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<DIV1 TYPE="title page">
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<P>THE FOLLOWING COLLECTIONS OR PIOUS LITTLE TREATISES, TOGETHER WITH THE RVLE OF S. CLARE AND DECLARATIONS VPON IT, Are printed for the u&s;e of the ENGLISH POOR CLARES IN AYRE. An Index whereof begin's in the &s;equent page.</P>
<Q>This shall be unto you a direct Way. <BIBL>I&s;. 35. v. 8.</BIBL></Q>
<Q>You shall not decline, neyther to the right hand, nor to the left. <BIBL>Deut. 5. v. 32</BIBL></Q>
<P>&leaf; &dagger; &leaf;</P>
<P>Printed at Do&uuml;ay by MICHAELL MAIRESSE.</P>
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<P><HI>PERMISSV SVPERIORVM:</HI> <DATE>1684.</DATE></P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="table of contents">
<PB REF="2" MS="y">
<PB REF="2" MS="y">
<HEAD>A TABLE OF THE CONTENTS IN THE ENSUING BOOK.</HEAD>
<LIST TYPE="contents">
<HEAD>I. A Pious Collection of &s;everall pro|fitable directions and devotions, fit|ted for the ENGLISH POOR CLARES, in order to the better ob&s;ervance of their holy <HI>Institute:</HI> very u&s;efull and nece&s;&s;ary for all Religious Per|&s;ons, both men and woemen.</HEAD>
<ITEM><HI>A</HI> Morning exerci&s;e for every day in the week. p. <HI>1</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>From the ri&s;ing untill the work hou&s;e. p. <HI>5</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>In dre&s;&s;ing your &s;elf, &s;everall praiers. p. <HI>5</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A morning purpo&s;e. p. <HI>9</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>From the workhou&s;e till dinner. p. <HI>13</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>From dinner till the examin at night. p. <HI>15</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Before &s;leeping, prayers. p. <HI>19</HI></ITEM>
<PB REF="3">
<ITEM>A direction how to &s;ay the way to Ieru|&s;alem. p. <HI>19</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>How to apply the &s;eaven words, Chri&s;t &s;poake upon the Cro&s;s. p. <HI>21</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The <HI>7.</HI> Ave's which are to be read for the <HI>7.</HI> &s;orrows of our B. Lady: how they are to be &s;aid. p. <HI>22</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Con&s;iderations on the <HI>3.</HI> Pater's and Ave's which are &s;aid at the shewing of the B. Sacrament. p. <HI>23</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>After your examin at night, how to &s;a|lute our Lady with <HI>3.</HI> Ave's. p. <HI>24</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>How to &s;ay your Pater's and Ave's in thanks giving to Allmighty God for his benefits, for night or any other time. p. <HI>24</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>An exerci&s;e for Ma&s;s. p. <HI>25</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Certain Intentions or Meditations which we ought to have when we communicate: out of S. Bonaventure. p. <HI>37</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Con&s;iderations before Communion: taken out of the &s;ame Saint. p. <HI>37</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Four con&s;iderations of S. Mathildis before Communion. p. <HI>38</HI></ITEM>
<PB REF="3">
<ITEM>A Praier before, and another after receav|ing the B. Sacrament. p. <HI>39</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>What we ought to do, the day we commu|nicate. p. <HI>41</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Prayer before and after confe&s;&s;ion. p. <HI>42</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Directions how to &s;ay the divine Office with due devotion and attention. p. <HI>43</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Certain holy Meditations of the <HI>7.</HI> effu|&s;ions of blood: di&s;tributed for the canoni|call hours. p. <HI>47</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A direction for mentall Praier. p. <HI>51</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>An Instruction for mentall Praier. p. <HI>54</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Colloquies or &s;peeches, part in meditation, and part in Praier: prai&s;ing Allmighty God's excellency, goodne&s;s, holyne&s;s, wor|thyne&s;s, &amp;c. p. <HI>67</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Cau&s;es of di&s;tractions. p. <HI>68</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The means to re&s;i&s;t di&s;tractions of heart and tediou&s;ne&s;s of spirit. p. <HI>69</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The chiefest effects of praier. p. <HI>70</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Things to be con&s;idered in meditating the Pa&s;&s;ion of our Saviour. p. <HI>72</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Severall Affections to be drawn from the
<PB REF="4"> con&s;ideration of the &s;ame Pa&s;&s;ion. p. <HI>72</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Con&s;iderations of the knowledge of ones &s;elf. p. <HI>73</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Con&s;iderations of &s;in. p. <HI>73</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>How to con&s;ider death. p. <HI>73</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Of the pains of the damned. p. <HI>74</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>How to contemplate Heaven. p. <HI>74</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>How to con&s;ider vertue. p. <HI>75</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>How to con&s;ider the fea&s;ts of Saints. p. <HI>75</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>How to meditate on the perfections of All|mighty God. p. <HI>76</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Con&s;iderations of all Gods creatures in ge|nerall. p. <HI>76</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Con&s;iderations of Gods creatures in parti|cular. p. <HI>77</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The benefits in brief of Allmighty God. p. <HI>77</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>What you ought to do in the time to come with God's benefits in particular. p. <HI>77</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The benefit of our Redemption. p. <HI>78</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The benefit of our Vocation. p. <HI>78</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The benefit of our Iu&s;tification. p. <HI>79</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The benefit of donation. p. <HI>80</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The benefit of Pre&s;ervation. p. <HI>81</HI></ITEM>
<PB REF="4">
<ITEM>The benefit of glorification. p. <HI>81</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The eight Beatitudes. p. <HI>82</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Religious per&s;on ought often to con&s;i|der the benefit of his vocation, by the&s;e cir|cumstances: Vnde es? Quo? Quomodo? Quando? Quo fine vocatus? p. <HI>84</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Priviledges and benefits of a Religious Per&s;on. p. <HI>86</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ie&s;us, Maria. Certain aspirations, for every day in the week. p. <HI>86</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A&s;pirations for every day in the week, upon the Pa&s;&s;ion of our B. Saviour. p. <HI>92</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>An Oblation unto our <HI>B.</HI> Lady, to &s;ay on any of her fea&s;ts <HI>70</HI> Ave Maria's, and then during every day 5. Ave's and the praiers there following. p. <HI>99</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Prayer to Ie&s;us Chri&s;t. p. <HI>99</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>When you pa&s;s by the B. Sacrament a prayer. p. <HI>100</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>When you take holy water. p. <HI>101</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>How to honour the B. Virgins Name. p. <HI>101</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Litanies of our holy Father S. Francis. p. <HI>104</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Litanies of our B. Mother S. Clare. p. <HI>106</HI></ITEM>
<PB REF="5">
<ITEM>Litanies for the conver&s;ion of England. p. <HI>108</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A dayly exerci&s;e of prayers, with weekly meditations upon the Pa&s;&s;ion. p. <HI>113</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Meditations upon the Pa&s;&s;ion for every day in the week. p. <HI>117</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A method for meditation. p. <HI>123</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A prayer before meditation. p. <HI>124</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A prayer after meditation. p. <HI>125</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>A Table of daily Patrons, Meditations, Vertues, Vices, and Intentions. p. <HI>126</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST TYPE="contents">
<HEAD>II. A Short treati&s;e concerning the per|fection of &agrave; Religious life, writ|ten by S. BONAVENTURE to his devout Si&s;ters.</HEAD>
<ITEM>The Preface. p. <HI>3</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>CHAP. 1.</HI> By what means a man may attain to the true knowledge of him&s;elf. p. <HI>8</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>CHAP. 2.</HI> Of humility, and the &s;tepps
<PB REF="5"> or degrees by which it is at|tain'd. p. <HI>14</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>CHAP. 3.</HI> Of Religious poverty. p. <HI>22</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>CHAP. 4.</HI> Of &s;ilence, and how nece&s;&s;ary it is to all Religious. p. <HI>30</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>CHAP. 5.</HI> Of the study of Prayer. p. <HI>35</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>CHAP. 6.</HI> A remembrance of Christ's Pa&s;&s;ion. p. <HI>44</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>CHAP. 7.</HI> Of the perfect love of God. p. <HI>54</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>CHAP. 8.</HI> Of finall per&s;everance. p. <HI>57</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST TYPE="contents">
<HEAD>III. The Rule of the holy Virgin S. CLARE, faithfully tran&s;lated into English.</HEAD>
<ITEM>The Apostolicall Confirmation of the Rule. p. <HI>3</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>CHAP. 1.</HI> Of the rule and forme of life of the order of the poor &s;i&s;ters, given by S. Francis.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>CHAP. 2.</HI> Of tho&s;e who de&s;ire to enter in|to this Religion: and how they shall be received. p. <HI>6</HI></ITEM>
<PB REF="6">
<ITEM><HI>CHAP. 3.</HI> Of the divine office, of Fa&s;ting, of Confe&s;&s;ing and Communica|ting. p. <HI>10</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>CHAP. 4.</HI> Of the election of the Abbe&s;s. p. <HI>11</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>CHAP 5.</HI> Of &s;ilence, and of the manner of speaking at the &s;peak-hou&s;e, and Grate. p. <HI>14</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>CHAP. 6.</HI> How the &s;i&s;ters may not receive any po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, by them&s;elves or by any per&s;on interpo&s;ed. p. <HI>16</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>CHAP. 7.</HI> The manner that the &s;isters shall ob&s;erve in their manuall works. p. <HI>18</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>CHAP. 8.</HI> How the &s;i&s;ters shall not ap|propriate any thing to them|&s;elves: and of the &s;ick &s;i&s;ters. p. <HI>19</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>CHAP. 9.</HI> Of penance to be enjoined the &s;i&s;ters that offend: and of the manner of conver&s;ing without the Mona&s;tery. p. <HI>21</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>CHAP. 10.</HI> Of the Admonishment and vi|&s;itation of the &s;i&s;ters. p. <HI>23</HI></ITEM>
<PB REF="6">
<ITEM><HI>CHAP. 11.</HI> Of the duty of the Portre&s;s. p. <HI>24</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>CHAP. 12.</HI> Of the vi&s;itour and Chaplin. p. <HI>26</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>The re&s;t of the Bull for the Confirmation of the Rule. p. <HI>27</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Testament of our holy Mother S. Clare. p. <HI>28</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Our holy Mother S. Clar's Benediction unto her &s;i&s;ters pre|&s;ent and to come. p. <HI>36</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Bull of Pope Innocent the fourth: that the Religious may not be con&s;train'd to receive Rents or Po&s;&s;e&s;sions. p. <HI>38</HI></ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST TYPE="contents">
<HEAD>IV. The Declarations and Ordinances made upon the Rule of our holy Mother S. Clare.</HEAD>
<ITEM>A letter of the Approbation and Confirmation of the de|clarations, &s;ent by the Reve|rend
<PB REF="7"> Father William Ca&s;&s;all, to his devout daughter S. Col|let. p. <HI>4</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Another by the &s;ame Reve|rend Father, to Si&s;ter Collet, and all the other Si&s;ters of the &s;aid Religion. p. <HI>5</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>CHAP. 1.</HI> Of the entry into this holy Re|ligion. p. <HI>10</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>THE FORME OF PROFESSION.</HI> p. <HI>15</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>CHAP. 2.</HI> Of the quality of their habits and of their garments. p. <HI>16</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>CHAP. 3.</HI> Of the Divine Office. p. <HI>20</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>CHAP. 4.</HI> Of Ab&s;tinence. p. <HI>24</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>CHAP. 5.</HI> Of Confe&s;&s;ion and of Commu|nion: of the Confe&s;&s;our and his companions. p. <HI>26</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>CHAP. 6.</HI> Of the ob&s;ervance of Cloy&s;ter. p. <HI>29</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chap. 7.</HI> Of the election of the Abbe&s;s, di&s;creetes and other officers. p. <HI>34</HI></ITEM>
<PB REF="7">
<ITEM><HI>Chap. 8.</HI> The manner of keeping Chapter. p. <HI>38</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chap. 9.</HI> Of &s;ilence and the manner of speaking at the &s;peak-hou&s;e and at the grate. p. <HI>41</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chap. 10.</HI> Of the ob&s;ervance of poverty, and that the Sisters may not admit of any po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, nor have any thing proper. p. <HI>45</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chap. 11.</HI> Of the &s;ick Si&s;ters. p. <HI>49</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chap. 12.</HI> Of the manuall works of the Si&s;ters. p. <HI>52</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chap. 13.</HI> Of the correction of the faulty. p. <HI>55</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chap. 14.</HI> Of the portre&s;s and entring into the Monastery. p. <HI>57</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Chap. 15.</HI> Of the Vi&s;itour. p. <HI>64</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>An exhortation for the better ob&s;ervance of the&s;e pre&s;ent con|&s;titutions. p. <HI>72</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>What the Religious are oblig'd to, under mortall &s;in, by their vowes. p. <HI>78</HI></ITEM>
<PB REF="8">
<ITEM>The perfections of the Rule. p. <HI>78</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The prai&s;e of the Rule. p. <HI>81</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Three Priviledges, which our holy Father p. 8<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Francis obtained of Allmighty God. p. <HI>81</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Three other Priviledges. p. <HI>82</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Seaven other Previledges, for tho&s;e that ob&s;er|ve the Rule &amp; dye in the Order. p. <HI>82</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Certain Indulgences granted to all the Reli|gious of the Order of S. Francis. p. <HI>83</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>An examin of con&s;cience, for &agrave; Religious Per|&s;on. p. <HI>86</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Twelve great evills, which come by veniall &s;ins. p. <HI>88</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Nine wayes by which we participate of the &s;ins of others. p. <HI>88</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Twelve fruits of the B. Sacrament. p. <HI>89</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Twelve Evangelicall coun&s;ayles. p. <HI>90</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The Benediction of our Holy Father S. Fran|cis. p. <HI>91</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>The malediction of our Holy Father S. Fran|cis. p. <HI>91</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>A PLENARIE ABSOLUTION FROM GUILT AND PAINE.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Otherwi&s;e call'd. p. <HI>92</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>THE ABSOLUTION OF THE CORDE.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
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<DIV1 TYPE="to the reader">
<PB REF="8">
<HEAD>TO THE READER.</HEAD>
<P>BELOVED and DEVOUT READER, tho' this BOOKE, as to the whole, and every part thereof, might rea&s;onably be judg'd very co~venient and u&s;efull, at lea'&s;t for all Poore Clari&s;&s;es; yet (as appear's by the TITLE) it is de&s;ig'nd, fitted out, and printed, particulerly by the CARE, and for the VSE, of the ENGLISH POORE CLARES OF AYRE; in the Dioce&s;s of S. Omers Who &s;ignally ob&s;erve theyr INSTITUT, and ORDINANCES upon it, in their NATIVE PURITIE, living accordin|gly, in the TRUE SPIRIT of S. CLARE, un|der the GOVERNMENT, and DIRECTION of theyr HOLY ORDER, as both RULE and DECLARATIONS pre&s;cribe, Teache and er|ne&s;tly recommen'd unto them.</P>
<CLOSER>Fiat, Fiat.</CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="imprimatur">
<PB REF="9">
<P>Imprimatur actum in Vicariatu Andomaren&s;i, die <DATE>terti&acirc; Novem|bris 1684.</DATE></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>De Mandato</HI> B. DE LARRE Secret.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="text">
<PB N="1" REF="9">
<HEAD>A PIOUS COLLECTION Of &s;everall profitable directions and de|votions fitted for the English POOR CLARES <HI>In order to the better ob&s;ervance of their holy INSTITVTE.</HI> Very u&s;efull and nece&s;&s;ary for all Religious Per&s;ons both men and woemen.</HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<HEAD>A Morning Exercice, on Sunday.</HEAD>
<P>_CALL to mind this &s;entence: <HI>Haec dies quam fecit Dominus, exultemus &amp; laetemur in e&acirc;.</HI> This is the day that our lord hath made let us rejoyce and be glad in it. Remember your duty and obligation unto Almighty God, being carefull to &s;pend the day wholly in his &s;ervice and pray&s;e, and particularly this day honour the mo&s;t Ble&s;&s;ed Trinity, thanking tho&s;e three divi|ne Per&s;ons for the benefit of our Creation, and for all others be&s;towed either upon your &s;elf, or any other in the behalfe of man.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<PB N="2" REF="10">
<HEAD>On Munday Morning.</HEAD>
<P>CAll to mind this &s;entence. <HI>Surge, eur jaces pronus in terram.</HI> Ari&s;e, why lye&s;t thou gro|veling on the ground. Remember your banish|ment and punishment or &s;uffering of being de|prived of the pre&s;ence of Almighty God, and the company of the Angels, and pray that after your death you may be united unto them offe|ring this day to honour them, but e&s;pecially your good Angel, be&s;eeching him and all the others to pray for the &s;tate of the Holy Church and that we may &s;o u&s;e this our warfare that af|ter death we may reign with them in all eter|nity.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<HEAD>Tue&s;day Morning.</HEAD>
<P>CAll to mind this &s;entence. <HI>Surge qui dormis, &amp; exurge &agrave; mortuis, &amp; illuminabit te Chri&s;tus.</HI> Ari&s;e thou that &s;leepe&s;t with the &s;leep of death and Chri&s;t will illuminate thee. Remember that Chri&s;t and his holy Gho&s;pell are the lights of the Church, and endeavour you to follow the &s;ame better then you have hitherto done: offe|ring this day to honour the holy Apo&s;tles, Pa|triarks and Prophets, be&s;eeching them to pray for the conver&s;ion of all Heathens, Infidells, and for all tho&s;e that are out of the Catholick faith, particulerly in England.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<PB N="3" REF="10">
<HEAD>Wensday Morning.</HEAD>
<P>CAll to mind this &s;entence: <HI>Surge &amp; comede, grandis tibi re&s;tat via.</HI> Ari&s;e and eate, thou ha&s;t yet a great way to go. Think how farr you are from vertue and the perfection of your holy Foundre&s;&s; and Saints of your Order and pray them that they will obtain you &s;trength and force to follow their examples with greater fervour then you have hitherto done, offering this day wholy to their honour, be&s;eeching them to pray for the good and reformation of the whole Order, and for all Holy Orders.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<HEAD>Thursday Morning.</HEAD>
<P>CAll to mind this &s;entence. <HI>Surgite quid dormi|tis, &s;urgite &amp; orate ne intretis in tentationem.</HI> Ari&s;e why do you &s;leep. Ari&s;e and pray lea&s;t you enter into temptation. Con&s;ider what oc|ca&s;ion you give your &s;elf to enter into tempta|tion in negligently employing your time, and being &s;lothfull and dull in holy prayer and &s;pi|rituall Exerci&s;es, offering this day in honour of the Confe&s;&s;ours, be&s;eeching them to obtain for you new fervour of &s;pirit and con&s;tancy in the &s;ervice of Almighty God, and to pray for the comfort and relea&s;ement of the &s;ouls in Purga|tory.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<PB N="4" REF="11">
<HEAD>Friday Morning.</HEAD>
<P>CAll to mind this &s;entence. <HI>Surge, propera a|mica mea &amp; veni.</HI> Ari&s;e, make ha&s;t my beloved and come. Think that our &s;weet &s;aviour calleth you to &s;hew you what he hath &s;uffered for you, out of the great love he beareth you. De&s;ire gra|titude for the &s;ame. Re&s;olve that you will with patience &s;uffer all &s;uch temptations and contempts as it shall plea&s;e him to &s;end you: And offer this day wholy in honour and memory of his bitter Death and Pa&s;&s;ion, the &s;orrowes of his holy Mo|ther, and beg the &s;uffrages of all the holy Mar|tyrs be&s;eeching them to pray for all tho&s;e who are in any affliction, or de&s;olation be it corpo|rall or &s;pirituall.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<HEAD>Saturday Morning.</HEAD>
<P>CAll to mind this &s;entence. <HI>Surge, redde quod debes.</HI> Ari&s;e &amp; render what thou owe&s;t. Think what you owe unto Almighty God by the vowes of Poverty, Cha&s;tity, and obedience, and what you do not pay in this world you mu&s;t &s;atisfy in the next. Wherfore offer your &s;elf this day wholy to honour the mo&s;t glorious Virgin Mary with all the other Virgins be&s;ee|ching them to obtaine grace that you may be more diligent in the ob&s;ervance of your vocation, and al&s;o to pray for the comfort and con&s;tancy
<PB N="5" REF="11"> of all the Catholicks in England, and the con|ver&s;ion of the &s;ame.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<HEAD>Fro~ your ri&s;ing till you go to the work-hou&s;e.</HEAD>
<P>HAving &s;aid one of the fore&s;aid &s;entences that befitteth the day; you mu&s;t ri&s;e with all &s;peed offering your intention according to the &s;ame and immediatly being ri&s;en, kneel down, and Ki&s;s the ground with an Elevation of heart unto Almighty God, giving him thanks for ha|ving pre&s;erved you that night, and brought you unto the beginning of the day be&s;eeching him you may employ it in his &s;ervice.</P>
<P>In dre&s;&s;ing your &s;elf &s;ay the&s;e &s;entences follo|wing as they are &s;et donn.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<HEAD>In putting on the Habit, &s;ay.</HEAD>
<P><HI>INduat me Dominus novum hominem qui &s;ecund&ugrave;m Deum creatus e&s;t in ju&s;titia &amp; &s;anctitate veritatis.</HI></P>
<P>O Lord cloathe me with the new man, who according to God is created in ju&s;tice, and &s;an|ctity of truth.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<HEAD>In putting on the cord.</HEAD>
<P><HI>CIngat me Dominus Ie&s;us cingulo fortitudinis, ut vi|riliter per&s;everem in Dei &s;ervitio.</HI></P>
<P>O Lord gird me with the girdle of fortitude &amp; &s;trength, that I may per&s;ever couragiou&s;ly and with alacrity in thy holy &s;ervice.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<PB N="6" REF="12">
<HEAD>In putting on the Scapular.</HEAD>
<P><HI>POnat Dominus in corde meo jugum in memoriam Pa&s;sionis &amp; Sanguinis ejus.</HI></P>
<P>Our Lord lay his yoke on my heart as a me|moriall of his Pa&s;&s;ion and blood.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<HEAD>In wa&s;hing your hands or face.</HEAD>
<P><HI>AMplius lava me Domine ab iniquitate mea, &amp; &agrave; peccato meo munda me, meritis Domini nostri IESV CHRISTI filii tui qui dilexit nos, &amp; lavit nos &agrave; peccatis nostris in &s;anguine &s;uo.</HI></P>
<P>Wash me O Lord yet more from my iniqui|ties, and from my &s;in make me cleane through the merits of JESUS CHRIST thy only &s;on, who hath loved us and wa&s;hed us with his pre|cious blood.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<HEAD>In putting on the Cloake.</HEAD>
<P><HI>COoperiat me Dominus IESVS clamyde munditiae &amp; ca&s;titatis, ut nullum praeter Ie&s;um amatorem admittam.</HI></P>
<P>Cover me, O Lord, with the mantle of clean|lines and cha&s;tity that I may admit of no other lover then my &s;aviour JESUS.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<HEAD>In putting on the Kercher.</HEAD>
<P><HI>TEgat me Dominus tegumento paenitentiae contra in|fidias Diaboli, ut non praevaleat inimicus contr&agrave; me.</HI></P>
<PB N="7" REF="12">
<P>Cover me, O Lord, in the &s;hrowd of Pennan|ce again&s;t the &s;nares of the Divell, that my enemy may not prevaile again&s;t me.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<HEAD>In putting on the veyle.</HEAD>
