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The Following collections or pious little treatises together with the Rule of S. Clare and declarations upon it, are printed for the use of the English Poor Clares in Ayre an index whereof begin's in the sequent page.
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Clare, of Assisi, Saint, 1194-1253. Regula. English.
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1684
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THE FOLLOWING COLLECTIONS OR PIOUS LITTLE TREATISES TOGETHER WITH THE RVLE OF S. CLARE AND DECLARATIONS VPON IT Are printed for the use of the ENGLISH POOR CLARES IN AYRE An Index whereof begin's in the sequent page This shall be unto you a direct Way Is 35. v. 8. You shall not decline neyther to the right hand nor to the left Deut. 5. v. 32 ⧠†⧠Printed at Doüay by MICHAELL MAIRESSE PERMISSV SVPERIORVM 1684. A TABLE OF THE CONTENTS IN THE ENSUING BOOK I. A Pious Collection of severall profitable directions and devotions fitted for the ENGLISH POOR CLARES in order to the better observance of their holy Institute very usefull and necessary for all Religious Persons both men and woemen A Morning exercise for every day in the week p. 1 From the rising untill the work house p. 5 In dressing your self severall praiers p. 5 A morning purpose p. 9 From the workhouse till dinner p. 13 From dinner till the examin at night p. 15 Before sleeping prayers p. 19 A direction how to say the way to Ierusalem p. 19 How to apply the seaven words Christ spoake upon the Cross p. 21 The 7. Ave's which are to be read for the 7. sorrows of our B. Lady how they are to be said p. 22 Considerations on the 3. Pater's and Ave's which are said at the shewing of the B. Sacrament p. 23 After your examin at night how to salute our Lady with 3. Ave's p. 24 How to say your Pater's and Ave's in thanks giving to Allmighty God for his benefits for night or any other time p. 24 An exercise for Mass p. 25 Certain Intentions or Meditations which we ought to have when we communicate out of S. Bonaventure p. 37 Considerations before Communion taken out of the same Saint p. 37 Four considerations of S. Mathildis before Communion p. 38 A Praier before and another after receaving the B. Sacrament p. 39 What we ought to do the day we communicate p. 41 A Prayer before and after confession p. 42 Directions how to say the divine Office with due devotion and attention p. 43 Certain holy Meditations of the 7. effusions of blood distributed for the canonicall hours p. 47 A direction for mentall Praier p. 51 An Instruction for mentall Praier p. 54 Colloquies or speeches part in meditation and part in Praier praising Allmighty God's excellency goodness holyness worthyness c. p. 67 Causes of distractions p. 68 The means to resist distractions of heart and tediousness of spirit p. 69 The chiefest effects of praier p. 70 Things to be considered in meditating the Passion of our Saviour p. 72 Severall Affections to be drawn from the consideration of the same Passion p. 72 Considerations of the knowledge of ones self p. 73 Considerations of sin p. 73 How to consider death p. 73 Of the pains of the damned p. 74 How to contemplate Heaven p. 74 How to consider vertue p. 75 How to consider the feasts of Saints p. 75 How to meditate on the perfections of Allmighty God p. 76 Considerations of all Gods creatures in generall p. 76 Considerations of Gods creatures in particular p. 77 The benefits in brief of Allmighty God p. 77 What you ought to do in the time to come with God's benefits in particular p. 77 The benefit of our Redemption p. 78 The benefit of our Vocation p. 78 The benefit of our Iustification p. 79 The benefit of donation p. 80 The benefit of Preservation p. 81 The benefit of glorification p. 81 The eight Beatitudes p. 82 A Religious person ought often to consider the benefit of his vocation by these circumstances Vnde es Quo Quomodo Quando Quo fine vocatus p. 84 The Priviledges and benefits of a Religious Person p. 86 Iesus Maria. Certain aspirations for every day in the week p. 86 Aspirations for every day in the week upon the Passion of our B. Saviour p. 92 An Oblation unto our B. Lady to say on any of her feasts 70 Ave Maria's and then during every day 5. Ave's and the praiers there following p. 99 A Prayer to Iesus Christ p. 99 When you pass by the B. Sacrament a prayer p. 100 When you take holy water p. 101 How to honour the B. Virgins Name p. 101 Litanies of our holy Father S. Francis p. 104 Litanies of our B. Mother S. Clare p. 106 Litanies for the