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3. To thee all Angels cry aloud: the Heavens, and all the Powers therein.

4. To thee Cherubin and Seraphin: continually do cry. Holy, Holy, Holy: Lord God of Sabaoth.

6. Heaven and Earth are full of the Majefty of thy Glory. 7. The glorious company of the Apoftles: praife thee. 8. The goodly fellowship of the Prophets: praise thee. 9. The noble army of Martyrs: praise thee.

10. The Holy Church throughout all the world doth acknowledge thee;

11. The Father of an infinite Majefty;
12. Thine honourable, true: and only Son;

PARAPHRASE.

3. Nor is this tribute of praise paid thee by the fons of men alone, but all the angelic orders likewife adore thee, and extol thy name with fongs of adoration and thanksgiving.

4. 5. As it is recorded in that prophetical hymn, (Ifa. vi. 3.) and one Seraphin cried unto another, and faid, Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord of Holts.

6. The whole earth is full of his glory,

7. The fouls of the bleffed Apoftles likewife contribute to thy praife amongst the angelic choir; the most glorious affociation of human beings, and next in dignity to the angels themselves; bleffed fpirits, who,, after having laboured with fuccefs in preaching the gospel here on earth, are now tranflated to the manfions of everlasting blifs to extol the goodneís of God with unceasing praises.

8. Next in order come the holy prophets, who hold a distinguished. place among the ranks of glorified beings; they, after having been the. heralds who proclaimed the coming of Christ and prepared his way, have now attained to a fhare in his glory, and partake of a very honourable place in his kingdom; praifing thee for ever in the celeftial regions.

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9. Befides thefe, there is the illuftrious band of martyrs who having by shedding their blood, fubdued the world and the devil, are admitted to a place amidst the choir of heaven, there to fing hallelujahs, to the honour of God to all eternity.

10. Nor is thy praile bounded by the celeftial regions, but even thy church on earth however widely spread over the various different countries of the globe, do, with an uniform faith, acquiefce in those mysterious truths which thou haft revealed to us concerning thy nature.

11. Making every day the confeffion of our faith; that the first perfon of thy divine nature is God the Father of an infinite majesty, power and fecundity, by being the fource of the divine effence.

12. Moreover, acknowledging that the fecond perfon in this ever bleffed trinity is God the Son; not only thy Son by adoption (as thou hait

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13. Alfo the Holy Ghoft; the Comforter.

14. Thou art the King of Glory: O Chrift.

15. Thou art the everlasting Son: of the Father.

16. When thou tookest upon thee to deliver man: thou didft not abhor the Virgin's womb.

17. When thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death: thou didst open the Kingdom of Heaven to all believers. 18. Thou fitteft at the right hand of God in the Glory of the Father.

19. We believe that thou fhalt come: to be our Judge.

PARA PHRASE. vouchfafed to make us) but thy true Son, who was produced by thee from all eternity.

13. Laftly, thy church profeffes her belief in the ever bleffed Spirit, who is the third perfon in the trinity, the paraclete, or comforter, to whofe kind aid and falutary influence, we are indebted for all the christian graces we can hope for.

14. But we are obliged to acknowledge concerning thee, O Christ, the fecond perfon of the blessed trinity, whom fome perfons affect to treat with contempt, on account of thy abafement of thyfelf for our fakes; that thou art notwithstanding God himself, the heavenly king, and of equal glory with the Father.

15. Thou art the Son of God the Father, begotten of him from all eternity.

16. When thou, at the time of thy agreement with man, in profecution of thy mediatorfhip, didft take upon thee to deliver man from the wrath of God, to which he was become obnoxious, thou didst not disdain to veil thy omnipotence with our frail fleth, and to be born after the manner of us mortals.

17. When thou, by fuffering for our fins, hadft overcome the fting of death and triumphed over the grave (1 Cor. xv. 15.) thou didst open the gates of heaven to all who believe in thee, as well patriarchs and prophets who lived in expectation of thy coming, as thofe who converfed with thee upon earth, and those who believed on thee afterwards upon their teftimony. John xx. 29.

18. After having thus fubdued death, thou haft entered triumphantly into the kingdom of heaven; and, after having fuffered fuch humiliation upon earth, thou art advanced to fit for ever at the right hand of God, being raifed to the highest and most glorious dignity that can be poffeffed by any being, there conftantly interceding with God, and intreating him to fhew mercy co weak and finful men. Heb. vii. 25.

19. And we believe that at the last day thou shalt come, attended with multitude of angels, (Mark vii. 38. 2 Theff. i. 7.) to judge the quick and the dead. Tim. iv. 1.

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20. We therefore pray thee help thy fervants: Whom thou haft redeemed with thy precious blood.

21. Make them to be numbered with thy Saints: in Glory everlasting.

22. O Lord, fave thy people: and bless thine heritage. 23. Govern them: and lift them up for ever.

24. Day by day: we magnify thee;

25. And we worship thy name: ever world without end. 26. Vouchsafe, O Lord: to keep us this day without sin. 27. O Lord, have mercy upon us: have mercy upon us. 28. O Lord, let thy mercy lighten upon us: as our truft is in thee.

29. O Lord, in thee have I trufted: let me never be confounded.

Or this Canticle, Benedicite, omnia opera Domini.
All ye Works of the Lord, blefs
ye the Lord;
praise him, and magnify him for ever.

PARA PHRASE.

20. We therefore befeech thee to bestow upon us, thy fervants, the gift of thy grace, pleading thy merits for us; which, upon our earnest prayers, we trust thou wilt not fail to do, fince thou didst spill thy precious blood, in order to procure our redemption.

