R. Let us praise and extol him for ever.
V. Lord, hear my prayer.

R. And let my cry come to thee.

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Let us pray.

GOD of whofe mercies there is no number, and of whofe goodness the treasure is infinite; we give thanks to thy Divine Majefty for the gifts thou haft beftowed on us; always befeeching thy clemency, that thou who granteft the requeft of thofe that humbly afk, wilt not forfake us, but difpofe us for the rewards to come; Through our Lord.

V. Lord, hear my prayer.

R. And let my cry come to thee.
V. Blefs we our Lord.

R. Thanks be to God.

PRAYERS on JOURNEYS.

At the beginning of thy Journey, if alone, fay in the Singular Numbers, if with Company, in the Plural.

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The Anth. HE Almighty and merciful Lord. The Soug, Bleffed be our Lord, as page 29. At the end. Glory be to the Father. Then repeat the Anthem. The Almighty and merciful Lord direct us into the way of peace and profperity and the Angel Raphael accompany us in the way that with peace, fafety and joy, we may return home.

I ord have mercy on us.

Christ have mercy on us.
Lord have mercy on us.
Our Father, in fecret.

V. And lead us not into temptation.
R. But deliver us from evil.

V. Save thy Servants. R. Trufting in thee, O my God. V. Send us help, O Lord, from thy fanctuary. R. And from Sion defend us. V. Be unto us, O Lord, a tower of strength. R. From the face of the enemy. V. Let not the enemy prevail against us. R. Nor the fon of iniquity have power to hurt us. V. Bleffed be our Lord, this day and for ever. R. The God of our salvation grant us a profperous journey. V. Shew us thy ways, O Lord. R. And teach us thy paths. V. O that our ways may be directed! R. To keep thy righteoufnefs. V. The crooked ways fhall become ftraight. R. And the rough fhall be made plain. V. God has given his angels charge of thee. R. To guard thee in all thy ways.

V. Lord, hear my prayer.
R. And let my cry come to thee.

Let us Pray.

GOD, who for the children of Ifrael who

didft open a dry paffage through the midst of the sea; and by a ftar didft conduct the three kings on their way to thee: Grant us, we beseech thee, a profperous journey,

and a peaceable time; that thy holy angels accompanying us, we may happily arrive at our journey's end, and hereafter gain the port of eternal falvation.

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GOD, who did ft preferve thy fervant Abraham in all his ways, when he came from Ur in Chaldea: We befeech thee to protect us thy fervants: Be to us, O Lord, a help at our fetting out, a comfort in our way, a fhadow in heat, a fhelter in rain and cold, a chariot in wearinefs, and aid in our adverfity, a ftaff in dangerous way, a haven in fhip-wreck, that thou being our guide, we may profperoufly arrive at the place to which we go, and with fafety return home.

EAR, O Lord, we beseech thee, our prayers, and render the way of thy fervants profperous and fafe; that among all the varieties of this journey and life, we may be ever protected by thy aid.

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RANT, we beseech thee, O Almighty God, that thy faithful may walk in the ways of falvation; and by following the direction of St. John the Precurfor, come fecurely to him, whom he foretold, our Lord Jefus Chrift, &c. R. Amen...

V. Let us fet out in peace.

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R. In the name of our Lord. Amen.

The Office of the Holy Crofs.

At MATTINS.

V. By the fign of the Crofs, deliver us, our God.

R. From our euemies.

Which is faid in the beginning of all the Heurs of this Office.

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The Verfe.

ORD, open my lips.

praise.

R. And my mouth fhall declare thy.

V. Incline unto my aid, O God,

R. O Lord, make hafte to help me.
Glory be to the Father, &c.

Alleluia is not to be faid, nor Praise be to thee, O Lord.

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The Hymn.

S night departing brings the day,
True God and Man, truth's rifing ray,

To Jews betrayed, is captive led :
With night his lov'd difciples fled :
And left their mafter fold to foes,
Diftrefs'd with grief and whelm'd with woes,
The Anth. O venerable Crofs, by whofe
myftery finners are faved, what praises are
fufficient to celebrate thee, who haft pur-
chafed for us eternal life.

V. We adore thee, O Chrift, and bless thee.

R. Because by thy Holy Crofs thou haft redeemed the world.

Let us Pray.

O Lord Jefus Chrift, Son of the living

God; vouchsafe to let thy paffion, cross and death, ftand between thy judgment and my foul, now, at the hour of my death. Grant me grace and mercy: Grant reft and pardon to the living and the dead: To thy church peace and concord: To us finners life and everlafting glory: Who liveft and reigneft one God, with the Father and the Holy Ghoft, world without end. R. Amen.

At PRIME.

By the fign of the Crofs, &c.

The Verfe.

NCLINE unto my aid, O God.

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R. O Lord make hafte to help me.
Glory be to my Father, &c.

The Hymn.

TOW Prime the purple morn begins;

NOW
When fafely Chrift accused of fins,

At Pilate's curft tribunal ftands,
Prophan'd with blows and impious hands;
Whilft Jews blafpheme the God of
By fpitting in their Maker's face.

grace,