Primitive Christian Worship / Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary

by James Endell Tyler

Forgive us our debts;

Visit the house, the gate, the grave;

And raise us from the threefold death.

What has been lost by act, in mind, or use,

Restore with thy wonted pity.

Pray for us, O blessed Thomas.

N.B. This appears to be the end of the first service in honour of Thomas Becket[⁷⁸]; and at this point another service seems to commence, with a kind of new heading, "In the commemoration of St. Thomas[⁷⁹]."

Footnote 78:[(return)]

All the Lessons between this passage and "In Lauds," are wanting in MS. 1512.

Footnote 79:[(return)]

Another Feast was kept in honour of his translation, on the 7th of July.

The First Lesson.