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<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">Manner of Performing THE NOVENA, OR, The NINE DAYS <HI>DEVOTION</HI> TO St. <HI>Francis Xaverius:</HI> Of the Society of <HI>JES&V;S,</HI> And Apo&s;tle of <HI>India. As al&s;o the Devotion of the <HI>Ten Fridays</HI></HI> To the &s;ame SAINT</P>
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<HEAD>THE Manner of Performing the NOVENA, OR, <HI>The Nine Days Devotion.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis <HI>Novena</HI> commences on the 4th of <HI>March,</HI> and continues Nine Days, that is, till the 12th of <HI>March,</HI> upon which Day, in the Year 1622. Pope <HI>Gregory</HI> the XV. Canoni|zed St. <HI>Francis Xaverius.</HI> The Per|&s;ons who perform this <HI>Novena,</HI> are to be employed upon each of the Nine Days in Prayer and Good Works, to the Glory of Almighty God, and in Honour of his Servant St. <HI>Francis Xa|verius;</HI> always endeavouring to repo&s;e an entire Confidence in the Merits of this Apo&s;tle, and hoping through his
<PB N="4" REF="3">means to obtain from God, what&s;oever they &s;hall ask, provided it &s;hall be con|ducing to their Salvation, and the Good of their Souls; or that otherwi&s;e, in|&s;tead of that Ble&s;&s;ing which they beg, and which is not for their Benefit, this Saint will obtain for them of God &s;ome other Grace they do not ask, and which tends more to their Eternal Felicity.</P>
<P>For the exact Performance of this <HI>Novena,</HI> they are to take for their Ad|vocates the Nine Quires of Heavenly Spirits, making particular mention of the Principal Vertues of St. <HI>Francis Xaverius,</HI> and they are to ob&s;erve other Directions which &s;hall be given hereaf|ter. It will be convenient to Confe&s;s and Communicate the fir&s;t Day, that &s;o the Soul being clean&s;ed from Sin, and honoured with the Sacred Eucha|ri&s;t, all the Works we perform in the State of Grace, may be meritorious of Eternal Life, and the more efficacious towards obtaining the Benefit we ask. Tho&s;e who do not Confe&s;s, mu&s;t at lea&s;t, begin every Day with an Act of Contrition, to clean&s;e their Souls from Sin, and to &s;ecure them&s;elves of obtain|ing their Petition.</P>
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<P>In <HI>Barcelona, Valencia,</HI> and other Cities of <HI>Spain,</HI> this <HI>Novena</HI> is perfor|med in the Church, with great Solem|nity, great Concour&s;e of People, and daily Sermons upon the Vertues of St. <HI>Francis Xaverius.</HI> And this is the bet|ter way, not only becau&s;e God in the Church, as being the Hou&s;e of Prayer, is more enclin'd to grant our reque&s;ts; but al&s;o, becau&s;e the Prayer of many together, is more acceptable to God; and when all beg for all, every indivi|dual the more ea&s;ily obtains his de&s;ire, by rea&s;on that Charity adds Force to Prayer, and God is more ready to hear us, when we are united in him; for Chri&s;t him&s;elf a&s;&s;ured us, that where|&s;oever two or three are gathered to|gether in his Name, he is in the mid&s;t of them. When this <HI>Novena</HI> is not performed in the Church with the Ge|neral Concour&s;e of the People, it were convenient, that if it be done in a pri|vate Hou&s;e, all the Family &s;hould joyn in performing it, altogether begging that of God for every one, which each apart begs for him&s;elf.</P>
<P>For the Conveniency of &s;uch as &s;tand in need of farther Direction, we will here &s;et down tho&s;e Prayers that are
<PB N="6" REF="4">proper to be &s;aid every Day; never|thele&s;s &s;uch as are more Devout, may beg the &s;ame thing of this Saint, in &s;uch Terms and Language, as their Devotion &s;hall dictate, and may direct their Pra|yer as they think fit: When many to|gether perform the <HI>Novena,</HI> one of them may read the Prayers, changing the Singular Number into the Plural, and &s;aying, we de&s;ire, we beg, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> The others may repeat the Prayer after him, or el&s;e only hear it with Atten|tion, inwardly de&s;iring and begging that which is asked in it.</P>
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<HEAD>INSTRUCTIONS For the exact Performing of the <HI>NOVENA.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THo&s;e who perform the <HI>Novena,</HI> are to ob&s;erve the&s;e In&s;tructions upon all, and each of the Nine Days. <HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> They are to endeavour to imi|tate &s;ome one of this Saint's Virtues, by practi&s;ing &s;ome exterior Act, or Acts thereof; as for in&s;tance, his Zeal,
<PB N="7" REF="4">Humility, Patience, <HI>&amp;c. Secondly,</HI> they are to do &s;ome Work of Mercy, either Spiritual or Corporal, for the Bene|fit of their Neighbour; as giving of Alms, vi&s;iting the Sick, or tho&s;e that are in Pri&s;on, comforting the Afflicted, praying for the Souls in Purgatory, or for tho&s;e that are in the State of Mor|tal Sin, <HI>&amp;c. Thirdly,</HI> They are to offer up to this Saint &s;ome particular Mortification, as Fa&s;ting, wearing of Hair-Cloth, Di&s;ciplining, u&s;ing them|&s;elves with le&s;s Tenderne&s;s, <HI>&amp;c. Fourth|ly,</HI> They are to curb their Sen&s;es, their Eyes, and Ears, and their Tongue, en|deavouring to avoid even the lea&s;t of Sins. <HI>Fifthly,</HI> They are to read &s;ome Chapter or Pa&s;&s;age of the Life of this Saint; or meditate a while upon &s;ome one of his Vertues (of which you will find many in the Devotoin of the Ten <HI>Fridays</HI>) with an earne&s;t de&s;ire to imi|tate them. <HI>Sixthly,</HI> They are to endea|vour, for the Glory of God, to excite &s;ome Per&s;on to bear Devotion to this Saint. <HI>7thly,</HI> It will be convenient they every Day invoke the Interce&s;&s;ion of &s;ome one Rank of the Saints, as they do of the Quires of Angels, to the end, that their Advocates and Interce&s;|&s;ors
<PB N="8" REF="5">being multiplyed (as the Church expre&s;&s;es it) they may the more readi|ly obtain what they ask. The Cla&s;&s;es of Saints may be divided into Patriarchs, Prophets, Apo&s;tles, Martyrs, Bi&s;hops, Doctors, Prie&s;ts, Religious, Confe&s;|&s;ors, Virgins, and other Saints in Hea|ven. For the more effectual prevail|ing with St. <HI>Francis Xaverius,</HI> it will be convenient every Day, to make a &s;pe|cial Commemoration of St. <HI>Ignatius</HI> of <HI>Loyola,</HI> whom St. <HI>Francis Xaverius</HI> honoured, re&s;pected, and loved, as his Father, Ma&s;ter, and Superior.</P>
<P>Upon one of the <HI>Nine Days,</HI> the Per|&s;on performing this Devotion, mu&s;t Confe&s;s and Communicate, making a mo&s;t diligent Preparation to plea&s;e God and St. <HI>Francis Xaverius,</HI> for the more ready obtaining of the thing de&s;ired.</P>
<P>Such as cannot read, may cau&s;e ano|ther to read the&s;e Prayers to them, they giving great Attention to them, and offering them up to St. <HI>Francis;</HI> or in&s;tead thereof they may &s;ay Ten <HI>Pater No&s;ters</HI> and Ten <HI>Ave Maria's,</HI> with Ten <HI>Gloria Patri's,</HI> in Honour of the Ten Years that St. <HI>Francis Xaverius</HI> &s;pent in Preaching in the
<PB N="9" REF="5"><HI>Indies;</HI> begging of the Saint what&s;o|&s;oever they de&s;ire, and praying, as he did, for the Conver&s;ion of Infidels.</P>
<P>Tho' the propere&s;t time for perfor|ming this <HI>Novena,</HI> be from the 4th of <HI>March</HI> to the 12th, which is the Day of the Canonization of St. <HI>Francis Xa|verius;</HI> yet it may be performed at any other time of the Year. Pope <HI>Alex|ander</HI> the VII. granted many Indul|gences to tho&s;e that Celebrate this <HI>No|vena,</HI> in the Church of St. <HI>Roch,</HI> of the Society of <HI>Je&s;us</HI> in <HI>Lisbon,</HI> which is a tacite Approbation of this Devo|tion.</P>
<P>How much the Devotion of this <HI>No|vena</HI> daily &s;preads, is well known: On this account St. <HI>Francis</HI> has obtained Favours for &s;everal Per&s;ons, as they them&s;elves te&s;tify. In the Year 1688 it was perform'd at <HI>Madrid</HI> with ex|traordinary Solemnity, in the Royal Chappel of the Palace, their Catho|lick Maje&s;ties being every Day there pre&s;ent.</P>
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<HEAD>THE Fir&s;t Day of the NOVENA.</HEAD>
<P><HI>THE Per&s;on performing this Devo|tion, kneeling before an Altar, or the Image of St. <HI>Francis Xaverius,</HI> &s;hall lift up his Heart to God, and profoundly humbling him&s;elf in Spirit, and offering up all his Prayers, Thoughts, and Words to his Glory, in Honour of the Ble&s;&s;ed Virgin <HI>Mary,</HI> St. <HI>Francis Xaverius,</HI> and to all the Angels and Saints of Hea|ven, he &s;hall make the Sign of the Cro&s;s, and &s;ay the following Prayer.</HI></P>
<P>O Lord <HI>Je&s;us</HI> Chri&s;t, true God and Man, my Creator and Re|deemer, for thy &s;ake alone, and be|cau&s;e I love thee above all things; I am &s;orry from the Bottom of my Heart, for having offended thee; and I do firm|ly purpo&s;e never to fall into Sin again, to &s;hun all Occa&s;ions of offending thee, to Confe&s;s my Sins, and perform the Penance that &s;hall be enjoyn'd me; and to make Re&s;titution and Satisfaction, wherever it &s;hall be due from me: For
<PB N="11" REF="6">the Love of thee, I forgive all my Ene|mies; to thee I offer up my Life, A|ctions, and Sufferings, in Satisfaction for my Sins; and &s;ince I humbly beg it of thee, I tru&s;t in thy Goodne&s;s and in|finite Mercy, that thou wilt forgive me them, through the Merits of thy pre|cious Blood and Pa&s;&s;ion, and wilt give me Grace to amend my Life, and to per&s;ever in thy Service unto my Death. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
<P>MO&s;t Glorious St. <HI>Francis Xave|rius,</HI> Apo&s;tle of the <HI>Indies,</HI> if it be for the Glory of God and to thy Ho|nour, that I obtain what I de&s;ire and beg, by performing this <HI>Novena,;</HI> do thou obtain me this Grace of our Lord; if not, do thou guide my Petition, and beg of our Lord for me, that which is mo&s;t proper for his Glory, and the benefit of my Soul.</P>
<P>O God and Lord of the Angels, whom thou do&s;t intru&s;t with the Guardian&s;hip of Men; I make thee an Offering of all the Merits of the&s;e Heavenly Spirits, and of tho&s;e of thy Servant St. <HI>Francis Xaverius,</HI> who was call'd an Angel for his Purity; and be|cau&s;e
<PB N="12" REF="7">he pre&s;erved Men from many Spiritual and Corporal Dangers. I be|&s;eech thee, grant me that Purity of Soul and Body, which thou did&s;t con|fer on this thy holy Apo&s;tle, and that particular Grace, which I beg in this <HI>Novena,</HI> to thy greater Honour and Glory. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
<P>Here &s;ay three <HI>Pater No&s;ters</HI> and three <HI>Ave Maries,</HI> and then the following Prayer to St. <HI>Francis Xaverius.</HI></P>
<P>MO&s;t Holy Father <HI>Francis Xave|rius,</HI> who received&s;t thy Prai&s;es from the Mouth of innocent Children; I mo&s;t humbly implore thy bountiful Charity, for the Sake of the mo&s;t pre|cious Blood of <HI>Je&s;us,</HI> and of the Im|maculate Conception of our Ble&s;&s;ed La|dy, Mother of God; to the end thou may'&s;t obtain of God's infinite Good|ne&s;s, that at the Approach of my la&s;t Hour, my Heart may be &s;eparated and withdrawn from all wordly Thoughts and Di&s;tractions, and be fixed in the mo&s;t ardent Love of him, and a vehe|ment De&s;ire of an happy Eternity; &s;o that laying a&s;ide the multiplicity of earthly things, which hitherto have perplexed me, I may mo&s;t diligently
<PB N="13" REF="7">&s;eek, and perfectly find that one thing which is nece&s;&s;ary, which is to Die, and re&s;t in Peace, under the Protection of the mo&s;t Holy Virgin <HI>Mary,</HI> in the Wounds of <HI>Je&s;us</HI> her mo&s;t Ble&s;&s;ed Son, in the &s;weet Embraces of my God, and in thy Pre&s;ence, Holy Saint, through who&s;e Interce&s;&s;ion I hope to obtain this Mercy. But yet, whil&s;t it &s;hall plea&s;e the Divine Providence, to pre&s;erve my Life, I be&s;eech thee, my mo&s;t loving Pro|tector, and mo&s;t affectionate Father, to obtain for me of his Divine Maje&s;ty, that I may Live, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">s one that is to Die, and as I would wi&s;h to have lived at the Hour of my Death; ever imitating thy Virtues, and fulfilling the mo&s;t Holy Will of God; that &s;o my temporal Death may be to me a Pa&s;&s;age into Life Everla&s;ting: I al&s;o be&s;eech thee to ob|tain for me, that which I ask in this <HI>Novena,</HI> if it be for the Glory of God and Good of my Soul. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
<P><HI>In the next Place, you are to ask of St. <HI>Francis Xaverius</HI> the particular Fa|vour you de&s;ire to obtain, heightning as much as in you is, your Confidence in him; with &s;uch Words as your affectionate Thoughts &s;hall &s;ugge&s;t, or with &s;uch A&s;pi|rations,
<PB N="14" REF="8">as your Devotions &s;hall dictate.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Then the more to plea&s;e this Holy A|po&s;tle, in Imitation of him, &s;ay that Pra|yer, which he him&s;elf compo&s;ed, and u&s;ed to &s;ay every Day, for the Conver&s;ion of Infidels, which is as follows:</HI></P>
<P>ETernal God, Creator of all things, remember that thou alone did&s;t create the Souls of Infidels, framing them to thy own Image and Likene&s;s: Behold, O Lord, how to thy Di&s;ho|nour, Hell daily is repleni&s;hed with them: Remember, O Lord, thy on|ly Son <HI>Je&s;us</HI> Chri&s;t, who &s;uffered for them, mo&s;t bountifully &s;hedding his precious Blood: Suffer not, O Lord, thy Son, and our Lord to be any longer de&s;pi&s;ed by the Infidels; but rather, being appea&s;ed by the Intreaties and Prayers of thy Elect, the Saints, and of the Church, the mo&s;t Ble&s;&s;ed Spou&s;e of thy Son, vouch&s;afe to be mindful of thy Mercy, and forgeting their Ido|latry and Infidelity, cau&s;e them al&s;o to know him thou did&s;t &s;end, <HI>Je&s;us</HI> Chri&s;t thy Son and our Lord, who is our Health, Life, and Re&s;urrection, through whom we are made free and &s;aved, to whom be all Glory forever. <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters">en.</HI></P>
<P><HI><PB N="15" REF="8">Then conclude with the Prayer proper to this Saint.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Antiph.</HI> Well fare thee, good and faithful Servant; becau&s;e thou ha&s;t been faithful over a few things, I will place the over many things: Enter in|to the Joy of thy Lord.</P>
<P><HI>Ver&s;.</HI> Our Lord hath guided the ju&s;t Man by right Ways.</P>
<P><HI>Re&s;p.</HI> And hath &s;hewed him the Kingdom of God.</P>
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<HEAD>The Prayer.</HEAD>
<P>O God, who wert plea&s;ed to re|duce to the Bo&s;om of thy Church the Nations of the <HI>Indies,</HI> thro' the Preaching and Miracles of S. <HI>Francis Xaverius,</HI> mercifully grant us, that we may imitate his Vertues, who&s;e glo|rious Merits we hold in Veneration. Through <HI>Je&s;us</HI> Chri&s;t our Lord. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>A Commemoration of St. <HI>Ignatius de Loyola</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>Antiph.</HI> This man de&s;pi&s;ing the World, and triumphing over Earthly things, heaped up Riches in Heaven by Word and Work.</P>
<P><HI>Ver&s;.</HI> Our Lord hath guided the ju&s;t Man by right Ways.</P>
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<P><HI>Re&s;p.</HI> And hath &s;hewn him the King|dom of God.</P>
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<HEAD>The Prayer.</HEAD>
<P>O God, who for the Propagation of the greater Glory of thy Name, ha&s;t by Ble&s;&s;ed <HI>Ignatius,</HI> &s;treng|then'd the Church Militant with new Auxiliaries; graciou&s;ly vouch&s;afe, that we by his A&s;&s;i&s;tance and Imitation, &s;o|licitou&s;ly combating upon Earth, may obtain with him an everla&s;ting Crown in Heaven.</P>
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<HEAD>A Commemoration of St. <HI>Gregory</HI> the Great, Apo&s;tle of <HI>England.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>Antiph.</HI> O mo&s;t excellent Doctor, Light of the Holy Church, Ble&s;&s;ed <HI>Gregory,</HI> Lover of God's Law, &s;uppli|cate the Son of God for us.</P>
<P><HI>Ver&s;.</HI> Our Lord hath, <HI>as above.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>The Prayer.</HEAD>
<P>O God, who ha&s;t be&s;towed the Re|wards of Eternal Ble&s;&s;edne&s;s on the Soul of thy Servant <HI>Gregory,</HI> Grant mercifully, that we, who are depre&s;t with the Weight of our Sins, may by his Prayers be delivered. Through our Lord.</P>
