Christ for the Rosary of 5. Paters and 50 Aues out of Ludouicus Bolsius Cap. 8. The first parte PATER noster c. Aue Maria c. O benigne sweete Mary The begining and ending of this petition is to be added in euery one pacifie our most clement Redemer Iesus whō thou a most pure Virgin vpon the Angells annunciation didest conceiue by the holy Ghost in the citie of Nazareth and beare 9. monthes in thy most chast wombe Cause that we may please thy most sweete sonne Iesus Christ and destrue to see him and thee in heauen Amen 2 Aue Maria c. O benigne c. who being cōceiued within thee thou full of God didest go with speed vnto thy cousen Elizabeth and salute her humbly exhibit thy seruice vnto her Cause that we c. 3 Aue Maria c. O benigne c. Whom thou a most pure Virgin didest bring forth in Bethlem in a most vile stable not only without all paine but also with vnspeakable ioy and being borne didest presently adore him as true very God with a deuout mind Cause that we c. 4 Aue Maria c. O benigne c. Whom thou diddest foster with thy virginall milke being as yet a litle crying child swathed in cloutes didest lay him in the man ger vpon hay straw Cause c. 5 Aue Maria c. O benigne c. Whom yet new borne the Angells in most ioifull maner shewed to the Shepheardes and with cheerfull voices geuing laudes praises vnto him song peace to men of good will Cause c. 6 Aue Maria c. O benigne c. Whom the Shepheardes speedely repairing to Bethlē found laide in a Maunger and adored with great ioy admiratiō Cause c. 7 Aue Maria c. O benigne c. Who the 8. day after his Natiuity voutsafedto shed his most pure blood for vs and to be circumcised and to be named Iesus for our comforte Cause c. 8 Aue Maria c. O benigne c. Whom the Sages coming from the East deuoutly sought being replenished with great ioy came by the direction of a Satrre into Bethlem and there humbly adoring him they deuoutly offered vnto him Gould Frankencense and Mirrhe Cause c. 9 Aue Maria c. O benigne c. Whom when the 40. day was come thou didest according to the lawe present in the Temple and beeing redeemed with the hoast of those which were of the poorer sort didest offer vnto god the Father with a most gratefull harte Cause c. 10 Aue Maria c. O benigne c Whom thou like a most faithfull mother by the admonition of an Angell didest carry into Egipte for feare of Herod and at the last broughtest him backe againe into the citie of Nazareth Cause The second parte 1 PATER noster c. Aue Maria c. O benigne sweet Mary c. Whom thou a Virgin mother didest loose in Hierusalē when he was 12. yeeres olde and seeking and inquiringe for him with an heauy harte didest finde him with ioy three daies after in the Temple Cause c. 2 Aue Maria c. O benigne c. Who beeing subiecte vnto thee thou diddest diligently nourishe with a motherly care and neuerthelesse diddest alwaies exhibite an holy reuerence vnto him as to the most high and mightie God Cause that we c. 3 Aue Maria c. O benigne c. Who in the 30. yeere of his age would humblye be Beptized by his seruant IHON in the Riuer of Iordan wheras notwithstanding he being the most innocēt Lamb of GOD neuer contracted anie spot of sinne Cause c. 4 Aue Maria c. O benigne c. Who in the Desert 40. daies and 40. nightes fasted without eating any thing and so being the Lord of heauen and earth made his abode among the wilde beastes Cause that we c. 5 Aue Maria c. O benigne c. Who for our saluatiō refused not to be tempted of the Deuill and shewed vs the way to ouercome Satan Cause c. 6 Aue Maria c. O benigne c. Who trauailing by cities castells and villages preached diligently the Gospell of the Kingdome of Heauen and willingly sustained for our sakes all toiles and wearinesse of body Cause c. 7 Aue Maria c. O benigne c. Who oftē watched whole nights in praier fuffered for our sakes hunger thirst cold heat and diuerse persecutions with a most milde harte Cause c. 8 Aue Maria c. O benigne c. Who conuersing amongst men did mercifullye succour all afflicted persons and wrought very many miracles and readily gaue pardon vnto Mary Magdalene and other sinners that were truely penitent and cōuersed familiarly with them Cause c. Aue Maria c. O benigne c. Who beeing transfigured vppon the Mount