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seech thee, O Lord, the prayers of thy people; that we who are justly afflicted for our sins, may be mercifully delivered for the glory of thy name. Thro EPISTLE. 1 Cor. ix. 24, and x. 1. Brethren: Know you not that they that run in the race, all run indeed, but one receiveth the prize? So run that you may obtain. And every one that striveth for the mastery, refraineth himself from all things; and they indeed that they may receive a corruptible I therefore crown; but we an incorruptible one. so run, not as at an uncertainty; I so fight, not as one beating the air; but I chastise my body, and bring it into subjection; lest perhaps, when I have preached to others, I myself should become a cast away. Chap. x. 1, 5. For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea. And all in Moses were baptized in the cloud, and in the sea; and did all eat the same spiritual food; and all drank the same spiritual drink, (and they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.) But with the most of them God was not well pleased.

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GRAD. Ps. ix. A helper in due time in tribulation. Let them trust in thee who know thee: for thou hast not forsaken them that seek thee O Lord. V. For the poor man shall not be forgotten to the end: the patience of the poor man shall not perish for ever. Arise, O Lord, let not man prevail. TRACT. Ps. cxxix. Out of the depths I have cried to thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice. F Let thy ears be attentive to the voice of my suppli V. If thou, O Lord, wilt mark iniquities, Lord, who shall stand it. For with thee there is merciful forgiveness: and by reason of thy Law, I From this day till Ash-Wednesday, the Tract is said

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on Sundays and Festivals only.

GOSPEL. Matt. xx. 1, 16. At that time: Jesus

spoke to his disciples this parable: The kingdom of heaven is like to a householder who went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. And when having agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And going out about the third hour, he saw others standSong in the market place idle. And he said to them: Go you also into my vineyard, and I will give you what shall be just. And they went their way. And again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did in like manner. But about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing, and be saith to them: Why stand you here all the day idle? They say to him: Because no man hath hired us He saith to them: Go you also into my vineyard.

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yard said to his steward: Call the labourers and pay was come, the Lord of the vinethem their hire, beginning from the last even to the first. When therefore they were come, that came about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny. But when the first also came, they thought that they should have received more: and they also received every man a penny. And receiving it they murmured against the master of the house, saying: These last have worked but one hour, and thou hast made them equal to us that have borne the burden of the day, and the heats. But he answering said to one of them, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst thou not agree with me for a penny? Take what is thine, and go thy way: I will also give to this last even as to thee. Or, is it not lawful for me to do what I will? Is thy eye evil, because I am good? So shall the last be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few chosen. the Lord, and to sing to thy name, O Most High. OFFERT. Ps. xci. It is good to give praise to ings and prayers, cleanse us, we beseech thee, by SECRET. Having received, O Lord, our offer these

The Creed.

COMM. Ps. xxx. Make thy face to shine upen thy servant; save me in thy mercy. Let me not be confounded, for I have called upon thee.

P. COMM. Fideles. May thy faithful, O God, be strengthened by these thy mysteries; that receiv ing them, they may still desire them; and desiring them may eternally receive them. Thro'.

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INTROIT. Ps. xliii. Exurge, quare, &c. ARISE, why sleepest thou, O Lord? Arise, and cast us not off to the end. Why turnest thou thy face away? and forgettest our tribulation. Our belly cleaveth to the earth: Arise, O Lord, help us, deliver us. Ps. We have heard, O God, with our ears: our fathers have declared to us thy wonders. V. Glory.

COLLECT. Deus qui. O God, who seest that we place no confidence in any thing we do: merci fully grant that, by the protection of the Doctor of the Gentiles, we may be defended against all adver sity. Thro'.

EPISTLE. 2 Cor. xi. 19, 33. and xii. 1, 9. Bre thren: You gladly suffer the foolish: whereas your selves are wise. For you suffer if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take from you, if a man be lifted up, if a man strike you on the face. I speak according to dishonour, as if we had been weak in this part. Wherein if any man dare (I speak foolishly) I dare also. They are He brews: so am I. They are Israclites: so am I. They are the seed of Abraham: so am I. They are the ministers of Christ (I speak as one less wise) I am more; in many more labours, in prisons

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frequently, in stripes above measure, in deaths often. Of the Jews five times did I receive forty stripes, Thrice was I beaten with rods, once I was stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck; a night and

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a day I was in the depth of the sea. often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own nation, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils from false brethren. In labour and painfulness, in much watchings, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Besides these things which are without; my daily instance, the solicitude for all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is scandalized, and I am not on fire? If I must needs glory; I will glory of the things that concern my infirmity. The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed for ever, knoweth that I lie not.

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mascus the governor of the nation under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes, to apprehend me: and through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and so escaped his hands. [Chap. xii. 1. If I must glory (it is not expedient indeed:) but I will come to the visions and revelations of the Lord. I know a man in Christ about fourteen years ago, (whether in the body I know not, or out of the body, I know not, God knoweth,) such a one rapt even to the third heaven. And I know I cannot tell; God knoweth) how he was caught up (whether in the body, or out of the body, into paradise; and heard secret words, which is not granted to man to utter. For such a one I will glory;

such a man

but for myself I will glory nothing, but in my infirI shall not be foolish; for I will say the truth. But mities. For though I should have a mind to glory, I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth in me, or any thing he heareth from me. And lest the greatness of the revelations should lift me up, there was given me a sting of my flesh, an angel of Satan, to buffet me. thing I thrice besought the Lord, that it might depart from me: and he said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee; for power is made perfect in infirmity.

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Gladly therefore will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may dwell in me.

GRAD. Ps. lxxxi. Let the Gentiles know that God is thy name: thou alone art the Most High over all the earth. V. O my God, make them like

a wheel; and as stubble before the wind.

Thou hast moved the earth, TRACT. Ps. lix. O Lord, and hast troubled it. V. Heal the breaches thereof, for it is moved. V. That they may fee from before the bow; that thy elect may be deliver

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GOSPEL. Luke viii. 4, 16. At that time: When a very great multitude was gathered together and hastened out of the cities to meet Jesus, he spoke by a similitude. A sower went out to sow his seed, and as he sowed some fell by the way side, and it wa trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it And other some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away because it had no moisture. And other some fell among thorns, and the thorns growing up with it, choked it. And other some fell upon good ground; and sprung up, yielded fruit a hundred-fold. Saying these things he cried out, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. And his disciples asked him what this parable might be. To whom he said: To you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but to the rest in parables: that seeing they may not see, and bearing they may not understand. Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. And they by the way side, are they that hear, then the devil cometh, and taketh the word out of their hearts, lest be lieving they should be saved. Now they upon

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rock, are they who when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no roots; for they believe for a while, and in time of temptation fall away. And that which fell among thorns, are they who have heard, and going their way, are choked with the cares and the riches and pleasures of this life. and