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A Brief method of hearing Mass with profitable advantage to such as shall make constant use and practice of it : to which is added prayers for the king, &c. in English and Latin.
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Wing B4604A; ESTC R42665
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A BRIEF METHOD OF HEARING MASS WITH Profitable Advantage to such as shall make constant Use and Practice of it TO WHICH Is added Prayers for the King c. in English and Latin LONDON Printed for M. T. 1686. A Prayer before Mass O Most clement Father of mercy who hast bestowed not only once thy dearly beloved Son to dye upon the Cross for Man's Redemption but wouldest that this Oblation so infinitely acceptable unto thee should daily be renewed in thy Church to increase in us the fruit thereof Grant us we beseech thee so attentively and reverently to be present at this so adorable a mistery of thy Piety that we may be able to obtain the participation thereof Through Christ Jesus our Lord and only Redeemer Amen The first Part to the Offertory In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Amen PSALM P. I Will enter unto the Altar of God C. Vnto God who rejoyces my youthful Age P. Judge me O God and discern my Cause from an unholy Nation From an unjust and guileful man deliver me C. For thou art God my strength why hast thou cast me off and why do I walk sad whilst the Enemy afflicts me P. Send out thy light and thy truth they have led me out and brought me to thy holy Mountain and to thy Tabernacles C. And I will go unto the Altar of God unto God who rejoyces my youthful Age. P. I will confess unto thee O God my God in a harp why art thou sad my Soul and why doest thou trouble me C. Hope in God for I will yet confess unto him the health of Countenance and my God P. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost C. As it was in the begining and now and ever and world without end Amen P. I will go vnto the Altar of God C. Vnto God who rejoyces my youthful age P. Our help is in the name of God C. Who made Heaven and Earth At the Confiteor O My sweet Saviour seeing it was Sin which made thee take our Flesh upon thee and suffer a more painful and shameful death I here humbly crave thee pardon for having bin cause of thy bitter Passion by my sinful Life past I confess my fault unto thee O Lord from the bottom of my heart and being extreamly sorry for it purely for the dishonour done unto thee thereby make here at the foot of thy sacred Altar a firm resolution to dye rather rhen offend thee mortally again No no dear Saviour I will strike no more nailes into thy Hands by the Sins of my uncivil uncharitable and pricking words I will pierce no more thy sacred side and heart with the wickedness of my thoughts heart and mind C. Almighty God have mercy on thee and pardoning thy Sins bring thee to everlasting Life P. Amen C. I confess unto almig'ty God to the blessed Virgin Mary to the B. Archangel S. Michael to the B.S. John Baptist to the holy Apostles S. Peter and S. Paul to all the Saints and to you Father for that I have sinned exceedingly in thought word and deed through my fault through my fault through my most grievous fault Therefore I beseech the blessed Virgin Mary the blessed Archangel S. Michael the blessed S. John Bapt. the holy Apostles S. Peter and S. Paul all the Saints and you Father to pray for me to our Lord God P. Allmighty God have mercy on you and pardoning your sins bring you to everlasting life C. Amen P. The almighty and merciful Lord grant you Pardon absolution and remission of your sins C. Amen P. O God thou being reconciled unto us wilt give us life C. And thy people will rejoyce in thee P. Shew forth unto us O Lord thy mercy C. And give unto us thy salvation P. O Lord hear my prayer C. And let my cry come unto thee P. Our Lord be with you C. And with thy Spirit Introite GIve me grace O Lord to come unto this holy Sacrifice with the same fervour and devotion that the good Sheapheards had when they went to Bethlehem with diligence to adore thee in the Manger or with the same Fervour that the three Kings had who came out of the East to adore thee in the Stable It is most fitting O Lord that all Creatures should adore thee daily and if the good Shepheards went to adore thee at midnight I may well do it in the morning if the three Kings went thirteen days journey only to adore thee in the Stable I may well go every day unto the Church to adore thee upon the Altar and there offer unto thee as I now do my heart my mouth my hands my memory understanding and will my soul body and all my affections And seeing O Lord thou wast born to redeem us from Sin and to have mercy on us give me leave sweet Saviour to challenge a part of thy divine Mercy and to say unto thee with a pious Confidence Kyrie Eleison P. Lord have mercy upon us C. Lord have mercy upon us P. Lord have mercy upon us C. Christ have mercy upon us P. Christ have mercy upon us C. Christ have mercy upon us P. Lord have mercy upon us C. Lord have mercy upon us P. Lord have mercy upon us Gloria in Excelsis GLory be to God on high and on Earth Peace to men of good Will We praise thee we bless thee we adore thee we give thee thanks for thy great Glory O Lord God heavenly King God the Father Almighty O God the only begotten Son Jesu Christ O Lord God Lamb of God Son of the Father that takest away the sins of the People receive our Prayer Thou that sittest at the right hand of God the Father have mercy upon us For thou only art holy thou only art the Lord thou only O Jesus Christ with the holy Ghost art most high in the Glory of God the Father Amen Dominus vobiscum P. Our Lord be with you C. And with thy spirit P. Let us pray Prayers or Presentation in the Temple O Lord we humbly beseech thy divine Majesty to hear these prayers of the Priest for us and by the merits of thy most deare Son to powre down upon us those graces and blessings which thou knowest to be most necessary for our Souls health Grant us grace O Lord to love thee above all things to do all our actions purely for thy honour and glory to hate the Pleasures of this World and its Vanities to live chast and vertuous Lives to give good Examples to others to pardon and love our Enemies and so to pass through this temporal Life that we loose not eternal Life Through our Lord Jesus Christ thy Son who lives and reignes with the unity of the Holy Ghost world without end C. Amen Epistle REad the Epistle in English with the leave of thy Ghostly Father out of the Rheims Testament But read it with great reverence as a
