Book wherein the Fathers Eternall Word was written by the Pen of the Holy Ghost The authenticall Instrument of that happy agreement made between God and Man The Imperiall chariot loaden with millions of spoils led by you in triumph and by you presented to the divin Majesty The Mountain of Sion where our Soveraign Lord takes his pleasure and recreation The Pillar of Light not now conducting a captive people through the desert by a perishable glimmering but illuminating the true Israelites and leading them to their promis'd land of Conquest you O the most accomplish'd of all Creatures are pleasing and comely as Jerusalem and the aromaticall odours issuing from your garments outvie all the delights of Mount Libanus you are the sacred Pix of celestiall parfumes whose sweet exhalations shall never be exhausted you are the holy Oyl the unextinguishable Lamp the unfading Flower the divinly woven Purple the Royall vestment the Imperiall Diadem the Throne of the Divinity the Gate of Paradise the Queen of the Vnivers the Cabinet of Life the Fountain ever-flowing with Celestiall Illustrations More words are wanting to us O Mother worthy of all prayses for the further expression of our Conceptions and our Conceptions are too weak and languishing to second the ardours of our Affections and yet our Affections encourage us to keep on in this Carriere of your Commendations and to salute You afresh with Your faithfull servant S. Epiphanius Orat. de Deipara All Hail the honour of vertues the divin Lanthorn encompassing that Christall Lamp whose light out-shines the Sun in in its midday splendour The mysticall Ark of glory The undraynable source of sweetness The spirituall Sea whence the worlds richest Pearl was extracted The radiant sphear inclosing Him within your sacred folds whom the Heavens cannot contain within their vast circumference The Celestiall Throne of God more glistring than that of the glorious Cherubins The pure Temple Tabernacle and Seat of the Divinity And with Sophronius Serm. de Assump You O Mother of God! are the well-fenc'd Orchard the fruitfull Border the fair and delicious Garden of sweet Flowers enbalming the earth and ayr with their odoriferous fragrancie yet shut up and s cur'd from any enemys entrance and irruption you are the holy Fountain seal'd with the signet of the most sacred Trinity from whence the happy waters of life inflow upon the whol Univers you are the happy City of God whereof such glorious things are every where song and spoken And here O great and glorious Virgin Mother amidst our admirations of your miraculous priviledges prerogatives and perfections We cannot choose with S. Peter Chrysologus Serm. de Annunciat but Compassionate such poor spirited Christians who pretending to any true knowledg of your Sons greatness find no motives to contemplate your glories O their Ignorance Stupidity Infidelity For what thought can frame a right conception concerning any one Mystery of his sacred Incarnation and yet separate you dear Mother from him your divin Son The Heavens says he are terrifi'd the Angells tremble all creatures stand astonished whol Nature is amazed at the birth of this great-little-man-God into the world whilst you O blessed Virgin-Mother remain undaunted and not onely lodge him in your bosom receive him into your embraces refresh him with your breast-milk but moreover with an unparalleld Confidence you make him pay for his entertainment asking no less a reward for his nine months lodging than the grant of a generall and universall Peace to the world Glory for the heavenly Inhabitants Grace for Earthly Criminalls Life for the dead a strict league between the CHURCH Militant and Triumphant and a perpetuall Alliance of his divin Person with our human nature But now being at an absolute loss and not knowing what more can be added to these Epithetes of your Excellencies greatnesses and glories we again beg your lâ—cence O most Blessed Virgin-Mother to breath out what remains in meer raptures and astonishments Crying out to you with the great Patriarch of Antioch S. Ignatius epist ad Joan. O celestiall Prodigy O sacred spectacle With S. Chrysostom Sermon de B. V. O Miracle O Miracle of Miracles With S. Augustin Serm. 11. de Temp. O Miracles O Prodigies The Laws of Nature are changed God becomes Man you O sacred Virgin remaining a maid are made a Mother you are a Mother but without corruption you are a Virgin but you have a child you continue entire and yet you become fruitfull O Miracles O Prodigies With S. John Damascen orat 1. de Nat. B. V. O Abysmus of Miracles you O Virgin-Mother are as much elevated above the Seraphins as your Son is humbled below the Angells With S. Epiphanius orat de Sancta Deipara O extraordinary Prodigie in Heaven A woman infolding God in her bosom O new created Throne of Cherubins containing the Son of a woman who is the Father of his Mother O pretious nuptiall bed prepar'd in your sacred womb for the Celestiall Bridegroom who is together your own Son and the truly and only Son of God With S. Anselme lib. de excellentia Virginis Inviting all faithfull Christians to behold contemplate admire the height of honour to which the Eternall Fathers affection hath raised you O Royall Virgin-Mother He had but one only Son every way equall to himself and of his own substance and he condescended to have him in common with you O his incomprehensible dignation O your incomparable dignity And finally with your S. Bernard Hom. 4. super Missus est solum datum est nosse cui solum datum est experiri your own Greatnesses O glorious Virgin are only known to your own self who only had the happiness to experience them which perchance may be the proper meaning of that profound sentence The vertu of the most high shall overshaddow you whereby the celestiall Paranimph would seem to intimate That as you had the honour to be directly expos'd to the beams of that divin Sun which by an unheard of Intimacy and friendship foster'd you under the immediate shadow of his own splendor So you had also the riches of your own rare excellencies prerogatives and perfections reveal'd unto you But besides your self O Blessed Mother who were thus prodigiously admitted to be an Instrumentall Partner with the most Sacred Trinity in this secret Mystery 'T is in vain to conceive there can be found out any other capable to unfold or comprehend them Wherefore we humbly let fall our weak hand and wearied wings and convincedly confess your miraculous greatnesses O incomprehensible Mother of God! to be unexplicable incomprehensible inaccessible to all created imagination the glory whereof must necessarily be referr'd by us and all your devout honorers and admirers to the Eternall Father who hath created such a Daughter to the Son who hath chosen such a Mother to the Holy Ghost who hath thus enriched adorned and beautifi'd his Spouse his Temple his Tabernacle to the most sacred Trinity who best understands the
