT as before, page 58.
ROM the deep I have cried to thee, O
Lord; Lord, hear my voice,
Let thy ears be attentive to the voice of
my petition.
If thou regardeft iniquities, O Lord,
Lord, who fhall bear it ?
Becaufe with thee there is mercy: and
becaufe of thy Jaw, I have waited for ies
O Lord.
My foul has trufted in his word, my foul
has hoped in our Lord. _
From the morning wateh even till night,
let Lrael hope in. our Lord.
Becaufe with our Lord there is mercy,
‘and with him plentiful redemption.
And he {halk redeem Tfrael from all his.
iniquities,
Give them, Sc.
The Anth. If thou, O Lord, regardeft
iniquities, Lord, who {hall be able to
bear it ? |
The Anth. Defpile not.
Psatm 137. Confiebor tibi Domine.
- In this Pfalm David thanks God for all the Benefits veccinedl
from him, and expreffeth his Affarance in the Divine Ajpfts
ance for the future,
Will confefs to thee, O Lord, with my
whole heart, becaule thou haft heard the
words of my mouth,
In
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In the fight of Angels I will fing to thee,
] will adore towards thy holy temple, and
confefs to thy name ;
For thy mercy and thy truth ; becaufe
thou haft magnified thy holy name above
every thing.
In what day foever I fhall call upon
thee, hear me: thou wilt muluply flrength
in my foul.
Let all the Kings of the earth, O Lord,
eonfefs to thee; becaufe they have heard
all the words of thy mouth.
And let them fing in the ways of our
Lord; becaufe the glory of our Lord ‘is
great.
-Becaufe our Lord is high, and he beholds
humble things, and high thing he knows
far off, |
If I fhall walk in the midft of tribula-
tion, thou wilt quicken me; and upon
the wrath of my enemies thou halt ex-
tended thy hand, and thy right hand has
faved me,
. Our Lord will repay for me; O Lord,
thy mercy is for ever, defpife not the works
of thy hands.
Give them, &c, .
The Anth. Defpife not, O Lord, the
works of thy hands. :
V. Iheard a voice from Heaven, faying
‘to me.
R. Bleffed are the dead, who die in our
Lord,
The
158 The Office for the Dead.
The Anth. All that my Father.
The Song of the B. Virgin Mary, Luke 1.
M Y foul does magnify our Lord.
And my fpirit has rejoiced in God my
Saviour.
Becaufe he has regarded the meannefs of
his handmaid: for behold, from henceforth.
all generations fhall call me bleffed.
Becaufe he that is mighty has done great
things tome; and holy is his name.
And his mercy from generation to gene-
gations, ison them that fear him.
He has fhewed ftrength in his arm, he has
difperfed the proud in the imagination of
their hearts,
He has depofed the mighty from vats
feat, and exalted the humble.
The hungry he has filled with Giiod |
things, and the rich he has fent away
empty.
He has received Jfrael his child, being
mindful of his mercy.
(Ashe fpoke to our fathers ;) to 4brakam,
and his feed for ever.
Give them, &c.
The Anth. All that my father gives me,
fhall come to me; and him that comes to
me, I will not caft forth.
_ The Prayers following are se Kneeling, Our Father, 7x
Secret,
VY. And lead us not into temptation.
R. But
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R. But deliver us from evil.
Psa.m 145. Lauda anima mea.
in this Pfalm are commemorated the Benefits of God befowed
upon Men, and it declares that we ought to put our Truft
an him alone.
P Raife our Lord, O my foul; I will
praife our Lord in my Life ; I will fing
to my God, as long as I fhall have a being,
Put not confidence in princes; in the fons
of men, in whom there is no falvation.
| His fpirit fhall go forth, and he fhall return
into his earth ; in that day all their thoughts
fhall perifh.
Bleffed is he, whofe helper is the God of
“Facob, his hope is in the Lord his God, who ©
made Heaven and earth, the fea, and all
things that are in them.
Who keeps truth for ever, executes judg-
ment for them that fuffer wrong; gives food
to the hungry.
Our Lord loofes the fettered; our Lord
enlightens the blind.
Our Lord lifts up the bruifed; our Lord
loves the juft.
Our Lord keeps the ftrangers; the fa-
therlefs and widow he will receive; and the
~ ways of finners he will deftroy.
Our Lord fhall reign for ever; thy God,
© Sion, for generation and generation.
Give them, &c.
V. From the gate of hell.
R. Deliver their fouls, O Lord,
V. May
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VY. May they reft in peace. R. Amen,
V. O Lord, hear my prayer.
R. And let my cry come to thee.
Let us pray.
RANT, we befeech thee, O God, that
fuch of thy fervants, as thou _haft
placed amongft thy apoftolical priefts, en-
dued with either pontifical or prieftly dig-
nity, may alfo be united with thy Apofiles
in one fociety for ever.
() God, the giver of pardon, and lover .
of human falvation, we befeech thy
clemency, through the interceffion of the
_ ever blefled Virgin Mary, and of all the
Saints, to admit the brethren of our congre-
gation, relations and benefaftors departed
out of this world, to the fellowfhip of eter-:
nal blifs,
() God, the Creator and Redeemer of
all the faithful, give to the fouls of
thy fervants, the remiifion of all «heir
fins; that, by pious fupplications, they
may obtain the pardon they ever wifhed
for: Who liveft and reigneft, one God,
with the Father, and the Holy Ghoft, world
without end... R. Amen. ’
V- Give them, O Lord, eternal reft.
R. And let thy light fhine upon them
for ever.
V. May they reftin peace, R, Amen.
AT
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AT MATTINS.
The luvitatory folowing is faid on All-Souls Day, and as
often as the three No€turns are /azd, as before, page 113.
At other Times it 7s omitted, and the Office is bezun at the
Anth. of the Plalms of the Nofturn, and one only Nofurn
with the Lauds, zs fazd in this Order; On Monday and
Thurfday, the fir No&turn: On Tuefday and Friday,
the fecond Nofturn; On Wednefday and Saturday, the
third NoQurn.
The Invitatory,
Come, let us adore the King, to whom all
things live.
Come, let us adore the King, to whom
all things live.
PsatM 94. Venite exultemus,
ARGUMENT @s before, page 2.
Co let us rejoice to our Lord, let us
make joy to God our faviour; let us
approach his prefence in confeffion, and in
pfalms make joy before him. _
Come, let us adore the King, to whom
all things live.
For God is a great Lord, and a great
King above all Gods; becaufe our Lord
repels not his people: in his hand are all
the bounds of the earth, and he beholds the
heights of the mountains. :
The King, to whom all things live.
The fea is his, and he made it; and his
hands feunded the dry land; come let us
adore, and fall down before God; let us -
lament before our Lord, that made us; be-
caule
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caufe he is the Lord our Gop; we are his
people, and the fheep of his pafture.
Come, let us ‘adore the King, to whom
all things live.
To-day ‘if ye fhall hear his voice, har-
den not your hearts, asin the provocation,
according to the day of temptation in the
wildersels, where your fathers tempted me,
proved and faw my works.
- The King, to whom all things live.
Forty years was I nigh to this genera-
tion; and faid, they always err in their
heart, and have not known ‘my ways, to
whom I {ware in my wrath, if they fhall enter
into my reft.
Come let us adore the king, to. whom all
things live. 3
Give them, O Lord, eternal reft, and let
thy light fhine upon them for ever.
The King, to whom all things live.
Come, let us adore the King, to whom
ail things live.
In the FIRST NOCTURN.
‘ On M onday and Thurfday.
The Anth. Dire@, -O Lord.
Ps aim 4.. Verba mea auribus,
This Pfalm feems to have been made by David, when he was
fet upon by the Wicked. He begs of God to hear his Pray=
ers; he imprecates the Impious, wifhing them deferved Pu-
nifhments, and comforts the Pious and the Juft with the
Flope of Reward.
Re-
The Office for the Dead. 162
Eceive, O Lord, my words with thy
ears ; underftand my cry.
Attend to the voice of my prayer, my
king, and my God.
Becaule Iwill pray to thee; O Lord, in:
- the morning thou: wilt hear my: voice,
Inthe morning I will ftand by thee, and’
will fee; becaufe thou art not a God ‘that is-
pleafed with iniguity,
Neither fhall the wicked dwell near thee ::
nor the unjuft abide before thy eyes.
Thou hateft all that work. iniguity ; thou:
wilt deftroy all that {peak lies.
Our Lord will abhor the bloody man, and-
the deceitful: but I in the multitude of thy:
mercies,
Will enter into. thy houfe; 1 will, adore
at thy holy temple in thy Koay:
Lord, condu& me in thy juftice; becaufe
of my enemies, dire€t my way in thy
fight.
"Becaufe there is no truth in their mouth 5:
their heart is vain.
Their throat is an open fepulchre, they
did deceitfully with their tongues ; judge
them, O God.
Let them fail in their defigns, according.
to the multitude of their iniguities expel.
them; becaufe they have provoked thee,
O Lord.
And let all be glad, that hope in thee ;
O 2 they
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they fhall rejoice for ever, and thou fhalt
dwell in them,
And all that love thy name, fhall glory in
thee; becaule thou wilt blefs the juft.
Lord, thou haft crowned us, as with the
fhield of thy good will.
Give them, &c. |
The Anth. Dire&, O Lord my God,
my way in thy fight.
The Anth, Turn, O God.
Psatm 6. Domine ne in furore.
In this Pfalm David firft fets forth the Violence of his Sicke
_ nes, Inthe next Place he begs of God to free him from
at; and lafily, he defcribes the Conflernation of his
Enemies upon his Prayers being heard, amd his Health
refored io him,
Let rebuke me not in thy fury; nor
4 chaftife me inthy wrath.
Have mercy on me, O Lord, becaufe I
am infirm; heal me, O Lord, becaufe my
bones are difordered.
And my foul is very much troubled: but
thou, Lord, how long. ,
Tarn, O Lord, and deliver my foul; fave
me for thy mercy’s fake.
Becaule there is none in death, that is
mindful of thee; and in Hell, who fhall con- ~
fefs to thee ?
I have been tired with my groans: I will
every night wafh my bed: I will water my
couch with my tears,
My
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My eyeis troubled with fury; Iam grown
old among all my enemies.
Depart from me, all you that work int-
quity ; becaufe our Lord. has heard the
voice of my weeping.
Our Lord has heard my fupplication 5.
our Lord has received my prayer.
Let all my enemies blufh, and be. very:
much troubled; let them be turned back,
and afhamed very quickly.
Give them, &c.
The Anth. Turn, O Lord, and deliver
my foul: becaufe that in death none is-
mindful of thee.
The Anth. Left at any time.
Psaum 7. Domine Deus meus,
This Pfaim was made by David, as moft Interpreters believe,
in the Time of his Perfeeution ‘cael Saul. Yi contains ex
cellent Inftructions for repenting Sinners~
Lord my God, I have hoped in thee;
fave me from all that perfecute me, -
and deliver me.
Left at any time, he; as -a lion, -fnatch:
away my’ foul ; whilft there is none to re--
deem, nor to fave.
O Lord my God, if T have done: this, if
there be iniquity in my hands, |
If ] have repaid io them that rendered
mme-evils, let me wasp | fallempty before.
my enemies.
Let the enemy perfecute my foul, and
O 2 * Seize
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feize it, and tread down my life on the
earth; and bring down my glory into the
duft.
Arife, Lord, in thy wrath, and be exalted
in the confines of my enemies.
And arife, O Lord my God, inthe pres
cept which thou commanded; and an af-
fembly of people fhall encompafs thee. -
And for this return on high; our Lord
judges the people.
Judge me, O Lord, according to my ju- |
ftice, and according to my innocence upon
- ne.
The wickednefs of finners fhall be con-
fumed, and thou fhalt dire&t the juft: who
fearcheft the hearts and reins, O God. >
My jult help is from our Lord, who faves
‘the right of heart. !
God is a juft judge, ftrong and patient:
is he angry every day?
If you will not be converted, he will
fhake his word; he has bent his bow, and
prepared it.
And in it he has prepared the inflruments
of death, he has made his arrows with burn-
‘Ing coals.
Behold, he has been big with injuflice,
he has-conceived pain, and brought forth
iquity. iY
He has opened a pit, and digged it up,
ands fallen into the ditch, which he made.
flis
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His forrow fhall be turned upon him,
and his iniquity fhall fall upon his own.
head.
I will-confefs to our Lord according to
his juflice ; and fing to the name of our
Lord moft High. .
Give them, &c.
The Anth- Left at any time he fnatch
away my foul, as a lion, whilft there is none
10 re{cue, nor to fave me-
V. From the gates of hell,
R. Deliver, O Lord, their fouls.
Our Father, all in fecret.
The Firft Leffon. Job 7-
(* PARE me, Lord, for my days are no-
thing, What is man, that thou mag-
nifieft him ? Or why fetteft thou thy heart
towards him ? Thou doft vifit him early,
and fuddenly thou provefl him. How long
doft thou not fpare me, nor fuffer me to
{wallow my fpittle: I have finned; what
fhall I do to thee, O Keeper of Men! why
haft thou fet me contrary to thee, and I
am become burthenfome to myfelf. Why
doft thou not take away my fin, and why
doft thou not take away my imiquity ?
Behold, now I fhall fleep in the duft, and
if thou feek me in the morning, I fhall
not be.
R. I believe my Redeemer lives, and
that in the laft day I fhall rife from the
earth, and in my flefh fhall fee God my
Saviour,
V. Whom
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V. Whom I myfelf fhall fee, and not
another, and my eyes fhall behold: and in
my flefh I fhall fee God my Saviour.
The Second Leffon, Job 10,
M Y Soul is weary of my life, I will let
loofe my fpeech againft myfelf: I
will fpeak in the bitternefs of my foul; I
will fay to God, condemn me not; tell
why thou judgeft me fo? Does it feem
good to thee, if thou calumniate me, and
opprefs me, the work of thy hands, and
help the defign of the impious? Haft thou
eyes of flefh, or asaman fees, fhalt thou
alfo fee ? Are thy days as the days of man ?
And are thy years as the times of men,
that thou fhouldeft feek my iniquity, and
fearch my fin? And know, that I have done
no impious thing: whereas there is none
that can deliver out of thy hand. |
R. Thou, who didft raile Lazarus flinking
from the grave: thou, O Lord, grant theny
reft, and the place of indulgence.
V..Who art to come to judge the living.
and the dead, and the world by fire, Thou;
O Lord, grant them reft, and the place of
indulgence. :
The Third Leffon; Job 10.
J ‘HY Hands, O Lord, have made me,
and framed me wholly round about;
and doft theu fo fuddenly caft me down.
headlong? Remember, I befeech thee,
ahat, as clay, thou madeft me, and into
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duft thou wilt bring me again. Haft thou
not milked me like milk, and curded me
as cheefe? With fkin and flefh thou
haft cloathed me, with bones and finews.
thou haft fet me together. Life and mercy
thou haft given me, and thy vifitation has
kept my fpirit..
Lord, when thou fhalt come to judge:
the earth, where fhall I hide me from the
face of thy wrath? For I have finned ex-
ceedingly in my life.
V. I dread my evil aétions, and blufh be--
fore thee: do not condemn me when thou
fhalt come to judgment: for. I have finned
exceedingly in my life.
V. Give them, O Lord, eternal reft, and
let thy light fhine upon them for ever. For
I have finned exceedingly in my life.
At the Lauds, as hereafter, page 186,
Ar tHe Seconp Nocrurn,
For Tuefday and Friday.
The Anth. In a place of pafture..
Psatm 22, Dominus regit me:
David, under the Similitude of a Shepherd leading his Flock,
JSoews what Care God had over him, and what great Benes
Jits he had received from the divine Majefty.
UR Lord rules me, and nothing fhall
be wanting to me: in a place of pa-
fture, there he has put me. ©
Upon
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Upon the refrefhing waters he has brought
me up; he has converted my foul.
He has condu&ted me in the. paths of
juftice, for the glory of his name.
For though I fhall walk in the midft of
the fhadow of death, I will not fear evils,
becaufe thou art with me. |
Thy rod and thy ftaff, they have com-
forted me.
Thou haft prepared in my fight a table,
againft them that trouble me.
Thou haft poured forth oil on my head,
and the wine of my chalice, how goodly
it is.
And thy mercy fhall follow me all the
days of my life.
That I may for ever dwell in the houfe of
our Lord. :
Give them, &c.
The Anth, Ina place of pafture, there he
has put me.
The Anth. Remember nct.
Psaitm 24. Ad te Domine levavi.
It ts probable that David made this Pfalm in the Time of the
Rebellion of Abfalom. It contains the Prayer of a Man
in great Straits, begging the Afiftance of Ged againft hes
Enemies, and the Pardon of his Sins.
%O thee, Lord, I have lifted up my
foul; my God, in thee is my confi-
dence, let me not be afhamed.
Neither let my enemies infult over me;
for all that hope in thee fhall not be con-
founded.
Let
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Let all be confounded, who vainly doe
unjuft things.
Lord, fhew me thy ways, and teach me
thy paths,
Dire& me in thy truth, and teach me ;
becaufe thou art God my Saviour, and thee
have I expected all the Day. |
Remember, O Lord, thy compaffion, and
thy mercies, that are from the beginning of
the world. -
The fins of my vouth and my ignorance,
do not remember.
According to thy mercy remember me,
for thy goodnefs, O Lord.
Our Lord is {weet and righteous; for this
caufe, he will give a law to them that fin in
the way.
He will dire&t the mild in judgment; he
will teach the meek his ways.
All the ways of our Lord are mercy and
truth; to them that feek his covenant, and
his teftimonies,
For thy name, O Lord, thou wilt be
propitious to my fin, becaufe it is great.
Who is the man that fears our Lord? he
appoints him a law in the way he has
chofen.
_ His Soul fhall abide in good things,-and
his feed inherit the land,
Our Lord is a fupport to them that fear
dim ; and his teftament, that it may be made
‘manifefl to them,
M y
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_ My eyes are always to our Lord, becaufe
he will deliver my feet out of the fnare.
Have regard to me, and fhew mercy to
me, becaufe I am alone, and poor.
The tribulations of my heart are multipli-
ed, deliver me from my neceffities.
See my humiliations, and my labour ; and
forgive all my fins.
Behold my enemies, for they are multi-
plied, and with unjuft hatred they have purfu-
ed me.
Keep my foul and deliver me; I fhall
not be confounded, becaufe I have hoped
in thee.
The innocent and righteous have cleaved
to me, becaufe.1 expected thee.
Deliver Jfrael, OQ God, out of all his
tribulations.
Give them, €%c. The Anth. Remember
not, O Lord, the offences of my youth and
my Ignorance,
The Anth. I believe.
Psautm 26, Dominus illuminatio mea:
In thes Pfaln David mentions the Dangers which by God's
Affiftance he has overcome, and the Affurance he has of be-
eng protected for the future ; he alfo begs of our Lord, that
he may without Difturbance ferve him Night and Day in
the Tabernacle.
UR Lord is my light, and my fal-
vation, whom fhall I fear ? |
Our Lord is the prote€tor of my life, of
whom fhall I be afraid ?
While
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While the wicked approach to me, to eat
any flefh. |
My enemies.that trouble me, themfelves
are weakened, and are fallen,
If camps ftand againft me, my heart fhall
not fear.
If battles rife up againft me, this fhall
-raife my-hope.
One thing I have afked of our Lord, this
will I feek; that I may dwell in the houfe of
our Lord all the days of my life.
That I may fee the delights of our Lord,
-and vifit his temple. - |
Becaufe he has hid me in his tabernacle ;
in the day of evils he has proteéted me in
the fecret of his tabernacle.
In arock he has exalted me, and now
he has raifed my head above my enemies.
I have gone about, and offered in his ta-
bernacle a facrifice of praife: I will fing,
and repeat a pfalm to our Lord.
Hear, O Lord, my voice, wherewith [
have cried to thee ; have mercy on me, and
hear me.
My heart has fpoke to thee; my face
has fought thee out; thy face, O Lord, I
will feek. 3
Hide not thy face from me; turn not
away in wrath from thy fervant.
Be thou my helper, forfake me not;
neither defpife me, O God my Saviour,
R Becaufe
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Becaufe my father and mother have for-
faken me; but our Lord has received me.
Give me a law, O Lord, in thy a
and direét me in the right path, becaufe
my enemies. j
Deliver me not to the fouls of them that.
perfecute me; becaufe unjuft witneffes.
have rifen up againft me, and iniquity has
lied againft itfelf. |
believe I fhall fee the good things of
our Lord, in the land of the living.
Wait on our Lord, do manfully, and let.
thy heart take. courage; wait thou on our
Lord.
Give them, &c,
The Anth, I believe I fhall fee the good
things of our Lord in the land of the living. —
V. May our Lord place them with
princes.
R. With the princes of the people.’
Our Father, all in fecret.
The Fourth Leffon, Job 19.
Poe me, how great are my ini
quities and fins; my wicked deeds:
and my offences fhew ‘me. Why hideft
thou thy face, and thinkeft me thy ene-
my? Againft a leaf, that is carried away
with’ ‘the wind, thou fhewelt thy © might,
and perfecuteft dry ftubble. For thou
writeft bitternefs againft me, and_ wilt
confume me with the’ fins of my youth.|
Thou haft put my feet in a flring, and baft
obferved all my paths, and confidered the}
fteps
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fleps of my feet; who am to be confumed as
rottennefs, and as a garment that is eaten by
the moth. ;
R. O God, be mindful of me, becaufe my
life is bat wind; nor may the fight of man-
_ behold me. ne
V. From the deep I cried to thee, O
Lord; Lord, hear my voice. Nor may the
fight of man behold me. |
The Fifth Leffon, Job 14.
AN born of a woman, living a fhort
time, is replenifhed with many mt-
feries ; who asa flower comes forth, and is
deftroyed, and flies away like a fhadow, and
never abides in the fame flate. And doft
thou count it a worthy thing, to open thy
eyes on fuch an one, and to bring him with
thee into judgment? Who can make clean
one that is conceived of unclean feed? fs.
it not thou, who only art? The days of man
are fhort, the number of his months is with |
thee ; thou haft appointed his limits, which
cannot be pafled. Depart a little from him,
that he may reft, till his wifhed-for day
comes, as that of the hired man.
RR. I grieve, O Lord, becaufe I have
finned exceedingly in my life; O wretch,
what fhall I do, whether fhall I fly but to
thee, my God? Have mercy on me, when
thou comeft at the latter. day.
V. My foul is greatly troubled, but
: ; Re thou,
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thou, O Lord, come to its relief. Have
mercy on me, when thou comeft at the lat-
ter day.
. The Sixth Leffon, Job 14.
Wwe will grant me this, that in Hell
thou protect me, and hide me till
thy fury pafs away, and appoint me a time
wherein thou wilt remember me: fhall a
man that is dead, thinkeft thou, live again ?
All the days in which I am now in war, I
expect till my change comes. Thou fhalt
call me, and I fhall anfwer thee ; to the work
of thy hands thou fhalt reach forth thy right
hand. Thou indeed haftnumbered my fteps,
but {pare my fins,
R. Remember not, O Lord, my fins,
when thou fhalt come to judge the world
by fire. V- Dire&, O Lord my God, my
way.in thy fight. When thou fhalt come
to judge tbe world by fire. V. Give them,
© Lord, eternal reft, 8c. When thou fhalt
come to judge the world by fire. )
‘At the Lauds, as hereafter, page 186%
AT THE Tairp NocTuRN.
For Wednefday and Saturday
The Anth. May it pleafe thee.
Psarm 39. Expeétans expe@avi.
Interpreters fay that this Pfalm contains two different Senfes,
ihe one which regards the Perfonof David perfecuted by
Abfalom, and the other, which regards the perfon of the ,
Son of God, born according to the Fle/h of ihe Race of Da-
vid. Thus tt ts applied by St, Paul, in his Epifile to the
Hebrews,
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Hebrews. David thanks God for having delivered him
From fo many Dangers, and begs his farther Afiftance in
that which he at this Time was in, Jefus Chrifi, in the
Name of all his Members, gives Thanks to God his Father,
Jor the many Benefits they have received from him, and
Sometimes he fpeaks in his own Nam, clearly denoting the
Myftery of his Incarnation, which has made ceafe ail the
Sacrifices of the Old Law. 3
kf, Xeceins I expe€ied our Lord; and he
has heard me. | |
He heard my prayers, and brought me
out of the lake of mifery, and from the filth
of dregs.
And has fet my feet upon a rock, and has’
directed my fteps.
And he has put a new fong into my
mouth, a fong to our God. |
Many fhall fee, and fhall fear; and they
fhall hope in our Lord.
Bleffed is the man, whofe hope 1s in the
Name of our Lord;. and has not had regard’
to vanities, and falfe madnefs.
Thou haft done many marvellous things,
O Lord my God, and in thy a acted
there is none that may be liketo theé. © *
I have declared, and have fpoken, ‘they
are multiplied above number.
Sacrifice and oblation thou wouldeft not;
but ears thou haft perfe€ted to me. ©
Holocauft, and for fin thou didft not re=
quire: then faid I, behold come. ~
In the head of the book, it is writ of
me, that I fhould do thy will: My God, I
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would; and thy law is in the midft of my
heart.
Thave declared thy juftice in the great
affembly, I will not flay my lips: Lord, thou
haft known it.
Thy juflice I have not hid in my heart:
thy truth and thy falvation I have fpoke.
I have not hid thy mercy and thy truth
from the great council.
But thou, Lord, remove not thy mercy
far from me: thy mercy and thy truth have
_ always received me.
Becaufe evils have compafled me, which
have no number; my iniquities have over-
taken me, and I was notable to fee.
They are multiplied above the hairs of
my head: and my heart has forfaken me.
May it pleafe thee, O Lord, to ‘deliver
me: Lord, have regard to help me.
Let them be confounded, and afhamed,
who feek my foul; to take it away.
Let them be turned backward, and be
afhamec, who defire evils to me.
Let them forthwith receive their confu-
fion, who fay to me, well, well.
Let all that feek thee, rejoice, and be glad
in thee: and let thofe that love thy falvation, |
fay always, our Lord be magnified. eh,
But | am poor and needy; our Lord is
careful of me. | |
Thou art my helper and my prote€tor :
my God, delay not to help me.
Give them, &c.
The
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The Anth. May it pleafe thee, O Lord,
to deliver me. Lord, have regard to help
me.
-The Anth, Heal, O Lord, my foul.
Psa 43. Beatus qui intelligit-
David im the Time of his Affliction falls fick, and has Recourfé
to God. All the Fathers have applied this Pfalm to Fefus
Chrift, and with a great deal of Reafon, fince our Saviour
himfelf cites one of the Verfes of tt, as predifting the Treae ©
| fon of Judas. Sothat David, in being perfecuted by his
Son, betrayed and abandoned by his Friends, was a plain
Figure of Jefus Chrift in the Time of his Paffion, when the
Jews, who were the People of God, and called his Children,
rofe up againft him, and when his Apofties all abandoned
him, and one betrayed him.
LESSED is the man that confiders of
the needy, and poor: in the evil day
our Lord will deliver him.
Our Lord preferve him, and give him
life, and make him bleffed in the land,
and deliver him not to the will of his ene-
mies. :
Our Lord help him on the bed of his
forrow: thou haft turned all hisscouch in
his infirmity. - :
I faid, Lord have mercy on me; heal
my foul, becaufe I have finned againft thee.
My enemies have fpoke evils.to..me;
when fhall he die, and his\name perifh ?
And.if be came in to fee, he fpoke vain
things ; his heart is full ofiniquity. »
He went forth; and {poke to others.
ae All
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All my enemies. whifpered againft me,
they contrived evils againft me.
They have come to an unjuft refolution
againft me; but fhall not he that fleeps rife
up again P* —
For the man alfo of my peace, in whom
Y¥ hoped, who did eat my bread, has gloried
in treading meunder foot. |
But thou, Lord, have mercy on me, and
raife me up again, and I will repay them.
By this I have known, that thou haft con-
fented to me; becaufe my enemy {hall not
rejoice Over me,
But thou haft received me, becaufe of my
innocence ; and thou haft confirmed me in
thy fight for ever. ‘@
Blefled be our Lord, the God of Jfrael,
from the beginning of the world, and for
“evermore. Amen. Amen.
Givethem, Xe... |
The Anth. Heal, O Lord, my foul, be-
eaufe I have finned againft thee.
The Anth. My foul has thirfted.
Psatm 41. Quemadmodum defiderat cer-
Vus.
Some doubt whether David be the Author of this Pfalm,
but nothing hinders why we may not follow the Opinie
on of fome others, who believe that this Pfalm agrees:
perfectly with the Time of Wavid's Extle, whether
zt be applied to the Time when ke was abfent. from
‘the Tabernacle, and fuffering Perfecution, or to the
whole Time of his Life, which he looked upon as a
true Banifhment, in regard to which ke afpired with
, efl
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all his Heart; and this laff Senfe is looked upon by
Bellarm (a learned Author )» to be the true literal Senfe
of the Pfalm.
VEN as the hart ddfires the fountains
of waters; fo-my foul thirfts after thee,
O God:
My foul has thirfted after God; powers
ful. and living; when’ fhall I come, and.
appear before the face of God,
My tears have: been my bread day and
night, whilft it is fard to me daily, where is-
thy God?
Thefe things have I remembred, and
have poured out my foul in me; becaule F
fhall pafs to the place ofa wonderful taber-
nacle, even to the houfe of God.
In the voice of joy and thatik faving ; ; the
found of one who is feafting.
Why art thou forrowfal my foul; and
why doft thou trouble me?
Hope in God, becaufe yet I will praife.
him ; the falvation of my countenance, and
my God.
_ My foul is troubled within myfelf; there-
fore will I be mindful of thee, from the land
of Jordan, and Hermoniim, from the little:
mountain.
Depths call on depths in the voice of thy
flood-gates.
All thy high things, and thy waves have
pafled over me.
Tn 3
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Inthe day our Lord has recommended
his mercy, and in the night a fong to him.
With me is prayer to the God of my life ;
I will fay to God, thou art my defender,
Why haft thou forgot me: and why go I
forrowful, whilft my enemy affliés me ?
Whilft my bones are broken, my ene-
mies that trouble me have infulted over
me.
Whilft they faid day by day, where is thy
_ God? Why art thou heavy, my foul, and
why doft thou trouble me ?
Hope in God, becaufe yet I will praife
him; the falvation of my countenance, and
God. Give them. &c. |
' ‘The Anth. My foul has thirfted after God,
the powerful and the living; when fhall I
¢ome, and appear before the face of our
Lord ? 7
V. Deliver not to beafts the fouls who:
confefs to thee.
R. And forget not for ever the fouls of
shy poor, Our Father, in Secret.
The Seventh Leffon, Job 17.
M Y fpirit fhall be extenuated, my days
fhall be fhortened, and the grave on-
ly remains for me- WPhave not finned, and
_ my eye abides in bitternefs. Deliver me,
O Lord, and fet me befide thee, and let
any one’s hand fight againft me. My days
are pafled, my thoughts are diflipated, tor-
menting
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menting my heart. They have turned
night into day, and again after darknefs I
hope for light. If I fhall expeét, hell is my
houfe, and in darknefs I have made my bed ;
I have faid to rottennefs, thou art my father;
- my mother, and my fifter, to the worms.
Where then is now my expectations, and
who confiders my patience.
R. The fear of death troubles me, fin.
ing daily, and not repenting, becaufe in hell
there is no redemption ; have mercy on me,
O God, and fave me.
V. O God, in thy name, fave me; and
in thy power deliver me. Becaufe in hell
there is no redemption ; have mercy on me,
O God, and fave me,
The Eighth Leffon, Job 19.
. Mi flefh being confumed, my bone
has cleaved to my Skin, and there
are left only lips about my teeth. Have
mercy onme, have mercy on me, at leaft
you my friends; becaufe the hand of our
Lord hath touched me. Why do you per-
fecute me as God, and glut yourfelves with
my flefh? who will grant me, that my
words may be written; who will grant me,
that they may be drawn in a book, with an
iron pen, anda plate of lead; or elfe be
sraven with fteel on a flint? for I know
Do 3
- that my Redeemer lives, and that in the laf.
day I fhall rife out of the earth. And I
fhall
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fhali be encompaffed again with my fkin,
and in my flefh I fhall fee God my Saviour,
- whom I myfelf fhall fee, and my eyes fhall
behold, agd not another: this my hope is
laid ‘up in my bofom.
R. Judge me not, O Lord, according to
my deeds; for I have done nothing that
‘1s fit in thy fight; therefore I befeech thy
Majelty, that thou, O God, wilt blot out
my iniquity. ,
V. Wath me, O Lord, fiill more from
my injuflice, and from. my fin cleanfe
me ; that thou, O God, wilt blot out my
iniquity.
The Ninth Leffon, Job 10.
H Y didft thou bring me forth out.
of thy womb? I wifh I had been
confumed, that eye might not fee me.
I had been, as if I were not; transferred
from the womb to the grave. Shall not
the fewnefs of my days be fhortly ended;
fuffer me then te lament my forrow a
litle while before I go, not to return
unto the dark land, that is covered with
the mift of death; a land of mifery and
darknefs, where the fhadow of death,
and no order, but everlafting horror in-
habits. 7
R. Deliver me, O Lord, from the ways
of hell, who haft broken the brazen gates,
and haft. vifited hell, and given them
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light to behold thee; who were in the pains
of darknefs,
R. Crying, and faying, thou art come,
Oh, our Redeemer. Who were in the pains
of darknels. :
V- Give them, O Lord, eternal reft, and
Jet thy light fhine upon them for ever; who
were in the pains of darknefs,
Which is always faid in the Week-day Office.
_ The Refponfory following is only faid on All-Souls Day,
and when the three No@ums ere faid together, as above,
Page 153.
R. Deliver me, O Lord, from eternal
Death, at that dreadful day, when the
heavens and earth are to be moved;
when thou fhalt come to judge the world
by fire.
V. I tremble; and I dread the day of
account, and of thy wrath to come:
when the heavens and earth are to be
moved. 7
R. That day is the day of anger, of
‘calamity and mifery, the great and moft bit-
ter day ; when thou fhalt come to judge the
world by fire.
V. Give them, O Lord, eternal ref,
and let thy light fhine upon them for
ever.
R. Deliver me, O Lord, from eternal
death, at that dreadful day, when the hea-
vens and earth areto bemoved ; when thou
Shalt come to judge the world by fire.
5 7 AT
186 The Ofice for the Dead.
AT LAUD. Ss
‘The Anth. The humbled bones.
PsawumMm 50. Miferere mei Deus.
This Pfalm contains an excellent Prayer of a penitent Prince»
made to God to afk Pardon for his Crime, and to beg hes
Grace to preferve him from the like Temptations ; And tt
contains not only the Sentiments of his own Penisence, but
allo admirable Rules, which the Holy Ghoft gives by his
Mouth to all. Sinners,
AVE mercy on me, O God, according
to thy great mercy.
And according to the multitude of thy
tender mercies, blot out my iniquities.
Wath me ftill more from my iniquity,
and cleanfe me from my fin,
Becaule I know my iniquity; and my fin
is always againft me. ;
To thee only have I finned, and done
evil in thy fight, that thou mayeft be ju-
{tified in thy words, and overcome when
shou art judged.
For behold I was conceived in iniquities,
and my mother.conceived me in fins,
For behold thou haft loved truth ; the un-
certain and hidden things of thy wifdom thou
aft made manifeft to me.
Thou fhalt fprinkle me with hyffop, and I
fhall be cleanfed: thou fhalt wafh me, and I
{hall be made whiter than fnow.
To my bearing thou fhalt give joy, and
giadnels ; and the bones that are humbled
dnall rejoice.
Turn
The Office for the Dead. 187
Turn away thy face from my fins, and’
blot out my iniquities.
Create a clean heart in me, O God, and
renew a right {pirit within my bowels.
Caft me not away frorn thy face, and thy
Holy Spirit take not from me.
Reftore to me the joy of thy falvation, and
confirm me with thy perfeét Spirit.
I will teach the unjuft thy ways, and the
wicked fhall be converted to thee. ;
Deliver me from blood, O God, the God
of my falvation, and my tongue hall extol
thy juftice,
Lord, thou wilt open my lips, and my
mouth fhall declare thy praife.
Becaufe, if thou wouldeft have had facri-
fice, I had verily given it; with burnt-offer-
ings thou wilt not be delighted,
A facrifice to God is a troubled fpirit :
contrite and humble heart, O God, as
wilt not defpife.
Deal favourably, O ith in thy good
will with Sion; that the walls of Ferujalem
may be built up.
Then. halt. thou accept a facrifice of
jultice, oblations, and whole burnt offer-
ings: then fhall they lay calves upon thy
altar.
Give them, &c.
- The Auth. ‘The humble bones fhall re-
yoice to our Lord.
S 2 The
188 The Office for the Dead.
The Anth. Hear, O Lord.
Psaim 64. Te decet hymnus Deus.
This Pfalm, according to the Letter of it, feems to be made
about the Time of the Mraelites going out of Babylon,
and returning to Jerufalem, Jt zs to be applied, in the
Spiritual Senfe, to the Church delivered from the Captivity
of the Devil bythe Death of our Saviour Jefus Chrift.
Hymn, O God, becomes thee, in Si
on; and a vow fhall be réndered to
thee in Ferufalem.
Hear my prayer ; all flefh fhall come to
thee.
The words of the wicked have prevailed
onus; and thou wit fhew mercy to our
iniquities.
Blefled is he whom thou haft made
choice of and taken; he fhall dwell in thy
courts. | ee
We fhall be replenifhed in the goods of
thy houfe; holy is thy temple, wonderful
in equity.
Hear us, O God our Saviour; the hope
of all the ends of the earth, and of the re-
moteft parts of the fea.
Preparing mountains im thy ftrength,
girded with might; who troubleft the
depth of the fea, and the found of its
waves.
The Gentiles fhall be troubled, and they
that inhabit the borders fhall be afraid of
thy figns; the Faft and the Weft thou fhalt
delight,
| Thou
The Ofice for the Dead. 189
Thou haft vifited the earth, and made it
drink in rain, thou haft enriched it with
plenty.
The river of God is Ceinoiiiied with was
ters ; thou haft prepared their meat; be-
caufe it isto be prepared. |
Make her rivers fwell, multiply her’
fruits: in thy influence, fhe fhall rejoice and
abound. ;
Thou wilt blefs the circle of the year
with thy goodnels, and thy fields fhall be re=
plenifhed with plenty,
The beautiful ptaces of the defart. fhail
be fat, and the little bills encompaffed with
oy.
The rams of the fheep are cloathed, and
the vallies fhall abound with corn; they will
ery out, and rejoice in a hymn.
Give them, &c.
‘Fhe Anth. Hear, O Lord, my prayer ;.
all flefh fhall come to thee.
The Anth. Thy right hand.
Psauim 62, Deus Deus meus, ad te de luce
vigilo.-
ARGUMENT as dcfore, in page 22,
God, my God: to thee I watch from
the morning light,
My foul has thirlted after thee: my fléfh
alfo very many ways.
As in a defart land, and inacceffible, and
without water: fo-in the: holy: place have
‘Sy 3 I ap-
— YQ The Ofice for the Dead.
I appeared to thee; that I might behold thy
ftrength and thy glory,© 5
Becaufe thy mercy is better than life, my
lips fhall praile thee.
So will I blefs thee in my life, and in thy
name I will liftup my hands. |
As with marrow and fatnefs let my foul
be filled, and my mouth fhall praife with lips
of joy. |
If I have been mindful of thee on my
bed; inthe morning I will meditate on thee,
. becaufe thou haft been my helper.
And under the cover of thy wings I will
rejoice, my foul has cleaved after thee:
thy right hand has taken me under its pro-
teEtion.
But they in vain have fought my foul,
they fhall enter into the lower parts of the
earth; they fhall be delivered into the power
of the fword; they fhall be the portions of
foxes.
But the King fhall rejoice in God, alk
‘fhall be praifed, that {wear on him; beeaufe
the mouth of thofe that {peak wicked things:
is flopped.
Psaum 66, Deus mifereatur noftr®
ARGUMENT @s before; in page 23%
/OD have mercy on us, and blefs us,
' eaufe his countenance to fhime upom
us, and have mercy on us, :
That we may know thy way, onearth
thy falvation, in all nations. si
By
The Office for the Dead. tt
Let people, O God, confefs to thee, let
all people praife thee.
Let nations be glad, and rejoice, becaufe
thou judgeft people with equity, and di-
re€teft the nations on the earth.
Let people, O God, confefs to thee: let
all people praife thee: the earth has yielded
her fruit.
May God, our God, blefs us; may God
blefs us, and may all the ends of the earth
fear him.
Give them, &c.
The Anth. Thy right hand, O Lord,
hath received me.
The Anth. From the gate of hell.
_The Song of Ezechias, Ifaiah 38. _
Have faid: in the midft of my days, I
{hall go to the gates of hell.
IT have fought the refidue of my years :
I have faid, I fhall not fee our Lord God
in the land of the living.
I fhalt behold man no more; nor him
‘that dwellsat reff.
My generation is taken away, and is at
ence fnatched from me, as the tent of
fhepherds.
My life is eut off, as by @ weaver;
whilft I yet began he cut me of; from
morning till might thou wilt make an end
of me. :
I hoped until the morning; as a lion, fo
thas he broken all my bones..
From
192 The Office for the Dead.
From the morning till evening, thou
wilt make an end of me; as a young {wal-
low, fo will I cry; I will meditate on thee,
as a dove. |
i My eyes are weakened, looking up on
Ioh,
“Lord, I fuffer violence, anfwer for me;
what fhall I fay, or what fhall he anfwer me,
whereas himfelf has done it?
I will rehearfe to thee all my years, in the
bitternefs of my foul.
Lord, if man’s life be fuch, and the life
of my {pirit in fuch things, thou fhait chaftife
me, and {halt quicken me; behold in peace
is my greateft bitternels.
But thou haft delivered my foul, that it
fhould not perifh ; thou haft caft all my fins
behind thy back.
Becaufe Hell hall not confels to thee,
neither fhall death praife thee; they that
go down into the take fhall not expeét thy
truth:
The living, the living fhall confefs to thee,
as I alfo this day ; the father fhall make thy
truth known to his children. |
Lord, fave me; and we fhall fing our
plalms all the days of our Mite, in the houfe
of our Lord.
Give them, &c.
The
the young; let them praife the name of
The Office for the Dead. 193
The Anth. From the gate of hell deliver
my foul, O lord.
The Anth. Let every fpirit.
Psaum 148. Laudate Dominum
~ de Cerlis.
ARGUMENT @s before, in page 26, 4
Raife our Lord from the Heavens, praife
him in the high places.
Praife him all his Angels, praife him all
his powers. .
Praife him fun and moon, praife him alk
ye ftars and light. |
Praife him, O Heavens of Heavens, and
fet the waters, that are above the Heavens,
praife the name of our Lord.
Becaufe he fpake, and they were made ;
he commanded, and they were created.
He eftablifhed them for ever, world with-
out end: he made a precept, and it fhall
not be annulled,
Praife our Lord from the earth, ye
dragons, and all depths.
Fire, hail, fnow, ice, tempeftuous winds,
which obey his word. ;
Mountains and all hills, trees that bear
fruit, and all cedars, 7
Beatts and all cattle: ferpents and winged
fowls.
Kings of the earth, and all people,
princes, and all judges of the earth. "
Young men and virgins, the old with
our
194 The Office for the Dead.
our Lord, becaufe his nartie alone is. ex-
alted. | |
The confeffion of him is above Heaven
and earth, and he has:éxalted the horn of
his people. “a
A hymn to all his Saints, to the fons of
Tfrael ; a people that approaches. to him.
PsatmM 149.
ARGUMENT as dbcfore, in page 27.
ING to our Lord a new fong, let his
praife be in the church of Saints,
Let J/rael be joyful in him that made him,
and the children of Sion rejoice in their
King. |
Let them praife his name in choir: on
timbrel and pfalter let them fing to him.
Becaufe our Lord is well pleafed. with his
people, and he will exalt the meek to fal-
vation.
The Saints fhall rejoice in glory, they
fhall be joyfulin their beds.
The praife of God fhall be in their mouths,
and two-edged {words in their hands.
To execute revenge on the nations,
chaftifements among the people.
To bind their kings in fetters, and their
nobles in chains of iron. }
That they may execute on‘ them the judg-
ment that is written; this glory is to all his
Saints.
PsALM
The Cfice for the Dead. 195.
- Psatm t50. Laudate Dominum in SanQiis.
ARGUMENT as before, page 28.
Poe our Lord in his faints, praife
him in the firmament of his ftrength.
Praife him in his powers, praife him ac-
cording to the multitude of his greatnefs.
Praife him in the found of trumpet, praife
him on the pfalter and harp.
Praife him on :imbrel, and in choir, praife
him on ftrings and organs.
Praife him on well-founding cymbals,
praife him on cymbals of joy, let every {pirit
praife our Lord. :
Give them, &c.
The Anth. Let every fpirit praife our
Lord.
V. I heard a voice from Heaven, faying
to me.
R. Bleffed are the dead, that die in our
Lord. The Anth. Iam.
The Song of Zach. Luke 1.
Leffed be our Lord God of Jfrael, be-
caufe he has vifited and wrought the
redemption of his people.
And raifed up a kingdom of falvation to
us, inthe houfe of David, his fervant.
As he {poke by the mouth of his holy
prophets, that are from the beginning.
Salvation from our enemies, and from
the hand of all that hate us, ,
To
ig0 — fhe Office for the Dead. .
To work mercy with our fathers, and to
remember his holy covenant.
The oath, which he fwore to Abraham our
father, that he would grant to us.
That without fear, being delivered from
the hand of our enemies, we may ferve
him.
In holinefs and juftice before him all our
days.
and thou, child, fhalt be called the pro-
phet of the higheft; for thou fhalt go before
the face of our Lord, to prepare his
ways sco vas
To give knowledge of falvation to his
people, for remiflion of their fins.
Through the bowels of-the mercy of our
God; in which the rifing fun from on high
has vifited us.
To enlighten them that fit in darknefs,
and in the fhadow of death: to direét our
feet in the way of peace.
Give them, &c.
The Anth. I am refurre@ion and life;
he that believes in me, although he be dead.
fhall live: and every one that lives, and be-
lieves in me, fhall not die for ever.
The Prayers following are faid Knecling.
Our Father, zn fecret.
V. And lead us not into temptation.
R. But deliver us from evil. Amen.
PsaLy
The-Ofice for the Dead. 167
Psatm 129. De profundis.
ARGUMENT @s before, page 58.
j Deg the deep I have cried to thee, O —
Lord; Lord, hear my voice.
Let thy ears be attentive to ap voice of
amy petition.
If thou regardeft iniquities, O Lord;
Lord, who fhall bear it ?
Becaufe with thee there is mercy: and
becaufe of thy law, I have waited for thee,
‘O Lord.
My foul has trufted in his word, my foal
has hoped in our Lord.
From the morning watch even till night,
let J/rael hope in our Lord.
Becaufe with our Lord there is mercy,
and with him plentiful redemption.
And he fhall redeem J/rael from all his
‘iniquities,
Give them, &c.
V. From the gate of hell,
R. Deliver their fouls, <O Lord.
V. Let them reftin peace. R. Amen.
V. Lord, hear my prayer.
R. Andlet my cry come to thee.
Let us pray.
RANT, we beleech thee, O God, &c.
as before, page 160.
God, the Giver of pardon, and Lover
of, &e. as before, page 1Go.
God, the Creator and Redeemer of aj
the faithful, &c. as before, page 160.
at Who
-- or
ag8 The Office for the Dead,
‘Who liveft and reigneft, world without end.
R. Amen.
~ WV, Give them, O Lord, eternal reft.
R. And let thy light fhine upon them
i ever.
V. May they reft in peace. R. Amen.
On the Day of the Commemoration of all the Dead, this
Prayer is faid.
God, the Creator and Redeemer of
all the Faithful, &c. (and in the end)
Who livelt and reignelt, one God, with the
. Father, and the Holy Ghoft, world without
end. R-Amen.
V. Give them, &e.
A Prayer on the Day of the Departure.of Man or Woman:
ELEASE, O Lord, we befeech thee,
the foul of thy fervant, from all the
chains of fin, that being dead to the world
(he or fhe) may live to thee ; and whatever
fins (he or fhe) has committed in this life
through human frailty, do thou of thy
moft merciful goodnefs forgive: Through
our Lord.
A Prayer for a deceafed Bifhop,
God, of thy mercy grant, that thy
fervant whom thou haft placed a-
mongft thy Apoftolical Priefts, endued with
the Doni ifical Dignity, may alfo be united
with thy Apoftles in one lociety for ever:
Through our Lord.
For a Prieft deceafed, the fame Prayer is Said, but infead of
Ponufhical Dignity, /ay Prieftly parity:
A Prayer
The Office for the Dead, 199
A Prayer for one’s Father deceafed,
- God, who haft commanded us to’
honour our father and mother, have
mercy on the foul of my father, forgive
him his fins, and grant that we may meet
in the joys of eternal glory: “Fbhrough our
Lord.
For one’s Mother departed, the fame Prayer ts alfo faid, fay-
ing, for the Soul of my Father, the Soud of my Mother, and
Her znftead of His.
A Prayer for Father and Mother.
‘God, who haft commanded us to
honour our parents, have mercy on
the fouls of my father and mother: forgive
them their fins, and’ grant that we may meet’
im the joys of eternal glory : Through our
Lord.
A Prayer for a Man departed.
J NCLINE, O Lord, thy ear to the prayers
BK we humbly offer up to thy mercy: that
it may pleafe thee to grant the foul of thy
fervant, which thou haft caufed to depart.
this world, a place amongft thy faints in the
region of peace and light: Through: our
Lord.
A Prayer for a Woman departed. _
' E befeech thee, O Lord, of thy
goodnefs, have mercy on the foul
of thy fervant, and, being delivered from
the corruption of this life, reftore her to
the portion of everlafting falvation: Thro’
our Lord.
F 2 A Prayer
200 The Office for the Dead.
A Prayer on an Anniverfary,
() God, the Lord of mercy, give to the
fouls of thy fervants departed, whofe
anniverfary we celebrate, the feats of re-
frefhment, the happinefs of repofe, and
brightnefs of eternal hght Through our
Lord, &c. ;
Tf the Anniverfary Day be for one Perfon only, then the Prayer
es to be faid in the fingular Number.
A. Prayer for our Brethren, Relations, and Benefattors, dead.
God, the Giver of pardon, and Lover
of human falvation, we befeech thy
clemency, through the interceffion of the
ever bleffed Virgin Mary and of all the
faints, to admit: the brethren of our con-
gregation, relations and benefactors des
parted out of this world; to: the fellowfhip-
ef eternal Diifs.
A Prayer for the Dead in general.
‘God, the. Creator and Redeemer of
all the Faithful, give to the fouls of
thy fervants, the remiffion of all their
fins: that by pious fupplications they may
obtain the pardon they ever wifhed for, who.
livefi and reigneft, world without end.
R, Amen,
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GRAD WiAsk PSALMS.
The firft five Pfalms are to be faid without Glory be to
the Father; and-at the End of the laft Pfalm ts to be faid,
Give them, O Lord, &c. as page 154.
Psautm 119. Ad Dominum cum tribularer.
ARGUMENT as before, Page 39.
HEN I was in tribulation, I cried+to-
our Lord, and he beard me.
Lord, deliver my foul from unjuft-lips,-
and from a deceitful tongue.
What will be given, or what recompence °
can be made fora deceitful tongue ?
The fharp arrows of the mighty, with coals -
of defolation.
Woe is me, that my banifhment is pro-
longed: I-have dwelt with the inhabitants»
of Cedar; my foul has been Jong a {tranger.
With them that: hated peace, I was pea-
ceable: when I {poke to them; they oppo--
fed me without caufe,
Psatm.i20. Levavi ocules meos...
ARGUMENT as before, page 40. : :
| Have lifted up my eyes to the moun-
me,
tains, from whence: help fhall come to
~
202 The Gradual Pfalms.
My. help is from our Lord, who made
heaven and earth.
Let him not fuffer thy foot to be moved,.
mor let him flumber that keeps thee.
Lo, he fhall. not flumber nor fleep, that:
keeps J/rael.
Our Lord keeps thee, our Lord is thy
proteétion, on thy.right hand.
By day. the fun fhall net burn thee, nor
the moon by night.
Our Lord keeps thee from all evil, may
our Lord keep thy foul. |
Lset.our Lord keep thy. coming in, and
thy going out; from.henceforth, now, and. —
for every. | ahh
Psaum 121. Letatus fum:
ARGUMENT as dcfore, in page 40.
Rejoiced at thofe things, which were:
faid to me; we fhall gointo the houfe of
the Lord.
@ur feet wera. flanding in thy courts, O-
erufulem,
FJerufalem, which is built as-acity, whofe
inhabitants:are united together.
For thither did the tribes afcend, the tribes.
of our. Lord, the teftimony of. J/rae/; to-
praifethe name of our Lord.
Becaufe. feats. fat there in judgment, feats.
upon the houle of Daud.
Atk the things that are for the peace of
Jervfalem: and. abundance to them that
lave thee.
Let
The Gradual Pfalus, 20%
Let peace be made in thy flrength, and
abundance in thy towers.
_ For my brethren and. my neighbours : L
fpoke peace of thee.
For the houfe of the Lord our God: fF
have fought good'things. for thee,
Psarm 222. Ad te levavi,
ARGUMENT as before, in page 43.
T O thee have I lifted up my eyes; who:
dwelleft in the heavens.
Behold, as the eyes<of fervants are on the-
hands of heir matters;
As- the eyes of the hand-maid. on. the:
hands of her miftrefs: fo are our eyes to:
our Lord God, until he have-mercy on us.
_ .Have mercy.on us, O Lord, have mercy.
on us, becaufe we are overwhelmed with:
contempt.
Becaufe our foul is overwhelmed ;_ being
an obje&t of reproach to fuch as abound, and.
of contempt-to the proud.
Psarm 123- Nifi-quia Dominus.
ARGUMENT as défore; in page 43.
gis T that our Lord was with us,. let
Ifrael now fay, but that our. Lox was:
with us,
When men rofe up againft'us, perhaps
they had fwallowed us alive.
When their fury was raifed againf® us,
perhaps the waters had {wallowed-us up.
Our
204 The Gradual Pfalms.
Our foul has paffed through a torrent,
perhaps our foul had paffed through an into-
lerable water.
Bleffed be our Lord, who has not given
us for a prey to their teeth.
~ Our foul, as a fparrow, i delivered from
the fnare of the fowlers.
The fnare is broken, and we are deli-
vered, .
Our help is in the name of the Lord,
who made heaven and earth.
Give them, O Lord, eternal refi: and
let thy light {fhine upon them for ever.
_ Then fay, Kneeling.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Chrift, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Our Father, zn fecret. V- And fead us
mot ito temptations R. But deliver us.
from evil. V. From the gate of hell,
_R. Deliver their fouls, O Lord. .V. May
they reftin-peace. R- Amen.
V. Lord, hear my prayer.
R. And let my cry come to thee.
Lei us pray.
ELEASE, O Lord, we befeech thee,
the fouls of thy fervants, ard of all the
Faithful departed, from all the chains of
fin; that in the glory of the refurreétion:
amongft thy faints and ele& they may rife
again to everlafting life: Through Chrilt
eur Lord, _R. Amen.
Aer
The Gradual Pfalms. 205
After each of the following Gradual Set is faid, Glory
~ be to the Father, &c.
Psatm 124. Qui confidunt in Domino.
: ARGUMENT as before, in page 44-
HEY that’ truft in our Lord, are as
mount Sion; he fhall not be move
for ever that dwells in Ferufalem.
Mountains round about it, and our Lord
round about his people, from henceforth,
now, and for ever.
Becaufe our Lord’ will not leave the rod
of finners on the lot of the juft; that the
juft extend not their hands to iniquity.
Do well, O Lord, to the good and right
of heart. . ?
But our Lord will bring thofe that de-
cline to perverfe ways, with them that
work iniquity, that peace may be upor
Tfrael. |
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,.
and to the Hely Ghoft.
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever
fhall be, world without end. Amen.
Psa. 126. In convertendo Dominus:
ARGUMENT as before, in page 46.
W* EN our Lord turned back the cap-
tivity of Sion, we were made as men
comforted. ‘
~ ‘Then was our mouth replenifhed with joy,,
and our tongue with joyfulnefs:
Then fhall they fay among the Gentiles,
the Lord has done great things for them. m
ur
— The Gradual Pfalms.
Our Lord has done great things for us,
we are made joyful.
‘Turn our captivity, O Lord, as a torrent
im the fouth.
_ They-that fow in tears fhall reap in joy-
fulnefs.
Going out, they went and wept; cafling
their feed.
But returning they fhall come with joy-
fulnefs, carrying their fheaves.
Glory be to the Father, &c.
Psawum 126, Nifi Dominus,
ARGUMENT as before, page 47.
I F our Lord build not the houfe, they have
laboured in vain that built it. :
Ifour Lord keeps not the city, he watches
in vain that keeps it.
It is in vain for you to rife before light:
Fife aiter ye have fat, you who eat the biead
of forrow-
When he fhall give fleep to his beloved,
behold children are an inheritance from
~ our Lord: and the fruit of the womb isa
reward.
As arrows in the hand of the mighty,
fo are the children of them that are re-
jekted.
Bleffed is the man that has filled his de-
fire of them: he fhall not be confounded,
when he fhall fpeak to his enemies in the
ate- |
Glory be to the Father, “c,
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Psat 127. Beati omnes,
ARGUMENT as before, in page 48. 3
7» LESSED are all that fear our Lord, that
walk in his ways,
_ Becaufe thou fhalt eat the labours of thy
hands: bleffed art thou, and it fhall be well
with thee.
Thy wife, as a plentiful vine on the fides
of thy houfe.
Thy children, as young plants of olive.
trees, round about thy table.
Behold, fo fhall the man be blefled, that
fears our Lord.
Let our Lord blefs thee out of Szon, and
mayeft thou fee the good things of erufa-
lem, all the days of thy life.
Mayelt thou alfo fee thy childrens children,
peace on J/rael.
Glory be tothe Father, &c,
Psaim 128. Szpe expugnaverunt.
ARGUMENT as before, in page 57,
C)FFEN have they affaulted me from my
youth ; let J/rael now fay. |
Often have they affaulted me from my
youth; but they have not prevailed againtt
me.
Sinners have beaten on my back, as onan
anvil ; they have prolonged their iniquity.
' Our juft Lord will cut the necks of fin-
ners: let all be confounded, and turned
backward, that hate Sion.
Let
208 The Gradual Pfalms.
Let them be made as hay on the ‘tops
-of houfes: which is withered before it be
plucked up-
Whereof the reaper fhall not fill his
hand, nor he that gathers the fheaves, his
‘bofom. : |
And they who pafied by, faid not, the
bleffing of the Lord be upon you: we have
blefled you in the name of our Lord.
Glory be tothe Father, &c.
Then fay Kneeling,
Lord, have mercy on us.
Chrift, have mercy on us,
Lord, have mercy onus.
Our Father, 22 Secret. V. And lead us
not into temptation. R. But deliver us from
evil.
V- Be mindful of thy congregation.
R. Which thou haft poffefled from the
beginning.
V. Lord, bear my prayer,
R. And let my cry come to thee.
Let us pray.
God, whofe property it is always to
have mercy, and to fpare, receive
our petition, that we and all thy Servants,
who are bound by the chain of fin, may,
by the compaffion of thy goodnefs, mer-
cifully be abfolved: Through Chrift our
Lord, Amen.
PsALM
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Psat 129. De profundis.
ARGUMENT as before, page 58.
ROM the deep I have cried to thee, O
Lord; Lord, hear’my voice.
Let thy ears be attentive -to the voice of
fily petition.
It thou regardeft iniquities, O Lord;
Lord, who fhall bear it ?
Becaufe with thee there is mercy: and
becaufe of thy law, I have waited for thee,
O Lord. :
My foil has ‘trufied in his word, my foul
has hoped in our Lord.
From the morning watch even till nigh t
let Z/rael hope in our Lord.
Becaufe with our Lord there is mercy,
and with him plentiful redemption.
Andhe fhall redeem Jfrae! from all his
iniquities.
Glory be to’the Father, @.
Ps atm 130. Domine non eft exaltatum.
ARGUMENT as before, Page 59.
Ll R D, my heart is not: exalted, nor are
my eyes lofty.
Nor have I walked in great matters, nor
in marvellous things above me.
If I was not humble- minded, but exalted
my foul ;
As the weaned child is for his mother, fo
tet it be with my foul.
Let Jfrael hope in our Lord, from hence-
forth, now, and for ever.
Glory be to the Father, &c,
PSALM
210 The Gradual Pfalms.
PsatmM 131. Memento Domine David.
Some fay this Pfalm was made by David, when he tranflated
the Ark to Mount Sion; others, that it was made by Solo-
mon, when it was tranflated into the Temple which he
butlt,
Emember David, O Lord, and all his
meeknels. .
As he {wore to our Tom and vowed a
yow to the God of Facod.
If I fhall enter into the tabernacle of my
houfe: if I fhall afcend into my bed ;
If I fhall give ‘fleep to my eyes, and flum-
bering to my eye-lids,
And reft to my head, until I find a place
for our Lord, a sai sO gis for the God of
Facob.
Behold, we haye heard of it being in E-
phrata; we have found it in the fields of the
wood.
We will .enter into his tabernacle; we
will adore in the place where his feet
flood. :
Arife, Lord, into-thy ref ; thou, -and the
ark of thy fanétification.
Let thy priefts be ‘loathed with juttice,
and thy faints rejoice.
For David thy fervant’s fake, turn not
away the face.of thy Chrift.
Our Lord hath {worn truth to sided,
and he will not make it void: of the
fruit of thy wom; I will fet upon thy
throne.
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If thy children fhall keep my covenant,.
and thefe my precepts, which I will teach:
them ;.
Their children alfo for ever, fhall fit upon:
thy throne.
‘Becaufe our. Lord has made choice of
Sion; he hath chofen it for his abode.
This is my reft for ever and ever ; here
will I dwell, becaufe I have chofen it.
Bleffing, ‘Fewill blefS her widow ; her poor
I will fill with bread,
Her priefts I will cloath with falvation,
and her faints fhall be tranfported with
oy.
“There will I make appear the power of
David; there I have prepared a lamp for
my Chrift.
His enemies I will cover with confu-
fion, but upon him fhall my lanciiGcation.
flourith.
