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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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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
letter brought unto thee from S. Peter or S. Paul in Heaven by the hands of some Angel and chuse out the most pious Sentences of it to ruminate upon all that day In the end say C. God be thanked Gradual O Lord how sweet are these words of this Epistle to my Ears above all Musick in the World Let thy Voice and the Words of thy Apostles always sound in my ears P. Our Lord be with you C. And with thy Spirit P. The beginning of the Gospel according to S. Matthew or S. Mark Luke or John C. Glory be to thee O Lord. Gospel REad the Gospel in the Rheims Testament with leave stand up to shew that thou wilt stand stedfastly in the Faith of the Gospel and Catholick Church Ponder well the words of the Gospel seeing they either are our Saviours one words or else speak of some rare Action of our Saviour worthy of thy attention and imitation In the end say C. Praise be to thee O Lord. Creed P. I believe in one God the Father Almighty maker of Heaven and Earth and of all things visible and invisible and in our Lord Jesus Christ the only begotten Son of God born of his Father before all Worlds God of God Light of Light true God begotten not made consubstantial to the Father by whom all things were made who for us Men and for our Salvation came down from Heaven and was incarnated by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary and was made Man was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate suffred and was buried and the third day he arose again according to the Scriptures and ascended into Heaven and sittes on the right hand of the Father And he shall me again with glory to judge both the quick and the dead of whose Kingdome there shall be no end And in the Holy Ghost the Lord and life giver who proceeds from the Father and the Son who with the Father and the Son together is adored and glorified who spake by the Prophets And one Holy Catholick and Apostolick Church I confess one Baptisme for the remission of sins And I expect the Resurrection of the dead and life of the World to come Amen P. Our Lord be with you C. And with thy Spirit The second Part from the Offertory to the Consecration Offertory O Lord I humbly and firmly believe all these articles of our holy Faith and not only these but all the other also which Holy Church propose to us to be believed and am prepared in mind and most willing to endure loss of lands fortunes and of life it self rather than deny the least point of the Catholick Faith O heavenly Father I offer unto thee together with the Priest the immaculate Sacrifice for my sins and the sins of the whole World Accept I beseech thee of this my offering and by the vertue of this holy Sacrifice apply unto us O Lord the merits and value of the great Sacrifice of the Cross which thy dear Son offered unto thee for us that being freed from Sin we may serve thee more worthily Mingle O my sweet Saviour as thou hadst Water and Blood mingled together in thy sacred side water with my wine that is temper O Lord my prosperity and adversity so together that I neither be puffed up with prosperity nor oppressed with adversity I offer unto thee O Lord this holy offering of the Chalice and together with it I offer unto thy divine honour and glory my life my thoughts and deeds desiring that they may all be spent this day and all the days of my life in thy holy service the advancement of thy name and the edifying of others Grant me grace O Lord I beseech thee to wash my hands amongst Innocent men that is to seek out and delight in innocent and civil Company to converse with vertuous people to detest and wash my hands of those who offend thee in uncil Actions unclean Discourse uncharitable Detractions I am too much a Christian to delight in the company of these WHO DENY THEE BY THEIR DEEDS I will be as far from them as they are far from vertue Thou washedst me once O Lord in Baptisme from original Sin WASH ME YET MORE AND MORE even from actual Sin it self too that being purged from all Sin I may render unto thee a more pure and perfect service Orate Fratres P. Pray Brethren C. Our Lord receive this Sacrifice from thy hands to the praise and glory of his Name to our profit also and to the profit of his Catholick Church P. Amen Be merciful I beseech thee O Lord unto us poor sinners Judge us not according to thy Justice but according to thy mercy I confess we have failed shamefully yet consider thy Son is our Advocate we begg confidently Grant then O Lord that we may live vertuously in this World and be saved in the next Have mercy also I beseech thee upon our Enemies turn from them all harm and losses and give us grace to love them sincerely visit them kindly speak of them charitably that so we may become Children of thee our heavenly Father and having imitated thee here below reign with thee in heaven P. World without end C. Amen P. Our Lord be with you C. And with thy spirit P. Lift up thy heart C. We have to God P. Let us give thanks to our Lord God C. It 's meet and sitting I confess O Lord it 's fitting and meet that we should always and in all places give thee thanks and praise thy name seeing we were created only to succeed in the places of the fallen Angels and to inherit their Office which was to praise thee I beseech thee then O Lord give us grace to imitate the holy Angels in purity of life and promptness in executing thy holy will Grant us dear Father such circumspection in our words that we may never prophane with idle and lewd speeches our mouths which were created to sing with the holy Angels in heaven that sacred and eternal Hymne Holy Holy Holy Almighty and merciful Lord I beseech thee receive his Holy Sacrifice which I offer here together with the Priest for the Necessities of the Holy Catholick Church which I beseech thee so to prosper and direct in this age of Errors that she may reduce all misbelievers into the way of Verity and all Believers into the way of Piety and Salvation I offer it also O Lord for the good of our Holy Father P. N. and our most reverend Bishop N. and all other Superiors and Pastors and seeing thy dear Son assured us that whosoever hears them hears him and whosoever contemns them contemns him I beseech thee O Lord take from us all conrempt of these thy Holy substitutes and grant us grace so to follow their directions here below that we may enjoy in the next World the Society of our deare Saviour the Bishop of our Souls MEMENTO I. BE mindful I beseech thee O Lord of thy servants and of