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<HEAD>The Second Day.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Lord</HI> Je&s;us <HI>Chri&s;t, true God and Man,</HI> &amp;c. as before on the Fir&s;t Day.</P>
<P><HI>Mo&s;t Glorious St.</HI> Francis Xaverius, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> as the Fir&s;t Day, and &s;o on all the following Days.</P>
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<HEAD>A Prayer for this Day.</HEAD>
<P>LOrd God of the Archangels, whom thou do&s;t intru&s;t in the mo&s;t weighty Concerns of thy Glory, and the Benefit of Men; I offer up to thee the Merits of the&s;e mo&s;t diligent Spirits, and tho&s;e of thy great Servant St. <HI>Francis Xaverius,</HI> whom thou ma|de&s;t the Mini&s;ter of thy Glory, and to whom thou recommended&s;t the Spi|ritual Welfare of innumerable Souls. I be&s;eech thee grant, that I may per|form tho&s;e Duties, which thy mo&s;t Ho|ly and Divine Will has impo&s;ed upon me, and al&s;o that I may obtain that particular Grace, which I beg of thee in this <HI>Novena,</HI> to thy greater Honour and Glory. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>The Third Day.</HEAD>
<P>LOrd God of the Principalities, who according to the Di&s;po&s;ition of the Divine Will, by means of An|gels and Archangels, takes care of the Welfare of Mankind, enlightning, in|&s;tructing, and governing them; I offer up to thee the Merits of the&s;e mo&s;t zealous Spirits, and tho&s;e of thy Ser|vant St. <HI>Francis Xaverius,</HI> who en|lightned and converted many King|doms and Provinces, and in them innu|merable Souls, not only by him&s;elf, but by his Di&s;ciples and Followers, <HI>In|&s;tructing, Teaching and Commanding.</HI> I be&s;eech thee, grant me the zeal of this Holy Apo&s;tle, and the particular Petition I tender in this <HI>Novena,</HI> to thy greater Honour and Glory. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>The Fourth Day.</HEAD>
<P>LOrd God of the Powers, who have a &s;pecial Prerogative to curb the Infernal Spirits: I offer up to thee the Merits of the&s;e mo&s;t potent Spirits, and tho&s;e of thy Servant St. <HI>Francis Xaverius,</HI> to whom thou gave&s;t &s;ingu|lar
<PB N="19" REF="10">Power of expelling Devils from Bodies and Souls. I be&s;eech thee grant me the Grace to overcome all the Temptations of the Devil, and that which I beg of thee in this <HI>Novena,</HI> to thy greater Honour and Glory. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>The Fifth Day.</HEAD>
<P>LOrd God of the Virtues, by who&s;e means thou worke&s;t Mi|racles and Prodigies peculiar to thy Sovereign Power: I offer up to thee the Merits of the&s;e mo&s;t <HI>Stupendious</HI> Spirits, and tho&s;e of thy Servant St. <HI>Francis Xaverius,</HI> whom thou made&s;t a new <HI>Thaumaturgus,</HI> or Worker of new and prodigious Miracles, renewing in him the Signs and Wonders of thy Ble&s;&s;ed Apo&s;tles, that he might di&s;cover the Go&s;pel to new Nations. I be&s;eech thee, grant me that profound Humility, wherewith St. <HI>Francis Xaverius,</HI> a|mid&s;t &s;o many Miracles &s;ought thy Glory, and not his own Honour, as al&s;o that which I beg in this <HI>Novena,</HI> to thy greater Honour and Glory. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>The Sixth Day.</HEAD>
<P>LOrd God of the Dominations, which pre&s;ide over all inferior Spirits, as Mini&s;ters of thy Providence, and &s;ubmit them&s;elves to thy Will, be|ing ever ready to fulfil it: I offer up to thee the Merits of the&s;e excellent Spirits, and tho&s;e of St. <HI>Francis Xa|verius,</HI> who tho' Superior to many, yet humbly &s;ubmitted him&s;elf to all Su|periors, in them acknowledging thy Maje&s;ty, and readily fulfilling their Commands. I be&s;eech thee, grant me a ready and perfect Obedience to all my Superiors, and that &s;pecial Petition which I make in this <HI>Novena,</HI> to thy greater Honour and Glory. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>The Seventh Day.</HEAD>
<P>LOrd God of the Thrones, on whom thou repo&s;e&s;t as on the Seat of thy Glory, and Chair of thy Maje&s;ty: I offer up to thee the Me|rits of the&s;e &s;upream Spirits, and tho&s;e of St. <HI>Francis Xaverius,</HI> that Throne of thy Glory, that Ve&s;&s;el of Election to convey thy Name to new Nations, who denyed him&s;elf to him&s;elf, and to
<PB N="21" REF="11">all worldly things, ca&s;ting them out of his Heart, that thou alone mighte&s;t po&s;&s;e&s;s it. I be&s;eech thee, grant that I may de&s;pi&s;e all worldly things, and re&s;t in thee alone, grant me al&s;o the Petition I make in this <HI>Novena,</HI> to thy greater Honour and Glory. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>The Eighth Day.</HEAD>
<P>LOrd God of the Cherubins, who are adorned with mo&s;t perfect Wi&s;dom. I offer up to thee the Me|rits of the&s;e mo&s;t knowing Spirits, and tho&s;e of thy Servant St. <HI>Francis Xa|verius,</HI> whom thou did&s;t grace with &s;upereminent Wi&s;dom, and to whom thou did&s;t reveal mo&s;t profound Se|crets, that he might teach thy Law to many People and Nations. I be|&s;eech thee, grant that I may learn to fear and plea&s;e thee, which is true Wi&s;dom, and that by Word and Ex|ample I may teach others to keep thy Commandments, and that thou wilt al&s;o grant me the Favour I beg in this <HI>Novena,</HI> to thy greater Honour and Glory. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>The Ninth Day.</HEAD>
<P>LOrd God of the Seraphins, who are inflam'd with mo&s;t ardent Love of thee: I offer up to thee the Merits of the&s;e mo&s;t fervent Spirits, and tho&s;e or thy Servant St <HI>Francis Xaverius,</HI> who like a Seraphin, was enflamed with thy Love, conquering innumerable Hard&s;hips and Dangers of his Life, to plea&s;e thee, and to make tho&s;e know and love thee, who before offended thee and knew thee not. I be&s;eech thee, grant that I may love thee my only God, and my Lord, and endeavour to bring all Men to the Knowledge and Love of thee; and al&s;o that thou wilt grant me that which I ask in this <HI>Novena,</HI> to thy grea|ter Honour and Glory. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
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<PB N="23" REF="12">
<HEAD>The Rapture of an affectionate Soul be|fore a Crucifix: Compos'd in <HI>Latin</HI> by St. <HI>Francis Xaverius.</HI></HEAD>
<L>O God, I love thee, not that thou</L>
<L>Should&s;t love me for't; nor love I do,</L>
<L>'Cau&s;e Hell for tho&s;e that love thee not,</L>
<L>Will be their Everla&s;ting Lot.</L>
<L>Thou, thou my <HI>Je&s;us</HI> did&s;t embrace</L>
<L>Me wholly on thy Cro&s;s of Grace,</L>
<L>Thou bor'&s;t for me in thy la&s;t Trance</L>
<L>The Thorns, the Nails, the Gall, the Lance,</L>
<L>Pains, Angui&s;hes, and bloody Sweats,</L>
<L>Much Ignominy, and more evil Treats;</L>
<L>And Death: and all for &s;ake of me,</L>
<L>For me a Sinner. O Love's Prodigy!</L>
<L>Why then, mo&s;t loving <HI>Je&s;us</HI> why,</L>
<L>Should I not love thee till I die?</L>
<L>Not to avoid the Pains of Hell,</L>
<L>Nor yet in Heaven for e'er to dwell,</L>
<L>But meerly 'cau&s;e thou loved&s;t me;</L>
<L>Not for Reward will I love thee,</L>
<L>Will I love thee with all my Heart;</L>
<L>Becau&s;e my God, my Lord thou art.</L>
<CLOSER>Amen</CLOSER>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<PB N="24" REF="13">
<HEAD>This Prayer may be &s;aid at the End of both Devotions.</HEAD>
<P>MO&s;t Glorious St. <HI>Francis Xave|rius,</HI> Apo&s;tle of the <HI>Indies,</HI> and mighty in thy Works; for the great Compa&s;&s;ion thou &s;howe&s;t to all Men, and for that mo&s;t ardent Zeal, with which, during the Term of ten Years, thou did&s;t labour in the <HI>Ea&s;t,</HI> for the Salvation of Souls; I be&s;eech thee, that thou wilt efficaciou&s;ly interceed with God for the Conver&s;ion of Infi|dels, and of all Sinners; that thou wilt pray for the afflicted Souls in Pur|gatory, and for the true Peace and Pro&s;perity of Chri&s;tians, e&s;pecially of tho&s;e that are devoted to thee; and that thou wilt obtain for me of our Lord this Grace and Favour, which I <HI>N.</HI> beg of thee with the mo&s;t &s;incere Affection I am able: Holy Saint, as thou art favourable and loving to all Per&s;ons, be &s;o al&s;o to me, tho' an un|worthy Sinner: Grant me this Reque&s;t, to the Glory of God, and to thy own Honour. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
</DIV3>
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<PB REF="13">
<P>AN INSTRUCTION TO Perform with Fruit, THE DEVOTION OF Ten FRIDAYS, In Honour of St. <HI>Francis Xaverius,</HI> APOSTLE of the <HI>INDIES.</HI> Much practi&s;ed in <HI>Rome</HI> and augment|ed particularly of late by &s;ome Au|thentick Miracles wrought by the Interce&s;&s;ion of this glorious Saint. <HI>&V;pon which Score he is taken as particu|lar Patron of almo&s;t all</HI> Italy.</P>
<P>Permi&s;&s;u Superiorum.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="to the reader">
<PB REF="14">
<PB REF="14">
<HEAD>The Tran&s;lator to the READER.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Courteous Reader,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THE Experience I had in <HI>Rome</HI> and other Parts of <HI>Italy,</HI> of the following Devotions to the Glorious St. <HI>Xaverius,</HI> made me de&s;irous, that our Nation, out of Igno|rance of the means of obtaining them, might not want the like; and therefore I thought my time well &s;pent in tran&s;lating this Treati&s;e, in which you will find neither Quaintne&s;s nor Eloquence, but &s;uch a plain and ea|&s;ie Stile, as is mo&s;t &s;uitable to De|votion, and fitted for the meane&s;t Ca|pacities, being de&s;irous all &s;hould pro|fit by it. Let not the perfect Pra|ctice of tho&s;e eminent Vertues propo|&s;ed to you to imitate in this Great
<PB REF="15">Saint, di&s;courage you from endea|vouring their Imitation out of a pu|&s;illanimous De&s;pair, ever to arrive to as high a Pitch of Perfection; but endeavour to imitate, at lea&s;t this &s;o admirable a Pattern, in a lower De|gree; and the more &s;en&s;ible you are of your own Weakne&s;s, the more confide in his powerful Interce&s;&s;ion, who (as the Writers of his Life te&s;tifie) always obtained what was for the Spiritual Advantage of tho&s;e that begged his Interce&s;&s;ion, as you may a&s;&s;ure your &s;elf he will think the&s;e Vertues to be. I cannot wi&s;h a better Succe&s;s to this Tran&s;lation, than the Original had, nor better Effects of the&s;e Devotions in my own Country then they have had in <HI>Italy;</HI> and I hope whoever expe|riences any Advantage by them, will be moved to pray for the Tran&s;lator of them, who is,</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>Dear Reader,</SALUTE> <SIGNED>Your mo&s;t hearty well-wi&s;her and humble Servant <HI>N. N.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<DIV2 TYPE="body of part">
<PB N="5" REF="15">
<HEAD>AN EPITOME OF The LIFE of St. <HI>Francis Xaverius</HI> APOSTLE of the INDIES; OF THE Society of JESUS.</HEAD>
<P>_THE Divine Providence, the &s;ame time it opened the way to the <HI>Indies</HI> and the new World, di&s;po&s;ed, that Saint <HI>Xaverius</HI> &s;hould come into this, and be born to both, an elect Ve&s;&s;el, to car|ry his Holy Faith over all, and in the former, e&s;tabli&s;h a new Chri&s;tianity; for which end, it qualified him with all tho&s;e Gifts we read were &s;everally be|&s;towed
<PB N="6" REF="16">on &s;everal Per&s;ons in the pri|mitive Church, viz. <HI>of being an Apo|&s;tle, of Prophecy, of Learning, of Ver|tue, of Health, of &s;uccouring the Nee|dy, of Government, and of Tongues.</HI></P>
<P>Saint <HI>Francis</HI> was an Apo&s;tle, as &s;ent by Chri&s;t's Vicar with Title of <HI>Nuncius Apo&s;tolicus,</HI> to preach the Go&s;pel to the <HI>Indians;</HI> in ten Years he ran over all the Ea&s;t, making above a hundred thou&s;and Miles. He revi|ved that Faith, St. <HI>Thomas</HI> the Apo|&s;tle had there before taught; then foretelling, that when the Sea &s;hould come up to that Cro&s;s (which he ere|cted) as it did when St. <HI>Xaverius</HI> en|ter'd tho&s;e Parts, then &s;hould <HI>Europe</HI> &s;end one that &s;hould preach the &s;ame Doctrine he had already taught them. He converted many hundred thou&s;ands of Infidels; with &s;everal Kings, Queens and Princes: He threw down the Tem|ples of <HI>Mahomet</HI> and of the Idols, whereof he broke forty thou&s;and: He erected innumerable Churches, Bapti|zed with his own Hand above a Million and two hundred thou&s;and Per&s;ons: He was the fir&s;t that ever preach'd to &s;everal Nations and I&s;lands, and par|ticularly<NOTE PLACE="foot">St. <HI>Paul</HI> 1. <HI>Cor.</HI> 12 c. 28. v.</NOTE>
<PB N="7" REF="16"><HI>Japony,</HI> which contains three|&s;core and &s;ix Kingdoms: and de&s;ign|ing to convert that great Empire of <HI>China,</HI> dyed in the way, in the I&s;land of <HI>Sanciano.</HI> You &s;ee, how well is verified that Prophecy of a Holy Nun, his Si&s;ter, that de&s;ired her Father to let him continue his Studies, for he &s;hould prove a great Apo&s;tle of the <HI>Indies.</HI> St. <HI>Hierome</HI> appearing to him at <HI>Vicentia,</HI> promi&s;ed him the like; &s;hew|ing him the <HI>Indies,</HI> and what Fruit he was to reap there. Our Saviour him&s;elf declared the &s;ame, the Saint at <HI>Rome</HI> often hearing tho&s;e Words.<NOTE N="*" PLACE="foot"><HI>Act.</HI> 15.16.</NOTE> <HI>A Ve&s;&s;el of Election is this Man unto me: For I will &s;hew him how great things he mu&s;t &s;uffer for my Name.</HI> Repre&s;enting to him withall an <HI>Indian</HI> weeping and lamenting his own and his whole Countries woful Condition, begging Help and Comfort from him; which he mo&s;t graciou&s;ly and plentifully did afterwards be&s;tow for the Space of ten Years upon the whole Ea&s;t.</P>
<P>He was al&s;o a Prophet foretel|ling things to come and far di|&s;tant, and knowing the very &s;e|crete&s;t
<PB N="8" REF="17">Thoughts of Man's Heart, in|&s;omuch, that at the &s;ame time the King in <HI>Portugal,</HI> and St. <HI>Ignatius</HI> at <HI>Rome,</HI> ordered things to be done, he in the <HI>Indies,</HI> publi&s;hed and executed their Orders, and with that Certainty, that once in a publick Sermon from the Pul|pit, he exactly related the Succe&s;s and Circum&s;tances of a Battle, which in that very Nick of time, was fought be|tween the <HI>Aceni</HI> and the Chri&s;tians, above three thou&s;and Miles di&s;tant from the place where he then preached, as by &s;trict Examination afterwards was found to be true. This foretel|ling future things grew &s;o cu&s;tomary to him, that he was &s;carce called any thing but Prophet; whereupon a mo&s;t Learned Man with good Rea&s;on &s;aid, That the Spirit of Prophecy in many, was as it were by Fits, but in St. <HI>Fran|cis</HI> it was a continual Habit.</P>
<P>He was not only Ma&s;ter of Philo|&s;ophy at <HI>Paris,</HI> but al&s;o Teacher of the Divine Wi&s;dom in the <HI>Indies,</HI> preach|ing the Go&s;pel to all &s;orts of People, con|futing in &s;everal publick Di&s;putes the Brachmans of the <HI>Indians,</HI> the Imany of the <HI>Turks,</HI> the Bonzi of the <HI>Japonians,</HI> (all fal&s;e Preachers of Idolatry) with that
<PB N="9" REF="17">Fame and Renown, that a Pagan came &s;ix thou&s;and Miles, only to hear his Doctrine; who&s;e Worth is &s;ufficient|ly made known by the Sanctity of his own Life, and of the&s;e his Di&s;ciples, <HI>Ga&s;per Berzeus, Co&s;mo Torres, Anto|nio Criminale,</HI> the fir&s;t that was mar|tyred there, and many others of his Order; and even by the Children he nur&s;ed up in this Holy Doctrine, who became great Preachers, and wrought many Miracles, ca&s;t out De|vils, cured Di&s;ea&s;es, threw down Idols, and finally by the &s;ix hundred Mar|tyrs in the I&s;land of <HI>Manar,</HI> and infi|nite others of <HI>Japony</HI> and the <HI>Indies,</HI> that were all his Di&s;ciples.</P>
<P>The fourth Gift of Vertues, mea|ning that which adorns the Soul, was in him mo&s;t admirable. His Love of God is &s;ufficiently known all the world over; &s;o far from being bias'd by any &s;elf Intere&s;t, that &s;eeing in a Vi&s;ion all the Labour he was to undergo, he cried out, <HI>Amplius Damine, Amplius; More Lord, More.</HI> And at another time having a ta&s;t of Divine Con&s;ola|tions to that degree, as he di&s;owned him&s;elf any farther capable of receiving them, he &s;aid; <HI>Satis e&s;t Domine, &s;atis e&s;t.
