and issue of My death of which seed it is said, "When thou shalt make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed"," even the fruits of His Passion, devout believers, who "shall serve Him :" or, keep His holy Will and Commandments, and walk in the same all the days of their life; "they shall be counted unto the Lord for a generation," being regenerated by water and the Holy Ghost in Baptism; whereby they are made members of Christ, children of God, and heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven.

32. "They shall come," being admitted into the glorious communion of His blessed Saints," and the Heavens" both above and below, both the Church triumphant and militant, "shall declare His righteousness," His mercies promised, and performed in the redemption of the world, shall be proclaimed to all succeeding generations, "to a people that shall be born," new-born in and through all the ages of the Church, "whom the Lord hath made," His own peculiar people, whose mouths are filled with His praise for ever, saying,

Glory be to the Father, &c.

As it was in the beginning, &c.

In the Greek Liturgy, the people pray, in the words of the thief upon the cross,

Lord, remember us in Thy Kingdom.

The Priest answers,

God be mindful of every one of us in His Kingdom, both now and always, for ever and ever. Amen.

b Isaiah liii. 10.

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In the Mozarabick Liturgy.

I.

By the wood of a tree was Adam banished out of Paradise and from the tree of wood, the Cross of Christ, the thief that was crucified with our Lord ascended into Paradise. The one, by eating the forbidden fruit, transgressed the Law of his Maker: the other confessed Christ, in His Crucifixion, to be the Lord of Heaven, saying, "Lord, remember me, when Thou comest into Thy Kingdom."

II.

Grant unto us, O Lord, the repentance of the thief upon the Cross; and that we may with the like faith call upon Thee our Lord of great and much mercy, saying, "Lord, remember us in Thy Kingdom."

III.

Lord, Thou hast made us in the image of Thine ineffable glory, which we have much defaced by the black marks of our many falls: have mercy upon the work of Thine hands, sanctify us of Thy great goodness, and restore us to our much-desired country, the celestial Paradise. "Lord remember us in Thy Kingdom."

MEDITATIONS AND PRAYERS PREPARATORY TO THE BLESSED SACRAMENT, ON SATURDAY NIGHT OR SUNDAY MORNING BEFORE.

I.

THOU art now invited, O my soul, to such a banquet as Heaven and earth affords not the like. It is the Precious Body and Blood of thy Redeemer, which He first gave to be the price of thy redemption, and now gives again to be thy food and nourishment.

Teach me, O Lord, by Thy Holy Spirit, to understand and believe, and ever to conceive and speak of those great and wonderful mysteries (and this day to receive the same) with that faith and esteem, humility and contrition, holy desires and resolutions, reverence and devotion, as may please Thee, and conduce to my soul's salvation.

Empty my heart of all vain, idle, wandering thoughts, and of all filthy, irrational, and exorbitant lusts. Take from me this heart of stone, and give me a heart of flesh, a soft and melting heart, to fear

Thee, love Thee, honour Thee, delight in Thee, and so to follow Thee, that I may be for ever happy in the enjoyment of Thee.

II.

OUT OF ST. AUGUSTINE.

O holy crucified Jesus, I humbly beg, by that sacred effusion of Thy most Precious Blood, give unto Thy servant the effusion of tears, with compunction of spirit, when I approach Thine Altar, to partake of that Celestial Sacrament, worthy of all reverence, and the most inflamed devotion, which Thou, O Lord God, didst institute, and command to be received, in commemoration of Thine infinite love in dying for us, and for the reparation of our manifold infirmities, and daily failings.

OUT OF THOMAS AQUINAS.

Grant me, Blessed Lord, not only to receive that Sacrament in the outward elements, but in the virtue and power thereof; not Bread and Wine alone, but the Body and Blood of my Jesus, to the remission of all my sins, and to all other the benefits of His Death and Passion for me.

III.

OUT OF THOMAS AQUINAS.

"The whole need not a physician, but they that are sick." And such am I, a diseased sin-sick soul; and as sick I now go to my Physician; as a sinner,

c Man. c. 11.

to the Redeemer of fallen man; as miserable, to the Father of mercy; as unclean, to the Fountain of purity; as poor and needy, to the Lord of all bounty; as blind and ignorant, to the Brightness and Splendour of Spirits; as infirm and weak, to the Strength of Israel. And O, that it may please Thee to enlighten my darkness, to heal all my infirmities, to enrich my poverty, to strengthen my weakness, to wash away all my uncleanness, and by the Communion of Thy Precious Body and Blood to cleanse me from all filthiness both of flesh and spirit, that I may "perfect holiness in the fear of the Lord."

IV.

OUT OF THOMAS A KEMPIS.

Thou didst offer up Thyself, blessed Jesus, even Thy whole self, upon the Altar of the Cross, a sacrifice for my sins: no member of Thy Body not tormented, no power of Thy soul not sacrificed, no drop of Thy Blood not shed for me a miserable sinner. It is therefore most just and meet, and my bounden duty, that I should offer up myself, my whole self, to Thee and to Thy service: for I am not mine own, being bought with a price; and such a price as transcends the value of all that the whole heavens and earth afford beside.

Whatever I offer unto Thee, O Lord, though it be all that I do enjoy in the world, with my prayers for all men, it will not be accepted, without the offering of myself; for it is not mine, but me; not all