O Jesu, Son of David, have mercy upon us.

Remove from us

All iniquity and profaneness, superstition and hypocrisy.

Idols and idolatry.

Rash oath and curse.

Neglect or indecency of worship.

Haughtiness and recklessness.

Strife and wrath.

Passion and corruption.

Indolence and fraud.

Lying and injuriousness.

Every evil notion, every impure thought, every

base desire, every unseemly thought.

Grant to us

To be religious and pious.

To worship and serve.

To bless and swear truly.

To confess meetly in the congregation.

Affection and obedience.

Patience and good temper.

Purity and soberness.
Contentedness and goodness.

Truth and incorruptness.

Good thoughts, perseverance to the end; And so make us to love each other, and with one mind and one mouth honour Thee, our Redeemer, with Thee, O God the Father, and Thee, O God the Son, that we may for ever dwell with Thee in life everlasting. Amen.

Our Father, &c.

O Lord, turn Thy face from our sins,
And put out all our misdeeds.

O Christ, hear us.

O Lamb of God, hear us.

Here pause; rise; say a hymn; and commend your soul thus:

The peace of God, and the love of Jesus, and the guiding of the Holy Ghost, be with me now and ever. Amen.

ADDITIONAL ACTS OF DEVOTION

FOR

Holy Week.

MATINS-ACT OF DEVOTION.

(To be said in the early morning, between 4 and 6 A.M.*) First, bow the head, and say,

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

Blessed be the Holy and undivided Trinity, now and for evermore; and thrice blessed be the great and glorious Majesty of Heaven, who hath preserved me in the night past, and saved me from the sleep of death, and brought me safely to the devotions of this week of weeks. It is of the Lord's mercy that that I am not consumed, even because His compassions fail not; they are new every morning; great is Thy faithfulness.

Ŏ let me hear Thy loving-kindness betimes in the morning, for in Thee do I trust. Show Thou me the way that I should walk in, for unto Thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.

*The ancient offices of Nocturns and Lauds may be comprised in this hour.

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Here, kneeling down, and adoring, say,
Thou, O Lord, art praised in Sion,
and unto Thee shall the vow be performed in
Jerusalem.

Thou art worthy, O Lord our God, the Holy One,
to receive glory, and honour, and power.
Thou that hearest the prayer,
unto Thee shall all flesh come,
my flesh shall come.

My misdeeds prevail against me,
O be Thou merciful unto my sins;
that I may come and give thanks
with all Thy works,

and bless Thee with Thy holy ones.

O Lord Jesu! it is good for me to hold me fast by God, and put my trust in the Lord God. What is too much to hope from Thee Who hast done and borne so much for me, my God, my only refuge!

Lord, my soul grieves with Thee, Who sufferedst such bitter and undeserved pains for me, a miserable sinner.

Woe is me, for I am a sinner! Sorrow be to me, the cause of so much woe to Thee! Can I think my soul of no account which Thou hast so dearly bought? that soul whose price is Thy precious blood, O loving Jesu! Shall I go on miserably sinning, for whose sins, Thou, O Son of God, hast suffered pains so extreme?

Lord, what art Thou? and what am I? Thou, in Thy Passion, art God and Lord, and just and innocent; I, a poor slave, an earthworm, and a sinner, who merited the punishment borne (O most wonderful!) by Thee.

O sweet Jesu! my Salvation, and my Life: all Thy works, O Lord, tell me of Thy love. Love

drew Thee down from Heaven, and confined Thee within the Virgin's womb. Love nailed Thee to the Cross, and what shall separate me ever from Thy love? O let not life nor death, nor any other creature-through Thy merits, Blessed Jesu, Who ever liveth to succour all who trust in Thee. Amen.

Here pause, and think of your sins; and of the sufferings of the Cross: then say,

In union with Thy grief, whereby, O Lord Jesu Christ, Thou tookest on Thee the cause of my grief, and undertookest a remedy for my sins, and together with the whole body of mourners and true penitents, and such as seek after Thee in truth; I confess to Thee all my sins; the evil deeds committed; the good deeds omitted, or done carelessly, or without pure intention, even as Thou knowest them in number, measure, and weight; and the days of my life lost by offending Thee, or diminishing Thy glory, by falling from my chief good, and leading my neighbours also to fall along with me.

Now, therefore, O Lord, accept the residue of the years of my wretched life; and for those which I have lost in my living, because I have lost sight of Thee, my broken and contrite heart, O God, do not Thou despise. My days have departed and perished without fruit; I cannot recall them, but may it please Thee that I may recollect them, in the bitterness of my soul; and let Thy full and overflowing satisfaction, Thy bitter Death, the price of Thy Blood shed forth-let these avail to merit for me grace here, which I merit not, and to obtain rest and glory hereafter, which Thy most bitter death hath won. Amen, Amen.