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HYMN.

"Nevertheless, though I am sometime afraid, yet put I my trust in Thee."

JESUS, Merciful! bend down,
In Thy compassions deep,

As sleepless and alone I lie,
And watch beside me keep.

There is a holier, sweeter rest

Than the lulling of this pain;
And a deeper calm than that which sleep
Sheds over heart and brain.

It is the soul's surrendered choice,
The settling of the will,
Lying down gently on the Cross,
GOD's purpose to fulfil.

For this I need Thy Presence, LORD,
My hand held close in Thine:
Infuse now through my spirit faint
An energy divine.

Feed me with Love, imprint on me
Thine awful kiss of Peace:
Let me be still upon Thy Breast,
Nor struggle for release.

And sanctify my weakness, LORD ;
Nature's extreme distress

Is just the time when it may learn
GOD's glory to express.

JESU, LORD, at dead of night,

Born a helpless Babe for me,

All Thy glories Infinite

Veiled in deep humility!

Make me humble, LORD, and pure,
Lowly as a little child,
Patient all things to endure,
Penitent and undefiled.

JESUS, Bleeding, Dying Love!
Let me daily die with Thee,
That in Thy sweet Arms above
I may rest eternally. Amen.

Antiphon. are risen up.

Strangers

Ps. liv. Deus, in
Nomine.

SAVE me, O GOD, for
Thy Name's sake :
and avenge me in Thy
strength.

Hear my prayer, O GOD and hearken unto the words of my mouth.

his desire upon my enemies.

Glory be to the FATHER, &c.

Antiphon. Strangers are risen up against me, and tyrants which have not GOD before their eyes seek after my soul.

. Let them be confounded and turned backward.

Ry. That seek after my soul to destroy it.

For strangers are risen up against me: and tyrants which have not GOD before their eyes seek after my soul. Behold, GOD is my BEHOLD,

helper : the LORD is with them that uphold my soul.

He shall reward evil unto mine enemies : destroy Thou them in Thy truth.

An offering of a free heart will I give Thee, and praise Thy Name, O LORD: because it is so comfortable.

For He hath delivered me out of all my trouble: and mine eye hath seen

THE LESSON.
S. Luke xxii. 49.

a multitude, and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them, and drew near unto JESUS to kiss Him. But JESUS said unto him, Judas, betrayest thou the Son of Man with a kiss? When they who were about Him saw what would follow, they said unto Him, LORD, shall we smite with the sword? And one of them smote the

servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear. And JESUS answered and said, Suffer ye thus far. And He touched his ear, and healed him.

Ry. Thanks be to GOD.

THE COLLECTS.

SAVE me, O GOD, for Thy Name's Sake; even for the Name of JESUS give me ever to trust in Thy Love, and to be filled with Thy Comfort; and bring me safely through the darkness of this world, to the Light of Everlasting Life.

Amen.

preserve me from all evil here, and give me a place in Thy Heavenly Kingdom hereafter. Amen.

THOU, LORD, knowest

our desires, Thou hast compassion on our weakness: suffer me not to be tempted above that I am able to bear. Grant that I may not by any infirmity of soul or body be carried away from Thee, so that when my earthly warfare is come to an end, I may attain to the Heavenly Jerusalem, which is the Vision of Peace, through JESUS CHRIST our LORD, to

O GOD, in Whose Whom, with Thee and

the HOLY GHOST, be all Honour and Glory now and for ever. Amen.

MAY the Passion of

Hands are the souls of the Righteous, I commend into Thy Hands myself, my soul and body: as Thy SON, our LORD JESUS CHRIST, before His most bitter Passion committed Himself unto Thee, His FATHER, ever, and in the hour of and our FATHER. O my death. Amen.

our LORD JESUS CHRIST be my safeguard and Protection, now and

JESU, LORD, to death betrayed

By Thine own familiar friend,

When they all forsook, afraid
To tarry with Thee to the end;

Pardon every sinful word,

Every thought untrue to Thee,
Forsake me not, O dearest LORD,
Though I have oft forsaken Thee.
JESU, Bleeding, Dying Love!
Let me daily die with Thee,
That in Thy sweet Arms above,
I may rest eternally. Amen.

Antiphon. They also. me in Thy heavy dis

pleasure.

For Thine arrows stick fast in me and Thy hand presseth me sore.

There is no health in