mercy, that he will now release you from all your sins, and, at the hour of your death, will receive you into the mansions of eternal rest. This will be your happiness, if perfectly disengaging your heart from the things of this world, you long with the Apostle "to be dissolved, and to be with Christ." Looking upon this earth therefore as a land of exile, let your thoughts and your sighs be directed to that heavenly country for which you have been created, at one moment exclaiming with the Psalmist: "Who will give me wings like a dove, and I will fly and be at rest ?" at another, anticipating with joy the blissful scenes of that Jerusalem above, where all tears shall be wiped from your eyes, where death shall be no more, where you will live forever in the secure possession of that happiness which the eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man hath ever conceived.

OF

A FEW PRAYERS

IN THE

CEREMONY OF BAPTISM.

Si igitur, etc., page 17.

If then thou desirest to enter into life, keep the commandments: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind, and thy neighbor as thyself.

Accipe vestem, etc., page 25.

Receive this white garment, and see thou carry it without stain before the judgment-seat of our Lord Jesus Christ, that thou mayest have eternal life. R. Amen.

Accipe lampadem, etc., ibid.

Receive this burning light, and keep thy Baptism, so as to be without blame: keep the commandments of God, that when the Lord shall come to the nuptials, thou mayest meet him in the company of all the Saints in the heavenly court, and have eternal life, and live for ever and ever. R. Amen.

INDEX

ET ORDO PRÆCIPUARUM RERUM, QUÆ IN HOC RITUALIS
COMPENDIO CONTINENTUR.