Wash me throughly from mine iniquity: and cleanse me from my fin. For I acknowledge mine iniquity: and my fin is ever before me. Against Thee only have I finned, and done evil before Thee: that Thou mayest be juftified in thy sayings, and overcome when Thou art judged. For behold, I was conceived in iniquities : and in fin hath my mother conceived me. ings: then shall they lay young bullocks upon thine altar. Glory be to The Father, and to The Son: and to The Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be world without end. Amen. But lo, Thou hast loved truth: the uncertain and hidden things of thy wisdom S Thou hast manifested to me. Thou shalt sprinkle me with hyffop, and I shall be cleansed: Thou shalt wash me, and I shall be made whiter than fnow. To my hearing Thou shalt give joy and gladness: and the bones which are humbled shall rejoice. Turn Thy face away from my fins: and blot out all my misdeeds. Create in me a clean heart, O God: and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy face: and take not Thy Holy Spirit from me. Reftore to me the joy of thy salvation: and stablish me with thy Chief Spirit. I will teach the wicked thy ways: and the impious shall be converted unto Thee. Deliver me from blood guiltiness, O God, The God of my salvation: and my tongue shall rejoice in thy righteousness. O Lord, Thou shalt open my lips: and my mouth shall shew forth Thy praise. For if Thou hadst defired facrifice I would have given it: but Thou wilt not be delighted with burnt-offerings. The facrifice of God is a troubled spirit: and a contrite and humbled heart, O God, shalt Thou not despise. Do kindly, O Lord, in thy good pleafure unto Syon: that the walls of Jerufalem may be built. Then shalt Thou accept the sacrifice of righteousness, oblations, and burnt-offer XX Antiphon. AVE mercy upon me, O God. P/. The fame. + [O God in Trinity, Name in effable, who purifiest the heart of man from fin, and makest it more white than snow, pour down upon us the abundance of thy mercy; renew, we beseech Thee, Thy Holy Spirit within us, that we may shew forth thy praise, and, strengthened by thy especial grace, may be worthy of obtaining rest in the eternal manfions of the Heavenly Jerufalem, through our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.] PSALM V. [To the end for Her who obtains the inheritance. A Pfalm of David. A Pfalm for Prayer. Pertains to the Church which follows the heirship of the New Testament, as the title proves.] Verba mea auribus. IVE ear unto my words, Hearken unto the voice of my prayer: my King and my God. For unto Thee will I make my prayer, O Lord!: early in the morning shalt Thou hear my voice. Early in the morning will I stand before Thee, and will look: for Thou art not a God that haft pleasure in wickedness. Neither shall any evil man dwell nigh Thee: nor shall the unrighteous abide in thy fight. Thou hast hated all them that work iniquity: Thou shalt destroy all them that speak leafing. The Lord will abhor the blood-thirsty and deceitful man: but as for me, in the multitude of thy mercy, I will come into thy House: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy Holy Temple. O Lord, lead me in thy righteousness, because of mine enemies: direct my way before thy face. For there is no truth in their mouth: their heart is vain. Antiphon. GOD, Thou art my God: to Thee, from day-break, do I watch. Their throat is an open fepulchre, with their tongues they have behaved deceit- PS. Oioueae." fully: judge Thou them, O God. Let them perish through their own imaginations; caft them out in the multitude of their impieties: for they have angered Thee, O Lord. And let all them that put their truft in Thee rejoice: they shall ever be giving of thanks, and Thou shalt dwell in them. All they that love Thy Name shall glory in Thee: for Thou wilt bless the righteous. O Lord, as with the shield of thy good pleafure: Thou haft crowned us. Antiphon. ON-SI-DER my crying, O Lord. PS. Oioueae. [Gracious Lord, Who apprehendest the fighing of a contrite heart before it be uttered; make us, we befeech Thee, the temple of The Holy Spirit, that we may be worthy to be defended by the shield of thy celestial goodness, through our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.] PSALM LXII. [A Pfalm of David when he was in the defert of Idumea. A Morning Pfalm for meditation. This Pfalm relates to those who are leaving the darkness of ignorance, and defiring Christ.] Deus, Deus meus. O GOD, Thou art my God: to Thee from day-break do I watch. My foul hath thirsted for Thee: my flesh, how often! after Thee; In a land defert, pathless, and where no water is: so in the Holy Place have I appeared before Thee, that I might behold thy power and glory. For thy mercy is better than life: my lips shall praise Thee. So will I bless Thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in Thy Name. My foul shall be fatisfied even as it were with marrow and fatness: and my mouth shall praise Thee with lips of gladness. So did I remember Thee upon my bed: in the morning I will meditate upon Thee, because Thou hast been my helper. And in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice; my foul longeth after Thee: thy right hand hath upholden me. But in vain have they fought after my foul; they shall go into the lower parts of When the Antiphon confifts of the fame words as the beginning of the Pfalm they are not repeated a fecond time; but, the Hebdomadary having intoned the Antiphon as part of the first verse, the Choir proceed with the reft of the verfe and Pfalm in the ordinary tone. From the Rubrics for Advent. the Earth: