God, then certainly the kingdom of God is come among you. When a ftrong man in armour keepeth his palace, all that he hath is fafe. But if one ftronger than he come upon him, and overcome him, he will take away all his arms, in which he trusted, and divide his fpoils. He that is not with me, is against me; and he that gathereth not with me, scattereth. When an unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places feeking where to fettle: and not finding any place, be faith: I will return into my house, from whence I came. And when he is come, he findeth it fwept and furnished. Then he goeth and taketh with him feven other fpirits more wicked than himself, and going in, they fettle there. And the latter ftate of that man becometh worfe than his former. And it came to pass, when he had faid these things: a certain woman in the crowd, raifing her voice, faid to him: Bleffed is the womb that bare thee; and the breafts, which gave thee fuck. But he faid: Yea rather, bleffed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it. CREDO.

OFFERTORY. P. xviii.

The laws of the Lord are juft, and give joy to the heart; his ordinances are sweeter than honey and the honey-comb: therefore thy fervant obferveth them.

Juftitiæ Dominirectæ, lætificantes corda, & judicia ejus dulciora fuper mel & favum: nam & fervus tuus cuftodit ea.

SECRET.

"AY this offering, O Lord, we befeech thee,

MA cleanfe us from our fins, and fanctify the

bodies and fouls of thy fervants for the celebrating of this facrifice. Thro'."

COMMUNION. P. lxxxiii.

The fparrow hath

found itself a house, and

Paffer invenit fibi do

mum & turtur nidum,

the turtle dove a neft to put her young ones in: in like manner, O Lord of armies, my King and my God, let my abode be near thy altar bleffed are they that dwell in thy house, they shall praife thee for ever and

ever.

M

ubi reponat pullos fuos: altaria tua, Domine virtutum, Rex meus, & Deus meus: beati qui habitant in domo tuâ, in sæculum fæculi laudabunt

te.

POSTCOMMUNION. À cunctis nos. Ercifully, O Lord, we beseech thee, deliver us from all guilt and danger, fince thou admitteft us to be partakers of this great mystery. Thro'.

VESPER S.

LITTLE CHAPTER. Brethren, be followers. Beginning of the EPISTLE to p. 72. HYMN. V. and R. as above, p. 26.

At the MAGNIFICAT.

Anth. A certain woman in the crowd raifing her voice faid: Bleffed is the womb that bare thee, and the breafts that gave thee fuck. But Jefus faid to her: Yea rather, bleffed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.

Ant. Extollens vocem quædam mulier de turbâ, dixit: Beatus venter qui te portavit, & ubera quæ fuxifti. At Jefus ait illi: Quinimo beati qui audiunt verbum Dei, & cuftodiunt illud.

PRAYER. Collect at Mafs, p. 72. tttttttttttt tettet tetent

INTROIT.

Pf. 55.

MONDAY.

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MASS.

Will praise God for the promise he hath made me, I will praise the Lord for the affurances he hath given me: I will hope in God, and will not fear what man may do to

me. P. Take pity on me, O God, for man hath trampled me under-foot: he hath attacked me the whole day, and distressed me. V. Glory.

COLLECT.

WE

Cordibus noftris.

E befeech thee, O Lord, mercifully to pour forth thy grace into our hearts: that, as we abftain from flesh, fo we may keep our fenfes from all noxious exceffes. Thro'.

LESSON. 4 Kings v. 1, 15.