your boundless mercies sing §. 14. The Generall Rules and Statutes of the Confraternity of the Rosary IT is in the first place to be presupposed That there be a Priest or Dean of the Rosary impowered with sufficient authority from the Superiors of St Dominicks Order to receive such as desire to be admitted into this sacred Confraternity and to make choice of a Prefect with such other Councellors and Officers as he shall conceive requisite for his assistance in order to the managing of the publick affaires of the Confraternity Secondly That there be also a Chappell or Altar of the holy Rosary to which all the Brethren and sisters have a particular Relation Pius Quintus in his Bull Consueverunt and in his Bull Injunctum nobis Which being supposed These are the generall Rules with their explications The first Rule THat all faithfull Christians of whatsoever calling and condition may be received into this sacred Confraternity without any obligation to pay any thing for their entrance and admittance Leo the tenth Pastoris aeterni 1520. pridie nonas Octob. Annotation THe receiving of what is freely given and offred by devout persons Either for the ornament of the Altar or for the entertainment of him that serves the Altar or for the succouring of the poor Members of the Confraternity is not hereby forbidden But it is inhibited to exact any thing as due for any ones admittance First because it is a spirituall and holy thing Secondly to the end the Poor as well as the Rich may enjoy this benefit Thirdly because this pious Institut intend not the Receivers advancement but his reall good who is Received The second Rule THere is to be a particular Book provided wherein the Names and Sirnames of all such as are admitted must be enregistred Annotation IF the keeping of such a register-Register-Book or this manner of inrolling be found in some places and Countrey 's inconvenient It abundantly suffices to have the Names written and deliver'd to the Prefect of the Confraterternity though they be presently burnt and cancelled The third Rule WHosoever is once thus admitted in any one place is made partaker of the prayers and merits of all them that are of this Confraternity throughout the whol Univers Annotation AS concerning this large participation of spirituall Benefits See the tenth precedent § The fourth Rule NOt only the living but also the â—aithfull departed to wit the souls in Purgatory may be receiv'd and inroll'd in this Confraternity and made partakers of these spirituall Benefits and Priviledges if any of the living Brethren and Sisters performing for their deceased friends such pious duties devotions as the Rules demand shall desire and procure it Annotation THis is grounded upon that Maxim That all the Indulgences which may be obtain'd by the living are also applicable to the Dead The fifth Rule ALl the Brothers and Sisters are obliged to recite once every week the entire Rosary or whol Psalter which they may as themselves please either perform together or divide into three parts for their greater ease and conveniency Annotation THe whol Psalter or Rosary as is before declar'd § 5. is compos'd of 15. Paters and 150. Aves The three parts contain each one five Paters and fifty Aves The Creed is commonly and commendably recited in the beginning and added to the end of every third part with some other prayers as shall be hereafter set down but are no necessary part thereof The sixth Rule IN case of any lawfull Impediment the brothers and sisters causing the Rosary to be recited for them by another satisfy their own obligation Annotation THis is to be understood of some sufficiently excusing circumstance for it is dangerous to trust a Procurator when we traffick for Paradise The seventh Rule IF through forgetfulness multiplicity of Employments or negligence and not out of contempt they omit this weekly Recitall of the Rosary It is no sin but only a privation for that time of such spirituall benefits whereof they should otherwise have been partakers Annotation YEa if through carelesness and tepidity any one shall for a long time neglect the saying of the Rosary he ceaseth not therefore to be a member of this Confraternity but may return to his wonted devotions and re-obtain the usuall graces and benefits without any new admission The eighth Rule ALl the Rosarists should be present at the Mass and Procession which are uually perform'd in the Head-Chappell upon all the Feast-days of the sacred Virgin and first Sundays of the months Annotation THis is enjoyned by Pius 4. in his Brief Dum Praeclara c. Both for the gaining of such Plenary Indulgences as are then and there granted And also that the devout Rosarists may honour their sacred Virgin-Mother with their presence and unitedly implore her Patronage and Protection The ninth Rule THe Dean Prefect and Officers of the Confraternity are to cause four Anniversaries to be every year celebrated at the Rosary Altar for the Souls of their departed Brethren and Sisters upon the morrows of our Blessed Ladyes four principall Festivities which are her Nativity Annunciation Purification Assumption At which all the Rosarists should also assist that they may expect the same piety from their surviving Brethren for themselves after their own decease Annotation WHen the days next following the four feasts before named fall out to be either Sundays or some other greater solemnities then these Anniversary duties are remitted to the next day not so hindred An advertisement SInce these two last Rules cannot well be practis'd in some places The devout Rosarists are exhorted to perform their devotions upon the days before specified at their private homes and in their severall habitations with a Relation to such duties as are then solemniz'd in their Mother-Chappell whereby they may gain the same spirituall benefits as if they were personally there present As is expresly granred by Pius quintus Inter desiderabilia 28. June 1569. by Greg. 13. Cupientes 24. Decemb. 1583. And by Sixtus quintus Dum ineffabilia meritorum 30. Jan. 1586. The tenth Rule THe great Feast of the Rosary is not to be henceforth solemnized as it was formerly upon the 25. day of March but upon the first Sunday of October Annotation THis solemnity was thus translated from the 25. of March to the first Sunday of October by Pope Gregory the 13. who instituted the Feast of our Blessed Lady under the title of the Rosary as appears at large in his Brief beginning Monet Apostolus the first of April 1573. and ordain'd it should be upon that first Sunday of October perpetually celebrated in the Catholique Church for an Eternall and gratefull rememoration of that most remarkable and altogether miraculous Navall victory gained over the Turks by a handfull of Christians under the conduct of Don John of Austria in the Bay of Lepanto in the Gulf of Achaia upon the 7th day of October which was then the first Sunday of that month in the
The glorious St. BENNET and his Disciples with immortal fruit and profit practis'd and promulgated the Blessed Virgins Psalter The pious St. DOMINICK reuiu'd it's decaij'd use and is the Institutor of the Blessed Virgins Rosary as it is now in practise A. Voet fe Jesus Maria Joseph OR THE DEVOUT PILGRIM OF THE EVER BLESSED VIRGIN MARY IN HIS Holy Exercises Affections and Elevations Upon the sacred Mysteries of JESVS MARIA JOSEPH Published for the benefit of the pious Rosarists by A. C. and T. V. Religious Monks of the holy Order of S. BENNET Printed at Amsterdam Anno D. 1657. sacred Majesty this small Book which we have compiled for the comfort of your devout children as a publick and permanent Testimonie and Profession of our being entirely vow'd and addicted to your sons and your honour and service And we are thereto induced by much more forcible reasons than such as are wont to move men to make an Oblation of their works to the worthy's of this world For first you O Glorious Virgin are the greatest Princess of the whol universs and can therefore repay our endeavours with more reall rewards than the richest earthly Monarch can confer upon his Clients Moreover you are meek mild and mercifull and therefore will not disdaign the meanest offerings of your devoted and well meaning Vassalls Furthermore The particular and personall Favours we have already receiv'd by your powerfull patronage prayers and protection Favours which can be by no one deny'd without a spice of infidelity