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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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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Hymn XIII.
OPen thine eys, my soul, and see Once more the light returns to thee: Look round about, and chuse the way Thou mean'st to travel o're to day.
Think on the dangers thou mayst meet, And always watch thy sliding feet: Think where thou once hast faln before, And mark the place, and fall no more.
Think on the helps thy God bestows; And cast to steer thy life by those: Think on the sweets thy soul did feel, When thou didst well, and do so still.
Think on the pains that shall torment Those stubborn sins that ne're repent: Think on the joys which wait above, To crown the head of holy love.
Think what at last will be thy part, If thou go'st on where now thou art: See life and death set thee to chuse; One thou must take, and one refuse.

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O my dear Lord, guide thou my course, And draw me on with thy sweet force: Still make me walk, still make me tend, By Thee my way, to Thee my end.
All glory to the sacred Three, One undivided Deity: As it has been in ages gone, May now, and ever, still be done.

Antiph. The day will come, it will infalli∣bly come, when God will destroy all that work iniquity.

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