they shall be delivered into the hand of the sword; they shall be a portion for foxes. But the king shall rejoice in God; all they that swear by Him shall be commended: for the mouth of them that speak wickedness is stopped. [Author of Light! Eternal God! do Thou pour everlasting radiance upon us, who, at day-break, watch for Thee; so that our lips may praise Thee, our life bless Thee, our morning meditations glorify Thee, through Christ our Lord. Amen.] As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be : world without end. Amen. Antiphon. HY wrath is turned away, O Lord, and Thou hast comforted me. PS. I will give thanks unto Thee. Ο Antiphon. PRAISE The Lord from the Heavens. A - men. forted me. Confitebor Tibi. WILL give thanks unto Thee, O Lord, for Thou wast angry with me: thy wrath is turned away, and Thou haft com Behold, God is my Saviour: I will deal trustfully, and will not fear. For The Lord is my strength and my praise: and He is become my Salvation. Ye shall draw waters with joy out of The Saviour's fountains: and ye shall say in that day, Give praise to The Lord, and call upon His Name. Make known his designs among the people: remember that His Name is very high. Sing ye unto The Lord, for He hath done excellent things: tell this forth in all the Earth. Exult and give praise, O habitation of Syon: for great in the midst of thee is The Holy One of Ifrael. Glory be to The Father, and to The Son: and to The Holy Ghost; Oioueae. PSALM CXLVIII. [Alleluya. Lauds. The voice of all things created in praise of Christ.] Laudate Dominum de Calis. PRAISE The Lord from the Heavens: praise Him in the heighths. Praise Him, all ye Angels of His: praise Him all his Hosts. Praise Him, Sun and Moon: praise Him, all ye Stars and Light. Praise Him, ye Heaven of Heavens: and let all waters that are above the Heavens, praise The Name of The Lord. For He spake the word, and they were made: He commanded, and they were created. He hath established them for ever, and for ever and ever: He hath made a law; and it shall not pass away. Praise The Lord from the Earth: ye dragons, and all deeps; Fire, hail, snow, ice, wind of storms: which fulfil his word; Mountains and all hills: fruitful trees and all cedars; Beasts and all cattle: creeping things and winged fowls; Kings of the Earth and all people: princes and all judges of the world; Young men and virgins, old men with youths, praise The Name of The Lord: for His Name only is exalted. His praise is above Heaven and Earth : and He hath exalted the horn of his people. A Hymn from all his faints: from the children of Ifrael, even the people that draweth nigh unto Him. [Most High God! exalted in power, Almighty in greatness! grant to us thy fervants, that, as those things which we behold were created at thy command, so those which Thou hast commanded we may keep and perform, through our Lord Jesus Chrift. Amen.] mouth: and two-edged swords in their hands. To execute vengeance upon the nations: rebukes against the people. To bind their kings with fetters: and their nobles with manacles of iron. To execute upon them the judgement written: this glory have all his faints. [O God, The Author of all goodness, Who with all loving-kindness dost raise up those who humbly confefs Thee: grant, we beseech Thee, that as Thou doft cause thy faints to be exalted in thy Glory, fo Thou wouldest vouchsafe to keep thy present Church unpolluted by all the pleasures of this world, through our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.] PSALM CL. [Alleluya Lauds. Every melody of Harp, Trumpet, Pfaltery, Drum, Organs, Cymbals, to be spiritually interpreted to praise God.] Laudate Dominum in fanctis. O PRAISE God in his Holiness: praife Him in the firmament of his power. Praise Him in his mighty acts: praise Him according to the multitude of his greatness. Praise Him with the found of the trumpet: praise Him upon the psaltery and harp. Praise Him in the timbrel and Choir: praise Him upon strings and organs. Praise Him upon the well-tuned cymbals, praise Him upon the cymbals of rejoicing: let every thing that hath breath, praise The Lord. Glory be to The Father, and to The Son and to The Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be world without end. Amen. [O most sweet melody of our harmony! Thou who commandest us to exercise the music of our fouls at one time in strains of joy, at another time in founds of mourning! grant, we befeech Thee, O Lord, that we, who now fing in concert to Thee in this spiritual Choir, may learn to be worthy of praising Thee in the fellowship of the faints, with everlasting music and Choirs, through Chrift our Lord. Amen.] CHAPTER. W 1 Cor. xvi. ATCH ye and pray; stand things be done with charity. This Chapter is faid on all week-days at Lauds, from the First Sunday after the Octave of The Epiphany, up to Wednesday the Head of The Fast; and from the First Sunday after Trinity to The Advent of The Lord, whenever it is the ordinary week-day Service. ( From the First Sunday after THE OCTAVE OF THE EPIPHANY to QUADRAGESIMA, whenever it is the ordinary Monday Service, the following Hymn is faid at LAUDS. HYMNUS. diem il-lu - mi nans! SPLENDOR Paternæ Gloriæ! Verusque Sol! illabere, Votis vocemus Te Patrem, Informet actus strenuos: from Light bring forth; Light of the light! light's lustrous Spring! Thou Day the day il-lu-mi-ning! THOU Brightness of Thy Father's Worth! Who doft the light from Light bring forth; Light of the light! light's lustrous Spring! Thou Day the day illumining! Defcend, Thou Very Sun Divine! Father! to Thee we pay the vow; Direct our words and acts aright: Z |