<PB N="10" REF="18">It is enough. Lord, it is enough.</HI> Such was his Charity, that he went to preach the Go&s;pel to the Infidels, bare|foot, trampling upon Thorns, loaded with a little Furniture for Ma&s;s, and &s;ome few pious Books; provided only with a &s;pare Quantity of Rice; waiting upon others running at their Hor&s;es Heels, to ha&s;ten the &s;ooner to the con|verting of Souls; always out of him&s;elf with the Love of God; &s;uffering &s;o many Misfortunes at Sea by Tempe&s;ts and frequent Shipwracks, thrice &s;inking, un|der the Ship; always in Dangers and Troubles, Cro&s;&s;es and Afflictions; per&s;ecuted by Infidels, Thieves, Devils, fal&s;e Brethren; had in Deri&s;ion, &s;cof|fed at, and mo&s;t barbarou&s;ly mi&s;us'd by tho&s;e he had been mo&s;t charitable and beneficial unto; beaten mo&s;t cruel|ly by the wicked Spirits, and mole&s;ted with their Temptations; threatned to be murdered by Cut throats; by Ido|laters held for a Mad-man, even in the Court of the King of <HI>Amangucci,</HI> where they reviled him with Cur&s;es, cover'd him with Dirt, overwhelmed him with Stones, and treacherou&s;ly laid Snares to take away his Life; of|ten endeavouring to poi&s;on him; twice
<PB N="11" REF="18">giving him into the Hands of A&s;&s;a|&s;inates to be di&s;patched. Being &s;toned by the Gentils of the I&s;land of <HI>Moro,</HI> he made his e&s;cape over a broad River, by the means of a great Timber Beam, which he handled and turned like a little Wand. How often did he give his Life for Chri&s;t? When he attend|ed tho&s;e that were infected with the Plague; when he upbraided their Infi|delity to the very Gentils ready ar|med with Stones to kill him; when in &s;pite of Princes and Prie&s;ts, he threw down their Idols; when he alone re&s;i|&s;ted a whole Army of <HI>Badaga,</HI> that in a fury intended to oppre&s;s the Chri|&s;tians; when he intru&s;ted him&s;elf going into <HI>Japony</HI> in a &s;mall Boat to Pirates, infamous for killing Pa&s;&s;engers; when he entred the I&s;land of <HI>Moro,</HI> where they eat Man's Fle&s;h; when he went to <HI>China,</HI> where it was Death for any to enter: So much did he love God and his Neighbour, but contemned and made him&s;elf mo&s;t de&s;picable; exerci|&s;ing all Severity imaginable upon his tender Fle&s;h. A Man that was &s;o no|bly born, of the Race of the Kings of <HI>Navarre,</HI> and honoured with the Ti|tle of <HI>Nuncius Apo&s;tolicus,</HI> kneeled to
<PB N="12" REF="19">every poor and ordinary Prie&s;t, to ki&s;s his Hand; making and deeming him|&s;elf a Slave to all: In the Ships, Inns, Ho&s;pitals &s;erving the very meane&s;t Beggar and ba&s;e&s;t Servants; looking after their Hor&s;es, &s;weeping their Chambers, wa&s;hing their dirty Linnen and Ve&s;&s;els; exerci&s;ing the lowe&s;t Of|fices, even clean&s;ing their Sores and Wounds, with that Charity and Vi|ctory of him&s;elf, as to &s;up up the Wa|ter, wherewith he had wa&s;hed one that had a Lepro&s;y, and another time to &s;uck out the Putrefaction and Mat|ter of a mo&s;t leath&s;ome Sore. I omit his other Vertues: He eat only once a Day, and then only a little burnt Rice, and often nothing for four, five, &s;ix and &s;even Days together: His Drink was Water; he was cloathed with a Hair-&s;hirt, wore one &s;ingle Garment of black Canvas, all patched: His Sleep was either at Land upon the hare Ground, or the Cables on Ship|board: His Penance &s;o rigid and au|&s;tere, that he fainted often thro' his Fa&s;tings and &s;evere Di&s;ciplines, where|with he core his tender and innocent Body If by Vertue you mean Miracles, he wrought infinite. In the Fire, &s;top|ping
<PB N="13" REF="19">it with his bare. Word, when a Hou&s;e was actually burning: In the Air, driving away the Plague from <HI>Ma+laca,</HI> with the &s;weet Savour of his dead Corps, and making it rain Stones and A&s;hes upon the City of <HI>Tolo,</HI> rebelling from Chri&s;t and the <HI>Portugue&s;e,</HI> which filling up the Ditches, and demoli&s;hing the Walls, forced them to a Surren|der. In the Water, allaying Tem|pe&s;ts, &s;weetning Salt Water by the Sign of the Cro&s;s, or dipping his Foot therein. In the Earth, cau&s;ing Earth|quakes. In his own Body, rai&s;ing it in the Air, pre&s;erving it incorrupt and in the Flower of Virginity, ever free from the lea&s;t Motion of Concupi|&s;cence. He &s;till lived, tho' among&s;t &s;o many Snares, Di&s;ea&s;es, Labours, Plagues and Poi&s;ons, even without the lea&s;t Infection or Hurt untouch'd, and after Death &s;ending out a mo&s;t odo|riferous Savour, even among&s;t quick Lime, and moi&s;t and wet Earth. The very Bea&s;ts obeyed him: a Lob|&s;ter brought to Shore his Cro&s;s, that had fallen into the Sea. The Devils feared him di&s;po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing all that were brought to him. In the I&s;land of <HI>Mo|ro,</HI> at his fir&s;t Sermon he preached
<PB N="14" REF="20">there; the Earth &s;haking and opening, hideous Cries and Shreiks or Devils were heard, that fled from their &s;o long inhabited. Dominions, in&s;omuch, that they appeared all &s;urrounded with Fire in the Air, to the People; crying out: You burn and torment us, <HI>Francis,</HI> you drive us from our Kingdom.</P>
<P>He was no le&s;s famous for the fifth Gift of curing Di&s;ea&s;es: Witne&s;s Fa|ther <HI>Francis Perez,</HI> Rector then of the College of <HI>Malaca,</HI> who upon the point of Ga&s;ping, was perfectly cured by St. <HI>Francis</HI>'s embracing him. He that he healed of his Wounds, by only carrying him upon his Back. That Le|per, who&s;e Sores he cured with only wa&s;hing them. Witne&s;s al&s;o the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Malaca,</HI> who de&s;iring a Summary of all the Miracles the Saint had wrought, and finding after &s;trict examination eight hundred only in his own Dio|ce&s;s, cea&s;ed to pro&s;ecute his fir&s;t thoughts, de&s;pairing ever to reckon them. Let the <HI>Indies</HI> confe&s;s and ac|knowledge his Power in this point, where, not he in his own Per&s;on only, but his Hair, Girdle, Beads, the very Pulpit he preached in, the Lamps that
<PB N="15" REF="20">burnt before his Shrine, the Water wherein was dipped only a Medal of his, even his very Shadow (which is yet more wonderful) cured many Di|&s;ea&s;es. Let him an&s;wer for him&s;elf; he can te&s;tifie, that in an in&s;tant, by Prayer, he was healed of tho&s;e mo&s;t dangerous Inci&s;ions, mortal of them|&s;elves, and beyond the Art of Man, as the Surgeons confe&s;&s;ed, cau&s;ed by the little Cords, wherewith out of too much Fervour he had girded his Thighs and Arms.</P>
<P>This is incon&s;iderable, if compared to his Power of rai&s;ing the Dead: Be|&s;ides many others, it is authentically proved, that five and twenty have obeyed his Call; &s;ome as they were carried to their Graves; others have been buried &s;everal Days, refre&s;hing hereby the Memory of Chri&s;t's own Actions. A Noble Gentil entreated him to come and rai&s;e his Daughter, now decea&s;ed, and receiving this An|&s;wer, that &s;he was alive, di&s;&s;atisfied left St. <HI>Francis,</HI> but was &s;oon com|forted by his Servants, that told him &s;he lived. A Lady (like <HI>Martha</HI>) la|menting her Lo&s;s, &s;aid; if you had been here my Daughter had not died:
<PB N="16" REF="21">Why, &s;aid the Saint; &s;he is not dead: Yes, replyed &s;he, and three Days bu|ried: The Saint accompanying her to the Grave, re&s;tored the Daughter alive to the afflicted and incredulous Mother.</P>
<P>His whole Life was nothing but an Exerci&s;e of the &s;ixth Gift; of helping the Needy: He was totally taken up in tending the Sick and the Poor, &s;uc|couring the Oppre&s;&s;ed in&s;tructing the Ignorant and Sinners, a&s;&s;i&s;ting all that were in Nece&s;&s;ity and Danger, either Spiritual or Temporal, with &s;o much Carefulne&s;s and Indu&s;trious Zeal, that none is able to expre&s;s it. One Saint <HI>Francis</HI> was not &s;ufficient to work ac|cording to the great Charity he bore to all: To the end he might help &s;eve|ral, he was actually pre&s;ent to each at the &s;ame time, in different Places: As when called upon by a Merchant, who &s;uffer'd Shipwrack; he obeyed and &s;taid with him three Days upon the Plank, till all the re&s;t of the Ship were dead, and then brought him &s;afe to Shore: And when, with the &s;ame miraculous Apparition, he &s;aved ten Men in a little Boat. Such was the Confidence Seamen had in his Pre&s;ence,
<PB N="17" REF="21">that the olde&s;t and mo&s;t &s;hivered Ships were reckon'd the mo&s;t &s;afe; and In|fidels them&s;elves for more Security, loaded all their Goods upon them, tho' with double Charges and Expences, whom he a&s;&s;i&s;ted even after his Death; for carrying his Body in a very totter|ed, un&s;afe and ill-rigged Ship, and running upon a Rock; the Seamen be|took them&s;elves to invoke the Saint's Aid; and pre&s;ently the Rock &s;plit in two, and opened a Pa&s;&s;age for the Ship: Whereupon now at Sea, he is the Patron of Mariners even among&s;t Infidels.</P>
<P>He was eminent for the Gift of Go|vernment and directing Souls, with no le&s;s Satisfaction of Seculars, than Re|ligious; Grateful always to the People, dear to Kings and Princes, winning the Hearts of all. St. <HI>Ignatius</HI> would have made him General of his whole Order: The King of <HI>Portugal</HI> reve|renced his Words as Commands, as did al&s;o the King of <HI>Bongo</HI> and <HI>Aman|gucci:</HI> The King of <HI>Travancor,</HI> called the great King, put out an Edict, com|manding all &s;hould obey the great Fa|ther (&s;o he called St. <HI>Francis</HI>) as the great King. He converted the King
<PB N="18" REF="22">of <HI>Tanor,</HI> and &s;everal others. Pope <HI>Paul</HI> the III. admired his Sanctity: <HI>Marcellus</HI> the II. de&s;iring to &s;ee him, &s;ent for him from the <HI>Indies</HI> to come to <HI>Rome;</HI> &s;o much did he win the Hearts of all far and near: The Gen|tils reverenced him, and even erected a Church in his Honour; where &s;ome wicked Fellows out of Contempt, having often &s;tole the Oyl from the Lamp and poured Water in its place; enraged to &s;ee the Week yet burn, and them&s;elves deluded, put it quite out, which as often lighted of it &s;elf, to their greater Confu&s;ion and Chri|&s;tians greater Comfort. Another time, being all alone, he met a whole Ar|my of Enemies that were Heathens, whom he frighted and put to flight with his bare Authority.</P>
<P>To conclude, his Gift of Tongues is no le&s;s wonderful than the former. They &s;poke in tho&s;e Countries a hundred different Languages, which St. <HI>Francis</HI> &s;poke, not only well, but al&s;o with great Facility and Eloquence, yet with the&s;e two Privileges; The fir&s;t, That preaching to Men of diffe|rent Nations, he was perfectly under|&s;toad by every one; The &s;econd, that
<PB N="19" REF="22">with one and the &s;ame Word and An|&s;wer, he &s;atisfied the Doubts and Que|&s;tions of many together, although concerning things, both hard and of different Matters. The&s;e and many other things we read of him in Hi&s;to|rians, and in the Proce&s;s of his Cano|nization. They add moreover, that he was not &s;o well known, or &s;o much called by the Name of <HI>Francis,</HI> as &s;ome|times of Angel or Prophet, &s;ometimes Rai&s;er of the Dead; now by that of Holy Father, other times of Great Father; but always and by all, with the Approbation of the Pope and Ap|plau&s;e of the whole World, he was called by the Name of Apo&s;tle.</P>
<P>To who&s;e Holy Interce&s;&s;ion and Pa|tronage, by the A&s;&s;i&s;tance of your Prayers, I commend my &s;elf, hoping you'll find his Holy Aid and A&s;&s;i&s;tance in all your Nece&s;&s;ities (if for the good of your Souls) as you have &s;een others before you: Ob&s;erve moreover (as it has been more exactly noted in the&s;e our latter Days) that none with Faith and Devotion, ever recommended them&s;elves unto him, that mi&s;&s;ed of their Aim, or at lea&s;t, did not re|ceive &s;omething more beneficial to
<PB N="20" REF="23">them&s;elves and their Souls Good, which was and is his only Scope in conferring Benefits. Let us comfort our &s;elves with what he told F. <HI>Mar|cellus Ma&s;trilli</HI> at <HI>Naples,</HI> when ap|pearing to him, he miraculou&s;ly cured him: <HI>Non parum &s;e po&s;&s;e in Paradi&s;o: That his Power was great in the Court of Heaven.</HI></P>
<DIV3 TYPE="subpart">
<HEAD>AN Adverti&s;ement Of the AUTHOR To the Devout Reader.</HEAD>
<P>SAint <HI>Francis Xaverius</HI> is always ready to help tho&s;e that devoutly implore his Aid in all their Nece&s;&s;ities of what kind &s;oever, and even to ob|tain of God mo&s;t miraculous Favours for them, as all Chri&s;tendom can te&s;ti|fie; and for this re&s;on, he is called the
<PB N="21" REF="23">new <HI>Thaumaturgus,</HI> that is, Worker of Miracles; which are &s;ufficient to fill whole Volumes, and we here in &s;hort will touch upon the Heads only of &s;ome few, to animate the Reader to have recour&s;e to this great Saint.</P>
<P><HI>Peter Veglio</HI> a <HI>Portugue&s;e</HI> Merchant, of a very loo&s;e Life, by means of an Alms he had once given in Nece&s;&s;ity, de&s;erved God's Mercy through the Saint's Interce&s;&s;ion, and was brought to Repentance, and relieved in all other Corporal Nece&s;&s;ities by the &s;ame Saint <HI>Francis,</HI> who likewi&s;e foretold him the Hour of his Death, which ac|cordingly happened.</P>
<P>He appeared to a Woman, that had been a long time &s;ick in <HI>Malavar,</HI> and promi&s;ing to &s;end her one that &s;hould hear her Confe&s;&s;ion, advi&s;ed her of her Death.</P>
<P>A Youth in the Ho&s;pital of <HI>Mozam|bichi</HI> raving, through the Sharpne&s;s of his Di&s;temper, by only the Touch of the Saint, was cured both in Body and Soul.</P>
<P>An <HI>Indian,</HI> by Profe&s;&s;ion a School|ma&s;ter, by Life a mo&s;t lewd debauch'd Wretch, was converted by the Saint's appearing to him, and obeyed that
<PB N="22" REF="24">gracious Call of God to a better Life.</P>
<P>Being de&s;ired by a Chri&s;tian Lady to di&s;po&s;&s;e&s;s a Youth that was tormen|ted by the Devil; as &s;oon as he entred the Hou&s;e the wicked Spirit quitted his Habitation; and the Youth, before ready to die, was thereupon re&s;tored to perfect Health of Body. An <HI>Indian</HI> Poet, that had accidentally lo&s;t his Eyes by Gun-powder, after many Years applying him&s;elf to the Saint, recovered his Sight better than before; which Miracle he publi&s;hed in Ver&s;e over all <HI>India.</HI></P>
<P>He healed a Leper with wa&s;hing his Sores, and drinking that filthy Mix|ture of Matter and Water.</P>
<P>An Idolatrous Woman that was bar|ren, at the Interce&s;&s;ion of St. <HI>Francis</HI> was ble&s;&s;ed by God with a Son, who &s;oon after dying, was re&s;tored to Life again by the Saint.</P>
<P>He rai&s;ed another that was drowned in a Well; and a third that died of the Plague.</P>
<P>In the Kingdom of <HI>Travancor</HI> he rai&s;ed one that had been buried; and another in <HI>Murar,</HI> as he was carried to his Grave.</P>
<PB N="23" REF="24">
<P>In <HI>Malaca,</HI> he brought to Life a Child that had been dead three Days; and in the &s;ame place the Son of one that was devoted to him.</P>
<P>In <HI>Japony</HI> he gave Life to a Daugh|ter of an Idolater. To two others in <HI>Manapar,</HI> and to &s;everal el&s;ewhere, as all the World can te&s;tifie, and the Tran&s;actions of his Canonization do authentically evidence.</P>