Glory be to the Father, &c.
Psaim 132. Ecce guam bonum.
This Pfalm declares the Happinefs of Unity among the
Faithful.
EHOLD how good and pleafant it is-
for brethren to dwell in unity..
As ointment on the head, which ran
down upon the beard, the beard of Aaron;
Which ran down to the hem of his gar~
ment: as the dew of Hermon, which falls
down. upon mount Sion.
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212 The Gradual Pfaims.
-Becaufe there bas our Lord commanded
bleffing, and life even for ever.
Glory be to the Father, &c.
Psat 193- Ecce nunc benedicite.
All thofe who Jerve God are exhorted to. pray to him, and bL:/s
him both by Day and by Night.
EHOLD now, blefs.our Lord, all the
fervants of our Lord:
Who ftand in the houfe of our partill in
the courts of the houfe of our God.
In the nights lift up your hands to the
fanctuary, and blefs our Lord.
Let our Lord out of Sion blefs thee, wha
made heaven and earth. ;
Glory be to the Father, &c.
hen fay, Kneeling. ©
Lord, have mercy on us,
Chrift, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy onus.
Our Father, in fecr et. |
V. And lead us not into temptations
R. But deliver us from evils.
V.. Save thy fervants.
BR Trufting i in thee, O my God.
V. Lord, hear my prayer.
R. And let my ery come to thee,
Let us pray.
TREFCH forth; O Lord, the right hand
of thy heavenly afiftance, to thy fer-
vants ; that they may feek thee with their
whole hearts, and obtain what they earneftly
require: Through Chriftour Lord...’
R. Amen. —
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Lirantss, are to be faid Kneeling,
The Anth. Remember not.
Psautm 6. Domine ne in furore.
ARGUMENT as before, in page 164.
tad rebuke me not in thy fury: nor
chaltife me in thy wrath.
Have mercy on me, O Lord, becaufe I
am infirm; heal me, O Lord, becaufe my
bones are difordered.
And my foul is very much troubled: but:
thou, Lord, how long.
Turn, ©: Lord, and deliver my foul; fave
me for thy mercy’s fake.
Becaufe there is none in death, that is-
mindful of thee; and. in Hell, who fhall con-
fels to thee ?
IT have been tired with my groans: I will
every night wafh my bed: Iwill water my
couch with my tears.
My eyceis troubled with fury; Iam grown
old among all my enemies.
Depart from me; all you that work ini-
auity; becaufe our Lord-has heard the
voice of my weeping.
Our Lord has heard:: my- fupplication 3.
eur Lord: has-received my prayer.
Let all. my enemies blufh, and be very.
much troubled; let them be turned back,
and afhamed very: quickly.
Glory be to the Father, &e.
U3 Psaun
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Psatm 91. Beati quorum remifle.
David declares thofe Men to be happy, whofe Sins are forgiven.
Hetnvites all by his own Example ta have Recourfe to tie.
Mercy of God.
LP Weaieetio they whofe inignities are
forgiven, and whofe fins are covered.
Bleffed is the man, to whom our Lord:
has not imputed fin; neither is there deceit
in his mouth.
Becaufe I held my peace,. my hones.
~are waxed old; whilft I cried all the.
day.
Becaufe day and night thy hand is.
made heavy upon me; I am converted in
my anguifh, while the thorn is faftened;
in mé.
L bave made my fin known to thee, and;
my. injuflice I haye-not, hid.
I faid ; againft myfelf, I will confels my.
injuftice to. our Lord ;. and thou halt fore.
given the impiety of, my, fin.
For this fhall every holy,one pray to, thee:
in.a feafonable time. ;
Certainly in the deluge of many waters,
they fhall not approach to him.
Thou art, my, refuge from the tribula-
tion, which has compafled me: my, joy,
deliver me from. thofe that aflault me on,
every fide. + be |
I. wil! give thee underftanding, and: in-.
fimmct thee in the way that. thou, fhalt go;
1 will fallen my, eyes upon thee, !
ae
The Seven Penitential Pfalus. 218,
Do not become as the horfe and: mule;
which have no underftanding.
In bit and bridle bind faft their jaws; who.
approach not to thee.
Many are the fcourges of afinner, but
mercy fhail encompafs bim that hopes in
our Lord. | : |
Be joyful: in our Lord, and rejoice ye
jult; and glory all ye-right, of heart.
~ Glory be:to the Father, &c.
PsatumM 37. Domine ne in furores
All agree that this Penitential Pfaln was made by David:
after the two Crimes of Adultery and Murder, which de
had committed. It contains the true and juft Sentiments of
a penitent Heart. . :
- ORD, rebuke me-not in thy fury, nor
. chaflife me in thy wrath.
Becaule thy arrows are faftened'.in me,
and thy hand. bas been heavy upon me.
There is no healeh in my flefh. jn. regard:
of thy anger, my bones have no peace ia:
regard of my fins.
Becaule my iniquities are gone'over my
bead; and,as a heavy burthen; are Decome
heavy uponme.
My foresare putrified:and corrupted, be-
eaule of my folly. ;
_I am become miferable, and bowed down,
even to extremity: I. went forrowful all
the day.. | uJ
Becaufe my loins are filled with illufions,
and there is.no healih in my flefh,
lam
216 The Seven Penitential Pfalms.
Iam afflied, and humbled very much :
- IT roared out, from the anguifh of my heart.
Lord, before thee is all my defire, and
my groans are not hid from thee.
My heart is troubled, mv ftrength has
forfaken me: and the light of my eyes is:
gone from me,
My friends and neighbours have ap-
sroached, and. {tood againft me.
And they, that were near me, ftood:afar
off ; and they did violence, who fought my
foul,
And they that fought me hurt, fpoke fal-
fities ; and ftudied deceits all the day.
But I, as one deaf, did not hear; and as.
one dumb, not opening his mouth.
And 1 became as a man that does. not
hear, and as not having reprehenfion in his.
mouth,
Becaufe in thee, Lord, have I hoped ;
thou fhalt. hear me, O Lord my. God.
For I have faid, leit at any time my
enemies rejoice over me, becaufe whilft my
feet are moved, they fpoke terrible. thing?
of me.
Becaufe Tam ready for fcourges, and my
grief is always in my fight.
Becaufe 1 will declare my. aan and E
wil think of my fin..
But my enemies live, and are rebel
ened over me, and they are multiplied that
hate me unjufily..
They
The Seven Penctential Pfalms. 217
They that repay evil for good, flandered
me, becaufe I followed*goodnels.
Forfake me not, O Lord my God, depart
not from me. ad AVES
Incline to my help, O' Lord, the God of
my falyation.
Glory be tothe Father, &cs
Psaum 50. Miferere mei Deus.
ARGUMENT as before, in page 179,
_J AVE mercy on me, O God, according
to thy great mercy.
And according to the multitude of thy .
tender mercies, blot out my iniquities.
Wath me ftill more from my iniquity,
and cleanfe me from my fin. —
Becaule I know my iniquity ; and my fin.
is. always againft me. — |
To thee only have I fnned, and done
evil in thy fight, that thou mayeft be ju-
{tified in thy words, and overcome whea
thou art judged,
For behold I was conceived in iniquities,
and’ my mother conceived me in fins.
For behold thou haft loved truth; the une
certain and hidden things of thy wifdom thou
haft made manifeltto me.
Thou fhait fprinkle me with hyffop, and 1
fhall be cleanfed: thou fhalt wafh me, and I
fhall be made whiter than fnow. 3
- To my hearing thow fhalt give joy, and
gladnefs ; and the bones that are humbled
fhall rejoice,
Turn
218 The Seven Pénitential: Pfalms.
Turn away thy face from my fins, and
blot out my iniquities.
€reate a clean heart in me, © God, and
renew asright fpirit within my bowels;
Caft me not away from thy face, and thy
Holy Spirit take not from me.
Reftore to me the joy of thy falvation, and
confirm me with thy perfeét Spirit.
I. will: teach the unjuft thy ways, and the
wicked fhall be converted to thee.
Deliver me from blood, O God, the God
of my falvation, and my tongue fhall extol
thy. juftice.
Lord; thou-wilt opem my hips,. and my
mouth fhall declare thy praife.
Becaule, if thou wouldeft have had {facri-.
fice, I had verily given it ; with burnt-offer-
ings thou wilt not be delighted.
A facrifice to God is a troubled fpirit: a
contrite and humble heart, O God, thou.
wilt not defpife.
Deal favourably, O Lord, in thy good
will with Szon; that the walls of eru/alem
may be built up.
w« Then fhalt thou accept a facrifice of
juftice, oblations, and whole burnt-offer-
ings: then fhall they lay calves upon thy
altar. |
Glory be to the Father, &c.
PsawL™M 101. Domine exaudi.
Whoever was the Author of this Pfalm, about which the
aterpreters do not agree, certain. it. 1s that tt contains
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The. Seven Peniteniral Pfalms. 219
an-excellent prayer, which is proper in general, for all thofe
-who are under any great Affittion, ether Spiritual or
Corporal. Inthe Figurative Senfe the Fathers apply it to
Fefus Chrift, foilewing the example of St. Paul, who ace
cordingly explicates fome Verjes in tt. .
JY ORD, hear my prayer, and let my cry
come to thee. :
- Turn not away thy face from me; in what
day foever I am in tribulation, incline thy
ear tome,
In what day foever I fhall call upon thee,
shear me {peedily,
For my days have vanifhed as fmoke, and
my bones are withered as a thing that is
-burnt.
Tam ftruck as grafs, and my heart is
withered ; for I have forgot to eat my bread,
Thro’ the voice of my groaning, my bones
have cleaved to my fkin.
I am become like a pelican of the wilder.
nefs; 1 am become as a night-crow in the
houfe.
I have watched, and am become asa
folitary {parrow in the houfe-top-
All the day my enemies upbraided me,
and they that praifed me, {wore againf{t
me.
For I did eat afhes as bread, and mingled
mv drink with tears.
Becaufe of thy wrath and indignation ;
for that lifting me up, thou haft thrown me
own,
My"
220 The Seven Penitential Phulms.
My days are declined as a fhadow, and
I am withered as grails.
But thou, O Lord, abideft for ever; and
thy remembrance from generation to ‘genera-
tion.
Thou rifing up fhalt have Dies on Sion ;
becaule it is ttme to have mercy on it, for
the ‘titne is come.
Becaule the {tones thereof have pleafed
_ thy fervants ; and they fhall have pity on the
earth thereof.
And the Gentiles fhall fear thy name, O
Lord; and all the kings of the earth, thy
glory.
For our Lord has built sion, and he fhall
be feen in his glory.
He has had regard to the prayer of the
humble, and he has not defpifed their peu-
tion.
Let thefe things be writ for another genera-
tion, and the people that ‘thall be created;
{hall praife our Lord,
Becaufe he has looked forth from his ‘thigh
fanctuary ; our Lord from Heaven has look-
ed upon the earth.
That he might hear the groanings of fuch
as are in jetters; that he might unbind the
children of them that are flain.
That they may fet forth the name of our
Lord in Ston, and his praife in Feru/falem,
When the people affemble together in
one, and kings to ferve our Lord.
“ He
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He anfwered him in the way of his
‘{trength, fhew me the fewnefs of my
days.
Call me not back in the midft of my
days; thy years are from generation to.
generation,
In the beginning, O Lord, thou laid’ft
the foundation of the earth, and the heavens
are the works of thy hands. ,
They fhall perifh, but thou remainett ;
and they fhall all wax old as a garment.
And as a veflure thou fhalt change
them, and they fhall be changed; but thou
art the fame, and thy years fhall not fail.
The children of thy fervants fhall in-
habit, and their feed fhall be dire&ed for
ever.
Glory be to the Father, &c.
Psaum 129- De profundis,
ARGUMENT @s before, page 58.
ROM the deep I have cried to thee, O
Lord; Lord, hear my voice.
Let thy ears be attentive to the voice of
my petition.
If thou regardeft ihiclitis O Lord;
Lord, who fhall bear it ?
Becaufe with thee there is merey: and
becaule of thy law, I have waited for thee,
O Lord.
My foul has trufted in his word, my foul
has hoped in our Lord.
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222 The Seven Penitential Pfakes,
_ ¥rem the morning watch even till night,
let J/rae/ hope.in our Lord, |
Becaufe with our Lord there is mercy,
and with him plentiful redemption.
Andhe fhail redeem J/rael from all his
iniquities. . a
Glory.be to the Father, &c.
Ps Atm 142. Domine exaudi.
This Pfaim'David made when:God punifhed him by the
Rebeltron of his Son Ablalom, for his former ‘Sins of
Adultery and. Murder. He humbles himfelf before Ged,
and begs his pardon and mercy, and by iis Example ~
teaches all Sinners how they ought to humble themfelves
before God for ther Szxs.
i ORD, hear my prayer, give ear:to my
| petition, according to thy truth; hear
ame in. thy jatlice. . ,
And enter not into judgment with thy
fervant: becaufe no one living fhall “be
juftified in thy fight.
- For the enemy has perfecuted my foul,
the has humbled my life in the earth.
He has fet me in darknefs,.as thofe who
have been long dead; and my fpirit is in
-anguifh for mylelf; my heart is troubled
awithin me. :
[was mindfal of old days, I have me-
ditated on all thy works: on the deeds of thy
hands did J meditate.
I have f{tretched forth my hands to thee ;
my foul is as earth without water’ unto
thee. |
Hear me quickly, O Lord; my fpirit
hath fainied.
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_ Turn not’ away thy face from me; and
I {hall be like to them that defcend into
the lake.
Make me hear thy merey in the morne
ing. becaufe I have hoped in thee. —
Make the way known to me, wherein I
may walk; becaufe I have hfied up my foul
to thee.
Deliver me from my enemies, O Lord ; |
to thee have I fled, teach me to: aki thy will:
becaufle thou art my God,
Thy good Spirit will condu& me into
the right way; for thy name’sfake, O Lord,
thou wilt quicken mein thy equity. ,
Thou wilt bring my foul out of tibud
lation; andinthy mercy thou wilt deftroy
my enemies.
And thou fhalt deftroy all that afli@ my |
foul; becaufe I am thy fervant.
Glory be to the Father, &cy
As it was in the beginning, &c.
The Anth. Remember not, O Lord, our
offences, nor thofe ef our parents; and take
not revenge of our fins.
LE LITAN ESAS
ORD, have mercy on us. Chrift, have
mercy on us. Lord, have mercy on us.
Chrift, hear us. |
Chrift, gracioufly hear us.
God, the Father of Heaven, have mercy on
US.
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224 The Litanies.
God the Son, Redeemer of the World, have
mercy on us.
God the Holy Ghoft, have mercy onus.
Holy ‘Trinity, one God, have mercy on us,
Holy Mary,
Holy Mother of God,
_ Holy Virgin of Virgins,
Saint Michael, —
Saint Gabriel,
Saint Raphack,
All ye holy Angels and Archangels,
All ye holy Orders of Blefled Spirits,
saint John Baptift,
AJl ye holy Patriarchs and Prophets,
Saint Peter,
Saint Paul,
Saimt Andrew,
Saint James,
Saint aie
Saint Thomas,
Saint James,
Saint Philip,
Saint Bartholomew,
Saint Matthew,
Saint Simon,
Saint Thadee,
Saint Matthias,
Saint Barnaby,
Saint Luke,
Saint Mark,
All ye holy Apofiles and Evangelifls,
All ye holy Difciples of our Lord,
Pray for us,
All
‘iaenall
The Litanies.
All ye hol Innocents,
Saint Seephet,
Saint Laurence;
Saint Vincent,
Saint Fabian and Sebafiian,
Saint Jobn and Paul,
Saint Colmas and Damian,
Saint Gervafe and Protale,
All ye holy Martyrs,
Saint Silvelter,
Saint Gregory,:
Saint Ambrofe,
Saint Auguftin,
Saint Jerom,
Saint Martin,
Saint Nicholas,
All ye holy Bithops and Confers,
All ye holy Dof€tors,
Saint Antony, —
Saint Bennet,
Saint Bernard,
Saint Dominick, Nol
Saint Francis,
All ye holy. P Priefts and Levites,
All ye holy Monks. and Hermits,
Saint Mary Magdalen,
Saint Agatha, ¢@
SaintLuey, gid. ©) steidou
Saint Agnes,
Saint Cecily.
Saint Catherine; +
Saint Anaftafia,
All ye holy Virgins. and Widows,
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226 The Litanies.
All ye faints of God, make interceffion for us.
Be merciful unto us | fpare us, O Lord.
Be merciful unto us, graciouly hear us,
O Lord.
From all evil,
From all fin,
From thy wrath,
From fudden and unprovided death,
From the deceits of the Devil,
From anger, hatred, and all ill-will,
From the {fpirit of fornication,
From lightning and tempeft,
From everlafting death,
By the myitery of thy holy incarna-
tion,
By thy coming,
BY thy baptifm, and holy fafting,
BY thy crofs, and paffion,
By thy death and burial,
By thy holy refurreétion,
By thy wonderful afcenfion,
By the coming of the Holy Ghoft, the
Comforter,
At the day of judgment,
We finners defeech thee, hear us.
That thou {pare us, |
That thou pardon us,
That thou vouchfafe to bring. us: to,
true penance,
That thou vouchfafe to govern: and.
pseferve thy boly Church,
oo
Fd as hefech,. KC,
O Lord, deliver us.
The Litanies.
_/Fhat thou vouchfafe'to’preferve our
Apoftolic Prelate; and all eeclefiafti-
cal orders, in holy religion, |
That thou vouchfafe to humble the ene=
mies of the holy Church,
That thou’ vouchfafe to give’ peace
and true concord to Chriflian Kings
and Princes,
That thou vouchfafe to grant peace and’
unity ‘to-all Chriftian people,”
That thou vouchfafe to comfort and
keep us in thy holy fervice,
That thou lift up our minds to heaven-
ly defires,
That thou render eternat good, things to
our benefa€tors,
That thou deliver our fouls, and thofe,,
of our brethren, relations. and bene-
faticrs, from etemnal damnation.
227
We befeegh thee, hear us,
That thou vouchfafe to give and pre-.
ferve the fruits of the earth,
That thou vouchfafe to give eternal
~ -reft to all the faithful departed,
That thou veuchfafe gracioufly to hear
us,
Son of God,
Lamb of God, that takeft away the fins of
the world, _, Spare us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, that takeft away the. fins of
the world, — Hrax, us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, that takeft away the fins of
the world, _ ~ ddave mercy on us,
Chrift,
ee Ce es a a
228 The Litanies.
Chrift; hear us. Chrift, gracioufly hear is,
Lord, have»mercy. on us, |
Chrift, have mercy ORuUs. big |
Loshshabe Mercy on us. »
Our Father, 2m fecret.
V. And lead us not into temptation, |
R,. But deliver us from evil. 3
Ps atm, 69, Deusinadjutorium. . >
The SubjeEt of this’ Palm, and almof? the: very Words are
the Jame weth that of the 39,.t0 the Title of which the Rea-
der 2 referred, page 176.
¥ NCLINE unto my aid, O God; O Lord,
make hafte to help me. ~
Let them be confounded, and afhamed,
who feek my foul.
Let them be turned backward, and blufh
for fhanze, who defire evi!s to.me.
Let them be turned away HehiWich,
blufhing for fhame, who fay to me, Well,
Well.
Let all that feck thee, rejoice and be glad,
ard let fuch as love thy falvation, fay always,
our Lord be magnified.
But I am needy and poor ; O. God, help.
me.
__ Thou art my helper and ny deliverer ; 4
© Lord, be not flack. we
Glory be to-the Father, ec, on
MAY: Save thy. fervants.’ Re sbrunuiig’ in
thee, O my God... V. Be.unto us, O Lord,.
a tower of ftrength.’ an; From the face
ofthe enemy. VW. Letnotthe enemy pre-
The Litanies. 220
vail againft us. R. Nor the fon of iniqui-
ty have power to hurt us. V. Lord, deal
not with us according to our fins. R. Nor
reward us according to our iniquities:
V. Let us pray for our Chief Bifhop N.
R. Our Lord preferve him, and give him
life, and make him bleffed on earth, and
deliver him not to the will of his ene-
miles. |
V. Let us pray for our benefa&ors.
R, O Lord, for thy name’s fake, vouch-
fafe to reward with eternal life, all thofe of
whom we have received good.
V. Let us pray for the Faithful departed.
R. Give them, O Lord, eternal reft, and
Tet thy light fhine upon them for ever.
V. May they reftin peace. R- Amen.
V. For our abfent brethren.
R. O my God, fave thy fervants trufting
in thee. V. Send them help, O Lord,
from the fan€@luary. R, And out of Sion
protect them. |
~ V. Lord, hear my prayer.
R. And let my cry come to thee.
Let us pray.
O God, whofe property it is always to
have mercy and to fpare, receive our
petition, that we and all thy fervants, who
are bound by the chain of fin, may, by
the compaflion of thy goodnels, mercifully
be abfolved, |
HEAR,
230 The Litanies.
FEAR, we befeech thee, O Lord, the
prayers of thy fuppliants, and pardon ©
the fins of them that confefs to thee ; that
ef thy bounty thou mayefl give us pardon
and peace.
Ge es of thy clemency, O Lord, fhew
ry thy unfpeakable mercy to us; that.
thou mayeft both acquit us of all our fins;
and deliver us from the punifhments we de-
ferve for them.
God, who by fin art offended, and by
penance pacified, mercifully regard
the prayers of thy people, who make fup-
plication to thee; and turn away the {cour-
ges of thy anger, which we deferve for our
fins. :
Almighty and eternal God, have mer-
cy on thy fervant NV. our Chief Bi-
fhop, and dire&t him, according to thy cle-
mency, in the way of everlafting falvation;
that, by thy grace, he may defire fuch things
as are agreeable to thy will, and. perform,
them with all his ftrength.
God, from whom are all holy defires,
| righteous counfels, and juft works,
give to thy fervant that peace which the
world cannot give; that both our hearts.
may be difpofed to keep thy command-
ments, and, the fear of enemies taken
away, the times, by thy proteétion, may be
peaceable. }
: I N-
-
The Litanies. 23%
¥NFLAME, O Lord, our reins and hearts
with the fire of thy Holy Spirit; that
we may ferve thee with a chafte body, and
pleafe thee with a clean heart. |
God, the Creator and Redeemer of
all the Faithful, give to the fouls of
—
thy fervants, the remiffion of all their fins:
that, by pious fupplications, they may obtain
the pardon they ever wifhed for.
REVENT, we befeech thee, O Lord,
our attions, by thy holy infpiration, and
carry them on by thy gracious affiftance ;
that every prayer and work of ours may
‘begin always from thee, and by thee be
happily ended. 3
; Almighty and eternal God, who hat
dominion over the living and the
dead; and art merciful to all thofe whom
thou foreknoweft fhall be thine by faith and
good works; we humbly befeech thee, that
they, for whom we have purpofed to offer -
our prayers, whether this prefent world {till
retains them in the flefh, or the next world
has received them out of their bodies, may;
by the interceflion of thy faints, and the cle-
mency of thy goodnels, obtain pardon, and
full remiffion of all their fins :. Through our
Lord Jefus Chrift thy Son, who liveth, &c.
R. Amen. ; :
V. Lord, hear my prayer.
R. And let my cry come to thee.
V. Our
So SORE Ce gS ae ee
232 "Prayers. _
V. Our almighty and merciful Lord, gra-
cioufly hear us. R. Amen. | oo
V. May the fouls of the faithful, through
the mercy of God, reft in peace. R- Amen,
Prayers and Corrects, to be faid after
the Lirantes, according to the Divers
fity of Times.
The Litamies are to be aid unto the Pfalm, Incline unto my
; Aid, &e, as before, page 228. Then the Verfe,
Said; Lord, have mercy on me, R.
Heal my foul, becaufe- I have finned
againft thee. V. Turn to us, O Lord,
without delay. R. And be not inexorable
to thy fervants. V. Let thy mercy, O Lord,
be upon us. R. As we have hoped in thee.
V: Let thy priefts be cloathed with juftice.
R. And let thy faints rejoice. V. Lord,
fave the King. R. And hear us on the day
we fhall call upon thee.
V. Save thy people, O Lord, and blefs
thy inheritance. R- And governthem, and
blefs them for ever. V. Be mindful of thy
congregation. R. Which thou haft poffefled
from the beginning. |
V. May peace be in thy forces.
R. And abundance in thy towers.
VY. Let us pray for the faithful departed.
R. Give them, O Lord, eternal reft ; and
let thy light fhine upon them for ever.
VY. May they reft in peace. R. Amen.
V. For
| Prayers. 233
V. For our abfent brethren. R. Save'thy
fervants, O my God, trufting in thee,
V. For the affi@ed and-captives. ‘R.
‘Deliver them, O God of Jfrael, out of all
their tribulations. V. Send -them help, O
Lord, from the fanftuary. R, And from
Sion prote@ them.
VY. Lord, hear my prayer, 23s
R, Andlet my cry come to thee,
Psatm 78, Deus venerunt gentes.
Some Interpreters think that by this Pfaln ts meant the cruel
Perfecution, which the Jews /uffered under Antiochus
and his Succeffors, according to what vs cited in the Hiftory
of the Machabees, foewing that what is here Joretold was
there accomplifhed. Others maintain that this P/alm {peaks
of the Ruin of Jerufaiem caufed by Nebuchodonofor;
Whether it be the one or the other, what is faid in it may be
very well applied in general’to the Church, and to the Faith-
Jud in Perfecution.
| () God! the Gentiles are come inte thy
inheritance; they have polluted thy holy
temple; they have made Ferufalem an or-
chard of fruit.
They have made the dead bodies of thy
fervants, meat for the fowls of the air;
the flefh of thy faints for the bealts of the
earth. -
They have poured out their blood, as wa-
ter round about Zerufalem: and there was
none to bury them.
We are become a reproach to our neigh-
bours; a fcornand derifion to them that are
‘about us.
——
"4 . How
234 _ Prayers.
_ How long, O Lord, wilt thou be anory
for ever? How long will thy zeal be kindled
as a fire ? |
Pour out thy wrath upon the Gentiles,
that have not known thee ;and upon the
kingdoms, that have not called on thy
name,
Becaufe they have devoured Jacob, and
his place have they made defolate.
Remember not our paft iniquities ; let
thy mercies make hatte to prevent us, be-
caule our mifery is very great.
Help us, O God our Saviour; and for
the glory of thy name, O Lord, deliver
us; and be merciful to our fins, for thy
name’s fake. :
Lelt perhaps they fay among the Gentiles,
where is their God? And it be known inthe ©
nation before our eyes,
Vengeance for the blood of thy fervants
which has been fhed: let the groans of thofe
that are fettered come into thy fight.
According to the greatnefs of thy arm
pollefs thou the children of them that are
put to death.
And render to our neighbours fevenfold
in their bofom, and turn upon them the
confufion of what they have done againt{t
thee, O Lord.
But we thy people, and the fheep of thy
paflure, will confels to thee for ever, :
; From
—— — a
Praye7s. ‘ 295,
Front generation to generation, we will
fet forth thy praife.
Glory be to the Father. Or the Pyfalw
Our God isa refuge, as before, page 10,
The pfalm being ended, fay.
V. Convert us, O Lord, the God of
powers. |
R. And fhew thy face, and we fhall be
fafe.
. V. Arife, O Chrift, and help us. R. And
deliver us for thy name’s fake. V.O Lord,
hear my prayer. R. And let my cry come
to thee.
Let us pray.
A prayer to require the Suffrages of Sazats,
EFEND us, O Lord, we befeech thee,
from all dangers of mind and body ;
and, by the interceffion of the ever bliefled
and glorious Virgin Mary, Mother of God,
and of thy bleffed Apoftles Peter and Paut,
and the bleffed N. and all the faints, grant
us health and peace, that all adverfities and
errors being deltroyed, thy Church may ferve
thee with fecurity and freedom. ‘Through
our Lord.
A prayer for the Holy Church of God ,
QO Almighty and everlafting God, who
haft revealed thy glory to all nations
in Chrift, preferve the works of thy mercy,
that the Church fpread through the world,
may perfevere with a ftediaft faith in the con-
feffion of thy name. Through the fame Je-
fus Chrift, our Lord-
Y 2 A Prayer
226 Prayers.
A prayer for the Chief Bifop.
God, the Paftor and Governor of ai
the Faithful; mercifully regard thy fer-
vant M..whom thou haft. placed as chief Pas
{tor over thy Church; grant him, we be-
feech thee, both by word and‘example, to-
profit thofe, who are under his charge; to
the end, that together with the flock com-
mitted to-his. care, he may gain everlafling
life: Through our Lord,
A prayer for all Degrees of the Church.
Lmighty and everlafting God, by whofe
_ Holy Spirit the whole body of the
Church is. fanttified and governed, hear, we
befeech thee, our. humble fupplications for
all orders, ftates, and degrees thereof; that,
by the gift of thy grace, they may all, in their
feveral flations, faithfully ferve thee in uni-
ty, peace, and.perpetual charity: Through
our Lord. :
A prayer ina Necefi ty.
O God, our Refuge, and.our Strength,
the Source of all Goodnels, hear the
Gevout prayers of thy Church, and grant:
that what we faithfully afk we may effectually
obtain: Through our Lord.
A prayer againft the perfecutors of the Church: -
K 7 E beleech thee, O Lord, admit the ~
prayers of thy Church, and merci-
fully appeafe thy wrath againft us, that all.
adverfities and errors being deftroved, we
may ferve thee with fecurity and freedom :
Through our Lard,
A Prayer
Prayers. “R357
A pray er to demand Help againft Infidels,
yh OST merciful God, who remem=-
‘A bereft not the iniguities of them that
turn to thee, but mercifully beareft the
voice of their tears; behold with pity thy
temples profaned by the hands of infidels,
and the afflidtion of thy beloved flock:
remember thy inheritance, purchafed with
the fhedding .of the moft precious blood
oof thy only “begotten Son; vifit the vine-
yard planted by thy night hand, and de-
fend it from the wild boar, which is bro-
ken into it, and endeavours to deftroy it ;
ftrengthen the labourers in it by thy pow-
er; and, giving them victory over their ene-
mies here, make them hereafter poffeffors:
of thy kingdom: Through the fame Jefus
Chritt.
A prayer for the Emperor.
God, the Proteéior of all Kingdoms,
and efpecially of the Chriftian Em-
pire; grant that thy fervant WN. our Eme-
peror may prudently advance the triumphs
of thy power ; that ashe governs by thy ap-
- pointment, he may prevail by thy frength :
Through our Lord.
A prayer to be faid every Day, in Time of perf cutione
QO My Lord Jefus Chrift, irne God and
Man, who fufferedeft an ignomin!-
ous death on the crols, for my redemp-
tion; Ihumbly offer to thee my f foul, my
body, my life, my lands, my goods,
¥ 3. and.
228 Prayers.
and all my fortunes, to be wholly dif
‘pofed according to thy molt heavenly
will; and if it be thy holy pleafure, that
I lofe' my. life or fortunes, for profeffing
thy holy name-and catholick religion, Lord,
I humbly and freely fubmit to all; be-
feeching thee, of thy infinite gcodnels. and:
mercy, by the merits of thy bitter death
and paffion, to be pleafed to forgive me
my fins; give me flrength and patience
to overcome ail temptations and adverfi- |
ties; pardon: all my enemies. and perlecu-.
tors, all and. every injury they have done.
me, be it by thought, word or deed, and:
‘make us all partakers of thy heavenly king-
dom. Amen,
A. prayer Sor thofe that receive Inflru€lion before Bapti/ins
¢) Almighty and eternal God, whos
ever makeft thy Church fruiful wih.
new iflwe ; increafe true faith and under-.
ftanding in thofe that are newly inflructed,.
‘hat bemg born again by the fontof bap-.
‘tifm, they may be numbered amongilti
fons of thy adpprion. Through our Lozd,
As prayer [or the Extirpatian.of all. Errors.
/ Almigbty and eternal God, the com-.
g. or) :
fort of the forrowful, the ftrength: of
them that labour; let: the prayers of the-
aficted aicend to thee in all their tribula-
tions.;, that, all may joyfully. perceive thy
Prayers. 250
cy ever prefent to relieve their neceflities..
Through our Lord.
A Prayer ‘for Héretics and Schifmatics.
[mighty and eternal God, who fa-
veft all men, and wouldeft have none:
to-perifh, look favourably upon thofe fouls.
who are. feduced: by the deceits of Satan;
that all heretical impiety being removed,-
the hearts of them that err may repent, and:
return to the unity of thy truth. ‘F hrough:
our Lord:
A Prayer for the Unbelieving Jews.
LMIGHTY. and eternal God, .who-
“KX doft not exclude from thy mercy
even the perfidions Fews, hear the prayers:
which we offer up for the blindnefs of that
people ; that the light of thy truth, Chaft
our Lord, being known to them, they may:
Be delivered from their. darknefs, Thro”
the fame Jefus Chrifs,
A prayer for Pagans.
; pmrcutry and eternal God, who de-
A dX fireh not the. death of finners, but
always. that they fhould live, mercifully ac-
@ept our prayers, and for the praife amd
slory. of thy name deliver the Pagan pco-
ple fram: the worfhip of their idols, and
unite them to thy holy Church. Through.
eur Lord Jefus Chriit..
A prayer in the.Time of Wars.
, God, who. putteft an. end. to wars;
- and, by the power. of thy proteftica,.
Valte-
240 Prayers.
vanquifheft the oppreffors of them that truft
in thee, help thy fervants, who earneltly
crave thy mercy, that the cruelty of all
their enemies being defeated, we may
piaife thee with perpetual thankigiving.
Through our Lord.
4 prayer againft Pagans and Turks,
Aimicurty and eternal God, to whofe
rule all powers and rights of nations
fubmit, incline favourably Ae the affiflance
of Chiitiiatis, that Pagan people, who re-
ily on their own cruelty, may be fupprefled
by the ftrength of thy right hand, ‘Through
our Lord.
A prayer for peace.
() Gop, from whom are all holy defires,
ec. asin page 230.
A prayer in Tiwe of famine and peftilence.
RANT us, we befeech thee, O Lord,
the effe€t of our prayers, and merci- |
fully turn away from us all peftilence and
famine ; that the hearts of men may know,
that fcourges proceed from thy indigna-
‘tion, and ceale by thy mercy: Through
our Lord,
4 prayer for Rain,
Gop, in whom we have our life, mo-
tion and being, grant us feafonable
rain; that being fufficienily relieved by thy
temporal bleffings, we may more confident-
lv defire thofe which’ are everlalting :
Through our Lord.
4 Prayer
Prayers. 24
A prayer for fair weather.
‘E A Rus, O Lord, crying to thee, and:
grant us. thy fappliants the bleffings of
fair weather ; that we, who: juftly are affli€ted
for our fins, may, by thy grace, find relief :
Thro’ our Lord.
A prayer in any tribulation,
Amey God, defpife not thy people
crying to thee in affiiflion, but for the
glory of thy name forgive them their fins,
and deliver them from all their forrows 2
‘T brough our Lord,
A-prayer- for Puxiodifi of fins.
| God, who rejetteft none, but art pa-
cited by penance, even towards the
greateft finners; -propitioufly regard the
prayers of thy fervants, that by thy. mercy
we may be pardoned cur offences, and. be
enabled to fulfill thy commandmenis : Thro”
~ our Lord.
A prayer for thofe:ihas are tmpted and troubled,
God, who jultifie! the wicked that
repent, and defireft not the death
ofa finner; we humbly befeech thy ma-
jefty, with thy heavenly grace to proteét
thy fervants, trufting. in thy mercy, and.
to. preferve them. by thy continual pro-
tection; that they may ftill ferve thee, and,
by no temptations, be feparated from thee :
thay our Lord,
A prayer for fuch as are ona ata
Earken to our fuppliants, O+ Lord,
and render the way of thy fervants.
profpe-
242 Prayers.
profperous and fafe; that among all the
varieties of this journey, and their whole
life, they may ever be protetted by thy
aid. Through our Lord. :
A prayer for the Sick,
AtmicutTy and eternal God, the
everlafting health of them that believe,
grant our prayers for thy diftempered fer-
vants, for whom we humbly crave the
affiflance of thy mercy, that being reftored
to health, they may render their thank{-
giving to thee in thy Church. ‘Fhrough
our Lord.
A prayer in Tribulation for Sin:
Q U T of thy clemency, O Lord, page
220
A prayer for Remifion of Sins.
Hye gracioufly, we befeech thee, O
Lord, the prayers. of thy fuppliants,
and pardon the fins of them that confels
to thee; that of thy bounty thou mayett give
us pardon and peace. Through, &c..
A prayer for the living.
Tretch forth, O Lord, the right han
h of thy heavenly fuccour, to thy faithful,
that they may feek thee with all their
hearts, and obtain of thy mercy whatever
is necefflary to their condition, Through our
Lord. ores
A prayer for the living and the dead.
| Almmeuiy aha everlaliing God, who
has dominion, @c. Page 231.
VY. Lord, hear my prayer
R. And
Prayers. 243
R, And let my cry come to thee.
V. Lord graciouily hear us.
R. Awd preferve us for ever. Amen.
Prayers to be faid in the Beginning of the
CONGREGATION.
O ME Holy Ghof, replenifh the heaiie
of thy faithful, and kindle in them the
fire of thy love.
Lord, have mercy on us,
Chrift, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy onus. Qur Father.
V. And lead us not into temptation,
R. But deliver us from evil.
¥V. Be mindful of thy congregation.
R. Which thou haft poflefled from the
beginning.
V. Lord, hear my prayer.
R. And let my cry come to thee,
Let us pray.
IRECT our minds, we befeech thee,
O Lord, with thy heavenly light;
that we may difcern fuch counfels as are
juft, and have ftrength to put them in
execution.
At the End of the Congregation,
ORD, have mercy on us,
Chrift, have mercy on us,
Lord, have mercy on us. Our Father.
V. And lead us not into temptation. .
R. But deliver us from evil.
V. Confirm, O God, what thou hat
wrought inus.
a
244 To beg the Grace. :
R. From thy holy temple, which is in
Ferufalem.
V. Lord, bear my prayer.
R. And Jet my cry come to thee.
Let us pray.
RAN Tus, we befleech thee, O Lord,
the help of thy grace; that what by
thy dire&tion we know is to be done, we
may accomplifh by thy afliftance: Through
Chri.
V. Vouchfafe to render eternal life to our
benefaétors, living and dead. R. Amen.
Prayers to beg the Grace of the Hoty
GHuosT?T.
The Hymn. Veni Creator Spiritus, &c. as.on Whitfunday,
or this following.
Veni Sanéle Spiritus.
Cine heav’nly dove, defcend and dwel!
Within our breafts benighted cell;
And thence the fhades of fin expell.
Defcend, thou father of the poor,
Of gifts thou unexhaufted ftore ;
Thy heavenly light our hearts implore.
Thou only comfort of our breaft,
The happy foul’s delightful gueft,
And fweet refrefhment of the bleft.
In thee when tir'd we find repole ;
In heat a breeze that gently blows; |
And comfort in excels of woes.
O {weeteft flame! thy beams impart,
And penetrate our inmoft heart, :
With light and warmth in every part.
in
of the Holy Ghoft. 245
In man, without thy fov’reign light, |
But dreams and fi&hons haunt his fight,
And nought remains but fin and night.
Wath ev'ry fiain of fin away ;
With grace our feorching fires allay ;
And heal our mafs of wounded clay.
Our ftubbormhearts with mildnefs bend,
Where love decays thy warmth extend ;
And fhew loft fheep their journey’s end.
Make all thy fevenfold fountains flow
On thofe that truft in thee below:
And in thofe f{treams thyfelf beftow.
Thyfelf the crown of all ovr pain,
Our happy end, and peer ds gain.
Amen.
V. Send forth thy Spirit, and they thal
be creaied.
R. And thou fhalt renew the face of the
earth.
V. Lord, hear my prayer.
R. And Jet my cry come to thee.
Lei us pray.
Q) Gop, who, by the infpiration of the
Holy Ghoft, didit initru€t the hearts
of the Faithful, grant us in the fame Spirit
to difcern what is right, and enjoy his com-
fort for ever: Through our Lord.
R. Amen,
Another Prayer.
Gop, to whom nothing is concealed,
but every heart lies open, and every
Li will
246 To beg the Grace, &c. |
will does fpeak, purify our hearts by the}
infpiration of the Holy Ghoft; that we}
may be perfeét in thy love, and worthily’
fet formh thy praife. Through our Lord,
and the fame Holy Ghoft, &c.
A prayer for d vmut Friends. .
O GOD, who by the grace of the}
Holy Ghoft, didft infufe the gifts of cha-j|
rity into the hearts of the faithful, grant |
to thy fervants, for whom we implore}
thy mercy, health of mind and body; |}
that they may love thee with all their}
ftrength, and with love accomplifh thofe |
things that are pleafing to thee. Through |
our Lord. } : |
A prayer for our Enemies. |
O GOD, the lover of peace, and |
conferver of charity, give to all our
enemies peace and true charity, grant them
remiflion of all their fins, and powerfully
deliver us from their deceits. Through
our Lord. ;
A prayer to repel wicked Thonghts . |
O A.micuty and moft merciful God,
gracioully have regard to our prayers,
and deliver our hearts from the tempta-
tions of evil thoughts, that we may be made
a worthy dwelling for the Holy Gholt.
Through our Lord, . |
A prayer for Charity.
O GOD, who makeft all things bene-
ficial to thofe that love thee, infufe into
our
A Thank{giving. 247
our hearts an inviolable love of thy charity ;
that the defires we conceive by thy infpi-
ration, may, by no temptation, be changed.
Through our Lord.
A prayer for Patience.
O GOD, who haft confounded the
pride of the old enemy, by the patience
of thy only begotten Son, grant, we be-
feech thee, that we may often call to mind
what he meekly fuffered for us, and, by his
example, patiently endure all adverlities-
Through our Lord.
A prayer for Continency.
NFLAME, O Lord, our reins and hearts,
with the fire of thy Holy Spirit; that
we may ferve thee with a chafte body, and
pleafe thee with a clean heart. Through
eur Lord.
A To. Ao NéK SG el) Vithin: -G.
rYCHEE, Sovereign God, our grateful Accents praife,
ER as before, page 19. Or the Hymn on the Afcenfion of our
Lord,
Then fay, V. Let us blefs the Father and
the Son, with the Holy Ghoft.
~ R. Let us praife and extol him for ever.
V. Lord. hear my prayer,
R. And let my cry come to thee.
Jaa Let us pray. .
O GOD, of whofe mercies there is
no number, and of whofe goodnefs the
- treafure is infinite ; we give thanks to thy
divine Majefty. for the gifts thou haft be-
| Yes.
flowed
248 Prayers on Journeys.
ftowed on us, always befeeching thy cle-
mency, that thou, who granteft the requeft
of thole that humbly afk, wilt not forfake
us, but difpofe us for the rewards to come :
Through our Lord, &c.
V. Lord, hear my prayer.
R. And let my cry come to thee,
V. Bilefs we our Lord.
R. Thanks be to God.
PRAYERS ON JOURNEYS,
At the pay of thy fourney, tf alone, fay in the Singu-
lar Number, 2f with Company, in the Plural.
The Anth. The Almighty and merciful
Lord. The Song. Blefled be our Lord, as
page 29. dé the end, Glory be to the Father.
Then repeat the Anthem, The almighty and
merciful Lord direét us into the way of peace
and profperity, and the Angel Raphael ac-
company us in the way; that with peace,
fafety and joy, we may return home. Lord,
abe mercy onus. Chrift, have mercy on
Lord, have merry onus. Our Father,
5 et. |
V. And lead us not into temptation.
R. But deliver us from evil. V. Save
thy fervants. R, Trufling in thee, O my
God. V. Send us help, O Lord, from
the fan€luary. R. And from Szon defend
us, V. Be untous, O Lord, a tower of
ftrength. R. From the face of the enemy.
V. Let not the enemy prevail againft us.
R, Nor
Pi ayers on Journeys. 249°
R. Nor the fon of iniquity have power to
hurt us. V. Bleffed be our Lord this day
and for ever. R. The God of our falva-
tion grant us a profperous journey. V.
Shew us thy ways, O Lord. R. And teach
us thy paths. V. O that our ways may be
directed! R. To keep thy righteoufnefs.
V. The crooked ways fhall become ftraight-
R. And the rough fhall be made plain.
V: God has given his angels charge of thee.
R. To guard thee im all thy ways. V. Lord,
hear my prayer. R. Andlet my cry come
to thee.
Let us pray.
() Gop, who for the ehildren of Jfrae!
didft open a dry paflage through
the midft of the fea; and by a flar didit
condu€& the Three Kings on their way to
thee, grant us, we befeech thee, a profpe-
rous journey, and a peaceable time ; that.
thy holy Angel accompanying us, we
may happily arrive at our journey’s end,
and hereafter gain the port of eternal fal-
vation. :
Goo, who didft preferve thy fervant
Abraham w all his ways, when he
came fiom Ur in Chaldea, we befeech thee
to protett. us thy fervants: Be to. us, O |
Lord, a help at our fetting out, a comfort
an cur way, a thade in heat, a fhelter in
Bain and cold, a chariot in wearinels, an
aid in our adverlity, a flaff in dangerous
3 Bg way,
BRO The Office of |
way, a haven in fhipwreck; that thou being
our guide, we may prolperoufly arrive at
the place to which we go, and with eee re-
turn home.
EAR, O Lord, we befeech thee, our
prayers, and render the way of thy
fervants profperous and fafe, that, among all
the varieties of this journey and life we may
be ever protetted by thy aid.
elt we befeech thee, O almighty
God, that thy Faithful may walk in ~
the ways of falvation; and, by following
the direftion of St, John the Precurfor,
come fecurely to him, whom he foretold,
our Lord Jefus Chrift, Gc. R. Amen.
V. Let us fet out in peace. ’
R. Inthe name ofour Lord. Amen.
Tut OFFICE or tue Hoty Cross. |
Ai Fic DASE TANS.
V. By the fign of the crolsy deliver us,
our God, 7
R. From our enemier.
Whick is faid in the Beginning of all the Hours of this Offee.
the Verfe.
| iphrrates open my Hps.
R. And my mouth thal declare thy
praife.
R. Incline unto my aid, O God.
V.O Lord, make hafte to help me.
Glory be to the Father, &c.
Allchuia
the Holy Cros. 251
Alleluia zs not to de fard, nor Praife be to thee, O Lord.
The Hymn.
S night departing brings the day,
True God and Man, Truth’s rifing Ray,
To Fews betray’d, is captive led ;
With night his lov’d Difciples fled,
And left their Mafter fold to foes,
Diftreft with grief and whelm’d with woes.
The Anth, O venerable crofs, by whofe
myftery finners are faved, what praifes are
fufficient to celebrate thee, who haft pur-
chafed for us eternal life!»
V. We adore thee, O Chrift, and blefs
thee.
R. Becaufe by thy holy crofs thou haft
redeemed the world.
Let us pray.
6) Lorn Jefus Chrift, Son of the living
God, vouchfafe to let thy palfion,
crofs and death, ftand between thy judg-
ment and my foul, now and at the bour
of my death; grant me grace and mer-
cy; grant reft and pardon to the living
and the dead; to thy Church peace and
concord; to us finners life and everlaf-
ing clory : Who: livelt and reigneft one
God with the Father and the Holy Ghoft,
world without end. R. Amen.
5 ek BRR ae
V. By the fign of the crofs, @c.
FBS The
25.2 The Office of
The Verfe.
NCLINE unto my aid. O God.
R. O Lord, make hafte to he!p me.
Glory beto the Father, &c. Alleluia.
| The Hymn.
NSS Prime the purple morn begins,
When falfly Chrift accus’d of fins,
At Pilate’s curft tribunal ftands,
Prophan’d with blows and impious hands ;
Whilft Jews blafpheme the God of Grace,
by {pitting in their Maker’s face.
The Anth O vitorious myftery of the
crofs ! Grant that in triumph we may enter
the celeftial court. |
V. We adore thee, O Chnift, &c.
The Prayer. O Lord fefus Chuit, as defore.
AT .TH ET HDRD HOR:
¥V. By the fign of the crofs, Ge.
The Verfe.
Vv. PNCLINE unto my aid, O God.
R. O Lord, make hafte to help me.
Glory be to the Father, &c,
| The Hymn.
T the third hour they raife their cry
And all derhand their God fhould die ;
Vhen crown'd with therns in purple veit,
The King of Kings, the people’s jelt,
Was fore’d to bear that fatal crefs,
Where congu’ring death, he paid our lofs.
The Anth The fentence of death is re-
verfed, and }evelled againft cruel death 1-
$e!f, whilft Chrift on the crofs canecls. the
bonds of our offences.
| Vv. We
the Holy Crofs. 259
V. We adore thee, O Chrift, &c.
The Prayer. O Lord Jefus Chrift, asdefors.
AT°THE STA TH HOUR,
V. By the fign of the crofs, &c.
The Verfe.
NCLINE unto my aid, O God.
R. O Lord, make hafte to help me,
Glory be to the Father, &c.
The Hymn.
T the fixth hour, the noon of day,
Chrift’s facred arms extended lay,
Nail’d to the crofs amidft the thieves,
Whilft gall his facred thirft relieves :
Thus God they with derifion pay,
The Lamb that takes their fins away. 7
TheAnth. By a tree we were made flaves,
and by the crofs we were fet free : the fruit
of the tree feduced us; the Son of God re-
deemed us. — |
V. Weadore thee, O Chrift, &c.
The Prayer. O Lord Jefus Chrift, as before.
AT THE NINTH HOUR.
By the fign of the crofs, &c.
The Verfe.
NCLINE unto my aid, O God.
R. O Lord, make hafte to help me.
Glory be to the Father, &c.
: The Hymn,
T noon, the fatal hour of three,
All Nature fhook, amaz’d to fee,
How Chrift, the God of Nature, died ;
His parting fighs and wounded fide :
The
254 The Office of
The fun’s eclips'd, the rocks relent ;
And all, but man, his pains refent.
The “Anth, O. wonderful effef& of good-
nefs ;evén death itfelf then died, when hile
expired on the crofs.
V. We adore thee, O Chrift, &e.
The Prayer. O Lord Jefus Chrift, as before,
AT EVEN-SONG.
V. By the fign of the crofs, &e.
The Verfe.
Ncline unto my aid, O God.
R. O Lord, make hafte to help me.
Glory be to the Father &e.
The Hymn.
EB H E fable evening mourns its Jofs,
Whillt Chrift 1s taking from the Brols :
Thus God and man by mortal ftrife
Paid down the ranfom of our life:
And thus the crown of glory lay
Trodden and mixt with common clay.
The Anth. O bleffed crofs, which alone
waft worthy to bear the ranfom of the world!
{weet 1s the wood, fweet the nails, and
fweet thy load; thou alone art more high
than talleft cedars: on thee did hang the
Saviour of the world: on thee did Chrift
triumph, and death, by death, was made a
{lave for ever.
V. Weadore thee, O Chrift, &c.
The Prayer. O Lord Jefus Chrift, as before.
AT COMPLIN.
Y. By the fign of the crofs, &c.
The
the Holy Ghoft. 25
The Verfe.
Onvert us, O God, our Saviour,
R. And turn away thy anger from us.
V. Incline unto my aid, O God.
R. O Lord, make hatte to help me.
Glory be to the Father, &c.
The Hymn. z
ahs H E complin hour concludes our praife,
And Chrift in his fepulchre lays ;
With him embalm’d is treafur'd up
The facred pledge of future hope ;
And {criptures are fulfill’d: may we,
O Chrift, preferve thy memory.
The Anth. Save us, O God, Saviour of
the world, who by thy crofs and blood na
redeem’d us; help us, we befeech thee, oir
God.
V. We adore thee, O Chrift, &c.
The Prayer, O Lord Jefus Chrift, as before.
5
The Recommendation,
Ccept, O Chrift, thefe humble vows,
And to the laft our caufe efpoufe ;
That we may find fupport in thee,
In death’s deplored agony. Amen,
The Orrrce ofthe Hoty Guosr,
At MATTINS. —
V. The grace of the Holy Ghoft, en-
lighten our fenfes and hearts,
Which is faid in the “ee of all the Hours of this
Office.
The
256 - The Office of -
the Verfe.
ORD, open my lips, :
R: And my mouth fhall declare thy
praife. »
R. Incline unto my aid, O God.
V. O Lord, make hafte to help me.
Glory be to the Father, &c. Alleluia.
From Septuagefima to Eafter, zaflead of
Alleluia, is. faid, Praife be to thee, O
Lord, King of Eternal Glory. |
The Hymn.
Dove divine, with wings difplay’d
Extend the cover of thy fhade,
And make our fouls bear fruit to thee :
Thou by whofe pregnant fhadow, we,
Foretold by Gabriel's meflage, own
The Fruitful Maid, and Chrift her Son.
The Anth. Come, O Holy Ghoft, repie-
nifh the hearts of the faithful, and kindle in
them the fire of thy love.
V. Send forth thy fpirit, and they fhall be
created. R. And thou fhalt renew the face
of the earth-
Let us Pray.
M A Y the virtue of the Holy Ghotft,
- O Lord, we befeech thee, be ever
ready mercifully to cleanfe our hearts, and
defend us from all adverfities. Through our
Lord, &c.
At PRY ME.
V. The-grace ofthe Holy Ghoft, &c.
The
_ the Holy. Ghoft. - 257
The Verfe.
¥ NCLINE unto my aid, O God.
& R. © Lord, make bafte to help me.
Glory be te the Father, &c. )
The Hymn.
ENEATH the facred Spirit’s fhade,
The Son of God, a creature made,
Was born, was crucify’d, and died ;
Did in the grave three days refide ;
Then rofe again, and from on high
Difpatch’d the Ghoftly Deity.
The Anth. Come, O Holy Ghoft, &c.
V. Send forth thy Spirit, &c.
The Prayer. May the Virtue, &c. as before.
AT THE THIRD HOUR.
V. The Grace of the Holy Ghoft, &c
| The Verfe.
7 NCLINE unto my aid, O God.
a R.O Lord, make hatte to help me.
Glory be to the Father, &c,
| The Hymn,
‘TROM God the Sacred Spirit came
At Pentecoft in tongues of flame ;
And, with a glowing zeal, pofleft
The weak Apoftles yielding breatt;
Left they on earth, of Chrift bereft,
Might be, like helplefs orphans, left.
The Anth. Come, O Holy Ghoflt,
_ V. Send forth thy Spirit, &c.
The Prayer. May the Virwue, &c. as before.
VAT THE Sinem Berne.
V. The Grace of the Holy Ghoft, &c
Aa |
The
i
258 The Ofice of
The Verfe.
} NCLINE unto my aid, O God.
R. O Lord, make hafte to help me.
Glorysbe to the Father, &c.
The Hymn.
af Bes: fev’nfeld grace and gift.of fpeech
The bleft Apoftles tongues enrich ;
Whereby all languages they ufe,
And with that gift their faith diffufe,
Whilft thus the Gofpel Seeds are burl’d
To bear their fruit around the world.
The Anth. Come, O Holy Ghoft, &c.
V. Send fosth thy Spirit, &c.
dhe Prayer, May the Virtue, &c: as before.
AT ERE NIN TH HOUR.
The Verfe-
¥ NCLINE unto my aid, O God.
R. O Lord, make hafte to help me,
Glory be to the Father, &c.
The Hymn.
‘Coe Comforter’s thy chofen name:
Thou'rt charity’s feraphic flame:
God’s greatelt gift ; Celeftial Fire :
Rountaw of hog and chalte defire :
‘The fev’nfold Unétion: all delight
Defcending from the fource oflight.
The Anth. Come, O Holy Gholt, &c.
V. Send forth thy Spirit, &c.
The Prayer, May the Virtue, &c. as before,
AT EV.EN-S.O NG.
Y. The Grace of the Holy Ghoft, &c.
The
the Holy Ghoft. 259
The Vere.
eset! unto my aid, O God.
R. O Lord, make hafle to help me.
Glory be to the Father &c.
The Hymn.
ih iio fov’reign Pow’r of God’s right-
hand,
O’er us thy facred fhield expand,
To guard fecure our fencelefs will
“From Hell in all attempts of ilf;-
That we, reliev’d beneath thy fhade,
_. May feel thy nourifhment and aid.
The Anth. Come, O Holy Ghoft.
V. Send forth thy Spirit, &c-.
The Prayer. May the Virtue, &c. as before.
AT COM? fim,
V. The Grace of the Holy Ghoff, &c.
The Verje.
Onvert us, O God, our Saviour,
R. And turn away thy anger from uss
V. Incline unto my aid, O God.
R. O Lord, make hafte to help me.
Glory be to the Father, &c.
The Hymn,
YA ie O facred Paraclete,
To make our fouls thy chofen feat,
And thence to rule our heedlefs ways ;
That when our Judge the dead fhall raife,
Our happy lot may be to ftand
Beneath his right and faving hand.
The Anth. Come, O Holy Ghoft, &ce.
V. Send forth thy Spirit,
Aaa 3 The
260 A Daily Exercife.
The Prayer, Way the Virtue, &c. as bee
fore, page 256.
. The Recommendation.
ff Bhesisse hours we offer up to Thee,
O facred UNION of the Threes
That we for ever may poffefs
ff as love and endlefs happinefs. Amen:
A Dairy Exercise.
When thou rifeft in the Morniug, arming thyfelf with the Sign
of the Crofs, Jar
In the name of the Father, and of the
Son, and of the Holy Ghoft. Then with thy
hands joined before thy breaft, fay, Amen. —
Bleffed. be the Holy and Undivided Tri-
nity now and for ever, world without end,
Our Father, &e. Hail Mary, &c. I be-
h eve in God, &c.
' Conress to Almighty God, to the ble&
fed Virgin Mary, to blefled Michael the
Archangel, *to biefled John Baptift, to the
Holy Apollles Peicr and Paul, and to all
the Saints, that I have finned exceedingly
in thought, word and deed, through my.
fault, through my fault, through my moft
grievous fault; therefore I befeech the blef-
fed Virgin Mary, bleffed Michael. the Arch-
angel, blefled John Baptift, the Holy. Apo-
ftles Peter and Paul, and all* the Saints, to
pray to our Lord God for me.
Aly God, have mercy on us, for
give us our Sins, and bring us toe- |
verlatting
A Daily Exercife. 264
everlafting life. R- Amen. V. May the Al-
mighty and merciful Lord give us pardon;
abfolution, and full remiffion of our fins,
R. Amen.
Vouchfafe, O Lord, to keep us this day
without fin. Have mercy on us, O Lord,
have mercy, on us: let thy mercy, O Lord,
be onus, as we have put our truft in thee.
V. Lord, hear my prayer.
R. Andlet my ery come to thee.
A Prayer.
Lord God Almighty, who halt brought
us to the beginning of this day, pre-
ferve us in it, by thy power, from falling
into fin, ard grant that our dilcourle,
thoughts and actions may always tend to
the practice of thy righteoufnefs. Through
our Lord fefus Chrift. Amen.
A Prayer.
roucusAre, O Lord God, King of
heaven and earth, this day to direét,
fanétify, rule and govern our hearts and
bodies, our fenfes, «words .and actions,
according to thy law, and the words of
thy commandments; that here and for
ever, O Saviour of the world, we may be
fafe and free under thy alitance, -who
liveft and reigneft, world without end. _A-
men. |
ANGEL >of God, to whofe holy
care 1 am committed by the fupreme
«clemency, cai defend and gover
Aa 3 me
“ay
362 A Daily Exercife.
me ths day fiom all fin and danger
Amen. |
The Bleffing. Our Lord blefs us, and de-
fend us from all evil, and bring us to eter«
nal life. acd
May the fouls of the faithful, through the
mercy of God, reft in peace. Amen.
Wien at Morning, Noon and Evening, the Sign of the Sa
duéation ts given, fay,
H.E Angel of our Lord declared to
. Mary, and fhe conceived of the Holy
Ghoft, Hail Mary, &c. Behold the hand-
maid of our Lord ; be it to me according
to thy word, Hail Mary, &c. And the word
was made flefh, and dwelt amongft us,
Hail Mary, &e. - |
: A Prayer.
OUR forth thy Grace, we befcech
thee, O Lord, imto our hearts; that
we, who have known the incarnation of
Chrift thy Son, by the meflage of an Angel,
may, by his paffion and erols, be partakers. _
in the glory of his refurreétion. Through
the fame Chrift our Lord. Amen.
May the fouls of ‘the faithfal, through the
mercy of God, reftin peace. Amen =| |
Before the Beginning of any Office.
7 A Prayer.
REVENT, we befeech thee, O Lord,
our ations, by thy holy infpiration,
and carry them on by thy gracious affifiance ;
that every prayer and work of ours may
begin
i oer r
Pi
,
A Daily Exercife. 26>
begin always from thee, and by thee be
happily ended, ‘Through Chrift our Lord,
Amen, :
: After the Office, a Prayer:
TE befeech thee, moft merciful God,
y by the prayers and merits of the
ever-biefled Virgin Mary, and all the Saints,
to accept from us this office: if we have
done any thing worthy of thy accptance,
propitioufly regard it, and mercifully par-
don all our negletts : Who livelt, &c.
In going forth of thy Houfe, fay.
Shew me, O Lord, thy ways, and: teach
me thy paths. Direé& my fteps according.
to thy word, that no injuftice over-rule me..
Perfe&t me ¥n thy paths, that my fleps may
mot deviate from them.
Entering into the Church.
O. Lord, in the multitude of thy mercy
¥ will enter into thy houfe, I will adore
at thy holy temple, and confefs to thy
name. |
Zn [prinkling of Holy Water.
Thou fhalt fprinkle me, O Lord, with
_ hyffop, and I fhall be cleanfed: thou fhalt
wafh me, and I fhall be made whiter than
fnow.
_ Inprefence of the Eucharift, a Prayer.
‘Hail true Body, born of the Virgin. Ma-
vy, which truly fuffered, and was offered
upon the Crofs for man; from whofe pier-
«ed fide flowed water and blood. Grant
we
7?
264 A Daily Exercife.
we may tafte thee in the trial of death. O
{fweet, O merciful Jefus, the Son of Mary,
have mercy on me. Amen.
A Prayer before Ma/s.
() Mosr indulgent Father of mercies,
and God of all comfort, who haft not
only once given us thy only Son to die
upon the crofs for our redemption, but
wouldeft that this oblation, moft accepta-
ble to thee, fhould daily be renewed in thy
Church, to revive in us daily the fruit of his
paffion: Grant us, we befeech thee, fo at-
~tentively and reverently to be prefent at this
adorable myftery of thy goodnefs, that we
may moft effelually attain to the participa-
tian thereof. Through the fame Lord.
