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. LXXII.

TO thee, O God, we ow our whole selvs; for making us after thine own image.

To thee, O Lord, we ow more than our selvs; for redeeming us with the death of thine only Son.

Nor were our ruines so soon repair'd; as at first our Being was easily produc'd:

Thy Power to create us said but one word; and immediately we became a living soul:

But thy Wisdom to redeem us both spake much, * and wrought more, and suffer'd most of all:

To redeem us He humbled himself to this low world; and all the infirmitys of our mi∣serable nature:

He patiently endur'd hunger and thirst; and the malicious affronts of enraged enemys:

How many times did he hazard his life, to

sustain with courage the truths of heav'n!

How many tears did he tenderly weep, in compassion of his blind ingrateful Country!

How many drops of blood did he shed, * in that doleful garden, and on the bitter Cross!

The Cross, where after three long hours * of grief and shame and intolerable pains;

He meekly bow'd his fainting head; and in an agony of prayer yeelded up the Ghost:

So sets the glorious Sun in a sad cloud; and leaves our earth in darknes and disorder.

But goes to shine immediately in the other world; and soon returns again, and brings us light:

And so dost Thou, dear Lord, and more; thy very darknes is our light:

'Tis by thy death we are made to live; and by thy wounds our soars are heal'd.

O my ador'd Redeemer, who took'st upon thee all our miserys; to impart to us thine own felicitys!

Can we remember thy labours for us: and not be convinc't of our duty to Thee?

Can our cold harts recount thy sufferings; and not be inflam'd with the love that suffer'd?

Can we beleeve our salvation cost thee so dear; and live as if to be sav'd were not worth our pains?

Ingrateful we, how do we ••••light the kindnes

of our God! how carelesly comply with his gracious design!

For all his gifts, he requires no other return; then to hope still more, and desire still greater blessings:

For all his favours he seeks no other praise; then our following his steps to arrive at his glory.

O glorious JESU! behold to thee we bow; and kumbly kiss the dust, in honor of thy death:

Behold thus low we bow▪ to implore thy blessing; and the sure assistance of thy special grace:

That we may wean our affections from all vain desires; and clear our thoughts from all impertinent fancys:

Then shal our lives be intirely dedicated to Thee; and all the facultys of our souls to thy holy service:

Our minds shal continually study thy know∣ledge; and our wills grow every day stronger in thy love:

Our memorys shal faithfully lay up thy mer∣cys; and both tongue and hart shal sing for e∣ver.

Glory be, &c.

Antiph. Come let us glory in the Cross of our Lord JESƲS Christ, in whom is our life, and helth, and resurrection.

Capit. 2 Cor. 1.

BLessed be the God and Father of our Lord JESƲS Christ, the Father of mercys, and God of all consolation, who comforts us in all our tribulations; that we also may be able to comfort them who are in any distress, by the consolation wherewith we also are comforted of God. For, as the passions of Christ abound in us, so likewise by Christ our comfort a∣bounds.

Hymn XXII.

TUne now your selvs, my hart strings high; Let us aloft our voyces raise: That our loud song may reach the Sky; And there present to Thee our praise.

To thee, blest JESU, who cam'st down, From those bright sphears of joy above; To purchase us a dear bought Crown, And woo our Souls to 'espouse thy love.

Long had the World in darknes sate; Til Thou and thy all-glorious light Began to dawn from heav'ns fair gate, And with thy beams dispel their night:

We too, alas! stil there had stood, As common slaves in the same shade; But mercy came, and with his blood, Our general ransom freely paid.

Not all the spite of all the Jews, Nor death it self could him remove: Stil He his blest design pursues; And gives his life, to take our love.

And now, my Lord, my God, my all! What shal I most in Thee admire? That pow'r which made the world and shal The world again dissolve with fire?

O no, thy strange humility; Thy wounds, thy pains, thy cross, thy death: These shal alone my wonder be, My helth, my joy, my staff, my breath.

To Thee, great God! to Thee alone, Three Persons in one Deity; As former ages stil have done, All glory now, and ever be.

Antiph. We are bought with a price, even the most precious sweat and blood of JESUS; henceforth to call Him Master, whose service is perfect freedom, and gives us effectual power to become the sons of God.

