They that repay evil things for good did back bite me because I followed goodnesse Forsake me not O Lord my God depart not from me Incline unto my helpe O Lord God of my salvation Glory be to the Father c. Psalme 50. HAve mercy on me O God according to thy great mercy And according to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my iniquities Wash me hencefourth from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin Because I doe know my iniquity and my sin is alwayes against me To thee only have I sinned and have donne evill before thee that thou maist be justified in thy words and maist overcome when thou art judged For behould I was conceived in iniquities and my mother conceived me in sin For behould thou hast loved truth the uncertaine and hidden things of thy wisdome thou hast made manifest to me Thou shalt sprincle me with hysope and I shall be cleansed thou shalst wash me and I shall be made whiter then snow To my hearing thou shalst give joy and gladnesse and humbled harts shall rejoyce Turne away thy face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities Create a cleane hart in me O God and renew a right spirit in my bowels Cast me not away from thy face and thy holy spirit take not away from me Render unto me the joy of thy salvation and confirme me with a principall spirit I will teach the unjust thy wayes and the impious shall be converted unto thee Deliver me from blouds O God the God of my salvation and my tongue shall exalt thy justice Thou O Lord shalt open my lips and my mouth shall declare thy praise Because if thou wouldest have had sacrifice I had verily given it with whole-burnt-offerings thou wilt not be delighted A sacrifice to God is an afflicted spirit a contrite and humble hart O God thou wilst not dispise Deale favorably O Lord in thy good will with Syon and let the walls of Hierusalem be built up Then shalt thou accept sacrifice of justice oblations and whole-burnt-offerings then shall they lay calves upon thine altar Glory be to the Father c. Psalme 101. O Lord heare my prayer and let my cry come unto thee Turne not away thy face from me in what day soever I am in tribulation incline thine eare to me In what day soever I shal call upon thee heare me speedily For my dayes have vanished as smoke and my bones are withered as a dry-burnt fire-brand I am smitten as grasse and my hart is withered for I have forgotten to eate my bread For the voyce of my groning my bonne hath cleaved to my flesh I am become like a pelican of the wildernesse I am become as a night raven in the house I have watched and am become as a sparow solitary in the house toppe All the day did my ennemies upbraide me and they that praised me sware against me For I did eate ashes as bread and mingled my drink with weeping At the face of the wrath of thy indignation for that lifting me up thou hast throwne me downe My dayes have declined as a shadow I am withered as grasse But thou O Lord endurest for ever and thy memoriall in generation and generation Thou rising up shalt have mercy on Syon for the tyme is come Because the stones thereof have pleased thy servants and they shall have pitty on the earth thereof And the Gentils shall feare thy name O Lord and all the Kings of the Earth thy glory For our Lord hath builded Syon and he shall be seene in his glory He hath had respect to the prayer of the humble and he hath not dispised their petition Let these things be written in an other generation and the people that shall be created shall praise our lord Because he hath looked fourth from his high holy place our Lord from Heaven hath looked upon the earth That he might heare the gronings of the fettered that he might loose the children of them that are flayne That they may shew fourth the name of our Lord in Syon and his prayse in Hierusalem In the assembling of the people togeather in one and kings to serve our Lord. He answered him in the way of his strength shew me the fewnesse of my dayes Call me not back in the halfe of my dayes thy yeares are unto generation and generation In the beginning O Lord thou hast founded the earth and the Heavens are the workes of thy hands They shall perish but thou art permanent and they shall all wax old as a garment And as a vesture thou shalst change them and they shall be changed but thou art the selfe same and thy yeares shall not faile The children of thy servants shall inhabit and their seede shall be directed for ever Glory be to the Father c. Psalme 129. FRom the depthes I have cryed to thee O Lord Lord heare my cry Let thine eares be intent to the voyce of my petition If thou shalt observe iniquities O Lord Lord who shall sustayne it Because with thee there is propitiation and for thy law I have expected thee O Lord. My soule hath expected in his word my soule hath hoped in our Lord. From the morning watch even until night let Israel hope in our Lord. Because with our Lord there is mercy and with him plentifull redemption