nor disguised without doing you an apparent injury nor suppress'd without our express ingratitude give us a certain kind of hopefull confidence that according to your wonted goodness and clemency you will not now reject us coming before you with these presents such as they are in our hands who have so piously heretofore help'd and relieved us in our most urgent and pressing necessities And finally This Book it self O Soveraign Queen-Mother stands in need of your speciall favour to render it fruitfull to its Readers For whosoever will make right use thereof must have simple and Dove-like eyes ayming only at Heaven single and disinteressed Hearts pretending nothing but Piety humble and obedient spirits captivated to Faith's mysteries docible diligent and devout souls willing to learn how they may rayse their thoughts to celestiall affections whilst their tongues run over their common prayers and supplications briefly earnest and ardent desires to imitate your Sons and your vertues and to express in their lives manners and conversations what they resent and resolve in their meditations All which necessary capacities you O singularly perfect and powerfull Virgin can principally obtain for them and which we beseech you O most compassionate Mother to procure for us and for all the devout children of your sacred Rosary that so our daily Prayers may not be without fervent affections nor our affections without efficacious works nor our works without the sweet fruits of Eternall life We pretend not here O most worthy Mother of the Word Eternall and Incarnate to make a Panegyrick of your prayses which were a design far above our forces and we willingly acknowledge that our wings are too weak to rayse us up to this Sphere of wonders that our dim eyes want strength to support the radiant splendor of this divin Sun that we should lose our selv's in this large Ocean of your Mervails and finally that by our over-near approaching to so great a Majesty we should infallibly be opprest by your Glory But should we undertake so impossible a task and adventure upon so rash an enterprise have we not summ'd up all the advantages of your glory by styling you Gods worthy Mother Surely to be Mother of the Soveraign Deity is a Supream Dignity since 't is the basis ground-work and foundation of all imaginable height holiness and happiness that can befall a creature but yet 't is incomparably more perfection to deserve this dignity than to possess it so that had you O most holy Virgin Mother deserv'd it without having it you had remain'd much greater than by having it without deserving it For your merit was not so strictly ty'd to your Maternity nor your Dignity to your desert as that they might not have separatedly subsisted since the Divin Majesty might have made choyce of some other less perfect Woman than your self for his Mother as also he could have conferr'd on you this plenitude of Grace wherby you acquired your worth without obliging himself to make you hâ—s Mother whence it most evidently follows that deserving to become Gods Mother though you had not been so is to you a greater honour and dignity than it had been to another to be so without having deserv'd it And though the greatest Gratification which God can bestow upon a simple creature is to make it his Mother yet this singly considered is only an Act of pure Gratification whereas your Sanctity O Sacred Virgin had it not been joyn'd to your Maternity would nevertheless have rais'd you to that prime place you now possess in your Creators favour and rendred you worthy of that inexplicable glory you shall there enjoy in heaven above all other Creatures for all future Eternity Wherefore if to style you Gods Mother is to say you can be no higher in dignity without being God himself surely to entitle you Gods worthy Mother is to say you are by your merit above all that is not the Divin Majesty since 't is to avouch That the desert of your Person agrees with the greatness of your Prerogative and that the greatness of your merit corresponds to the glory of your Maternity which is so eminent a Dignity that the Almighty by his absolute power can exalt no purely created beâ—ng to any higher pitch of perfection A Dignity which is the origin the measure and the abridgment of all your other numberless excellencies priviledges and greatnesses A Dignity to which they all yeild homage as subjects to the Soveraign on which they all depend as light on the Sun from which they are all deriv'd as rivulets from the Fountain A Dignity which except only Gods Soveraign Divinity and our Redeemers Sacred Humanity is the highest subject the holyest object the noblest entertainment of Mens and Angells contemplation Finally A Dignity which we may ravishtly admire but can never hope to explicate And what mervail is it O Mother of God! if we Alas Weak-spirited and short-sighted wretches falter in our expressions since the most fluent learned eloquent tongues and pens trembled to treat of this your divin and incomprehensible Title The great Bishop S. Gregory of Neo-Cesaria Serm. de Annunciatione that famous worker of Miracles and wonders can find no words to unfold the Infinit excellencies which are included in these three Syllables Gods Mother here his wit his language his learning fail him when he is to fall upon this unexplicable subject The worthy and wise Prelat of Constance Saint Epiphanius Serm. de Deipara
sublime height of his own most holy handy work And now O worthy Mother of God! since we have hitherto presented you with the fervent Affections which your faithfull servants have put into our hearts and mouths as well knowing that our own faint inventions could furnish us with none more pithy or to more pleasing permit us also to presume upon your pious Doctor S. Ildefonse de Virginitate Mariae cap. 1. for this our concluding Protestation That the height of all our ambitious desires is To prayse you as much as you deserve to be praysed To love you as much as 't is possible to love you and to render you as much service as your self can desire from such caitif creatures as we are Yes O Sacred Queen Mother had we hearts larger than the Empyreall heaven we would most willingly employ their whol extent in loving you Had we the Crowns Kingdoms Riches of all earthly Monarchs and Princes and as many lives as the Seas have sands we would most cheerfully leave all lose all forfeit all for the defence of your honour for the procuring of your affection for the promoting of your service Finally had either of us as much collected Capacity as all creatures have dispersedly it would come far short of our unlimited desires and affections which are to Love Honour and Serve you perfectly entirely eternally Receive our Hearts O Soveraign Queen of all Hearts replenish'd with these our pious intentions and protestations together with this small Mite which we here again most humbly offer up to your sacred Majesty as a votive Table of the now promised Homage we will ever hereafter be performing to the end that all such as shall make use of these ensuing Devotions may assuredly know that in the solemn tender of this small pledge we jointly intend to include an absolute Dedication of the whol remainder of our lives and labours to your Love and service and that we are content every Line Syllable Letter and Title of this Treatise shall rise as so many accusing witnesses to call for just revenge upon us and remain as so many marks to brand us with eternall infamy if we at any time hereafter maliciously ungratefully disloyally forfeit these our maturely made Resolutions of being your faithfull servants And finally that we hereby avouch in the face of Heaven and Earth to esteem nothing in this world after the inestimable benefits reap'd by the precious Death of your divin Son our dear Redeemer CHRIST JESVS comparable to the honour we have in being Most worthy Mother of GOD The meanest of your Chaplains at the Head-Altar of your Holy Rosary A. C. and T. V. