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SEQUENCE.

The Word of God, who was born of God, and was not made nor created, and who came down from heaven—this Word was seen, and handled, and revealed to men, by John the Evangelist.

John sprang up amidst those truc rivulets, which, from the commencement, flowed from the True Fountain; he has made the whole world drink of that life-siving nectar, that flows from the throne of God.

He soared above the hea- vens, and gazed, with the tixed- ness of his soul’s eye, on the brightness of the true Sun ; this spiritual contemplator saw, as it were from under the wings of the Seraphim, the Face of God.

He hears what songs are sung round the Throne by the Four and Twenty Elders and the heavenly Harpers) He has stamped upon the coin of our terrestrial city the impress and seal of the Holy Trinity.

He, the guardian of the Vir- gin, wrote his Gospel, that he might show to the world the profound mystery of the Di- vine Generation: and Jesus, after allowing him to recline on his Sacred Heart, com- mended his own pure Lily, Mary, to this his and her much loved one, the Son of Thun-

er.

He drinks « deadly poison ! but the virtue of his faith pre- serves his virginal body from

Verbum Dei, Deo natum, Quod nec factum nec crea-

tun,

Venit de coclestibus : Foc vidit, hoc attrectavit, Hoe de ceelo reseravit Joannes hominibus.

Inter illos primitivos Veros veri fontis rivas Joannes exsiliit, Toti mundo propinare Nectar illud salutare Quod de throne prodiit.

Celum transit, veri rotam Solis ibi vidit, totam Mentis figens aciem : Speculator spiritalis Quasi Seraphim sub alis Dei videt faciem,

Anudiit in gyro sedis

Quid psallant cum citha- toedis Quater seni proceres : De sigillo Trinitatis Nostra nummo civitatis Impressit characteres. ste custos Virginis

Arcanum originis Divinz mysterium, Scribens Evangelium, Mundo demonstravit : Cordis cui sacrarium Suum Christus lium, Filio tonitrui Sub amoris mutui Pace commendavit.

Haurit virus hic lethale, Ubi corpus virginale Virtus servat fidet :

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