to us Praise him all you Quires of rejoycing Angels whose early grace confirm'd you in glory Praise him you reverend Patriarks whose ways he govern'd and by particular providence led you to felicity Praise him you ancient Prophets whose souls he inspir'd * to teach his chosen People the mind of heav'n Praise him you glorious Apostles whose persons he empowr'd * to be Embassadors of peace betwixt heav'n and earth Praise him you generous Martyrs whose spirits he encourag'd and gave you victory o're the terrors of death Praise him you blessed Confessors whose lives he sanctify'd and gave you victory o're the world and your selvs Praise him you holy Virgins whose souls he espous'd and consecrated your chast bodys into Temples for himself Praise him you faithful departed whose hope he sustains and will at last bring you to full fruition Praise him all you Elect in your several happy states bless him and magnify him for ever Praise him in the power and freedom of his grace praise him in the greatnes and eternity of his glory Praise him O my soul for his mercys to thee praise him for his goodnes to all the world Praise him on thy choicest instrument that of thy hart praise him in thy best words those of the Church Glory be c. Antiph Kindle in our harts O Lord thy holy fire that we may offer to Thee the incense of praise Alleluja Capit. Rom. 8. WE are debtors not to the flesh to live according to the flesh for if you live according to the flesh you shal dy but if by the spirit you mortify the deeds of the flesh you shal live For whoever are led by the spirit of God are the sons of God and if sons then heirs heirs truly of God and coheirs of Christ if we suffer with him to be also glorifyed with him Hymn XXXIV COme mild and holy Dove Descend into our brest Do thou in us make us in thee For ever dwel and rest Come and spread o're our heads Thy soft all-cherishing wing That in its shade we safe may sit And to thee praises sing To thee who giv'st us life Our better life of grace Who giv'st us breath and strength and speed To run and win our race If by the way we faint Thou reachest forth thy hand If our own weaknes make us fal Thou mak'st our weaknes stand When we are sliding back Thou dost our danger stop When we again alas are faln Again thou tak'st us up Else there we stil must ly And stil sink lower down Our hope to rise is all from Thee Our ruin's all our own O my ingrateful foul What shal our dulnes do For Him that does all this for us Only our love to woo We 'l love Thee then dear Lord But Thou must give that love We 'l humbly beg it of thy grace But Thou our pray'rs must move O hear thine own self speak For thou in us dost pray Thou can'st as quickly grant as ask Thy grace knows no delay Glory to Thee O Lord One coeternal Three To Father Son and holy Ghost One equal glory be Antiph Come holy Spirit the free Dispenser of all graces visit the harts of thy faithful servants and replenish them with thy sacred inspirations illuminate our understandings and inflame our affections and sanctify all the facultys of our souls that we may know and love and constantly do the things that belong to our peace our everlasting peace Alleluja Alleluja Recite the Canticle Benedictus as page 27. Then repeat this Antiphon c. O Lord hear our prayers And let our supplications come to Thee Let us pray O God who miraculously sent'st down the holy Ghost to supply the absence of thy Son and comfort his hartless Followers and instruct them in all things necessary to their great work the conversion of the world Grant we humbly beseech thee that our devout commemorating those fiery tongues which sate on each of their heads and produced such glorious effects may increase the fervour of our harts to continue and attest by all fruits of grace the same spirits stil abiding with us through our Lord Jesus Christ thy Son who with Thee in the unity of the same blessed Spirit lives and reigns one God world without end Amen Commemorations c. as page 29. Vespers for the holy Ghost IN the name c. as Pag. 33. Antiph We are not our own but the temples of the holy Ghost let us dedicate our selvs entirely to his service Psal CXII COme let us now again prepare our harts and humbly offer this our evening sacrâ—â—ce Let us clear our heads of all other thoughts that fil us at best with nothing but emptines Let us remember our God is a pure Spirit and delights to dwel in a clean tabernacle He wil not enter a soul that 's subject to â—â—in nor stay where he finds his grace neglected If he vouchsafe us the blessing of a visit and O how heav'nly sweet and ravishing is his presence Let us open wide our bosoms to receive him and summon all our powers to come and entertain him Come my understanding and bring all thou know'st all that enlightens thee in the way to felicity Come my Wil and call in all thy loves and contract them into one and setle it here for ever Come my Memory with all thy swarm of notions and forget them all but what concerns thy eternity Come my whole Soul with these thy facultys about thee and prostrate adore the eternal Spirit Behold he now is with us and sits in our harts as on his throne * to receive our petitions and give us his blessings He never will forsake us if we chace him not away but guide and comfort us with his holy inspirations Come then and with devoutest reverence attend and hear what the Lord our God wil say He leads us thus into retirement and silence and there familiarly speaks to our heart Tel me O you design'd for everlasting happines tel me now freely for none shall interrupt us What do you chiefly delight to think on and what do you aim at in all those thoughts Consider wel the question I propose and when you have examined your selvs give me your answer O thou our merciful though offended God! behold thus low we bow our guilty heads Blushing for shame to see our folly and so much the more because we see our duty Happy were we could we still be thinking on Thee and raise all those thoughts into desires to be with thee Happy were we could we always feel those fervours * of which somtimes thou inspirest a litle spark O were that spark kindled into a fire and that fire blown up into a continual flame But we alas are hot and cold by fits and which is worse our cold fit is the longer Some few half hours we spend in pray'r and many whole days in idlenes and vanity Somtimes we bestow a litle on the poor and often throw away a
the Heavens have received Him Alleluja Alleluja O Lord hear our prayers And let our supplications come to thee Let us Pray O God who hast glorify'd our Victorious Saviour with a visibly triumphant Resurrection from the dead and Ascension into Heaven where he sits at thy right hand the Worlds supream Governour and final Judg Grant we humbly beseech thee his Triumphs and Glorys may ever shine in our eyes to make us more clearly and couragiously look thorow his sufferings and assure by his Example our hopes on his promises that if by thy grace we endeavour to live and dye like Him purely for the advance of thy love in our selvs and others Thou wilt raise again our bodies too and conforming them to his glorious body call us up above the clouds and give us possession of thy everlasting Kingdom Through the same our Lord JESUS CHRIST thy Son who with thee and the Holy Ghost lives and reigns One God world without end Amen COMMEMORATIONS For the B. Virgin Antiph And the King sate on his Throne and a Throne was plac'd for the Kings Mother and She sate on his right hand And the King said to her ask on my Mother for I will not deny thee V. Ask thou all Blessings for us O Blessed among Women R. Of thy wombs Blessed Fruit our Lord JESUS O God who hast endow'd the ever Blessed Virgin MARY with all the graces on earth and all the gloryes in heaven worthy the Mother of thy son the Worlds great Redeemer Grant we beseech thee that as we praise and magnifie thy Name for so highly exalting the lowliness of thy Handmaid we may be encourag'd by the confidence of her intercession to hope still more in thy mercy both for pardon of our sins and conduct of our lives and joyful reception into thy everlasting Kingdom through the same our Lord JESUS CHRIST thy Son who with thee and the Holy Ghost lives and reigns One God world without end Amen For the Saints Antiph They seem in the eys of the foolish dead to themselves and all the world but they rest with God in immortal peace and exercise towards us a far greater charity V. Hear thou O Lord their Prayers for us in Heaven R. Who on Earth have taught us to pray O Eternal Father whose holy Spirit by thy blessed Apostles has planted in the world the saving Doctrine of thy Son and water'd it with so much sweat blood of Them and their Followers that it has o'respread the earth and born much fruit to heav'n Most thankfully we praise Thee for the gracious Lives and Deaths of all thy Saints here and the glorious Crowns with which they are rewarded in thy Kingdom where we humbly beseech Thee accept their intercession for us siners applying so home to our harts their Memorys and Merits that we too by thy grace may in some measure live and dy like Them and be crown'd at length with the same blisful rewards through our Lord Jesus Christ thy Son who with Thee and the holy Ghost lives and reigns One God world without end Amen For the Church Antiph Let us in all things grow in Him who is our head Christ from whom the whole body being compact and knit together by every joynt of subministration increases to the edifying it self in charity V. We all are Members of the same Body R. Let us serve and love and pray for one another O God who gatherest thy Flock out of all Nations into the saving Fold of one Catholik Church where thy Providence has ordain'd Bishops and Pastors immediately to feed thy Sheep and Lambs and one Supreme Governour to secure Unity among the rest Bless we beseech thee thy Servant N. who at present sits in the known Chair of St. Peter with all the graces necessary to that highest Office on earth Bless all Bishops and their Clergy with courage and skil and fatherly care to edify and guard their several Charges Bless all the Faithful with a filial love and due obedience to their Superiours that the clearnes of truth and beauty of holines dayly increasing in thy Church through every ones devout pursuance of their dutys all Heresies and Schisms may at length vanish among Christians and all Pagans and Jews be happily won into her sacred bosom the sole Ark of Salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ thy Son who with Thee and the Holy Ghost lives and reigns one God world without end Amen For the King Antiph Be subject to all in Autority to the King as most excellent and to the Rulers as sent by Him for punishment of the Bad and reward of the Good Be subject for so is the Will of God that by doing well you may stop the mouths of the ignorant and malicious V. Be subject not only for fear R. But for Conscience sake O God by whom alone Kings reign and all kinds and degrees of lawful Magistracy are substituted to provide for the publik Peace among such infinite varieties of humours and interests and by restraining private injurys to remove the impediments of true Charity that so the whole State and each Member may be built up together to their greatest fitness for thy heav'nly Kingdom Preserve we humbly beseech thee and govern by thy grace our Soveraign Lord King Charles endow his royal Person with Wisdom and Courage and all qualities befitting his weighty Office Bless him with fidedelity and diligence in his Ministers and with reverence and obedience in all his Subject that the sword of Justice in his Hand may establish us in peace and plenty to our freer improvement under the Discipline of true vertue and the higher exalting his own Crown in the Kingdom of Eternity through our Lord Jesus Christ thy Son who with Thee and the Holy Ghost lives and reigns one God world without end Amen O Lord hear our Prayers And let our Supplications come to Thee Bless we our Lord. Thanks be to God May the Souls of the Faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in peace Amen Pause and meditate a while according to your devotion Then say The Blessing of God Almighty Father Son and holy Ghost descend upon us and dwell in our harts for ever Amen Pause a while then rise And so ends the Morning Office These four Conmemorations are said every day at the end of Lauds Sunday Vespers IN the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy Ghost Amen Blessed be the holy and undivided Trinity now and for ever Amen Our Father Hail Mary O God incline unto our aid O Lord make hast to help us Glory be to As it was Alleluja Antiph Glorious things are said of Thee thou 〈◊〉 City of the King of Heav'n Alleluja Psal VIII LEt them O Lord seek other delights who expect no felicity from thee Let them fill up their time with other imployments who think thy rewards not worth their labour As for thy servants our chief content shall be to meditate
he shines out clear to the Blessed alone and the beams of his glory strike bright upon their faces Yet have his mercys to us far more of miracle far more of care and tender Providence VVhile he not only is pleas'd to be among us but condescends to become even one with us VVhile he not only is our God to go before us but our very food to enter into us O souls redeem'd by the Blood of JESUS and nourisht with the flesh of his sacred Body Why melt you not away into tears of joy for being so regarded by the King of heav'n Why not at least dissolve into tears of sorrow for so litle regarding him Who will not tremble with an amorous reverence * that stands in the sight of so great a Majesty Who can forbear to be transported with joy that thinks I 'm going to receive my God! Who can contain the overflowings of his hart while his brest can say here I have my God! My great and glorious God who meerly out of love * thus gives me Himself in pledg of my salvation O infinite sweetnes how good is it for us to be here and behold our Lord transfigur'd before us Here let us make a thousand Tabernacles one O my JESU for Thee and one for each of us That in our litle tents we may dwel about thee and sing and bow and rejoyce before thee What should the captive wish but liberty and the weary Pilgrim but to be at rest What should the sick desire but helth and what can I but to be with my God But stay am I drest like a friend of the Bridegroom * that I safely may come to this Marriage Supper Have I consider'd how chast those eys should be * which go to behold the God of purity Have I consider'd how clean that mouth should be * which presumes to eat the Bread of heav'n But most how all-celestial that soul should be * which aspires to an union with the Body of our Lord Look look my hart look well into thy self and strictly search every Corner of thy brest Alas how poor and dull and empty are we how infinitely unworthy so divine a Sacrament Yet are we cal'd by Him that can command by Him that sees and pitys our misery He bids us come he surely will receive us and with his bounteous fulnes supply our defects Go then my soul go to that sacred Table and take thy part of that delicious Banquet Go all inflam'd with love and joy and hope and quench thy holy thirst at that Spring of Blyss When thou hast tasted the sweetnes of thy God and feel'st his heav'nly streams flow gently on thee Open thy happy brest and suck those waters in and let them freely run over all thy powers Let them soak deep to the root of thy hart and turn thy barren heath into a fruitful land Fruitful in holy thoughts and pious words fruitful in good and just and charitable deeds Fruitful to thy self in thine own improvement fruitful to others in thy good example No more ingratitude to so gracious a God no more neglect of so glorious a Majesty Away false pleasures sin and vanity for the God of holines hath touch't my hart He has himself gone in and taken full possession and seal'd it up for his own service Glory be c. Antiph This is the greatest charity that God himself can bestow since God can bestow nothing greater then himself Capit. 1 Cor. 13. IF I speak with the tongues of men and Angels and have not charity I am become as sounding brass or a tinckling Cymbal and if I should have Prophecy and understand all mysteryes and all knowledg and if I should have all fayth so that I should remove mountains and have not charity I am nothing Charity is patient is benigne Charity envyes not deals not perversly is not puft up is not ambitious seeks not her own is not provok't to anger thinks not evil rejoyces not upon iniquity but rejoyces with the truth suffers all things beleevs all things hopes all things bears all things Charity never fayls but whether Prophesyes they shal be made void or tongues they shall cease or knowledg it shal be destroy'd for we know in part and Prophecy in part but when that which is perfect shal come that which is in part shal be made void When I was a child I spake as a child I understood as a child I thought as a child but when I became a man I put away childish things Now we see darkly through a glass but then face to face now I know in part but then I shal know even as I am known and now there remain faith hope charity these three but the greatest of these is Charity Hymn XIX DO I resolve an easy life Stor'd with plenty free from strife When dear Lord thy days and nights Pass'd in poverty and fights Do I design a gentle death Singing out my aged breath When my Saviour tortures tore Thy dear soul out drown'd in gore O dread dayly Sacrifice Acting in a sweet disguise JESUS Passions o're again Such undue conceits restrain Keep stil lively in my mind How I ought to be resign'd How this Pattern ought destroy All my sensual greif or joy Are suffrings Ills no goodness chose His and our way to blyss through those Are pleasures Goods no wisdom scorn'd Their daliance and us forewarn'd This this make my Ditty be At least whenever Thee I see Thee it's ground so oft repeating To prevent my souls forgetting JESU thus arm'd no terrors shall Make my vertuous courage fall No flatterys here my blest hope drown Since thy Cross led to thy Crown Live for ever glorious Lord Live by heav'n and earth ador'd May both their praises give They who see we who beleeve Amen Antiph Thou art ascended our glorious Redeemer to prepare a place for us yet continuest stil here our gracious Emmanuel to prepare us for it V. 'T is thy delight O Lord to be with the children of men R. O make it ours to be with the God of heav'n O Lord hear our prayers And let our supplications come to Thee Let us Pray O God who seeing the dulnes of our spirits need so often fresh impulses of sense hast wonderfully contriv'd our alone saving Object thy sacrific'd Son continually to solicite our harts by his own dear Presence stil really among us Reclaim we humbly beseech Thee all our wandring affections with this miracle of goodnes and compose them into such a diligent and devout attendance on our graciously veild JESUS that we may dayly feed our adoration and love of Him and dayly grow in our desires of seeing eternally his glorious Face who with Thee and the holy Ghost lives and reigns One God world without end Amen O Lord hear as Pag. 45. Thursday Complin OUr help c. as Pag. 46. Antiph What could'st thou say dear Lord more sweet then this Thy delight is to be with the Children of