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE OUR Noble Patron and most worthy Prefect of this Sacred Confraternity of the ROSARY RIght Honorable Though this little Book which carries in its Front the lovely Names of JESUS MARIA JOSEPH can want no forreign recommendation whereby to invite all faithfull Christians and especially the devout Rosarists to receive and embrace it and that the excellencie sublimitie and utilitie of the subject is to it self a sufficient safeguard and protection Yet surely could this Book have been conveniently dedicated to any other than the Queen of Heaven whose honour is its chief aym and intention it must necessarily have had recourse unto your self under whose wings it received its birth growth and accomplishment In acknowledgment whereof and the many signall favours you have charitably conferr'd upon us and upon this holy Confraternity of the sacred Rosary we conceiv'd our selv's bound to give this publick testimony of our sincere gratitude and withall to declare our earnest desire of contributing something towards your own spirituall advancement and perfection For notwithstanding that your Piety to God and devotion to the sacred Virgin-Mother and her glorious Bridegroom Saint Joseph are so deeply setled in your heart as it may seem superfluous to lend you any assistance in order to their further encrease or confirmation yet the perusall of this present Treatise which so far excells all others of this nature in the solidity of the deliver'd doctrin in the explication of the most important points and in the clear facil and familiar insinuation of this sort of Piety that we need not blush to yeild to their Judgment who esteem it the chief of them which have yet seen light in our mother language must needs prove both pleasing and profitable unto you as being a perfect Mirrour of what you either are already or zealously wish to be where you will find both Fewell to foment your fervour and Fire to add to it where you will read the Precepts of Perfection reduc'd into Practises and the Doctrin of Devotion drawn into forms of Duty Briefly where you may learn a compendious way to extract the fruits of your Predestination to glory to tast the sweetness of heavenly affections during this your earthly Pilgrimage and to procure your Souls repose here and its salvation hereafter which is the desired end and Crown of yours and all pious Christians endeavours And all these happinesses with more if more can be imagined are obtain'd by means of the sacred Rosary whereby these influences of celestiall blessings slide efficaciously into faithfull hearts from her holy hands who is appointed by her all-powerfull Son to be the charitable Dispensatrix of his divin treasures and the Common Mother of all the pious Christians which are regenerated in Baptism by his most pretious Blood and Passion For as all they who are predestinated to glory are properly Gods Children since they have the self same heavenly Father by Grace Adoption which the Son of God hath by Birth and Nature according to that expression of S. John Behold how great the Fathers goodnes is towards us for that we are call'd are the Sons of God And as the Eternall Father in begetting his Co-eternall Son gives part of the honour of this Divin Filiation to such as he foresees conformable to his Sons Image so that they may truly call him their Father who is the Father of Gods Son as himsef expresly declares by teaching us to say Our Father which art in heaven So the Son in his human generation given him by a Mother upon earth is pleas'd to make his friends partakers with himself in the title of his Temporall Filiation by giving them the same Mother whom he chose for himself whereby they become Brethren to Gods Son both on the Fathers side who adopts them and on the Mothers side who by her own Sons will and command acknowledges them for her Children Behold your Mother said our Saviour to all his friends and Brethren represented in Saint Johns person Behold your Children said he to the sacred Virgin shewing her Saint John who represented all the faithfull Words appointing her our Mother and adopting us her Sons Words recommending to Her a Maternall care and affection towards us and to us a filiall duty and reverence towards Her Nor are we only
which Pope Boniface the fourth cleansing the ancient Temple Pantheon consecrated to all the Gods dedicated to the honour of the ever blessed Virgin-Mother and all the holy Martyrs in the year 609. 16. S. Brandanus an Abbot in Scotland a most zealous servant of the sacred Virgin to whom he consecrating the labours sustain'd in his seven years navigation and laying upon the Altar dedicated to her honour a book containing the whol course of his journey was summon'd by a voyce from Heaven to exchange this life for immortality and having finish'd the celebration of a solemn Mass upon the same Altar he most happily expired after the year 570. 19. S. Dunstanus Archbishop of Canterbury a great Favourite of the sacred virgin whom she piously cherish'd even in his Mothers womb prodigiously cured in his tender age and frequently visited during the time of his Pontificall dignity He dyed in the year 988. 27. S. Bede a venerable Priest and most affectionate servant of the sacred Virgin-Mother whose Psalter according to the Institution of his glorious Father S. Bennet he most zealously preached promulgated and planted not only in his own native Countrey England where in the publick places of Prayer he caus'd the materiall Psalters to be hung up to invite all Passengers and Pilgrims to this sort of devotion and which in Veneration of his name are there ever since call'd Bedes even to this day but also says Alanus in France and the neighbouring Kingdoms He dyed full of years sanctity and learning after the 731. year of Christ 29. The Feast of the Miracles wrought by the Mother of Power Celebrated in memory of the many signall and prodigious wonders she hath been graciously pleas'd to work in severall Monasteries of S. Bennets order JUNE 18. THE Feast or Commemoration of the Psalter of the sacred Virgin Mary instituted by the admirable Father and Patriarch of Monks S. Bennet to be observ'd in his holy Order and afterwards propagated by his Disciples throughout the whol world whereof Blessed Alanus de Rupe the great Secretary of the glorious Virgin-Mother and another Restorer after S. Dominick of this Marian Psalter hath these words Apolog. part 1. cap. 8. and part 2. cap. 2. 4. S. Bennet the famous Patriarch of Monasticall Institution introduced the use of the Marian Psalter which he himself had long before practised amongst his Religious Children and this not so much by any precept as by the very use thereof pass'd to posterity as a most pious and religious custome JULY 2. THE Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in memory of her visiting S. Elizabeth after she had conceiv'd the Son of God at whose presence S. John the Baptist leap'd in the womb of his Mother Elizabeth Luk. 1.41 which Feast was instituted by Pope Urban the sixth in the year 1385. and promulgated by his successor Boniface the ninth in the year 1389. to implore the Blessed Virgins assistance against the Schisme which then miserably divided the Church S. Otho Bishop of Bamberg and Apostle of Pomerania a most affectionate servant of the sacred Virgin-Mother whose speciall assistance he always implor'd and obtain'd especially in the Conversion of Nations and to whose honour he erected that famous Cathedrall of Weier He left this life in the year 1139. 