Devotions in the ancient way of offices with psalms, hymns, and prayers for every day in the week and every holiday in the year.

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Title
Devotions in the ancient way of offices with psalms, hymns, and prayers for every day in the week and every holiday in the year.
Author
Birchley, William, 1613-1669.
Publication
Paris :: [s.n.],
1668.
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Subject terms
Catholic Church. -- Breviary.
Church of England. -- Book of common prayer.
Rhymed offices.
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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 or∣dain'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▪

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