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with a reed in his right hand. And bending a knee before him, they fcoffed him: faying: S. Hail, King of the Jews. C. And they fpit on him, and taking the reed, ftruck him on the head. And after they had infulted him, they pulled off the cloak, and putting on his own clothes, led him away to be crucified. And as they went out of the city, they found a man of Cyrene, called Simon, and they compelled him to carry his crofs. And they came to the place, called Golgotha, which fignifieth a Calvary b. And they gave him wine mingled with gall to drink; and when he had tasted it, he would not drink. After they had crucified him, they divided his garments, cafting lots; that it might be fulfilled, which was fpoke by the prophet, faying: They divided my garments among them, and they caft lots for my vesture. And they fat down, 'and watched him. And they put over his head his caufe in writing: THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS. Then were crucified with him two thieves; one on his right hand, and the other on his left. And they that paffed by, reviled him, fhaking their heads, and faying: S. Ah! Thou that deftroyeft the temple of God, and in three days buildeft it up again; fave thy felf. If thou art the Son of God, come down from the cross. C. In like manner alfo the chief priests, with the Scribes and elders, fcoffing him, faid: S. He faved others, but cannot fave himself: if he be the King of Ifrael, let him now come down from the crofs, and we will believe him he trufted in God, let him deliver him now, if he love him; for he hath faid: I am the Son of God. C. The thieves alfo, that were crucified with him, reproached him in the fame manner. Now from the fixth hour, there was darkness over the whole earth, till the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jefus cried out b Expl. A place where fculls, &c. of Male

a Or, Cane. factors were thrown.

with a loud voice, faying: † Eli, Eli, lamma fabathani ? C. That is: + My God, my God, why haft thou forfaken me? C. And fome that flood there, and heard him, faid: S. He calleth Elias. C. And forthwith one of them ran, and taking a ponge, filled it with vinegar and put it on a reed, and gave it him to drink. But others faid: S. Stay, let us fee whether Elias will come and deliver him. C. And Jefus crying again with a loud voice, gave up the ghoft. And behold the veil of the temple was rent in two, from the top to the bottom: and the earth trembled, and the rocks were rent asunder, and the monuments were opened: and many bodies of the faints, who flept, arose. And going out of their monuments, after his refurrection, they came into the holy city, and appeared to many. But the Centurion, and they who were with him watching Jefus, feeing the earthquake, and all that had happened, were very much afraid, and faid: S. Truly, this man was the Son of God. C. And many women were there at a distance, who had followed Jefus from Galilee, and had waited on him: among whom was Mary Magdalen, and Mary the mother of James and of Jofeph, and the mother of the fons of Zebedee. And when it was now evening, there came a rich man of Arimathea, called Jofeph, who was alfo a difciple of Jefus. He came to Pilate and begged the body of Jefus. And Pilate commanded the body to be given him. And Jofeph taking the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in a new monument of his own, which he had cut out of a rock. And he rolled a great ftone against the door of the monument, and went away. And Mary Magdalen was there and the other Mary, fitting over-against the fepulchre.

*Here all kneel down, and pause for a while, indulging thofe emotions of the foul that must arife in a Chriftian breaft at the thoughts of the God-man expiring for our fins.

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Here is faid: Cleanfe my heart, &c. as p. xvi. TOW the next day, which followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharifees came together to Pilate, faying: Sir, we remember, this feducer faid, while he was yet alive: After three days I will rife again. Command therefore the fepulchre to be guarded till the third day: left perhaps his difciples come and fteal him away, and then fay to the people: He is rifen from the dead. And fo the laft error will be worse than the firft. Pilate faid to them: You have a guard; go and keep watch, as you know beft. And going away, they fecured the fepulchre by placing guards, and fealing the stone,

OFFERTORY. P. lxviii.

My heart hath long borne reproach and mifery: and I looked for fome one to condole with me, and there was none. I fought for one to comfort me, and found none: they gave me gall to eat, and vinegar to drink in my thirft.