14. S. Henry the first Emperour surnamed the Lame otherwise called the second for that he had a predecessor of the same name who out of modestie and humility refused the denomination of Emperour a most devout Client of the sacred Virgin Mother to whose honour he founded that fair Cathedrall of Spire as also that of Basil and severall others and in whose imitation he kept perpetuall virginity together with his wife S. Cunegundis whereby he became so highly pleasing to the Virgin Queen of Heaven that he was frequently admitted to her familiarity He was instrumentall to the Conversion of S. Stephen King of Hungary and the whol Hungarian nation and full of sanctity and all sorts of vertues he yeilded his Soul into the hands of his heavenly Bridegroom in the year 1024. 17. S. Leo the fourth Pope a singular honorer of the sacred Virgin-Mother and promotour of her prayses throughout the whol world He instituted the Octaves of her Assumption and departed this life in the year 855. 19. Blessed Hermannus Contractus so named from the Contraction and weakness of almost all his members a most devâ—ut Monk of Augia which is an Iland in Germany not far distant from Constantia and a most zealous servant of the sacred Virgin-Mother by whose powerfull prayers he obtained such inward gifts of learning and wisdom as abundantly recompenc'd the outward defects of nature He wrote much in her prayses and amongst the rest those most famous Anthems Salve Reginae and Alma Redemptoris Mater He dyed about the year 1052. till which time he produced his Chronicle of the worlds six Ages 29. Blessed Vrbanus the second Pope a most holy and learned Man and a most zealous promoter of the sacred Virgins honour whose office composed by S. Peter Damian he confirm'd and commended to the world in the Councill of Clermont in the year 1096. AUGUST 5. THE Dedication of the Church of our Blessed Lady ad Nives or at the Snow which miraculously covering a part of the Exquilin mountain neer Rome at this time when the greatest heats use to parch the City gave occasion to the building of a famous Church to the sacred Virgin-Mothers honour thereby to perpetuate the memory of so signall a miracle in this same place thus by her self designed in the year 367. 15. The Assumption of the most sacred Mother of God celebrated time out of mind with greatest solemnity both by the Greek and Latin Church in memory of her being assumpted or taken up into heaven both body and soul after her dissolution S. Arnulphus Bishop of Soissons in France whose soul amidst the festivall joys of his dear Mothers Assumption was by her visited and call'd out of his body to a blessed eternity in the year 1087. 20. S. Bernard first Abbot of Claravall the singularly beloved Minion Favourite Child and Chaplain of Gods holy Mother whom she as a stupendious argument of her delicate affection frequently fed with her virginall breast-milk familiarly resaluted with Salve Bernarde and lovingly visited cured and comforted in the time of his sickness infirmity He amongst all the Fathers is most profuse in the sacred Virgins prayses in whose honour he composed many most pious and pithy Treatises amongst which is the Ave Maris Stella us'd in the vespers of all the Blessed Virgins Festivities He dyed full of admirable sanctity and learning in the year 1153. 22. S. Bernardus Tolomaeus Founder of the Order of S. Mary of Mount Olivet who being prodigiously cured of a grievous sickness and blindness by the Blessed Virgins intercession vow'd himself to her perpetuall service and forthwith ascending into the Pulpit he divulg'd this divin miracle and decipher'd the
when sunk down to the bottom so it is with sin the cure is desperate when the disease is deeply rooted 3. The frequent use of the Holy EVCHARIST is no less necessary to all faithfull and devout Christians where they are visited by God himself honoured with his Reall Presence fed with his sacred flesh made the Temple of the Holy Ghost the Cabinet of the Word Incarnat the Tabernacle of the Immense Trinity the Throne the Heaven the Palace the Paradise of the whol divinity O what priviledges what profits what prerogatives to have their sins pardoned temptations quelled passions conquered enemies repulsed new strength granted all sorts of graces communicated To have the spirit cleared the memory awaked the will inflamed the understanding illuminated the heart confirmed the appetite regulated the reason instructed the sensuality repressed the whol man divinized To receive the antipasts of Paradise the pledges of eternall bliss and beatitude who would not endeavour to be frequently partaker of such heights such honours such happinesses 4. Another important practice of devout Christians is to hear Mass as often as they may for it is a Sacrifice whereby the merits of our Redeemers Passion are applyed to us A Sacrifice in which and by which thanks are rendred to the Divin Majesty for all the benefits received from his bounty A Sacrifice of infinit worth and efficacie inflowing multitudes of graces favours and blessings upon the devout assistants which this time and place permit me not to particularize 5. Furthermore to hear Gods Word preached and announced if that happiness may be obtained is also a point of great piety profit and merit nor is there indeed any more express sign of a Christians belonging to Christs flock and fold than the frequent and affectionate hearing of his divin Word according to his own saying He that is of God hears his Word and my sheep hear my voyce Surely they who lend a willing ear to their prime Pastours voyce preached to them by his Missioners and Officers testifie thereby that they are his loving and obedient Sheep the imitators of his Blessed Mother who kept all his words carefully in her heart and children designed for his heavenly inheritance 6. The last piece of devotion which I shall now mention belonging to pious Christians and especially to the religious children of Jesus and Mary is to addict themselves to the reading of the spirituall Conflict and Conquest and other good holy and spirituall books for these are the dumb masters which teach us the lessons of true wisdom and heavenly Philosophy These are the fire-steels of Gods love and fear the matches of devotion the interpreters of sacred mysteries the pilots of our pilgrimage the Registers of Gods wondrous works the Court-Rolls where we may turn to the authentique effects of his severe justice and of his sweet mercy Behold these are the true badges of perfect brethren sisters these are the undeniable seals of devout Confraternities these are the essentiall properties of our Queen-Mothers children and servants Study them seriously O devout Rosarists and endeavour punctually to observe and keep them First admiring praysing thanking the divin Majesty for providing you so powerfull so worthy so perfect a Mother Patroness and Advocate Secondly striving to make your selves worthy children of so great and glorious a Mother worthy members of so pious and profitable a Confraternity Thirdly Remember the promises made at your first admission and honour her accordingly love her admire her and propagate her prayses to the whol World Fourthly above all aym at the imitation of her Life and Vertues which is the most perfect and to her most pleasing way of homage and service Fifthly frequent the Sacraments of Confession and Communion hear Mass dayly and devoutly be present at holy exhortations and give your self to spirituall lecture Sixtly let no day