<P>He re&s;tored to a Seaman his Son, that had been lo&s;t &s;ix Days at Sea.</P>
<P>He filled a whole Sea with Fi&s;h, where none &s;carce could be found be|fore; and with his Ble&s;&s;ing, turned the &s;alt Water of the Sea into fre&s;h.</P>
<P>He obtained Rain to free a King from his Enemies that &s;urrounded him.</P>
<P>A de&s;perate Game&s;ter, that had lo&s;t all he had in the World, encouraged by the Saint to try to mend his Condi|tion, recovered his Lo&s;&s;es; and with|all obtained the Conver&s;ion of his Soul, which was the Saint's only Aim.</P>
<P>He &s;aved &s;everal Ships from peri&s;h|ing in Tempe&s;ts and Storms.</P>
<P>He was in &s;everal places at once.</P>
<P>The very Children whom he taught the Chri&s;tian Doctrine, with the Beads
<PB N="24" REF="25">and Medals of St. <HI>Francis,</HI> ca&s;t out Devils, and wrought many Miracles.</P>
<P>His very Hand-writing cured the Sick, and his Pictures &s;topped and quenched a great Fire.</P>
<P>The Oil that burns in the Lamps be|fore the Saints Body at <HI>Goa,</HI> has cured many infirm and &s;ick of all Di&s;ea&s;es.</P>
<P>A Chri&s;tian Lady, by means of a Cro&s;s, that the Saint had erected in <HI>Amboino</HI> to be honoured, obtained, in time of a great Drought plentiful Rain, which the Idolatrous Women were not able to obtain from their Idols with their enchanted Witch|craft.</P>
<P>The Saint appeared to a Merchant, that had recommended him&s;elf to him, and had a pair of Beads of the Saints with him, five Days after he had &s;uffe|red Shipwrack, and brought him &s;afe to Shore; and &s;tayed with another three Days upon the &s;ame Plank, and at la&s;t landed him &s;afe.</P>
<P>God ble&s;&s;ed &s;everal barren Women with I&s;&s;ue at this Saint's Interce&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P>An <HI>Indian</HI> in <HI>Punicale,</HI> that had three Daughtets, prayed to the Saint to beg of God the Ble&s;&s;ing of three Sons, which &s;he obtained. We &s;hall
<PB N="25" REF="25">weary our &s;elves in rehear&s;ing all the Wonders wrought by this great Saint; as the Vicar General of <HI>God</HI> owned of him&s;elf, after he had reckoned up eight hundred.</P>
<P>We read of an hundred authentical|ly approved of in the Proce&s;s of his Canonization. The Miracles that have been wrought at <HI>Potami,</HI> in the King|dom of <HI>Naples</HI> by a Picture of his, are &s;ufficient to fill a whole Volume.</P>
<P>The Church therefore, with good rea&s;on, &s;ays of him on his Fea&s;t: <HI>This Saint, &s;o bountiful, &s;o gracious and &s;o loving, &s;hines over all the World by his mo&s;t re&s;plendent Miracles.</HI> Who will be no le&s;s ready and willing to a&s;&s;i&s;t you in all your Nece&s;&s;ities; if you amend your Life, and reform your Manners; the Saint aiming by the&s;e temporal Favours he be&s;toweth, at nothing el&s;e, than the Salvation of every ones Soul, which God of his infinite Mercy grant to all, by the In|terce&s;&s;ion of St. <HI>Francis Xaverius.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="subpart">
<PB N="26" REF="26">
<HEAD>To the Devout Clients of the Glorious Apo&s;tle of the <HI>Indies,</HI> St. <HI>Francis Xaverius.</HI></HEAD>
<P>HEre is laid before you (Clients of this Great <HI>Xaverius</HI>) a little parcel of the innumerable Actions and mo&s;t Heroick Enterprizes of St. <HI>Francis,</HI> which he took in hand, only to the greater Honour of God, and for the Good of his Neighbour.</P>
<P>If you like this &s;mall Compendium, and find your Heart enflamed with a de&s;ire of more, betake your &s;elf to the Hi&s;tory of his Life copiou&s;ly written by many; but yet far &s;hort of what he did.</P>
<P>Tho&s;e that de&s;ire to honour this Saint, by imitating him, and to profit them&s;elves thereby, mu&s;t reflect upon that Saying of St. <HI>Augu&s;tin:</HI> That, <HI>Non pigeat imitari quod delectat celebrare;</HI> that is, <HI>They mu&s;t not be a&s;hamed to imitate, what they delight to honour.</HI></P>
<P>The Saints are willing to find in us &s;ome Similitude of their Vertues, which they have practi&s;ed before us in this world, to the end they may be the ea&s;ier
<PB N="27" REF="26">&s;tirred up to obtain our Petitions. For which Rea&s;on, here are Ten Vertues of this Saint allotted for Ten Fridays: And although this Glorious Saint was admirable in all the Vertues of a mo&s;t &s;ublime Chri&s;tian Perfection, yet the&s;e &s;eem more particularly nece&s;&s;ary, and al&s;o in &s;ome &s;ort fitter to be imitated, which we &s;hall here &s;et down.</P>
<P>You &s;hall every <HI>Friday</HI> read one with Reflection, and purpo&s;e to imi|tate him therein, and beg it of God, by the Merits of this Saint for your &s;elf, not forgetting me; whereunto it will help very much, to re&s;olve from one <HI>Friday</HI> to another to practi&s;e more or le&s;s the Vertue propo&s;ed in the former Con&s;ideration, according to the Nece&s;&s;ity you find thereof in your Soul: By which frequent Acts you will greatly facilitate and advance your Spiritual Profit.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="subpart">
<PB N="28" REF="27">
<HEAD>General Adverti&s;ements, For tho&s;e that de&s;ire to honour St. <HI>Xaverius,</HI> by imitating the&s;e his Vertues.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. BE Devout to the Holy Crucifix.</P>
<P N="2">2. Pray for the Conver&s;ion of Infidels.</P>
<P N="3">3. Pray for the Souls in Purgatory.</P>
<P N="4">4. Be a Lover of Cha&s;tity.</P>
<P N="5">5. According to your Condition endeavour to help your Neighbour, as well in Spirituals, by teaching the Chri&s;tian Doctrine to Children and ig|norant People, hindering their Sins, exhorting them to do well, and giving good Example; as in Temporals, by giving Alms, vi&s;iting the Sick and Ho|&s;pitals, defending the Poor, and help|ing them in Nece&s;&s;ity.</P>
<P N="6">6. Confe&s;s often.</P>
<P N="7">7. Examine your Con&s;cience daily.</P>
<P N="8">8. Reflect often upon tho&s;e Words: <HI>Quid prode&s;t Homini, &s;i univer&s;um Mundum lucretur, Animae vero &s;uae De|trimentum patiatur?</HI> That is, <HI>What
<PB N="29" REF="27">doth it avail a Man to gain the whole World with the lo&s;s of his own Soul?</HI></P>
<P N="9">9. Return Good to him that has di&s;pleas'd, or injured you.</P>
<P N="10">10. Promote the Devotion to the Saint.</P>
<P><HI>Antiph.</HI> Well fare thee, <HI>&amp;c. with Ver&s;. And Re&s;p.</HI> as before, <HI>p.</HI> 13.</P>
<DIV4 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>The Prayer.</HEAD>
<P>LOrd God who ha&s;t vouch&s;afed by the Preaching and Miracles of St. <HI>Francis Xaverius,</HI> to joyn unto thy Church the Countries or the <HI>In|dies:</HI> Grant propitiou&s;ly, we be&s;eech thee, that reverencing his Glorious Merits, we may al&s;o imitate his Exam|ple. Through Chri&s;t our Lord. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>A Prayer to the five Wounds of our Saviour, much u&s;ed by St. <HI>Francis.</HI></HEAD>
<P>O Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, by the five Wounds thou wa&s;t plea&s;ed to receive upon the Cro&s;s for Love of us: Help thy Servants, <HI>N. N.</HI> whom thou ha&s;t redeemed with thy precious Blood.</P>
<PB N="30" REF="28">
<P>To the greater Glory of God, and Salvation of Souls. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
<P>Through the Interce&s;&s;ion of St. <HI>Francis Xaverivs.</HI></P>
<P>O God I love thee, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> p. 23.</P>
</DIV4>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="subpart">
<HEAD>Ten Motives To excite all to a Devotion to St. <HI>Francis Xaverius.</HI></HEAD>
<P N="1">1. HIS indefatigable Zeal, ac|companied with an undaun|ted Courage in undertaking, &s;uffering, and overcoming all Difficulties for the Good of Souls.</P>
<P N="2">2. His &s;ingular Affability, where|with he accomodated him&s;elf to all &s;orts of Per&s;ons, to gain them to God.</P>
<P N="3">3. His total Contempt and Ab&s;tra|ction from all things of this World.</P>
<P N="4">4. That great Fire of Divine Love, which betraying it &s;elf &s;o often, even in his very Countenance, &s;hewed how full his Soul was of God.</P>
<P N="5">5. His living and dying a pure Virgin.</P>
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<P N="6">6. His extraordinary excelling in all kind of Vertues and Gifts of God.</P>
<P N="7">7. The great Number of Souls he converted, which were above two hundred thou&s;and.</P>
<P N="8">8. His Facility in working Miracles alive and dead.</P>
<P N="9">9. The extraordinary Favours he &s;heweth to tho&s;e that are devoted to him.</P>
<P N="10">10. The common Experience, where|by we &s;ee that who&s;oever &s;eriou&s;ly re|commends him&s;elf to St. <HI>Francis,</HI> ei|ther obtains his Reque&s;t, or Comfort and Strength to conform to God's Will, if he has not his Petition granted (becau&s;e not expedient for the Good of his Soul,</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="subpart">
<HEAD>An Explication of the Devotion of Ten <HI>Fridays,</HI> in Honour of St. <HI>Francis Xaverius,</HI> and what is to be done therein.</HEAD>
<P>THis Devotion is in&s;tituted to ob|tain &s;ome &s;ingular Favour of this Saint; who as heretofore on Earth, &s;o now in Heaven, is all Bowels of Mercy towards tho&s;e that invoke him,
<PB N="32" REF="29">and does mo&s;t graciou&s;ly and abun|dantly favour his Devout Clients.</P>
<P>Ten <HI>Fridays</HI> are ordained, and, if conveniently, without Intermi&s;&s;ion; in each of which, he that will perform this Devotion, mu&s;t Confe&s;s and Com|municate; and before &s;ome Altar, or Picture of the Saint, or where el&s;e mo&s;t convenient, mu&s;t al&s;o &s;ay Ten <HI>Pater No&s;ters,</HI> and Ten <HI>Ave Maria's,</HI> and Ten <HI>Gloria Patri's,</HI> &amp;c. offering to God the Merits of this Saint, to obtain the Favour he de&s;ires.</P>
<P>In this, two things are to be ob&s;er|ved: The <HI>Fir&s;t</HI> is, That before one applies him&s;elf to this Devotion, he mu&s;t purifie his Intention concerning the Favour he petitions, be it Temporal, or Spiritual; pretending nothing el&s;e but the Glory of God and the Salva|tion of his own Soul; for &s;eeing this was the only Aim of this Saint, whil&s;t he lived in this World, &s;o it will be a more efficacious means now in Heaven, to move him to favour us with his In|terce&s;&s;ion to his Divine Maje&s;ty, to obtain us our Reque&s;t.</P>
<P>The <HI>Second</HI> is, That none of the&s;e Devotions, omitted either in part or whole, have any Obligation, even of
<PB N="33" REF="29">a venial Sin; &s;o that you may continue them or no, when begun, without any &s;cruple; and if Bu&s;ine&s;s permits you not to perform Ten <HI>Fridays</HI> in order, go on with them at your lei|&s;ure.</P>
<P><HI>Friday</HI> is a&s;&s;igned in Memory of the Saint's dying on that Day in the I&s;land of <HI>Sanciano:</HI> The Number is in Ho|nour of the Ten Years he laboured in the <HI>Indies</HI> for God's greater Ho|nour, and the Good of Souls; and the &s;ame is to be under&s;tood of the ten <HI>Pater's</HI> and <HI>Aves</HI> and <HI>Gloria Patri</HI>'s.</P>
<P>To the end this Devotion may have more Fruit, and promote the Exerci&s;e of &s;ome Vertue, &s;ome Con&s;iderations are here &s;et down taken out of the Life of the Saint; one for every <HI>Fri|day,</HI> which is to be read on that Day, by tho&s;e that practi&s;e this Devotion; &s;tirring them&s;elves up to a lively Imitation of the Saint. To every Con&s;ideration there is annexed a Colloquy, in form of a Prayer, beg|ging of the Saint &s;ome Spiritual Grace &s;uitable to the foregoing Con&s;idera|tion, and profitable for the good of their Souls; wherein, with, a little Labour, they may &s;pend their time with much Profit.</P>
<DIV4 TYPE="section">
<PB N="34" REF="30">
<HEAD>The CONSIDERATION For the Fir&s;t <HI>FRIDAY.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Upon the &s;ingular Purity of Mind, and Body of St. <HI>Francis Xaverius.</HI></HEAD>
<P>BY Purity of Mind, is not only under&s;tood Innocency of Life, but al&s;o a right Intention of doing all our Actions purely for the Glory of God, and for no other end.</P>
<P>How great was this Purity in St. <HI>Francis!</HI> The &s;ole Aim of his immen&s;e Labours was the Glory of God; not &s;eeking any thing el&s;e, either in his Voyages by the mo&s;t dangerous Seas of <HI>Europe, A&s;ia,</HI> and <HI>Africa,</HI> or Jour|neys by Land; I may &s;ay through both Worlds, or in his mo&s;t trou|ble&s;ome Preaching, but that God &s;hould be known prai&s;ed and glorified. In a word&punc; all he &s;uffered (which as <HI>Francis Man&s;illa,</HI> a great while Com|panion to the aint &s;aid, is not to be conceived how much it was) was only
<PB N="35" REF="30">for the Glory of God, never regar|ding any the lea&s;t private Intere&s;t.</P>
<P>The Reward of his Labours was a mo&s;t &s;ublime degree of Sanctity, which he arrived unto, whereby af|terwards he de&s;erved &s;uch a Glory in Heaven, and received &s;o many Favours here on Earth.</P>
<P>And our Saviour, to &s;hew how plea&s;ing his Labours were to him, wrought that continual Miracle; that in his Father's Hou&s;e a Crucifix &s;weat Blood, every time the Saint was in any difficult Enterprize, or Suffering.</P>
<P>Examin your &s;elf, Devout Soul, and &s;ee what Intention you have in all your Actions; if to plea&s;e God only, or el&s;e for &s;ome other private Intere&s;t: If the fir&s;t, give God thanks, and &s;tir your &s;elf up to Per&s;everance: If the &s;econd, be &s;orry and purpo&s;e an Amendment</P>
<P>But by Purity of Body, is chiefly under&s;tood the Vertue of Cha&s;tity, which retrenches all &s;en&s;ual unlawful Plea&s;ures.</P>
<P>He excelled &s;o much in this Vertue, that as long as he lived he pre&s;erved the Lilly of his Virginity un&s;tained, and therefore is generally painted with
<PB N="36" REF="31">one. And which is yet more to be admired, he pre&s;erved it mo&s;t pure, even living in the World, among&s;t the Delights and Enticements of his own Hou&s;e, in the Heat of his young blood, and Liberty of the Students of the Univer&s;ity of <HI>Paris,</HI> where he lived, and even in the mo&s;t licentious and loo&s;e Manners of the <HI>Mahometans</HI> and Gentils, with whom he conver&s;ed &s;o many Years.</P>
<P>God rewarded this his Angelical Purity with the Incorruption of his Body after his Death, and with in|finite other Miracles. For <HI>George Alvarez</HI> having buried it in quick Lime, that he might the ea&s;ier carry his Bones from <HI>Sanciano</HI> (the I&s;land where he died) to <HI>God,</HI> after three Months found it as entire as if newly buried; and which is more, the body being cut, bled as fre&s;h as if alive.</P>
<P>This Miracle extended it &s;elf al&s;o to his Cloaths, which were pre&s;erved from receiving any Harm from the Lime, which naturally would have con&s;umed both.</P>
<P>The Body al&s;o &s;ent out a mo&s;t fragrant Odour, far &s;urpa&s;&s;ing any in this World, The carrying the body
<PB N="37" REF="31">through <HI>Malaca,</HI> freed it from a mo&s;t de&s;perate and infectious Plague: And when it was brought to <HI>God,</HI> the Miracle of its Incorruption did no le&s;s continue; for &s;everal times it bled afre&s;h, and even to this day (being now above a hundred Years) cea&s;es not, the Body being as incorrupt as ever. Every one may ea&s;ily &s;ee how he behaveth him&s;elf in this Vertue, according to his State and Condition.</P>
