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cause_n	aaron_n	author_n	moses_n	61	3	7.9138	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19893	Certaine deuout considerations of frequenting the blessed sacrament: written by the reuerent Father Fuluius Androtius of the Societie of Iesus. With sundrie other preceptes and rules of direction, composed for the benefit of such as seeke to attaine to the perfection of vertue. Firste written in Italian: after turned into Latine: and now translated into English; Della frequenza della communione. English	Androzzi, Fulvio, 1523-1575.; I. G., fl. 1606.; Everard, Thomas, 1560-1633.	1606 (1606)	STC 632; ESTC S115242	106,518	327

once hauinge tasted the sweetnes of this diuine Sacramēt doth afterwards omitt to frequent the same 5. If God punished so seuerely the offence of Eue for that contrarie to his cōmandement she did eate one forbiddē aple what punishment may we thinke he reserueth for those whom hauing inuited to feede at his Table giueing them his most sweete and sacred flesh for their repast yet carelesly forsake this heauenly foode to glut them selues with the vnsauorie garlick and onyons of Egipt 6. If God laied so seuere a punishment vpon the children of Israel Nū 11. for that loathing the Māna they desiered Quayles in so much that they died sodainly as they were eatinge their meate what may we thinke he wil doe vnto those who once hauing tasted this heauenly Māna growe wearie cōtemne the worthines thereof 7. Euen as Esau after he had sould to his younger brother Iacob the right of his patrimonie for a dishe of meate Gen. 25. was the whole remnaunt of his life perplexed and tormēted with sorrowes so likewise they cōsume and spend the time of their life in miserie who for a thinge of no moment forsake our Sauiour Christ in the B. Sacrament who is their chiefe inheritance 8. The frequenting of the Holie Sacraments is the most assured and directe way whereby we may attaine to saluatiō by which we may abstaine from sinne furnishe our selues with vertue ouercome our temtations and stronglie resist al assaultes of our enimie He therefor that once hauinge tasted refuseth to frequent them forsaketh the direct way that so almightie God dealeth often tymes with them whom he dearely loueth when he seeth their affectiō placed on worldely creatures as for example when he findeth the parents with a disordinate loue addicted to their children he often tymes taketh them away The like may be said of riches honours and other worldely delightes and herein especially appeareth his wonderful mercie towardes vs that euen by constrainte he enforceth vs to flye vnto him So we reade that God tooke from his beloued seruant S. Angela of Folingium both husband and children that they should be noe more any occasion to withdrawe hir loue from hym The like also is read of S. Catherine of Sienna and of an other holie Sainte who being in one day depriued of hir husbande and three children gaue hartie thankes to God that now being freed from the cares of this world she might after be more attentiue to his holy seruice For this cause Almightie God commanded Abraham to sacrifice his only Sonne thereby to shew that our loue to him ought to be aboue al loues and that thorough no wordely creature it ought to be let or hindred This loue is that weddinge garment which God would haue al men to put on who come to his heauenly Table For how can he come worthelie or be a guest at this wedinge that is clad or apparelled with the loue of this worlde How can a worldlinge thinke to receiue him in this most B. Sacramēt who neuer loued ritches but euer imbraced pouertie Who euer refused honor and was helde most contemptible Who sought not after carnal delightes but alwayes was ful of griefes Who loued not his parents with any inordinate loue And finally who nether for the loue of his Disciples whom he loued most dearly nor for the loue of his B. Mother whom he tēdered aboue al other creatur●s would refuse to suffer his most bitter passion or diminishe any litle parte of the paines he was to endure for our redēptiō Lastely he euen he is receiued in this most B. Sacramēt who being lifted vpon highe from the earth honge al naked vpō the Crosse thereby to shew vs if we desire to be his that we ought to be naked and free from al in●rdinate affectiōs to loue him honor him aboue al earthlie creatur●s Otherwis● he wil take his scourge in his hand and driue out from vs those thinges which violate and contaminate his holie Temple and pollute the place of his sacred reliques Other admonitions shevvinge hovv easely they are caried avvay vvith vanities and doe loose all taste of deuotion vvho omitt to frequent the B. Sacrament EVen as so soone as the Iewes began to loath and cōtemne Manna being a most pleasant and sweete meate and the true figure of this most B. Sacrament they presently longed after onyons garlick and the flesh of Egypte so such as growe wearie of this heauenly Manna the verie bodie of our Sauioure Christ are soone carried away with earthlie delightes and vanities Likewise as they then repined at Moyses and Aaron for bringinge them forth of Egypte and began to desire to returne thither againe so these begin to complaine of their Confessors and of those who were authors and causes of their spirituall good Often tymes also when they thnike on their former pleasures they wishe that they had neuer vndertaken this vertuous course of life not at all cōsideringe in what miserable slauerie they then serued the deuil their ghostly enimie Moreouer as God heard the prayers of the Iewes euen then when they murmured against him and accordinge to their wishes sent them great aboundance of Qu●yles so God being iustly offended with these vngrateful mindes suffereth them many times to obtaine those thinges they desier that by litle and litle neclectinge to frequent this sacred misterie they giue them selues ouer to sensuall delightes and pleasures and soe findinge no sweetnes nor comforte in the holie Sacraments falle some tymes euen to scoffe at those who often frequent them But euen as the Iewes when they were most greedely eatinge and deuouringe their desiered Quayles were presently stroken with soddaine death and now tasted that sharpe supper for which before they had so greatly longed so also it happeneth to those who leaue to haue accesse to the holie Sacraments For soone doe those vanities decay and whollie forsake them makeing their liues ful of bitternesse and their deathes ful of horrour verefyinge the sayinge of our Sauiour in the gospel that we can not gather Grapes from thornes Luc. 6. nor expect good Figges from thistles With vvhat feares Sathan our ghostly enimie is vvonte to terrifie certaine persons from ofte frequentinge the B. Sacrament 1. THe deuil amongst other his subtil practises is accustomed to put into such persons who frequent the holie Sacraments a certaine feare terrifyinge them that ether they haue not rightly made their Confessions or that they haue sinned when indeed they haue not Or if he can not preuaile by any of these shiftes then to make them to imagin that they are so ill prepared and so vnworthie to come to the Sacramēts that hardly can they perswade them selues they doe wel therein And further he suggesteth that whatsoeuer they doe be it neuer so wel yet that it hath some great and notorious defect in it that their whole liues abound in al kindes of imperfections 2. These feares and terrors of meere malice he