pass without a speciall recommendation of your self your fellow-brethren and sisters of the ROSARY and the Vniversall Church not forgetting our distressed Nation her ancient Dowry to your Mother of Powers care and protection Finally make your most humble and hearty addresses unto your Mother of Power in all your pressing necessities and doubt not but you shall receive singular benefits and blessings by your being of this sacred Confraternity during the course of your life and singular comfort and confidence at the hour of your death that is you shall live well and dye well which is the happiness we all aim at and which is my hearty and daily prayer for my self and for you all my devout brethren and sisters of this most sacred and most renowned Arch-Confraternity of the ROSARY THE FIRST BOOK OF THE SACRED ROSARY Which is the Doctrinall part thereof Containing briefly these Particulars 1. THat every faithfull Christian ought to have a particular devotion towards Gods holy Mother the sacred Virgin Mary 2. That the Practice of the sacred Rosary is a devotion very pleasing to the Divin Majesty profitable to our selves and gratefull to the blessed Virgin 3. That this sort of devotion is proper for such Catholiques as live in hereticall Countries 4. What the Rosary is 5. The Rosary is twofold the great and little Rosary 6. Why this manner of prayer is call'd the Rosary 7. That the Rosary comprehends the two sorts of prayer vocall and mentall 8. Three advices concerning this manner of praying and meditating 9. A difficultie concerning this conjunction of vocall and mentall prayer proposed and cleared 10. Of the advantage which this Confraternity of the Rosary hath above all others in point of Communication of merits 11. Of Indulgences in generall 12. Three necessary advertisements for the gaining of Indulgences 13. Of the Indulgences conferr'd upon the Confraterâ—ity of the Rosary 14. The generall rules and Statutes of the Confraternity of the Rosary 15. The form of receiving brothers and sisters into this sâ—ered Confraternity with the blessing of their Bedes Roses and Candles And a form of the generall absolution to be imparted to them at the hour of death 16. Of the pious use of Processions 17. An Elevation for the Procession of the Rosary with the Litanies of our Blessed Lady of the Rosary and the Litanies of our Blessed Lady of Loretto for a happy death 18. Severall other prayers to be recited after the Litanies as occasion shall require §. 1. That every faithfull Christian ought to have a particular devotion towards Gods holy Mother the sacred Virgin Mary THIS is a Subject so generally handled a Doctrin so universally received a verity so largely proved by all the learned holy and pious Writers of the Catholique Church that the onely reading of the Title seem a sufficient motive to mind all faithfull Christians of this duty and devotion without seeking for further Arguments to convince an undeniable Tenet which is supported by such almost infinit multitudes of solid arguments that the bare recitall thereof would swell this discourse which aimes at a compendious brevity into many
our selves in the open'd holes of that Rock the wounds of our Redeemer from the World Sin Satan and whatsoever tempts or troubles us during this our lives Pilgrimage If in this or some such like manner you seriously reflect upon these sacred Mysteries which the Rosary represents for your mentall entertainment whilst your mouth utters the Vocall Prayers you may undoubtedly gather the desired Fruit of your devotion and make a speedy progress in the way of solid piety and perfection And having thus declared unto you most devout Rosarists with as much brevity and perspicuity as the sublimity of the Argument the slenderness of our Capacity and the Law 's and limits of a Prefatorie Oration would permit the excellent vertues fruits and benefits of each single part of the Rosarie and Psalter to wit of the Apostles Creed the Lords Prayer the Angelicall Salutation and the Meditations upon the Mysteries It will be needless to dilate upon such profits as proceed from the whol Rosary together both for that the praise of the parts expresly redounds to the whol Compositum and also because it were to undertake an impossible taske For who can worthily commemorate the manifold wonders and Miracles the infinit fruits and profits the multitudes of benefits and blessings which have been from time to time deriv'd and do still dayly descend upon all Mankind by the due practise of this divin sort of prayer and pietie All Ages afford authentick examples of them All Books are full fraught with them all Histories make mention of them Wherefore for a conclusion of all that might be added concerning this never sufficiently prays'd extoll'd and admir'd subject Let the frequent Reflexion upon those five points which are in the beginning of our first Book more largly produc'd and clearly prov'd by the ancient Fathers express Testimonies content you comfort you and encourage you O faithfull and devout Children and servants of Queen Mary in the prosecution of these your well embraced Exercises of Piety in the Confraternity of the Rosary First That your dear Mother entirely loves you See Page 49. 2. That she will confer large Favours upon you page 50. 3. That she will assist you in all your afflictions page 51. 4. That she is your faithfull Advocate in Heaven page 53. 5ly And lastly That she will procure for you a happy passage out of this your worldly Pilgrimage the salvation of your Souls and the Fruition of Eternall felicity Read the page 57 58 59. To which lead and conduct us all by her powerfull patronage and intercession The All-powerfull and Eternally Blessed Father Son and Holy Ghost THE SECOND BOOK OF THE SACRED ROSARY WHICH IS The Practicall part thereof containing these Particulars To the Devout Rosarists 1. OF the sign of the Cross wherewith we begin our Rosary 2. Of the Apostles Creed the first part of the Rosary An Exercise upon the Apostles Creed 3. Of the Pater noster the second part of the Rosary The Affections contain'd in the Pater noster A larger Explication of our Lords Prayer An Exercise upon our Lords Prayer dilated with Acts c. 4. Of the Ave Maria the third part of the Rosary The Affections contain'd in the Ave Maria or Angelicall Salutation with an explication thereof An Exercise upon the Hail Marie dilated with Acts c. 5. The manner how to recite the Rosary 6. Of the Fifteen Mysteries in Generall the fourth part of the Rosary 7. Of the Fifteen Mysteries of the Rosary in particular The first Appendix Jesus or the Confraternity of the sacred Name of JESUS with Elevations The second Appendix Maria or the Devotion call'd the Bondage of the Blessed Virgin Mary with Elevations The third Appendix Joseph or Devotions to S. Joseph with Elevations To the devout Rosarists WE have hitherto in our first Book prepared you O pious Children of Mary with some necessary Instructions and encouragements and brought you as it were with your Bedes in hand ready to recite your Rosary Now since the Rosary is begun and ended with 1. the Sign of the Cross and 2. saying of the Creed and consists 3. in the frequent Repetition of the Lords Prayer and 4. Angelicall Salutation and 5. in the continuall Meditation upon the chief Mysteries of our Redeemer and his sacred Mother you are first to ground your selves in the knowledge and understanding at least in some measure of these Prayers and of these Mysteries that so your devotions may prove more efficacious and your Prayers be perform'd with more gust and satisfaction To which end you may profitably read over and peruse this ensuing explication of them and as often as your occasions shall permit and your devotion serve recite them as they are hereafter affectively enlarg'd and paraphras'd §. 