And he shall redeeme Israel from all his iniquities Glory be to the Father c. Psalem 142. LOrd heare my prayer with thine eares receive my petition in thy truth heare me in thy justice And enter not into judgment with thy servant because no man living shall be justifi'd in thy sight Because the enemie hath persecuted my soule he hath humbled my life in the Earth He hath set me in obscure places as the dead of the world and my spirit is in anguish upon me with in me my hart is troubled I was mindfull of old dayes I have meditated in all thy workes in the facts of thy hands did I meditate I have stretched forth my hand to thee my soule is as earth without water unto thee Heare me quickly O Lord my spirit hath fainted Turne not away thy face from me and I shall be like to them that descend into the lake Make me heare thy mercy in the morning because I have hoped in thee Make the way knowne to me wherein I may walke because I have lifted up my soule to thee Deliver me from mine enemies O Lord to thee I have fled teach me to doe thy will because thou art my God Thy good spirit will conduct me into the right way for thy names sake O Lord thou wilt quicken me in thy equity Thou wilst bring forth my soule out of tribulation and in thy mercy thou wilst destroy mine enemies And thou wilst destroy all that afflict my soule because I am thy servant Glory be to the Father c. The Antiphone Remenber not O Lord our or our Parents offences Neither take
remooving the booke THe Epistle is reade on the right hand of the Altar to shew that the jewes were the elect people of God and to whom the Gospel first was preached But they repelling the same were justly abandon'd by God and that blessing was transferd to the Gentils as is represented to us by carrying the booke to the other side of the altar where the Gospell is reade Crave here humbly a true docil and humble spirit to admitt good counsell and Gods divine inspirations and to be strengthned by his holy grace to put them in execution At the Graduel and Tract IN the Graduel by the Alleluyas we give praise and joyfull thanksgiving to God for his so happily calling us in the incredulous jewes place But in the penitentiall dayes of lent advent c. in stead of Alleluya is said the Tract in a more mournfull tune as craving pardon for our sins For which we are here to stirr up harty sorrow and contrition At the Gospel THe Priest saying Dominus vobiscum doth advertise the people to raise up their harts and to harken with good attention and devotiō to those sacred words which were uttered by the divine mouth of Jesus Christ and recorded by his holy Evangelists Crave divine grace to illuminate your understanding and to inflame your will wherby the better to put in execution what we are either taught or commanded to doe At the Creed HEre we must make a firme act to beleeve whatsoever hath been revealed to Christs true Catholick Church and is by her so proposed to us to be beleeved And chiefly those blessed Mysteries which are represented in the holy sacrifice of the Masse Humbly beseeching Gods grace that we may never yeald to any temptation against the same And to detest all cursed Schisme and Heresy At the Offertory AT this oblation of the bread and wyne admyre the infinit humility and goodnesse of Jesus Christ who for our sakes vouchsafed to place his precious body and blood under the consecrated species of so contemptible meane creatures bread and wyne The mingling wyne with a little water doth shew the intimate union of Gods divinity represented by the wyne with our humanity signifid by that little water and simple element Crave humbly here so united a hart to Gods divine will as that with S. Paul you may truly say I live now not I but Iesus Christ doth live in me At the Lavatory PIlate washt his hands to testify before the people his not being guilty of Christs innocent blood But our consciences stayned with many crymes have need to be washed by the water of true compunction for our sins And for that end we must indevour to frame a holy act of Contrition that so we may appeare with greater innocency at the consecration before this our souveraine judge At Orate fratres THe Priest makes here a second oblation of that sacrifice to the B. Trinity in memory of the principall mysteries of Jesus Christ as also in honour of his chiefest Saints And for the better obtayning grace to performe that holy function he turnes to the people desiring them to ioyne their prayers with his therby to render the oblation of that their common sacrifice more gratefull to God both for him and themselves Which with a fervent ejaculation we must humbly crave At the ensving secret BY the ensving private prayer or secret as the Church doth call it we must humbly beseech Almighty God to produce in our soules the effect of all those good thoughts which he hath given us for our better preparation to appeare more worthily in his divine presence at that neere approaching