Improperium expectavit cor meum & miferiam: & fuftinui qui fimul mecum contriftaretur, & non fuit. Confolantem me quæfivi & non inveni: & dederunt in escam meam fel, & in fiti meâ potaverunt me aceto.

SECRET.

Rant, we beseech thee, O Lord, that what hath been offered in the prefence of thy divine majefty, may procure us the grace of devotion, and effectually obtain a bleffed eternity. Thro'. COMMUNION. Matt. xxvi. Father, if this cup cannot pass away, but I muft drink it, thy will

be done.

Pater, fi non poteft hic calix tranfire, nifi bibam illum, fiat voluntas tua.

POSTCOMMUNION. Per hujus. AY our vices, O Lord, be deftroyed, and our

M righteous defires fulfilled by the efficacy of

thefe myfteries. Thro'.

In private Maffes, faid without the bleffing of the Palms, inftead of the GOSPEL: In the beginning, is faid the GOSPEL. Matt. xxi. as above, p. 155.

VESPERS.

The LITTLE CHAPTER. Brethren. Beginning of the EPISTLE to, p. 165. HYMN, p. 127. V. and R. as p. 122. PRAYER. Collect as Mass.

MONDAY.

MASS.

INTROIT. defeat those that assault me: take J

Udge thofe, O Lord, who hurt me;

PS. 34.

thy armour and shield, and come to my affiftance, O Lord, my mighty Saviour. Pf. Draw thy fword, and ftop thofe that are in purfuit of me: fay to my foul: I am thy falvation. Judge, O Lord, &c. to Pf.

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COLLECT. Da, quæfumus.

Rant, we beseech thee, O Almighty God, that we, who, thro' our weakness, faint under fo many adverfities, may recover by the paffion of thy only begotten Son. Who, with thee and the Holy Ghoft, liveth, &c.

LESSON. Ifaias 1. 5, 10. IN thofe days: Ifaias faid: The Lord God hath opened my ear, and I contradict him not: and I turned not my back on him. I have given up my body to those that struck me, and my cheeks to thofe that plucked them: I have not turned away my face from those that abused me and spit on me. 'The Lord God is my help, therefore am I not afhamed: therefore have I made my face like a hard rock, and I know that I fhall not be put to fhame. He is at hand who justifieth me, who will declare against me? Let us ftand up together, who Expl. To the hearing bis voice and inftructions.

is my adverfary? Let him come forth to me. Behold the Lord God is my helper, who is it that will condemn me? Behold they fhall all be deftroyed as a garment, the moth fhall eat them. Which of you feareth the Lord, and heareth the voice of his fervant? He that hath walked in darkness, and hath no light, let him hope in the name of the Lord, and rely on the Lord his God.

GRADUAL. P. 34. Arife, O Lord, be attentive to my trial; my God and my Lord, undertake my caufe. V. Draw thy fword, ftop thofe that are in pursuit of me.

TRACT. Deal not, O Lord, &c. as above,

p. 29.

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GOSPEL. John xii. 1, 9.

IX days before the Paffover, Jefus came to Bethania, where Lazarus had died, whom Jefus raised again. And they made a supper for him there: and Martha waited, and Lazarus was one of those that were at table with him. And Mary took a pound of very excellent fpikenard, and anointed the feet of fefus, and wiped his feet with her hair and the houfe was filled with the odour of the perfume. Therefore one of his difciples, Judas the Ifcariot, who was about to betray him, faid: Why was not this perfume fold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor? And he faid this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the purse, carried what was put in it. Jefus therefore faid: Let her alone, that The may keep it for the day of my burial. For you have the poor always with you, but me you have not always. And a great multitude of the Jews knew he was there; and they came not only on account of Jefus, but to fee Lazarus, whom he had raifed from the dead.

OFFERTORY. Pf. 142. Deliver me from my

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