1. Of the Sign of the Cross wherewith we begin our Rosary THe sign of the Cross was prefigur'd and announc'd by the Prophets taught and recommended by our Redeemer Christ Jesus and even us'd and practis'd in the Catholique Church With this sign all faithfull Christians ought to begin all their actions according to that Counsell and command of S. Cyprian Make this sign both eating and drinking and sitting and standing and speaking and walking And of S. Hierome At every action and upon all occasions let the hand imprint a Cross But much more carefull should they be to begin their prayers devotions which are the chief Acts of Religion with this sacred sign Amd most of all ought they so to begin the recitall of their Rosary which as hath been declared in the precedent Oration is the most eminent sort of prayer and devotion S. Augustin alleadges severall Reasons for this generall custom of all Christians Because this sign of the Cross says he directs the course of our Pilgrimage instructs us for our combat helps us in our conflict strengthens us for our Conquest It destroys all dangers and defends us from all Diabolicall subtilties and machinations To which may be added 1. That this sign of the Cross is a compendious Profession of the Christian Faith wherein the Mystery of the sacred Trinity the Incarnation and Passion of our Blessed Saviour and the Remission of sins by his merits is briefly taught and declared 2. It is a certain badge by which Orthodox Christians are known and distinguish'd from Sectaries and Infidells we are all said to be Christians says S. Augustin for we are all sign'd with Christs signet 3. It is an Invocation of the divin assistance in all our actions for by this sign we invoke the sacred Trinity to our ayd by the mediation of our Saviours Passion 4. It affords us spirituall comfort and courage For if thou art not asham'd says S. Augustin to make this sign exteriourly before men thou mayst confidently expect to feel the divin sweetness in thy Soul 5. It is a Meditation and Imitation of our Redemers passion When thou signest thy self with the Cross says S. Chrysostom ruminate in thy mind the whol
Instructer of the Apostles and therefore is described by S. John in his Revelations with a Crown of twelve Starrs upon her head Hail Mary 10. At her being crown'd with the verdant and perpetually florishing Aureola of Innocency Purity FOr as she was of such extraordinary Purity that under God-man a greater cannot be conceiv'd says Saint Anselm And of such unimitable Innocency that from the first instant of her Conception to the last moment of her life She preserv'd it absolutely entire without the least spot or blemish so She enjoyes a Crown of extraordinary Clarity far above all others the same God-man only excepted Hail Mary Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost c. These Prayers Angelicall c. Affections Elevations Petitions O King of Glory How great is your bounty and how excessive is your liberality You confer upon men whol Torrents of pleasurs and full Oceans of delights for their Cups of cold water given for your sake You bestow on thē magnificent Crowns and blessed Kingdoms for their morsells of bread bestow'd upon their necessitous brethren And shall we question whether your own dear Mother whose pure Blood gave your Body its Being in whose chast entralls you so long lodged upon whose Breast-milk you so sweetly fed is now highly rewarded by you in heaven She cloath'd you O word Eternall and Incarnate with the robes of her Humanity and can we doubt but that you have vested her with the light of your Heavenly glory and crown'd her with the glittering Jewells of Wisdom Power Dominion and whatsoever may beseem the Soveraign Empress of Men and Angells O Virgin O Mother How great is your Glory How singular your Honor How Eminent your Dignity Since you are the Mother of Grace which is God himself you are seated on the right hand of God himself in his Glory Since you have the advantagious quality above all creatures of being Gods Mother you surely have an advantagious Crown above all Creatures which constitutes you Queen of Heaven For to what Woman besides your happyest self Or to which of the Angells howsoever high holy and perfect did euer God say you are my Mother you begot me bore me brought me forth O Mother of God! O Title of Titles O words few in number but full of numberless Mysteries and miracles O Quality containing all the Abyssall perfections which can possibly fall within the compass of Mens and Angells Imagination thinking upon a pure creature Mother of God! Be you praysed honoured and admired next to your Son Jesus by all Creatures in Heaven and Earth for evermore You have sufficiently shew'd me O sacred Mother by your divin example the ready way to reall glory and happiness Which is To prefer Gods honour love and service before all things els whatsoever But alas How Poorly have I hitherto practis'd your instructions and how ill have I imitated your examples Your continuall Exercise was to magnifie the Divin Majesty with heart and mouth and therefore you have deserv'd to be blessed prays'd and proclaim'd happie by all succeeding generations because the Almighty wrought great things in you placing you upon the worlds Theater as the Prime work of his hands and the most accomplish'd pattern of all created perfections But I on the contrary have made small account of God and his service and how then can I expect to obtain the blessing of him others or hope he should effect great things in me by me for me Yet if he and all others call me not blessed in the last great Judgment day I must remain accursed for all Eternity And if he work not great things in me what can all other things avail me in order to my happiness Ha! How long then shall my affection be fastned to falshoods follies vanities How long shall my soul be enslav'd to these sordid passions and to the base customs of my corrupted nature which are repugnant to Reason contrary to my Creators Law opposite to his profer'd grace destructive of my expected glory O my Lord and my God! I will no longer forget you I will even now begin to praise you with heart and mouth in all before all above all your only love honour and service shall be the first in my esteem the first in my affections the first in my actions For alas what els have I to esteem desire love in Heaven and Earth but you the God of my heart my soveraign good my All for time and Eternity And thou my poor Soul Take courage Eternity draws on Thy glorious Mother with millions of blessed Saints and Angells more beautifull than so many Suns in the mid-day of their brightness invites thee to be with her satiated with her Sons amiable countenance and absorp'd in the boundless Sea of his beatifying delights Thy beloved Lord himself expects thee with a Crown of evelasting rewards in his right hand and with these sweetly alluring words in his sacred mouth Come my Love my Dove my Fair one come thou shalt be crown'd for having serv'd me faithfully lov'd me fervently suffer'd for me freely and accomplish'd my will fully Live henceforth with me eternally in Satiety and security THE FIRST APPENDIX JESVS Or the Confraternity of the most sacred Name of JESUS With Elevations sutable thereunto IN so much as there is a certain pious Fraternity of the most holy Name of Jesus which had its first rise and origin from that of the sacred Rosary Et ex illa tanquam ex Matre filia prognata sit being as it were the Daughter of that Mother and to which it is so firmly fastned and so neerly allied