his justice to the people that shall be born whom our Lord hath made V. And the justice by which he shall render them just shall be shewed to the people At Paris the Tract being ended the Deacon begs God's grace to read the Passion of his Son so effectually to the Faithful that they may receive wholesome effect thereby CLeanse my heart and lips O Almighty God who didst cleanse the lips of the Prophet Isaiah with a burning coal and vouchsafe through thy gracious mercy to purifie me that I may worthily pronounce thy Holy Gospel Through our Lord Jesus Christ c. Then he asks blessing of the Priest V. Reverend Father bless me The Priest blesseth him saying OUr Lord be in thy heart and in thy lips that thou mayest worthily and competently publish his Gospel Amen He incenseth the Book in acknowledgment that Christ is the true Son of God who voluntarily put on humane nature that by his death he might expiate our sins The Acolyts carry the lighted Tapers before the Deacon to signifie the light of Grace and Glory which Christ by his death had merited for the Faithful According to the Roman Directory the Deacon asks not the Priest blessing before his reading of the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ nor says Munda cor meum c nor doth he incense the Book but performs all those Ceremonies afterwards Nor doth the Priest salute the People with Dominus vobiseum c. Our Lord be with you to observe unto us a detestation of perfidious Judas who betrayed our Saviour with a Salute Nor do the People answer Gloria tibi Domine c. Glory be to thee O Lord to express that they do not glorifie Jesus Christ in his Passion Neither are the lighted Tapers carried to signifie that as well upon Earth through the Eclipse of the Sun and Moon the light of the World was extinguished as in Heaven by the Death of our Saviour Lastly The Book is not incensed to mind us that the fervour of Christ's Disciples Prayers was then abated The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ according to St. Matthew Chap. 26 27. AT that time Jesus said to his Disciples You know that after two days shall be Pasche and the Son of man shall be delivered to be crucified Then were gathered together the Chief Priests and Ancients of the People into the Court of the High Priest who was called Caiaphas And they consulted how they might by some guile apprehend Jesus and kill him But they said Not on the Festival-day lest perhaps there might be a tumult among the people And when Jesus was in Bethania in the house of Simon the leper there came to him a Woman having an Alabaster Box of Precious Oyntment and poured it out upon his Head as he sat at the Table And the Disciples seeing it had indignation saying Whereto is this waste for this might have been sold for much and given to the poor And Jesus knowing it said to them Why do you molest this Woman for she hath wrought a good work upon me for the poor you have always with you but me you have not always for she in pouring this Oyntment upon my Body hath done it to bury me Amen I say to you wheresoever this Gospel shall be preached in the whole World that also she hath done shall be reported for a memory of her Then went one of the twelve which was called Judas Iscariot to the Chief Priests and said to them what will you give me and I will deliver him unto you But they appointed unto him Thirty Pieces of Silver And from thenceforth he sought opportunity to betray him And the first day of the Azymes the Disciples cames to Jesus saying Where wilt thou that we prepare the Pasche But Jesus said Go into the City to a certain man and say to him the Master saith My time is at hand with thee do I make the Pasche with my Disciples And the Disciples did as Jesus appointed them and they prepared the Pasche But when it was even he sate down with his twelve Disciples And while they were eating he said Amen I say unto you That one of you shall betray me And they being very sad began every one to say Is it I Lord but he answering said He that dippeth his hand with me in the Dish he shall betray me The Son of man indeed goeth as it is written of him but wo be to that man by whom the Son of man shall be betrayed it were good for him if that man had not been born And Judas that betrayed him said Is it I Rabbi he saith to him Thou hast said And whiles they were at Supper Jesus took Bread and blessed and brake and he gave to his Disciples and said Take ye and eat this is my Body And taking the Chalice he gave thanks and gave to them saying drink ye all of this for this is my Blood of the New Testament which shall be shed for many unto remission of sins And I say unto you I will not drink from henceforth of this fruit of the Wine until that day when I shall drink it with you new in the Kingdom of my Father And an Hymn being said they went forth unto Mount Olivet Then Jesus said to them All you shall be scandalized in me this night For it is written I will strike the Pastor and the sheep of the flock shall be dispersed but after I shall be risen again I will go before you into Galilee And Peter answering said to him Although all shall be scandalized in thee I will never be scandalized Jesus said to him Amen I say to thee that in this night before the Cock crow thou shalt deny me thrice Peter said to him Yea though I should die with thee I will not deny thee Likewise also said all the Disciples Then Jesus cometh with them into a Village called Gethsemani and he said to his Disciples Sit you here while I go yonder and pray And taking to him Peter and the two Sons of Zebedee he began to wax sorrowful even unto death stay here and watch with me And being gone forward a little he fell upon his face praying and saying My Father if it be possible let this Chalice pass from me nevertheless not as I will but as thou And he cometh to his Disciples and findeth them sleeping and he saith to Peter Even so could you not watch one hour with me Watch ye and pray that ye enter not into temptation The spirit indeed is prompt but the flesh weak Again the second time he went and prayed saying My Father if this Chalice may not pass but I must drink it thy will be done And he cometh again and findeth them sleeping for their eyes were become heavy And leaving them he went again and he prayed the third time saying the self-same word Then he cometh to his Disciples and saith to them Sleep ye now and take rest behold the hour approacheth and