<DIV5 TYPE="subsection">
<HEAD>The COLLOQUY To St. <HI>Francis Xaverius.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To obtain Purity of Body and Soul.</HEAD>
<P>MO&s;t Glorious Apo&s;tle of the Ea&s;t, mo&s;t pure in Body and Soul; I, a mo&s;t mi&s;erable Creature, with all Humility have recour&s;e to you; begging you would by your Interce&s;&s;ion obtain for me &s;uch a pure Intention in all my Actions, that I may never aim therein at any thing el&s;e but the greater Glory of God, and &s;uch a pure Cha&s;tity, that
<PB N="38" REF="32">neither in Thought, much le&s;s in Word, or Deed, I may ever di&s;plea&s;e the mo&s;t pure Eyes of our good God. Amen. <HI>Through the Interce&s;&s;ion of St.</HI> Francis Xaverius, <HI>God grant me Purity of Mind and Body.</HI></P>
</DIV5>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>The CONSIDERATION For the Second <HI>FRIDAY.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Upon the profound Humility of St. <HI>Francis Xaverius.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ACcording to St. <HI>Bernard,</HI> Humi|lity is a Contempt of ones own Worth; according to St. <HI>Thomas,</HI> it is a Vertue whereby a man knowing his own Defects and Imperfections, keeps him&s;elf within his own Bounds, in a low Degree.</P>
<P>St. <HI>Francis</HI> pracrti&s;ed this Vertue in a mo&s;t perfect manner towards all &s;orts of Per&s;ons: For tho' he was born of the Race of the Kings of <HI>Navarre,</HI> by Office <HI>Nuncius Apo&s;toli|cus,</HI> and be&s;ides, endowed with mo&s;t rare Talents of Nature and Learning, yet he humbled him&s;elf below all,
<PB N="39" REF="32">whenever it was for the greater Glory of God. He writ to St. <HI>Ignatius</HI> his Superior always upon his Knees.</P>
<P>He an&s;wered a Friend of his, who examined him concerning a dead Child he had rai&s;ed in the Coa&s;t of <HI>Comorino,</HI> with all Humility, as it were con|founded: I rai&s;e the Dead to Life? And can you believe &s;uch a thing of me, &s;uch a great Sinner as I am?</P>
<P>In a word, all his Life is full of Examples of his mo&s;t profound Hu|mility; and was held for &s;uch over all <HI>Spain, Italy, France, Portuga, In|dia, Japony,</HI> and innumerable other Countries, wherein he exerci&s;ed this Vertue in diver&s;e Ways, and in a mo&s;t perfect Degree with the poor Pri&s;oners, Children, Slaves, Souldiers, Seamen and what not? And this in a mo&s;t abject and contemptible man|ner; choo&s;ing for his Lodging the Ho&s;pitals, for his Cloths cour&s;e Can|vas, and for his Meat Dry Bread, Burnt Rice, and the like.</P>
<P>But God ordered it &s;o that the more he humbled and deba&s;ed him&s;elf, the more he &s;hould be e&s;teemed by others.</P>
<P>Hence it was Pope <HI>Paul</HI> the third admired him, and that he was ho|noured
<PB N="40" REF="33">and re&s;pected by the King of <HI>Portugal</HI> in an extraordinary man|ner, and no le&s;s by the Vice Roys of <HI>India,</HI> by Governours of Towns and Countries, and by all Per&s;ons of Note. The <HI>Portugue&s;e,</HI> even in <HI>Por|tugal,</HI> gave him the Name of Apo&s;tle; the Gentiles &s;tuck not to give him Di|vine Titles; the <HI>Mahometans</HI> held him for a great Prophet; many Idolatrous Kings called him Great Father; whole Towns and Countries came to meet him: The Mi&s;&s;ioners of the Society, that were de&s;igned for the <HI>Indies,</HI> thought it a Paradi&s;e to be &s;ent to never &s;o hard Enterprizes, if Saint <HI>Francis</HI> were but there; &s;o little did they think of them&s;elves to enjoy him. <HI>Gonzalo Fernandez</HI> crept upon his Knees to St. <HI>Francis,</HI> who knock'd at the Door to &s;peak with him: <HI>Angero,</HI> a <HI>Japonian,</HI> came from the farthe&s;t part of the Ea&s;t to the I&s;land of <HI>Mo|lucche,</HI> above two thou&s;and Miles, only to treat with the Saint about the Affairs of his Soul: After the Saint's Death, a new Convertite &s;ailed from <HI>Goa</HI> to the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Xavier</HI> in <HI>Spain,</HI> above fifteen thou&s;and Miles only to &s;ee and reverence the Cham|ber
<PB N="41" REF="33">St. <HI>Francis</HI> was born in. You &s;ee how true God's Promi&s;e is, and how much it is verified in this great Saint.<NOTE N="*" PLACE="foot"><HI>Luc.</HI> 18.14.</NOTE> <HI>He that humbleth him&s;elf, &s;hall be exalted.</HI></P>
<P>Let every one reflect upon this, and &s;ee how he behaveth him&s;elf according to his State, with his Supe|riors, with his Equals, and with his Inferiors: Let him &s;ee if he carries him&s;elf as a good Chri&s;tian ought, with Charity and Submi&s;&s;ion, or rather, with Pride and Haughtine&s;s; and ac|cordingly let him purpo&s;e to per&s;e|ver in the good, or mend what is ami&s;s.</P>
<DIV5 TYPE="subsection">
<HEAD>The COLLOQUY To St. <HI>Francis Xaverius.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To obtain Chri&s;tian Humility.</HEAD>
<P>MO&s;t humble St. <HI>Francis!</HI> I mo&s;t earne&s;tly de&s;ire, you would beg of Almighty God for me Strength and Courage to overcome my Pride,
<PB N="42" REF="34">and imitate your Humility; where|by I may offend no body, either in Thought, Word or Deed, out of Pride or Contempt: I purpo&s;e on my part, to u&s;e all po&s;&s;ible Diligence thereunto, that I may glorifie God, and edifie my Neighbour. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
</DIV5>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>The CONSIDERATION For the Third <HI>FRIDAY.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Upon the Penance and Mortifica|tion of St. <HI>Francis Xaverius.</HI></HEAD>
<P>PEnance here is not taken for a part of the Sacrament, but it is a Vertue that embraces hard Difficul|ties and painful Afflictions, for Sa|tisfaction for Sins committed again&s;t God.</P>
<P>Mo&s;t &s;harp were the Mortifications this Holy Apo&s;tle u&s;ed and inflicted upon him&s;elf; be&s;ides the in&s;upporta|ble Sufferings annexed to his Apo&s;to|&s;tolical Charge and Office; His Fa&s;ts were very frequent; and, had not God particularly in&s;pired him to un|dertake
<PB N="43" REF="34">them, might be called mo&s;t indi&s;creet; for he pa&s;&s;ed three, four, and &s;ometimes &s;even Days without the lea&s;t Su&s;tenance; tho' his ordinary Diet might be ju&s;tly called a perpe+tual Fa&s;t; as hath been gathered out of one of his Letters to a Friend of his, wherein he confe&s;&s;es, that he li|ved more like a Bird than a Man, with nothing but water and Rice. His Watchings were continual; &s;pen|ding the be&s;t part of the Night in Prayer: His Sleep and Re&s;t (which he even unwillingly allowed to Na|ture) were rather to torment, than ea&s;e him; for at Sea he lay upon the Cables, and at Land upon the hard Ground, or a Bed of Cords. He wore Day and Night a conti|nual Hair-Shirt. He girded him&s;elf with Chains, riveted with Points of Iron: He di&s;ciplin'd him&s;elf to Blood with Whips armed with Rowels of Steel. His Eyes were in a perpetual Bath of Tears for the Offences he knew were committed by others a|gain&s;t God. Confe&s;&s;ing him&s;elf always a Sinner, and being both Confe&s;&s;or and Penitent, he &s;hared with others in their Penances, and undertook to
<PB N="44" REF="35">&s;atisfie for them him&s;elf; witne&s;s that Heroick Act upon the Coa&s;t of <HI>Ca|nanor,</HI> where to move a Sinner to Sorrow for his inveterate Sins, he re|tired him&s;elf into a Grove hard by, and there cruelly tore his Body with Whips, till &s;uch Quantity of Blood trickled down his Back, as provoked the Sinner to abundant Tears, and a true Compunction; and &s;o he recon|ciled him to God.</P>
<P>But what Wonder he &s;hould practi&s;e the&s;e mo&s;t cruel Mortifications in this his Office of Apo&s;tle; &s;eeing, from the fir&s;t Moment he begun a perfect Li&s;e, he accu&s;tomed him&s;elf to mo&s;t rigid Au&s;terities? Who is ignorant, that to &s;atisfie God for his too great Nicene&s;s and Sprucene&s;s in Cloths, and Nimblene&s;s in Dancing, he tied his Thighs &s;o &s;trait with little Cords, that he was not able to breath; &s;o far had he let them eat into his Fle&s;h, that they could not be &s;een; where|of he mu&s;t nece&s;&s;arily have died, had not God mo&s;t miraculou&s;ly cured him, whom he had de&s;igned for the Apo&s;tle of the new World. Every one knows that in the Ho&s;pital of <HI>Vicenza,</HI> to get a total Victory over him&s;elf, he
<PB N="45" REF="35">lucked the Corruption and Matter of a mo&s;t pe&s;tiferous and loath&s;ome Im|po&s;tume: And before he &s;aid his fir&s;t Ma&s;s, he &s;pent forty Days in mo&s;t rigid Penance, &s;hut up in a little Grot of Mount <HI>Cel&s;o,</HI> within the Confines of <HI>Padoua.</HI> In fine, the&s;e Au&s;terities were &s;o dear to him, that he never left them off to his dying Day; &s;o that with good rea&s;on, he might &s;ay with St. <HI>Paul:</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="foot"><HI>Cor.</HI> 15.31.</NOTE> <HI>I die daily:</HI> and * <HI>for thy &s;ake we are mortified all the Day.</HI></P>
<P>As God is a mo&s;t ju&s;t Rewarder of the lea&s;t thing done for his &s;ake, &s;o he did abundantly recompence and &s;weeten the&s;e Pains of St. <HI>Francis</HI> with Infinite and Divine Con&s;olations; which his Heart not being able to bear, they appeared even in his very Coun|tenance; &s;eeming to be always en|flamed, yet always cheerful and plea|&s;ant, even in the mo&s;t difficult En|terprizes; &s;hewing to the World, that he was really in his Heart a Citizen of Heaven. This abundance of Heavenly Comfort, forced him to cry out; <HI>Satis e&s;t Domine, Satis e&s;t:</HI><NOTE PLACE="foot"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 43. ver. 23.</NOTE>
<PB N="46" REF="36"><HI>It is enough, Lord; it is enough:</HI> Beg|ging that an end might be put to tho&s;e Delights, his Heart of Fle&s;h was uncapable to endure. That Po&s;ture of opening his Brea&s;t, which he was often &s;een in, was only to mitigate a little that Divine Heat of the Love of God, that without Intermi&s;&s;ion, burnt and con&s;umed his Heart. I'll omit tho&s;e Exta&s;ies or Rapts where|in his Body was often &s;een lifted from the Ground; and tho&s;e frequent Rays of Light, that &s;o environed him, that he &s;eemed rather a Sera|phim of Divine Love than a Man of Earth. <HI>Thomas Fernandez</HI> found him often in <HI>Manapar</HI> of <HI>Pi&s;caria</HI> eleva|ted a Cubit from the Ground, with his Face &s;urrounded with Rays, and his Eyes &s;parkling like Stars. Many Eye-witne&s;&s;es atte&s;ted, that at Ma&s;s and Communion in <HI>Malaca</HI> and <HI>Me|liapor,</HI> he was &s;everal times &s;een quite alienated from his Sen&s;es, and elevated in the Air. The&s;e are &s;ome Tokens of tho&s;e Divine Con&s;olations this Angel of Heaven enjoyed here upon Earth in Reward of the Suffe|rings he undertook for the Love of God.</P>
<PB N="47" REF="36">
<P>What have we now to &s;ay for our &s;elves mi&s;erable and tender Creatures that &s;o much &s;hun all occa&s;ions of &s;uffering, even when our &s;tate of life and condition require it? How igno|rant are we of the true good! It is no wonder divine con&s;olations are &s;o &s;carce with us, &s;ince we fly all Trouble and Difficulties, that might el&s;e in &s;ome manner de&s;erve, and draw down tho&s;e Favours upon us.</P>
<DIV5 TYPE="subsection">
<HEAD>The COLLOQUY To St <HI>Francis Xaverius:</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To obtain a de&s;ire of Penance and Mortification.</HEAD>
<P>O Mo&s;t Mortified Apo&s;tle! Be|hold at your Feet the greate&s;t Sinner of the World, and yet the mo&s;t delicate; the mo&s;t de&s;erving of Penance, and yet the greate&s;t &s;hunner of it, who Implores your Help that he may begin to love that once, which he ought always to perform, and thereby &s;atisfy God for his Sins. You, O Dear Saint! Mo&s;t Innocent,
<PB N="48" REF="37">and yet &s;o generous an Embracer of Au&s;terity, obtain for me of my &s;uffering Saviour your Spirit, that I may &s;et my Affection more thereon, and thereby dimini&s;hing the pains of Purgatory due to my Sins, I may the &s;ooner come to enjoy with you the Beatifical Vi&s;ion. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
</DIV5>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>The CONSIDERATION For the Fourth <HI>FRIDAY.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Upon the Patience of St. <HI>Francis Xaverius.</HI></HEAD>
<P>PAtience is a Vertue that Strengthens our Mind again&s;t all Difficulties, that might otherwi&s;e deter us from our Duty.</P>
<P>This Holy Apo&s;tle was &s;o abun|dantly Endowed with this Vertue that he might ju&s;tly &s;ay with St. <HI>Paul,</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="foot">2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 6.4.</NOTE> <HI>Let us exhibit our &s;elves as the Mi|ni&s;ters of God in much Patience.</HI> Tru|ly it was very nece&s;&s;ary in tho&s;e his long and mo&s;t Trouble&s;ome Sick|ne&s;&s;es;
<PB N="49" REF="37">as when De&s;titute of all Hu|man Comfort he was obliged in <HI>Vi|cenza</HI> to lye in the &s;ame Bed with a mo&s;t filthy and loath&s;ome Sick man; and in his Journey from <HI>Amangucci</HI> to <HI>Meaco,</HI> to live only upon Wa|ter and Burnt Rice; and in the I&s;land of <HI>Sanciano,</HI> to dye totally abandoned by all. Yet the&s;e incon|veniences were nothing to tho&s;e he &s;uffered in changing &s;o often to &s;o contrary Climats, from one exce&s;s to another, accommodating him&s;elf to the Barbarous Incivilities of Peo|ple &s;o different from the <HI>Europeans</HI> in Life and Manners: In the Exce&s;|&s;ive Heats of the Torrid Zone, in the Incommodities of Sea Voyages, in Tempe&s;ts and Dangers of Shipwrack. What &s;hall I &s;ay of Per&s;ecutions from Men and Devils? He was often in the Publick Market-places laught at by the People, &s;ought for to Death by the Gentiles and <HI>Bonzi</HI> their Prie&s;ts, as a De&s;troyer of their Idols and Gods: mo&s;t Shamefully and Un|humanly reviled by Governours of Towns and Countries, Captains of Ships, Soldiers and Seamen; and even by Chri&s;tians (among&s;t whom
<PB N="50" REF="38">&s;ome bad are always to be found) utterly hated, as a reformer of their manners and wicked Lives: finally left and betray'd mo&s;t ungratefully by tho&s;e he had been mo&s;t Beneficial unto. The Devils al&s;o &s;et upon him divers times, and once beat him mo&s;t unmercifully in <HI>Meliapor,</HI> as he prayed all Night at the Tomb of St. <HI>Thomas</HI> the Apo&s;tle; and they al|ways Per&s;ecuted him, as their Sworn and mo&s;t Bitter Enemy.</P>
<P>Yet what did St. <HI>Francis</HI> do? What would you a mo&s;t Delicate, Nice, and Cowardly Creature have done? Quitted what you had under|taken, fainted and yeilded at the fir&s;t &s;eeming Difficulty, and fled back? No, no, quite contrary; he like an undaunted Soldier not the lea&s;t &s;truck with the&s;e Oppo&s;itions, &s;tood his Ground, and Faithfully Di&s;charged him&s;elf of his Apo&s;tolical Duty and Commi&s;&s;ion; witne&s;s his Journeys in his Ten Years, amounting to an hundred Thou&s;and Miles, equivalent to almo&s;t five times the whole Cir|cumference of the Earth; wherein he aboli&s;h'd innumerable Super&s;titi|ons, Rooted out many Abu&s;es, Cor|rected
