ry of the Machabees, bewing that what is bere foretold, vas there accomplished. Others maintain that this Pfalm Speaks of the Ruin of Jerufalem, caufed by Nabuchadonofor Whether it be the one or the other, what is said in it may be very well applied in general to the Church, and to the Faithful in Perfecution..

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God, the Gentiles are come into thy in heritance; they have polluted thy holy temple; they have made Jerufalem an orchard of Fruit.

They have made the dead bodies of thy fervants meat for the fowls of the air ; the flesh of thy Saints for the beafts of the earth. They have poured out their blood, as water round about Jerufalem: And there was none to bury them.

We are become a reproach to our neigh bours; a fcorn and derifion to them that are about us.

How long, O Lord, wilt thou be angry for ever? How long will thy zeal be kindled as a Fire?

Pour out thy wrath upon the Gentiles, that have not known thee; and upon the king doms, that have not called on thy name.

Because they have devoured Jacob, and his place they have made defolate.

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Remember not our paft iniquities.; let thy mercies make hafte to prevent us, because our mifery is very great.

Help us, O God our Saviour; and for the glory of thy name, O Lord, deliver us; and be merciful unto our fins, for thy name's. fake.

...Left perhaps they fay among the Gentiles where is their God? And it be known in the nations before our eyes.

Vengeance for the blood of thy fervants which has been fhed: Let the groans of thofe that are fettered, come into thy fight. According to the greatnefs of thy arm, poffefs thou the children of them that are put to death:

And render to our neighbours feven-fold in their bofom, and turn upon them the confufion of what they have done against thee, O Lord.

But we thy people, and the fheep of thy pafture, will confefs to thee for ever.

From generation to generation, we wilk fet forth thy praise.

Glory be to the Father. Or the Pfalm, Our God is a refuge, as before, page 10.

The Pfalm bring ended, fay ;

V. Convert us, O Lord, the God of powers.

R. And how thy face, and we fhall be fafe..

V. Arife, O Chrift, and help us. R. And deliver us for thy name fake. V. O Lord, hear my prayer. B. And let my cry come

to thee.

A Prayer to require the Suffrages of the Saints. EFEND us, O Lord, we beseech thee, from all dangers of mind and body:

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and by the interceffion of the ever Bleffed and glorious Virgin Mary, Mother of God; and of thy bleffed Apoftles Peter and Paul, and the bleffed N. and all the faints, grant us health and peace, that all adverfities and errors being deftroyed, thy church may serve thee with fecurity and freedom: Through our Lord.

A Prayer for the Holy Church of God,

ALMIGHTY and everlafting God,. who haft revealed thy glory to all na tions in Chrift: preferve the works of thy mercy; that the church fpread through the world, may preferve with a steadfast faith in the confeffion of thy name: Through the fame Jefus Chrift our Lord..

A Prayer for the chief Bishop:

GOD the paftor and governor of all the faithful; mercifully regard thy fervant N, whom thou haft placed as chief paftor: over thy church grant him, we beseech: thee, both by thy word and example to profit those who are under his charge; to the end, that together with the flock committed to his care, he may gain everlafting life: Through our Lord.

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A Prayer for all Dangers of the Church:

LMIGHTY and everlasting God, by whofe holy fpirit, the whole body of the church is fanctified and governed; hear,

we beseech thee, our humble fupplications for all orders, states, and degrees thereof; that by the gift of thy grace, they may all, in their feveral, ftations, faithfully ferve thee in unity, peace, and perpetual charity; Through our Lord.

A Prayer in any Necefity:

GOD, our refuge and our ftrength, the fource of all goodness, hear the devout prayers of thy church, and grant that what we faithfully afk, we may effectually obtain: Through our Lord.

A Prayer against the Perfecutors of the Christ.

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WE beseech thee, O Lord, admit the prayers of the church, and merci fully appeafe thy wrath against us; that alk adverfities and errors being deftroyed, we may ferve thee with fecurity and freedom: Through our Lord.

A Prayer to demand Help against Infidels:

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FOST merciful God, who remembereft not the iniquities of them that turn to thee, but mercifully heareft the voice of their tears: behold with pity thy temples profaned by the hands of Infidels, and the affliction of thy beloved flock: Remember: thy inheritance, purchafed with the fhedding of the most precious blood of thy only begotten Son; vifit the vineyard planted by

thy right hand. and defend it from the wild boar, which is broken into it, and endeavours to destroy it; ftrengthen the labourers in it by thy power; and giving them victory over their enemies here, make them hereafter poffeffors of thy kingdom: Through the fame Jefus Chrift.

A Prayer for the Emperor.

GOD, the protector of all Kingdoms, and especially the Chriftian Empire; grant that thy fervant N. our Emperor, may prudently advance the triumphs of thy appointment, he may prevail by thy ftrength: Through our Lord.

A Prayer to be faid every Day, in Time of Perfecution

MY Lord Jefus Chrift, true God and

Man, who fuffered ft an ignominious death on the crofs, for my redemption; I humbly offer to thee my foul, my body, my life, my lands, my goods, and all my fortunes, to be wholly difpofed according to thy moft heavenly will; and if it be thy holy pleasure, that I lofe my life or fortune, for profeffing thy holy name, and Catholic religion, Lord, I humbly and freely fubmit to all befeeching thee, of thy infinite goodnefs and mercy, by the merits of thy bitter death and paffion, to be pleafed to forgive my fins; give me ftrength and patience, to overcome all temptations and adverfities;