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That the ignorant Minds may be taught thy Truth, and learn the Way to Everlasting Happiness.

That the guilty Confciences may accufe their Crimes, and be abfolv'd on Earth to be pardon'd in Heaven;

That the Love prepared Souls may approach thy Table, and feaft their Hopes with that delicious Banquet.

That all may speak to Thee by Prayer, and hear thy Voice by the Mouth of thy Pastors:

O bleffed Lord, what excellent Arts has thy Wisdom invented to bring us unto thy Self?

Thou takest our Eyes by the Beauty of thy Houfe, and the decent Splendors' of thy folemn Offices.

Thou quickeneft our Affections by our mutual Devotions, and melteft our Hearts with the Sweetness of thy Mufick.

Thou ftrengtheneft our Faith by thy pub lick Affemblies, and improveft our Love both to Thee, and one another.

Whilst we all meet for the fame bleft End, and by mutual Reflections encrease our Fervours:

Happy, thrice happy they, O merciful God, whom thy Providence has favour'd with all these Bleffings,

Who freely may enter thy holy Sanctu ary, and fing aloud their Praises to thy Name;

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Who every Day may wait on thy Altars, and there fecurely praife, and adore Thee. But where thou art pleased to deny thefe Mercies, refufe not, O Lord, to extend (the greater Measure of) thy Grace; And to all, that live in fuch Spiritual Destitutions grant them extraordinary Supplies from thy Self.

That at least they may build a little Chappel in their Hearts, and confecrate themselves entirely unto Thee.

Grant that the more they want of other Helps, they may find the greater Afsistances from Thee:

Make them fenfible of the blessed Oppor tunities they have had, and now want to wait upon Thee.

Forgive them the Neglect, and ill Improvement they have made of them, and where-ever they meet in thy Name, be thou in the midst of them.

Bring to their Remembrance thofe faving Truths they have learned, and fill their Souls with thy chaste Love.

No farther Motives fhall they need to draw them, nor other Temple to address their Prayers.

Since every Place, where thou art not graciously present, is miserable; but where thou art, is Joy and Peace.

Glory be to the Father, &c.

As it was in the Beginning, &c.

Antiphon.

Thou haft created all Things, O Lord, for the Ufe of Man, and Man for the En joyment of thy Self.

Ant. Has the Almighty Goodness made all Things for us, and fhall we do nothing for Him, nothing for our felves?

PSALM IV.

Ome let us lay afide the Cares of this

Joys of Heaven.

Let us empty our Heads of all other Thoughts, and prepare that upper Room to entertain our God.

Retiring from the many Distractions of this Life, and clofely recollecting all the Forces of our Souls.

So to pursue in earnest that one neceffary Work, the fecuring to our felves the Kingdom of Heaven.

Why should we thus neglect that Sacred Science, and be bufie in every thing but our own Salvation?

Why fhould we forfake the real Sub ftance, to embrace an empty Fancy? Miferable are they, O Lord, who study all Things elfe, and never feek to taste thy Sweetness.

Miferable, tho' their Skill can number the Stars, and trace out the Ways of the Pla

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To know Thee, O Lord, is to be truly Wife, and to contemplate Thee, the highest Learning.

But, O thou glorious God of Truth, in whomthe Treasures of Knowledge are all laid up!

Unless thou draw the Curtain from before our Eyes, and drive away the Clouds that intercept our Sight,

Never fhall we fee thofe Heavenly Myfteries, nor ever difcern the Beauty of thy Providence.

Send forth thy Light, O thou MorningStar! and lead us to thy holy Hill.

Send forth thy Truth, O Increated Wisdom, and bring us to thy blessed Taber nacle.

Shew us thy Self, O glorious Jefus! and in Thee we fhall behold all that we can wifh.

Only fo much we beg to conceive of thy Majesty, as may move our Hearts to feek Thee.

Only fo much of thy unapproachable Deity, as may guide our Souls to find Thee.

If we may not know Thee clearly, let us know fo far, that we may long to know farther.

If we cannot love Thee perfectly in this Life, let us love Thee fo much, as to desire to love Thee more.

So let us know and love Thee here, O thou Sovereign Blifs of our Souls!

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That hereafter we may know Thee bet ter, and love and enjoy Thee for ever. Glory be to the Father, &c.

As it was in the Beginning, &c.

Ant. Has the Almighty Goodness made all Things for us; and fhall we do nothing for Him? Nothing for our felves? Our Father, &c.

Firft Leffon, 1 Cor. 14. 20. and Col. 3. UT now Chrift is rifen from the Dead, and become the Firft-Fruits of them that flept.

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For fince by Man came Death, by Man came alfo the Refurrection from the Dead. For as in Adam all died, even fo in Christ fhall all be made alive.

If ye then be rifen with Christ, seek thofe Things that are above, where Chrift fitteth on the Right-Hand of God.

Set your Affections on Things above, not on Things on the Earth.

For you are dead, and your Life is hid with Chrift in God.

When Chrift, who is your Life, shall ap pear, then hall ye alfo appear with him in Glory.

: Mortifie therefore your Members that are upon the Earth; Fornication, Uncleannefs, inordinate Affection, evil Concupi fcence and Coyetoufnefs, which is Idolatry:

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