countenance: let thine eyes behold the things that are equal. Thou haft proved mine heart, and visited it in the night season: Thou haft tried me with fire, and iniquity was not found in me. That my mouth speak not the works of men: because of the words of thy lips, I have kept hard ways. Perfect my goings in thy paths: that my footsteps be not moved. I have called, O God, for Thou heardeft me: incline thine ear to me, and hearken unto my words. Magnify thy loving-kindness : Who faveft them that trust in Thee. From fuch as resist thy right hand pre serve me: as the apple of an eye, Defend me under the shadow of thy After the Octave of The Epiphany, up to wings : from the face of the ungodly that have afflicted me. are Mine enemies have compassed round my inclosed in their own fat: foul, they and their mouth hath spoken proud things. Cafting me forth, now have they compaffed me: they have purposed to cast their eyes down to the ground. They have laid hold on me like as a lion prepared for his prey: and as it were a lion's whelp lurking in secret places. Arife, O Lord, disappoint him and supplant him: deliver my foul from the ungodly; the sword of thine from the enemies of thy hand. O Lord, from the few of the land, divide them in their life: with thy hid treasure is their belly filled. They are fulfilled with children: and have left the rest of their substance for their babes. But as for me, in righteousness will I appear in thy presence: I shall be fatisfied when thy glory shall have appeared. 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. The Paffion of The Lord. CLINE, O Lord, thine ear, un-to me, and heark-en to my words. Throughout the Summer. UR breasts to Thyself, of all worlds Creator, an-neal Thou. With kind fire purging, and with flame proving them. [O Lord, turn Thou the eyes of our hearts to difcern the truth of thy judgments; so that whilft we are proved by spiritual fire here on earth, we may be faved eternally with the fruits of righteoufness in the light of thy countenance, through Chrift our Lord. Amen.] PSALM XVII. [Ps. XVIII. E. V.] [David to The Son of The Lord, who rehearsed to The Lord the words of this song, in the day that The Lord delivered him from the hands of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul, and he faid a Pfalm to praise God for deliverance from evils.] T HERE shall a rife. World with-out end. Amen. T T HE Lord. World with-out end. A - men. Temple: and my cry before Him entered into his ears. The earth was moved and trembled: the foundations of the mountains were difturbed and shaken because He was wroth with them. There went up a smoke in his anger: and a fire out of his face devoured; coals were kindled by it. He bowed the Heavens also and came down: and it was dark under his feet. He afcended upon the Cherubim and did fly: He came flying upon the wings of the winds. He made darkness his fecret place round about Him: his pavilion in the dark waters in the clouds of air. At the brightness of his prefence the clouds passed away: hailstones and coals of fire. The Lord also thundered out of Heaven, HOU the hum-ble. World with- and The Highest uttered his voice: hail out end. A-men. I truft. Diligam te, Domine. WILL love Thee, O Lord, My God and my helper: in Him will My protector, the horn also of my falvation: and my upholder. I will call upon The Lord, praising Him: so shall I be safe from mine enemies. The forrows of death compassed me: and the overflowings of ungodliness made me afraid. The pains of hell came about me: the fnares of death overtook me. In my trouble I called upon The Lord: and cried unto my God. And He heard my voice out of His holy stones, and coals of fire. And He fent out his arrows, and scattered them: He multiplied his lightnings, and confounded them. And the fountains of water appeared : and the foundations of the orb of the world were discovered, By thy chiding, O Lord: at the blafting of the breath of thy displeasure. He fent from on high, and took me : He took me out of many waters. He delivered me from my strongest enemies, and from them which hated me : for they had strengthened themselves together against me. They prevented me in the day of my affliction: but The Lord became my protector. He brought me forth also into a large place: He saved me because he had pleasure in me. The Lord shall reward me after my righteous dealing: according to the cleanness of my hands shall He recompenfe me. Because I have kept the ways of The Lord: and have not dealt wickedly with my God. For all his judgments are in my fight: and I have not cast out his commandments from me. I will be also uncorrupt before Him: and I will be wary of mine own wickednefs. And The Lord shall reward me after my righteous dealing: and according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyefight. With the holy Thou shalt be holy : and with the innocent man Thou shalt be in nocent. With the elect Thou shalt be elect: and with the froward Thou shalt learn frowardness. For Thou shalt save the people that are humble: and shalt bring down the eyes of the proud. For Thou doft light my lamp, O Lord: my God, enlighten Thou my darkness. For in Thee I shall