before three Disciples shined in fact like the Sunne and maiestically shewed the excelencie of his glorious body Cause 10 Aue Maria c. O benigne c. Who coming to Hierusalem to suffer for vs as a meeke and humble King satte vpon an Asse and in the middest of those praises which the people song vnto him looking vpon the citie wept The third parte PATER noster c. Aue Maria c. O benigne c. Who at his last supper humbly vpon his knees washed the feet of his Disciples and with vnspeakable charitie instituted the most excelent Sacramēt of the Eucharist Cause that we may please c. 2 Aue Maria c. O benigne c. Who going with his Disciples in to the gardē of the Mount Oliuet was striken with a greate sadnes for our sakes and praying a long space togither through the vehemencie of th anguishes and distresses that he was in fell into a bloodie sweate that issued from all partes of his body Cause c. 3 Aue Maria c. O benigne c. Who went out to meet his enimies and voluntarily offered him selfe vnto them and refused not to take a kisse of Iudas that betraied him Cause c. 4 Aue Maria c. O benigne c. Whom those wicked men apprehended vnreuerently and as a male factour and a theefe moste shamefully bound with hard and cruell bandes Cause c. 5 Aue Maria c. O benigne c. Who being bound was brought oprobriously vnto the high Preist and at the hands of one of his seruantes receiued a most cruell and violent blow Cause c. 6 Aue Maria c. O benigne c. Who in the house of Caiphas was accused by false witnesses and defiled with stinking spittle and scornfully hoodwinked and barbarously beaten with strokes and buffettes and most vnworthelye blasphemed Cause c. 7 Aue Maria c. O benigne c. Who being brought to Pylate incōtemptible maner stood before him with a lowly and cheerfull countenance and humbly passed ouer with silence the false accusations of the Iewes Cause 8
Aue Maria c. O benigne c. Whom Herod despised beeing sent vnto him and wisely vsing silence before him and put vpon him as vpon a foole a white and ridiculous garment Cause 9 Aue Maria c. O benigne c. Who in the iudgement Hall was vnseemly stripped of his clothes barbarously bound vnto a Pillar and rent and cut most cruelly with whips miserably begoared with his owne blood Cause 10 Aue Maria c. O benigne Whō vniust persons for more reproch clothed with a purple robe and crowned with sharp thorne adored in scornfull maner grinning with their teeth and strooke with a reed and filthely spit vpon beat with cruel strokes Cause The fourth parte PATER noster c. Aue Maria c. O benigne c. Who bearing a crowne of thorne and a purple garment was brought by Pilate out of the Iudgement Hall and shewed to the Iewes and by them with a great tumultuous cry required to the death of the Crosse Cause c. 2 Aue Maria c. O benigne c. Whom Pilate vniustly adiudged to death deliuered ouer to the Iewes pleasure and he then being by them presently loadē with the huge beame of the Crosse did patiently beare with great paine and torment thisignominiouse Tree vpon his torne shoulders being made the scorne of men the outcast of the people meekly went forwarde to the Mount Caluary Cause c. 3 Aue Maria c. O benigne c. Who at the place of Caluary was made to drinke of wine mingled with mirrh and bitter gaule and shamfully stripped of his clothes and cruelly bored through both handes feet with nailes and so fastened vpon the Crosse Cause 4 Aue Maria c. O benigne c. Who being naked wounded and had in contempt did hang for vs vpon the tree of the Crosse and suffered most bitter paines and shead his moste pretious blood Cause that we c. 5 Aue Maria c. O benigne c. Who whē he did hang vpon the Crosse betweene two theeues was scorned and blasphemed of the Iewes meekly shewed patience and more then that praied vnto his Father for his blasphemous crucifiers Cause c. 6 Aue Maria c. O benigne c. who mercifully forgaue the these all his sinnes being truely penitēt and most liberally promised him the ioies of Paradise Cause c. 7 Aue Maria c. O benigne c. Who tenderly tooke compassion of thee his most dearely beloued mother standing vnder the crosse in bitter greefe sorow and cōmended thee to his Disciple S. Iohn and gaue thee as a mother vnto him and vs all