viipino brus mos) edi diguori bafing died ed The Meditation: Wednesday Morning.

wobed my boo to toung ang vat tud On the refurrection, as a means to excite a due veneration for the holy facrament.

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with the let us keep the feaft, not with old leaven, neither,

he leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleaven ed bread of fincerity and truth. ↑ Cor. v.8.vd ebriod Inritib I. Come Come now my foul, and let us fing to our Lord a pfalm of joy, fing praifes to the God of our falvation; fing with a loud and chearful voice; fing with a glad and thankful heart; fay to the weak of fpirit, be ftrong, fay to the forrowful, be of good com fort; tell all the world this foul-reviving truth, and may their hearts within them leap with joy to hear it. For, for wod

...2. The Lord of life is rifen again, and hath clothed himself with immortal glory. He made the angels meffengers of his victory, and vouchfafed even himself to bring us the joyful news. O my foul, adorn thyfelf with the garment of gladness, prepare thy most triumphant hymns to go forth to meet this great returning conqueror.

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3. His warfare is now accomplished, and he hath passed through the fcorn and cruelty of men; the malice and rage of devils; the just, but severe anger of God; yea, the fhadow of death, and the regions of eternal horror: and after all this thy furety is fet at liberty; for he hath paid thy debts, and cancelled all thofe, difmal bonds by which thou wert forfeited to eternal ruin. Bleffed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord mark

4.We receive thee, deareft Saviour, as born to us a fecond time, and this fhall be thy birthday also, the nativity of thy empire, thyreftoration to a state of immortality. Thy former birth did fhew thee to be the fon of man, but this declares thee to be the fon of God; and now we know that thou our redeemer liveft, for thou haft told us, I am be that liveth, and was dead; and behold I am alive for evermore.

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The ways of thy mercy are unfearchable, Othou wife contriver of all our happiness! and thy wisdom is infinite who didst invent them to convince thy followers into this bleft belief, and fettle in their hearts a firm ground of hope: for, thou didst not only appear to the holy women in their return from the fepulchre, and openedft their eyes to know and

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adore thee, but thou didst purposely overtake, in their journey, two of thy difciples, that were difcourfing of thee,and madest their hearts burn within them to hear thee. Thou didst condefcend to eat before them, and invite them to touch thy facred body, How didft the thou fweetly invite to the incredu lous Thomas to thruft his hand into thy fide, and haft thence taken occafion, from his hardness to believe, to facilitate the faith of thy church in these after-ages.

16.1 Therefore, O my foul, being thus pre inftructed in this great mystery of our faith, by the revelation of Jefus Chrift, make it the principal fubject of thy ftudies, and the daily entertainment of thy moft ferious thoughts. Draw me, O dearest Lord, from the world and myfelf, that I be not entangled with any earthly defires. Draw me after thee, with a fure hope of eternal blifs, that I may run with delight in the way of thy commands, and efpecially to thy holy table. Draw me up fia nally to thee and thy throne of glory, that I may fee thy face, and rejoice with thee for ever in thy kingdom. Amen.ydro vigilaids

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Aconfeffion of fins on Wednesday morning, press 29lqi paratorý tà receiving the baly facramenti 9/1 † If we fay that we have no fin, weidessive ourselves, and the truth is not in us, but if we confess our fins, he is, faithful and jult to us fins, and to cleanfe us from all unrighte qufness. Jahni! 8,29, of busolsbron fibib non Mont made ativni bas mighty God! how fhall I, a poor miferable finer, who am allover fin and pollution, dare to speak unto thee? O Lord, when I look back on my past life, I am aftonifhed at thy mercy and long-fuffering towards me; and am fenfible, if I had been rewarded according to my mifdeeds, that I had long before this been condemned to endless mifery and torments. And left I drop this op portunity of repentance, I flee unto thee and cry, Lord be merciful unto me a finner!

I have been a rebellious and difobedient finner, a contemner of thy laws, and one of thofe wretched fools, that have made a mock at fin, and would not hearken to reproof; my mind has been overfpread with blindness, ig norance and folly, and almoft every power and faculty of my foul has been corrupted and defaced. But now as thou haft vouchfafed me this light of thy fpirit to seemine infirmities, I flee unto thee, the author of my comfort, and fay, Lord be merciful unto me a finner!

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How have I preferred a life of folly and madness, of extravagance and diforder; a life that has yielded mefhame and much remorse, forrow and affliction, before the peace and pleafure, and ferenity of a fober, virtuous, and religious converfation! how have I preferred the pleasures and profits of this world to the ways of virtue and religion! but now I repent, and fay, Lord be merciful unto me a finner H

O Lord! I dare not plead, that I have spent any one day of my life folely to thy honour and glory; but how many days, nay, years, have I spent in the fervice of fin? how RICE OF A NOw many are my lufts, and how great my intemperance? how oft have I profaned thy fabbaths, abufed thy facred name, ridiculed thy holy word, defpifed thy minifters, and made a jeft of all that is ferious! but now I flee unto thee by this holy facrament, and Lord be mer ciful unto me a finner!

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If I have been proud and envious, paffionate and angry, full of hatred, malice, and revenge; if I have been guilty of flandering and abufing, injuring and defrauding of my neighbour, of lewd actions and obfcene difcourfes; of profane and filthy jefts, and of frequent curfing, fwearing, and lying: Lord be merciful unto me a finner!

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