my cause O Lord my God The GRADUAL taken out of the 34th Psalm The Church teacheth us in affliction to have recourse to God by Fasting and Prayer and by Patience to overcome our Persecutors and by our Benefits their Ingratitude without seeking revenge but leave that to God whereby we heap coals of fire upon their heads that is we leave them to a more severe correction than we are able to give them though this ought not to be the motive of our patience But if we think to repay them for the ill they do us then their malice overcomes our goodness BUT I when they were troublesome unto me did put on haircloth and humbled my soul in fasting and my prayer shall be turned into my bosome V. Judge O Lord them that hurt me overthrow them that impugn me take arms and shield and rise up to help me The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ according to St. Mark Chap. 14 15. AT that time the Pasche was and Azymes after two days and the Chief Priests and the Scribes sought how they might by some guile lay hands on Jesus and kill him But they said Not on the festival-day lest there might be a tumult of the people And when he was at Bethania in the house of Simon the leper and sate at meat there came a woman having an alabaster box of Oyntment of precious Spiknard and breaking the alabaster box she poured it upon his head But there were certain that had indignation within themselves and said Whereto is this waste of Oyntment made for this Oyntment might have been sold for more than three hundred pence and given to the poor And they murmured against her But Jesus said Let her alone why do you molest her she hath wrought a good work upon me for the poor you have always with you and when you will you may do them good but me you have not always That which she had she hath done she hath prevented to anoint my body to the burial Amen I say to you Wheresoever this Gospel shall be preached in the whole world that also which she hath done shall be told for the memory of her And Judas Iscariot one of the twelve went his way to the Chief Priests for to betray him to them Who hearing it were glad and they promised him that they would give him money And he sought how he might betray him conveniently And the first day of the Azymes when they sacrificed the Pasche the Disciples say to him Whither wilt thou that we go and prepare for thee to eat the Pasche And he sendeth two of his Disciples and saith to them Go ye into the City and there shall meet you a man carrying a pitcher of water follow him and whithersoever he entreth say to the master of the house the master saith Where is my Refectory where I may eat the Pasche with my Disciples And he will shew you a great chamber adorned and there prepare for us And his Disciples went their ways and came into the city and they found as he had told them and they prepared the Pasche And when evening was come he cometh with the twelve And when they were sitting at the table and eating Jesus said Amen I say to you that one of you shall betray me he that eateth with me But they began to be sad and to say to him severally Is it I Who said to them One of the twelve he dippeth with me his hand in the dish And the Son of man indeed goeth as it is written of him but wo to that man by whom the Son of man shall be betrayed it were good for him if that man had not been born And while they were eating Jesus took bread and blessing brake and gave to them and said Take this is my body And taking the chalice giving thanks he gave to them and they all drank of it And he said to them This is my blood of the New Testament that shall be shed for many Amen I say to you that now I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until that day when I shall drink it new in the kingdom of God And an hymn being said they went forth into Mount Olivet And Jesus said to them You shall all be scandalized in me this night for it is written I will strike the Pastor and the sheep shall be dispersed But after that I shall be risen again I will go before you into Galilee And Peter said to him Although all shall be scandalized yet not I. And Jesus said to him Amen I say to thee That thou this day in this night before the cock crow twice shalt thrice deny me But he spake more vehemently Although I should die together with thee I will not deny thee And in like manner also said they all And they came into a farm-place called Gethsemani And he said to his Disciples Sit you here until I pray And he taketh Peter and James and John with him and he began to fear and to be heavy And he said to them My soul is sorrowful even unto death stay here and watch And when he was gone forward a little he fell flat upon the ground and he prayed that if it might be the hour might pass from him And he said Abba Father all things are possible to thee transfer this Chalice from me but not that which I will but that which thou And he cometh and findeth them sleeping And he saith to Peter Simon sleepest thou Couldst thou not watch one hour Watch ye and pray that you enter not into tentation The spirit indeed is prompt but the flesh infirm And going away again he prayed saying the self-same word And returning again he found them asleep for their eyes were heavy and they wist not what they should answer him And he cometh the third time and saith to them Sleep ye now and take rest it sufficeth the hour is come behold the Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of sinners Arise let us go behold he that shall betray me is at hand And as he was yet speaking cometh Judas Iscariot one of the twelve and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs from the Chief Priests and the Scribes and the Ancients And the betrayer of him had given them a sign saying Whomsoever I shall kiss it is he lay hold on him and lead him warily And when he was come immediately going to him he saith Rabbi and he kissed him but they laid hands upon him and held him And one certain man of the standers about drawing out a sword smote the servant of the Chief Priests and cut off his ear And Jesus answering said to them As to a thief are you come out with swords and clubs to apprehend me I was daily with you in the Temple teaching and you did not lay hands on me But that the Scriptures may be fulfilled Then his Disciples leaving him all fled And a certain young man followed him
