wicked to torment Are these eternal too And never to have end Shal never those delights decay Those sorrows never mend Good God is all this true And sure most true it is And yet we live as if there were Nothing so false as this O quicken Lord our faith Of these great joys and fears And make the last days trumpet be Stil ringing in our ears Stil may this glorious hope Shine bright before our eys We shal at last go up to meet Our JESUS in the skys Come JESU Come and take Our banisht souls to Thee Come quickly Lord * that in thy light Our Eys thy light may see Glory to Thee great God One Coeternal Three As at the first begining was May now and ever be Capit. Philip. 4. FOr the rest Brethren whatever things are true whatever honest whatever just whatever amiable whatever of good fame if there be any vertue if any praise of discipline think upon these things which you have both learnt and receiv'd and heard and seen in me These things do and the God of Peace shal be with you Antiph Every night approaches us nearer our last which reservs for us eternal wages justly yet with a vast and generous bounty proportion'd to the works of our days V. The Wise will always keep their lamps ready trim'd R. That the Bridegrooms call may never surprize them O Lord hear our pray'rs And let our supplications come to thee Let us Pray O God whose merciful providence breaks and eases the laborious course of our Pilgrimage through this world with constant conveniencys and seasons of repose Vouchsafe us we humbly beseech Thee to make our due advantage of this thy mercy Composing our souls more satisfyedly to rest by a faithful recollection every Evening how we have kept our way and whether we are advanc't and grant that reflecting with harty contrition on every step we have made a wry and with thankful acknowledgements on those thou hast led aright we may henceforth be rendred more wary of our deviating inclinations and more attentively obsequious to the steddy guidance of thy grace through our Lord. Vouchsafe as pag. 54. Thursday MATINS Introduction as page 1. Invitatory Come let 's adore our God that feeds us Come le' ts adore our God that feeds us Psal LIII HE freely opens his bounteous hand and fills with his blessing every living creature he gives even Kings their dayly bread and all the world 's maintain'd by his Provision Come let 's adore our God that feeds us He feeds our understanding with the knowledg of truth and strengthens our wills with his holy grace he refreshes our memorys with a thousand benefits and feasts our whole souls with everlasting hopes Come le ts adore our God that feeds us With Himself and with his sacred Flesh he feeds us and nourishes up to immortal life begining even here that blessed union which shall fully be perfected in his own Kingdom Come let 's adore our God that feeds us Come all we servants of so gracious a Lord whom he daily entertains with innumerable mercys come all you children of so loving a Father for whom he has provided an eternal feast Come let 's adore our God that feeds us Glory be c. As it was c. Come let 's adore our God that feeds us Come let 's adore our God that feeds us Hymn XVII RIse royal Sion rise and sing Thy souls kind Shepherd thy harts King Stretch all thy pow'rs call if you can Harps of heaven to hands of man This soveraign subject sits above The best ambition of thy love Lo here the bread of life this day 's Triumphant Text provokes thy praise The living and life-giving Bread To the great Twelve distributed When Life Himself at point to dy Of love was his own Legacy But lest That dy too We are bid Ever to do what He once did And by a mindful mystick breath That we may live revive his death With a miraculous Bread and Wine Transum'd and taught to turn divine The heav'n-instructed House of Faith Here a mysterious Dictate hath That they but lend their form and face Themselvs with reverence leave their place Nature and Name to be made good By a nobler Bread more needful Blood Where nature's law no leave will give Bold Faith takes hart and dares believe In different species Names not Things Himself to me my Saviour brings As meat in That as drink in this But still in Both one Christ he is Yet the receiving mouth here makes Nor wound nor breach in what he takes Let one alone or thousands be Here the Dividers single he Bears home no less All they no more Nor leave they Both less then before Lo the life-food of Angels then Bow'd to the lowly mouths of men Lo the full final Sacrifice On which all Figures fixt their eys The ransom'd Isaac and his Ram The Manna and the Paschal Lamb. Jesu to Thee we sinners sue O Thou our Food and Shepherd too Still by Thy self vouchsafe to keep As with thy self thou feed'st thy Sheep Blest be that Love which thus makes Thee Mix with our low mortality O may It raise and set us up Convicters of thine own full Cup Coheirs of Saints that so all may Drink the same wine and the same way Nor change the pasture but the place To feed on Thee in thine own Face Amen Antiph Upon this rock will I build my Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it Psal LIV. HE who made the Sun to enlighten our steps * in the pilgrimage of this short life Has he ordain'd no guide to conduct our souls * in the difficult way to their eternal home He who feeds the ravens that call upon him has he not provided bread for his children He has and still his mercy furnishes means * to perform whatever his justice commands Long since he espouds'd to himself an unspotted Church and promis'd It his presence to the end of the world Establishing his truth on a firm pillar a solid foundation to sustain our faith That we waver no longer as litle children nor be carried about with every wind of doctrine Nor consume all our days in studying to believe without ever proceeding to life and action This Spouse O Thou glorious King of heaven * and admirable Lover of poor ruin'd man This humble Spouse Thou cam'st down to woo * and dearly purchase with thine own blood Thou hast indow'd her with eminent prerogatives * above the rest of the daughters of the earth Preserving her in the midst of Jews and Pagans and the subtler Enemys Politicians and Hereticks Preserving her bright and conspicuous as the Sun that every open ey may see her light Preserving her still in perfect unity while all that divide from her are divided among themselves Thou hast adorn'd her with the beauty of order and the precious jewels of heroick vertues Thou hast strengthen'd her hands with the power of miracles and crown'd
the true light of the world they who follow Thee walk not in darknes Psal C. RIse holy Spouse of the Son of God rise and put on thy robes of joy Rise and shine forth for thy glory is come and the splendor of our Lord strikes bright upon Thee The Gentils shal walk in the beams of thy light and Kings in the lustre of thy brightnes Lift up thine eys round about and behold they gather all together and flock to Thee Thy Sons shal come from far and thy Daughters be nurst at thy side Then thou shalt see and flow in abundance thy hart shal wonder and be enlarg'd with gladnes When the multitude of the Sea shal be converted to Thee and the strength of the Gentiles submit to thy Laws The sons of strangers shal build thy walls and Princes obey thy commands The Nation shal perish that will not serve thee and the Kingdom be utterly wasted that refuses thee The sons of thy afflicters shal bow before thee and they that despis'd thee kiss thy footsteps For our Lord shal be thy everlasting light and the days of thy mourning shall end in glory To thee shal be given the Keys of heav'n and thou shalt shut and open those eternal doors Thy foundation shal be laid on a firm rock and the gates of hell not prevail against thee A way shal be made so direct and plain that the Passengers though fools shal not err therin And the Earth shal be filled with the knowledg of our Lord * as the waters cover the sea All this we read all this we firmly beleeve for the mouth of our Lord has spoken it Heav'n and earth shal pass away but not a tittle of his Word be disappointed for ever Already these sacred Prophecys are in part fulfill'd abundantly sufficient to assure us of the rest Already a Virgin has brought forth a Son and given him the gracious Name of JESUS The Kings of the east have been led to him by a star and offer'd him gold and frankincense and myrth His holy Parents have presented him in the Temple and the devout Simeon was overjoy'd to see him In his tender infancy he fled into Egypt and the Idols fell down at the presence of a child He past his private life in peace and meeknes and taught a contradicting people in patience and humility He confirm'd his doctrin with innumerable miracles and defended the truth to the last drop of his blood He rose again victoriously from the grave and ascended in triumph to the right hand of his Father And there O glorious JESU mayst thou sit and reign till all thy enemys becom thy footstool Nor has thy judgment slept O dreadful Lord but with a swift and terrible vengeance crusht them into ruine Jerusalem long since was made a heap of stones and the children of thy Crucifyers run wandring o're the world While thou art thus severe in the predictions of thy justice thou did'st not forget those of thy mercy Thousands of that ingrateful City have acknowledg'd Thee their Lord thousands of that perverse generation have submitted to thy Scepter Whole Nations of the Gentiles have embrac't thy faith and remotest Islands received thy law Blessed for ever be thy Name O Lord and blessed be the sweetnes of thy mercy Who reveal'st thy self to those that knew thee not and art found of those that sought thee not Who often followest those that fly from thee and never refusest any that come to thee Thou stil exactly perform'st thy part but we ingrateful wretches how do we comply with ours Where is the profit thou mayst justly require to answer the care of thy providence over us Thou hast planted us O Lord in thine own Vineyard and fenc'd us about with thy holy discpline Where is the fruit we should always be beaâ—â—ing since good works are never out of season Of our selvs alas we are dry and barren and our nature at best brings forth nothing but leaves O Thou in whom while we remain we live and from whom divided we instantly dy Curse not we humbly beg these fruitless branches lest they wither away and be cast into the fire Pronounce not against us that dreadfull sentence Cut them down why Cumber they the ground But mercifully Cut them off from their wild stock and graft them in Thy self the only true vine water O Lord our weeds with the dew of heav'n and bless our low shrubs with thy powerful influence So grapes shal grow on thorns and figs be gather'd on Thistles Glory be c. Antiph Thou art O Lord the true light of the world they who follow thee walk not in darkness Antiph In Thee O Lord is all our hope have mercy on the works of thine own hands Psal CI. REjoyce in our Lord all you children of Adam rejoyce in the bounty of his free grace No longer now confyn'd to a few choyce Favorites and the narrow compass of a private Family He has thrown down that partition wall and opened the way of life to all mankind That all may beleeve and love him here and all injoy and be happy in him herafter But O my God what do we see * when we look abroad into the wide world We see sad effects but cannot see the cause * why so many Kingdoms ly miserably wast We know O Lord thy ways are in the deep abyss and humbly adore thy secret Counsels Only we cannot think on their lamentable condition without pitying their misery and imploring thy mercy Some have not yet so much as heard of thee others who have heard refuse to entertain thee Some who have once acknowledg'd thee have quite faln away and others reject what they list and obey by halfs Many even of those who rightly beleeve * abuse their holy faith by a wicked life Thus the for greatst part of wretched mankind whom thy goodness created to thine own similitude Whom thou hast redeem'd with thy precious blood and design'd to so great and long a happiness Still fail alas of their true end and dy in their sins and eternally perish Look down O Lord and behold from heav'n behold from the Habitation of thy holines Where is thy Zeal and the bowels of thy mercy where are thy promises to thy beloved Son Hast thou not said all Nations shal adore Him and all the Tribes of the earth be blessed in him Hast thou not said Thy self O glorious JESU If I be exalted I wil draw all men to me Hast thou not given thy Disciples express Commision * to go into all the world and Preach to every Creature Remember O thou God of everlasting truth remember O thou Author and Finisher of our faith Remember these thy dear engagements and graciously acomplish what thou hast mercifully begun Visit O Lord thine own house first and thorowly redress what thou findst amiss Make our lives holy as thou hast made our faith and perfectly unite us in the bonds of love Kindle in the harts
its Psalm and always three particular Antiphons One for each Psalm of Matins Lauds Vespers and Complin and then the Antiphons set down in the Office are omitted they being provided only for those who think the particular ones too troublesom and such as chuse to say our Saviour's Office somtimes on a day that is not of Obligation The same may be observ'd in the Antiphons for Benedictus and Magnificat and in the Pray'r whenever any particular ones are provided All the rest Psalms Lessons Hymns c. say as in the Office of our Saviour The Office of the H. Ghost Is said on Whitsunday and dring the Octave and on every first Wednesday of the Month unles it be a Holiday and then 't is remitted to the next convenient day The Office of Saints Is intended only for Feasts of Obligation but may be apply'd to Others according to particular devotion In saying this Office the same method is to be observ'd as in that of our Saviour The Office of the Dead Is said every first Monday of the Month unles it be a Holiday aud then 't is transfer'd to the next convenient day as also at other times according to occasion or particular devotion When ever this Office is said that of the day is omitted only the ordinary Complin must be us'd this having none of its own Alleluja From Easter morning til the Octave of Corpus Christi be past to every Antiphon and Invitatory is added one Alleluja except at Matins and Vespers on Fridays In Advent and Lent Alleluja is never said Of Concurrence of Offices If a Holiday fall on a Sunday the Office is said for the Holiday except Easter-day Whitsunday Trinity-Sunday and all the Sundays in Advent and Lent Only the Annunciation is prefer'd before the Sundays in Lent unles it fall on Palm-Sunday and then 't is omitted that year with a Commemoration If any Holiday happen on Thursday Friday or Saturday in holy Week 't is omitted that year without a Commemoration If any Holiday happen on Monday or Tuesday in Easter or Whitsun-week 't is omitted that year with a Commemoration On other days within those Octaves the Office of the Holiday is said and so in all other Octaves with a Commemoration of the Octave These Feasts only have Octaves Christmas-day Twelft-day Easter Ascension Whitsunday Corpus Christi Assumption of our B. Lady All-Saints A Commemoration Is made by reciting all that 's set down in the Proper of Festivals for the Feast commemorated and is to be made immediately after the Pray'r of the Day whose Office is actually said In all Pauses 't is advisable rather to think and meditate then use any set form of words but let every one prastise what he finds most condusive to his devotion Though these Directions concerning Festivals c. would by a litle acquaintance become familiar to any attentive Considerer yet whoever finds it troublesom to observe them let him recite the Offices as they ly and for the Feasts c. read at Lauds and Vespers all the proper Antiphons and Pray'r immediately together without distributing them to their particular Psalms Holidays of Obligation All Sundays New-years-day Twelf-day the Purification Annunciation Assumption and Nativity of our B. Lady all the twelve Apostles S. Joseph the Invention of the H. Cross S. John Baptist S. Ann the Mother of our B. Lady S. Laurence S. Michael All-Saints Christmas-day S. Stephen Holy Innocents S. Sylvester Moveable Holidays Easter-day with two days next following Ascension-day Whitsunday with two days following Corpus Christi-day Fasting-days All Lent except Sundays the Ember-days the Eves of Christimas and Whitsunday the Eves of the Nativity Purification Annunciation unles it fall in Easter-week and Assumption of our B. Lady the Eves of All-Saints of all the twelve Apostles except S. John Evangelist and SS Philip and Jacob of the Nativity of S. John Baptist and of S. Laurence all Fridays except in Christmas and between Easter and Ascension As long as the Bridegroom is with us Mat. 9. 15. Days of Astinence All Sundays in Lent all Saturdays in the year Monday Tuesday and Wednesday before Ascension and S. Marks day if it fall not in Easter-week These Lessons are out of Holy Scripture but somtimes the particular places not cited because somtimes the Lesson is not taken out of one place but compos'd of many THE OFFICE FOR SUNDAY MATINS Introduction PRevent we beseech thee O Lord our actions with thy holy inspirations and carry them on by thy gracious assistance that every prayr and work of ours may begin always from thee and by thee be happily ended through Christ our Lord Amen 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 who art in heaven hallowed be thy name thy Kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven give us this day our dayly Bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespas against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil Amen HAil Mary full of grace our Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb JESUS Holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and in the hour of our death Amen I Believe in God the Father Almighty Creator of heaven and earth and in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord who was conceived by the holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary suffer'd under Pontius Pilate was Crucified dead and buried He descended into hell the third day He rose again from the dead He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty from thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead I believe in the holy Ghost the holy Catholick Church the Communion of Saints the forgivenes of Sins the Resurrection of the Body and Life Everlasting Amen V. O Lord open thou our Lips R. And our mouths shall declare thy praise V. O God incline unto our aid R. 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 Alleluja Thus far is the Introduction and it is said in the begining of every Matins except Those of the Dead In Advent and Lent Alleluja is omitted both here and every where Invitatory Come let 's adore our glorify'd Jesus Come let 's adore our glorify'd Jesus Psal I. BEhold the Angels assembled in their Quires the blessed Saints ready with their Hymns behold the Church prepares her solemn Offices and Summons all her Children to bring in their prayses Come let 's adore our glorify'd Jesus The King of heav'n himself invites us and graciously calls us into his own presence He bids us suspend our mean imployments in the world to receive the honour of treating with Him Come let 's