<P><HI>ACcipiam velamen &s;acrum quod &s;eram u&s;que ad. Tribunal aeterni Iudicis <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ui omnia flectun|tur genua: recordabor meip&s;am, mundum, &amp; &s;pre|vi&s;se &amp; penitus reliqui&s;&s;e, ac in veritate me Domino Ie&s;u &s;ubjeci&s;&s;e, eique tamqu&agrave;m &s;pon&s;o me conjunxi&s;&s;e. Ille contr&agrave; adver&s;a omnia me defendat, &amp; &s;ecum in vi|tam aeternam recipiat. Amen.</HI></P>
<P>I will put on the &s;acred veyle, which I shall appeare in before the Tribunall of the Eternall Judge, to whom all knees do bow. I will call to mind, that I have de&s;pi&s;ed, &amp; for&s;aken both the world and my &s;elf, to be &s;ubject in reall truth to my Lord JESUS-CHRIST, and to joyne my &s;elf unto him as to my &s;pou&s;e. May he de|fend me in all adver&s;ities, and receive me to him|&s;elf into life everla&s;ting. AMEN.</P>
<P>After: or, in &s;aying each one of the&s;e &s;enten|ces reflect either on your intention in directing your works that day. Or, con&s;ider how great a benefit Almighty God hath be&s;towed on you in giving you that day to &s;pend in his &s;ervice, wherby you may glorify his divine Maje&s;ty, in|crea&s;e your own merit, and &s;atisfy for your ne|gligences pa&s;t. Call to mind what the &s;ouls in Purgatory and thou&s;ands in the world would do
<PB N="8" REF="13"> if they had the &s;ame means: and al&s;o think that it may be the la&s;t day that shall be granted you In this life.</P>
<P>Being dre&s;t, make ha&s;t unto the Quire, with out forrein cogitations, recollecting your &s;elf, and keeping diligently your &s;ight, and at the en|tring into the Church, after the &s;aying. <HI>A&s;perges me &amp;c. Thou shalt &s;prinkle me</HI> &amp;c. In the taking of holy water. Say, <HI>Domine in multitudine mi&s;ericordiae tuae introibo in domum tuam, adorabo ad templum &s;an|ctum tuum in timore tuo.</HI> Lord in the multitude of thy mercy I will enter into thy hou&s;e: in thy feare will I adore thee in thy holy Temple: and kneeling downe at the Perentory &s;ay. <HI>Adoramus te &s;ancti&s;sime Domine Ie&s;u Chri&s;te, hic &amp; ad omnes Ecele|&s;ias tuas &amp; benedicimus tibi, quia per &s;anctam Crucem tuam redemi&s;ti mundum.</HI> We adore thee o mo&s;t holy Lord JESUS CHRIST, here, and in all thy Churches, and we ble&s;s thee, becau&s;e by thy holy Cro&s;s thou ha&s;t redeemed the world.</P>
<P>After, being in your place, or before the B. Sacrament, imagin Almighty God pre&s;ent, as in|deed he is, and adore him with the greate&s;t re|verence and humility you can, repre&s;enting unto your &s;elf his Maje&s;ty, Power, and Goodne&s;s. Accu&s;tome your &s;elf to this in all your Examins, e&s;pecially that of the morning, noon, and night: and as much as you can in what&s;oever exerci&s;e you undertake.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<PB N="9" REF="13">
<HEAD>A Morning purpo&s;e.</HEAD>
<P>FIr&s;t: give thanks unto Almighty God for having pre&s;erved you that night, and delivered you from &s;o many misfortunes both &s;pirituall and corporall which &s;ince your going to bed thou&s;ands have fallen into.</P>
<P N="2">2.^l^y Examin your con&s;cience, and &s;ee wherein you have offended that night, and if you find any thing, humbly crave pardon, begin by Gods grace to amend, and to &s;pend the day wholy in his &s;ervice.</P>
<P N="3">3.^l^y Offer your &s;elf in all that you are, or may be able to perform by your corporall forces or &s;pirituall powers unto Almighty God, e&s;pecially that which you shall do that day with the inten|tion for which you offer your actions, in union of the life, death, and Pa&s;&s;ion of our ble&s;&s;ed &s;aviour Chri&s;t Jesus, the merits of his mo&s;t glo|rious Mother, be&s;eeching his divine goodnes to di&s;po&s;e wholy and entirely of you, as may be mo&s;t to his honour, and the good of your &s;oule in confidence of which re&s;olve and endeavour to receive all things that day from his holy hands with equall indifference, beholding them as co|ming from his fatherly hands and providence, and the love with which he &s;endeth them.</P>
<P N="4">4^l^y. Make a renunciation of your proper will pa&s;&s;ions, and wicked inclinations, or what &s;oever may hinder you in the way of perfection and true conformity to the divine will.</P>
<P N="5"><PB N="10" REF="14">5^l^y. Call to mind what your Obediences ar like to be, and with whom you are to conver&s;e and how you ought to carry your &s;elf for the gaining of vertue and overcoming of imperfectio~: but particularly bend your &s;pirituall forces again&s;t that vice which you find mo&s;t to hinder you, and that you are mo&s;t apt to fall into, purpo&s;ing and re&s;olving on &s;uch means as when the occa|&s;ion pre&s;enteth it &s;elf, you may by the grace of God overcome it, calling to mind at that pre&s;ent your good purpo&s;e.</P>
<P>Offer the&s;e your good de&s;ires unto Almighty God acknowledging that without his grace you could not have made them, confe&s;&s;ing your own weakne&s;s, and force of your externall and inter|nall enemies. Wherfore earne&s;tly and humbly beg his a&s;&s;i&s;tance by the interce&s;&s;ion of his holy and ble&s;&s;ed Mother, who&s;e help in&s;tantly crave, as al&s;o the aide of your good Angell, with the Saints you are mo&s;t devoted unto, and if you have lei&s;ure &s;ay the prayers following. <HI>O Domi|na mea &amp;c.</HI> O my lady, &amp;c. as in the Primer. The oblation of the 7. Aves. with this Prayer unto your Angel Cu&s;tos.</P>
<P>O mo&s;t loving Angel, my Gardian, Tutour, Mai&s;ter, Guide, Governour, and defender, wi&s;e Coun&s;elour, and my mo&s;t faithfull friend, to whom J am commended by the goodnes of God our &s;weet Saviour from the in&s;tant of my birth unto the la&s;t period of my life: What reverence do J ow you, knowing that you are pre&s;ent
<PB N="11" REF="14"> with me? And with what devotion ought J to &s;erve you in re&s;pect of the great care you have of me? And what confidence ougt J to have, ha|ving you at my &s;ide in all occa&s;ions to defend me. Teach me then, O holy Angel: cha&s;ti&s;e me, con&s;erve, and conduct me the right and a&s;&s;u|red way unto the heavenly Jeru&s;alem without per|mitting me to do any thing in your pre&s;ence which may be offen&s;ive in your &s;ight, and which J da|re not undertake before another without shame. J be&s;eech you pre&s;ent unto our Lord my mi&s;e|ries and wants, &amp; obtain me a remedy of his infinit goodnes. Watch when J &s;leep, and be not wearied when J am tired: &s;tay me when J am ready to fall: rai&s;e me up when J am fallen, direct me when J am gon a&s;tray: fortify me when J am weak: illuminate me when J am a&s;&s;aul|ted: check the rage of my &s;uttle enemie, and at the houre of my death defend me from the infernal dragon, that being guided and a&s;&s;i&s;ted by thee J may arrive unto the glorious dwelling place, and thou rejoyce in my good, and J in thy glory, &amp; our Lord King of all glory be honored in us world without end. Amen.</P>
<P>The&s;e Prayers being ended prepare your &s;elf to Prime according as it is &s;et down in the di|rection for the Divine Office, being carefull to carry your &s;elf with all fervour and devotion, ob|&s;erving well your thoughts: con&s;idering that you are not only in the pre&s;ence of Almighty God, but al&s;o exerci&s;ing the office of Angels in &s;in|ging
<PB N="12" REF="15"> his holy pray&s;es. Having done this; exerci|&s;e your &s;elf as you have been taught untill it ring to Ma&s;&s;, and be carefull to ob&s;erve this manner in all other houres. When the <HI>Litanies</HI> are read do not &s;it fiddling with your fingers, turning the leafes of your book, or looking a|bout you, but imagin you are a poor beggar full of mi&s;eries, afflictions and nece&s;&s;ities, and that for your greate unworthines to pre&s;ent your &s;elf before the divine Maje&s;ty of God, you beg an almes through the interce&s;&s;ion of his Angels and Saints, con&s;idering that one of them alone is able to &s;trike down infinit men. Likewi&s;e you are not only to pray for your &s;elf, but al&s;o our Benefa|ctours, and our poor Country: wherfore endeavour to read them with great devotion, and when they are finished make a short examin as you did after Ma&s;&s;: and prepare your &s;elf to go to <HI>Sext:</HI> In the reading of which, exerci&s;e your &s;elf in the way to Jeru&s;alem, ob&s;erving the &s;ame directions: which where &s;et down for <HI>Prime.</HI> When Offi|ce is ended make your Examin again, and when the &s;igne is given read the <HI>Pater noster</HI> with great devotion and attention for the Benefactours, which being done the &s;ign will be given to go forth of the Church: then ob&s;erve that mode&s;ty and re|verence which you have been taught. At the fir&s;t entrance being in your cell kneel down, and Ki&s;&s; the ground, offering your little work of O|bedience of making your bed unto Almighty God, and exerci&s;e your &s;elf in the way to Jeru&s;alem
<PB N="13" REF="15"> untill it ring to the Work-hou&s;e, and rhen take a point therein which is ordained for that time.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<HEAD>From the work-hou&s;e till dinner.</HEAD>
<P>BEing come unto the Work-hou&s;e and <HI>Veni Creator,</HI> being &s;aid, Prepare your &s;elf to read the dirge with all devotion and attention. Con|&s;ider in what great nece&s;&s;ity the &s;oules in Pur|gatory are, what paines they &s;uffer, and that if you be diligent in praying for them, you may be a means to relea&s;e tnem: Almighty God having perhaps ordained you for that end: but if you be unmindfull and negligent in the performance thereof, they may be detained from his divine pre&s;ence through your fault, and al&s;o he will permit others when you are in the like ca&s;e to forget you, and neglect to a&s;&s;i&s;t you: wherfore endeavour to be very attentive, and devoutly recollected in reading. After the Dir|ge, the beads are read, unto which give great attention, and read them with devotion: the re&s;t of your time in the Work-hou&s;e exer|ci&s;e your &s;elf in the way to Jeru&s;alem, carryng your &s;elf with all mode&s;ty &amp; &s;till|ne&s;s. When, it ringeth to the &s;econd Ma&s;s. <HI>(Sig|num magni Regis e&s;t)</HI> (Tis a &s;igne that a great King is at hand) being come into the Churh of|fer your &s;elf unto Almighty God, &amp; make &s;ome reflexion on your Exerci&s;e &amp; carriage in the workhou&s;e. In time of the 2. Ma&s;s Exerci&s;e
<PB N="14" REF="16"> your own devotions. When you go to None ob&s;erve the directions which were &s;et down for <HI>Prime</HI> exerci&s;ing your &s;elf in the way to Jeru&s;alem. <HI>None</HI> being read make your Examin how you have &s;pent your whole forenoon: for better doing of which crave the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of our &s;weet &s;aviour, begging pardon where you have failed, and make new re&s;olutions for the performance of what you purpo&s;ed in the morning, and the exerci&s;ing vertue in all oc|ca&s;ions. After which con&s;ider that it is a punis|hment due to &s;in that you mu&s;t now leave the bread of Angels which is holy meditation and Prayer to feed vpon corporall meats: which pu|nishment is due unto the children of Adam: wherfore humbly &s;ubmit your &s;elf unto it, con|&s;idering the great hunger, which the poore &s;ou|les in Purgatory do &s;u&s;tain in being deprived of the pre&s;ence of Almightly God, and with hearty compa&s;&s;ion and great devotion read the <HI>De profundis</HI> for them. Going down, with Grace u&s;e what is ap|pointed in the way to Jeru&s;alem. When you &s;it down at the table you may behold our B. Saviour according to that fore&s;aid exerci&s;e, who lived in this world 33. years, and humbly &s;ubmit|ted him &s;elf unto all pennances due unto men for their &s;ins: wherfore beg grace to u&s;e this Corporall food, becau&s;e it tis his ble&s;&s;ed will and give your body its nece&s;&s;ities, not u&s;ing the|rein &s;uperfluitie to plea&s;e nature or &s;en&s;ualit<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">: but &s;ea&s;on your meat in the wounds of our
<PB N="15" REF="16"> B. Saviour: and drink from the delicious foun|tain of his &s;acred &s;ide, mingled with the gall and vinegar which he drank for your &s;ake, Being at dinner give your attention wholy to that which is read at the table. At twelve of the clock exerci&s;e that which is appointed in the way to Jeru&s;alem, &s;aying. <HI>Chri&s;tus factus est pro nobis obedi|ens:</HI> after which you may return to that which is read at the table. When you have dined, make &s;ome little reflexion how you have behaved your &s;elf: if you find to have fallen, humbly crave pardon, purpo&s;ing to amend. At the going up, with Grace exerci&s;e your &s;elf in the way to Jeru&s;alem.</P>
<P>From Dinner untill the Examen at night. When Grace is finished read your Pater no&s;ters for your benefactours; When you come to your Cell you may &s;tay there untill it ring to the work-hou&s;e, employing your &s;elf in reading wri|ting, or keeping your devotion, or doing &s;ome other thing which you de&s;ir. When the Bell calleth you to work, exerci&s;e your &s;elf there according to the &s;ame directions, which are &s;et down for the forenoon, u&s;ing the Way to Jeru&s;alem, After your beads are read untill it ring to Even&s;ong. And then leave your work &s;aying. <HI>Hoc &s;ignum &amp;c.</HI> And making what ha&s;t you can into the Church, being kneeled down either in your place, or els|where, make your short Examin; which being don read the little office, if you have not read it before, Keeping your Devotion untill it ring up to Even&s;ong: in the reading of which
<PB N="16" REF="17"> ob&s;erve well your thoughts, and the manner which was &s;et down from <HI>Prime.</HI> The Office being ended prepare your &s;elf to Meditation, and afterwads the &s;igne being given, make your short Examen, as it is &s;et down in the directions for mentall prayer. When you go forth of the Church, employ your &s;elf in the way to Jeru&s;alem untill you go to Collation, where when you have ti|me in con&s;idering the My&s;tery of the Washing of the feet give your attention to that which is read at the Table&punc; when you have ended Col|lation, you may read that which you meane to make your Meditation of, if you have not read it before, or do not take that which is read at the table: being-&s;ure never to omit the matter before Meditation. The be&s;t time to read it is the quarter before five&punc; when the &s;igne is given after Meditation, going up from Collation u&s;e the way to Jeru&s;alem, and continue the &s;ame untill Recollection: then kneeling in your pla|ce, make your Examen: Fir&s;t, pre&s;ent Your &s;elf before Almighty God and give him thanks for all the benefits you have received that day: in particular e&s;teeming your &s;elf as unworthy of them as any creature on earth, or the &s;oules in Hell: as al&s;o the mi&s;eries both &s;pirituall and temporall, from which he hath delivered you, to be as many and as great as are, or might have fallen upon any in the world.</P>
<P>Secondly, beg grace to &s;ee the offences com|mitted that day acknowledging your unablene&s;s
<PB N="17" REF="17"> to do the &s;ame without his &s;peciall a&s;&s;i&s;tance.</P>
<P>Thirdly: how you have &s;pent that day with obedience, and exerci&s;es you have had, weighing wherein you have failed by omi&s;&s;ion or commi&s;|&s;ion, in thought, word, or work, towards Al|mighty God, your &s;i&s;ters and your &s;elf: how you have exerci&s;ed your interiour powers, your &s;en|ces, particularly your &s;ight, and e&s;pecially how you have ob&s;erved the &s;ervices and exerci&s;es of your Religion, whether you have governed your exte|riour with that mode&s;ty, mortification, &s;ubmi&s;|&s;ion and mildnes, that you are taught.</P>
<P>Fourthly: if you &s;ee your &s;elf to have overco|me any imperfection, give thanks unto Almighty God, and where you find to have failed and of|fended, humbly crave pardon.</P>
<P>Fiftly: purpo&s;e with his holy grace to be more carefull and watchfull over your &s;elf the day fol|lowing, making &s;uch re&s;olutions as may help you mo&s;t for the overcoming of that vice wherein you find your &s;elf that day to have &s;inned in.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>Then &s;ay the Prayer following.</HEAD>
<P>I Confe&s;s unto you, O Lord God omnipotent Creatour of heaven and earth, all my &s;ins which ever I have committed even from my in|fancy untill this pre&s;ent-houre wittingly or ig|norantly, and particularly this day in thought word, or work. To you, O Lord only I con|fe&s;s my offences and beg pardon for them
<PB N="18" REF="18"> as being innumerable: therfore I humbly be&s;eech thee to forgive and forget all, whereof thou kno|we&s;t me guilty in all my life pa&s;t, and enkindle in me a fervent amendment with faith, hope, and charity, O mercifull, O pittifull o &s;weet JESUS &s;onne of the B. Virgin Mary.</P>
<P>Going to your cell make u&s;e of that which is ordained in the way to Jeru&s;alem, and during that time you are undre&s;&s;ing your &s;elf, call to mind the &s;trict account, which you are to render unto Almighty God when the day of this life is ended: al&s;o of the uncertaintie to live untill the next morning, much le&s;s any longer, reflecting how many mi&s;eries may and will fall upon thou&s;ands before your upri&s;ing: and alwaies before you go to bed kneeling commend your &s;elf to our &s;weet &s;aviour, and his ble&s;&s;ed Mother with your good Angell, Ki&s;&s;ing the ground and the Cru|cifix. Being laid in bed, think you lay your mouth to the &s;acred &s;ide or feet of or &s;weet Saviour, &s;aying the prayer following.</P>
<P>O mo&s;t &s;weet Lord JESUS CHRIST in union of the love which cau&s;ed thee to create for us this corporall re&s;t, and di&s;dained&s;t not thy &s;elf to take the &s;ame whil&s;t thou lived&s;t here on earth: I do make u&s;e of the &s;ame to fulfill the nece&s;&s;ity of my body, that it may be more prompt and ready to &s;erve thee. Amen.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<PB N="19" REF="18">
<HEAD>Before &s;leeping &s;ay thus.</HEAD>
<P>O Mo&s;t &s;weet JESUS let me now re&s;t upon thy &s;acred brea&s;t, and grant me to fetch my breath out of thy mo&s;t &s;acred heart, that thy &s;weet &s;pirit may flow into my &s;oul, vivificate my mind and vn&s;eparably unite me unto thee &s;weet JESUS; &s;o often as this night I do fetch my breath, &s;o many millions of prai&s;es I be&s;eech thee receive from me.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<HEAD>Vnto your good Angel &s;ay.</HEAD>
<P>O Angell of God who art my keeper, illumi|nate, pre&s;erve, rule, and govern me com|mitted to thy charge by the &s;upernall power this night and evermore, <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<HEAD>A direction how to &s;ay the way to Jeru&s;alem.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. AT five a clock when Meditation is ended, going to put off your cloake, take the My&s;tery wherein our &s;aviour took leave of his B. Mother.</P>
<P N="2">2. When it ringeth to Collation, that which is then pre&s;ent, his going unto the place where he made his &s;upper.</P>
<P N="3">3. When you are at Collation, the washing of the feet.</P>
<P N="4"><PB N="20" REF="19">4. That of the In&s;titution of the mo&s;t B. Sa|crament, the which continue till the end of <HI>Com|pline.</HI></P>
<P N="5">5. Then take our &s;aviour's going into the gar|den with his di&s;ciples.</P>
<P N="6">6. When the B. Sacrament is &s;een, the three prayers which he made in the garden.</P>
<P N="7">7. Going forth of the Church, his betraying.</P>
<P N="8">8. In your cell his being at Annas's, and leave him there untill <HI>Matins;</HI> at which time go with him to Caiphas, and find him there at <HI>Prime.</HI></P>
<P N="9">9. Under which go with him to Pilate, and from thence to Herod.</P>
<P N="10">10. At <HI>Terce</HI> take the My&s;tery of the white garment.</P>
<P N="11">11. At <HI>Sext</HI> the whipping and crowning with thorns, Going forth of the Church, our &s;aviour's being lead and shewed to the people.</P>
<P N="12">12. Making your bed, remember the three &s;entences of death which were given again&s;t him.</P>
<P N="13">13. Going to the Workhou&s;e his going with his Cro&s;s to be crucified, and pa&s;&s;ing through the golden gate.</P>
<P N="14">14. In the workhou&s;e the three falls: the mee|ting of our &s;weet &s;aviour with his holy Mother, Simon Cyrenean, &amp; Veronica.</P>
<P N="15">15. Going forth from the Workhou&s;e, the carrying the Cro&s;s up Mount Calvary.</P>
<P N="16">16. Between the two peales to <HI>None,</HI> his &s;itting naked upon the &s;tone.</P>
<P N="17">17. At <HI>None,</HI> the nailing to the Cro&s;s.</P>
<P N="18"><PB N="21" REF="19">18. Going down to Grace, how the Cro&s;s was reared up and &s;et in the place where it was to &s;tand.</P>
<P N="19">19. At twelve a clock behold our &s;aviour hanging on high upon the Cro&s;s, &s;aying the&s;e fir&s;t words, <HI>Father forgive them for they know not what they do.</HI></P>
<P N="20">20. From <HI>even&s;ong,</HI> exerci&s;e your &s;elf in the 7. words: the piercing of our Saviours &s;ide: his taking down from the Cro&s;&s;, and lyng in the lap of his Mother, his buriall, and de&s;cending into Limbo.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<HEAD>How to apply the &s;eaven Words.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. <HI>FAther forgive them for they know not what they do.</HI> Here pray for all tho&s;e that are in mortall &s;in: for all Heathens, and Here|ticks, and be&s;eech Almighty God to illuminate their hearts, and pardon their offences.</P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>This day thou shalt be with me in Paradi&s;e.</HI> Pray for the happy departure of all faithfull Chri&s;tians, and relea&s;ement of the &s;oules in Purgatorie.</P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>Son behold thy Mother:</HI> and again, <HI>Wo|man behold thy &s;on.</HI> Recommend to our B. Lady your &s;elf, your Parents, kinred and Bene|factours and the &s;tate of the whole church: be|&s;eeching our &s;weet Saviour to give her unto us for Patrone&s;&s;, Mother, and Advocate, and grant us grace to &s;erve, honour, and obey her.</P>
<P N="4"><PB N="22" REF="20">4. <HI>I thir&s;t.</HI> Pray that wee, and all creatures may continually thir&s;t after ju&s;tice and the per|fect love of God.</P>
<P N="5">5. <HI>My God, my God, why ha&s;t thou for&s;aken me.</HI> Here pray for the comfort and a&s;&s;i&s;tance of all in temptation or affliction, either &s;piri|tuall or corporall.</P>
<P N="6">6. <HI>It is con&s;ummated.</HI> Be&s;eech Almighty God that his holy will may be accomplished in you, and all creatures to the perfect prai&s;e of his mo&s;t holy name.</P>
<P N="7">7. <HI>Father, into thy hands I commend my &s;pirit.</HI> Pray rhat as he recommended his to his heavenly Father, our &s;oules may be protected by him in this life by the fruition of his holy grace, and in the next received to that beatitu|de which by his death and Pa&s;&s;ion he ha's purcha|&s;ed, for us.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<HEAD>The <HI>7.</HI> Ave's which are to be read for the <HI>7.</HI> &s;orrowes of or B. Lady; you may take according to your devotion, or the&s;e following.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. THe departure of our &s;weet Saviour when he went to make his la&s;t &s;upper.</P>
<P N="2">2. When S. John brought her word of our Saviours being apprehended, and his cruell u&s;age.</P>
<P N="3">3. When shee mett him bearing his Cro&s;&s;.</P>
<P N="4">4. When shee beheld him crucified upon the Cro&s;&s;.</P>
<P N="5"><PB N="23" REF="20">5. The cruell piercing of his &s;acred &s;ide.</P>
<P N="6">6. When shee had him dead in her lap.</P>
<P N="7">7. When shee parted from the body of her deare &s;on at his buriall.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<HEAD>Con&s;iderations on the <HI>3. Pater no&s;ters,</HI> and <HI>Aves</HI> which are &s;aid at the shewing of the B. Sacrament: in honour of the Prayer in the Garden, offering your intention to gain the Pardon.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. SAy the fir&s;t <HI>Pater</HI> and <HI>Ave,</HI> in honour of the un&s;peakable love with which our &s;weet Sa|viour made oblation of his dolorous agony, cra|ving by the merits of the &s;ame, that our &s;ins may be forgiven us, and that we be reconciled to his heavenly Father, and obtain &s;trength and comfort in our temptations and afflictions.</P>
<P N="2">2. The 2. <HI>Pater</HI> and <HI>Ave,</HI> in honour of the en|tire re&s;ignation with which our B. Saviour offe|red his Prayer: crave therby grace to conform our &s;elves unto the divine will, and attain per|fect union with Almighty God.</P>
<P N="3">3. The 3. <HI>Pater</HI> and <HI>Ave,</HI> &s;ay in honour of our &s;weet Saviours per&s;everance in his mo&s;t painfull prayer, be&s;eeching him that by the merits of the &s;ame wee may not leave of the good once begun for the repugnance wee feel, or want of con&s;ola|tion therein, but with love and confidence per|&s;ever to the end.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<PB N="24" REF="21">
<HEAD>After your Examin at night, you may &s;a|lute our B. Lady with the&s;e <HI>3 Ave's.</HI></HEAD>
<P N="1">1. BY the fir&s;t be&s;eech her that she will obtain for you pardon of all your &s;ins, and e&s;pe|cially tho&s;e you have committed that day.</P>
<P N="2">2. That shee will plea&s;e to pre&s;ent all your works unto her ble&s;&s;ed &s;on, rendring them agrea|ble by her merits in what&s;oever is wanting on their part.</P>
<P N="3">3. Recommend your &s;elf unto her, and be&s;eech her that shee will pre&s;erve you from all &s;in de|ceits and illu&s;ious of the divell, and particularly from all evills.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<HEAD>How to &s;ay your <HI>Pater no&s;ter's</HI> and <HI>Ave's</HI> in thanksgiving unto Almighty God for his benefits either for night or any other time.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. THe fir&s;t <HI>Pater</HI> and <HI>Ave</HI> addre&s;&s; to the right hand of our &s;weet Redeemer offering to his Eternall Father, the precious blood which i&s;&s;ued out of his mo&s;t &s;acred wound in thanks|giving for the benefit of your Creation and the Creation of all others, as al&s;o of all things crea|ted for mans u&s;e.</P>
<P N="2">2. The 2. addre&s;&s; unto the &s;acred wound of his left hand in thanks giving for the benefit of