IN thofe days: Naaman, the general of the army of the king of Syria, was a man in great efteem with his master, and highly honoured, because, by his means, the Lord had faved Syria: and he was a valiant man and rich, but a leper. Now there had gone out a party from Syria, and had brought away captive from Ifrael a little maid, and fhe waited on Naaman's wife. And fhe faid to her mistress: I with my mafter had gone to the prophet in Samaria: he certainly would have cured him of his leprofy. Naaman therefore went to his lord, and fpoke to him, faying: Thus and thus faid the maid that is of the land of Ifrael. And the king of Syria faid to him: Go, and I will give thee a letter to the king of Ifrael. And he fet out, taking with him ten talents of filver, and fix thousand pieces of gold, and ten fuits of clothes, and delivered a letter to the king of Ifrael in this form: When thou haft received this letter, know that I have fent to thee my fervant Naaman, that thou may'ft cure him of his leprofy. When the king of Ifrael had read the letter, he rent his clothes, and faid: Am I God, that I fhould be able to kill and to give life, that he fendeth to me to cure this man of his leprofy? Confider and fee, how he feeketh occafions of quarrel with me. But when Elizeus the man of God had heard, that the king of Ifrael had rent his clothes, he sent to him, faying: Why haft thou rent thy clothes? Let him come to me, and let him see that there is a prophet in Ifrael. Then Naaman came with his horses and

his chariots, and ftood at the door of Elizeus's house: and Elizeus fent a meffage to him, faying: Go, and wash seven times in the Jordan, and thy flesh fhall be healed, and thou shalt be clean. At which Naaman went away angry, faying: I expected he would have come out to me, and that standing and calling on the name of the Lord his God, he would have touched with his hand the place of the leprofy, and cured me. Afe not Abana and Pharphar, tivers of Damafcus, better than all the waters of Ifrael, to wash in and be clean? Turning about therefore, and going away in a rage, his fervants came to him, and faid: Father, if the prophet had commanded thee fome great thing, certainly thou oughtedst to have done it: how much rather now, when he hath faid only to thee: Wafh, and thou shalt be clean, He went down then, and washed himself in the Jordan feven times, according to the directions of the man of God; and his flesh came again, even as the flesh of a child, and he was healed. And returning to the man of God, he came with all his retinue, and food before him, faying: Now I know for certain, there is no other God in the whole earth, but only in Ifrael.

GRADUAL. P. 55. I have laid open to thee, O God, my life; and thou haft confidered my tears. V. Take pity on me, O Lord, for man hath trampled me under-foot; he hath attacked me the whole day, and diftreffed me.

TRACT. Deal not with us, as above, p. 29.

GOSPEL. Luke iv. 23, 30

AT that time; Fefus faid to the Pharifees: You will certainly tell me this proverb: Physician, cure thyfelf. As great things as we have heard of done by thee in Capharnaum, do alfo here in thy own country. And he faid: Amen I fay to you: No prophet is regarded in his own country. I tell you with truth: there were many widows in Ifrael

in the days of Elias, when heaven was shut for three years and fix months, and there was a great famine throughout the whole land: and Elias was fent to none of them, but only to a widow in Sarephta of Sidon. And there were many lepers in Ifrael in the time of Elizeus the Prophet, and none of them was cleanfed, except Naaman the Syrian. And all in the fynagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with indignation; and rifing up, drove him out of the city, and led him to the steep of the hill, whereon their city was built, to throw him down headlong. But he paffing thro' the midst of them, went his way.

OFFERTORY. Pf. 54. Hear my prayer, O God, and defpife not my petition: look down upon me, and graciously hear me.

SECRET.

Rant, O Lord, that the offering we make to

thee, as a mark of our homage, may become to us a facrament available to our falvation. Thro', COMMUNION. Pf. 13. Who will fend out from Sion the falvation of Ifrael? When the Lord fhall put an end to the captivity of his people, Jacob fhall leap for joy, and Ifrael fhall rejoice.

POSTCOMMUNION. Præfta, quæfumus. Grant, we beseech thee, O Almighty and mer

ciful God, that what we take with our mouths, we may receive with pure minds. Thro'. Let us pray. Bow down your heads to God.: PRAYER. Subveniat nobis.

MA

AY thy mercy, O Lord, affift us, that, by thy protection, we may be delivered from the dangers of fin that furround us, and fo brought to eternal happiness.

Thro'.

The COMMEMORATION at VESPERS,

Anth. But Jefus paf- Ant. Jefus autem tranfing thro' the midft of fiens per medium illothem, went away. rum, ibat.

V. and R. p. 27. PRAYER. Subveniat nobis.