The devout communicant, assisted with rules for the worthy receiving of the blessed Eucharist together with meditations, prayers and anthems, for every day of the Holy Week : in two parts / by Ab. Seller ...

The Anthem.

The Resurrection, and Aseen∣sion.

I.

COme, holy Spirit, from above; Come, warm me with Seraphick love, That I may the triumphant Jesus sing, Whose resurrection heaven to earth did bring, And put thee long'd-for peaceful Dove upon the wing.

II.

Jesus is risen, mount, my mind, And leave this sordid earth behind. God made thy body dust, but Sin a grave; Let thy Soul too its Resurrection have; No longer be thy Lusts, the Worlds, or Satan's slave.

III.

Attend the Conqueror to his Throne, Who from the lower world is flown; Make, tho the meanest, one in that parade; The bleeding Jesus did my heart in vade, And none can heal the wound, but he whose hand it made.

IV.

View yonder Arch inscrib'd above, Sacred to Coelestial Love, There the incomparable Jesus dwells, Iesus, who charms thee by the strengest spells, Love him with transports, O my passions, and none else.

V.

See the bright Angels, how they glide Up and down by's Chariot's side; See, where ten thousand hover, and attend, To guard the Conqueror to his journies end, Whose Chariot does directly to God's right hand bend.

VI.

There Jesus fixes, and from thence Sheds his benignest influence; And, like triumphant Victors, does bestow His donatives on us who dwell below, That we in time our Triumphs may accomplish too.

VII.

You Angels, you who dwell above, Spend all your time in songs and love, While I who sadly want your light and fire, Detain'd in sensual fetters, would mount higher, And wish to do what I can only now admire.

VIII.

You Guardians are by Heaven design'd To awe and to protect Mankind; When Jesus rose, you did the news relate; When he ascended, you did on him wait: That I might triumph so, give me my Saviours Fate.