consecration At the Preface THe Preface is so called as being the entrance to the Canon of the Masse and a generall preparation to that holy sacrifice The Priest there exhorting the people to raise up their harts to God with thanks-giving for all his benefits accompaniing the Angels Cherubins and Seraphins in adoring and praising him incessantly with that Angelicall himne of holy holy holy Lord God of Sabaoth For in loving adoring and Praising the B. Trinity consists the Saints Beatitude and endlesse felicity At Te igitur c. where the Canon of the Masse begins HEre begins the Canon and chiefe part of the Masse pronounced with a low voyce to shew the greater reverence and veneration to that most sacred and neere approaching act of consecration Which ceremony beares resemblance with that of the Priests of the ancient law who entring into the Sancta Sanctorum were covered with a vaile and were neither to be heard nor seene Wherby we are advertised that by private recollection with-drawing our harts from all worldly cogitations we should unite our selves closely to God with pious contemplation upon those divine and holy mysteries At the first Memento IN this Memento we must pray for the catholike Church For its chiefe Pastor For our king and Prelate For peace amongst Christian Princes For our kindred friends benefactors enemies and for all for whom we are oblidged to pray That we being thus united to the living by Charity and by craving likewise the intercession of those powerfull Advocates Gods chiefe Saints in Heaven we may testify our communion both with the Militant and Triumphant Church At Hanc igitur oblationem THese five crosses renew in us the memory of those cruell torments which our divine Redeemer did suffer in all his five senses As also the memory of his five precious wounds By the merits where of we must humbly crave his grace that we never willfully offend him grievously by any of our five senses hereafter At the consecration and elevation THe Priest here according to the command and example of Jesus Christ blesseth and consecrateth the bread and wyne in the self same manner as he performed it in the institution of this divine mystery and commanded his Apostles and their successors to doe the same He elevateth those consecrated species offering Jesus Christ to his Eternall Father as he once did offer himselfe upon mount Calvary for all the sins of the world Here making an act of firme faith of the reall presence of Jesus Christ we must humbly crave his grace that as he vouchsafed to dye upon the crosse for us so that we for his sake may cheerefully endure all crosses and afflictions whatsoever as from the loving correction of his fatherly hand for our innumerable sins At the second Memento HEre according to the continuall custome of the Church we must offer this holy sacrifice for the faithfull soules departed this mortall life yet remayning in Purgatory And for such in particular as we finde our selves to be obliged Concluding as before with a devout addresse to Gods blessed Saints to pray for them and us Humbly beseeching his divine Majesty to receive us into their glorious society by the merits of Jesus Christ our Lord and loving Saviour At Nobis quoque Peccatoribus THe good thiefe by his happy repentance applying the sacred
passion of our divine Redeemer Jesus and by the merits and intercession of the glorious Virgin Mary and of all the blessed Saints and Angels Amen A prayer to demand heavenly vertues and good life GRant vnto me O mercifull God ardently to desire such things as are pleasing unto thee prudently to accomplish them to the praise and glory of thy namne Grant me O Lord my God that I taâ—le not betwixt prosperity and adversity that in the former I be not too much puffed up nor in the latter too much dejected that I may joy or sorrow at nothing but at what leadeth unto thee or draweth away from thee that I covet to please none nor feare to displease any but only thee Let all transitory things O Lord become vile unto me and let all that is pleasing to thee be for thy sake most deare into me Let that joy be but teadious to me which is without thee and let me desire nothing out of thee Let that labour delight me O Lord which is for thee and let all ease be unpleasing to me which is without thee Make me O Lord obedient without contradiction poore without murmuring chast without corruption patient without repining humble without basenesse merry without dissolution sad without dejection quick without levity fearefull without despaire true without presumption to correct with discretion to edify without dissimulation Grant me O Lord my God an understanding knowing thee a diligence seeking thee a wisdome that may finde thee out a conversation pleasing to thee a perseverance faithfully expecting thee and a confidence finally embracing thee to be pearced with thy paines through penance to make use of thy benefits to thy glory and my owne souls good and at length