To you our hearty vows we show, Hear your petitioners below. The gates of heav'n by your command Are faften'd clofe, open ftand; or Grant, we beseech you then, that we From finful flav'ry may be free. Sickness and health your power obey; This comes, and that you drive away: Then from our fouls all fickness chace, Let healing virtues take it's place. That when our judge returns to weigh Our actions at the dreadful day, Coelum refultet laudi bus : Apoftolorum gloriam Tellus & aftra conci nunt. Vos fæculorum judi ces, Et vera mundi lumina, Votisprecamur cordium, Audite voces fupplicum. Qui templa cœli clau- Serafque verbo folvitis, Nos à reatu noxios Solvi jubete, quæfumus. Præcepta quorum protinus Languor-falufque fenti- unt; Sanate mentes langui-: das; Augete nos virtutibus. Ut cum redibit arbiter In fine Chriftus fæculi, The world began, for ever more. Amen. V. Their found hath gone all over the earth. R. And their words to the utmost bounds of the globe. Nos fempiterni gauḍii Concedat effe compotes. Patri, fimulque Filio, Tibique, Sancte Spiritus, Sicut fuit, fit jugiter, Sæclum per omne, gloria. Amen. V. In omnem terram exivit fonus eorum. R. Et in fines orbis terræ verba eorum. At the MAGNIFICAT. Anth. They fhal' deliver you up to their councils, and fcourge you in their fynagogues: and fhall be carried you before kings and governors on my account, for a teftimony to them and the Gentiles. Ant. Tradent enim vos in conciliis, & in fynagogis fuis flagellabunt vos: & ante reges & præfides ducemini propter me, in teftimonium illis & Gentibus. Pf. cix. Dixit Dominus, p. xli. Anth. The Lord hath fworn. Anth. May the Lord place him with the princes of his people. Ant. Juravit Domi nus. Ant. Collocet eum Dominus cum principibus populi fui. lxxi Pf. cxii. Laudate pueri, p. xliv. n I will take the cup " of falvation,*and call on the name of the Lord. I will pay my vows to the Lord before all his people :*precious in the fight of the Lord is the death of his faints. O Lord, I am truly thy fervant:*I am truly thy fervant, and thy -handmaid's fon. Thou haft broken my bonds afunder :*to thee will I facrifice a facrifice of praife, and call on the name of the Lord. I. will pay my vows to CR Redidi, propter quod locutus fum: * ego autem humiliatus fum nimis. Ego dixi in exceffu meo:*omnis homo men-. dax. Quid retribuam Dopro omnibus, mino, quæ retribuit mihi? Calicem falutaris accipiam,*& nomen Domini invocabo. Vota mea Domino reddam coram omni populo ejus: * pretiofa in confpectu Domini mors fanctorum ejus. O Domine, quia ego fervus tuus, ego fervus tuus, & filius ancillæ n Expl. I will pour out a libation on his altar in thanksgiving for bis having faved me. 6 Lit. We were. But the context directs it to be in the future, and St. Auguftin interprets the whole pfalm of our future and final deliverance from the bondage of corruption.. P Expl. Bring back thy people from their captivity, which will fill them with joy, as a torrent of fresh water doth the inbabitants of the bot, burnt-up countries of the fourb. Going they went and wept, when they caft their feeds. But returning they fhall come with joy, carrying their fheaves. Anth. Going they went. Anth. Mighty is their power, and thy friends are honoured, O God. L Euntes ibant, & flebant,*mittentes femina fua. Venientes autem venient cum exultatione,* portantes manipulos fuos. Ant. Euntes ibant. Ant. Confortatus eft principatus eorum, & honorati funt amici tui, Deus. Pf. cxxxviii. ORD, thou haft tried me, and haft known me : * thou haft known my fitting down, and rifing up. ૧ Thou haft known my thoughts afar off:*my path and my line haft thou examined. D% OMINE, probafti me, & cognovifti me:*tu cognovifti feffionem meam, & refurrectionem meam. Intellexifti cogitationes meas de longè :*femitam meam, & funiculum meum inveftigafti." Et omnes vias meas prævidifti:quia non eft fermo in linguâ meâ. Ecce, Domine, tu cognovifti omnia, novif fima, & antiqua :*tu for-> mafti me, & pofuifti fuper me manum tuam. Mirabilis facta eft fci.. entia tua ex me:*con 9 Expl. Both at reft, and in action. My conduct of life, the rule of my actions. ́'Tis an allusion te the line and plummet of the mafon. Expl. Even in the womb of my mother, as foon as I was formed, bou laid ft bold of me, as thy own. VOL. II. |