The Blefing before Meat for Secular Perfons,
Blefsye. R. Blefsye. The Prayer.
LESS us, O Lord, and thefe thy gifts,
which we are to receive of thy bounty.
Fhrough Chriftour Lord. R. Amen,
Grace after Meat.
V. Blefs we our Lord.
R, Thanks be to God.
The: Prayer.
ASS sive thee thanks, almighty God,
for thefe and all the benefits we have
received, who liveft and reigneft, world with-
out end. R. Amen.
Lord, have mercy on us.
_ Chrift, have mercy on us,
Lord, have mercy on us,
Our Father, in fecrete
YV. And
A Daily Exercife. 965:
. And lead us not into temptation.
. But deliver us from evil. op
. The name of our Lord be bleffed:
. From henceforth and for ever.
Let us pray. |
oucusaFE, O Lord, for thy name’s
: fake, to give everlafting life to all our
benefaGiors, R. Amen.
V. May the fouls of the faithful, through
the mercy of God, reft in peace. R. A-
men. |
When thou goeft to fleep, arming tyfelf with the Sign of the
rofs; J®;
Baas
N: the name of the Father, and of the
A Son, and of the Holy Gholt. Tien with
thy hands joined before thy breaft, fay, Amen.
Blefled be the Holy and Undivided Trinity,
~ nowand for ever. Our Father. Hail Ma-
xy. I believe, With I confels, &c. as be-
Jore, p. 260.
The Hymn.
Te Lucis ante Terminum.
() Gop, before the clofe of day,
We beg, thy ufual mercies may
Dire&t us with thy purer light
Through all the dangers of the night..
Supprefs our foe’s infernal arts ;
Left fenfual dreams defile our hearts
With vain. deluding thoughts, that creep
On-heedlefs minds difarm’d with fleep
In this, Almighty Father, hear,
Thro’ Jefus Chrifi, thy Son, our pray’rs
Who
266 A Daily Exercife.
Who with the Holy Ghoft and Thee,
Refides and reigns eternally.
Save,us, O Lord, waking, and keep us
fleeping, that we may watch with Chrift, and
reft in peace. .
Preferve us, O Lord, as the apple of thy
eye, and proteét us under the fhadow of thy
Wings.
Vouchfafe, O Lord, to keep us this night
without fin.
Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy
“onus. Let thy mercy, O Lord, be on us,
as we have put our truft in thee,
Lord, hear my prayer. And let my cry
‘come to thee.
The Prayer.
JISIT, we befeech thee, O Lord, this
habitation, and drive far away from —
it all {nares of the enemy: let thy holy —
Angels dwell therein, to preferve us 1a
peace, and thy bleffing be upon us for ever.
Through our Lord Jefus Chrift. Amen.
O Angel of God, to whofe holy care I
am committed by the fupreme clemency,
enlighten, defend and govern me, this night,
from all fin and danger. Amen.
The Blefing. May the almighty and mer-
cifal Lord, Father, Son, and Holy Gholt,
blefs and keep us. Amen,
A Prea
Prayers before Confeffion. 267
A Preparatory Prayer before Sacramentat
Confeffion.
; O Maker of Heaven and Earth, King
A of Kings, and Lord of Lords, who of
“nothing haft made me to thy image, and
redeemed me with thy own moft precious
blood, whom I a finnez am not worthy to
“name, nor call upon, nor yet to think of
in heart; I humbly pray thee, in thy cle-
-mency to look on me thy wicked fervant,
and have compaffion on me, who fhewedft
-mercv to the woman of Canaan, and Mary,
Magdalen, who forgaveft the Publican, and
the penitent thief hanging on the crofs.
To thee, O moft loving Father, I confefs
amy fins, which, O Lord, if I would, I can-
not hide from thee. Spare me, O Chrift,
whom { have lately much offended, in
thought, word, and deed, and in all the
ways wherein I a frail finner -could have
offended, thro’ my fault, thro’ my fault,
thro’ my moft grievous fault. Therefore
© Lord, I befeech thy clemency, who
cameft down from heaven for my falvati-
on, who liftedit up David from the fall
of fin; fpare me, O Lord, fpare me, G
Chrift, who f{pared’ft Peter denying thee,
Thou art my Creator, and my Redeemer,
my Lord and my Saviour, my King and
my God: thou art my hope and my
_acuft, my fupport and my help, my com-
| fort
268 Prayers before Confeffion.
fort and my ftreng;h, my defence and
my. deliverance, my life, my falvation
and my refurre€lion, my light and my
defire, my aid and my prote&ion. I be-
feech and pray thee, help me and 1 fhail
be fafe, govern and defend me, comfort
and confirm me, raile up my fpirits, en-
lighten me, and vifit me: raife me, being
dead, becaufe I.am thy creatute and work,
O Lord: defpife me not, becaufe I am «thy
fervantand.creature, and though evil, though
unworthy, and a finner, yet fuch as I am,
whether good or. evil, I am always thine.
Unto whom fhall I fly, if I go not to thee?
if thou caft me off, who will receive me? if
thou defpifeft me, who will look on me?
acknowledge me therefore again, though un-
worthy; own me returning to thee, though
I am vileand unclean. For if I am urclean,
thou can’ft purify me: if I am blind, thou
canit give me fight: if Iam feeble, thou
can’t cure me: if I am dead and buried,
thou can’{ft revive me; becaufe thy mercy
is greater than my iniquity; greater is thy
goodnefs than my wickednefs: more thou
can’it parden than I commit; and thou
can'{t forgive more than I a finner can off-
end. Therefore, O Lord, defpife me not,
nor obferve the multitude of my iniquities,
but, according to the multitude of thy tender
mercies, have compaffion on me, ‘and be
propitious to me a molt wretched finner.
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Prayers before Confefion. 269
‘Thou, who faid’ft, Z will not the death of a
finner, but rather that he be converted and lve ;
fay to my foul, I am thy falvation. Convert
me, O Lord, to thee, and be not angry with
me. I befeech thee, O moft clement Fa-
ther, for thy mercy; I befeech and earneft-
ly pray thee, that thou bring me toa good
end, and at prefent to true penance, toa
pure confeffion, and worthy fatisfaGlion for
all my fins. Amen,
A Prayer before Sacramental Confefion.
pea my confeffion, O moft boun-
| tiful and moft merciful Lord Jefus
Chrift, the only hope of the falvation of my
foul; and giveme, I befeech thee, contri-
tion of heart, and tears to my eyes, that I
may day and night bewail all my fins with
humility and purity of heart. Let my prayer,
_ O Lord, approach in thy fight. If thou fhalt
be angry with me, what helper can I feek?
Whowill have mercy on my iniquities ? Re-
member me, O Lord, who -didft call the
woman of Canaan, and the Pubdlican to re-
pentance, and didit receive Peter lamenting
his fin: O Lord my God, accept my prayer :
O good Jefus, Saviour of the world, who gav-
eft thydelf to the death of the crofs, that thou
mighteft fave finners, regard mea wretched
finner, calling on thy name, and attend not
fo to my wickednefs, that thou forget thy
goodnefs, And if I have committed that for
Bb which
270 Prayers before Confeffion.
which thou mayeft condemn me, yet thow
haft not loft that whereby thou mayeft fave
me, Spare ame therefore, O Lord, whe
art my Saviour, and have mercy on my finful
foul: loofe all my bonds, and heal my
wounds, O Lord Jefus. I defire thee, I feek
thee ; fhew me thy face, and I fhall-be fafe,
Send forth therefore, O moft loving Lord
(through the merits of the moft pure and —
immaculate ever Virgin Mazy thy Mother,
and of thy Saints) thy light and thy truth in-
to my foul, which may truly fhew me all my
defects, which I ought to confefs, and which
may help and teach me to exprefs them
fully, and with a ,contrite heart. Who
divelt, &c, : Ss
A Method of Examination of Confcience, according to the
threefold Duty we owe to God, to cur Necghbour, and to
Ourfelves.
I. In Relation to God.
FT YAVE you, through your own fault
omitted your morning or evening
prayers, or negletled to make your daily
examination of confcience ? Have you prayed
negligently ? and with wilful diftraétion ?---
Have you well {pent yourtime, elpecially on
fundays and holidays, not in lazy lying a-bed,
or any fort of idle entertainments, but in
reading, praying, or other pious exercifes ?
Have you fpoke reverently of God, and all
holy things? Have you not taken his name
in vain, nor told untruths? Have you omit-
ted
Prayers before Confefion. a
fed your duty for buman refped, intereff,
complaifance, &c, Have you been zealous
for God’s honor, for juftice, virtue and trath,
_and reproved fuch as do otherwife? Have
you refigned your will to God in troubles,
peceflities, ficknefs, &c. Have you faithfully
refifted all thoughts of infidelity, diftrutt,
pre! umption, Impurity, &e,
For Superiors.
Alave you taken care that thofe under
your charge have done the Jike, and not
wanted any inftruétions neceffary for their
condition, nor time for prayers, or to*pre-
pare for the facraments?
Il. Relation to your Neighbour,
Have you difobeyed your fuperiors, mur-
' mured againi{t their command, or [poke con-
_ temptibly of them? Have you been trou-
' bled, peevifh, and impatient, when told of
your faults, and corre€ted by them? or have
- you feorned: their good advice, and cen-
fured their proceedings? Have you offen-
ded any by injurious or threatening words,
or attions ? Or leffened their reputation by
any fort of detration; and whether in any:
matter of concern? Or {pread any reports,.
whether true or falfe, that expofe your neigh-
bour to contempt, or miade him undervas
lued ? Have you, by carrying {tories back-
ward and forward, caufed difcord and mif-
underitanding betwixt neighbours? Have
kes ~e toward or peevill: towards any,
Bb2- in
272 Prayers before Confefion.
in carriage, fpeech, or converfation? Or
taken pleafare to anger and mortify them,
and proyoke them to fwear, curfe, or any
ways offend God? Have you {corned or re-
proached them for their corporal or {piri-
tual imperfections ?
For Superwors.
Have you beenexceflive in reprehending
others under your care; or have you been
wanting in giving jaft reproof? Have you
had charity to bear with their overfights and
imperfections, and given them good counfel ?
Lave you been follicitous for all under your
charge; and duly provided both for foul
and body ?
| ITI. In Relation to Yourfelf.
Have you been over eager in following
your own wil, in defending your own opi-
nion in things indifferent, dangerous, or fean-
dalous 2 Have you taken pleafure in hearing
vourlelf praifed, or given way to thoughts of
vanity? Have you indulged. yourfelf. in
overmuch eafe, or any ways yielded to fen-
fuality 2? Has your converfation been edify-
ing and moderate; or have you been fro-
ward, proud, or troublefome to others ?
Have you fpent overmuch time in play,
ulelefs employments, and thereby omitted or
put off your devotion to unfeafonable times.
Refides this orderly help for the better
making your confeflion of fmaller and daily
fins, it behoves you toconfider with great care,
whether
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Prayers after Confifion. == a9
_ whether any of your thoughts. words, or deeds*
arrived to be mortal ; or if you doubt they
might be fo, then muft you foexprefs them.
A Prayer after Confeffion.
Besrercu thee, O Lord, let this my con--
feffion be acceptable to thee, by the in-
terceffion of bleffed Mary thy metber: ever
Virgin, and of <all Saints, an a whatever has.
now, or at other times; been wanting in me,
of the fufliciency of contrition, of the purity
-and integrity of confeffion, let thy goodnels
and mercy fupply, and, according to the-
fame, vouchfafe to ratify in heaven “that ab-
Rlution’ which has: been here pronounced
on eattht Who liveft, &c.
A Prayer before receiving the Blefed Sacrament,
C) Mott merciful’ Lord Jefus -Chrift, Lt
a finner, prefuming nothing on my_
own merits, but trufting in thy: mercy and’
goodnels, as fear and tremble to have accefs>
to the table of thy moft fweet banquet: for
I have a heart and body defiled with many
crimes, a mind and tongue not duly guarded.
Therefore,O good God! O dreadful “Majefty!
¥°a wretch in thefe {traus, have recourfe to’
thee, the fountain of mercy, Imake hafte to”
thee to be healed, I fly under thy proteétion : :
and bim whom I.canuot: bear to be my:
judge, 1 hope to have my Saviour. To thee,
Lord, I fhew: my wounds, ‘to thee I diitovae:
B.b:2- my~
274. Prayers before Communicating.
my fhame. I know my fins are many ‘and
great, for which I fear. I truft on thy
mercies, which are without number: look
down upon me with the eyes of thy mercy,
O Lord Jefus Chrift, eternal King, God and
Man, crucified for man: hear me graciouf-
ly, hoping in thee, have mercy on me full
of mifery and fin, thou fountain of goodnefs,
that can never be exhaufted. Hail, faving
victim, offered on the tree of the crofs for
me, and all mankind. Hail, noble and pre-
cious blood, flowing from the wounds of my
crucified Lord, and wafhing away the fins
of the world. Remember, O Lord, thy
creature, whom thou haft redeemed with
thy blood; I repent that I have finned, I
defire to amend what I have done; take
away then from me, O moft merciful Father,
all my iniquities, that, purified in mind and
body, I may worthily tafte the Holy of Ho-
lies, and grant, that this body and blood,
which. I now intend, though unworthy, to
receive, may be the remiffion of my fins, a
perfeét difcharge of all crimes, a victory o-
ver evil thoughts, the beginning of a new
life, the feed of good works, and a fure pro-
tettion of foul aid body, againft all the {nares
of my enemies, Amen.
Another Prayer of St Thomas-of Aquine before receiving
; the Bleffed Sacrament.
Ba, emi ess and eternal God, behold LI.
come to the facrament of thy only be-
gotten.
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otten Son, our Lord Jefus Chrift. I come
as one fick, to the phyfician of life; as one
unclean, to the fountain of mercy; as one
blind, to the light of perpetual brightnefs ;
as one poor and needy, to the Lord of hea-
ven and earth. I befeech thee, in the ex-
cefs of thy infinite bounty, that thou vouch-
fafe to cure my infirmity, to wafh away all
that is defiling, to remove my blindnefs, to
enrich my poverty, to cloath my nakedneis,
that I may receive thee the Bread of An-
gels, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, with fo
great reverence and humility, with fo great
contrition and devotion, with fo great purity
and faith, with fuch purpofe and intention, as
is expedient for the health of my foul: Grant
me, I befeech thee, not only to receive the
facrament of our Lord’s body. and blood,
but alfo the fubltance and virtue of it: O
_ God, grant me fo to receive the body -of
thy only begotten Son, our Lord fefus
Chrift, which he took of the Virgin Mary,
that I may be incorporated into his myfticak
body, and become a living member of it.
- Omoft loving Father, grant me for ever to
behold the face of thy beloved Son, whom,
~ now veiled here on earth, I intend to receive.
Who together with thee, &c.
A prayer after receiving the Blefed Sacrament, by Sz. Tho-
mas of Aquine,
i Give thee thanks, O Holy Lord, Father
Almighty, Eternal God, who haft vouch-—
fafed to replenifh me a finner, thy unworthy.
fervant
876° Prayers after Communicating.,
fervant, through no merits of mine, but by
the only. effe€is of thy mercy, with the pre-
cious body and blood of thy Son our Lord
Jefus Chrift: and I befeech thee, that this
holy receiving may not be to me theincréafe
of guilt’ to punifhment, but as an effeétual
means for obtaining pardon, Let it be to
me an armour of faith, and a fhield of good
will. Letit be the remedy of all my vices,
a check to concupifcence and luft, an’ in-
creafe of charity, patience, humility and’o-
bedience, a firm defence again{t the deceits
of all enemies, as well vifible as invifible, a
_ perfeét reft of all motions, as well carnal as
. fpiritual, a firm union to thee, one and true
God, and a happy confummation of my end:
and I befeech thee, that thou wilt vouchfafe
to bring’ me, a finner, to that unfpeakable
feaft, where thou, with thy Son and Holy
Ghoft, art a true light to thy Saints, a com-
pleat fulnefs, an everlafting gladnefs, an ab-
jolute joy, and a perfeét felicity. Through
Chrift our Lord.
Another prayer after receiving the Bleffed Sacrament, by St.
Bonaventure,
{ TOUND now, dear Jefus, my beart,
and all. that-is within. me, witb thy
love ands. perfeQ charity, that my foul
-may ever languifh and melt away with
the defires of thee, have a longing after thy
courts, defire to be diffolved, and be wil:
thee. Grant, that my foul may hunger after
Bis thee,
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thee, the bread of Angels, the food of holy
fouls, our daily and divine bread, abound-
ing in all fweetnefs that can poffibly delight
the tafte; let my heart always hunger and
feed on thee, whom the Angels defire to fee ;
and let the bowels of my foul be filled with
the fweet tafte of thee; let it always thirft
after thee the fountain of life, the fountain
of wifdom and knowledge, the fountain of
eternal light, the river of pleafure, the riches
of the houfe of God; let it always earneftly
defire thee, feek thee, and find thee; let it
tend tothee, come to thee, think on thee,
fpeak of thee, and work all things to the
praife and glory of thy name, with humility
and difcretion, with love and delight, with
eafe and affe€tion, with perfeverance to the
end; and thou alone be always my hope, my
whole confidence, my riches, my delight,
my pleafure, my joy, my reft and tranquil-
lity, my peace, my odour, my delicious
fweetnefs, my meat, my food, my refuge, my
help, my wifdom, my portion, my poffel-
fion, my treafure, in which my mind and
heart may be always fixed and firm, fo as
not to be feparated from thee. <4men.
Another prayer after receiving the Bleff2d Sacrament.
() Lord Jefus Chrift, I humbly befeech
thy unfpeakable mercy, that this fa-
crament of thy body and blood, which I un-
worthy have received, may be to me a re-
' medy
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978 Prayers of the Paffion
medy of my offences, a ftrength againft —
frailties, a fecurity againft the dangers of the —
world, a means of pardon, and eftablifhment
of grace, a medicine of life, a memorial of
thy paffion, a nourifhment againft weaknefs,
the viaticum of my pilgrimage... Let it guide
me going, reduce me wandering, receive me
returning again, uphold me ftumbling, lift —
me up falling; and perfevering, bring me
into glory. Omofthigh God, let the moft
bleffed prefence of thy body and blood fo
alter the tafle of my heart, that, befides thee,
it may at no time feel any fweetnels, love any
thing that is beautiful, feck any unlawful
love, defire any comfort, admit any delight,.
be folicitous for honour, or fear any crucity,
Who liveft and reigneft one God, with the
Father and the Holy Ghoft, world without
end, Amen.
Then fay. |
Deus propitius efto mihi: peccatort.
Or, :
God be merciful to me a finner.
Devout prayers, or meditations upon. the
Paffion of our Lord.
A prayer of the particular Articles of the pajion.
Lord God, who for the redemption
of the world, vouchfafeft to be born,
to be circumeifed, to be reprobated by the
Fews, betrayed with a kifs, to be bound like
a malefa€tor, and like an innocent Jamb 2?
2
of our Lord. 27g
be led to flaughter, to be ignominioully
‘brought before Annas, Caiphas, Pilate and
Herod; to be accufed by falfe witnefles,
fcourged with whips, buffeted, defiled with
{pittle, crowned with thorns, ftript of cloaths,
faftned to the crofs, placed between two
thieves, to have vinegar and gall given thee
to drink, to have thy fide pierced through
with a fpear: thou, O Lord, by thefe moft -
grievous pains, which I, though unworthy
commemorate, and by thy facred death and
-paffion, free me from the pains of hell, and
conduét me whither thy mercy did condué
the good thief crucified with thee, who, to-
gether with the Father and the Holy Ghoft,
divelt and reigneft for ever. Amen.
Another prayer.
QO Lord Jefus Chrift, to whofe power all
t things fubmit, and whofe will no one
.can refift; who vouchfafed{t to be born, to
die, and to rife again: by the mytftery of
thy moll facred body, by thy five wounds,
and by the effufion of thy moft precious
blood, have mercy on us, as thou knoweft it
to be neceffary for our fouls and-bodies:
deliver us from the temptations of the devil,
and from all things, in which thou knoweft
us to be diltrefled, keep and ftrengthen us
to the end, in thy fervice, and give us true
amendment, time of true repentance, and
forgivenefs of all our fins after death : make
ais brethren, filters, friends and enemies, to
Jove
280 Prayers of the Paffion
love one another; and with all faints'to re-
Joice without end in thy kingdom ; who liveft
and reigneft, &c.
_. A prayer to the wounds of Chrift.
¥ Beleech thee, O Lord Jefus, by thofe ©
thy faving wounds, which thou didft re- —
ceive upon the crofs for our falvation, and
out of which flowed that precious blood,
wherewith we are redeemed; wound, this
my finful foul, for which thou alfo vouchfaf-
edft to die; wound it with the fire of thy
abundant charity, pierce my heart with thy
love, that my foul may fay to thee, J am
wounded with thy charity, in fuch fort, that
from the fame wound of thy love, moft ab-
undart tears may flow from me day and
night. Strike, O Lord, firike, I befeech thee
this my hard heart, with thy holy and forcible
love,and pierce it more deeply into the inner
parts, with thy mighty force. Who liveft and
reigneft world without end Amen.
Divine meditations npon the pafion of Chrif.
I. QC) Lord Jefus Chrift, I adore thee
hanging on the crofs, wearing a
crown of thorns on thy head, I befeech thee,
that thy crofs may deliver me from the
_ftriking Angel. Amen.
Our Father. Hail Mary.
II. O Lord Jefus Chrift, 1 adore thee
wounded upon the crofs, to whom gall and
vinegar was given todrink : I befeech thee,
that
of our Lord. 281
that. thy wounds may be a remedy to my
foul. Amen. as ,
Our Father. Hail Mary.
III, O Lord Jefus Chrift, I befeech thee,
for that bitternefs which thou induredff upon —
the crofs, for me a moft wretched finner,
efpecially at, that hour, when thy mott
generous foul departed from thy bleffed
body, have mercy on my foul at its. de-
pariure, and bringit tolife everlafting. Amen.
| Our Father. Hail Mary. }
lV. O Lord Jefus Chrift, I adore thee
‘defcending to hell, and delivering the cap-.
tive fouls; I befeech thee, fuffer me not
to enter in thither.. Amen. —
Our Father. Hail Mary. :
V. O Lord Jefus Chrift, I adore thee
laidin the fepulchre, embalmed with myrrh
and fpices; 1 befeech thee, that thy death
may be my Life. Amen.
Our Father. Hail Mary.
VI. O Lord Jefus Chrift, I adore thee
rifing from tlte dead, afcending to heaven,
and fitting at the right hand of thy Father ;
I befeech thee; that 1 may deferve to follow
_ thee thither, and to be prefented. Amen,
7 Our Father. Hail Mary.
VII. O Lord Jefus Chrift, the good
Shepherd, preferve the juft, juftify finners,
have mercy on all the Faithful, and be mer-
giful to mea finner. Amen. aa NS
| Our Father, Hail Mary.
Cc OF
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Ofche Seven Words which Chrift fpoke, hanging on the Crofi
A Prayer.
(@ Lord Jefus Chrift, Son of the living
: God, who hanging on the crofs faidft,
Father, forgive them, for they know not what
they do: Grant that I, for the leve of thee,
may pardon all that do-evil to me. Thou
who faidft to thethief, This day thou fhalt be
weth me in paradife: Grant me fo to live,
¢
that at the hour of my death, thou mayft fay
to me, This day fhalt thou be with me in para-
diye. Thou who faidft to thy Mother, @
Woman, behold thy Son ; and forthwith to thy
Ditciple, behold thy Mother: Grant that thy
_ dove and true charity may aflociate me to thy
Mother. Thou who faidft, Zl, Ek, lama
Jabacthani, that is to fay, My Ged, my God,
why haft thou forfaken me? Grant me to fay,
in-all any tribulauon and anguifh, My Fa-
ther, my Lord, have mercy on me a finner,
and help me, my King, and my God, who
didit redeem me with thy precious blood.
Thou who faidft, J chixft ; Grant that I may
always thirlt after thee the fountain of living
water. Thou who faidit, Father, into thy
hands I commend my forrit; receive me _re-
tuyning to thee. Thou who faidft, Zé zs f-
nijred ; grant 1 may deferve to bear that moft
{weet voice of thine, viz. Come, my Love, my
Dear, my Spoufe, come, that thou mayeft afcend
with me to feaft, to rejoice, and dwell with my.
Angels
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Angels and Saints in my kingdom, world with-
out end. Amen.
|. SALuUTATIONS toall the Parts of Chri, and a Recome
mendatzon of one’s felf to him.
AIL, awful Head of our Lord Jefus
Chriff, to be dreaded by all powers,
yet. crowned “wit thorns, and cudgelled with
a cane for us. Hail, molt Weauteots face of
our Saviour the Lord Jefus Chriff, dishgured:
for us with fpittle and buffets. Hail, molt
/
gracious eyes of our Saviour the eee Jefus
~ Chrift, bathed in tears for us. Hail, melli-
fluous mouth and throat of our. Lord: Jelus
Chrift, drenched for us with gall and vine-
gar. Hail, moft noble ears of our Saviour
the Lord. Jefus Chrift, tormented for us
_ with affronts and reproaches. Hail, fub-
_. mifflive neck of Jefus Chrift, cuffed for us,
and his moft facred back torn for us with
{fcourges. Hail, venerable hands and arms
of our Lord Jefus Chrift, racked for us
upon the crofs. Hail, meckelt breaft of our
Saviour the Lord Jefus Chriit, overwhelmed
with trouble for us in his paffion. Tiail,
glorious fide of our Lord Jefus Chnift, laid
~open for us with a foldier’s fpear. Hail,
refuge of mercy, the facred knees of our
Saviour, the Lord Jefus Chrift, bent for us in
prayer. Hail, adorable feet of our Saviour
the Lord Telus Chrift, bored through with
nails for us, Hail, all the whole body of Je-
Cc2 {us
eS Prayers to the
fus Chrift, hanged up, wounded, and dead
upon the crofs, and buried for us. Hail, ~
moft precious blood, fhed for us from the —
body of, our Saviour the Lord Jefus Chrift. —
Hail, moft holy foul of our Lord Jefus Chrift, —
recommended into his Father’s hands for-us —
upon the crofs. With the fame recommens —
dation I this day, andevery day, dorecom- |
mend to thee my foul, my life, my heart and ©
body, all my fenfes and aétions; all my —
friends, benefaétors (children) and relations; —
_ the fouls of my parents (brethren and fifters) —
and of all my friends and enemies: that thou —
wilt pleafe to prote&t, deliver, and defend us —
from all the deceitful {nares of our enemies, ©
both vifible and invifible, now and for ever. |
Amen,
A Prayer to the bleffed Virgin Mary.
Besercu thee, O holy Mary, Mother of
God, moft full of pity, the daughter of
the higheft King, Mother moft glorious, |
Mother of orphans, the comfort of the af-+ ©
—‘fli€ted, the way of them that go aftray, the
fafety of all that trufl in thee, a Virgin be-
_ fore child-bearing, a Virgin in child-bearing,
anda Virgin after child-bearing, the foun-
tain of mercy, the fountain of health and
grace, the fountain of comfort and pardon,
the fountain of piety and joy, the fountain of
jife and forgivenefs: by that holy, unfpeak-
able gladnefs, by which thy fpirit did rejoice -
at that hour, wherein the Son of God was by
the
a
Bleffed Virgin Mary. 285
the Angel Gabriel deciared to thee, and con-
ceived: by that holy unfpeakable humility,
in which thou didft anfwer the Archangel
Gabriel, Behold the handmaid of our Lord, be’
it to me according to thy word: By that divine:
myftery, which the Holy Ghoft did then
work in thee: By that unfpeakable grace,
pity, mercy, love and humility, by. which:
thy Son our Lord Jefus Chnift came down
to take human flefh in thy moft venerable
womb: By. the fifteen moft glorious joys,
which thou hadft of thy Son our Lord Jefus
Chrift: By that holy and great compaffion,
and moft bitter grief of ah which thou
had{t when thoudidft behold thy Son our Lord
Jefus Chrift {tripped before the Crols, and.
hitted up on.the fame, hanging, crucified,
wounded, thirfting, and.the molt bitter drink.
of gall and vinegar put unto his mouth;
heardf{t him cry Eli, and didft fee him die :
By thofe five wounds of thy. fame Son, by
the fhrinking of thy bowels through the exe
treme grief of his wounds; .by the forrow’ |
which thou hadft; when thou didft behold:
him wounded: By the fountains of his bleod,
by all his paffian, and forrow of thy heart «
and by the fountains of thy tears. That thou
vouchfafe to come with
ele@ of God, and halten
eoun{el, in all my? prayers and vetitions
all my diftrelfes and neceMfitics as alte
thofe things wherein J ain ta’at, &
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CLE pea . LAD Ata SMa
086 Prayers to the
‘hink, all the days and nights, hoursand mo-
ments of my life, and obtain for me, thy fer-
vant, of thy beloved Son our Lord Jefis
Chrift, the accomplifhment of all virtues,
- with all mercy and confolation, all counfel
and aid, all benedi@ion and fan@ification, all
falvation, peace and profperity, all joy afd
gladnefs, abundance of all f{piritual goods,
Sufficiency of corporal and grace of the Hol
Ghoft. Prevail with the fame Holy Spirit,
to d.fpofe of me in all occurrences, to guard
my foul, to govern and proteét my body ;
to ftirup my mind, to order my manners,
to approve my atis, fuggeft holy thoughts,
and pardon the evil I have done; to amend
the prefent, and moderate things to come;
to beftow on me an honeft and chalie life,
to grant me faith, hope, and charity, to make
me firmly believe the articles of faith, and
obferve the precepts ef the law, to rule and
proteét the fenfes of my body, to deliver me
en all occafions from mortal fin, and to be
my defence till the laft hour of my life.
Make this your interceflion, O facred Vir-
gin, Mother of God, and Mother of mercy,
that he may gracioufly admit my prayer,
and grant me lile everlafting. Amen.
Another Prayer to the blefed Virgin, and to St. John the
Evangelift. | :
() Unroucuepn, and for ever bleffed, fin-
| gular and incomparable Virgin Mary,
Mother of God, moft grateful temple of God,
: the
. Bleffed Virgin. Mary. 287
the fan@uary of the Holy Ghoft, the gate of
the kingdom of heaven, by whom, next to
God, the whole world liveth. Incline, O
Mother of mercy, the ears of thy pity, to my
unworthy fupplications, and be propitious to
me a moft wretched finner ; and be thou my
merciful helper in ali things. O moft blef-
{ed John, the familiar friend of Chrift, who
by the fame Lord Jefus Chrift was chofen a
Virgin, and among the ‘reft more beloved,
above all inftru€ted in the heavenly myfte-
ries, for thou wert made a moft worthy A-
poftle and Evangelift; thee alfo I call upon,
with Mary the Mother of the fame Lord Je-
~fus Chrift our Saviour, that thou vouchfafe
to afford me thy aid, with hers. O! yetwo
Celeftial Gems, Mary and Jobn. O! ye
two lights divinely fhining before God, chafe
away by your bright beams the clouds of
my offences. For you are thofe two, in
whom the only begotten Son of God, for
the merit of moft fincere virginity, hanging
upon the crofs, confirmed the privilege of
his love, faying thus to the one of you, Wo-
man, behold thy Son; and then to the other,
Behold thy Mother. Inthe {weetnels there-
fore of this moft facred love, through which
by our Lord’s own mouth, as mother and
fon, you were joined inone; J, a moft
wretched finner, recommend this day to you —
both my body and foul; that at all hours
and moments, internally and externally, you
vouchfafe
288 The Complaint of our Lady. .
vouchfafe to be my conflant guardians, and —
my devout interceflors to God: Afk ear- —
neftly for me, I befeech you, health of body
and foul: Procure, I befeech you, procure
by your glorious prayers, that the pure Spi-
rit, the beft Giver of Graces, may voucblafe
to vifit my heart and dwell therein; may
throughly purge me from all filth of vice ;
enlighten and adorn me with facred virtues;
‘caufe me perfe€lly to ftand and perfevere in
the love of God and my neighbour; and,
after the courfe of this life, may the mofk
‘benign Comforter bring me to the joys of
his ele: Whe, with God the Father, and
the Son, liveth and retgneth, world without
end. Amen.
The Complaint of the B. Virgin Mary.
Stabat Mater dolorofa.
U NDER the world-redeeming rood |
. The moft afffi&ted Mother ftood,
Mingling her tears. with her Son’s blood.
As that ftream’d down from ev'ry part,
‘Of all his wounds fhe felt the fmart :
What piere’d his body, pierc'd her heart.
Who can with tearlels eyes look on, |
When fuch a Mother fuch a Son
Wounded and galping does bemoan ?
O worfe than. Jewi/h heart, that coud
Unmov’d behold the double flood.
Of Mary’s tears aad Jeius’ blood, ‘
| Alas?
The Complaint of our Lady. 289
Alas! Ourfins they were, not his,
In this atoning facrifice ;
For which he bleeds, for which he dies.
When graves did open, rocks were rent,
When Nature and each element
His torments and her grief refent ;
Shall raan, the caufe of all his pain,
And allher grief; fhall finfal man
Alone infenfible remain ?-
Ah pious Mother! teach my heart
Of fighs and tears the holy art;
And in thy grief to bear a part.
That fword of grief which did pafs thro’
Thy very foul, O may it now
One kind wound on my heart beftow.
Great Queen of Sorrows! In thy train
Let me a mournet’s place obtain,
With tears to cleanfe a finful flain.
To heal the leprofy of fin,
‘We mutt the cure with tears begin :
All flefh corrupts without their brine:
Refuge of finners, grant that we
May tread thy fteps, and let it be
Our forrow not to grieve like thee.
O! May the wounds of thy dear Son
Our contrite hearts poffefs alone,
And all terrene Affections drown! —
Thofe wounds which now the ftars outfhine
Thofe furnaces of love divine
May they our droffy fouls refine.
And on us fuch impreffion make,
That we of fuff’ring for his fake,
May joyfully our portion take,
Let
290: Fhe Complaint of, &c.
Let ushis proper badge put on,
Let’s glory in the crofs alone;
_ By whieh he marks us for his own.
‘That when the laft Affizes come
For ev’ry man to ‘hear his doom,
On his right-hand we may find room.
O! -hear us, Mary; Fefus, hear
‘Our humble prayers, fecure our fear,
When thou in judgment fhalt appear.
Now give us forrow, give us love ;
That fo prepar’'d we may remove, a
When call’d from this, to the bleft world 7
, above. |
V. The tword of grief has penetrated thy
foul, » | | |
R. That out of many hearts cogitations
night be revealed.
The Prayer.
WE befeech thee, O Lord fefus Chritt,
that the bleffed Virgin Mary, thy
Mother, may interceed for us with thy cle-
mency, both now and at the hour of our
death, who, at the hour of thy paflion, had
her moft holy foul run through with the
{word of forrow. Who liveft and reigneft —
with the Father and Holy Gholt, one God, —
world without end. 4men..
A Recommendation to the Virgin Mary. |
Holy Mary, I recommend myfelf, my ~
foul and body, to thy bleffed truft and
fingular cuftody, and into the bofom of thy
| mercy,
Prayers to ihé Virgin Mary. 291
mercy, this day, and daily, and at the hour
of my death: and I commend to thee all
my hope and comfort ;- all my diftrefles and
miferies, my life,and the end ‘thereof; that,
by thy moft holy interceflion and merits, all _
my works may be dire€ted and difpofed, ac-
<ording to thine and thy Son’s will. Amen.
- Another Prayer to the Virgin.
O Mary, Mother of God, and gracious
Virgin, the true Comforter of all af-
flied perfons, crying to thee; by that great
joy, wherewith thou wert comforted, when
thou didft know our Lord Jefus was glori-
oufly rifen from the dead the third day ; be
a comfort to my foul, and vouchfafe to help
me with thine, and God's only begotten
Son, in that laft day, when I fhall rife again
with body and foul, and fhall give account of
all my aétions: tothe end I may be able by
thee, O pious Mother and Virgin, to avoid
the fentence of perpetual damnation, and
happily come to eternal joys with all the eie&t
of God, | Amen. |
A Prayer of St. Gregory, Pope. . .
O Good Jefus, the word of the Father,
the brightnefs of thy Father’s glory,
_ whom Angels defire to ‘behold; teach me
to do thy will, that, guided by thy good Spi-
rit, I may come to that blefled city, where
there is everiafling day, and unity of Spirit, |
| where
292 A Prayer to Fefus.
where there is certain fecurity, and fecure
eternity, eternal tranquillity, quiet felicity,
and happy fweetnefs, and {weet reft: where
thou, with the Father and the Holy Ghoft,
liveft and reigneft, world without end. Amen.
A Prayer to Jefus.
Good Jefus, O moft bountiful Jefus,
O moft fweet Jefus, O Jefus the Son of
the Virgin Mary, full of mercy and pity:
O {weet Jefus, according to thy great mer- |
cy, have mercy on me; O moft clement —
Jefus, I humbly befeech thee, by that pre-
cious blood, which thou didft fhed for fin-
rers, that thou wafh away ‘all my iniqui-
ties, and look upon me wretched and un-
worthy, humbly craving pardon, and calling
on this holy name fefus. O name of Jelus,
a fweet name! O name of Jefus, name of
delight! O name of Jefus, name of comfort!
For what is Jefus but a Saviour? There-
fore Jefus, for thy holy name, be to mea
Jefus, and fave me; iuffer me not to be
eae whom thou haft created of nothing ;
O good Jefus, let not my iniquity be my de-
ftruction, whom thy almighty goodnefs has
made! O fweet Jelus, acknowledge that
which is thine, and wipe away that which bes
longs not to thee: O moft bounuful Jefus,
have mercy on me, while it is ume of mercy.
Condemn me not in the time of judgment.
For what profit will be in my blood, while I
-fhail
Prayers of St. Thomas, &ec. 293
fhall defcend into eternal corruption? The
dead, O Lord Jefus, fhall not praife thee,
nor all thefe that go down into bell. O
moft loving Jefus! O Jefus moft defired!
O meekeft Jefus! O Jefus, Jefus, Jefus!
Let me enter into the number of thv ele&.
O fefus, the falvation of thofe that believe
in thee! O Jefus, the comfort of fuch as fly
to thee! O Jefus, the fweet remiffion of all
fins! O Jefus, the Son of the Virgin Mary,
pour into me grace, wifdom, charity, chaftity
and humility, that I may perfeétly love thee,
praife thee, enjoy thee, ferve thee, and glory
in thee, and all who callon thy name, which
is Jefus. '
A Prayer of St. Thomas of Aquine,
( RANT me, O merciful God, fervently
to defire fuch things as are pleafing
to thee,~ prudently to fearch them; truly to ©
acknowledge, and perfeGlly to accomplifh
them, to the praife and glory of thy na.ne.
Order my flate; and whatfoever thou re-
quirelt me to do, grant me to know it. And
grant that I execute it, as is expedient for
my foul; grant, O Lord my God, that I fail
not betwixt profperity and adverfity; that in
the former I be not too much puffed up,
nor in the latter too much deprefled ; that I
rejoice and grieve at nothing, but that which
Jeads unto thee, or feparates from thee.
That I covet to pleafe none, nor fear to dif.
Dd pleale
294 Prayers of
pleafe any, but thee. Let all tranfitory
things, O Lord, become vile to me, and let
all things that are thine, be dear to me for
thy fake, and thou, O God, above all. Let
that joy be uneafy to me, which is without
thee ; and iet me not defire any thing, that
is out of thee. Let that labour delight me,
© Lord, which is for thee ; and let all eafe
be tedious to me, which: is without thee,
Grant me, O Lord, frequently to dire my
heart to thee ; and with forrow to refent my
failings with a purpofe of amendment. Make
me, O Lord God, obedient without contra-
digtion, poor without defeét, chafte without
corruption, patient without murmuring,
humble without bygocrify, merry without dif-
folution, fad eidhan deje€tion, fober without
raorofenels, quick without lightnels, fearful
without defpair, true without deceit, working
good things without prefumption ; to correét
my neighbour without pride of mind, and to
edify him in word and example without dif-
fimulation. Give me, O Lord God, a watche
ful heart, that no curious imaginations may
Jead me away from thee. Give me a noble ~
heart, that no unworthy affection draw me
downward. Give me an upright heart,
which no finifter intention may draw out of
the way. . Give me an invincible heart,
which no tribulation may overcome. Give
me 2 free heart, which no perverfe nor vio-
lent affeci:on may claim. Grant me, O Lord
ny.
Si. Thomas of Aguine. 965
my God, an underftanding, knowing thee;
a diligence, feeking thee; a wifdom, that
may find thee out; a converfation, pleafing
thee; a perfeverance, faithfully expecting
thee; and a confidence, finally embracing
thee; to be pierced with thy pains through
penance; to’ ufe thy benefits in this warfare
by grace; and at length by glory to enjoy
thy happinefs in heaven; who with, Ge,
Another Prayer of St. Thomas, before Study.
Unfpeakable Creator! who, out of the
treafure of thy wifdom, hatt ordained
three hierarchies of Angels, and placed them
in a wonderful order above the heaven; and
haft moft wifely diflributed the parts of the
world; Thou, I fay, who art called the true
fountain of light and wifdom, and the higheft
beginning, vouchfafe to pour upon the dark-
nefsof my underftanding, in which T was
born, the double beam of thy brightnefs. re-
moviog from me all darknefsof fin and igno-
rance. Thou, who makeit eloquent the
tongues of the dumb, inftru@ my tongre,
and pour into my lips the grace of thy blef-
fing; give me quicknefs of underftanding,
capacity of retaining, fubtilty of interpreting,
facility in learning, and copious grace of
fpeaking: guide my going in, dire&t my go-
ing forward, and accomplifh my going forth,
‘Fhrough Chriftour Lord, Amen.
Dde : A
| ( 296 )
A Prayer in Affhttion. ’
C) Mosr fweet Lord Jefus Chrift, true
God, who, from the bofom of the Al-
mighty Father, wert fent into the world to
releafe finners, to redeem the affiited, to de-
liver the imprifoned, to gather the difperfed,
to reeal ftrangers to their country, to have
mercy on the contrite in heart, to comfort
the forrowful and mourning ; vouchlafe, O
Lord Jefus Chrift, to abfolve and deliver
me, thy fervant, out of the affliction and tri-
bulation into which Lam fallen: and thou,
O Lord, who from God the Father Almighty
haft received mankind, inafmuch as thou art
man, into thy prote€tion, and haft of thy
pity, by thy cruel paffion, after a wonderful
manner, purchafed paradife for us with thy
precious blood, and haft made peace between
Angels and men; thou, O Lord Jefus
Chrift, vouchfafe to eftablifh and confirm
agreement and peace between me and my
enemies, and to fhew thy grace upon me,
and to pour upon me thy mercy ; and vouch-
fafe to extinguifh and mitigate all the hatred
and anger of my enemics, which they have
againft me, as thou tookeft away the anger
and hatred of E/au, which he had againft his
brother Facob: even fo, O Lord Jefus
Chrift, vouchfafe to ftretch oyer me, thy
fervant, thy arm and thy grace, and deliver
me from all that hate me. And thou, O Lord
: Jefus
A Prayer in Affition. 897
Jefus Chrift, as thou didft deliver Abraham
from the hands of the Chaldeans; and his fon
Ifaac from being offered in facrifice with the
ram; and Facod from the hand of Efau his
brother; and Joseph from the hands of his
brethren; Noah by the ark from the flood ;
and Lot from the city of Sodom; and thy fer-
vants Mofes and Aaron, and the people of
Tfrael, from the hand of Pharaoh, and from
the bondage of Egypt; King Dawid from the
hand of Sau/, and of Goliah the giant; Su-
fanna from falfe crime and accufation ; Fu-
dith from the hand of Holofernes: Daniel
from the den of lions; the three children,
Sidrach, Mifach, and Abednago, from the fur-
nace of burning fire; onas from the whale;
and the daughter of the woman of Canaan,
who was tormented by the Devil; and Adang
from the deep pit of Hell, by thy moft pre-
cious blood; ‘and Peter from the fea: and
Paul from his bonds: even fo, O moft fweet:
Lord Jefus Chrift, Som of the iving God,
vouchiafe to deliver me thy fervant from ail
my enemies, and come fpeedily to my help,
by thy holy benefits, by thy holy incarna-
tion of the Virgin Mary, by thy holy nati-
_wity, by thy hunger, by thy thirlt, by thy
cold, by thy heats, by thy labours and af-
i€tions, by the affronts and buffets, by the
fcourges, by the nails, by the lance, by the
thorny crown, by the drinking of gal} and
winegar, by the moft ervel death of the crofs,
Dep. by
XN
298 A Frayer in 4ffliétion,
by the feven words, which, hanging on the
crofs, thou [pakeft, to wit, to God the Fa-
ther Almighty, Forgive them, for they know
not what they do. Thou faidft, O Lord, to
the thief hanging on the crofs, Amen, Amen,
I fay to thee, This day thou fhalt be with me in
paradife. . Thou faidft, O Lord, to thy Fa-
ther, Eh, Elz, lama fabaéttham, whichis in- |
terpreted, My God, my God, why haft thou for= ~
fiken me? ‘Lhou faidft, O Lord, to thy Mo- 7
ther, Woman, behold thy Son; then to thy 7
Difciple, Behold thy Mother, fhewing thyfelf 7
to have care of thy friends. Thou faidft, O
Lord, I thirft, to wit, the falvation of holy
fouls, which were in Limbo, and with defire
of ours. Thou faidft, O Lord, to thy Fa-
ther, Into thy hands I commend my fpirit.
Thou faidft, O Lord, Zé is confummate; fig-
nifying-thy labours and forrows now to be
ended, which thou tookeft upon thee for us
finners. For thefe therefore, I befeech thee,
O Lord Jefus Chrift, my Redeemer, that
thou keep me thy fervant from the malig-
nant enemy, and from all danger here in 7
this prefent world, and in that to come. De-
fend me by thy defcending into Hell, by
thy holy refurreétion, and the often com-
forting thy difciples; by thy wonderful af-
cenfion ; by the coming of the Holy Ghoit
the Comforter; by the day of dreadful
judgment: by all thefe hear me, O Lord,
and by all thy benefits, and alfo for all thy
| bene fits
A Pfaln in Tribulation. 206.
benefits beftowed on me thy fervant, fot
that thou haft made me of nothing, thou haft
produced me, and perfettly guided me_ un-
‘to thy holy faith, and haft defended me
againft the temptations of the Devil, pro-
mifing eternal life. For thefe and all other,
which eye has not feen, nor ear heard, nor
has afcended into the heart of man, I be-
feech thee, O fweeteft Lord Jefus Chrift,
that thou vouchfafe to deliver me thy fer-
vant, now and ever, from all perils of body
and foul, for thy pity and mercy’s fake; and,
after the courfe of this life, vouchfafe to
bring me to thee, the living and true God,
who liveft and reigneft, world without end.
Amen.
A Pfalm in Tribulation.
Psatm go. Qui habitat.
This Pfalm, which moft probably ts of David's making, tho?
jome attribute it to Mofes, zs full of ufzful Inftructions.
It was upon the Occafion of fome great Danger that David
made this Pfatmin the Manner of a Dialogue, where the
Prophet, the jufi Man, and our Lord fpeak by turns.
fi & that dweilsin the help of the higheft,
{hall abide in the prote@ion of the
God of Heaven. ;
He thall fay to our Lord, Thou art my ©
protettor; my refuge and my God; 1 will
hope in him. :
~ Becaufe he fhali deliver me from the
{nare of the hunters, and from the harfh
word, —
With
300 (A Pfalm in Tribulation.
With his fhoulders he fhall overfhadow
thee ; and under his mies thou fhalthope. |
As with a fhield fhalk his truth compafg —
thee; thot fhalt not be afraid of terrors by —
night.
Nor of the arrow that flies by day, nor of
mifchief that comes by night, nor of incur-
fion, or the noon-day Devil.
A thoufand fhall fall on thy fide, and ten
thoufand on thy right hand; and to thee
thofe things fhall not approach.
But thou fhalt confider with thy eyes, and
fee the reward of finners.
Becaufe thou, O Lord, art my hope, thou
haft made the Highelt thy refuge, :
There fhall no evil come to thee ; and
the fcourge fhalk not approach to thy taber-
nacle.
Becaufe he has given bis Angels charge
over thee ; that they keep thee in all thy
WayS.
In their bands they fhall bear thee, left
perhaps thow hurt thy foot againtt a
ftone.
Upon the afp and bafilifle thow fhalt walk ;
and tread wpon the lion and ‘dragon.
Becaule he hath hoped in me, 1 will deli-
ver him; F will prote& him, ea ale he has
known my name. _— - |
He has cried to. me, and I will hear him z
Tam with him in tribulation, I will deliver
sand glorify hima,
ee ee ee ee
Tea a ee Se a
Wiuh
The Creed of Athanafius. 301
With length of days 1 will replenifh him,
and will fhew him my falvation.
Glory be to the Father, &c.
A Prayer.
Gop, who defpifeft not the tears of
the contrite, nor the fighs of them
that mourn, attend to the prayers we pour
forth to thee in our tribulation, and merct-
fully bear them, that whatever devils or men
defign againft us, may be brought to no-
thing, and be crufhed by the effets of thy
goodnels: fo that being hurt by no adverfi-
ties, but delivered from all tribulation and
diftrefs, we may render thanks to thee in thy
church. Forgive, QO Lord, our fins, and
grant us the mercy We afk: Have regard to
our miferies, break our bonds, blot out our
offences, behold our tribulation, repel our
adverfity, and, granting the effet of our pe-
tition, gracioufly hear our prayers. Thro’
our Lord.
The Creed of Athanafius.
Hoxrver defires to be faved, it is ne-
ceffary before all things, that he hold
the Catholic faith. 3
Which except every one fhall keep whole
and inviolate, he fhall without doubt eter-
nally perifh.
And this is the Catholic faith, that we
worfhip one God in Trinity, and Trinity in
Unity. ;
Neither
302 The Creed of Athanalius.
Neither confounding the perfons, nor di-
viding the fubfiance. |
For there is one perfor of the Father; —
another of the Son, another of the Holy |
Ghott. 7
But the Godhead of the Father, and of ©
the Son, and of the Holy Ghoft, is one, the
glory equal, the Majefty co- eternal.
~ Such as the Father is, fuch is the Son,
fuch is the Holy Ghoft.
The Father is uncreated, the Son une
ereated, the Holy Ghoft uncreated- -
The Father is incomprehenfible, the Son
incomprehenfible, the Holy Ghoft incom~
prehenfibie.
The Father is eternal, the Son eternal, the
Holy Ghoft eternal.
And yet not three eternals, but one eter
nal.
As there are not three uncreateds, nor
three incomprehenfibles; but one uncreated,
and one incomprehenfible:
Even fo the Father is almighty, the Son
almighty, the Holy Ghoft almighty.
And yet not seas almighties, but one al-
mighty.
So the Father is God, the Son God, and
the Holy Ghoft God.
And yet there are not three eae but one
only God.
. So the Father is Lord, the Son i is Lord,.
and the Holy Ghoft is Lord,
And
The Creed of Athanafius. 303
And yet there are not three Lords, but
one Lord. .
For as we ate compelled by Chriftian
truth, to acknowledge each perfon feverally
to be God and Lord; fo we are forbid by
the Catholic religion te fay there are three
Gods or Lords.
The Father is made of none, neither
created nor begotten.
The Son is of the Father alone, neither
made nor created, but begotten.
The Hely Ghoft is of the Father and the
Son; not made nor created, nor begotten,
but proceeding. 3
There is therefore one Father, not three
Fathers; one Sen, not three Sons; one
Holy Ghoft, not three Holy Ghofts.
And yet in this Trinity nothing is before
nor after; nothing greater or lefler; but the
whole three perfons are co-eternal, and co-
equal. |
So that throughout all, as is abovefaid,
the Unity in Trinity, and the Trinity in U-
nity is to be worfhipped.
He therefore, who defires to be faved, let
him believe thus of the Trinity. 32
But it is neceflary to eternal falvation, that
he faithfully believe the incarnation alfo of
our Lord Jefus Chritft.
The right faith therefore is, that we believe
and confefs, that our Lord Jefus Chrift, the
_ $on of God, is God and Man.
He
304 The Creed of Athanafus. 7
He is God of the fubftance of the Fathee,
begotten before all times, and man of the
{fub{tance of his Mother, born in time.
Perfe&t God and perfe man, fubfifting)
of a reafonable foul, and human flefh.
Equal to the Father, according to his
Godbead: lefs than the Father, according
to his humanity. |
Who, although he be God and Man, yet
is he not two, but one Chrift. |
One, not by converfion of the Godhead:
into flefh, but by taking of the Manhood in-
to God. |
One altogether, not by confufion of fub-
ftance, but by unity of perfon.
For as a reafonable foul and flefh is one
man, fo God and Man is one Chrift-
Who fuffered for our falvation, defcend-:
ed into hell, rofe again the third day from”
the dead.
He afcended into Heaven, fits at the right-
hand of God the Father Almighty; from
thence he is to come to judge the quick and
the dead. i
At whofe coming all men fhall nie with
their bodies, and render account of their
deeds. |
And they, whi have done good, fhall go
into life everlafting; but they, who have:
done evil into everlafling fire.
VYhis is the catholic faith, which except
every one fhall faithfully and firmly be=
lieve, he cannot be faved, |
The
E305}
The Paffion of our Lord Jefus Chritt, ac-
cording to St. Matthew, Chap. xxvi.
Which is faid by the Church on Palm-Sunday,
ee that time Jefus faid to his difciples,
you know that after two days will be
the palchal feaft, and the Son of Man fhall
be delivered to be crucified. Then were
gathered together the Chief Priefts and Anci-
ents of the people, into the court of the
High Prieft, who was called Cazphas: and
they confulted, how they might by fome
wile apprehend Jefus, tokillhim. But they
faid, not on the feftival day, left perhaps
there may be a tumult among the people.
And when Jefus was in Bethana, in the
houfe of Simon the leper, there came to him
a woman, having an alabafter box of preci-
Ous ointment, and poured it out upon his
head, ashe fat at the table. And the dif-
ciples feeing it, had indignation, faying,
whereto is this wafte? for this might have
been fold for much, and given to the poor.
And Jefus knowing it, faid to them, why
do you moleft this woman? for fhe has
wrought a good work upon me :.for the
poor you have always with you, but me you
have not always; for fhe, in pouring this
ointment upon my body, has done it to
bury me. Amen, I fay to you, wherefoever
this gofpel fhall be preached in the whole
world, that alfo which fhe has done {hall
Ee be
306 The Paffon, |
be reported for a memory of her, Then —
went one of the Twelve, who was called Fu-
das Ifcariot, to the Chief Priefts, and laid to
them, What will you give me, and I will de- —
liver him to you? But they appointed to him
thirty pieces of filver. And from that time
he fought opportunity to betray him. And
the firlt day of the dzyms, the Difciples came
to Jefus, faying, Where wilt thou, that we
prepare for thee to. eat the pafch? But Jefus ©
{aid, Go into the city, toa certain man, and |
fay to him, The Matter faith, My time is at —
hand, with thee do I make the pafch with
my Difciples. And the Difciples did as Je-
fis appointed them ; and they prepared the
pafch. But when it was evening, he fat
down with his twelve Difciples. And while
they were eating, he faid, Amen, I fay to
you, that one of you will betray me. And
they being very fad, began every one to fay,
Is it I, Lord? But he anfwering faid, he
that dips his hand with me in the difh, he
will betray me. The Son of Man indeed
goes, as it is written of him; but woe be to
that man by whom the Son of Man fhall be
betrayed ; it were good for him, if that man
had not been born. And Fudas, that be-
trayed him, faid, Is it I, Rabbi? He faid to .
him, thou batt faid it. And whilft they were
at {upper, Jelus took bread, and blefled and
broke; and he gave to his Difciples, and .
faid, Take ye and eat; this ismy body. And
taking
accor dine to St. Matthew. 207
taking the chalice, he gave thanks, and gave
to them, faying, Drink ye all of this; for this
‘is my blood of the New Teftament, which
fhall be fhed for many to remiffion of fins,
And 1! fay to you, I will not drink from
henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that
day, when I fhall drink it with you new in
the kingdom of my Father. Anda hymn
being faid, they went forth to mount Olvver,
Then Je efus {aid to them, All you fhall be
- {eandalized in me this night: for it is writ-
ten, I will ftrike the paftor, and the fheep
of the flock fhall be difperfed: but after [
{hall rife again, I will go before you into
Gakilee. And Peter anfwering, faid to him,
Although all fhall be fcandalized in thee, I
will never be fcandalized. .fefus faid to him;
dimen. I fay to thee, that this night, hifore
the cock crow, thou wilt deny me thrice.
Peter fays to him; Though | fhould die with
thee, I will not deny thee. Likewile alfo
faid all the Difciples. Then Jefus comes
with them into a village called Gethfeman ;
and he fard to his Difciples, Sit you bere, tll
J go yonder and pray. And taking to him
Peier, and the two fons of Zebedee, he began
to wax forrowfal, and to be fad. Thenhe
faith to them, My foul is forrowful even to
_ death; flay here, and watch with me. And
_ being gone Faaviand a little, he fell on his
face, praying, and faying, My Father, if it be
poffible, let this chalice pals from me; ne-
3 pot ae verthelefs
208 The Paffton,
verthelefs, not as I will, but as thow wilh ~
And he comes to bis Dilciples, and finds ©
them fleeping; and he fays to Peter, Even ©
fo ? Could you not watch one hour with me? —
Waiteh ye, and pray that ye enter not into —
temptation. The fpirit indeed is ready, but
the flefh weak. Again the fecond time he —
went and prayed, faying, My Father, if this —
chalice may not pafs, but I muft drink it,
thy will be done. And he comes again antl 7
finds them fleeping, for their eyes were be-
come heavy ; and leaving them, be went a-
gain, and prayed the third time, faying the
{elf-fame word. Then he comesto his Dil-
ciples, and fays to them, Sleep ye now, and
take rell; behold the hour approaches, and
the Son of Mari fhall be betrayed into the
hands of finners. Rife, let us go; beheld
he approaches, that fhall betray me. As he
yet {poke, behold Judas, one of the Twelve,
came, and with him a great multitude, witli
{words and clubs, fent from the Chief Priefts,
and the Ancients of the people And he
that betrayed him, gave them a fign, faying,
Whomfoever I fhall kifs, that is he, hold
him. And forthwith coming to Jefus, he
faid, Hail, Rabbi, and killed hina: And Je-
fus faid te hin, Friend; for what art thou
eome ? Then they drew near, and laid hands
on Jefus, and held him. And behold, one
of them that were with Jelus, ftretching forth.
his hand, diew out his etal and ftriking
the
according to St. Matthew. 309 .
the fervant of the High Prieft, cut off his
ear. Then Jefus fays to him, Put thy [word
into its place, for all that take the fword,
fhall perifh by the fword. Thinkeft thou,
that I cannot afk my Father, and he will
give me prefently more than twelve legions
of Angels? How then fhall the fcriptures be
fulfilled, that fo it muft be done? In that
hour Jefus faid to the multitudes, you are
come out, as it were toa thief, with {words
and clubs, to apprehend me: I fat daily
with you, teaching in the temple, and you
laid no hands on me. And all this was done,
that the {criptures of the prophets might be -
fulfilled. Then the Difciples, all. leaving
him, fled. But they taking hold of Jefus,
led him to Caiphas the High Prieft, where
the Scribes and Ancients were aflembled.
And Peter followed him afar off, evento the
court of the High Prieft. And going in, he
fat with his fervants, that he might fee the
end. And the Chief Prieft and the whole
Council fought falfe witneffes againft Jefus,
that they might put him to death: and they
found not, whereas many falfe witneffes had
comein. And laft cf all there came two
falfe witneffes, and they faid, This man faid,
- lam able to deftroy the temple of God, and
after three days to build it again. And the
High Prieft rifing up, faid to him, Anfwereft
thou nothing to the things which thele tefti-
fy again{t thee? But Jefus held his peace.
| ‘Reg And
gio The Paffion.
And the “High Prieft faid to him, I adjure ;
thee by the living God. that thou tell us. if”
‘thou be Chrift the Son of God. Jefus faid —
to him, Thou haf faid it: neverthelefs I fay —
to you, Hereafter you fhall fee the Son of ©
Man f{xting on the right hand of the power —
of God, and coming in the cloudsof heaven. —
Then the High Prieft rent his garments, fay- —
ing, He has blafphemed; what need we wit- —
nefles any further? Behold, now ye have
beard a blafphemy: How think you? But —
_ they anfwering, faid, He is guilty of death. |
Then did they {pit on his face, and buffeted —
him, and others flruck his face with the palms —
of their hands, faying, Prophecy to us, O
Chrift, who it is that ftruck thee? But Peter —
fat without, in the court, and there came to
i ae a
him a maid, faying, Thou aHo wert with Je- —
fus the Galilean: but he denied it before them —
ail, faying, I know not what thou fayeft. And ~
as he went out of the gate, another maid faw _
him; and fhe fays to them that were there, —
And this fellow alfo was with Jefus the Na-
zerite: and again be denied it with an oath, —
that I know not the man. And after a
while they came that flood by, and faid to ©
Peter, Surely thou alfo art of them; for even
=
thy fpeech does betray thee. Fhen he began ©
10 curfe and fwear, that he knew not the
man. And immediaiely the cock crew.
And Peierremembred the word of jefus, —
which he had faid, Before the cock crow,
; thou
according to St. Matthew. 311
thou wilt deny me thrice. And going forth,
he weps bitterly. And when morning was
come, all the Chief Priefts and Ancients of
the people, confulted together againft Jefus,
that they might put him to death. And they
brought him bound, and delivered him to
Pontius Pilate the Prefident. Then Fudas,
that betrayed him, feeing that he was con-
demned, repenting, returned the thirty filver
pieces to the Chief Priefts and Ancients,
faying, Ihave finned, betraying juft blood,
But they faid, What is that tous? Look
thou to it. And cafting down the filver
pieces in the temple, he departed, and went
and hanged himfelf with a halter. And the
Chief Priefts having taken the filver pieces,
faid, It is not lawful to caft them into the
Corbona, becaufe itis the price of blood.