pray'd and mingled with their prayers their tears they wept and mingled with their tears their complaints Ah dearest Lord why were not we so happy * to be conuerted by Thee while thou dweld'st among us Why not entertain salvation when thou brought'st it to our homes and preferd'st our litle nation before all the world Vnhappy we how came this misery to pass * that many of us look't on thy miracles and saw them not Before our eys thou gav'st sight to the blind and our souls were darkned with sin and prejudice Thou did'st cleanse the leprous and heald all manner of deseases thou did'st raise the dead and cast out divels with thy word Yet we alas how many of us blasphem'd thy name how many conspir'd with thy bloody crucifyers Spare us O Lord have mercy on us O JESU for we knew thee not to be the Lord of glory Blessed be thy holy spirit who has open'd our eys and made us see through the veil that ecclipst us Now we beleeve Thee the Messias we expected now we acknowledg Thee the King of Israel Such were the fervours of those happy times and O how happy were our times had we those fervours But ours are become miserable by schisms and heresys and the darknes that covers a great part of the earth Ours are become miserable by the unfruitful lives * and scandalous examples of too many Christians Too many alas yet even the gates of hell * can ne're prevail against the power of God Stil the same spirit governs the world and keeps alive the same primitive fire Stil there are harts ful of the holy Ghost ful of that ravishing wine of divine love Stil there are souls who renounce all they have and take up their cross and follow our Lord. Stil there are fiery tongues kindled by the breath of heav'n who carry their sacred flames into every Nation Stil the Apostolick Church is true to its name and sends abroad her burning and her shining lights Stil the Almighty Goodnes is true to his Church and conservs it one and holy and universal O keep us blessed Spirit in this thy fold of grace and bring the whole world into one flock That all may be of the same mind here and all enjoy the same happines herafter Glory be c. Antiph This is our Lords doing and it is wonderful in our eys Alleluja Alleluja Our Father c. First Lesson Jo. 14. AMen amen I say to you he that beleevs in me the works that I do he also shal do and greater then these shall he do because I go to the Father and wharever you shal ask in my name I wil do that the Father may be glorify'd in the Son If you love me keep my Commandments and I wil ask the Father and he will give you another Paraclete to abide with you for ever the Spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive because it sees Him not nor knows Him but you know Him for he shal abide with you and be in you Resp Blessed be thy merciful Providence O JESU who when thon hadst finisht thy great work on earth ascendedst into heav'n to draw up our minds even thither after Thee Alleluja * That where our happines is there might our harts be also Alleluja Alleluja Blessed be thy infinite goodnes O dear Redeemer who when thou hadst taught us the words of eternal life â—â—entst down the holy Ghost to make us observe them and raise up our affections to that glorious Kingdom whether thou art gone before us Alleluja * That Second Lesson Acts. 2. WHen the days of Pentecost were accomplisht they were all together in once place and suddenly there was made a sound from heav'n as of a vehement wind coming and it fill'd the whole house where they were siting and there appear'd to them parted tongues as it were of fire and sate upon each of them and they were replenisht with the holy Ghost and began to speak with divers tongues according as the holy Ghost gave them to speak And there were dweling at Jerusalem Jews devout men of every Nation under heav'n and when this noise was made the multitude came together and was astonisht in mind because every one heard them speak in his own tongue the wonderful works of God Resp Thus were the words of the Prophets fulfil'd and the promises of our Saviour perform'd and the faith of the Christian Church miraculously begun Alleluja * O may it stil go on and increase and multiply til every Nation speak in their own tongues the wonderful works of God Alleluja Alleluja Govern O blessed Spirit the Church thou so wonderfully hast establisht govern it with thy special grace and always preserve it in obedience to Thee and us in obedience to it Alleluja * O may Third Lesson Acts 4. ANd the multitude of Beleevers had one hart and one soul nor did any say that ought was his own of what he possest but all was common to them And the Apostles with great power gave testimony to the resurrection of Jesus Christ our Lord and great grace was in them all nor was there any one needy among them for as many as were owners of lands of houses sold them and brought the price of what they sold and laid it at the feet of the Apostles and to every one was divided as every one had need Resp O happy life O heav'n upon earth this is the blest effect of the fire of the true Spirit which warms without scorching and shines without smoking and inlightens without consuing Kindle in our harts O Lord this holy fire of meeknes and peace and unity * That all the world may know whose Disciples we are by seeing us love one another Alleluja But O deliver us from the contrary fire the fire of the false spirit that scorches without warming and smokes without shining and consumes without inlightening deliver us from schism and heresy and every least uncharitable passion * That all the Glory be c. * That all the Lauds for the Holy Ghost O God incline c. as Page 18. Antiph Kindle in our harts O Lord thy holy fire that we may offer to thee the incense of praise Alleluja Psal CIX COnsider now my soul the mercys of thy God consider the wonders he has wrought for the children of men The eternal Father created us of nothing and set us in the way to everlasting happines The eternal Son came down from heav'n to seek us and restor'd us again when we had lost our selvs The eternal spirit sends his grace to sanctify us and gives us strength to walk that holy way Thus every Person of the sacred Trinity * has freely contributed his peculiar blessing And All together as one co-infinite Goodnes * have graciously agreed to compleat our felicity But O ingrateful we was it not enough * to receive of our God all we have and are Was it not enough that the Son of God should come down and live
the glories prepar'd for us above All the few years we live shall spend themselvs to purchase that one eternal Day That Day whose brightness knows no night nor ever fears the least eclips Whose chearful brow no cloud o'recasts nor storm molests the passage of its rays But still shines on serene and clear and fills with splendors that spacious Palace It needs not the fading lustre of our Sun nor the borrow'd silver of the Moon The Sun that rises there is the Lamb and the Light that shines the Glory of God O how beauteous truths are sung of thee thou City of the King of Heav'n Thy walls are rais'd with precious stones and every gate is of one rich pearl Thy mansions are built with choicest jewels and the pavement of thy streets is transparent gold Down in the midst runs a crystal river perpetually flowing from the throne of God There all along those pleasant banks deliciously grows the tree of life Healing all wounds with its balmy leaves and making imortal all that tast but its fruit Thus is the holy City built thus is the new Jerusalem adorn'd O fortunate and glorious City how free and happy are thy glad Inhabitants Every head wears a royal Crown and every hand a palm of Victory Every ey overflows with joy and every tongue with Psalms of praise Behold O my soul the inheritance we seek and where can we find more riches to invite us Behold the felicities to which we are cal'd and where can we meet such pleasures to entertain us Away then all vain and worldly desires be banisht for ever from molesting my peace Descend thou blessed Heav'n into my hart or rather take up my hart to thee Thy joys are too great to enter into me O make me fit to enter into them Make me still think on my Country above and there establish my eternal home Where I shall dwell perpetually in the view of my God and be fill'd for ever with the sweetness of his presence Glory be c. Antiph Glorious things are said of thee thou City of the King of Heaven Alleluja Antiph If these imperfect shadows so sweetly please how will the real substance transport our harts Alleluja Psal IX BLest be thy gracious Wisdom O Lord that so mercifully stoops to our low conceits Under these veils thou hid'st those glorious mysteries too high and spiritual for our flesh and blood Thou hid'st or rather so reveal'st thy sublime rewards to take us with things we most admire Scepters and Crowns thou know'st are apt * to win the harts of us thy children Children alas too truly in useful knowledg O that we were so in love and duty What is a drop of water to the boundless Ocean or a grain of dust to this vast Globe Such O my God and infinitely less * are the richest Kingdoms here below Should we compare their most pompous state * to the meanest degree in the Court of Heav'n When thou hast fed us a while with milk thou invit'st our appetite to stronger meat Thou tel'st us of a sweet delicious life in the blest society of Saints and Angels With whom we shall dwell in perpetual friendship and be lov'd and esteemed by them all for ever Thou tel'st us of a pure soul-ravishing joy to behold the amiable face of JESUS Whose gracious smiles shine round about and fill the Heav'ns with holy gladnes Thou tel'st us still of incomparably higher delights harken O my soul and humbly adore thy God Whose bounty has provided thee large rewards Since they are no less then his very Self Himself he will clearly unveil before us and openly shew us that great Secret O happy Secret if once at last attain'd if once we but see the face of our God What is it glorious Lord to see thy face but to know Thee as thou art in thine own blest Being To know the immensity of thy self-subsisting Essence and the infinite excellence of all thy Attributes To know the Power of the Eternal Father and the Wisdom of the Increated Son To know the Goodnes of the Holy Ghost and the incomprehensible Glorys of the undivided Trinity This O my Soul is the top of happines this the supreme perfection of our nature This this alone is the aim of our Being the hope and end of all our labors When we are come to this we shall presently rest and our satisfyd desires reach no farther We shall be fill'd with overflowing bliss and our utmost capacities hold no more But in one Act of joy be eternally fixt and that one act spring fresh for ever Glory be c. Antiph If these imperfect shadows so sweetly please how will the real substance transport our harts Alleluja Antiph Never can we say too much of this glorious subject never can we think enough of the felicities of Heav'n Alleluja Psal X. ARise my soul to thee these joys belong arise and advance thy self on high Leave here below all earthly thoughts and fly away with the wings of thy Spirit Fly to that glorious Land of Promise and gladly salute those heav'nly regions Hail happy Paradise of pure delights thou beauteous Garden of never fading flowers Hail blest Society of beatify'd Spirits who perpetually contemplate the eternal Deity Hail and for ever may your glorys grow till they rise so high they can grow no more Hail and among your cheerful Hymns remember us who dwell below in this vale of tears We hope one day to come up to You and be plac't to sing in your holy Quires We hope to know that all-producing Cause we hope to know all it has produc't O what a fire of love will it kindle in our harts when we shall see those shining mysteries When our great God like a burning Mirroir shall strike his brightness on the eys of our soul O what excessive joy will that love produce a love so violently desiring and so fully satisfyed When our capacities shall be stretch't to the utmost and the rich abounding Object fill and overflow them O what profound repose will that joy beget a joy so infinitely high and so eternally secure When in an amorous languishment we shall sweetly dissolve into that blysful union with our first Begining When without losing what we are we shall become even what He is We shall take part in all his joys and share in the glorys of all his Heav'n O what divine and ravishing words are these how gently they enter and delight my ear How they diffuse themselvs over all my brain and strongly penetrate to my very soul Me thinks they turn to substance as they go and I feel them stir and work through all my powers Me thinks they ly as a Cordial at my hart and send forth spirits to quicken and refresh me There O my soul we shall rest from all our labors which are but the way to all that happines There we shall rest from sin and sorrow and no longer be troubled with our selvs or
others There we shall rest for ever in the protection of our God in the arms and bosom of our dearest Lord. O Heav'n the eternal source of all these joys and infinitely more and infinitely greater As the Hart pants after the water-brooks so let my soul thirst after thee After Thee let me dayly sigh and mourn and with a fixt and longing ey look up and say When O my God shall I sit at that fountain head and drink my fill of those living streams When shall I be inâ—â—briated with that torrent of pleasâ—â—res which springs for ever from thy glorious Throne O that the days of my banishment were fully finish't How is the time of my pilgrimage prolong'd Why am I still detain'd in this vally of tears stil wandring up and down in this wilderness of dangers Come Thou sweet JESU my only Hope and sure Deliverer out of all my sorrows Come Thou and here begin to dwell in my hart and fit me for the life I shall lead hereafter Come O my dearest Lord and prepare my soul for Thee and then when thou pleasest take it to Thy self Glory be c. Antiph Never can we say too much of this glorious subject never can we think enough of the felicities of heaven Alleluja Capit. Rom. 12. Let love be without dissimulation Hate that which is evil Cleave to that which is good Love brotherly charity one towards another with honor preventing one another In business not slothful In spirit fervent Serving our Lord. Rejoycing in hope Patient in tribulation Instant in prayer Communicating to the necessities of the Saints Practising hospitality Bless them that persecute you Bless and curse not Rejoyce with them that rejoyce Weep with them that weep being mutually of the same mind not affecting high things but condescending to mean things Be not wise in your own conceits Render to none evil for evil Be solicitous to do well not only before God but in the sight of all men If it be possible as much as is in you live peaceably with every one Revenge not your selvs most dearly Beloved but give place to wrath for it is written Vengeance is mine I will repay saith our Lord. But if thy enemy hunger give him meat if he thirst give him drink for doing this thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head Be not overcome of evil but overcome evil with good Hymn III. WHy do we seek felicity Where 't is not to be found And not dear Lord look up to Thee Where all delights abound Why do we seek for treasure here On this false barren sand Where nought but empty shels appear And marks of Shipwrack stand O world how litle do thy joys Concern a soul that knows It self not made for such low toys As thy poor hand bestows How cross art thou to that design For which we had our birth Us who were made in heav'n to shine Thou bow'st down to thy earth Nay to thy hell for thither sink All that to thee submit Thou strew'st some flowers on the brink To drown us in the pit World take away thy tinsel wares That dazle here our eys Let us go up above the Stars Where all our treasure lys The way we know our dearest Lord Himself is gone before And has ingag'd his faithful word To open us the door But O my God! reach down thy hand And take us up to Thee That we about thy Throne may stand And all thy glories see All glory to the sacred Three One everliving Lord As at the first still may He be Belov'd obey'd ador'd Antiph O glorious God! thy infinite perfections cause us to admire Thee and thy bounteous promises ingage us to hope in Thee Thy incomparable beauty ravishes our harts and the joys thou hast prepared for us transcend all our wishes Alleluja Magnificat My soul magnifys our Lord And my spirit has rejoyced in God my Saviour Because he has regarded the low degree of his handmaid For behold from henceforth all generations shall call me Blessed For he that is mighty has done great things to me and holy is his Name And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation He has shew'd strength in his arm he has scatter'd the proud in the imagination of their harts He has depos'd the pow'rful from their seat and exalted them of low degree He has fill'd the hungry with good things and the rich sent empty away He has receiv'd Israel his child being mindful of his mercy As he spake to our Fathers to Abraham and his seed for ever Glory be c. Antiph O glorious God! thy infinite perfections cause us to admire Thee and thy bounteous promises ingage us to hope in thee thy incomparable beauty ravishes our harts and the joys thou hast prepar'd for us transcend all our wishes Alleluja O Lord hear our Pray'rs And let our supplications come to Thee Let us pray O God who graciously woo'st us to our eternal Inheritance by describing its inexpressible glorys all possibly-taking ways to our low conceits that they may fitly insinuate themselvs and become by degrees absolute Master of our harts Bring them we beseech Thee stil seasonably into our memorys and so strongly settle them in our affections that our souls being wholly ravish't with these great hopes all the temptations and vanities of this world may fly unconcerningly by us and never be able to distract our intire and steddy and dayly strengthning desires of entring once for ever into possession of thy Kingdom through our Lord Jesus Christ thy Son who with Thee and the Holy Ghost lives and reigns One God world without End Amen O Lord hear our pray'rs And let our supplications come to Thee Bless we our Lord. Thanks be to God May the souls of the Faithful Departed through the mercy of God rest in peace Amen Pause a while to reflect on what you have said and to renew your attention Then begin Complin Sunday Complin V. OUr help is in the Name of our Lord R. Who made heav'n and earth V. Convert us O God our Saviour R. And turn away thy anger from us V. O God incline unto our ayd R. O Lord make hast to help us V. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost R. As it was in the begining both now and ever world without end Amen Alleluia Antiph All is unquiet here til we come to Thee and repose at last in the Kingdom of Peace Psal XI VVHo wil give me the wings of a Dove that I may fly away and be at rest That I may fly away from the troubles of this life and be at rest Dear Lord with Thee Here we alas are forc't to sigh and bear with grief the burthen of our miserys Often we encounter chances that endanger us and divert our progres in the way to Blys Often we are assaulted with temptations that overcome us and set us back in the accounts of eternity How