adore our glorify'd Jesus To him we ow all the days of our life at least let us pay this one to his service a service so sweet and easie in it self and so infinitely rich in its eternal rewards Come let 's adore our glorify'd Jesus Let us chearfully ascend to the house of our Lord the place he has chosen for our sakes to dwel in let us reverently bow to his holy Altars where himself in person comes to meet our prayrs Come let 's adore our glorify'd Jesus 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 Come let 's adore our glorify'd Jesus Come let 's adore our glorify'd Jesus Hymn I. BEhold we come dear Lord to Thee And bow before thy Throne We come to offer on our knee Our vows to Thee alone What e're we have what e're we are Thy bounty freely gave Thou dost us here in mercy spare And wilt hereafter save But O can all our store afford No better gifts for Thee Thus we confess thy riches Lord And thus our poverty 'T is not our tongue or knee can pay The mighty debt we ow Far more we should than we can say Far lower than we bow Come then my soul bring all thy pow'rs And grieve thou hast no more Bring ev'ry day thy choycest hours And thy great God adore But above all prepare thy hart On this his own blest Day In its sweet task to bear thy part And sing and love and pray Glory to Thee Eternal Lord Thrice blessed Three in One Thy Name at all times be ador'd Till time it self be done Antiphon This is the day which our Lord has made let us be glad and rejoyce therein Alleluja Psal II. WElcome blest day wherin the Sun of Righteousnes arose * and chased away the clouds of fear Welcome thou birth-day of our hopes a day of joy and publique refreshment A day of holines and solemn devotion a day of rest and universal Jubilee Welcome to us and our dark world and may thy radiant Name shine bright for ever May all the earth be enlightned with thy beams and every frozen hart dissolve and sing This is the day which our Lord has made let us be glad and rejoyce therin This is the day he has sanctify'd to himself and cal'd by his own most holy Name That in it we may meet to adore his Greatnes and admire the wonders of his infinite Power That we may remember his innumerable Mercies and deeply imprint them in the center of our harts That we may visit his holy Temple aâ—â—d humbly present our homage at his Altars Those sacred Altars where the Lamb of God is daily offer'd and the memory of our Saviour's love renew'd Worthy art thou O Lord of all our time worthy the praises of all thy creatures Every moment of our life is bound to bless thee since every moment subsists by thy Goodnes Shal others labour so much for vanity and shal we not rest for the service of our God Shal we employ the whole week on our selvs and not offer in gratitude one day to Thee To Thee who bestowst on us all we have and wilt give us hereafter more than we hope O grâ—â—â—ous Lord whose mercy accepts * such slender payment as our poverty affords Whose bounty grants so liberally to us and retains so small a part for thy self O make us faithfully observe our duty and render so exactly the tribute we ow thee That passing still thy days to thy honour we may end our own in thy favour 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 Antiph This is the day which our Lord has made let us be glad and rejoyce therein Alleluja Antiph Thou hast created all things O Lord for the use of man and man for the enjoyment of thy self Psal III. AS when the harvest Sun provides a cloud and seems to rest his wearied beams He seeks not to save the journy of his light but only spares the Reapers head Much less seek'st thou O Lord who mad'st the Sun * and inspir'st all creatures to represent thy bounty Much less seek'st thou by the reserve of a day to procure thine own repose Thou who createdst all things by a word of thy mouth and sustain'st them in thy hand without feeling any weight Who govern'st the whole World without perplexing thy thoughts and always remain'st the same unchangeable fulnes 'T is not to increase thine own Eternity that thus thou tak'st a portion of our time Thy goodnes friendly bears the name but intends for us all the profit of the day That the wearied hands may be reliev'd with rest and enabled to lift themselvs up to thee That the ignorant minds may be taught thy truth and learn the way to everlasting happines That the guilty consciences may accuse their crimes and be absolv'd on earth to be pardon'd in heaven That the love-prepared souls may approach thy Table and feast their hopes with that delicious Banquet That all may speak to thee by Prayer and hear thy voice by the mouth of their Pastors O blessed Lord what excellent arts * has thy wisdom invented to bring us to thy self Thou tak'st our eys by the beauty of thy house and the decent splendors of thy solemn Offices Thou quicken'st our affections by the livelyness of Pictures and meltest our hearts with the sweetness of thy Musick Thou strengthen'st our Faith by thy publique Assemblies and improv'st our Charity both to Thee and one another While we all meet together for the same blest end and by mutual reflections encrease our fervours Happy thrice happy they O Merciful God! whom thy Providence has favour'd with all these blessings Who freely may enter thy holy Sanctuary and sing aloud their praises to thy Name Who every day may wait on thy Altars and there securely adore thy Person Where thou art pleas'd to deny these Mercies refuse not O Lord to extend thy grace That at least we may build a litle Chappel in our harts and consecrate our selvs entirely to thee Be thou but present gracious God! and fill our Souls with thy chast love No farther motives shall we need to draw us nor other Temple to address our Prayrs Since every place where Thou art not is unholy and where thou art is Joy and Peace Glory be c. Antiph Thou hast created all things O Lord for the use of Man and Man for the enjoyment of thy self Antiph Has the Almighty Goodness made all things us for and shall we do nothing for him nothing for our selvs Psal IV COme let us lay aside the cares of this world and take into our minds the Joys of Heav'n Let us empty our heads of all other thoughts and prepare that upper room to entertain our God Retiring from the many distractions of this
made the light his Garment and commanded the Clouds to be the chariot of his triumph The gates of heaven obey'd their Lord and the everlasting doors opened to the King of glory Enter bright King attended with thy beauteous Angels and the glad train of thy new deliver'd Captives Enter and repossess thy antient Throne and reign eternally at the right hand of thy Father May every knee bow low to thy exalted Name and every tongue confess thy glory May all created nature adore thy Power and the Church of thy Redeem'd exult in thy goodnes Whom have we in heav'n O Lord but Thee who expresly wentst thither to make way for thy followers What have we on earth but our hope by following Thee * to arrive at last where Thou art gon before us O glorious JESU our strength our Joy and the immortal life of all our Souls Be Thou the principal subject of our studyes and dayly entertainment of our most serious thoughts Draw us O dearest Lord from the World and our selvs that we be not entangled with any earthly desires Draw us after Thee and the odours of thy sweetnes that we may run with delight the ways of thy Commands Draw us up to Thee on thy Throne of blyss that we may see thy face and rejoyce with Thee for ever in thy Kingdom Glory be c. Psal VII WHy should our harts stil dwel upon earth since the treasure of our harts is return'd to heav'n Since our glorify'd Jesus is ascended above to prepare us a place in his own Kingdom A place of rest and secure peace where we shal see and praise and adore Him for ever A place of joy and everlasting fruition where we shal love and possess and delight in Him for ever O happy we and our poor souls if once admited to that blisful Vision If once those heav'nly portals unfold their gates and let us in to the joys of our Lord How wil our spirits be ravisht within themselvs to reflect on the fulness of their own beatitude How shal we all rejoyce in one anothers felicity but infinitely more in the infinitely greater felicity of God! O heav'n towards thee we lift up our languishing heads and with stretcht-out hands reach at thy gloryes When O Thou Finisher of all our hopes when shal we once behold that incomparable light That light which illuminates the eys of Angels and renews the youth of Saints That light which is thy very self O Lord our God! whom we shal there see face to face Whom we shal there know as we are known we shal know thee in thine own clear light O light shine thou perpetually in our eys that thy brightnes may darken the false lustre of this world O Light shed thou thy flames in our harts that thy heat may consume all other desires That we may burn continually with the chast love of thee til thine own bright day appear Til we be cal'd from this vale of darknes into the glorious presence of the living God To see Him that made the heav'ns and the earth and disposes all creatures in so beauteous order To see him that first gave us our being then govern'd us in our way * and brought us at length to so blest an end Meanwhile O gracious Lord the Crown of all thy Saints and only expectation of thy faithful servants Make us entertain our life with the comfort of this hope and our hope with the assurance of thy promises Make us still every day more perfectly understand * our own great duty thy infinite love Make us continually meditate the advancement of Thy glory and invite all the World to sing thy praises Praise our Lord O you holy Angels Praise him O you happy Saints Praise him O you Faithful departed in his grace Praise him O you Living who subsist by his mercy Praise him in the vast immensity of his power Praise him in the admirable wisdom of his Providence Praise him in the blest effects of his goodnes Praise him in the infinitenes of all his Attributes Praise thy Eternal Self O glorious God! and to all the felicities Thou essentially possessest may every creature say Amen Glory be Antiph O how adorable are thy Counsels O Lord how strangely endearing the ways of thy love Alleluia Capit. 1 Pet. 1. Blessed be God and the Father of our Lord JESUS Christ who according to his great mercy has regenerated us to a lively hope by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead to an inheritance incorruptible and pure and which cannot fade conserv'd for you in the heav'ns Hymn II. VVAke my Soul rise from this Bed Of dull and slugish earth Quickly rise lift up thy head And see thy Lords new birth Once He cam O blessed He Born of a Virgin-Womb Now He comes both times for thee Sprung from a Virgin tomb Lo he rises fresh and bright Incircled round with Stars Which from Him take all their light And from his glorious Scars Stil as He his progress makes Up to his heav'n again Each blest Saint his musick takes And follows in his train Thus together They ascend Til at heav'n gates they come Where the Angels all attend To bid them welcome home Soon they know again their King Soon they his Call obey All the Quires come forth to sing And crown with mirth the Day Come my soul let us rejoyce Let us our Concert bring Up to heav'n le ts lift our voice And with the Angels sing Glory honor pow'r and praise To the mysterious Three As at first begining was May now and ever be Antiph Why seek you the Living among the the Dead He is risen He is not here He is gloriously ascended and the heav'ns have receiv'd Him Alleluia Alleluia Benedictus BLessed be our Lord the God of Israel for he has visited and redeem'd his People And rais'd up a Kingdom of Salvation to us in the house of David his Servant As he spake by the mouth of his holy Prophets who have been since the world began Salvation from our Enemies and from the hands of all that hate us To shew mercy to our Fathers and to remember his holy Testament The Oath which he sware to Abraham our Father that he would give us Himself That being deliver'd from the hand of our enemys we may serve him without fear In holines and Justice before him * all the days of our life And Thou Child shalt be called the Prophet of the Highest for thou shalt go before the face of our Lord to prepare his ways To give Knowledg of salvation to his people for remission of their sins Through the tender mercy of our God wherby the Day-spring from on High has visited us To give light to them that sit in darknes and in the shadow of death to direct our feet into the way of Peace Glory be c. Antiph Why seek you the Living among the dead He is risen He is not here He is gloriously ascended and
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
Mary ever Virgin-pure Behold us prostrate at thy feet And by thy pow'rful pray'rs procure That an unweary'd close persuit Of life may bring us so to dy We may on JESUS thy blest Fruit Feast our glad eys eternally V. Pray for us O holy Mother of God! R. That we may be made worthy the promises of Christ Let us Pray ALmighty and everliving God who by the Co-operation of the Holy Ghost vouchsafedst to prepare the Body and Soul of the glorious Virgin-Mother Mary that she might become the worthy habitation of thy Son Grant that as with joy we celebrate her memory we may by her pious intercession be deliver'd from all temporal evils and from eternal death 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 dwel in our harts for ever Amen MONDAY MATINS Introduction as page 1. Invitatory Come let 's adore our God that made us Come let 's adore our God that made us Psal XIIII LEt us with reverence appear before Him and humble our selvs in the presence of his glory Let us all bring forth our Psalms of Praise and sing with joy to our great Creator Come let 's adore our God that made us He made us not we our selvs and freely bestow'd on us all the rest of his creatures to engage our harts to love his goodnes and admire the riches of his infinite bounty Come let 's adore our God that made us Our bodys he fram'd of the dust of the earth and gave us a soul after his own likenes a soul which all created nature cannot fill nor any thing below his own Immensity Come let 's adore our God that made us For himself he made us and for his glorious Kingdom that we might dwel with him in perfect blyss and sing his praises for ever Come let 's adore our God that made us Glory be c. As it was Come let 's adore our God that made us Come let 's adore our God that made us Hymn V. WAke now my Soul and humbly hear What thy mild Lord commands Each word of his wil charm thine ear Each word wil guide thy hands Hark how his sweet and tender care Complys with our weak minds What e're our state and temper are Stil some fit work he finds They that are merry let them sing And let the sad harts pray Let those stil ply their cheerfnl wing And these their sober way So mounts the early chirping Lark Stil upward to the Skys So sits the Turtle in the dark Among her groans and crys And yet the Lark and yet the Dove Both sing though several parts And so should we how e're we move With light or heavy harts Or rather Both should both assay And their cross-notes unite Both grief and joy should sing and pray Since both such hopes invite Hopes that all present sorrow heal All present joy transcend Hopes to possess and tast and feel Delights that never end All glory to the sacred Three All honor power and praise As at the first may ever be Beyond the end of days Amen Antiph All things ly open to the eys of God all things are naked to Him with whom we speak Psal XV. HAppy are they O glorious Lord * who every where adore thy Presence Happy who live on earth as in the sight of the King of heaven and every moment say in their hart Our God is here Here in the Center of our souls to witnes all our thoughts and judg exactly our most secret intents Though his Throne of state be establisht above and the splendors of his