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on the cross; that by the inestimable charity of dilection,[1] by the which Thou, which art Divine Paternity, drewest to Thee the same right holy soul, Thou wilt at this last hour of (the) death of this Thy servant, N. our brother, receive in the same love his spirit. Amen.

To God the Son

O MY MUCH BLOVED REDEEMER, right piteous,[2] Jesus right benign, we pray Thy lacrimable[3] voice, by the which in Thy humanity, when Thou shouldest for us die. Thou wert consumed by labours and sorrows, in such wise that Thou wert left of Thy Father, that Thou withdraw not the help and aid of Thy mercy from this N. Thy servant, our brother, unto this hour and moment of his affliction; and the consumption of his spirit suffer not in this extreme hour of his death: but by the triumph of Thine holy cross, and by virtue of Thine healthful passion, and of Thy bitter death, think on him. Think of peace and not of affliction, and deliver his soul from all anguishes; and with the same hands the which, for love of him. Thou didst suffer to be fixed and nailed to the cross with right sharp nails, good Jesus, much sweet Father and Lord, deliver his soul from the torments which be deputed to him,

  1. i.spiritual love,— of God.
  2. i.e. pitiful.
  3. i.e. voice of lamentation.