<PB N="51" REF="38">many Wicked and Inveterate Manners, threw down Idols, Con|verted Innumerable Souls, and Bap|tized with his own Hand above a Million and Two Hundred Thou&s;and, Per&s;ons. Worthy Fruits indeed of the invincible Patience of St. <HI>Xa|verius.</HI></P>
<P>But what do I, mi&s;erable Creature? How do I bear even the lea&s;t things that happen daily? How ought I to be a&s;ham'd, that have not the Heart to Suffer the lea&s;t Word, Check, or Cro&s;s An&s;wer from another, which makes me &s;o often neglect my Duty to God, and fail &s;o frequently in the Employment I am in? I am truly Confounded &s;eeing with how little Patience I might &s;o much Promote God's Glory, and that failing in the fir&s;t, I am &s;o Notoriou&s;ly Deficient in the Latter.</P>
<DIV5 TYPE="subsection">
<PB N="52" REF="39">
<HEAD>The COLLOQUY To St <HI>Francis Xaverius:</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To obtain the Vertue of Patience.</HEAD>
<P>YOU &s;ee mo&s;t Patient Apo&s;tle, the ba&s;ene&s;s of my Heart, &s;o &s;treight and narrow, as not to dare to open it-&s;elf to receive the lea&s;t Cro&s;s, or Adver&s;ity, but pre&s;ently it yields and Faints. Yet my Cro&s;&s;es are not like yours, which were &s;o hard and Painful, but &s;light Troubles, and &s;mall Difficulties, and yet I am mo&s;t impatient in all occurrences. O mo&s;t Patient <HI>Xaverius!</HI> Obtain of the Divine Goodne&s;s for me your Spirit of Patience, that manfully re|&s;i&s;ting all Difficulties annexed to my State and Condition, I may Faith|fully comply with God's Holy Will. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
</DIV5>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 TYPE="section">
<PB N="53" REF="39">
<HEAD>The CONSIDERATION For the Fifth <HI>FRIDAY.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Upon the Continual Prayer of St. <HI>Francis Xaverius.</HI></HEAD>
<P>PRayer is an act of Religion where|by we have recour&s;e to God, begging what is fit we &s;hould ask of him. St. <HI>John Dama&s;cen</HI> calls it an a&s;cent of our Minds to God, whereby we treat and Conver&s;e with him.</P>
<P>St. <HI>Francis</HI>'s Prayer was continu|al, fulfilling that,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="foot">St. <HI>Luc.</HI> 18.1.</NOTE> <HI>It behoveth al|ways to Pray, and never to cea&s;e:</HI> And that of the Apo&s;tle<NOTE N="*" PLACE="foot"><HI>Phil.</HI> 3.20.</NOTE> <HI>Our Con|ver&s;ation is in Heaven.</HI> Altho' he was always United to God, yet he had &s;ome particular times alotted for it; &s;pending the Night chiefly in continual Prayer and Contemplati|on; never allowing him&s;elf above two or three Hours for natural Re&s;t. On Ship-board for Prayer he pre|fixed from Midnight till Morning,
<PB N="54" REF="40">whereupon the Seamen u&s;ed to &s;ay, the Ship Sails &s;ecurely, &s;eeing Father <HI>Francis</HI> &s;tands Sentinel, In <HI>Manapar</HI> he was at &s;everal Hours in the Night ob&s;erved by his Ho&s;t, and &s;ound always upon his Knees at the Foot of a Crucifix. But what &s;ort of Prayer was it? Worthy indeed of that Seraphical Heart all Burning and &s;et on Fire, and carrying him to his only Center God, In &s;o much that many Confe&s;&s;ed they could not look him in the Face, even in Fami|liar Conver&s;ation among&s;t them, his Countenance &s;o Dazled their Eyes. His &s;hort, tho' mo&s;t Inflamed Jacula|tory A&s;pirations give us &s;ufficiently to under&s;tand, what Fire Con&s;umed his mo&s;t Ardent and loving Soul; having been often heard to &s;ay even in his Sleep and Raging Sickne&s;s, and commonly in Latin, <HI>O Sancti&s;|&s;ima Trinitas! O mi Je&s;u! O Dulcis Je&s;u! O Je&s;u cordis mei? O mo&s;t Holy Trinity! O my Je&s;us! O Sweet Je&s;us! O Je&s;us of my Heart!</HI> The&s;e &s;hew us that altho' he was in Body on Earth, yet in his Mind he was in Heaven. A &s;econd <HI>Daniel,</HI> who in <HI>Babylon,</HI> that is, among&s;t Idolatrous,
<PB N="55" REF="40">Barbarians, and a Thou&s;and Hin|drances and Di&s;tractions, was in a continual and mo&s;t perfect Prayer. Our Saviour enriched this Prayer of his Servant with many Favours. Fir&s;t, of mo&s;t high Contemplation, which &s;eemed &s;o natural unto him, that he u&s;ed it at his Plea&s;ure in Uniting him&s;elf with God. Then of mo&s;t Divine Wi&s;dom and Prudence in knowing the Will of God, and Ex|ecuting it to his greater Glory. The Third was a mo&s;t admirable Gift of Prophe&s;ie, not only in &s;eeing things afar of, and foretelling things to come, but even Penetrating into the Secrets of Mans Heart. Several of the&s;e Prophe&s;ies are Famous, as that of the Death of <HI>John Arau&s;io</HI> at <HI>Amboinum,</HI> Two Hundred and Seventy Miles di&s;tant from the Place where St. <HI>Francis</HI> was: that at <HI>Ma|laca,</HI> of the Victory of the <HI>Portugue&s;e</HI> again&s;t the <HI>Acenians.</HI> When he pro|mi&s;ed to <HI>James Pereira</HI> continual Pro&s;perity, which he ever after en|joyed. When he acquainted <HI>Peter Veglio</HI> of his Death after a mo&s;t Peaceable and happy Life, which ac|cordingly happened: of the de&s;tructi|on
<PB N="56" REF="41">of the City of <HI>Tolo:</HI> of the Mi|&s;ery of <HI>Alvarez Ataide,</HI> who endea|voured to &s;top his journey to <HI>China,</HI> and innumerable others; in &s;o much that in the proce&s;s of his Canoniza|tion, the Holy Inqui&s;ition of <HI>Rome</HI> approved and allowed of a Hundred and Fifty mo&s;t evident and manife&s;t Prophe&s;ies.</P>
<P>I perceive, Devout Soul! you are de&s;irous of the&s;e Favours, and would willingly betake your &s;elf to &s;uch Prayer, were you to reap &s;uch Fruit: But confider a little with your &s;elf, and &s;ee what time you allow for Prayer? Ah! I am a&s;hamed to tell, what is too true, It is but little or none, and that the wor&s;t part of the day: If you have any time to &s;pare, and know not what to do with it that you give to God: And yet how is that &s;pent too. As for your Exteri|our carriage and comportment, is it fit to appear before that God with whom you treat? For your inward attention and affection I fear it is &s;o Poor and Weak, that you ea&s;ily ad|mit di&s;tractions, or at lea&s;t are very negligent in putting them away. And do you think God will be&s;tow
<PB N="57" REF="41">his Favours on a Soul &s;o ill prepared to receive them? You are deceived. Do then what is requi&s;ite on your part, and correct your defects, and then God will not be wanting on his.</P>
<DIV5 TYPE="subsection">
<HEAD>The COLLOQUY. To St. <HI>Francis Xaverius:</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To obtain the Grace of Prayer.</HEAD>
<P>I A&s;pire not, O Holy Apo&s;tle, to tho&s;e admirable Favours God en|riched your Prayer with; No! tho&s;e were properly yours and peculiar to that great Soul, to which God did in &s;o &s;ingular a manner communicate him&s;elf. I am contented with the more &s;olid part of Prayer, and do humbly beg you to obtain of God for me a true Love and Affection to it, Attention in it, and Fruit out of it. Such a Love of it, as never to omit it or a&s;&s;ign the wor&s;t part of the day for it. Such, an Attention to it, that I may ne<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="3 letters"> be voluntari|ly di&s;tracted in it. Such Fruit from
<PB N="58" REF="42">it, as may correct my Defects and Manners, and encrea&s;e the Vertues mo&s;t requi&s;ite for my State and Cal|ling. This is what I beg of you, O mo&s;t glorious Apo&s;tle! and for this end I make a purpo&s;e to u&s;e &s;uch Means as are requi&s;ite.</P>
</DIV5>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>The CONSIDERATION For the Sixth <HI>FRIDAY.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Upon the Magnanimity and Ge|nero&s;ity of St. <HI>Francis Xaverius.</HI></HEAD>
<P>GEnero&s;ity is a Vertue that &s;o emboldens the Mind, as not to be daunted at hard Enterpri&s;es, that u&s;ually deter it from vertuous A|ctions. This Vertue and Di&s;po&s;ition of Mind, was but nece&s;&s;ary to this Holy Apo&s;tle to &s;trengthen him a|gain&s;t &s;o many Difficulties, Oppo&s;i|tions, and Dangers; which were not the ea&s;ier and le&s;s to be feared, be|cau&s;e nece&s;&s;arily annexed to his Of|fice of Apo&s;tle. Dangers at Sea, at Land, from treacherous Compa|nians,
<PB N="59" REF="42">Strangers, Thieves and Cut-throats, both in publick and in pri|vate, were no le&s;s in&s;eparable Com|panions of St. <HI>Francis,</HI> than of St. <HI>Paul.</HI> The Difficulties he encountred (as we read in his Life) were &s;uch that nothing but a mo&s;t Heroick Courage could have overcome them. He cro&s;&s;ed from the <HI>Indies</HI> to <HI>Japo|ny</HI> the mo&s;t dangerous Tract of all tho&s;e Seas, by rea&s;on of the raging South Winds; and that in a little Boat (the Seamen being all Pirates, and the Ma&s;ter both Idolater and Pirate) running continual ri&s;que of either being drowned at Sea, or ca&s;t upon &s;ome de&s;ert I&s;land, there nece&s;|&s;arily to have &s;tarved. In his Jour|ney from <HI>Meliapor</HI> to the <HI>Molucche</HI> cro&s;&s;ing from one I&s;land to another, he &s;uffered thrice Shipwrack, and once lighting upon a Plank of a Ship, to&s;&s;ed three Days and three Nights by the tempe&s;tuous Waves, was at la&s;t rather dead than alive ca&s;t a&s;hore. His Dangers at Land were no le&s;s than at Sea. For tho' he was ge|nerally e&s;teemed by Vice-Roys, Go|vernors, and other Officers, yet he wanted not mo&s;t &s;trong Oppo&s;itions
<PB N="60" REF="43">as in the Shore of <HI>Pi&s;ca<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">ia,</HI> in <HI>Tra|vancor,</HI> and in <HI>Goa.</HI> Mo&s;t ob&s;tinate was that of <HI>Alvarez. Ataide</HI> then Governour of <HI>Malaca,</HI> who neither by Entreaties nor Threats could be brought to allow of <HI>James Periera</HI>'s &s;ailing to <HI>China,</HI> with whom Saint <HI>Francis</HI> intended to go to convert that great Empire. He went to the I&s;lands of <HI>Molacche</HI> and <HI>Moro</HI> (fa|mous for its barbarous Cruelty) again&s;t the Con&s;ent of all his Friends, and in &s;pite of all the Threats of the Devils. In <HI>Amangucci</HI> the <HI>Bonzi</HI> with armed men continually &s;ought to kill him. In the mo&s;t Heroick Enterpri&s;e he framed in his Soul of the Conver&s;ion of <HI>China,</HI> Death was the lea&s;t Danger he apprehended: Fearing not a World of Dangers to free another from the Tyranny of the Devil.</P>
<P>Whoever you are, Dear Soul, that reads the&s;e generous Acts of Saint <HI>Francis Xaverius,</HI> reflect with your|&s;elf and &s;ee, how you carry your|&s;elf in the Service of God. I am afraid the very Shadow of Difficul|ties do quite di&s;hearten and deter you from all good Works. If it be
<PB N="61" REF="43">&s;o, be confounded at your own Weakne&s;s, and beg of the Saint a noble Heart, that may not only not yield but even &s;urpa&s;s at lea&s;t ordi|nary and &s;mall Hindrances in the Service of God.</P>
<DIV5 TYPE="subsection">
<HEAD>The COLLOQUY. To St. <HI>Francis Xaverius.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To obtain a Generous Heart.</HEAD>
<P>BEhold at your Feet, O mo&s;t ge|nerous Apo&s;tle! a Soul that mo&s;t &s;hamefully neglects all things belong|ing to the Service of God. I fear, I confe&s;s, the lea&s;t thing that either &s;eems difficult or any ways terrible; and by this my inordinate Pu&s;illani|mity I fly back and quit many a no|ble Action, that otherwi&s;e might very much encrea&s;e the Glory of God. O Holy Apo&s;tle, grant me but one Spark of your great Cou|rage, wherewith you underwent &s;uch Difficulties. Animate and &s;trengthen my Pu&s;ilanimity, that frightned by no Oppo&s;ition, I may mo&s;t manful|ly
<PB N="62" REF="44">and readily fulfil God's Holy Will. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
</DIV5>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>The CONSIDERATION For the Seventh <HI>FRIDAY.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Upon his great Love of God and Power over all Creatures.</HEAD>
<P>HEre are, Devout Reader, two Con&s;iderations; the fir&s;t to be imitated, the &s;econd to be admired; yet both very profitable for you; for whether you imitate or admire Saint <HI>Xaverius,</HI> you may a&s;&s;ure your &s;elf of his Protection and Interce&s;&s;ion. The fir&s;t is his Love of God; the &s;econd his Power over all Creatures.</P>
<P>As for the fir&s;t, what do you think, Devout Client of St. <HI>Francis,</HI> of the Love he bore to God. His whole Life is a &s;ufficient Proof there|of, according to that great Saying, <HI>Probatio dilectionis exhibitio e&s;t operis. Deeds are the Marks of Love,</HI> But yet to give you &s;ome more particu|lar
<PB N="63" REF="44">Signs thereof, here are &s;ome few Reflections no le&s;s true than won|derful. This Love of God did &s;o en|flame his Heart, and &s;et it all on fire, that he was not able to &s;uffer it's in&s;upportable Heat, nor &s;carce endure his Cloaths. Once as he was walking in the Streets of <HI>Goa,</HI> he was &s;o to|tally ab&s;orped with the Love of God, that he took no notice of an Ele|phant that broke loo&s;e and threatned Death to all it met; but yet after|wards to the great Wonder of all it retired. The like happened to him going from <HI>Amangucci</HI> to <HI>Meaco,</HI> when he run like a Servant behind a Noblemans Hor&s;e, never feeling the Thorns that continually tore his Feet; &s;o much was his Mind ab&s;orpt in the Aby&s;s of the Love of God. Every where he was out of him&s;elf and totally in God: But above all in Prayer, Ma&s;s, and Thank&s;giving after the Divine Sacrifice. His Soul be|trayed it &s;elf &s;o clearly in his very Countenance, that the Pope &s;aid of him, that he was <HI>Vultu adco inflam|matus, ut Angelicam pror&s;us Charita|tem reprae&s;entaret.</HI> Seeming rather a
<PB N="64" REF="45">burning Seraphim and a ble&s;&s;ed Spi|rit upon Earth, than a Man.</P>
<P>What &s;ay you pious Reader? you do wonder and admire him, and I am comforted thereat, becau&s;e here|by you may frame &s;ome Conceit of the great Love St. <HI>Xaverius</HI> bore to God. But why do not you endea|vour al&s;o to love the &s;ame God? For he is the &s;ame he was then, ever de&s;erving to be beloved above all things Created; and &s;hould you not love him, you would always prove the mo&s;t mi&s;erable Creature in the World, for not placing your Affection upon a God that is &s;o wor|thy of Love, &s;eeing to Love him is the &s;ole happine&s;s of Man.</P>
<P>As for the &s;econd Point propo&s;ed in the beginning, God even in this Life &s;eemed to reward his Saint with an univer&s;al Power and Domi|nion over all Creatures. The Hea|ven, &s;aw the Day encrea&s;ed three Hours by the Prayers of this &s;econd <HI>Jo&s;ue,</HI> that the Chri&s;tians might give a total Overthrow to the Infidels. The Earth rent it &s;elf with mo&s;t hor|rid Earthquakes to frighten the Citi|zens
