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A77441
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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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1685
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Wing B4604A; ESTC R42665
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Inspire I beseech thee into our rebellious Wills a pompt Obedience unto thy sacred Commandements and grant us grace to agree with this our Adversary quickly whiles we are in the way with him least our Adversary deliver us to the Judge and the Judge deliver us to the Officer and we be cast into Prison In fine grant Peace I beseech thee amongst Christian Princes and faithful Believers that being in perfect Charity with one another we may the more worthily come unto the sacred Communion Domine non sum dignus P. O Lord I am not worthy that thou shouldst enter under my Roofe but speak the word only and my Soul shall be cured O Lord I am not worthy c. O Lord I am not worthy c. The fourth part from the Communion to the end Consummation THough I am not worthy O my sweet Saviour to receive thee really as the Priest here doth yet I have a longing desire to receive thee into my Soul by Faith Love and Devotion But before I do it behold me here O Lord extreamly sorrowful for all my Sins past purely for thy loves sake with a firm resolution to correct them and confess them Come then come my sweet Saviour into my Soul by thy holy Presence grace and Divinity and dwell there for ever But as thou passest O Lord into my Soul through my Body I beseech thee sanctify also my whole Body and make it a fit Temple for the Holy Ghost Banish from it O Lord all unlawful Motions and Desires purge it from all rust and dust of worldly Vanities cleanse it from all corruption of Vices And as at thy entering into Egypt in thy tender Infancy when thou fleddest the Persecution of Herod all the Statues there of false Gods fell to the Ground and were broken so grant I beseech thee O Lord that at thy entering into my Body and Soul all my Vices and Imperfections may vanish and give place to thee I confess my Body is but too homely a house to lodge so great a PersOn in but thou who refusest not antiently to lodge in a Srable wilt not refuse to enter into my house I am not ignorant how great a sinner I have bin yet I remember also thou refuest not to enter into the house of the Princ of Publicans a prime sinner Zacheus Enter then O Lord into my House as into the House of another Zacheus upon Condition that thou dost but give a blessing unto my soul as thou didst unto the House of Zacheus and say unto me as thou saidest to him This day Salvation is wrought unto this House What shall I give to thee O Lord for all the favours which thou hast done unto me Behold sweet Saviour seeing thou hast done mee the favour to enter into my House I here offer unto thee the doores and keys thereof to wit my five Senses I consecrate therefore unto thee henceforth my eyes and purpose to keep them chast and innocent I will never any more let them gaze curiously and freely upon dangerous and tempting Objects nor let them wander distractedly in Churches and in time of Prayer Henceforth also I consecrate unto thee my tongue and resolve never to employ it in swearing cursing backbiting unclean and lewd jests or hidden knavish speeches And seeing it is my tongue by which I receive and convey into my stomack the blessed Sacrament of the Altar in the Holy Communion that tongue that had been so happily employed and so honoured by God shall never be employed again in Sin and be dipped in my Neighbours Blood by detraction In fine O Lord I consecrate my whole Body unto thee as a sacred place dedicated to thy Divine Majesty and which I purpose firmly never to defile with any sin whatsoever P. Our Lord be with you C. And with thy Spirit P. Let us pray I beseech thee gracious Lord to grant me this request that what here I have promised by words I may always perform by my deeds Through our Lord JESUS CHRIST thy Son who lives and reigns with thee in the bnity of the Holy Ghost P. World without end C. Amen P. Our Lord be with you C. And with thy Spirit P. Go the Mass is said C. Thanks be to God P. Almingty God the Father Son and Holy Ghost bless and keep you C. Amen P. Our Lord be with you C. And with thy spirit P. The beginning of the holy Ghospel according to St. John C. Glory be to God The Ghospel of St. John IN the beginning was the word and the word was with God and God was the word This was in the beginning with God All things were made by him and without him was made nothing That which was made in him was life and the life was the light of men and the light shines in darkness and the darkness did not comprehend it There was a man sent from God whose name was John This man came for testimony to give testimony of the light that all might believe through him He was not the light but to give testimony of the light It was the true light which lightnes every man that comes into this world He was in the world and the world was made by him and the world knew him not He came into his own and his own received him not But as many as received him he gave them power to be made the Sons of God to those that beleive in his name Who not of Blood nor of the will of the Flesh nor of the will of Man but of God are born AND THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH and dwelt in us and we saw the Glory of him glory as it were of the only begotten of the Father full of grace and Verity C. Thanks be to God A Prayer to be said after Mass I Render to thee O sacred Trinity most humble thanks for vouchsafeing me the gracious Favour to assist at this divine Sacrifice of the Mass whereof so many are deprived who would have made much better use of it I humbly crave Pardon most loving and merciful God for all the distractions irreverences and dissipasions of my wandring Spirit committed in the time thereof And for my dear Saviours sake most humbly beseech thee that those infinite Merits of his bitter Passion and most precious Blood shed for my redemption and sacrific'd to thee in remission of the sins of the World may render me worthy to be made partaker of thos divine and adorable Holy Misteries here so truly represented in this most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and that with final repentance I may dye in thy grace Amen An humble Adoration to our Blessed Lord Jesus in the Holy Sacrament of his precious Body O My most Glorious Lord God and Saviour CHRIST JESVS true god and true Man most Holy worthy pure and PRECIOVS SACRIFICE of the most high God living Bread and source of Eternal Life with all my Heart Soul Forces and Affections I humbly worship and adore thy SOVERAIGN