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10.10.7.

A great voice of much people in heaven, saying Hallelujah.-Revelation xix. 1.
SING Hallelujah forth in duteous praise,

Ye citizens of heaven; O sweetly raise

An endless Hallelujah.

5 Ye who have gained at length your palms in bliss,
Victorious ones, your chant shall still be this,
An endless Hallelujah.

6 There, in one grand acclaim, for ever ring
The strains which tell the honour of your King,
An endless Hallelujah.

7 This is sweet rest for weary ones brought back,
This is glad food and drink which ne'er shall lack,
An endless Hallelujah.

8 While Thee, by whom were all things made, we praise
For ever, and tell out in sweetest lays

An endless Hallelujah.

9 Almighty Christ, to Thee our voices sing
Glory for evermore; to Thee we bring

An endless Hallelujah. Amen.

Mozarabic Breviary, 5th Century. Tr. John Ellerton. 1865.

The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day!

2 Timothy i. 18.

DAY of wrath, O Day of mourning!

See once more the cross returning,
Heaven and earth in ashes burning.

8.8.8

2 O what fear man's bosom rendeth! When from heaven the Judge descendeth, On whose sentence all dependeth.

3 Wondrous sound the trumpet flingeth, Through earth's sepulchres it ringeth, All before the Throne it bringeth.

4 Death is struck, and nature quaking, All creation is awaking,

To its Judge an answer making.

5 Lo the Book, exactly worded, Wherein all hath been recorded, Thence shall judgment be awarded.

6 When the Judge His seat attaineth, And each hidden deed arraigneth, Nothing unavenged remaineth.

7 What shall I, frail man, be pleading? Who for me be interceding,

When the just are mercy needing?

8 King of majesty tremendous, Who dost free salvation send us, Fount of Pity, then befriend us.

9 Think, kind Jesus, my salvation Caused Thy wondrous incarnation; Leave me not to reprobation!

10 Faint and weary Thou hast sought me, On the cross of suffering bought me ; Shall such grace be vainly brought me ?

11 Righteous Judge of retribution, Grant Thy gift of absolution,

Ere that reckoning-day's conclusion.

12 Guilty now I pour my moaning,
All my shame with anguish owning,
Spare, O God, Thy suppliant groaning!
13 Thou the sinful woman savest ;
Thou the dying thief forgavest,
And to me a hope vouchsafest.

14 Worthless are my prayers and sighing,
Yet, good Lord, in grace complying,
Rescue me from fires undying.

15 With Thy favoured sheep, O place me!
Nor among the goats abase me,
But to Thy right hand upraise me.
16 While the wicked are confounded,
Doomed to flames of woe unbounded,
Call me, with Thy saints surrounded.
17 Low I kneel, with heart-submission,
See, like ashes, my contrition,
Help me, in my last condition.

18 Ah that Day of tears and mourning!
From the dust of earth returning,
Man for judgment must prepare him;
Spare, O God, in mercy spare him!
19 Lord, all pitying, Jesus blest,
Grant us Thine eternal rest. Amen.

From the Latin. Tr. W. J. Irons. 1848.
Verse nineteen Tr. Isaac Williams. 1839.

1041

SANCTUS.

HOLY, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts; heaven and earth are full of Thy glory. Glory be to Thee, O Lord most high.

1042

THE COMMANDMENTS.

EXODUS XX. 1-17.

GOD spake all these words, saying,

I. I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

Lord, have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this law.

II. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: thou shall not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me; and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love Me, and keep My commandments.

Lord, have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this law.

III. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lora will not hold him guiltless that taketh His name in vain.

Lord, have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this law.

IV. Remember the sabbath-day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath-day, and hallowed it.

Lord, have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this law.

V. Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Lord, have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this law.

VI. Thou shalt not kill.

Lord, have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this law. VII, Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Lord, have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this law. VIII. Thou shalt not steal.

Lord, have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this law. IX. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

Lord, have mercy upon us, and incline our hearts to keep this law.

X. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbour's.

Lord, have mercy upon us, and write all these Thy laws in our hearts, we beseech Thee.