that are in the world if any one love the world the charity of the Father is not in him For all that is in the world is concupiscence of the flesh concupiscence of the eys and pride of life which is not of the Father but of the world and the world passes away and the concupiscence therof but he that does the will of God abides for ever Antiph Learn of me says our Lord for I am meek and humble of hart and you shall find rest to your souls V. Meekness indeed is the heav'n of this life R. But the heav'n of heav'ns is above with Thee O Lord hear our prayers And let our supplications come to Thee Let us pray O God whose gracious Providence has particularly ordain'd the Spirit of Meeknes to waft us safely through the turbulent Sea of this world to our Haven of Blyss Vouchsafe we beseech thee so to dispose thy servants for this precious vertue by making every days clearer experience of our own weaknes and vanity strike our lofty sails and lay flat on the ground all proud conceits of our selvs that we suffer not our minds to be discompos'd with any passion nor our tongues to break forth into any violent expression but always preserve our selvs in such a regular and even temper stir the world how it will about us as becomes those all whose Powers are possest with the joys of heav'n and apt to feel in every thing only the sweet impulses of hope and charity through our Lord JESUS Christ thy Son who with Thee and the holy Ghost lives and reigns One God world without end Amen V. Vouchsafe us we beseech thee O Lord a quiet night and a happy end R. Amen V. Lord have mercy on us R. Christ have mercy on us V. Lord have mercy on us Our Father c. V. And lead us not into temptation R. But deliver us from evil Amen V. Into thy hands O Lord we commend our spirits R. Into thy hands O Lord we commend our spirits R. Thou hast redeemed us O Lord thou God of truth R. Into thy hands O Lord we commend our spirits V. Preserve us O Lord as the apple of thine ey R. Under the shadow of thy wings protect us V. Save us O Lord waking defend us sleeping R. That we may watch with Christ and rest in peace V. Vouchsafe O Lord to keep us this night without sin R. Have mercy on us O Lord have mercy on us V. Lord let thy mercy be on us R. As our hope is in Thee V. O Lord hear our prayers R. And let our supplications come to Thee Let us pray VIsit we beseech thee O Lord this habitation and drive far away all snares of the enemy let thy holy Angels dwell therein to preserve us in peace and thy blessing be upon us for ever through our Lord JESUS Christ thy Son who with Thee and the holy Ghost lives and reigns One God world without end Amen V. O Lord hear our Prayers R. And let our supplications come to Thee V. Bless we our Lord. R. Thanks be to God V. May the souls of the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in peace R. Amen Pause a litle then say one of the following Antiphons and Prayers according to the time From Advent Sunday Morning to Candlemas Eve V. Our Lord give us his peace R. And life everlasting Amen Blest Mother of our Lord whose pray'rs display The gates of heav'n whose light directs our way Here in these dangerous Seas obtain supplies For those who often fall yet strive to rise Thou at whom Nature stood amaz'd to see The world's Creator humbly born of Thee Thou whom the Angel did that homage pay All-spotless Virgin for us sinners pray V. Blessed O Lord is the womb that bare Thee R. And the brests that gave Thee suck Let us pray O God who by the blessed Fruit of the Virgin Mary hast bestow'd on mankind the rewards of eternal salvation grant we beseech Thee that we may always injoy the benefit of her intercession by whom thou wert pleas'd we should receive the Author of our life JESUS Christ thy Son our Lord Amen May the divine Assistance remain with us for ever Amen Pause a litle then say The Blessing of God Almighty Father Son and holy Ghost descend upon us and dwell in our harts for ever Amen Pause a litle then rise So ends the whole Office of the day From Candlemas to Maundy Thursday V. Our Lord give us his peace R. And life everlasting Amen HAil Queen of Angels holy Quires Hail whom the Court of heav'n admires Thou art the Root whence our joys spring The Gate that light to us didst bring Heav'ns brightest Saints thy grace outshines Thy Glory all the Seraphins Live happy Favorite of Thy Son And plead our cause at his dread Throne V. Vouchsafe O holy Virgin to accept our praises R. And favour us with thy prayers for strength against our enemies Let us pray SUstain we beseech Thee O merciful God the weaknes of thy servants that we who celebrate the memory of the blessed Mother of our Lord may by the 〈◊〉 of her intercession obtain thy grace to rise from our iniquities through the same JESUS Christ our Lord Amen May the divine Assistance remain with us for ever Amen Pause Then The Blessing of God Almighty Father Son and holy Ghost descend upon us and dwell in our hearts for ever Amen From Easter to Trinity Sunday V. Our Lord give us his peace R. And life Everlasting Amen REjoyce chast Queen of Angels and apply All those blest Quires to sing this Victory He that was born of Thee and dy'd for us Has conquer'd death is risen glorious Sing then and in thy hymns this mercy crave That thy great Son our souls in Judgment save V. Rejoyce and triumph O Blessed Virgin Mary Alleluja R. For our Lord is risen indeed Alleluja Let us pray O God who by the resurrection of thy Son our Lord JESUS Christ hast vouchâ—â—af't to make glad the harts of the world grant we beseech Thee that by the prayers of his immaculate Virgin-Mother we may attain the joys of eternal life through the same JESUS Christ our Lord Amen May the divine Assistance remain with us for ever Amen Pause Then The Blessing of God Almighty Father Son and holy Ghost descend upon us and dwell in our hearts for ever Amen From Trinity Sunday to Advent Sunday V. Our Lord give us his peace R. And life everlasting Amen HAil Queen of Saints Hail mercies Mother Our life our hope our comfort Hail To thee deploring one another We poor Eves banish't off-spring wail To thee we cry and our sad moans Sigh out into thy tender ears To thee our harts weep bitter groans In this doleful vale of tears Hear glorious Advocate O hear And towards wretched us incline The gracious aspect of those dear Compassionating eys of thine Soft source of pity mil'd and sweet O
I withdraw my affections from all vain and perishable creatures and fix them intirely on the enjoyment of Thee my Lord and my God and my eternal felicity * O infinite Goodnes 't is thy self Second Lesson THe beginning of wisdom is the true desire of discipline and the care of discipline is love and love is the keeping of her laws and the keeping of her laws is the accomplishment of incorruption and incorruption makes us next to God therefore the desire of wisdom leads us to an everlasting Kingdom If then you be delighted with Thrones and Scepters seek wisdom that you may reign for ever Into a malicious soul wisdom will not enter nor dwell in a body subject to sins for the holy Spirit will fly from him that dissembles and withdraw himself from thoughts that are without understanding and be chaced away when iniquity comes in The Spirit of wisdom is gentle and will not deliver the Curser from his own lips for God is witnes of his reins and searcher of his hart and hearer of his tongue therefore he that speaks unjust things cannot be hidden nor shall the chastizing vengeance forbear him If thou shalt call for wisdom and incline thy hart to prudence if thou shalt seek her as mony and dig her up as treasure then shalt thou understand the fear of our Lord and fynd the knowledg of God For our Lord gives wisdom and from his mouth is prudence and knowledge R. Send down O thou God of our Fathers and Lord of mercy send down thy Wisdom thy holy heav'n and from the seat of thy greatnes to be in us and labor with us and teach us what is acceptable to thee * That we may know our end and wisely chuse our way and order all our actions to our true felicity Our thoughts are fearful and our prudences incertain we scarce conjecture the things that are on earth and find with pains the things that are in sight Give us O Lord the wisdom that assists at thy Throne and reject us not from among thy Children * That we may Third Lesson THe Spirit of those that fear God shal live and at his sight shal be Blessed for their hope is in him that saves them and the eys of God are on them that love him He that fears our Lord shal tremble at nothing because He is his hope he raises up the Soul and illuminates the eys and gives life and health and blessing Our Lord is only theirs who expect him in the way of truth and justice the Highest allows not the gifts of the wicked nor regards the oblations of the unjust nor pardons their offences for the multitude of their sacrifices By mercy and faith sins are purged and by the fear of our Lord every one declines from evil Despise not a man that turns himself from sin nor upbraid him therwith remember we are all in state to be blam'd Forgive thy neighbor that hurts thee and when thou pray'st thy sins shal be forgiven thee One man reservs anger against another and does he seek pardon of God he has not mercy on a man like himself and does he intreat for his own sins Remember the last things and cease to be at enmity remember the fear of God and be not angry with thy neighbor Hast thou sin'd do so no more but withal pray that thy former sins may be forgiven thee Fly from sin as from the face of a serpent if thou approach it will bite thee the teeth thereof are as the teeth of lyons killing the souls of men He that is washt from the dead and touches him again what does his washing profit him so a man that fasts for his sins and does the same again what avails it to have humbled himself who will hear his prayer R. Deliver us O Lord from relapsing into the sins we have repented the sins we so often have promised to amend Deliver us from all malice and enmity with our neighbors and from oppressing the poor who have none to defend them * Then may we confidently expect thy protection if we serve Thee and love one another Thou art our strength O Lord whom shall we fear Thou art our Salvation of what shall we be afraid nothing can hurt us but our own vicious desires nothing can endanger us but disobedience to our God * Then may we Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost Then may we confidently expect thy protection if we serve Thee and love one another Pause a while to reflect and renew attention then begin Monday Lauds O God incline unto our aid O Lord make hast to help us Glory be to the Father and to the Son * and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the begining both now and ever world without end Amen Alleluia Antiph Bless our Lord O my soul and all that is within me praise his holy Name Psal XVIII COme let us sing the praises of our God and joyfully recite his divine Perfections His being is from himself alone and he depends not on any but his own eternal Essence His Knowledg fathoms the extent of all things and his power commands them as he pleases His goodnes is supreamly infinite and all his glorious Attributes transcendently adorable Come let us sing the praises of our God and joyfully recite his divine perfections He is the Source of all felicity eternally full of his own unchangable Blyss Before time began He was and when the Sun must lose its light his day will remain the same for ever The heav'n of heav'ns is the Palace of his Glory and all-created nature the subject of his Dominion In his presence the brightest Seraphims cover their faces and all the blessed Spirits bow down their heads to his footstool Come let us sing aloud the prerogatives of our God and stretch our utmost thoughts to exalt his Greatnes But O most glorious and dreadful Deity how dare we wretches undertake thy praise How dare our sin-polluted lips pronounce thy Name or where shal we seek expressions fit for Thee All we can say is nothing to thy unspeakable Excellencys all we can think but a faint shadow of thy unconceivable Beautys Even the voice of Angels is too low to reach thy Worth and their highest strains fall infinitely short of Thee Only in this shal thy servants rejoyce and all the Powers of our souls be glad That Thy self alone art thine own full praise Be to thy self thine own glory Live our great God eternally incompast * with the beams of thine own inaccessible light Live our ador'd Creator and raign for ever * on the Throne of thine own immortal Kingdom Glory be c. Psal XIX Too glorious art thou O Lord in Thy self and thy direct ray shines too bright for our eys Yet may we venture to praise Thee in thy works and contemplate Thee at least reflected from thy creatures In them we may safely behold our mighty Maker and freely admire the
spred all o're with thorns yet carried Him directly to the glory 's of Paradise Shal we not confidently rely on so gracous a Leader who promises if we faint to look back and relieve us O dearest Lord bow down thy merciful eys and pity the frailtys of our imperfect nature Reach forth thy hand and strengthen us with thy grace that nothing divert our advance towards Thee But in this dangerous labyrinth of the world * and the whole course of our pilgrimage here Thy heav'nly Dictates may be our map * and thy holy life our guide Glory be c. Psal XLVI MAy every Age sing praises to our God and all generations adore his providence From the begining his mercy has stil laid means * to raise us to those blessed objects above our nature At first he created Adam with all necessary knowledg and then ordain'd the Patriarks to inform their familys Afterwards He charg'd the Angels to bring us his Commands and often inspir'd the Prophets to declare his Will When he had done all this and found it not enough to guide untoward man to his true end What did He then to save the perishing world O strange excess of the divine goodnes He sent even his own beloved Son to dwel among us and teach us the art of working our Salvation That sacred art of training up our souls for heav'n and fitting them for the blisful Union with Himself But O Thou King of glorious sweetnes whose flowing tongue dropt milk and honey We were alas not happy to behold thy Person nor our ears worthy to hear thy voice Yet e're we were born thou hadst us in thy thoughts and providedst a method to supply that defect Selecting a number of choice Disciples and thorowly instructing them in thy heav'nly doctrine That they might keep alive the memory of Thee and witnes to all Nations thy stupendious works Thou verifyd'st their Mission with the power of Miracles and enflamd'st their harts with the fire of thy Spirit O're all the world they proclaim'd thy Law and undauntedly preach'd the crucify'd God Deep in the brests of the Faithful did they write thy Gospel and seal it before their eys with their own blood Their Successors deposited the same precious treasure in the common Magazin of the Universal Church Enjoyning their Children to guard it with their livs convey it unchang'd to future ages Thus is the Catholique Faith descended on us and thus shal continue to the end of the world 'T is but to ask our Fathers and they will tell us our Ancestors and they will instruct us Blessed by thy wisdom O Lord which has laid such marks to seek thy Church * and open'd our eys to find it Blessed be thy power that has wrought such miracles to confirm thy faith and inclind'd our harts to believe it How many Souls are unhappily seduced and lose themselvs in the wildernes of Heresy While we by thy Providence are directly led * the straight and only way to blyss How many Nations ly miserably involv'd * in the darknes of barbarism and unbelief While we enjoy a clear noon day and safely walk in the light of truth O infinite Goodnes who freely chusest * to pour forth thy blessings on unworthy us As 't is from Thee alone we receive these favours to Thee alone let us return our praises Glory be c. Antiph All my life long will I praise my God and lift up my hands to his holy Throne Capit. 1 Peter 5. THe God of all grace who has called us to his eternal glory in Christ JESUS will himself after you have suffered a litle perfect confirm and stablish you To him be glory and empire for ever and ever Amen Hymn XIV MY God had I my breath from Thee This pow'r to speak and sing And shal my voice and shal my song Praise any but their King My God had I my soul from Thee This pow'r to judg and chuse And shal my brain and shal my will Their best to Thee refuse Alas not this alone or That Hast thou bestow'd on me But all I have and all I hope I have and hope from Thee And more I have and more I hope Then I can speak or think Thy blessings first refresh then fill Then overflow the brink But though my voice and fancy be Too low to reach thy praise Yet both shal strain thy glorious Name High as they can to raise Glory to Thee immortal God One great Coequal Three As at the first begining was May now and ever be Antiph Happy we securely happy could our busy folly let us see it whose lots are deposited in the hands of wisdom it self which strongly reaches from end to end and disposes all things sweetly V. Are not two Sparrows sold for a farthing R. Yet not one of them falls to the ground without our Father O Lord hear our Prayers And let our supplications come to Thee Let us pray O Soveraign Lord whose wise ey continually looks through universal nature and whose omnipotent hand steers every part of it most fitly to the end of thy goodnes Suppress we humbly beseech Thee all distractive solicitude in thy servants by this clear Reflection Who Governs the World and grant that duly confident of thy Providence for all things out of our just reach we may diligently apply all our own endeavours in improving our selvs and others according to the rules of thy perfect charity through our Lord. Commemorations as Page 29. VVednesday Vespers OUr Father c. As page 33. Antiph A good Conscience is a continual feast and a peaceful mind the Antipast of heav'n Psal XLVII LOrd how secure and quiet they live * whom thy grace preservs in innocence The day goes smoothly over their heads * and silent as the shadow of a dyal The spirits of their fancy run calm and even and eb and flow in obedience to reason All their delight is to think on heav'n and reckon o're the joys they shall one day possess Till some unruly passion press to come in * and by its fawning outside gain admittance It promises at first all joy all happines but soon discovers its pernicious intent Soon it grows bold to undermine their repose and open a door to all their enemys So at a litle breach of the City wall * a whole Army pours in their numerous body Enslaving all that submit to their violence * and destroying all that make head to resist it And such alas is their confusion * when once they have yielded to the first assault Immediately a throng of tumultuous spirits croud into their heads and utterly consume the litle remnant of their peace O the distraction of a life led by humor and the miserable thraldom of being subject to our passions How often do they engage us to contend with others and imbitter all our days with strife and envy How often do they quarrel even among themselves and raise a war in our own bosoms
