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
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
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