as that generally in Catholique Countreys all they who are children of the Blessed Mothers Rosary are also thus Members of the Son's Society It will not be amiss after this large Declaration of the Rosary to annect a brief description of this Confraternity that so nothing may be wanting which may conduce to the devotion of faithfull Christians and enrich them with spirituall Benefits This pious Confraternity of the sacred Name of Jesus was begun in Italy by Didacus a Victoria a Doctor of Divinity and devout Preacher of S. Dominicks order in the year 1564. and soon after promulgated throughout Spain by Joannes Micon who was another learned Doctor and zealous Preacher of the same Order the Disciple of that Blessed and famous man Ludovicus Bertrandus The Reason and End of the Institution thereof was to extirpate that execrable and then Customary vice of Swearing by Gods holy Name and blaspheming the divin Majesty The Rules of this Confraternity are these 1. They who desire to be of it are either to have their Names enrolled into a Book provided for that purpose as it is said of the Rosary or to be admitted into this Confraternity by such as have power from the Superiors of Saint Dominick's Order by some other legall lawfull and formall way 2. Upon the day of our Redeemers Circumcision which
unite it unto you O Mary Poure out the milk of your Chast Breasts upon my heart by the impression of an humble piety and devotion upon it which may entirely sanctifie my Interiour O Joseph bestow on me the blessings of the Earth that is of your labours sweats and merits wherby the works of my hands may become prosperous and all my exteriour actions profitable and meritorious That honouring and loving you upon Earth O sacred Trinity JESUS MARIA JOSEPH I may enjoy your happy sight and presence O Jesu with Mary and Joseph in Heaven and there render due honour praife and glory to the Father Son and Holy Ghost one only God for all Eternity Amen THE FOURTH APPENDIX STATIONS Or a Catalogue of the Plenary Indulgences of the Stations of ROME AND FIRST Of the Stations in Advent Lent and other Moveable Feasts as they are set down in the Bulla Cruciata publisbed in the year 1612. ALL the Indulgences of the Stations of Rome are granted to the Members of the holy Rosary as is declared in the 13 sect Numb 11. page 103. of our first Book by visiting upon those days five Altars or one only if there be no more and reciting before each Altar five Paters and five Aves or Twenty Five before that one Altar Now the days of the Roman Stations upon which Plenary Indulgences are granted in Advent Lent and other moveable Feasts are these following The first Sunday in Advent at S. Maria Major The second Sunday at the holy Cross in Jerusalem and at S. Maria de Angelis The third Sunday at S. Peters Wednesday in Ember week at S. Maria Major Friday in Ember-week at the twelve Apostles Saturday in Ember-week at Saint Peters The fourth Sunday in Advent at the 12. Apostles Septuagesima Sunday at S. Laurence without the walls And a soul out of Purgatory Sexagesima Sunday at S. Paul Quinquagesima Sunday at Saint Peter Ashwensday at S. Sabina Thursday at S. George Friday at SS John and Paul Saturday at S. Tryphon The first Sunday in Lent at S. John Lateran Munday at S. Peter in Vinculis Tuesday at S. Anastasia and a soul out of Purgatory Wensday at S. Maria Major Thursday at S. Laurence in Panerperna Fryday at the twelve Apostles Saturday at S. Peter The second Sunday in Lent at S. Maria in Domnica and S. Maria Major Munday at S. Clement Tuesday at S. Balbina Wensday at S. Cecily Thursday at S. Maria trans Tyberim Fryday at S. Vitalis Saturday at S. Peter and Marcelline And a soul out of Purgatory The third Sunday in Lent at S. Laurence without the walls And a soul out of Purgatory Munday at S. Mark Tuesday at S. Pudentiana Wensday at S. Sixtus Thursday at SS Cosmus and Damianus Fryday at S. Laurence in Lucina Saturday at S. Susan and at S. Maria de Angelis The fourth Sunday in Lent at the holy Cross in Jerusalem and a soul out of Purgatory Munday at SS Quatuor Coronati Tuesday at S. Laurence in Damaso Wensday at S. Paul Thursday at S. Sylvester and at S. Martins in the Mount Friday at S. Eusebius Saturday at S. Nicholas in Carcere The fifth Sunday in Lent at Saint Peter Munday at S. Chrysogonus Tuesday at S. Cyriacus Wensday at S. Marcellus Thursday at S. Apollinaris Fryday at S. Stephen in Caelio monte And a soul out of Purgatory Saturday at S. John ante Portam Latinam And a soul of Purgatory Palm-Sunday at S. John Lateran Munday at S. Praxedes Tuesday at S. Pâ—…sca Wensday at S. Maria Major Thursday at S. John Lateran Fryday at the holy Cross and at S. Maria de Angelis Saturday at S. John Lateran Easter day at S. Maria Major Munday at S. Peter Tuesday at S. Paul Wensday at S. Laurence without the walls And a soul out of Purgatory Thursday at the twelve Apostles Fryday at S. Maria ad Martyres Saturday at S. John Lateran Low-Sunday at S. Pancratius Munday in Rogation week at S. Maria Major Tuesday at S John Lateran Wensday at S. Peter Ascension day at S. Peter Whitson-eve at S. John Lateran Whit-Sunday at S. Peter Munday at S. Peter in Vinculis Tuesday at S. Anastasia Wensday at S. Maria Major Thursday at S. Laurence without the walls And a soul out of Purgatory Fryday at the twelve Apostles Saturday at S. Peter And a soul out of Purgatory On the Feast of Corpus Christi and all the days within the Octave at S. Peter Wensday of the Ember-week in September at S. Maria Major Fryday at the twelve Apostles Saturday at S. Peter Plenary Indulgences which may be gain'd by them of the Rosary reciting twenty five Paters and Aves before five Altars or all before one as aforesaid upon such days of the Months as are here set down in order JANUARY 1. ON the Feast of the Circumcision and all the days within the Octave at S. Maria Trans Tyberim and at Ara Coeli 6. On the Feast of the Epiphany and all the days within the Octave at S. Peters 17. At S. Anthony the Abbot 18. At S. Peter and also at S. Prisca 20. At S. Sebastians 21. At S. Agnes 25. At S. Paul 27. At S. John Chrysostom and at Ara coeli 31. At the holy Crossin Jerusalem FEBRUARY 2. PUrification of the Virgin Mary And a soul out of Purgatory at S. Maria Major S. Maria de Pace S. Maria de Angelis and S. Maria Inviolata 3. At S. Blase A soul out of Purgatory 22. Chair of S. Peter at S. Peters 24. S Mathias at S. Matthew the Apostle 26. At S. Constantia a Chappell in the Church of S. Agnes MARCH UPon all the Frydays in March at S. Peter a Plenary Indulgence 7. S. Thomas of Aquin at the Minerva 12. At S. Peter and at S. Gregory 19. At S. Josephs 21. At S. Bennets 25. Upon the Feast of the Annunciation and all the days within the Octave at the Minerva and at the Annunciate APRILL 23. AT S. George 25. Upon S. Marks day at S. Peters 29. Being the Feast of S. Peter Martyr of the Order of S. Dominick at the Minerva MAY. UPon all the Sundays of this Month at S. Sebastians a Plenary 1. At SS Philip and Jacob. 3. At Holy Cross in Jerusalem 6. At S. John Lateran where all so from this day untill the 6. of August there is a speciall Station with a Plenary and a soul out of Purgatory 8. The Apparition of S. Michael at S. Maria Major 19. S. Peter Celestin at S. Maria Major 20. S. Bernardin at S. Maria de Ara coeli 21. At S. Helena JUNE 11. AT S. Barnabie the Apostle 13. S. Anthony of Padua at S. Maria de Ara coeli 24. At S. John Lateran 29. At S. Peters 30. Commemoration of S. Paul JULY 2. THE Visitation of our Blessed Lady and all the days within the Octave at S. Maria de populo and S. Maria de Pace 14. S. Bonaventure at S. Maria de Aracoeli 17. At S. Alexius 22. At