V. The chains fell off our hands and feet;

R. When Thine, dear Redeemer, were nail'd to the Cross.

V. O Lord hear our prayers:

R. And let our supplications come to Thee.

Let us pray.

O Eternal Father, who sent'st down thy only Son to redeem the world inslav'd to sin and Satan, by assuming our frail nature, and powerfully teaching us, both by word and ex∣ample, its sole way to that blyss, for which we are created! Grant, we humbly beseech Thee, that the continual memory of his bitter passion and death on the Cross may beget in us an ut∣ter disvalue of the Goods or Ills we meet with here, compar'd to the advancing our selvs or o∣thers, in the esteem of what we hope herafter, through the same our Lord Jesus Christ thy Son, who with Thee and the holy Ghost lives and reigns One God world without end. Amen.

Here, on every Friday that is 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. Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us.

R. For our souls confide in thee.

V. And under the shadow of thy wings will we hope;

R. Til our iniquities pass away.

V. Have mercy on us, O Lord, for we are weak:

R. Heal us, O Lord, for we have sinned a∣gainst thee.

V. Our iniquities are gone over our head,

R. And like a sad burthen sit heavy on us.

V. Will not our God require an account of these things?

R. Will he not examine every passage of our lives?

V. He sees the secrets of our harts;

R. And our darkest sins are not hid from Him.

V. Lord, make us judg our selvs, lest we be condemn'd by thee,

R. And chastize our selvs, lest we be punisht by thee:

V. Make us mortify our senses with discreet austeritys;

R. Particularly contrary to the passions which molest us:

V. That we may reduce our bodys into sub∣jection to our minds;

R. And our minds into subjection to Thee:

V. That as our too much liberty brought us to folly;

R. Our just severity may bring us to pardon:

V. Pardon, O Lord, the iniquity of our sins;

R. And graciously remove away all thy pu∣nishments:

V. Enter not into judgment with thy servants, O Lord;

R. For in thy sihgt shall no one living be ju∣stify'd:

V. Our ruine, we confess, is wholly from our selvs;

R. And all our hope is in thy salvation:

V. If we repent, and say, Now we'l begin;

R. 'Tis time now to rise from sleep:

V. Behold temptation stands at the door;

R. And our weak resistance lets it in:

V. Our corrupt nature conspires with our enemys;

R. And our evil customs prevail against us:

V. Pity us, O Lord, Thou who know'st where∣of we are made;

R. Wean us from this world, Thou who mad'st us for a better:

V. Deliver us from the occasions that so of∣ten endanger us;

R. Deliver us from the occasions that so often overcome us:

V. Deliver us from all sudden and disastrous mischances:

R. Deliver us from the miserys of everlasting torments:

V. Why art thou sad, O my soul?

R. And why art thou disquieted within me?

V. Still trust in God, for still we will praise his Name;

R. He is our Saviour and our God:

V. O praise our Lord, for he is good;

R. And his mercy indures for ever:

V. Let all who fear our Lord, now say,

R. That his mercy indures for ever:

V. He was mindful of us in our low estate;

R. For his mercy indures for ever:

V. And redeem'd us from our enemys;

R. For his mercy indures for ever:

V. He will guide us here in the ways of peace;

R. For his mercy indures for ever:

V. He will bring us herafter to the joys of eternity;

R. For his mercy indures for ever.

V. O Lord hear our prayers;

R. And let our supplications come to Thee.

Let us pray.

O God, who didst severely punish our first parents for eating the forbidden fruit, and hast so often recommended to us the necessary dutys of abstinence and fasting, grant we beseech thee that by observing diligently thy holy Disci∣pline propos'd to us in the laws and practise of thy Church, we may correct our levitys and revenge our excesses, and subdue our irregular appetites, and frustrate the temptations of the

enemy, and secure our perseverance, and daily proceed to new degrees of vertue and devotion; till in the end of our lives, we receive the end of our labours, the salvation of our souls in thy heavenly kingdom, through our Lord Jesus Christ thy Son, who with thee and the holy Ghost lives and reigns One God world without end. Amen.

These Versicles, Responses and Prayers are said, kneeling, on all Fasting days, immediately af∣ter the Prayer at Lauds. Then,

Commemoration, &c. as page 29.

Friday Vespers.

OUr Father, &c. as page 33.

Antiph. O sensless we, that so litle consider what our Saviour suffer'd for us; or what we do against Him!