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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 mira∣cles.
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 for∣get not all his benefits.
TO Him who is able to preserve you with∣out sin, and set you immaculate before the sight of his glory, in exultation at the com∣ing of our Lord JESUS Christ; to the only God our Saviour, by JESUS Christ our Lord, be glory and magnificence, Empire and Power; be∣fore all ages, and now, and to all ages for ever, Amen.
Antiph. I saw the bright Sun shew his flam∣ing 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 prayers:
And let our supplications come to Thee.
Let us pray.
O God the eternal Source and Necessity of Being, on whose free overflowing, that of thy whole Creation every moment depends! strike we beseech Thee our harts with a conti∣nual dread and reverence of thy absolute Domi∣nion, which, should it but never so litle suspend thy Bounty, resolvs us all instantly into no∣thing:
nothing: and grant, that as we know thou pre∣servst still on this world, to grow daily riper for the Other, to which thou hast ordain'd it; we may by thy grace so husband our time here, as in the next life to possess thy Eternity, through our Lord Jesus Christ thy Son, who, &c.
Commemorations, &c. as page 29.
IN the Name, &c. As page 13.
Antiph. Who is like thee, O Lord, among the Gods! who is like thee, terrible in judg∣ments!