And after they had confulted together, they
bought with them a Potter’s field, to be a
burying-place for ftrangers. For this caufe
that field was called Haceldama; that is, the
field of blood, even to this prefent day. Then
was fulfiled that which was fpoken by Fe-
remy the Prophet, faymg, And they took the
thirty pieces of filver, the price of the prized,
whom they did purchafe of the children of
‘Yfrael, and they gave them for a Potter’s
field, as the Lord did appoint to me. And
Jelus food before the Prefident, and the
Prefident aiked him, faying, Art thou the
King of the Jews ? Jefus fays to him, Thou
fayelt
‘
R12 | The Paffion,
fayeft it. And when he was accufed by the
Chief Priefts and Ancients, be anfwered no-
thing. Then Pilate fays to him, Dolt thou
not hears how great teftimonies they alledge
againft thee? And he anfwered him not to
any word: fo that the Prefident wondered
exceedingly. And upon the folemn day,
the Prefident had a cuftom to releafe to the.
people one prifoner, whom they would.
And he had then a notorious prifoner, that
was called Barabbas. They therefore being q
gathered together, Pilate faid, Whom will
you that I releafe to you? Barabbas or Je-
fus, that is called Chrift? For he knew, that
for envy they had delivered him. And as he
was fitting in the place of judgment, his wife
{ent to him, faying, Have thou nothing to do
with that juft man, for 1 have fuffered many
things this day in my fleep for him. Bue
the Chief Priefts and Ancients carttchinat the
people to afk Barabbas, and make Jefus
away. And the Prefident anfwering, faid
to them, Whether of the two will you have
selealad. to you? But they faid Baradbas,
Pilate fays tothem, What fhall I do then
with Jefus, that is called Chrift? They fay
all, Let him be crucified. ‘The Prefident
faid to them, Why, what evil has he done?
But they cried the more, faying, Let him be
crucified. And Plate feeing that he pre-
vailed nothing, but rather that all tended to
tumult; taking water, he walhed his bands
before
according to St. Matthew. 313
before the people, faying, lam innocent of
the blood of this juft man; look ye to it.
And the whole people anfwering, faid, His
blood be upon'us, and upon our children.
Then he releafed to them Barabbasy and
having fcourged Jefus, delivered him to them
to be crucified.. Then the Prefident’s fol-
diers taking Jefus into the palace, gathered
together to bim the whole band; and ftrip-
ping him, puta fearlet cloak about him, and
platting a crown of thorns, put it on his head,
and a reed in his right hand; and bowing
their knee before him, they mocked him,
faying, Hail, King of the Fews : and {pitting
upon him, they took the reed, and ftruck his
head: and after they had mocked him, they
took off the cloak from him, and put on him
his own garments, and led him away to cru-
cify him, And in going, they found a man
of Cyrene, named Szmon, whom they forced
to take up his crofs. And they came into
the place, which is called Golgotha, which ts
the place of Calvary. And they gave him
wine to drink, mingled with gall. And
when he had tafted, he would not drink.
And they that crucified him, divided his
garments, cafting lots; that it might be
fulfilled, which was fpoken by the prophet,
faying, They divided my garments among
them, and for my vefture they did caft lots.
And they fat and watched him. And they
put over his head his caufe written, This 1s
Sefus
314 The Pafhon,
Fefus the King of the Fews. Then were cruci-
fied with him two thieves, one on the right-
hand, and one on the left. And they that —
paffed by blafphemed him, fhaking their —
heads, and faying, Vah! thou that deftroyed ©
the temple of God, and in three days dott
build it again, fave thyfelf: if thou be the |
fon of God, come down from the crofs.. In —
like manner alfo the Chief Priefts, with the ~
Scribes and Ancients mocking, faid, he faved ©
others, bimfelf he cannot fave’: if he be the ©
King of Irael, let him now come down from
the crofs, and we will believe him. He trult- ©
“ed in God let him now deliver him, if he
will; for he faid, that I am the Son af God.
And the thieves alfo, that were crucified ~
with bim, reproached him in the like manner. ©
And from the fixth hour, there was darknels
_rpade on the whole earth, to the ninth hour ;
and about jthe ninth hour, Jefus cried witha —
mighty, voice, faying, El, El, lama fabatthani #
that is, My God, My God, why ha‘t thou
fiteiliien me? Bind certain, that ftood there
and heard, faid, he called Elzas. And im-
mediately one of them running, took a
fponge, and filled it with vinegar ; and put
it on a reed, and gave him to drink. And
others faid, Stay, let us fee whether E/zas.
comes to TR A him, And Jefus again cry-
ing with a mighty voice, YIELDED Up
THE GHOST. And behold the veil of the
temple was rent in two pieces, from the top
'- even
according to St. Matthew: 315
even to the bottom; and the earth quaked,
and the rocks were rent, and the graves were
opened, and many bodies of the faints, that
had flept, rofe; and they going forth out of
their graves, after bis refurreClion, came into
_the holy city, and appeared to many. And
the centurion, and they that were with him,
watching Jefus, having feen the earthquake,
and the things that were done, were very
much afraid, faying, Indeed, this was the fon
of God. And there were there many women
afar off which had followed Jelus from Galilee,
miniftring to him ; among whom was Mary
Magdalen, and Mary the mother of Fames
and Fofeph, and the mother of the fons of
Zebedee. And when it was evening, there
came acertain rich man of Arimathea, named
Fofeph, who alfo himfelf was difciple to.
efus; He went to Pilate, and afked the
body of Jefus. Then Palate commanded,
that the body fhould be delivered. And
‘Fofeph taking the body, wrapt it in a fine
linen cloth, and laid it in his own new monu-
ment, which he had hewed out in a rock.
And he rolled a great ftone to the door of
the monument, and went his way, And
there was there Mary Magdalen, and the
other Mary, fitting over againft the fepul-
chre.
And the next day, which is’ after the
Parefceve, the Chief Priefts and the Pharifees
came together to Pilate, faying, Sir, we
have
916 The Paffion, |
have remembred, that the feducer faid, yet :
living; Afterthree days: I will rife again,
Command therefore the fepulchre to be kept
to the third day, Ielt perhaps his difciples
come and fteal him, and fay to the people, —
he is rifen from the dead; and the laft error —
fhall be worfe than the firft: Pulate faid to
them, you have a guard; go guard itas you
know. And they departed, madethe fepul- 7
chre fure, fealing up the flone, with watch- |
men, |
The Paffion of our Lord Jefus Chrift ac-
_ ording to St. Mark, Chap. xiv.
Which ws fard by the Church on Tuefday in Holy Week.
T that time the pafch was, and Azyms
after two days, and the Chief Priefts and
the Scribes fought how they might by fome
wile lay hand on Jefus, and kill him. But
they faid, not on the feftival day, left there
be atumult of the people. And when he
was at Bethania, in the houfeof Simonthe leper,
and fat at meat; there came a woman, hav- _
ing an alabafter box of ointment of precious
fpikenard, and, breaking the alabafter box, —
fhe poured it out upon bis head. Butthere
were certain that had indignation within —
themfelves, and faid, Why is this wafte of _
ointment made? For this ointment might —
have been fold for more than three hundred
~ pence, and given to the poor. And they
murmured
according to Si, Mark. 217
murmured againft her; but Jefus-fatd, let
her alone, why do you moleft her? fhe has
worught a good work upon me; for the
poor you have always with vou, and when
you will, you may do them good; but me
you have not always. That which fhe had,
fhe has done; fhe has prevented the anoint-
ing of my »body for burial. Amen, 1 fay
to you, wherever this gofpel fhall be preach-
ed in the whole world, that alfo which fhe
has done, fhall be told for a memorial of
her. And Fudas Ifcariot, one of the Twelve,
went to the Chief Priefts, to betray him to
them. Who hearing it, were glad: and they
promifed him to give him money. And he
fought, how he might betray him conve~
niently. And ‘the firft day.of the. Azyms, —
when they facrificed the Pafch, the Difciples
fay to him, Whether wilt thou that we go,
and prepare for thee to eat the pafch? And
he fends two of his Difciples, and fays to
them, Go into the city, and there fhall meet
you aman, carrying a pitcher of water, fol-
low him; and wherever he enters, fay to
the mafler of the houfe; The Mafter faith,
where is my refe€tory, where I may -eat the
pafch with my Dilciples? And he will thew
you a great chamber adorned; and there
prepare for us. And his Difciples went
away, and came into the city, and they found
as he had told them, and they prepared the
pafch, And when evening was come, he
comes
318 - The Paffon,
comes with the Twelve; and when they —
were fitting at the table, and eating, Jefus
faid, Amen, I fay to you; one of you will
betray nfe; he that eateth with me. But
they began to be fad, and to fay to him fe-
verally, Is it 1? Who faidto them, One of |
the ‘I'welve, he that dippeth bis hand with
me in the difh. And the Son of Man in-
deed goes, as it is written of bim; but Woe
to that man, by whom the Son of Man fhall
be betrayed ; it were good for him, if that
man had not been born, And whilft they
mere eating, Jefus took bread, and blefling,
broke and gave to them, and faid, Take,
this is my b dy. And taking the chalice,
giving thanks, he gave to them, and they all
drank of it. And he faid to them, This is
my blood of the New Teftament, that fhall
be fhed for many. Amen, I fay to you;
that now I will not drink of the fruit of the
vine, until that day when I fhall drink it new
in the kingdom of God. Anda hymn being
faid, they went forth into mount Olivet. And
Jefus {ays toshem, You will all be fcanda-
hzed in me this night: for it is written, [
will firike the paflor, and the fheep fhall be
difperfed. But after I fhall rife again, I
will go before you into Galilee. And Peter
faid to him, Although all fhall be fcandalized,
vet not I, And Jefus faid to him, 4men, I
day to thee, That thou to-day, in this night,
before the cock crow twice, wilt thrice deny
me me.
ko ee hee
a
rs ath
according to St. Mark. BIg
me. But he fpoke more vehemently; Al
though I fhall die together with thee, I will
not deny thee. And in like manner alfo
faid they all. And they came into a farm-
place, called Gethfemani. And he {aid to his
Dilciples, Sit you here until I pray. And
he takes Peter, and Fames, and Fohn with —
him, and he began to fear, and to be heavy.
And he faid to them, My foul is forrowful
even to death: Stay here, and watch. And
when he was gone forward a little, he fell
flat on the ground: and he prayed, that if it
might be, the hour might pafs from him.
And he faid, Abba, Father, all things are
poflible to thee, transfer thts chalice from
me; but not that which I will, but that
which thou wilt. And he comes, and finds
them fleeping. And he faidto Peter, Simon,
fleepeft thou ? Couldeft thou not watch one
hour? Watch and pray, that you enter not
into temptation. The Spirit indeed is ready,
but the flefh infirm. And going away again,
he prayed, faying the fame word. And re-
_turning, again he found them fleeping, (for
their eyes were heavy) and they knew not
what they fhould anfwer him. ~-And he
comes to them the third time, and fays to
them, Sleep ye now, and take reft; it is
enough, the hour is come ; behold, the Son
of Man fhall be betrayed into the hands of
finners. Arife, let us go; behold, he that —
will betray me is at hand; and, as he was
¥f2 yet
920 | The Paffion,
yet {peaking, comes Fudas Ifcariot, one of
the Twelve, and with him a_great multitude,
with {wordsand clubs, from the Chief Priefts,
and Scribes, andthe Ancients. And thebe- —
trayer of him had given them a fign, faying,
_ Whomfoever I fhall kifs, it is he, lay hold
on him, and lead him warily. And when
he was come, immediately going to bim, he
fays, Rabbi, and be kiffed him: but they laid
hands on him, and held him. - Anda certain
man of the flanders by, drawing out his
fword, {truck the fervant of the Chief Prieft,
and cut off his ear. And: Jefus anfwering;
faid to. them, Asto a thief are you come out
with {words and clubs, to apprehend me?
T was daily with you in the temple teaching,
and you did net lay handsonme. But that >
the {cripture may be fulfilled. Then his
Difcipies leaving him, all fled. And a cer
tain: young man followed him, covered witly
linen only; and they took him: but he caft-
ing off the linen, fied from them naked.
And they brought Jefus to the Chief Prieft;
and all the Prielts, and the Scribes, and the
Ancients, aflembled together. And Peier
followed him afar off, even to the court of
the High Prieft, and he fat with the fervants
at the fire, and warmed himfelf. And the
-Chicf Prielts and ail the Council fought tefti-
‘mony againft Jefus, that they might put him
to death; neither found they any ; for many
Ipoke falfe witnefs againft him, and their tef-
a | timonies
z
‘
according to St. Mark. g2t
timonies did not agree. And certain rifirg
up, bore falfe witne!s again‘t him, faying, We
heard him fay, I will difloive this temple
made with hands, and in three days I will
build another, not made with hands; and
their teftimony was not agreeing. And the
High Prieft rifing up in the midft, afked Je-
fus, faying, Anfwereft thou nothing to thefe
things that are objeéted againit thee by
thefe ? But he held his peace, and anfwered
nothing, Again the High Prieft afked him,
and faid to him; Art thou Chrift, the Son
of the blefled God? And Jefus fays to him,
Iam; and you fhall fee the Son of Man fit-
ting on the right-hand of power, and coming
with the clouds of heaven. And the High
Pricft rending his garments, fays, What need
we witneffes any further? You have heard
blafphemy ; how think you? Who all con-
demned him to be guilty of death. And
certain began to {pit upon him, and to cover
his face, and to beat him with buffets, and to
fay to bim, Prophefy. And the fervants
gave him blows. And when Pefer was in
the court beneath, there comes one of the
woman-fervants of the High Prieft; and
when fhe had feen Peter warming him, be-
holding him, fhe fays, And thou wert with
elus of Nazareth. But Peter denied, fay-
ing, Neither know J, neither do [ underfland
what thou fayelt. And he went forth before
the court, and the cock crew. And again,
oe a i - amaid
322° The Paffion, q
a maid feeing him, began to fay to the
ftanders by; This fellow is of them. But
he denied again. And after a while again,
they that ftood by faid to 7eter, Verily thou
art of them, for thou art a Galilean. But he —
began to curle, and to {wear, that 1 know —
not this man whom’ you fpeak of. Andim- —
mediately the cock crew again. And Peter
remembered the word that Jefus had faid to
him, Before the cock crow twice, thou wilt —
thrice deny me; and he began to wéep. —
And forthwith in the morning, the Chief —
Priefls, with the Ancients, and the Scribes,
aad the whole Council, conlulting together,
binding Jefus, led and delivered him to Pi- —
late. And Pilate afked him, Art thou the
King of the Fiws ? But he anfwering. faid
io him, Thou fayeftit. And the Chief Priefts
accufed him jn many things. And Pilate a-
gain afked him, faying, Anfwereft thou no-
thing ? See in how many things they accufe
thee. But Jefus anfwered nothing more;
fo that Pilate wondered. And on the fefti-
val day he was wont to releafe to them one
of the prifoners, whomfoever they demanded.
And there was one called Barabbas, who was
put in prifon with feditious perfons, who ina
edition bad committed murder. And when
the mulutude was come up, they began to
require, according as he always did to them.
wand Piate anfwered them, and faid, Will
HER you
~
according to St, Mark. 323
- you that I releafe to you the King of the
Jews 2? For he knew that the Chief Priefts
for envy had delivered him. But the Chief
Priefis moved the people, that he fhould re-
leafe Barabbas rather tothem. But Pilate
again an{wering, faid to them, What will you
then that Ido to the King of the ews ? -
‘But they again cried, Crucifykims And Pi-
late faid to them, Why, what evil has he
done? But they cried the more, Crucify
him. And Pilate, willing to fatisfy the peo-
ple, releafed to them Barabbas; and, having
icourged Jefus, delivered him to be cruci-
fied. And the foldiers led him into the
court of the palace, and called together the
whole band: and they cloathe him ‘in pur-
_ ple, and, platting a crown of thorns, they put
it upon him. And they began to falute him,
Hail, King of the ews. And they ftruck
his head with a reed; and they did {pit on
him, and bowing their knees, they adored
him. And after they had mocked him, they
firipped him of the purple, and put on him
his own garments, and they led him forth to
crucify him. And they forced a certain
man that pailed by, Szmon, a Cyrenean, com-
ing from the country, the father of Alexander
and Rufus, to take up his crofs. And they
bring bim into the place of Golgotha, which
being interpreted, 1s, the place of Calvary.
And. they gave him to drink wine mingted
with myrrh; and he took itnot. And they
that
924 The Paffion, 1
that crucified him, divided his garments,
cafting lots for them, to fee which thcy fhould
take. And it was the third hour, and they
crucified him. And the title of his caufe —
was fuperfcribed King of the Jews. And with —
him they crucify two thieves; one on the —
right hand, and another on the left. And
the fcripture was fulfilled, that faith, And
with the wicked he was reputed. And they
that paffed by, blafphemed him, wagging
their head, and faying, Brave! Thou that
deftroyeft the temple, and in three days
buildeft it, fave thyfelf, coming down from
the crofs. In like manner alfo, the Chief
Priefts mocking, faid, with the Scribes, one
to another, He faved others, himfelf he can-
not fave. Let Chrift, the King of J/rael,
come now down from the crofs, that we may
fee and believe. And they that were cruci-
fied with him, reviled him. And when it
was the fixth hour, there came darknels upon
- the whole earth, until the ninth hour. And
at the ninth hour, Jefus cried out witha
mighty voice, faying, £h, Eh, lama fabatihan?
which is, being irterpreted, My God, My
God, why halt thou forflaken me? And cer-
tain of the flanders by bearing, faid, Behold, »
he calls Lias. And one running and filling
a fponge with vinegar, and putting it about |
a reed, gave him to drink, faying, Stay, let
us fee if las comes to take him down,
And fefus crying out with a mighty voice,
gave
according to St. Mark. 306
GAVE UP THE GHOST. And the veil
of the temple was rent in two, from the top
io the bottom. And the centurion that ftood
over-againft him feeing, that fo crying, he
had given up the ghoft, faid, Indeed this man
was the Sonof God. And there were alfo
women looking on afar off; among. whom
was Mary Magdalen, and Mary the Mother
of James the Younger, and of Fofeph and
Salome: and when he was in Galilee, thes
followed him, and miniftred to him, and ma- |
ny other women, that came up together with
him to zerufalem.
And when evening was now come, (be-
caufe it was the Parajceve, which is the fab-
bath eve) came Fofeph of Arimathea, a no-
ble officer, who himfelf alfo was expelling
the kingdom of God; and he went in bold-.
ly to Pilate, and afked the body of Jehus.
But Pilate marvelled, if he were now dead.
And. fending for the centurion, afked him,
if he were now dead? And when he under-
{tood it by the centurion, he gave the body
to Fofeph: and Fofeph, buying fine linen,
and taking him down, wrapped him in the
linen, and: laid him in a monument, that
was hewed out of a rock; and he rolled a
ftone to the door of the monument,
Cgeerg
The Paffion of our Lord Jefus Chrift, ace”
cording to St. Luke, Chap. xxii.
Which is faid by the Church on W ednefday i in H. Week. —
A T that time the feftival day of the
Azyms approached, which is called”
Pajfch; andthe Chief Priefts, and the Scribes,
fought how they might kill Jefus; but they
feared the people. "hind Satan entered into
Judas, who was firnamed J/cariot, one of the
Twelve. And he went and talked with the
Chief Priefts, and the Magiftrates, how he
might betray him to them. And they were
glad, and agreed to give him money; and
he promifed. And he fought opportunity
to betray him apart from the multitudes.
And the day of the dzyms came, wherein it
was neceflary that the pafch fhould be killed.
And he fent Peter and ohn, faying, Go and
prepare us the pafch, that we may eat; but
they faid, Where wilt thou have us prepare
it?’ And he faid to them, Behold, as you en-
ter into the city, there fhall meet you a man,
carrying a pitcher of water, follow him into
the houfe into which he entereth; and you
Shall fay to the man of the houfe, the Mafter
faith to thee, Where is the room where I
may eat the pafch with my Difciples? And
he will fhew you a great refettory adorned ;
and there prepare. And they going, found
as he faid to them, and prepared the palch.
| And
according to St. Luke. 327
And when the hour was come, he fat down,
and the twelve Apoflles with him. And he
faidto them, With defire I have d-fired to
eat this pafch with you, before I fuffer. For
I fay to you, That from this time I will rot eat
it, till it be fulfilled in the Kingdom of God,
And taking the chalice, he gave thanks,
and faid, take, and divide among you; for
I fay to you, that I will not drink of the
fruit of the vine, till the kingdom of God
comes. And taking bread, he gave thanks,
and broke, and gave to them, faying. This is
my body, given for you: do this fora re-
membrance of me. In like manner, the
chalice alfo, after he had fupped, faying,
This is the chalice, the new-teftament in my
blood, which fhall be fhed for you. But
yet, behold, the hand of him that betrays
me, is with me on the table. And the Son
of Man indeed goes according to that which
is determined ; but yet woe to that man, by
whom he fhall be betrayed. And they be-
gan to queftion among themfelves, which
of them it fhould be, that fhould do this.
And there fell alfo.a contention between
them, which of them feemed to be the
greater: and he faid to them, the. kings of
the Gentz/es rule over them,and they, that have
power over them, are called benefactors,
But you not. fo: but Jet him, that is the
greater among you, become as. the leffer;
and he that ts the leader, as the fervant.
: For
228 The Pafion, | ‘
For whichis greater, he that fits at the table,
or he that miniffers? Is it not he, that fits?
but I am in the midft of you, as one that—
minifters; and you are they who have re-
mained with me in my temptations. And I_
difpofe to you, as my Father difpofed to me, |
a kingdom; that you may eat and drink
at my table, in my Kingdom, and may fit
on Thrones, judging, the twelve tribes of
dfrael. And our Lord faid, Simon, Simon,
behold Satan has required to have you, to”
fift as wheat; but I have prayed for thee,
that thy faith fail not; and thou fometime
converted, confirm thy brethren. Who faid
tohim, Lord, with thee I am ready to go,
beth into prifon, and to death. And he
faid, 1 fay to thee, Peter, the cock fhall not
crow to day, till thou thrice deny that thou
knowef{ me. <Andhe faid to them, When
I fent you without a purfe or ferip, and
fhoes, did you lack any thing? and they
faid nothing. He faid therefore to them,
but now ‘he that bas a purfe, let him take
it; and likewife a ferip ; and he that has not,
Tet him fell his coat, and-buy a fword > for
I fay to you, that this that is written,
muft yet -be fulfilled‘inme: And with the
wicked was he’ reputed. For thofe things,
that are concerning me, have’an end. “But
they faid, Lord, behold, here are’ two fwords,
And he fays to them, it is enough. And go-
ing forth, he went’ according to“his cuftom
to
according to St, Luke. 329
to Mount Olivet: And his difciples alfo fol-
lowed him. And when he was come to the
place, he faid to them; pray, left you enter
into temptation. And he removed [rom them
a ftone’s calt; and kneeling, he prayed,
faying, Father, if thou wilt, transfer this
chalice from me; but yet not my will, but
thine be done. And there appeared to him
an Angel from Heaven, ftrengthning him;
and being in an agony, he prayed a long
time. And his fweat became as drops of
blood, trickling down on the earth. And
when he was rifen up from prayer, and was
come to his difciples, he found them fleep-
ing for fadnefs. And he faid to them, why
fleep you? arife, pray, left you enter into
temptation, As he was yet {peaking, behold
a multitude, and he that was called Judas,
one of the twelve, went before them. and
aporoached Jefus to kifshim. And Jefus —
faid unto him, udas, doft thou betray the
Son of, Man with a kifs? And they, that
were about him, feeing what would be, faid
to him, Lord, fhall we ftrike with the
{word ? and one of them ftruck the fervant
of the High Prict, and cut off his right ear.
But Jefus anfwering, faid, fuffer ye thus far.
And when he had to:rched his ear, he healed
him. And Jefus faid to them, that were
come to him, the Chief Priefls and Magi-
{trates of the Temple, and Ancients: as it
were to a thief, are ye come forth with {words
3 Gg and
350 The Paffion, ;
and clubs. When I was daily with you in-
the temple, you did not lay hands on me; _
but this is your hour, and the power of dark-
nefs. And apprehending him, they led him
to the High Prieft’s houfé; and Peéer fol-.
lowed afar off. Anda fire being kindled in
the midit of the court, and they fitting about
it, Peter was in the midft of them. Whom
when a certain maid faw, fitting at the light,
and had beheld him, fhe faid, this fellow was
alfo with him. But he denied him, faying,
Woman, I know him not. And after a
while, another man feeing him, faid, and
thou art of them: but Peter faid, O man, I
am not: and after the fpace, as it were of
one hour, a certain other man affirmed, fay-
ing, Verily, this fellow alfo was with him, for
he is alfo a Galilean: and Peter {aid, Man, I
know not what thou fayeft. And immedi-
ately, as he was yet fpeaking, the cock crew:
and our Lord turning, looked on Peter : and
_ Peter remembred the word of our Lord,as he
had faid; that before the cock crow, thou
wilt thrice deny me: and Peter going forth,
wept bitterly. And the men that held him,
mocked him, beating him: and they did
blindfold bim, and {truck his face. And they
afked him, faying, Prophefie, who is it that
itruack thee? And blafpbeming, they faid.
many other things againft him. And when
it was day, there allembled the Ancients cf
the people, and Chicf Priefls, and spit”
anc
according to St. Luke. 931
and they brought him into their Council,
fayiug, if thou. be Chrift, tell us. And he
faid to them, If I tell you, you will not be-
lieve me: If Lalfo afk, you will not aniwer
me, nor difmifs me. But from heneelorth
the Son of Man fhall be fitting on the right
hand of the power of God. And they all
faid, art thou then the Son of God? Who
faid, You fay, that Tam. And _ they faid,
What need we any farther teltimony? For
ourfelves have heard from his own mouth.
_ And all the mulutude of them rifing up, Jed
him to Pilate: and they began to accufe
him, faying, We have found this man fub-
verting our nation, and prohip) ling to give
tribute to Cefar, and faying, that he is Chrift
the King, And Pilate afked him, faying,
art thou the King of the Jews 2 But he an-
fwering faid, Thou fayelt i it. And Pilate faid
to the Chief Priefts and multitudes, I find no
caufe in thisman. But they were the more
earneft, faying, » e ftirs up the people, teach.
ing throughout all Jewry, beginning from
Gailee even hither. But Pilaie hearjng of
Galilee, afked if the man were of Gekilee,
And when be underflood, that he was. of
Herod's jurifdittion, be fent him back to He.
vod, who was alfo himfelf at © tee. thofe
days. And Herod feeing Jelus, was very
glad; for he had defired, a a long time, to fee
him, becaufe he heard many things of him,
and hoped to fee fome fign wrought by
Gge2 him.
R22 ‘The Paffion,
him. And he afked him in many words.
But he anfwered bim nothing, And there
flood the Chief Priefls and the Scribes con-
Rantly accufing him. And Herod, with his
army, Cefpifed him; and he mocked him,
putting on him a white garment, and fent
him back to Pilate. And Herod and Pilate
were made friends that day ; for before they
were enemies one to another. And Pilate
calling together the Chicf Priefts and Ma-
giftrates, and the people, faid to them, You
have prefented to me this man, as pervert.
ing the people; and behold, I examining
his ih before you, have found no caufe in this
man of thefe things whereof you accule him;
no, nor LHercd neither; for I fent you to
him, and bebeld, nothing worthy of death
is Gone by him. I will chaftife him there-
fore, and dimifs him. And he was of ne-
cefity to releafe to them one on the feftival
dey. But the whole multitude together
cried out, faying, Difpatch bim and releafe
to us Burabbas; who was, for a certain fedi-
tion made In the city, and murder, caft into
prifen, .And J dlate again {poke to them,
defirous to releafe Jelus ; but they cried a-
gain, faying, Crucfy, Crucify him. And he,
the third time, faid io them, Why, what evil
has this man done ? | find no caufe of death
in bim- I will corre€t him therefore, and
lt him go. But they were inftant with loud
vuiccs, requiring, that he might be gaye
An
according to St. Luke. 233
And their voices prevailed. And Pilate ad-
judged their petition to be done. And he
releafed unto them, bim that for murder and
fedition had been caft into prifon, whom
they demanded; but Jefus he delivered to
their pleafure. And when they led him
forth, they took one Simon of Cyrene coming
from the country; and they laid the crofs
upov him to carry after Jefus. And there
followed him a great multitude of people,
and of women, who bewailed and lamented
him. But Jefus turning to them, faid,
Daughters of Jerufalem, Weep not for me,
but weep for yourfelves. and for your chil-
dren. For behold the days fisall come,
wherein they will fay, Bleffed are the barren,
and the wombs that have not born, and the
paps that have not given fuck. Then fhall
they begin to fay to the mountains, fall upon
us; and to the hills, cover us. For if in
the green wood they do thefe things, what
will be done in the dry ? And there were .
led alfo two other malefaGtors with him to
be executed. And after they came to the
place, which is called Calvary, there they
crucified him; and_ the thieves, one on the
right band, and the other on the left. And
“1 faid, Father, forgive them, for they
now not what they do. But they divid'ng
his garments did caft lots. And the people
ftood looking on, and the Princes with them,
derided him, faying, Others he has faved,
Gg3 let
}
q
ns
334 The Paffon,
set him fave himfelf, if this be Chrift the ele& —
of God. And the foldiers alfo mocked him, —
‘coming te bim, and offering him vinegar, ©
faying,sIf thou be the King of the Jews,
fave thvfelf. And there was alfo a fuper-
{cription writ over him in Greek and Latin —
and Hebrew letters, This 1s the King of the
Jews. And one of thofe thieves, that were
hanged, blafphemed him, faying, If thou be
Chrift, fave thyfelf and us. But the other
anfwering, rebuked him, faying, Neither doft
thou fear God, whereas thou art under the
fame condemnation ? And we indeed jullly ;
for we receive what is worthy of our deeds;
but this man has done no evil. And he faid
to Jefus, Lord remember me, when thou
comefi into thy kingdom. And Jefus faid
to him, dAmcn, I fay to thee, This day thou —
fhalt be with me in paradife. And it was ale
molt the fixth hour; and there came dark-
wels upon the whole earth until the ninth
hour. And the fun was darkened, and the
veil of the temple was rent in the midft.
Aud Jefus erying out with a loud voice, faid,
Father, into thy hands I commend my fpi-
rit, and faying this, HE GAVE UP THE
GHOST. And the centurion, feeing what
vas done, glorified God, faying, Verily this
man was juft. And all the mulutude of
them, that were preicnt together at that fight,
and law the things that were done, returned,
knocking their breafts. And all his ac-
guaimtance
wee ae
ee ee ee
according to St. John. 217
quaintance ftood afar off, and the women
that had followed him from Galilee, feeing
thele things,
And behold a man named Fofeph (who
was an officer, a good man andjuft; he had
not confented to their council and doings)
of Arimathea, a city of Jewry, who alfo him-
felf expetted the kingdom of God. This
man'came to Pilate, and afked the body of
Jefus; and taking it down, wrapped it in
fine linen, and laid it in a monument hewed
of ftone, wherein never yet any man had
been laid.
The Paffion of our Tonk Jefus Chrift ac-
ording to St. John, Chap. xvii.
Vhich is faid by the Churck on Good Friday
a T that time Jefus went forth, with his
difciples beyond the torrent Ced7on,
where there was a garden, into which he en-
tered, and his Dilciples. And Judas alfo,
that betrayed him, knew the place; becaule
Jefus had often reforted thither, together
with his Difciples. _Fudas therefore, having
received a band of men and minifters from
the Chief Priefts and Pharifees, came thither
with lanthorns, and torches, and weapons,
Jefus therefore knowing all things that were
to come upon him, went forth, “and faid to
them, Whom {eek ye ? They anfwered him;
Jelus of Nazareih. Jefus faid to them, I am
he.
3 36 The Pajffion,
he. And Fudas allo that betrayed him, i
fiood withthem. As foon therefore, as he
faid to them, I am He, they reeled back-
ward, and fell tothe ground. Again there-
fore he afked them; Whom feek ye? And
they faid, Jefus of Nazareth. Jelus anfwer-
ed, I have told you, I am He: If therefore
you feek me, let thefe go away. That the
word might be fulfilled which he faid, That
of them, whom thou haft given me, I have
not loft any. Szmon Peter therefore having
a {word, drew it out, and ftruck the fervait
of the High Prieft, and cut off his right ear,
Andthe name of the fervant was Malcius.
defus therefore faid to Peter, Put up thy
{word into the {cabbard: The chalice, which
my Father has given me, fhall not I drink
it? The band therefore, and the Tribune,
and the Minifters of the ews, apprehended
Jefus, and bound him; and they brought
him to Annas firlt, for he was father-in-law to
Caiphas, who was the High Prieft of that —
year. And Cajphas was he that had given
counfelto the Jews, that it was expedient,
that one man die for the people. And Sz-
mon Peter followed Jefus, and another Dif
ciple. And that Difciple was known to the
High Prieft, and went in with Jefus into the
court of the High Prieft- But Peter ftood
without, at the door. The other Difciple
therefore, that was known to the High Prieft,
went forth, and fpoke to the portrefs, and
brought
.
|
|
|
according to St. John. 337
brought in Peter. ‘The maid therefore, that
was portrefs, faid to Peter, Art not thou al-
fo of this Man’s Difciples? He fays to her,
Iam not. And the fervants and minifters
ftood at a fire of coals, becaufe it was cold,
and warmed themfelves. And with them
was Peter alfo ftanding, and warming him.
felf. The High Prieft therefore afked Jefus
concerning his Difciples, and his do€trine.
Jefus anfwered him, I have openly fpoken
to the world: Ihave always taught in the
fynagogue, and in the temple, where all the:
jews refort together; and in private I have
{poken nothing. Why afkelt thou me? Afk
them that have heard what I have fpoke un-
to them: Behold, they know what I have
faid- When he had faid thefe things, one
of the minifters flanding by, gave Jefus a
blow, faying, Anfwereft thou the High Prieft
fo? Jefus anfwered him, If I have fpoken
ill, give teftimony of evil; but if well, why
ftrikeft thou me? And danas fent him bound
to Caiphas the High Prieft.
And Simon Peter was ftanding and warm-
ing himfelf; they faid therefore to him, art
not thou alfo of his Difciples? he denied,
and faid, Iam not. One of the fervants of
the High Prieft (a relation of him, whofe
ear Peter did cut off) fays to him, did not I
fee thee in the garden with him? again
therefore Peter denied. And forthwith the
cock crew. They therefore bring Jefus
from
998 The Pafion, :
from Caiphas to the palace. And it was
morning ; and they went notintothe palace, —
left being contaminated, they might not eat —
the Pajfch. Pilate therefore went forth to ©
them, without, and faid, what accufation ©
bring you againft this man? they an!wered ~
and faid to him, if he were nota malefaftor, ©
we would not have delivered him up to thee, —
Pilate therefore {aid to them: take bim you,
and according to your law judge him. The
Jews therefore faid to him, it is not lawful
for us to. kill any man. That the word of
Jefus might be fulfilled, which he {aid, figni-
fying what death he fhould die. Pilate
therefore went into the palace again, and
called Jefus, and faid to him, art thou the
king of the Fews ? Jefus anfwered, fayelt
thou this of thyfelf, or have others told it
thee of me? Pilate anfwered, why am I a
Few? thy own nation and the Chief Priefts
have delivered thee up to me; what halt
thou done ; Jefus anfwered, my kingdom is
not of this world; if my kingdom. were of
this world, my minifters verily would ftrive,
that I fhould not be delivered to the Jews ;
but now my kingdom is not from hence,
Pilate therefore faid to him, art thou a King
then? Jefus anfwered, thou fayeft that I am
a King. For this was I born, and for this
came I into the world, that I fhould give
teftimony to the truth. Every one that is
of the truth hears my voice. Pilate fays to
to
according to St. John. ‘ao9
to him, what is truth ? and when he had
faid this, he went forth again to the Fews,
and fays to them, I find no crime in him;
but you have a cuftom that I fhould releafe
one to you in the Pafch; will you therefore
have me releafe to you the king of the Fews ?
they all therefore cryed again, faying,
not him, but Barabbas: and Barabbas was
a thief. Then therefore Pilate took Jefus, and
{courged him. And the foldiers platting a
crown of thorns, put it upon his head; and
they put about him a purple garment; and
they came to him, and faid, Hail King of the
Fews, andthey gave him blows. Prlate went
forth again, and fays to them, behold, I
bring him forth to you, that you may know,
that [ find no crime in him. — Jelus there-
fore went forth, carrying the crown of thorns
and the purple veltment. And he faith to
them, Behold the Man, When the Chief
Priefts therefore, and the Minifters, had feen
him, they cryed, faying, Crucify, Crucify
him. Pilate fays to them, take you him,
and Crucify him; for I find no crime in
him. The Zews anfwered him, We havea
Jaw, and according to that law he ought to
die, becaufe he has made himfelf the Son of
God. When Pilate therefore had heard this
‘faying, he feared the more. And he ene
‘tered into the palace again; and he fays
to Jelus, Whence art thou? But Jefus gave
hirn no-anfwer, Pilate therefore fays to him,
: {fpeakeft
9 40 The Paffion, | |
{poeakeft thou not to me; knoweft not thou
that I have power to crucify thee, and have
power to releafe thee? Jefus anfwered, thou
fhovldft not have any power over me, unlefs .
jt were given thee from above. Therefore
he that has betrayed me to thee, has the
greater fin. From henceforth Pilate fought
to releafe him; But the /ews cryed, faying,
If thou releafe ‘this man thou art not Cafar’ $
friend. Every one that makes himlelf a
King. oppofeth Cefar. But Pilate, when
he had heard thele words, brought forth
Jefus ; and fat in the judgment feat, in the
place that is called Lithofirotos, and in the
Hebrew Gabaiha. And it was th efceve
of the Pafch, about the fixth hour; and he
fays to the Jews, behold your King; but they
cryed away, away with him, crucify him.
Pilate, fays to them, fhall I crucify your
King? the Chief Prieft anfwered, we have
no King but Cafar. Then therefore he de-
hvered him to them, to be crucified. And
they took Jefus, and led him forth; and
carrying a crofls for himfelf, he went tat af
into that place which is called the place of
Calvary, in Hebrew Golgotha; where they
crucified him, and with him two others, on
each fide one, and in the mid{i Jefus. And
_ Pilate writ a tile alfo, and put it upon the
crofs. And it was was written, Jefus of Na-
zareth, the King of the Jews. This tie
therefore many ‘of the Jews did read ; he-
‘caule
according to St. John. gat
caufe the place, where Jefus was crucified,
was nigh to the city; and it was writ in
Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. The Chief Prieft
therefore of the Jews, faid to Pilate, Write
not, the King of the Jews, but that he faia,
Iam the King of the Jews. Pilate anfwered, |
What I have writ, I have writ. The foldiers
therefore, when they had crucified him,
took his garments (and they made four
parts, to every foldier a part) and his coat.
And his coat was without feam wrought from
the top throughout. They faid therefore
‘one to another, Let us not cut it, but let us
caft lots for it, whofe it fhall be, that the
fcripture might be fulfilled, faying, they have
paried my garments among them, and for
my vefture they have caft lots. And the
foldiers did thefe things. And there flood
befide the crofs of Jefus, his mother, and his
mother’s fifter, Mary of Cleophas, and Mary
Magdalen. When Jefus therefore had feen
his mother, and the difciple ftanding, whom
he loved, he fays to his mother, Woman,
behold thy fon. After that, he fays to his
difciple, Behold thy mother: and from that
hour the difciple took her to his own. After-
ward Jefus knowing that all things were now
finifhed ; that the {cripture might be ful-
filled, he fays, I thirft. A veffel therefore
flood there, full of vinegar; and they putting |
a fponge full of vinegar about hyffop, offered
itto his mouth: Jefus therefore, having
: Hh taken
342 The Paffion, :
taken the vinegar, faid, It is finifhed. And {
‘bowing his head, HE GAVE UP THE _
GHOST. The Jews therefore (becaufe it
was thesPara/ceve) that the bodies might not —
remain on the crofs on the fabbath (for that —
was a great fabbath-day) they defired Pilate, —
that their legs might be broken, and they ©
might be taken away. ‘The foldiers there-
fore came; and of the firft they broke the
legs, and of the other that was crucified-with —
him: but being come to Jefus, when they —
faw that he was dead, they did not break his
legs; but one of the foldiers, with a fpear, —
opened his fide, and immediately iffued forth —
blood and water. And he that faw it, has
given teftimony; and his teftimony is true.
And he knows that he fays true, that you al-
fo may believe. For thefe things were done,
that the fcripture might be fulfilled; You
fhall not break a bone of him. And again
another {cripture fays, They fhall look on
him whom they pierced.
And after thefe things Jofeph of Arima.
thea (becaufe he was a difciple of Jefus, but
fecret, for fear of the Zews) defired Pilate,
that he might take away the body of Jefus:
and Pilate gave bim leave. Hecame there-
fore, and took away the body of Jefus.
Nicodemus alfo came, he that at the firft came
to Jefus by night, bringing a mixture of
myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds,
They took therefore the body of Jelus, and
bound
according to St. John. 243
bound it in linen cloths with the fpices, as the
manner is with the Jews to bury. And
there wasin the place, where he was cruci-
fied, a garden, and in the garden a new mo-
nument, wherein no man yet had been laid ;
there therefore, becaufe of the Parafceve of
the Jews, they laid Jefus, becaule the mo-
nument was hard by.
RXXXLAAARAARAAAAAAEX
WE che, uN S
~—
FOR THE WHOLE YEAR.
Upon the Sundays and Week-days of Advent.
The Hymw at Even-Song.
Creator, Alme Siderum,
REATOR of the Stars above;
The light by which thy faithful move,
The righteous caufe, and humble vows
OF thofe whom you redeem’d, efpoufe.
Who, left the fpecious wiles of hell
Shou'd o’er the yielding world prevail,
Compell’d by love’s enfore’d decree,
Do make yourfelf its remedy.
Your early fufferings now begin
To fave the world involv’d in fin;
And from the Virgin's facred womb
Continue to the crols and tomb.
Hhe Fhe -
344 H.Y¥ MN 5
The voice no fooner founds the fame:
Of the Almighty Jefas’ name, !
But Heav’n and Hell at once agree,
And jointly bend their trembling knee. -
Vouchiafe, O Sov’reign judge, we pray,
That at the laft accounting day,
Our foe may not prevail, or we
Give up the fouls were made for thee.
May each fucceeding age proclaim.
Thy glory and eternal fame ;
And fing with the Celeftial Hof,
The Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft..
The Hymn at Mattins.
Verbum Supernum prodiens.
fy es period’s come, and lo! to-day,
The Son of God begins his way,
To refcue at his wond’rous birth
A world enflav’d to fin and earth.
Our minds, O God, with light infpire,.
_ And warm our hearts. with heay’nly fire,
"Lill flaming with feraphic love, |
We relifh only things above.
That at the great and dreadful day,
When Heav’n and Hell contend for prey. ;
And Chrift our judge appoints for this
Damnation, and for t’other blifs.
Our lot with theirs mayn’t be the fame,
Who feed an unconfuming flame ;
Bui rather grant, that we may fee
Thy heav’nly face eternally.
: To
throughout the Year. 845
To God the Father and the Son,
And Holy Spirit, Three in One,
Be endleis glory as before
The world began, fo evermore.
The Hymwn at Lauds.
En clara Vox redarguit. ©
A Heavenly voice and early ray
Now chide the lazy night away :
Witb watchful hearts and waking eyes
Behold the Sun of Julftice rife.
O! rifing Sun, attrat our mind,
Like morning dew from earth refin’d ;
That we may learn with thee to rife,
And pay our morning facrifice.
Behold, the Lamb is fentto pay
The debt our nature can't defray:
May all, at leaft, compound th’ arrears
With humbled Hearts and grateful tears.
~ ‘That when He late returns in ire,
To judge the trembling world by fire,
We may efcape the judge, and find
A God, a Father, and a Friend.
May each lucceeding age, Sc. p. 344.
Uson the Nativity, Circumcifion, and the
Sunday ¢éll the Epiphany.
The Hymn at Even-Song and Matins,
Fefu, Redemptor omnium.
() Chrift, the world’s redemption !
Co-partner of your Father’s throne,
Hug . — Whole
346 “H ¥ MNS
Whole equal unbeginning light
With loftre fill'd primeval night.
Reflection ef your Father’s rays,
The hdpe and end of all our ways:
With gracious ear our vows attend,
W hilft round the world our prayers afeend: —
Remember, you, O gracious Lord;
{The eternal God's Co-equal word)
In Virgin’s womb a creature made,
ur nature wore for nature’s aid.
Witnefs this joyful noon of night;
When you alone our endlefs light,
Defeending: from your Father's throne,.
Brought down the world’s redemption,
For this glad earth ere€ts her head; -
The waters purk and wa({h their bed ;.
The joyful foheres in mufic roll:
Heaven and.earth your birth extol.
Whilit thefe contrive new: ways to-fing;.
New life reflor'd, the new-born King ;
We ranfom’d, moft of all rejoice
“With double hymns of heart and voice..
May age to age for ever fing
The Virgin's Son and Angels King,
And praife withthe Celeitial Hoft
“‘Ebe Father, Son, and Holy. Gholt.
The Hymn at. Lauds..
A Solis Ortus Cardine.
ROWNbew’ry part, o'er which the fur
“Does mits coiling compals ruv,
throughout the Year, = =§ ©
May creatures all confpire to fing
The praifes of our new-born King;
The God of nature, for our fake,
Or fervile nature boll to take;
With flefh to lend our flefh his aid,
And fave the works his hands had mez @e.
In Mary's womb he takes bis place,
And there ereéts his feat of grace :
In filence fhe ador’d and bleft
The facred myft’ry in her breatt.
Her virgin womb, that chafte abode,,.
Becomes the temple of her Gad;
And the of nature’s works shane}
Above all nature’s laws, conceives a Son;
Thus does the bearing maid unfold
The myft’ry Gabriel {foretold ;
Which Fohn within his mother’s womb
Forefaw; and bieft the Lamb to come,
Behold him inthe manger laid:;
AA fheaf of ftraw, his royal bed:
And he whole bounty feeds the reff,
Lies craving at his Mother's breaft.
Here Angels-to their Maker fing:
a7
Here Heav’n’s loud choirs with, ecchoes
ring;
Whit fhepherds here adore and. know
Their Paftor and Creator-too.
May age to age forever fing
‘The Virgin's Son and. Angels King,
Aad praife with the Celestial Hott
‘The Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft,
On
948 HYMNS.
On the Feaft of the Holy Innocents.
The Hymn at Even-Song and Lauds,
Salvete Flores Martyrum,
He Martyrs, bloffoms early blown,
Juft op’ning to the rifing Sun;
When Herod like a ftorm arole;
And nipt each little blooming rofe,
Young tender flocks, you : firft of all
For Chrift a grateful vi€tim fall :
With palms and wreaths you fport and play,
And at his feet your garlands lay.
May age to age for ever fing, &c. p. 346.
The Hymwn at Matins,
Audit Tyrannus anxius.
HE jealous tyrant faw with fear
The Prince of Princes reign draw near,
Foretold to fit on J/rael’s throne,
And rule the realms of David's crown.
Foaming with rage, he raves and cries,
A rival comes; to arms; arife:
Make Bethlem’s cradles float in blood,
That he may perifh in the flood.
Why, Herod, this inhuman rage ?
Or what avails this impious ftage ?
*Tis Chrift alone you feek, and He
Alone efcapes your cruelty.
May age to age for ever fing, Ge. p. 346.
On
throughout the Year. i 349
On the Epiphany.
The Hymn at Even-Song and Matins,
—Crudelis Herodes Dewm:
H Y, Herod, doft thou fear in vain,
That Chrift fhould take thy place
[ and reign ?
He feeks not here an earthly throne,
Who comesto make all Heav’n our own.
. Behold a ftar defcends to day,
And leads the Sages.on their way ;
To carry their mylterious load
By light, to light’s own fountain, God.
To-day the Lamb defcends, and laves
His heav’nly fleece in Fordan’s waves ;
To wath witha celeftial dew
The flains of fin he never knew.
And fince the harden’d Zews miftook
Roth Bethlem’s ftar and. Zordan’s brook,
The waters to reproach their {in
At Cana blufh, and turn to wine.
Glory to thee, O Chrift, whofe rays
Iluftrated the Gentiles ways;
With equal praifes fill repeat
The Father and the Paraclete..
The Hymn at Lauds.
O fola magnarum Urbium.
| Gers other cities ftrive, which moft
Can of their ftrength or heroes boaft :
Beihlem alone is chofe to be
The feat of heav’n-born Majefty,
| biere: |.
350 - HYMNS
Here while our God incarnate lay,
Th’ officious ftars their homage pay :
A fun-like meteor quits its fphere,
To fhew the fun of juftice here,
Hither the faithful fages ran,
To own their King, both God and Man:
And with their incenfe, myrrh and gold,
The myfl’ries of their vows unfold, |
To God the cenfer’s fmoke afcends :
The gold the fov’raign king attends :
In myrrh the bitter type we fee
Of fuff’ring and mortality,
Glory to thee, Gc. 349.
In the Sunday Office, the Hymn at
Matins,
To be faid from the Oflave of the Epiph. til the firft Sunday
of Lent, and from the Sunday neareft to the firft Day of
Oftober tzll Advent.
Primo die quo Trinitas.
i H E happy day will foon difclofe,
Whereon the new creation rofe :
Whereon Chrift rifing from the grave
Mankind made free, and death a flave.
Hence lazy fleep: let’s all arife,
With cheerful hearts, and waking eyes ;
And with the royal prophets pray —
Before the dawning of the day.
Let’s pray, that God an ear may lend, .
And his indulgent hand extend ; i
0
~~ throughout the Year. 354
To purify our guilty fouls,
And wing their flight above the poles:
While in thefe quiet hours we fing,
And make his houfe with praifes ring ;
Each happy moment of the day,
May he with heav’nly gifts repay.
O! thou, the Father’s glorious light,
Dire&t our wand’ring fteps aright,
And matter, by a brighter beam, |
Tho fe paffions, that our fouls inflame.
Left earthly bodies, prone to ill,
- Become more weak and yielding fill ;
And burning with impure defires,
Increafe the raging of Hell fires.
O! Chrift, vouchfafe, we humbly pray,
To wafh our ftains of guilt away ;
And grant us, freed from mortal ftrife, —
The bleft reward of endlefs life.
In this, moft gracious Father, hear, —
Thro’ Chrift thy equal Son, our pray’r;
Who with the Holy Ghoft and Thee
Refides and reigns eternally,
The Hymn at Lauds.
Asterne Rerum conditor.
God, who by alternate fway,
Didft make the night fucceed the day 3,
That tird with labour, we may clofe |
Our wearied eyes in foft repofe.
The early harbinger of light
Already bids farewel to night,
, And
ane HY MONS"
And calls aloud the rifing day,
To fhew the traveller his way.
Rais’d by his voice the morning flar,
Difcovers day-break from afar,
Whilft fecret mifchiefs take their flight,
And vanifh with the fhades of night.
His note revives the failor’s hearts,
And lays the ftorms by fecret arts :
The church’s rock his mufick hears, ©
And burft with grief, diffolves in tears,
Let’s then our drowfy beds forfake ;
The cock excites us to awake,
And chides the fluggard that delays
To rife and fing his Maker's praife.
New hopes revive at his fhrill voice,
And finners at the found rejoice :
The robber throws his {word away,
And faith renew’d returns with day.
Behold us, Lord, difeas’d with fin,
And raife us up to health again,
Cait but a look, our fins decay,
And wath themfelvés in tears away.
Convert duil fleep to thoughts divine :
Through all our darken’d fenfes fhine ;
That early accents we may raife,
And our firft voices fing thy praife.
May age to age thy wonders tell,
Eterna! praile thy works reveal,
And fing with the Celeftial Hoft,
The Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft. |
Another
™s
throughout the Year.
Another Hymn at Matins.
353
To be faid from the Oave of Whitfuntide, till the Sunday
nearet the firft Day of O&ober.
Nofle furgentes vigilemus,
ISE, watchful foul, awake thy fweetefl praife,
To fov'reign Chrift thy tuncful-numbers raife,
With pfalmsand hymns thy mind delight,
And fing away the thades of night.
That as in mufic now our hearts preclaim,
Like heav'nly choirs, our great Creator’s fame,
Our end among the bleft may be
To live, O God, and fing to thee.
For this petition, Lord, to thee we fly ;
Three facred Perfons in one Deity ;
Whole praifes fung from pole to pole,
In endlefs Alleluias roll.
The Hymn at Lauds.
Ecce jam Noéiis.
OW night defcends, the lefs'ning fhadows fly,
And bright Aurora climbs the morning fky :
On thee, O Sovereign Judge of all,
Our hearts with-eariy accents call.
That thou to tender mercy, Lord, inclin’d,
Mayft heal the anguifh of our guilty mind,
And crown our yows amongft the bleft
With joys in everlafting reft,
For this petition, Yc. as abvus.
Li
The
The Hymn at Prime,
Jam Lucis. orto Sidere.
AT OW morning light awakes the day,
S Thee, fov’reign Lord, thy fuppliants pray
To guide our a€tions by the light,
Secure from all attempts of night.
With fhades conclude pale difcord’s reign:
Our tongues with decent bounds reftrain :
Shut all accefs, by which the eyes
Let in deceit and vanities,
Drive lazy fleep before the day,
And purge our hearts from all allay,
With juit retrenchments of excefs
‘Our bodies vicious flames fupprefs.
That when the lefs’ning beams of light
Give way to the returning night;
Our minds by fin unftain’d, may raife
‘Their {fweeteft notes to fing thy praife.
May age to age thy wonders, &c. 352.
The Hymn at the Third Hour.
Nune Sanéle nobis Spiritus,
4 PIRIT of God, .in nature one
: With both the Father and the Son;
Our long refifting breafts infpire
With {preading heat and-heav’nly fire.
Our fenfes, congues, and hearts inflame
With energy to found thy name,
That glowing zeal may warmth impart,
And fpread thy love in every heart.
In this moft gracious, @c. 351.
The
throughout the Year. 355
The Hymw atthe Sixth Hour.
Reftor Potens.
_LL-rurine God! uberringway!
Whow all things in their courfe obey ©
At whofe command the rifing Sun
Shines gently brigbt, and burns at noon ;
Extinguifh in out flaming will
Contention and defire of ill:
With vigorous health our bodies blefs,
And calm our minds with endlefs peace.
In this moft gracious, ec. 351.
The Hymn at the Ninth Hour.
Rerum Deus tenax Vigor.
God! the energy of things,
From whom unmov’dall inmotion {prings;*
And by the order of whole {way
Succeeding hours beget the day.
Grant that our evening may be bright,
Unmixt with fhades of finful night ;
That fo eternal glory may
Conclude our life’s laborious day.
In this, molt gracious, Sc. 951.
Fhe Hymn at Even-Song,.
Eucis Creator optime.
Bu EST Maker of the radiant light,
Who fromthe darkiome womb of night,
- Didit make the Sun, at nature’s birth,
To fhew the beauteous face of earth, |
Lia; Who
956 HYMNS
Who of the morn and evening ra
Mad’ft meafur’d light, and call’dit it day ;
Whilft fable night involves the fpheres,
Vouchlafe to hear our vocal tears.
Left our frail mind on creatures bent |
Should hug its chain and banifhment.
And. whilft it thus fupinely lies,
Forget to ufe its wings and rife.
O! may we then our fouls exert,
And {hake their pinions from the dirt,
To foar on high, and like the dove,
Find nought to fix on, but above.
In this, moft gracious, “c. 351-
The Hymn at Compiin.
fe Lucis ante Terminum. -
. God, before the clofe of day,
We beg, thy ufual mercies may
DireGt us with thy purer light
Thro’ all the dangers of the night.
Supprefs our foes infernal arts,
Left fenfual dreams defile our hearts
With vain deluding thoughts, that creep
On heedlefs minds difarm’d with fleep.
In this, moll gracious, @c. 351.
The Hymn on Monday, at Matins.
Somno refeéiis Artubus-
() God, be prefent, and infpire
With heavenly fongs cur morning choirs
‘While we, refrefht with fleep, awake,
‘And our negletted beds forfake.
et
throughout the Year. 357
Let our firft voices found thy name:
Thy love our firft defires inflame ;
‘That all our following a€tions may
By thee be fanétifi’d, this day.
Rife, glorious Sun, adorn thy fky 3”
Ye gloomy fhades of darknefs fly:
‘That all the mifchiefs of the night
May vanifh at approaching light.
Thus we, O Lord, thy fappliants she
"Fo drive the fhades ‘of fin away,
And in our fongs thy name fhalf be
Exalted to eternity.
In this, moft gracious, &c. 951.
The Hymn at Lauds.
Splendor paterne Glorice.
Splendor of paternal light ! A
Thou Beam proceceding no lefs bright !
Great Source of Glory! Boundlefs Ray,
That adds new luftre to the day !
True Sun that ever fhin’ft the fame,
Infufe into our fouls a beam
Defcending from the Dove divine,
That light through ev'ry fenfe may fhine.-
And’thou, O Father, thron’d above, |
Father of majetty and love,
With fuppliant vows we thee implore ;-.
What fin defac’d; again reftore.
Confirm us when we walk aright ;
Invidious clamours put to fight :
€rofles and all events redrefs.
snd. guide our a€tions to fuccels.-
J-i 3, Sie)
958 SOY ME NEES
So rule our minds, that they may be
Tly unfpotted feat of chaftity.
May faith infpire a nobler heat,
And trutb prevail o’er all deceit ;
Our hungry minds on Chrift be fed,
Our thirft by faith in him fupplied,
Whilft we in facred revels blefs
The fountain of our mind’s excels.
As the glad hours thus flide away,
Let modelty begin the day,
And faith be the meridian hight,
Unmixt with fhades of doubtful night.
The morning lights their beams difplay,
May God fo rife in us to day,
In God the Father all the Son,
And he in him, entirely one.
May age to age thy wonders.tell,
- Eternal praile thy works reveal ;
And fing with the Celeftial Holt,
The Father, Son, and Holy Gholt.
The Hymn at Even-Song.
Immenfe Cali Conditor.
REATOR. God tminenfe and wife f
At whofe command the liquid fkies,
perhe the world, in order flow,
~ With freams above and ftreams bia
To each afhgning veins and ways,
By which that element allays
The wafting fires of barren earth,
And fits the foil for fruitful birth.
So
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So. gracious God, may’ft thou impart —
Thy fireams of grace tenrich our heart,
Left fin’s conluming fires decay |
Our tenement of fruitlefs clay.
May faith improve our inward fight,
And guide our wills with heavenly light,
That no vain fires may lead aftray,
Nor errors fhrowd that glorious ray.
In this, moft gracious, Ge. 351.
The Hymn on Tuefday, at Matins.
Confors paternt Luminis.
i Read Luftre of thy Father’s Ray;
Thou Light of Lights, thyfelf, the Day :
Our mid-night fongs with grace infpire,
And grant us all we fhould defire.
All doubts from anxious minds expel,
And darker {hades of fin and hell ;
The fond defire of fleep reprefs,
And all the fins of flothfulnefs.
Mayft thou, O Chrift, exalt our choir
With lively faith, and a€tive fire ;
That, never ceafing, we may pray,
And mend our lives from day to day,
In this, moft gracious, Sc. 951.
The Hymn at Lauds.
Ales Dier Nuncius.
HE early bird with chearful cry,
Awakes us when the morning’s nigh:
Chrift call us fo, without delay,
To rife and meet eternal day,
He
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He calls aloud; no longer fteep
Your fluggifh thoughts i in drowly fleep :
But fober, juft, and chafte appear;-
For I, your Saviour, now am near.
Let’s anfwer then, and Chrift implore
As loud as ke call’d out before:
Let us be fober, pray and weep;
Devoted hearts fhould never fleep.
Awake us, Chrift, with pureft light,
And break the fetters of the night.
Tbe bonds of harden’d fins unloole,
And new and brighter beams infufe.
May age to age thy wonders, &c. 958,
~The Hy mw at Even-Song.
Fellurts alme Conditor.
God! who, when at Nature’s birth,
The waters hid the face of earth;
Didft make the fhores their floods refirain;
And raife the land above the main:
That teeming earth might herbage yield,
And flowers and fruit adorn the field; — ~
At once to charm the tafle and ne
With pleafure and variety.
Grant thus our fouls may nfe from fin,
To bear the fruits of grace again,
Whilft floods of tears refort, to kill
"Lhe paflions that inflame our will.
May we in all that’s good rejuice,
At ev'ry call obey thy voice; |
And flrangers to. the ways of death,
Untainted yield our parting breath,
-In this, moft gracious, Sc. 351. -
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The Hy mw on Wednefday, at Matins.
Rerum Creator optime..
C) God! whofe power did all create,
And gently governs every ftate ;
Releafe our minds by fleep oppreft,
And lull’d in too profound a reft.
And thee, O Chrift, we humbly pray,
Releafe the debt we cannot pay :
To blefs thee, we our beds forfake,
And our neglected flumbers break.
May we the prophet’s juft commands,
All night with lifted minds and hands,
Fulfil; and pray, thus taught to do
, By his and Paul's example too.
Tothee our bofoms we unfold:
Lord, our offences there behold :
And while we weep, and while we pray,
Wafh thou our flains of fin away-
In this moft gracious, &c. 951.
The Hymn at Lands,
Nox et Tenebree et Nubila-
1) ss night and gloomy mifts that fhroud
The world beneath a flormy cloud,
Fly quickly hence: the gleamy white
Shews Chrift approaching with the light.
_ And thou, thick darknefs, that doft bound
With fable arms this earth around, .
Begone. The Sun new luftre brings,
And fhews again the face of things.
Thee, Chrift, and only thee we own »
With hearts fincere, and fongs of moan: |
Thy
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Thy fervants beg-thou wilt difpenfe
Thy watchful care thro’ every fenfe.
The many ills inbabit there —
Will vanifh, when thy beams appear:
Come then, thou true Celeftial Light,
And drive away thofe fhades of night.
May age to age thy wonders, &c. 358.
The Hymn at Even-Song.
Celi Deus Sankiifime.
Source of light ! whofe glorious ray
Improves the fiery noon of day,
And paints the lucid realms more bright
With beauteous gleams of burnifht light.
Who round the world, twice two days old,
The burning luminary roll’d;
And taught the moon and ftars to fteer
Their roving courfe around the {phere.
That certain periods thus might fhow
How time’s alternate feafons flow:
How days, and nigiits, and months fucceed,
And years fupply each others ftead.