and Doctors for the consummation of the Saints for the work of the ministry for the edifying the body of Christ til we all meet into the unity and knowledge of the Son of God into a perfect man into the measure of the age of the fulnes of Christ That henceforth we be not children wavering and carry'd about with every wind of doctrine by the wickednes of men and their craftines to circumvent into error but following the truth in charity let us in all things grow in him who is our head Christ And I beseech you Brethren by the name of our Lord JESUS Christ that you all say one thing and that there be no schisms among you but that you be perfect in one sense and in one knowledge Mark them that make dissentions and scandals contrary to the Doctrin which you have learn't and avoyd them for such serve not Christ our Lord but their own belly and by sweet speeches and benedictions seduce the harts of the simple Beleeve not every spirit but prove the spirits whether they be of God for many false Prophets are gone out into the world Therefore Brethren stand fast hold the traditions which you have learn'd whether by word of mouth or our Epistle Obey your Prelats and be subject to them for they watch as being to render account for your souls R. My God if ravenous Wolvs seek by force to devour me and with threats and penalty's fright me from thy Faith this shal be my shield against all their fiery darts * I beleeve my Creed and in it One holy Catholick and Apostolick Church If subtle foxes seek by fraud to deceive me and with wit and fallacy's seduce me from thy truth this shal be my answer to all their Objections * I beleeve Second Lesson ANd JESUS coming near spake to his Disciples saying All power is given me in heav'n and in earth Go therfore and teach all Nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy Ghost teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you and behold I am with you always to the end of the World The Apostles hearing that Samaria had receiv'd the word of God sent to them Peter and John who when they were come pray'd for them that they might receive the holy Ghost for he was not yet come upon any of them but they were only baptiz'd in the name of our Lord JESUS then they impos'd their hands on them and they receiv'd the holy Ghost And JESUS said to his Disciples As my Father sent me I also send you And He breath'd on Them and said Receive you the holy Ghost whose sins you shal forgive they are forgiven and whose you shal retain they are retain'd The Chalice of benediction which we bless is it not the Communication of the Blood of Christ and the Bread which we break is it not the participation of the Body of our Lord When they had ordain'd to them Priests in every Church and had pray'd with fastings they commended them to our Lord in whom they beleev'd For this cause shal a man leave his Father and Mother and cleave to his Wife and they shal be two in one flesh this is a great Sacrament but I speak in Christ and in the Church Is any one sick among you let him bring in the Priests of the Church and let them pray over him anoynting him with Oyl in the name of our Lord and the prayer of faith shal save the sick and our Lord shal raise him up and if he be in sins they shal be remitted him Now to him that is able to do all things more abundantly then we desire or understand according to the power that works in us to Him be glory in the Church and in Christ JESUS to all generations world without end Amen R. Blessed O Lord be thy holy Name who hast provided the Scriptures for comfort of the Faithful and blessed be thy gracious Wisdom who hast left in thy Church a Rule to interpret Them Lest the unlearned and instable should pervert them to their own destruction Renew O merciful Lord a right spirit in the world a spirit of humility and obedience that in reading those sacred Books none may prefer their private fancys before the testimony of the Church but readily submit to Them whom he that hears hears Thee and he that despises despises Thee * Lest Third Lesson 1 Cor. 11. FOr I received of our Lord that which also I have deliver'd to you that our Lord Jesus in the night wherein he was betray'd took bread and giving thanks brake and said Take and eat This is my Body which shal be deliver'd for you this do in Commemoration of me In like manner also the Chalice after he had supt saying This Chalice is the new Testament in my Blood this do as often as you shal drink it in Commemoration of me For as often as you eat this Bread and drink the Chalice you shall shew our Lords death till he come Therefore who ever shall eat this Bread or drink the Chalice of our Lord unworthily 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 eats and drinks unworthily eats and drinks damnation to himself not discerning our Lords Body R. I am the Bread that came down from heav'n not as your fathers ate Manna and dyed he that eats of this Bread shall live for ever and the Bread which I give is my Flesh for the life of the world * These O my dearest Saviour are thy very words O give us always of this Bread As the living Father sent me and I live by the Father so he that eats me shall live by me and I will raise him up at the last day for my Flesh is meat indeed and my Blood is drink indeed * These Glory be c. * These Pause c. as page 17. Thursday Lauds O God incline c. as page 18. Antiph How great is the multitude of thy sweetnes O Lord which thou hast hidden for those that love Thee Psal LVII WHere O thou boundless Ocean of Charity where will thy overflowing streams stay their course We and our ingratitude strive to oppose thee but nothing can resist thy almighty Goodnes When the impiety of man was at the hight and their treacherous heads ploting to betray thee Then did thy wisdom mercifully consult * to overcome our malice with thy bounty Immediately thou contriv'dst an admirable way * to invite all the world to a feast of miracles A feast where thy sacred Body should be our food * and thy precious Blood our drink A feast where thy whole all-glorious Self * is freely given to the meanest guest A feast of peace and love and incomparable sweetnes to which thine own blest mouth thus kindly cals us Come to me you that labour for holines
't is Thou bestow'st His pow'r his will to help our end Is just so much as thou allow'st If we enjoy a free estate Our only Title is from Thee Thou mad'st our lot to bear that rate Which else an empty blank would be If we have hâ—â—lth that wel-tun'd grownd Which gives the Musick to the rest It is by Thee our ayr is sound Our food secur'd our physick blest If we have hope one day to view The glorys of thy blysful face Each drop of that refreshing dew Must fall from heav'n and thy free grace Thus then to Thee our praises bow And humbly thy acceptance crave Since 't is to Thee our selvs we ow And to thy bounty all we have Glory to Thee great God alone Three persons in one Deity As it has been in ages gone May now and stil for ever be Antiph 'T is consummated Thou hast O JESU overcom in thy Body all the Powers of darknes their hour is past but thy souls eternal blyss remains and Behold That of thy triumphant Resurrection approaches V. Be not afraid of those who kill the body R. And after that have no more they can do O Lord hear our Prayers And let our Supplications come to Thee Let us pray O God who hast submitted thy only Son our Saviour JESUS to expire on the Cross and descend into the grave that he might destroy the life of sin and bury the terrors of death grant we beseech Thee they may never revive or rise again to tempt or fright us from the ways of vertue nor shake this sure and fundamental truth which thy grace has laid in our harts That the greatest mischiefs our salvation can cost us here are but momentary and work above measure exceedingly in us an eternal weight of glory through the same our Lord Commemorations as Page 29. to the end Saturday Vespers OUr Father c. as Page 33. Antiph They who use this world let them be as if they â—â—s'd it not for the figure of this world passes away Psal LXXXVI WHy do we stil pursue this world and so eagerly seek its fond enjoyments A world of vanity and false deceits a world of misery and sad disasters Whose crosses are solid and comforts empty whose sorrows are permanent and delights pass quickly away A world where the innocent are condemn'd with shame and the guilty freed with applause Where often the wicked are advanc'd to honour and the vertuous opprest with disgrace Where friends fall off and kindred forget and every one minds his private interest Yet are we taken with this crooked world and blindly court its painted face We make some ugly passion mistress of our hart and neglect the pure and amiable love of JESUS Whose goodnes to us gives us all we have whose perfections in himself are more then we can conceive Thou art O glorious JESU the beauty of Angels and the everlasting joy of all thy Saints Thou art the heay'n of heav'n it self and in thy sight alone is the fulnes of Blyss All this thou art and infinitely more and yet alas how few esteeem thee The world we dearly know too often has deceiv'd us and our rashnes cares not to be undone again Thou never O JESU hast fail'd our hope and our dulnes fears to rely on Thee The world distracts and embroils our spirits and wretched we delight in our misery Thou always O JESU fil'st our harts with peace and sensles we are weary of thy happines The world calls and we faint in following it thou cal'st and we are stil reliev'd by Thee Yet is our nature so ingratefully perverse we run after that which tires and abandon that which refreshes Somtimes our lips speak gloriously of Thee O Thou living fountain of eternal Blyss Some happy times we relish thy sweetnes and decry aloud the poyson of the world But we are soon enticed by its guilded cup and easily forsake the waters of life O Blessed JESU who took'st upon thee all our frailtys to bestow on us thine own perfections Teach us to prize the joys of heav'n and part with all things else to purchase Thee Make all the pleasures of this life seem bâ—â—tter to our tasts as they are indeed pernitious to our helths Let not their flatterys any more delude us nor superfluous cares perplex our minds But may our chief delight be to think on Thee and all our study to grow in thy love Glory be c. Antiph They who use this world let them be as if they us'd it not for the figure of this world passes away Antiph We by a fond self-love blame every thing but our selvs while nothing can hurt us but our own misplac't affections Psal LXXXVII ALl this is true and yet the world is lov'd and our nature inclines to affect its vanitys 'T is lov'd and so it justly deservs did we understand its real value Our life indeed seems mean and trivial and all things about us troublesom and dangerous Yet O my God is their consequence excellent in this that they are our only way of coming to Thee This world and this alone 's the womb that breeds us and brings us forth to see thy light This is alone the proper Machine wherein thy hand has set our lives To learn the art of managing it right and wind up our selves to thy glorious heav'n O that we had that happy skill how soon would every thing help forward to advance us Whether we eat or drink or what ever else * an innocent hand can undertake If we regard our faithful end and order all to the improvement of our minds They instantly change their secular name and deservedly are prefer'd to become religious Riches themselves and imperious honour * have not so perverse and fixt a malice But a prudent use converts them to piety and makes them fit instruments of highest Blyss Our very delights O the Goodnes of our God! may so be temper'd with a wise alloy That his mercy accounts them as parts of our duty and fails not to give them their full reward While they are entertain'd for the health of our bodys or the just refreshement of our wearyed spirits And both our bodys and spirits constantly apply'd * to gain new degrees of the love of heav'n Thus gracious Lord every moment of our lives * may still be climbing up towards Thee Thus may we still proceed in thy service even then when we most of all serve our selvs And then indeed it is we best serve our selvs when we are busiest in what we call thy service Thou sweetly vouchsaf'st to stile thâ—â—t thy glory which in very truth is nothing but our interest Thou kindly complain'st we dishonour thy Name when we only mischief our own souls O Blesses JESU King of clemency and great Rewarder of every little grace Thou who by all we can do pretendest no gain but bestow'st on us all thy self hast done Thou who cam'st down from heav'n to shew us a
pattern and mad'st us free to work for our own profit Instruct our gratitude to consecrate all to Thee since all by thy bounty will redound to our selves Glory be c. Antiph We by a fond self love blame every thing but our selvs while nothing can hurt us but our own misplac't affections Antiph It is decreed for all men once to dy and after death Judgment Psal LXXXVIII THis life indeed is the way we must walk but this alone cannot bring us to our end Ere we arrive at our appointed home we must be led through the gates of death Where we shall absolutely be stript of all we have and carry nothing with us but what we are Where we not only must quit the whole world but leave behind us even part of our selvs Hast thou my soul seen som Neighbour dy and dost thou remember those circumstances of sorrow VVe are sure the case ere long will be our own and are not sure but it may be very soon Have we our selvs been dangerously sick and do we remember the thoughts we had then How we resolv'd to correct our passions and strive against the vices that particularly indanger us 'T will come to this again and no reprieve be found * stay one single minute the hand of death But he immediately will seize upon us and bear us away to the region of spirits There to be rang'd in our proper place as the course of our life has qualify'd us here Nor is this all to expire and dy and dwell for a time in a state of separation VVe must expect another Day a day of publick accounts and restiution of all things When the Archangel shal sound his trumpet and proclaim aloud this universal summons Arise you dead and come to Judgment arise and appear before the Throne of God Then shall the little heaps of dust immediately awake and every soul put on her proper body Immediately all the children of Adam shal be gather'd together from heav'n and hell and every corner of the earth There they must stand and all attend their doom but O with how sad and fatal a difference The Just shal look up with a cheerful confidence and in their new white robes triumph and sing Alleluia let us rejoyce for the marriage of the Lamb is come and his Bride has prepar'd her self Let us rejoyce for the Kingdom of the world is made our Lords and his Christs and He shal reign for ever and ever Let us rejoyce for now our Redeemer is nigh behold he comes quickly and his reward is with him Come come Lord JESU thou long Desire of our harts come quickly thou full Delight of our Souls Come and declare to all the world thy glory come and reward before all the world thy servants Lo where aloft he comes in power and Majesty attended with a train of innumerable Angels Behold where he sits inthron'd on the wings of Cherubins and takes at once a view of all mankind Soon he commands his Angels to sever his Sheep and gather them together on his right hand First then to them he turns his glorious face and shines upon them with these ravishing words Come you Blessed of my Father possess the Kingdom * prepared for you from the begining of the world O the joys their souls shal feel when those heav'nly words sound in their ears Joys that the wit of man cannot conceive joys that the tongues of Angels cannot express Let it suffize themselvs shal tast their own felicity and feed on its sweetnes for ever But O with what dejected eys and trembling harts * shal the wicked stand expecting their Judg What shal they do when where're they look * their ey can meet with nothing but despair Above the offended Judge ready to condemn them below the bottomless pit gaping to devour them Within the worm of conscience knawing their bowels and round about all the world in flames What shal they do when that terrible voice * shal strike them suddenly down to the bottom of hell Go you accursed into everlasting fire * prepar'd for the Devil and his Angels The day of man is past when siners did what they pleas'd and God seem'd to hold his peace 'T is now the day of God when his wrath shal speak in thunder and siners suffer what their wickednes deservs Then shal they sink immediately into the pit of sorrow and dwel in darknes and torments for ever While the Just shal go up in joy and triumph and reign with our Lord in his Kingdom for ever Thus shal the whole Creation be finally dispos'd and mercy and justice divide the world O my soul who now art here below and read'st these dreadful truths as things afar off Know thou shalt then be present and see them with thine eys and be thy self concern'd for all eternity Know as thou livest thou art like to dy and as thou dy'st thou art sure to be judg'd Think what a sad condition it will be * to find thy self on the wrong hand Think what thou then would'st give to have repented in time think what thou would'st give for a litle time to repent Watch therfore now and continually pray for we know not the hour when the Son of man will come O Son of God and man who cam'st in mercy to save us bring the same mercy with thee when thou com'st to judg us Mean while assist us with thy heav'nly grace to stand perpetually with our accounts prepar'd That we may dy in the peace of God and his holy Church and go to live with Him and his blessed Saints Glory be c. Antiph It is decreed for all men once to dy and after death judgment Capit. Tytus 2. SPeak thou the things which becom sound doctrin that the aged men be sober chast wise sound in faith in charity in patience likewise the aged women that they be in holy attire not speaking ill of others not given to much wine teaching good things that they may learn the young women wisdom to love their husbands to love their children to be prudent chast sober to have a care of the house to be gentle subject to their husbands that the word of God be not blasphem'd Young men also exhort to be sober Servants to be obedient to their Masters pleasing them in every thing not contradicting not defrauding but shewing good fidelity in all things that in all things they may adorn the doctrin of God our Saviour Hymn XXVII LOrd what a pleasant life were this If all did well their parts If all did one another love Sincerely with their harts No Suits of law no noise of war our quiet minds would fright No fear to lose no care to keep What justly is our right No envious thought no sland'ring tongue Would e're disturb our peace We should help them and they help us And all unkindnes cease But the All-wise chose other laws And thought it better so He made the world and
But O what are they then to those who see Thee and in that sight see all things else To those who rejoyce perpetually before Thee and in that joy find all joys else O beauteous truth which known inforces love and lov'd begets felicity Live thou for ever in my faithful memory and be my constant guide in all my ways Stil let me think on those joys above and undervalue all things compar'd to my salvation Stil let me think on my Saviours love that purchas'd for me all those joys O my ador'd Redeemer be Thou the masterwish of my hart the scope and end of all my time Soon as I wake let me look up to Thee and when I rise first lowly bow to Thee Often in the day let me call in my thoughts to Thee and when I go to rest cloze up mine eys in Thee So shal my time be govern'd by thy grace and my eternity corwn'd with thy glory Antiph Whither O my God should we go but to Thee Thou hast the words of eternal life I look not O Lord to be pardon'd without repentance but I hope thy grace to make me repent Psal CIII MY God when I remember those words of Thine Repent for the Kingdom of heav'n is at hand When I consider they were the first thou spak'st in publick the chosen text of the Eternal Wisdom Instantly I 'm struck with the importance of the duty and deeply affected with the power of the motive If what this last line says be not wholy true but repeated in course as a form of devotion Forgive dear Lord the deâ—â—eitfulness of my hart and make me think as well as say my prayers Make me apply those searching words to my self and bind them fast on my own soul Repent O my soul for the Kingdom of heav'n is at hand repent for the Kingdom of heav'n depends on thy repentance Vnhappy me I cannot live without sin nor hope for pardon without due repentance I cannot repent without the grace of God nor obtain his grace without his own free gift O my sweet Saviour JESU who cam'st not to call the just but such as I am sinners to repent Since I am not strong enough to be perfectly innocent at least make me humble enough to be truly penitent Make me hartily sorry for what I have done amiss and not do again what will make me sorry Wo to the day and hour wherin I sin'd wo to the many days and hours I have foolishly mispent Or rather wo to me who abuse my days and hours * allow'd by thy goodnes to work out my salvation Deliver me O Lord from the punishments I deserve deliver me from the sins that deserve those punishments Teach me that safe and easy method * of censuring my self to be acquitted by Thee Every night let me sit as an impartial judg and call before me all my day Let me severely examine every thought and word and strictly search every deed and omission Condemning my offences to their just penance and making more firm and wary resolvs Imploring for the past the mercy of heav'n and for the time to come the same unbounded mercy If I perhaps find some litle thing well done * when weigh'd with the allowance indulg'd our frailty Let me return all the glory to my God and beg his grace to continue and improve it Hâ—â— is the hand that sews the seed hâ—â— is the blessing that gives the increase Thus let me once a day at least look home and seriously inquire into the state of my soul What ere my weaknes or malice may have done let me now undo with a harty contrition Let not the sun go down upon my wrath nor on any other unrepented sin Still let me write at the foot of my account * Reconcil'd to my God and in charity with all the world Then go to bed with a quiet conscience and fall asleep in peace and hope Glory be c. Antiph I look not O Lord to be pardon'd without repentance but I hope thy grace to make me repent Antiph Since where my treasure is there will my hart be O make me place my treasure where my hart ought to be Psal CIV LOrd e're I take my leave of this Holy day * which thy Church has sanctify'd in honor of thy memory Let me repeat some few words more * of those incomparable many thou hast left among us Let me attentively mediate their substantial sense and settle them as Principles of my life and action Lay not up for your selvs treasures on earth * where rust and moth corrupt and Theeves break thorow and steal But lay up for your selvs treasures in heav'n * where neither rust nor moth corrupt nor Theeves break thorow and steal For where your treasure is there will your hart be also Go now you curious and study what you please for me I le stay and listen to my Saviour He 'l teach me high and sure and useful truths he 'l teach me truths that will make me happy Hark but this one word more and you 'l stay too if any sense of your eternal good can hold you Hark how he kindly tels us this new and glorious Secret we shal be herafter like the Angels in heav'n O sweet and precious word to them that relish it and thorowly digest its strong nourishment To them that feed on 't often as their dayly bread we shal be hereafter like the Angels in heav'n And what O dearest Lord are those blessed Angels * but spirits that know and love and delight for ever Such O my soul we shal be and that sweet life we shal lead we shal be and live like the Angels in heav'n We shal know all that 's true and love all that 's good and delight in that knowledg and love for ever No ignorance shal darken us nor error deceive us we shal be like the Angels in heav'n No cares shal perplex us nor crosses afflict us we shal be like the Angels in heav'n Our joys shal be full and pure and everlasting we shal be like the Angels in heav'n Cheer thee my soul and bless thy bounteous Lord 't is by him we shal be like the Angels in heav'n Cheer thee and raise thy hopes yet gloriously higher we shal be like Himself for we shal see him as he is Antiph Since where my treasure is there will my hart be O make me place my treasure where my hart ought to be Hymn XXXII LOrd now the time returns For weary man to rest And lay aside those pains and cares With which our day 's opprest Or rather change our thoughts To more concerning cares How to redeem our mispent time With sighs and tears and pray'rs How to provide for heav'n That Place of rest and peace Where our full joys shall never wain Our pleasures never cease Blest be thy love dear Lord That taught us this sweet way Only to love Thee for Thy self And for that love obey O Thou our