all faithful believers Grant all Catholicks grace to abstain from sinful and scandalous courses As their Religion is holy so grant that their lives may be holy too Give them grace often to remember for what end they are here in this World that it is only to work their Salvation not to live at ease follow Pleasures Pastimes Company or to go bravely apparelled Put them often in mind of what Head they are Members how unseemly a thing it is to have a good Lord and yet to be bad Servants to believe in a crucifyed God and yet to murmur at Crosses to be baptised as Christians and yet to live as Heathens to have promised in Baptisme to forsake the vain Pomp and Glory of the World and yet to thirst after nothing but the Vanities of the World Grant them often to descend into themselves by pious Thoughts and reflect daily upon these words of the holy Scripture that the broad way leadeth to Hell that no man can serve two Masters God and the World that the bad tree cannot bring forth good fruit Send them O Lord true and zealous Pastors who may exhort them Not to trust in the uncertainty of riches not to conform themselves to this wicked World not to be sollicitous what Cloaths they wear but rather To doe the true fruits of Pennance to enter into the narrow Gate to affect those things which are of Edification to be cald in modest Apparel to abstain from all appearance of Evil and to keep themselves unspotted from this World The hands over the Chalice GIve me leave O merciful Saviour in the acknowledgment of the greatest of thy favours to exercise here the greatest of all Christian Vertues to wit FAITH HOPE and CHARITY The third part from the Consecration to the Consummation Elevation I Believe then firmly O my sweet Saviour that after the Words of Consecration thou art really here present upon the Altar and in the hands of the priest and because thou who art almighty and truth it self hast said THIS IS MY BODY THIS IS MY BLOOD I humbly confess it to be they true Body and Blood and as humbly I adore it And seeing dear JESVS thou offeredst thy self to thy Father for me in recompence of this thy great Favour I offer unto thee my Body and Blood and my very soul it self as a Sacrifice to thy divine Honout and renew here my resolutions of living faithful to thy divine Service and of dying rather then I will commit a mortal sin willingly I hope sweet Saviour thou wilt not deny me thy assistance and grace to perform these Resolutions Thou who hast given for me here thy BODY and BLOOD wilt not refuse me the rest to wit pardon of my sins and grace to serve thee And thou O Father of my sweet Saviour I beseech thee remember the bitter sufferings of thy beloved Son Look down upon his Blood offered here unto thee and remember O Lord the blood offered upon the Cross by thee when thou wast reconciled unto us Thou promisedst anciently O Lord that looking upon the Rainbow thou would'st remember the Covenant made betwixt thee and mankind and never drown the World again by Water and canst thou look down upon the Blood of thy dear Son offered here unto thee in Sacrifice and not remember the great Covenant and League which thou mad'st with us in the death of thy dear Son I beg of thee then O Lord by the Merits of thy Sons death by his holy name JESVS and all obtaining name with thee that thou would'st vouchsafe to grant us thy holy Grace and the guist of perseverance to persevere finally in it Memento II. GRant also O Lord that the infinite Merits of thy Son's Passion may be extended unto the Church suffrant in Purgatory and that one drop of that precious Blood may free from the pains of Purgatory the Souls of N.N. that they may pass speedily from the Church suffrant unto the Church triumphant and there praise thee for ever And seeing O Lord thou canst not look upon this holy Sacrifice without remembring thy old Mercies I humbly begg of thee that thou wouldest by this propitiatory Sacrifice have mercy on us poor sinners of whom I am the chiefest and grant us grace to be heartily sorrowful for our sins past purely for thy Love sake and to make a firm resolution to dye rather than commit them again as also to confess them to our Ghostly Father at the first Opportunity Short Elevation BUT because O Lord no actions are meritorious in thy sight which are not done to thy honour and glory I here dedicate to thy Honour and Glory all my Actions Words and Thoughts desiring to serve thee purely that at last I may live with thee P. World without end C. Amen P. Let us Pray Being admonished by wholsome precepts and taught by divine Institution we dare confidently say Our Father which art in Heaven hallowed be thy name thy Kingdom come thy Will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven give us this day our dayly Bread and forgive us our Trespasses as we forgive others their Trespasses against us And lead us not into Temptation C. But deliver us from evil P. Amen ' Thou hast done all things well O Lord All things which thou hast made are very good Sin onely which is nothing and which thou knowest not is none of thy Invention but the Divels and therefore is Evil and the only true Evil. Free us but O Lord from this Evil and no other Evil can hurt us This is the mother-evil the evil of evils the cause of Death of Sickness of Misery of Poverty No adversity can dominere over us if no iniquity dominere in us Thou O Lord who art the Author of life canst only free us from this Author of death Free us then I beseech thee O Lord from the evil of Sin that we may never dye eternally but live and praise thee P. World without end C. Amen P. The peace of our Lord be always with you C. And with thy spirit Agnus Dei. P. Lamb of God who takest away the Sins of the World have mercy upon us Lamb of God who takest away the Sins of the World hear us Lamb of God who takest away the Sins of the World Grant us peace Most Merciful and sweet Saviour seeing thou art the Mediator betwixt God and Man the prince of Peace who pacifyes all things in Heaven and Earth pacify I beseech thee thy Father angry against us Sinners Make also I beseech thee our peace with our Adversary upon Earth Our Adversary O Lord is thy Law it resists our Appetytes gainsays our Desires crosses our Wills When we desire and covet unlawful things thy Law opposes us saying Thou shalt not covet thy Neighbours Goods thou shalt not kill thou shalt not steal c. And becomes our Adversary But seeing O Lord it is for our good that thy Law opposes us and that thy Law is holy and immaculate