by a strict examen of our consciences that treating our selves with rigour and severity we may avoid it from God BRethren when you come therefore together in one it is not now to eat our Lord's Supper For every one taketh his own Supper before to eat And one certes is an hungred and another is drunk Why have you not houses to eat and drink in or contemn ye the Church of God and confound them that have not What shall I say to you Praise I you in this I do not praise you For I received of the Lord that which also I have delivered unto you that our Lord Jesus in the night he was betrayed took bread and giving thanks brake and said Take ye and eat this is my body which shall be delivered for you This do ye for the commemoration of me In like manner the chalice also after he had supped saying This chalice is the New Testament in my blood This do ye as often as ye shall drink for the commemoration of me For as often as ye shall eat this bread and drink this chalice you shall shew the death of our Lord until he come Therefore whosoever shall eat this bread or drink this chalice of our Lord unworthily he shall be guilty of the body and blood of our Lord. But let a man prove himself and so let him eat of that bread and drink of the chalice For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh judgment to himself not discerning the body of our Lord Therefore are there among you many weak and feeble and many sleep But if we did judge our selves we should not be judged But whiles we are judged of our Lord we are chastised that with this world we be not damned The GRADUAL taken out of the Epistle of St. Paul to the Philippians Chap. 2. The Church hereby teacheth us that as Christ entred into glory by his suffering to which he voluntarily for the love of us exposed himself so by incorporating himself in us by this Sacrament which he left us on the Eve of his death to preserve the memory of it he would also that we partake in his Sufferings that so we may at length have share in his glorious Resurrection CHrist was made for us obedient unto death even the death of the cross V. For which thing God also hath exalted him and given him a name which is above all names MUNDA COR MEUM c. as before pag. 14. The sequence of the Holy Gospel according to St. John Chap. 13. The Church represents unto us how our Saviour before he instituted the Sacrament of the Eucharist washt his Apostles feet first to give us an example of Humility and Charity which we ought to shew to one another secondly to instruct us that to receive the Body and Blood of Christ worthily we must not onely be free and pure from sin but cleansed from the least sins which are figured by the filth upon our feet ANd before the festival-day of Pasche Jesus knowing that his hour was come that he should pass out of this world to his Father whereas he had loved his that were in the world unto the end he loved them And when supper was done whereas the devil now had put into the heart of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon to betray him knowing that his Father gave him all things into his hands and that he came from God and goeth to God he riseth from supper and layeth aside his garments and having taken a towel girded himself After that he put water into a bason and began to wash the feet of the disciples and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded He cometh therefore to Simon Peter And Peter faith to him Lord dost thou wash my feet Jesus answered and said to him That which I do thou knowest not now hereafter thou shalt know Peter saith to him Thou shalt not wash my feet for ever Jesus answered him If I wash thee not thou shalt not have part with me Simon Peter saith to him Lord not onely my feet but also hands and head Jesus saith to him He that is washed needeth not but to wash his feet but is clean wholly And you are clean but not all For he knew who he was that would betray him therefore he said You are not clean all Therefore after he had washed their feet and taken his garments being set down again he said to them Know you what I have done to you You call me Master and Lord and you say well for I am so if then I have washed your feet Lord and Master you also ought to wash one anothers feet For I have given you an example that as I have done to you so you do also Laus tibi Christe CREDO as before pag. 54 55. The OFFERTORY taken out of the 117th Psalm Wherein the Church minds us of the excess of God's bounty and the marvellous effect of his omnipotence in that it was his will that his Son should become man die for us and give himself for our food whereby to unite and incorporate himself with us And though in justice he might have obliged us to have suffered the same torments as he did since he had not undergone them had not we deserved them yet he lays not any obligation upon us thereunto but is pleased to bestow eternal life through the merit of his sufferings upon those who tast not the bitterness provided they do works of Penance exercise Charity and keep his Commandments THe right hand of the Lord hath done valiantly the right hand of the Lord hath exalted me I shall not die but live and declare the works of the Lord. SUSCIPE SANCTE PATER c. until the Secret as before pag. 56 57 58. The SECRET The Priest teacheth us that it is not by any power of man which works upon the things offered on the Altar but that Jesus Christ who wrought them at his last Supper with his Apostles doth now the self-same here We are constituted his Officers and Ministers but it is he sanctifies the Offerings and changing them into his Body and Blood offers them to God his Father And thereupon the Priest beseeches God that his sins and ours may not hinder this Sacrifice from being acceptable as that whereat the Apostles assisted since there is no less in this than in that For it is not a man that doth this instead of Jesus Christ who offered that but it is truly Jesus Christ who does this as he did that GRant we beseech thee O Lord Holy Father Almighty Everlasting God that he may make this Sacrifice acceptable unto thee who commanded his disciples at this day to celebrate it in memory of him Who liveth and reigneth c. The PREFACE as before pag. 60 61 62. The CANON till Communicantes as before pag. 63 c. COMMVNICANTES By vertue of the Union of the Church-Militant with the Triumphant in Jesus Christ and in memory
