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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Title: 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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Trinity-Sunday.

All, as in Sunday Office, except

1. Antiph. There are Three that bear witnes in heav'n; the Father, the Word, and the H. Ghost: and these Three are One; Alleluja.

2. Antiph. The Father is God, and the Son

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is God, and the H. Ghost is God: yet are they not three Gods, but One God; Alleluja.

3. Antiph. In this adorable Trinity none is before or after; none greater or less then An∣other: but all the Three Persons are coequal among themselvs, and coeternal; Alleluja.

Antiph. for Benedictus and Magnificat. To thee the eternal Father, made by none; to thee the increated Son, begotten by the Father alone; to thee the B. Spirit, proceeding from the Fa∣ther and the Son; One holy, consubstantial, and undivided Trinity; be ascrib'd all power and wisdom and goodnes, now and for ever. Alleluja.

Prayer.

O Eternal Father, who by the visible de∣descent of thy Son to redeem the world, and of thy H. Spirit to sanctify the Elect, has wonderfully made thy Churches own experi∣ence facilitate our faith of the incomprehensi∣ble Trinity! Grant us, we beseech Thee, in hart and voice to profes this most high and su∣pernatural truth, and rejecting all the fallacious suggestions of short reason, humbly adore Thee, Three every-way-coequal Persons, in the same indivisible Deity; til we come herafter to thy blysful presence, and see the Mystery re∣veal'd in thine own glorious face; through our Lord, &c.