<PB N="65" REF="45">of <HI>Tolo</HI> to the Chri&s;tian Faith, which they had &s;o &s;hamefully for&s;a|ken; the Air bore him up from the Ground &s;everal times both by Night and Day. The Fire raging and threat|ning &s;everal Hou&s;es, obey'd his Com|mand, and offered not to pa&s;s the Limits pre&s;crib'd by St. <HI>Xaverius.</HI> But the Water &s;eem'd to acknowledge mo&s;t of all his Power. He was an Anchor to Ships in the greate&s;t Storms; a favourable Gale to carry them thro' the mo&s;t dangerous Shal|lows and Sands of the Seas; a Calm allaying Tempe&s;ts; and a Haven for tho&s;e that &s;uffered Shipwrack. The very Idolaters called him the God of the Sea, and &s;pared no charge for them&s;elves and their Goods to &s;ail in the Ship Saint <HI>Xaverius</HI> went in. In the <HI>Indies</HI> he often changed Salt Wa|ter into Fre&s;h; and once by only dipping his Foot into the Sea. He allayed tempe&s;ts &s;ometimes by Prayer, other times with Relicks he wore, or with the Sign of the Cro&s;s; and once by letting his Cro&s;s into the Water; which God to double the Wonder, permitted a Wave to &s;natch away, and &s;o bereft him of his o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="3 letters">
<PB N="66" REF="46">Comfort; when behold &s;oon after a Lob&s;ter with open Claws above Wa|ter brought it to St. <HI>Francis</HI> again.</P>
<P>It is impo&s;&s;ible to &s;pecifie every particular Miracle wrought in this kind by St. <HI>Francis:</HI> let the&s;e few in &s;hort &s;uffice, to convince you that in this Glorious Saint you have a Patron ready to command all Crea|tures for your Good; &s;o that in all Occa&s;ions and Nece&s;&s;ities you may have recour&s;e to him with Confi|dence, and hope in his mo&s;t power|ful Interce&s;&s;ion and A&s;&s;i&s;tance.</P>
<DIV5 TYPE="subsection">
<HEAD>The COLLOQUY To St. <HI>Francis Xaverius&punc;</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To obtain the Holy love of God.</HEAD>
<P>WHat did you aim at throughout the whole cour&s;e of your life, O Holy Apo&s;tle, but to bring all the World to the love of God? And now, will you not, O great lover of God! obtain for me a poor helple&s;s creature, an ardent de&s;ire of loving him above all things? Ah! I doubt
<PB N="67" REF="46">not of your help and interce&s;&s;ion but I apprehend my own Weakne&s;s, lea&s;t permitting my &s;elf to be deceived by the fooli&s;h Love of Creatures, I may &s;werve from the true love of my Cre|ator. Help me then, O Holy St. <HI>Fran|cis!</HI> That I may not be &s;o deluded, but yielding up my will to God, I may by a holy nece&s;&s;ity, always love him both in this life and in the next. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
</DIV5>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 TYPE="section">
<HEAD><HI>The CONSIDERATION</HI> For the Eighth FRIDAY.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Upon the Love of St. <HI>Francis Xa|verius</HI> towards his Neighbour.</HEAD>
<P>HE that truly loveth God, does extend his Affection al&s;o to his Neighbour, as being dear to God and his lively Image. So that Saint <HI>Xaverius</HI> loving God as you have &s;een, ought con&s;equently to love his Neigh|bor; which he did in the perfecte&s;t manner he could, fulfilling tho&s;e Words of St. <HI>Paul,</HI> * <HI>Omnibus omnia</HI><NOTE PLACE="foot">1 Cor. 9.22.</NOTE>
<PB N="68" REF="47"><HI>factus, to all men becoming all things that he might &s;ave all.</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="foot">2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 6.6.</NOTE> <HI>In Charita|te non ficta &s;ed ver&agrave;, In true, not feigned Charity.</HI></P>
<P>He never &s;pared any Labours, Trou|bles, Difficulties, nor even Life it &s;elf to benefit him either in his Tem|poral or Spiritual Nece&s;&s;ities, tho' he laboured mo&s;t to &s;uccour the Soul as being the more noble Part. The only Aim and De&s;ign of his Apo&s;tolical Mi&s;&s;ions and hard Enter|prizes was the Salvation of Souls; and where he propo&s;ed to him&s;elf any Hopes of converting any to God, he let &s;lip nothing that might any way promote or further his Intentions. With Children he was one, always &s;o concerned for their Spiritual Pro|fit, that tho' he was a Man of that Authority and E&s;teem, yet he di&s;dai|ned not to go about with a little Bell, exhorting Parents to &s;end their Children to be in&s;tructed in the Chri&s;tian Doctrine. With Sinners he became, as I may &s;ay, a Sinner, fa|miliarly treating and conver&s;ing with them, that &s;o he might bring them to God: for pretending to be igno|rant
<PB N="69" REF="47">of their Vices, Bla&s;phemies, Mur|ders, U&s;uries, and all their whole Life, he changed the Hatred they bore him into Love, and the Love they bore to all vicious Habits and Propen&s;ions, into a dete&s;table Hatred of Sin. To Infidels (as particularly recommended to him from Heaven) he &s;hew'd &s;uch Charity that no body can expre&s;s it. And if the Height of this, according to the Oracle of Truth it &s;elf, be to give his Life for his Be|loved, he was always ready to do it for them: which did &s;o mollifie and win their Hearts, that it is incredible, how many thro' this only Motive did embrace the Chri&s;tian Faith; whereupon Father <HI>Melchior Nugnez</HI> then Superior of the <HI>Indies,</HI> a Man of rare Prudence and no le&s;s Vertue, &s;aid, that converting Infidels to Chri&s;t in St. <HI>Francis Xaverius</HI> did not &s;eem a Gift infu&s;ed, or a Vertue got by Habit, but a natural Inclination: So bent was he upon that only Work, that he could not live nor take any Satisfaction in any other Employment, than the In&s;tructing and bringing Souls to the Knowledge and Love of the only true God. This perpetual
<PB N="70" REF="48">Motion of Charity was his only Re|&s;pite, this Exerci&s;e his only Repo&s;e. Nothing will be better able to &s;hew the Greatne&s;s of this his Charity and zealous A&s;&s;iduity therein, then the Number of tho&s;e he Baptized with his own Hand, which amounted to a Million and two hundred thou&s;and Per&s;ons. As for what belongs to the temporal A&s;&s;i&s;tance of his Neighbour, who can reckon up the Deeds of Charity he &s;hewed to every one, as well poor as rich; nor was there any Work of Mercy that he did not practice either in his own Per&s;on, or when he could not him&s;elf, by u&s;ing others Help for the &s;uccouring the poor and needy. His tender Care of the &s;ick will be a &s;ufficient Proof of his boundle&s;s Charity. He was to them a Father, Mother, Bro|ther, Phy&s;ician, and a Nur&s;e in the meane&s;t Offices, in private Hou&s;es, and in publick Ho&s;pitals; if any died, he wa&s;hed and layed them out with his own Hands, digged their Graves, and buried them him&s;elf. God &s;eeming to &s;econd the&s;e Heroick De&s;ires of St. <HI>Francis,</HI> &s;o much bent upon &s;erving his Neighbour, endowed
<PB N="71" REF="48">him in a particular manner with that divine Gift of Curing the Sick: For in the Deeds of his Canonization you will find the wonderful Cures of all Di&s;ea&s;es, wrought by the Po|wer of this great <HI>Xaverius,</HI> to be innumerable. The Blind received the Benefit of their Eyes, the Lame the u&s;e of their Limbs, the Lepers were clean&s;ed, the Dumb re&s;tored to Speech, the Deaf to their Hearing, Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed Per&s;ons freed from Malig|nant Spirits that Tormented them. To be &s;hort, &s;o many were the&s;e Prodigious Cures, that in and about the City of <HI>Naples</HI> only, there are &s;ufficient to fill a whole Book. Yet the&s;e Cures of Di&s;ea&s;es are nothing if compared to tho&s;e he rai&s;ed from Death to Life, which amount accor|ding to the Authentick Tran&s;actions of the Saints Canonization to above Five and Twenty. What has been here &s;aid is but an Abridgement; and only helps to frame &s;ome con|ceit, or Idea of the Saints great Charity to his Neighbour, referring you to the Writers of his Life to &s;ee the innumerable other Graces and Favours through his means and Inter|ce&s;&s;ion
<PB N="72" REF="49">confered upon all &s;orts of Per&s;ons, as Seamen, Merchants, Bar|ren Women, or in Childbed, Sol|diers, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>We may gather two Fruits from what has been &s;aid. The Fir&s;t a Ho|ly Confu&s;ion in our &s;elves for helping and furthering &s;o little the good of our Neighbour, either Spiritual or Temporal. Who of us is troubled or concerned to &s;ee him offend God? Who is there, that either hinders him from falling, or gives his helping hand to rai&s;e him again from Sin? Which of us grieves at his lo&s;&s;es, or &s;uffers any thing to Promote his Good! Do we Vi&s;it him in the Ho|&s;pitals, and Pri&s;ons? Are we Chari|table unto him? Do we relieve his Wants with Alms? Or rather do we not &s;pend that on Bea&s;ts that only &s;erve for Sport and Pa&s;time, which ought to be employ'd in Suc|couring and A&s;&s;i&s;ting our Neigbour, the very Image of God him&s;elf? The Second Fruit is a lively confidence of being a&s;&s;i&s;ted by this Holy Apo|&s;tle in our Nece&s;&s;ities as well Cor|poral as Spiritual, if we apply our &s;elves unto him as we ought.</P>
<DIV5 TYPE="subsection">
<PB N="73" REF="49">
<HEAD>The COLLOQUY To St. <HI>Francis Xaverius.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To obtain a true Love of our Neighbour.</HEAD>
<P>I Know too too well O mo&s;t zea|lous Apo&s;tle! the Coldne&s;s of my Heart towards my Neighbour&punc; I own, and condemn my &s;elf for the &s;mall Charity I &s;hew, in &s;uccouring his Nece&s;&s;ities either Temporal or Spi|ritual; and I am a&s;hamed and to|tally confounded con&s;idering your ad|mirable Zeal and Concern for his Good. Obtain for me, O true Lo|ver of your Neighbour! the lea&s;t Spark of that great Fire that con&s;u|med your Heart, which may kindle in my Soul a true Zeal and Love of others Good, that grieving at their Misfortunes, and equally compa&s;&s;io|nating them in mind, comforting them in Words, and helping them in Deeds, I may the better imitate you in this. Vertue of Charity, which is &s;o properly termed yours.</P>
</DIV5>
</DIV4>
<DIV4 TYPE="section">
<PB N="74" REF="50">
<HEAD>The CONSIDERATION For the Ninth <HI>FRIDAY.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Upon St. <HI>Francis Xaverius</HI>'s great De&s;ire to Dye for Chri&s;t.</HEAD>
<P>THE Con&s;ideration of this Day is far different from the for|mer; for tho' in &s;ome you have &s;een, Devout Reader, the De&s;ire this Saint had to &s;uffer for Chri&s;t, yet we have not &s;poken of what belongs, to the dying for him, and giving te&s;timony of his holy Faith by the Shedding of his Blood and becoming a Martyr.</P>
<P>Saint <HI>Francis</HI> had this De&s;ire in the greate&s;t exce&s;s imaginable, that he could with rea&s;on &s;ay with St. <HI>Paul, Quotidie morior, I dye daily,</HI> by al|ways de&s;iring to dye, and becau&s;e I never am &s;o happy as to die, and give my Life for my God. And tho' Almighty God pre&s;erving him alive for his greater Honour and Glory, would not grant him the Favour of a Martyrdom con&s;ummated by Death,
<PB N="75" REF="50">yet he tryed his Con&s;tancy by &s;everal Combats not inferior to tho&s;e of Martyrs, and above all, permitted him to &s;urvive to that langui&s;hing de&s;ire of dying, that he might at lea&s;t live a Martyr, tho' he could not die one.</P>
<P>He was apprehended twice in <HI>Ja|pony,</HI> &s;ent to Sea, arid delivered over to Murtherers to be di&s;patched; who upon the point of Executing their cruel De&s;ign were &s;o terrified and frightned by a &s;udden Tempe&s;t, that they &s;pared his Life. He was al&s;o twice led to the common place of Execution by the furious incen&s;ed People. Twice &s;toned by the Moors. Often beaten, &s;everal times &s;hot at with Arrows, and as often pre&s;ented with Poy&s;on. Upon the Sea Coa&s;t of <HI>Pi&s;caria</HI> the Idolatrous <HI>Badagi</HI> &s;ought to kill him.</P>
<P>The Mahometans per&s;ecuted him with no le&s;s Malice and Rage: And becau&s;e their own Children, whom the Saint had Baptized, &s;tood often Centinels to defend him from their Parents Fury, and &s;ometimes found ways for the Saint to e&s;cape their cruel Hands, they &s;et fire to the
<PB N="76" REF="51">Hou&s;es where they &s;u&s;pected him to lye hid. Whence a grave and lear|ned Doctor <HI>Martino Navarra</HI> refle|cting upon the Life of St. <HI>Francis Xaverius</HI> always expo&s;ed to Danger of Death, &s;ticks not to call it a per|petual Martyrdom. All I have touch|ed upon here and more that I omit, is nothing to the real De&s;ire he had to dye for &s;o honourable a cau&s;e as the Faith of Chri&s;t: And certainly he endured more Angui&s;h in his Mind, by always (tho' in vain) de&s;iring to lo&s;e his Life, then he could have &s;uffered in his Body by once dying a Martyr. Through the exce&s;s of the&s;e ardent Wi&s;hes he was forced to cry out, <HI>Amplius Domine, Amplius, More, Lord, more,</HI> when in his Sleep he &s;eemed to carry upon his Back a heavy Moor, and in him the new World of the <HI>Indies:</HI> Out of the &s;ame inflamed De&s;ire he bore a holy Envy to the Fathers of the Society, who were in future Ages to con|vert all the I&s;lands of <HI>Moro,</HI> ho|ping withal, as he &s;aid, that tho&s;e I&s;lands would come to change their Names and be called the I&s;lands of Martyrs:</P>
<PB N="77" REF="51">
<P>To one that endeavour'd to di&s;|&s;uade him with the Apprehen&s;ions of Death from tho&s;e his heroick En|terprizes, he an&s;wered with no le&s;s Humility than Genero&s;ity, that it was what he &s;o much de&s;ired, but he knew him&s;elf unworthy of &s;uch a &s;ignal Favour. What he writ to a Friend of his &s;heweth mo&s;t clearly what were the De&s;ires of his Great and Noble Soul: I (&s;ays he) &s;ome|times do abhor even Life it &s;elf, and covet rather to die than to &s;ee God &s;o much offended, without being able to hinder it, as I de&s;ire. So that the Acts of his Canonization &s;ay with rea&s;on of this Glorious Apo&s;tle; <HI>Va|ria infidelium loca peragravit, non mi|nus ut pro Chri&s;ti fide &s;anguinem pro|funderet, quam ut fidei lucem genti|bus inferret. That he travalled over &s;o many Countries of the Infidels, with no le&s;s de&s;ire to &s;hed his Blood for the Faith of Chri&s;t, than to enlighten the Gentils with the Light of the true Faith.</HI></P>
<P>Reflect, weak Soul, upon what has been &s;aid, and be a&s;hamed of your Carriage &s;o little re&s;embling this great Pattern and Example, and ask
<PB N="78" REF="52">your &s;elf this Que&s;tion: Was not <HI>Xa|verius</HI> of Fle&s;h and Blood, as I am? Was not he a Man, a Son and Child of <HI>Adam</HI> as my &s;elf? and yet how comes it to pa&s;s, that he is &s;o much enflamed with the Divine Love, and I &s;o little? And you'll find the Ori|gin of his &s;o &s;ingular Perfection to have been a total Abnegation of him &s;elf, and Alienation from all Self love, whereby being transformed into God, he de&s;ired to dye to the World, that he might live to him alone. Ah! if you could but once re&s;olve to dye to Self Love, then a&s;&s;ure your &s;elf, the Holy Love of God would abundantly encrea&s;e in your Soul.</P>
<DIV5 TYPE="subsection">
<HEAD>The COLLOQUY</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To St. <HI>Francis Xaverius.</HI> To beg the Grace to dye to Self-love.</HEAD>
<P>YOU bad rea&s;on to &s;ay, Holy <HI>Xaverius,</HI> with St. <HI>Paul;</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="foot"><HI>Gal.</HI> 2.20.</NOTE> <HI>I live, now not I, but Chri&s;t liveth in me,</HI> who kindled in your Soul tho&s;e great De&s;ires of dying once to Fle&s;h and Blood, that &s;o by Death you might be united to your Spirit, which