our Soul the Spirit of his Grace This â—â—orable Saviour is so benign as to feed us with his own Flesh and more for the love of us he offered himself as a Victim Then that Excuse have we if though we receive such Nourishment â—e yet persist in our wicked ways or if in eating the Lamb we leave not being Wolves if in being fed with his Flesh which was as sweet as Lamb we desist not from devouring others as Lions For this Mystery must not only draw us from all Injustice and Sin but also take away all Animosities though never so small for this is a Mystery of Peace and Charity R. I was like an innocent Lamb I was led to be immolated and I did not know it My enemies made counsel against me saying Come let us put wood on his bread and let us root him out from the land of the living V. All my enemies thought evil against me they have spoken ill against me saying Come ye c. VIII LESSON The Apostle treats of the Institution of the Eucharist and shews us that it was instituted to the end that by eating that Bread and drinking that Blood we might always remember him who died and rose again for us FOr I received of our Lord that which also I have delivered unto you That our Lord Jesus in the night that he was betrayed took bread and giving thanks bâ—rake and said Take ye and eat THIS IS MY BODY which shall be delivered for you This do ye for the commemoration of me In like manner also the chalice after he had supped saying THIS CHALICE IS THE NEW TESTAMENT IN MY BLOOD This do ye as often as you shall drink for the commemoration of me For as often as you shall eat this bread and drink the chalice you shall shew the death of our Lord until he come The Church represents unto us how that if we cannot consider Judas his Treason without having great indignation against him who after he had been admitted to the spiritual Table of his Divine Majesty and to that magnificent and terrible Feast and after he had received so many Testimonies of his Friendship yet he delivered and sold his Master by a Kiss Wherefore we must always be careful of our Actions and watch with great solicitude lest we make our selves guilty of the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ by betraying him and profaning and violating that Divine Agreement which in our Baptism we contracted with him which we shall do if we receive him with a Mouth full of Impurity and Filth and with a depraved and impure Soul after we have received so great and many Benefits T was Avarice that destroyed Judas and that 's the Precipice from which we must defend our selves It behoveth him who is desirous to Communicate in memory of Jesus Christ who died and rose again for us that he be not only clean from all Impurity of Body and Mind but also that he evidently shews that what he do's is in commemoration of him that died and rose again for us by declaring that he is dead to Sin to the World and to himself and that he only lives for God in our Lord Jesus Christ R. Could you not watch one hour with me who were so resolved to die for me But Judas sleeps not behold how he is coming to betray me into the hands of the Jews V. Why do ye sleep Arise and pray that ye enter not into temptation But Judas sleeps not c. IX LESSON The Apostle shews us after what manner we ought to prepare our selves to receive the Communion and with what diligence â—e ought to examine our Conscience We ought to prepare our selves for the Participation of the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ through a true Repentance proportionable to our Sins In this Penance each one must be severe and rigid to himself that having condemned himself he may not be condemn'd by God Each one must seat himself in the Tribunal of his own Conscience there to act against himself This Judgment being so established in the Heart of Man his Thoughts must be imagin'd to be Accusers his Conscience tho Witness and his Fear the Executioner After which Tears must appear as a kind of Blood trickling from the Soul that confesses her self culpable Also the Image of the last dreadful Day of Judgment must be represented before the Eyes to the end that with dread and Horror we may apprehend the Danger of being cast into eternal Death We must likewise observe according to the Admonition St. Augustin gives us in the 118. Epistle to Januarius That those words of the Apostle For the other Rules I shall establish them when I shall be amongst you by which are understood the Order of the Office of the Blessed Sacrament and the Sacrifice of the Altar such as is now celebrated in the Universal Church THerefore whosoever shall eat this bread or drink the chalice of our Lord unworthily he shall be guilty of the body and of the blood of our Lord. But let a man prove himself and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that chalice For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh judgment to himself not discerning the body of our Lord. Therefore are there among you many weak and feeble and many sleep But if we did judge our selves we should not be judged But whiles we are judged of our Lord we are chastised that with this world we be not damned Therefore my brethren when you come together to eat expect one another If any man be an hungred let him eat at home that you come not together unto judgment And the rest I will dispose when I come The Church having entertained us with that Divine Banquet which Jesus Christ made on the Vigil of his Passion to his Disciples of his own Body and Blood and having shewed us that this sacred Banquet in which we assist is of the same nature as that wherein his Apostles assisted and that there is nothing less in This than there was in That because it was truly Christ himself who made This as well as it was he who made the other and having instructed us in the due Preparation to receive him worthily She as soon minds us of the Conspiracy of the Jews against Jesus Christ thereby to teach us That there is nothing makes us more firm and vigorous that animates us that encourages and fortifies us more against the Violence of Temptations and Persecutions than the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ and that nothing renders us so capable of drinking of the Cup of Sorrow than to drink of the Chalice of our Saviour R. The Elders of the People consulted together how they might by some wile apprehend Jesus and kill him with swords and clubs they came out as it were to a thief V. The Priests and Pharisees consulted together how they might by some wile apprehend Jesus R. The Elders of the People