great deal on our passions Somtimes we deny and mortify our selvs but far more often obey our sensual appetites Somtimes we are drawn by thy grace to do one good work and seduc'd by our nature to a thousand iniquitys Thus we confes to thee O Lord our God! who perfectly seest every corner of our harts Thus we confes to thee not that thou may'st know us but that we may know our selvs and thou may'st cure us Cure us O thou great Physician of our souls cure us of all our sinful distempers Cure us of this aguish intermitting piety and fix it into an even and constant holines O make us use religion as our regular diet and not only as a single medicine in a pressing necessity Make us enter into a course of harty repentance and practise vertue as our daily exercise So shal our souls be endu'd with a perfect health and dispos'd for a long even everlasting life Glory be c. Antiph We are not our own but the temples of the holy Ghost let us dedicate our selvs intirely to his service Antiph Quicken us by thy grace O holy Spirit that we may thorowly mortify the works of the flesh Psal CXIII NOw we have begun permit us mighty Lord to speak once more who are but dust and ashes Let us go on and confess to Thee and open before thee all our miserys Such an occasion often endangers us such a tentation too often overcomes us Our own infirmitys are too strong for us and our ill customs prevail against us Every day we resolve to amend and every day we break our resolutions Have mercy on us O God of infinite compassion have mercy on us O thou Comforter of afflicted minds Have mercy on us and pardon what is past have mercy on us and prevent what is to come When e're thou seest us unhappily engag'd and blindly running on in the ways of death O send thy holy grace to check our desperate speed and make us stay and look before us Shew us the horrid downfal into that bottomles pit where impenitent sinners are swallow'd up for ever Strike our regardles souls with fear and trembling * at the dreadful sight of so sad a ruine Then turn our eys and kindly set before them * the beauteous prospect of a pious life Make us look long and steddily upon it make us look through and see beyond it Make us delight in the hope it injoys but incomparably more in the joy it hopes A joy which none but thy self can give none but thy self can make capable to receive Give us O gracious Lord thou free Beginer * and perfect Finisher of all vertuous actions Give us a right spirit to guide our intentions that we may aim directly at our true end Give us a holy spirit to sanctify our affections that what we rightly design we may piously pursue Give us an heroick spirit to confirm our harts that what we piously endeavour we may couragiously atchieve Suffer not the flesh to deceive us any more but fortify our spirit against all its assaults If the flesh grow bold and insolently demand * how can you live without those libertys Let the spirit answer their followers are slaves and the service of God is the only true freedom If the flesh alledg what joy in suffering ills or doing contrary to our own inclinations Let the spirit reply that the cross of Christ is sweet and nothing so glorious as the conquest of our selvs If the flesh insist what do you see or hear * or exercise any sense in but the things of this world Let the spirit immediately enter this protest and may every experienc'd soul subscribe the truth I see its vanity and feel its vexation and meet in every thing its falsenes and danger Away then flesh and blood away deceitful world you cannot enter into the Kingdom of heav'n You were created only to serve us in the way and set us down at our journeys end Away with all your fond deluding dreams be banisht for ever from our awaken'd souls Come thou to us blest spirit of faith and govern our lives with thy holy maxims Subdue our sense to the dictates of reason and perfect our reason with the mysterys of Religion Teach us to love and fear what we see not now as at too great a distance for our short sight But what we are sure wil herafter be * our blyss or misery for ever Glory be c. Antiph Quicken us by thy grace O holy Spirit that we may thorowly mortify the works of the flesh Antiph Deliver us O gracious God from every evil spirit and vouchsafe to give us thine own good spirit Psal CXIV LEt not our Lord be angry and wil we speak yet once for we have much to ask and he has infinite to give We have much to ask for our selvs and all the world who depend intirely on his free goodnes Many O Lord are the graces we want and none can give them but thy bounty Many are the sins and miserys we are expos'd to and none can deliver us but thy Providence Deliver us O Lord from what thou know'st is against us deliver us from what we know our selvs will undo us Deliver us from the spirit of prophaness and infidelity from the spirit of error and schism and heresy Deliver us from the spirit of pride and avarice from the spirit of anger and sloath and envy Deliver us from the spirit of drunkenes and gluttony from the spirit of lust and wantones and impurity Deliver us O gracious God from every evil spirit and vouchsafe to give us thine own good spirit Vouchsafe to give us the spirit of fortitude the spirit of temperance and justice and prudence The spirit of wisdom and understanding and counsel the spirit of knowledg and piety and fear of Thee The spirit of peace and patience and benignity the spirit of humility sobriety and chastity O Thou who never deny'st thy favours unles we first deny our obedience Thou who art often near us when we are far From thee often ready to grant when we are unmindful to ask Refuse not O Lord to hear us now we call on Thee and make us stil hear Thee when thou cal'st to us Fil our understandings with the knowledg of such truths as may fix them on Thee the eternal Verity Inure our wils to imbrace such objects as may unite them to Thee the soveraign Goodnes Shew us the narrow way that leads to life the way which few can find and fewer follow Guide us stil on in the middle path of vertue that we never decline to any vicious extreme Let not our faith grow wild with superfluous branches nor bestript into a naked and fruitles trunk Let not our hope swel up to a rash presumption nor shrink away into a faint despair Let not our charity be cool'd into a careles indifferency nor heated into a furious zeal But above all suffer us not O
thou blest and holy Spirit to be guilty of those unpardonable sins against Thy self Suffer us not obstinatly to persist in any known wickednes nor maliciously impugn any known truth Suffer us not to dy in our sins without repentance but O have mercy on us in that serious hour Have mercy on us and govern us in our life have mercy on us and save us at our death Glory be c. Antiph Deliver us O gracious God from every evil spirit and vouchsafe to give us thine own good spirit Capit. Gal. 5. NOw the works of the flesh are manifest fornication uncleaness impudicity luxury serving of Idols witchcrafts enmityes contentions emulations angers brawles dissensions sects envies murders drunkeness banquetings and such like which I foretel you that they who do such things shal not obtain the Kingdom of God But the fruit of the Spirit is charity joy peace patience benignity goodnes long-suffering mildnes faith modesty continency chastity against such there is no law And they who are Christs have crucify'd their flesh with its vices and concupiscenâ—â—es If we live in the spirit in the spirit let us walk Let us not be covetous of vain glory envying one another provoking one another Hymn XXXV COme holy Spirit send down those beams Which gently flow in silent streams From thy bright throne above Come Thou Enricher of the poor And bounteous source of all our store Come fill us with thy love Come thou our souls delicious guest The weary'd pâ—â—lgrims sweetest Rest The sufferer's best Releef Come thou our passions cool Allay Whose comfort wips all tears away And turns to joy all grief Come bright Sun shoot home thy darts Peirce to the center of our harts And make our faith love Thee Without thy grace without thy light Our strength is weaknes our day night We can nor move nor see Lord wash our sinful stains away Water from heav'n our barren clay Our many bruses heal To thy sweet yoak our stiff necks bow Warm with thy fire our harts of snow Our wandring feet repeal O grant thy Faithful dearest Lord Whose only hope is thy sure word The seven gifts of thy Spirit Grant us in life t' obey thy grace Grant us at death to see thy face And endles joys inherit All glory to the sacred Three One ever-living Deity All pow'r and blyss and praise As at the first when time begun May the same homage stil be done Till time it self decays Antiph Blessed be thy name O holy spirit of God who dividest thy gifts to every one as thou pleasest and workest all in all in Thee our sorrows have a comforter to allay them and our sins an Advocate to plead for them in Thee our ignorances have a guid to direct them our frailties a Confirmer to strengthen them and all our wants a God to releeve them alleluja alleluja Magnificat c. as pag. 44. Repeat the Antiphon Then O Lord hear our pray'rs And let our supplications come to Thee Let us pray O God who by thy holy Spirit didst at first establish and sanctify thy Church and by the same Spirit dost still preserve and govern it hear we beseech Thee the pray'rs of thy servants and mercifully grant us the perpetual assistance of thy grace that we never be deceiv'd by any false spirit nor overcome by the vicious suggestions of flesh and blood but in all our doubts be directed into the way of truth and in all our actions guided by thy holy Spirit who with Thee and thy eternal Son lives and reigns One God world without end Amen O Lord hear c. as page 45. Then say the Complin of the day for this Office has none of its own Office of the SAINTS MATINS On some particular Sundays noted in the Proper of Festivals and on all Holidays of Obligation before and after every Psalm at Matins Lauds Vespers and Complin say one of the Three Antiphons set down in the Proper of Festivals that is each Antiphon eight times in the whole Office of the Day Say also the Antiphon where any proper one is prepar'd before and after Benedictus and Magnificat else say the common one as in the Office Then the Prayer as in the Proper of Festivals The rest of these particular Offices is to be ricited out of the common Offices as is noted in the Directions and Proper of Festivals Introduction as pag. 1. Invitatory Come let 's adore the King of Saints Come let 's adore the King of Saints Psal CXV GReat is the Majesty of the King we serve and rich the splendors of his Court o're all the world he sends his commands and none dare resist or dispute his power Come let 's adore the King of Saints Great is the clemency of our gracious Soveraign to pardon the offences of repenting sinners great is the bounty of our glorious Lord to crown with rewards his faithful servants Come let 's adore the King of Saints Thousands of Saints attend in his presence and millions of Angels wait on his Throne all beauteously rang'd in perfect order all joyfully singing the praises of their Creator Come let 's adore the King of Saints Thou art our King too blessed JESU and we alas thy unprofitable subjects we cannot praise Thee like those thine own bright Quires yet humbly offer our little tribute Come let 's adore the King of Saints Let us bow low our heads to Him before whom the Seraphins cover their faces let us bow low our harts to Him at whose feeâ—â— the Saints lay down their crowns Come let 's adore the King of Saints Glory be c. As it was c. Come let 's adore the King of Saints Come let 's adore the King of Saints Hymn XXXVI AWake my soul chace from thine eys This drowsy sloth and quickly rise Up and to work apace No less then Kingdoms are prepar'd And endless blyss for their reward Who finish wel their race 'T is not so poor a thing to be Servants to heav'n dear Lord and Thee As this fond world believes Not even here where oft the Wise Are most expos'd to injurys And friendles vertue grieves Somtimes thy hand lets gently fall A litle drop that sweetens all The bitter of our Cup O what herafter shal we be When we shal have whole draughts of Thee Brim-ful and drink them up Say happy souls whose thirst now meets The fresh and living stream of sweets Which spring from that blest throne Did you not find this true ev'n here Do you not find it truer there Now heav'n is all your own O yes the sweets we tast exceed All we can say or you can read They fil and never cloy On earth our cup was sweet but mixt Here all is pure refin'd and fixt All Quintessence of joy Hear'st thou my soul what glorious things The Church of heav'n in triumph sings Of their blest life above Chear thy faint hopes and bid them live All these thy God to thee will give
If thou imbrace his love Great God of rich rewards who thus Hast crown'd thy Saints and wilt crown us As Both to Thee belong O may we both together sing Eternal praise to thee our King In one eternal song Antiph Happy are thy Saints O Lord who wisely chose their End and constantly pursu'd the means to attain it Psal CXVI TEl me you eager lovers of the world what 't is you aim at in all your pretences You weary your bodys with restles labour and afflict your minds with perpetual care Day and night you are still perplext stil busily plotting to compas your ends Tel me what are those ends you so long have sought and I will tell you what you soon will find While they are many they but distract your thoughts and often engage them to quarrel among themselvs One end and one alone 's the way to peace and on that One must all the rest depend 'T is true and by that rule we guide our lives * whate're we undertake is only to be happy 'T is to be happy that we strive to be great and enrich our selvs by defrauding others 'T is to be happy that we run after pleasures and covet in every thing our own proud wil But we alas mistake our happines and foolishly seek where 't is not to be found As silly children think to catch the Sun when they see it setting at so neer a distance They travail on and tire themselvs in vain for the thing they seek is in another world Just so we judg and just so are deceiv'd when we think to meet with heaven upon earth This world alas has now no Paradise but all its fruits are weeds and thorns All dangerously mixt with occasions of sin all sprinkled over with the bitternes of sorrow What did we ever passionately love but stil in the end it made us repent Nay the best end was hartily to repent and learn by our falling to tread more sure 'T is not then here we must seek our happines and yet 't is happines we all must seek Pity us O Lord who live below in the dark stil wishing for rest but finding none Scatter those mists of passion that blind our eys and shine upon us with thy beauteous light Convince us thorowly there 's a better world then this a happier people then those we know That we may now begin our journy thither and fit our selvs for that blessed company Glory be c Antiph Happy are thy Saints O Lord who wisely chose their end and constantly pursu'd the means to attain it Antiph O how glorious is the kingdom of heav'n where our Lord reigns in the midst of his Saints Psal CXVII IF thus our nature tend to happines there 's sure some happines to content our nature Sure the All-wise Creator has provided means to satisfy the appetites which himself has made Doubt not my soul the bounty of thy Lord but turn all thy fear on thine own unworthines Look up and see a rich delicious Land that flows with sweeter streams then milk and hony Look up and see a glorious City incomparably braver then the Courts of Kings Behold the blessed Angels shining on their thrones and all the holy Saints triumphing with their hymns Behold the glory wherewith their Lord has crown'd them in the solemn day of their Espousals with Himself Look up and see a more exalted seat and on it one far brighter then the rest the Queen of all those Saints and Angels the Virgin-Mother of the Son of God Look up yet higher O my soul and see * the sacred Humanity of thy deer Redeemer That blessed JESUS who dy'd for us on the Cross and now invites us to partake his crown See and rejoyce in those eternal honors which heaven and earth pay to their King Look up once more and infinitely farther and humbly admire the unspeakable Mystery See and adore the Soveraign Deity essentially ful of its own blest Light Full and overflowing into all his creatures which shine as litle beams deriv'd from Him When thou hast seen all this my soul and staid and dwelt a while among those wonders Turn down thine ey towards the earth again and see the petty things that entertain our minds What is a name of honor and a momentary pleasure compar'd to the blyss of an eternal Paradise What is a bag of mony or a fair Estate if counterballanc't with the treasures of heaven How narrow there do our greatest kingdoms seem how smal a circle the whole globe of the earth Citys and towns shew like litle hils and the busie world but as a swarm of ants Runing up and down and jostling one another and all this stir for a few grains of corn O heaven let me again lift up my eys to thee and take a fuller view of that glorious Prospect There let me stand and fix my steddy sight til I have look't my self into this firm judgment All the most prosperous fortune can here posses or even the largest fancy possibly imagin All is an idle dream to those real joys an absolute nothing to that solid felicity Glory be c. Antiph O how glorious is the kingdom of heav'n where our Lord reigns in the midst of his Saints Antiph In thee O Lord is all our hope in life and death in time and eternity Psal CXVIII T Is true there is I see a glorious state * prepar'd above for the spirits of the Perfect But how shal we poor dust and ashes and laden too with the burthen of our sins How shal we hope to ascend those higher Regions or claim a portion in that holy land Fear not my soul send up thy sighs and prayers * and ask with confidence those celestial spirits They want not knowledge to resolve our doubts they want not charity to relieve our needs Themselvs somtimes have come down to assist us what wil they do when we go up to wait on them Ask the bright Angels what made them happy and straight they 'l answer with a spriteful voice We readily obey'd our great Creator and he fixt us here to shine for ever Ask the blest Saints what brought them to felicity and immediately they 'l tel you in the same glad tune We faithfully lov'd our dear Redeemer and that love plac't us here Ask Both together what bred those excellent vertues and Both together will proclaim aloud Blessed for ever be the grace of our God which alone has wrought all our works in us Blessed for ever be the Bounty of our Lord which gave us freely first then crown'd his own gifts Hark how the holy Saints as more ally'd to us * bear on alone and sweetly cloze the song Fear not say they you who dwel below and sigh under the weight of flesh and blood Fear not to ascend at last to this place of joy and take your happy seats among our Quires We too liv'd once in that valley of tears and were set to strive