glory shine only on the Blessed Yet his unlimited Ey looks down to this lower world and beholds all the ways of the children of Adam If we go out he marks our steps and when we retire our Closet excludes not him While we are alone He minds our contrivings and the ends we aim at in all our studys When we converse with others He observs our deportment and the good or ill we do them or our selvs In our devotions he notes our carriage and regards with what attention we recite our pray'rs All the day long He considers how we spend our time and our darkest night conceals not our works from Him If we deceive our Neighbor He spys the fraud and hears the least whisper of a slandering tongue If we in secret oppress the Poor or by private alms relieve their wants If in our harts we murmur at the Rich or live contented with our litle portion What e're we do He perfectly sees us wher e're we are he is sure to be with us Why O thou Soveraign Lord of heav'n why dost thou stoop thus low thy glorious Ey What canst thou find that here deservs thy sight among the trifles of our empty world What canst thou find alas that should not fear thy sight among the follys of our vicious lives 'T is not thy self O Lord thou seekst to satisfy but all thy design is for our advantage Thou graciously stand'st by to see as work that thine awful ey may quicken our diligence Thou art still at hand to relieve our wants that so friendly a nearnes may increase our confidence Thou appear'st still ready to punish our sins that the shake of thy rod may prevent our miserys Sure O my God thy favours must needs be sweet since even thy threatnings have so much mercy Sure we must needs be worse then blind if to the face of heav'n we dare be wicked Henceforth O gracious Lord as children freely play * in the indulgent presence of their tender father So make us still with humble boldnes * rejoyce before Thee our merciful Creator And as new pardon'd subjects justly fear * the angry brow of their offended Prince So let our oft-forgiven souls continually tremble * to provoke the wrath of thy dread Majesty O temper thus our love with reverence and thus allay our fear with hope Glory be c. Antiph All things ly open to the eys of our God all things are naked to Him with whom we speak Antiph Happy we who have our God so near us happy if our pious lives keep us near Him Psal XVI MY God! since Thou art never absent from us let us be always present with Thee Let us go up to thy Throne above and there contemplate and admire thy glory Let us attend on thy holy Altars and there adore and praise thy mercy Every where let us seek to meet Thee every where let us delight to find Thee All our wants let us spread before Thee all our petitions let us offer to Thee Thou willingly inclin'st thy gracious ear * to the pray'rs that come from a fervent hart Thou lov'st to hear us so treat of Heav'n as if we made it our business indeed to go thither All other things we must ask with submission to
Creation to its end Vouchsafing so to order all thy creatures about us by thy grace that they may attain their perfection in duly serving us and we Ours in eternally injoying Thee through our Lord JESUS Christ thy Son who with Thee and the holy Ghost lives and reigns One God world without end Amen Commemorations c. as pag. 29. Monday Vespers IN the Name of the Father c. as pag. 33. Antiph To know Thee O Lord is the highest learning and to be known of Thee the greatest happines Psal XXI LEt us now consider O Lord our God! let us thankfully remember what Thou art to us Thou art the great Begining of our nature and glorious end of all our actions Thou art the overflowing Source from whence we spring and the immense Ocean into which we tend Thou art the free Bestower of all we possess and faithful Promiser of all we hope Thou art the strong Sustainer of our lives and ready Deliverer from all our enemys Thou art the merciful Scourger of our sins and bounteous Rewarder of our obedience Thou art the safe Conducter of our pilgrimage and the eternal Rest of our wearied souls Such words alas our narrownes is constrain'd to use * when we endeavour to speak thy bountys Wider a litle can our thoughts extend yet infinitely less than the least of thy mercys Tell us thy self one word of thine expresses more * then all the eloquence of men and Angels Tell us Thy self O Thou mild instructer of the ignorant what thou art to us Say to our souls Thou art our salvation but say it so that we may hear Thee Gladly will we run after the sound of that voice and hope by following it to find out Thee When we have found Thee once O Thou joy of our harts never let us lose thy sight again Never let us turn our eys from Thee but steddily fix them on thy glorious face Suffer us not to go till thou hast given us thy blessing and then may thy blessing bind us faster to Thee Glory be c. Antiph To know Thee O Lord is the highest learning and to be known of Thee the greatest happines Antiph To know our selvs is the truest wisdom and to see our own poverty the safest riches Psal XXII LEt us now consider O Lord our God! let us humbly remember what we are to Thee We who alas are nothing in our selvs what can we be to thy Immensity Thou who art all things in thine own rich self what canst thou receive from our poverty This only we are to Thee O great Creator the unthankful object of all thy bountys This only we are to Thee O dear Redeemer the unworthy cause of all thy sufferings Guilty we committed the crime and thou with thine innocency undertookst the punishment We went astray from the path of life and thy mercy came down from heav'n to seek us To seek us in the wilderness where we had lost our selvs and bring us home to the discipline of thy love Lord what are we that thou shouldst thus regard * such poor and vile and inconsiderable wretches What can our good will avail thy Blyss that with so many charms thou woo'st us to love Thee What can our malice prejudice thy content that thou threatnest so violently if we love thee not Is there O my God not felicity enough * in the sweetness alone of loving Thee Is there perhaps not misery enough * in living depriv'd of thy blysful love Yes Yes dear Lord and that thou knew'st and that 's the only cause * which mov'd thy goodnes to court our affections Thou knew'st we else would cast away our selvs * by doating on the follys of this deceitful world Thou knew'st the danger of our wilful nature and therefore striv'st by greatest fears and greatest hopes And all the wisest arts of love and bounty * to draw us to thy self and endow us with thy kingdom Unhappy we whose frowardness requir'd so strange proceeding * to force upon us our own salvation Happy we whose wants have met so kind a hand that needed but our emptines to engage him to fill us Happy yet more that our Lord who thus favours us now * will at last even give us Himself Glory be c. Antiph To know our selvs is the truest wisdom and to see our own Poverty the safest riches Antiph Vanity of vanitys all is vanity but the love of God and hope to enioy Him Psal XXIII LOrd without Thee what 's all the world to us * but a flying dream of busie vanitys It promises indeed a Paradise of blyss but all it performs is an empty cloud Thine are the joys that shine fixt as the stars and make the only solid heav'n Lord without Thee what are we to our selvs but the wretched causes of our own ruin We till thou gav'st us Being were purely nothing more remov'd from happines then the miserablest of thy creatures Now thou hast made us we wholly depend on Thee and perish immediately if thou forsake us Thou without us art the same all-glorious Essence brim-ful of thy own eternal felicity Without us thy royal Throne stands firm for ever and all the Powers of heav'n obey thy pleasure Pity O gracious Lord our imperfect nature whose every circumstance is so contrary to Thine Thou dwel'st above in the Mansions of glory and we below in houses of clay Thou art immortal and thy day out-lives all time we every moment go downwards to our grave Thou art immense and thy presence fills the heav'ns but the Greatest of us alas how litle are we Two yards of air contain us while we live and a few spans of earth suffice us at our death When O my God shall these distances meet together when will these extremitys embrace each other We know they once were miraculously joyn'd * in the sacred Person of thy eternal Son When the King of heav'n stoopt down to earth and grafted into his own Person the nature of man We hope they once again shall be happily united * in the blysful vision of thy glorious Self When the children of the earth shall be exalted to heav'n and made partakers of thy divine nature But are there no means for us here below O Thou infinitely high and glorious God! Is there no way to approach towards Thee and diminish at least this uncomfortable distance None but the way of holy love which none can attain but by thy free gift Nor must we sinners dare to ask thy love being infinitely unworthy to be cal'd thy servants Rather let us humbly beg the grace to love Thee who art so many ways worthy of more than our harts And yet O dearest Lord unless thou first love us and sweetly draw us by thy gentle hand Never shal we be so happy as to love Thee nor ever happy unless we love Thee O bounteous God! to all thy favours add this one * of making us esteem Thee above them
tender care hast contriv'd such means * that nothing can undo us but our own perversnes How easie hast thou made the way to heav'n how light is the burthen thou lay'st on thy followers 'T is but to love Thee our greatest Benefactor and we perfectly fulfil every branch of thy Law 'T is but desiring to see Thee our supream Beatitude and we are sure to possess an eternity of joy Blessed O my God be the wisdom of thy Providence that alone knows the way to draw good out of evil That not only restores us to our first degree but makes even our fall rebound us to a greater hight Lord as thy goodnes turns all things to the advantage of thy Elect O may the Elect praise thy goodnes in all things Glory be c. Psal XXXII ADmirable wert thou O Lord in thy merciful promise but infinitely more in thy wonderful performance Thou deputedst not an Angel to supply thy place nor entrustedst so tender a work to the manage of a Seraphin But Thy self bow'dst the heav'ns and cam'st down and with thy own blest hands wroughtst our redemption Thy self took'st upon thee our frail nature and vouchsaf'dst to be born of an humble Virgin Thou condescendedst to the weaknesses of a child a child whose parents were poor and unesteem'd in the world Thou declinedst not the mean entertainment of a stable O how unfit for the birth of the King of Heav'n Thou contentedst thy self with the cradle of a manger and the uneasy lodging on a bed of straw Thou refusedst the soft accomodations of the rich to undergo the inconveniencies of a poor stranger Only the faithful Ioseph stood waiting on Thee and provided as he was able for his helples family Only thy pious Mother dearly embrac't Thee and wrapt thy tender limbs in litle clouts Wonder O heavens and be amaz'd O earth and every creature humbly bow your heads Bow and adore this incomprehensible mystery The VVORD was made flesh dwelt among us But most of all we who are most concern'd the banisht children of unfortunate Adam Let us bow down our faces to the dust and prostrate adore so unspeakable a mercy Behold thus low my Saviour stoopt for me * to check the pride of my corrupted nature Behold thus low He stoopt to take me from the ground and raise me to the felicitys of his own Kingdom Lift up thy voice with joy O my soul and sing Hosanna to the new born JESUS Call all the blessed Angels to celebrate his birth and repeat afresh that heav'nly Antheme Glory be to God on high * in earth peace towards men of good will Lift up thy voice aloud O my soul and to the Quires of heav'n ioyn the musick of the Church Glory be c. Psal XXXIII REjoyce all you faithful Nations of the earth * when you hear the sweet Name of our dear Redeemer Rejoyce and with your bended knees and harts * adore the blessed JESUS He is the Son of the everliving God equally participating the glorys of his Father He is that great Messias whom the Prophets foretold * and all the ancient Saints so long expected At length in the fulnes of time he came to visit in person our miserable world He came with his hands full of miracles and every miracle full of mercy He made the crooked become straight and the lame to walk and leap for joy He open'd the ears of the deaf to hear and gave sight to them that were born blind He loosen'd the tongues of the dumb to speak O may he govern ours to sing his praise He clens'd the leprous by the word of his mouth and heal'd their diseases who but toucht his garment To the poor he reveal'd the treasures of his Gospel and taught the simple the mysterys of his Kingdom He cast out Devils by the command of his Will and forc't them to confess and adore his Person He rais'd the dead from the grave to life the dead that were four days buryed and corrupted Nay even Himself being slain for us on the Cross * and his tomb made fast and secur'd with a guard He rais'd again by his own victorious power and carry'd up our nature into the highest heav'ns All these stupendious signs O glorious JESU were done by the hand of Thy Almighty mercy To witness thy truth with the seal of heav'n and endear thy precepts with obliging miracles That thus engag'd we might believe in Thee and obeying thy Law be eternally sav'd O Let not all this love dear Lord be lost be so many Tokens so kindly exprest One miracle more we humbly beg but one as strange and hard as any of the rest Soften our stony harts into a tender sense * of thy great goodnes and their own true duty Raise our dead spirits from this heavy earth to dwell with Thee in the land of the Living That as we here admire thy bounteous Power and daily sing the wonders of thy Grace We may herafter adore thy Blessed Self and sing eternally the wonders of thy Glory Glory be c. Antiph Praise our Lord O my soul and forget not all his benefits Capit. Jude v. 24 25. TO Him who is able to preserve you without sin and set you immaculate before the sight of his glory in exultation at the coming of our Lord JESUS Christ to the only God our Saviour by JESUS Christ our Lord be glory and magnificence Empire and Power before all ages and now and to all ages for ever Amen Hymn X. LEt others take their course And sing what Name they please Let wealth or beauty be their Theme Such empty sounds as these For me I 'le ne're admire A lump of burnisht clay Howe're it shines it is but dust And shall to dust decay Sweet JESUS is the Name My song shall still adore Sweet JESUS is the charming word That does my life restore When I am dead in grief Or which is worse in sin I call on JESUS and he hears And I to live begin Wherefore to thee bright Name Behold thus low I bow And thus again yet is all this Far less then what I ow. Down then down both my knees Still lower to the ground While with mine eys and voice lift up Aloud these lines I sound Live glorious King of heav'n By all the heav'n ador'd Live gracious Saviour of the world Our chief and only Lord. Live and for ever may Thy throne establisht be For ever may all harts and tongues Sing hyms of praise to Thee Amen Antiph I saw the bright Sun shew his flaming eys and behold a thousand rays fill'd the ayr and beauteously guilded the earth his glorious face but maskt it self in a cloud and immediately they vanisht away and their place was to be found no more I said such O my God just such is the stability of every creature V. Even the line we now repeat must beg its breath of Thee R. And stop if Thou deny'st it O Lord hear our
