The compleat office of the Holy Week with notes and explications / translated out of Latin and French ; published with allowance.

AT LAUDS.

The Church tells us, That to receive benefit from CHRIST's Death, we must have a hearty and true Repentance.

ANTHYMN, taken out of the Thirteenth Chapter of the Prophet Osee.

Ant. I Will be thy death, O death: thy bit will I be, O hell.

PSALM 50.

Miserere mei Deus, &c. as before, p. 65.

ANTHYMN, taken out of the Twelfth Chapter of the Prophet Zachary.

The Church having declared unto us, That JESUS CHRIST suffered Death to fulfill the Commands of his Father, and to accomplish the Predictions of the Prophets. She now repre∣sents us the grief the Converted and Penitent Jews had for ha∣ving been of the number of those who put him to Death. She also minds us to acknowledge the obligation we have to mortifie our selves, to sigh and weep for having by our Sins contributed to his Death.

They shall lament him with lamentation as it were upon an only begotten, because our innocent Lord is slain.

PSALM 42.

The Church offers us the Prayer JESUS CHRIST made un∣to God his Father, which declares the difference 'twixt his Suf∣ferings and Death, and 'tw•••• the Death and Sufferings of Men. Their Deaths and Sufferings are the Punishments due to their Sins: But JESUS CHRIST, who is Sanctity it self, and the Fountain of all good, he only suffered Death because himself would, and charged himself with our Iniquities, that he might deliver us, and satisfie the rigorous Justice of God his Father. Then the Church shews us, That God made his Light and Truth shine in this Divine Saviour by making his Innocency appear by the Wonders and Miracles that happened at his Death, and by his glorious Resurrection from his Tomb, and afterwards by his destroying of Jerusalem, and by casting the reprobate Jews in everlasting Perdition.

JUdge me, O God, and discern my cause from the nation not holy, from the unjust and deceitful man deliver me.

Because thou art God my strength: why hast thou repelled me? and why go I sorrow∣ful, whilst the enemy afflicteth me?

Send forth thy light and thy truth: they have conducted me, and brought me into thy holy hill, and into thy tabernacles.

And I will go into the altar of God: to God, which maketh my youth joyful.

I will confess to thee on the harp, O God, my God: Why art thou sorrowful, O my soul? and dost thou trouble me?

Hope in God, because yet I will confess to him: the salvation of my countenance, and my God.

Ant. They shall lament him with lamen∣tation, as it were upon an only begotten: be∣cause our innocent Lord is slain.

Ant. Behold, all ye people, and see my grief.

The Psalm Deus, De••••••eus, as before, p. 69.

Ant. From the gate of hell deliver my soul, O Lord.

The Canticle of Ezechias, Isa. 38.

Under the Figure of Ezekias's Malady, from which he was deliverd by God at the intercession of the Prophet Isay, which signifies the health of God. The Church represents unto us the deplorable condition whereinto Human Nature was reduced through Sin, from which we are freed through the Grace of our Lord JESUS CHRIST. She also admonisheth us to render our humble Thanks to the Divine Majesty.

I Have said, In the midst of my days shall I go to the gates of hell.

I have sought the residue of my years: I have said, I shall not see our Lord God in the land of the living.

I shall behold man no more, and the inha∣biter of rest.

My generation is taken away, and is wrap∣ped together from me, as the tent of shep∣herds.

My life is cut off as by a weaver: whilst I yet began, he cut me off: from morning until night thou wilt make an end of me.

I hoped until morning: as a lion so hath he broken all my bones.

From morning until evening thou wilt make an end of me. As a young swallow, so will I cry, I will meditate as a dove.

Mine eyes are weakned, looking on high.

Lord, I suffer violence, answer for me. What shall I say, or what shall he answer me? whereas himself hath done it.

I will recount to thee all my years, in the bitterness of my soul.

Lord, if mans life be such, and the life of my spirit in such things, thou shalt chastise me, and shalt quicken me. Behold, in peace is my bitterness most bitter.

But thou hast delivered my soul that it should not perish: thou hast cast all my sins behind my back.

Because hell shall not confess to thee, nei∣ther shall death praise thee: they that go down into the lake, shall not expect thy truth.

The living, the living, he shall confess to thee, as I also this day: the father shall make the truth known to the children.

O Lord, save me, and we shall sing our psalms all the days of our life in the house of our Lord.

Ant. From the gate of hell deliver my soul, O Lord.

Ant. O all ye that pass by this way, be∣hold and see, if there be any grief like unto mine.

Psalm, Laudate Dominum de coelis, &c. as before, p. 74.

V. My flesh shall rest in hope.

R. And thou shalt not give thy holy One to see corruption.