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. CXIV.

LEt not our Lord be angry and wil we speak yet once; for we have much to ask, and he has infinite to give.

We have much to ask for our selvs and all the world; who depend intirely on his free good∣nes.

Many O Lord, are the graces we want; and none can give them but thy bounty:

Many are the sins and miserys we are expos'd to; and none can deliver us but thy Provi∣dence:

Deliver us, O Lord, from what thou know'st is against us; deliver us from what we know our selvs will undo us.

Deliver us from the spirit of prophaness and infidelity; from the spirit of error and schism and heresy:

Deliver us from the spirit of pride and avarice; from the spirit of anger and sloath and envy:

Deliver us from the spirit of drunkenes and gluttony; from the spirit of lust and wantones and impurity:

Deliver us, O gracious God, from every evil spirit; and vouchsafe to give us thine own good spirit:

Vouchsafe to give us the spirit of fortitude; the spirit of temperance and justice and pru∣dence:

The spirit of wisdom and understanding and counsel; the▪ spirit of knowledg and piety and fear of Thee:

The spirit of peace and patience and benignity; the spirit of humility, sobriety, and chastity:

O Thou who never deny'st▪ thy favours; unles we first deny our obedience:

Thou who art often near us, when we are far From thee; often ready to grant, when we are unmindful to ask:

Refuse not, O Lord, to hear us, now we call on Thee; and make us stil hear Thee when thou cal'st to us.

Fil our understandings with the knowledg of such truths, as may fix them on Thee the eter∣nal Verity:

Inure our wils to imbrace such objects, as may unite them to Thee the soveraign Goodnes:

Shew us the narrow way that leads to life; the way which few can find, and fewer follow:

Guide us stil on in the middle path of vertue; that we never decline to any vicious extreme:

Let not our faith grow wild with superfluous branches; nor bestript into a naked and fruit∣les trunk:

Let not our hope swel up to a rash presumpti∣on; nor shrink away into a faint despair:

Let not our charity be cool'd into a careles in∣differency; nor heated into a furious zeal:

But above all suffer us not, O thou blest and holy Spirit! to be guilty of those unpardonable sins against Thy self:

Suffer us not obstinatly to persist in any known wickednes; nor maliciously impugn any known truth:

Suffer us not to dy in our sins without repen∣tance; but O have mercy on us in that serious hour:

Have mercy on us and govern us in our life; have mercy on us, and save us at our death.

Glory be, &c.

Antiph. Deliver us, O gracious God, from e∣very evil spirit; and vouchsafe to give us thine own good spirit.

Capit. Gal. 5.

NOw, the works of the flesh are manifest; fornication, uncleaness, impudicity, lux∣ury, serving of Idols; witchcrafts, enmityes, con∣tentions, emulations, angers, brawles, dissensi∣ons, sects, envies, murders, drunkeness banquet∣ings, and such like: which I foretel you, that they who do such things shal not obtain the Kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, good∣nes,

long-suffering, mildnes, faith, modesty, con∣tinency, chastity: against such there is no law. And they who are Christs have crucify'd their flesh with its vices and concupiscen••••es. If we live in the spirit, in the spirit let us walk. Let us not be covetous of vain glory, envying one another, provoking one another.

Hymn XXXV.

COme holy Spirit, send down those beams, Which gently flow, in silent streams, From thy bright throne above: Come Thou Enricher of the poor, And bounteous source of all our store; Come, fill us with thy love.

Come thou our souls delicious guest; The weary'd p••••lgrims sweetest Rest; The sufferer's best Releef: Come thou our passions cool Allay: Whose comfort wips all tears away, And turns to joy all grief.

Come bright Sun, shoot home thy darts; Peirce to the center of our harts, And make our faith love Thee: Without thy grace, without thy light, Our strength is weaknes, our day night; We can nor move nor see.

Lord wash our sinful stains away; Water from heav'n our barren clay; Our many bruses heal: To thy sweet yoak our stiff necks bow; Warm with thy fire our harts of snow; Our wandring feet repeal.

O grant thy Faithful, dearest Lord, Whose only hope is thy sure word, The seven gifts of thy Spirit: Grant us in life t'obey thy grace; Grant us at death to see thy face; And endles joys inherit.

All glory to the sacred Three One ever-living Deity, All pow'r and blyss and praise: As at the first when time begun, May the same homage stil be done, Till time it self decays.

Antiph. Blessed be thy name, O holy spi∣rit of God, who dividest thy gifts to every one as thou pleasest, and workest all in all: in Thee our sorrows have a comforter to allay them, and our sins an Advocate to plead for them; in Thee our ignorances have a guid to direct them, & our frailties a Confirmer to strengthen them, and all our wants a God to releeve them, alle∣luja, alleluja.

Magnificat, &c. as pag. 44.

Repeat the Antiphon. Then—

O Lord hear our pray'rs.

And let our supplications come to Thee.

Let us pray.

O God, who by thy holy Spirit didst at first establish and sanctify thy Church, and by the same Spirit dost still preserve and govern it! hear we beseech Thee, the pray'rs of thy servants, and mercifully grant us the perpetual assistance of thy grace, that we never be de∣ceiv'd by any false spirit, nor overcome by the vicious suggestions of flesh and blood; but in all our doubts be directed into the way of truth, and in all our actions guided by thy holy Spirit, who with Thee and thy eternal Son lives and reigns One God world without end, Amen.

O Lord hear, &c. as page 45.

Then say the Complin of the day, for this Of∣fice has none of its own.