miraculous glories, of thy Name. I adore, and worship Thee, in all obedience and humility, who hast submitted thy innocent and spotless flesh to the bloody Covenant of Circumcision. Teach me to follow so blessed and holy an example, that I may be humble and obedient to thy sacred Laws, regular and uniform in my Religion, mortified in my body and spirit; of circumcised heart and tongue; that what Thou didst represent in symbol and mystery, I may, really, express in the exhibition of an exemplary, pious, and mortified life, cutting off whatsoever may minister to the flesh, or any of its ungodly desires; that now thy holy name is called upon by me, I may do no dishonor to the name, nor scandal to the institution, but may do Thee honor, and worship, and adorations of a pure Religion, O most holy and ever-blessed Jesus. Amen.

MOST Holy Jesus, thou art the glory of thy people Israel, and a light to the Gentiles, and wert pleased to call the Gentiles to the adoration and knowlege of thy sacred Person and Laws, communicating the inestimable riches of thy Evangelical Covenant to all, with an universal, undistinguishing love; give unto us spirits docile, pious, prudent, and ductile, that no motion or invitation of Grace

be

be ineffectual, but may produce excellent effects upon us, and the secret whispers of thy Spirit may prevail upon our affections, in order to piety and obedience, as powerfully, and efficaciously, as the loudest and most vehement appeals to the heart. Create in us such excellences as are worthy to be presented to thy glorious Majesty; accept of the oblation of myself and my entire services but be Thou pleased to verify my offering, and secure the possession to thyself, that the enemy may not polJute the sacrifice, or divide the gift, or question the title; but that I may be wholly thine and for ever, enlighten my understanding, sanctify my will, replenish my memory with arguments of piety; then shall I present to Thee an oblation rich and precious as the first offering, the gold and frankincense and myrrh, made by the princes of the East. Lord, I am thine, reject me not from thy favor, exclude me not from thy presence; then shall I serve Thee all the days of my life, and partake of the glories of thy Kingdom, in which Thou reignest gloriously, and eternally. Amen.

ON THE PRESENTATION,

O ETERNAL God, who by the Inspirations of thy Holy Spirit, didst direct thy servants Simeon and Anna to the Temple, at the instant of the Presentation of the holy child, Jesus, that so Thou

mightst

mightst verify thy promise, and manifest thy Son, and reward the piety of holy men, who longed for Redemption by the coming of the Messiah; give me the perpetual assistance of the same Spirit, to be as a monitor, and a guide to me, leading me to every good action, and to the possession of thy glorious Son; and remember all thy faithful people, who wait for the consolation and Redemption of the Church, from heresy and schism, and at last satisfy their desires by the revelations of thy mercies, and Salvation. Thou hast advanced thy Holy Child, and set him up for a sign of thy mercies, and a representation of thy glories. Lord, let no act, or thought, or word of mine, ever be in contradiction to this blessed sign, but let it be for the ruin of all my vices, and all the powers the devil employs against the Church, and for the raising up all those virtues and graces, which Thou didst design me in the purposes of Eternity; but let my portion never be among the unbelieving, the scornful, the profane, or any of those who stumble at this stone, which Thou hast laid for the foundation of thy Church, and the structures of a virtuous life. Remember me with much mercy and compassion, when the sword of sorrows or afflictions shall pierce my heart; first let my affections be set on things above, and then all the troubles of this world will be consignations to the joys of a better; which grant for the mercies and the name of thy Holy Child, Jesus. Amen.

O LORD

PRAYERS TO BE USED IN LENT.

O LORD, and blessed Saviour Jesus, by whose obedience many became righteous, and reparations were made of the ruin brought on human nature by the disobedience of Adam; Thou camest into the world with many great and holy purposes concerning our Salvation, and hast given us an example of obedience, which, that Thou mightst present to thy heavenly Father, thou didst neglect thy life, and becamest obedient even to the death of the Cross. Olet me imitate so blessed an example, and by the merits of thy obedience, let me obtain the grace of humility, and a renunciation of all sinful affections; that I may will, and refuse in conformity to thy sacred Laws and holy purposes; that I may do all thy will, cheerfully, humbly, and uniformly; and thy will may be done upon mẹ with much mercy and fatherly dispensation of thy Providence. Amen,

Lord, let my understanding rest satisfied in the excellent wisdom of thy commandments; let my affections and all my faculties be, daily, engaged in the performance of them: and let my love to obey Thee make me dutiful to obey my superiors, upon whom the impressions of thy authority are set by thine own hand; that I may never despise their persons, nor refuse their injunctions, nor choose

my own work, nor murmur at their burthens; but that I may be indifferent in my desires, and resigned to the will of those whom Thou hast set over me; that since all thy creatures obey thy word, I alone may not disorder the creation, and destroy these intermediate links of subordination, whereby my duty should pass to Thee and thy glory, but that my obedience being united to thy obedience, I may also have my portion in the glories of thy Kingdom, O Lord and blessed Saviour Jesus. Amen.

Eternal God, and most merciful Father, I adore thy wisdom, providence, and admirable dispensation of things in the spiritual kingdom of our Lord Jesus, that Thou, who art infinitely good, dost permit so many troubles and dangers to discompose what Thou didst create innocent and harmless; that good, proceeding from evil, may, by thy overruling power and excellences, force glory to Thee by our shame, and honor to thy wisdom from these contradictory events; Lord, have pity upon me in these sad disorders, and, with mercy, look upon my infirmities. Let me, by suffering what Thou pleasest, co-operate to the glorifying of thy Grace, and the magnifying of thy mercy; but never let me consent to sin, but rescue me, by the power of thy Majesty, and mightiness of thy prevailing mercy, from those throngs of dangers and enemies, which daily seek to undermine that innocence with which Thou didst clothe my soul in the new birth,

Behold, O God, how all the spirits of darkness eudeavor the extinction of our hopes, the dispersion

of