Cause c. 8 Aue Maria c. O benigne c. Who suffered his Passion without reliefe of any sensible consolatiō in so much as to shew the greeuousnes of his torments he cried out with a loud voice that he was forsaken Cause 9 Aue Maria c. O benigne c. Who hanging vpon the Crosse al pale without blood said that he was vehemently athirst but they gaue him to drinke nought else but gaule and viniger in that extreame calamitie Cause c. 10 Aue Matia c. O benigne Who being neere death cōmended his spirit into the handes of his Father and hauing now ended the worke of our redemption like a good Shepheard of meere loue gaue his life for his sheepe Cause c. The fifth part PATER noster c. Aue Maria. O benigne c. Who hauing tasted death for our sakes vpō the Crosse did presently of his great charitie descend into Hell according to the soule and mightely deliuered from thence his elect Cause that we c. 2 Aue Maria c. O benigne c. Whose most holy Side was in thy presence opened with a speare and louing Harte wounded from whence issued for our behoofes pretious blood and the water of saluation Cause c. 3 Aue Maria c. O benigne c. Whom being taken downe from the Crosse thou didest receiue as we deuoutly beleeue into thy bosome and lappe and didest plentifully bathe with teares and louingly imbrace and kisse Cause 4 Aue Maria c. O benigne c. Whose most holy Body Ioseph Nichodemus with godly deuotiō imbalmed with spices and wrapped in a Syndon and laid in the Sepulcher Cause c. 5 Aue Maria c. O benigne c. Who the third day coming forth like a conqueror out of the shutt and sealed Sepulcher with his owne force rose from the dead replenished with most desired ioy of thee his beloued mother the rest of his frendes Cause c. 6 Aue Maria c. O benigne c. Who the fourtie day after his refurrectin ascended gloriously in to Heauen and sitteth as a noble triumphāt conqueror at the right hand of his Father Cause c. 7 Aue Maria c. O benigne c. Who sent the holy Ghost vpon the Apostles other of the faithfull and by him did marueilously comfort strēgthen lighten and in struct them Cause c. 8 Aue Maria c. O benigne c. Who exalted thee his most deare mother being assumpted into heauen aboue the quires of Angells and placed thee there as the most Soueraigne Queene and Emperesse Cause c. 9 Aue Maria c. O benigne c. Who in the end of the world is to com as Iudge in great Maiesty to render horrible punishmentes to the reprobate and eternall ioyes to the iust Cause c. 10 Aue Maria c. o benigne c. Who is the most amiable desired glory of the Saintes and with the Father and the holy ghost liueth and raigneth God worlde without end Cause c. Laus Trinitati fulgidae Patri Nato Paraclito Laus Virgini Deiparae Nunc per omni seculū Amen AN OTHER LIKE EXercise of the life Passion of Christ cōsisting of 5. Paters and 50. Aues Cap. 9. A Praier to the wound of the right foote O Most louing sweet Iesus Christ Pharetra diuini amoris vnto thee be praise honour and glory for the woūd and griefe of thy right foote In this most holy wound I doe lay downe and commend vnto thee all may of ingratitude infirmitie basenes and want of mine beseeching thee through thy infinite goodnesse to destroy all these thinges in me to clense heale me Also to take away from me whatsoeuer is in me that displeaseth thee and to powre into me all things that do please thee that thou garde direct keep me in thy grace free frō all sinne to my liues end Amen Pater noster 1. O my Lord Iesus Christ I adore thee blesse thee and geue thee thanks that hast created me and doest hitherto conserue and keep me sinning daily against thee although most vnworthy doest cherish me with benefites Grant me I besech the that I may know thee my Creator with feare reuerēce