their birth and the unfortunate companions that inveagled them to sin They shall curse this vain deceitful world and cry out with a desperate enraged fury Are these the effects of those found desires whose enjoyment we made our chief felicity Alas what avail us now our wanton liberties aud the fugitive pleasures we so eagerly persu'd What comfort receive we from those empty honours * and faithles riches we so highly esteem'd They all are vanisht away like a shadow and as a cloud of smoke that 's scater'd with the wind But the remorse and punishment endure for ever and torture our spirits with perpetual anguish Thus shal they cry and none regard to hear them thus shal they mourn and none be found to pity them O sad expectance of a dissolute life O dreadful consequence of an impenitent death Eternally to long for what they never can enjoy eternally to suffer what they never can avoid Blessed be thy gracious Providence O God that with such tender care forewarns us of our dangers O save us too dear Lord from all those dangers save us for thy mercys sake Save us and make us fearful to do * what when we have done will make us miserable to suffer Quicken our apprehensions of the ruinous effects of Sin and with thy terrible threatnings check our unbridled passions That if thy glorious promises move not our harts the fear at least of hell may fright us into heav'n Glory be c. Antiph The day will come it will infallibly come when God will destroy all that work iniquity Antiph The day will come it will infallibly come when God will Crown all that love his glory Psal XLII VVHy do you mourn you children of the light to whom belong the promises of Blyss Who feed on the pleasant fruits of piety and the continual feast of a good conscience Who tast already the sweetnes of hope and herafter shal be satisfied with the fulnes of fruition What can molest your happy state whom the God of Glory has chosen for himself Whom he has adopted into his own Family and design'd for heirs of the Kingdom of heaven That Blessed Kingdom where all delights abound and sorrow and tears are banisht away Where none are sick or grow old or dy but flourish in health and youth and immortal life Where none are perplext with cares or fears but dwel secure and free for ever Where we no more shal be subject to chance no more expos'd to the danger of tentation Where we no more shal be crost by others no more disquieted by our own passions But a serene tranquillity perpetually within us and innumerable joys all round about us Joy in the excellencys of our glorifyd bodys joy in the perfections of our enlarged souls Joy in the sweet society of Saints joy in the glorious company of Angels Joy in the ravishing sight of our beloved JESUS joy in the blisful union with the adored Deity All shal be joy and love and peace and all endure for eternal ages Let then the impenitent sinner be frighted with fear and the obdurate hart break asunder with grief But for the hopeful Innocent let them always be glad and the servants of JESUS rejoyce and sing Sweet is the yoke of thy love O Lord and light the burthen of thy commands But O how far more rich are thy faithful promises how infinitely greater thy glorious rewards When every vertue shal wear its proper crown and shine with a Diadem fit for its own head The humble there shal be highly exalted and the poor in spirit prefer'd to be Kings The meek shal posses that holy land and the mourners be comforted with eternal refreshments The clean of hart shal see the God of purity and the lovers of peace have the priviledg of his Children They who hunger and thirst after heav'n shal be fill'd and the merciful entertain'd with the embraces of mercy They who suffer persecution shal abundantly be rewarded and the enlightners of others shine bright as the stars They who relinquish any thing for God shal receive a hundred fold and all the Just be in glory for ever Then shal they bless the true friend that reprov'd them and the charitable hand that assisted to their happines They shal bless the provident mercys of their God and sing aloud the victorys of his grace Is this the effect of those litle pains we took are these the repairs for those petty losses we suffer'd Happy we who deny'd our selvs toys and now are advanc't to these high felicities Millions of years shal pass away and our glory shal seem but then to begin Millions of Millions shal pass away and our glory shal be no nearer its end Thus shal they all rejoyce and none disturb them thus shal they sing and all the heav'ns joyn with them O sweet expectance of a pious life O happy consequence of a holy death Eternally to be free from whatever can afflict eternally to enjoy whatever can â—â—elight Blest be thy gracious Providence O God that with so large a bounty woos us to our happines Woos us in a way we are so apt to be taken the love of our selvs and our own great interest As thou hast prepar'd such felicitys for us O may thy grace prepare us for them O may this best of works take up all our time at least take up the best of our time At least every morning let us renew our hope and close the evening with the same sweet thoughts Let us not faint and we surely shall see a prosperous issue out of all our sorrows Still let us labour still let us suffer our troubles are short and our joys eternal Glory be c. Antiph The day will come it will infallibly come when God will crown all that love his glory Antiph What will it profit us to gain the whole world and lose our own Souls or what shal we give in exchange for our souls Psal XLIII COme now my soul and chuse for life and death are set before thee Chuse while thy gracious Lord allows thee day lest the night of darknes overtake thy neglect Chuse but remember thy eternity is concern'd and examine well ere thou mak'st thy resolve Call all the pleasures of the world before thee and ask if any of them be worth such pains Ask if to satisfy some irregular passion * can recompence the forfeiture of such felicitys Ask if the vain forbidden things thou lov'st * deserve thy affection better than thy Maker Are they more worthy in themselvs or beneficial to Thee that thou canst prefer them before thy Redeemer Dost thou expect to be quiet by enjoying them or everlastingly happy by their procurement Will they protect thee at the hour of thy death or plead thy caus at the day of Judgment O 〈◊〉 they but deceive me with a smiling look which I too often have prov'd by dear experience 'T is heav'n alone that yeilds a true content 't is heav'n alone
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
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
for our example commandedst thy beloved Son to submit his pure and innocent flesh to the rigour of the Law and for encouragement of our hope madest choice of that sweet and amiable Name JESUS Teach us we beseech Thee with readines and humility to obey thy sacred Laws how cross soever to our unmortify'd passions and in all our necessitys with joy and confidence call on that holy Name in which whate're we ask we are promis'd shal be granted through the same our Lord Jesus Christ c. Twelfth-day and during the Octave 1. Antiph Alleluja Alleluja Alleluja This is the priviledg'd Festival that comes forth adorn'd with the glory of three miracles To day the Wise-men were led by a Star to the cradle of our Lord and falling down ador'd Him and offer'd Him their royal Presents of Gold Frankincense and Myrâ—â— Alleluja 2. Antiph To day our gracious Redeemer vouchsaft his presence at a Marriage-feast and there first publisht to the world his divine power turning water into wine Alleluja 3. Antiph To day our B. Saviour was baptiz'd by S. John and the H. Ghost descended visibly upon Him and a voice was heard from heav'n This is my beloved Son in whom I am wâ—â—l pleâ—â—'d Alleluja Alleluja Antiph for Benâ—â—dictus and Magnificat To day the first fruits of the Gentils were consecrated to our Lord and that sacred Prophesy happily fulfil'd In his light shal the Gentils walk and Kings in the brightnes of his rising Alleluja Alleluja Alleluja Prayer O God who by the guidance of a miraculous Star in the heav'n led'st the Gentils to the sight of the more miraculous Son of righteousnes newly risen to the world in a Stable Grant we humbly beseech Thee that inlighten'd and inflam'd by the memory of this wonderful providence our eys and harts may be more lively fixt on thy goodnes stil as graciously working towards the accomplishment of thy promises to call at length the Jews and all the earth to the saving knowledg and love of thy Son our Lord Jesus Christ who with Thee c. Candlemas All as in the Office of our Saviour except 1. Antiph To day the immaculate Mother humbled her self to the common rites of Purification and presented her first-born JESUS in the temple and for the litle price of a pair of Doves redeem'd the world's inestmable Redeemer Alleluja 2. Antiph To day the devout Simeon took our Lord in his arms and knowing nothing now could make him happier but the joys of heav'n sung aloud this glad farewel to all the world Now let thy servant O Lord depart in peace according to thy word for mine eys have seen thy salvation Alleluja 3. Antiph To day the holy Widow and Prophetes Anna who had spent her life in fasting and prayer and in the service of the Temple came happily in and saw our Lord and spake gloriously of Him to all that expected the redemption of Israel Alleluja Prayer O God who vouchsafest us this day to commemorate the B. Virgin 's presenting in the Temple her self to be purify'd and her Son to be redeem'd according to the Law Give us grace we beseech Thee to adore and praise the condescendence of thy providence that by such great Examples teaches us our evident duty of submitting to thy Discipline though seeming perhaps unnecessary for our selvs and grant that as we bear in our hands these hallowed candles we may confes in our lives our Lord Jesus Christ thy Son to be the light of the Gentils and the Glory of thy people Israel who with Thee and the H. Ghost c. Ash-Wednesday All as in the Office of Wenesday except Invitatory Come let us fast and mourn and pray for our Lord is merciful and just Antiph 1 2 3 Remember O man that dust thou art and into dust thou shalt return Say this one Antiphon before and after every Psalm at Matins Lauds Vespers and Complin Prayer O God whose providence introduces thy Church to the grave discipline of Lent by the mortifying Memento of the vile and frail matter we are made of Grant we humbly beseech thee that the Cross of our Redeemer form'd to day in ashes on our foreheads may lay all our proud conceits in the dust and make flesh and blood feel it self highly honour'd if by whatever crosses or mortifications it may be temper'd and rais'd to become a fit instrument for rip'ning souls in they love the immediate dispâ—â—sition to eternal felicity through our Lord Jesus Christ thy Son who c. Sundays in Lent All as in the Office of our Saviour except Invitatory Come let us fast and mourn and pray for our Lord is merciful and just 1. Antiph Now is the time of acceptance now are the days of salvation let us not re-receive the grace of God in vain but in all things approve our selvs his servants in labours and watchings and fastings 2. Antiph Now let us take a just and holy revenge on our sins past and strive for the future to bring forth fruits agreeable to our penance in purity meeknes and temperance in charity patience and obedience 3. Antiph Let us follow as we may our divine Master in his forty days retirement and fasting who needed not as we the arts of religion but all he did was for our example that we might learn to fly from the danger of occasions and take away the fewel from our passions and by using to contradict the appetites of sense inure our selvs to obey the commands of reason Antiph for Benedictus and Magnificat Convert us O God of our salvation and turn away thy anger from us hear us in thy mercy and speedily forgive us lest prevented with death we find no time to repent and without repentance eternally perish Prayer O God whose gracious Providence has ordain'd us to lighten the oppressive weight of our corrupt bodys on our souls by the long and solemn Abstinence of Lent Grant us we beseech Thee conscienciously to observe the wholsom discipline now prescrib'd us and with the due mortification of our flesh so tojoyn the quickening of our spirit by frequent devotions that all our carnal appetities may be fitted for burial in our Saviour's grave and all our affections ready to rise with Him to immortality at those sacred Feasts for which this season is to prepare us through our Lord Jesus Christ thy Son who c. S. Mathias All as in the Office of Saints except 1. Antiph Let them that stand take heed lest they fall Judas was an Apostle yet betray'd his Master and dy'd in despair and another took his Bishoprick 2. Antiph The lot fel on Mathias a continual Follower of JESUS from the baptism of John till the day of His ascension and he was numbred with the eleven Apostles 3. Antiph He liv'd their life and dy'd their death and sits with them in glory to judge the twelve tribes of Israel Prayer O God by whose special grace the B. Mathias was chosen to supply
your selvs also in the body Let your conversation be without covetousness contented with what you have for he has said I will not leave thee nor forsake thee so that we may confidently say our Lord is my help I will not fear what man can do to me And the God of Peace who brought again from the Dead the great Pastor of the Sheep in the blood of the eternal Testament our Lord Jesus Christ make you perfect in all goodness that you may do his Will working in you that which is well-pleasing in his sight thorough Jesus Christ to whom be glory for ever and ever Amen Resp Thither O my Soul let us still be going where once to arrive is always to be at rest there let us dwell already in hope where once to enjoy is always to be happy * Since whate're we desire we are sure to have and whate're we have can never be taken from us Let us believe and obey and suffer let us read and meditate and pray Heaven 's a reward worth all our pains * Since what e're we desire we are sure to have and whate're we have can never be taken from us Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost * Since whate're we desire we are sure to have and whate're we have can never be taken from us Te Deum WE praise thee our God we acknowledge thee our Lord All the Earth adores thee thou Father Eternal To Thee the blessed Angels to Thee the Heavens and all their Powers To Thee the Cherubims and Seraphims perpetually sing Holy Holy Holy Lord God of Sabaoth The heavens and the earth are full of the Majesty of thy glory The glorious Quire of Apostles praise Thee The renown'd society of Prophets bless Thee The noble Army of Martyrs glorify Thee The holy Church throughout the world confesses Thee Father of immense Majesty Thy adorable true and only Son Also the holy Spirit the Comforter Thou art the King of glory O Christ Thou art the eternal Son of the Father Thou being to undertake the delivery of Man did'st not disdain the Virgins Womb. Thou having overcom the sting of death opend'st to Believers the Kingdom of heav'n Thou sittest at the right hand of God in the glory of thy Father We believe thou shalt com to be our Judg. Help therfore we beseech Thee thy servants whom thou hast redeem'd with thy precious blood Make them be numbred with thy Saints in glory everlasting Lord save thy People and bless thy Inheritance And govern them and raise them up even to eternity Every day we glorify Thee and praise thy Name for ever and ever Vouchsafe O Lord to keep us this day without sin Have mercy on us O Lord have mercy on us Let thy mercy O Lord be on us as our hope is in Thee In Thee O Lord have I plac't my hope let me not be confounded for ever Pause a while to reflect on what you have said and to renew your attention then begin Lauds Sunday Lauds O God incline unto our ayd 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 beginning both now and ever world without end Amen Alleluia Antiph O how adorable are thy counsels O Lord how strangely indearing the ways of thy love Alleluia Psal V. SIng to our Lord a Psalm of Joy sing praises to the God of our Salvation Sing with a loud and chearful voice sing with a glad and thankful hart Say to the weak of Spirit be strong and to the sorrowful be of good comfort Tel all the world this soul-reviving truth and may their harts within them leap to hear it Tel them the Lord of life is risen again and has cloth'd himself with immortal glory He made the Angels messengers of his victory and vouchsaf't even himself to bring us the joyful news How many ways did thy mercy invent O Thou wise contriver of all our happines To convince thy followers into this blest belief and settle in their harts a firm ground of hope Thou appeard'st in the Garden to the holy women that sought Thee and open'dst their eys to know and adore Thee Thou overtook'st in the way the Two that discour'st of thee and mad'st their harts burn within them to hear thee Thou shewd'st thy self on the stedfast shore to thy weary Disciples labouring at Sea Labouring alas all night in vain without the blessing of their beloved JESUS Thou shew'dst thy self and told'st them who thou wert in the kind known token of a beneficial miracle Thorow the doors though shut thou swiftly passed'st to carry peace to thy comfortles friends To encourage their fears with thy powerful presence and secure their faith by thy charitable arguments How did'st thou condescend to eat before them and invite them to touch thy impassible body How didst thou sweetly constrain that incredulous servant to thrust his hand into thy wounded side Actions we know unfit for thy glorify'd state but absolutely necessary for our slow belief How often O my gracious Lord in those blessed forty days * did thy charity cast to meet with thy Disciples That thou might'st teach them stil some excellent truth and imprint still deeper thy love in their harts Discoursing perpetually of the Kingdom of heav'n and establishing means to bring us thither At last when all thy glorious task was done and thy parting hour from this earth approacht Thou tenderly gather'dst thy Children about thee and in their full sight wentst up into heaven Leaving thy dearest blessing on their heads and promising them a Comforter to supply thine absence O how adorable are thy counsels O Lord how strangely endearing the ways of thy love Say now my Soul is not this evidence clear enough * to answer all our darkest doubts Is not this hope abundantly sufficient to sweeten all our bitterst sorrows What though we mourn and be afflicted here and sigh under the miseries of this world for a time We 're sure our tears shal one day rejoyce and that joy none shal take from us What though our bodies be crumbled into dust and that dust blown about o're the face of the Earth Yet we undoubtedly know our Redeemer lives and shal appear in brightnes at the last great Day He shal appear in the midst of innumerable Angels and with these very eys we shal see Him We shal see him in whom we have so long believ'd we shal find him whom we have so often sought We shal possess him whom our souls have lov'd and be united to him for ever who is the only end of our Being Glory be c. Psal VI. RAise thy head O my soul and look up and behold the glory of thy crucify'd Saviour He that was dead and layd in the grave * low enough to prove himself Man Is risen again and ascended into heaven * high enough to prove himself God He is risen and
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