be rescued from temptation: and with the help of my God I shall leap over the wall. My God, his way is unpolluted: the words of The Lord are tried in the fire; He is the defender of all them that put their truft in Him. For who is God, but The Lord: or who is God, except our God? It is God that hath girded me with ftrength: and made my way undefiled. Who hath perfected my feet like harts' feet: and fetteth me up very high. Who teacheth mine hands to fight: and hath made mine arms as a brazen bow. Thou hast given me the defence of thy falvation: and thy right hand hath upholden me. And thy difcipline hath corrected me unto the end: and thy discipline it shall teach me. Thou haft enlarged my goings under me: and my footsteps are not enfeebled. I will purfue mine enemies, and overtake them: neither will I turn again until they fail. I will break them in pieces, nor shall they be able to stand: they shall fall under my feet. And Thou haft girded me with strength unto the battle: Thou hast thrown down mine adverfaries under me. Thou hast given me the backs of mine enemies: and Thou hast destroyed them that hate me. They cried, but there was none to save them: unto The Lord, but He did not hearken to them. I will beat them as small as the dust before the face of the wind: I will wipe them out as the clay in the streets. Thou shalt deliver me from the strivings of the people: and Thou shalt make me the head of the Heathen. A people whom I have not known hath served me: in the hearing of the ear obeyed me. The strange children have lied unto me: the strange children have grown old and have halted in their paths. The Lord liveth, and blessed be my God: and let The God of my falvation be exalted. O God, who giveth vengeance unto me, and fubdueth the people under me : my deliverer from my cruel enemies. And Thou shalt exalt me above mine adversaries: Thou shalt rescue me from the wicked man. For this cause I will give thanks unto Thee, O Lord, among the nations: and fing psalms unto Thy Name. He magnifieth the salvation of his King, and sheweth mercy unto David his Christ : and unto his feed for evermore. 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. necks doft fub-due. During Quadragefima. V. He hath delivered me, B. From the snare of the hunter, and the ftrife of words. [O most merciful God, the foundation of our V. There shall come forth a Rod from the root of Jeffse; B. And a flower from his root shall hope and our refuge in trouble, deliver us from our grow up. enemies and from the snares of death; so that, After the Otave of The Epiphany, up to Lord Jesus Chrift. Amen.] [Here follow the Proper Lessons for the Second Nocturn [which are oftentimes from Some Comment on Holy Scripture or the Life of fome Saint]. They are to be read without any title, but prefaced as all the other lessons by, O Lord bid a bleffing. and the proper Benedictions, (Jee Table of Benedictions,) and ended with, But Thou, O Lord, have mercy upon us.] [Then let the fame Clerk who pronounces the Benediction, when enough at his difcretion has been read, fay, But Thou, and let the Clerk-reader refpond, O Lord, have mercy upon us; which shall be observed throughout the year.] [The proper Verses and Responses for the Second Nocturn, follow the Lessons respectively.] • From the Arlyngham MSS. ( IN THE THIRD NOCTURN. PSALM XVIII. [PS. XIX. E. V.] [To the end, a Pfalm of David. A Pfalm for meditation. Relates to the preaching of the Apostles.] T HE joicing the heart: the commandment of The Lord is clear, enlightening the eyes. The fear of The Lord is holy; it endureth for ever: the judgments of The Lord are true; righteous in themselves. More to be defired are they than gold, yea, than much precious stone : fweeter alfo than honey and the honey-comb. Moreover, thy fervant keepeth them: night is far spent. World and in keeping of them there is great HE Heavens declare the glory of God: and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech: and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is neither speech nor language : where their voices are not heard. Their found is gone out into all lands: and their words into the ends of the orb of earth. In the Sun He hath set his tabernacle : and it cometh forth as a bridegroom out of his chamber. It hath rejoiced as a giant to run his course: his going forth is from the higheft Heaven; And his circuit unto the summit of it again: and there is nothing that can hide itself from the heat thereof. The law of The Lord is undefiled, converting the foul: the teftimony of The Lord is faithful, giving wisdom unto little ones. The ftatutes of The Lord are right, re reward. Who understandeth his faults? O cleanse Thou me from my fecret fins: and from those of others spare thy servant. If they shall not have dominion over me then shall I be undefiled: and be cleanfed from the greatest offence. And the words of my mouth shall be such as may please Thee: and the meditation of my heart ever in thy fight. O Lord, Thou art my helper: and my Redeemer. 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. On Sundays throughout Advent, up to The Nativity of The Lord, in the Third Nocturn. Antiphon. |