by thy grace to enjoy thy glory there to praise and magnify thee for ever and ever Amen A prayer of praise of thankesgiving and of magnifying God ALmighty and most mercifull Father unto thee all the heavenly company of the celestial citty doe incessanty with due reverence sing continually glory and everlasting praise Thee O Lord al Saints and holy soules doe laud and magnify with condigne honour and as to whom all praise and glory is most due nor is there any creature that can sufficiently according to thy worthlinesse give sufficient praise to thee For thou art that unspeakable incomprehensible and everlasting goodnesse Thou O Lord hast made me and by the merits of the bitter passion of thy most blessed sonne which he vouchsafed to suffer for mans salvation restored me to grace and favour To thee only is due all laud and honour O souveraine Lord I miserable wretch a creature of thy making a silly worme of the earth have a good will to praise and magnify thee with all my hart and soule but without thy speciall grace I am but faint and wonderfull weak Wherfore I come to thee my God my life my strength my hope and only comfort to crave thy mercy and grace to give me power to praise and honour thee and that all I doe may be pleasing and acceptable unto thee Grant me the light of thy grace that my mouth may speake and my hart studie thy glory and my tongue may only be employd in the song of land and praise to thee But because all praise in a sinners mouth is base and vile and that I manifouldly have offended with my lips thou therfore cleanse ô divine Jesu my hart from the foule silth of sin sanctify me most powerfull Lord and Saviour and make me worthy to magnify thee Let thy divine sweetnesse wholy possesse my mind and feed my soule with the delight of relestiall cogitations Separate it O Lord from the love of all visible things and incline it to the studie and meditation of invisible O Almighty God inspire thou my hart that I may continually give thankes and honour unto thee Grant me grace that in this pilgrimage and vale of misery I may so praise thee that through thy grace and mercy I may be associated to their blessed Fellowship who see thee everlastingly and singe praises to thee world without end Amen A prayer of thankes-giving and of craving divine favour O Most mercifull Lord Jesus in remembrance of thy blessed Jncarnation death passion wounds sorrowes griefes teares and drops of thy most precious blood and in remembrance of thy infinit love to Man and in the union of that oblation and holy sacrifice by which thou didst offer thy selfe on the Altar of the Crosse I doe offer my selfe to thy praise and glory humbly beseeching thee to give to the living grace to the deceased mercy and rest and to us all the true spirit of repentance and life everlasting And I commend unto thee O Lord my souleand body most humbly beseeching thee to have mercy on me and upon all those for whom either by nature friendship or by gratitude I am bound to pray and in particular for N. N. c. I most humbly render to thee due thankes O my Lord God and mercifull Father for that thou didst vouchsafe to send thy only deare soune Jesus into this world to dye for Man the reproachfull death of the Crosse to the end that he might offer himselfe to thee a most pure holy and acceptable sacrifice of our sins and purge therby our conscience fro all its foule staynes of impiety By this thy excessive and infinit love and by those most cruell torments of thy owne sonne our Saviour we most humbly beseech thee to preserve in us continually those divine fruits of our Redemption and make us also daily to die with him to the world and to be crucifid to the lusts and desires of the flesh and to live to thee only all our life so that finally we may raigne with him eternally where thou with the Holy Gost livest one true and eternal God for ever and ever Amen A prayer to all the Saints ALI haile yee holy and most glorious Saints of God who now have past the dangerous sea of this mortality and have attaind to the secure haven of everlasting rest and security and deserved to be made now fellowes and partakers of the heavenly joyes being now without care for your selves be yee carefull for us Whouchsafe to be our advocats and governours Pray unto God for us that by your intercession and merits we may in this life obtayne grace and at the houre of death our soules departing in the happy state of grace may arrive at the safe port of eternall glory where you with the glorious Trinity doe raigne world without end Amen A prayer to all the Angels Al haile yee blessed Angelical spirits who with celestial melody doe praise and glorify our omnipotent Lord and in his glorious presence doe continually rejoyce have compassion on me a poore wretch And tho especially O holy Angel the keeper and guardien of my soule and body unto whom by Gods special commandement I am committed I beseech thee to discharge that office towards me with