Heb. morning p. 37

Horae f.103b

Blessed, praised, celebrated,
magnified, exalted, glorified,
hallowed

be thy Name,* o Lord, and the commemoration
and the memory and every memorial thereof

Rev. xv 3

5

Rev. xix 5

Glory be to Thee, o Lord, glory be to Thee,
glory to Thee which didst glorify them,
in whom we also glorify Thee.

Great and marvellous are thy works,

Lord God almighty:

just and true are thy ways,

o King of the nations.

Who shall not fear Thee, o Lord

and glorify thy Name?

for Thou only art holy:

for all nations shall come

and worship before Thee,

for thy judgments are made manifest.

Praise our God, all ye his servants

and ye that fear Him both small and great.

A. Nowell

Eccl. xi 8

S. Jo. ix 4

S. Mt. xxv 30
S. Lk. xxiv 29

EVENING PRAYERS

up

the night

W 170

Thou that with darkness curtainst
With mercie veil our sins from Justice sight.

EVENING THOUGHTS

Thou which givest evening to be the end of day,

whereby to bring to our mind the evening of life:
grant me alway to consider that, like as the day, so life flieth

past:

grant me alway to remember the days of darkness that they

are many;

that the night cometh, when no man can work;
to forestall the darkness by working,

lest we be cast into outer darkness;

*

alway to cry unto Thee, Abide with us, o Lord,
for it is toward evening, and the day of
our life is far spent.

O 260

THE HYMN Of the lighting of the LAMPS O 354 Horolog. p. 145 O gladsome Light of the holy glory of the immortal Father,

heavenly, holy, blest,
o Jesu Christ,

being come to the going down of the sun,

seeing the evening light,

we hymn the Father

and the Son

and the Holy Spirit of God.

Worthy art Thou at all times to be hymned with holy

voices, Son of God,

which givest life:

therefore the world doth glorify Thee.

ADMONITIONS AND PREPARATORY

839 MEDITATIONS AT THE LIFting of the mIND

O 349

TO GOD AT EVENTIDE

of charge: fitted to action;

In war there is a note of recall whereby stragglers are

called back.

So the human mind, like as in the morning it must be
awakened, so at eventide as it were by a note of recall
it must be called back to itself and its Captain

by scrutiny and inquisition or examination of self,
prayers and thanksgivings.

A good man had liefer know his own infirmity than know S. Aug. de Trin.
the foundations of the earth and the topmost heights of iv I
heaven.*

But that knowledge of a man's own infirmity is not procured
save by diligent inquisition, without the which the mind

is many times blind and seeth nought in its own

concerns.

There are many lurkingplaces in the mind and many nooks.
You must detect yourself or ever you amend yourself.*
A sore unknown waxeth worse and worse and getteth past

cure.

The heart is deceitful above all things :*

the heart is deep and full of windings:

the old man is covered up in a thousand wrappings. Therefore take heed to thyself.*

And this is most chiefly to be inquired into

(done

said

what hast thou today

to<

read

written

Gen. i 10

We see God Himself none otherwise closing the several days of the first creation than with a review of the works of each day: AND GOD SAW THAT THEY WERE GOOD. Cic. de senect. 11 Cato required of himself an account of each day's business, and Pythagoras withal.

Auson.

xvi 15 Pythag. carm. 40

Ps. lxxvii 6

Idyll. Ausonius saith out of Pythagoras:

aur.

Or thou compose thine eyes to slumber sweet,
of each day's acts review the tale complete.
King David when the day was over meditated,
and searched out his spirits.*

Cp. Lucian Her. In this areopagitic nocturnal examination

motimus 64

S. Aug. Serm.

XX 2

[Ps. li 3]

Ecclus. xxiii 2

1 Cor. xi 31

S. Greg. Nyss. de orat. dom. I

look to it that thou show thyself, not the advocate of thy sins,

but the judge thereof:

and in the tribunal of thy mind say,

(say it with grief and indignation)
I ACKNOWLEDGE MY FAULTS, O LORD:
O WHO WILL GIVE SCOURGES TO MY MIND
THAT THEY SPARE NOT MY SINS?

If we would judge ourselves we should not be judged.

Prayer is the guardian of them that sleep

the confidence of them that are awake:*

for neither do we account him to be safe, whoso is not protected by the armour and the fortification of prayer.

Rightly therefore saith Rabbi J. touching the not putting off of penitence till the morrow:

Behold the hope of fruit and of salvation will be disappointed for evermore, if so be in this very night thou pluck not forth thy soul.

And an examination in this sort, if it be made for a measure of days, or at the least for one month, with penitence, will suffice to the gendering of a perfect habit of virtue.