Mediator for the whole Church for the Pope for our Bishop for our King and for all faithful Catholicks WE therefore most merciful Father humbly beseech thee through thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord to accept and bless these ✚ Gifts these ✚ Presents these ✚ Immaculate Sacrifices which in the first we offer unto thee for thy Holy Catholick Church to which thou wilt please to grant peace and preserve and maintain in unity through the whole World with the Pope N. thy servant and our Prelate N. and our King N. with all Orthodox Believers of the Catholick Apostolick Faith Then the Priest makes a particular Commemoration of the living for whom he intends to offer his Sacrifice REmember O Lord all thy servants Men and Women Here he makes mention of those for whom he prays in particular And all such especially as are here present whose Faith and Devotion is known unto thee for whom we offer and who offer to thee for themselves or friends this Sacrifice of Praise for the Benefit of their Souls in hope of health and salvation and pay their vows unto thee the Eternal Living and True God The Priest by the vertue of the union of the Church militant with the triumphant in Jesus Christ beseeches God that he will please to supply the defect of his present Prayers imploring protection by the Merits and Suffrages of the most blessed Virgin of the Apostles Martyrs and all Saints PArticipating in the same Communion and Commemorating chiefly the ever glorious Virgin Mary Mother of our Lord Jesus Christ the blessed Apostles and Martyrs Peter and Paul Andrew James John Thomas James Philip Bartholomew Matthew Simon and Thadeus Linus Cletus Clement Xistus Cornelius Cyprian Laurence Chrysoganus John and Paul Cosmas and Damianus and of all Saints by whose Merits and Prayers be pleased to grant that in all things we may be protected by thee Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen The Priest spreads his hands over the Host and Chalice in testimony that he offers up himself to God together with this Sacrifice begging four things 1. That he will please to accept of this Offering 2. That he will grant us Peace 3. That he will deliver us from Everlasting Death 4. That he will place us amongst the blessed WE beseech thee O Lord therefore graciously to accept this oblation of our servitude as likewise of thy whole Family granting us Peace in our days and preserving us from Eternal Death place among thy Elect. Through Christ our Lord. Amen The Priest beseecheth God to receive and bless this Offering so as that he will please to accept of it and that it may become the Body and Blood of his Son our Lord Jesus Christ to expiate our sins and reconcile us to his Majesty WE beseech thee O God that thou wilt be pleased to make this Oblation blessed approved effectual reasonable and acceptable that it may be made unto us the Body and Blood of thy most beloved Son our Lord Jesus Christ The Consecration After this Prayer the Priest comes to the principal action of the Sacrifice and commemorates all that Christ did or said when he instituted this Holy Sacrament and therefore after his example he blesseth and consecrateth the Bread in the same manner WHo the day before his Passion took the Bread into his holy and venerable hands and lifting his eyes towards heaven to thee his God and omnipotent Father to thee giving thanks he blessed broke and gave to his Disciples saying Take and eat ye all of this FOR THIS IS MY BODY The Elevation of the Host. Here the Priest after he hath upon his knees adored the Body of Jesus Christ he lifts it up to be seen and adored by the Faithful and to mind them that Christ's Body was elevated upon the Cross The Consecration of the Blood of Jesus Christ. He blesseth and consecrateth the Wine as Christ consecrated it turning the Wine into his Blood whereby he established and ratified his New Testament and signed the New Alliance he contracted with us to continue for ever IN like manner after he had supt taking this excellent Chalice into his holy and venerable hands giving thee also thanks he blessed it and gave it to his Disciples saying Take and drink ye all of this FOR THIS IS THE CHALICE OF MY BLOOD OF THE NEW AND EVERLASTING TESTAMENT a Mystery of Faith WHICH SHALL BE SHED FOR YOU AND FOR MANY FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS This as often as you shall do you shall do in memory of me The Elevation of the Chalice And then adoring the Blood of our Saviour he elevates it for the same reason as he did the Body And as he offers this Holy Sacrifice in the Person of Christ in whose stead he hath celebrated this mysterious Consecration so is it done in the Name of the Church in honour of the three Mysteries of the Son of God viz. Of his Passion which we account from the Hour of his Conception till his Death of his Resurrection and Ascension The Signs of the Cross which the Priest makes over the Host after Consecration design unto us the particular manner of his immolation WHerefore O Lord we thy servants and the sanctified people also being mindful both of the blessed Passion of the same Christ thy Son our Lord and of his Resurrection as also of his glorious Ascension into Heaven we offer unto thy most excellent Majesty of thy Gifts bestowed upon us A pure Host a holy Host an immaculate Host the Holy Bread of Eternal Life and Chalice of Perpetual Salvation The Priest beseeches God to accept of this Sacrifice in memory of Abel's Sacrifice of Abraham's and Melchisedeck's which were only Figures of this WHich we beseech thee propitiously to regard and to receive this Holy Sacrifice and Immaculate Host as thou wert pleased to receive the Gifts of thy just Child Abel and the Sacrifice of our Patriarch Abraham as likewise that which thy High Priest Melchisedeck offered unto thee Supplices te rogamus Jesus Christ communicates his Substance to the blessed in Heaven without Veil or Sacraments though he communicates himself sacramentally to men on earth and as the wicked are indifferently mixt with the just upon Earth it happens that the wicked receive the Communion in distinctly with the just but it is otherwise in Heaven where the Son of God communicates himself only to the Saints And hereupon the Priest on the behalf of the Faithful asks God's grace that Jesus Christ who in the Holy Scriptures is called the Angel of the Great Council and of the New Testament will give himself unto them under the shadow of this Holy Sacrament as he gives himself to the blessed without veil on the sublime and celestial Altar in the bosom of his Divinity that is to say that as all those are worthy who receive Christ in Heaven as being Saints so he would please to furnish all these with such his blessings and celestial gifts as may enable