<PB N="79" REF="52">was Chri&s;t. But I, unhappy Wretch live &s;till to my &s;elf, I live to my own Fle&s;h, to my Body, and to Self-love? And what wonder if I de&s;ire not to dye for Chri&s;t, thereby to be united to him? What Wonder, if I love him not as my Life? Beg of Almighty God for me, Dear Saint, that I may dye to Self-love, to the end that every day &s;o dying, I may become wholly dead thereunto, and begin to live to Chri&s;t; that then I may likewi&s;e with truth &s;ay with St. <HI>Paul</HI> and you Glorious Saint, <HI>I de&s;ire to be di&s;&s;olved and to be with Chri&s;t.</HI> Amen.</P>
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</DIV4>
<DIV4 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>The CONSIDERATION For the Tenth <HI>FRIDAY.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">Upon the perfections of St. <HI>Francis Xaverius.</HI></HEAD>
<P>ST. <HI>Francis Xaverius</HI> was an Apo|&s;tle &s;ent by <HI>Je&s;us Chri&s;t,</HI> by command of his Vicar <HI>Paul</HI> the third, with the title of Nuncius Apo&s;toli|cus,
<PB N="80" REF="53">to Preach the Go&s;pel to the <HI>Indians,</HI> and Convert them to our Holy Faith. Whereof he Converted many hundred Thou&s;ands, among&s;t whom were &s;everal Kings, Queens, Princes and Great Men. His Si&s;ter, a Holy Woman, Abbe&s;s of the Poor Clares at <HI>Gandia,</HI> foretold he &s;hould be &s;uch an one; for de&s;iring her Fa|ther to let him Study Divinity, &s;he &s;aid, he &s;hould prove a Great Apo&s;tle of the <HI>Indies.</HI></P>
<P>He was a Prophet, and in &s;uch a manner that a mo&s;t Vertuous and Wi&s;e Man &s;ticked not to &s;ay, that in &s;ome the Spirit of Prophecy was by fits, but in St. <HI>Xaverius</HI> it &s;eemed a con&s;tant Habit. He was not only Ma&s;ter of Human Philo&s;ophy at <HI>Paris,</HI> but of the Divine al&s;o in the Ea&s;t; where to all &s;orts of People he Preach|ed the Go&s;pel and In&s;tructed them in what belonged to our Holy Faith; He Confuted many Ma&s;ters of the Idolaters in &s;everal Di&s;putes; the <HI>Brachmans</HI> of the <HI>Indians,</HI> and <HI>Carizi</HI> of the <HI>Moors,</HI> and the <HI>Bonzi</HI> of the <HI>Japonians.</HI></P>
<P>He was endowed with all manner of Vertues whether you mean Power
<PB N="81" REF="53">of Working Miracles, as you have &s;een in the former Con&s;iderations, or Vertuous Habits that adorn the Soul, as Humility, Cha&s;tity, Patience, Cha|rity, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>He had the Gift of Curing Di&s;ea|&s;es, as we have &s;hewn you by &s;everal wonderful examples.</P>
<P>He had the Gift of Helping the Needy, in &s;o much that he never re|fu&s;ed his Aid to any if conducing to their Eternal Salvation. He go|verned all with rare Prudence as well Seculars as Religious, which Talent made him e&s;teemed by the greate&s;t Princes. The King of <HI>Portugal</HI> Re|verenced him as an Oracle, receiving and following his Directions as Com|mands. The King of <HI>Travancor,</HI> called the <HI>Great King,</HI> publi&s;hed an Edict, commanding every one to obey the <HI>Great Father</HI> (St. <HI>Xaverius</HI>) as the <HI>Great King.</HI> St. <HI>Ignatious</HI> re&s;olved to make him General of the Society of <HI>Je&s;us.</HI></P>
<P>La&s;tly he had the Gift of Tongues. In tho&s;e Countries they &s;peak above a Hundred &s;everal Languages; Thirty whereof are quite different; yet St.
<PB N="82" REF="54"><HI>Francis</HI> when he entered tho&s;e parts did not only under&s;tand the Natives, but &s;poke the very &s;ame Languages mo&s;t Elegantly; yet with the&s;e two privileges; fir&s;t of being under&s;tood (tho' Preaching to an Auditory of different Nations) by every one in their Mother Tongue: &s;econdly of Satisfying with one on|ly an&s;wer the demands of &s;everal propo&s;ed to him at the &s;ame time, tho' relating to different matters. Hereby we &s;ee that God by a &s;peci|al Favour &s;eems to have Endowed St. <HI>Francis</HI> with all tho&s;e Gifts St. <HI>Paul</HI> &s;peakes of, to have been divided a|mong&s;t &s;everal in the Primitive Church.<NOTE N="*" PLACE="foot">1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 12.28.</NOTE> <HI>Some God hath placed in the Church, fir&s;t Apo&s;tles, &s;econdly Prophets, thirdly Doctors, next Mira|cles, then the graces of Curing Di&s;ea&s;es, Helps, Governing, kinds of Tongues.</HI> All the&s;e gifts and graces were re|qui&s;ite for that great Enterpri&s;e of Converting the New World to the Faith of Chri&s;t, for which God had De&s;igned his great Servant St. <HI>Francis Xaverius.</HI></P>
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<P>The&s;e things mentioned in &s;hort ought, Devout Reader, to &s;tir up in you a lively Confidence and Devoti|on to this great Saint &s;o much beloved by God, and for his Extraordinary Sanctity enriched with &s;uch &s;ingular and rare Graces and Favours by the hand of his &s;o Bountiful Creator. Seeing therefore the nature of love is to change him that loves into him that is beloved, and to create &s;uch a likene&s;s in their Lives and Actions, that they &s;eem to live in one another, you ought to endeavour to liken your &s;elf according to your &s;tate and con|dition, in all your Actions to St. <HI>Xaverius,</HI> that finding in your Soul &s;ome of his Vertues he may love you the more, and loving you re|commend you to our Lord, and ob|tain for you the Favours you ask of him. To which end you &s;hall fini&s;h your Ten <HI>Fridays</HI> with this follow|ing Colloquy.</P>
<DIV5 TYPE="subsection">
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<HEAD>The COLLOQUY To St. <HI>Francis Xaverius.</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">To obtain Grace to Imitate his Vertues.</HEAD>
<P>IF I love you, O mo&s;t Holy Apo&s;tle! I have ju&s;t rea&s;on for it, finding in you a Thou&s;and Motives, to wit, your many perfections that render you worthy of all love. But if you love me, as I am &s;ure you do, it is purely your Goodne&s;s and only upon the account of my being a Sinner. I am a&s;hamed O Holy <HI>Xaverius</HI> that I have nothing that can win your Love, but the deformity of my Soul, nor any other Title that may any way &s;eem to challenge your Affection, then what in reality de&s;erves your hatred; wherefore I mo&s;t earne&s;tly be&s;eech you to obtain for me the grace to Imitate your Vertues, and tho&s;e chiefly that did particularly render you &s;o dear and plea&s;ing to
<PB N="85" REF="55">the Divine Goodne&s;s: That being &s;o adorned I may both plea&s;e you, and be acceptable in this life to the mo&s;t pure Eyes of the all-&s;eeing God, and have an a&s;&s;urence of enjoying him with you in the next for an Eternity. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="subpart">
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<HEAD>THE LITANIES OF St. <HI>Francis Xaverius.</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>Compos'd by the mo&s;t Illu&s;trious</HI> Fran|cis Ga&s;par de Villarouel, <HI>Lord Bi&s;hop of St.</HI> James<HI>'s, in the Kingdom of</HI> Chile, <HI>in Honour of this Saint; by who&s;e A&s;&s;i&s;tance, after having been bu|ried in the Ruins of an Earthquake, he was miraculou&s;ly deliver'd, and in Performance of a Vow he had made, &s;aid them upon &s;et Days, and impar|ted them to the publick, to awaken and &s;tir up the Piety of the Devout. And have been approv'd and publi&s;h'd by the Order of &s;everal Prelates in the Low Countries and lower</HI> Germany.</P>
<LIST>
<ITEM>LOrd have mercy on us.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chri&s;t have mercy on us.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Lord have mercy on us.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chri&s;t hear us.</ITEM>
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<ITEM>Chri&s;t graciou&s;ly hear us.</ITEM>
<ITEM>God the Father of Heaven, <HI>Have mer|cy on us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>God the Son Redeemer of the World, <HI>Have mercy on us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>God the Holy Gho&s;t, <HI>Have mercy on us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Holy Trinity, One God, <HI>Have mercy on us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Holy <HI>Mary, Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Holy Father <HI>Ignatius, Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>St. <HI>Francis Xaverius</HI> mo&s;t wor|thy Son of St. <HI>Ignatius, Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>St. <HI>Francis Xaverius</HI> Apo&s;tle of the <HI>Indies, Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>St. <HI>Francis Xaverius</HI> evangelizing Peace, <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>St. <HI>Francis Xaverius,</HI> evangeli|zing all Good, <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ve&s;&s;el of Election, carrying the Name of <HI>Je&s;us</HI> before Gentiles, <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ve&s;&s;el full of Divine Grace, <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Firmament of the <HI>Oriental</HI> Church <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Defender of the Faith, <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Enemy of Infidelity, <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Preacher of Evangelical Truth, <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>De&s;troyer of Idols, <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Cho&s;en In&s;trument of the Eternal Father for the Propagation of Divine Glory, <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
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<ITEM>Faithful Follower and Compa|nion of <HI>Je&s;us Chri&s;t, Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Trumpet of the Holy Gho&s;t, <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Pillar of the Church of God, <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Light of Infidels, <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Ma&s;ter of the Faithful, <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Mirror of true Piety, <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Guide in the Way of Virtue and Perfection, <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Pattern of Apo&s;tolical Spirit and Sanctity, <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Light of the Blind, <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Curer of the Lame, <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Helper of tho&s;e, who &s;uffer Ship|wrack, <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Health of the Sick, <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Protector in time of Plague, Fa|mine and War, <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>From whom the Devils fly, <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Life of the Dead, <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Who&s;e Power the Sea and Tem|pe&s;ts obey, <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Who&s;e Command the Sea and all Elements reverence, <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Wonderful Worker of Miracles, <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Refuge of the Mi&s;erable, <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Comfort of the Afflicted, <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Splendor of the Ea&s;t, <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Tabernacle of Incorruption, <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Trea&s;ury of Divine Love, <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
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<ITEM>Glory of the Society of <HI>Je&s;us, Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Xaverius</HI> mo&s;t poor, <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Xaverius</HI> mo&s;t cha&s;t, <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Xaverius</HI> mo&s;t obedient, <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Xaverius</HI> mo&s;t humble; <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Xaverius</HI> mo&s;t de&s;irous of the Cro&s;s and Labours of Chri&s;t, <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Xaverius</HI> mo&s;t vigilant in the Safe|ty of your Neighbour, <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Xaverius</HI> mo&s;t zealous of God's Glory, and the Good of Souls, <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Angel in Life and Manners, <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Patriarch in Affections and Care of God's People, <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Prophet in Gift and Spirit, <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Apo&s;tle in Dignity and Merit, <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Doctor of Gentiles in all &s;orts of Languages, <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Martyr in de&s;iring to dye for Chri&s;t, <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Confe&s;&s;or in Vertue and Profe&s;|&s;ion of Life, <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Virgin in Body and Mind, <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>In whom alone we reverence thro' the Divine Goodne&s;s the Me|rits of all the Saints, <HI>Pray for us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Lamb of God who take&s;t away the Sins of the World, <HI>Spare us O Lord.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Lamb of God who take&s;t away the Sins of the World, <HI>Hear us graciou&s;|ly O Lord.</HI></ITEM>
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<ITEM>Lamb of God who take&s;t away the Sins of the World, <HI>Have mercy on us.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Chri&s;t hear us.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chri&s;t graciou&s;ly hear us.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Lord have mercy on us.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Chri&s;t have mercy on us. <HI>Our Father,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>Ver&s;.</HI> Pray for us, St. <HI>Francis Xave|rius. Re&s;p.</HI> That we may be made worthy of the Promi&s;es of Chri&s;t.</ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>Let us pray.</P>
<P>LOrd God, who ha&s;t vouch&s;afed by the Preaching and Miracles of St. <HI>Francis Xaverius,</HI> to join unto thy Church the Countries of the <HI>In|dies,</HI> grant propitiou&s;ly, we be&s;eech thee, that reverencing his Glorious Merits, we may al&s;o imitate his Ex|amples, Through Chri&s;t our Lord. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
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<DIV3 TYPE="subpart">
<PB REF="59">
<HEAD>A PSALM IN TRIBULATION.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">This P&s;alm was &s;aid by the <HI>Saint</HI> in time of Trouble.</HEAD>
<P>WHen I was in Tribulation, I cried to our Lord, and he heard me.</P>
<P>O Lord, deliver my Soul from unju&s;t Lips, and from a deceitful Tongue.</P>
<P>What may be given thee, or what may be added to thee to a deceitful Tongue?</P>
<P>The &s;harp Arrows of the Mighty, with Coals of De&s;olation.</P>
<P>Wo is to me, that my &s;ojourning is prolonged, I have dwelt with the Inhabitants of Cedar: My Soul hath been long a &s;ojourner.</P>
<P>With them that hated Peace, I was Peaceable, when I &s;poke to them, they impugned me without Cau&s;e.</P>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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