Reftore in us thy heavenly day,
And drive the night of fin away ; :
‘That man like them, from darknefs free,
May end this courfe, and reft in thee.
In this moft gracious, @c. 351.
The Hy mwn on Thurfday at Matins,
Nox aira Rerum coniegit.
N O W darknefs fpreads her fable wings,
And hides the different face of things,
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Thee, O unbiafs'd judge of hearts,
Our fongs implore, e’re night departs.
To cleanfe.us from each mortal fain,
And raife our fouls to life again,
Thy Sovereign grace, O Lord, difpenfe,
And heal the wound of every fenfe.
Surcharg’d with fin, the guilty mind
Is heavy and to floth inclin’d;
But ftruggles and would fain be free,
‘To fly rejoicing, Lord, to thee.
Thofe fhades of darknefs then, that dwell
Clofe in.our inmoft mind, expel ;
That it may rife from death and night,
Exulting, in immortal light.
In this, moft Gracious Father, &c, 951,
The Hy n at Lauds,
Lux ecce furgit aurea.
‘SD EFORE the face of Glorious Light,
3 Dark fhadows wing their hafty flight,
“Which led our fteps fo long aftray
Thro’ error’s wide forbidden way.
O! may this light for ever fhine,
And fill our fouls with beams divine ;
Left finful objeéts drag the will ;
Or figtions prompt our {peech to ill.
May all the day fo glide along,
That truth may only move the tongue,
Nor guilt our hands or eyes diftain,
Left fin o’er-fhadow &s again,
Th’ Eternal Eye, that fits above,
“Obferves us, and each ftep we move, i
Behelds
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Behold us, if we act right,
From morning to returning night.
_ May age to age thy wonders, &c. 358-
The Hy N at Even-Song.
Magnus Deus Potentie.
God! whofe watry flores fupply
The liquid realms of feas and fky,
With fruitful ftocks of fifh and fowl, —
‘Yo fly the air, and fwim the pool.
Who taught the birds to foar on high,
Whilft fifh their inny pinion ply ;
That each, tho’ born of one defcent,
Might fill its feveral element.
Grant that our fouls, now paft the flood
Of Chrift’s redeeming tears and blood,
May raife themfelves on wing, and fly
The dangers of mortality. .
That none may fink beneath their fate,
Nor foar on wings of felf-conceit ;
Left earthly minds fink once for all,
Or rais’d too high, encreafe their fall.
In this moft gracious, &C. 352-
The Hy Mw on Friday at Matins.
Tu Trinitatis Unitas.
Hou Great Myflerious Three and One,
Whole. pows commands the world a-
While we our nightly voices raife, (alone,
Attend and liften to thy praile.
Now, allahings bufht in filence, take
The fweets of fleep; thy fuppliants wake,
And
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And beg, O Lord, that thou wilt cure
The wounds of fin, that we endure.
And all thofe deeds that fly the light
For fhelterin the fhades of night,
Do thou with a defcending ray
Difpel, and wafh their ftains away.
_ That whilft to thee our fongs complain,
No inward floth, or outward ftain,
With their contagious ills may bind
The a€tive vigour of the mind,
We therefore, Lord, thy fuppliants pray, -
Thy grace may guard our fouls to-day, _
That guided by fo pure a light,
Our lives may brighten in thy fight.
May age to age thy wonders, &c. 358,
The Hxmwn at Lauds,
Aeterna Cel: Gloria.
¥,. TERNAL blaze of heavenly light,
Thou happy wifh of mortal fight,
Co-heir of God’s paternal throne ;
A {potlefs Virgin’s only Son.
Vouchfafe, that we our fouls may raifle
On nobleft thoughts to fing thy praife,
That everlafting numbers may 3
Our grateful tribute juftly pay.
The morning ftar now climbs thy fky,
The Sun fucceeds and thadows fly :
_ So may the dawn of inward light
~ Ante, and chace the works of night.
So may thy faving influence
Diffufe thy light thro’ every fenfe;
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And through the dangers of the day,
Our lives unftain’d to night convey,
Deep in our fouls may faith take root,
And firit produce celeftial fruit ;
Next hope our heavenly progrefs move,
And both conclude in endlefs love.
_May age to age thy wonders, &c. 958,
The Hymw at Even-Song,
Hominis Superne Conditor.
AN’s fov’reign God, to whom we owe
Both all we are, and all we do;.
Who, fromthe teeming womb of earth,
Gav’ ft fervile brutes and reptiles birth,
That monfters of the land and deep,
Awak’d to life from realms of fleep,
By turns might their obedience pay
To nobler man’s imperial fway.
Supprefs whate’er by fenfual arts,
Like infeéts, breeds in earthly Hearts’
Before thofe fins to monfters grow,
And move the wheels of all we do.
From noify ftrife our fouls releafe,
Cement the ties of heavenly peace:
Show’r down thy ftreams of grace, tll we
~ Mect our reward and blifs in thee.
In: this, moft gracious, &c. 951,
The Hymn on Saturday at Matins,
Summe Parens Clementi:
{) God! by whofe command 1s fway’d
This order’ d world which thou haft made,
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Parent of heav’nly clemency, :
In nature one, in perfons three-.
With gracious ear our cries attend,
Whilft fighs and vocal tears afcend;
That freed from fin, our fouls may be
More fpacious for receiving thee.
Our loins diftemper’d with defires, —
_ Make pure by thy refining fires ;
That Heaven's feraphic love may tle
Our hearts to ftriéteft purity.
While the dark hours that pafs along;
Divide themfelves to hear our fong;
Increafe in us that heavenly love
With gifts defcending from above.
In this, moft gracious, &c, 95t.
The Hymn at Lauds.
Aurora jam fpargit Polum.
URORA does her beams difplay
And fhews the bright approach of day ¥
May all diforder of the night
Difperle before the glorious light.
Loofe, vicious, and intruding dreams,
And whatfoe’er the mind inflames:.
With all that hid in darknefs lay,
Take {peedy wing and fly away.
That the laft morning we fhall fee
(Which, Lord, we afk with bended knee}
May, when it’s rifing light difplays,
Here find us finging of thy praife,
May age to age thy wonders, &c, 958...
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The Hymn at Even-Song.
Fam Sol recedit igneus.
PRs fiery Sun now rolls away,
And haftens to the clofe of day ;
Thy brighteft beams, O Lord, impart,
And rife in our benighted heart.
To us the praifes of thy name
Are morning fong and evening theme}
Thus may we fing ourfelves to reft
Amidft the mufic of the bleit.
To God the Father, and the Son,
And Holy Spirit, Three in One,
Be endlefs glory, as before
ihe world began, fo evermore.
The Hxmn at Even-Song in Lent.
Audi benigne Conditor. .
EAR, O thou bounteous Maker! hear
. Our humble vows with gracious ear +
"Turn not thy faving face away, }
Whiift, on this folemn faft, we pray.
Great Searcher of our hearts, to thee
We here deplore our mifery : ,
Behold, we to thy mercies fly, |
Do thou thy healing grace apply.
Great are our firs, O Lord, but thou |
Canft pardon more than we can do: 4
May our defeéts, like fhadows, raife
The beauty and the life of grace.
May fafts extinguifh, in our will,
The iuel and defire of ill:
That
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That thus our fouls, from fetters free
May only thirft and follow thee.
Grant, O moft facred Trinity,
One undivided Unity,
That abftinence may bere improve
Our claim to reign with thee above.
The Hymw at Matins.
Ex More doéti myflico. |
aN Heav'n’s own {chool’s myfterious
ways
We're uel a falt of forty days:
Let humble fufferings, whilit we fait,
Atone for our Aianites patt. ;
‘Vis this the law and prophets preach,
Both Mofes and £las teach,
And Chrift, in whom they both are join’d,
This great exampie left behind.
Each fenfe and power mutt then abftain,
And e’en allowances reftrain :
Whili watching and referve augment
— The wholefome abftinence of Lent.
-Let’s fly the baits that Hell defign’d-
For {nares to catch the heedlefs mind :
Nor leave the foe one fencelels way,
By which he may our fouls betray.
With proftrate hearts let's lay before
Our, Judge the miferies we ‘deplore?
And, bow’d beneath the threatning rod,
Dilarm the juft revenge of God. :
OGod! O Father ! our excefs
Has long provok’d thy tendernefs.
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~Preferve for us the fame good-will:
Though rebels, we re thy children fill,
Remember, though we’re brittle aUER
*Tisthou, O Lord, that gav’ft us birth :
Then let us not thofe works defame
That bear thy image and thy name.
Forget our crimes, and grant increafe
Of faith and hope, of love and peace:
‘That we may live as pleafes thee,
Both here and in eternity.
Grant, O moft facred, &c. 369.
The Hymn at Lauds,
O Sol Saluits, intimis.
Sov’reign Sun! diffufe thy light,
And clear our inmoft minds of night = :
y beams drive all that’s dark away,
He give the world a better day.
Now days of grace with mercy flow,
O Lord, the gilt of tears beltow,
To walh our flains in ev'ry part,
W hilll heav’nly fire confumeg the heart.
Rife cryftal tears from that fame fource,.
From whence our fics derive their courfe:
Nor ceafe, till harden’d hearts relent, -
And, foften’d by our itreams, repent.
Behold the happy days return,
Tuc days of joy for them that mourn?
May we of their indulgence fhare,
And bicf the God that grants our pray’r.
Mav Heav’n and Earth aloud proclaim
The trinity’s Almighty fame,
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And we, reflor’d to grace, rejoice
In newnefs both of hearts and voice.
(On Passton and PALM-SUNDAY.
The Hymn at Even-Song.
Vexilla Regis prodeunt. .
EHOLD, the royal enfigns fly,
The Crofles fhining myttery ;
Where life itfelf gave up its breath ;
And Chrift by dying, conquer’d death,
Th’ audacious fteel let out a flood |
Of water mixt with faving blood,
Whilft man’s redemption, with the tide,
Came rufhing from the Saviour’s fide,
What David's faithful number told,
Succeeding nations thus unfold ;
That God fhould rule from main to main,
And wood, not fteel, affert his reign.
Hail, beauteous tree! whole branches wore
‘The purple of his royal gore: :
Preferr’d to bear thofe arms, from whence ~
Spring all our bleffing and defence.
On thee, as in the world’s great-{cales,
"The ranfom of the world prevails:
Our fin, though great, his pains out-weigh,
And relcue Hell’s expected prey-
~ All bail! O happy mournful tree,
©ur hope with Chrifl ts nail’d on thee;
Grant to the juft. increafe of grace,
And mediate, for the finner, peace.
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- Bleft Trinity, to thee we fing,
From whem, above, all graces {pring ¢
‘Thy crowas above, on us beftow,
Wiso conguer by the crofs below.
The Hymn at Matins,
Pange Lingua gloriofi Lauream, &c.
ING, O my tongue, the glorious crown, °
Which Chrift, the God of battles, won:
How on the crofs thy God on high
‘Triumphs in pomp and victory;
nd yields for us his faving breath,
At once to die and vanquilh death.
A kind compaihon made him take
Such meafures for his creatures fake;
"That fatal wood, where Adam found
Sad means to give the general wound ;
Should now contributetoreftore
Our life, that caus'd our death before,
_ ‘This methed, Providence decreed
Yor Chrift to crufh the Serpent’s head :
Art meets with art, and countermines
The wily foe's conceal’d defigns ;
Defeats his bane, and then applies,
Againft the poifon, remedies,
Thus when the facred period came,
Behold the world’s redeeming Lamb,
From God's paternal bofom fent,
Came down to human banifhment;
And taking flefh of Mavy’s womb,
Stept forth to fave the world from eae
Here
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Here God and Manan infant lies, —
The narrow crib augments bis cries:
Thofe hands by which the lightning’s hurl’d,
And arms that grafp the bulky world,
In fwathing bands are wrapt and bound,
With poverty encompaft round. _
May all this praife, and honour thee,
One undivided Trinity, We is:
“The Father, and Co-equal Son,
- And Holy Spirit, Three in One,
Whofe equal power and goodnefs claim
One equal, everlafling fame.
The Hymw at Lauds.
IX * Lujftras palt, the Sabbath came
JI On which the world redeeming Lamb,
As freely he that term decreed, |
So freely chofe for us to bleed,
And, on the Crofs’s altar laid,
The fhlemn expiation made.
Gall was his drink; his flefh they tear
With thorns and nails; the bolder {pear —
_ MMs fide laid ope, and once again
Heaven’s cataraéts were feen to rain
Another deluge ; but the flood
Was water mixt with faving blood.
O tow’ring tree! whofe branching head,
Like Heaven, is both fublime and fpread y
No citron groves, nor myrtle bowers,
Can boaft {uch bloffoms, fruits or flowers:
* A Period fignifying the Revolution of five Years.
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Since Chrift’s redeeming arms difplay’d
Create the fweetnefs of thy fhade.
Tall cedar rais’d to mate the fky,
Hard asthou art, now mollify,
And teach men how to treat their God ¢
Bow gently down beneath their load,
That unrelenting man may learn
To change his heart, and feel concern. 3
Thou, when the fhipwreckt world was toft
On raging feas, and nature loft,
Belprinkled with the Saviour’s gore,
Alone wert fit to waft us o’er.
To that calm port of endlefs blifs
Where future florms and dangers ceafe,
May allthis praife, &c. 379.
On Eafter-Sunday, and other Sundays till the
Afcenfion.
~The Hxmw at Matins,
Rex fempiterne Calitum.
Pig King, whole equal reign
With God, before the world, began,
And, from the darkfome womb of night,
Brought'ft all created things to light.
When firft thou gav’ft to nature birth,
And fram’dft the globe of Heavenand Earth;
Of chat fame earth, a narrow {pan,
Thou mad'ft thy own refmblance Man.
And when Hell’s black prevailing art
Had chang’d the hue, and turn’d the heart,
Thou cam'ft to refcue and reftore
The image thou hadft fram’d before.
Then
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Then wert thou born of Virgin’s Womb ;
And now in thee the facred tomb i
Reftores the grave’s firfi fruits to breath, -
To lead us from the realms of death.
He-ieads thro’ the baptifmal flood
(A ftream he tin@tur’d with his blood)
By which, as from the grave of fin,
The foul revives and lives again.
‘The crofs he freely underwent,
And took on him our punifhment,
His wounds like fprings of mercy bled
And plentiful redemption fhed.
From death of fin, O Jefus, free
Them that are born again to thee;
Be thou alone our chofen gueft
And everlafting pafchal feaft.
May endlefs worlds the glories tell
Of Chrift, who vanquifh’d death and hell,
And one eternal praife repeat
The Father and the Paraclete.
The Hymn at Lauds,
Aurora Calum purpurat
URORA fpreads her chearful rays,
The Heav’ns rejoice in hymns of
Praife ; “
The earth refounds in tuneful ftrains
More loud than hell can fhake its chains ;
To fee the mighty Jefus lead
‘The patriarchs ranfom’d from the dead,
Late ions of fhades and heirs of night,
‘To people scenes fen endlefs light,
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The dead’s firft-born refumes his breath,
And forces thro’ the gates of death:
To come vittorious, and increafe
The triumphs of his own deceafe. |
Ceafe mournful tears: behold relief :
Enough you have indulg’d to Grief :
The herald angels now proclaim,
-Life’s reign reftor’d, and found his fame.
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Cn Low-Sunday and others till the Afcenfion,
The Hy mn at Even-Song.
Ad regias Agni dapes.
a Rom purple feas, and land of toil
We come to feed on Egyi's fpoil ;
May whiteft robes our fouls prepare
To meet the Chriftian paffover.
Chrift’s love the pricftly funttion plaid,
The Vidtim on the Altar laid : |
His blood, inflam’d with love for man,
At every faving channel ran.
The waftirg angel pailes o’er
The pofts diltain’d with facred gore?
The yielding fea divides its waves:
Egyptians float in liquid graves.
Now Chrilt becomes our Heavenly fare, -
Our facrifice and paflover:
By him (the pure unleaven‘d bread)
The pure aad faithful minds are fed.
~ O true celeftial facrifice !
By whom hell's flaves from death arife :
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By thee, Death’s adamintine laws
_ Submit, and life regains its caufe. ;
Hence doft thou, crown’d withaurels, rife,
And lead’ft thy triumph thro’ the fkies*
Loaded with {poils each axle reels,
And Hell and Death attend the wheels.
From death of.fin, &c..375.
The Hymwn at Even-Song on the Af-
cenfion.
Salutis humane Sator.
Chrift! the Saviour of mankind,
The light and comfort of the mind,
Creator of this earthly frame:
Thy lovers chafte endearing flame.
What ftrange excefs of clemency
Prevail’d fo far with guiltlefs thee,
That thou the finner’s load fhould’ft bear
And die, to pay his forfeiture.
Thou laidft the dead’s black dungeon ope,
To loofe their chains, and crown their hope ;
And now refum’ft thy conquering throne
Rear’d on the fpoils and trophies wen,
With equal clemency repair
The failings of our exile here;
That we with joy may end our race,
And fee thy glory face to face,
Thou, Lord, the truth, the life, and way,
Preferve us, left our hearts fhould ftray ;
And grant our eyes one day to fee
‘The {weet reward of life in thee.
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The Hymn. at Matins.
_ Aterne Rex Adiffime.
Saviour Chrift! O God, moft high!
Whofe glorious triumphs decks the fky,
Arifing from the world’s defeat,
With tyrant death beneath your feet.
Call’d from above, You, as your own,
In right of God, refume the throne :
And thence this univerfe furvey,
Whilft all your creatures homage pay.
Both heaven and earth, nay death and hell,
And all that in their confines dwell:
With bended kneés fall down before
‘The general Vittor, and adore,
‘The Angels ftand amaz’d to fee
Such change in our mortality :
"[ hat human flefh, the root of fin,
Should ferve their God to triumph in.
May he our great reward beftow,
Whole influence o’er this world below
Makes Heaven alone feem worth our care,
And all things elfe infipid here,
Then Lord, with the releafe of fin
Let thy triumphant grace begin:
And {weetly draw our hearts to thee
Our centre and felicity,
That when our Judge inclouds fhall come,
Cloth’d like a florm, and arm’d with doom,
Our lot may be to {cape the rod,
And meet with a rewarding God.
May endlefs worlds Chrift’s triumphs own,
Afcending his immortal throne:
: And
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And one eternal praife repeat
The Father and the Paraclete.
The Hymw at Even-Song on Whit-
Sunday.
Veni Creator Spiritus.
Ce Spirit, by whofe aid
The world’s foundations firft were laid ;
Come vifit every pious mind,
Come pour thy joys on buman kind,
From fin and forrow fet us free,
And make thy temples worthy thee ;
O Source of uncreated light !
The Father’s promis'd Paraclete ;
Thrice holy fount, thrice holy fire,
Our hearts with heavenly love infpire ;
Come, and thy facred unétion bring
Teo fanQiify us while we fing,
Plenteous of grace defcend from high,
Rich in thy levenfold energy :
Thou ftrength of his almighty hand,
Whole pow’r does heaven & earth command;
Proceeding Spirit our defence,
Who doft the gifts of tongues difpentfe,
And crown thy gift with eloquence.
Refine and purge our earthly parts:
But, Oh! inflame and fire our hearts:
Our frailties help, our vice control, :
Submit the fenfes to the foul;
And when rebellious they are grown,
Then lay thy hand, and hold them down.
Lie Chafe
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Chafe frony our minds th’ infernal foe;
And peace, the fruit of love, beftow :
And, left our feet fhould ftep aflray,
Prote€k, and guide us in the way-
Make us eternal truths receive,
And praétife all that we believe :
Give us thyfelf, that we may fee
‘he Father, and the Son, by thee.
Immortal honour, endlefs fame |
‘Attend the Almighty Father’s name;
The Saviour Son be glorified,
Who for loft man’s redemption died ;
And equal adoration be,
Eternal Paraclete, to thee.
The Hymwn at Matins.
Fam Chriftus. Aftva afcenderat.
OW Chrilt hadpierc’d the fkies to claim:
4 Iiis Father’s throne, from whence he
About to fend the facred Dove, (came..
The Holy Gaolt, true God of love.
The day was come, on which the Sun-
Had fev’n times fev’n glad courfes run ;:
‘To ufher in the fevenfold rays
With a myfterious term of days.
Three bours from the fun-rife were paft;,
When lo! in a furprifing blaft,
Whe Twelve at pray’rs, the Ghoftly God.
Came down to take his new abode.
Thus from the Father’s light there came:
A facred warmth, and living flame,
To
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To make their faithful hearts reveal,
By fiery tongues their ardent zeal. :
They, fill’d with God, in tran{ports ble
With various tongues and languages,
The God, that taught thofe wond’rous ways
To ) preach his works, and {peak his praife.
The Romans, Greeks, and barb’rous fects,
All nations and all diales,
Their native tongues perceive, and praif
The author of their ftrange amaze.
Whilft Jews alone, of all mankind
The moft {upinely deaf and blind,
Revile God’s greateft works with fin,
And call the aif, excels of wine.
But Peter thwarts their impious {pite,
‘And brings the facred truth to light:
A truth, which, tho’ from them conceal’d,
The prophets taught, and God reveal’d.
May endlefs worlds, &e,
The Hymn at Lauds.
Mature
Beata nobis gaudia.
6 hus rolling year purfues its way,
And now turns up the joyful day,
Whereon the Holy Gholt poffeft,
And reign’d in each Apoltle’s breaft,
The fudden flames, like tongues of fire,
Their hearts and fpeech at once infpire,
-To kindle love, and to difpenfe
T he gift of heav’nly diiendls: |
They [peak ; and mingling nations throng
Amaz'd to hear their native tongue :
Lia: Whit
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Whilft firangers to the gofpel think:
The mind's excefs, excefs of drink.
But here myfterious terms appear ;.
And as the Jewifh fiftieth year
Declar’d the legal debtors free,
This day’s the Chriftian Jubilee. _
Now, Gracious God, with bended knee:
Thy Spirit’s gifts we afk of thee:
Meke all the fev’nfold fountains flow,
And fhed their-grace on us below.
Long fince thy grace-thou- didft impart, .
‘To rule in each diciple’s heart ;
With the fame grace our-crimes releafe, .
And grant us everlafting geace.
May endlefs worlds, &c,
On. .Trinrry-SunDAY.
The Hymn at: Even-Song..
Fam Sol recedit igneus..
HE fiery Sun now-rolls away,
_ And haftens.to the clofe of day.
Thy biighteft beams, O Lord, impart,
And rife in our benighted he. rt.
To us the praifes of thy name
Axe morning fong and evening theme;
So may we hig ourfelves.to reit
Amidlt the mufic of the bleft..
Le God.the Father, &c. 368.
‘The:
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The Hymn at Matins,
Summee Parens Clementi.
God! by whofe command is any ‘d
This order’d world which thou haf made,,.
Parent of heav’nly clemency,
In nature one, in perfons three.
Afiilt us, whilf our minds we raile,
Inflam’d with thy immortal praife ;
That with our fober thoughts we may
For ever our thank{giving pay.
May age to-age thy: wonders, &c. 958s.
The Hymn at Lauds.
Fu Trinitatis Unetass.
“HOU great myfterious three and one,
Whole power commands this world*
Whilft we our nightly voices raife; (alone.
Arife and liften to thy praife. |
The morning ftar now clinyps the fky,.
The Sun fucceeds, the fhadows ily :
Se may the dawn of inward light
Aufe, and chace the works of night.
May age to age thy wonders, &c. 358.-
- On the Feaft of Corpus Chrifi..
The Hymn at Even-Song..
Pange Lingua.
ING, O my tongue, pune and praife-
The depth of God’s myficrious ways?>
ee Chik the Gentiles King beftew’d..
His flefh, conceal’d in human food.
‘f And”
984 HYMN S
And left mankind the blood, that paid
‘The ranfom of the fouls he made,
Born from above, and born for man,
From Virgin’s womb his life began :
He liv'don earth, and preach’d, to fow
The feeds of heavenly truth below:
Then feal’d his miffion from above
- With ftrange effeéts of power and love.
‘Twas on that ev’ning, when the laft,
And moft myfterious Supper paft :
When Chrift with his Difciples fat
To clofe the law with legal mea: ;
And with his hands himfelf beftow’d-
The Chriftian’s food and Lamb of Ged.
‘The word made flefh for love of man,
With words of bread made flefh again :
Turn’‘d wine to blood unfeen by ferfe
By virtue of omnipotence ; |
And here the faithful reft fecure
Whilft God can vouch, and faith enfure.
To this myfterious table now _
Our knees, our bearts and fenfe we bow ;
Let ancient rites refign their place
To nobler elements of grace ;
And faith for all defe&ts fupp!y,
Whilft fenfe is loft in myftery.
To God the Father, born of none,
To Chriit bis Co eternal Son: ©
And Hoiy Ghoft, whofe e¢ jual rays
From both proceed, one equal praife 3.
One honour, jubilee and fame
Forever blefs thy glorious name,
The
a a
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throughout the Year. 9 85,
Fhe Hymw at Matins.
Sacris Solemniis.
HE folemn feafts our joyful fongs infpire,
And urge the praifes of our tuneful lyre
Old finful ways:now ceale;. and in their flead,
New hearts,.new voices, and new works fucceed.
‘We fing the feafl, where Chrifl the brethren fed,-
Wih the true Lamb, and the unleaven’d bread :
Where ancient rites to Chriflian myf’ries yield,
And all the Figures are in Chrift fulfilled,
They eat the Lamb with legal rites, and gave-
Their mother fynagogue a decent grave:
But now the Lamb of God begins to bleed,
Phe fhadows vanith, and on Chirill they feed. |
Studiousto fave, his bounteous hands.beflow d-
His facred flefh for feeble mortals food:
His own reviving blood, for finners fake,
| Ire dealt around, and bid chem all partake,.
Thus Chiifl all offerings did in one comprife,
And Priefls alone empower d to facrifice :.
Wiuh juf commifiion each was mace a gueft,
Lo feed himfelf, as well as feed the ref.
The bread of Angels, bread of man is-madey,.
The truth and fubftance now excludes the fhade »
O ftrange effect of love} the Sov reign God
Becomes the poor’s, the flave’s, the fiun:1's food.
© Three and One! Thee-humbly we Fs gand
To manifelt thyfelf, as we adore ;
By thy own ways inflrudét us how to move,
Lo find th’ abyfs of light, in which thou dwell’. above
The
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The Hymn at Lauds,
Verbum fupernum prodiens.
YH’.Eternal God, by human birth,
& Unchang’d purfues his tafk on earth ;
Concluding his laborious ftrife
- With wonders at the clofe of life.
Betray’d to 7cws, betray’d to death,
His own difciple grudg’d him breath ; -
Yet he for his difciples food,
Himfelf, the Bread of Life, beftow’d.
Beneath the types of wine and bread,
They on his blood and body fed ;
That man, of twofold fubftance made,
For each might find refpeétive aid.
He’s born, to make himfelf our mate;
He eats, to make himfelf our treat:
He dies, to lay our ranfom down;
And reigns, to make himfelf our crown.
O faving Hoft! that heaven’s high gate
Lay’ft open at fo deara rate:
Inteftine wars invade our breaft,
Be thou our ftrength, fupport and reft.
May endlets praife attend the throne
Of heaven’s high Ruler, Three and One:
And he on us thole joys beftow,
That neither end nor meafure know.
Cn the Feaft of St. Peter’s Chair, Jan. 18.
The Hymn at Even-Song and Matins.
Quodcunque in Orbe.
OR thee, bleft Peter, God has fign’d
The facred power to loofe and bind:
By
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By which, what thou doft loofe or tie,
The Heavens approve and ratify.
Thou at the day of man’s laft doom, .
To judge the world with Chrift fhalt come.
May age to age proclaim and fing
One fov’reign God, one endlefs king,
The Father and co-equal Son.
And Holy Spirit three in one:
Whofe equal glory joins the Three
In one Almighty Trinity.
- The Hymn at Lauds.
Beate Paflor Petre.
Pi bleft paftor of our fouls,
Whole word the gates of heavencontrouls
Exert that power which God has fign’d,
_ Jn heaven and earth to loofe and bind:
And fet our fetter’d nature free
From fin’s enticing flavery.
May all thy works, O God, confpire,
And fing, in one eternal choir,
_ Thy boundlefs power and wond’rous ways,
With joy and never-ceafing praile
To the Almighty Three
_ In one eternal Unity.
On the Converfion and Commemoration of St.
Paul, 25th of Jan. and goth of June,
Egregie Dofior Paule.
AIL Nations Light, attra&t and raife
Our hearts to trace thy heav’nly ways,
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And meet, above, our endlefs Sun,
Where charity will fhine like noon ;
And faith,-like ftars that rul’d by night,
Obtcur’d with luftre, fets in light.
May all thy works, &c, 387.
Cn the Feaft of S. Martina Virgin and Mar-
“yr, Jan. 30.
‘The Hymw at Matins.
Martini celebri plaudite nomint.
OW, joyful Rome, thy grateful numbers raife,
And celebrate the great Martina’s praife:
In tuneful parts at once proclaim
T he Virgin and the Marty1’s fame.
Her gen’ Tous blood with native luftre’ fhone,
And join’d the charms of virtue with her own, a
Enrich‘d with all things that fappiy
Convenience, pomp and luxury; ~
But fhe defpifing pamper d life and eafe,
To Chrift, her treafures by the poor conveys, ;
And there alone amongft the bici a
Enjoys the {iveets of endlets reft. :
“O God! whofe firength does in thy martyrs fhine,
Our grov’ling fouls from love of earth refine,
And place our joys alone in thee,
One undivided Trinity.
alten 2 Nitta antinn Bte
On the be Begs of the Bleffed Virgin Mary, -as
before in ha Office.
i ee :
Cn
throughout the Year, 389
On the Feaft of St. Jofeph, March 1g.
The Hymn at Even-Song.
Te Fofeph celebrent.
AY Heavin’s joud Hoft the Virgin [povfe proclaim
And faithful choirs refound great Jofeph’s fame ;
Ww ho bright with merit has deferv’d to be
In nuptial ties, O Mary, join’d with thee.
The pregnant maid he faw with wond'ring eyes,
And anxious thoughts increas'd his juft furprife,
-Tillan Archangel from above reveal’d
The facred my!t'ry in her womb conceal’d.
His arms.embrac’d the world's new-born delight,
From Herod's rage fecur'd his Saviour’s flight :
Him loft he fought, and in the temple foulad t
Thus happy tears are with poffefhon crown’d.
Others, in t’other world are crown'd with blifs,
And wear the palms which they ve deferv’d in this :
But he, more happy in his Lord's embrace,
E’en here on earth, beholds him. face to face:
May Jofeph’s vows, O facred Three and One, *
Prevail, that finners may approach thy throne,
Where fweeteft hymns fhall confecrate thy name,
To endlefs blelinegs, and immorial fame,
On the Feaft of S. Hermen "gild, April 19.
The Hymn at Even-Song.
Regali folio. ©
LEST Hermen’gild, whofe luftre fhone
On happy Spazn’s exalted throne :
Mm
From
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~ From thence is rais’d on wings of loye,
To fhine amongft the bleft above.
Wit what an unrelenting will
Did he his plighted vows fulfil :
Preferring Chrift to what might pleafe
The fenfual mind, or court his eafe.
liow Heav’ns chafte love outfhines the fires,
That burn the heart with fond defires:
No dazzling lights perplex the way
‘lo brighter truth’s eternal day.
May fov’reign praife and honour vye
To found the fame of Heav'n’s Moft High,
And fing, with all the Heavenly Hoft,
The Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft.
; ae
Pee ee
On the-Feaft of the Finding of the Holy Crofs. |
The Hymn at Even- -Song.
Bis the royal enfigns fly, &e,
Page 371.
On the Feafl of St. Venantius, May 18,
The Hy mw at Even-Song.
Martyr Dei Venantius,
4 ‘O-DAY the Umbrian city’s fame
Revives at great Venantio’s name
Wahilft vanquifht racks and tortures ftrive
To make his fame for ever live.
A child in years, inur’d to pains,
And tried with prifons, ftripes and chains :
kot
a .
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For barb’rous fports, and tyrants play,
Is made the greedy lions prey.
But innocence difarm’d their claws,
And chang’d their natures fierceft laws:
With mains uncurl’d they fawn and greet,
And gently kifs the martyr’s feet.
More brutal men purfue the ftroke
With burning lamps, with fire and fmoke,
Whilft headlong bung, his vitals fry,
His foul in clouds afcends the fky.
May God the Father, and the Son,
And Holy Spirit, Three in One,
By great Venantzo’s prayers, bellow
The joys of blifs on us below.
On the Feaft of the Natvuity of St. John Bap-
tilt, June 24.
The Hymn at Even-Song.
Ut queant laxis.
Sylvan Prophet, whofe eternal fame
Refounds from Jewry’s hills and Jordan's ftream,
The mufic of our numbers raife,
And tune our voice to fing thy praife.
Heav'n's meffenger from high Olympus came ~
To bear the tidings of thy lite and name,
And told thy Sire each prodigy
That Heay'n defign’d to work in thee.
He heard the news, and dubious with furpriles
His falt ring fpecch in ferter'd accents dies:
But Providence with happy choice
In thee reltord thy F ther’s voice.
M m 2 From
9O2 EE YO VERE
From the recefs of nature’s inmof room,
‘Thou knew'ft thy Lord unborn from womb to won.
WwW hil each glad parent told and bief. eel,
The {cerets ot each. others breaft. |
Glory to God the Father, and the Son,
And Holy Ghoft with bothi innature One 3.
Whote equal pow'r unites the Three
Tn one eternal Trinity.
The Hymn at Matin,
Antra’ deferti.
7 ROM noify crowds, your early years recif,
Seeks Heaven’s-protection in the wildeinels;
And makes your innocence to fhine.
Unfullied with the leaf of fin.
Your courtly drels was camel’s rugged hide,
With twifted thongs of {tubborn leather tied :
You drank the taflelefs fireami, and fed
On honey, whence the locufts bred :
All other prophets did foretell afar,
The glorious rifing of a future flar;
But, greater than a prophet, you
Foretold the flar, and fhew’d him too.
Thus God, the greateft-borm of Human-Kind, >
The Baptifi chofe, and John alone defigu’d
Him to baptize in Jordan’s flood,
Who all the world baptiz'd in blood.
Glory to God, &c. as above.
; ‘The
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The Hymw at Lauds.
O nimis felix.
H** Prince of Prophets, Prince of Martyrs, hail £
Whom Jewry uurft in her remoteft vale:
Expos'd without a guard or fence,
But that of milk-white innocence.
‘Three different {tates unequal harvelt yicld,
And each with bleft increafe adorn the field
Thy merits all thofe flates imply
Tncreas’d a hundred-fold in thee.
Then, pow rf | Patron, teach usto repent,
Make all the rocks of harden’d hearts relent:
Our rough and crooked ways redrefs,
And cultivate our wildernefs.
That our Redeemcr, when he comes, may find
No fins, like weeds, that over-run the mind:
But like fome cryftal fountain clear.
May know his own iefemblauce there.
Heay’n’s brighteft citizens fing praife to thee.
One God in nature, and in perfons Three.
On us let not thy lovebe lof, ©
But {pare our fouls for what they cof,
On the feat of St. Peter and Paul, June aq,
| The Hymn at Even-Song. |
Decora lux Aternitatis.
1 det beanteous beams of heav'nly. lizhe dif play
Their lambent fires, aad giid the siling day,
Whiereon the Princes of Apo!tles crown’d,.
Aicend their thrones, and a‘ts of grace abound.
Mm 3 . Hieav’n’ss
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Heaven's facred Porter, and the Gentiles Light,
Rome's better parents équal deaths unite +
And both to-day from fields of blood arife,
Yo take poffeffion of the conquerd fkies.
O! happy Rome, whofe flreams of princely blood
Prevail beyond the fame of Tyber’s flood ;
Your faced urns outfhine the heathen pride,
And all thecities of the world befide.
To God in nature One, in perfons Three,
_ Eternal glory, power and jubilee ;
Whaofe fov reign fway and univerfal throne
Di'pofs all things with his word alone.
The Hymn at Matins.
fEierna Chriftt Munera.
AY joyful hymns, &c. as in the Com. of
hy Apoftles, page 406.
The Hymn at Lauds. |
Beate Paflor Petre.
ETER, bleft paftor of our fouls,
W hofe wordthe gates of heaven controls,
Exert that power which God has figu’d,
In heaven and earth to loofe and bind:
And fet our fetter’d nature free
From fin’s enticing flavery. _
Hail, Nations Light, attra&t and raife
Our hearts te trace thy heav’nly ways,
And meet, above, cur endlefs Sun,
Where charity will fhine like noon ;
And faith, like flars that rul’d by night,
Ooleur'd with tultre, fets in Tight.
Miay all thy works, &c 387.
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Cn the Feaft of S. Mary Magdalen, July 22.
The Hymw at Even-Song.
Pater Supernt Luminis.
RIGHT Parent of celeftial flame, ~ :
J When thou regard’fi the finful dame,
One look with love her bofom clears,
And melts the frozen fnow to tears.
To bathe her Saviour’s feet, fhe flies
With wounded heart and loaded eyes :
Embracing arms {weet balms apply,
And with her hair fhe wipes’em dry...
Unfhock’d with fear fhe bugs the crofs,
And with the grave difputes her lofs:
No dread of men or arms can thwart
Heav'n's progrefs in a loving heart.
O Chriff, fole obje& of our love,
With umely tears our fins remove ;
That whiten’d by thofe ftreams of grace,
We may behold thee face to face,
To God the Father, &c. 968.
The Hywwn at IMadins:
Maria caftis Ofculis. |
B Mary's chatte embraces greet,
With bleecing heart her Saviour’s feet :
With tears and balais ber hands prepare
A bath ; chem dries ‘em with her hair,
| May ailthings, Lord, bow down to thee,
‘One Co-cternal Trinity ;
_ And
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And without end the praife repeat
Of Father, Son, and Paraclete.
. The Hymn at Lauds,
Summi Parentis unice.
Chrift! fole refuge in diftrefs,
Exert for us that tendernefs
Which turn’d the finner’s tears to gems,
That fhine in endlefsdiadems. ~
‘The drachma’sfound now clear’dfrom ruft,
The diamond’s fifted from the duft ;
And fet with fhining flars to vye
In heaven’s enamell’d canopy.
O Jefus! who alone waft fent
To heal the wounded penitent;
Thy Mary’s {weeteft balms apply,
And make her tears our remedy.
Mother of Jefus, next prevail,
That Eve’s delcendents weak and frail,
May ‘fcape the dangers that infeft
The way to our eternal reft.
All glory to one God alone,
For many gracious bounties fhown
To finners, by thatdacred art, :
‘That works and crowns the change of heart.
On the Feaft of St. Peter ad Vincula, Aug. 2.
The Hymn at Even-Song.
Miris modis, &c:
God of nature, Sov reign Lord, ©
At whole command and pow’iful word
The
throughout the Year. 3or
The bolts retire, and doors obcy,
And Peter’s chains releafe their prey.
He, Chrift’s*on earth deputed chief, -
Fo rule the flock’and give relief,
To heavenly paftures leads his care,
And feeds’em with his plenty there.
Here as they drink the cryftal brook,
He guards thenr with his fhepherd’s hook =
Thus feuc’d, the wolf, that prowls for ereyy
The fhepherd fpies, and runs away.
‘lo Godthe Father, and the Son,
And HolySpirit; Three in One, —
May creatures alltheir tribute bring,
And ev'ry age {weet prailes fing.
The Hymn at Matins,.
— Quodcunque in: Orbe.
OR thee, bleft Peter; &e as on the feat
- of St, Peter’s ¢ hair, Jan. 18. p, 386.
The Hymn at Lauds.
Beate Paftor . Peire.
| pP* TER, blef paftor of our fouls, &c. as
on: the famne Seajt, p. 387-
On the feaft of our Abe Trans ae asion,
Aug, ©
The Hyanw at BverisSong and Matins,
Quicunque Chiriftum queritis:
() All, who feek with Chrift to rife,
To Tabor’s mount erett y your eyes:
And
998 | HYMNS
And fee how Chrift in glorious rays
The majefty of God diplays.
Behold a fun more oid than night,
~A blaze of uncreated light:
So high, fo deep, and vaft of fpace,
It knows no bounds of time or place.
‘Tis He’s the King, whofe fov'reign {way
The Jews and Gentiles both obey, |
The promis’d ruter Heav’n decreed
For Abr’ham and his endlefs feed.
In him the law and Prophets join ;
His truths they both atteft and fign ;
Him Ged, from his Paternal Throne,
Commancs the world to hear and own.
Glory to Chrift, whofe light difplays
To little ones lis faving ways ;
Whilft endlefs hymns of praife repeat
The Father and the Paraclete.
The Hymn at Lauds,
_ Lux alma Fefu Mentium.
() Chrift, when thy chafte light infpires,,
Our tepid hearts with Heav'nly fires,
Thy love does fuch fweet flames excite,
Thy yoke grows fweet, and burthen light.
Co-heir of God’s paternal throne,
Thou fov’reign blifs, to fenfe unknown ;
Thrice happy they, who fill’d with thee
Poffefs the faints felicity. .
~ O fource of all, who from above —
Defcend’fi in ftreams of light and love: i
y
nal iterate ‘ Jieaeaes iia
Le Te eT
ee ee eee oF
throughout the Year. 399
By thefe returning ftreams may we,
Dire& our courfe, and end in thee.
Glory to Chrift, &c, 398.
Cn the Feat of the Exaltation of the
Holy Crofs, Sept. 14.
The Hy mw at Even-Song, &e.
As above on Paffion-Sunday.
On ihe Feaft of St. Michael the
Arch-Angel, Sept. 29.
The Hymn at Even-Song. and Matins,
Te Splendor & Virtus Patris, —
Lord of Hofts, whofe beams impart,
New life and vigour to the heart ;
For thee we tune our grateful lyre,
And mingle with the Angels choir.
Myriads of Chiefs their lances wield,
And glitter o’er the azure field;
Whilft Michael, ke a blazing ftar,
Difplays the crofs, and ends the war.
The dragon’s head he crufht with this,
And drove him down the vaft abyfs ;
Whilft rebel-angels, with their head,
Impatient of his lightning. fled.
- O! may we chufe the better guide,
And vanquifh all attempts of pride;
That we thy vacant feats may gain,
And withthe Lamb for ever reign.
To God the Father, &c. 368.
The
400. HYMNS
The Hymn at Lauds,
Chrifte Sanéorum Decus Angelorum.
Reat God’ of Angels, Chrift, whofe powerful
Grace
- Both made and ran{om'd man to All their place,
Vouchfafe that, we from earth may aife
To their exalted feats of blils.
Difpatch great Michael, meffenger of peace,
‘To guard his care in this thy facred place ;
That war may be confind to hell,
Where endlefs {trife and horror dwell.
Gabriel defcend, and let the common foe
Thy Vigilance and Heavenly courage know 5
Nor dare thofe temples to invade
That ftand fecure beneath thy fhade.
Raphael, Phyfician Angel, come and cure
The raging pains diftemper'd fouls endure
And left our wandering feet fhould fray,
Direé&_us in this doubtful way :
And thou, the Queen of Angels, whofe attire
Shines like a fun, amidft the Angels’ choir,
With all the bright ones, that attend
The Throne of God, our-canfe defend.
For this requeft,.O God, we fly to thee :
Thou One in Nature, and in Perfons Three ;
Whofe glorious deeds in anthems roll,
And ecchoing, found from pole to pole.
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‘throughcut the Year. 4G 1.
‘On the feaft of the Angel-Guardians, O&. 2.
The HY u n at Even-Song and Matins,
Cufiodes Hominum.
*% X TE fing the Guardian Angels Heaven has fent
To help and guide us in our banifhiment :
Left wily foes furprife our will,
Too heedlels of the ways of ill.
‘For Traitor-Angels, juftly difpofieft
OF their exalied thrones amongift the bleft,
Now turn their fpleen on human-race,
Created to fupply their place.
Hafie then, you watchful Spirits, to fupprefs
‘The tumults of the province you po flefs ;
And gently calm our lab’ring breaft
With fwweet repole in heavenly reft.
All praife, O Trinity, attend thy name, .
“Whofe fov'reign Godhead rules this threefold frame,
Whilft ev’ry age, and ev’ry thing,
Thy everlafling glory fing. —
The Hymn at Lauds.
fEierne Reélor Siderum,
TERNAL Ruler of the fkies, _
In all thy works both great and wife:
“Thou mad’f{t the world, and doft difpente
"With equal care thy providence.
Be prefent, and our wants attend,
Whilit humbled hearts in prayers afcend
| Be Be ee
402 HYMNS
And as the dawn difpels the night,
Renew our minds with heav’nly light,
O fafely guard our roving will
From all this world’s contagious ill;
Send, fend thy chofen Angel down,
So fhield our lives, fecure our crow D.
May he reveal the Serpent’s arts,
“Through all the windings of our hearts: |
Left heedlefs fouls furpris’d fhould fall
Into the net he fpreads for all.
Preferve us fafe, beneath his care,
From all the miferies of war:
Blefs us with peace, and banifh hence
The two-ede’d {word of peftilence.
May God the Father rule on high,
By Guardian- DHEES miniftry,
Mankind, the charge.of God the Son,
And Sacred Spirit’s un&tion.
On the feaft of St. Terefia, Virgin, O&. 15.
The Hymwy,
Regis fupern Nunca.
ENT from aboye, Terefa toils,
To plant Chrifl’s faith in barb’rous fils
She quits her native fweet abode, |
To.gain her point, or lofe her blood.
But ker more gentle pains attend,
A fofter, death’s the lover’s end: |
Heav’n’s flaming fhaft muft wound her heart,
And fhe in pasgs of love depart.
O'vidlinle
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O vi&im of true charity,
Our fouls enflame with love of thee:
And all thofe huriful flames expell,
That in our earthly bofoms dwell,
May age to age, &e. 358.
On the Feaft of All-Saints, Nov. te.
The H y wnat Even-Song,
Placare Chrifle fervulis.
‘@) Chrift, before whofe throne of grace
Thy Mother ftands to plead our cafe:
Exert thy love, and grant that we
May fhare thy Father's clemency.
Angels, Arch angels, Thrones, and Pow’rs,
And all who guard. the Heav'nly Tow’rs;
From prefent, paft, and future ul,
With watchful eye preferve us f{hill.
Bleft Prophets and Apoftles plead.
Our guilty caufe, and intercede
With our offending Judge, that we |
With tears may move his clemency.
___ May martyrs robes of purple dye
With ftoles of white confeflors vie;
And both prevail to call us home
From exile, and reverfe our doom, —.
Chafte train of Virgins, bleft fupplies,
Who, nurft in defarts, fill the fkies:
And all the choirs of Saints, obtain
That we with you may jointly reign.
Preferve thy faithful kingdom free,
From unbelievers tyranny ;
Nne That
404 HYMNS:
‘That all mankind united may.
One pattor of our fouls obey.
Great ever-living God, to thee,
In effence one, in perfons three;
May all thy works their tribute bring,
And every age thy glory fing.
The Hymn at Lauds.
Salutis humane Sator.
Sov'reign Jefus, give thy aid
To all thou haft redeem’d and made :
Mother of Grace, make finners fhare
‘The helps of thy maternal care. | |
Bleft Spirits; who: affift before q
The throne of God, for us implore ;
Ye Patriarehs pray ; ye Prophets plead,
Atl for indulgence intercede.
Thou Baptift, thou Precurfor bleft,
Thou Chief of Paftors, with the reft
Of Chrif’s Apoflles, pray that we
May live from finful fetters free :
Next Martyrs, and Confeffors choir, ©
With facred Virgin’s vows confpire :
And joint for us, of Heav’n obtain
Difcharge of every finful ftain.
All happy Great Ones, that refort
‘To fill high Heav’n’s Imperial Court :
With juft compaffion now beftow
Your heavenly gifts on us below.
May each fucceeding age proclaim
Thy glory, Lerd, and endlets fame ; i
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And praife, with the Celeflial Hoft,
The Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft.
On the feaft of the Apofiles and Evangelifts.-
The Hymwn at Even. Song and Lauds:
Exulict Orbis Gaudiis.
ROUND the world may joys arife,
“& And eccho thro’ the vaulted fkies :
_ May Heaven and Earth canfpire to fing,
And of Apoftles triumph ring.
O you! whom Heav’n’s high Judge defign’d
To be the jury of mankind ;
Earth's better lights, now void of art,
Accept the Janguage of our heart.
You, who from God receive the keys,
Whofe pow’rful word Heav'n’s gate obeys:
With the fame word prevail, that we
May from the chains of fin be free.
Difeafe and health your power proclaim, -”
_ And celebrate, by turns, your fame:
Relteve our minds, through fin unfound,
That fov’reign virtue may abound. =~
That Chrift, when he returns to weigiy.
Our actions at the dreadful day,
May, with him, make us re-afcend,
Fo live in joys that never end.
To God the Father, &c.
N Ah 3 The
406 HYMNS
The Hymn at Matins.
Ms joyful hymns in numbers fhow
oti How Chrift’s eternal bounties flow :
Th’ Apoftles triumphs, and the blifs,
W herewith he crowns their vi€tories.
They rul'd the church, and held the fhield —
To conquer in a fuff’ring field:
Now, like the ftars from heaven, they fhow
Their light for us that walk below.
Chrift was their hope, their faith,a rock,
No threatning tyrants breath cou’d fhock:
The love of him their conguefts bore
Thro’ all their torments, racks, and gore.
In them the Father's glory fhines ;
The Son exults; the Spirit reigns;
All heav’n refounds with joys to fee,
This triumph of the Trinity.
To God the Father, &c. 368.
Cn the feaft of Apoftles, in Eafter-Time.
The Hymn at Even-Song, and Matins.
Traftes erant Apofioli,
Ts, difmal fcene was yet in view,
Chrift’s full ring freth, hisdeath ftillnew,
Th’ Apoliles grieving at their lofs,
Sull felt bis {courge, and bore his crofs.
When Heav’n’s bright meflenger appears,
And wiping off the women’s tears ;
Foretells them, they the firft fhould be,
To reap the fruits of conftancy.
: They
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They wing’d with zeal make hafte to tell
The anxious tribe, what them befel:
And met their Lord array’d in light,
And knew, and bicft the glorious fight.
The Apoftles beard, and, led by fame,
To Galilee’s high mountain came;
And happy, in that mount ador’d,
Their living, and life-giving Lord:
From death of fin, &c. 375.
The Hymyp at Lauds.
Pafchale Mundo.
Hees: brighteft planet now difplays
The luftre of his glorious rays :
The glad Apoftles lift their eyes,
And fee the Sun of Juftice rife.
_ Wond’ring they view their Lord, and praife
The beauty of his heavenly face ;
His faving wounds, than ftars more bright,
Shine dazling in the fource of light.
O Chnit, thy fovereign love impart,
And rule unrival’d in-our heart ;
| That full of God our mouths may praife,
And from abundance {ing thy ways,
From death of fin, &c. 375.
On the Feaft of a Martyr, -
The Hymn at Even-Song and Matins.
Deus tuorum Mihtum,
C) God! the lot, reward, and prize,
That crowns thy martyrs vidleries: ~
Grant
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408 HYMNS
Grant, whilft we fing this martyr’s praife,
We may renounce our finful ways.
The world with {pecious cheats difguis’d
He foon difcover’d and defpis'd:
And labour’d for anobler gain,
‘Than paling pleafures mixt with pain.
No force could make his mind relent,
No racks-his refolution bent ;
Fearleis of death he fheds his blood,
And wades to Heaven through the flood.
OQ! vocal blood, now pierce the fkies,
And deal with Heaven, to hear our cries ;
"Phat on his glorious triumph we
May find indulgence, Lord, with thee.
Immortal glory, endlefs fame,
The glorious works of God proclaim :
And fing with the Celeftial Hoft,
The Father, Son, and Holy Gholt.
The Hymn at Lauds.
Invite Martyr unicum.
Lane martyr, who didft tread,
Where’er thy Lord’s example led:
And now in triumph mount the fkies,
Loaded with palms and victories :
Implore that blood, which Chrif has {pilt
To wafh the ieavings of our guili
That freed from fin’s infeGtious bane,
Our Hg ring fouis may live again.
‘T hy foul is now from danger free,
United from our mortality :
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throughout the Year. 409)
- Teach usto foar on wings of love,
From earthly ties, to realms above.
May age to age, Se. 3 ge
On. the Feajft of -many Martyrs...
The Hymwn_ at Even-Song:.
Sanéiorum Meritisy
o- HEN bleeding heroes Gils the tuneful choir,
The combat and the crown our fong infpire >
On {peaking deeds-the willing numbers flow,
And bays unbid amidft the laurels grow.
Arm’'d from above, they nobly fought for blifs +
Defpis’d this world, asthey re defpis*d by this =
‘Fhey faw the blefiom and the fruit look fair ;
But fruit and bloflom both diffoly’d in air.
With Heaven in yiew, fierce tyrants they enzage 3
And find unmov'd beneath their impious rage.
Keen feel and racks their tender bowels rend 3.
Yet both to unrelenting courage bend.
Like {laughter d fheep, they victims fal! to death.
No whifp’1ing murmur taints their paring breath,
No foft complaint efcapes their generous heart ;
But confcious.minds conceal the fecret {mart.
What tongue can now the glorious crowns declare,
Which you for martyrs, bounteous Lord, prepare ?
Wreaths of bright fanguine gems their brows entwine,
Where drops of blood, congeal’d to rubies, thine.
Thee, Sov reign Godhead, humbly we implore, _
‘Fo cleanfe our guilt, our innocence reflore.
| ; Showet
410 HYMNS
Shower down thy peaceful bleifings in our days,
Fhat without ceafing we may fing thy praife.
The Hymwn at Matins.
Chrifto profufum fanguinem.
O Chrift the Prince of Martyrs fing
Thejoys,which from their fuff rings {pring
From fields of blood the laurels rife
To crown their generous victories.
No terror of the world, nor pains
Their progrefs ftops, or courage {tains ;
For Chrilt they die before decay,
And gain their blifs the neareft way.
Wild bealis and fire with equal rage
Concur to make the bloody ftage:
And martyrs more compatiion find.
With favages, than human-kind.
Their malice, arm’d with brutal claws,
Exceeds the bounds of nature’s laws,
To torture faints: but all their art
Shakes but the cottage, not the heart,
O God of Martyrs! grant that we
Partake of their felicity ;
And rais‘d to their high thrones above,
With them for ever praife and love.
The Hymwn at Lauds,
Rex Gloriofe Martyrum. .
Chrift! thy Martyr’s glorious King,
The Crown of all their fuffering :
Who fhew’ft us, how to wean our love
From earth, to fix on things above.
Tanchfa fa
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Vouchfafe to lend a gracious ear, i
‘Whilft we our hnmble vows prefer;
‘Thar. finging of their triumphs, we
‘May find indulgence, Lord, with thee.
That grace in us, O Lord, excite,
By which thy conqu’ring martyrs fight:
By which thy bleft confeffors fhine,
‘To cleanfe our guilty breafts of fin.
May age to age, &c. 358.
| The faid Hymn 1s for many Martyrs at Even-
Song, 7m Eafter- Time.
On the Feaft of a Confeffor.
The Hymn at Even-Song. and Matins,
Tfie Confeffor Domine.
ry HE faithful fervant who confeft his Lord,
Whofe feaft the churcli’s annual joys record:
This day in recompence iscalid to be
Before the Father, Lord, confels'd by thee,
If it be not the Day of his Deceafe, infead of ihe two laft
Lines, fay,
This day in recomipence deferve, that we
‘Should praife thy fervant, Lord, confefs'd by thee ;
His humb’e prudence and his thoughts on high,
His pure and unpretending piety,
By blamelefs fleps a fober life convey'd,
‘Till laft it center’d, where it fir was made:
Within his tomb lies all that Heaven can fpare,
Hither the deaf, the blind, the lame repair :
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His kind protetion each difeafe reftrains,
Reftores the-loffes, and relieves their pains.
Juitly. may then his praife befpeak our voice,
To join m concert; and with Heav’n rejoice :
So may we hope to have an equal hare
Of his proteCtion here, and merit there.
Glory and honour, pow’r and empire vie,
To celebrate the ways of the Moft High:
Who from the feat of his illuftrious Throne
‘Rules all this worldly machine, Three and One.
On the Feaft of a‘Confeffor, and Bifhop,
The Hymn at Lauds,
Fefu Redempior.
Edeemer Chrift, thou brighteft gem
Of facred prelate’ s diadem:
Retire thy clemency to day, _
And grant the gifts for which we pray.
| To: day the church tranfmits to fame,
The great confeflor of thy name:
Whillt faithful choirs with joy rehearfe
In folemn rites his anniverfe.
Thrice happy He, that cou’d defpife
This fading world’s vain pageantries :
And fix his everlafiing reft
On furer grounds amongft the bleft.
May we this bright example take,
And the deluding world forfake ;
That by his interceffion, we
May die to fin, and live to Thee. -
From henceforth may all ages fing,
- The fource of grace, and mercy’s {pring ;
And
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And blefs with all the Heavenly Hof,
The Father, Son, and Holy Gholt,
(On the Feaft of a Confeffor, not Bifhop. .
The Hymn at Lauds.
Feju Corona Celfior.
Begs who thyfelf the crown wilt make
Of all that fuffer for thy fake; _
And own them in thy world of blifs,
If they confefs thy name in this. —
Prepare us, whilft thy fuppliants pray
In concert with thy faint to-day ;
Toclaim that promife, and begin,
By breaking all our chains of fin.
This happy day the grateful year
Keeps facred in its kalendar,
-Whereon this faint from earth releaft
Augments the number of the bleft,
‘The vanity of worldly joys, .
Poffeffions, pleafures, wealth and toys,
Like vanquifht foes, but means fupply,
To folemnize his vi€tory. |
On thee he calls, O Lord, his fhield ;
The Devilshear thy name and yield;
Thus does thy faint by thee prevail,
And trample o’er the powers of Hell.
Alone he in thy name confides,
Faith lights his fteps, and virtue guides ;
By this initial tafte of love,
To feaft with all the bleft above,
Oo Then
414 HYMNS
Then fince our worthlefs merits fail, !
Let this thy faint with thee prevail
To cancel fin’s deferved {core,
That lies at our unhappy door.
To God the Father’s facredname, _
Eternal glory, praife, and fame,
Who, with the Holy Ghoft and Son,
For ever reigns, both Three and One,
~ Cnihe Feaft of Virgins.
The Hymn at Even-Song and Lauds,
Jefu Corona Virginum,
Chrift! the crown of purity,
We offer up our vows tothee ;
Whom none but fhe alone cou’d bear,
Whole fruit did not the bloom impair.
Lillies around they ftrow the way,
And choirs of brighter virgins play ;
The fpoufe fhines forth array’d in white,
And on ’em all refleéts his light.
Where’er his great example led,
The following trains of virgins tread ;
They finging trace his wond’rous ways,
And run divifion to his praife.
We beg, O Lord, our wounded fenfe
May feel thy healing influence ;
‘That pure and fr.m corruption free,
We may refiore our fouls to thee.
May each fuccceding age, &c,
of
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Of a Virgin and Martyr.
The Hymy at Matins.
Vergines Prolis,
Virgin's offspring Chrift, who wert alone
Thy Parent's Maker, and a Virgin’s Son i
A Vingin’s triumph afks our pra ;
With heav'nly thoughts our numbers raile.
Her double courage did at once engage
Her fex*s weaknels, and her tyrant’s rage:
And over both viétorious now,
A double wreath adorns her brow.
Through fields of blood her hunted foul efcapes
From threat’ning death in ail its hightful fhapes;
And wading through a troubled ftream.
Obtains the heavenly diadem.
Permit, Great God, her pray rs may fet us free
From hateful fin’s enchanted tyranny ;
And purefi hymns fhall found thy name
In fongs of everlafting fame.
Glory to God the Father, &c. as on the Feaft of St.
Joha Baptift, page 9y2.
On the feaft of a Virgin only, and not ity
The Hymwn at Matins. -
Virgins Proles.
Virgin's offspring Chrilt, who wert alon?
Thy Parent's Maker, and a Virgin's Son !
A Virgin’s mevits efks our praife ;
With heaven!p thonghts our numbers raife.
Permit, Great God, her prayers may fet us free
From hateful fin’s enchanted tyranny. :
Oo <:- And
a
416 HYMNS
And pureft hymns fhall found thy name,
In fongs of everlaiting fame.
Glory _ God, &c. page 3g2.
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Cn the feaft of Holy Women.
The Hymn at Even-Song, and L auds. |
Fortem virilt Peflore. x
ISE tuneful numbers, juilly praife
A noble matron’s gen’rous ways ;
Whofe fortitude exalts her name
Above her fex, and high as fame.
Wing’d with feraphic love, her heart
‘Tranfcends and ‘{capes the poifon'd darts
By painful flights fhe foars above, .
Lhe reach of earth, or earthly love.
She ftarves the flefh to feed the mind
With fafts and prayer, a food refin’d:
No pafhons difcompole her breaft
Abforpt in pleafures with the bleft.
O Chrift! whofe glorious graces fhine _
So bright, through fuch a feeble fhrine,
Grant, “by her powerful pray’rs, that we
May fhitie with her eternally.
May age to age, &c. 358.
The Hymn at Matins, q
Hujus Oratu. .
pa Great God, this Saint with pray’rs may free —
Our fouls from fin’s enticing flavery ;
And pureft hymns fhall found thy name,
In fongs of everlafting fame.
Glory be to God, ke. page 392.
On
throughout the Year. Hi 417
On the Feaft of the Dedication of a Church.
The Hymn at Even-Song, and Matins.
Caleftis Urbs Rierufalem.
TERUSALEM, whofe heavenly mien
| Betrays the peace that reigns within:
Whole quarries living rocks fupply _
To build and raife thy tow’rs fo high,
Heav’n’s brighteft Angels crown the pile,
And God does on thy labours {mile,
O Sion’s daughter well betroth’d!
With all thy Father’s glory cloath‘d,
In all thy fpoufe’s graces dre{sd,
In thee the fpoufe himfelf is blefs’d ;
Thou beauteous Queen of heav'nly love,
Whom Chrift efpoufes from above.
Thy orient gates with pearl array’d,
Stand always open and dilplay’d,
For all who thither drawn with love,
Have nobly fixt their hearts above :
Such as here thought it high reward
To fuffer with their fuff'ring Lord.