<PB N="25" REF="21"> con&s;etving you from evils, and the like for o|thers.</P>
<P N="3">3. The 3. addre&s;&s; unto the wound of his right foot in thanksgiving for the benefit of your Redemption, and the like for others.</P>
<P N="4">4. The 4. addre&s;&s; unto the &s;acred wound of his left foot in thanksgiving for the benefit of your vocation, and all others on whom he hath be&s;towed the like.</P>
<P N="5">5. The 5. addre&s;&s; unto the &s;acred wound of his ble&s;&s;ed heart, for all generall and particular benefits, either &s;pirituall or corporall, which with &s;o great love he hath be&s;towed on you, and all creatures.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<HEAD>An Exerci&s;e for Ma&s;&s;.</HEAD>
<P>FIr&s;t know that Ma&s;&s; is a &s;acrifice, wherein is offered the very &s;ame body and blood of our Saviour, that was before offered upon the Cro&s;&s;, and was infinitely able to redeem infinit worlds: and &s;ith the world is &s;ufficiently redee|med with one redemption, he gives unto every one &s;uch and &s;o great grace, as he hath prepared him&s;elf to receive: therfore, like as a man that fetcheth water forth of the &s;ea cannot want for any &s;carcity that is there, yet he may want by rea&s;on of the littlene&s;&s; of his ve&s;&s;ell: even &s;o no man need want grace coming unto this holy &s;a|crifice if the ve&s;&s;ell of his heart be of &s;ufficient bigne&s;&s;. Wherfore prepare your &s;elf worthily,
<PB N="26" REF="22"> and beg &s;uch grace, devotion, reverence and at|tention, as the worthines of the &s;acrifice following requires.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<HEAD>The Exerci&s;e.</HEAD>
<P>THe Prie&s;t &s;ignifieth God, the Altar the church: and as the Altar is of many &s;tones, &s;o is the church of God, of many people. Wherfore you mu&s;t not heare Ma&s;&s; for your &s;elf alone, but for the whole church: for &s;ince he is a com|mon Lord, he is not delighted with particular &s;ervice.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>A Prayer before Ma&s;&s;.</HEAD>
<P>O Good JESUS vouch&s;afe me the vertue of your holy grace, and grant J be&s;eech you that J may purely a&s;&s;i&s;t at this divine &s;acrifice of the holy Ma&s;&s; to the eternall prai&s;e of your holy name in memory of all that you have been plea|&s;ed to &s;uffer for my &s;ake, and for all mankind.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<HEAD>When the Prie&s;t &s;aith the <HI>Confiteor.</HI></HEAD>
<P>COn&s;ider the offences of our fir&s;t parents with tho&s;e of the whole world, and in particular tho&s;e which you have your &s;elf committed, and at the <HI>Kyrie eler&s;on,</HI> aske mo&s;t humbly pardon for them, and beg grace for amendment.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<PB N="27" REF="22">
<HEAD>At Gloria in excel&s;is.</HEAD>
<P>COn&s;ider how the Angels in heaven rejoyce at the conver&s;ion of a &s;inner, wherfore be|&s;eech them through the great de&s;ire they have of mans &s;alvation to aid and a&s;&s;i&s;t us, and all crea|tures to obtain the &s;ame.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<HEAD>At the Epi&s;tle.</HEAD>
<P>COn&s;ider that this World is a place of Pen|nance, and be &s;orry that &s;o few do embra|ce the &s;ame, but follow vain plea&s;ures and delights: and be&s;eech Almighty God to enlighten their hearts, and offer your &s;elf to &s;uffer what&s;oever it shall plea&s;e him to lay upon you, begging grace for the &s;ame.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<HEAD>At the Ghospell.</HEAD>
<P>COn&s;ider what pains our Saviour took in this world going from one place to another, prea|ching and inviting all men to follow his mo&s;t perfect example and doctrin, begging by the merits of his pains and labours, that you may be a true follower thereof.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<HEAD>At the Creed.</HEAD>
<P>THink what a multitude of people were con|verted by the holy Gho&s;pell; and neverthele&s;&s;
<PB N="28" REF="23"> how many there are which remain in blindnes, and wil not be lightned, for which be heartily &s;orry, and be&s;eech God to convert them, but principally pray for the conver&s;ion of England.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<HEAD>At the Offertory.</HEAD>
<P>COn&s;ider the promptitude with which our &s;weet Saviour offered him&s;elf into the hands of his heavenly Fathet to &s;uffer his bitter death and Pa&s;&s;ion for your Redemption, and all man|kind. Wherfore offer your &s;elf wholly to his divine goodne&s;&s; with your vowes of obedience, Poverty, and Cha&s;tity, purpo&s;ing from thence forward to be crucified by the&s;e three nailes to the Cro&s;&s; of all mortification.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<HEAD>At the Preface.</HEAD>
<P>COn&s;ider how our &s;weet Saviour rai&s;ed La|zarus after he had been dead four daies: and thence you may draw comfort and confidence, that although you find many evil cu&s;tomes in your &s;elf, all hindering you from the true &s;ervice of God: yet acknowledge that he is able to rai|&s;e and deliver you from them all. Wherfore you mu&s;t purpo&s;e &s;trongly to re&s;i&s;t them accor|ding to the grace and &s;trength, which it shall plea&s;e him to give you.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<PB N="29" REF="23">
<HEAD>At Sanctus.</HEAD>
<P>COn&s;ider how the Angels in heaven do con|tinually prai&s;e Almighty God, and how plea&s;ing their &s;ervice is unto him: wherfore pray unto them to obtain for you &s;uch fervour of &s;pirit in this life that at your death you may be worthy to be a&s;&s;i&s;ted by them in heaven.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<HEAD>At the Canon.</HEAD>
<P>COn&s;ider the un&s;peakable love of our Saviour in offering him&s;elf for you in this mo&s;t ho|ly Sactifice: weighing his Maje&s;ties greatnes and Omnipotency, which is therein contained: and here you may pray for the intention of the whole church, and for all tho&s;e you are to pray for that day.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>A prayer at the Elevation of the mo&s;t B. Ho&s;t.</HEAD>
<P><HI>ADoro te Domine Ie&s;u Christe &amp; benedico tibi, qui pro nobis in cruce moriens redemi&s;ti mundum. Ave caro Chri&s;ti immaculata Crucis ho&s;tia, morte tu&acirc; nos a|mar&acirc; fac redemptos luce clar&acirc; tecum frui glori&acirc;. Deus propitius e&s;to mihi peccatori. Aufer &agrave; me quicquid tibi di&s;plicet. Infunde in me quicquid tibi placet. Converte me totum tuum dulcis Ie&s;u, Deus meus. Amen.</HI></P>
<P>J adore thee o Lord JESUS CHRIST, and
<PB N="30" REF="24"> J ble&s;&s; thee who dying on the Cro&s;&s; for us, ha&s;t redeemed the world. Haile holy flesh of CHRIST, immaculate ho&s;t of the Cro&s;&s;, Make us, redee|med by thy bitter death, to enjoy with thee in glory, eternall light. God be mercifull to me a &s;inner. Take away from me all that is di&s;plea|&s;ing to thee; infu&s;e into me all that is plea&s;ing to thee. Convert me wholy to thee &s;weet JE|SUS my God. Amen.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>A Prayer at the Elevation of the Chalice.</HEAD>
<P><HI>SAnguis tuus Domine Ie&s;u Chri&s;te pro nobis effu&s;us, &s;it nobis in remi&s;sionem omnium peccatorum no&s;trorum, negligentiarum, &amp; ignorantiarum no&s;trarum: in robur &amp; augmentum fidei, &s;pei, charitatis, gratiarum, &amp; vir|tutum: in cautelam vitae, in adoptionem gloriae aeternae in ab&s;olutionem omnium fidelium defunctorum &amp; om|nium pro quibus orare tenemur. Amen.</HI></P>
<P>Let thy blood, O Lord JESUS CHRIST, which was shed for us, be a remi&s;&s;ion of all our &s;ins, negligences and ignorances, a &s;trength|ning and encrea&s;e of faith, hope, charity, gra|ces, and virtues, a caution to my life, an adop|tion to eternall glory, an ab&s;olution of all the faithfull departed, and of all for whom we are bound to pray. Amen.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<HEAD>Whilst the Pater no&s;ter is &s;aid.</HEAD>
<P>COn&s;ider who made this Prayer, and joyne your intention with the Prie&s;t's, who re|peateth
<PB N="31" REF="24"> it for the nece&s;&s;ities of the whole church.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<HEAD>An Excrci&s;e for the <HI>5.</HI> Pater no&s;ters after the Elevation.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. FIr&s;t you make a particular intention to get pardon, and to di&s;po&s;e your &s;elf to receive the Ble&s;&s;ed Sacrament, either corporally or &s;pi|ritually for the which ob&s;erve this exerci&s;e.</P>
<P>The fir&s;t <HI>Pater</HI> and <HI>Ave,</HI> addre&s;&s; to the right hand of our B. Saviour be&s;eeching him that the pre|tious blood which i&s;&s;ued out of this his &s;acred wound may &s;erve you for a bath to wash and purify you from all &s;taines and &s;pots of your &s;ins, and particularly tho&s;e which you have com|mitted &s;ince your la&s;t confe&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P>The 2. addre&s;&s; to the left hand, be&s;eeching him that the &s;acred blood which i&s;&s;ued from the &s;ame may &s;erve for a &s;pirituall bal&s;ome to cure all your infirmities, and &s;pirituall &s;ickne&s;&s;es.</P>
<P>The 3. addre&s;&s; unto the wound of his right foot, be&s;eeching him by his &s;acred blood which i&s;&s;ued forth thereof, that it will plea&s;e him to adorn you with the garment of charity, and purity of heart and mind.</P>
<P>The 4. addre&s;&s; to his left foot, be&s;eeching him that his &s;acred blood which i&s;&s;ued forth of this wound may lighten the eyes of the &s;oule to know his greatnes, feare his ju&s;tice, and love his goodnes.</P>
<P>The 5. addre&s;&s; unto the &s;acred blood which i&s;|&s;ued from thence that he will pardon and extin|guish
<PB N="32" REF="25"> all your inordinate de&s;ires and affections and unite your heart to his through perpetuall love and continuall memorie of him.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>A Prayer before &s;pirituall Communion.</HEAD>
<P><HI>O Pie Domine Ie&s;u Christe, qui huc propter me ve|ni&s;ti, &amp; te mihi in panem quotidiaenum, imo in omnem de&s;iderabilem u&s;um tribui&s;ti; vellem te libenter etiaem in Sacramento &s;u&s;cipere, &s;ed heu non audeo, nec po&s;sum accedere, quia timeo te offendere propter indi&s;po&s;i|tionem meam inimicam &amp; tamen &s;cio quod &s;ine te vero cibo non po&s;sum vivere: quare humiliter te rogo ut lic&egrave;t non &s;umam te &s;acramentaliter, me tamen reficias &amp; ad me de&s;cendas &s;piritualiter &amp; velis mihi gratiam imper|tiri, quam te devot&egrave; &s;umentes debent &s;entire. O bone Ie&s;u noli me de&s;picere, noli me indignam famulam tuam tran|&s;ire; &s;ed digneris ad me venire, mecum manere, &amp; effectus tuos in me operari. Amen.</HI></P>
<P>O mo&s;t pious Lord JESUS CHRIST, who came&s;t hither for me, and ha&s;t given thy &s;elf to me for my' daily bread, yea to every de&s;irable u&s;e. J would willingly receive thee even in the Sa|crament: but alas J dare not, nor can J approach, becau&s;e J am afraid to offend thee by rea&s;on of my indi&s;po&s;ition offen&s;ive to thy eye: and yet J know that J cannot live without thee the true food: Wherfore J mo&s;t humbly be&s;eech thee, that altho J do not receive thee Sacramentally, yet that thou would&s;t refresh me, and come down to me &s;piritually, and impart unto me that grace,
<PB N="33" REF="25"> which tho&s;e that receive thee devoutly mu&s;t feel. O Good JESU de&s;pi&s;e me not, and pa&s;&s; not by me thy unworthy &s;ervant, but vouch&s;afe to come to me, and to remain with me, and work thy effects in me. Amen.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<HEAD>An Exerci&s;e to be &s;aid by word or heart when you Communicate &s;piritually or corporally.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. WHen the Prie&s;t &s;aith <HI>Domine non &s;um di|gnus,</HI> &s;ay interiourly at the 1. time. O my God J am not worthy for the multitude of my &s;ins that the earth should beare me.</P>
<P N="2">2. At the 2. O my God J merit not to lift up my eyes to behold the heavens.</P>
<P N="3">3. At the 3. O my God, J am she who for my iniquities merit no other then hell; but not|with&s;tanding, O infinit goodnes, leave not to vi&s;it me.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>A devout Prayer to be &s;aid in time of Communion.</HEAD>
<P><HI>O Bone</HI> JESU, <HI>dilecte mi, chari&s;sime mi, amor meus, dulcedo cordis mei, vita animae meae. O ae|ternum bonum meum, melliflue</HI> JESU <HI>mi&s;erere mei, uni me tibi intim&egrave; ad gloriam nominis tui. Amen.</HI></P>
<P>O good JESU, my beloved my deare&s;t, my love, the &s;weetne&s;&s; of my heart, the life of my &s;oule. O my Eternall good, mellifluous JESU
<PB N="34" REF="26"> have pitty on me, unite me to thy &s;elf mo&s;t intimately, to the glory of thy name. Amen.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>Another.</HEAD>
<P>O Light increated, illuminate my darkne&s;&s;, il|luminate my under&s;tanding with pure know|ledge, replenish my memory with holy remem|brance and cha&s;t thoughts, &s;et my will on fi|re with a holy and enflamed love, quicken my &s;oule and make that J may ta&s;t the vertue of your holy pre&s;ence, and by the &s;ame ever re|main in me, and let me remain in you. Amen.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>A Thanksgiving after you Commu|nicated &s;piritually or Corporally.</HEAD>
<P><HI>GRatias tibi ago Domine</HI> JESU CHRISTE, <HI>qui me tantis Sacramentis &s;piritualibus refecisti; in|dulge Domine ob&s;ecro reverentiam, mane mecum per gratiam, &amp; fac me hodie &amp; &s;emper tuis obedire man|datis, ut effectus &amp; virtutes hujus Sacramenti &s;entiam. Amen.</HI></P>
<P>J give thee thanks. O Lord JESU CHRIST, who ha&s;t refresht me with &s;uch great &s;pirituall Sa|craments: grant me, J be&s;eech you, reverence; &s;tay with me by your grace, and make me this day, &amp; alwayes obedient to your commands, that J may feel the effects and vertues of this Sacrament. Amen.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<PB N="35" REF="26">
<HEAD>When the Prie&s;t &s;ayes Agnus Dei.</HEAD>
<P>COn&s;ider how your &s;weet &s;aviour is rhe lamb of God who hath offered him&s;elf for all the &s;ins of the world, and is now at the right hand of his Father to be the Advocate and Judge of &s;inners. Pray him humbly to pardon you your offences, and make you worthy &s;piritually to receive him, which indeavour to do with the Prie&s;t in the devoute&s;t manner you can, and with the greate&s;t affection you are able.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<HEAD>When the Priest &s;aith the last Collect or Prayer.</HEAD>
<P>GIve thanks unto the holy Trinity for having granted you &s;o great a benefit as to be pre|&s;ent and prataker of &s;o worthy a My&s;tery.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<HEAD>At the la&s;t Dominus Vobi&s;cum.</HEAD>
<P>IMagin as if you heard the &s;ound of the Angels trumpet, wherwith our Lord at the end of the world will call to Judgment, and be&s;eech him to give you grace to be ready and prepared again&s;t that day.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<HEAD>When the Prie&s;t &s;aith Ite Mi&s;sa est.</HEAD>
<P>COn&s;ider that at the la&s;t day of Judgment the wicked shall be condemned to everla&s;ting
<PB N="36" REF="27"> pain and torment, and perpetually deprived of the pre&s;ence of Almighty God.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<HEAD>At the last Benediction.</HEAD>
<P>COn&s;ider the Benediction which Almighty God will give to all the Elect, and will lead them unto everla&s;ting re&s;t: wherfore be&s;eech him &s;o to ble&s;s you and all creatures both in this life and in the next as you and all other may perpetually ble&s;s his holy Name. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>At the End of Ma&s;s, &s;ay the Prayer following.</HEAD>
<P>SWeet JESUS I offer unto thee the &s;acrifice of this holy Ma&s;s, and of all the Ma&s;&s;es which shall be &s;aid throughout the whole world, by means whereof I be&s;eech you to give me know|ledge of my &s;ins and mi&s;eries, as al&s;o to re&s;tore the ruins and defects of my poor &s;oule, and to &s;upply my wants and unworthine&s;s: mortify in me what&s;oever is di&s;plea&s;ing unto your divine Maje&s;ty and make me one according to your own heart: conform my &s;pirit, &s;oul, and body to that of your &s;acred humanity, and alwayes il|luminate and direct me by the &s;ight of your in|comprehen&s;ible Divinitie. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
<P>Having &s;aid this Prayer under the Gho&s;pell Examin how you have behaved your &s;elf in this holy My&s;tery, and if you find your &s;elf to have
<PB N="37" REF="27"> failed humbly crave pardon of Almighty God, purpo&s;ing by his holy grace to amend, &amp; be more diligent the next day. DEO GRATIAS.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<HEAD>Certain intentions or Meditations which we ought to have when we Com|municate: out of S. Bonav.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. FIr&s;t to unite our &s;elves more &amp; more to Almighty God.</P>
<P N="2">2. To gain therby &s;ome vertue or grace.</P>
<P N="3">3. To acknowledge his benefits which we cannot do in any thing which is more plea&s;ing and agreable to him then by worthily frequen|ting this holy Sacrament.</P>
<P N="4">4. The de&s;ire of the prai&s;e of Almighty God, and his goodne&s;s, the &s;ame being a Sacrifice of prai&s;e.</P>
<P N="5">5. To receive the &s;pirit of Chri&s;t Je&s;us, &amp; to live in humility, charity, Obedience, Po|verty of &s;pirit, mortification of body, and con|tempt of the world, that thy Redeemer may live in thee, who is thy finall end.</P>
<P N="6">6. To renew the memory of the Pa&s;&s;ion of Chri&s;t Je&s;us.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<HEAD>Con&s;iderations before Communion taken out of the &s;ame Saint.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. WE are to meditate vhat we are about to do; which is to receive Chri&s;t Je&s;us,
<PB N="38" REF="28"> true God and true man, who died upon the Cro&s;s for us.</P>
<P N="2">2. That we are to receive the Holy of Ho|lies: for which cau&s;e, it behoveth that we ap|proach thereunto, without &s;in; purging our &s;elves by true Contrition.</P>
<P N="3">3. Con&s;ider the divine Excellency and our own mi&s;ery: how great this Lord is, and how meane the &s;ervant. Ponder that his goodne&s;s is much more then our offences, or vertues.</P>
<P N="4">4. Stirr up in your &s;elf a mo&s;t fervent de&s;ire to harbour in your heart &s;uch a loving Lord: The holy Doctour &s;aith it is a very &s;trange thing that man receiving into his &s;oule Almighty God in the mo&s;t B. Sacrament, his heart does not even faint, yea even bur&s;t through vehemency of love.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<HEAD>Fooure con&s;iderations of S. Mathildis before Communion.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. THe great love of God who had remem|brance of her from all Eternity.</P>
<P N="2">2. That he created her Knowing how ungra|tefull shee would be unto his divine Maje&s;ty.</P>
<P N="3">3. That he would dy for her, upon the Cro&s;s, and with his &s;acred blood &s;atisfy his Eternall Fa|ther for her demerits.</P>
<P N="4">4. That for her love he would remain in the holy Sacrament to feed her with his own ble&s;&s;ed body and Clean&s;e her with his owne &s;acred blood.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="prayer">
<PB N="39" REF="28">
<HEAD>A Prayer before receiving the B. Sacrament.</HEAD>
<P>O Sweet JESUS J mo&s;t ardently de&s;ire to re|ceive you Sacramentally and &s;piritually: al|though J know my &s;elf to be mo&s;t unworthy you should enter into the hou&s;e of my &s;oule; be fa|vorable unto me wretched &s;inner, and take from me what&s;oever is di&s;plea&s;ing unto you: prepare in me, and in all hearts a habitation agreable unto your divine Maje&s;ty. Would to God, O my &s;weet Saviour JESU, would to God J were wholy enflamed with an ardent de&s;ire and love of you. Behold J here renounce, and give up to you all things, O &s;weet JESU, O JESU, my love for ever.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>A Prayer after receiving the B. Sacrament.</HEAD>
<P>O Mo&s;t &s;weet Lord JESUS CHRIST, J hum|bly be&s;eech thy unspeakable mercy, that this holy Sacrament of thy pretious body and blood which J unworthy have received, may be to me and to all &s;inners a full purgation of all our offences, a &s;trength again&s;t frailties, a for|tre&s;&s; to defend us again&s;t all perills both of &s;oul and body, an entire pardon and e&s;tablishment in all grace, an amendment of life, a continuall memoriall of thy &s;acred Pa&s;&s;ion, a nourishment again&s;t all &s;pirituall weakne&s;s and a &s;taff of our <PB N="40" REF="29"> Pilgrimage: let it, my &s;weet Saviour JESUS, guide us going, reduce us &s;traying, receive us returning again, hold us up &s;tumbling, lift us up falling and per&s;evering bring us to glory. O highe&s;t God let the reception of this mo&s;t wor|thy Sacrament &s;o alter the ta&s;t of our hearts, that at no time we feel any &s;weetne&s;s, love, or de&s;ire, and con&s;olation, admit any delight, e&s;|teem any honour, feare any adver&s;ity, or even-live but for thee, and to accomplish thy ble&s;&s;ed will, which may ever be perfected in us. A|men.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>Another Prayer.</HEAD>
<P>O Mo&s;t glorious and ever ble&s;&s;ed Virgin Ma|ry, O holy Father S. Francis, O holy Mo|ther S. Clare, S. Micha&euml;l, Angels, Archangells, Vertues, Powers, Principalities, Dominations, Thrones, Cherubins, Seraphins, and all cele|&s;tiall Spirits, J be&s;eech you to pro&s;trate before the face of my God, and be&s;eech him in favour of his mo&s;t deare &s;on, my Saviour and Redee|mer CHRIST JESUS, that it will plea&s;e him to pardon the unworthines and indevotion whe|rewith J have received the mo&s;t ble&s;&s;ed and dread|fall Sacrament, and do not permit the &s;ame to cau&s;e that the &s;pirit thereof be not communica|ted unto me al&s;o, that by the vertue and effi|cacy of this holy Communion J may feel the effect of his divin&euml; mercy: that I may receive
<PB N="41" REF="29"> this day a full remi&s;&s;ion of all my &s;ins, true light and knowledge of his grace, which is in me: that be reduce and put me in &s;uch an e&s;tate as shall be mo&s;t plea&s;ing unto his divine Maje|&s;ty: augment in me faith, hope, charity, obe|dience, cha&s;tity and patience, with all other ver|tues and gifts of the holy Gho&s;t, nece&s;&s;ary to procure the glory of his divine Maje&s;ty, and the &s;alvation of my &s;oule to the honour and prai&s;e of his holy name. Amen.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<HEAD>What we ought to do the day we communicate.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. BE very careful to govern our &s;ences, e&s;|pecially our tongue; and if it happen we fall by frailty, we ought pre&s;ently to crave par|don and be&s;eech our &s;weet Saviour not therfore to ab&s;ent him&s;elf from us.</P>
<P N="2">2. To render to this ble&s;&s;ed gue&s;t all the be&s;t &s;ervices we are able, he being infinitely worthy to be &s;erved, loved, and adored of all creatures. Wishing above all things his holy honour and plea&s;ure.</P>
<P N="3">3. Seek &s;till to entertain this ble&s;&s;ed &s;pou&s;e with holy thoughts and de&s;ires, be&s;eeching him to give you and all others, what&s;oever he know|eth to be needfull for his love and &s;ervice, be|leeving that he is ine&s;timably rich, and a mo&s;t liberal giver.</P>
<P N="4">4. Do nothing that day without con&s;idering
<PB N="42" REF="30"> fir&s;t whether the thing you do will be plea&s;ing and agreable unto him, and demand his permi&s;|&s;ion and leave.</P>
<P N="5">5. Make fervent a&s;pirations, ca&s;t forth ar|rowes of divine love towards that mo&s;t amiable and &s;weet Lord with a vehement de&s;ire of lo|ving him infinitely, and be wholy transformed into him by conformity of will. Deo gratias.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>A Prayer before Confe&s;&s;ion.</HEAD>
<P>O Soverain Creatour of heaven and earth, and of all things which in them are: J worm and mi&s;erable wretch have offended your divi|ne Maje&s;ty, I wonder at my folly, dete&s;t my ingratitude, and lament my offences, craving through the merits of the bitter Pa&s;&s;ion and death of your onely begotten &s;on, and the infinite love, with which he did both offer and &s;uffer them for my &s;ake, and for the whole world: grant unto me and all &s;inners true knowledge and perfect contrition of our &s;ins and offences with entire remi&s;&s;ion of them all, loo&s;e us from the chaines of our imperfections, and heale the wounds of our &s;oules: grant us ever to be pur|ged and refreshed in the fountain of his holy wounds. Amen.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>A Prayer after Confe&s;&s;ion.</HEAD>
<P>O Good IESU let this my Confe&s;&s;ion be gra|tefull and acceptable unto you by the me|rits
<PB N="43" REF="30"> of your admirable life and painfull death, with all the labours, anguishes, and &s;orrowes, which you &s;uffered for mankind, together with tho&s;e of your B. Mother, and all your holy Saints &s;upplying what&s;oever is wanting in me, either now or any other time, through want of true contrition, entire confe&s;&s;ion, or full &s;atisfaction: be&s;eeching they may al&s;o be unto me light, di|rection and &s;trength in all my wayes unto the per|fect po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of you my &s;weet IESU in eter|nall glory. Amen.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<HEAD>Directions how to &s;ay the Divine Office with due devotion and attention.</HEAD>
<P>WHat care we ought to have in &s;aying the divine Office according to the examples of the holy men, is witten in the 27. Chapter of Pa|ralipomenon, <HI>De&s;pi&s;e not your &s;elf, our Lord hath cho&s;en you to stand before him and adore him.</HI> Wherfore &s;ince God hath cho&s;en man to &s;o high a prefer|ment, it is very requi&s;it we should know how, and in what manner humble &s;ervice doth con&s;i&s;t. The holy man Ger&s;on affirmeth that in &s;aying your Mattins and other houres, carefully and &s;tudiou&s;ly, lea&s;urely and di&s;tinctly, con&s;i&s;teth the greate&s;t exerci&s;e of a Religious man, and is &s;o fit for him as nothing more. S. Benedict doth call this the worke of our Lord, e&s;pecially be|cau&s;e it it is the chiefe&s;t office that any man can perform gratefull to the divine Maje&s;ty. S.
