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

Psal. LXXV.

SHould'st thou, O Lord, have dealt with us in rigour; we had long since been sentenced to eternal death:

Long since our guilty souls had been snatch't away; and hurried down to everlasting tor∣ments:

But thy gracious mercy has repriev'd our lives; and given us space to work out our par∣dons:

Now is the time of acceptance with Thee; now is the day of salvation for us:

Now let us mourn our former offences; and bring forth fruits worthy of repentance:

If we, O JESU, have hitherto persecuted thee; and with our sins nayl'd thee on the tree of death:

Now let our whole endeavours attend thy service; and loyally conspire to un-crucify their Lord:

Let us ascend the Mount of Calvary; and often, as we go, kiss thy holy steps:

We kiss thy steps, when we love thy ways; and humble our selvs, and follow Thee:

Let us there on our knees approach thy Cross; and reverently cover thy naked Body:

We cover thee, when our charity cloaths thy servants; and hides the infirmitys of thy litle Ones:

Let us there with tendrest care unfasten the nails; and gently draw them out of thy hands and feet:

We draw them out, when we freely obey thy will; and loosen our affections from cleav∣ing to the world:

Lord, when we thus have rescu'd Thee; and plac'd thee again on thy Throne of glory:

Instead of Thy self, nail thou us to the Cross; who really deserve what Thou really indured'st:

Crucify our flesh with the fear of Thee; and give us our portion of sorrow here:

Crucify the world to us, and us to the

world; that, dead to it, we may live in Thee:

At least, live thou in us, O holy JESU! and fit our souls for so glorious a guest:

Enter into our harts, and fill them with thy self; that no room be left for any thing but Thee:

One only hope we have, thy care of us; one only fear, our neglect of our selvs.

Glory be, &c.

Antiph. Now is the time of acceptance, now is the day of salvation: let us demean our selvs as the servants of God; in fasting and watch∣ing; in patience and charity.

Capit. Philip. 2.

IF there be any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of Charity, if any fellowship of spi∣rit, if any bowels of Commiseration, fulfil my joy: that you be of one meaning, having the same charity, of one mind, of one sentiment: Let nothing be done by contention, nor by vain glory; but in humility, every one counting o∣thers better then themselvs, every one consi∣dering not the things that are their own, but those that are of others. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ JESƲS; who, being in the form of God, thought it no rob∣bery to be equal to God: but he abased him∣self, taking the form of a servant, made into the similitude of men, and in shape found as

man. He humbled himself, being made obe∣dient to death, even the death of the Cross; for which God has exalted him, and given him a name above all names: that at the name of JESƲS every knee bow of things in heaven, of things on earth, and of things under the earth; and every tongue confess, that our Lord JE∣SƲS Christ is in the glory of God the Fa∣ther.

Hymn XXIII.

ANd now, my soul, canst thou forget That thy whole life is one long debt Of love to Him, who on this tree Paid back the flesh He took for thee?

Lo, how the streams of precious blood Flow from five wounds into one flood: With these he washes all thy stains, And buys thy ease with his own pains:

Tall tree of life! we clearly now That doubt of former Ages know; It was thy wood should make the Throne Fit for a more then Salomon.

Large Throne of love! royally spred With Purple of too rich a red: Strange costly price! thus to make good Thine own esteem, with thy Kings blood.

Hail fairest Plant of Paradise; To thee our hopes lift up their eys: O may aloft thy branches shoot, And fill the Nations with thy fruit.

O may all reap from thy Increase, The Just, more strength; the sinner, peace: While our half-wither'd harts and we Engraft our selvs, and grow on Thee.

Live, O, for ever live, and reign Blest Lamb whom thine own love has slain; And may thy lost sheep live to be True lovers of thy Cross and Thee.

All glory to the sacred Three, One undivided Deity; As it has been in ages gone, May now, and ever, stil be done.

Antiph. Our Lord dyed for us, that we might live in Him, and putting off the old man with all his concupiscences, be renew'd hence∣forth in the spirit of our minds,

V. Behold dear Saviour thou art exalted from the earth.

R. Fulfil thy word, and draw all things to thy self.

O Lord hear our prayers,

And let our Supplications come to Thee:

Let us pray.