Thus hardeft marbles, tougheft oaks,
Polifh’d and fhap’d by dint of flrokes,
The fkilful artift’s able hand
Makes fit to take their place and ftand,
On highelt pinacles to fhine
O’er ail the edifice divine.
To thee, Moft High, our voice we raife,
To thee, Moft High, in all thy ways,
; Sag SNe We
418 HYMNS
We, both the Father, and the Son,
And Paraclete adore in one:
Whilft endiefs anthems found thy fame,
Andlou@ Hofannas eccho to thy name.
The Liviaie at Lauds.
Alto ex Olympi vertice.
ROM high Olympus top the Son
Of God, and living Corner-ftone,
Hewn without hands, came down to fhow
How far humility could go; |
And join’d at bis ftupenduous birth
Both grace and nature, Heay’n and Earth.
By this alhance, happy we
Partakers of the harmony.
Angels above divifion run,
And fing inceflant Three and One:
W hilft Sion with a tuneful heart
Repli’s and fings a fecond part.
Hither, O God, dire& thy flight,
And fill thefe temples with thy light:
‘Hither repair, and here efpoufe
The int'reft of thy people's vows ;
‘Sion was once thy chofen place,
On Sion fhow’r thy flreams of grace.
Refume thy mercy-feat and fhow
As once our Father’s God, fo now, _
Thou’rt God and Father prone to hear,
Be bounteous ev’n beyond our pray’r:
And crown our fouls amongft the bielt,
In feats of everlatting reft.
To thee, Molt High, &c. 417.
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For the Dead, the § E O Las G Be
Dies Ire, Dies illa.
| 4 pea day of wrath, that dreadful day,
Shall the whole world in afhes lay,
As David and the Sibils fay.
What horror will invade the mind,
When the firi€& Judge, who would be kind,
Shall have few venial faults to find ?
The laft loud trumpet’s wond’rous found
Muft through the rending tombs rebound ;
And wake the nations under ground.
Nature and death fhall with furprize,
Behold the pale offender rife!
And view the Judge with confcious eyes,
Then fhall, with univerfal dread,
The facred myftic book be read,
To try the living and the dead.
The Judge afcends his awful throne,
He makes each fecret fin be known,
- And all with fhame confefs their own,
O then! what intereft fhall I make,
To fave my la{t important ftake, |
| When the moft juft have caufe to quake?
Thou mighty, formidable King,
Thou mercy’s unexhautted fpring,
Some comfortable pity bring.
Forget not what my ranfom coft,
Nor let my dear-bought foul be loft,
In flornis of guilty terror toft.
Thou
420 HY Meng oe.
Thou, who for me didft feel fuch pain,
Whole precious blood the crofs did ftain,
Let not thofe agonies be vain. ©
Thou whom avenging powers obey,
Cancel my debt (too great to pay)
Before the fad, accounting day.
Surrounded with amazing fears,
Whole load my foul with anguifh bears,
Ifigh, I weep; accept my tears. ;
Thou, who wert mov’d with Mary’s grief;
And by abfolving of the thief
Haft given me hope, now give relief.
Reject not my unworthy prayer,
Preferve me from that dangerous fnare,
Which death and gaping Hell prepare,
Give my exalted foul a place
Amonglt thy chofen right-hand race,
The Sons of Ged, and heirs of grace,
From that infatiable abyfs,
~ Where flames devour, and ferpenté hifs,
Promote me to thy feat of blifs,
Proftrate, my contrite heart I rend,
My God, my Father, and my Friend,
Do not forfake me in my end.
Well may they curfe their fecond breath,
Who rife to a reviving death.
Thou great Creator of mankind,
Let guilty man compaffion find, Amen.
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Sundays, and other Days, with their
Anthems and Verficles, throughout the
Year,
The Anthem on the Firft Sunday in Advent.
ie AR not Mary, for thou haf found
grace withour Lord: behold thou fhalt -
conceive, and bear a Son: ANeluia,
Verf. Diftil ye Heavens from above, and
let the clouds fhow’r down the juft.
Refp. Let the earth open and bud forth
a Saviour.
The Prayer.
Lord, we befeech thee, exert thy
power and come, that, under thy pro-
teCtion, we may be freed from the imminent
danger of our fins, and be faved through
thy deliverance: who liveft and reigneft one
God with the Father, and Holy Ghoft, world
without end.
Refp. Amen,
The Anthem on the Second Sunday in Advent.
Art thou he that art to come; or look
we for ancther? Goand report to Fohn
what
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what you have feen. The blind are reftore
to fight; the dead rife again; the Gofpel is
preached to the poor: Allehua.
* Verf, Diftill, as before, 421.
The Prayer.
Res up our hearts, O Lord, to prepare
the ways of thy only Son, that by
his coming, we may be made worthy to
ferve thee with clean hearts. Wholiveft and
reigneft one God, with thee and the Holy
Gholt.
The Anthem on the Third Sunday in Advent.
Blefled ari thou, Mary, who didft bes
heve our Lord; thofe things fhall be per-
fe€ted in thee, which were- fpoken to thee
by our Lord: Alleluia.
This Anthem ts omitted, if one of the greater Anthems
which follow, cometh in the Place.
Verfe Diftill, as before.
The Prayer.
I V E ear, O Lord, we. befeech thee,
to our prayers, and with grace en-
lighten the darknefs of our minds. Who
liveft.and reigneft, Ge.
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Thefe greatcr Anthems following are begun the 17th of —
December, and every one fatd in Order, till the next Day
before Chriflmas-Eve, The Verficles and Prayers of the
Sunday before, are to be fad when none proper are
aligned,
The Anthem on the 17th of December,
O wifdom! who camefi forth from the
mouth of the Moft High; powerfully extend-
ing from end to end, and {weetly difpofing
all things; come, and inftru€t usin the ways
of prudence, 3 |
The
In Advent, (423
The Anthem on the 18th of December? »
O Adonia, and leader of the houfe of
Ifrael! who appeared’ft to Mo/es in the
flaming bufh, and gaveft to him the law in
Sinai, come and redeem us with thy ftrong
arm.
The Anthem on the 19th of December,
O Root of Jefe! who ftandeft for a fign
to nations, before whom kings fhall reftrain
their mouths: thou, whom the Gentzles {hall
addrefs, come to our deliverance, and row
delay no more.
The Anthem on the goth of December.
O Key of David, and iceptre of the
houfe of J/rael! who openeft, and no one
fhuts; fhutteft, and no one opens; come
and bring forth from their prifons, thofe
that are in chains, fitting in the dark, and
in the fhades of death.
The Anthem on the e1ff of December.
O Orient, the fplendor of eternal light,
and fon of juftice! come and enlighten thofe
that fit in the dark, and ‘in the fhades of
death. ‘iy!
The Anthem on the aed of December.
O King of the Gentiles, the defired of
nations, the corner ftone that uniteft both in.
one! come, to the falvation of man, whom
thou haft framed of earth.
The Anthem on the 23d of December,
~ O Emanuel, our king and law-giver, the
expe€tation and the faviour of nations ! come
to our falvation, O Lord our God.
“On
424 Prayers on Sundays, €c.
On Ember Wednefday, in Advent,
If it comes before the 17th of December, this Anthem is to
be fad,
Behold the handmaid of our Lord ; be it
to me according to the word,
Verfe. Diflill, as before, 491.
The Prayer.
ce we befeech thee, Almighty God,
that the folemnity of our redemption
now approaching, may both afford us the
helps of this prefent life, and alfo give
us the rewards of eternal blifs: through our
Lord.
On Ember-Friday in Advent. _
_ Uf it comes before the 17th of December, this Anthem zs to
be fad.
This is the teftimony which Fofn gave:
he who comes after me, was made before
me.
Verfe. Diftill, as before.
The Prayer,
Lord, we befeech thee, exert thy
power, and come; that they who
truft in thy goodnefs, may fpeedily be de-
livered from all adverfity : who liveft and
reigneft, &c. :
On Ember-Sunday zx Advent.
The Anthem. Verf. Diftill, as before.
The Prayer.
God, who feeft that we are affliéted
through our own wickednefs, grant
mercifully, that by thy coming we may re-
ceive comfort: who liveft and reignett,
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In Advent. 425
‘On the frurth Sunday zz Advent? |
The Anthem. Verf. Diftt), as before, 4210
The Prayer.
Lord, we befeech thee, exert thy
might, and powerfully affift us;
that by the help of thy grace, what our
fins obftru&, may be haftened by the in-
dulgence of thy mercy: who liveft and
reigneft, Ge. |
The anthem on the vigil of the Nativity of our Lord.
When the fun fhall rife from Heaven,
you fhall fee the King of Kings coming
forth from his Father, as a bridegroom out
of his bride-chamber. Verf. To morrow
fhall be cancelled the iniquity of the earth.
Refp. And the Saviour of the world fhall
reign over us. ?
The Prayer: fA RUF
O GOD, who makeft us rejoice, by the
yearly expe€tation of our redemption, grant,
that we who joyfully receive thy only
begotten Son, our Lord Jefus Chrift, as
our Redeemer, may alfo fafely behold him,
coming as our Judge: who liveth and
reigneth, &ec.
The e e Sunda ithin ©
Th Anthem on “Neato * * sree Ay Oave of the
The child Jefus advanced in age and
wifdom before God and man. Verfe. The
Word became flefh. Alleluia, Refp. And
dwelt among us, Alleluia, ft
Pp | The
426 Prayers on Sundays, Ge. .
The Prayer. :
AC and eyerlafting God, dire@t
our actions according to thy Holy
“Will; that in the name of thy beloved Son,
we may abound in all good works: andes
the fame Jefus Chrift our Lord.
The Anthem on the Sunday within the sec He of ts
Epiphany.
O Son, why ha{ft thou done fo to us!
T and thy Father grieving did feek thee.
What is the reafon that you fought me? Die
you not know, that I muft be about thof
matters, which are my Father’s. Verf. The
kings - of Tharfis, and the Ifles, fhall offer
sits. Refp. The kings of the Arabs ane
aba fhall bring prefents. 4
The Prayer.
E befeechthee, O Lord, be vou
ble to the defire of thy people, tha
they may both fee what is to be done, an
be able to perform what they fhall fee to i
their duty: Through, &c.
The Anthem on.the Second Sunday after Epiptanysl
The -wine failing, Jefus commanded the
pitchers to be filled with water, which wa
turned into wine. » Alleluia.
Verf. Let my prayer, O Lord afcendel
Refp. Like incenfe in thy fight.
The Prayer.
Almighty and eternal God, whe 06
() verneft both heavenly and earthh
things; mercifully hear the prayers of - th
people, and grant us thy peace in our times
Through our Lord.
rT}
efter Epiphany. 427
The Anthem on the Third Sunday after Epiphany,
’ O Lord, if thou wilt, thou canft cleanfe
me; and Jefus faid, 1 will, be thou clean.
Ver, Let my prayer, O Lord, afcend.
_-Relp. Like incenfe in thy fight.
The Prayer.
Almighty, everlafting God, merciful-
| ly regard’ our infirmity ; and let the
right-hand of thy majefty appear in our pros |
| tection: Through our Lord,
The Anthem on the Fourth Sunday after Epiphany.
O Lord, fave us, we perifh; command,
© God, and caufe a calm. Verf. Let my
prayer afeend. as before. |
The Prayers
O Goo, who knoweft that in fo great
‘dangers, through human frailty we cannot
fubfift, grant us help of mind and body, that
what we fuffer for our fins, we may through:
thy help overcome: Through our Lord.
The Anthem on the Fifth Sunday efter Epiphany.
Gather firlt the tares, and bind them into’
bundles, to be burnt; but the wheat gather
nto my barn, fays our Lord. Verf, Let my
prayer, as before.
The Prayer. i
RESERVE thy people, we befeech.
thee, O Lord, with perpetual tender--
nefs, that refting on the only hope of Hea-
Venly grace, it may ever, by thy proteétion,
be defended: Through our ‘Lord | Hee
Chrift.
Pre | The
4
428 Prayers on Sundays, &e.
The Anthem. cn the Sixth Sunday after Epiphany... ‘
The kingdom of heaven is like ta —
leaven;, which a woman took and hid ~
in’ three meafures of meal, till the whole ©
was leavened, Verf. Let my prayer, as 7
before, p. 427.
The Prayer.
RANT, we befeech thee, Almighty i
J God, that ever meditating on. things 7
that are juft, we may, both in words and —
aeeds, execute what is acceptable to thee: —
Through our Lord Jefus Chrift. |
The Anthem on Septuagefima-Sunday.
The houfholder faid to the workmen;
why ftandyve here all the day idle? But the y ’
pel ering, faid, Becaufe no man has hired —
us. Go ye alfo into my vineyard; and
what fhall be juft, I will give you.
Verf. Let my prayer, O Lord, afcend.
Refp. Like incenfe in thy fight.
The Prayer.
(5 IVE ear, we beleech thee, O Lord,
JF to the prayers of thy people, that we,
her for our fins are juftly affli€ted, for the —
glory of thy name, may be mercifully de-
livered. ‘Through our Lord.
The Anthem on SexagefimarSunday.
To you itis granted to know the myftery
of the kingdom of God; but to: others in
parables, faid Jefus to his dilciples.. ° ‘
Verl, Lei my prayer, as before, p. 427.
The
afier Epiphany. = 8G
The Prayer. os
~ O God; who feell, that we truft not in
our own actions; tercifully grant, that by
the proteQion of the Apofile of the Gentzles,
we may be defended againtt all adverfities =
Through our Lord.
The Anthem on Quinquagefima-Sunday;
And Jefus ftopping, commanded the
blind man to be brought to him, and fays
to him, What wilt thou have me do for:
“thee? O Lord, that I may fee. ‘And Jefus-
faid to him, Look up, ‘thy faith has healed’
‘thee; And forthwith he-faw, and followed”
him, magnifying God * &
Vert, Let my, Dye a bef ore, p. 427+
The Prayer. ~~
O Lorn, we befeech thee, mercifully
hear our prayers; and having freed us from
the bonds of fin, preferve us from all: adver«
fities : Throvgh our Lord. 3
The Anthem on Ath-W ednefday.
Lay up treafures for yourfelves heaven,
where neither raft nor moth deftroys.. Vert,
_ Let my prayer, as a p. Bez’ 2) bas
The P
RANT, O Loids! oh thy faithfal; “that”
| they may enter upon this folemn fait:
with a due piety, and’ go through ‘it Ww ith av
fecure devotion: Through our Lordy =
“The Anthem on Tharlday.> )
O Lord, I am not worthy, that thou enter
under my ‘roof: but only ipeak the word,
and. i fervant iss be ‘healed.
430 Prayers in Lent.
~Verf, Let my prayer, as before, p.427.
The Prayer. |
_O Gop, who by fin art offended, and -
by penance Spcthed: mercifully regard the
prayers of thy people, who make fupplica-_
tion to thee; and turn away the fcourges of
thy anger, which we deferve for our fins:
Through our Lord.
The Anthem on Friday. |
But thou, when thou fhalt pray, enter
into thy chamber, and having fhut the door,
pray to thy Father. Verf Let my prayer
afcend, as before. ;
The Prayer
VV * befeeeh thee, O Lord, gracioufly
to favour us in the faft we have be-
-gun; that what we obferve outwardly, we
may perform with fincere minds: Through
‘our Lord.
_ Fhe Anthem on Saturday:
Then thou fhalt require help, and our
Lord will gracioufly hear; thou fhalt cry,
and he will fay, Behold, I am here,
Verf. Let my prayer, as before.
rehhe Prayer.
ide ear, O.Lord, to our prayers, that
with a true devotion we may obferve
this folem faft, which ts. pioufly inftituted,
for giving health both to our foul and body:
Through our Lord.
The Anthem.on the Firft Sunday in Lent...
Behold, now is the acceptable time?
bebuld now the days of falvation; in thele
days
Firft Week. qyr
days therefore bet us fhew ourfelves the
{-rvants of God, in much patience, in
fafling, in watchings, and fincere cha-
rity. Verfi God has given his Angels
charge of thee. Refp. To guard thee i
hy ways,
all thy way ‘.
Fhe Prayer.
O Gop, who purifieft thy Church by
the yearly obfervation of Lent; grant.
to thy faithful, that what they endeavour
to obtain of thee by faiting, they may duly
prattife in good works; Phrough our Lord
Jefus Chrift. CG
The Anthem en Monday.
What you have done to one of my little
ones, you have done to me, fays our
Lord. Verf God has given his Angels, as
before. '
The Prayer.
O Gon our falvation, change our hearts;
and influence ‘our minds with thy hea-
venly doftrine; that this falt of Lent may
be beneficial to us: Through our Lord
— Jelus Chritt. :
Pke Anthem on Tuefdays | i
For it is written, that my Houfe is the
houfe of prayer to all nations, but you have
made ita den of thieves. And he was daily
teaching in the temple. ,
Verf- God has given his Angels, as before.
Fhe Prayer.
[ ; AVE regard, O Lord, to thy People, »
4 & and grant that by mortifying our
bodies,
$32 Prayers in Lent. | |
bodies, our minds may be enflamed with the -
love of thee: Through our Lord. |
Lhe Anthem on Ember-Wednefday in Lent. :
As Jenas was three days and three nights”
in the belly of the whale, fo fhall the Son —
of Man be in the heart of the earth.
Verl. God has given his Angels, as before, 4
2B 43%
| The Prayers -§
VY E befeech thee, O Lord; mercifully —
to hear our prayers, and ftretch —
forth the right-hand of thy Majefly againft alk
our adverfities) ‘Through our Lord, . :
| The Anthem on'Fhurlday- ‘
_ O woman! thy faith is great: be it to
thee, as thou haft. afked; ig,
Verf. God has given his Angels, as before. —
The Prayer. -
WeE befeech thee, “O Lord, mercifully.
' _ to regard the devotion of thy peo- —
ple, that mortifying their bodies by faft-
ing, they,may have their minds refrefhed._
by the fruit of good. works: Through our —
Lord. !
The Anthem. on Ember-Friday in Lent: E
He that healed me, gave me this coma ©
mand, take up thy bed, and walk in peace.
Verf God has given his Angels, as before. _
£ The Prayer. ee
: B* propitious, O Lord, to thy people, —
AY and, by the comfortable help of thy. —
mercy,. refrefh them whom thou haft made
devout. in thy fervice:: Through our ie 3
he:
Pe hia
Second Week, — 43%
The Anthem on Embes-Sunday tn Lent.
Fell none the vifion, which you have feen,
ull the Son of Man rifes from death,
Verf. God has given his Angels, &c..
The Prayer.
E befeech thee, O God, mercifully
look down on thy people, and ac-
cording to thy clemency turn from them
the {courges of thy anger. Through our
Lord,
The Anthem on the Second Sunday zm Lent.
Tell none the vifion which you have
feen; as before. Verl. God has given his
Angels, &c.
The Prayer.
God, who feeft us deftitute of all
ffrength, preferve us both within
and without; that our bodies may be fe-
cure from all adverfities, and our fouls
purified from all evil thoughts: Through
our Lord.
The Anthem on Monday.
He, that fent me, is with me, and has
not left me alone; becaufe I ever do thofe
things, that are pleafing unto him.
Verf. God has given his Angels, &c.
The Prayer.
. RANT, we befeech thee, Almighty
God, that thy people, who by abfti-
nence mortify their bodies, may, by the ob-
fervance of thy law, abftain from all things
that are difpleafing to thee: Through our
Lord. |
The
424 Prayers in Lent.
; The Anthem on Tuefday,
But you are all brethren: name not to —
yourfelves a Father on earth; for your
Father i8 One, who is in Heaven: neither
be ye called maftres, for Chrift alone is
your mafter. |
|
,
Ver}. God has given his Angels, &c. p. 43t
The prayer,
‘Rant us, O Lord, we befeech thee,
thy affiftance, whereby’ to perfect |
the obfervance of this hoby faft; that |
what we undertake by thy authority, we -
may accomplifh by thy Grace : Through our ©
Lord,
The Anitem cn Wednefday. .
For he fhall be delivered to the Gentiles)
to be mocked, fcourged, and crucified.
Verfe. God has given his Angels, &c.
The Prayer. 7
W E befeech thee, O Lord, mercifully ~
regard thy people; and grant that —
they who in obedience to thy precept abftain —
from flefh, may likewife ayoid all fort of | ;
vice: through our Lord.
The Anthem on Thurfday. q
The rich man defired a drop of water, —
who denied Lazarus erumbs of bread. j
Verf. God bas given his Angels charge of | 4
thee. <
Refp. To guard thee in all thy ways.
The prayer.
GRANT us, O Lord, we befeech |
thee the affiftance of thy grace that ©
duly ;
: Second Week. “435
duly applying ourfelves to fafting and
prayer, we may be delivered from all ofir
enemies both of body and foul: Through
-our Lord. |
The Anthem on Friday.
Seeking to lay hold on him, they feared
the people, becaufe they held him for a pro-
phet. Verf. God has given his Angels, &c.
The prayer.
* ibSpadaces Almighty God, that being
purified by this holy fal, we may
come to the approaching folemnity with fin-
cere hearts: Through our Lord.
The Anthem on Saturday.
And the Father faid to his fervants,.
Bring forth quickly the firft ftole, and put
jt on bim, and put a ring on his hand, and
fhoes on his feet. |
Verf- God has given his Angels, &c,
p. 43.
The aye:
‘RANT, we befeechthee, O Lord, this
faving effe&t to our fafting; that’ the
chaltifement of the fleth, which we have un-
dertaken, may give ftrength to our fouls :
Through our Lord. !
The Anthem on the Third Sunday in Lent.
A certain woman of the multitude lifting
up her voice, faid, Bleffed is the womb that
“bore thee, and the paps that gave ‘thee fuck,
And Jefus fays to her; Yeu and bleffed
are they that hear the word ‘of God, and
keep it.
Verl. God has given his Angels, &c.
The
436 | Prayers in Lent, | -
aa
The Prayer.
E tbefeech thee, ialaliyi God,
have regard to the prayers of thy '
fervants ; and ftretch forth the right-hand —
of thy power in our defence: Through our ~
Lord.
The Anthem on Monday.
But Jefus pafling through the midi of :
them, went away.
Verf, God has: given his Angels, &c. _
‘The prayer,
W E befeech thee, O Lord, mercifully
pour forth thy grace into our hearts,
that as we obferve an abftinence from meat,
“fo we may carefully avoid all hurtful ex-
ceffes: Through our Lord,
The Anthem on Tucfday.
Where two or three are gathered toge-
ther in my name, I am in the midft of them,
fays our Lord. Ver& God has ite his 4
APE «ec.
‘The prayer.
LMIGHTY and moft merciful God, |
vouchfafe gracioufly to hear us, and
grant us the gift of fuch abftinence, as may
be available to falvation : Through our
Lord.
The Anthem on Wednefday.
To eat with unwafht hands, does not
defile a man. Verf. God has given his
Angels, &c,
The
Third Week. 437
The Prayer.
RANT, we befeech thee, O Lord, that
being inftru€ted by wholefome faft-
ing, we may abftain likewife from all vice,
and more eafily obtain thy mercy; Through
our Lord.
The Anthem on Therfday,
All they that had fick perfons, brought
them to Jefus, and they were healed.
Verf. God has given his Angels, &c.
The Prayers
M** thy name, O Lord, be glorified
in this folemnity of St. Cofmas and
Damian, on which thou haft honoured them
with everlafting glory, and by unfpeakable
providence, afforded us relief: ‘Through
our Lord.
The Anthem on Friday.
Thou art a prophet, O Lord. as I fee; our
Fathers did adore in this mountain,
Vert. God has given his Angels, &e,
The Prayer.
E favourable to us, O Lord, in this ©
time of our faft, that as we oblerve
an abftinence from flefh, fo we may. faft
likewife in our hearts from ail fin: ‘Through
our Lord.
The Anthem on Saturday.
Has none condemned thee, O Woman?
None, Lord. Neither will ] condemn thee ;
OER fin no more.
Verf. God has given his Angels, &e,
Og The
438 Prayers m Lent,
The Prayer.
RANT, “we befecoh thee, Almighty
God, that thy people, -who by abfti-
- mence mortify their bodies, may, by the ob-
dervance of thy law, abftain from all things
that are difpleafing to thee: Through our
Lord.
‘The Anthem.on the Fourth Sunday zn Lent.
Jefus therefore went up to the mountain,
and there fat wath his difciples.
Verf. God has given his Angels charge
of thee.
Relp. To keep thee in all thy ways,
The Prayer.
GRANT, we beleech thee, Almighty
Ged, that we, who are juflly punifhed for
our fins, may be refrefhed by the comforts
of thy grace: Through our-Lord.
eee The Anthem on Monday. |
Diffolve thistemple, fays our ‘Lord, and
after three days I will build ir again. “But
this he {poke of the temple of his bedy.
‘Verl. Godhas given his Angels, &c.
The Prayer.
GRANT, we beleech thee, Almighty
‘God, that with a yearly devotion obferving
~ this holy ordinance, we may be pleafing to
thee, both in body . and foul. Through our
Lord.
The Anthem on Tuefay.
No man laid hands on him, becaufe his
hour was not yet come.
Ver’. God has given his Angels, &C,
The
Fourth Week. 4908
ye Fhe Prayer. ,
E. befeech thee, O Lord, that the
obfervance of this’ facred faft may
be to us the increafe of a holy life, and en-
gage to us the continual affiflance of thy
mercy: Through our Lord.
: The Anthem on Wednefday.
The man, who is called Jefus, made clay
of fpittle, and laid it on my eyes, and now
I fee.
Verf. God has given his Angels, &c-
The Prayer ;
God, who by fafting both rewardeft’
the juft, and granteit pardon to fip- —
ners; fhew mercy to us here humbling our-
felves before thee, that by the confeffion of
our guilt we may obrain the forgivenefs of
our fins: Fhrough our Lord.
| The Anthem on Thurfday.
A great prophet is rifen amongf us; and
God has vifited his pecple.
Verfe. God has given his Angels, &c.
The Prayer.
RANT, we befeech thee, Almighty
God, that we who are punifhed by
fatting, may be comforted by a holy devo-.
tion; that earthly affeétions bring moderated
in us, we may be better capable of what be--
longs to Heaven: Through our Lord,
The Anthem on Friday.
O Lord, if thou hadft been here, Laza-
rus had not been dead: behold now hav-
Q4q2 ing
442. Prayers in Lent.
ing been four days in the grave, be flinketh.
Verf, God has given his Angels, &c.
The Prayer.
() God, who with unfpeakabl myfteries.
sivelt new life to the world, grant, we
befeech thee, that thy Church may be be-
nefited by thy divine inftitutions, and hke-
wife fupplied wiih temporal bleilings :
Through our Lord. :
The Anthem on Satu: day.
Iam he, who give tellimony of mv felf;
and the Father who fent me, gives tefiimony
of me. |
Verf, God bas given his Angels, &c.
The Prayer.
Rant O Lord, we befeech thee that
# our Seevation may become fruitful
through thy grace; for then only will our
fafting be beneficial to us, when it is pleafing
to thy goodnefs : Through our Lord Jelus
Chnit,
The Anthem on Paffion-Sunday:
Abraham your Father rejoiced to fee my
day ; he faw it, and was glad.
_ Verf. Deliver me, O Lord, from the
evil man. Refp. From the unjuft man
deliver me, :
_ The Prayer,
Woke befeech thee, Almighty God, mer.
cifully regard thy people ; that, by:
tty conduét, they may be diretted in body,
and by thy protettion preferved in mind :
Through our Lord.
| The
Paffion Week. | 44h
The Anthem on Monday,
If any one thirfts, let hiny come to me,
and drink; and out of bis belly fhall flow
waters of life. faysour Lord.
Verf. Deliver me, &c.
The Prey er.
ANCTIFY to us, we befeech thee, O
Lord, our fafts ; and grant us the par-
don of all our fins: Through our Lord.
The Anthem on Tuefday,
Go ye up to this feitival day ; but I
will not go up, hecaufe my time is not yet
come. Verf. Deliver me, &c.
The Prayer.
V E befeech thee, O Lord, that our
Y= fafting may be well pleafing in thy
fight, that cleanfing us from fin, it may both
render us worthy of thy favour, and bring
- us to eternal falvation: Through our Lord.
The: Anthem on Wedaciday.
Many good.werks have I done for you >
¥or titel of thena will you kill me ?
Verf. Deliver me, O Lord, &c.
The prayer.
O-Gop of mercy, enlighten the hearts:
of thy people, by this boly. fat;. and fince
all our devotion is the effeét.of. thy. bounty,
be favourable to us and. hear. our players:
Through our Lord,
* The Anthem.om Thurfday ys
With defire I have defired to eat this.
Pafch with you before 1 luffer.. Verf. De-
liver me, O Lord, &c,
QOq3. The:
A42., Prayers in Lent.
The Anthem on Pilm-Sunday.
For it is written, I will ftrike the paftor,
andthe {leep of the flock fhall be difper-
fed: but after I fhall rife again, I will go be-
fore you into Galilee; there you fhall fee
te, lays our Lord.
Verf. Dever me, O Lord, from the cwil
man.
Refp, From the unjuft man deliver me.
The Prayer.
LMIGHTY and everlafling God, who
haft been pleafed that our dear Re-
dcemer fhould take upon him our flefh. and
fuffer on acrofs to give us an example of
humility, mercifully grant, we may always
improve by the inftruétions of his patie:.ce,
and have a part in his holy refurreétion;
Through our Lord. ~
¥he Anthem on Monday?
Thou wouldeft have no power over me,
if it were not given thee from above.
Verl. Deliver me, O Lord, &c.
The prayer.
RANT, we befeech thee, Almiglity
' God, that we who through our iifir-
mity fink under fo many troubles, may ie
ceive comfort through the paffion of thy on-
iy Son our Lord Jefus Chrift: Who with
thee aud the Holy Ghoft, &c.
The Anthem on Tuefday..
a
} bave power to lay down my life and to ~
take Ht again.
~“WVerl Deliver me, &e,
the
Holy-Week. : 443
The Prayer.
RANT, we befeech thee; Almighty
God that the dignity of human nature,
which has been wounded by excels, may be
healed by the remedies of moderation and
temperance : Through our Lord.
The Anthem on Friday.
The High Priefts confulted together, that
they might kill Jefus; but they faid, Not
on the feftival- day, left perhaps there m ay
be a turult.among the people.
Verf. Deliver, Re.
The Prayer.
We. befeech thee, O Lord, mercifully
Y= infufe thy grace into our hearts ;
that overcoming our fins by voluntary mor-
tifications, we may rather fuffer for them in
this life, than be condemned to eternal
torments for them in the next: Through
our Lord.
The Anthem on Saturday.
Righteous Father, the world has not
known thee ; but 1 know thee, becaule thou
haft fent me. Verf. meg me, &c.
The pr
\ E. befeech thee, “O Lord, that the
people confecrated to thy. fervice,
may improve in all the affeétions of piety,
‘that being taught by holy exercifes, they
may be fo much the more enriched with
fpirttual gifts, as they become more ac-
ceptable to thy Divine Majefty: Through
our Lord,
The
444 Prayers in Lent.
The Prayer.
~LMIGHTY and everlafting God,
7 grant we may focelebrate the myfieries |
of our Saviour’s paffion, that we may obtain
pardon of all our fins: Through the fame
jefus Chrift our Lord, &c.
| The Anthem on Wednefday.
The maid faid to Peter, Verily thou art
one of them, for thy fpeech does difcover
thee. : .
Verf. Deliver me, O Lord, &c.
The Prayer.
RANT, we befeech thee, Almighty
* God, that we, who are always afflitted
by our own exceffes, may be delivered by
the paffion of thy only Son, who lives.
and reigns one God with thee and the Holy
Ghoflt, &c. |
Refp. Amen.
The Anthem or Maundy-Thusfday.
And as they were at Supper, Jelus took
bread, and bleffed, and broke it, and gave
it to his difciples. .
Verf. Chrilt was for us made obedient.
Refp. Even to death.
Fhe Prayers
OOK down, O Lord, we befeech thee,
upon this thy family, for which our
Eord Jefus Chrift did not refufe to be de-
tivered into the hands of Gnners, and fuffer
death on the crofs; who lives. and. feigns
ene God with thee, &c,. Nast 4
? Eke
Prayers in Eafter-Week. = 445
The Anthém on Good-Friday. |
When he had taken the vinegar, he faid ;
It is finifhed ; and bowing down his head,
he gave up the ghoft. Verf. Chrift was for
us made obedient to death.
Refp. Even the death of the crofs. |
The Prayer.
Look down, as before.
The Anthem on Eafter-Eve?
The woman fitting at the monument,
lamented, weeping for our Lord.
Verf. Chrift was for us made obedient to
death, even to the death of the crofs. _
Refp. For which God alfo did exalt him,
and gave him a name, which is above all
names,
The Prayer,
Look down, as before. —
The Anthem on Eafter-Day.
And beholding, they faw the ftone roll-
ed away, for it was very great. Alleluia.
Verl. This is the day which our Lord
has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it,
The Prayer,
God, who, by thy only Son, haf
this day opened us the paffage to
eternity, through his vi€tory over death,
grant that our prayers, which thy pre-
venting grace infpires, may by thy help
become effetual : Through the fame Jefus
Chrift, ec.
The Anthem on Monday.
What are thefe difcourfes, which walking
you
446 —- Prayers in Eafter- Week.
you have together, and are fad? Alle
huia, Verf. This is the day, Gc. p. 445.
The prayer. :
God, who by the pafchal folemnity
haft provided the world with helps;
enrich thy people, we befeech thee, with |
Heavenly bleffings, that they may obtain
a perfeét liberty, and advance to the pof-
feffion of life everlafling: Through our’
Lord. | |
The Anthem on Tuefday.
Behold my hands. and my feet, that it is
I myfelf, Alleluia, Alleluia. Werf, This is
the day.
The Prayer.
QO God, who: by a new offspring, cory
tinually emlargeft the church, grant to
thy fervants, that the facrament, which by
faith they have received, may be manifetted:
in their lives: Through our Lord.
The Anthem on Wednefday. .
Jefus faid to his Difciples, Bring of the
fifh, which ye have now taken. And Szmon
Peter went up, and drew his net to the land,
full of great fifhes, Alleluia.
Verf. This is the day, Ge.
The Prayer.
() God, who, by the band folemnity
of our Lord’s refurrection, filleft
us with joy; mercifully grant by thefe
feflivals we here celebrate, we may come
at length to the poffeffion. of joys eternal :
‘Lhrougb our Lord.
The
Prayers in Eafter-Week. 447
- The Anthem on Thurfday.
They have taken away my Lord, and I
‘know not where they have put him; if chou
haft removed him, tell me, Alleluia, and I
will take him away, Alleluia.
- Verf. This is the Day, &c.
Tae Prayer,
Oc4 who haft united divided nations,
in the confeffion of thy name, grant
that they who are regenerate in the water of
-baptifm, may have one faith in their hearts,
and the fame piety in their a€tions: Through
our Lord.
The Anthem on Friday.
All power in Heaven, and on earth, is
given unto me, Alleluca.
Verf, This is the day, &c.
The prayer.
A hrehy and everlafting God, who, for
& reconciling mankind, has inftituted
the pafchal myftery ; fo influence our minds,
that what we prefefs in this folemnity, we
may prattife in our lives: Through our
Lord.
The: Anthem on Saturday.
The two ran together, and that other
Dilciple did out-run Peter, and came firft
ao the Sepulchre, Alleluia.
- -Verf. This is the day, &c.
f The Prayer.
‘N Rant, we befeech thee, Almighty
: God, that we, who with reverence
Vas | have
448 — — Prayers on Sundays,
have celebrated the Eafler folemnity, may
happily come to thy everlafting joys: Through
our Lord.
° The Anthem on Low- Susdey::
After eight days, the doors being fhut,
our Lord, entering in, faid to them, Peace
be to you, Alleluia, Alleluia.
Vert. Stay with us,,O Lord, Alleluia.
Refp. For night draws on, Allelvia.
Rant we befeech thee Almighty God,
that we, who have obferved the pafchal
folemnity, may through thy grace manvfeit
the effects of them in our morals and life:
Through our Lord.
The Anthem on the Second Sunday after Eafter.
Iam the good fhepherd, who feed my
fheep, and for my fheep lay down my life,
Alleluia,
The Prayer.
God, who, by the humiliation of thy
only Son, haft railed up the fallen
World, grant to thy faithful, perpetual
comfort, that having been delivered by
thee from everlafting death, they may
be eftablifhed by thee in the poffefhiou of
life everlafting: Through the fame Lord,
&c.
The Anthem on the Third Sunday afier Eafter.
Verily, I tell you, that you fhall lament
and weep, and the world fhall rejoice, but
ou fhall be made forrowful; but your for-
row fhall be turned into joy, Alleluia.
Verf. Stay with us, &c.
The
ajier Eafter. 449
The Prayer.
God, who to fuch as go aftray fheweft
the light of thy truth, that by it they
may return into the way of righteoufnefs,
grant to all who live in the chriftian pro-
feffion, that they may avoid thofe things
which are contrary to this name, and em-
brace what is agreeable to it: Through our
Lord. 3
‘The Anthem on the fourth Sunday after Eafter.
I am going to him that fent me; but be-
caufe I have fpoke ‘thefe things to you, for-
row has filled your hearts, Alleluza,
' Verf. Stay with us, &c. |
The Prayer.
© Gop, who makeft the Faithful to be
of one mind, grant to thy people, that they.
may love what thou commandeft, and defire —
what thou promifeft, that amidft the incon-
fiancy of this world, our hearts may there
be fixed, where the joys are unchangeable :
Through our Lord.
The Anthem on the Fifth Sunday after Eafter.
Afk, and ye fhall receive, that your joy
may be full‘ for my Father loves you, be-
caufe you have loved me, and have believed,
Allehwa. Verl. Stay with us, &c.
The Prayer
O Goo, from whom all good things
proceed, grant to us, thy petitioners,
that by thy holy infpiration we may think
what is right, aad by thy direétion, do
pete Rr what °
450 Prayers on Sundays,
what is good: Through our Lord Jefus
Chrift |
The Anthem.on Monday zm Rogation-Weck.
Afk,.and ye fhall receive; feek, and ye
fhall find ; knock, and it fhall be opened to
you, Alleluza,
~~ Verf, Stay with us, &c,
_. The Prayer,
GRANT, we befeech thee, Almighty
God, that we, who. in our affe@ion confide
in thy goodnefs, may, under thy protection,
be defended from all adverfities: Through
our Lord.
The Anthem on Tuefday in Rogation-Week.
I came forth from my Father, and came —
into the world: Again, I leave the world,
and goto my Father, 4lleluza,
Verf. Stay with us, &c.
The Prayer. , ;
O Gop, from whom all good, as on the
Sunday before,
The Anthem on Wednefday in Rogation-Weck.
O Father, the hour is come; glorify th
Son with that glory which I had with thee
before the world hada being, Alleluia,
Verf. Stay withus, &c.
The Prayer.
© Gon, from whom all good, as on the
Sunday before.
The Anthem on the Afcenfion of eur Lord.
O King of glory, Lord of powers, who
this day didft afcend in triumph above all
the Heavens, leave us not orphans, but.
| fend
after Eafter. 45
fend us the promife of the Father, the Spirit
of Truth, Alleluia. fo AAD
Verf. Our Lord has prepared, 4lleluca.
Refp. His feat in Heaven, 4llehua.
; The Prayer.
GRANT, we befeech thee, Almighty
God, that we, who believe that thy only
Son, our Redeemer, afcended this day
into Heaven, may alfo dwell with our
mind, in the heavenly manfions: Through
the fame Lord.
The Anthem on the Sunday within the O@ave of the
Afcenfion.
I have fpoke thefe things to you, that
when their bour fhall come, you may re-
’ member that I told you, Alleluia. |
Verf. Our Lord has prepared, 4llelura.
Refp. His featin Heaven, dileluia,
The Puayer,
LMIGHTY and_ everlafting God,
mercifully work this efle& in our
fouls, that our wills may be pioufly af.
fe€ted towards thee, and that we may
ferve thee with fincere hearts. Through
our Lord.
The Anthem cn Whit-Sunday.
To day the days of FPentecof are com-
pleated, Alleluia. To-day the Holy Ghoft
appeared to the difciples in fire, and gave
them the gifts of grace. He fent them
over all the world to preach and teflify, he
that fhall believe and be baptized,-fhall be
faved, Alleluia. Verf. The Apoftles did
Rra2 fpeak
ABZ Prayers in the
{peak in divers tongues, Alleluia. Ref:
The wonderful works of God, Alleluia.
The Prayer.
() God, who, by the infpiration of the
Holy Ghoft, didft this day inftrué
the hearts of the Faithful, grant us in
the fame Spirit, to difeern what is right,
and enjoy his comfort for ever: Fhrough
our Lord Jefus Chrift, who lives and reigns
one God with thee and. the fame Holy:
Ghoft, &c.
The Anthem on Monday.’ |
Ifany one loves me, he will keep my
word; and my Father will love him, and
we | vil come to him, and make our abode
with him, Adlefuia.
Verf. ‘Lhe Apoftles did fpeak, as before.
Fhe Prayer.
O Gop, who didi fend down the Holy
Ghot upon the Apofiles, hear the prayer
- sae people, that we, who through thy
ace have the gift of a true faith, may en-
joy true peace: Through our Lord, and
the fame Holy Ghoft, &c.
The Anthem on Tuefday.
Peace I leave to you, my peace I give
you; not as the world giveth, do I give
to you, Alleluia, Verf. The Apoftles did
fpeak, &c.
The Sas
SSIST us, O Lord, we befeech thee,
with the power of the Holy Spirit,
whereby
Whitfun-Week. A53
whereby our hearts may be purified accord-
ing to thy mercy, and we be defended from
all adverfities.
The Anthem on Ember-Weduefday in Whitfun-Weeky
I am the bread of hfe, that am come
down from Heaven; if any one fhall eat
of this bread. he fhall live for ever: and
the bread, which I fhall give, is my flefh for
the life of the world, Alletuia.
Verf, The Apoltles did [peak, &c. p. 451.
The Prayer. -
E. befeech thee has Lord, that the
Holy Spirit which proceeds frour
thee, may enlighten our hearts, and lead’
us, as thy Son has promifed, intoall truth +
Who liveth and reigneth one God with thee,
and the fame Holy Ghoft.
The Anthem on Thurfday.
The Spirit, who proceeds from the Fa
ther, Alleluia: He fhall glorify me, Alleluia,
Alleluia.
Verf. The Apoffles did {peak, &c.
The pede
O Gon, who ey the infpiration, as on
Whit-Sunday.
The Anthem on Exmber-Friday 2» Whitfan-Week,
Fhe Holy Ghoft the Comforter, whom
my Father will fend in my name, fhall teach
you all things, and fuggeft to you all thin; gs,
whatever I {hail fay to you, Atteluia,
Verl, The Apoftles did fpeak, &e:
Rr3 The
A54 Prayers on Sundays,
The prayer.
GRANT, O merciful God, we be-
feech thee, that thy Church being af
fembled'in the Holy Ghoft, may in no fort
be difturbed by the attempts of the enemy :
Through our Lord, and the fame Holy
Gholt, &c.
The Anthem on Ember-Sunday in Whitfun-Week.
The charity of God is fpread in our
hearts, by his Holy Spirit dwelling in us,
Alleluia.
Verf. The Apoftles did fpeak, &c.
The prayer.
O Merciful Lord, we befeech thee, in-
fufe thy Holy Spirit into our hearts, by
whofe wifdom we were made, and by whole
providence we are governed: Through our
Lord, &c. andthe fame Holy Ghoft,
The Anthem on Trinity-Sunday.
We confefs thee, with our whole heart
and mouth, God the Father Unbegotten ;
-thee the only begotten Son; thee the Ho-
ly Ghoft the Comforter; the Holy and
Undivided Trinity; we praife thee, we
blefs thee; to thee be glory, world with-
out end.
Verf. Bleffed art thou, O Lord, in the
firmament of Heaven.
Reip. Both praife-wortby and glorious
for tver-
The prayer.
O ALMIGHTY, everlafting God, who
haft appointed thy fervants, in the confel-
fon ol the true faith, to acknowledge the
glory
after Whitfantide. 455
glory of the Eternal Trinity; and in the
power of thy Majefty to adore. Unity; we
befeech thee, that, by the firmnefs of the
fame faith, we may be fecured from ail ad-
verfities: Through our Lord.
On the fame Day ts made a Commemoration of the Firft
Sunday after Whitfuntide.
The Anthem.
Judge not, that ye may not be judged;
for with what judgment you judge, you
fhall be judged, faith our Lord. Verf Let
my prayer be dire€ted, O Lard. Refp. Like
_incenfe in thy fight.
The Prayer.
O Gop, the ftrength of them that truft -
in thee, mercifully hear our prayers; and,
{ince human infirmity can do nothing FE
out thee, grant us the help of thy grace,
that in executing thy commands, we may
pleafe thee both in our wills and aétions:
‘Through our Lord.
The Anthem on Corpus Chrifti Day;
O Sacred Banquet! in which Chrift is
received; the memory of his paffion is
renewed; our fouls are filled with grace,
and a pledge of future glory is given us,
Alleluia. Verf. Thou haft given the bread
from Heaven, Alleluia, Refp. Filled with
all delight, Alleluia.
The Prayer.
O Gop, who in his wonderful Gras
ment has left us a perpetual remembrance
of thy paflion, grant us, we befeech thee,
fo
456 Prayers on Sundays,
fo to reverence the facred myfteries of thy
body and blood, that in our fouls we may
be always fenfible of the fruit of thy ree
demption, who livelt and reigneft, &c.
The Anthem on the Sunday within the Ofave of Corpus
Chrilli, whzch is the Second after Whitfuntide.
Go out quickly into the highways and
Mtreets of the city, and force the poor and
feeble, blind and lame, to come in, that
my houfe may be filled, Alleluia, Alleluia.
Verf. He has fed them with the fat of
wheat, Alleluia. Refp. And has filled them
with honey out of the rock, Alleluia,
. » The Prayer.
NFUSE into our hearts, O Lord, a con-
ftant fear and love of thy holy name ;
becaufe they fhall never fail of thy condu&,.
who are well founded in the love of thee
‘Through our Lord.
The Anthem on the third Sanday after Whitfuntide.
What woman having ten drachmas, if
fhe bath loft one, does not light -a candle,
and fweep the houfe, and fearch diligently
till fhe bas found it? Verf. Let my prayer
be direéted, &c.
oe The Prayer:
Ged, the ProteGtor of thofe that tru
in thee, without whom nothing is good,
nothing holy, encreafe thy mercies towards
us, that under thy direétion and conduct
‘we ‘may fo pals through this temporal life,
as not tolofe that which is eternal; Through
‘our Lord,
The
after Whitfuntide. 457
The Anthem cn the Fourth Sunday after Whitfuntide.
Mafter, we have laboured all the night,
and taken nothing; but at thy word I will
let loofe my net.
Verf, Let my prayer be, &c.
The Prayer.
Rant we befeech thee, O Lord, that _
by thy conduét, the courfe of our
life may be peaceably dire€ied; and that
thy Church may enjoy the comfort of a
guict devotion: Through our Lord.
The Anthem on the Fifth Sunday after Whitluntide.
If thou offer thy gift at the altar, and
fhalt remember that thy brother has any
thing againft thee, leave there thy gift before.
the aliar, and go firft to be reconciled to thy
brother; and then coming thou fhalt offer
thy gift, Alleluia. Verf. Let my prayer be
direfted, &c. |
The prayer.
God, who haft prepared goods in-
vifible for thofe that love thee, ine
fufe into our hearts the fpirit of true cha-_
rity; that loving thee in all things, and
ahove all things, we may enjoy the effett of
thy promifes, which are above ali we can
defire: Through our Lord.
The Anthem on the Sixth Sunday after Whitfuntide.
I have pity on the multitude, for be-
hold, they have now attended me. thefe
three days, and have not. any thing to
eat; and if I difmifs them fafting, they
SEED will
458 Prayers on Sundays,
will faint in the way, Allelwa, Verf. Let my
prayer be diretted, &c.
‘ The Prayer:
O God of power, fountain of all good,
inflame our hearts with the love of thy
holy name, and grant in us the encreafe of
religion; that thou mayeft improve in our
fouls whatever is good, and, by the love of
piety, preferve whatever thou haft improved ¢
Through our Lord.
The Anthem on the Seventh Sunday after Whitfuntide.
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit,
nor an evil tree good fruit; every tree that.
yiclds not good fruit, fhall be cut down, and
caft inte the fire, Al/eluia.
Verf. Let my prayer be dire&ted, &c.
The Prayer.
‘, God, whofe providence is never de-
ceived in what it orders, we hum-
bly befeech thee, to remove whatever will
be prejudicial to us, and grant us fuch’
things as fhall be for our good: Through
our Lord.
The Anthem on the Eight Sunday after Whitfuntide
What fhall I do, now that my Lord tak-
eth from methe flewardfhip? To dig I am
not able, and I am afhamed to beg. I know
what I will do, that when J fhall be turned
off from the flewardfhip, they may receive
me into their houfes, Werf. Let my prayer
be diref&ted, &c,
The
afier Whitluntide. 459.
7 The Prayer. ;
M Ercifully grant us, O Lord, we befeech,
thee, the dpirit both of thinking and
doing what is right; that we, who cannot
_ be without thee, may live according to
thee: Through our Lord. .
The Anthem on the Ninth Sunday after Whitfuntide.
For it is written, that my houfe is the
‘houfe of prayer to all nations, but you have
- made it a den of thieves. And he was daily
teaching in the temple. |
Verf. Let my prayer be dire&ed, &c.
The Prayer.
Ive ear, O Lord, in thy mercy, to
! the prayers of thy fervants, and that
they may fucceed in their defires, make
them afk thofe things that are agreeable to
thee: Through our Lord.
The Anthem on the Tenth Sunday after Whitfuntide.
This _man went down into bis houfe
juftified, more than the other ; becaufe every
one that exalts himfelf, fhall be humbled,
and he who humbles himfelf, fhall be
exalted. Verf, Let my prayer be dire&-
- .ed, &c.
The Prayer,
O God, who doft chiefly manifeft thy
power, in pardoning and fhewing
mercy, multiply thy goodnefs towards us;
that having recourfe to thy promifes, we
may be partakers of thy everlafting happi-
nels: Through our Lord,
: i . The
.
480 Prayers on Sundays,
The Anthem on the Eleventh Sunday after Whitfuntide.
He has done all things well; he has
made the deaf hear, and the dumb fpeak.
Verf. Let my prayer be diretted, O
Lord, )
The Prayer,
Ae and everlafting God, who
in the abundance of thy goodnefs, exe
ceedeft both the merits and prayers of thy
fervants, pour forth thy mercy upon us,
pardoning what our conicience dreads, and
adding what we dare not prefume to afk:
Tbrough our Lord,
The Anthem on the twelfth Sunday after Whitfuntide.
A certain man went down from [7eru-
— falem to Fericho, and fell among thieves,
who alfo {tripped him of his garments, and
having wounded him, departed, leaving
him half dead. Verf- Let my prayer be
dire@ted, &c.
The Prayer.
LMIGHTY and merciful God, from
whofe gift it proceeds, that thy peo-
ple render thee a grateful fervice ; grant,
- we befeech thee, that without fin we may
advance towards the obtaining thy promiles:
Through our Lord.
The Anthem on the thirteenth Sunday after Whitfuntide,
But one of them perceiving that he was
cleanfed, returned again with a loud
yoice,
-afier Whitfuntide. “51
-voice, magnifying God, Alleluia. “Verl Let,
my prayer be direfted, &c. : !
| The Prayer. :
2 ALMIGHTY and evertafting God,
O grant us increafe of faith, hope, and
charity ; and that we may obtain what thou
chaft promifed, make-us love-what thou com-
mandeft. Through our Lord.
The Anthem onthe Fourteenth Sunday after Whitfuntide.
Seek firft the kingdom of God, and his
juftice ; and all thefe things fhall be given
-you befides, Allelusa.
Verf. Let my by be dire@ted, &c.
e Prayer.
RESERVE thy Church, © Lord, we
befeech thee, with a-conftant mercy;
and, becaufe without thee our nature is al-
‘ways frail, afford it thy help to deliver it
from all that is finful, and dire& it in the
way of falvation: Through our Lord,
The Anthem on the Ember-Wednefday in September.
This kind of devil.cannot go out, but by
_ prayer and fafting. ie
Verf. Let my. prayer-be dire&ted, &e.
Refp. Like.incenfe in thy fight.
The Prayer,
ET our weakneéfs, O Lord, we befeech
thee, be flrengthened by the remedies
Of thy mercy; that what naturally decays
in us, may be repaired by thy clemency :
Through our Lord.
of
| The,
. £62 Prayers on Sundays,
The Aathem on.Ember-Friday 1 September,
\ A woman, that was a finner in the. city, ©
ftanding behind, near the fect of our Lord, ©
-began to wath his feet-with her tears, and |
wipe them with the hair.of her bead, and —
fhe kiffed them, and .anointed. them with
precious ointment,
Verl. Let my prayer be dire€ted, &c. |
‘The Prayer. |
(or: we befeech. thee, Almighty
‘ God, that with an annual devotion,
obferving.thy holy inftitutions, we may pleafe —
thee, both in body and mind. Through —
our Lord.
The Anthem én Ember-Saturday 22° September,
Be thou a light, O Lord, to thofe that fit -
_3n.darknefs, and-dire&t our feet in the way —
of peace, -O'God of Ifrael. |
Verl. Let my prayer be dire€ted, Se.
Tke Prayer.
ALMIGHTY and everlafting God,
who, by a wholefome abftinence, doft —
heal both our -bodies and our mirids # we
humbly befeech thy Majefty, that being |
pacified by the acceptable devotion of our
faft, thou wilt fupply us with -neceffaries —
‘both at prefent and hereafter: Through our
Lord.
TAe Anthem on; the Fifteenth Sunday a/ter Whitfontide.
A great prophet is rifen among us,. and
God has vifited his people. Verf. Let my
prayer be directed, &c. 3
? The
after Whitfuntide. 462
EE The Prayer,
Lord, let thy perpetual mercy pu-
rifie and preferve thy church; and:
Becaufe without thee it cannot be fecire. ;
let it be always under thy gracious pro-
te€tion: Through our Lord.
The Anthem on the Sexteenth Sunday after
Whirfuntide.
When thou fhalt be invited to a mar=
riage, fit in the loweft place, that he who:
has invited thee, may fay to thee, friend ft
up higher; and. it will be a. glory to thee”
before them that fit there, Alleluia.
Verf: Let my prayer be diretied, O Lord.-
Refp: Like incenfe in thy- fight.
The prayer:
MLS. thy grace, § O Lord, we befeech:
thee, at all times; 8° before us, and:
follow us, ahd make us always follicitous in
doing good: Through our Lord.
The Anthem on the Seventeenth Sunday after Whitfuntide.
What'is your opini » concerning Chrift >
Whofe Son is he ?- They all faid to bi m,
the Son of Damd. Jelus faid to them, Niky
doth David by the Spirit call him Lord,
faying, the Lord faid tomy Lord. fit at
my tight hand? Verfe Let my prayer be-
diretied, &c.
The: Prd)
RANT, O Lord, we belie vate to"
thy PROG that they may avoid all
the {nares of the con and with fincere
Sf minds
464 Prayers on Sundays;
minds only follow thee their God. Through
our Lord,
The Anthem on the Eightecnth Sunday after Whitfantide.
Fhe man, that had the palfy, took. up~
his bed, in which he lay, magnifying God ;
and.all the people that beheld it, gave praife
to. God. ;
Verf. Let my prayer be direfied, &c.
Taé Prayer.
ce ET the influence of thy mercy, we
- befeech thee, O Lord, dire&t» our
hearts; becaufe without thee, we cannot’
do what: is. pleafing to thee. Throughrour
Lord:
The Anthem on the Nineteenth Sunday after Whitfantide.
And the: King. went in, to fee thofe that
fat at table, and he faw there a mam not
cloathed in a wedding garment; and he
fays to him, Friend, how cameft thou: In
here, not having: a wedding garment ?:
Ver£ Let my prayer be diretted, &c,
The Prayer.
ALMIGHTY and:merciful God, have
compaffion on us, and defend us -from
all things that are burtful-to-us; that being.
at liberty both in mind:and body, we may
with freedom perform the things that belong.
to thee: Through our Lord.
The Anthem on the twentieth Sunday afier Whitfuntide:
And the Father knew, that it was the
fame:
after Whitfuntide. 465
fame hour, on which Jefus faid, Thy fon
liveth; and he believed, and his whole |
family.
Verf. Let my igo be dire&ed, 6:
The Prayer.
E befeech thee, O Lord, grant_mer-
cy and peace to thy faithful people, -
that being cleanfed from all their offences,
they may derve thee with undilt utbed minds :
Through our Lord.
The Anthere on the twenty-firft Sunday after Ww hitfuntide, ~
Thou wicked fervant, did not I forgive :
thee all thy debt, bécauft thou didft afk —
me ? Oughteft not thou alfo to have com. —
paflion on thy fellow-fervant, as I bad pity
on thee ? Adleluza.
Verf. Let my prayer he meng &e,
The Prayer...
RESERVE, O Lordy we. befeech thee,
thy faithftl with a continual tendernefs ; .
that by. thy protettion they may be freed
from all-adverfities, and be fervent in good
works, for the glory: e ae name. Phrough .
our Lord.
The Anthem on the twenty Peis Sunday after Whitfun: ides
Render to Cefar what belongs to Cefar ; .
and to God what: belongs to ‘God, Alteluza. -
Ver{. Let my prayer be dire&ted, O-’
Lord.
~Refp. Like.incenfe in thy fight.
Sf. The
466 Prayers on Sundays,
The Prayer.
O God, our refuge and ftrength, be fa~
vourable to the prayers of thy Church,
as thou art the fource of pity; and grant,
that what we faithfully afk, we may effectually
obtain: Through our Lord.
Note, That the Sundays after Whitfuntide are at the
éeaft 23, and at moft 28, to which are only afigned 24 Praye.
ers: Wherefore, when there fhall be 23 Sundays, the 23d
Prayer ts faid, with the Anthem on the next Week-day, go-
ing before; and the 24th prayer on the 23d Sunday: But
F there JSaall be 25 Sundays, on the 24th Sunday is fatd ther
prayer of the 6th Sunday after Twelfth-day, and on the
25th Sunday the prayer that is for the 24th. Tf there fhall:
be 26, on the 24th Sunday is faid the prayer of the 5th Suns.
cay after Twelfth-day : On the 25th Sunday, the prayer g
the Oth Sunday, and on the 26th Sunday, the prayer of the
agth: If there fhall be 27, then on the 24th is faid the prayer
of the 4th Sunday after Twelftheday ; on the 35th the prayer~
of the pth; on the 26th the prayer of the 6th Sunday; and
on the 2724 Sunday the prayer of the oath: If there fhall be
98, then.on the 24th ts faid the prayer of the 3d Sunday after
Twefth-day; on the 25th is faid the prayer of the ath:
Synday ; on the 26th the prayer of the 5th Sunday ; on the:
97th the prayer of the 6th Sunday; and onthe 28th Sunday,.
she Net ioe the 24th Sunday.
The Anaktonion ils twenty-third Sunday after Whitfuntide,
But Jefus turning, and feeing her, faid,
Sie of good courage, daughter, thy faith has
healed thee. Alleluia,
Verl,
cer ee ee as -
after Whitfuntide. 467
Verf. Let my prayer be direéted, O Lord,
Relp. Like incenfe in thy fight.
The Prayer .
2 ata dtp we befeech thee, O Lordz
the fins of thy people. that by thy boun-
ty we may be delivered from all vices con-
tra€ted by human frailty: Through our
Lord.
The Anthem on the twenty-fourth and laff Sanday after
Whutfuntide.
Verily I tell you, this generation fhall
not pafs, until atl be done. Heaven and
earth fhall pafs; but my word fhall not pals,
faith our Lord.
‘Verf. Let my prayer be dire@ted, O Lord.
Refp. Like incenfe in thy. fight.
ated The Prayer,
NLIVEN, O Lord, we befeech thee,
the wills of thy. faithful, that more di-
ligently co-operating with. thy. divine grace,
they may receive the greater benefits of thy
mercy ; ‘Fhrough our Lord,
PRAYERS
C468)
XAALARARA RAMA AAA AA
Pio RO" ae OP ge A RONG,
Psontn to rHE SAINTS.
With their Anruems and VersicLess
The Anthem on the Feaft of St. Andrew, the goth of
Noveinber..
HEN bleffed 4ndrew was come to
| the place where the .crofs was pre-
pared, he cried out, and faid, O bleffed-
Crofs! long defired, and. now prepared for
2 longing mind, I come to thee, fecure and»
joyful, do thou alfo joyfully receive me, the.
dilciple of him who expired:on thee. ;
Verf. They fet forth the works of Gods
Relp. And underftood- his deeds.
‘ The prayer.
() Lord, we humbly befeech thy divine
Majefty, that as biefled Andrew, the
Apofile, became a preacher and a governor
of thy Church, fo he may for ever be our
interceflor with thee: Through our Lord.
The Feafis of December.
‘The Anthem on the Feaft of St. Bibian, Virgin and Martyr,
December e.
Come, Spoufe of Chrift, receive the
«crown, which our Lord has for ever pre-
pared for thee. Verf. Grace is poured forth
on
Prayers proper to Saints. 46g"
on thy Lips. Refp. Fherefore God hath:
blefled thee for ever.
The Prayers ;
O God, the giver of all good things; who
in thy fervant Bzbian didft join martyr-
dom with the flower of virginity, unite our
hearts to thee by charity, that all dangers be—
ing removed, we may obtain an eternal re~
ward.: Through our Lord. |
The Aathem on the Feaft of St. Nicolas,
Bifhop, December 6.
Prieft and. bifhop, &c. Verf. our Lord‘
has loved-him, &c..as-im the common office of
@ confeffor and bifhop; pag. 522:- :
The Prayer.-
_God,. who haft honured bleffed*’ Ni--
‘colas, bifhop, with innumerable mi--
racles ;. grant, we befeech thee, that through:
his merits and.prayers, we may be delivered:
from the flames of hell.:: Through: our
Lord.
The Anthem on the Feaft of St. Ambrofe, Bifiop
and Doftor, December 7.
O bleffed Ambrofe, &c. Verf. Our Lord
conduéted the juft man Ge. p. 523.
The Prayer.
God, who haft beftowed, €3c. As ix
the common office of doffors, p. 523.