<PB N="44" REF="31"> Jerome doth affirm that to offer up Hymns, P&s;almes, and &s;pirituall prayers, and to shed teares for our own offences, and tho&s;e of our neighbour, is to reconcile the people to God, and to paci|fy our Lord with his flock: all which things are to be accomplished in the divine office. Wher|fore we ought very diligently to apply our whole &s;tudy, and inward powers to the due execution thereof: lea&s;t perhaps that dreadfull &s;entence pronounced by the Prophet Jeremy c. 48. v. 10. fall upon us, <HI>maledictus qui facit opus Domini fraudu|lenter.</HI> Artursd be be who do's our lords worke negligently.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<HEAD>Three &s;orts of preparation for &s;aying the Divine Offices.</HEAD>
<P>THe fir&s;t of living well, which is to be exer|ci&s;ed in doing all pious works, to re&s;train our &s;elves from all vanities, and daily to keep our hearts free and pure from all things that may in the lea&s;t &s;ort &s;oyle them, alwaies directing our thoughts and works what&s;oever unto Almighty God and his honour.</P>
<P>The 2. is, that before we begin the Divine Office, we be carefull to recollect our &s;pirits, ex|cluding all forrain thoughts, or what&s;oever may give us di&s;traction in our Divine Office, con&s;i|dering &s;eriou&s;ly what wee are going bou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters"> It behoveth us al&s;o diligently to weigh the&s;e, things following.</P>
<PB N="45" REF="31">
<P>That we come
<LIST>
<ITEM>To worship God.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To thank God.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To intreate God.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P>Fir&s;t we come to <HI>worship God</HI> in three per|&s;ons and one e&s;&s;ence with the worship of <HI>Patria</HI> which is due to God alone, for the benefit of ju&s;tification, that is the Incarnation of his only &s;on, our B. Saviour his life, death, Re&s;urrection, and A&s;cen&s;ion; which My&s;teries we ought ca|refully to con&s;ider, and ponder with great de|votion and reverence.</P>
<P N="2">2. We come to <HI>thank God</HI> in pray&s;ing him for the great benefits which we have received and do momentarily receive, and hope to re|ceive herafter. Therfore it is requi&s;it that we behold and renew the &s;ame every houre and moment of our life: but e&s;pecially when we are &s;o particularly employed in a worke that hath &s;o great relation and adherence thereunto.</P>
<P N="3">3. We go to <HI>intreat God,</HI> in be&s;eeching his mo&s;t immea&s;urable clemency for our own ne|ce&s;&s;ities and tho&s;e of the whole Church: but to bring all the&s;e particulars with more facility to our mind it will a&s;&s;i&s;t us much, attentively to think that nothing is more nece&s;&s;ary or pro|fitable for us then God.</P>
<P>The 3. Preparation is a zealous prayer, which we mu&s;t make to the end we may wor|thily finish the task of our devotions, and in imitation of the three Kings offer to his divine
<PB N="46" REF="32"> goodnes the <HI>gold</HI> of devotion, the <HI>frankincen&s;e</HI> of attention, and the <HI>Myrrhe</HI> of con&s;tant per|&s;everance.</P>
<P>Being to begin the Office you may &s;ay. I adore thee O Chri&s;t, and ble&s;s thee O Lord, for by thy Cro&s;s and Pa&s;&s;ion thou ha&s;t redee|med the world. Thou art my God, and I will exalt thee; To thee be prai&s;e. To thee be glo|ry. To thee be thanks giving for ever. All creatures worthily worship thee; prai&s;e, glori|fy, and adore the mo&s;t high and undivided Trinity, and the humanity of my ble&s;&s;ed Lord Je&s;u, who in time pa&s;t was conver&s;ant with men upon earth, and now &s;its at the right hand of his Eternall Father: J be&s;eech the Holy Vir|gin with the holy Angels and Saints, and tho|&s;e who&s;e fea&s;ts are celebrated this day throug|hout the whole Church, that they will all help me with their aid and furtherance, to the end I may finish this my office worthily to the true prai&s;e of Almighty God, and the profit of my &s;oule Amen.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>For the Prayer before the le&s;&s;er Houres take either <HI>REX CHRISTE &amp;c.</HI> or the Prayer following.</HEAD>
<P>O Good Je&s;u I de&s;ire for the love and ho|nour which I owe unto you, humbly to obey you, faithfully to &s;erve you, and purely
<PB N="47" REF="32"> to love you, in union of that mo&s;t perfect at|tention, which you being here on Earth prayed and prai&s;ed your heavenly Father. Help me O Lord Je&s;u with your holy grace, for being left by you, I shall be able to do nothing. Amen.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<HEAD>Devout Meditations at Gloria Patri.</HEAD>
<P>GLory be to the Father, who when I was not, hath created me.</P>
<P>Glory be to the &s;on, who when I was lo&s;t hath redeemed me.</P>
<P>Glory be to the Holy Gho&s;t, who hath &s;anctified me, and the elect of God.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="meditations for the hours">
<P><HI>Here en&s;ue certain holy Meditations of the <HI>7.</HI> Effu&s;ions, di&s;tributed for the Canonical Houres.</HI></P>
<DIV3 TYPE="hour (matins)">
<HEAD>At Matins.</HEAD>
<P>COn&s;ider with devotion, and yield manifold thanks to our B. Saviour for the effu&s;ion of his pretious blood, and &s;uffererings in his Circumci&s;ion, offering the dolours and pains of the &s;aid effu&s;ion to God the Father for all tho&s;e that are in &s;tate of mortall &s;in, that it would plea&s;e his divine goodnes to give them a perfect knowledge of their offences with con|trition, confe&s;&s;ion, &s;atisfaction and amendment.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="hour (laudes)">
<PB N="48" REF="33">
<HEAD>At Laudes.</HEAD>
<P>POnder and give thanks for the dolorousne&s;&s;, pain and effu&s;ion of blood, which our Sa|viour CHRIST JESUS endured in the garden a little before he was apprehended and taken, where with great pain and agony he &s;weat blood and water: offering this &s;piritually unto God the Father for tho&s;e that are in the &s;tate of gra|ce, favour and love of God, and his holy name, that it would plea&s;e him to con&s;erve them in that &s;tate and purity.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="hour (prime)">
<HEAD>At Prime.</HEAD>
<P>YIeld many thanks for the pain and effu&s;ion of blood, which our B. &s;aviour CHRIST JESUS &s;uffered in his flagellation, offering it up unto God the Father, for all tho&s;e that are in any affliction or tribulation, be it &s;pirituall or corporall, be&s;eeching his divine Maje&s;ty to con|&s;erve each one of them, as he knoweth to be mo&s;t to his honour, and the health of their &s;ou|les.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="hour (terce)">
<HEAD>At Tierce.</HEAD>
<P>IN devout contemplation give Many thanks unto God our &s;weet Saviour CHRIST IESUS for the effu&s;ion of his mo&s;t precious blood which
<PB N="49" REF="33"> he endured in his crowning with thorns: offe|ring it to God the Father for our parents, kin|red and benefactours, and all for whom wee are any wayes obliged to pray: be&s;eeching him to give them his holy grace to live in his true love and feare, and at their death to po&s;&s;e&s;s everla&s;ting life.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="hour (sext)">
<HEAD>At Sext.</HEAD>
<P>YIeld manyfold thanks unto our B. Saviour IESUS for the paines and effu&s;ion of his pretious blood, which i&s;&s;ued forth of his hands and feet, being nailed on the Cro&s;&s;; offering it to God the Father for the &s;tate of our holy Mother the church, that the Popes holines, and all Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall Powers may be exalted, to the increa&s;e of his honour, and have grace &s;trength and ability, well to di&s;charge what is committed to them therein.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="hour (none)">
<HEAD>At None.</HEAD>
<P>GIve manifold thanks unto our B. Saviour for the effu&s;ion and shedding of his &s;acred blood when nayled to the Cro&s;s his mo&s;t holy &s;ide was pierced with a lance; offering it to God the Father for the Conver&s;ion of all Hereticks: particularly for England, that it would plea&s;e him to enlighten them with his holy grace to know and embrace the truth, that they with all
<PB N="50" REF="34"> others may in union and perfect charity, love, prai&s;e and magnify him everla&s;tingly.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="hour (vespers)">
<HEAD>At Even&s;ong.</HEAD>
<P>CAll to mind the dolorous My&s;tery of our B. Saviours taking from the Cro&s;s and lying in the lapp of his Mother, offering it to God the Father for all religious per&s;ons who are e&s;pe|cially dedicated unto his holy &s;ervice, be&s;eeching his divine goodnes to give each one of them grace perfectly to perforn his holy will even unto death, &amp; to live vertuou&s;ly in the ob&s;er|vance of their in&s;titutes, and per&s;ever therein untill the end.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="hour (compline)">
<HEAD>At Compline.</HEAD>
<P>COn&s;ider how our B. Saviour being dead and his holy body taken down from the Cro&s;s, it was by our B. Lady, S. Mary Magdalen and other holy per&s;ons laid in the &s;epulcher while&s;t his glorious &s;oul de&s;cended into <HI>Limbo,</HI> where he delivered the ju&s;t: all which with devotion wee may pre&s;ent unto God the Father for the com+fort and relea&s;ement of the &s;oules detained for the purging of their &s;ins in <HI>Purgatory,</HI> be&s;eeching him mercifully to receive them unto his happy re&s;t, that they may eternally prai&s;e him. AMEN.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="prayer">
<PB N="51" REF="34">
<HEAD>A Prayer after the Divine Office.</HEAD>
<P>O Good JESUS be propitious unto me a mi|&s;erable &s;inner: unto thy goodnes do J com|mend this my office mo&s;t coldly and di&s;tractedly accomplished, be&s;eeching that through your me|rits it may be amended and perfected. Unto you good JESU do I offer it for the good of the whole church, and the &s;alvation of my &s;ou|le, in union of that mo&s;t perfect attention, with which here on earth you did pray unto your hea|venly Father; An&s;wer I be&s;eech you, Satisfy, and pray for me. AMEN.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="devotion">
<HEAD>A Direction for Mentall Prayer.</HEAD>
<P>THo&s;e who de&s;ire to increa&s;e and go forward in a &s;pirituall life, let them go that certain way, which is the interiour and mutuall com|munication with Almighty God, performed in this holy Exerci&s;e. Becau&s;e in Prayer vertues are ceived, obtained, and augmented. <HI>Prayer</HI> as the holy Apo&s;tle S. James &s;aith, <HI>availeth much,</HI> a&s;cen|deth to heaven before the tribunall &s;eat of Almigh|ty God, and bringeth unto men every good and perfect gift; cau&s;eth &s;uch a league and union be|twixt God and them, as it maketh their &s;oules apt to receive infinite grace from his divine Ma|je&s;ty. Daniel by Prayer converted the fierce|ne&s;&s; of Lions into the meekne&s;&s; of Lambs. Prayer
<PB N="52" REF="35"> made the fire loo&s;e its force, being not able to burn the three children in the mid&s;t of the fla|ming furnace. Prayer likewi&s;e &s;tayed the cour&s;e and altered the uniform motions of the heavens, giving power to the voyce of man to &s;top and detain the &s;un for as many howers as was ne|ce&s;&s;ary for the obtaining the victory again&s;t his enemies. Jacob through the vertue and effica|cy of Prayer prevailed again&s;t the Angell. Yea Prayer tyed the hands and infinit power, (if we may &s;o &s;ay) of the Lord of Angels: for by the Prayer of Moy&s;es Almighty God &s;eemed to be as it were di&s;abled to cha&s;tize the people, when he &s;aid unto this faithfull &s;ervant of his. <HI>Suffer me that my fury m y be angry again&s;t them:</HI> as if he should have &s;aid: <HI>Detain me not with thy Prayers.</HI> Prayer finally obtaineth pardon for what&s;oever offences: the Publican getteth remi&s;&s;ion of his &s;ins, and the Prodigall child pardon, and returns again into favour by Prayer. Therfore it being &s;o profitable and nece&s;&s;ary for a &s;pirituall life, obtaining by the vertue thereof what&s;oever it will in heaven or Earrh; it is requi&s;it that all Religious per&s;ons, &s;pend as much time as their &s;tate and lei&s;ure will permit them in this kind of Prayer: which rather con&s;i&s;teth in the actions of the will then the long di&s;cour&s;e or &s;peculation of the under&s;tanding, &s;en&s;ible gifts, or con&s;ola|tions: for that is not in our own hands. The fruit of Prayer is, that we rai&s;e from the &s;ame, <HI>humility, patience, obedience, Indifference &amp;c.</HI>
<PB N="53" REF="35"> This is alwaies in our power, (the grace of God pre&s;uppo&s;ed.) To the end that Prayer be per|formed with Recollection and attention, it is nece&s;&s;ary that we do not take it in hand as a thing of &s;mall moment, not rashly, but advi&s;edly; not with a &s;low and dull heart, but with a lively attention, and undaunted courage: for other|wi&s;e we might incurr the cur&s;e of the Prophet Jeremy, who &s;aith, <HI>Cur&s;ed is he that doth the worke of the Lord negligently.</HI> Neither is &s;o great atten|tion and force to be u&s;ed as therby to weary and break our heads, and hinder our health: for &s;o, in&s;teed of plea&s;ant and &s;weet milk we should <HI>wring forth blood,</HI> (as the wi&s;dom of God &s;ig|nifieth in Proverbs) cau&s;e a feare and horrour to undertake this holy Exerci&s;e. Wherfore to avoid the&s;e extreams, Moderation is to be u&s;ed in &s;uch &s;ort, as by over much &s;triving therein we hurt not our &s;elves, as was afore&s;aid, nor through too much carele&s;ne&s;&s; let our mind be carried away with unprofitable matters Let not wandring thoughts trouble you, but put them away &s;weetly: for you merit more by patient re&s;i&s;tance then in having great comfort and con|&s;olation. Humble and accu&s;e your &s;elf in the fight of Almighty God, that you cannot be &s;o long in his pre&s;ence without &s;o many earthly cogitations: be&s;eeching our B. Lady, your ho|ly Angel, and all others with the Saints to pray for you and &s;upply your wants in due prai&s;e and love of his divine Maje&s;ty. For &s;cruples and
<PB N="54" REF="36"> temptations, which happen in Prayer, the fir&s;t remedy, is not to hearken, or give eare unto them.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="instruction for prayer">
<P><HI>An Instruction for mentall Prayer to which are required <HI>5.</HI> Conditions. To wit.</HI></P>
<DIV3 N="1" TYPE="condition">
<HEAD>1. <HI>Preparation.</HI> 2. <HI>Meditation.</HI> 3. <HI>Pream|bles.</HI> 4. <HI>Colloquie.</HI> 5. <HI>Recollection.</HI></HEAD>
<P N="1">1. PReparation hath 4. conditions. The 1. which is univer&s;all to all piety, Purity of heart and calmne&s;&s; of pa&s;&s;ions, and affections, and Recollection both of &s;en&s;es and fancies: but above all things, that the intention be pure, and that you undertake this vertuous Exerci&s;e &s;incerely for the love of God to plea&s;e him, and reform your life and manners accor|ding to his mo&s;t ble&s;&s;ed will and not for ho|pes of con&s;olations or divine lights; which we|re an intention proper to hirelings, and not fit for his children, nor gratefull to our heavenly Father, who de&s;ires above all things a pure in|tention.</P>
<P N="2">2. The 2. is Reading, which you may ac|cu&s;tome in this manner: read tho&s;e points you intend to make your Meditation on after even &s;ong, before or about dinner: and that which you purpo&s;e to meditate on after Mattins the night before. Ruminate the matter divers
<PB N="55" REF="36"> times before you meditate, moving your &s;elf to ta&s;t and feel tho&s;e good motions and affections, which you think the matter will yield you to draw forth. For if in an affaire of importance which we handle with earthly creatures, we &s;e|riou&s;ly think and con&s;ider thereof before: how much more ought we to do it in this &s;o &s;piri|tuall an Exerci&s;e and the greate&s;t which can po&s;|&s;ibly be undertaken, being we are therein to treat with Almighty God about the good and &s;alvation of our &s;oule.</P>
<P>The 3. condition, is the Pre&s;ence of God. Coming to the place where you purpo&s;e to me|ditate con&s;ider the pre&s;ence of Almighty God comparing his greatne&s;&s; and goodne&s;&s;, with your own ba&s;enes and vilene&s;&s; and imagining our &s;weet Saviour calleth you to shew you what he hath don, &s;aid and &s;uffered for you. Or con|&s;ider your &s;elf a beggar, &s;ick, and guilty, to crave of your benefactour an almes, of your Phy&s;itian health, and of your Judge pardon; be&s;eeching your good Angel, and &s;ome of your Patrons to accompany and a&s;&s;i&s;t you therein.</P>
<P N="4">4. The 4. and la&s;t condition of preparation&punc; is the Prayer preparatory, wherein you crave grace affectuou&s;ly in generall to perform your Meditation to Gods honour and glory, and the good of your own &s;oule, remembring that &s;en|tence. <HI>Omnis no&s;tra &s;ufficientia &agrave; Deo est.</HI> All our &s;ufficiency is from God: be&s;eeching your hea|venly Father who is a &s;ea of mercies to rain down
<PB N="56" REF="37"> by his power plenty of pious thoughts to po&s;&s;e&s;s your memory; God the &s;on the true light and wi&s;dom to illuminate and in&s;truct your Under|&s;tanding with heavenly knowledge; God the Holy Gho&s;t, who is an infinit burning fire of chari|ty, to enflame your will with pious affections.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="2" TYPE="condition">
<HEAD>The <HI>2.</HI> Condition of Mentall Prayer is Preambles, which are for the mo&s;t part three.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. THe fit&s;t whereof is a tepetition to your &s;elf as you would to another, of the matter, &s;entence, or ver&s;e, of which you are to medi|tate.</P>
<P N="2">2. The 2. if the matter be Hi&s;toricall, is to repre&s;ent unto your &s;elf the place and per&s;ons pre&s;ent. As for example: Meditating &s;ome My|&s;tery of Chri&s;t, put before your eyes &s;ome moun|tain, citty, or de&s;ert, fitting the place to the Mi&s;tery or &s;entence, which you are to con&s;ider. If what you purpo&s;e to meditate be &s;pirituall matter, void of &s;uch &s;imilitude, ab&s;tain from the 2. Preamble accordingly. If of Hell: think of the length, breadth, and depth of that horrid place, with all things that may give horrour unto If of Heaven: repre&s;ent the &s;pacious plea|&s;antne&s;&s; of that Cele&s;tiall Country. If on death: your &s;elf lying on your death bed, or laid in your grave. If on Judgement: our &s;weet Sa|viour
<PB N="57" REF="37"> &s;itting on his Judgment &s;eat. If on &s;in: your &s;oule to be held pri&s;oner in your body, fettered with chaines of di&s;ordered pa&s;&s;ions, and clogged with the burden of the flesh. But if the &s;entence of your Meditation be &s;uch, as cannot make the&s;e nor the former &s;imilitudes: call to mind who &s;poke or did it, in what man|ner, &s;ort, or with what intention: reciting that &s;entence two or three times unto your &s;elf: which manner you mu&s;t al&s;o accu&s;tome in all &s;orts of Meditations, expecting what it shall plea&s;e God to teach you: therfore &s;aying: <HI>Speak Lord thy &s;ervant heareth.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. The 3. Preamble, or petition is briefly to crave light and knowledge of the My&s;tery you meditate on, and grace to &s;tirr up in your &s;elf &s;uch particular good affections of this or that vertue as you shall &s;ee the matter is mo&s;t apt to mini&s;ter occa&s;ion, for your &s;pirituall profit.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="3" TYPE="condition">
<HEAD>The 3. Condition of mentall Prayer, is Meditation, which con&s;isteth in the three powers of the &s;oule.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. FIr&s;t: let the memory remember to call to mind the pre&s;ence of Almighty God, be|fore whom you are to chu&s;e the matter whereon you are to meditate, in what manner you are to do it, and the end wherfore.</P>
<P N="2">2. Secondly: the Under&s;tanding mu&s;t di&s;cour|&s;e
<PB N="58" REF="38"> of the matter, whether it be of &s;ome per&s;on, as of our Saviour: &s;ome words of holy &s;criptu|re, &s;ome actions, as of the Pa&s;&s;ion of CHRIST JESUS, or the &s;uffering of his Saints: the ve|rity, cau&s;e, properties, effects, conveniences, and circum&s;tances, as, WHO, WHAT, WHY, WHERE, WHEN, BY WHAT MEANS: And this is not to be don &s;lightly, but very &s;eriou&s;ly, &s;o as they may move the will, pon|dering and as it were shewing them again.</P>
<P N="3">3. Thirdly: the will mu&s;t &s;tirr up in it &s;elf the&s;e affections, and make &s;uch good purpo&s;es as the &s;ubject doth require, and the under&s;tan|ding hath before approved for good: &s;eeking to perform towards God: 1. The affections of prai&s;e of his holy name. 2. Love of his good|ne&s;&s;. 3. Confidence in his mercy. 4. Faith in his verity. 5. Feare of his ju&s;tice. 6. Gratitude for his benefits. Towards your &s;elf, affections of love or hatred, de&s;ire or disdain, joy or &s;orrow, conver&s;ion, or aver&s;ion, feare or hope, di&s;like or pur&s;uit of the matter which you have di&s;co|vered: and in the&s;e of the will you mu&s;t incite and &s;tay your &s;elf in every point of your medi|tation.</P>
<DIV4 TYPE="advice">
<HEAD>How to proceed with fruit in every point of your Meditation.</HEAD>
<P>FIr&s;t the memory is to pre&s;ent the matter unto the under&s;tanding, as is above &s;aid, and that
<PB N="59" REF="38"> is to con&s;ider the per&s;ons, actions, and circum|&s;tances as is &s;et down: and when by di&s;cour&s;e and particular view of the matter, you shal &s;uf|ficiently under&s;tand any &s;peciall point to move affections: as to di&s;cover Gods goodne&s;s, love, or any benefit, don towards us by him, exam|ple of vertue, or difformity of vice, then &s;tay that di&s;cour&s;e, and &s;eek to &s;tirr up &s;uch good affections, as the matter will mo&s;t aptly afford. As for example; when by di&s;cour&s;e you have found the goodne&s;s of God, or &s;ome great be|nefit of him to us; then &s;tay, love, view, and admire him for the greatnes thereof: inciting your &s;elf to have a perpetuall memory and ack|nowledgment of them, drawing &s;omthing for your in&s;truction and encouragement to his mo&s;t perfect &s;ervice and your own progre&s;&s; in vertue. This is a great part of the fruit, which you are to reap of Meditation, the which you mu&s;t per|fect by colloquy and Prayer.</P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 TYPE="advice">
<HEAD>Helps, if the will do's not yield unto tho&s;e affections which you de&s;ire.</HEAD>
<P>REflect with your &s;elf what affections &s;uch co~&s;iderations ought to move in you towards God, who&s;e love, goodnes, and benefits you &s;ee to be &s;o great, and you have de&s;erved &s;o little: the which con&s;ideration ought to produ|ce in you exceeding great love, prai&s;e, gratitu|de, obedience, confidence &amp;c. Then come to
<PB N="60" REF="39"> your will again, and &s;ee whether it will yield to tho&s;e affections. If it do not, then labour to move it either by &s;uch per&s;ua&s;ions as you would give to another, whom you de&s;ire to in|cite to the &s;ame affections: Or el&s;e, reprove your dulne&s;&s;; or ask your &s;elf the que&s;tion <HI>why you should not yield thereunto:</HI> &s;eeing that you can remember your &s;elf and others to be exceedingly moved unto &s;uch affections towards creatures for le&s;&s; motives. And again &s;ay. <HI>Why should not I feel the like to my Creatour, or at lea&s;t yield with my will to de&s;ire it, and purpo&s;e the &s;ame?</HI> Then have recour&s;e to Prayer and &s;ay. O my God, J will purpo&s;e &amp;c. J de&s;ire you to a&s;&s;i&s;t me with your grace: confe&s;&s;ing your mi&s;ery and unworthines, be&s;eeching him to be your help. And &s;omtimes &s;ay the&s;e words of Jacob: <HI>I will not leave thee O Lord untill thou give&s;tme thy ble&s;sing:</HI> or tho&s;e of the Cananean woman. <HI>Yes Lord I am a dog, yet doggs eate, the crums which fall from their Mai&s;ters table:</HI> or other &s;uch like. And thus, having at lea&s;t by &s;ome meanes or other &s;tirred up the fore&s;aid affections, though not &s;o fervently as we de&s;ire, per&s;ever in exerci&s;ing the will, drawing forth &s;omthing for your profit. This example, in due proportion may &s;erve to teach you how to proceed upon any other matter: as when you have by di&s;cour&s;e di&s;covered any vertue or vice in &s;ome <HI>word, deed</HI> or <HI>thought,</HI> of &s;ome per&s;on who is pre&s;ented in the Meditation: fir&s;t by &s;taying or pondering, or &s;ometimes admiring
<PB N="61" REF="39"> how worthy a thing that vertue is, in that per|&s;on, and how foule the vice: the fruit and pro|fit which ari&s;eth of the one, and the lo&s;&s; and shame of the other. Then proceed as you will to move and &s;tirr up the affection you &s;eek; never contenting your &s;elf with generall affe|ctions, be they never &s;o fervent, nor &s;pend to much time in them, but make &s;ome particular re&s;olutions, of which you &s;tand in mo&s;t need for the advancement and correction of your life, which having &s;tirred up, confirmed, and re&s;ol|ved to practice, conclude alwaies the part, and much of the whole Meditation with devout col|loquies or &s;peaches of heart unto Almighty God.</P>