of this day wherein the Son of God was betrayed into the hands of the Jews to expiate our sins the Priest beseeches God that he will be pleased to supply the defect of the Prayers he makes to implore his protection by the merits and suffrages of the blessed Virgin the Apostles Martyrs and of all Saints PArticipating in the same Communion and Celebrating the Solemnity of this Blessed Day wherein our Saviour Jesus Christ was betrayed for us and in the first place honouring the memory of the ever glorious Virgin Mother of our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostles and Martyrs Peter and Paul Andrew James John Thomas James Philip Bartholomew Matthew Simon and Thaddaeus Linus Cletus Clement Xistus Cornelius Cyprian Laurence Chrysogonus John and Paul Cosme and Damian and all the other Saints Through whose Prayers and Merits vouchsafe to grant us in all things the help of thy protection by the same Christ our Lord. Amen The Priest executing the Command which Christ this day gave his Disciples and their Successours to celebrate these Holy Mysteries in memory of him spreads his hands over the Host and Chalice to testifie to God that he offers and sacrifices himself joyntly therewith begging four things 1. That he will please to accept of this Offering 2. To grant us Peace 3. To deliver us from Eternal Damnation 4. To place us amongst the Elect. WE beseech thee therefore graciously to accept this Oblation of our and of thy whole families Duty which we present unto thee in solemnizing this present day whereon our Lord Jesus Christ ordained his Disciples to celebrate the Mysteries of his Body and Blood beseeching thee to grant us Peace in these our days and preserving us from Eternal Damnation to seat us among thy Elect Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen The Priest begs of God that he will accept and so bless this Oblation that it may be found good reasonable and agreeable that it may become the Body and Blood of his Son our Lord to expiate our sins and reconcile us to his Majesty WHich Oblation O God we beseech thee to make in all things blessed allowed approved reasonable and acceptable that it may be made to us the Body and Blood of thy beloved Son our Lord Jesus Christ The CONSECRATION After this Prayer the Priest comes to the principal Action of the Sacrifice and commemorates all that Christ did or said when he instituted this Holy Sacrament and following his example he blesseth and consecrateth in this manner WHo the day before his Passion for us and for the whole world that is this day took bread into his holy and venerable hands and lifting up his eyes towards heaven to the God his Father Almighty giving thee thanks he blessed brake and gave it unto his disciples saying Take eat ye all of this FOR THIS IS MY BODY All the rest till the Communion as before pag. 66 c. Thou must observe that the Kiss of Peace is not given at this time at this Day 's Mass to mind us of the horrid traiterous Kiss of Judas This Day the Priest consecrates two Hosts reserving one for the morrow when there is no consecration He reserves also some Particles for the sick in case of necessity and drinks up all the Blood and before the Ablution of his Fingers he puts the reserved Host into another Chalice which the Deacon covers with the Patten and Pall. Then he spreads the Veil over it placing it in the midst of the Altar and having given the Communion he finishes the rest of the Mast The COMMUNION taken out of the 13th Chapter of St. John The Church teacheth by the Example and Command of Jesus Christ to become humble and charitable to be pure and free from the least sins figured by the filth of our feet that so we may worthily receive the Holy Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ OUr Lord Jesus after he had supped with his Disciples washt their feet and said unto them Know ye what I have done unto you bring your Lord and Master I have given you an example That you should do as I have done unto you The POST-COMMUNION As the participation of the Body and Blood of Christ is a kind of figure of our Eternal Bliss in that we are fed under the Veil of the Sacrament with the same Food which the blessed without Veil or Sacrament enjoy in Heaven we beg of God the grace to receive in Heaven that wholesom effect the mystery whereof we celebrate on Earth GRant we beseech thee O Lord our God that being refresht with thee life-giving food we may receive by thy grace in Everlasting Bliss that which we celebrate in this mortal life Through Christ our Lord. Amen All the rest as before pag. 175 c. except that Ita Missa est is said instead of Benedicamus Domino because that Gloria in Excelsis was said in this Mass This day a proper place is prepared in some Chappel or Altar of the Church to expose the Chalice and reserved Host as we said before pag. 175. Then Mass being ended the Tapers are lighted and Procession begun The Subdeacon vested carries the Cross The Priest that did celebrate putting off his Vestment puts on a white Coap and standing upright before the Altar he puts Incense into the two Thuribles without a Blessing Afterwards kneeling he incenseth the blessed Sacrament thrice and taking the Chalice with the blessed Sacrament from the hands of the Deacon which he covers with the ends of the Veil that hangs upon his shoulders he goes under the Canopy with the Deacon and Subdeacon The two Acolyts incense the blessed Sacrament till they come to the place provided singing this following Hymn during the Procession SIng O my Tongue devoutly sing The glorious Bodies mystery And of that precious Blood the King Of Nations poured forth to free The World from a disastrous doom O blessed fruit of noblest womb On us bestow'd for us thy birth He from a Virgin did proceed And be conversant on earth Till he had sowed the Gospel-seed The time of his prolonged stay He clos'd in an admirable way He on the final supper night Among his brethren taking seat And well observing the ancient rite Touching the laws prescribed mete Gave to the twelve his chosen band Himself for food with 's proper hand The Incarnate Word by words he said Turned into flesh substantial bread And wine the blood of Christ was made Though sense found nothing altered This to confirm in hearts sincere There needs no more if faith be there To this great Sacrament therefore Let 's give the prostrate Worship due And may the ancient Rite no more Take place but yield it to the new Let faith in Jesus Christ supply The senses insufficiency To Father and the Son let 's bring Triumphant praises let 's aspire Their honour power and bliss to sing While benedictions fill the Quire To him that from both is sprung Let equal