O God, who, at the price of thy only Sons last drop on the Cross, hast purchased our harts from this life and all the goods of it, to the sole pursuit and hopes of Thy self in eternity! Possess, we beseech Thee, and absolutely dispose of what Thou hast so dearly paid for: mortify∣ing us to this world, and confirming our courage to fight manfully under the Banner of our cruci∣fy'd JESUS; that we stand the shock of all tem∣ptations, and nothing in life or death be able to separate us from thy love in Him, our glorious Redeemer, who with Thee and the holy Ghost lives and reigns One God world with out end, Amen.

Here, on all Fridays that are fasted, say kneeling,

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. Who will give water to our eys;

R. And a fountain of tears to our head?

V. That we may weep, day and night,

R. The loss of our time past, and the danger of our time to come.

V. That we may weep for our many sins;

R. And humbly confess our grievous offences.

V. We have sin'd with our fathers, we have sin'd;

R. We have done unjustly, we have committed iniquity.

V. We have broken the Laws of our Maker;

R. We have provokt the wrath of our Judg.

V. We have despised the goodnes of our God;

R. What shall we do, O thou Preserver of men!

V. What shall we do, but appeal from the bar of thy justice,

R. To thy mild and gracious Seat of Mercy.

V. Spare us, O Lord, for thy mercy sake;

R. Spare the works of thine own hands:

V. Spare us whom thou hast made for the en∣joyment of thy self;

R. Spare us whom thou hast redeem'd with thy precious Blood:

V. Pardon, O Lord, our sins of weaknes and surprize:

R. Pardon, our sins of wilfulnes and malice:

V. Pardon our relapsing into the sins we have repented;

R. Pardon our lying in sins without repentance:

V. Make us to grieve for our sins that we hate them;

R. And hate them so, that we quite forsake them:

V. Check our unruly passions with thy holy fear;

R. And guide our lives in the ways of discipline:

V. That we may turn to thee with our whole hart;

R. In fasting weeping and mourning:

V. That we may humble our souls in prayer;

R. And redeem our sins with alms:

V. That we may root out our vices with con∣trary vertues;

R. And bring forth fruits agreeable to penance:

V. Hear us, O merciful Lord, when we pray for our selvs;

R. Hear us, when we pray for others:

V. Remember the Congregation thou hast pos∣sest from the begining;

R. Defend and govern and increase it for ever.

V. Give to thy Priests the spirit of knowledg;

R. The spirit of holiness and zeal and wisdom:

V. Give to thy People the spirit of docility;

R. The spirit of obedience, devotion, and cha∣rity:

V. Reveal thy self, O Lord, to those who never knew thee;

R. And bring home those who have gone astray from thee:

V. Preserve we beseech thee our King and Council;

R. And bless all the people of this Nation:

V. Bless us with helth and peace and plenty;

R. And make us use them with sobriety, grati∣tude and charity:

V. Reward, O Lord, our kinred, friends and benefactors;

R. And forgive our enemys, and all that hate us:

V. Comfort those that mourn, and are opprest with their afflictions;

R. Or labour under the burthen of a troubled mind:

V. Relieve the poor who have none to help them;

R. And defend the cause of the fatherless and widow:

V. Strengthen those who languish on the beds of their sicknes;

R. And those who struggle in the agony of death:

V. Have mercy on the Faithful departed in thy grace;

R. Have mercy on all the world, and bring us to thy glory.

V. O Lord hear our prayers:

R. And let our supplications come to thee.

Let us pray.

O God who by thy holy Doctrine hast taught us to fast, and watch, and pray, and by thy blessed Example powerfully engag'd us to follow thy steps: vouchsafe us, we beseech thee, thy grace, so to mortify our bodys, by withdrawing the fewel from our unruly passi∣ons, and reducing our immoderate sleep to the measures of necessary refreshment, that our

minds may the better be dispos'd for prayer and meditation, devoutly to celebrate here the Fasts and Festivals of thy Church, and eternally to rejoyce with Thee hereafter in the Kingdom of thy glory, where with the Father and the ho∣ly Ghost thou livest and reignest One God world without end. Amen.

O Lord hear, &c. as page 45.

These Versicles, Responses and Prayers, are said kneeling, at the end of Vespers, on all Fasting days throughout the year.

Friday Complin.

OUr help is in, &c. as page 46

Antiph. In peace will we sleep and take our rest; for thou, O Lord, hast particularly esta∣blisht us in hope.