conversion of England p. 108 A dayly exercise of prayers with weekly meditations upon the Passion p. 113 Meditations upon the Passion for every day in the week p. 117 A method for meditation p. 123 A prayer before meditation p. 124 A prayer after meditation p. 125 A Table of daily Patrons Meditations Vertues Vices and Intentions p. 126 II. A Short treatise concerning the perfection of à Religious life written by S. BONAVENTURE to his devout Sisters The Preface p. 3 CHAP. 1. By what means a man may attain to the true knowledge of himself p. 8 CHAP. 2. Of humility and the stepps or degrees by which it is attain'd p. 14 CHAP. 3. Of Religious poverty p. 22 CHAP. 4. Of silence and how necessary it is to all Religious p. 30 CHAP. 5. Of the study of Prayer p. 35 CHAP. 6. A remembrance of Christ's Passion p. 44 CHAP. 7. Of the perfect love of God p. 54 CHAP. 8. Of finall perseverance p. 57 III. The Rule of the holy Virgin S. CLARE faithfully translated into English The Apostolicall Confirmation of the Rule p. 3 CHAP. 1. Of the rule and forme of life of the order of the poor sisters given by S. Francis CHAP. 2. Of those who desire to enter into this Religion and how they shall be received p. 6 CHAP. 3. Of the divine office of Fasting of Confessing and Communicating p. 10 CHAP. 4. Of the election of the Abbess p. 11 CHAP 5. Of silence and of the manner of speaking at the speak-house and Grate p. 14 CHAP. 6. How the sisters may not receive any possessions by themselves or by any person interposed p. 16 CHAP. 7. The manner that the sisters shall observe in their manuall works p. 18 CHAP. 8. How the sisters shall not appropriate any thing to themselves and of the sick sisters p. 19 CHAP. 9. Of penance to be enjoined the sisters that offend and of the manner of conversing without the Monastery p. 21 CHAP. 10. Of the Admonishment and visitation of the sisters p. 23 CHAP. 11. Of the duty of the Portress p. 24 CHAP. 12. Of the visitour and Chaplin p. 26 The rest of the Bull for the Confirmation of the Rule p. 27 The Testament of our holy Mother S. Clare p. 28 Our holy Mother S. Clar's Benediction unto her sisters present and to come p. 36 The Bull of Pope Innocent the fourth that the Religious may not be constrain'd to receive Rents or Possessions p. 38 IV. The Declarations and Ordinances made upon the Rule of our holy Mother S. Clare A letter of the Approbation and Confirmation of the
the Cross and with his sacred blood satisfy his Eternall Father for her demerits 4. That for her love he would remain in the holy Sacrament to feed her with his own blessed body and Cleanse her with his owne sacred blood A Prayer before receiving the B. Sacrament O Sweet JESUS J most ardently desire to receive you Sacramentally and spiritually although J know my self to be most unworthy you should enter into the house of my soule be favorable unto me wretched sinner and take from me whatsoever is displeasing unto you prepare in me and in all hearts a habitation agreable unto your divine Majesty Would to God O my sweet Saviour JESU would to God J were wholy enflamed with an ardent desire and love of you Behold J here renounce and give up to you all things O sweet JESU O JESU my love for ever A Prayer after receiving the B. Sacrament O Most sweet Lord JESUS CHRIST J humbly beseech thy unspeakable mercy that this holy Sacrament of thy pretious body and blood which J unworthy have received may be to me and to all sinners a full purgation of all our offences a strength against frailties a fortress to defend us against all perills both of soul and body an entire pardon and establishment in all grace an amendment of life a continuall memoriall of thy sacred Passion a nourishment against all spirituall weakness and a staff of our Pilgrimage let it my sweet Saviour JESUS guide us going reduce us straying receive us returning again hold us up stumbling lift us up falling and persevering bring us to glory O highest God let the reception of this most worthy Sacrament so alter the tast of our hearts that at no time we feel any sweetness love or desire and consolation admit any delight esteem any honour feare any adversity or even-live but for thee and to accomplish thy blessed will which may ever be perfected in us Amen Another Prayer O Most glorious and ever blessed Virgin Mary O holy Father S. Francis O holy Mother S. Clare S. Michaël Angels Archangells Vertues Powers Principalities Dominations Thrones Cherubins Seraphins and all celestiall Spirits J beseech you to prostrate before the face of my God and beseech him in favour of