thieves, numbered amongst transgressors, blasphemed both by them that stood by, and by them that passed by; and in the extremity of Thy sufferings criedst out, "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" Thy head bowed down, Thou didst give up the ghost; and Thy side was pierced by a soldier, whence issued both water and blood. Taken down from the cross, and buried by Joseph, the third day Thou didst rise again, and appear to Thy disciples. The fortieth day Thou ascendedst into Heaven; and sitting on the right hand of God the Father, Thou didst send down the promise of the Holy Ghost upon Thy blessed Apostles and Disciples: and shalt come again to judgment, to render to all men according to their works done in the body, whether they be good, or whether they be evil.

O blessed Lord Jesus, by all these Thy most sacred sufferings, by Thy bitter Death and most precious Blood shed for us, and by all things foretold of Thee and fulfilled by Thee, vouchsafe in great mercy to deliver me, a sordid sinner, with all my friends and enemies, parents, brothers, sisters, all that are poor and desolate, tempted and afflicted, bound and imprisoned, with all Christian people. From all our tribulations and distresses, from the snares of the devil, from the bonds and chains of our sins, and from all evils both of soul and body, good Lord, deliver, save, and defend us.

All our imaginations and actions vouchsafe so to dispose and order, that they may be acceptable unto

Thee; fill us with Thy grace, and with holy peace, and with all virtue; and grant us herein to persevere even unto death: that making a good end of this present life, Thou mayest bring us to eternal life in Thy Celestial Kingdom, where Thou livest and reignest.

1.

I ADORE Thee, holy Lord Jesus, hanging upon the Cross, and bearing on Thy venerable Head a crown of thorns; and I humbly beg, by Thy Cross, to be delivered from the destroying angel.

II.

I adore Thee, holy Lord Jesus Christ, expanded on the Cross, with five great wounds in Thy nailed hands and feet, and pierced side and I humbly beg, that Thy dire and ghastly wounds may be a healing remedy to my sin-sick soul.

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I adore Thee, holy Lord Jesus, panting under the sad weight of the sins of the world: and I humbly beg, by that inconceivable bitterness of sorrow, Thy innocent soul suffered in that moment when it left the body, have mercy upon my soul in the moment of her departure hence.

IV.

I adore Thee, holy Lord Jesus, laid in the sepulchre, and anointed with myrrh and aloes; and I humbly beg, that Thy death may be the life of my soul.

V.

O save, holy Jesus, the Good Shepherd, Who laid down His life for His sheep, save and preserve the righteous, call home the wicked, justify the penitent, have mercy upon all true believers, and upon me a miserable sinner. Amen.

CHAPTER VII.

THE FORM OF PRAYER USED BY OUR LORD UPON THE CROSS, VIZ., THE TWENTY-SECOND PSALM PARAPHRASED.

"My God, My God," so prayed my dear Redeemer hanging upon the Cross; the gemination of His words expressing both the great devotion, and also the bitter anguish of His soul; "look upon me;" imploring Divine commiseration and assistance in the sufferings of His human nature. "Why hast Thou forsaken Me?" that is the height of sorrow and suffering, to be therein forsaken, as if the personal union of His divine and human nature were dissolved ; " and art so far from My health," not affording the least mitigation of My tormenting pains, or consolation therein, "and from the words of My complaint?" or, the voice of My roaring? for, "with strong crying and tears, I offer up My prayers and supplications"."

2. "O My God," I will never cease to call Thee so, though now Thine indignation for the sins of the world lieth heavy upon Me, so that though "I cry in the day-time," in the which I suffer the torments of crucifixion," "yet Thou hearest Me not :" so as to de

n Heb. v. 7.