21. Caufe us to be reckoned among the number of the elect faints, who are to inherit eternal glory in the blessful regions of heaven. Rev. vii. 4. 22. O Lord preferve thy fervants of the laity here prefent, and bless the clergy who are in a more peculiar manner thy inheritance.

23. Like a careful shepherd govern us all, both clergy and laity, and deliver us from the power of Satan, that wolf who feeks to devour us, (Per. v. 8.) and be pleafed to draw us up after thee (xii. 32.) to that fate of immortality of which thou art poffeffed.

24. 25. Therefore let us all fay, in the words of the Pfalmift, "every day do we bless thee and praise thy name for ever and ever." Pfalm

είν. 2.

26. Vouchsafe therefore to answer the petitions of this day's devotion, and to keep us free from fin till the courfe of our public exercise returns again to-morrow.

27. We cry out, Jefu have mercy upon us, in the words of the blind men and lepers. Matt. xv. 22. Luke xvii. 13.

28. We, laft, conclude our hymn with the words of the Pfalmift, "let thy merciful kindness, O Lord: be upon us, like as we do put our truft in thee.". Pfal. xxxiii. 21.

29. In thee have. I put my truft, let me never be put to confufion. Pfal. xxxi. 1.

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2. O ye Angels of the Lord, blefs ye the Lord: praife him, and magnify him for ever.

3. O ye Heavens, blefs ye the Lord: praife him, and magnify him for ever.

4. O ye Waters, that be above the Firmament, blefs ye the Lord praise him, and magnify him for ever.

5. O all ye Powers of the Lord, blefs ye the Lord: praise him, and magnify him for ever.

6. O ye Sun, and Moon, blefs ye the Lord: praise him, and magnify him for ever.

7. O ye Stars of Heaven, blefs ye the Lord: praife him, and magnify him for ever.

8. O ye Showers, and Dew, blefs ye the Lord: praise him, and magnify him for ever.

9. O ye winds of God, blefs ye the Lord: praise him, and magnify him for ever.

10. Ŏ ye Fire, and Heat, blefs ye the Lord: praise him, and magnify him for ever.

11. O ye Winter, and Summer, blefs ye the Lord: praife him, and magnify him for ever.

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1. O all things, animate and inanimate, join to bless the Lord: praise him, and exalt his name for ever.

2. O ye beings of an higher order, blefs ye the Lord: praise him, and extol his name for ever.

3. O ye heavens, blefs the name of the Almighty: bestow your praises upon his name, and magnify him to all eternity.

4. O ye waters that occupy the fpaces above the firmament, bless ye the most High: praise him and magnify him for ever.

5. O all ye powers fubordinate to the Almighty, blefs ye the Lord; praise him and magnify him for ever.

6. O ye fun and moon, glorious luminaries that rule the day and the Light, blefs ye the Lord, praife him and magnify his name for ever.

7. O ye fars of heaven, whofe rays difpel the darkness of the night, Blefs ye the Lord, praife him and magnify his name for ever.

8. O ye fhowers and dew, to which the earth owes its fertility, blefs the all-bounteous Author of nature, praife him and extol his name for ever. 9. O ye winds of heaven that purify the air, bless ye the Lord, praise him and magnify him for ever.

10. O ye fire and heat, which are productive of fo many bleffings to mankind, blefs ye our benevolent Creator, praife him and magnify his

name for ever.

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20. We therefore pray thee help thy fervants: Whom thou haft redeemed with thy precious blood.

21. Make them to be numbered with thy Saints: in Glory everlasting.

22. O Lord, fave thy people: and blefs thine heritage. 23. Govern them: and lift them up for ever.

24. Day by day: we magnify thee;

25. And we worship thy name: ever world without end. 26. Vouchsafe, O Lord: to keep us this day without sin. 27. O Lord, have mercy upon us: have mercy upon us. 28. O Lord, let thy mercy lighten upon us: as our trust

is in thee.

29. O Lord, in thee have I trufted: let me never be confounded.

Or this Canticle, Benedicite, omnia opera Domini.

All ye Works of the Lord, bless ye the Lord: praise him, and magnify him for ever.

PARA PHRASE.

20. We therefore befeech thee to bestow upon us, thy fervants, the gift of thy grace, pleading thy merits for us; which, upon our earnest prayers, we trust thou wilt not fail to do, fince thou didst spill thy precious blood, in order to procure our redemption.

21. Caufe us to be reckoned among the number of the elect faints, who are to inherit eternal glory in the blessful regions of heaven. Rev. vii. 4. 22. O Lord preserve thy fervants of the laity here prefent, and bless the clergy who are in a more peculiar manner thy inheritance.

23. Like a careful fhepherd govern us all, both clergy and laity, and deliver us from the power of Satan, that wolf who feeks to devour us, (1 Pet. v. 8.) and be pleased to draw us up after thee (xii. 32.) to that tate of immortality of which thou art poffeffed.

24. 25. Therefore let us all fay, in the words of the Pfalmit, ' every day do we bless thee and praise thy name for ever and ever." Pfalm ariv. 2.

26. Vouchfafe therefore to answer the petitions of this day's devotion, and to keep us free from fin till the courfe of our public exercise returns again to-morrow.

27. We cry out, Jefu have mercy upon us, in the words of the blind men and lepers. Matt. xv. 22., Luke xvii. 13.

28. We, laft, conclude our hymn with the words of the Pfalmift, "let thy merciful kindness, O Lord: be upon us, like as we do put our truft in thee." . Pfal. xxxiii. 21.

29. In thee have. I put my trust, let me never be put to confufion. Pjal. xxxi. 1.

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