The Aathem on the Fe e Conception
theB V, Me feck @. eT. ¥
Thy conception, O Virgin Mother of
God! hath brought joy to the whole world ;
for out of thee is. rifen the Son of Juftice,
Chik
470 Prayers proper to Saints.
Chrifl our Lord, who deftroyed maledi€ion;.
has beftowed bleffings, and defeating death
has given us everlafting life. —
Verf. TO day-is the conception of the:
Holy Virgin Mary.
‘Refp: Whole slorious- life illuftrates the
univerfal chureh.
The Prayer,
) Our forth, O Lord, we befeech thee,.
upon thy. fervants, the blefing of thy
heavenly grace, that we, who in Chrift’s.
birth of the bleffed Virgin, have had the
beginning of falvaiion, may in this folem-—
-mity of her Conception find encreafe of’
peace: Through our Lord.
The tr cn the “Feast of St, Damafus, Pope and Cone
Sefer, December 41
Whilft he was High Prieft, @c- Verf. Our’
Lord condu& the ju man, Gc. as in the
common office of a confeffor and bi bifhop, p. 522.
The prayer.
Rar, O Lord, our prayers : and through:
the interceffion of the bleffed Da-
mafus, thy confeffor and bifhop. merci-
fully grant us pardon and peace : ‘Through
our Lord.
The Anthem cn the Feaft of St. Lucy, Virgin and . Martyr)
December 13.
In. thy Patience thou haft poffeffed thy
foul, O Lucy, fpoufe of Chrift, thou ha-
tedft the things of this world, and fhineft
— with Angels: ‘by thy own blood thou haft.
evercome the enemy. Verf, Grace is Lae :
z p re 2 4
|
‘Prayers proper to Saints, = ra
-red forth on thy lips. Refp. Therefore God
has bleffed thee for ever. iii*
; The Prayer,
‘VY Ear us, O God, our falvation, that as
A we rejoice in the feftival of bleffed
Lucy thy ‘Virgin and martyr, fo we may be
improved in the affe€tion of folid piety:
Through our Lord.
“The Anthem onthe Feaft of St. Thomas, the Apofile,
Deceméer-e1,
O Thomas, becaufe thou -haft feen me,
-thou haft believed ; bleffed are they who
shave not feen, and have believed, Alleluia.
Verf. They det forth, Sc. as before, p. 468,
The Prayer.
RANT us,.we befeech thee, ‘O Lord,
: to glory in the felemnities of bleffed
Thomas, thy Apoltle, that we may ever be
_aflifted by his proteétion, and imitate his
‘faith with .a fuitable devotion: Through
Chrift our Lord.
The Anthem on: the Feat of the Nativity-of our Lord,
December 25
To-day Chrift was born; to-day our Sa-
viour appeared ; to-day the Angels fing on
earth, and Archangels rejoice ; to-day the
juft in triumph repeat glory to God on
“high, Alleluia. — os eee
Verf- Our Lord hath-made known, Alle-
«lua. Refp. His falvation, Alleluia.
The prayer. .
GRANT, we befeech thee, Almighty
God, that the new birth of thy only
| Son
472 Prayers proper to Saints.
*Son in-human flefh, may deliver us from
our ancient fervitude under the yoke. of fin:
Through the fame Lord,
The Anthem'on the Feaft of St. Stephen <the'fit? Mariyr,
December 26.
Devout men buried Stephen, and made
great lamentation for him. Verf Stephen
faw the Heavens open. Refp. He faw and
entered in.: :bleffed is the man, to whom —
tthe Heavens ftood open.
“The Prayer. |
Rant-us, we ‘befeech thee, O Lord, to
imitate what we worfhip, that we
may |earn te love our enemies ;. becaufe
we celebrate the nativity of him that pray-
ed for his perfecutors, to our Lord Jelus
Chrift thy Son: ‘Who, &c. .
Tie Anthem on. the ‘at eat Apoftle and Evane
This is John, who, at the laft Supper,
leaned on-our Lord’s breaft: Bleffed Apo-
‘Rtle, to whom the fecrets of Heaven were re-
vealed. Verf. Blefled ohn is very much
to be honoured. Refp. Who at Supper
leaned on our Lord’s breaft.
The prayer.
O Lord, of thy bounty, enlighten thy
Church; that, by the light and in-
ftru€tions of bleiled John, the Apofile and
Evangelift, it_ may arrive to the pofleffien
of thy eternal gifts: Through Chrift our
-. Lord. |
The
a
Bi cna aad oernren 2 x a
Sy ee
—eorr—“‘“‘i;‘i™i™;™C™C he
Prayers proper to Sarnés. 473
Fhe Anthem on the Feaft of the Holy Innocents, Dec-88.
The Innocent Infants -were krled for
‘Chri; the fucking babes were flain by
the wicked King: they follow the Lamb
without fpot, and always -fing, Glory be to
thee, O Lord. Verf. Under the throne of
God all the faints do cry.
Refp. © our God, revenge our’blood.
The Prayer.
O God, whofe praife, on this day, the
Innocent Martyrs, not by :{peaking,
but by dying, proclaimed; mortify in us all
the ill effets of vice, that our lives and
aGtions may affert the faith our tongues pro-
fefs: Through our Lord.
Tike Anthem on the Feaft of faint Thomas:of Canterbury,
Bi/hop and Martyr, December 29.
The Anthem and Verficle, as in the Common Office of z Martyr,
God, for whofe church the glorious
“ Bifhop Thomas was flain by the fwords
of the wicked, grant, we béfeech thee, that
all thofe who inspiore his aid, may obtain a
comfortable effect of their petition: Thro’
our Lord... :
The Anthem: on the-Feaft of faint Silvefler Pope and Con-~
Sefer, December 31.
Whilft -he was High-prieft. Verf. Our
Lord condutied thejuft man, &c. p. 522.
The Prayer. .
GRANT, Almighty God, we befeech
}thee, that this venerable folemnity of blefled
Tt. Sil vefter,
-_ ia tial ht inten eal,
. era Prayers proper to Saints.
Siivefer, Pope and Confeffor, may be to us
an increafe of devotion and f{piritual health:
Through our Lord.
The Feafts.of Fanuary.
; gg
The Anthem on the Circumcifion of our Lord, January 1.
O wonderful myftery of our heavenly in-
heritance ; a Virgin's womb is become the
temple of God; his purity is not defiled by
taking flefh of her: all nations fhall come
and fay, Glory be tohee, O Lord. Vert.
Our Lord hath made known, Alleluia.
Refp His falvation, Alleluia.
The Prayer.
God, who by the fruitful virginity, &c.
as in the Cffice, page 136.
The Anthem.on Twelfthrday, January 6.
We celebrate a feftival adorned with
three miracles.. To-day the flar condu@ed ™
the Sages tothe crib, To-day at the mar- 7
riage, wine was. made of water. To-day |
Chrift vouchfafed, for our falvation, to be
baptized’ by ohn in the river Jordan, Alle-
luia. Verf. The Kings of Tharfis, and the
Iiles fhall offer prefents. Refp. The Kings
of the 4rabs and Sava fhall bring gifts.
The Prayer, ey
{) God, who, by the guidance of a ftar,
7 didit on this day reveal thy only |
Son to the Gentiles; grant merciiully, that
we,
Prayers proper to Saints. 475;
we, who now by faith have Known’ thee,
may at length be brought to behold thy’
heavenly countenance : Through the fame’
Jefus Chrift our Lord. :
The Anthem en the Feaft of St. Hilary, Bi/hop and Con=
Sefer, January 14.
Prieft and Bifhop. Verf. Our Lord bath’
loved him, &c. asin the Common Office of a
Confeffor and ade p. 522:
The Prayer.
RANT, Almighty God, &c. as in the
common Office of a Conf. 8 Bifhop, p. 522»
The Anthem of St. Felix, Prief and Martyr, the fame day,
This Saint, &c. Verf. With glory and’
honour, &c, asin the common Oficeof a Mar-
tyr, p- 519.
The Prayer.
‘RANT, we befeech. thee, Almighty’
God, that the example of thy faints
may excite in us a defire of amending our’
lives, that whilft we celebrate their feflivals,
we may imitate their attions: Through
our Lord.
The Anthem onthe Feaft of St. Paul, the Hermit,. Jan. 15.
This man defpifing the world, &e. p 524.
Verf. Our Lord. condutied the jult
man, &c,
The Prayer.
God, who makelt us rejoice, &e. as:
in the common (iffice of a Conjeffor, not
Bifhop, p. 524.
Tts The
*
476: Prayers proper to Saints.
The Anthem of St. Maurus, Abbot, on the fame Day -
I will refemble hmm, &c. Verf. Our
Lord has loved-him, &c. p. 524.
; The-Prayer.
A AY the interceffion, &c. as in the com-:
mon Qfice of Abbots, p. 524.
The Anthem on the Feaft of St. Marcellus, Pope and Mar-~
tyr, January 26.
_ Whoever will come after me, &c. Verf.
Yhe juft fhall flourifh, &ce. as im. dhe common
Office of a Martyr, p. 519.
The Prayer.
¢ ) God, of thy clemency, we befeech thee,
hear the prayers of thy people, that we
who joyfully commemorate the {fufferings of
blefied Marcellus thy Martyr and Bifhop,
Way find the affiftance of his. interceflron-:
Through our Lord.
The Anthem on the Fvaf of Ste Anthony, Addot, Jan. 175
This man defpifing the world, &c.
Verf. Our Lord condu&ed the juft man,
&C. Pp. 524°
The Prayer. !
AY the intercefficn, &c. as im the com-
mon Office of Abbots, p- 524.
The Anthem on the Feat of St. Peter’s Chatr, in which he -
Sfirji/at at Rome, January 18..
Whilft he was High-prieft, &c. as in the
common Ugice of a Confefor and Bifhop,
page 422. | i
Verf. Our Lord hath made choice of thee
for his prieft.
Refp. To offer unto him the facrifice of
raile.
ie The
Prayers proper to Saints. 477
The Prayer.
Q) God, who, by the gift of the keys
of Heaven, haft conferred on bleffed
Peter thy Apoftle, the pontifical authority,
to bind and loofe ; grant, by the help of his
interceffion, we may be releafed from the
chains of ka’ Who liveft and reigneft one ~
God with the Father and the a Ghofly:
world without end, Amen.
The fame Day ts made a Commemoration of St. Paul.-
The Anthem.
O Holy Paul, Apoftle, Preacher of the
truth, and Teacher of the Gentiles, make |n-
dercefitiah for us to God, that chofe thee.
Verf. Thou art a veffel of eleGtion, O
Holy Pau! Apoftle.
Refp. The Preacher of truth ‘over the
whole world.
The Prigte
O Gon, who, by the preaching of bleffed :
Paul; the Apolle, didft teach the multitude —
of Gentiles; grantus, we beleech thee, that
we may perceive the benefit of his pros -
teftion, whofe commemoration we celebrate:
Through our Lord.
The Anthem cn the Feaft of St. Prifca, Virgin anit Martyrs:
the fame Day.
Come, Spoufe of Chrift, &c. Verf With: :
thy beauty, &c. as in the common Office of
f Virgins, p. 5265.
473. Prayers proper to Sainis.
The Prayer,
pant we belgech thee, O Almigh
Gad, that we who celebrate: the birth
of blefled Prifca, Virgin and Martyr, may
both rejoice in this yearly folemnity, and
improve by the example of fo great faith;
Through our Lord
The Anthem on the Feaft of the Holy Aasiprii St. Fabian,
and St. Sebaftian, January 20.
ape fouls of the Saints.
Verf. Fhe famts fhall rejoice, &e: a in |
the common Office of many Martyrs, p- 521.
The prayer. ;
OOK down; Aleehiy God, upon our —
weaknefs: and fince we fink under the
weight of our fins, let the glorious. intercel- ©
fion of thy bleffed Martyrs, Fabian and Se- —
bajlien, be our proteétion and fupport :
Through our Lord, i
_ The Anthem on the Feaft of St. ‘Agnés, Virgin and Martyrs. —
January 27. P|
Blefled Agnes ftanding in the midft of the —
flame with her hands fpread out, addreffed’
ber prayer to God. O Almighty and awful ©
God! ever to be adored and honoured! E —
blefs thee, and glorify thy name for ever. f
_ Verf. Grace is poured forth on thy lips.
Relp. Therefore God hath blefled thee |
for ever.
+1
a
a
a
i
| The Prayer. a
ALMIGHTY id eternal God, who ~
doft chufe out of the weak things
of this world, to confound the ftrong; _
grant
Prayers proper to Saints. 479
grant mercifully, that we, who reverence
the folemnity of. bleffed Agnes, thy Virgin
and Martyr, may find her a patronefs with
thee: Through our Lord.
The Anthem on the Fea? of St. Vincent and Anaflafias,
| Martyrs, January 22, ©
The fouls of the faints. Verf. The faints
fhall rejoice, &c. as in the Common: Office
of many martyrs, p. 521. |
The Prayer.
IVE ear, O Lord, to our fupplica-
tions, that we, who know ourlelves
to be guilty through our own miquity. may,
by the interceffion of thy blefled Martyrs
Vincent and Anaftafius, be delivered: Thro’
our Lord, ’ fe
On the Feaft of St. Timothy, Bifhop and Martyr, Jan. 24.
The Anthem, Verfe, aud Prayer,
Have regard to our weaknefs, &c. as in
the common Office ofa Martyr and Bifhop,
p, 520. em oy
| The Anthem on the Converfion of St. Paul, January 25.
O Holy Paul Apoftle. Verf. Thou art a
veffel of eleftion, &c. as before, p. 477.
The Prayer.
God, who haft inftrufted the whole
world by the preaching of St. Paul the
Apoftle; grant, we befeech thee, that we,
who this day honour his converfion, may by
bis example advance in our way to thee:
Through our Lord. |
The
480 Prayers proper to Saints.
The fame Day is made a Commemoration of St. Peter.
The Anthem,
Thou art paflor of the fheep, O Chief of
the Apoftles, to thee are delivered the keys
of the kingdom of Heaven.
Ver, Thou art Peter. Refp. And upon
this rock I will build my church.
The Prayer.
O God, who by the gif, &c. as before,
— * page 477- ,
On the Feaft of S. Polycarpus, Bi/hop and Martyr, Jan. 26.'.
The Anthem, Verfe, and Prayer.
Have regard to our weaknefs, &c. as in
Common of a Martyr and Bifhop, p. 520.
The Anthem on the Feaft of St. John Chryfoftom, Bihop
and Confeffor, January 27.
O. blefled Chryfofiom., Verf. Our Lord
conduéted the juft man, &c. as in the Com-
son of Doé€tors, P 523.
pre €Te
AY thy Mislik e grace, O Lord, we
befeech thee, increafe the beauty. of
thy Church, which thou haft heen pleafed to
illuftrate with the glorious merits and learn-
ing of bleffed Fohn Chryfofom, thy confeflor
and bifhop: Through our Lord.
On the Feaft of S. Martina, Virginand Martyr, Fan. 30:
The Anthem, Verfe and Prayer.
O God, who amongft, &c. asin the: Com-
mon of a Virgin and Martyr, p. 525;
é
Re ae hog ee ks do Ph, ee ge ee Be ee, ee
Prayers proper to Saints. 48i
The Feafts of February.
The Anthem on the Feaft of St. Ugnatius, Bihop and.
Martyr, February 1.
Whoever will come after me, &c.
Verf. The juft fhall flourifh, &c. p. 519.-
The prayer.
HA" regard to our weaknels, Kc. as.
in the common of Martyr and Bifhop,
$. 520. |
Tie Anthem on the Feaft of the Purification of the:
Bleffed Virgin Mary, February 2.
This day the blefled Virgin Mary pre-
fented the child Jefus in the temple, and.
“Srmcon filled with. the Holy Ghoft, received
him in his arms, and blefled God for ever.
Verf. Simeon received an anfwer of the
Holy Ghoft. Re/p. That he fhould not fee
death, till he beheld. the anointed. of. our:
Lord.
The Prayer.
| ey and eternal: God, we thy
. & fuppliants befeech thy. Majefty, thar
as thy only Son, in the fubftance of
huma) flefh, was this day prefented in the
temple; fo we, in purity of mind; may:
be prefented to thee; Through the fame:
Lord.
The Anthem on the Feaft of Sto Agatha, Virgin and’
Martyr, February 5.
Bleffed Agatha ftanding in the midft
of the prifon, with her hands fpread
out, addrefled her prayer to God. O
Lord Jefus Chrift, my indulgent Mafter! I
give.
|
A82 Prayers proper to Saints. |
give thee thanks for caufing me to overs
come the torments of executioners; make
me, O Lord, a happy fharer of thy never~
fading Glory. Verf. With thy Beauty, &c.
Pp: 525.
The Prayer.
() God, who amongft other, &c. as iz
the common of a Virgin and Martyr’
Pp. 525. | |
On the Feat of St. Romuald, Abbot, February 7. -
The Anthem, Verfe and prayer.
May the interceffion, &c. as in_ the
common of Abbots, p. 524.
On the Feaftof St. Peter’s Chair at Antioch, February”
22, es 2s fatd as oxfore, on. that of his Chair at Rome,-
§ a huide on the Feaft of St. Matthias, the Apofile,-
February 24 or 25. "
Be courageous, &c. Verf. They fet forth,
dc. asin the common of Apoftles, p. 549+. ©
The Prayer.
God, who didfi affociate bleffed Mat-
ihias to the college of the Apofiles 5
grant, we befeech thee, that by bis inter-
ceflion we may al ways find thy tender bowels:
inclined to mercy: Through our Lord.
The Feafts of March.
On the Feaft of St. Cafimir, Confefor, March 4.
The Anthem. he
This man defpifing, &c. Verf. Our Lord
conducted the juft man, &c. p, 524. |
The Prayer.
God, who, among princely delights
and the allurements of the a
i
Prayers proper to Saints. 483
did& ftrengthen blelfed Cofimir with the
virtue of conftancy, we -befeech thee, that
-by his interceffion, thy faithful fervants may.
always defpife earthly things, and raife
their minds to Heaven: Through our
Lord.
The Anthem on the Feaft of St. Thomas of Aquine,
' March 7,
O bleffed Thomas, &c.
Verf. Our Lord condufted the juft man,
_asin the common of Doétors, p. 523.
God, who doft honour thy church
with the wonderful learning of bleffed
Thomas thy confeflor; and by his labours
chaft made it fruitful; we befeech thee, that
-our underftanding may apprehend what he
taught, and our lives imitate his actions:
‘Through our Lord.
The Anthem on the Feaft of St. Frances of Rome,
larch 9.
She opened her hand to the needy, and
extended her charity to the poor, and did
mot eat her bread in idlenels. .
Verf; Grace is poured forth on thy lips.
Refp. Therefore God has blefled thee
for ever. |
() God, who, antong other gifts of thy
grace, did{t honour blefled Frances
thy fervant, with the familiar converfa-
tion of an Angel ; vouchlafe, we befeech
thee, that by the help of her intercetfion,
7 we
484 Prayers proper 40 Saints.
we may obtain ‘the lonitty: of Angels:
- Through our Lord.
The Anthem on the Keaft of the Forty Martyrs March 10.
The fouls ofthe Saints &c.
Verf. The Saints fhall rejoice, &c. as 1%
the:common of many Martyrs, p. 521:
The prayer.
an we befeech thee, Almighty God,
that we, who acknowledge thefe
glorious Martyrs conflancy in their cons
-fefon, may be fenfible of their pious inter= —
-ceffion withthee: Through our Lord. |
The Anthem on the Feaf of St. Gregrey, Pope and Doétor
of the Church, March 12.
O blefled Gregroy, &c. Verf. OurLord |
condutted the juft man, as in the common of
LT, 2
Fae The Prayer.
God, who has beftowed the sessed of
eternal happinefs on the foul of thy
fervant Gregory; mercifully giant, that we,
who labour under the weight of our fins,
may be relieved by his prayers: Through
our Lord.
The Anthem on the Feaft of St. Jofeph, Confeffor,
March 19.
Fofeph Son of Dawd, fear not to take
Mary thy fpoufe ; for what is born in her,
is of the Holy Ghoft- She fhall bring
forth a Son and thou fhalt call his name
Jefus. Verf. The mouth of the juft fhall
meditate wifdom. Refp, And his tongue ~
fhall {peak judgment.
The
Prayers proper to Saints. 485
The Prayer.
K J E’befeech thee; O Lord, that we may
be aflifted by the merits of- the
fpoufe of thy moi Holy Mother, that ‘what
of ourfelves we cannot obtain, may be given
us by his interceflion: W ho liveff and
reigneft with God the Father, &c.
The Anthem om the p38 of St. Joachim, Father of the
Bleffed Virgin, March ¢o. Se
Let us praile this man, glorious in his ge-
neration; becaufe on him our Lord has
beftowed the bleffing of all nations, and
confirmed his teftament upon his head.
Verf. His feed fhall be powerful on
earth. | ,
Refp. The generation of the righteous
fhall be blefled. | wy
The Prayer.
() God, who, of all the Sain‘s, did pre-
fer blefled Foachim, to be .the Father
of thy Son’s moft blefled Mother; grant, we
befeech thee, that we who celebrate his fel
tival, may always be fenfible of his protec-
tion: Through our Lord. |
The Anthem on the Feajt of Sz. Bennet, Abst, March 21.
This man defpifing the world, &c. page
524- | |
Werf. Qur Lord condufed the jult, &e.
as in the Common, p. 523.
Waa The
486 Prayers proper to Saints.
The Prayer.
AY the intercefion, O Bork: we be- |
. feech thee, of! thy bleffed Abbot,
Saint Benedrét, koteba our prayers ;
that what we cannot acquire by our own
merits, we may obtain by his proteélion: —
Through our Lord.
dike Anthem on the Feaft of the Annunciation of the |
Bleffed Virgin Mary, March 25.
The Ange Gabriel {poke to. Mary, fayings
Hail, fullof grace, our Lord is with thee,
bleffed ‘art thou amongft women,
Verf. The Angel of our Lord declared 1
to Mary.
Refp. And fhe conceived of the Holy |
Ghoft.
The prayer.
() God, who wouldeft have thy word
take flefh in the womb of. the blef- |
fed Virgin Mary, according to the decla-
ration .of the Angel; grant us, thy fuppli-
ants, ‘that we, who. truly AE Sak her to be —
the Mother of God, may find favour with
thee, by her fhrercetion : Through the fame
Chriftour Lord. Amen.
Note, That Adeluia zs to be fata on all Feafts, from b
Low Sunday ¢o Whit-Sunday. :
The Feafts of April.
‘The Anthem on the eg oe se Vaginas! Paula, -Conjefor,
This man defpiting a: D. £945.
. Werf. Our Lord condugied, &c. as in the
‘Common of Confeffors, p. 523.
The
Prayers. proper to Saints. 487
The Prayer.
O Gepn,. the rewarder of the humble,
who halt ‘tailed Bleed Fransis, the Con-_
feffor, to the glory of thy faints; grant,
we befeech- thee, that by his merits, and by
following his example, we may happily ob-
tain the rewards promifed to the huinble :
Through our Lord.
Fhe Anthem on the Feaft of St. Leo; Pope & Conf. April 11.
Whilft he was High-prieft. &c. p. 522.
V. Our Lord conduéted the juft, &c.
The Prayer.
EAR, O Lord, i befeech thee, &c.
. as in the Common of a Confeflor and
Bulhop, p. 523.
On the Feaft of St. Hermenegild, Martyr, April 13.
The Anthem and Verf. as in the Common of a‘Martyry
The Prayer. .
O Gop, who didit teach blefled Herme-
negild, thy Martyr, to prefer thy heavenly
kingdom before an earthly crown; grant,
that by his example, we may defpife tempo-
ral things, and be folicitous for thofe that are
eternal: T hrough our Lord.
é. €12. On ee @ iia?
Phe. Anthem on th ae oss hadi. and Bifhops, Soter
The fouls of the faints, &c.
Verf The faints fhall rejoice in glory, &e:.
as in the Common mad ork! Martyrs, p. Bat.
The Praye
M AY the feaft, O ‘fided? we befeech
thee, of thy bleffed martyrs and bifhops,
Uue2 Soter
| 488, Prayers proper to Sainis.
Soter and Caius, proteé&tus, and yield us_re-
hef by. their venerable prayers: Through
Our Lord.
The ere on the Feaftof St. George the Martyr, Apr. 2%,
Whoever will come afier me-
Veil. “Fhe juft fhall flourth like a-palm-
tree, as in the Com. of one Martyr, p. 519.
- The. Prayer.
O God, who. by the merits and inter-
' ceffion of blefled George thy Martyr,
doft comfort thy people; grant that we,
who by him. petition .for bleffings, may by
thy grace obtain what we afk + TT hrough Our:
Lord. « |
The A inthem on the 2 "eof of St. Mark the Zoangelit ALT. 250.
Ye faints and jult, &c. 7
Verfo Precious in the fight, &e. as in the
Common of Apoftles and. ati sear ai in
Kale time, p. 519.
7 ; The: Prayer
“O. Gon, who didft promote thy bleffed
Evangelift, Saint Mark, to the glory of
preaching thy. gofpel; grant, we beleech
thee, that we may always improve by what
he taught, and be protetted: by, his. prayers
Through our lord. :
The F eafts of May.
The Anthem on he Holy dpofites Philip and James, May &3.
Ii ye fhall abide in me, and my words.
abide in you, duasevites ye fhall afk, fhait
~ be
Pe ee ee
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be done to you, Alleluia, Alleluia, Allc-
juia.
Verf: Precious in the fight of our Lord,
Alleluia,
| Refp. 1s the death of his Saints, ‘Allelwia.
The Prayer.
© Gop, who bringeft comfort to thy
fervants in the yearly folemnity of thy:
Xpoflles Philip and James; grant, we /be-
~ feech thee, ahat as we rejoice in their merits,
fo we may be inftru€ted by their example :
Through our Lord.
Bhe Anthem onthe Feaf? 4, yf te? St. Athanaftus, Bz 50) and re
Maye.
O bleffed -Athanafius, &c.
Verf. Our Lord:condutted the jal man,
&e. ;
P. ye Tre Prayer: - :
EAR, .O Lord, we befeech thee, &c.
in the Common: ef a Confellor and
Bifhop, p. 523:
The Anthem onthe Feafh Heed Finding of the. Hely Cr0fs;
pe
He svho-triumphed-over Hell, is faffened
tothe Crofs; he is girt with powen He
arofe again the third-day, Allciuia. |,
Verf. This fign of: the: Crois: dhall be i in
Heaven, Alleluia.
Refp. When our Lord» thall come. to
jadge, Alleluia.
‘Fhe Prayer.
O Gon, who in the Ales of the
Holy Crofs, didft renew the miracles of thy”
peifion, grant, that by the price-ot that hfe-_
U wa. giving:
490: Prayers proper to Saints.
giving wood, we may find help to obtain,
everlafling life : Who livelt, &c.
The Anthem bn the Feef of . ie ta before the Latin Gate,
Ma
Blefied John the? “Apoltle being put into
a veilel of boiling oil, was protetted by
the divine grace, and came forth. unhurt,
Alleluia.
Verf. Precious in thy fight, as- before.
The Prayers +
® ¢ Con, who féelt, that our. fins on every
fide moleft us; grant, we befeech thee,
that the sloriaus intercefiion of blefled Fohn,
thy Apoftle and Evangelifb, may proteét us !-
Through our Lord, a
‘The Anthem om the Feaft of: St, Stanijflaut,, Bifhop ands
Martyr, May , Ee
Ye faints, and juft, rejpice in- our Lord.
Alleluia. God has made choi¢e of you for,
His inheritance, Alleluia.
Verf. Precious in the fight ofGod, Alleluia...
Rejp. Us the death of his. faints, Alleluia.
The prayer.
© Gon, for whofe bonour the glorious.
~*Biihop Sianiflaus was flain by the bands af
the wicked; grant, we befeech thee, that all
‘thofe, who defire bis-aid, may obtain a com.
- fortable effetti of, their peution :- Thiough
Cour Low. ©
On the Apparition of St: Michael: the Archangel, the 8th:
tof May, fpr as. om the other Feaf on the.ogth of September,
adding 2n tke Endl of tae Ver Aduleluia.
fer
‘
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Prayers proper to Sutné. 49%
The Anthem on the Feaft af. St. Gregory of Nazianzent.
Bifkot and ) Confeffor, May 9.
© bieffed Gregory, &e. |
Ver, Our Lord condu@ed the juft many
&c. as in the Common of ‘Doétors, Pp. 52 3
- The. Prayer,
“God, who haft bellowed: ‘blefled ee
gory on thy people, for a-minifter of
eveflaiting falvation; grant, we befeech thee,.
that he who.on.earth has been the inftructor
of our lives, may be an.interceffor for us in.
Heaven: Through our Lord.
Tbe. Anthemjan the Feaft .of St. Nerias, Ahlen Domis-
tilla, aad P.aaCratius, Map, wae 12.
Ye faints, &c.
Verf, Precious in thy fight, as before.
The Prayer. .
RANT, O Lord, we befeech thee,.
_ that the bleffed folemnity of the Mar-
‘tyrs, Nerius, Achilleus, Domitilfa and Pan
eratius, may defend us, and render us wor=
thy to ferve thee: ‘"Phrough our Lord: »
On the Feaft of St. Venantius, Martyr, May 185
- The Anthem in Eafler-time.
A perpetual light, O Lord, fhall thine
upon iby, faints, and. times. without end,
Alicluia.
Verf. Ye faints and jult, rejoice in our
Lord, Aliluia: ~
_ Relp. God has made choice btysu'd for his.
inberitance, <l/eluza:
The.Anthem out of Eafler-time.. ’
Ehis faua did combat unto death, die
“the:
4g2 Prayers proper to Saints:
the law of his God, and was not terrified
with words-of the wicked, for his founda
tion was Jaid. on a:folid rock.
Verf. Phou haft crowned him, O Lord,
with glory and honour,
Refp. And haft placed him over ie
works of thy hands, |
The Prayer.
God: who. haft cenfecrated this day.
with the triumph of the bleffed Mar.
tyr Venantius, hear the prayer of thy people,
and: grant that they who honour his merits;
may imitate the conftancy of his faith:
Through our, Lord, !
Tlie Feafts of Fune.
Fhe Anthem on .the Feaf of St. Nozbert, B; afhop ne
rh Fane 7,
Our Lind like deved him, &c- one
Our Lord condutied, .&c. as: in the.Com-
mon Office of iw Confeffor and. Bilbops
ech
God, who didi aia bleed: Norbert;
thy Confeffor and Bifhop, an admired?
preacher o! thy word, and: by. hin half ine 7
creafed thy Church witha new ifie ; gram.
we beleech thee, that what be taughe by:
word aod. exainple, we may exercile by thy:
afliftanee, andthe virtue Of his ments:
Throughseur Lord
| Cn:
Prayers proper to Saints. 49%
On the Feaft of St. Barnaby the Apofile, June 11.
The Anthem and Verficle, as in the Com-
mon of the Apofllles.
The Prayer. —
God,. who filled us with: cioeoorts in
the merits and interceffion of bleffed
Barnaby thy Apoftle ; grant, of thy mercy,
that we, who by him petition for thy favours,
may by thy grace obtain what we afk:
Through our Lord.
The Anthem on the Feajt'of St: Anthony of Padua, Con-
Seffor, June 13.
This man defpifing the world, &c- Verf..
Our Lord conduéted, &c- asinthe Common: —-
of a Confeffor, p. 524.
“The Pr ayer
Lord, let thy Church» rejoice in the:
folemnity of bleed Anthony thy Cons
feffor, that it may always be defended wits
fpirituat bleffings, and: obt tain. everlalling:
joys: Through our Lord.
The Anthem on the Feaft of faint Bafil the Great, Bifhop-
; and Confeffor, fune 14.
Or bleffed Bafl. Verf. Our Lord cons.
dutted, &c. as imthe Common of Doctorsy.
p- 523.
The Prayer.
EAR, we befeech thee, &c. as in the
Cormanea Office of a Confeffor and.
Bifhop, p. 523.
The. Anthem on the Nativity of St. Jokn Baptift, Jaue 24-
‘The child that is born to us, is more than
2:
494 Prayers proper to Saints.
a prophet; for this is he, of whom our
Saviour fays, among the fons of woman; a
greater has not rilen than John Bapti/t.
Verf: ‘The child is great before our Lord, ©
Refp. For his hand is with him, |
The Prayer. :
God, who haft made this day honour-- —
able to us in the nativity of blefled ©
John; give to thy, people the grace of —
fpiritual joys, and dire&t the minds of alb —
the faithful in the way of eternal falvations —
Through our Lord. |
Fhe Anthem on the Fea of the Holy Martyrs,
S. Johnand §. Paul, June 26.
Thefe are two olive-trees, and two
luminaries fhining before our Lord; they
have power to cover the Heavens with
clouds, and to. open its gates, for their
tongues are made the keys of Heaven. |
Verf, The Saints fhall rejoice in glory.
Relp. Their feats fhall be filled with joy.
Eke Prayers.
W * befeech thee Almighty God, that
/¥ the double joy of this folemnity
may be communicated to us, which proceeds
from the glory of bleffed Fohn and Paul ;
whom the fame faith and paffion has: truly
made brethren: Through our Lord.
The Anthem on the Feaft of St. Leo, Pope, June 28,
Whilft he was High Pneft. | kine
Verf. Our Lord conduéted the juft man,
&e, as im. the common, p. 522.
The
———— CC rr SC
Prayers proper to Saints. 495
| The Prayer. abba
God, who didft raife bleffed Leo,
‘Bilhop, to the glory of thy Saints;
grant mercifully, that we who celebrate his
feftival, may alfo imitate the example of
his life: Through ourLod. —
The Anthem on the Fea/t of \the Apoftles.
Peter and Paul, June 2g.
To day Simon Peter was faftened to the
tree of ‘the crofs, Alleluzae ‘To day he,
to whom the keys of the kingdom were
given, did joyfully pafs to Chnft. To
day Paul the apoftle, the light of the world,
bowing down his head for the name
of Chrift, was crowned with Martyrdom,
Alleluia.
Verf. They fet forth the works of God.
Refp. And underftood his deeds.
The Prayer.
, God, who haft confecrated this day
by the Martyrdom of thy Apoflles
Peter and Paul; grant thy church may
follow their precepts in all thing, by. whom
it received the firft rudiments of religion:
Through our Lord.
The Anthem on the Commemoration of St. Paul,
June go, —
‘O Holy Paul Apoftle.
Verf. Thou art a veffel, as before on the
agth of January, ~. 477.
The Prayer, —
: God, who haft taught the multi-
tude of Genisles, by the preaching
of
496 Prayers proper. to Saints,
of bleffed Pan! the Apoftle; grant, we be- —
feech thee, that we may find the protection
of him ia feltival we celebrate: Through
our Lord.
On the fame Day ts made a commemoration of St. Peter,
as onthe Converfion of St Paul.
Peter the Apofile, and Paul the teacher
of the Genftles, bave taught us thy law, O
Lord. Verf. Thou fhalt appoint them ruler
overallthe earth. Refp. T hey fhali be mind.
ful of thy name O Lord.
The Prayer.
() God, who halt confecrated this day,
as above.
The Feafts of July.
On the Feaft of the Vifitation of the Blefed Virgin
Mary, july e.
The Anthem, Verficle and Prayer, ts faid as before on her ~
Conception, December 8, the Name of Conception being
changed into Vifitation,
The Anthem on the O&ave of the Apofiles, Peter and Paul,
) July 6. -
eter the Apoftle, and Paulthe Teacher.
se Thou fhalt appoint them per
&c. as before.
The Pra 1yer.
() GOD, whole Fate: hand preferyed ~
blefled Peter, walking on the wave, —
from being drowned; and. delivered his a
Fellow-Apoflle Paul at his third fhip- ©
wreck, out of the bottom of the fea; mer- ~
cifully hear us, and grant that by both —
their 7
Prayers proper to Saints. 40%
their merits, we may obtain the glory of eter-
nity: Who liveft and reigneft, &c.
The Anthem on the Feaft of Seven Brethren, Mar.
tyrs, and of Ruffina and Secunda, Vergins and Mar-
‘tyrs, July 10.
The fouls of the faints.
Verf. The faints fhall rejoice, as in the
Gommon of many Martyrs, p. 521.
, ; _ The Prayer.
RANT, we befeech thee, Almighty
God, that we, who have known thy
‘glorious Martyrs conftancy in their confel-
fion, may be fenfible of their pious interce&
fion with thee : Through our Lord.
The Anthem ’on the Feaft of faint Anaclet, Pope and Mar
tyr, fuly 13. :
Whoever will come, &c. 3
Verf. The juft fhall flourifh like a palm-
tree, &c, p. 519.
The Prayer.
O Gop, who makeft us rejoice, &c. as in
the Common of a Martyr and Bifhop, p.517.
The Anthem onthe Feaft of St. Bonaventure, Béifooy and
Confeffor, July 14.
Prieft and Bifhop, &c. p. 522.
Verf. Our Lord has loved him, |
The Prayer.
¥ EAR, O Lord, we befeech, &c. as iz
Com. of a Brfhop and Confeffor, 529.
The Anthem on the Feaft of St. Mary Magdalen, uly 202
A woman, that was a finner in the city,
brought an alabafter box of ointmenr,
and ftanding behind near the feet of our
X x Lord,
498 Prayers proper to Sainis.
lord, began to wafh his feet with her tears,
-andw iped them with the hair of her head.
Verl. God made choice of her, and pre-
ferred her before others.
~ Refp. He makes her dweil in his taber-
nacle.
RANT, O Hate we befeech thee, we
may find help by the interceflion of
bleffed Mary Magdakn, by whofe prayers
thou wert prevailed on to raife Lazarus to
life, after he had been four days dead : Who
liveft and: reignett.
The Anthem on bhe eal of St. Apollinarius, Be/hop and
Mertyr, July 23.
Whoever will come afier me, &c.
Verf. The jult man fhall flourifh, &c. as
in tle Common of one Martyr, p. 519.
The Prayer.
God, the readies of faithful fouls,
-“ who haft confecrated this day by the
martyrdom of blefled Apollinarius, thy Prieft,
__ we befeech thee, grant us thy fervants, that
we may obtain pardon -by the prayers of
him whofe feflival we celebrate: Through
our Lord. ;
The Anthem .on the Feat of St. James the gil
July 25-
Be courageaqus.
| Vert. They fet forth, as in the Common of
the Apofiles, p. 519.
LIED ee ee a ae a a ae
Prayers proper to Saints. 499
. The Prayer, +:
E thou, O Lord, the San@ifier and*
Keeper of thy people, that, under the
proteétion of St. James thy Apolile, they
may be well pleafing to thee, in a holy con-
verfation and faithful fervice: Through our
Lord. |
The Anthem on the Feaft of St. Ann, Mother of our Blefed
Lady, July 26.
She opened her hand: &c..
Verf. Grace is poured: asin the Common
of one, neither Virgin nor Martyr, p. 526,
: The prayer.
God, who on Meffed Ann didft be-
ftow the favour of being the per-
fon, of whom the Mother of thy only Son:
was born into the world; mercifully grant,
that celebrating ber folemnity, we may be
helped by her prayers: Through the fame
our Lord. Wie
Zhe Anthem on the Feaft of the Holy Martyrs, Nazarius,
Celfus, Victor, and Innocent, Pope and Confefor,
july 28.
The fouls of the faints, &e.
~Verf. The faints fhall rejoice, &c. as me
the Common of many Martyrs, p. 519.
The prayer.
AY the blefled confeffion, O Lord,
of thy faints, Nazarius, Celfus, Vice
tor, and Jnnoceniius, defend us, and obtain
afliftance for our frailty: Through our
Lord.
Xx 2 | - Thre
5oo Prayers proper bo- Saints.
The Anthem on the Feajt of St. Martha, the Virgim, July 29.
Come, Spoufe of Chrift, &e. p. 525. ~
Ver{. With thy beauty.
The prayer,
EAR us, O God our Salvation, &e. as
in the Common of a Eonfeffor, p. 525.
The Anthem on the Feaft of St. Ignatius, Confeffer, July 31.
‘This man defpifing the world, p. 524.
Verf. Our Lord ropguced the juft man,
&c.as in the Con:mon of a Confeffor, p 522.
The Prayer,
( God, who, for the greater glery of
thy name, hatt by blefled Jgnaizus re-
inforceds the Church militant with a new
auxiliary fapply; — gracioufly vouchfale,
that we, by his affiflance and imiiaticn,
folicitoutly combating on earth, may ob-
tain an everlafting crown with him in
feaven: Through our Lord Jefus Chrift.
‘The Feafts of Augy/t.
The Anthem on the Feaft of St. Peter at kis Chains, Aug. 3.
. O Peter, by God’s command, releafe our
bonds on earth; thou, who layeft open the
gates of Heaven for the blefled.
Verf. Thou art Peter.
Refp. And upon this rock I will build
my church.
The prayer.
O GOD, who, fie loofing the chains
of the blefled Apoftle Peter, didft free him
from
Prayers proper to Saints, BOL
from danger, we befeech thee, loofe the
bonds of our fins, and in thy mercy dellver
us from all evil: Through our Lord. |
On the fame Day is made a commemoration of St, Paul,
as before onthe Feaft of St Peter’s Chair, Jan. 18.
“The Anthem on tke Finding of St. Stephen, Auguft 3.
But Stephen, full of grace and fortitade,
wrought many miracles among the people. .
Verf. Devout men buried Siephen.
Refp. And made great lamentation for
him,
The Prayer.
RANT us, O-Lord; to imitate what
we honour, that we may learn to
love. our: enemies; foralmuch as we ce-
lebrate the: Finding of him, who could
pray even for his perfecutors, to our Lord
Jefus Chritt. | |
On the Feaft of St. Dominick, Confefor, Nugufl 4:
- The Anthem and Verficle, as in-the Common of a Confefor,.
not Bifhop.
The Prayer. .
O GOD, who hat vouchfafed to en-
lighten thy Church with the merits and in-
Rtructions of blefed Dominick, thy Con-
feffor; grant, througl: his interceffion, it
may not be left deftitute of temporal helps,
and may always advance in {piritual bleflings.:
- Through our Lord.
The Anthem on. the Feaft of the B. V...Mary,, caldid ad Nives,—
| Auguft 5.
Holy Mary, fuccour the diflreffed, help:
X& x.3 the
502 Prayers proper to Saints.
the dejeéted, comfort thofe that weep,
pray for the people, plead in the behalf
of the Clergy, make interceflion for the
devout female fex, let all who celebrate
thy holy folemnity, perceive thy affiftance.
Verf. Vouchfafe that I may praife thee,
O facred Virgin. sthe |
Relp. Give me force againft thy ene-
mies,
; The Prayer.
Yea God, we befeech thee, as before
4 in the Office of the B. V. Mary, p. 56.
The Anthem on the Feaft of the Transfiguration of our Lord
Fefus Chrift, Augult 6. .
Chrift Jefus the brightnefs of his Father,
and the refemblance of his fubftance: he
that fuflains all things with the word of bis
power, and wafhed away our fins, vouch-
- fafed this day to appear glorious on a high
mountain.
Verf. Glorious didft thou appear in the
Geht of our Lord.
Refp. Therefore our Lord has cloathed
thee with comelinefs.
The Prayer.
( ye who didft confirm the myfte-
ries of our faith, by the teftimony
ef the Fathers, in the glorious transfi-
guration of thy only Son, and didft in a
wonderful manner, with a voice coming
down, in a_ bright cloud, forcfhew the
perfeét
age ee
Se gg ee ee Le ee ne |
b
;
§
a
Prayers proper to Sainis. 503 |
perfe&t adoption of thy children; merei-
fully grant, we may be made co-heirs of
the King of Glory, and partakers of thé
fame blifs: Through the fame Jefus Choiit
our Lord.
On the Feaft of the Holy Martyrs, Cyriaous, Largus, and
Smaragdus, Auguft 8,
The fouls of the faints, &c.
Verf. The faints fhall rejoice, as in the
Common of many Martyrs, p. 521.
The Prayer.
God, who doft afford us matter of
joy in the yearly folemnity of thy
Holy Martyrs, Gyrzacus, Largus, and Sma-
vragdus; grantof thy mercy, that we, who
this day celebrate their birth-days amongft
the blefled, may learn to imitate the virtues
of their paflion; Through our Lord.
On the Feaft of St. Laurence, the Martyr, Auguft 10.
Bleffed Laurence, whilft he lay broiling
on the gridiron, faid to the moft wicked
tyrant; it is broiled now, turn and eat;
for the goods of the Church, which thou re-
quireft, are carried by the hands of the poor
into the heavenly treafures.
Verf. Laurence the Deacon has wrought a
good work. | bY ¢
“-Refp. Who, by the fign of the crofs, gave
fight to the blind,
| The
504 Prayers proper to Saints.
The prayer.
RANT us, we befeech thee, Almighty.
God, to extinguifh the flames of our
vices, who gavelt power to. blefled Laurence
to overcome the. flames of his torments:
Thro’ our Lord.
On the Feof of the te Aimptiono of the Blefed Virgin
Mary, Augu
To-day the Virgin piel afcended the
Heavens: rejoice becaufe fhe reigns with
Chriflt for ever.
Verf. The holy Mother of God is ex-
alted. .
Refp. To the celeftial kingdoms above the —
choirs of Angels.
The Prayer
O LORD, we beleech: thee, forgive
the offences of thy ebinsse as in the Of
fice, p. 48.
On the Feaft of faint Hyacinth, Conféfor, Auguft 16. q
The Anthem, Verficle, and Prayer, as if —
the Common of a Confeffor.
The Anthem om the Feaf of. 3t. Bernard, the Ablot, i
ee 5
_ This man defpifing the world, &c. page —
24 ye
Verf. Our Lord. conduéted the juft, &e. .
as in the Common, &c. p. 522 _
The Prayers &
AY the interceffion, &c. asia the come —
mon Qfficeof Abbots, p- 524- i
Om
Prayers proper to Saintse. 505,
On ihe Oftave of the Ateu se of B. V. Mary,
si A
ugu 226
The Anthem and Ferficle, and Prayer, as on the Feah itfelf..
On the feaft of St, Bartholomew the Apoftle, Auguft 24.-
_ Bhe. Anthem, -
Be courageous, &c-
- -Verf. They fet forth, as in the common-
of the Apoftle, p- 5 19..
~The Prayer.. ;
path did and: everlafting God, who,
. in the feftival of thy bleffed Apoftle
St. Bartholomew, haft invited us to a religious
and holy joy; grant to thy church, we
befeech thee, that it may love what he
believed, and preach what he taught:
Through our Lord.
On. the feafl of St. Lewis King of France, Auguft 25,
! The Anthem. |
This.man defpifing the world, p- 524.
Werf. Our Lord conduéted the juft man,
&c, as in.the common ofa confeflor, p. 523.
- The Prayer.
God, who haft transfered bleffed Lew
thy confeffor, from an earthly kingdom
to the glory of an Heavenly Crown; we
befeech thee, that by his merits and inter-
ceffion, we may become fervants of Jefus
Chrift thy Son, the King of Kings: Through
the fame Lord Jefus, .
Cn
506 Prayers proper to Saints.
On the Feaft of: St. Augufine, Bi ifhop and Doétor of tha
hurch, Auguft 28.
. The Anthem:
© blefled Auguftine, p. 523.
Verf- Our Lord conduéted the juft man;
&e. as inthe Commen of Doé?ors.
The Prayer. |
Ive ear, Almighty God, to our fup- 7
‘ plications, that by the interceflion 7
of blefled <4uguftine, thy confeffor and —
bifhop, they, to whom thou grantelt a 7
confidence of hoping for mercy, may per= —
ceive the effect of thy ulfual clemency ae
Through our Lords
Onthe Feaft ofthe Beheading of St, Joie Baptifte.
Auguft 29.
The Anthem. . i |
The unbelieving king fent deteftable |
minifters, and commanded that Fohn Baptift
fhould be beheaded. }
Verf. The ‘eid fhall flourifh like a “—" }
- tree.
be multiplied.
The Prayer.
E befeech thee, O Lord, let the —
venerable folemnity of St, John :
Baptift, thy fore-runner and martyr, af-
ford us the effect of thy affiftance ; Through J
our Lord, a
Prayers proper to Saitits. ger
The Feafts of September.
The Anthem on the Feaft of the Nativity of the Blefed Ver.
gin Mary, September 8.
The Anthem,'Verficle and Prayer, is faid as before on her
Conception, December 8, the Name of Conception being
changed into Nativity.»
The Anthem on the Feahs of St. Nicolas, Confefor, Sep-
te er.10.
This man defpifing the world, &c. p. 524.
Verf. Our Lord conduéted the juft man,
: 3c. as in the Common of a Confeffor, p. 523.
The Prayer.
IVE ear, O Lord, .to the fupplica-
tions, which we offer to-thee, in the
folemnity of bleffed Azcolas, thy Confeffor,
that we, who truft not in our own righteoul-
nefs, may be favoured by the prayers of him
who was well pleafing to thee: Through our
Lord.
1 Phe Anthem on the fea? of the Exaltation of the ‘Holy
Crofs, September 14.
_O bleffed Crofs! which alone wert wor-
‘thy to bear the King and Lord of Heaven,
§ Alleluia.
Verf. This fign of the crofs fhall be in
Heaven. | Gis
Refp. When our Lord hall come to
} judgment.
The Prayer.
() God, who on this prefent day doft
afford us joy in the yearly folem-
nity of the Exaltation of the Holy Crofs;
| grant, we befeech thee, that we, acknow-
ledging
508 Prayers proper to Saints,
ledging that myftery on earth, may obtain
the fruits of its redemption in Heaven :
Through our Lord.
On the Feaft of the Holy Martyrs, Cornelius and Cyprian,
September 16.
The Anthem, Verficle, and Prayer, as in
the common of many Martyrs.
The Anthem on the Feaft of faint Januarius, Bi/top, and
hes Fellow-Martyrs, September 19.
The fouls of the faints,
Verf. The faints fall rejoice, &c. as-in
the Common of many Martyrs, p- 521.
The Prayer.
O Gop, who makeft us rejoice ih the
‘early folemnity of bleffed Januarius, and
his Fellow-Martyrs; gracioufly vouchfafe,
that we may be encouraged by the examples
of them in whofe merits we rejoice : Thro’
our Lord.
The Antkem'on the feaft of faint Euftathius, and his Fel-
low-Martyrs, September go.
The fouls of the faints.
Verf. The faints fhall rejoice, &c- as in
i" Common of many Martyrs, p- 521.
The Prayer.
-O Gop, by whofe favours we celebrate
the feltival of thy blefled Martyrs St. Eufta-
chius and his Fellows; grant that we may
enjoy their focieity in eternal blifs: a
our Lord.
The Anthem cn the Feaft of St. Matthew, the Apoftle and-
Evangelift, September 21.
Be courageous. Verf. They fet forth, as
in Win Common of the Apoftles, p- 519. oe
Prayers proper to Saints. 509
x The Prayer. .
RANT, O Lord, that the prayers of
thy Holy Apof¥e and Evangelilt St.
~ Matihew, may be a help to us, that what
— our weaknels cannot obtain, may be gran.
ted to us by his interceffion; Through our
Lord. |
The Anthem on the Feaff of St. Linus, Pope and Martyr,
September 23.
Whoever will come, p. 519° .
&c.
Verf. The juft fhall flouri
The prayer,
O Gop, who makelt us rejoice, &c, as in
the Common of a Martyr, p. 520.
The Anthem on the Feaft of the Holy Martyrs, Cofmas and
Damian, September 27.
The fouls of the faints, &e.
Verf. The faints fhall rejoice in glory, &c.
as in the Common of many Martyrs, p. 521.
The Prayer.
Rocca we befeech thee, Almighty
God, that we, who celebrate the Mare
tyrdom of thy holy fervants Cofmas and Da-
mian, may, by their interceffion, be delivered
from all dangers: Through our Lord.
The Anthem on the Feaft of the Dedication of St. Mis
chael the Archangel, September ag,
Moft glorious Prince Michael the Arch-
angel, be mindful of us here and every
where: Pray always to the Son of God for
us, Alleluza, Alleluza.
Verf. In the fight of Angels I will fing
to thee, my God.
bs Refp.
Bio | Prayers proser to Saints. |
~ “Refp. I will adore thy holy temple, and —
.confefs to thy name. |
The Prayer.
f\ God,.who doft in a wonderful man-—
ner difpofe of the fervices of men_
‘and Angels, gracioufly vouchfafe, that we
‘may be defended here on earth, by thofe -
who minifter to thee in Heaven: Through
-our Lord Jefus ‘Chrift thy Son, -who liveth
and reigneth one God with thee and the
‘Holy Ghoft, world without end. 4men.
The Anthem on the Feaf of Jerom, Prieft, Confefor, and ©
Doéttor of the Church, September 30.
O bleffed Ferom, &c. |
Verf, ‘Our Lord conduéed.the juft. man,
“asin the Common of Doétors, p. 523. |
The Prayer.
God, who didft vouchfafe to pro--
vide for thy cburch, bleffed Ferm
thy Confeflor, a moft famous Do€tor in exe
pounding the holy fcriptures; grant, we he-
-feech thee, that what both in word and ex-
ample he taught, we,may be enabled by thy
help to put in execution: Through our
Lord,
x
‘The Feafts of Céober.
‘The Anthem.on the Feat of the Angel-Guardians.
O Holy Angels, our -Guardians, defend
us in battle, that we .may not perifh at the
dreadful day of account. ;
7 Vexf,
: Prayers proper to Saints. 5it
Verf, In the fight of Angels T will fing to:
thee, my God.
Refp. I will adore at thy Holy temple,
and confels to thy name.
The Prayer.
() God, who, with unfpeakable provi-
dence, halt vouchfafed to appoint thy
Holy Angels for our guardians; grant that
we, thy fuppliants, may always be defended
by their proteétion, and rejoice. in. their
eternal fociety: Through our Lord Jefus:
Chrift, &c.
The Anthem on'the-Feaftiof St. Francis, OGober 4. *
This man de(pifing, &c. p. 524.
Verf. Our Lord conduéted the juft man,.
&c. as in the Common of a Confeflor;
P. 523:
4 The Prayer.
God, who, by the merits of St. Frana
C15, enlargelt thy Church with the
increafe of a new order; grant, that by:
his example, we may defpile earthly things,
and always rejoice in the participation ‘of
heavenly gifts: Through our’Lord.
The Anthem on the Feaft of St. Bruno, Confefor,-O&. Gi
This man defpifing, &e. p. 524.
Verf. Our Lord condu€ted the juft mai,
&c. as in the Com. of a Confeflor, p. 523.
The Prayer.
E.. befeech thee, O Lord, Jet us
be aflifted by the interceffion of
Y y:2 | bicfled
512 Prayers proper to Saints.
blefled Bruno thy Confeffor, that we, who ‘|
have grievoufly offended thy Majefty, may, —
_ by his prayers and merits, obtain pardon of ©
our fins: Through our Lord-
ihe Anthem on the Feaft of St, Bridget, Widow, :
Ottober 8.
She opened her hand to the poor.
Verf. Grace is poured forth, &c. as in the —
Common of one, neither Virgin nor Martyr, ©
page 526.”
The Prayer.
‘Lord our God, who, by thy only Son, 7
didft reveal the feerets of Heaven to ©
bleffed Bridget; grant, that we thy fervants, ©
may. by her interceffion, rejoice in the re- ©
velation of eternal glory: Through our :
Lord Jefus Chrift thy Son, who lives and 7
reigns one God with thee and the Holy
Gholt, world witout end. Amen. |
The Anthem on the Ecaft of the Haly Martyrs, Denis, Ruflix —
cus, and K.leutherius, October g.
The fouls of the faints, &c.:
~Verf? The Saints fhall rejoice in glory,
&c. as inthe Common of many Martyrs, —
page 523.
The Prayer.
() God, who on this day didft ftrengthen
bleffed Denis, thy Martyr and Bifhop,
with the virtue of conftancy in his paffion, —
and did vcuchfafe to affociate to him .
Rufticus and Eleutherius, to preach thy
glory to nations; grant us, we befeech thee,
in imitation of them, to defpife, for love of
thee, 4
ah
_ Prayers proper to Saints: “51g
thee, the profperity of this world, and to-
fear no adverfity : ,Through our Lord.
The Anthem on the Feaft of St. Califius, Pope and
Martyr, Oftober 14.
Whoever will come after me..
Verf, The juft fhall flouriff, &c. as in
the Common Office of one Martyr, Dp. 519.
The Prayer.
O GOD, who ofl we fail through oun
infirmity, mercifully reftore us to thy lave,
by the example of thy faints: Through Our
Lord.
The Anthem on the Feaft of St. Terefia, Virgin, O8. 15.
Gome Spoufe of Chrift, &c-
Verf. With thy beauty, &c. as inthe
~ Common of a Virgin, p. 525.
The Pains:
RANT, O God, our Saviour, that as--
we rejoice in the folemnity of bleffed
Terefia, Virgin, fo we may be nourifhed:
bee
with the food of her heavenly do€trine, -
and improved 1 in the affettion of folid piety ;-°
Thr ugh our Lord,
Tié Anthem cn the Feaff of St. Luke, the + Beg ip,
Octeber 18.
Be courageous, &e.
Verf. They fet forth, as-imthe Common:
of the Apoftles, p. 5 19-
The. Prayer.
E befeech thee,-O Lord, that- thy
Holy . Evangelift » Saint Ine may
a Mey g. oe ile be
BIA Prayers proper to Saintss
intercede in our behalf, who for the ho-
nour of thy name, did always bear in his
body thesmortification of the crofs: Thro’ -
our Lord.
The Anthem on the Feaft of the Apofles, Simon and
Jude, O&ober 28.
Be courageous, &C.
Verf. They fet forth, as an the Pio. of
the Apoftles, p. 519:
The Prayer.
God, who, by thy bleffed Apofles
Simon and Fude, haft brought us to
the knowledge of thy name; grant that we
may celebrate their elbbinil glory ie the
amendment of our lives, and, by celebrat-
ing the fame, advance in virtue-
The F ealts of November.
The Anthem en the Feaft of All- Saints, November t-
O how glorious is the kingdom where,
with Chrift, all the faints rejoice ; and,
loathed in white, follow the Lamb whéres
ever he goes, '
Verf. The faints fhall rejoice in glory.
Refp. Their feats fhall be filled with } joy.
The prayer.
O Almighty and everlafling God, pho:
haft granted us at one folemnity to honour
the merits of all thy faints; we befeech |
thee, that our interceffors being multiplied,
thou wilt grant us the defired dbbndaluce of
thy mercy: Through our Lord.
On
’ 1
ee . : = s : :
ee a A ee a
etn Eat *: . en eee akan” set Me ae wi < n-ne eee b' ill * = a
Prayers proper to Saints. 51g”
Ox the Dedication of the Church of our Saviour, Novem-
berg. add ts fatd in the Common.
The Anthem on the Feaft of St. Martin, Bifkop and Con-
Jeffor, November 11.
O bleffed Bifhop, who with moft entire
affeQion loved Chrift his King, and feared
not earthly pow ers: OQ moft holy foul,
which, though it fuffered not by the fword
of perfecutors, yet loft not the crown of
martyrdom.
Verf. Our Lord conduéted the juft man,
by right ways.
Relp. And fhewed him the kingdom of
Heaven,
The Prayer.
O GOD, who feeft that we who fubfift
not by any power of ourown; mercifully
grant, that by the interceffion of blefled
Martin, thy Confeffor and Bifhop, we may
be defended againft all adverfities: Thro’
our Lord.
Zke Anthem on the Feaft of faint Martin, Pope and Mats
tyr, Noveinber 12,
Whoever will come, &c.
Verf. The juft fhall flourifh hike a i sna
tree, Ac. p. 519.
The Prayer.
O Gon, who makett us rejoice, &e. as in
the Common of one Martyr. p. 520.
On the Feaft of St. Gregory Thaumaturgus, Bifhop end
Confeffor, November 17,
The Anthem, Verficle, and Prayer, as én the Common of a
Bi/hop and Confeffor.
On the Dedication of the Church of the Holy Apojiles, Perer
and Paul, November 18, as in the Common,
The
516 Prayers proper to Saints.
The Anthem on the Feaft of the Prefentation fof the G
Virgin Ae tes py vale sale
Bleffed Mary, Mother of God, perpe-
tual Virgin, Temple of our Lord, Sanéluary
of the "Holy Ghoft, thou alone. without
example did pleafe our Lord Jefus Chritt,
Alleluia.
Vert: Vouchfafe that I may praife ints
© facred Virgin.
Relp. Give me ftrength againft thy enee
mies.
The Prayer,
© Gop, who wouldeft that the ever
blefled Virgin Mary, the habitation of the
Holy Ghoft, fhould on this day be prefented —
in the temple ; grant, we befeech thee, that. ~
by her interceffion we may be prefented in
the temple of thy glory : Through our Lord
Jefus Chrift, who, &c. and the fame Holy
Gholi. —
The Anihem on the Feaft of faint Cecily, Virgin and
Martyr, November 22, q
The glorious Virgin did always bear in —
ber bofom the gofpel of Chnift, and ceafed ©
not either day or night from conference with
God in prayer. :
Verf. Grace is poured forth on thy lips.
Refp. ‘Therefore God has bleffed thee for
‘ever.
The Prayer.
God, who doft afford us joy. in ‘& q
yearly folemnity of blefled Cecily, Vir-
‘win and Martyr ; grant, that in copa! %
ife
Prayers proper to Sainés. 517
life, we may follow the example of her,
whole feftival we celebrate: Through our
Lord.
The Aathem on the Feaft of St. Clement, Pope and Martyr,
November 22.
‘O- Lord, thou didft give to Clemént thy
martyr, a dwelling-place in the fea, like
temple of marble framed'by the hands of An-
gels. affording a. paflage to the people of the
country, to declare thy wonderful works.
Vert. The juft fhall flourifh like a palm-
tree.
Relp. As the cedar of Libanus he fhalk
be multiplied. ‘
The prayer.
O Gop, who makeft us rejoice in the
yearly folemnity of Clement thy martyr and
bifhop; mercifully grant, that we may imi-
tate the virtue of his fufferings, whofe mar-
- tyrdom we celebrate : Fhrough our Lords
The Anthem on the Feat of Se. Catherine, Virgin and Mars
tyr, November 25. its
Come, Spoule of Chrift, &c. p. 525.
