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A28621 A journal of meditations for every day in the year gathered out of divers authors / written first in Latine by N.B. ; and newly translated into English by E.M. in ... 1669. N. B., 1598-1676.; Mico, Edward, 1628-1678. 1669 (1669) Wing B352; ESTC R3108 325,833 556

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A JOURNAL OF MEDITATIONS For every day in the Year Gathered out of divers Authors Written first in Latine by N. B. and newly translated into English by E. M. in the Year of our Lord 1669. Every day will I bless thee and will praise thy name for ever and for ever and ever Ps 144.2 Anno Dom. MDCLXIX THE TRANSLATOR TO THE READER THe general use of Mental Prayer through the Christian World next to the influence of the Divine Spirit who is the principal Cause and Author of all that is good oweth very much to the pious labours of those who in Written Books and Volumes have treated at large of this holy Exercise of its nature excellency and advantages and have delivered rules and precepts for the due performance of it and withal have suggested ample matter of Meditation digested into points and set down in order and method By which means this principal part of Devotion though something difficult in its self without the special unction of the Holy Ghost hath been wonderfully facilitated and made familiar to all Neither are we in England destitute of these helps having in our own language Luiz de Puentes Luiz Granada's and Vincentio Bruno's Meditations and some others whose pious labours have proved singularly beneficial to the Christian World Yet in regard these Authors are either large in themselves or have not that set and ready distribution for each day in the year which would be a riddance of a continual trouble in seeking out and contriving Meditations suitable to the current time and day and because many there are who though desirous to employ themselves daily in this Exercise yet have not either will or leasure to spend much time therein or convenience to have always about them larger Volumes I thought it would not prove a superfluous labour to adjoyn to the former helps some more compendious and methodical supply which I hope will be so performed by this short Journal that young beginners may find what help they desire without tediousness and others that have had more practice in Mental Prayer and desire to employ more time therein may not want matter to work upon and dilate themselves more at large both in discourse and affection The Author of this Journal is of our own Nation and yet living though buried to the World whose modesty enjoyns me to a concealment of his name But in regard the reputation of my Author may be of concern to the benefit of my Reader I think my self bound to let the world know that his singular vertue and abilities have first placed and since fixed him these last twenty years in an eminent employment and one of greatest trust in the state and profession he liveth in He wrote this Book thirty years since in Latine for the benefit of a private Community of whose spiritual advancement then committed to his charge he was zealous This work though never yet set forth to the publick view of the world in Print hath a sufficient approbation from the general esteem of all those that have made use of it Some persons of known vertue literature and authority have procured themselves Copies and make use of no other in their daily exercise of Mental Prayer Others have taken the pains to Transcribe it for their constant use and both these and several others have wished to see it published in English for the more general benefit of our Nation The matter is solid and for the most part grounded on Divine Scripture and fitly accommodated to the use and practice of the Church which in several parts of the year doth represent unto us the several Mysteries of our Saviours Incarnation his Infancy Life and Doctrine his Passion and Death Resurrection and Ascension The Method is pla●● and easie laying down in order each days Meditation and requiring no further trouble than the going continually on with them or if you chance to make any interruption for weeks or days you need but turn to the week and day you are in according to the Ecclesiastical account which every Calendar will tell you As concerning the Translation I have been faithful in my trust keeping touch all along with the sense of the Original What alterations I have made I was necessitated unto by reason of the matter which being in many places applied by the Author to the particular Community for which he wrote required some change for the more general use of all and I was authorized therein by an express and large Commission from the Author which notwithstanding I have used sparingly As for the Version of the Scripture-Text I have carefully sought out each Citation and even scrupulously followed every where the Rhemes Testament reverencing and preferring the publick authority of those learned and grave Authors before that of any private person much more of my own Judgement opinion I have also for the readier use and satisfaction of such as may have occasion or desire to see the Citations in the Text it self noted every where not onely the Chapter but Verse also and by this diligent search have corrected very many false quotations caused by the several transcriptions of Copies As for the Citations of Holy Fathers and other Authors not having convenience of Books to look them out I have left them as I found them Having thus Christian Reader given you some account of this Journal and its Translation I leave it in your hands and recommend it to your serious perusal If perhaps your necessary occasions and employments or little practise or apprehension of difficulty in the exercize of Mental Prayer permit not any longer or more studious Meditation at least take the pains to read every day one of these pages and for the space of a quarter of an hour either sitting or walking onely to re●●ect or ruminate upon what you have read applying what you may to your self and thinking what may serve for your own practise I hope after some acquaintance you will receive that satisfaction which I proposed to my self in the first undertaking of the Work and that by means thereof and the assistance of Gods Holy Grace you will come to reap th●se admirable fruits of Mental Prayer consisting in the knowledg of your self and of your duty to God of the malice and damages of Sin of the Miseries and Vanities of the World of the practise of all manner of Christian perfection but chiefly in the eminent knowledg and love of God and of our Lord Jesus Christ with the infinite treasures comprehended in the Mysteries of his Life Passion and Resurrection wherein consisteth the height of all our perfection in this life Joh. 17.3 and the accomplishment of all our happiness in the next according to that of the Apostle This is Life everlasting that they know thee the onely true God and whom thou hast sent Jesus Christ To whom with the Father and Holy Ghost be all praise honor and glory now and for ever Amen Your Servant in