</DIV4>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="4" TYPE="condition">
<HEAD>The <HI>4.</HI> Condition of Prayer, or Colloquy to be &s;aid at the end of Meditation or part of them during the &s;ame.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. THe fir&s;t is to give God thanks for the holy affections, re&s;olutions, and purpo|&s;es, which he hath in&s;pired into you, as al&s;o for his goodnes and mercy which you have di&s;|covered in the di&s;cour&s;e of your Meditation.</P>
<P N="2">2. Secondly, by way of oblation, wherein you pre&s;ent unto God the &s;elf &s;ame goodnes and mercy of his, which you have ta&s;ted in Medi|tation together with the death Pa&s;&s;ion, vertues and merits of his holy &s;on our Redeemer, and con&s;equently with all the affections and re&s;olu|tions
<PB N="62" REF="40"> which by his holy grace you made in your Meditation.</P>
<P N="3">3. Thirdly by Petition or Ob&s;ecration, which you demand of God, and earne&s;tly conjure him, as it were through the death and Pa&s;&s;ion of our fweet Saviour, the merits of the glorious Vir|gin Mary, the interce&s;&s;ion of your good Angel, and all the holy Saints to ble&s;&s; your affections and re&s;olutions, which to his honour and glory you have made, to the end you may faithfully put them in execution, and for making your &s;elf more capable of his grace; crave pardon for your &s;ins and offences committed again&s;t his di|vine Maje&s;ty, with remedy of &s;ome vice and augmentation of &s;ome vertue, offering your &s;elf wholy unto his holy &s;ervice with a firm purpo|&s;e to avoid what&s;oever may offend him.</P>
<P N="4">4. Fourthly; be&s;ides the&s;e particular petitions which appertain unto your &s;elf, it is very good to make a generall &s;ute for all both living and dead, but e&s;pecially for tho&s;e who have mo&s;t need, and to whom you are mo&s;t obliged, and particularly for the &s;oules in Purgatory.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="5" TYPE="condition">
<HEAD>The <HI>5.</HI> Condition of Mentall Prayer is Recollection.</HEAD>
<P>FIr&s;t, your Meditation being ended, it is very profitable to ponder well and con&s;ider how it &s;ucceeded; whether you followed the method that was taught you, in the preparation, Pre|amble,
<PB N="63" REF="40"> Meditation and all the re&s;t, and what point moved you mo&s;t, and how you have ex|erci&s;ed your &s;elf therein, craving pardon for your defects, and giving Almighty God thanks for what was well, re&s;olving to follow what you &s;ee to be profitable unto you, and avoid the contrary.</P>
<P N="2">2. You mu&s;t have a particular care to con|form your felf unto tho&s;e good motions, which Almighty God shall give you in Prayer: for, &s;o to do, is a mo&s;t &s;peciall means to obtain the increa&s;e of grace: for the contrary would be an ingratitude and contempt of Gods graces, which de&s;erveth not to have the like hereafter: a prin|cipall help for the &s;ame is to have care to re|member them: and for that end it is good at Ma&s;&s;, and the Divine Office to renew and offer them to Almighty God, and divers times in the day to do the like.</P>
<P N="3">3. Thirdly and la&s;tly, if at any time it hap|pen that through ill di&s;po&s;ition, want of due Preparation, or yielding to temptation, your Meditation doth not &s;ucced; be not di&s;mayed or di&s;couraged, but humbling your &s;elf in Gods &s;ight, acknowledge your imperfections and ne|gligences; crave pardon of his divine Maje&s;ty, purpo&s;ing by his holy grace to be more carefull and diligent the next time: for the obtaining of which, have confidence in his divine goodnes, and thank him that he hath vouch&s;afed to per|mitt you the favour to be &s;o long in his pre|&s;ence.
<PB N="64" REF="41"> And if it were to have the lea&s;t good af|fection in all the time of your meditation, or but a remembrance of Almighty God, think not the time lo&s;t, and labour fruitle&s;&s;, but ra|ther if you wil make u&s;e of that little you have by often remembring it, doubt not but that lit|tle &s;park by laying wood to it, and often blo|wing the coales will turn to a great fire of the love of God.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="advice">
<HEAD>An advice how to overcome &s;ome diffi|culties that fall out in Meditation.</HEAD>
<P>THe fir&s;t is when you find your &s;elf without gu&s;t of devotion, and &s;o dry that Medita|tion will not only &s;eem to be cumber&s;om unto you, but al&s;o time lo&s;t. To overcome this dif|ficulty: you mu&s;t under&s;tand, that aridity and drine&s;&s; may come &s;omtimes out of your own fault; as when you u&s;ed not that diligence you ought either in meditation, or in preparing your &s;elf, by fore&s;eeing what you are to meditate on, accor|ding as hath been &s;aid, whereof it cometh, that you do it with negligence, &amp; dryly: and Almy|ghty God in punishment thereof doth worthily deprive you of the con&s;olation and ta&s;t of Me|ditation. The remedy to rid your &s;elf of this pu|nishment, is to take away the cau&s;e. At other times this aridity cometh without fault; and we mu&s;t not therfore leave Meditation: for as a time of con&s;olation doth plea&s;e you, when our
<PB N="65" REF="41"> Lord like the &s;un in the &s;pring cometh neare to you, and mak's you have gu&s;t in meditation: &s;o you mu&s;t not be di&s;plea&s;ed or leave your Exer|ci&s;e, when the &s;elf &s;ame &s;aviour as the &s;un in winter doth go from you, which he al&s;o doth for your good, that you may plant roots of humility, exerci&s;e patience and re&s;ignation, kno|wing that when he goeth from you, you remain dry without devotion, having confidence that God will accept of your Meditation and endea|vours, and &s;end you con&s;olation when he thin|keth mo&s;t fitting; and per&s;evering with courage and hope, remember the words of Tobias. <HI>Qui po&s;t tempe&s;tatem, tranquillum facit. Who after a &s;torme mak's a calme.</HI> As al&s;o that of Job. If <HI>we have received good things, why should not we beare with the basd.</HI> It may be al&s;o that Almighty God &s;uffereth you to be dry in Prayer, to try with what intention you come to &s;o holy an Exerci&s;e: proving whether you be his &s;ouldier for payment, expecting he should reward you with gu&s;t and de|votion: or el&s;e to make you know that your ta&s;t and comfort in meditation is his gift, which he be|&s;toweth on who~, a~d when he will, that by this means you di&s;po&s;e your &s;elf to ask humbly of him, and with confidence expect what you aske&punc; whe~&s;oever you prav to plea&s;e God therby as you ought to do; you may &s;ay: I did not begin my medita|tion to feel gu&s;t or devotion, but for the love of God, my &s;weet &s;aviour JESUS, &amp; for his love I will continue it.</P>
<PB N="66" REF="42">
<P>Another difficulty is, that the divell will repre|&s;ent Meditation unto you, as very hard and dif|ficult, &s;o to make you differr it, and afterwards wholy for&s;ake it. But if you have a true de&s;ire to do a thing acceptable to your Creatour, ei|ther Meditation will not &s;eem &s;o tedious or you will hold all well employed for his love. How many courtiers do you &s;ee going a hundred times a yeare unto the Princes chamber without hopes of once &s;peaking unto him, onely to be &s;een-by him, that he may take notice how they en|deavour to shew their duty unto him: &s;o mu&s;t you come to the Exerci&s;es of Prayer, which is as it were Gods Chamber of Pre&s;ence purely and meerly to do your duty and te&s;tify your fi|delity. And if it plea&s;e him not to &s;peak to you, no otherwi&s;e then if he &s;aw you not, or if you were not in his pre&s;ence, you mu&s;t not for all that go away di&s;contented, or di&s;comforted, but continue &s;till with patience and a devout beha|viour in the pre&s;ence of his &s;overain goodnes: and without doubt your &s;ervice will be acceptable to him, and at la&s;t he will take notice of your con&s;tancy and diligence.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="meditations">
<PB N="67" REF="42">
<HEAD>Colloquies or &s;peeches, part in Meditation and part in Prayer; Prai&s;ing Al|mighty Gods Excellency, good|ne&s;s, holine&s;s, worthine&s;s &amp;c.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="meditation">
<HEAD>TO THE SOULE.</HEAD>
<P>EXhorting it to &s;ome vertuous action: &s;om|times reprehending her vices and faults, little zeal, imperfections &amp;c.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="meditation">
<HEAD>PURPOSES.</HEAD>
<P>Purpo&s;ing to Gods honour, Obedience, Hu|mility, Re&s;ignation, Mortification &amp;c.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="meditation">
<HEAD>AFFECTIONS.</HEAD>
<P>More affections towards God, increa&s;e of his honour, augmentation of the Church, &amp;c.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="meditation">
<HEAD>SUPPLICATION.</HEAD>
<P>Make &s;upplication unto God, as a &s;on does to his father, a beggar to his benefactour, a &s;ick man to his Phy&s;itian, a &s;chollar to his Ma&s;ter, and a &s;pou&s;e to her bridegroome.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="meditation">
<HEAD>TO OUR B. LADY.</HEAD>
<P>Alleadging that shee is our mother, Mi&s;tris, Queen and Advocate, and therfore ought and doth love us, defend, protect, and pray for us.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="meditation">
<PB N="68" REF="43">
<HEAD>TO OUR GOOD ANGEL.</HEAD>
<P>Alleadging his office, charge, and power to help us: his honour to defend us.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="meditation">
<HEAD>TO THE SAINTS.</HEAD>
<P>E&s;pecially tho&s;e to whom you are mo&s;t devoted, alleadging their affinity to our nature, their tryalls of our nece&s;&s;ities, their &s;ecurity in glory, and their ability and willingnes to help us.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="meditation">
<HEAD>CAUSES OF DISTRACTIONS.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. Fir&s;t from the Divell who doth &s;till en|deavour to hinder from the fruit of Prayer.</P>
<P N="2">2. It proceedeth from our own imagination which is free, untamed, and ill governed.</P>
<P N="3">3. From &s;ome affections unmortified, which draw our thoughts after them, for <HI>where the trea|&s;ure is, there is the heart.</HI></P>
<P N="4">4. From cares which &s;ting, and divide the heart into a thou&s;and parts.</P>
<P N="5">5. From coldnes in enforcing our &s;elves to this &s;o noble an Exerci&s;e.</P>
<P N="6">6. From ignorance, not knowing how to di&s;cour&s;e or meditate, or &s;earche into hidden ve|rities, and ponder them in &s;uch &s;ort as may move the will and &s;tirr up affections of devotion. This ignorance by the grace of God will be remedied by this form, and method following.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="advice">
<PB N="69" REF="43">
<HEAD>The meanes to re&s;ist di&s;tractions of heart and tediou&s;nes of spirit, are prin|cipally foure.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. FIr&s;t, profound humility, acknowledging our weakne&s;s and mi&s;ery; being ashamed to &s;tand before God with &s;uch di&s;tractions, ac|cu&s;ing our &s;elves of our offences both pa&s;t and pre&s;ent.</P>
<P N="2">2. The &s;econd, fortitude of mind, re&s;olving not to admit any di&s;traction, although it admi|ni&s;ter matter of content, of &s;eem of much im|portance; for nothing behoveth us &s;o much as to tend to Prayer and to God, before whom we are. Wherfore if a thou&s;and times we should be diverted, we mu&s;t turn again as many times more, without loo&s;ing courage.</P>
<P N="3">3. The thrid remedy, Prayer it &s;elf: be&s;eeching our &s;aviour to recollect our thoughts and wan|dring affections, that wee may u&s;e attention and devotion: craving the help and interce&s;&s;ion of his glorious Mother with the holy Angels and Saints, who are willing to a&s;&s;i&s;t all tho&s;e that pray: &s;aying &s;omtimes with David. <HI>My heart hath for&s;aken me, may it plea&s;e you Lord to deliver me from the violence which I &s;uffer, and have re&s;pect to help.</HI> Other times with the Prophet: <HI>My &s;oule is as earth without water.</HI> Again: with the blind
<PB N="70" REF="44"> man in the Gho&s;pell. <HI>O &s;on of David have mercy on me.</HI> Or with the P&s;almi&s;t. <HI>Depart from me o yee malignants, and I will &s;earch the Commandements of my God.</HI></P>
<P N="4">4. The fourth is Confidence in Almighty God: per&s;uading our &s;elves, that being he comman|deth us to pray, he will give us grace wherby we may re&s;i&s;t the divell, bridle our imaginations, re&s;train our pa&s;&s;ions, moderate our cares, ca&s;t from us our coldne&s;s: But with this confidence wee mu&s;t adjoyn diligence, as Ca&s;&s;ian &s;aith, re|moving before Prayer what&s;oever you think may di&s;tract you therein: imitating in this the &s;ubtil|ty of our adver&s;ary; who as S. Nilus Abbot &s;aith, <HI>ordaineth all his temptations, wherwith he tempteth &s;p rituall per&s;ons, to hinder them from Prayer &amp; the fruit thereof: tempting them with impatience to di&s;|quiet them, curio&s;ity to di&s;tract them, multitude of bu&s;ines to disturb them, pride and ingratitude to make them barren and dry &amp;c.</HI> By this we may learn to be no le&s;s provident and carefull of our good then the divell is of our harm, ever governing our &s;elves in &s;uch &s;ort as may mo&s;t forward our Prayer, remembring the words of our &s;weet &s;a|viour in S. Luke. <HI>It behoveth us alwaies to pray, and never to be weary.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="meditation">
<HEAD>The chiefe&s;t effects of prayer.</HEAD>
<P>ARe particular lights, affections, and re&s;o|lutions. And what&s;oever el&s;e is needfull for
<PB N="71" REF="44"> a large Examin after Meditation, is &s;et down in the end of the book of the practice of Medita|tion.</P>
<P N="1">1. Con&s;olation is an inward motion unto the more perfect love of God, and withdraweth our affections from all earthly creatures.</P>
<P N="2">2. Teares, &s;pringing of love or &s;orrow, ri|ghtly ordained to the honour of God.</P>
<P N="3">3. Increa&s;e of hope and Charity.</P>
<P N="4">4. Joy and devotion, which incites the &s;oul unto greater perfection.</P>
<P N="5">5. Illuminations of the under&s;tanding, wherby it under&s;tandeth &s;ome things anew or better, and more perfectly then before.</P>
<P N="1">1. De&s;olation is that which vaileth the eyes of the &s;oul, that it may not behold that which apper|taineth to the glory of God, and the perfection of the &s;oule.</P>
<P N="2">2. That which troubleth, and moveth us to earthly and outward things.</P>
<P N="3">3. That which draweth us to the di&s;tru&s;t of obtaining perfection, or what may help us.</P>
<P N="4">4. That which driveth away Hope and cha|rity.</P>
<P N="5">5. That which bringeth the &s;oule to a certain tepidity, heavines, and tediou&s;nes of mind. S. Bernard &s;peaking of the devout Meditation upo~ the Pa&s;&s;ion of our Lord and Saviour Je&s;us Chri&s;t, &s;aith thus. <HI>If thou de&s;ire&s;t perfectly to be purified from all thy &s;ins and vices, if thou would&s;t be nobly enriched with vertues, illuminated in holy Scripture: if thou would'&s;t gloriou&s;ly
<PB N="72" REF="45"> triumph over thy enemies: if abundantly be conforted in adver&s;ities; if often, to have compunction and shed teares of devotion: if to obtain the burning fervour o&s; &s;pirit in Meditation: if to be replenished with &s;pirituall joy, if to per&s;ever in well doing, if in the end well and ble&s;sed|ly to dy, and to reign in heaven eternally: and finally to be beloved and crowned by our Saviour Ie&s;us, ever|la&s;tingly, exerci&s;e thy &s;elf in the holy Meditation of the ble&s;&s;ed life and Pa&s;sion of Ie&s;us, and often reduce the &s;ame unto thy heart and memory.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="meditation">
<HEAD>Things to be con&s;idered in Meditating the Pa&s;&s;ion of our Saviour.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. Who it is that &s;uffereth. 2, What it is he &s;uffereth. 3. How he &s;uffereth. 4. For whom 5. To what end he &s;uffered.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="meditation">
<HEAD>Severall Affections to be draw'n from the con&s;ideration of the &s;ame Pa&s;&s;ion.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. To have compa&s;&s;ion on the greatnes of his pains.</P>
<P N="2">2. Contrition for the &s;ins, which were the cau&s;e of his &s;ufferance.</P>
<P N="3">3. Imitation in folowing his examples.</P>
<P N="4">4. Gratitude for the largene&s;&s; of our Re|demption.</P>
<P N="5">5. Hope he dyed to &s;ave us.</P>
<P N="6">6. Love in &s;eeing the greatne&s;&s; of his love.</P>
<P N="7">7. Admiration in beholding his un&s;peakable
<PB N="73" REF="45"> bounty and goodnes. It is written of him, <HI>dixit multa, fecit mira, pertulit dura.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="meditation">
<HEAD>Con&s;iderations of the knowledge of ones &s;elf.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. Con&s;ider what you have been, what you are, and what you shall be.</P>
<P N="2">2. Ponder what you are by nature: by fault, what you have de&s;erved; and what you may do by grace.</P>
<P N="3">3. The effectuall cau&s;e of your Being, is God.</P>
<P N="4">4. The matter of which you are made is Earth, agreeing with the nature of bea&s;ts.</P>
<P N="5">5. Our &s;oules to the image of God.</P>
<P N="6">6. Our end to &s;erve him, and live eternally with him.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="meditation">
<HEAD>Con&s;iderations of &s;in.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. How much it di&s;plea&s;eth Almighty God, and hurteth man.</P>
<P N="2">2. How contrary to his ju&s;tice, di&s;plea&s;ing, and di&s;edifying to our neighbour.</P>
<P N="3">3. God's &s;evere punishment of it, and what we loo&s;e therby.</P>
<P N="4">4. The di&s;gu&s;t that followeth &s;in, and dis|honour that accompanieth it.</P>
<P N="5">5. The grief of God, his Angels, and Saints, with the joy of the Divell.</P>
<P N="6">6. The difformity of &s;in, and the disagree|ment between men and it, according to the no|blene&s;&s; of the &s;oul.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="meditation">
<PB N="74" REF="46">
<HEAD>How to con&s;ider Death.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. That all mu&s;t nece&s;&s;arily dy, and then be deprived of all things.</P>
<P N="2">2. Onely accompanied with grief and &s;icknes of the body, with temptations and feares of the &s;oule.</P>
<P N="3">3. And nothing will confort you at that hou|re but only good works.</P>
<P N="4">4. Death ought not to be feared, contemned, or de&s;ired.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="meditation">
<HEAD>Of the Pains of the damned.</HEAD>
<P>There are many waies to meditate of this, as in that which followeth of glory, only chan|ging the good for the evill.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="meditation">
<HEAD>To contemplate Heaven.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. Con&s;ider the dowries of the &s;oule, which are the vi&s;ion, po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion and enjoying of God.</P>
<P N="2">2. The dowries and perfections of the body: Impa&s;&s;ibility, Brightnes, Agility, Subtility.</P>
<P N="3">3. The place: mo&s;t excellent, mo&s;t large, mo&s;t beautifull and mo&s;t rich.</P>
<P N="4">4. The company of the Angels and Saints with the Ble&s;&s;ed Mother of God, which shall en|dure for all Eternity.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="meditation">
<PB N="75" REF="46">
<HEAD>How to con&s;ider vertue.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. In what vertue con&s;i&s;teth.</P>
<P N="2">2. What examples and doctrine my &s;weet Sa|viour hath given you thereof.</P>
<P N="3">3. How beautifull, excellent, nece&s;&s;ary, and profitable it is: how plea&s;ing unto God, and ma|keth man agreable to him.</P>
<P N="4">4. How much it edifieth and profiteth your neighbour.</P>
<P N="5">5. The &s;pirituall joy it bringeth with many benefits.</P>
<P N="6">6. The victory we gain therby over our &s;elves.</P>
<P N="7">7. How farr we are from the perfection the|reof and what you ought to do hereafter.</P>
<P N="8">8. The power we gain therby, in pre&s;enting our Prayers to God.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="meditation">
<HEAD>How to con&s;ider the Fea&s;ts of Saints.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. In what place they are now and with what glory they are crowned.</P>
<P N="2">2. How much they may help us by their Prayers and merits.</P>
<P N="3">3. By what works, Prayers, and vertues they have attained &s;uch glory.</P>
<P N="4">4. If you will come where they are, do as they have don.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="meditation">
<PB N="76" REF="47">
<HEAD>To meditate on the Perfections of Almighty God.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. His infinit E&s;&s;ence. 2. His Power. 3. His Wi&s;dome. 4. His Bounty. 5. His Goodnes 6. His Love. 7. His Mercy. 8. His Ju&s;tice. 9. His Providence. 10. His Omnipotency: con|cerning which weigh this &s;entence of holy &s;cripture, or what him&s;elf hath don in te&s;ti|mony thereof. <HI>Caelum &amp; terram ego impleo. In ip|&s;o vivimus, movemur &amp; &s;umus. I fill heaven and Earth. In him we live, move, and are.</HI> For his po|wer. <HI>Dixit, &amp; facta &s;unt. He &s;aid, and they we|re made.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="meditation">
<HEAD>Con&s;iderations of the creatures of Almi|ghty God, &amp; fir&s;t in generall.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. BY the largene&s;s of the world, con&s;ider the greatnes of Almighty God.</P>
<P N="2">2. The multitude and variety of things with the infinit perfections of God.</P>
<P N="3">3. His bounty in the profit they bring unto us.</P>
<P N="4">4. His beauty by the beauty of the creatu|res.</P>
<P N="5">5. His wi&s;dom in the well ordering of all things.</P>
<P N="6">6. His Eternity, in the roundne&s;s, which hath neither beginning nor end.</P>
<P N="7"><PB N="77" REF="47">7. The unity of the world, shewing that God is only one.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="meditation">
<HEAD>The creatures in particular, their begin|nings and continuance which is of God.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. The end thereof, to wit his honour, and the &s;ervice of creatures.</P>
<P N="2">2. Of what and how they were made by his only word and power.</P>
<P N="3">3. The qualities and effects of the&s;e creatu|res, the reverence they u&s;e unto God and his perfections.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="meditation">
<HEAD>The benefits in brief of Almighty God.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. Who hath don you the benefit.</P>
<P N="2">2. Who hath moved him to do it.</P>
<P N="3">3. Wherfore he hath don it unto you.</P>
<P N="4">4. How great the benefit is.</P>
<P N="5">5. How much you are obliged therby,</P>
<P N="6">6. How ungratefull you have been.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="meditation">
<HEAD>What you ought to do in the time to come with the benefits of Almighty God in particular.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. Fir&s;t how God hath prede&s;tinated us in per|petuall love before the world was.</P>
<P N="2">2. How he hath made man like to him&s;elf.</P>
<P N="3"><PB N="78" REF="48">3. Given you a body of mo&s;t &s;eemly features void of all defformity.</P>
<P N="4">4. Made your &s;oul immortall, and adorned it with three powers.</P>
<P N="5">5. Appointed an Angell to keep and defend you.</P>
<P N="6">6. Made you to be born of Chri&s;tian parents, and members of the Church,</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="meditation">
<HEAD>The benefit of our Redemption.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. Fir&s;t &s;ent us his well beloved &s;on to be our Redeemer and example.</P>
<P N="2">2. By Bapti&s;me purged you from orignal &s;in and re&s;tored you the ve&s;ture of originall ju&s;tice.</P>
<P N="3">3. Fortified you with the Sacrament of Con|firmation, wherby he hath armed you again&s;t your enemies.</P>
<P N="4">4. Made you a Chri&s;tian, and therby the child of God and coheire of his Kingdome.</P>
<P N="5">5. Hath given the holy Gho&s;t in token of adoption of love, communicating unto you his benefits in&s;pirations and fruits.</P>
<P N="6">6. La&s;tly the Sacraments of Confe&s;&s;ion and Communion, as a refuge in all Spirituall relap|&s;es and nece&s;&s;ities.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="meditation">
<HEAD>The benefit of vocation.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. Fir&s;t the patience of Almighty God with you: you falling &s;o often after &s;o many great
<PB N="79" REF="48"> benefits received, long expecting your return, and not letting you dy in an evill &s;tate.</P>
<P N="2">2. Sought to recall you by inward in&s;pirations admonitions, and exhortations.</P>
<P N="3">3. Mollified your heart, giving you a good will to vertue, and removed &s;uch impediments as might withdraw you from him.</P>
<P N="4">4. Lovingly received you at your return, as the Father did his prodigall child, putting on you the &s;tole of innocency, which you had lo&s;t by &s;in.</P>
<P N="5">5. Hath called you from the vanities and mi|&s;eries of the world, as he did Lot from Sodom.</P>