with thy spirit Let us Pray The Church begs of God the wholsom effect of the Passion and Resurrection of his Son Jesus Christ POur forth upon us O Lord the Spirit of thy Charity that those who are satiated with thy Paschal Sacraments through thy goodness may have but one heart and one will Through our Lord Jesus Christ Amen The Priest coming to the end of the Mass turns to the Faithful exhorting them not to render themselves unworthy of Gods Assistance saying Our Lord be with you The Faithful answer wishing him the like R. And with thy spirit Then the Priest tells the People that Mass being ended they may retire saying You may withdraw Mass is ended Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia The Faithful answer Thanks be to God Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia All the rest as before pag. 80 81 82. At EVEN-SONG Pater noster c. Ave Maria c. Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia The Antiphon as before pag. 304. out of the 28th Chapter of St. Matthew The Canticle of the blessed Virgin out of the 2d Chapter of St. Luke As also the Antiphon in the end of the Sabbath c. Our Lord be with you R. And with thy spirit Let us Pray Spiritum nobis Domine c. as before p. 305. Our Lord be with you R. And with thy spirit Let us bless our Lord. Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia Thanks be to God Alleluia Alleluia Alleluia Pray for the Writer UPON THE SUNDAY OF THE RESURRECTION OF OUR Lord Jesus Christ AT PRIME Pater noster c. Ave Maria Credo c. INcline unto my aid O God R. O Lord make hast to help me Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning be now and ever world without end Amen Alleluia Deus in Nomine tuo as before 132. Beati immaculi c. as before 133. Retribue te as before 135. Then the following Antiphon is said This is the day which our Lord hath made let us rejoyce and be glad in it Our Lord be with you R. And with thy spirit Let us Pray O Lord God Almighty who hath caused us to come to the beginning of this day save us this day by thy power to the end that this day we fall into no sin but that our words may ever proceed and our thoughts and works may be directed to execute thy justice Through our Lord Jesus Christ thy Son who liveth and reigneth with thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost world without end Amen Our Lord be with you R. And with thy spirit R. Let us bless our Lord. R. Thanks be to God In the Cathedrals and Collegiate Churches the Martyrology is read and then the Priest says V. Precious in the sight of our Lord. R. Is the death of his Saints The blessed Virgin Mary and all Saints make intercssion for us to our Lord that we may obtain to be assisted and saved by him who liveth and reigneth for ever and ever Amen V. Incline unto my aid O God R. O Lord make hast to help me Which is repeated three times and then is said Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost c. V. Lord have mercy on us R. Christ have mercy on us Lord have mercy on us V. Pater noster c. In a low voice until V. And lead us not into tempation R. But deliver us from evil V. O Lord look upon thy servants and upon thy works and guide their children R. And let the splendour of the Lord our God shine upon us and direct the works of our hands upon us and direct the work of our hands Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost c. Let us Pray VOuchsafe O Lord God King of Heaven and Earth this day to direct and sanctifie rule and govern our hearts and bodies our senses speeches and deeds in thy Law and in the works of thy Commandments that here and ever we may deserve to be safe and free by thy assistance O Saviour of the world Who livest and reignest world without end Amen V. Vouchsafe Father to bless R. Almighty God dispose our days and actions in thy holy peace This short Lesson is taken out of the Third Chapter of the Epistle of St. Paul to the Colossians IF then ye be risen with Christ seek those things which are above where Christ sits on the right hand of God set your affections on things above not in things on earth But O Lord have mercy on us R. Thanks be to God V. Our help is in the Name of our Lord. R. Who made Heaven and Earth V. God bless us R. God bless us The BENEDICTION O Lord bless and defend us from all evil and bring us to Life Everlasting and make the Souls of the Faithful departed rest in peace At the Third Hour Pater noster c. Ave Maria c. Deus in adjutorium as before pag. 348. Alleluia Legem pone c. as before pag. 136. Memor esto c. as before p. 138. Bonitatem fecisti c. as before p. 140. Then this following Antiphon is said Ant. This day which our Lord hath made let us rejoyce and be glad in it V. Our Lord be with you R. And with thy spirit Let us Pray O God who this day opened unto us by thy only begotten Son the entrance to Eternity through his victory over death vouchsafe by thy mercy to grant those Petitions which thy prevenient grace inspires Through the same our Lord Jesus Christ thy Son who with thee livest and reignest in the unity of the Holy Ghost one God world without end Amen At sprinkling Holy Water As formerly the Church was accustomed to Baptize the Catechumens upon the Eves of Easter and Whit-Sunday The Priest being to celebrate the Holy Sacrifice of the Altar on Easter-day and Whit-Sunday did consider them ready to approach the Altar pure and holy all their sins being effaced by the Sacrament of Baptism And therefore he besprinkleth them with Water out of the Font as hath been said to admonish them to be careful to preserve themselves in that Innocence which they received by Baptism and to teach them that they have been entirely purified from all their sins which is not to be doubted with failing in our Faith The Ant. Asperges me is not said nor the Psalm Miserere which signifie the sins wherewith we are defiled and from which we ought to be cleared But instead of Asperges me he says the following Ant. Vidi Aquam which represents the Excellency of the Waters of Baptism which Jesus Christ instituted to wash away the sins of Men by vertue of the Bloud which he shed and this was signified to us by the Water which issued with Bloud from his side which he called his Temple in the 2d Chapter of St. John and was figured in the 38th and 47th Chapters of the Prophet Ezechiel I Saw waters issuing forth of
