VII. SLEEP. JAKER of all, the Lord, Who, robing day in light, haft poured That to our limbs the power Of toil may be renewed, And hearts be raised that fink and cower, And forrows be fubdued. ST. AMBROSE. VIII. REDEMPTION. ING, my tongue, the glorious battle Tell the triumph of the ftrife; quered, By furrendering of His life. God, His Maker, forely grieving Whofe reward was death and hell, Of the ancient wood to quell. For the work of our Salvation Needs would have His order fo, And the multiform deceiver's Art by art would overthrow ; And from thence would bring the medicine Whence the venom of the foe. Wherefore, when the facred fulness Of the appointed time was come, Weeps the infant in the manger That in Bethlehem's ftable stands ; And His limbs the Virgin Mother Doth compose in swaddling bands, Meetly thus in linen folding Of her God the feet and hands. Thirty years among us dwelling, On the Crofs the Lamb is lifted, On whofe Death our hope we build. He endured the shame and spitting, Water thence and blood proceed. Faithful Crofs! above all other One and only noble tree! Bend thy boughs, O Tree of glory! That thy boughs, O Tree of Glory! Thou alone was counted worthy With the Sacred Blood anointed From the wounded Lamb that rolled. Laud and honour to the Father, Laud and honour to the Son, While unending ages run. VENANTIUS*, 6th Cent. *The above, which may be placed in the very first class of Latin hymns, beginning "Pange, lingua, gloriofi," was composed by Venantius Fortunatus, Bishop of Poitiers, during the time of Auguftine's miffion to this country. IX. THE HOLY SPIRIT. OME, Holy Ghoft, our fouls infpire, Thou the Anointing Spirit art, Who doft Thy feven-fold gifts impart. Thy bleffed unction from above The dulnefs of our blinded fight. Anoint and cheer our foiled face Teach us to know the Father, Son, Praise to Thy eternal merit, GREGORY, 6th Cent. *This beautiful hymn, fo well known from its being introduced in the Ordination Service of the Church of England, has been frequently attributed to Charlemagne in the 8th century, but Mone, in his "Collection of Latin Hymns of the Middle Ages," more correctly adjudges the authorship to Gregory, commonly called "The Great." X. THE HEAVENLY JERUSALEM. LESSED city, Heavenly Salem, Coming new from highest heaven, Bright with pearls her portal glitters; It is open evermore : And by virtue of their merits There each faithful foul may foar Who, for Chrift's dear Name, in this world Pain and tribulation bore. Many a blow and biting fculpture In their places now compacted Who therewith hath willed for ever |