in peace and go up to dwel among thy Saints and Angels bless us O Lord with a holy life and then our death cannot but be happy * O make Glory be c. O make Te Deum as Page 16. Lauds for Saints O God incline as Page 18. Antiph The Just shal be as lillys planted in Paradise Alleluja and flourish in the presence of God for ever Alleluja Psal CXIX COme le ts all bring forth our Psalms and go together to the house of Praise There let us meet in peace and love and joyn our harts and voices into one glad song Come let us sing but who shal be our theme what worthy subject shal our Musick chuse No 't is not Conquerours we mean to admire nor any of the Great Ones whom the world applauds But You Blest Spirits who bravely overcame your selvs and led in triumph your own passions Who either wisely us'd this world or to be safer us'd it not at all You are the illustrious worthies we desire to praise * and guild our hymus with your bright names Yours are the only Trophys we delight to set up and beautify our Churches with your holy Pictures Sing then aloud my Soul the glorys of the Saints and let their sacred memorys be always in thine Rejoyce thou who feelst these miserys here * and often complain'st of the dangers of this life Rejoyce at their glad delivery from all these sorrows and hartily congratulate their secure felicity Rejoyce and with thy best instructed thoughts admire * the exquisite wisdom of the divine Providence Who from such low beginings can raise so great effects yet every step thrust naturally on the next Behold a litle seed that 's buryed in the earth * shoot gently out its tender leavâ—â— And nourisht on with the clouds and Sun * climb up by degrees into a tall stalk There it displays its full blown hope and crowns its own head with a silver lilly Such is the progres of immortal souls even those who shine now among the highest Seraphins At first shuâ—â— up in their mothers womb where they ly confin'd close prisoners in the dâ—â—rk Thence they come forth to see and hâ—â—ar and slowly begin to walk and spek Next they advance to understand and discourse then learn to fly with the wings of grace Til they get up even beyond themselvs and believe and live above their own nature At last the kindly hand of death gives them a stroke and they instantly become like the glorious Angels Instantly their dark and narrow knowledg unfolds it self and spreads into a clear and spacious view Where they at once shal see all the glorys of heav'n at once possess and for ever injoy them Thus from the humble seed of grace connaturally spring the flowers of glory And from this life 's green stem of hope * grow just on the top of the Lillys of Paradise Lillys that never fade but stil shine on and fil the heav'ns with their beauteous sweetnes Lillys that even Salomon in all his glory * was not array'd like one of these Sing then my soul but stil among thy Hymns * mingle resolvs to imitate their lives Those are the Lauds most delighâ—â—ful to Them whose charity rejoyces at the conversion of a sinner Those are the Feasts most profitable to thee whose weaknes needs the impressions of example Learn but of them to be humble and meek to submit all thy wishes to the Will of heavâ—â— To govern thy senses by a rule of reason and thy reason by the dictates of Religion To design thy whole life in order to thy end and establish for thy end the blyss of eternity These holy Lessons let thy life transcribe and never fear their acceptance of thy praise Saints like our service best when our honoring them * becomes an occaâ—â—ion of benefiting our selvs Glory be c. Antiph The Just shal be as lillys planted in Paradise Alleluja and flourish for ever in the presence of God Alleluja Antiph Rejoyce O you Holy and Just Alleluja for our Lord has chosen you for his own inheritance Alleluja Psal CXX O Praise our Lord all you powers of my soul praise the immortal King of Saints and Angels Praise him as the Author of all their graces praise him as the Finisher of all their glorys Praise him in the admirable priviledges of his Virgin-Mother whom he obeyed on earth and assum'd into heav'n That he might give us hope our petitions will be heard presented by the hand of so powerful an Advocate Praise him in the mighty hosts of Angels whom he sets about us as the Guard of our lives That they may safely keep us in all our ways and carry us at last to their own home Praise him in the sacred Colledg of Apostles to whom he reveal'd the mysterys of his Kingdom That they might teach us too those heavenly truths and shew us the same best way to felicity Praise him in the generous fortitude of Martyrs whom he strengthen'd with courage to resist even to death That we might learn of them to hold fast our faith and rather lose this life then hazard the Other Praise him in the eminent fanctity of Confessors whose whole design was a course of heroick Vertue That we might raise our minds from our usual lazy flight and with a quick and active wing mount up towards heav'n Praise him in the Angelical purity of Virgins whose harts he enflam'd with his divine charity That they might kindle ours with the same chast fire the same feâ—â—vent love to the spouse of our souls Praise him in the perfect holines of all his Saints whose lives he moulded into so various shapes That every size of ours might readily be furnisht * with a pattern cut out and fitted for it self O praise our Lord all you powers of my soul praise the immortal King of Saints and Angels Praise every Person of the sacred Deity and give a harty joy to the whole court of heaven Blessed for ever be the Eternal Father who has fixt his Angels in so high a happines Triumph bright Angels on your radiant thrones and shine continually in the presence of your God Blessed for be ever the Eternal Son who has crown'd so gloriously his incomparable Mother Live most miraculous Mother of the King of heaven and dwel perpetually in the joys of thy Son Blessed for ever be the Eternal Spirit whose grace prefers all the Saints into glory Rejoyce every happy Saint in your own felicity rejoyce every one in the felicity of All. Blessed for ever be the undivided Trinity whose sight alone is the heaven of heaven Sing all you holy Citizens of heaven sing all together everlasting hymns Sing and among your highest fervours forget not us who thus in our low way remember you Still pray our dear Redeemer to save our souls and still we 'l praise his Name for saving yours Glory be c. Antiph Rejoyce O you Holy and Just Alleluja for our Lord
Guard to let nothing in that might disturb their peace Part of the night they watcht and most of the day they labor'd and both night and day continually pray'd All things about them went on in perfect measure just fit for their pious purpose and no more Their cloaths their food their sleep their recreation all taught to serve the improvement of their mind Their mind the only aim of all their cares the only scope of all their severitys That disengag'd from the embroylments of this world they might quietly consider the felicitys of the Other That they might daily grow more enamor'd of their Lord and more enflam'd with his divine perfections Til at the last dissolv'd in those holy fires * they melted away with longings to enjoy Him Sharp to themselvs they were but sweet to others obliging all the world with their candid charity Whatever any wanted they gladly supply'd and gave away at once somtimes both fruit and tree They study'd not here how to raise their familys but to entail on their Posterity the example of their vertues 'T was not their plot to leave a fair Estate behind them but to benefit the world with their useful labours To instruct the ignorant and confirm the weak to comfort the sorrowful and protect the helples innocent This was their constant work this their belov'd design * to promote with their utmost strength the happines of all Lord what a litle 't is our frowardnes endures compar'd to the heroick patience of the Saints When they were revil'd they revil'd not again when spitefully scorn'd they meekly held their peace When they were curst they blest their enemys when barbarously opprest they pray'd for their persecutors They serv'd their Lord in hunger and thirst and all the incommoditys of an impoverisht life Often they were threatned and they stood the danger often entic'd and they repel'd the flattery Prisons and chains they willingly accepted tortures and racks they cheerfully imbrac't Even death it self they undauntedly encountred death furiously arm'd with every shape of terror All this they endur'd and infinitely more * of which unmindful we keep no remembrance All this they endur'd and under all rejoyc't that they were counted worthy to suffer for JESUS O generous Souls who conquer'd heav'n it self and entred by force those everlasting gates Who sate not down in the lowest forms but stil prest on to new degrees of perfection You who so freely endeavor'd the salvation of others while yet you were concern'd to procure your own Help us O blessed Spirits now your State is secure pray for us O holy Saints now your charity is compleat Pray that the seed you have sown may take deep root and bring forth fruit to everlasting life Pray we may follow those who imitate you and not be corrupted by the example of the careles And when our pray'rs seem long or dry or call us away from some vanity we love When to forgive our enemys seems heavy to us or any other Duty crosses our humor Pray we may then remember what you have done and what you have gain'd by doing it Pray we may think what our Lord himself has done and what he has promised to them that follow him Their names he will write in the Book of life and make them sit with him on his own Throne Glory be c. Antiph Pity O Lord the infirmitys of thy servants and quicken our slownes by the example of thy Saints Antiph Blessed be thy name O Lord who hast provided us so great rewards and strengthened our hope with so many witnesses Psal CXXIII LItle O Lord we know is the good we do litle the ill we suffer with patience But what alas should we have done or suffer'd had we not seen such divine Examples Had not thy provident hand hung out those Lamps * bright as the Stars to shine before us Had not thy self the Sun of righteousnes appear'd * to light and warm us with thy cherishing beams Our faith had been dark and our charity cold * and the flower of our hope had languisht away Now we are sure the way to heaven is easie made broad and smooth by so many Passengers Men cloathed in flesh and blood like us and weakn'd with the same imperfect nature Now we are sure the promises of our God are true confirm'd by as many witnesses as there are Saints in Paradise Who by their own experience are joyfully convinc't a happy argument where heav'ns the Question And by the ravishing sweets they perpetually tast * are perpetually excited to adore and sing Faithful is our Lord in all his words and overflowingly bounteous in all his gifts While we liv'd we receiv'd the hundred fold and now are translated to an infinity of Blyss What he freely promised he has fully perform'd what he engag'd to give us he has abundantly paid He told us of treasures and golden crowns but the joys we find are incomparably greater Joys of a far more high and noble race which neither we can expres nor you below conceive 'T is enough for us that we feel them in our brest 't is enough for you as yet that you see them in your faith Even our lesser happinesses infinitely surpas * the greatest pleasures of your dul world O how agreeable is the Company we enjoy how delightful the meeting of our old acquaintance With whom we have pray'd and wept and suffer'd with whom we spake of this day and place With whom we now can safely sing free from the scorn and malice of our enemys Blessed for ever be the goodnes of our God that has brought us hither to his own place This is not like our cottages of clay nor the loathsom prisons where we lay in fetters This cheerful melody is not like our old complaints nor the threatning words of our stern Oppressors The Scene is chang'd and for our world of miserys * behold a Paradise of endles felicitys Here we shal live and ever live here we shal praise our God and ever praise him Thus sings the Church triumphant and thus shal we if we practise diligently the Lessons they have taught us If we injure our selvs to the same blest Notes and live in tune with our holy songs We shal herafter be admitted to their Quires and sing as long and loud as they Glory be c. Antiph Blessed be thy Name O Lord who hast provided us so great rewards and strengthned our hope with so many witnesses Antiph If God be with us who can be against us if He justify us who can condemn us Psal CXXIV TAke courage now my soul and chace away thy doubts for more are with us then against us God and his holy Angels are on our side JESUS and his blessed Saints all take our parts Our great Creator looks on to excite us our gracious Redeemer comes down to instruct us The blessed Spirit is within us to confirm our harts and the whole Trinity present to crown our
victorys Whom shal we then fear thus safely guarded who can resist so invincible a strength None but our own corrupted nature dare contend and the unlucky accidents that conspire with it against us Somtimes surprizing our unwary negligence somtimes defeating even our strongest resolvs Not that they can compel our wills unles we yeild or make the least wound without our consent Much less prevail against the power of heav'n and frustrate the purpose of the Almighty Wisdom Whose mercy has us'd more arts to save us when the craft of Vice can invent to destroy us Such a redemption so miraculously wrought such holy Sacraments so often repeated Such glorious promises so faithfully assur'd and which revives our hope so easily attain'd O infinite Goodnes how generous is thy love how liberally extended over all the world Thou invitest little children to come to Thee and the lame and the blind to sit down at thy feast None are shut out of heav'n but such as wil not go in none made unhappy but those who care not to be otherwise Cheer then thy self my hart and let no fears molest thee * nor even death it self abate thy courage Death is a passage that was always short and our SAVIOURS Cross has made it safe By the practise of his Saints 't is grown familiar and by their happy success becom desirable Lose not then thy hope in so glorious an enterprise Eternity is at stake and heav'n the reward That heav'n for which the antient Hermits peopled the Desart and so many Religious live bury'd in their Cells That heav'n for which the holy Confessors spent all their time and innumerable Martyrs laid down their dearest lives That heav'n where Millions of Angels continually sing and all the Blessed make one glorious Quire That heav'n where the ador'd JESUS eternally reigns and the immortal Deity shines bright for ever That very heaven is promis'd thee my soul that blest eternity thou art commanded to hope Raise now thy head and see those beauteous Prospects that ravish the harts of all their Beholders Yonder far above the Stars is thy Saviours Kingdom yonder we must dwell when we leave this earth Yonder must our souls remove to rest when the stroak of death shal divide them from their bodys And when the Almighty Power shal joyn them again yonder must we live with our God for ever O bounteous Lord the only Author of all we have the only object of all we hope As thou hast thus prepar'd a heav'n for us O may thy grace prepare us for it O make us live the life of the Just and let our last end be like Theirs That we may dy the death of the Just and live for ever in their blest society Glory be c. Antiph If God be with us who can be against us if He justify us who can condemn us Capit. Apoc. 7. THese are they who are come out of great tribulation have washt their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb therfore they are before the Throne of God and serve him day and night in his Temple and He that sits on the Throne shal dwel over them They shal hunger no more nor thirst the Sun shal not fal upon them nor any heat for the Lamb who is in the midst of the Throne shal rule them and conduct them to the living fountains of waters and God shal wipe away all tears from their eys Hymn XXXVIII TEll me You bright Stars that shine Round about the Lambs high Throne How through bodys once like mine How are you thus glorious grown Hark with one voice they reply This was all our happy skil We on JESUS fixt our ey And his emi'nent followers stil As we clearly saw their mind Set and rul'd we order'd ours Both This state alone design'd Up towards this strem'd all our Powers Taught by Temp'rance we abstain'd From all less for greater Goods Slighting litle drops we gain'd Full and sweet and lasting Floods Arm'd with Fortitude we bare Lesser Evils worse to fly Mortal death we durst outdare Rather then for ever dy Iustice we observ'd by giving Every one their utmost due That in peace and order living All might freely Heav'n pursue Prudence govern'd all the Rest Prudence made us still apply What was fittest what was best To advance great Charity On those golden wheels of grace That loves fiery Chariot bear We ariv'd at this bright place Follow us and never fear O sure truth O blest Attesters O that aâ—â— the world may prove Of both these such strong digesters That both these may feed their love Him who made us all for This Him who made Himself our way Him who leads us in'to Blyss May all praise and all obey Antiph Worthy art Thou O Lord to receive the book and to open the seals thereof for thou wert slain and hast redeem'd us to God with thy blood out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation and hast made us to our God a Kingdom Alleluja Magnificat as Page 44. Antiph Worthy art Thou c. O Lord hear our prayers And let our supplications come to Thee Let us pray O God whose merciful Providence has stil from the Begining sown the seeds of grace in the harts of thy chosen servants which at the Resurrection of thy Son the first fruit of them that slept sprung up into glory and by his holy doctrin and admirable life and precious death has infinitely encreast the meanâ—â— of salvation and the number of thy Saints Grant we beseech Thee that we whom thoâ—â— hast favour'd with so many advantages may by the powerful intercession of that glorious Comâ—â—pany obtain thy grace to imitate them here and rejoyce with them for ever in thy Kingdom hereafter through the same our Lord Jesus Christ thy Son who with thee and the holy Ghost lives and reigns one God world without end Amen Commemorations as page 29. Complin for Saints OUr help c. as page 46. Antiph Help us you blessed Citizens of heaven direct our way you who have attain'd your end Psal CXXV THus we have past another day another step towards our long home We have seen the Sun a few hours more and our day is lost in its own night But is it lost O careles we and all the holy words we have read and heard Leave they no mark in our memorys behind them but make a litle sound and vanish in the air Have we not been at a solemn Feast and do we soon forget our entertainment Could we see nothing among all those raritys * that relisht with us and stir'd our appetite Was there no fit provision for some vertue we want no proper remedy for some weaknes we have Are we devout already as the Saints of God and chast and temperate and resign'd as they Do we despise this world with a zeal like theirs and value heav'n at the same rate with Them Would we give all we have just now to be