Magnificence of our God Heav'n and earth are full of his greatnes heav'n and earth were created by his power From him all the hosts of Angels receiv'd their Being from him they have the honour to assist in his presence He kindled warmth and brightnes in the Sun and beauteously garnisht the Firmament with stars He spred the Ayr and stor'd it with flocks of birds He gather'd the waters and replenisht them with shoals of fishes He establisht the Earth on a firm foundation and richly adorn'd it with innumerable varietys Every Element is fill'd with his blessings and all the world with his liberal Miracles He spake the word and they were made he commands and they are still preserv'd He governs their motions in perfect order and distributes to each its proper Office Contriving the Whole into one vast Machin a spacious Theater of his own unlimited Greatnes O glorious Architect of universal nature who disposest all things in number weight and measure How does thy wisdom engage us to admire Thee How does thy Goodnes oblige us to love Thee Not for themselvs alone O gracious God did thy hand produce those happy Spirits But to receive in charge thy litle flock and safe conduct them to the folds of Blyss Not for themselvs at all O bounteous Lord were the Rest of this huge Creation fram'd But to sustain our lives in the way and carry us on to our eternal home O may our souls first praise Thee for themselves and employ their whole powers to improve in thy service May we praise Thee O Lord for all thy gifts but infinitely above all still value the Giver May every blessing be a motive of gratitude and every creature a step of approach towards Thee So shall we faithfully observe their end and happily arrive at ours Using them only to entertain us here till our souls be prepar'd for the life of heav'n Till they become full ripe for Thee and then fly away to thy holy presence Glory be c. Psal XX. HOw admirable is thy Name O Lord over all the earth how wise and gracious the counsels of thy Providence After Thou had'st thus prepar'd the world as a house ready furnisht for man to inhabit Thy mighty hand fram'd our bodys of the dust and built them in a shape of use and beauty Thou breath'dst into us the spirit of Life and fittedst us with facultys proportion'd to our end Thou gav'st us a soul to govern our bodies and reason to command in our soul Thou reveal'dst to us a Law for the improvement of our reason and enablest us by thy grace to observe that Law Thou mad'st us Lords over all thy creatures but little inferior to thy glorious Angels Thou compellest whole Nature to serve us without reward and invitest us to love Thee for our own happiness Thou design'dst us an age of pure delights * in that sweet and fruitful Garden Where having led a long and pleasant life thou promisedst to transplant us to thine own Paradise All this thou didst O glorious God the full Possessor of universal blys Not for any need thou hadst of us or the least advantage thou could'st derive from our being All this thou didst O infinite Goodnes the liberal bestower of what e're we possess Not for any merit alas of ours or the least motive we could offer to induce Thee But for thine own excessive charity and the mere inclination of thine own rich nature That empty we might receive of thy fulnes and be partakers of thy overflowing bounty So sheds the generous Sun his beams and freely scatters them on every side Guilding all the world with his beauteous light and kindly cherishing it with his fruitful heat And so dost Thou and infinitely more O thou God of infinite more perfections So we confess thou dost to us but we what return have we made to Thee Have we consider'd well the end of our being and faithfully comply'd with thy purpose to save us Ah wretched we we neglect thy holy rules and govern our actions by chance and humour We quite forget our God that made us and fill our heads with thoughts that undo us Pardon O gracious Lord our past ingratitude and mercifully direct our time to come Teach every passage of our yet remaining life to express an acknowledgment fit for thy mercys O make our senses subject to our reason and our reason entirely obedient to thee O make the whole Creation conspire to thy honour and all that depend on thee joyn together in thy praise This is the only praise thou expectest from us and the whole honour thou requirest of thy Creatures That by observing the orders thou appointest here in this lower region of change and motion We may all grow up to be happy herafter in that state of permanency and eternal rest Glory be c. Antiph Bless our Lord O my soul and all that is within me praise his holy Name Capit. 4. Apoc. WOrthy art Thou O Lord our God to receive glory and honor and power because Thou hast created all things and for thy will they are and were created Hymn VI. HArk my soul how every thing Strives to serve our bounteous King Each a double tribute pays Sings it part and then obeys Nature's chief and sweetest Quire Him with cheerful notes admire Chanting every day their Lauds While the grove their song applauds Though their voices lower be Streams have too their melody Night and day they warbling run Never pause but stil sing on All the flow'rs that guild the spring Hither their still-musick bring If Heav'n bless them thankful they Smell more sweet and look more gay Only we can scarce afford This short Office to our Lord We on whom his bounty flows All things gives and nothing ows Wake for shame my sluggish hart Wake and gladly sing thy part Learn of birds and springs and flow'rs How to use thy nobler pow'rs Call whole nature to thy aid Since 't was He whole nature made Join in one eternal song Who to one God all belong Live for ever glorious Lord Live by all thy works ador'd One in Three and Three in One Thrice we bow to Thee alone Amen Antiph The boundless Ocean of Being could not contain his streams but overflow'd upon pure nothing and behold a beauteous world appear'd Heav'n and earth and all therein from the highest Angel to the least grain of dust all together the most perfect participation of his Essence V. He spake the word and they were made R. He but commanded and they were created O Lord hear our prayers And let our supplications come to Thee Let us pray O Almighty Lord the only wise and good Creator of the Universe who mad'st all corporeal nature for the use of Man and Man for his own felicity enlarge our souls we beseech Thee humbly to admire and adore thy infinite fulnes of Being in Thy self and thy immense liberality of it to us and mercifully carry on the whole
all Be thou to us our God and all things and make us nothing in our own eys Be thou our whole everlasting delight and let nothing else be any thing to us Glory be c. Antiph Vanity of Vanitys all is Vanity but the love of God and hope to enjoy him Capit. Ephes 6. CHildren obey your Parents in our Lord for this is just and you Fathers provoke not your Children to anger but bring them up in discipline and the fear of our Lord. Servants be obedient to your Masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling in the simplicity of your harts as to Christ not serving to the ey as it were pleasing men but as the servants of Christ doing the will of God from the hart knowing whatever good any one shal do that shal he receive of our Lord whether he be bond or free And you Masters do the same things to them forbearing threatnings knowing that both their Lord and yours is in heav'n and with Him is no acceptance of persons Hymn VII LOrd who shal dwel above with Thee There on thy holy Hill Who shal those glorious Prospects see That heav'n with gladnes fill Those happy souls who prize that life Above the bravest here Whose greatest hope whose eagrest strife Is once to settle there They use this world but value That That they supremely love They travel through this present state But place their home above Lord who are they that thus chuse Thee But those Thou first didst chuse To whom Thou gav'st thy grace most free Thy grace not to refuse We of our selvs can nothing do But all on Thee depend Thine is the work and wages too Thine both the way and end O make us stil our work attend And we 'l not doubt our pay We wil not fear a blessed end If thou but guide our way Glory to Thee O bounteous Lord Who giv'st to all things breath Glory to Thee Eternal Word Who sav'st us by thy death Glory O Blessed Spirit to Thee Who fill'st our harts with love Glory to all the Mystick Three Who reign one God above Amen Antiph He that fram'd the hart of man design'd it for himself and bequeath'd it unquietnes til possest of its Maker V. Vanity of Vanitys all is Vanity R. But to love our God and attend his service O Lord hear our prayers And let our supplications come to Thee Let us pray O God who alone art all in all things to us and to whom we are nothing but wretched objects of thy bounty which the more flows upon us the more we truly feel our own pure emptines and want of it Encrease we humbly beseech thee this happy sense iu thy servants by our dayly experience of this worlds unsatisfyingness and grant that finding it ordain'd by Thee to breed and widen not fill our capacity we may make this only use of all thy creatures here to raise and heighten our desires of thy infinite Self in Eternity 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 Amen Pause a while to reflect and renew Then begin Complin Monday Complin V. OUr help is in As Page 46. Antiph All thy ways O Lord are mercy and wisdom and all thy Counsels tend to our happines Psal XXIV MY God in every thing I see thy hand in every passage thy gracious Providence Thou wisely govern'st the house thou hast built and preventest with thy mercy 's all our wants Thou cal'st us up in the early morning and giv'st us light by the beams of thy Sun To labour every one in their proper Office and fill the litle place appointed them in the world Thou provid'st a rest for our weary Evening and favour'st our sleep with a shady darknes To refresh our bodys in the peace of night and save the wast of our decaying spirits Again thou awak'st our drowsy eys and bid'st us return to our dayly task Thus has thy wisdom mixt our life and beauteously interwoven it of rest and work Whose mutual changes sweeten each other and both prepare us for our greatest duty Of finishing here the work of our Salvation to rest herafter in thy holy peace Glory be c. Psal XXV LOrd how thy bounty gives us all things else * with a large and open hand Our Fields at once are cover'd with corn and our trees bow under the weight of their fruit At once thou fill'st our Magazines with plenty and sendst us who'e show'rs of other blessings Only our time thou distil'st by drops and never giv'st us two moments at once But tak'st away one when thou lendest another to teach us the price of so rich a Jewel That we may learn to value every hour and not childishly spend them on empty trifles Much less maliciously murther whole days in pursuing a course of sin and shame Lord as Thou thus hast taught our ignorance so let thy grace enable our weaknes Wisely to manage the time thou giv'st us and stil press on to new degrees of improvement That with our few but wel-spent years we may purchase to our selvs a blest eternity Glory be c. Psal XXVI IT was thy mercy too O gracious Lord to dispense by parcels our portion of time That the succeeding day may learn to grow wise and correct its faults by experience of the past Else were our Being all at once as it shall be in the next Eternal life Our sins would have here no power to be repented and then alas how desperate were we We who are born in the way to misery and unless we change can never be happy We who so often wilfully go astray and unless we return must perish for ever O Thou in whose indulgent hands * are both our time and our Eternity Whose Providence gives every minute of our life and governs the fatal period of our death O make us every Evening still provide * to pass with comfort that important hour Make us still ballance our accompts for heav'n and strive to increase our treasures with Thee That if we rise no more to our acquaintance here we may joyfully waken among thy blessed Angels There to unite our Hymns with Theirs and joyn all together in one full Quire Glory be c. Antiph All thy ways O Lord are mercy and wisdom and all thy Counsels tend to our happines Hymn VIII NOw my Soul the day is gone Which in the morn was thine Now its glass no more shall run Its Sun no longer shine True alas the day is gone O were it only so Is 't not lost as well as done Cast up thy counts and know Are we so much nearer heav'n As to the grave we bow Has our sorrow made all
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
flesh are manifest which are fornication uncleanes wantonnes luxury serving of Idols witchcraft enmities contentions emulations angers brauls seditions sects envys murthers drunkennesses riots and such like and they who do such things shall 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 Hymn XV. LEt them go court what joys they please And gain what e're they court For me I find but litle ease In all their gayest sport Be thou alone but with my hart My God my only Blyss I shall not murmur at my part Nor envy their success They talk of pleasure talk of gain None must their humor cross But well I know their pleasure's pain Their greatest profit loss Let them talk on and have not we Our gains our pleasures too Pleasures that spring more sweet and free Gains that more fully flow Nay well endur'd our very pains To us a pleasure are And all our losses turn to gains If hopes may have their share And sure they may such hopes as chear The heav'n espoused brest Hopes that so strangely charm us here What will they be possest All Glory to the sacred Three All honor power and praise As 't was at first still may it be Beyond the end of days Antiph When O my soul did we ever follow our passions but they instantly wrought our disturbance and threatned at last our ruin when did we ever turn our thoughts to piety but it presently brought us peace and refresht our minds with new hopes of felicity V. The winds are often rough and our own weight presses us downwards R. Reach forth O Lord thy saving hand and speedily deliver us O Lord hear our prayers And let our supplications come to thee Let us pray O God whose infinite mercy has vouchsaft us the mighty Rescue of thy only Son from the desperate rebellion of our passions which utterly confound the government and peace of our souls Grant we humbly beseech Thee that our experience of the miserable effects of yielding to their allurements may make us â—â—arier in observing and severer in repressing their first motions and thy grace so strongly fortify us against all their furious and repeated assaults that Reason may more and more recover its due force and calmly joyn with Faith to secure and exalt in our harts the blysful throne of thy Charity through the same our Lord Jesus Christ thy Son who c. O Lord hear c. as page 45. Wednesday Complin OUr help is in c. as page 46. Antiph Repent now my soul for the evils thou hast done and bless thy God for the goods thou hast receiv'd Psal L. VVEll we are so much nearer our grave and all the world is older by a day The portion of the wicked is so much less and their time of punishment so much approacht The sufferings of the Patient are so much diminisht and their hopes of delivery so much increast They who have spent this day in sin and folly * see all their thoughts now vanish like a dream They see all 's past but a fear of revenge and the best that can follow is a bitter repentance But such as have wisely bestow'd their time and made another new step towards heav'n They see their joys come to meet them in the way and stil grow bigger as they come Til by a holy death they joyn in one and dwel together for eternal ages O Thou blest Author of all our hopes * and perfect Satisfier of all our wishes Do Thou instruct us in this great wise truth and let every Evening renew it on our minds That the things of this world are of litle import since its joys and griefs last but for a time But the future state most infinitely concerns us where life and death endure for ever Glory be c. Psal LI. WE are nearer indeed the end of our life but what are we nearer the end for which we live What have we done my soul to day * that 's truly advancive to our last great home Have we encreast our esteem of heav'n and setled its love more strongly in our harts Have we avoided any known temptation or faithfully resisted when we could not avoid Have we interrupted our customary faults and checkt the vices we are most enclin'd to Have we embrac't the opportunitys of good * which the mercy of Providence has offered to our hands Have we industriously contriv'd occasions * to improve as we are able our selvs and others Alas dread Lord what do we see when seriously we look into our guilty selvs When we reflect on our former years nay even the follys but of this one day So many hours mispent in nothing so many abus'd in worse than nothing Pardon O meek Redeemer what our passions have done and favourably supply what our weaknes has omited Make us herafter more carefully watch * that our time unprofitably slide not away Make us select every day some fit retreat to study the knowledg of our selvs and Thee Our selvs to correct our many infirmitys and Thee to adore thy infinite perfections Glory be c. Psal LII LItle thou know'st O Lord is the good we do and every grain of it deriv'd from Thee Great we confess are the evils we commit and all to be charg'd entirely on our selvs Tell me my soul when first thou hast well examin'd * the innumerable circumstances that concern thy state Tell me and let not pride deny the truth nor any thing divert thy free confession Could we have sav'd our selvs from that dangerous tentation unles our God had powerfully sustain'd us Could we have carry'd on that pious purpose unles his hand had blest our endeavours No to thy self O Lord give all the praise if thy creatures have perform'd the least good work Give to thy self all the glory O Lord if they have not commited the worst of sins Thy hand alone directs us to do wel and the same blest hand restrains us from ill 'T is not in us to esteem those unseen joys and despise the flatterys of this deceitful world 'T is not the work of corrupted nature to mortify our senses and patiently bear the crosses we meet Of our selvs we are inclin'd to none of these but the grace of God enables us to all Grace gives us strength to overcom our passions and the world and the flesh shal be subject to us Grace gives us faith to fortify our reason and heav'n it self shal be conquer'd by us Glory be c. Antiph Repent now my soul for the evils thou hast done and bless thy God for the goods thou hast received Hymn XVI ANd do we then beleeve There is a world to come Where all this world shal summon'd be To take their final doom Is there a heav'n indeed To crown the innocent Is there a hell and horrid pains The