<P N="6">6. What great plenty of means he hath given you in Religion, wherby you may &s;atisfy for your &s;ins, increa&s;e your crown and merit.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="meditation">
<HEAD>The benefit of ju&s;tification.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. Fir&s;t how God hath changed your will, and moved you to do pennance, made bitter things &s;weet, and that which was un&s;upportable to be ea&s;y unto you.</P>
<P N="2">2. Secondly, he hath given unto you per&s;e|verance in his feare and love: many begin|ning well have failed in the end to their con|demnation.</P>
<P N="3">3. Thirdly he hath given to you the Evange|licall vertues of hope and grace, to per&s;ever in your good purpo&s;es to avoid vice and labour for vertue.</P>
<P N="4"><PB N="80" REF="49">4. Fourthly hath left the holy &s;criptures and devout books, wherein as in a gla&s;s you may behold your defects and imperfections.</P>
<P N="5">5. Fiftly, the examples of Martyrs, Confe&s;|&s;ours, Virgins, and the daily edification of tho&s;e with whom you live.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="meditation">
<HEAD>The benefit of donation.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. FIr&s;t the gift of nature, fortune, and gra|ce: as the five &s;ences with the three in|teriour powers of your &s;oul, health, &s;trength, &amp;c.</P>
<P N="2">2. God brought you back when you were a&s;tray, in&s;tructed you when you were ignorant, and lifted you up when you were fallen.</P>
<P N="3">3. Thirdly enlightned your under&s;tanding when it was in darkne&s;s of &s;in, and &s;tirred up in you many good motions and de&s;ires.</P>
<P N="4">4. Moved your will and affections to &s;piri|tuall works and exerci&s;es.</P>
<P N="5">5. Pre&s;erved you from many enormous &s;ins, taking from you the occa&s;ions, and giving you grace to per&s;ever and re&s;i&s;t them.</P>
<P N="6">6. Delivered you from divers &s;orts of temp|tations, drawing you forth when you were over|whelm'd in them, and given you greater force to re&s;i&s;t them.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="meditation">
<PB N="81" REF="49">
<HEAD>The benefit of Pre&s;ervation,</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. PRe&s;erved you both &s;piritually and corpo|rally in a good &s;tate, with increa&s;e of good de&s;ires, to execute good purpo&s;es.</P>
<P N="2">2. From the cradle to this moment pre&s;erved you from many enemies, di&s;ea&s;es, dangers, &amp;c.</P>
<P N="3">3. Hath hitherto furnished you with all nece&s;|&s;aries both &s;piritual and corporall.</P>
<P N="4">4. Ordained for you &s;ucce&s;&s;ion of times, as day and night, winter and &s;ummer &amp;c.</P>
<P N="5">5. Directed you in pro&s;perity and adver&s;ity, in &s;icknes and healthe, and in the whole cour&s;e of your life.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="meditation">
<HEAD>The benefit of Glorification.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. THe fruition of the divinity with the vi&s;ion of God, and his B. Mother.</P>
<P N="2">2. The company of your good Angel with the Martyrs, Confe&s;&s;ors Virgins, &amp;c.</P>
<P N="3">3. The dowry of the &s;oule: the glorification of the body more bright and cleare then the &s;un it &s;elf.</P>
<P N="4">4. the place of the ble&s;&s;ed, the delights of the &s;en&s;es, the riches and abounding plea&s;ures of the inhabitants, which are innumerable, in|e&s;timable, and immea&s;urable.</P>
<P N="5">5. By the grace of God you shall &s;cape the torments of Hell: the mi&s;eries of this life: <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1+ letters">
<PB N="82" REF="50"> hurts and cruelties of your mortall enemies.</P>
<P>The&s;e Meditations are as it were a cord to draw you unto Almighty God. Gratitude is a great part of ju&s;tice, and among&s;t all Chri&s;tian exerci&s;es none is more ea&s;y, if you be willing: none more needfull, if you regard your duty: none more profitable, if you de&s;ire reward, then often to look over the great and manifold bene|fits, which we have received of Almighty God.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="meditation">
<HEAD>The eight Beatitudes.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. <HI>BEati pauperes &s;piritu, quoniam ip&s;orum e&s;t re|'gnum coelorum.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Ble&s;&s;ed are the poor in &s;pirit, for theirs is the King|dom of heaven.</HI></P>
<P>Poverty of &s;pirit
<LIST>
<ITEM>Acknowledgeth her &s;ins. Con|temneth her &s;elf. De&s;pi&s;eth none. Honoureth all.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>Beati mites quoniam ip&s;i po&s;sidebunt terram. Ble&s;|&s;ed are the meek, for they shall po&s;&s;e&s;s the land.</HI></P>
<P>Meekne&s;&s;e
<LIST>
<ITEM>An&s;wereth &s;weetly. Admonisheth benignly. Is mild being reprehen|ded. Behaveth her &s;elf piou&s;ly.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>Beati qui lugent quoniam ip&s;i con&s;olabuntur. Ble&s;|&s;ed are tho&s;e that mourn for they shall be comforted.</HI></P>
<P>Sorrow
<LIST>
<ITEM>Excludeth all glory. Abideth in mi&s;e|&s;ery, For the love of her neighour. For her own &s;ins.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="4">4. <HI>Beati qui e&s;uriunt &amp; &s;itiunt ju&s;titiam quoniam ip&s;i &s;aturabuntur. Ble&s;sed are they that humger and
<PB N="83" REF="50"> thirst ju&s;tice for they shall be &s;atiated.</HI></P>
<P>Hunger and thir&s;t
<LIST>
<ITEM>Hath horrour of vice: A fervour of &s;pirit: Tediou&s;|nes of temporall things: de|&s;ire of Eternall.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="5">5. <HI>Beati mundo corde, quoniam ip&s;i Deum videbunt. Ble&s;sed are the Cleane of heart, for they shall &s;ee God.</HI></P>
<P>Purity of heart
<LIST>
<ITEM>Is &s;incere in intention: Right in works: Excludeth per|ver&s;e cogitations: A&s;&s;iduous in contemplation.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="6">6. <HI>Beati mi&s;ericordes, quoniam ip&s;i mi&s;ericodiam con|&s;equentur. Ble&s;&s;ed are the mercifull, becaus they shall find mercy.</HI></P>
<P>Mercy
<LIST>
<ITEM>Hath compa&s;&s;ion in tribulation.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Succoureth in nece&s;&s;ities.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Delighteth in liberality.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Is benigne with affability.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="7">7. <HI>Beati Pacifici, quoniam filii Dei vocabuntur. Ble&s;|&s;ed are the Peace makers for they shall he cal'd the children of God.</HI></P>
<P>Things which work Peace
<LIST>
<ITEM>Silence and &s;olitarine&s;s.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Frequent and devout Prayer.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fervent contemplation.</ITEM>
<ITEM>To admit no interiour trouble.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
<P N="8">8. <HI>Beati qui per&s;ecutionem patiuntur prvpter ju&s;titiam, quoniam ip&s;orum e&s;t regnum coelorum. Ble&s;&s;ed are they that &s;uffer per&s;ecution, for theyr's is the kingdome of Heau'n.</HI></P>
<PB N="84" REF="51">
<P>Things which produce Pa|tience.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Feare of eternall &s;ufferance.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fervent love of God.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Memory of the Pa&s;&s;ion of our Saviour.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hope of Eternall joy.</ITEM>
</LIST></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="meditation">
<HEAD>A Religious per&s;on ought often to con&s;i|der the benefit of his vocation by the&s;e circum&s;tances following.</HEAD>
<P>VNDE ES? Quo? Quomodo? Quando? Quo fine vocatus?</P>
<P N="1"><HI>1.</HI> FROM WHENCE, God, to wit, hath called you? From the world, the gulfe of &s;in and evils.</P>
<P N="2"><HI>2. WHITHER? TO</HI> holy Religion, the hou&s;e of God, the &s;chool of vertue, the gate of con&s;olation, and the pourtrait of the cele&s;tiall Ieru&s;alem.</P>
<P N="3"><HI>3.</HI> HOW? With what love, wi&s;dom, and power he called? without your own merit.</P>
<P N="4"><HI>4.</HI> WHEN? In your youthfull, or old age, when you lea&s;t de&s;ired or &s;ought after &s;uch a cour&s;e.</P>
<P N="5"><HI>5.</HI> La&s;tly for what END? <HI>1.</HI> To &s;erve God perfe|ctly, and for&s;ake all things to accomplish it. <HI>2.</HI> To do pennance, beare your Cro&s;s, and follow the &s;teps of Chri&s;t Ie&s;us. <HI>3.</HI> To work your &s;alvation and to gain perfection. <HI>4.</HI> To help your neighbour as much as is po&s;sible according to your vocation and in&s;titution by good example and prayer.</P>
<P><HI>S. Bernard had this &s;entence alwaies in his heart.</HI> Bernarde ad quid veni&s;ti? Bernard, to what end did&s;t thou come hither?</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="meditation">
<PB N="85" REF="51">
<HEAD>The Priviledges and benefits of a Reli|gious per&s;on.</HEAD>
<P>Homo vivit puri&ugrave;s, cadit rari&ugrave;s, &s;urgit veloci&ugrave;s, incedit cauti&ugrave;s, quie&s;cit &s;ecuri&ugrave;s, irroratur frequenti&ugrave;s, mori|tur confidenti&ugrave;s, purgatur citi&ugrave;s, remuneratur copio&s;i&ugrave;s.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="meditation">
<HEAD>A Religious per&s;on.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. <HI>LIveth more purely:</HI> by the ob&s;ervance of Po|verty, Cha&s;tity and Obedience.</P>
<P N="2">2. <HI>Falleth more rarely:</HI> by flying the occa&s;ions of &s;in and perver&s;e conver&s;ation.</P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>Ri&s;eth more quickly:</HI> by con&s;ideration of ho|ly &s;criptures; the lives of Saints, and example of tho&s;e with whom we live.</P>
<P><HI>Walketh more warily:</HI> by meditating their &s;ins pa&s;t, imperfections pre&s;ent, and the joy which cometh of vertue.</P>
<P N="5">5. <HI>Resteth more &s;ecurely:</HI> by attaining the gifts of the Holy Gho&s;t, and interiour con&s;olation.</P>
<P N="6">6. <HI>Receiveth more grace:</HI> by bettering their di&s;|po&s;ition, and becoming more familiar with God.</P>
<P N="7">7. <HI>Dyes more confidently:</HI> by the the efficacy of Priviledges in Religion, meritorious works and help of Communaulty, with the imitation of their &s;pou&s;e CHRIST JESUS.</P>
<P N="8">8. <HI>Is &s;ooner purged:</HI> by the many remedies to make &s;atisfaction, by the multitude of holy in|&s;pirations, and frequent exhortations.</P>
<PB N="86" REF="52">
<P N="9">9. Is <HI>rewarded more abundantly:</HI> becau&s;e a Re|ligious life is victorious over her enemies the <HI>FLESH,</HI> the <HI>WORLD,</HI> and the <HI>DIVELL.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="daily aspirations">
<HEAD>JESUS MARIA. Certain A&s;pirations for every day in the weeke.</HEAD>
<DIV3 N="Monday" TYPE="day">
<HEAD>Munday, Humility.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. WHen shall it be my God, that J shall be &s;o odious, execrable, and in&s;uppor|table to my &s;elf, as J de&s;ire to be afflicted and punished of all creatures.</P>
<P N="2">2. O &s;weet Saviour, when shall it be, that J shall have &s;uch a true contempt of my &s;elf, as with all my heart J wish to be contemned and reputed of every one, mo&s;t vile.</P>
<P N="3">3, When shall J, deare JESUS, for the love of, you de&s;ire in &s;uch &s;ort to be humbled, as J be ever reduced to nothing.</P>
<P N="4">4. O mo&s;t meek Lord, J confe&s;&s; before thee, and will acknowledge to all the world, that J am the mo&s;t vile and unprofitable of all crea|tures.</P>
<P N="5">5. O my God there is not on earth to be found a creature &s;o di&s;loyall and ungratefull as J am unto thee.</P>
<P N="6">6. J am not worthy to look up to heaven, and much le&s;&s; to po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e the &s;ame.</P>
<PB N="87" REF="52">
<P N="7">7. If the greate&s;t &s;inner in the world had tho|&s;e in&s;pirations, and daily means of vertue, which J, o Lord, confe&s;&s; to have: J verily think he would not be &s;o wretched as J am.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Tuesday" TYPE="day">
<HEAD>Tue&s;day, Confidence.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. ALthough every moment, deare JESUS, J commit many imperfections, yet J ho|pe by thy help to attain to Chri&s;tian perfection.</P>
<P N="2">2. My &s;weet Saviour, if J committed all the &s;ins and crimes, which have been from the be|ginning of the world, yet would J be confident of pardon.</P>
<P N="3">3. J hope mo&s;t firmely, O &s;on of God, my Redeemer, by thy holy merits and Sacraments to enjoy eternall life.</P>
<P N="4">4. O infinit clemency! was there ever any &s;inner that truly asked pardon, to whom you denied it?</P>
<P N="5">5. My &s;weet Saviour: if all creatures both in heaven and earth should tell me that thou had&s;t for&s;aken me, and did&s;t refu&s;e to help me, yet J would not beleeve them.</P>
<P N="6">6. O &s;weet JESU; albeit the furies in Hell, together with all the afflictions of this life should torment me, yet would J tru&s;t in thee.</P>
<P N="7">7. O good JESUS: thou that &s;aid'&s;t. <HI>Aske and it shall be given: beleeve, and you shall receive:</HI> J humbly beg, and unfainedly confide in thy goodnes, what&s;oever is nece&s;&s;ary for me, either &s;pirituall or corporall thou wilt give me.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Wednesday" TYPE="day">
<PB N="88" REF="53">
<HEAD>Wedn&s;day, Poverty.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. O My Lord, J de&s;ire no riches, ea&s;e, or &s;en&s;uall delights, but only the love of thee.</P>
<P N="2">2. O that J had a thou&s;and worlds, with all the fained plea&s;ures thereof, not to po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e, but willingly to leave for the love of thee.</P>
<P N="3">3. Mo&s;t deare Lord, J will po&s;&s;e&s;s nothing but thee, and what J have, only for thy &s;ake.</P>
<P N="4">4. O deare&s;t &s;pou&s;e all riches without thee are unto me un&s;upportable poverty: joy, &s;orrow, ea&s;e, paine, con&s;olation, a con&s;uming grief.</P>
<P N="5">5. O my &s;weet Saviour that was't both in li|fe and death &s;o poor and naked of all things: for thee I mo&s;t willingly embrace the want of what is nece&s;&s;ary for corporall life and health.</P>
<P N="6">6. My &s;weete&s;t Je&s;u, which was't &s;o poor and free from the po&s;e&s;&s;ion of your will even in the repugnance of death: for thee, I entirely for&s;ake my own will and &s;ence to the con&s;um|mation of my life.</P>
<P N="7">7. O my deare&s;t Saviour that Would&s;t not admit in all thy torments the lea&s;t comfort, I be&s;eech thee make me &s;o perfectly poore as for thy love I entertain no unnece&s;&s;ary con&s;olation.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Thursday" TYPE="day">
<HEAD>Thur&s;day, Gratitude.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. O my good God I render thee eternall thanks for all thy gifts both of grace
<PB N="89" REF="53"> and nature be&s;towed on me and on all creatures.</P>
<P N="2">2. O mo&s;t liberall God thou ha&s;t don to me above all I can ask or de&s;ire.</P>
<P N="3">3. O my Saviour what shall J render for all tho&s;e numberle&s;&s;e benefits, which I have and continually do receive from thee?</P>
<P N="4">4. O deare Saviour in gratitude for all thy mercies towards me, I offer and be&s;eech thee to accept of my heart and &s;oule, with what el&s;e thou ha&s;t be&s;towed on me.</P>
<P N="5">5. O my Creatour and deare Redeemer, that I could be gratfull unto thee.</P>
<P N="6">6. Teach me, my God, to render thee &s;uch thanks as may be mo&s;t acceptable unto thee.</P>
<P N="7">7. O would to God I had the gratitude of creatures both in heaven and earth to offer up unto thee my onely good: but all being too lit|tle, I beg thou wilt thy &s;elf &s;upply the&s;e wants.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Friday" TYPE="day">
<HEAD>Friday, Obedience and Re&s;ignation.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. O Mo&s;t benigne Lord, let me but know what you would have me to do.</P>
<P N="2">2. Sweete Je&s;us I offer my &s;elf both in time and Eternity, mo&s;t entirely to accomplish thy will.</P>
<P N="3">3. Although J should be lo&s;t, yet if it be thy will: for love of thee I mo&s;t willingly yield to live in continuall affliction and torment.</P>
<P N="4">4. I offer my &s;elf with all my heart, my &s;weete Saviour, in what I may po&s;&s;ibly,
<PB N="90" REF="54"> in body, life and &s;oule to be di&s;po&s;ed of, by thy ble&s;&s;ed will and plea&s;ure.</P>
<P N="5">5. Behold, &s;weet Lord for love of thee, I abandon and deny my &s;en&s;es, renounce my un|der&s;tanding, and wholy for&s;ake my &s;elf to pro|ve, and accomplish thy holy will.</P>
<P N="6">6. Mo&s;t deare God, for thy &s;ake I firmly purpo&s;e, rather to dy a thou&s;and deaths then once to be di&s;obedient to thee.</P>
<P N="7">7. O good Je&s;us, when shall I &s;ee that hap|py houre, wherein by perfect obedience and entire Re&s;ignation I shall wholy live in thee, and thou in me.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Saturday" TYPE="day">
<HEAD>Saturday, Love of neighbour.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. MO&s;t mercifull Lord, I be&s;eech thy in|finit goodnes, &s;o to illuminate the hearts of all &s;inners, that they may be truly penitent for their &s;ins, to &s;eek thee with all care who art the onely God.</P>
<P N="2">2. I be&s;eech thee my &s;weet Lord by the bo|wels of thy infinit mercies, that all &s;uch as &s;eek after ambition and earthly delights, may turn all their affections to love thee.</P>
<P N="3">3. Grant &s;weet Je&s;us through the merits of thy bitter Pa&s;&s;ion, that all tho&s;e for whom thou ha&s;t &s;uffered, may reape the benefit thereof.</P>
<P N="4">4. Mo&s;t mercifull Lord, I humbly be&s;eech thee to comfort all afflicted &s;oules.</P>
<P N="5">5, Mo&s;t &s;weet Saviour; give &s;uch grace and
<PB N="91" REF="54"> vertue unto all creatures, as they may be truly conformable unto thy holy will.</P>
<P N="9">9. Mo&s;t mercifull God, relea&s;e for thy own &s;ake, and thy B. Mother's, all tho&s;e who ei|ther in Earth or Purgatory, thou do&s;t by ju|&s;tice punish.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Sunday" TYPE="day">
<HEAD>Sunday, Love of Almighty God.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. TAke form me. O &s;weet Saviour, that which &s;eparateth me &s;o farr from thee.</P>
<P N="2">2. Purge my &s;oule, O Lord, from all &s;in, and imperfection, by which it is defiled, and made unworthy of thy Image.</P>
<P N="3">3. Behold, O my God, I hate and dete&s;t with all my heart, even the lea&s;t offence that ever I have committed again&s;t thy divine Maje&s;ty.</P>
<P N="4">4. Forgive, &s;weet Saviour, all that which ju&s;tly thou mighte&s;t lay to my charge: for that now I de&s;ire to be perfectly united unto thee.</P>
<P N="5">5. My &s;weete&s;t Lord, as a channell of all uncleanne&s;&s;e de&s;irous to be purified, I pre&s;ent my &s;elf unto thee.</P>
<P N="6">6. O Eternall God, I be&s;eech thee, that I who am the lea&s;t of all creatures, may by perfect love of thee, be elevated above all crea|ted things, and my &s;pirit only &s;atisfied in thee.</P>
<P N="7">7. What shall I render thee my beloved Lord for all thou ha&s;t be&s;towed on me, that am but du&s;t and ashes and yet thou ha&s;t made all things for me.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="daily aspirations">
<PB N="92" REF="55">
<HEAD>A&s;pirations for every day in the Weeke upon the Pa&s;&s;ion of our ble&s;&s;ed Saviour.</HEAD>
<DIV3 N="Monday" TYPE="day">
<HEAD>Munday, Contrition.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. O Vile and mo&s;t dete&s;table &s;in, by which I have &s;o oft betrayed and &s;old thee my Eternall Father: yea even for a momentary plea&s;ure.</P>
<P N="2">2. O that I had never by ingratitude bound thy liberall hands, and therby deprived my &s;elf of thee, and of thy will, and mercifull plea|&s;ure in me.</P>
<P N="3">3. O my &s;oule unto what &s;treights have thy &s;ins and offences brought thy Saviour: would to God I had &s;ome &s;eas of teares to shed for having thus often cruelly tormented thee.</P>
<P N="4">4, O, if it had been thy will, my &s;weete&s;t Je&s;u, I wish I might have endured, not on|ly temporall but endle&s;s pains, rather then ha|ve cau&s;ed the lea&s;t part of thy affliction.</P>
<P N="5">5. O Sacred wounds of my deare&s;t Saviour in revenge of my cruelty, wound my heart with ten thou&s;and darts of true remor&s;e.</P>
<P N="6">6. O &s;in how deformed and unju&s;t art thou, that thus has't defiled the beauty of heaven and crucifyed my Immaculate Je&s;us.</P>
<P N="7">7. O that I might with a thou&s;and millions of lives, and infinit &s;eas of blood, blot out
<PB N="93" REF="55"> of my &s;oule the guilt of thy death and Pa&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P N="8">8. Sweet Je&s;us ingulfe and drown me in thy &s;acred wounds, that there I may learn to love.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Tuesday" TYPE="day">
<HEAD>Tue&s;day, Compa&s;&s;ion.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. O That I could shed for thee my Lord &s;o many teares as the &s;ea contains drops of water, in true compa&s;&s;ion of thy torments.</P>
<P N="2">2. O who will give water to my head, and a fountain of teares to my eyes, to weep upon thee, the love of my &s;oule.</P>
<P N="3">3. O love, and only comfort of my heart, what con&s;olation had&s;t thou in all thy torments?</P>
<P N="4">4. Alas, my well beloved; why am not J alwaies pre&s;ent to &s;uffer with thee, at lea&s;t by compa&s;&s;ion on thy pains.</P>
<P N="5">5. My &s;weet JESUS, O that I might be crucified with thee.</P>
<P N="6">6. O love of my &s;oule, that I might have had the priviledge of the launce to have re&s;ted in thy heart.</P>
<P N="7">7. My deare&s;t Saviour permit me the favour to remain at the foot of thy Cro&s;s, to the end that I may weep continually, &s;igh, bleed, cry, and con&s;ume in compa&s;&s;ion of thee.</P>
<P N="8">8. Give me an endle&s;s &s;pring of teares, to wash away the &s;acred blood of my &s;weete&s;t love, which &s;till i&s;&s;ueth as flowing rivers from thee.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Wednesday" TYPE="day">
<PB N="94" REF="56">
<HEAD>Wen&s;day, Imitation.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. O Mo&s;t &s;weet JESUS: give me grace in imitation of thy &s;acred Pa&s;&s;ion, mo&s;t willingly to undergoe the burthen of this tran|&s;itory life.</P>
<P N="2">2. For that thou ha&s;t &s;uffered &s;o many and cruell torments for my &s;ake; let me never, O mer|cifull God, fly any tribulation, which thou shalt vouch&s;afe to &s;end me by thy &s;elf or o|thers.</P>
<P N="3">3. My Je&s;us, to accompany thee in thy ma|nifold afflictions, I would be glad, not onely to endure the wants which thou &s;ende&s;t me, but &s;eek others, and never be &s;atisfied in &s;uf|fering with thee.</P>
<P N="4">4. In imitation of thy nakedne&s;s, reproaches and whippings at the pillar; I will endeavour to &s;trip my &s;elf of all inordinate de&s;ires and af|fections.</P>
<P N="5">5. I will continually follow thee my dea|re&s;t Saviour with the Cro&s;&s;e of perfect obedien|ce, and never for any difficulty leave the &s;ame till I come to dy with thee.</P>
<P N="6">6. O my Eternall God, that would&s;t for my &s;ake be nailed to the Cro&s;s: let me by true mortification be alwaies crucified with thee.</P>
<P N="7">7. My loving &s;pou&s;e, I be&s;eech thee, that with a full renunciation of my &s;elf, and per|petuall death of all earthly things I may irre|vocably dy with thee.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Thursday" TYPE="day">
<PB N="95" REF="56">
<HEAD>Thur&s;day, Thank&s;giving.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. WHat thanks shall I yield unto thee my Eternall life, who would&s;t endure un&s;|peakeable torments to free me from the &s;nare and fetters of death.</P>
<P N="2">2. All you &s;eraphins, and cele&s;tiall Spirits, with what&s;oever hath been created prai&s;e my Redeemer for the un&s;peakeable price of my Re|demption.</P>
<P N="3">3. O my &s;oule: how can'&s;t thou devi&s;e to render the lea&s;t part of due gratitude unto thy Je&s;us, who hath by his own humility &s;o much exalted thee.</P>
<P N="4">4. O let me ever acknowledge, my deare Saviour, that endle&s;s bond of gratitude, which thy Pa&s;&s;ion alone exacteth of me.</P>
<P N="5">5. Sweet JESUS, that I could ince&s;&s;antly lo|ve thee, for the&s;e ine&s;timable trea&s;ures, which thou by thy torments ha&s;t purcha&s;ed unto me.</P>
<P N="6">6. Good IESUS; &s;ince I have nothing but my &s;elf to offer in requitall of thy infinit love: I be&s;eech thee to accept in love and gratitude what by-right is thy own.</P>
<P N="7">7. O eternall God, that I had a thou&s;and hearts and lives to offer unto thee, who by thy death ha&s;t given and bequeathed thy &s;elf to me.</P>
<P N="8">8. Grant, &s;weet IESUS, that thy dolorous death and Pa&s;&s;ion be ever imprinted in my heart my true thankfulne&s;s and imitation thereof.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Friday" TYPE="day">
<PB N="96" REF="57">
<HEAD>Friday, Admiration.</HEAD>
