The Compleat Office of the Holy Week with Notes and Explications (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1687. Excerpt: ... CA PH. Mine eyes have failed for tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured out on the earth for the destruction of the daughter of my people, when the little one and the fucking fainted in the streets of the town. Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Convert unto the Lord thy God. R E s P. The Church represents unto.us, That twas through the just Judgment of God that those Calamities befel the Jews, which were foretold by the Prophet Jeremy, because they offered such Indignities to the Son of God, our Lord JESUS CHRIST. All my friends have forsaken me, and those that laid snares for me have prevailed against me; and looking furiously upon me, gave me most cruel stripes, and gave me vineger to drink. He whom I loved hath betrayed me.-: V. They threw me among the wicked, and they spared not my soul: And looking furiously on me, r.. II. LessoN. LAMED. THey said to their Mothers, Where is the wheat and wine? when they fainted as the wounded in the streets of the t I city, when they yielded up the ghosts id the bosom of their mothers. MEM. Whereto mall t compare theej or whereto shall I liken thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? Whereto shall I make thee equal, and comfort thee,0 virgin daughter of Sion For great is thy destruction as the sea; who shall heal thee? Thy prophets have 'feed false and foolish things for thee neither have they opened thy iniquity, to provoke thee to penance; but they have seen false burdens and banishments for thee. SAMECH. All that pasted by the way have clapped their hands upon thee: they have hiss'd and mov'd their head upon the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city of perfect beauty, the joy of all the earth? Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Convert unto the Lord thy God. Res P. The Church declares unto os the Blindness and Obst...