Glory to Thee O bounteous Lord Who giv'st to all things breath Glory to Thee Eternal VVord VVho sav'st us by thy death Glory O blessed Spirit to Thee Who fill'st our souls with love Glory to all the mystick Three Who reign one God above Antiph This is alas the land of the Dying but we hope to see the glory of God in the land of the Living Psal LXXX PRostrate before thy Tomb O Lord behold we freely confess our misery And in the lowliest posture of afflicted Pilgrims humbly implore thy mercy Peacefully in the grave thy body repos'd and thy soul went triumphing to redeem thy Captives But we alas thy helpless orphans how are we left in the midst of our enemys To how many dangers is our life expos'd with how many tentations are we round besieg'd Tentations in meat tentations in drink tentations in conversing tentations in solitude Tentations in business tentations in leisure tentations in riches tentations in poverty All our ways are strew'd with snares and even our own senses conspire against us Whether O my God shall our poor souls go encompast with a body so frail and a world so corrupt Whether but to Thee the Justifier of sinners and to thy grace the Sustainer of the weak Thy grace instructs us what we ought to do and breeds in us the will to endeavour what we know Thy grace enables us to perform our resolvs and when all 's done thy grace must give the success Govern us with this thy grace O Eternal Wisdom and direct our steps in the safe way Order every chance to prevent our falling and still lead us on towards our happy end Give us the ey and wing of an eagle to see our danger and fly swiftly away If we must needs engage our Enemy and no means left to escape the encounter Strengthen us O Lord to persevere with courage that we never be wanting in our fidelity to Thee Convince us Blessed JESU into this firm judgment and may our memorys faithfully retain it What ever our senses say to deceive us or the world to obscure so beauteous a truth That Thy self alone art our chiefest good and the sight of thy glory our supream felicity Glory be c. Antiph This is alas the land of the Dying but we hope to see the glory of God in the land of the Living Antiph Well done thou good and faithful servant I gave thee two talents and thou hast gain'd two more enter into thy Masters joy Psal LXXXI HAppy are they O Lord who have so much employment that there remains no room for idle thoughts Happy are they who have so litle business that they want not space to attend their souls Happy yet more are they who in the midst of their work * can think somtimes of the wages above Whom nothing diverts from that chief concern * of seeking to make their election sure But while their backs are bow'd down with labor they freely can raise up their minds to heav'n And while they are tyed to their beds with sicknes can yet move on towards their eternal rest Often they rejoyce with themselvs alone and silently say in their contented harts Here we alas are narrowly confin'd and our time entertain'd with trivial affairs But herafter we expect an unbounded enlargement and the same glorious office with the blessed Angels Here we are subject to a thousand miserys and the most prosperous life is vain and short But herafter we expect an infinity of joy and the solid pleasures of heav'n for ever We too O gracious Lord who now adore Thee and in thy presence sing these holy words We humbly pray thee guide us in the middle path that we never decline to any vicious extreme Deliver us from the stormy sea of busines and the dead water of a slothful life Lest we be cast away by forgetting thee or becom corrupted by neglecting our selvs Make us somtimes at least recollect our thoughts how much soever our condition distract us Make us look up with confidence in our God how low soever our afflictions depress us Make us look up to the eternal mountains and feed our souls on this sweet hope The day wil come when out of this dark world * we shal joyfully ascend to that beauteous light The day will come and cannot be far off when we shal rest for ever in the bosom of blyss Glory be c. Antiph Well done thou good and faithful servant I gave thee two talents and thou hast gain'd two more enter into thy Masters joy Antiph Well done thou good and faithful servant I gave thee five talents and thou hast gain'd five more enter into thy Masters joy Psal LXXXII HAppiest of all O Lord are they * whose very business is thy service Who not only bestow an interrupted glance but stedily fix their eys on Thee Who not only visit thy house somtimes but night and day dwel in thy presence If the Sun rise it finds them at their prayers and when it sets leaves them at the same sweet task Every place is a Church to them and every day a holy Sabaoth Every object an occasion of Piety and every accident an exercise of vertue Do they behold the beauteous stars they presently adore their great Creator Do they look down on the fruitful earth they instantly begin to praise his bounty Let War or Peace do what they will and the inconstant world reel up and down They pass through all as unconcern'd and smoothly go on their regular course Looking stil up to that glorious life above and entertaining this present in hope and solitude If they depart somtimes from their proper center and forsake a while their belov'd retirement 'T is to approach and give light to others and enflame some cold or â—â—ukewarm hart While they are thus abroad their minds are at home with Thee and nothing can divide them from thy dear presence Yet do they wisely make hast to return and injoy Thee alone in their litle Cell There Thou receiv'st them as familiar friends and freely admit'st them to thy secret sweetnes Thou giv'st them a tast from thine own full board and overflow'st their harts with the wine of gladnes Often they feel a litle beam from heav'n * strike gently and fill their brests with light Often that gentle light is kindled into a flame and chastly burns with pure desires Desires that stil mount up and aim at Thee * the supernatural center of all their hopes O happy state of reverend Discipline free from the cares and tumults of this world Free from the dangerous allurements of sin and perpetually solicited with engagements to vertue Where they seldom fall and quickly rise and make swift advances in the way to heav'n Where they live in purity and dy with confidence and go to sing among the Quires of Angels Blest Providence who govern'st all things in perfect wisdom and assign'st to every one his proper place If Thou hast pleas'd to
of death thou open'dst the kingdom of heav'n to all Believers Psal LXXXIII IF we rejoyc'd for our selvs in the sufferings of our Lord let us now rejoyce for Him that his sufferings are ended Now that the fowlers net is broken and the meek and innocent Dove escap't Now that the cup of bitternes is past away and never possible to return again Never again O dearest JESU shall those blest eys weep nor thy holy soul be sorrowful to death Never shall thy precious life be subject any more * to the bloody malice of ambitious hypocrites Never shall thy innocence any more be expos'd * to the barbarous fury of an ingrateful multitude But thou shalt live and reign for ever and all created nature perpetually adore Thee O happy end of well indur'd afflictions O blessed fruits that spring from the Cross of JESUS Look up my soul and see thy crucify'd Lord * sit gloriously inthron'd at the right hand of his Father Behold the ragged purple now turn'd into a robe of light and the scornful reed into a royal Scepter The wreath of thorns is grown into a sparkling diadem and all his scars polisht into brightnes His tears are all now chang'd into joy and the laughter of his persecuters into sad despair Herod long since perisht in miserable contempt and Pilate still trembles with everlasting fears The impenitent Jews are scatter'd o're the world to attest his truth and their own obdurate blindness But Himself is crown'd with eternal Triumphs and the souls he has redeem'd shall sing his victories for ever Live glorious King of men and Angels live happy Conqueror of sin and death Our praises shall always attend thy Cross and our patience endeavour to bear our own Through fiercest dangers our faith shall follow Thee and nothing wrest from us our hope at last to see Thee We 'l fear no more the sting of death nor be frighted at the darkness of the grave Since thou hast chang'd our grave into a bed of rest and made death it self but a passage into life We 'l love no more the pleasures of vanity nor set our harts on unsatisfying riches Since Thou hast open'd Paradise again and purchas'd for us the kingdom of heav'n Glory be c. Psal LXXXIV BLessed be thy Name O holy JESU and blessed be the mercy of thy Providence Who hast cast our lot in these times of grace and design'd our birth in the days of light When we may clearly see our ready way and directly go on to our glorious end Till Thou appear'dst O Thou only light of the world our miserable earth lay cover'd with darknes Till thou went'st away O thou soveraign Lord of life thy Saints sate expecting in the shades of death The kingdom of heav'n was close shut up and none permitted to behold thy glory Soon as thine own afflictions were ended thou communicatedst thy joys to all the world All that esteem'd so blest a sight and stood prepar'd to entertain thy coming As for the rest whose eys are shut or turn'd away by their own malice Thy presence alas yields no more joy then light to those who will not see But the harts that love Thee Thou fill'st with gladnes and overflow'st them with an ocean of heav'nly delights Come happy souls to whom belongs * so fair a title to all these mercys Come let us now raise up our thoughts and continually mediâ—â—ate our future beatitude Let us comfort our labours with the hope of rest and our sufferings with the expectance of a quick reward Now that the hand of our gracious Lord * has unlockt the gates of everlasting blyss Now that they stand wide open to admit * such as press on with their utmost strength Such as have wisely made choice of heav'n * for the only end and business of their life Rejecting all these false allurements to attend the pursute of true felicity O Blessed JESU our hope our strength and the full rewarder of all thy servants As thou hast freely prepar'd for us ready wages so Lord let thy grace enable us to work Make us direct our whole life to Thee and undervalue all things compar'd with thy love Seal thou our eys to the illusions of this world and open them upwards to thy solid glorys That when our earthly tabernacle shal be dissolv'd and this house of clay fall down into the dust We may ascend to Thee and dwel above in that Building not made with hands eternal in the heav'ns Glory be c. Psal LXXXV PRaise our Lord O you children of men praise Him as the Author of all your hopes Praise our Lord O you Blessed of heav'n praise Him as the Finisher of all your joys Sing O you reverend Patriarks and holy Prophets sing Hymns of glory to the great Messias Sing and rejoyce all you Ancient Saints who so long repos'd in the bosom of Abraham Bring forth your best and purest incense and humbly offer it at the Throne of the Lamb The Lamb that was slain from the begining of the world by the sprinkling of whose blood you all were saved O still sing on the praises of the King of peace and bless for ever his victorious mercy 'T was he dissolv'd the power of darknes and brake asunder the bars of death 'T was He came down to visit your prisons and lead you away out of the shades of sorrow How did your glad eys sparkle with joy to see at last your Desir'd Redeemer How were your spirits transported with delight to behold the splendors of his glorious presence His presence that can quickly turn * the sadest night into a chearful day That can change a dungeon into a house of mirth and make every place a Paradise O glorious Presence when shall our souls be fill'd * with strong and constant desires of enjoying Thee When dearest JESU shal our desires be fil'd * with the everlasting fruition of thy Blessed self Henceforth for Thee and for thy sacred love O Thou great and only Comfort of our souls May all afflictions be welcom to us as wholsom phisick to correct our follyes May the pleasures of the world be rejected by us as dangerous fruits that fill us with diseases May we by thy example neither feare to dy nor refuse the labours of this life But while we live obey thy grace that when we dy we may injoy thy glory Glory be c. Antiph When thou hadst overcom the sting of death Thou opend'st the Kingdom of heav'n to all believers Capit. 2. Pet. 3. TAke heed lest being led aside by the error of the unwise you fall away from your own stedfastnes But grow in grace and the knowledg of our Lord JESUS Christ to Him be glory both now and to the day of Eternity Amen Hymn XXVI MY God to Thee our selvs we ow And to Thy bounty all we have Behold to Thee our praises bow And humbly thy acceptance crave If we are happy in a friend That very friend
'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
do what ever else we are doing This we can do even while we sit still and only move our thoughts towards Thee Nay then we best perform this best of works when all our powers are quiet in Thee Yet let not this thy facil sweetnes dearest Lord be abus'd by us to a wanton neglect But make us love Thee so much more as Thou more discover'st the excess of thy love Glory be c. Antiph Too often are we troubled about many things when the truly necessary is but One. Hymn XXVIII MY soul what 's all this world to thee This world of sin and wo Where only sense can tast its sweets And those unwholsom too Truth is thy food truth thy delight Which cannot here be free Thy mind was born to know and love What this life ne're can see Malicious world how dost thou lay and cover thy false baits Here those of pleasure there of gain Each for our ruine waits Unhappy we it is our fault 'T is we our life abuse The world presents a furnisht shop And we the tools misuse So have I seen a litle child If Nurse but turn her ey Instead of heft take hold o' th blade And cut it self and cry This litle child alas am I Self-will'd self-wounded too But Lord turn not thy face away Lest I my self undo O make me stil so use this world That I the other gain O make me so the other love That this its end attain It s end to breed up souls for heav'n Then be it self new drest No more corruption no more change But one perpetual rest To Father Son and holy Ghost The undivided Three One equal glory one same praise Now and for ever be Capit. Thessal 5. THe day of our Lord shall come as a thief in the night let us not therefore sleep as others but watch and be sober For God has not appointed us to wrath but to the purchasing salvation by our Lord JESVS Christ who dyed for us that whether we wake or sleep we may live together with Him Antiph We have here no permanent City but are bound in quest of Jerusalem above the eternal mansion of Blyss V. Jesus came down to give us a glimpse of it R. And made his own life the Card to direct us to it O Lord hear our prayers And let our supplications come to thee Let us pray O God whose eternal Providence has imbarkt our souls in the ship of our bodys not to expect any port or anchorage on the Sea of this world but steer directly through it to thy glorious Kingdom grant we beseech Thee that daily reflecting with what care and unwearied diligence the wretched Adventurers for all sorts of vanity pursue round about us their desperate courses we may hartily feel our selvs confounded with just reproach who knowing our ingagement on so important a voyage yet take so litle pains to perform it Preserve us O Lord from those dangerous winds that on all sides assault us and keep the sails of our affections still duly trim'd to receive thy holy inspirations that carried sweetly forward by the gales of thy Spirit we may happily arrive at last in the haven of eternal salvation through our Lord Vouchsafe c. as page 54. to the end The OFFICE of our B. SAVIOVR Matins Introduction as Page 1. Christmas Invitatory To day for us our Lord was born alleluia Come let 's adore Him Newyears-day Invit To day our Lord was Circumciz'd and receiv'd the sweet name of JESVS alleluia Come let 's adore Him Twelfth-day Invit To day the holy Kings brought their presents to our Lordâ—â— alleluia Come let 's adore Him Candlemas-day Invit To