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A61142 A spiritual retreat for one day in every month by a priest of the Society of Jesus ; translated out of French, in the year 1698.; Retraite spirituelle pour un jour de chaque mois. English Croiset, Jean, 1656-1738. 1700 (1700) Wing S5000; ESTC R1301 126,330 370

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A SPIRITUAL RETREAT FOR ONE DAY IN EVERY MONTH By a Priest of the Society of Jesus Translated out of French In the Year 1698 THE PREFACE THE design of publishing this Book is to furnish all sorts of Christians with an easy method of Retreat especially such whose business will not afford them leisure for an Annual Retreat of eight or ten Days together It is hoped that the facility of making these Retreats will render them more usual and ther fore for the help of those who being wholly strangers to these pious Exercises stand in need of more particular directions you will find some Chapters in the beginning of the Book and before the Meditations of the necessity of Retreat and of the methods of doing it well The Body and principal part of the Book consists of meditations on the great Truths of our Holy Religion In which I have endeavour'd to choose the most proper subjects and to put them in such an order and treat them so at large as may render them most capable of making a due impression on those who attentively and seriously consider them And because our design in these Retreats ought to be to prepare our selves by a true change of Life for an happy Death I have repeated the Meditation of Death every month and have added a new exercise of Preparation for it which may be very useful if we put it in practise with such dispositions as it requires And to render it more easy I have been very particular in specifying the Sentiments we ought to entertain and in inserting the most suitable Prayers to inspire those Sentiments The last Part contains Christian Reflections upon different subjects to supply the place of those Considerations whic are proposed in other Books of Spiritual Retreat for private Reading and entertainment In the number variety of which Reflections every Reader will find some thing profitable according to his state and disposition A TABLE THE PREFACE CHAP. I. OF Spiritual Retreat p. 1 CHAP. II. Of the great importance of making one Days Retreat every Month 9 CHAP. III. Of the dispositions in which we must be to make the Retreat with profit 21 CHAP. IV. How we are to spend the Day in Retreat 27 A MEDITATION to prepare for Retreat 37 JANUARY JULY I. MEDITATION Of Mans End 50 II. MEDITATION Of the means that which are given us to attain our ultimate End 65 III. MEDITATION Of the Sentiments we shall have at the hour of Death 75 OF PREPARATION for Death 102 FEBRUARY AUGUST I. MEDITATION Of the importance of Salvation 133 II. MEDITATION Of the Motives which we have to apply our selves continually to the business ef our Salvation 148 III. MEDITATION Of the Sentiments we shall have at the hour of Death 158 MARCH SEPTEMBER I. MEDITATION Of the small number of those that are saved 159 II. MEDITATION Of Sin 175 III. MEDITATION Of the Sentiments we shall have at the hour of Death 189 APRIL OCTOBER I. MEDITATION That we ought not to delay our Conversion 190 II. MEDITATION Of the good use of Time 205 III. MEDITATION Of the Sentiments we shall have at the hour of Death 215 MAY NOVEMBER I. MEDITATION Of the un willingness of most Christians and the insincerity of their desires to be saved 216 II. MEDITATION Of Lukewarmness 231 III. MEDITATION Of the Sentiments we shall have at the hour of Death 244 JUNE DECEMBER I. MEDITATION Of Hell 245 II. MEDITATION Of the Fruits of pennance 262 III. MEDITATION Of the Sentiments we shall have at the hour of Death 275 CHRISTIAN REFLECTIONS Which may serve for matter of Consideration every Day of Retreat 276 Of Salvation 276 Of the importance of Salvation 277 Of our indifference for Salvation 278 Of the false pretences of worldly men about Salvation 280 Of the facility of Salvation 282 Of the ill use of the means of Salvatéon 283 Of want of Faith 285 Of the thoughts of Hell 286 Of a miserable Eternity 286 Of the pretended Conversion of the Imperfect 292 Of the false Idea which many frame to themselves of virtue 294 Of the little progress we make in Virtue 295 Of the proper Virtues for every condition 296 Of the World 298 Of the confidence we ought to have in the merits of Christ 304 Of our indifference to please God 305 Of Confession 307 Of Private Friendships 310 Of the happiness of a Religious Life 313 Of the confidence we ought to have in the merits of Jesus-Christ present in the Eucharist 318 Of true fervour 319 Of voluntary Poverty 322 Of Aridity in the exercises of Piety 321 Of the facility with which we engage our selves in the world 322 Of the false Idea's which we have of holiness 324 Of the Sanctity proper to every Station 326 Of small Faults 327 Of Fidelity in little things 332 Of the source of our Imperfections 333 Of the false complaisance which we have for others 335 Of exactness 336 Of the Artifices of Selfe Love 337 Of the tender Love of God to those who serve him 338 How farr we are to imitate virtuous men 341 Of insensibility proceeding from careleness 342 Of the thoughts of Death 344 Of our condescension to the Imperfect 545 Of natural inclinations to Virtue 346 Of true Zeal 347 Of sincerity in the Service of God 348 Of submission of our Wills 350 Of the Love of Christ 351 THE END OF THE TABLE NOs infrascripti Sacrae Facultatis Parisiensis Doctores Theologi testamur nihil esse in hac traductione libri tui titulus Retraite spiuituelle pour un jour chaque mois aut fidei aut pietati dissonum Datum Parisiis die 22. Julii 1700. JOANNES INGLETON THOMAS WITHAM FIDEM facio testimonium hoc cui subscripserant Magistri Joannes Ingleton Thomas Witham ejus esse authoritatis ut ei facile credatur secure ambo sunt Angli in Facultate Parisiensi Doctores Pii eruditi quorum Chirographum hic appositum probe novi Die Augusti prima 1700. PIROT A SPIRITUAL RETREAT FOR ONE DAY IN THE MONTH CHAP. I. Of spiritual Retreat OF all pious Exercises there is none more proper to convert a soul then a spiritual Retreat And it is perhaps the onely one that is never unprofitable When every thing contributes either to pervert or distract us it is not at all strange that the most awakening Doctrines of our Religion make but a light impression But when we retire our selves from the noise and disturbance of the world when we set our selves to meditate at leisure on those great Truths which we had never seriously enough considered which appear to us then in another manner when our application enables us to penetrate the true sence of them and every thing helps to discover all their consequences it is almost impossible for us not to be affected with them Especially since this is a a Time wherein grace flows more abundantly and wherein our hearts are best dispos'd