lov'd thy Name and now we grieve that we lov'd no more Quench not O God of mercy the smoking flax nor break the bruised reed Pardon the sins of the days of our folly and supply the failings of the days of our repentance O were we now again on earth and had the benefit but of one months space How would we spend every minute in penance to purge away thorowly every least impurity How gladly would we take any cross or sicknes that might wholsomly imbitter the world to our tast How after this experience would we hartily strive * at any rate to escape these pains But we unhappy we have slipt our time * which our gacious God so long indulg'd us Now we are left to our sighs and tears and the incertain charity of those few that remember us At least O! you our friends send up your prayers * to hasten the day of our glad deliverance At least look well to provide for your selvs that you come not hither to this place of sufferings Sufferings which may your Souls ne're know yet may they ne're know worse then these These are indeed extremely afflictive but infinitely less than eternal torments We hope in time to rejoyce again we are sure at last our God will deliver us But O! how long delays our Lord to come why are the wheels of his chariot so slow Hast thou not said O God of truth that for thy Elect those days shal be shortned Hast thou not said O Lord of glory behold I come quickly and my reward is with me Come glorious JESU with all thy holy Angels * and the bright attendance of rejoycing Saints Come and redeem the captivity of thy children and lead them away as trophys of thy victory Thus dearest Lord will we cry continually to thee and never leave weeping at the gates of thy Palace Til thou art pleased to open those everlasting dores * and graciously say to our languishing souls Behold I am come to pardon and refresh you your sighs and tears have provok't my pity Behold I am come to cal you to my self * and give you possession of the inheritance I promis'd Come come you Blessed of my Father receive the Kingdom prepared for you 'T is enough that my servants have wept thus long come enter now into your Masters joy Give them eternal rest O merciful Lord and may thy glorious light shine upon them for ever Antiph Happy they who are pray'd for by others but far more happy they who pray for themselvs Antiph Gracious art thou O God in all thy promises and bounteously faithful in all thy performances Psal CXXXVI COmfort your selvs O you heirs of hope and be not cast down at your present distres If he defer a while expect * for he surely wil come and bring you relief He justly stays to punish your neglect when he often cal'd and you would not come to him He mercifully stays til your souls be refin'd and able to bear the splendor of his presence Then wil his glorious light immediately appear and open to your view that blysful prospect Then wil he graciously unveil himself and your eys shal see him face to face Then wil the eternal Deity shine brightly on you and ravish your harts with everlasting Extasys All your great hopes shal be fully satisfy'd and your long expectation abundantly rewarded You shal remember your afflictions with pleasure when you see they alone were your way to felicity Even this very delay shal increase your joys and every thing conspire to crown you with happines Meanwhile our task shal be to pray for your peace and joyn our humble voice to your strong crys That both our vows thus charitably united * may obtain for Both the pardon of our sins But we alas are dust and ashes and you your selvs as yet imperfect O pray for us you holy Saints whose well-prepar'd affections went strait to heaven Pray for us you Quires of Angels who assist continually at the throne of glory Pray for us bright Queen of heavenly Spirits * and blessed Mother of the Son of God! Pray for the faithful detain'd in sorrow that the days of their banishment be no more prolong'd Pray for us siners yet Pilgrims in the way that our souls may arrive at their true home Pray that we Both may stil look up to your glorys and wish and long for that happy state Pray that in all our eagerest desires we may stil submit to the orders of heaven Stil frame our songs of hope and patience and stil cloâ—â—e all with these precious words Thy Kingdome come O glorious Lord and yet O Lord thy wil be done Give them eternal rest O merciful Lord and may thy glorious light shine upon them for ever Antiph Gracious art Thou O God in all thy promises and bounteously faithful in all thy performances Antiph I heard a voice from heav'n saying to me Write Blessed are the dead who dy in our Lord from henceforth now saith the Spirit that they rest from their labours for their works follow them Magnificat as page 44. Antiph I heard a voice c. Then kneeling say Our Father and De profundis as follows From the depths O Lord have I cry'd to thee O Lord hear my voice Let thy ears become attentive to the words of my petition If thou shalt mark our iniquitys O Lord O Lord who can sustain it But with Thee there is propitiation and for thy Law I have expected thee O Lord My soul has expected in his word my soul has hoped in our Lord From the morning watch even until night let Israel hope in our Lord For with our Lord is mercy and with Him is plenteous redemption And He shal redeem Israel from all its iniquitys Give them eternal rest O merciful Lord and may thy glorious light shine upon them for ever V. Have mercy on them O Lord have mercy on them R. For their souls confide in Thee V. And in the shadow of thy wings shal they hope R. Til their iniquitys pass away V. Have mercy on them O Lord and bless them R. Shew them the light of thy countenance and be merciful to them V. Turn not thy face away from them R. Lest they become like those who descend into the lake V. Keep thou their souls O Lord for they are holy R. Save thy servants who put their trust in thee V. They shal praise thee O Lord with their whole harts R. And glorify thy Name for ever V. For thy mercy already has been great towards them R. Thou hast deliver'd them from the lowermost hell V. Yet hast thou set them in obscure places R. As the Dead of the world V. Thy arrows are stuck deep in them R. And thou hast fastened thy hand upon them V. Their iniquitys are gone over their heads R. And keep them down as a heavy burthen V. But thou O Lord art their strong sustainer R Their glory and the lifter up of their
risen Saviour may quicken our harts not only in words but in life and death like him exemplarily to confes thy Son JESUS our Lord and our God to whom with Thee and the H. Ghost be all honour and glory now and for ever Amen Christmas-day and the fourth and fifth days in the Octave All as in the Office of our Saviour except 1. Antiph O joyful tydings worthy an Angels mouth Behold this day was born to us a Saviour who is Christ our Lord Alleluja 2. Antiph Wonderful signs to seek this new-born King of heav'n and earth you shal find him wrapt in swadling cloths and laid in a manger Alleluja 3. O blessed harmony of the celestial Quires Glory be to God on high in earth peace towards men of good wil Alleluja Alleluja Antiph for Benedictus and Magnificat This is the day which our Lord has made let us be glad and rejoyce therein Alleluja This is the day which made our Lord let us exâ—â—lt and triumph therein Alleluja Alleluja O Lord hear our prayers And let our supplications come to Thee Let us pray O God who every year giv'st a fresh birth to the devotions of thy Church by the welcom Festival of our Saviour's Nativity Grant us we beseech Thee with such tender affections to entertain this first humble Rising of the Sun of righteousnes to us as may better dispose and stronglier engage us to follow Him through the whole painful course which like a Giant he rejoyc't to run inlightening the world with thy truth and inflaming it with thy love til in the end we arrive at his eternal Rest through the same our Lord Jesus Christ thy Son who with Thee and the H. Ghost lives and reigns one God world without end Amen S. Stephen All as in the Office of Saints except 1. Antiph Stephen ful of grace and courage wrought great miracles among the people and none could resist the Wisdom and Spirit by which he spake Alleluja 2. Antiph And looking stedfastly up he saw the heav'ns open'd and Jesus standing on the right hand of God he saw and enter'd blessed are they to whom the heav'ns shal be open'd Alleluja 3. Antiph While they ston'd him he cal'd up on God and pray'd Lord Jesu receive my soul and kneeling down cry'd out with a loud voice Lord lay not this sin to their charge Alleluja Prayer O God who in thy first Martyr S. Stephen hast vouchsafed thy Church an eminent example of perfect Christianity Kindle we beseech Thee in our harts a zealous emulation of his graces that imitating here his constancy in asserting thy truth and his charity in praying for our persecuters even to death we may with him herafter receive the crown of eternal life through our Lord Jesus Christ c. For Commemoration of Christmas-day recite the four Antiphons and Prayer of Christmas-day S. John Evangelist All as in the Office of Saints except 1. Antiph This is that favorite Disciple who learn'd on our Lord's brest at his last supper and to whom were reveal'd the secrets of Heav'n Alleluja 2. Antiph This is He in whom meet all those glorious Titles of Apostle Evangelist and Prophet of Martyr Confessor and Virgin Alleluja 3. Antiph This is He who above all those glorious Titles delights in this One incomparably greater then them all The Disciple whom JESUS lov'd Alleluja Alleluja Prayer O God by the prerogative of whose special grace the B. Apostle S. John obtain'd that transcendent character of Beloved of his Master and after became the great Doctor of mutual charity over all the world Grant we beseech Thee that his sacred Memory may excite us also and encourage us by the same purity of body and mind and steddy love of Thee and sincere charity one with another to aspire to some share in that blessed Title and its happy consequents thy grace here and thy glory herafter through our Lord Jesus Christ thy Son who c. For Commemoration of Christmas-day recite its four Antiphons and Prayer SS Innocents All as in the Office of Saints except 1. Antiph God withdrew his only Isaac and left a thousand happy lambs to be sacrific'd in his stead and accepted for his sake Alleluja 2. Antiph A voice was heard in Rama lamentation and great mourning Rachel weeping for her children and would not be comforted because they were not Antiph 3. Weep not for thy children Rachel behold they are be comforted they are Kings and reign with Christ for ever Alleluja Alleluja Prayer O God who by the Martyrdom of the H. Innocents hast taught thy Church that no age or occasion of suffring for our Saviour is exempt from high reward Grant we beseech Thee that our celebrating their Festival may make us adore this gracious Ordination of thy Providence and however severely it may seem at any time to treat us or our relations confirm our harts in a hopeful resignation to thy Will and assured trust that all leads to eternal advantage through our Lord Jesus Christ thy Son who c. For Commemoration of Christmas-day recite its four Antiphons and Prayer S. Sylvester All as in the Office of Saints except 1. Antiph This is the holy Pope who miraculously heal'd the great Emperor Constantine and by the sacred laver of Baptism cleans'd him at once from the leprosy of his body and the sins of his soul Alleluja 2. Antiph The sign of the Son of man in the heav'ns which copyed on his Banner made him a Conqueror display'd on his forehead did incomparably more made him a Christian Alleluja 3. Antiph O happy times when Paganism was abolisht and Arianism condemn'd when persecution ceas'd and publick liberty was given to profes and practise as Christians and Catholicks Alleluja Alleluja Prayer O God whose bounty crown'd even on earth thy holy servant Pope Sylvester with the glory of baptizing the first Christian Emperor Constantine and the happines of obtaining liberty and incouragement for Christianity over all his Dominions Grant we beseech Thee that our celebrating his Festival may refresh in us the memory of that high mercy to the world and render us more tenacious of that primitive Faith so eminently at length victorious over all persecutions through our Lord Jesus Christ thy Son who c. For Commemoration of Christmas-day recite its four Antiphons and Prayer New-years-day 1. Antiph To day our B. Saviour who was Lord of the Law and by his perfect purity absolutely exempt undertook for us the smart of Circumcision and dishonour of being reckon'd among siners Alleluja 2. Antiph To day was given Him the Name above every name that at the Name of JESUS every knee should bow of things in heav'n of things on earth and things under the earth Alleluja Alleluja Alleluja 3. Antiph O B. JESU make good to us thy precious Name and save us from our sins that now we may begin a new year of vertue and cancel by repentance all the failings of the old Alleluja Prayer O God who
world without end Amen SS Philip and Jacob. All as in the Office of Saints except 1. Antiph Now it suffices thee Philip our Lord has shewn thee the Father and henceforth for ever thou shalt see Him face to face Alleluja 2. Antiph And thou holy Jacob the Brother of our Lord art gloriously happy injoying for ever the same blysful Vision Alleluja 3. Antiph These are Two of those precious stones that found and adorn the walls of the heav'nly Jerusalem Alleluja Prayer O God by whose grace the B. Apostles S. Philip and S. Jacob water'd as this day with their blood the heavenly seed which they had long swet in sowing o're the world Redouble we beseech Thee the devotions of thy servants by celebrating together their happy Memorys and grant that our Faith sopreciously confirm'd may fructify into holy lives deaths worthy such glorious Masters through our Lord JESUS Christ thy Son who Invention of the H. Cross All as in the Office of our Saviour except 1. Antiph Glorious art thou O B. Empress Helen whose devotion so miraculously restor'd to the world the standard of Salvation Alleluja 2. Antiph This holy Sign shal be in the heav'ns Alleluja when our Lord shal come to Judgment Alleluja 3. Antiph Far be it from us to glory in any thing but the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ in whom the world is crucify'd to us and we to the world Alleluja Prayer O God who as this day vouehsafedst to raise again even the Cross of our Saviour from its ignominious grave to become a close and striking memorial of his Passion Grant we beseech Thee that our devout celebrating this thy special providence may still more deeply imprint in our harts its gracious design of making us often reflect on the great benefit of our redemption and the infinite love and mercy of our Redeemer through the same our Lord Jesus Christ thy Son who c. Rogation VVeek Monday Tuesday and Wednesday All as in the Weekly Office except 1. Antiph Ask and you shal receive seek and you shal find knock and it shal be open'd to you says our Lord whose word cannot fail Alleluja 2. Antiph Thou know'st we need all these things but more but more by these our needs to be drawn to look up to Thee Alleluja 3. Antiph Seek first the kingdom of heav'n and all things else shal be added to you Alleluja Prayer O God by whose H. Spirit thy Church ordains this a solemn time of supplication for all our necessitys Open we humbly beseech Thee thy gracious ears to the pray'rs thou inspir'st and draw'st from our harts and by granting us those Goods which thy Children with humility and resignation ask of Thee their heav'nly Father so encourage our devotion and obedience and so increase our hope and love that transcending all Particulars as safely to be trusted in the hand of thy Providence our whole souls may thirst after Thee thy self alone who art our All in All for ever through our Lord Ascension and during the Octave All as in the Office of our Saviour except 1. Antiph I have finisht the work which my Father commanded me and now 't is time I return to him that sent me let not your harts be troubled I go to my Father and your Father to my God and your God Alleluja 2. Antiph Let not your harts be troubled I go to prepare a place for you and I wil come again and receive you to my self that where I am there may my servants be Alleluja 3. Antiph Meanwhile I wil not leave you desolate but wil pray to my Father and he shal give you another Comforter the Spirit of truth to dwel with you for ever Alleluja Antiph for Benedictus and Magnificat Why stand we looking downwards on the things of this world behold our Lord is ascended into heav'n and sits in glory at the right hand of his Father Alleluja Why stand we idle with our accounts unprepar'd behold the same JESUS shal come again to judg the living and the dead and give to every one according to his works Alleluja Alleluja Prayer O God who hast inspir'd thy Church to celebrate this day the memory of our Saviours Ascension when having finisht on earth the great work of our Redemption He carryed up his glorify'd Humanity above the clouds to its eternal Rest Grant we humbly beseech Thee that taking off our eys from these vanitys here below we may stand continually looking after Him into heav'n and hartily expecting his appearance thence again at the last great day be always ready to obey his call and meet him in the clouds and follow him into those blysful Mansions which he went to prepare for us at thy right hand for ever through the same our Lord c. VVhitsunday and during the Octave All as in the Office of the H. Ghost Trinity-Sunday All as in Sunday Office except 1. Antiph There are Three that bear witnes in heav'n the Father the Word and the H. Ghost and these Three are One Alleluja 2. Antiph The Father is God and the Son is God and the H. Ghost is God yet are they not three Gods but One God Alleluja 3. Antiph In this adorable Trinity none is before or after none greater or less then Another but all the Three Persons are coequal among themselvs and coeternal Alleluja Antiph for Benedictus and Magnificat To thee the eternal Father made by none to thee the increated Son begotten by the Father alone to thee the B. Spirit proceeding from the Father and the Son One holy consubstantial and undivided Trinity be ascrib'd all power and wisdom and goodnes now and for ever Alleluja Prayer O Eternal Father who by the visible dedescent of thy Son to redeem the world and of thy H. Spirit to sanctify the Elect has wonderfully made thy Churches own experience facilitate our faith of the incomprehensible Trinity Grant us we beseech Thee in hart and voice to profes this most high and supernatural truth and rejecting all the fallacious suggestions of short reason humbly adore Thee Three every-way-coequal Persons in the same indivisible Deity til we come herafter to thy blysful presence and see the Mystery reveal'd in thine own glorious face through our Lord c. Corpus Christi and during the Octave All as in Thursday Office except 1. Antiph I am the living bread that came down from heav'n if any one eat of this bread he shal live for ever and the bread which I wil give is my flesh for the life of the world Alleluja 2. Antiph Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood you shal not have life in you Alleluja 3. Antiph He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life and I wil raise him up at the last day Alleluja Antiph for Benedictus and Magnificat O sweet and sacred Feast wherein Christ himself is receiv'd and the memory of his Passion renew'd our minds are fill'd
