Happiness, enjoying already a fveet Poffeffion of Hopes, to end e're long in a fweeter Fruition in Glory, V. Thou art, O Lord, the free Beftower of all we have. R. Thou art the faithful Promiser of all we expect. O Let us Pray. Blessed Jefus, whofe Sacred Body, after thou had'ft finished in it the Work of our Redemption, was taken down from the Crofs, and, after a fhort Repose in the Sepulchre, was raised again to a glorious Immortality! Grant us, we beseech thee, fo frequently to renew in our Minds the Memory of thy Grave, that we may be always prepared for our own; and fo ferioufly to reflect on the Confequences of a holy Death, that every Day we grow lefs affected to this tranfitory Life, and more in Love with thy eternal Joys, who, with the Father, and the Holy Ghoft, livest and reigneft, one God, World without End. Amen. Vouchsafe us, &c. as in Sunday Compline. 392 OFFICE of the HOLY GHOST. MATTINS The Introduction to be faid as Page 1. Invitatory. Come let's Adore our Godthat fanctifies us. Co Ome, let us humbly firft implore his Grace, to make us worthy to adore our Sanctifier, who from the Father and the Son eternally proceeds, and with the Father and the Son is equally glorified. Come let's Adore our God that fanctifies us. He infufeth into us the Breath of Life, and brings us forth into our Second Birth, a Birth that makes us Heirs of Heaven, and gives us a Title to everlasting Happinefs. Come let's Adare our God that fanctifies us. Let Let us prepare our Understandings to affent to his Truths, and our Will to follow his Divine Inspirations; let us fill our Memories with his innumerable Mercies and our whole Soul with the Glory of his Attributes. Come let's Adore our God that fanctifies us. Let us confidently addrefs to him our Petitions, who promises to help the Infirmity of our Prayers; let us not doubt the Bounty of his Goodness, but hope he will grant what himself inspires to ask. Come let's Adore our God that fanctifies us. As it was in the Beginning, &c. C Come let's Adore, &c, HYMN XXXIII. Ome, Holy Spirit, come and breath Of our dull Region here beneath; Come, and root out the poisonous Weeds, revives. First plant the humble Violet there, And make us chafte, yet fruitful toe. But O plant all the Vertues, Lord! We can, alas! not be, nor grow, Do then what thou alone can't do, All Glory to the Sacred Three, As at the first, still may he be Belov'd and prais'd, fear'd and ador'd. Antiphon. Amen. In those Days, faith the Lord, I will pour out my Spirit upon all Flesh. Alleluja, Alleluja. PSALM L PSALM CVI. ORD, with how sweet and natural a Conduct does thy Providence govern the Children of Men? Leading them from one Degree to another, till thou haft brought them up to their highest Perfection? Thou putteft them to learn in the School of Vertue, and difpofeft their Capacities into several Forms. In the firft Ages, when the World was young, thou gaveft them for their Guide the Book of Nature. There thy Divine Affiftance helped them to read fome few plain Lessons of their Du ty to Thee. They faw this admirable Frame of Creatures; and as far as thefe could argue, they could conclude: Sure there is a God, the Caufe of all things; fure there is a Providence, the Difpofer of all things. He must be powerful that made so vast a World; he must be wife that contriv'd fuch excellent Works. He must be Goodness it felf, that did all this for us, and we ungrateful Wretches, if we will do nothing for him. Thus far fome few could fay, and very few could do with those flender Affiftances they then enjoy'd. After |