to fear but also to love him Ant. The earth trembled and was quiet when God arose unto judgment GOd is known in Jewry in Israel his name is great And his place is made in peace and his habitation in Sion There he brake the powers of bows the shield the sword and the battel Thou dost illuminate merveilously from the eternal mountains all the foolish of heart were troubled They slept their sleep and all the men of riches found nothing in their hands At thy reprehension O God of Jacob they have slumbred that mounted on horses Thou art terrible and who shall resist thee from that time thy wrath From heaven thou hast made thy judgment heard the earth trembled and was quiet When God arose unto judgment that he might save all the meek of the earth Because the cogitation of man shall confess to thee and the remains of the cogitation shall keep festival-day to thee Vow ye and render to our Lord your God all ye that round about him bring gifts To the terrible and him that taketh away the spirit of princes terrible to the kings of the earth Ant. The earth trembled and was quiet when God arose unto judgment PSALM 76. The Church here shews us That if the Faithful of the Old Law acknowledg'd their Sufferings to be occasioned by their Sins and that they deserved the Torments they suffered and that they received no Comfort but by considering the Effects of Gods Bounty in the Conduct of his People whereof there had been great and many Examples given How much more ought the Faithful of the Law of Grace to be comforted in their Afflictions by the Example and Promises of the Son of God our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ considering that what they suffer is nothing if compared to what our Redeemer suffered to take away our Sins and make us happy Then it shews us the Assurance he gives us to obtain by his Merits of God his Father either to avert the Evils of this Life or at least to mitigate them or to enable them to support them or that he wholly frees them from those Calamities and afterwards he raises them to the enjoyment of that Happiness wherein there is no fear of Ill and wherein they cannot lose the Sovereign Good Ant. In the day of my tribulation I sought God with my hands WIth my voice I have cried to our Lord with my voice to God and he attended to me In the day of my tribulation I sought God with my hands in the night before him and I was not deceived My soul refused to be comforted I was mindful of God and was delighted and was exercised and my spirit fainted Mine eyes prevented the watch I was troubled and spake not I thought upon old days and the eternal years I had in my mind And I meditated in the night with my heart and I was exercised and I swept my spirit Why will God reject for ever or will he not add to be better pleased as yet Or will he cut off his mercy for ever from generation unto generation Or will God forget to have mercy or will he in his wrath keep in his mercies And I said Now have I begun this is the change of the right hand of the Highest I have been mindful of the works of our Lord because I will be mindful from the beginning of thy merveilous works And I will meditate in all thy works and in thy inventions I will be exercised O God in the holy is thy way What God is great as our God thou art the God that dost merveilous things Thou hast made thy power known amongst peoples thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people the children of Jacob and Joseph The waters saw thee O God the waters saw thee and they were afraid and the depths were troubled A multitude of the sounding of waters the clouds give a voice For indeed arrows do pass the voice of thy thunder in a wheel Thy lightnings shined to the round world the earth was moved and troubled Thy way in the sea and thy paths in many waters and thy steps shall not be known Thou hast conducted thy people as sheep in the hand of Moyses of Aaron Ant. In the day of tribulation I sought God with my hands V. Arise O Lord. R. And judge my cause VII LESSON Out of the First Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians chap. 2. The Church instructs us by the Words of the Apostle St. Paul how on that day Jesus Christ being to leave this World and go unto his Father and that having celebrated the Pasch with his Disciples he instituted at this last Supper he eat with them the blessed Sacrament of his Body and Blood as a perpetual Testimony of his Passion and the fulfilling of the Figures of the Old Law and as the greatest Miracle he ever did which he also left in his Church to comfort all the Faithful afflicted by his absence and to ingrave in their Hearts a deeper Impression of that Divine Love which he testified by dying for us In this Seventh Lesson the Apostle treating of the Agapes which were Feasts instituted among the Primitive Christians in imitation of the last Feast our Saviour Jesus Christ made with his Apostles to keep Union among the Faithful he speaks against the Rich who called not the Poor to their Table but came to the Eucharist full of Wine and Meat for according to the ancient Custom every one having taken a small Repast he then came unto those Holy Mysteries But the Council of Laodice held about the Year 364 forbad to celebrate in the Churches this Ceremony of the Agapes for the Irreverences that might be committed and soon after the Apostles time they never communicated but fasting as Tertullian witnesseth ANd this I command not praising it that you come together not to better but to worse First indeed when you come together into the Church I hear that there are schisms among you and in part I believe it For there must be heresies also that they also which are approved may be made manifest among you When you come therefore together in one it is not now to eat our Lords supper For every one taketh his own supper before to eat And one certes is an hungred and another is drunk Why have you not houses to eat and drink in or contemn you the church of God and confound them that have not What shall I say to you praise I you in this I do not praise you The Church represents unto us the Ingratitude and Wickedness of the Jews who endeavoured the Death of our Saviour whilst he even fed them with his own Flesh and gave them his own Blood to drink That also those by receiving it might have eternal Life She likewise admonisheth us to take care that â—e do not crucifie Christ in our own selves as the Jews crucified him on the Cross by profaning and defiling his precious Blood â—â—d by smothering in