with grace and our future glory secur'd to us with a dear and precious Pledge Alleluja Alleluja Prayer O God whose infinite mercy has wonderfully contriv'd the very Body of our Saviour which glorify'd sits at thy right hand in the heav'ns to become stil the daily visible Object and Solliciter of our adorations on earth Grant us we beseech Thee so devoutly to celebrate this glorious Festival instituted by thy Church in memory of that stupendious providence as may sanctify us every day to feed more strongly with it our faith and hope and charity and raise in us a higher appetite of that clear unveiled Vision to which our hidden God thus miraculously now condescends to invite us through the same our Lord c. S. John Baptist All as in the Office of Saints except 1. Antiph This is the great Precursor of the world's Redeemer the miraculous Son of age and barrennes in his Mothers womb he was sanctify'd and in his nativity many shal rejoyce Alleluja 2. Antiph This is a Prophet and more then a Prophet of whom our Saviour said Never did there rise among the children of women a greater then John the Baptist Alleluja 3. Antiph This is that burning and that shining light who despising the pleasures and conveniences of the world chose his garment of camels hair and a leathern girdle about his loyns and his meat was locusts and wild hony Alleluja Prayer O God whose gracious providence summons us this day to celebrate the Nativity of the great S. John Baptist thy Son 's holy Precurâ—â—or Grant we beseech thee that as we fulfil the Prophecy of thy holy Angel by rejoycing in his Nativity we may improve both our selvs and others by imitating his life while every one of us in our several conditions and capacitys faithfully indeavour to learn of him those excellent lessons of retirednes and mortification of humility and self-denial of zeal for justice and courage in defending the truth and generous and industrious charity in all our actions through our Lord c. SS Peter and Paul All as in the Office of Saints except 1. Antiph This day the Prince of the Apostles was nail'd to the Cross and in reverence to his Master with his head downwards imitating with that humble difference Him in his death whom in his life he so dearly had lov'd Alleluja 2. Antiph This day the Doctor of the Gentils bow'd his head to the sword and receiv'd of our Lord the crown of Martyrdom Alleluja 3. Antiph These are they who taught us thy Law O Lord thou shalt establish them Princes over all the earth and they shall propagate thy Name to the end of the world Alleluja Prayer O God who this day vouchsafest to refresh and excite the devotions of thy Church by the glorious Festival of its principal Founders thy Son 's great Apostles S. Peter and S. Paul Grant us we beseech Thee both humbly to adore thy powerful Providence in rendring frail men so firm a rock of saving truth that the gates of hell neither have nor can prevail against it and duly submit to that eminent Authority of the supreme Bishop of the Christians which thy infinite Wisdom has ordain'd as the fittest means to establish order and preserve unity in thy Church through our Lord c. S. James All as in the Office of Saints except 1. Antiph No sooner was he cal'd by our Lord but immediately he obey'd and left nets and boat and father and all to follow JESUS Alleluja 2. Antiph This was the first Apostle who laid down his life for our Lord and receiv'd at his hand the crown of Martyrdom Alleluja 3. Antiph Now glorious Apostle thou injoy'st thy Mother's desire and for ever shalt injoy it seated at the right hand of JESUS in his Kingdom Alleluja Prayer O God who by the feast of the H Apostle S. James reviv'st in us the memory of thy great mercy to the world in so glorious a seeds-man of thy saving truth Cultivate so our harts we beseech thee by the solemn devotions of this day that the blessed seed may bring forth more abundant fruit in our lives and deaths worthy thy grace vouchsaf't us in such eminent Masters through our Lord Jesus Christ thy Son who S. Ann. All as in the Office of Saints except 1. Antiph Blessed art thou among women O holy Ann and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Mary Alleluja 2. Antiph Rejoyce O glorious Matron for thy pray'rs are heard and thy barrennes comforted thou hast brought forth the Mother of all our hopes the Mother of JESUS Alleluja 3. Aâ—â—tiph I wil pour out my Spirit on thy seed and my blessing on thy Off-spring saith our Lord Alleluja Prayer O God whose peculiar Providence sanctify'd the womb of the barren and devout S. Ann to bear the blessed among women thy Son's Virgin-Mother Grant us we humbly beseech thee in venerating her memory to adore thy free grace which vouchsaf't her so glorious a priviledg from thee and so high an honor in thy Church through our Lord c. S. Laurence All as in the Office of Saints except 1. Antiph This is the glorious Martyr S. Laurence whose courage remain'd invincible in the midst of his torments they broyl'd him on a gridiron and he confest our Lord they try'd him with fire and he was found true Alleluja 2. Antiph They sought his treasures but his charity had laid them out of their reach the hands of the poor had carry'd them into heav'n Alleluja 3. Antiph While they were burning his flesh he generously said to the Tyrant I worship my God and him alone I serve therefore I fear not thy torments Alleluja Prayer O God by whose grace the glorious Deacon S. Laurence sustain'd the cruel torments of a lingring death on a gridiron rather then betray the Goods of the Church deposited in his hands or deny the truths of Religion conserv'd in his hart Grant us we beseech thee in solemnizing his Feast both to praise thy Name for so great and early an example of Christian courage and be strengthen'd by it against all possible temptations to preserve inviolate our fidelity to thee and our spiritual trusts through our Lord c. Assumption of our Lady and during the Octave All as in the Office of Saints except Invitatory Come let 's adore the King of Saints whose Virgin-Mother was assum'd into heav'n Alleluja 1. Antiph To day the Mother of our Lord was assum'd into heaven Alleluja and seated in glory above the highest Angels Alleluja 2. Antiph Behold from henceforth all generations shal cal thee blessed Alleluja for he that is mighty has done great things for thee and holy is his Name Alleluja 3. Antiph Blessed O holy Virgin art thou among women Alleluja and blessed is the fruit of thy womb JESUS Alleluja Alleluja Antiph for Benedictus and Magnificat Come forth now all you glorious Angels and blessed Saints of heaven come forth and behold your Queen with the crown
wherewith her Son has crown'd her in the day of her Espousals in the day of the gladnes of her heart Alleluja Alleluja Prayer O God whose gracious Providence would not suffer the sacred womb that bore thy Holy One to see corrution but raising from the grave the B. Virgins body assum'd it with her soul to the highest Throne in heav'n Grant we humbly beseech thee that devoutly celebrating the memory of this thy grace to her we may inure our minds to raise and fix themselvs there where at lenght we hope also to ascend through our Lord c. S. Bartholomew All as in the Office of Saints except 1. Antiph His skin and all he had and even life it self he freely gave for the testimony of the truth and for the love of JESUS Alleluja 2. Antiph At the last day he shal rise from the earth and be compa'st again with his skin and in his flesh shal he see God Alleluja 3. Antiph His body must expect for a time in hope but his soul went immediatly away to injoy the blysful Vision Alleluja Prayer O God who by the Martyrdom of thy B. Apostle Saint Bartholomew refreshest in our memorys the glorious attestations which thy providence has vouchsaf't the world for câ—â—â—rmation of thy truth Grant us we humbly beseech Thee with such concern to reflect on the excesive pains he took and suffered for propagating the Gospel and the superabundant rewards he now enjoys in thy blysful Presence that our faith may be strengthen'd and more actively apply'd to carry us on in the same race to the same happy end through ous Lord JESUS Christ thy son who Nativity of our Lady All as in the Office of Saints except Invitatory Come le ts adore the King of Saints whose Virgin Mother was born to day Alleluia 1. Antiph To day was born the B. Virgin Mary of the seed of Abraham and tribe of â—â—da and Family of David Alleluja 2. Antiph To day was born the B. Virgin Mary spouse of the H. Ghost and mother of the Son of God and daughter of the eternal Father Alleluja 3. Antiph Let all the world rejoyce in the Nativity of the B. Virgin Mary Alleluja of whom was born the Redeemer of all the world Alleluja Prayer O God who this day cal'st us to celebrate Her Nativity of whom thy only Son vouchsaf't to take our flesh and be born the worlds Redeemer Grant us we beseech Thee so devoutly to rejoyce in the dawn of her immaculate birth as more fitly may dispose us to behold and walk by her light which every moment increasingly shin'd before men through the whole day of her life here and follow it setting hence into eternal glory through our JESUS Christ thy Son who S. Mathew All as in the Office of Saints except 1. Antiph Be not discourag'd O my soul nor make thy past offences unpardonable by dispare 2. Antiph This is he who of a sinner became a Preacher and of a Publican was cal'd to be an Apostle 3. Antiph Fear not the power of the grace of God but take heed of delaying to imbrace it take heed of refusing to obey it Prayer O God whose powerful call drew Matthew the Publican from the very receit of Custom to become an eminent Apostle and Evangelist in thy Church grant us we humbly beseech Thee in celebrating the B. memory of his life and death worthy his high and extraordinary vocation both to advance thy praise for so glorious an example of thy Grace complying readyly and faithfully with thy grace imitate to our utmost capacitys so glorious an example through our Lord JESUS Christ thy Son who S. Michael All as in the Office of Saints except Invitatory Come let 's adore the King of Angels 1. Antiph He has commanded his Angels to keep us in all our ways they shal bear us itâ—â— their hands lest at any time we dash our feet against a stone Alleluja 2. Antiph Take heed you despise not any of my litle Ones says our Lord for their Angels continually behold the face of my Father who is in heav'n Alleluja 3. Antiph In the sight of thy Angels wil I sing to thee O my God Alleluja I will adore at thy holy Temple and confess to thy name Alleluja Antiph for Benedictus and Magnificaâ—â— Praise our Lord all you Angels Archangels and Thrones praise him all you Dominations Principalities and Powers praise him all you heav'nly Vertues Cherubins and Seraphins praise him all you glorious Quires of blessed Spirits praise him and magnify him for ever alleluja alleluja alleluja Prayer O God who by the Feast of S. Michael the Archangel Prince of the Church summonest us to commemorate all the glorious Host of heav'n rang'd under his standard to assist thy Elect against the powers of darknes Grant us we beseech Thee both to admire and praise thy grace for so high a providence and in faith of such Guardians with firmer hope pursue the holy ways of increasing their joy by advancing our own Blys through our Lord SS Simon and Jude 1. Antiph These are they who planted the Church of God with preaching and setled it with miracles and water'd it with their blood alleluja 2. Antiph They ventur'd their lives among barbarous Nations and converted vast Regions to the faith of Christ alleluja 3. Antiph They rejected the flatterys of the world and despised the menaces of their Persecuters and now for all they did and all they sufferd are eternally rewarded alleluja Prayer O God who as this day by a glorious Martyrdom calledst the B. Apostles Simon and Jude from their eminent labours in thy vineyard to blisful rest in thy kingdom Grant us thy grace we beseech Thee to improve this dâ—â—vout opportunity of celebrating their Memorys both by praising thee for such excellent Masters and pressing more lively on our selvs their saving doctrin and examples through our Lord Jesus Christ thy Son who All-Saints and during the Octave All as in the Office of Saints All-Souls All as in the Office of the Dead A Prayer for a Family at night In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the H. Ghost Amen Blessed be the holy and undivided Trinity now and for ever Amen Our Father Hail Mary I believe O Eternal infinite and almighty God whose gracious wisdom vouchasafes to command such things as are necessary to fit us for everlasting Blyss forbid such as are apt to render us eternally miserable we wretched sinners the frail off-spring of disobedient Adam humbly prostrate our souls and bodys before thy adorable Majesty and with a true and harty sorrow each of us particularly thus accuse and condemn our selvs I confess to almighty God to the B. Virgin Mary to 〈◊〉 B. Saint Michael the Archâ—â—gel to the B. Saint John Baptist to the holy Apostles S. Peter and S. Paul and to all the Saints that I have grievously sin'd in thought word and deed through my fault through my fault through
my exceeding great fault Here pause a while to examine and repent and make holy purposes Then say Therefore I beseech the B. Virgin Mary the B. Saint Michael the Archangel the B. Saint John Baptist the holy Apostles S. Peter and S. Paul and all the Saints to pray to God for me The great and glorious Lord of heav'n and earth have mercy on us forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life Amen Lord have mercy on us Christ have mercy on us Lord have mercy on us JESU receive our prayers Lord JESU grant our petitions O God the Father Creator of the world have mercy on us O God the Son Redeemer of mankind have O God the Holy Ghost Perfecter of the Elect have O Sacred Trinity three Persons and one God have O God the eternal Fulness of all Perfection O God the overflowing Source of all Being O God the bounteous Author of all our Good O God who hast chosen us in thy Son before the constitution of the world O God who hast created us of nothing to thine own similitude O God who preserv'st us every Moment that we return not again to nothing O God who hast made all the world for the use of us and us for the injoyment of Thy self O God who hast redeem'd us by the death of thy Son and sanctify'd us by the grace of thy holy Spirit O God who hast brought us to the knowledg of thy truth and blest us with so plentiful means of working our salvation O God who hast prepared for us a glorious inheritance if we love thee and keep thy Commandments O God who art thy self that glorious inheritance O God the only end of all our labours O God the only Rest of our wearied souls O God the only joy of our time and eternity O God our God all things have mercy on us Have mercy O Lord and spare us Have mercy O Lord and hear us From all evil deliver us O Lord. From all sin deliver From all occasions of offending thy divine Majesty From the particular temptations to which we are most expos'd From sudden and unprovided death From everlasting death By thy almighty Power deliver By thy unsearchable Wisdom By thy adorable Goodnes By all thy glorious Attributes By all thy gracious Mercys By the mystery of thy holy Incarnation and humble Nativity By the sanctity of thy heav'nly Doctrin and miraculous Life By the merits of thy bitter Passion and all reviving Death By the joys of thy victorious Resurrection and triumphant Ascensionâ—â— By the glory of thy eternal Kingdom and incomprehensible Majesty deliver In the hour of Death and in the day of Judgment deliver us O Lord. We sinners beseech Thee hear us That it would please Thee to give us a true and harty sorrow for all our offences we That it would please Thee to work in us a firm and sincere resolution of amending our lives we That it would please Thee to pardon our sins past and prevent us by thy grace for the time to come we That it would please thee to have pity on the weaknes of our nature and in all our necessitys temptations and dangers to strengthen and relieve us we beseech Thee hear us That seeing every day our many imperfections we may quicken our diligence and humble our selvs and learn to depend on Thee we That acknowledging all we have is deriv'd from thy free bounty we may praise and glorify Thee and above all thy benefits love Thee our Benefactor we That knowing all we hope proceeds from the same free bounty we may faithfully indeavour to serve and please Thee and secure to our selvs thy everlasting rewards we That considering thy Providence does all things for the best we may thankfully accept whatever Thou assign'st us and not murmur at our part but strive to act it well we That we may diligently observe the Rules of our several places and contentedly stoop to the meanest work of our condition sweetning all our labours with this glad hope if we be innocent here we shal be happy hereafter we That we may live in peace and charity with all the world especially among our selvs so particularly ingag'd by our union into one Family patiently forbearing and freely forgiving and readily assisting one another we That often in the midst of our busines we may steal up our thoughts to Heaven to renew and encrease our desire of that glorious eternity we That whether we sleep or wake we may still be safe in Thee and whether live or dy be always thine We beseech Thee hear us Son of God we beseech Thee hear us O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world spare us O Lord. O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world hear us O Lord. O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world have mercy on us V. Lord have marcy on us R. Christ have mercy on us V. Lord have mercy on us Our Father c. V. And lead us not into temtation R. But deliver us from evil Amen V. Bless we beseech thee O Lord thy spouse the Church R. Bless her with the graces of vnity and truth and holines V. Bless thy servant our Soverain Lord King Charls R. Bless him with the spirit of wisdom and courage and piety V. Bless all the Nations subject to his Government R. Bless them with the gifts of peace and truth and unfeigned charity V. Bless our kinred and acquaintance our friends and benefactors R. Bless our enemys and standerers and all that despitefully use us V. Have mercy O Lord on the Nations who never knew Thee R. And Those who knew Thee once but now are faln from the Truth V. Have mercy on the poor and helpless and afflicted R. And comfort them with hope and patience and releef V. Have mercy on the living and govern them by thy grace R. Have mercy on the Dead and bring them to thy glory V. Have mercy on us thy servants here assembled in thy presence R. And Thou who art our Refuge be our Defence V. Into thy hands O Lord we commend our spirits R. Into thy hands O Lord we commend our spirits V. Thou hast redeem'd us O Lord thou God of truth R. Into thy hands O Lord we commend our spirits V. Preserve us O Lord as the apple of thine ey R. Under the shadow of thy wings protect us V. Save us O Lord waking defend us sleeping R. That we may watch with Christ and rest in peace V. Vouchsafe O Lord to keep us this night without sin R. Have mercy on us O Lord have mercy on us V. Lord let thy mercy be on us R. As our hope is in Thee V. O Lord hear our prayers R. And let our supplications come to Thee Let us pray O God the comfortable Repose of thy servants in Hope and their blysful Rest in thy everlasting Possession obedient to thy Call by the voice of our nature behold we retire to lay down our weary heads and instructed by thy grace confidently resign up all we are and have while we sleep in the hâ—â—â—s of thy everwaking Providence most humbly beseeching Thee that if it please Thee to take us hence this night our souls eys as our bodys may be found absolutely closed to all this worlds Goods and wide open to receive thy ardently-expected Vision or if thou vouchsafest by convenient refreshment to protract still our lives we may rise from our Beds cheerfully disposed by good works in our 〈◊〉 vocations to make our Election sure and advance our glorious Mansion for ever with Thee through our Lord Jesus Christ thy Son who with Thee and the H. Ghost lives and reigns world without end Amen V. O Lord hear our prayers R. And let our supplications come to Thee V. Bless we our Lord. R. Thanks be to God V. May the souls of the Faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in peace R. Amen O. B. Virgin Mother of our Lord Jesus Christ pray for us O glorious Angels whom our Lord sends in mission for the good of his Elect pray for us O holy Saints who perfectly secure of your own happines are charitably sollicitous of ours pray for us O all you blest inhabitants of heav'n who continually behold the face of God and readily dispense his benefits to us pray for us God the Father sustain and protect us Jesus Christ illuminate and govern us The H. Spirit sanctify and perfect us to life everlasting Amen Pause a while Then rise FINIS