Who is the King of glory? Our Lord, ftrong and mighty, our Lord mighty in battle! Lift up your gates, ye princes, and be ye lifted up, O eternal gates, and the King of Glory fhall enter in.

Who is the King of glory? The Lord of Power, he is the king of glory.

Glory be to the Father, &c.

The Anth. Before the bed of this Virgin repeat to us sweet fongs of measure.

V. Grace is poured forth on thy lips.

R. Therefore God has bleffed thee for ever.
Our Father, &c.

The Abfolution. By the prayers and merits, &c. as followeth, page 17, with the rest.

These three Pfalms following, are faid on Tuesday, and Friday, at the Nocturn.

The Anth. In thy beauty.

Pfalm. 44.

Eructavit cor meum.

S. Chryfoftom, S. Auftin, and almost all the interpreters agree that this pfalm is a kind of a fpiritual epithalamium, reprefenting the facred union between Jefus Chrift and bis Spoufe the church. S. Paul likewife in bis epiftle to the Hebrews, makes ufe of this pfalm to fbew the everlasting reign of the only Son of the Father over his elect. Some have thought that Solomon is the author, and that it was made upon the occafion of bis marriage with the daughter of Pharaoh, tho' others attribute it to David. But all agree in this that the true fenfe of it, intended by the Holy Ghoft, regards the mystery of the incarnation, and the union of the word with human nature.

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Y heart has spoke a good word; I tell my works to the King.

My tongue is the pen of a writer that writes fwiftly.

Moft beautiful amongst the fons of men, grace is poured out on thy lips, therefore has God bleffed thee for ever.

Be girded with thy fword upon thy thigh, O moft mighty.

In thy beauty and comelinefs go on, advance profperously and reign.

Because of thy truth, mildnefs, and juftice; and the conduct of thy right hand) fhall be wonderful.

Thy fharp arrows into the hearts of thy King's enemies; the people fhall fall under

thee.

Thy feat, O God, is for ever and ever ;} the rod of thy kingdom is a rod of equity.

Thou haft loved juftice, and hated iniquity: therefore God, thy God has anointed thee with the oil of gladnefs above thy fellows.

Myrrh and aloes, and caffia from thy garments, from houfes of ivory, where the daughters of kings have delighted thee in thy honour.

The queen ftood on thy right hand in golden robes fet round with variety.

Hear, Daughter, and fee, incline thy ear, and forget thy people, and the house of thy father.

And the King will be enamour'd with thy beauty, because he is the Lord thy God, and they fhall adore him.

And the daughters of Tyre, and all the rich of the people, with offerings fhall pray to thee

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Virgins fhall be brought to the King after her, her neighbours fhall be brought to thee. no og elenilomos bas yinsod ydt al

They fhall be brought tonjoy and rejoic-ing; they fhall be brought into the Temple of the King. ydt to Bubno et bas it Inftead of thy fathers, there are born sons) to thee; thou shall make them. princes over allthe thithet elgosg ed esimene agni

They fhall be mindful of thy Name from, generation, to generation, bo jest T Therefore halk people praife thee for ever's world without endif beyol find uodT Glory be to the Father, actored tiup The Ansh, In thy beauty and comeliness, go on, advance profperoufly and reign. ewol The Anth. God will help her,ƒs ¡7yM

Pfalm 45. Deus nofter refugium.daum5

Tonod

Since almost all the Fathers agree that this Pfalm, according to the literal fenfe, regards the Church perfecuted by the Infidels, and delivered from perfecution by the affiftance of our Lord, we ought rather to adhere to this opinion, than to that of fome other Interpreters, who apply this Pfalm only to David &torio Interpreter over enemies,

.79dint UR God is a refuge and frength, and helper ino. tribulations, which have fallen upon us in great number, bor volt Therefore we will not fear, when the earth

fhall be troubled, and mountains be tranfported into the midft of the sea.

The waters made a noife, and were troubled; the mountains were troubled in his ftrength.

The ftrong current of a river rejoices the city of God; the higheft has fanctified his Tabernacle.

God is in the midft thereof, it shall not be moved; God will help it in the morning early.

Nations are troubled, and kingdoms are made to ftoop: he raised his voice, and the earth was moved.

The Lord of Hofts is with us, the God of Jacob is our defender.

Come, and fee the works of our Lord, what wonders he has done in the earth, making wars to ceafe, even to the end of the earth.

He fhall deftroy the bow, and break weapons, and fhields he fhall burn with fire.

Attend and fee that I am God; I fhall be exalted among the Gentiles, I fhall be exalted in the earth.

The Lord of Hofts is with us, the God of Jacob is our defender.

Glory be to the Father, &c.

The Anth. God will help her with his countenance: God is in the midft of her, she shall not be moved.

The Anth.

A habitation is in thee.

Pfalm 86. Fundamenta ejus.

David in this pfalm celebrates the praises of the city of Jerufalem, which in the prophetic fenfe may very well be applyed to the church of Christ, of which that city was the figure.

HE foundations thereof in the holy mountains; our Lord loves the gates of Sion above all the tabernacles of Jacob. Glorious things are faid of thee, O city of God.

I will be mindful of Rahab, and Babylon knowing me.

Behold the ftrangers and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians: these were there. Shall a man fay to Sion, that a man is born in her, who being the highest founded her?

Our Lord will declare it in the register of thofe people, and of princes, that have been

in her.

A habitation is in thee, as it were of all those who rejoice.

Glory be to the Father, &c.

The Anth. A habitation is in thee, as it were of all us, who rejoice, O holy mother of God.

V. Grace is poured forth on thy lips.

R. Therefore God has bleffed thee for

ever.

Our Father, &c.