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Faith is my Eye, Faith Strength affords,
To keep Pace with thofe gracious Words;
And Words more sweet,more fure than they
Love could not think, Truth could not fay.

O dear Memorial of that Death,
Which still furvives, and gives us Breath!
Live ever, Bread of Life, and be
My Food, my Joy, and All to me

Come, glorious Lord, my Hopes encrease,
And fill my Portion in thy Peace.
Come, hidden Life, and that long Day,
For which I languish, come away.

Where this dry Soul, thofe Eyes shall fee,
And drink the unfeal'd Source of Thee.
When Glory's Sun, Faith's Shade fhall chace,
And for thy Veil give me thy Face.

Antiphon.

He feeds the young Ravens that call upon him, and fays, He efteems us much better than they Behold a full Proof! He feeds them, and all Things elfe, but to feed us. Behold yet a fuller, and, O Riddle of Bounty! even out of the Feeder himself comes Food for us.

V. The Bread of Life which came down from Heaven.

R. Feeds us with the Bread, which is the Object both of Sense and Understanding.

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Let us Pray.

Bounteous Lord, the continual Supplier of thy Creatures with all convenient Suftenance to advance our Growth, and Strength, till we are fit to take Hea ven by Violence, and rife at length to be eternal Enjoyers of thy felf. Fix, we beseech thee, our Eyes, and Adoration on that open Hand, which thus graciously gives us our daily Bread. And grant that the wonderful Feast of thy Son's Body, and Blood may duly fanctifie our Taftes to all other thy Bounties, that they may relish, as they are, only thy great Love to us, and feed as they ought, purely thy dear Love in us, through the fame our Lord Jefus Chrift. Amen.

Thursday Vefpers.

In the Name, &c. as at Sunday Vefpers.
Antiphon.

Whither, O my God, fhould we wander, if left to our felves? Where should we fix our Hearts, if not directed to thee?

PSALM LX.

Unhappy Man! at firft created juft; as

every Work comes fair from the Hands of God.

At firft endow'd with Dominion over the Earth, and, which was more, with Dominion over himself.

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At first not only made fole Lord of Paradice; but Heir Apparent of the Heaven of Heavens.

All this was loft by one rash A&t; disobeying the Law of thy wife Creator.

All this, alas, we loft by thy Tranfgreffion, which brought in Sin, and Death, and univerfal Mifery.

Our Bodies were deprav'd by thy Diftemper; and our Souls made fit for fuch deprav'd Bodies.

Our Senfes quickly rebell'd against Reafon; and both together confpir'd against Grace.

Dulness, and Ignorance o'refpread the World; Error, and Vice poffeft Mankind. The Law they obferv'd was their own unruly Appetite; and the Deity worshipp'd, the Work of their own Hands.

Even the selected People of the true God; the favourite Nation of the Almighty Providence.

They who were brought out of Egypt with fo many Wonders; and feated in a Country flowing with Milk and Honey.

They who had feen the Sea divide before them; and stand of each fide as a Wall to defend them.

They who had tafted the Quails, and the Manna from Heaven; and drunk of the Streams that came gufhing out from the

Rock.

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Even they forgot their great Deliverer; and fet up for their God a Golden Calf.

They could not worship what they did not fee; they must have Gods to go before them.

Thus lay the miferable World, all covered with Darkness, and the thickest Mists of grofs Idolatry.

Thus had poor Man quite loft his Way; and all he could do was to wander up and down a while.

Till when his few vain Years were spent, he fuddenly defcended into everlasting Sor

rows.

This mov'd thy Pity, gracious Lord! who often art found by thofe that feek thee

not.

Who never withdraweft thy Hand in time of need; but constantly suppliest us in all our diftresses.

This mov'd thy Pity to undertake our Relief to come down thy felf to dwell among us.

To refcue the deluded World from Idolatry, and call Men by thy Preachers from Darkness to thy marvellous faving Light.

Thou cameft first to thine own, and dwelt among them, that they might fee thy Glory, the Glory as of the only begotten Son of God, that God-Man, whom they might fafely worship.

But thou again, dear Lord, must leave our World; and though it be good for us, 'tis hard to part from thee. Thou

Thou must again afcend into thy Father's Bofom, to prepare a Place for thy faithful Followers.

Yet even then, O thou wife and infinite Goodness! thou didst not wholly forfake our Earth.

But didft both fend thy Holy Spirit to guide, and comfort us; and give thy felf in the holy Eucharift to feed and nourish our hungry Souls with that Sacramental Food.

Still thou art really prefent to us in that holy Mystery of Love, and we offer up our Devotions in it, with our utmoft Reverence, Wonder, and Love.

We know 'tis impoffible to adore, and love our God too much; O that it were poffible to love, and admire him, and adore him enough.

Glory be to the Father, &c.

As it was in the Beginning, &c.

Antiphon.

Whither, O my God, fhould we wander, if left to our felves? Where should we fix our Hearts, if not directed by thee?

Ant.] Bleffed be thy Providence, O'God, that fo tenderly nurfes up the World still growing on to new Degrees of Perfection. PSALM LXI.

Coming wrought! what glorious Ef

feets has thy Coming produced.

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