<P>O My God, who art thou, who ha&s;t en|dured &s;o many and cruell torments? &s;weet and deare&s;t love ha&s;t thou forgotten thy Maje|&s;ty and glory?</P>
<P N="2">2. O light of heaven, and &s;plendour of thy Fathers glory, unto what art thou now redu|ced?</P>
<P N="3">3. Alas, my Saviour, what art thou who art &s;o de&s;pightfully treated?</P>
<P N="4">4. O love of loves, that through the exce&s;s of thy love, thou would&s;t for me endure &s;o bitter a death.</P>
<P N="5">5. O love how &s;trong art thou, which with thy force &s;urmounted'&s;t him, that by no other means may be overcome.</P>
<P N="6">6. O incomprehen&s;ible God, for whom do&s;t thou &s;uffer, but for mi&s;erable &s;inners, ungra|tefull creatures, thy enemies, children of the divell, and tho&s;e who contemn thee.</P>
<P N="7">7. O deare&s;t love; that my heart is not pier|ced with thy dolours.</P>
<P N="8">8. What were it o Lord, if I had all the loves of the world to unite and offer unto thee?</P>
<P N="9">9. My &s;weet IESUS, if I could reduce all thy drops of blood into teares of love, what were it compared unto thy love?</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Saturday" TYPE="day">
<PB N="97" REF="57">
<HEAD>Saturday, Ioy.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. My heart and &s;oule rejoyce and prai&s;e the mercies of my God who out of his infinit love hath died to give thee life.</P>
<P N="2">2. O my delight, what joy will it give to my heart to receave that life, that infinit good, through the merits of thy mo&s;t bitter and dolorous pa&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P N="3">3. Sweet JESUS, I prai&s;e thee with eternall joy for having in thy mo&s;t cruell death &s;o per|fectly accomplished the work of our Redemp|tion.</P>
<P N="4">4. It was by thee, O beloved Cro&s;s, that peace hath been e&s;tablished between God and man.</P>
<P N="5">5. O triumphant glory, and mo&s;t pui&s;&s;ant King who by thy mo&s;t &s;acred death, ha&s;t over|come the Prince of Hell, and delivered our &s;ou|les out of his bondage.</P>
<P N="6">6. O Heaven, Earth, &s;ea, and all things therein; yield prai&s;es in our behalf unto the &s;a|viour of our &s;oules; and let us rejoyce in the me|rits of his &s;acred pa&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P N="7">7. If all my members were tongues, O how willingly would I employ them in the prai&s;e of thee my &s;weet &s;aviour, and thy health-brin|ging wounds.</P>
<P N="8">8. O all yee cele&s;tiall &s;pirits a&s;&s;i&s;t me to love and prai&s;e my God, by the vertue of who&s;e Pa&s;&s;ion your ruins are repaired.</P>
<PB N="98" REF="58" MS="y">
<P N="9">9. Sweet JESUS, what glory and comfort is it unto human nature to be exalted in thee, unto the right hand of thy Eternall father.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Sunday" TYPE="day">
<HEAD>Sunday, Love.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. When shall it be, my crucified JESUS, that both the &s;en&s;es of my body, and powers of my &s;oule shall be wholy employed in thy prai&s;e.</P>
<P N="2">2. O my JESUS, when by perfect love and imitation shall I be daily crucified, and conti|nually dy with thee.</P>
<P N="3">3. O my beloved JESUS, when shall I love thee in &s;uch &s;ort, as that thy &s;acred wounds be by burning love imprinted in my heart.</P>
<P N="4">4. O my beloved JESUS, when wilt thou bring me into the wine cellar of thy ble&s;&s;ed &s;ide and make me wholy drunke with the mo&s;t &s;acred wine, which floweth from thy loving heart.</P>
<P N="5">5. O when shall it be, my deare&s;t JESU, that the flame of thy love shall pierce and wound my heart, that I may be wholy conformable unto thee.</P>
<P N="6">6. Sweet JESUS let me love thee &s;o unfai|nedly as that by force of thy love, I neither feel, &s;ee, nor take comfort in any thing, but accompanyng thee my afflicted Lord.</P>
<P N="7">7. My &s;weete&s;t Saviour, when shall I have my full and wisht repo&s;e within thy crucified armes.</P>
<PB N="99" REF="58">
<P N="8">8. O &s;acred wounds of my JESUS, e&s;pecially of his tender &s;ide, and mo&s;t amou|rous heart, why do you not burn and con|&s;ume my &s;oule in the delightfull flames of his love.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="oblation">
<HEAD>An Oblation unto our B. Lady to &s;ay on any one of her Fea&s;ts <HI>70.</HI> Ave Maries, and then during every day <HI>5.</HI> Ave's and the&s;e Prayers following.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. O B. Virgin Mary, and Eternall Queen of Angels, I offer my &s;elf unto you in all that I am, or ever shall be, be&s;eeching you to receive me as your own.</P>
<P N="2">2. O B. Virgin Mary, pre&s;erve me living and dyng from all evill, for I am your own.</P>
<P N="3">3. O B. Virgin Mary, receive me for your own, ever govern, and protect me as your own and have mercy on my &s;oule, when it shall part out of my body.</P>
<P N="4">4. O mercifull Mother, through your holy departure, make joyfull my departure, and in the houre of my death, receive my &s;oule.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 LANG="lat" TYPE="version (prayer)">
<HEAD>A Prayer to Ie&s;us Chri&s;t.</HEAD>
<L>ANima Chri&s;ti &s;anctifica me,</L>
<L>Corpus Chri&s;ti &s;alva me,</L>
<L>Sanguis Chri&s;ti inebria me,</L>
<L>Aqua lateris Chri&s;ti lava me.</L>
<PB N="100" REF="59">
<L>Pa&s;sio Chri&s;ti conforta me,</L>
<L>O bone IESV exaudi me,</L>
<L>Intr&agrave; tua vulnera ab&s;conde me,</L>
<L>Ne permittas me &s;eparari &agrave; te,</L>
<L>Ab ho&s;te maligno defende me,</L>
<L>In hora mortis meae voca me,</L>
<L>Et jube me venire ad te,</L>
<L>Vt cum Sanctis tuis laudem Te</L>
<L>In &s;aecula &s;aeculorum Amen.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 LANG="eng" TYPE="version (prayer)">
<HEAD>In English thus.</HEAD>
<L>SOule of Chri&s;t &s;anctify me,</L>
<L>Body of Chri&s;t &s;ave me,</L>
<L>Blood of Chri&s;t inebriate me,</L>
<L>Water of Chri&s;t's &s;ide wash me,</L>
<L>Pa&s;&s;ion of Chri&s;t comfort me,</L>
<L>O good JESU heare me,</L>
<L>Within thy wounds hide me,</L>
<L>Suffer me not to be &s;eparated from thee,</L>
<L>From the malignant enemy defend me,</L>
<L>In the houre of my death call me,</L>
<L>And bid me come to thee,</L>
<L>That with thy Saints I may prai&s;e thee</L>
<L>For ever and ever, Amen.</L>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 LANG="lat" TYPE="version (devotion)">
<HEAD>When you pa&s;se by the B. Sacrament.</HEAD>
<P>DVlci&s;simum nomen Domini nostri Ie&s;u Chri&s;ti, &amp; glorio&s;ae Virginis Mariae Matris ejus &s;it in ae|ternum benedictum.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 LANG="eng" TYPE="version (devotion)">
<PB N="101" REF="59">
<HEAD>In English.</HEAD>
<P>Let the B. Name of our Lord JESUS CHRIST and the glorious VIRGIN MARY, his MOTHER be ble&s;&s;ed for ever and ever.</P>
<P>And then offer your intention herein to get the pardon which is gained.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 LANG="lat" TYPE="version (devotion)">
<HEAD>When you take Holy water.</HEAD>
<P>Aqua benedicta, &s;it nobis &s;alus, protectio &amp; vita. A&s;perges me Domine hi&s;&s;opo, &amp;c.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 LANG="eng" TYPE="version (devotion)">
<HEAD>In English.</HEAD>
<P>May this holy water be to us health, prote|ction and life. Thou shalt &s;prinkle me o Lord with hi&s;&s;ope, &amp;c.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 LANG="lat" TYPE="version (verses)">
<HEAD>How we may honour the mo&s;t holy and B. Name of the most glorious Virgin Ma|ry, by &s;ayng the&s;e <HI>5.</HI> Ver&s;es with <HI>5.</HI> P&s;almes.</HEAD>
<LG N="1">
<HEAD>1.</HEAD>
<L>MAter amabilis Maria nomine,</L>
<L>Mult&ograve; nobilior quocunque lumine.</L>
<L>Muni me mi&s;erum in tuo nomine,</L>
<L>Malignis obvians tuo juvamine.</L>
<L><HI>Magnificat.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG N="2">
<PB N="102" REF="60">
<HEAD>2.</HEAD>
<L>Aurora rutilans lun&acirc;que pulchrior,</L>
<L>Astris fulgentior, &amp; luce clarior,</L>
<L>Afflictum re&s;pice qui nimis crucior,</L>
<L>Averte jaculum ho&s;tis quo ferior.</L>
<L><HI>Ad Dominum cum tribularer.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG N="3">
<HEAD>3.</HEAD>
<L>Regina nobilis, filia filii,</L>
<L>Ro&s;ae con&s;imilis &amp; flori lilii,</L>
<L>Refove flebiles lacte con&s;ilii,</L>
<L>Ruentes per dies huius exilii.</L>
<L><HI>Retribue &s;ervo tuo.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG N="4">
<HEAD>4.</HEAD>
<L>Ie&s;&s;e tu congru&egrave; vocata virgula</L>
<L>Immarce&s;sibilis &amp; &s;ine macula,</L>
<L>IESV jam florid o qui regit &s;aecula,</L>
<L>Ip&s;a tu &s;uggere ut &s;olvat vincula.</L>
<L><HI>In Convertendo.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG N="5">
<HEAD>5.</HEAD>
<L>Ancilla Domini &s;umens tam nobilis</L>
<L>Ave, quod Gabriel dedit mirabilis,</L>
<L>Accipe canticum &s;ervi inutilis,</L>
<L>Ad&s;is in omnibus mihi placabilis.</L>
<L><HI>Ad te levavi.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>&vers;. Dignare me laudare te Virgo &s;acrata.</L>
<L>&resp;. Da mihi virtutem contra ho&s;tes tuos.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 LANG="lat" TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>OREMUS.</HEAD>
<P>COncede nos famulos tuos, quae&s;umus Domine Deus, perpetu&aacute; mentis &amp; corporis &s;anitate gaudere, &amp; glorio &acirc; B. Mariae Virginis interce&s;sione, &agrave; prae&s;enti libe|rari tri&s;titia, &amp; aetern&acirc; perfrui laetiti&acirc;. Per Chri&s;tum Domenum nostrum. Amen.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 LANG="eng" TYPE="version (verses)">
<PB N="103" REF="60">
<HEAD>The <HI>5.</HI> Ver&s;es Englished.</HEAD>
<LG N="1">
<HEAD>1.</HEAD>
<L>O Amiable Mother &ocirc; Mary hail by name,</L>
<L>More noble then the light of natur's frame,</L>
<L>Defend me, by your meanes, which way &s;o'ere J goe,</L>
<L>And by your shelt'ring help, pre&s;erve me from my foe.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="2">
<HEAD>2.</HEAD>
<L>Bright shining dawn, fairer then the moon,</L>
<L>More &s;parkling then the &s;tarres, and brighter then the &s;un,</L>
<L>Look on me, wretch afflicted, and tormented, &s;o,</L>
<L>As to put by tho&s;e darts, my foes do at me thr'o.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="3">
<HEAD>3.</HEAD>
<L>O noble queen, and daughter to thy &s;on,</L>
<L>Like to the Ro&s;e and Flower-de-Luce at noone,</L>
<L>'Tis milk of your good coun&s;el, mu&s;t cherish us that weep,</L>
<L>'Tis you that from all banish't ruin's, mu&s;t us keep.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="4">
<HEAD>4.</HEAD>
<L>You are the rod of Je&s;&s;e fittly nam'd,</L>
<L>You neyther wither, nor with spot are sham'd,</L>
<L>Pray to our Je&s;us, who the world doe's rule</L>
<L>That J from bonds of &s;in, may &s;ave my &s;oule.</L>
</LG>
<LG N="5">
<HEAD>5.</HEAD>
<L>O handmaid of our Lord, who took the noble haile</L>
<L>From wond'rous Gabriel's mouth, the world's great baile,</L>
<L>Receive the &s;acred Cantick, your worthle&s;s &s;er|vant &s;ing's,</L>
<L>And gratious be to me, &s;weet Mary in all things.</L>
</LG>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 LANG="lat" TYPE="litany">
<PB N="104" REF="61">
<HEAD>LITANIAE B. P. N. FRANCISCI.</HEAD>
<LIST TYPE="litany">
<ITEM>KYRIE ele&iuml;&s;on. Chri&s;te ele&iuml;&s;on.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Kyrie ele&iuml;&s;on. Chri&s;te audi nos.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chri&s;te exaudi nos.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Pater de caelis Deus, Mi&s;erere nobis.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fili Redemptor mundi Deus, Mi&s;erere nobis.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Spiritus &s;ancte Deus, Mi&s;erere nobis.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancta Trinitas unus Deus, Mi&s;erere nobis.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Franci&s;ce, Pater amabilis, ora pro nobis.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Pater admirabilis,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Pater benigne,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Pater venerabilis,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Vexillifer Je&s;u Chri&s;ti, ORA PRO NOBIS.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Eques Crucifixi,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Imitator filii Dei,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Seraphim ardens,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fornax Charitatis,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Arca Sanctitatis,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Cultor pacis,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Vas Puritatis,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Norma Ju&s;titiae,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Speculum Pudicitiae,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Regula Poenitentiae,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Magi&s;ter Obedientiae,</ITEM>
<PB N="105" REF="61">
<ITEM>Exemplar Virtutum,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Patriarcha Pauperum,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Profligator Criminum,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Lumen tuae Patriae,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Decus Morum,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Vivificator Mortuorum,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Saturator Famelicorum,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ob&s;equium Lepro&s;orum, ORA PRO NOBIS.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Praeco magni Regis,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Forma Humilitatis,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Con&s;ors Sublimitatis,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Victor Vitiorum,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Dux Minorum,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Praedicator Silve&s;trium,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Portans dona Gloriae,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Auriga militiae no&s;trae,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Novis utens Prodigiis,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Caelum caecis aperiens,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Gratum gerens ob&s;equium,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Templum Chri&s;to con&s;ecrans,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ho&s;tes malignos proterens,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Tenens vitae bravium,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Spargens virtutum munera,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Amplians iter ad Gloriam,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi, Parce nobis Domine.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi, Exaudi nos Domine.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi, Mi&s;erere nobis.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&vers;. Ora pro nobis beate Pater Franci&s;ce.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&resp;. Ut digni efficiamur promi&s;&s;ionibus Chri&s;ti.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<DIV3 LANG="lat" TYPE="prayer">
<PB N="106" REF="62">
<HEAD>OREMUS.</HEAD>
<P>DEus qui Eccle&s;ia~ tua~ B. Frauci&s;ci meritis foe|tu novae prolis amplificas: tribue nobis ex ejus imitatione terrena de&s;picere, &amp; caele&s;tium dono|rum &s;emper participatione gaudere. Per Domi|num no&s;trum, &amp;c. Amen.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 LANG="lat" TYPE="litany">
<HEAD>LITANIAE B. M. N. CLARAE, VIRGINIS.</HEAD>
<LIST TYPE="litany">
<ITEM>KYrie ele&iuml;&s;on, Chri&s;te ele&iuml;&s;on. Kyrie ele&iuml;&s;on.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chri&s;te audi nos. Chri&s;te exaudi nos.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Pater de caelis Deus, Mi&s;erere nobis.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fili Redemptor mundi Deus, Mi&s;erere nobis.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Spiritus Sancte Deus, Mi&s;erere nobis.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancta Trinitas unus Deus, Mi&s;erere nobis.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancta Maria, Ora pro nobis.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancta Dei Genitrix,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancta Virgo Virginum,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancta Clara Virgo Mater no&s;tra.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Virgo Chri&s;ti Spon&s;a, ORA PRO NOBIS.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Virgo Franci&s;ci plantula,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Virgo electa prae millibus,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Virgo Seraphica,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Virgo Matris Je&s;u di&s;cipula,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Virgo primogenita pauperum,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Virgo gemma Virginum,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Virgo norma Perfectionis,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Virgo humillima,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Virgo mundo ab&s;condita,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Virgo &s;peculum Paupertatis,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Virgo Lilium ca&s;titatis,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Virgo ro&s;a paenitentiae,</ITEM>
<PB N="107" REF="62">
<ITEM>Virgo Crucifixi amore &s;aucia,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Virgo crucis ardenti&s;&s;ima amati</ITEM>
<ITEM>Virgo &s;tella clari&s;&s;ima,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Virgo &s;equens Agnum quocunque</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mater no&s;tra honorificata,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mater admirabilis,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mater amabilis,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mater &s;icut bal&s;amum aromatizans, ORA PRO NOBIS.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mater paranympha Chri&s;ti,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mater pulchrae dilectionis,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mater puritatis nutrix,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mater Obedientiae magi&s;tra,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mater &s;cala Paradi&s;i,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mater gloria Filiarum,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mater &s;ocia Angelorum,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mater clipeus in te &s;perantium,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mater protectrix Pauperum,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mater con&s;olatrix flentium,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mater terror Infidelium,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mater triumphatrix daemonum,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Agnus Dei qui tollis &amp;c. Parce &amp;c.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Agnus Dei qui tollis &amp;c. Exaudi nos &amp;c.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Agnus Dei qui tollis &amp;c. Mi&s;erere nobis.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&vers;. Ora pro nobis Beata mater Clara.</ITEM>
<ITEM>&resp;. Ut digni efficiamur promi&s;&s;ionibus Chri&s;ti.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<DIV3 LANG="lat" TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>OREMUS.</HEAD>
<P>FAmulos tuos quae&s;umus Domine, beatae Vir|ginis tuae Clarae votivam commemorationem recen&s;entes, caele&s;tium gaudiorum &s;u&acirc; facias in|terventione participes, &amp; tui Unigeniti cohaere|des. Per eundem Dominum no&s;trum &amp;c. Amen.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 LANG="lat" TYPE="litany">
<PB N="108" REF="63">
<HEAD><HI>IESVS MARIA.</HI> Litaniae dicendae pro conver&s;ione Anglia ad Religionem Catholicam.</HEAD>
<LIST TYPE="litany">
<ITEM>KYRIE ele&iuml;&s;on. Chri&s;te ele&iuml;&s;on.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Kyrie ele&iuml;&s;on. Chri&s;te audi nos.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chri&s;te exaudi nos.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Pater de coelis Deus, Mi&s;erere nobis.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fili Redemptor mundi Deus, mi&s;erere nobis.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Spiritus &s;ancte Deus, mi&s;erere nobis.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancta Trinitas unus Deus, Mi&s;erere nobis.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancta Maria, Ora pro nobis</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancta Dei genitrix, ora &amp;c.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancta Virgo Virginum, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Micha&euml;l, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Gabri&euml;l, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Rapha&euml;l, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Omnes &s;ancti Angeli &amp; Archangeli, orate.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Omnes &s;acti beatorum &s;pirituum ordines, orate &amp;c.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Joannes Bapti&s;ta, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Jo&s;eph, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Omnes &s;ancti Patriarchae &amp; Prophetae, orate.</ITEM>
<ITEM>S. Petre. ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>S. Paule, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>S. Andrea, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>S. Jacobe, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>S. Joannes, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>S. Thoma, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>S. Jacobe, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>S. Philippe, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>S. Bartholomaee, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>S. Mathaee, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>S. Simon, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>S. Thadaee, ora.</ITEM>
<PB N="109" REF="63">
<ITEM>S. Mathia, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>S. Barnaba, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>S. Luca, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>S. Marce, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Omnes &s;ancti Apo&s;toli &amp; Evangeli&s;tae. orate.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Jo&s;eph ab Aremathia, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Omnes &s;ancti Di&s;cipuli Domini, orate.</ITEM>
<ITEM>S. Eleutheri, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>S. Victor, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>S. Albane, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>S. Georgi, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>S. Thoma, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>S. Juli &amp; Aron, orate.</ITEM>
<ITEM>S. Socrates &amp; Stephane, orate pro nobis.</ITEM>
<ITEM>S. Euvalde, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>S. Kiliane, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>S. O&s;ualde, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>S. Rumolde, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>S. Bonifaci, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>S. Colmanne, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>S. Augule, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>S. Alphege, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Livine, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Edmunde, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Eduarde, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Kenelme, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Arnulphe, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Clare, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Omnes Sancti Marty|res, orate.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Gregori, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>S. Augu&s;tine, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>S. Cele&s;tine, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Palladi, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Patrici, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Carole, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte David, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Melite, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Julte, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Germane, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Lupe, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>S. Quintigerne, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Niniane, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>S. Erconvalde, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Felix, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>S. Corentine, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Cedda, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Aidane, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Eadberte, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>S. Willibrorde, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte A&s;aphe, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Beane, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Mackure, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>S. Ethelnolde, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Don&s;tane, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Honori, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>S. Cuthberre, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Samp&s;on, ora.</ITEM>