day our Bleâ—â—ed Lord was presented in the Temple alleluia Come let 's adore Him Lady-day Invit To day the Eternal WORD was made flesh Come let 's adore Him Passion-Sunday and Palm-Sunday Invit To day if you will hear the voice of our Lord harden not your harts easter-Easter-day All as in the Office for Sunday except as in the Proper for Festivals Invention of the Cross Invit To day the miraculous Cross of our Lord was found alleluia Come let 's adore Him Ascension Invit To day our glorious JESVS ascended into heav'n alleluia Come let 's adore Him If this Office be said on any day that is not a feast of our Saviour let the Invitatory be To day let 's adore our God that redem'd us Psal XCII BRing to our Lord all you his servants bring to our Lord the sacrifice of praise bring to our Lord all you nations of the earth bring hymns of glory to his great Name To day c. He is our God and we his people created by his goodnes to be happy for ever he is our Redeemer and we his purchase restor'd by his death to a better eternity To day c. Let us learn of Him and he will teach us his ways let us follow Him and we shal walk in the light for the Law and its types were given by Moses but grace and truth came by JESVS Christ. To day c. O Come let 's ascend to the house of our Lord and celebrate this day with a holy joy imploring his mercy for all we need and blessing his bounty for all we have To day c. Glory be c. As it was To day c. To day c. Hymn XXIX JESU who from thy Fathers throne To this low vale of tears cam'st down In our poor nature drest O may the charms of that sweet love Draw up our souls to Thee above And fix them there to rest JESU who wert with joy Conceiv'd With joy wert born while no pain griev'd Thy Mothers Virgin-womb O may we breed and bring Thee forth In our glad harts for all is mirth Where Thou art pleas'd to come JESU whose high and humble birth In heav'n the Angels and on earth The faithful Shepherds sing O may our hymns which here run low Shoot up aloft and fruitful grow In that eternal Spring JESU how soon did'st Thou begin To bleed and suffer for our sin The Circumcizing knife O may thy grace by making good Our souls just caufe ' gainst flesh and blood Cut off that dangerous strife JESU who took'st that heav'nly Name Thy blessed Purpose to proclaim Of saving lost mankind O may we bow our hart and knee Bright King of Names to glorious Thee and thy hid sweetnes find JESU who thus began'st our Blyss Thus carry'dst on our happines To Thee all praise be paid O may the Great Mysterious Three For ever live and ever be Ador'd belov'd obey'd Antiph Blessed be the mercy of our God who has left no way untry'd that could possibly recover us Psal XCIII COme now and hear you that fear our Lord and I will tell you what he has done for my soul Hear and I wil tel you what he has done for yours and the wonders of his bounty towards all the world When we lay asleep
in the shades of nothing his mighty hand awak't us into Being Not That of stones or plants or beasts o're which he has made us absolute Lords But an accomplisht body and immortal spirit and litle inferiour to his glorious Angels He printed on our souls his own similitude and promis'd to our obedience his own feliâ—â—ity He endued us with appetites to live well and happy and furnisht us with means to satisfie those appetites Creating a whole world to serve us here and providing a heav'n to glorify us her-after Thus didst thou favour us O infinite Goodness but we what return did we make to Thee Blush O my Soul for shame at so strange a weaknes and weep for grief at so extreme an ingratitude We childishly prefer'd a trivial apple * before the Law of our God and the safety of our own lives We fondly embrac't a litle present satisfaction * before the Pleasures of Paradise and the eternity of heav'n Behold the unhappy source of all our miserys which still increast it streams as they went farther on Till they exacted at last a deluge of justice * to drown their deluge of iniquity And here alas had been an end of Man a sad and fatal end of the whole world Had not our wise Creator foreseen the danger and in time prevented the extremity of the ruâ—â—e Reserving for himself a few choice plants * to replenish the earth with more hopeful fruit Yet they grew quickly wilde and brought forth sowre grapes and their childrens teeth were set on edg Quickly they aspir'd to an intolerable pride * of fortifying their wickedness against the power of heav'n Justice was now provok't to a second deluge and to bring again a cloud o're the earth But mercy discover'd a bow in the cloud and our faithful God remembred his promise Allaying their punishment with a milder sentence and only scattering them from the place of their conspiracy Which yet his Providence turn'd into a blessing * by making it an occasion of peopling the world Stil their rebellious nature disobey'd again and neither fear'd his judgments nor valued his mercys But with a graceles emulation propagated sin * as far as his Goodnes propagated mankind Then he selected a private Family and increast and govern'd them with a particular tendernes Giving them a law by the hands of Angels and ingaging their obedience by a thousand favours But they neglected too their God and heav'n and fel in love with the ways of death When thou hadst thus O dearest Lord try'd every remedy and found our disease beyond all cure When the light of nature prov'd too weak a guide and the general flood too mild a correction When the miracles of Moses could not soften their harts nor the law of Angels bring any to perfection When all was reduc't to this desperate state and no imaginable hope left to recover us Behold the eternal Wisdom finds a strange expedient the last and highest instance of almighty love Himself he resolvs to cloath with our felsh and come down among us and dy to redeem us Wonder O my soul at the mercys of thy Lord how infinitely transcending ev'n our utmost wishes Wonder at the admirable providence of his counsels how exactly fitted to their great design Had he been less then God we could never have believ'd * the sublime Mysterys of his heav'nly Doctrin Had he been other then Man we must needs have wanted * the powerful motive of his holy Example Had He been only God he could never have suffer'd * the least of those afflictions he so gloriously overcame Had He been meerly Man he could never have o'recome those infinite afflictions he so patiently suffer'd O blessed JESU both these Thou art in thy self be Thou both these to us Be thou our God and make us adore Thee be thou our Leader and make us follow Thee Glory be c. Antiph Blessed be the mercy of our God who has left no means untry'd that could possibly recover us Antiph Lord thou not only offer'st us salvation but lay'st in means before hand to make us accept it Psal XCIV SOon as this blest decree was made * of sending the Son of God to redeem mankind Immediately his goodnes was ready to come among us had our ungracious world been ready to receive him But we as yet were too gross and sensual and utterly incapable of so pure a Law We were immerst in cares and pleasures and wholly indispos'd for so perfect an obedience While we were thus unfit for thee O thou God of pure and perfect holines Thou graciously wert pleas'd to stay for us and all that time prepare us for thy presence From the begining entertaining us with hope and through every age confirming our faith How early O my God didst thou engage to relieve us The Seed of the Woman shall break the Serpents head How often didst thou repeat thy promise to Abraham In thy seed shall all the Nations of the earth be blessed How many ways did thy mercy invent * by unquestionable tokens to give notice of thy Coming Behold a Virgin shall conceive and bear a Son and his name shall be called God with us A branch shall shoot out of the stock of Jesse and from the root of that branch shall spring a Flower The Spirit of our Lord shall rest upon him and the spirit of wisdom and piety and fortitude Our Lord shall raise up a Prophet like Moses and put his words in his mouth and he shall teach us And thou Bethelem who art litle among the thousands of Juda out of thee shall He come that 's to be the Ruler in Israel Whose goings forth are from the beginning even from the days of eternity Hark how the eternal Father introduces his Son commanding first all the Angels to adore Him Thou art my Son this day have I begotten Thee Thou art my Son and I will be thy Father I will give Thee the Gentiles for thine inheritance and the ends of the world for thy possession 'T is too litle that thou raise up the Tribes of Jacob and convert the dregs of Israel Thou art appointed a lght for the Gentiles and a Saviour to the utmost parts of the earth Hark how the antient Prophets rejoyce in the Messias and in soft and gentle words foretel his sweetness He shall come down as rain into a fleece of wool and as drops of dew distilling on the earth He shall feed his flock like a Shepherd and gently lead those that are with young He shall gather his lambs with his arms and carry them in his own bosom The bruised reed he shall not break nor quench the smoking flax Justice and peace shall flourish in his days and sin and death be destroy'd for ever Then shall the eys of the blind be open'd and the ears of the deaf be made to hear Then shall the tongues of the dumb be loosen'd and the lame man leap like a Back Thus did thy holy
Servants prophecy of Thee thus did their children sing thy praises Blessed be the Lord our God who alone does wonderful things and blessed be the Name of his Majesty for ever His dominion shall reach from sea to sea and from the river to the end of the world They who dwell in the wildernes shall kneel before him and his enemys shall lick the dust The Kings of Tharsis and the Isles shall offer him presents the Kings of Arabia and Saba shal bring him gifts All the Kings of the earth shal adore him and all Nations do him service For he shall rescue the weak from the hand of the mighty the weak who had none to help him He shall be favourable to the simple and the needy and preserve the souls of the poor He shall deliver them from usury and oppression and their name shall be honourable in his sight He shal live and to him shal be given of the gold of Arabia they shal adore him perpetually and bless him all day long O thou eternal King of heav'n and earth make good to thy servants these happy predictions So rule us here that we obey thy grace so favour us herafter that we injoy thy glory Glory be c. Antiph Lord thou not only offer'st us salvation but lay'st in means before hand to make us accept it Antiph All 's one to Thee O mighty Love whether joy or sorrow so mankind be sav'd Psal XCV 'T Was not thy joys alone O dearest Lord that thou inspir'dst into thy holy Prophets But thou reveal'dst to them thy sorrows too and commandedst them to publish them with a tender care That they not only should speak thy words but the more to affect us put on thy person O let our eys run down with water and our harts faint away with grief While we remember the suff'rings of our Lord and hear his sad complaints I gave my body to those that beat it and my cheeks to those that buffeted them I turn'd not away from them that reproach't me nor from them that spit on my face My enemys whisper together and spitefully maligne me when wil he dy and his name perish My familiar friend who ate of my bread * has lifted up his heel against me But thou upheldst me O Lord in my integrity and fet'st me before thy face for ever They Compast me about with words of malice and fought against me without a cause They rewarded me evil for good and hatred for my love I am poured forth like water I am taken away as a shadow when it declines My hart within me is as melted wax and all my bones are out of joynt My strength is dry'd up like a potsheard and my tongue cleaves to the roof of my mouth I'expected some to pity me and there was none I look't for Comforters but I found not one O my god my God how far hast thou forsaken me thou hast brought me into the dust of death Our father 's called to Thee and were deliver'd they trusted in Thee and were not abondoned But I am a worm and no man the reproach of men and the despis'd of the people All that see me laugh me to scorn they shoot out the lip and shake their head saying He trusted in God that he would save him let him deliver him if he delight in him Be not far from me O Lord my strength for trouble is nigh and none to help me The Assembly of the wicked have inclosed me about they pierce my hands and my feet I 〈◊〉 tell all my bones they gaze and stare upon me They part my garments among them and on my vesture they cast lots They gave me gall to eat and in my thirst vinegar to drink All these sad things O Lord thy Prophets foretold * to prepare our faith for such exorbitant truths All these indeed they expresly foretold but could there be found such wretches as would act them Yes O my God thine own selected nation conspir'd against Thee and with innumerable affronts most barbarously murther'd Thee This too even this thy cruel death thou plainly foreshewd'st The Inhabitants of Jerusalem shall look on me whom they crucify'd But O you holy Prophets what was the dismal cause * that shed the blood of this spotles Lamb He had they quickly answer done no iniquity nor could any fraud be found in his mouth But he was smiten for the sins of the people and taken away from the land of the living He deliver'd up himself to death and was numbred with the wicked he bore the sins of many and pray'd for his transgressors All we like sheep have gone astray and God laid on Him the iniquity of us all He was wounded for our offences and bruised for our transgressions The chastisements of our peace was upon him and by his stripes we were healed O blessed JESU who took'st upon thee our infirmitys to bestow on us thy own perfections Heal us thou great Physician of our souls and let us sin no more lest a worse thing befal us Heal us by the Mystery of thy holy Incarnation and the meeknes of thy humble Birth Heal us by the precious blood of thy Circumcision and the sweet and ever blessed name of JESUS Heal us by thy gracious manifestation to the Gentiles and the powerful influence of all thy Miracles Heal us by the exemplary obedience of thy Presentation and the Soveraign balsom of thy passion Heal us by the joys of thy victorious Resurrection and the triumph of thy glorious Ascension Heal us by the memory of all thy Blessings heal us by the memory of this days Mercy Heal us thou great Physician of our souls and let us sin no more lest a worse thing befal us Glory be c. Antiph All 's one to Thee O mighty Love whither joy or sorrow so mankind be sav'd Our Father c. First Lesson Isa 11. A Branch shal come forth from the root of Jesse and a flower rise up out of his root and the spirit of our Lord shal rest upon Him the spirit of wisdom and understanding the spirit of Counsel and strength the spirit of knowledg and piety and the spirit of the fear of our Lord shal replenish him He shal not judg according to the sight of the eys nor rebuke according to the hearing of the ears but he shal judg the poor in justice and rebuke for the mild of the earth in equity he shal strike the earth with the rod of his mouth and with the breath of his lips kil the impious Justice shal be the Girdle of his loyns and Faith the binder of his reins The Wolf shal dwel with the Lamb and the Leopard ly down with the Kid the Calf and the Lyon and the Sheep shal abide together and a little child lead them they shal not hurt and they shal not kil in all my holy mountain because the earth is filled with the knowledg of our Lord as the waters cover the Sea In