his most deare son my Saviour and Redeemer CHRIST JESUS that it will please him to pardon the unworthines and indevotion wherewith J have received the most blessed and dreadfall Sacrament and do not permit the same to cause that the spirit thereof be not communicated unto me also that by the vertue and efficacy of this holy Communion J may feel the effect of his divinë mercy that I may receive this day a full remission of all my sins true light and knowledge of his grace which is in me that be reduce and put me in such an estate as shall be most pleasing unto his divine Majesty augment in me faith hope charity obedience chastity and patience with all other vertues and gifts of the holy Ghost necessary to procure the glory of his divine Majesty and the salvation of my soule to the honour and praise of his holy name Amen What we ought to do the day we communicate 1. BE very careful to govern our sences especially our tongue and if it happen we fall by frailty we ought presently to crave pardon and beseech our sweet Saviour not therfore to absent himself from us 2. To render to this blessed guest all the best services we are able he being infinitely worthy to be served loved and adored of all creatures Wishing above all things his holy honour and pleasure 3. Seek still to entertain this blessed spouse with holy thoughts and desires beseeching him to give you and all others whatsoever he knoweth to be needfull for his love and service beleeving that he is inestimably rich and a most liberal giver 4. Do nothing that day without considering first whether the thing you do will be pleasing and agreable unto him and demand his permission and leave 5. Make fervent aspirations cast forth arrowes of divine love towards that most amiable and sweet Lord with a vehement desire of loving him infinitely and be wholy transformed into him by conformity of will Deo gratias A Prayer before Confession O Soverain Creatour of heaven and earth and of all things which in them are J worm and miserable wretch have offended your divine Majesty I wonder at my folly detest my ingratitude and lament my offences craving through the merits of the bitter Passion and death of your onely begotten son and the infinite love with which he did both offer and suffer them for my sake and for the whole world grant unto me and all sinners true knowledge and perfect contrition of our sins and offences with entire remission of them all loose us from the chaines of our imperfections and heale the wounds of our soules grant us ever to be purged and refreshed in the fountain of his holy wounds Amen A Prayer after Confession O Good IESU let this my Confession be gratefull and acceptable unto you by the merits of your admirable life and painfull death with all the labours anguishes and sorrowes which you suffered for mankind together with those of your B. Mother and all your holy Saints supplying whatsoever is wanting in me either now or any other time through want of true contrition entire confession or full satisfaction beseeching they may also be unto me light direction and strength in all my wayes unto the perfect possession of you my sweet IESU in eternall glory Amen Directions how to say the Divine Office with due devotion and attention WHat care we ought to have in saying the divine Office according to the examples of the holy men is witten in the 27. Chapter of Paralipomenon Despise not your self our Lord hath chosen you to stand before him and adore him Wherfore since God hath chosen man to so high a preferment it is very requisit we should know how and in what manner humble service doth consist The holy man Gerson affirmeth that in saying your Mattins and other houres carefully and studiously leasurely and distinctly consisteth the greatest exercise of a Religious man and is so fit for him as nothing more S. Benedict doth call this the worke of our Lord especially because it it is the chiefest office that any man can perform gratefull to the divine Majesty S. Jerome doth affirm that to offer up Hymns Psalmes and spirituall prayers and to shed teares for our own offences and those of our neighbour is to reconcile the people to God and to pacify our Lord with his flock all which things are to be accomplished in the divine office Wherfore we ought very diligently to apply our whole study and inward powers to the due execution thereof least perhaps that dreadfull sentence pronounced by the Prophet Jeremy c. 48. v. 10. fall upon us maledictus qui facit opus Domini fraudulenter Artursd be be who do's our lords worke negligently