<PB N="110" REF="64">
<ITEM>Sancte Maglori, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Man&s;uete, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Mallone, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Laurenti, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Suiberte, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Pauline, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Suithune, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>S. Wol&s;tane, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte O&s;ualde, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Vito, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Walfride, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Richarde, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Theodore, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Joannes, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Hedde, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>S. Wolfranne, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Gilberte, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Malachia, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Thoma, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Berine, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Aldelme, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte O&s;munde, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Laurenti, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Edmunde, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte An&s;elme, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Hugo, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Omnes &s;ancti Pontifices &amp; Confe&s;&s;ores, orate.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Eduarde, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Edilberte, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Sebbe, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Richarde, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Brandane, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>S. Columbane, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Galle, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Dei-Cola, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Columba, ora</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Querare, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Joannes, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Winoce, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Cani&s;e, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Egberte, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>S. Willebalde, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Fintane, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Benedicte, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Beda, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Fiacri, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Fur&s;ee, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Guthlaci, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancte Roberte, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Omnes &s;ancti Sacerdo|tes, Monachi &amp; Ere|mitae, orate.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancta Maria Mag. ora</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancta Vr&s;ula &amp; So|ciae, orate.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancta Wenefrida, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancta Dympna, ora</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancta Brigida, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancta There&s;ia, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancta Editha, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancta Ediltrudes, ora</ITEM>
<PB N="111" REF="64">
<ITEM>Sancta Hilda, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancta Edilburga, ora</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancta Ebba, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sacta O&s;ita, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancta Milburges, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancta Vereburga, ora</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancta Frede&s;uida, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancta Thecla, ora,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancta Batildes, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancta Lioba, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancta Cuthburga, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancta Syra, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancta Walburga, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Sancta Margarita, ora.</ITEM>
<ITEM>S. Helena, ora pro nobis.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Omnes &s;anctae Virgines &amp; Viduae, orate pro nobis.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Propitius e&s;to, parce nobis Domine.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Propitius e&s;to, Exaudi nos Domine.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ab in&s;idiis diaboli, Libera nos Domine.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A neglectu in&s;pirationum tuarum, Libera nos Domine.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A mala &amp; pertinaci voluntate, Libera.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A caecitate cordis, libera.</ITEM>
<ITEM>A morte perpetua, libera.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Per my&s;terium &s;anctae Incarnationis tuae, libe+ra nos Domine.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Per Nativitatem tuam, libera.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Per infantiam tuam, libera.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Per divini&s;&s;imam vita~ tuam, libera,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Per Pa&s;&s;ionem &amp; mortem tuam. libera.</ITEM>
<ITEM>In die judicii, libera.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Peccatores, Te rogamns audi nos.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Vt nobis parcas, Te rogamus.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Vt Eccle&s;iam tuam &s;anctam regere, &amp; tueri dig|neris, Te rogamus.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Vt Sacerdotes in Britannia, pro Religione Ca|tholica laborantes, cu&s;todire &amp; adjuvare di|gneris, Te rogamus audi nos.</ITEM>
<PB N="112" REF="65">
<ITEM>Vt Britanniam ad Catholicam Fidem &amp; unita|tem Eccle&s;iae revocare digneris, Te rogamus &amp;c.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Vt nos exaudire digneris, Te rogamus audi nos.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Fili Dei, Te rogamus audi nos.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi, Parce nobis Domine.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi, Exandi nos Domine.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi, Mi&s;erere nobis.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<DIV3 LANG="lat" TYPE="prayer">
<HEAD>Oremus.</HEAD>
<P>MEntes no&s;tras, quae&s;umus Domine, Pa|racletus, qui &agrave; te procedit, illuminet &amp; inducat in omnem, &s;icut tuus promi&s;it Filius, veritatem.</P>
<P>COncede, mi&s;ericors Deus, fragilitati no&s;trae prae&s;idium, ut qui &s;anctae Dei genitricis memoriam agimus, interce&s;&s;ionis ejus auxilio &agrave; no&s;tris iniquitatibus re&s;urgamus.</P>
<P>OMnipotens &s;empiterne Deus, qui &s;aluas omnes, &amp; neminem vis perire; re&s;pice ad animas Britannorum diabolic&acirc; fraude deceptas, ut omni haeretic&acirc; pravitate depo&s;it&acirc;, errantium corda re&s;ipi&s;cant, &amp; ad veritatis tue redeant unitatem. Per Chri&s;tum Dominum no&s;trum. Amen.</P>
</DIV3>
<TRAILER>DEO GRATIAS.</TRAILER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="daily prayers">
<PB N="113" REF="65">
<HEAD>A DAYLY EXERCISE OF PRAYERS With weekly Meditations upon the Pa&s;&s;ion.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="prayer (morning)">
<HEAD>IN THE MORNING.</HEAD>
<P>IN nomine Patris &dagger; &amp;c. Pater: Ave: Cre|do: Confiteor: &amp;c.</P>
<P>I adore thee mo&s;t Ble&s;&s;ed Trinity, &amp; give thee thankes for all benefits be&s;towed upon me, e&s;|pecially, for my Vocation to this State, the u&s;e of Sacraments, &amp; other Divine helpes; &amp; particularly, that thou ha&s;t pre&s;erved me this night, wherein perhaps many have been &s;um|moned before thee, to give an account of their lives; The living O God shall ble&s;s &amp; glorify thee, as I will this day.</P>
<P>O Eternall Father, to thee I offer up my &s;elf, with what&s;oever I am able to doe; admit O Gra|cious Father, the&s;e fir&s;t fruites of my love, uni|ted with the merits of thy beloved Son.</P>
<PB N="114" REF="66">
<P>O B. JESUS, I purpo&s;e through thy Grace, to walk the paths of thy H. Comman|dements, performing the duty of a good Chri|&s;tian by the practi&s;e of all Vertues, e&s;pecially of N. Grant O Lord, that I may doe &amp; &s;uffer all things, according to thy Holy will.</P>
<P>Come O Holy Gho&s;t, direct, a&s;&s;i&s;t &amp; com|fort my di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Soul, with thy Grace, that I may shun all Sin, e&s;pecially N. I have hitherto greivou&s;ly offended thee, but I will be more watchfull over my wayes; Help me I be&s;eech thee in this my &s;pirituall warfar, for thou ha&s;t promi&s;ed, that I shall walk among&s;t Serpents &amp; Ba&s;ilisks, &amp; trample over Lyons &amp; Dragons.</P>
<P>Help me al&s;o O Holy Angels &amp; glorious Saints, thou e&s;pecially O Sacred Virgin Mother, with thy cha&s;t E&s;pous S. JOSEPH. Protect me O Angell Guardian, &amp; Yee O Holy NN. my Patrons for this day; that I fall not into the &s;nares of Satan. But thou O my God &amp; my All, art my cheife hope; let the flames of thy Divine Love con&s;ume all evill affections in me, that I may for ever love &amp; obey thee.</P>
<DIV4 TYPE="oblation">
<HEAD>AN OBLATION.</HEAD>
<P>O B. JESUS, in union of thy N. I offerr up all my thoughts, words &amp; deeds, purpo&s;ing to practi&s;e the Vertue of N. &amp; shun the Vice
<PB N="115" REF="66"> of N. be&s;eeching thee, that all I doe or &s;uffer, may be acceptable to thee, for NN. through the Mediation of my glorious Patrons NN. Amen.</P>
<P>BLe&s;s me O JESU, with thy Sacred Virgin Mother &dagger; Ble&s;s me all yee Holy Saints &amp; Angels, &s;pecially my Angell Guardian, &amp; Ho|ly Patrons NN. &dagger;. O Eternall God, Father, Son, &amp; H. Gho&s;t, ble&s;s &dagger; &amp; keep me, now &amp; for ever. Amen.</P>
</DIV4>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="prayer (evening)">
<HEAD>IN THE EVENING.</HEAD>
<P>IN nomine Patris &amp;c.</P>
<P>O Mo&s;t Ble&s;&s;ed Trinity, I glorify thee with all the Saints &amp; Angels, for all favours, at all times be&s;towed upon me, e&s;pecially this day. <HI>(make a &s;urvey of Gods favours to thee.)</HI> Alas what thankes can I return to thee, for the&s;e, &amp; all thy gracious benefits?</P>
<P>O God who ha&s;t ob&s;erved all the motions of my heart, &amp; all my words &amp; actions, Enlighten me, that I may know wherein I have offended thee, &amp; what is wanting to me, that I may be|wayl my &s;ins, &amp; through thy Grace amend my life. <HI>(Examine thy con&s;cience through all houres &amp; duties of that day, towards God, thy Neighbour, &amp; thy &s;elfe; con&s;idering wherein thou ha&s;t offended by thought, word or deed.)</HI> Lord be mercifull to me
<PB N="116" REF="67"> a &s;inner! Behold here my God, what &s;ins I have rendred thee for thy gracious gifts; It greives me, that, I have offended thee; Pardon me O my God, through the Cro&s;s &amp; Pa&s;&s;ion of thy deare&s;t Son, the merits of the Sacred Virgin, &amp; all Angels &amp; Saints, e&s;pecially N N. I pur|po&s;e hereafter never more to offend thee, &amp; to undergoe all Cro&s;&s;es for the &s;atisfying my tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions again&s;t thee, &amp; purcha&s;ing Gra|ce, for the amendement of my life.</P>
<DIV4 TYPE="oblation">
<HEAD>AN OBLATION.</HEAD>
<P>O B. JESUS, I offer up to thee, thy N. as a propitiation for all my &s;ins, e&s;pecially of this day; Uniting therewith the merits of thy Sacred Mother, &amp; all Angels &amp; Saints, e&s;pecially my Patrons NN. to who&s;e protection I now &amp; for ever commend my &s;elf.</P>
<P>Ble&s;s me O JESUS &amp;c.</P>
</DIV4>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="daily meditations">
<PB N="117" REF="67">
<HEAD>MEDITATIONS VPON THE PASSION. For every day of the week.</HEAD>
<DIV3 N="Sunday" TYPE="day">
<HEAD><HI>SUNDAY.</HI> Washing of the Feet.</HEAD>
<P>CONS. 1. Who washeth? God, thy Crea|tour, Redeemer &amp; giver of all good things.</P>
<P N="2">2. Who&s;e feet he washeth? of ignoble per|&s;ons, great &s;inners, &amp; his own betrayer.</P>
<P N="3">3. Why he washeth? to give example of meekne&s;s, &amp; teach us to clean&s;e our Soules, ere we approach his Altar.</P>
<P><HI>Affect:</HI> Oh my JESU, that I could love thee &amp; all creatures, as I ought, &amp; thou de|&s;ire&s;t!</P>
<P><HI>Re&s;olve,</HI> To practi&s;e the Vertue of <HI>Charitie,</HI> &amp; shun the vice of <HI>Envie,</HI> in occa&s;ions be&s;t known to thy &s;elf.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Monday" TYPE="day">
<PB N="118" REF="68">
<HEAD><HI>MUNDAY.</HI> Prayer in the garden.</HEAD>
<P>CONS: 1. How CHRIST prayeth, knee|ling, pro&s;trate, &amp; with in&s;tancy: &amp; thou how tepid.</P>
<P N="2">2. What's his prayer? That his Chalice may pa&s;&s;e, yet with re&s;ignation to obey his Fathers will: doe thou pray thus.</P>
<P N="3">3. How he &s;weats, bloud, in great drops, in great &s;orrows; wilt thou rely on thy own &s;trength?</P>
<P><HI>Affect:</HI> Oh my JESU, that I could humble my &s;elf to Thee, &amp; all creatures for thee.</P>
<P><HI>Ro&s;olve,</HI> To practi&s;e <HI>Humilitie</HI> &amp; shun <HI>Pride,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Tuesday" TYPE="day">
<HEAD><HI>TUESDAY.</HI> Mocking before Herod.</HEAD>
<P>CONS: 1. How JESUS betrayed, appre|hended, &amp; manicled, is led to Annas, Caiphas, Pilate &amp; Herod: Follow him in this &s;orrowfull Pilgrimage.</P>
<P N="2"><PB N="119" REF="68">2. How He is every where fal&s;ly accu&s;ed, &amp; yet is &s;ilent; be &s;ilent too, when injur'd.</P>
<P N="3">3. How before Herod, he is cloathed &amp; mocked as a Foole; if thou bee&s;t a Chri&s;tian, imitate CHRIST'S &s;elf-denyall.</P>
<P><HI>Affect:</HI> Oh my JESU, that I could contemn my own will for thy &s;ake.</P>
<P><HI>Re&s;olve,</HI> To practi&s;e <HI>Self-denyall,</HI> &amp; shun <HI>&s;elf-love,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Wednesday" TYPE="day">
<HEAD><HI>WEDNESDAY.</HI> Whipping at the Pillar.</HEAD>
<P>CONS: How JESUS led back to Pilate, is there accu&s;ed as a Bla&s;phemer, Seducer &amp; Traitor; Barabbas though a Murderer, is pre|ferr'd before him; can'&s;t thou repine, when vilified?</P>
<P N="2">2. How that Innocent Body uncloathed, &amp; bound to the Pilar, is whipt for thy &s;ins: thou &s;in'&s;t, &amp; he &s;uffers.</P>
<P N="3">3. How barbarou&s;ly tho&s;e Soldiers treat thy JESUS; Oh cruelty! this he &s;uffers for thee: Bath thy heart in his &s;aving bloud.</P>
<P><HI>Affect.</HI> Oh my JESU, that I could bear all
<PB N="120" REF="69"> Cro&s;&s;es, from all per&s;ons, for the love of Thee</P>
<P><HI>Re&s;olve,</HI> To practi&s;e <HI>Patience,</HI> &amp; shun <HI>Anger,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Thursday" TYPE="day">
<HEAD><HI>THURSDAY.</HI> Crowning with Thorns.</HEAD>
<P>CONS: 1. How JESUS thus bleeding, is crownd with sharp Thorns; this Crown is in&s;tead of a Crown of Glory.</P>
<P N="2">2. How they cloath him in &s;carlet, put a reed in his hand for a Scepter, &amp; then kneeling deride Him. O my JESU thou art a King indeed; reign for ever in my heart.</P>
<P N="3">3. How JESUS, thus adorned is led forth by Pilate, &amp; shown to the Jewes, with, <HI>Behold &agrave; Man:</HI> O &s;ad Spectacle! Yet &s;till, they cry, <HI>Crucify Him:</HI> Oh! the heavy weight of my &s;ins.</P>
<P><HI>Affect:</HI> Oh my JESU, that I could obey Thee, even to lo&s;s of life.</P>
<P><HI>Re&s;olve,</HI> To practi&s;e <HI>Obedience</HI> &amp; shun <HI>Sloath,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Friday" TYPE="day">
<PB N="121" REF="69">
<HEAD><HI>FRYDAY.</HI> Carrying the Cro&s;s.</HEAD>
<P>CONS: 1. How JESUS thus derided, whip|ped &amp; crowned, goes forth carrying the Cro&s;s, whereon he is to be &s;acrifized for thy Sins.</P>
<P N="2">2. What shouts of joy the Jewes make after Him, through the &s;treets of Jeru&s;alem: thus is Innocency de&s;pi&s;ed.</P>
<P N="3">3. How the devout woemen meet &amp; bewaile Him: thy hard heart sheds not one Teare amid&s;t the&s;e his &s;orows, or for thy own &s;ins.</P>
<P><HI>Affect.</HI> Oh my JESU, that I could abandon all &s;en&s;uall &s;atisfactions for the Love of Thee!</P>
<P><HI>Re&s;olve,</HI> To practi&s;e <HI>Temperance,</HI> &amp; shun <HI>Gluttony,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="Saturday" TYPE="day">
<HEAD><HI>SATURDAY.</HI> Crucifying of Ie&s;us.</HEAD>
<P>CONS: 1. How JESUS with much pain &amp; shame, arrived to Mount Calvary, is a|gain uncloath'd, &amp; thus all his &s;oares are rene|wed: My Sins not blotted out by Repentance, shall one day be di&s;clo&s;ed to the whole World.</P>
<P N="2"><PB N="122" REF="70">2. How they &s;treatch thy JESUS upon the Cro&s;s, fa&s;tning him with nayles therunto, &amp; then rai&s;e him up, where he hangs between two theeves: Oh what ignominy!</P>
<P N="3">3. How He there hangs for the &s;pace of three houres, reviled by Jews &amp; Gentiles, for&s;aken by his Di&s;ciples, drenched with gall &amp; vineger, peirced to the heart with a &s;peare, yet He prays for his Enemies: Enter, &amp; make thy aboade in that love-wounded-Heart.</P>
<P><HI>Affect:</HI> Oh my JESU that I could imitate Thee in the purity of thy Life &amp; Doctrine.</P>
<P><HI>Re&s;olve,</HI> To practi&s;e <HI>Mode&s;ty</HI> &amp; shun <HI>All con|trary Therunto,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>Woodcut illustration of the crrucified Christ, with two male figures standing to either side.</FIGDESC>
</FIGURE></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="method">
<PB N="123" REF="70">
<HEAD>A Method for Meditation.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. PReparation hath 3. parts. Pre&s;ence of God, Choyce of matter, and Invocation.</P>
<P N="2">2. Meditation it &s;elf hath 3. parts. Con&s;ideration, Affection, and re&s;olution.</P>
<P N="3">3. Conclu&s;ion hath 3. parts. Thanks-Giving, Oblation and Prayer.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="prayer">
<PB N="124" REF="71">
<HEAD>A Prayer before Meditation.</HEAD>
<P>O my God, my Sovereign, my Creatour and my All; I here mo&s;t humbly pro&s;trate my &s;elf with the profounde&s;t adoration J am po&s;&s;i|bly capable of, before your devine Maje&s;ty, ear|ne&s;tly imploring &agrave; continuance of your ble&s;&s;ings vpon me, your poor needy Creature, and that you would be plea&s;ed out of your infinite boun|ty, by meanes of your holy &s;pirite &s;o to illumi|nate my vnder&s;tanding, inflame my will, recol|lect from di&s;tractions and &s;trengthen in good re|&s;olutions all the powers of my &s;oule, as that J may worthily, attentively and devoutly per|forme this &s;ublime exerci&s;e of mentall prayer J am now vndertaking, to your honour and glory, the comfort of my own di&s;tre&s;&s;ed &s;oule, the joy of the Saints in heaven, and the edifi|cation of men on earth, thro' your mercyes the meritts of my Ble&s;&s;ed Saviour and the in&s;pira|tions of your Coele&s;tiall Paraclet Amen.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="prayer">
<PB N="125" REF="71">
<HEAD>A Prayer after Meditation.</HEAD>
<P>BEhold O my God, Behold, o my mo&s;t patient and merciful Lord, how J have pa&s;&s;ed over this time of Meditation, and treating with thee; with how much negligence, sloth, coldnes, and di&s;traction, and with how litle feeling of thy good motions within me: but thou O Lord knowe&s;t all my infirmities and Mi&s;eries and therfore J crave of thee pardon for them. J thank thee al&s;o mo&s;t heartily and humbly, for all the good thoughts and &s;ugge&s;tions, which have pre&s;ented them&s;elves to my mind, in time of this my me|ditation, as mo&s;t holy Emba&s;&s;adours &s;ent from thy heavenly Throne, to deale with me for the gaining of thy kingdome; whos ble&s;&s;ed voices and mo&s;t profitable &s;peeches, J be&s;eech thy divi|ne goodnes, to give me grace to imprint in my heart, and &s;eeke to put in execution, in the cours of my life to come: to the end that my judg|ment and Damnation, be not the more grievous in re&s;pect of thes thy Benefits, but rather that my life being mended therby, and my &s;oul &s;tirr'd up to more zeale of thy &s;ervice, J may be finally made partaker with thy true Children, of that eternall bl&iuml;&s;s which thou ha&s;t prepared, for &s;uch os love, feare and &s;erve thee and yeeld obedience to tho&s;e holy in&s;pirations which thou &s;ende&s;t them for their eternal happines, Amen.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="table of meditations">
<PB N="126-127" REF="72">
<P><TABLE>
<HEAD>A Table of dayly Patrons, Meditations Vertues, vices, and Intentions.</HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">Day.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">Patron.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">Meditation.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">Vertue.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">Vice.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">Intentions.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Sund.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>H. Angels.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>washing feet</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>Charity.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>Envie.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>For the H. church.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Mund.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Apo&s;tles.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>Prayer in the Garden.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>Humility.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>Pride.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>For Vnion of Chri|&s;tian Princes.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Tue&s;d.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Martyrs.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>Mocking.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>Self denyall</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>Self love.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>For benefactors.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Wedne&s;d.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Bishops.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>Whipping.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>Patience.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>Anger.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>For Religious or|ders.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Thur&s;d.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Doctors.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>Crowning.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>Obedience.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>Sloath.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>For conver&s;ion of Infidells.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Frid.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Confe&s;sors.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>Carrying the Cro&s;s.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>Tempera~ce.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>Gluttony</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>For &s;oules departed.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Saturd.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Virgins.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>Crucifying.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>Mode&s;tie.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>Impurity</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>For di&s;tre&s;&s;ed perso~s</HI></CELL>
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<P><FIGURE>
<FIGDESC>Woodcut illustration of the crucified Christ, with Mary and John standing either side of the cross (a skull resting at its base).</FIGDESC>
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