these thy unspeakable mercys We search over all we have and find nothing to return thee but what thy self hast freely given us We search over all thou hast given us and find nothing thou expectest but that we use thy gifts to make our selvs happy O may our souls perpetually bless thee and every minute of our time be spent in thy service Let us not live O Lord but to love thee nor breath but to speake thy praise * nor be at all but to be all Thine Glory be c. Psal XCVII SIng on my soul the praises of the Lord sing on with fresh attention the mercys of thy God Whose wisdom has contriv'd â—â—o compendious a method * to redeem mankind by one short word He saw the only cause of all our ruine * was our love misplac't on this present world He saw the only remedy of all our misery * was to fix our love on the world to come This therefore was his great intent and in this concentred all his merits To change the byass of our wrong-set harts by establishing among us new motives of charity Such as might strongly incline our affections and efficaciously draw us to love our true Good Such as might gain by degrees upon all mankind and render salvation easie and universal For this he came down from his Fathers bosom * to teach us the Rules of eternal life That we might firmly believe those sacred truths * which God himself with his own mouth had told us For this he converst so long on our earth * to encourage and provoke us by his own example That he might confidently imbrace those unquestionable vertues * which God himself in his own Person had practis'd For this he endur'd those sharp and many afflictions and became at last obedient even to death That we might patiently suffer whatever should befal us * when God himself was so treated by his creatures For this he so often preacht of the joys of heav'n and set them before us in so clear a light That seeing so rich a prize hang at the race's end we might run and strain our utmost force to gain it For this he ordain'd the Mysterys of grace and left us a Sacrifice made all of miracles That he might breed and nourish in us the life of charity and ravish our harts with the sweetnes of his presence For this he establisht a perpetual Church and sent the holy Ghost to inspire and govern it That it might flourish for ever in truth and sanctity and plant the same heav'nly seed over all the world For this he assum'd those strange endearing names * of friend and brother and spouse to us wretches Doing far more for us then all those names import * then all our harts can wish Blessed O glorious JESU be the wisdom of thy mercy * that has found so sweet and short away to save us Thou art O Lord the cause of our love and love the cause of our happiness By love we fulfil all thy commands and by making us love Thou fulfil'dst all thy Father's By love we are reconcil'd from enemys to friends by love we are translated from death to life By love we are deliver'd from the fear of hell by love we are adopted to be heirs of heav'n By love we are dispos'd for that blysful Vision by love we are secur'd of the enjoyment of our God Who by the sole perfection of his own free goodnes * can never deny Himself to any that love him Else would their very loving Him be the cause of their misery since the misery of a soul is the want of what it loves Thus Lord whate're thy holy Books record of Thee in words comporting with our low capacitys Whate're they say of thy Restoring all things and Repairing again the ruines of mankind All is exactly verify'd by this one line which may our thankful harts repeat with joy Heav'n is attain'd by love alone and love alone by Thee Glory be c. Psal XCVIII STil O my soul let us sing a few lines more * to Him whose mercys are no fewer then infinite To Him whose pity took us by the hand and kindly led us into his own light To thee O blessed JESU our Lord our God! who alone art the source of all our happines The world till thou cam'st sate wrapt in darknes and few discern'd so much as a shadow of Thee They follow'd the appetites of sense and humour and plac't their felicity in being prosperous here Litle considering the life to come and less the joys that entertain that life This was alas their miserable state and worse then this they had no power to help it How could they believe what they never heard or love what they never believ'd How could they desire what they never lov'd or be glad to receive what they never desir'd 'T was thou O Lord first taught us our true end * the blysful Vision of the eternal Deity 'T was thou first taught us the true means to attain that end by a harty love and desire to attain it O the blest changes which thy hand has wrought the happy improvements which thy coming has produc't Now every woman and illiterate man * can discourse familiarly of the highest truths The Creation of the world and the Fall of Adam the Incarnation of God and Redemption of man The Mystery of the Trinity and Miracle of the Resurrection the Day of Judgment and State of Eternity All these we know but 't was Thou O Lord who taught'st us and by thy holy Church first spred them o're the world Now thou hast open'd our eys we plainly see * what unassisted nature could ne're have reacht We see the framing right our affections here * is both cause and measure of our happines hereafter If we supremely esteem the Goods of the future life * we shall find them there and be happy If we love heav'n with our whole soul and press on strongly with all our force We shall enter into its glorys with a strange surprizing delight and possess them for ever in a perpetual extasy We see our souls are made to know and perfect themselvs by the worthiest objects We see their nature is free and unconfin'd and nothing can fill them but that which is infinite All other knowledges enlarge our facultys and breed new desire to know stil more Which if unsatisfy'd we yet are miserable since none can be happy who want their desire Only the sight of God fils us to the brim and infinitely overflows our utmost capacitys It fils and overflows all the powers of our souls * with joy and wonder and unconceivable sweetnes O blest and glorious Sight when wil the happy day appear * and open to my soul that beauteous prospect When dearest Lord shall I see Thee face to face when shall I hartily at least desire to see Thee Thou art my full and high felicity * and only and alone sufficient for me O make me
of Kings the great ones of the world * an Heroick spirit to advance thy glory Enflame the harts of Prelats and the Preists of thy Church * with a generous Zeal of Conversion of souls Convince them all 't is the end and duty of their place * to improve mankind in vertue and Religion One mercy more we humbly beg which O may thy Providence favorably supply Prepare O Lord the harts of those that err * and make them apt to receive the truth Then chuse thy burning and thy shining lights and send them forth over all the world Send them O God of infinite Charity but send them not alone * lest they faint by the way or miscarry in the end Go with them Thy self guide them by thy grace and crown their labors with thy powerfull blessing So shall the humble vallyes be rais'd up and the stubborn mountains be brought low So shal the crooked paths be made direct and the rough ways smooth and plain So shal the glory of God be every where reveal'd and all flesh see it together Happy the times when this shal come to pass happy the eys that shal see these times Come glorious days wherin that Sun shal shine * which inlightens all at once both the hemisphears Come holy JESU and make those glorious days and let no cloud o'recast them for ever Come and in the largest sense maintain thy Title Be effectively the Saviour of the universal world Glory be c. Antiph To Thee O Lord we look up for salvation have mercy on the works of thine own hands Capit. Tytus 2. THe grace of God our Saviour has appeared to all men instructing us that denying all iniquity and wordly desires we should live soberly justly and piously in this present world expecting the blessed hope and the coming of the glory of our great God and Saviour JESUS Christ who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify to himself an acceptable people zealous of good works Hymn XXXI JESU whose grace inspires thy Priests To keep alive by solemn feasts The Mem'ory of thy love O may we here so pass thy days That they at last our souls may raise To feast with Thee above JESU behold three Kings from far Led to thy Cradle by a star Bring gifts to Thee their King O guide us by thy light that we May find thy lov'd face and to thee Our selvs for tribute bring JESU the pure and spotles Lamb Who to the Temple humbly came Those legal Rights to pay O make our proud and stubborn will Thine and thy Churches laws fulfil Whate're fond nature say JESU who on that fatal wood Pour'dst forth thy life's last drop of blood Nail'd to a shameful cross O may we bless thy love and be Ready dear Lord to bear for Thee All grief all pain all loss JESU who by thine own love slain By thine own pow'r took'st life again And from the grave did'st rise O may thy death our spirits revive And at our death a new life give A life that never dyes JESU who to thy heav'n again Return'dst in triumph there to reign Of men and Angels King O may our parting souls take flight Up to that land of joy and light And there for ever sing All glory to the sacred Three One undivided Deity All honour pow'r and praise O may thy blessed name shine bright Crown'd with those beams of beauteous light It s own eternal rays Here recite the Antiphon for Magn. with the Canticle Magnificat and the Prayer after it as in the Proper of our Saviours Feasts But if you voluntarily say this Office on any day that is not some Feast of our Saviour then use the Antiphon and Prayer following Antiph Come all you Nations of the earth whom the mercy of our Lord has so dearly redeem'd Come and in honour of the divine Son sing the Canticle of the Blessed Mother alleluia Magnificat as Pag. 44. O Lord hear our Prayer And let our Supplications come to Thee Let us pray O Holy and ever-blessed JESU who being the eternal Son of God and most high in the glory of thy Father vouchsafed'st for us sinners to be born of an humble Virgin to be subject to the weaknesses of a litle child to grow up in a life of privacy and labour to declare thy self at last the Redeemer of the world by establishing a perfect law of grace and confirming it with innumerable miracles and suffering for it intollerable persecutions even to death it self Work in us we humbly beseech thee the happy effects of all these mercys that beleeving in thee we may imitate thy life and obeying thy commands injoy thy promises who with the Father and the holy Ghost livest and reignest one God world without end Amen Commemorations as Page 29. O Lord hear our Prayers as Page 29. Complin for our B. Saviour OUr help is in as Pag. 46. Antiph Whither O my God should we go but to Thee Thou hast the words of eternal life Psal CII REtire now my soul from thy Common thoughts * permitted to entertain thy less serious hours Retire and call thy wandring fancys home and speedily range them into peace and order That thou mayst so be prepar'd to hear thy Lord * invite thee among the rest to tast his sweetnes Come to me you that labour and are opprest and I will refresh you Take up my yoke and learn of me for I am meek and humble of hart and you shal find rest to your souls For my yoak is sweet and my burthen light Enough dear Lord enough is said * to draw all the world to thy holy Discipline What can be offer'd so agreable to our nature * too much alas inclin'd to pleasure and profit What can be offer'd so powerfully attractive as to make our work delightful and then reward it As to propose an employment like the musick of Churches devout and sweet and gainful to the performers Whither O my God should we go but to thee Thou hast the words of eternal life Thou art our wisest Instructer to know what to do and only Enabler to do what we know Thou art the free Bestower of all we have and faithful Promiser of all we hope Thou kindly calst us O make us gladly hear thy voice * and constantly follow it till we come to Thee Suffer us no longer to go astray like lost sheep wandring up and down in our own by-ways Suffer us no longer to be distracted among many things * from thee O Lord who art but One But gather us up from the world into our selvs then take us from our selvs into Thee There to be ravisht with thy holy embraces there to be feasted with the Antepasts of heav'n O how unspeakable are thy sweetnesses O Lord which thou hast hid for those who fear Thee Which thou hast partly reveal'd to those who love Thee * and keep their tasts uncorrupted with the world
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
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
has chosen you for his inheritance Alleluja Antiph Perpetual light shall shine on thy Saints O Lord Alleluja and joy and glory for ever Alleluja Psal CXXI BUt who are we born here below in the dust and still kept down with the thoughts of this world Lord who are we that our polluted hands * dare offer to Thee the incense of praise We who so often disobey thy commands and so seldom weep for our many follys Forgive great God our boldnes who thus rashly presume forgive our frailtys who thus weakly perform Plead our excuse O you glorified Spiritis and with your flaming charity warm our coldnes O praise our Lord you pure unblemisht Angels * who never displeas'd him with the least offence Praise him O you freely pardon'd Saints who perfectly repented every litle trespass Praise him with the highest Office of all your Feasts praise him with the loudest musick of all your Quires And so they do look up my soul and see * the innumerable multitude of triumphing Spirits See how they stand all cloth'd in white robes with palms in their hands and golden crowns on their heads Behold the glorious Angels fall down before the Throne and prostrate adore Him that lives for ever Behold the blessed Saints lay their Crowns at his feet and on their faces adore Him that lives for ever Hark how they fill that spacious Temple with their Hymns * while night and day they continually sing Holy Holy Holy Lord God Almighty who was and is and is to come Alleluja Holy Holy Holy Lord God of Hosts heav'n and earth are full of thy glory Alleluja Glorious art Thou in creating all things glorious in preserving them every moment of their being Glorious in governing them their several ways glorious in appointing them their proper ends Glorious in rewarding thy servants above their hopes glorious in punishing sinners below their demerits Glorious art Thou O Lord in all thy works but infinitely more in thine own self-blessed Essence Thus they rejoyce above thus they triumph and may their joy and triumph last for ever But O were we not made as wel as they ** to serve and glorify our great Creator We ow him all we have and they can ow no more they can but do their best and we should do no less Your pardon blessed spirits if we worms aspire to sing the same bright name which you adore We are ingag'd as deep as You but cannot pay without your charity O in your golden Censers put our prayers and offer them perfum'd with the odours of yours Though we are now alas in this land of banishment and indispos'd for those Songs of Sion Yet 't is our hope one day to dwel above and hear your holy harps and learn to sing of You We hope to walk with you those ways of light and follow the Lamb with you where're He goes Mean while we every day will joyn our Vowâ—â— to Yours and say a glad Amen to all You sing We as Your faithful Ecchoes will every day repeat * these few short Ends of Your Seraphik Hymns Salvation to our God who sits on the Throne and to the Lamb that redeem'd us with his blood Alleluja Blessing and Wisdom and Power be to Him that sits on the Throne and to the Lamb for all eternity Alleluja Glory be c. Antiph Perpetual light 〈◊〉 shine on thy Saints O Lord Alleluja and joy and glory for ever Alleluja Capit. Apoc. 7. AFter these things I saw a great multitude which no man could number of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues standing before the Throne and in the sight of the Lamb cloth'd in white robes and palmes in their hands And they cry'd with a loud voice saying Salvation to our God who sits on the Throne and to the Lamb. And all the Angels stood in the Circuit of the Throne and of the Seniors and of the four Beasts and they fell in the sight of the Throne upon their faces and ador'd God saying Amen Benediction and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving honour and power and strength be to our God for ever and ever Amen Hymn XXXVII WAke all my hopes lift up your eys And crown your heads with mirth See how they shine beyond the skys Who once dwelt on our earth Peace busy thoughts away vain cares That clog us here below Let us go up above the Sphears And to each order bow Hail glorious Angels Heirs of light The high-born Sons of fire Whose heats burn chast whose flames shine bright All joy yet all desire Hail holy Saints who long in hope Long in the shadow sate Til our victorious Lord set ope Heav'ns everlasting gate Hail great Apostles of the Lamb Who brought that early Ray Which from our Sun reflected came And made our first fair day Hail generous Martyrs whose strong harts Bravely rejoyc't to prove How weak pale death are all thy darts Compar'd to those of love Hail Blessed Confessors who dy'd A death too love did give While your own flesh You crucify'd To make your spirit live Hail beauteous Virgins whose chast vows Renounc't all fond desires Who wisely chose your Lord for Spouse And burnt with his pure fires Hail all you happy Spirits above Who make that glorious ring About the sparkling Throne of love And there for ever sing Hail and among your Crowns of praise Present this litle wreath Which while your lofty Notes you raise We humbly sing beneath All glory to the sacred Three One ever-living Lord As at the first stil may he be Belov'd obey'd ador'd Antiph The number of Them was thousands of thousands saying with a loud voice Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and divinity and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and benediction Alleluja Alleluja Alleluja O Lord hear our Prayers And let our Supplications come to Thee Let us pray MOst gracious God the author of all sanctity and Lover of unity whose wisdom has establisht an admirable communion between thy Church Triumphant in heav'n and Militant on earth as members of the same mystical Body wherof thy Son Christ Jesus is the head mercifully grant that as thy Blessed without ceasing pray to Thee for us we may continually praise Thee for them and in correspondence to their perfect charity with pious observance celebrate their Memory till-we all meet before thy glorious throne and with one hart adore the Saviour of us all who with Thee and the holy Ghost lives and reigns one God world without end Amen Commemorations c. as page 29. Vespers for Saints IN the Name c. as page 33. Antiph Pity O Lord the infirmitys of thy servants and quicken our slownes by the example of thy Saints Psal CXXII LOrd what a lukewarm life is this of ours compar'd to the zeal and fervor of thy Saints Often and long they fasted to chastize their bodys and bring them under the command of reason On all their senses they set a constant
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-Christmas-day recite the four Antiphons and Prayer of christmas-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
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