Verf. Grace is poured forth on thy lips,
as in the Common of Virgins, p. 526:
The Prayer
O Gop, who gaveft the law to Mofes, on
the top of mount Sinai, and in the fame
place didft, by the holy Angels, wonderfully
place the body of blefled Catherine thy
Virgin and Martyr; grant, we befeech
thee, that by her merits and _interceffion we
may come to the mount, which is Chrift:
Through the fame, &c,
. IT BRS
( 518 ):
HRRARARARYRA RY VAK Ye
PRAYERS
Gommon to §S " INTS
On the Vicrusof the APosTLE Sei
The Anthem:.:
N O'man has a greater charity, than to
beftow his life for his friends.
Verf. Thou fhalt make them prirces over
all the earth. Refp. They fhall be mindful
of thy.name, Q-Lordé.
The-Prayers
Rant, Almighty God, we befeech thee,
that this venerable folemnity of thy:
Holy Apoltle NV. which we are to celebrate,
may be to us an increafe of devotion, and
fpiritual health : Through our Lord.
The Anthém on-the Feftivals of Apyftles or Evangelifts.
They will betray you in their councils,
and fcourge you in their fynagogues, and
ye fhall be brought before Kings and Go-
vernors for-my fake, to give your teftimony
to them and the Gentiles,
Verf. Their found went forth over all the
eartli. Refp. And their words to the ut-
moft bounds of the world.
Another
Prayers common to Sainis. ‘Bg
Another Anthem.
‘Be courageous in battle, and fight with
the old ferpent, and you fhall receive an
everlafting kingdom, <lleluza.
Verf. They fet forth the works of God.
Refp. And underftood his deeds.
The Anthem in Eafter-Time,
A perpetual light fhall fhine upon thy
Saints, O Lord, and times without end.
Alleluia. Verf. ¥e holy and juft, rejoice in
-our Lord, Alleluia. Refp. God has made ~
choice of-you for his inheritance, Alleluia.
Another Anthem,
Ye holy and jut, rejoice, in our Lord,
Alleluia, God:bas made choice of you far
his inheritance, Alleluia. Verf.-Precious in
ahe fight of our Lord, Alleluia. Refp. Is the
Death of his Saints, Alleluia. The Prayers
_ asin their -refpettive Places.
The Anthem on the Day of one Martyr.
This Saint did combat unto death for the
Jaw of his God; and was not terrified with
the words of the wicked; ‘for his foundation
was laid on the folid rock.
“Verf. Thou haft crowned him, ‘O Lord,
with glory and honour. Refp. And halt
placed him over the works of thy hands.
Another Anthem.
Whoever will .come after -me, “let him
deny himfelf, take up bis crofs and follow me.
Verf. The juft fhall flourifh like a palm-
‘tree. Refp. As a cedas of Libanus he <fhall
be multiplied.
| In
520 Prayers common to Saints..
dn Eafter-Time, The Anthem and Verficles, are as before
in thecommon of the Apofiles,
for @ Martyr and Bu/hop,
" The Prayer,
Ave regard te our weaknefs, Almighty
God; and fince we fink under the
weight of our offences, may the powerful
interceffion of blefled NM. thy Martyr and
Bifhop, be our fupport and proteétion:
Through our Lord.
Another Prayer.
God, who makeft us rejoice in the
yearly folemnity of bleffed N. thy
Martyr and Bifhop; mercifully grant, that ©
we, who this day celebrate his birth-day }
among the Saints, may enjoy a fhare in his
proteciion: Through our Lord.
For a Martyr only.
_ ‘The Prayer,
Rant, we befeech thee, Almighty God, —
that we, who honour the triumphs of ©
thy Holy Martyr St. M. may, by his in-
terceffion, be {trengthened in the love of i
thy name: Through our Lord.
Another Prayer. :
Cy we befeech thee, Almighty God, —
that by the interceffion of bieffed NV. 7
thy Martyr, we may be delivered from all —
corporal adverfities, and our minds be ©
cleanfed from evil thoughts; Through our ~
Lord.
The Anthem onthe Day of many Martyrs.
Theirs is the kingdom of Heaven, who —
7 contemning —
P
SS se
Prayers common to Saizits. Rok
*contemning an earthly life, have obtained
the reward of thy kingdom, and wafhed their
_ garments in the blood of the Lamb.
‘Vert. Ye fhall rejoice in our Lord, and
- be exceeding glad.
Refp. And glory all ye right of sive
Another Anthem,
The fouls of the faints, who have -fol-
fowed the fteps of Chrift, rejoice in Hea-
ven; they have fhed their blood for his
fake, and theréfore, with Chrift, they rejoice
for ever,
Verf. The faints fhall rejoice in glory.
Refp. And their feats fhall be filled with
JOY: Ay
‘Of many Martyrs and Bifhops.
The Prayer.
E befeech thee, O Lord, that the
feftival of thy. blefled Martyrs and
Bifhops NV. and N. may be our proteétion ;
and that. our prayers, by their interceffion,
may be made acceptable to thee : Through
our Lord,
For Martyrs only.
The Prayer. .
Q Gon, by whofe favour we celebrate
the feftival of thy holy Martyrs NV. and.
N. grant, that we may enjoy their fociety
in eternal happinefs : Through our Lerd,
Lz Another
23 Prayers common to Saints.
Another prayer.
QO God, who makeft us rejoice in the
“yearly folemnity of thy Holy Martyss
N. and N. mercifully grant, that we may .
be inflamed with a defire of imitating the
lives of them whofe merits we commetho-
‘rate with joy: Through our Lord.
The Anthem on the Day of a Confeffor and. Bifhop.
Prieft and bifhop, worker of miracles;
thou good fhepherd of the people, pray for
us to our Lord. |
Verf. Our Lord. has loved him, and
crowned his,Jabours,
Refp. He has cloathed him with a gar-
ment of glory.
Anothe Anthem,
‘Our Lord has loved him, and adorned
him; he has cloathed him with a garment
of glory, and crowned him at the gates of
aradife, 7
Verf. Our ‘Lord .condu€ted the juft man
by right ways.
Refp. And fhewed him the kingdom of
Heaven,
5 pe: The Anthem of Popes only, *
Whilft he was High Prieft, unmoved at
earthly things, he pafled in triumph to a ce-
leftial crown. ,
V. Our Lord conduéted the juft man.
dnEafter-Time, Alleluia is added at the End of every An-
them and Verficle.
The
Prayers common’to Saints. 522.
The Prayer,
“RANT, Almighty God, webeleech thee,
that this venerable folemnity of blefled
x. thy Conieffor and Bifhop, may be to us
an increafe of devotionand fpiritual health :-
~ Through our Lord: :
Another prayer.
EAR, O Lord, we befeech thee, the
petitions we make to thee, in this-
folemnity of St. WN. thy holy Confeline and:
Bifhop; thatas he was faithful in thy fer-.
vice; fo his merits pleading for us, thous
wouldelt vouchfafe to give us pardon of all.
our fins: Through our Lord. :
The Anthem-on the Days of Dettors«
© bleffed N. thou shining Dofor! Thou:
light of the holy church, and lover of the
divine law; intercede for us with the Son.
of God.
Verf, Our Lord BP the juft man
by.right’ways:.
" Refp. And fhewed him the kingdom of
heaven.
The Prayer.
O Gop; who haft beftowed bleffed N. on
thy people, for a minifter of everlafting
falvation; grant, we befeech thee, that he,
who on earth has been the inftruétor of our:
lives, may be an interceffor for us imHeaven,
Through our Lord.
Zz2 | Lhe
524 Prayers common to Saints.
The Anthem on the Day of a Confeffor not a Bifbap..
¥ will refemble him to a wife man, that
built, his houfe on a rock.
Verf. Our Lord has loved him, as before,
Pp: 522.
Another Anthem:
This man defpifing, the world, and
triuraphing over earthly things, by word and
deed; has laid up treafures in Heaven.
Verf Our Lord has condu€ted ther juft
man, as before, p. 523.
Fhe Prayer.
Q:Gon, who makelt us rejoice in: the
yearly folemnity of blefled N. thy Confeflor;
mercifully grant that we may imitate the
actions of him whofe feltival we celebrate:
Through our Lards.
Another Prayer.
E. favourable, O Lord, to the prayers:
we. pour forth, in this folemnity, of
thy Holy Confeflor Saint WV. that we, who
have no confidence in our.own righteouf-
nefs, may be affifted by his prayers, wlio,
are well-pleafing to thee:: Through cur
Lord.
Of an Abbot.
The Prayer.
AY the interceffion, O- Lord, we be-
feech thee, of the bleffed Abbot,
Saint V. recommend our prayers, that what
we cannot acguire by our own ments, we
~ may obtain by bis prote€tion: Through our
Lord.
The.
Prayers common to Sarnis. 525
The Anthem on the Day of a Virgin and Martyr.
Come, Spoufe of Chrift, receive the
crown which our Lord for ever has prepared
for thee,
Verf. With thy beauty and comelinefs.
Refp. Go on profperoufly, and reign.
The Prayer,
God, who, amongft other wonders of
‘thy power, haft rendered’ even the
weaker fex vi€torious in martyrdom; mez-
cifully grant, that we, who celebrate the —
triumphs of Saint. N. Virgin and Martyr,
may by her example come to the poffeflion
of-thee : Through our Lord.
, Another Prayer. oy
RANT, O Lord, we befeech thee, that
4
: thy bleffed Virgin and Martyr, Saint:
N, may obtain pardon for us, who; by the:
merit of chaftity and’ profefion ‘of virtue
has always been acceptable. to thee : ‘Thre
our Lord. |
Of a Virgin-only, - .
The prayer. | ‘eee
“EAR us, O God, our falvation;: that
-aswe rejoice in the feltival of thy
Holy Virgin Saint ; N. fo we may be: im
proved in the affeftion of folid picty > Thro’
our Lord.
4
The Anthem: omthe Day of many Virgins and Martyrs.
| Wile Virgins, make ready your lamps ;
behold the bridegroom is coming, go forth
and meet him.
Z-23 Verf.
526 Prayers common to Saints.
Verf. Virgins fhall be led. after, her tothe —
King. |
Relp. The neareft unto her fhall be. —
brought to thee. |
The Pray
RANT, O Lord God: we befeech thee,
we may celebrate the vidtories of thy
holy Virgins and Martyrs, Saint N. and
Saint N. with teve devotion; that although
we cannot reverence them with. a refpett
equal to their merit, we may at leaft with —
humble vows follicit:heir prayers.. Through —
our Lord. |
The Anthem on the Feaf of One, neither Virgin nor Martyr2
She opened her band to the needy, and
extended her charity to the poor, and did
not eat her bread in idlenc&.
Verf. Grace ts.poured forth on thy lips.
Refp. Therefore God. has bietied thee for —
ever. .
The Pr, ayer.
TEAR us, O Beal our, falvation, that
- as we rejorce in the feftival of bleffed.
Saint N. fa, we may be improved in the.
affeRion of {Qlid piety: Through our.
Lord.| <= |
The Anthem on the Anniverfary of the. Dedicazion of a Church,
O how awful is this place! Verily this i is.
no ather than the houfe of God, and the. -
gate of Heaven.
Vert. Holinefs becomes thy,houfe, O Gods.
Rep. For length of days,
Prayers proper to Sainés. 52T
The Prayer.
: €} God, who. every year renewelt to us
the confecration of this Holy Church,
and by thy facred myfteries affordeft us
the bleffing of thy, proteétion ;. gracioufly
vouchfafe to hear-the prayers of thy people,
and grant, that as many as enter. into this
church, to petition for. thy favours, may have
the comfort of obtaining what they afk
Through our Lord. ;
On the Day of the Dedication itfelf.
God, who invifibly containeft alt
things; aad yet, for the prefervation.
of mankind, vifibly fheweft the figns of thy
mighty power, honour this temple with the
virtue of thy abode, and grant that all who.
come to it, on account ef whatfoever tribu-
lation they addrefs themfelves to thee by
prayer, may obtain the blefling of thy come
fort: Through our: Lord Jefus Chnit thy
Son, who, with thee and the Holy Ghoft,
liveth, and reigneth, world without end.
AMNLM | | |
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The Lrranres of our Lord and Saviour
Fefus Chrift.
Dusen have mercy on us.
Chrift, have mercy on us,
Lord, have mercy onus.
Chrift, hear us.
Chrift, grant our petitions,
God, the Father of Heaven,
God the Son, Redeemer of the World,
God the Holy Ghoft,
Holy Trinity, one God,
Jefus, Son of the living God,
Jefus, God of ftrength,
Mott powerful Jefus,
Molt periett Jelus, |
Mott glorious Jelus,
Molt admired Jefus,
Moft delightful Jefus,
Moft dear and beloved Jefus,
Jefus, brighter than the Sun,
Jefus, fairer than the Moon,
Jefus, clearer than the Stars,
Moft admirable Jefus,
Mott honourable Jefus,
Molt humble Jefus,
Molt meek Jelus,
Moft patient Jefus,
Moti obedient jefus,
Mofi chafte Jetus,
Jefus, lover of chaftity,
Jclus, our love,
"gn uo Muay aavyy
Jefus,
The Lutanies, i:
jelus, lover of peace,
Jefus, author of life,
Jefus, pattern of virtues,
Jefus, moft zealous lover of fouls;
jefus, our refuge,
Jefus, Father of the poor,
Jefus, comforter of the affli€ted,
Jefus, treafure of the faithful,
Jefus, a precious pearl,
Fete treafure of perfe€tion,
€fus, the good fhepherd,,.
Jefus, Star of the Sea,
Jelus, the true light, |
ue Eternat W ifdom,
efus, Infinite Goodnefs;
Jeflus, Joy of Angels,
Jefus, King of the Patriarchs,
Jefus, Infpirer of the Prophets,
Jefus, Mafter of the Apoftles,
Jefus; Teacher: of the Evangelifts;
Jefus, the Fortitude of Martyrs,
Jefus, the Light of Confeffors,
Jefus, the Spoufe of Virgins,
jefus, the Crown of all Saints,
Be merciful to us, fpare us, O* Jefus:
Be merciful to us, grant our petitions, O
fon uo O4au anne
Jefus.
From all evil, S
From all fin, St
From all anger, | : >
From the deceits of the Devil,
From, tranigreffion of thy command,
530 The Litanies;
From the incurfion of all evils,
By thy incarnation,
By. thy. coming,.
By thy fativity,.
By. thy circumcifion,
By. thy travels and pains,.
By thy fcourging, |
By thy death, |
By. thy refurreftion,
By. thy: afcenfion,
By thy coronation,.
_ By-thyjoys,
By. thy glory,
By the moft. Holy Virgin thy Mother;
By the interceffion of all thy faints,
kiamb of God, who takeft away. the fins of
the world, Spare us. O Jefus.. |
Lamb of God, who takeft’ away the fins of’
the world, Grant our petitions, O Jelus.
Lamb of God, who takeft away the fins of
the world, Have pracy upon us, O ‘aM a
Jefus Chrift, hear us. |
Jefus Chrift, grant our petition+
Verf. The name of our Lord be bleffed.
Refp. From this prefent, and for ever-
more.
‘sn aangjap ‘snfof QO
Let us pray.
God, who haft rendered the mot
glorious name of thy Son our Lord
Jefus Chrift, to thy Faithful moft amiable,
and moft dreadful to evil Spirits, mer-
. cifully
The Litanies. 538
-cifully vouchfafe, that all thofe, who de-
-voutly reverence this name fefus on
earth, may for the prefent receive the
f{weetnels of his holy comforts, and here-
-after obtain the joy of never-ending blifs
in Heaven. Through the fame Jefus
Chrift, &c. | :
A Hymn to our Saviour Fefus, compofed by
Si. Bernard,
‘Fefu dulcis Memoria.
“JESUS, the only thought of thee
J With fweetnefs fills my breaft ;
But fweeter ftill it is:'to fee, ;
And on thy beauty featt.
No theme fo foft, or found fo gay,
Can art of mufic frame ;
‘No words, nor even thought, can fay,
Thy moft mellifluous name.
Sole hope, when we our fins repent,
So bounteous of thy grace ;
If thus thou’rt_ good, while we lament,
Oh! what when face to face.
JESUS! that name infpires my mind
With fprings of life and light;
‘More than I afk in thee I find,
And lavifh'in delight.
No eloquence nor art can reach
The joys of thofe above ;
The bleft can only know, not reach
What they in JESUS prove.
‘Thee then:I'll feek retir’d apart,
From world and bufinefs free ;
When
*B92 A Hymn.
When noife invades, I'll fhut my heert,
And keep it all for thee.
An early pilgrim thus [’ll come,
With Magdalen, to find
In fighs and tears my Saviour’s tomb,
And there refrefh my mind.
My tears upon his grave fhall flow, |
My fighs the garden fill;
Then at his feet myfelf I'lithrow,
And there I'll feek his will.
JESUS! in thy bleft fleps I’ll tread,
And haunt thee through thy ways;
I'll mourn, and never ceale to plead,
Till I’m reftor’d to grace.
Great Conqueror of death! thy fire
Does fuch fweet flames excite,
That firft it raifes the defire,
Then fills it with delight.
Thy quick’ning prefence fhines fo clear,
Through every fenfe and way, |
That fouls, who once have feen thee near
See all things elfe decay.
Come then, dear Lord, poffefs my heart,
And chafe the fhades of night ;
Come, pierce it with thy flaming dart,
And ever-fhining light.
Then I'll for ever JESUS fing, |
And with the bleft rejoice ;
Then all the vaulted towers fhall ring,
And ecchoing hearts and voices fing,
And ftill repeat REJOICE.
A Prayer ©
A Prayer, &c- | £39
A Prayer compofed by St. Auguftin, and res
commended to the Devotion of all Chriftzans,
by Pope Urban VIII.
Ante Oculos tuos, Domine, &e.
: 5 ee thy eyes, O Lord, we bring
13 our fins, and with them compare the
ftripes we have received.
If we weigh the evil we have done, we
find what we fuffer to be much lefs than what
-we deferve. s
What we have committed does far out
“weigh what we endure. |
We feel the punifhment of fin, and yet
we turn not from our wilfulnefs in finning,
Our weaknefs faints under thy fcourges 3
‘but our perverfenefs is ftill the fame.
° Our difeafed mind is rackt with pain ; and
-our neck is as ftiff as ever.
Our life is fpent in fighs and grief; but in
~our a€tions we are not reformed.
If thou expeéteft our amendment, we
grow no better ; if thou takelt revenge, we
are not able'to fubfift.
When we are chaftifed, we acknowledge
what we have done; but when thy vifitation
‘is over, we forget what we wept for,
If thou ftretcheft out thy hand, we pros
‘mife duty ; if thou fufpendeft thy fword, we
Keep not our promile.
if thou ftrikeft, we cry for pardon; and
Aaa if
53H A Prayer, &e.
if thou pardoneft, we provoke thee again to ©
ftrike. 3
Here, O Lord, are thy criminals, con-
fefling their guilt; we know, that unlefs thou _
forgive, thou mayeft jaflly deftroy us.
Grant, without merit, what we afk, O Al--
mighty Father, who out of nothing didft
create us toafk thee; Through Chrift our
Lord, Amen. | ‘7
The Anthem. .
We wait in expe€tation of our Saviour’s 7
‘eoming, who will reform our frail bodies,
according to the model of his glorious
body.
Verf, Behold, the God of Heaven is our
‘Redeemer. !
Refp. In him without fear will we put_
our truft, |
The Prayer,
LMIGHTY God, who, for the re-
d demption of mankind, didft fend
thy only Son, to take our flefh, and fuffer
— death on the crofs, we humbly pray, that as_
- our Saviour has left to us here the example
of his patience, he would vouchfafe to make ©
us hereafter partakers of his glory; who 7
Jiveth and reigneth one God, with thee and)
the Holy Ghoft, forever and ever, amen. ©
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A Prayer in Time of P logue, 533
An Anthem and Prayer in Honour of the B. V, Mary, to be
faid in Time of Plague, _
Hix brighteft ftar thy influence fhedy
Who with thy virgin breaft,
Yhy Son, Heav'ns fov’reign maker fed,
That healed our nature’s pett-
©! thou aufpicious ftar, reftrain,.
The itars contagious ill,
_ Whole baleful frown portends our bane,
To {courge our ulcer’d will-
Star of the fea, receive our vows,
From plague thy fuppliants free ;
Thy Son.will not thy prayers refufe,
So much he honours thee.
A Virgin Mother, and a fruitful maid
For finners pleads; © Lord, vouchfafe thy
Aid.
V.. Pray for us, holy Mother of God.
R. That we may be made worthy of the
promifes of Chritt.
Let us pray.
“ God of mercy, God of pity, God of
pardon, who hadft compaffion on the
affliGion of thy people, and commandedtt
the Angel to reftrain his hand ; we befeech
thee, for the love of that glorious: Star;
whole precious breafls (again{ft the venom
of our fins) thou didft fweetly fuck; grant
the affiflance of thy grace, that we may be
preferved from all plague, and unprovided
death, by thee, O fweet fefus Chrift, King
Aaa 2 of
ll
536 = A Prayer in Time of Plague. 4
of Glory, who, with. the Father, and the —
Holy Ghoft, liveft and reigneft, world with- q
out end. Amene
Another Anthem and Prayer againft the Plague, in Honour of.
St. Roch.
ENERABLE Confeffor of Chrift,
Holy Roch, whofe prayers have ob-
tained, that they, who in their affli@ion fhall —
devouily call on thee, may, by thy merits. ©
and interceffion,. be delivered. from all dan~ —
ger of plague and peftilence, pray for us,
blefled Saint, that we may set made. pare
takers of this promife.
Let us Gre ay.
Cyst and eternal God, bo
the prayers and merits of thy blef-
fed Conteffor, St. Roch, didft put a {top to-a-
general peflilence ; grant to us thy humble
{uppliants, who, in like mortality, have re-
courfe to thy Divine Majefty, by this thy
glorious Saint, that, by his merits and inter-
ceflion, we may be likewife delivered. from,
all plague and peftilence. Through our
Lord and Saviour, Amen.
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The Manner of Serving and Anfwering at
Mass.
The Clerk, kneeling atthe Eeft Hand of the Pricft, fhall- ane
fwer kim as follows.
Pro FNFROUBOsrad altare Dei.
Cl. A Ad Deum, qui letificat juventutem.
inp
Py. Judica me, Deus, & difcerne caufarm
meam ; de gente non fanéta, ab homine i inis -
quo & dolofo erue me
Cl. Qitia tu es Deus, fortitudo mea, quare~
me repulift, & quare triftis incedo dum af-
fligit me inimicus ?»
Pr. Emitte lucem tuum & veritatem™
tuam: ipfa me deduxerunt. & adduxerunt
in montem fanéium tuum, & 1n tabernacula
tua.
Cl, Et introibo ad altare Dei: ad Deum.
qui letificat juventutem meat.
Pr. Confitebor tibi in cithara, Deus, Deus
meus: quare trltis es-anima- mea, & quare
conturbas me?
Ci. Spera-in Deo; quioniam: adhuc confi-
tebor illi;. Salutare vultus mei, &~ Deus
Meus. . : | ,
Pr. Gloria Patri, & Filio, & Spiritu San@o.
*- @i: Sicut erat in principio, & nunc, &:
femper, & in feecula feculorum, Amen...
Pr. Introibo ad altare Deiz.
Gl. Ad. Deum, quis enticaty juventutem
mean,
<7 & aa 3 SF Pr.
598 The Serung ai Majs.
Pr. Adjutorium noftrum in nomine Do-
mini.” ,
Cl. Qui fecit coelam & terram.
_Pr. Gonfiteor Deo, &c.
Cl. Mifereatur tui omnipotens Deus, &
dimiffis peccatis tuls, perducat te ad vitam
wternam.
Pr. Amen.
Cl, Confiteor Deo omnipotenti, beate
Maria femper Virgini, beato Micheli Ar-
changelo, beato Joanni. Baptifte, fanétis
Apoftolis Petro & Paulo, omnibus Sanétis,
& tibi, Pater, quia peccavi nimis cozita-
tione, verbo & opere [ here firzke your Breaf
thrice mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima
culpa. Ideo precor beatum Mariam fem-
per Virginem, beatum Michalum Archan-
gelum, beatum Joannem Baptiftam, fanGos
Apoftolos Petrum & Paulum, omnes Sanc-
tos, & te, Pater, orare pro me ad Dominum ©
Deum noftrum.
Pr. Miferetur vefiri, &e. cad
Cl. Amen. |
Pr. Indulgentiam, abfolutionem, &c.
Ci. Amen. : :
Pr. Deus, tu converfus, vivificabis nos.
Cl. Et plebs tua leetabivur in te.
Pr, Ottende nobis, Domine, mifericor-
diam tuam.
Cl. Et falutare tuum da nobis,
Pr. Domine, exaudi oratiouem meam.
Cl, Et clamor meus ad te veniat,
gH, Pr, @
&
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The Serving at Ma/fs. 539
Pr. Dominus vobifcum.
Cl. Et cum f{piritu tuo. 7
Pr, Kyrie eleifon. Cl. Kyrie eleifon.
Pr, Kyrie eleifon. . Cl. Chrifte eleifon.
Pr. Chrifte eleifon. Cl. Chrifte eleifon,
Pr. Kyrie eleifon. | Cl. Kyrie eleifon.
Pr. Kyrie eleifon. :
Pr. Dominus vobifeum, or FleGamus
genua. i gb .
Cl, Et cum fpiritu tuo. or Levate.
Pr. Per omnia fecula feculorum.
‘Cl, Amen. |
At the End of the Epiftle, fay
Deo gratias.
The Epifile, Gradual and Alleluia, or Tralt being read,
remove the Ma/s-Booh to the Right-hand of the Altar, making
a Reverence as you pafs before the Meddle of the Altar.» Let
the Clerk ever kneel or ftand on the contrary Side to the
Mafs-Book, 3
~ Pr, Dominus vobifcum.
Cl. Et cum fpiritu tuo. |
Pr- Sequentia fan&i Evangelii fecundum,
ccc. :
Making the Sign of the Crofs on the Forehead, &c. fay
Cl.. Gloria tibi Domine,
‘Make a Reverence at the Beginning of the Gofvel, at the
Name of FESUS, and at the End, faying
C}. Laus tibi, Chrifte. |
Pr. Dominus vobifcum,
Cl, Et cum f{piritu tuo. |
540 ~The Serving at’ Mafs.
When the Pricft uncovers the Chalice, the Clerk is to have
ihe Wine Cruet in his Right-hand and Water in his Left,
holding them aero/s ready to prefent, and receives the Wine
back with hisd e/t-kand that he may give the Water with his
Right; then he folds and lays the Towel at the End of the
Altar for the Prieft to wipe his Fingers; then tekes the Water
Cruct in his Righi-hand, and the Plate or Bafon in his Left,
and pours the Water gently over the Prtefi’s Fingers: Ths
done, he kneels in his former Place, and anfwers,.
Pr. Orate Fratres. ;
Cl. Sulcipiat Dominus facrificium a mas
mibus tuis ad laudem & gloriam nominis
dui, ad utilitatem quoque noltram, weet
etches fande. .
Pr. Per omnia feecula feculorum.
Cl. Amen.
Pr. Dominus vobifcum.,
Cl. Et cum fpiritu tuo, .
Pr. Surfum corda-
Cl. Habemus ad Dominum.
Pr, Gratias agamus Domino Deo noftra.
Cl- Dignum & juftum eft.
At Sanétus, Sanftus, Sanflus, Be, ring the Bell, though
this is omitted where Mafs ts fatd in Private tieu/fes,
When you fee the Prich fread his Hands over the Chalice,
you muft give Warning, by ringing the Bell, of the Conyecra-
tion, which ts about to be made.- Khen kneeling in the Mid-
dle of the Altar, hold up the Vefiment with your Lefi-hind,
and having the Bellin your Right, you muji ring during the
Elevation of the Hoff; which being ended, kt/s the Vefiment ;
and do the fame at the Elevation of the Chalice, and as oft
yw. you pafs by the bleffed Sacrament, you mufi adore on your
nees.
Pr. Per omnia fecula feculorum,
C}. Amen. . <
Pr, Et ne nos inducas in tentationem.
Ch,
The Serving at Maj. BAL
€l. Sed libera nos a malo.
Pr. Per omnia faecula feculorum.
Cl, Amen. |
Pr. Pax Domini fit femper vobifeum.
Cl. Et cum fpiritu tuo.
The Priefts Communion being ended, be ready to give him»
Wine and Water, and if there be Communicants, provide a.
Towel, and fay the Confiteor. Then remove the Book. to the
Left-hand of the Altar, Take the Towel-from the Commu-
nicants, and return to your-former place.
Pr. Dominus vobifcum,
Cl. Et cum fpiritu tuo.
Pr. Per omnia fecula feeulorums
Cl. Amen. |
Pr. Ite, Miffa eft ;. or Benedicamus- Do-
mino: | |
Cl. Deo gratias.
in Maffes for the Dead.
Pr. Requiefcant in pace. Cl. Amen.
Remgue the Book, if it be left open ; kneel in. the Midd le-of*
the Altar, and take the Prief’s Blefing.
Pr. Pater & Filius & Spiritus San@tus.
Ck A m e n.
Then retzre to your former Place, Ge.
At the Beginning of the Gofpel.’
Pr. Dominus vobifcum.
Cl. Et cum fpiritu tue. :
Pr. Initium, or Sequentia Sanéti Evan-
gelii, &c. : r
~~ Cl. Gloria tibi, Domine.
In the End fay, Deo gratias. :
Put out the Candles, and lay up all decently and carefully,
and if you have Leifure, meditate a while, kifs the Altar, fay-
tng, 1 will adore in the Place where his Feet have ftood :
And depart,
TE oe
( 542 )
RE SCETETE ECE E TERE ECS
| : | .% HE | |
Mt OE age Ege op
OF THE
BLESSED VIRGIN M'A RY.
As it was ordered by Pope Pius V. of the @
Holy Order of Preachers. .
THE NIneTEENTH EDiTION. |
An Advertifement concerning the fellowing
Method of faying the Rofary: :
HE Devotion of the Rofary, fo called, becaufe
it ts, ast were, a Chaplet of Spiritual Rofes, that — |
zs, of moft fweet and devout Prayers, was firft revealed by the |
bleffed Virgin to St, Dominick (the Father and Founder of ~ |
the Holy Order of Preachers) as a Devotion moft efficacious — ;
Jor obtaining all Favours from God, and averting all Evils
Jrom Ourfelves. It confifis of fifteen Our Fathers, anda
Hundred and Fifty Hail Marys; and it is divided into three ~
Paris, whereof each containeth in it Five Vens; that ts, —
five Our Fathers and Fifty Hail Marys, a
a
Advertifement. _ 543
To each of thefe Tens in the following Method, is affigned
cone of the principal Myftertes of the Life of our Sawour, or
‘his Bleffed Mother, as Matter of Meditateon, wherein the
Mind ts to exercife itfelf, while it prays, and thercfore-ts pre-
fixed before the Beginning of each Ten:
The Myfteries alfo, in Number Fifteen, are divided into three
Parts, anfwerable to the three Paris of the Rofary ; that ts,
-anto Five Joyful Myfteries for the fir? Part of the Rofary,
FiveSorrowtul for the fecond, and Five Glorious for the third,
Now the Ufe of the following Method or Manner-of faytn
the Rofary, Doth in a devout Application or pps -
the Mind tothe Myftery afigned, while the Ten is /aying,
and raifing correfpondent Affetiions in the Will, uch as. the
‘Devotion and Neceffity of each one fhall fuggeft : For example,
Jn the firft Part, of Joy and Thankfgiving for the Coming
of our Redeemer, andthe great Work of our Redemp-
tion. Inthe fecond, of Compaflion for the Suffering of
our Lord, and Contrition for our Sins, which were the
Caufe of them. In the third, of Exultation for the Glory —
of our Saviour, and Avs, Blefled Mother; and of Hope,
through the Merits of his Pajion, and her Interceffion, to be
‘made Partakers of Glory with them. |
He that frall fay the Rofary ‘with this Attention of Mind,
and ~ffettion of Will, fhall undoubtedly give muck Glory to
God, and reap much Benefit to his own Soul. Which was the
Intention of Pope Pius the Fifth (a moft pious Son of Sts
Dominick) in ordering the Meditatons and Prayers, as they
care fet down in the following Method. }
The
644 ‘Phe Rofary.
The Foyful Myfteries affgned for Mondays
and Thurldays through the Year, and for
Sundays im Advent, ard -after Epiphany
édl-Lent
Tue First Mystery,
The Meditatron.
¥ ET uscontemplate in this Myftery, how
aaa the Angel Gabriel faluted the Bleffed
Virgin Mary, with the Title of Full of Graces
-and declared to her ‘the incarnation of our
Lord and Saviour fefus Chriit.
Then fay, Our Father, &c. once.
Hail Mary, ten mes.
¢ 3 UR. Father, who art in Heaven, hal-
: y lowed be:thy name; thy Kingdom
come; thy willbe done on earth, as it is in
Heaven ; give us this day our daily bread ;
and forgive us, our trefpafles, as we forgive
them that trefpafs againfl us; -and lead us
not into temptation: -but deliver us from
‘evil. Amen.”
TJ AIL Mary, full of Grace, our Lord is
with thee; bleffed art thou amongft
women; and bleffed is the fruit-of thy womb,
Jefus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray
for us finners, ‘now, and at the hour of our
death. Amen.
The prayer.
es O Holy Mary, Queen of Virgins, by the
moit high myttery of the incarnation
of
The Rojary, 545
‘ef thy Beloved Son, our Lord Jefus Chrift,
‘by which our falvation was fo happily begun ;
obtain-for us, by thy interceflion, light to
know ‘this fo great benefit, which he has
beftowed on us, vouchfafing in it to make
himfelf our brother, and Thee his own moft
‘beloved Mother, our Mother alfo. Amen.”
The Second Myftery-
The Meditation.
Y ETus contemplate in this myfiery,
how the bleffed Virgin Mary, under-
{tanding from the Angel, that her coufin
St. Elzabeth had conceived, went: with
thafte into the mountains of Fudea, to
wvifit her, and remained with her three
months. |
The Prayer.
hs Holy Virgin, moft fpotlefs mirror of
humility; by that exceeding charity
which moved thee to vifit thy holy coufin
St. Elizabeth; obtain for us, by thy inter-
-ceffion, that our hearts may be {o vifited by
thy moft holy Son; that free from all fin,
we may praile him, and give him thanks for
ever, Amen.” i
The Third Myftery.
The Meditation.
ET us contemplate in this myftery,
how the bleffed Virgin Mary, when
the time of her delivery was come,
brought forth our he ide Chrift Jelus,
Bb b
ke
+46 The. Rofary. |
at midnight, and laid him in a manger, ‘bee
-caufe there was no room for him in the im —
-at Bethlem.
The Prayer.
Bi nc Moft pure Mother of God, by thy
Virginal and moft joyful delivery, by —
which thou gaveft to the world thy only Son
our Saviour ; we-befeech thee, obtain for us, —
by thy interceflion, grace to lead fo pure and ©
holy a life in this world, that we may worthi-
ly fing without ceafing, both day and night,
the mercies of thy Son, and his benefits to
us by thee, Amen.”
The Fourth Myftery.
The Medstition. .
LET wus contemplate in this myftery,
how the moft bleffed Virgin Mary, on ~
the day of her purification, prefented —
the Child Jefus in the temple, where
‘holy Szmeon giving thanks to God, with ©
great devotion, received him into his —
arms.
The Prayer. | |
as O Holy Virgin, moft admirable miftrefs —
and pattern of obedience, who didft —
prefent in the temple the Lord of the tem- —
‘ple; obtain for us, by thy beloved Son, that —
with holy Szmeon and devout Anna, we may —
praife and glorify him for ever, Amen.
we The
qhe Rofary: 547
The Fifth Myftery.
The Meditation.
Ae ates us contemplate in this myftery,
5 how the bleffed Virgin Mary, having
loft, without any fault of hers, her beloved
Son in Ferufalem, fhe fought him for the
{pace of three days, andat length found him,
the third day, in the temple, inthe midtt of
the Dottors, difputing with them, being of
the age of twelve years.
The Prayer.
KA OST bleffed Virgin, more than mar-
& tyr in thy fuffering, and yet the
comfort of fuch as are affli@ed, by that un-
fpeakable joy, wherewith thy foul was ra-
vifhed, in finding thy beloved Son in the
temple, in the midft of the Do@ors, difput-
ing with them; obtain of him for us, fo to
feek him, andto find him in the Holy Ca-
tholick Church, that we may never be fepa-
rated from him, Amen.”
Salve Regina.
Hit happy Queen, &c- as in the Cffice,
page 34.
Verf. Pray for us, Holy Mother of God,
Relp. That we may be made worthy of
the promifes of Chrift, |
Let us pray.
fie EAR, O merciful God, the prayer
of thy fervants, that we, who meet
together in the fociety of the moft holy Ro-
faery of the Blefled Virgin, Mother of God,
Bbbea may,
548 The Rofary. i
may, by her interceflion, be delivered by: 7
thee from the dangers that continually bang 7
over us, ‘apis .
The Dilorsas or Sorrowful Myfteries for Tuel 7
days and Fridays through the Year, and for 4
Sundays 7-Lent, S|
The Firft Myftery.
The Medita‘ion.
Lo us contemplate in this myflery, |
how our Lord Jefus was fo affl Ged: FF
for us, in the garden of Geth/eman. that
his body was bathed in a bloody f{weaty
which ran. down in great drops to the ‘ground, g
Our Father, i bef
Hail Mary, ine baat pans
The Pray eT
OST Holy Virgin; more than mar~ ©
tyr, by that: ardent. prayer, which ~
i beloved Son poured forth to his Father. ©
in the garden; vouchfafe to intercede for
us, that our paffions being reduced to the
obedience of reafon, we may. always, and in. ©
all things, conform and fubject ourfelves to, a
the will of God, Amen.”
The Second Myftery.
The Meditation.
Lime us contemplate in this myftery,
how our Lerd Jefus Chrift was moft
cxuelly {courged in Pilate’s houfe, the
number
The Rofary. 549
number of the ftripes they gave him being
above five thoufand.
(As it was revealed to St. Bridget.)
The Prayer.
+ Mother of God, overflowing foun-
tain of patience, by thofe ftripes thy
only and moft beloved. Son vouchfafed to
fuffer for us, obtain of him for us grace,
that. we may know how to: mortify our re-
bellious fenfes, and cut-off all occafions of
finning, with that fword of grief and compaf-
fion, which pierced thy moft tender foul,
Amen.”
The Third Nayftery-
The Meditation.
F T us contemplate in this myftery,
‘how thofe cruel minifters of Satan
made a crown of fharp thorns, and moft
cruelly preffed it on the molt. facred. head of
our Lord Jefus €brift.
The Prayer.
" Mother of our Eternak Prince, and
King of Glory, by thofe fharp thorns
wherewith his moft holy head was pierced ;
we befeech thee, that by thy interceffion we
may be delivered here. from all motions of
pride, and, in the day of judgment, from that.
confufion which our fins deferve, Amen.” —
The Fourth Myftery,.
The Medrtatzon..
LET us contemplate inthis: myftery,
how our Lord Jelas-Chrift, being fentenced
Bbbeg to
550 The Rofary. Lae
to die, bore with great patience the crols,
which was laid upon him, for his greater tor-
ment and ignominy.
The Prayer.
+ QO Holy Virgin, Example of Patience,
by the moft painfal carrying of the
crofs, in which thy Son our Lord Jefus
Chrift bore the heavy weight of our fins, ob-
tain for us of him, by thy interceffion, cou- q
rage and flrength to follow his fteps, and
bear our crofs after him to the end of our
life, Amen.”
The Fifth Myiery
The Meditation.
LET us contemplate in this myftery,
how our Lord Jefus Chrift, being come to
Mount Calvary, was ftripped of his cloaths,
and his hands and feet moft cruelly nailed to —
the crofs, in the prefence of his moflaffli@ted _
Mother. .
The Prayer.
if @) Holy Mary, Mother of God, «as the
body of thy beloved Son was for us
extended on the crofs, fo may our defires be
daily more and more ftretched out in his
fervice, and our hearts wounded with com- ~
paffion of bis moft bitter fufferings, And 7
thou, O moft blefled Virgin, vouchfafe to ~
negotiate for and with us, the work of our
falvation, by thy powerful interceffion, 4men.”
f AIL, bappy Queen, ‘cc. as in page 346
with the Verf. and Prayer, asin p.547~
Lhe
~The Rofary. «at
The Glorious Myfteries for Wednefdays and |
Saturdays through the Year, and for Sun-
days after after, il Advent.
The Fir Myftery.
The Meditation.
LET us contemplate, in this myftery,
how our Lord Jefus Chrift triumphing: glo-
rioufly over death, rofe again the: third day
immortal and impaffable,
Mur Father, } dats,
Hail Mary, j as above.
The prayer.
” Glorious Virgin Mary, by that un-
* unfpeakable joy thou receivedft in
the refurreétion of thy only Son, we befeech
thee obtain of him for us, that our hearts
May never go altray after the falfe joys of
this world, but may be ever and wholly
employed in the purfuit of the only true and
folid joys of Heaven, Amen.” —
The Second Myftery.
The Meditation.
LET us contemplate in this my ftery,
jhow our Lord Jefus Chrift, forty days
afier his refurrection, afcended into Heaven,
attended by Angels, in the fight of bis, moft
Holy Mother, his Holy Apoftles and
) Difciples,
B52 The Rofary. —
Difciples, to the great admiration of them
all.
The prayer,
ss Mother of God, Comfort of the Af-
flied, as thy Beloved Son, when he
afcended into Heaven, lifted up his hands,
and bleffed his Apoftles ; fo vouchfafe, moft
holy. Mother, to lift up thy pure hands to
him for us, that we may enjoy the benefits
of his bleffing, and thine here on earth, and
hereafter in Heaven, Amen.”
The Third Myftery,
The Meditation.
LET us contemplate in this myflery»
how our Lord Jefus Chrift being feated on
the right hand of God, fent, as he had pro-
mifed, the Holy Ghoft upon his Apoliles ;
who, after he was. afcended, returning to
Ferufalem, continued in prayer and fuppli-
cation with the Blefled Virgin Mary, ex-
petting the performance. of his promiie.
The prayer. :
se Sacred Virgin, ‘Tabernacle of the
Holy Ghoft, we beleech thee, ob- —
tain by thy interceffion, that this moft fyeet .
Comforter, whom thy beloved Son. fent —
down upon his Apofttes, filling them there-
by with fpiritual joy, may teach us in. this
world ihe true way of falvation, and make us
walk in the paths of virtue and good works,
Amen.” 7 a
The
The Rofary: 553
The Fourth Myftery.
The Meditation.
I. ET us contemplate in this myftery,
how the glorious Virgin, twelve years after
the refurretion of her Son, paffed out
of this world unto him, and was by him
afflumed into Heaven, accompanied by the
Holy Angels.
The prayer.
=‘ () Moft prudent: Virgin, who entring the
= Heavenly palace didft fill the Holy
— Angels with joy, andMan with hope, vouch-
efafe to intercede for us at the hour of our
= death ; that, free from the illufions and temp-
= tations of the devil, we may joyfully and {e-
= curely pa{s out of this temporal itate, to- enjoy
= the happinefs of eternal life, Amen.”
The Fifth Myfterys.
the Meditation.
LET us contemplate in this myftery;
= how the glorious Virgin Mary was, with
2 great jubilee and exultation of the whole
court of Heaven, and particular glory of all.
the Saints, crowned by hex San with the
brighteft diadem of Glory.
: 130s The prayers
* ‘@) Glorious Queen of all the Heavenly
citizens, we-befeech thee, accept.this
Rofary, which, as a crown of rofes, we offer
at thy feet; and grant, moft gracious. Lady, —
that -
ge 4 The Libany of Loretto.
that by thy interceflion our fou!s may be in«
flamed with fo ardent a defire of feeing thee
fo glorioufly crowned, that ft may neverdie 7
mus, until it fhall be ehanged into the F
happy fruition of thy blefled fight. Amen:
The Anthem, Salve Regina Mater, &c-
Ht happy. Queen: Thou merey's Parent, hail.
Life, Hope, and comfort of this earthly vale. -
To thee Eve's wretched children raife their cry,
Tn fighs and tears to thee we.fuppliants fly.
Rife, glorigus Advocate, exert thy love,
And let our vows thofe eyes of pity move.
O {weet, O pious Maid ¥ for us obrain,
For us who tong havein our exile Jain,
To fee thy Infant Jefus, and with him to reign.
With the Verf. and Prayer, as in p. 526.
And Litany of the bleffed Virgin, as followeth.
The LITANY of Loretio, -
So called ; becaufe itis ufually Jung in that facred Church of
Loretto, on all the Saturdays am the Year, and Feafts of
the B, V. Mary.
Anthem. |
U Nder thy prote€tion we take our re-
~fuge, O holy Mother of God: de-
fpife not our petitions in. our neceffities ;
but ever deliver us from all dangers,
glorious and bleffed Virgin.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Chrift, have mercy, on us.
Lord, bave merey on us,.
Chrift; hear us.
Chriff, grant our petitions.
| God
The Litany of Loretto. 555
God the Father of Heaven, have mercy
upon us.
God the Son. Redeemer of the world, have
mercy upon us.
God the Holy Ghoft, have mercy npon us.
_ Holy Trinity, one God, have mercy upon
us;
Holy Mary, .
Holy Mother of God,
Holy Virgin of Virgins,
Mother of Chrift,
Mother of Divine Grace,
Moft pure Mother,
Moft chafte Mother, ae
Undefiled Mother,
Untouched Mother,
Moft amiable Mother,
Molt admirable Mother,
Mother of our Creator,
Mother of our Redeemer,
Moft prudent Virgin,
Moft venerable Virgin,
~ Moft renowned Virgin,
Moft powerful Virgin,
Moft merciful Virgin,
Moft faithful Virgin, |
Mirror-of juftice,
Seat of Wifdom,
Caufe of our Joy,
Spiritual Veffel,
Veffel of fingular devotion,
Myftical Role,
ton 40f rag
Tower
556 The Litany of Loretts.
Tower of David,
Tower of Ivory,
Houle of Gold,
Ark of the Covenant,
Gate of Heaven,
Morning Star,
Health of the Weak,
Refuge of Sinners,
Comfort of the Affli€ted,
Help of Chriftians,
Queen of Angels,
Queen of Patriarchs,
Qucen of Prophets,
- Queen of Apoftles,
Queen of Martyrs,
Queen of Confeffors,
Queen of Virgins,
Queen of all Saints, |
Lamb of God, who takeft away the fins of
the world, fpare us, O Lord.
Lamb of God, who takeft away the fins of ©
the world, hear us, O Lord. ]
Lamb of God, who takeft away the fins of 7
-, the world, have mercy on us. a
Anthem. : ;
th bear thy prote@tion we take our re-
fuge, O holy Mother of God: def- i.
pife not our petitions in our neceflities; —
but ever deliver us from all dangers, O glo= —
‘rious and blefled Virgin, yg
Verl. Pray for us, O holy Mother of J;
God, 1
Refp. |
‘sn sof big
Prayers for the King. 557
Refp. That we may be made worthy of
Pe
the promiles of Chrift.
Let us Pray.
po forth thy grace, we befeech thee,
- © Lord, into our hearts, that we, who
by the Angel’s meflage have known the
incarnation of Chrift thy Son, may, by his
paflion and crofs, be partakers in the glory
of his refurreGion. Through the fame Chrift
our Lord, Amen. . bi
Verf, May the divine help always remain
with us. Refp. Amen. 3
Verf. And may the fouls of the faithful,
through the mercy of God, reft in peace.
Refp. 4men. :
Prayers for the KING.
Psaum ig. Exaudiat te Dominus.
Jt is believed that David compofed this pfaln to be fung by
the people when he was ready to march again the
Ammonites. it contains a prayer for the happy Succes
of his War.
() UR Lord hear thee in the day of
, tribulation: the name of the God of
Facob protect thee. |
May he fend thee help from the fan@uary ;
and from Sion defend thee. :
May he be mindful of all thy facrifices ;
and may thy holocauft be made fat.
May he give thee according to thy heart;
and confirm all thy defigns.
We fhall rejoice in thy falvation; an
i$ Ciece in
558 Prayers for the King.
in the name of our .God we fhall be mag-
nified.
May our Lord fulfil all thy petitions;
now have'l known that our,Lord has faved
his anointed.
He will hear him from his ‘holy sieabent
‘the falvation of his right hand is Eevee
ful.
Some truft in chariots, and fome in
horfes; but we will call on the name of the
Lord our God.
“They have -been entangled, and are fal-
‘ten; but we have rifen, and are fet up-
right.
Lord, fave:the ‘king, -and hear us on the
day we fhall call upon thee.
Glory be to the Father, &c.
As it was in the beginning, &c.
‘Verl. Lord, fave N. our king.
‘Ref. And hear us on the day we fhall
-call upen-thee,
Let us Pray.
J ¥défeech thee, Almighty God, that
thy fervant NV. our king, who through
thy mercy, bas undertaken the government
of this kingdom, may likewife receive the
increafe of all virtues, wherewith being
adorned, :he may both avoid enormous vi-
ces, vanquifh his enemies, and, by thy
grace, come to thee, who art ‘the way,
the truth, and the life. Who liveft and
reignett, &e. Amen.
ACTESTA-.
( 559 )
FPP PLUME LAETALTEAVIAX
A.
FX. Suh Ped ea
To be. made by a- Good Chriftian every Day:
In Nomine Domiri. Amen.
-Bequeath my foul to God, my body to
the earth, rottennefs, and.worms. ‘
I abandon freely all. temporal goods,
which are but mere vanity. .
I repent me with all my heart, of my fins,
and that for the love of God.
F pardon with my heart and foul all my
enemies,
I believe in God, one in effence, and
three in perfons, Father, Son, and Holy
Ghoft;. Creator, Confervator, Redeemer;
and Remunerator, all powerful, all good, a‘!
bountiful, all wife; that the fecond Perfon,
who is the Son of God; became man, and
died upon the crofs to fave me; and what-
foever the holy Catholic, Apoftolic, and Roe
man Church doth propofe unto me to be-
lieve,
Cce2 I hope
560 A Tefament, &c.
I hope by the bounty of God, through
the merits of my dear Saviour Jefus Chrift, —
the remiffion of “all my fins, and life ever- —
Jafting.
I love God for his own fake alone, with
all my heart, with all my foul, and with all
my ftrength, ,
~ I refign myfelf purely, entirely, and ab-
folutely, to the difpofition of his moft holy,
and always adorable will, being ready to do
and fuffer, to be healthy and fick; to live
and die, when, and after what manner he
pleafes ;. his holy will be done, Amen, Amen.
Irecommend my foul, and all that I am,
to the interceffion of the glorious Virgin
Mary, my good mother and advocate; to
St. Faleph, aod my Angel Guardian, and to
all the Angels, and Saints of Heaven, whom
I moft humbly befeech to affifl me at the
hour of my death. :
For my laft words, I fay in profound bu
mility and contrition of heart, Fefus Maria,
defiring to die‘in their bleffed arms. And
when my tongue cannot pronounce thefe
holy names, IT defire to do it with my heart.
ifmy heart fhould fail me, with my judg-
ment, I fay them now for then, with all af-
feGion; and poffible humility, Fefus Maria,
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A TasLe OF THE CONTENTS.
Calendar. Page vil
A Table of Feafts of Obligation, Days
of Devotion, Fafting and Abftinence, as
obferved in England, according to the
new Regulations XIE
A Table of Moveable Feafts xvi
Pienary Indulgences, as obferved in the dif-
ferent Diftri€ts in England _ XVie
The Sum of Chriftian Do€trine.
An Univerfal Prayer.
The Office of the B. V. Mary from. the Pu-.
rification to Advent Page 4
The fame in Advent ‘ 64
The fame after Advent : 114
The Office for the Dead, © 153
‘The Gradual Pfalms. 201
The Seven Penitential Pfalms- 218
The Long Litanies. . 222
Prayers and Colletts after the Litanies, fe,
222
A Prayer to require the Suffrages of Saints,
3 235
A Prayer for the Holy Church ibid
A Prayer for the Chief Bifhop 226 .
A Prayer for all Degrees of the Church ibid
“A Prayer in any Neca wbid
A. Prayer againft the Perfecution of the
Church | aid
A
A Table of the Contents.
A Prayer to demand Help againft Infidels
237
A Prayer for the Emperor ibid
A Prayer to be faid every Day in Time of
Perfecution ibid
A Prayer for thofe that receive inftru€tion -
before Baptifm 238
A Prayer for the Extirpation of all ih
abi
WX Prayer for Heretics and Schifmatics 239
A Prayer for the unbelieving Jews ibid
A Prayer for Pagans ibid
A Prayer in Time of War abid
A Prayer againit Pagans and Turks 240
A Prayer for Peace ibid
A Prayer in Time of Famine and Peflilence
ibid
A Prayer for Rain abid
A Prayer for Fair Weather QAL
A Prayer in any Tribulation ebid
A Prayer for Forgivenefs of Sin. ebid «
A Prayer for thofe that are tempted and
troubled _ thid
A Prayer for fuch as are on a eile
abi
Av Prayer for the Sick, 242
A Prayer in Tribulation for Sin, abid
A Prayer for Remiffion of Sin, ibid
A Prayer for the Living, abid
A Prayer forthe Living and the Dead; 207d
A Prayer to be faid at the Beginning and
End of a Congregation, 243
Prayers.
A Fable of the Contents,
Prayers to beg the Grace of the Holy Ghoft,
244
A Thankfgiving, 247
Prayers on Journeys, 248
The Office of the Holy Crofs, 250
The Office ofthe Holy Ghoft, 255
A Daily Exercife, 260
Prayers before and after Sacramental Con-
feffion, _ 267
A Method of Examination of Confcience
270
A Prayer before and after Communion, ‘ 3
Devout Prayers upon the Paflion, 278.
“Of the Seven Words which Chrift fpoke,
‘hanging on the Crofs, } 282
Salutations to all the Parts of Chrift, anda
Recommendation of one’s felfto him, 289
A Prayer to the Virgin Mary, 284
Another.to her and St. Yohn Evangelelt,
286
‘The Complaint of the blefled Virgin, 288
A. Recommendation tothe B. V. Mary, 290
A Prayer of St. Gregory, Pope, 291
A Prayer unto our Saviour Jefus, 292
A Prayer of St. Thomas of Aquine, 299
A Prayer before Study, ~ 3 OR
A Prayer in Affli€ion, 296
A Pfalm and Prayer in Tribulation, -2g9
The Creed of Athanafus, 301
The Paffion of our Lord Jefus, according to
St. Matthew, OF
3
The Paffion according to St. Mark. = 936
“The Paflion according to St. Luke, 326
The
A Table of the Contents,
The Paffion according to St. Fohn, 935
Hymns throughout the Year, 343
Prayers upon Sundays, &c. i
Prayers i in Time of Lent, | : 429
Prayers proper to Saints, 468
Prayers common to Saints. 518
The Litanies of Jefus, with a Hymn com-
pofed by St. Bernard, | 528
A*Prayer of St. Augw/tin, recommended by
Pope Urdan VIII. 533
-Anthems and Prayers to be faid in the Time
of the Plague, 535
The Manner how to ferve at Mas, 537
The Rofary of the B. V. Mary. 542
The Litany of Loreto. 554
A Pfalm and Prayer for the King, 557
The Teftament to be made by a good Chrif-
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FAITH, HOPE and CHARITY.
Recommended to the frequent ufe of the Faithful liviag
| amongft Hereticks and Infidels:
A Prayer to be faid before thefe Ads.
(Aes and eternal God, grant to us the In-
creafe of Fajth, Hope and Charity, and that we
may deferve to obtain what thou promifeft, make us to
love what thou commandeft, Threugh Chrift our Lord,
‘Amen,
An A& of Faith.
| Baie believe there isone God, and that inthis one
.» God, there are, three Perfons, the Father, the Son,
and the Holy Ghoft: That the Son took to. himfelf the
nature of Man from the Virgin Miry’s Womb, by the
operation of the: Power of the Holy Gholt, and that in
this onr human Nature, he was crucified and died far
us, that afterwards he rofe again, and afcended up into
Heéaven, from whence he fhall come to repay the Juft
everlafling Glory, and the Wicked everlafing Pamfh. |
ment: Moreover, I believe whatfoever elfe the Catholic
Church propofes to be believed, and this becaufe God,
who is the fovereign Truth, which can neithér deceive
nor be deceived, has-revealed all thefe Things to this his..
Church. . ' ,
An Aa of Hope.
My God,.. relying on thy..Almighty Power, and ‘
thy .infinite Mercy. and Goodnefs, and becanie
- thou. art faithful to thy Promifes, I trufl in thee that
thou wit grant me Forgivenefs of. my Sims, through the
merits of Jefus Chrifithy Son ; and that thou wilt give
rac. the afliflance of thy Grace, with which 1 may la-
‘bour.to continue to theeud, in the diligent exercile of
; "all.
: Nae
all good Warks, and may deferve to obtain the Glory
which thou haft promifed in Heaven.
” An At of Charity.
Q) Lord, my God, I love thee with my whole heart,
and above all Things, becaufe thou, O God, art -
ihe fovereign Good; and for thy own infinite perfec-
tions, art molt worthy of all Love, And for thy fake,
J alfo love my Neighbour asmyfelf., 9 4)
An Bad of Contrition. -
O My God, for the fake of thy fovercign Goodnefs,
3 and infinite Perfection, which I love above all
_ Things, I am exceedingly forry from the bottom of my
heart, and am grieved for having offended, ‘by my Sins,
this thy infinite Goodnefs; and I ‘firmly refolve, by the
afiftance of thy Grace, never more to offend thee for the
Time to. come, and carefully to ‘avoid the otcafions of
Sin. : KP a... ae
i) tuiessd belt bu cheowaiiad od cx aah Meee
ip moft. holy Father, Pope,Clement. XIV. em-
“a bracing with his paternal Charity all the Faithful
-of Chrift, who dwell amongft Heretics and Infidels, and
intending to promete amongft. them the moft pious and
-wholefome. Ufe of making-very frequent_ Ads of the
Theological’ Virtues ‘of Faith, Hope ‘and ‘Charity, has.
been pleafed to grant an Indulgence of fevén Years, and
of as many quadiagen@ or forty Days, to every one‘ofthe
“Faithful of (Chrilt above mentioned, for every’ Time,
“when being difpofed at ‘leait by Contrition of ‘Heart,
“they fhall ei ite and devoutly recite the faid Als.
Which Grant is to Rand good for all fature"Timess
THE LIEY O2 JAS T B:
Be ye followers of me, as I alfo am of Chrift. 1 Cor. xi. Be
EDITATE often on thefe words of the Apoftle;
VE The juft Man liveth by Faith. Rom. i. 17. O what
great things are contained in this life of faith! =~
- The life of faith fuppofes that one firfl dies to one's
felf. The fpiritwal death is here the beginning of lifes
You are dead, faid the Apoftle, Col. iii. 3. and your life
‘as hid with Chrift in God,
Tolive in faith, is to be only taken up with the
objes of faith; tothink only on the. promifes of faith ;
and to meke our judgment of all things here below, only
wh refpe& to their agreeableneis. with the things of
ath. . .
To lve by faith, is to lead, as to the exteriour, a:-
common life; but as to the interiour, to unite ‘one's
felf continually to God through Jefus Chriff.
"Phe life of faith maintains itfelf principally by
“mental prayer and the holy communion. Prayer puts:
‘to death the old man; and the holy communion gives
‘life to the new man. oe Dancers, sth Pee Acne
- Nothing is more coatrary to the life of faith, than
the frequenting the highlife world, with its: compa-
nies and affemblies; idle vifits, vain compliments,
frivolous letters, &c. _ But on the other hand, the dife
af faith grows in us by godly converfation, by at union
“with thofe who are truly good, snd “by the reading
“of fuch fpiritual books, as are folidly pious and at-
fective. , bath |
The life of faith is much hindered by the tumult of
bufinefs, by the trouble of {eruples, by the prejudices
_ of the mind, by the defires of feeing, of acquiring,
_ of poffefling, of pleafing, or of being cfteemed: all thefe
things deftroy that life of faith, which is ‘the life of the
foul. wie
The man of faith is mild, he iskind, he is courteous,
he is true, he is plain and fincere, he is generous, of
good counfel, of good company; he is always even‘ in
his temper, eafy in his converlation, and fets no bounds.
to the help he isready to afford-eyery-one under the ~
variety of human events, , RGN 2
: °
4
To livewell the Life of faith, three things are neceffany ..
ai T'o love entirely Jefus Chri. 2. To have a great
_contempt of the world, and of all that the world. efteems,
3. To live only, and to count only for the prefent
day; is.
‘That the life of faith may be more conformable to the
life of Ghrift, it ought to be accompanied with thelfe.
three things: the love Of humiliations; rejoicing ‘in
Saflerings ; and embracing -poyerty.- All the Sainis
have lived by faith. Amongfl thele heroes of faith, —
fhall mame in particular, St. Paul, Se. Francis and St.
Terelas } a:
We need but to call one glance of the eye on what
pafles in the world, tofee that fearce, any one there
lives by faith. Many people pray, frequent the facra-
ments, give alms, praétife anfteriues; and yet with all
th's, they ceafe not to Live in themfelves, with themfelves,
and fos themfeloes. They have their hnmours, their
retenfions, their. eagerueffes, their. vanities, their
oddities, their fingularitics ; they are unwilling to fuffer,
erto be forgot, or to want any thing, or to deny them-
felves the liberty of judging of their neighbours. They
are devotees quite living of felf love: they have never
known the lile of God, the fife of fash, the internal
man, the interiour union with Jefus Chrift, a
He who faid, J, live, now, not I: but Chrift liveth in
me. Gal. ii, 20. was indeed a man of faith, a foul - quite
anirnated by faith, a heart from which the world was
totally banifbed. He had no longer-a being of his own,
a life of hisown, Jefus Chri was allin him, and he
wasallin Jefus Chrift. St Paul was this man. O Tet
us live by faith, and we-fhali be chearfal,,eafy and happy ;_
the kingdom of God will be in us;. we fhall neither fear
men, nor devils, nor death: We fhall have for our
wealth, the crofs of Jelus Chrift, the facrament of Jefus
Chrift, the body of Jefus Chri, and‘our riches hall
furpafs the riches of Kings. ,
Tranflated from the French, Printed at Lifle, 1771.
Printed by J. P, COGHLAN, Duke-Sureet, Grofyenor-
Ce Square.
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