Christ yee be so conioined with vs and so neere vnto vs that we do no lesse then behold and alway looke vppon you as though you were heere present with vs and doe continually in our mindes thinke vpon you yea we be so moued with euery euent of your affaires that with you and in you we doe reioice and to gither also with you we beare your crosses for in our harte we holde you and in the Bowelles of Iesus Christ we be singularly reioiced our very spirite doth take comfort in our Lord when as we doe heare of your constācy in the Catholicke faith of your patience of the fortitude of your christiā courage and of your gloriouse confession of the name of Christ For you beeing by the singular goodnes of God strengthned with the grace and vertue of the holy Ghost haue with most especiall dilligence and as it were a pretious treasure as it is indeed safely and inuiolably preserued that sacred Depositum of the Catholicke faith which youre Auncestors haue from this holy Romane Church the mother mistres of all the faithfull receiued and as a matter of inheritance vnto you deliuered haue not suffred your selues by any incōueniences or miseries nor yet by any of Sathan his deceiptes or intisementes and vaine hope of worldly thinges to be remoued aside from that rocke of faith whereupon Christ our Lord hath found his Church which is one Catholicke Apostolicke Romane out of which there neither is nor can bee any saluation whose vnion you doe as members of the body of Christ conioyne vnto the head with greate praise and fruite of spirituall life retaine and hold in cōtinuance These be the things that do fill our hart with ioy and gladnes This is that which doth edifie the Church of GOD and which doth cause all Catholickes to turne and fixe their eies vpon you who beholding your zeale and good workes do glorifie the Father of mercies who is in Heauen But like as in these thinges which yee do so godly religiously and constantly performe for the glory of God behoofe of your owne soules we do togither with you with all good men reioice and cōgratulate so do we on the contrary part suffer togither with you in your greefes and in the tribulations which haue come too too much vpon you For it hath bene brought vnto our vnderstāding that you are for the confession of the Catholicke faith most greeuously vexed at the hands of your owne Brethren who haue forsake the God of their forefa-fathers and haue betaken themselues to the following of strange Godds that is the prophane nouelties of errors and heresies and not considering their owne miserable estate do not only lye them selues in darkenes in the shadow of death but doe also most cruelly assault and persecute such as be the children of light their owne brethren who do firmely retaine the aunciēt religiō which they haue so many ages since bin taught by the holye ROMANE Church And doe further vppon the instigatiō and exagitation of a certaine furie neuer heard of be fore vse crueltie towardes their owne flesh and butcher teare asonder their owne bowels We haue compassion of your deare children and with all affection of charitie we do sorow togither with you for your calamities But we also reioice with you and for you in that ye be now the disciples of Christ with him fastened vpon the Crosse neither doe we doubt but that he who is present with his seruantes in tribulation and descendeth with them into the vgly dongeons and forsaketh them not in their bonds and fetters euen he so rich and aboundant in mercie doth visite you doth recreate you doth merueilously comforte you that euen as the passions of Christ do abound in you so also by Christ your cōfortes may abound And we also who though without our owne desert and vnworthy do holde the place of Christ our Lord vpō earth when as we did heare that you were in this maner afflicted resolued by our letters to cōfort you as our children singulerlye well beloued of whose welfare and glory in our Lord we be especially carefull Be ye therfore of good courage and as you haue hitherto done so stand ye in our Lord my dearest stedfast strōg in faith and rooted and founded in charitie carefull to preserue the vnitie of spirite in the bond of peace This peace of CHRIST which surpasseth all vnderstanding keepe you my childrē that ye may be one hart and one spirit Your concord your vnion your cōiunction of mindes Sathan trēbleth at That doth he and his ministers seeke to ouerthrow But all the driftes of enemies will fall to nothing if ye persist and remaine all of one minde with all humilitie and meeknes with patience supporting one an other in charitie And God is faithfull who will not permitte you to be tempted aboue that which you are able But will make with tēptation issue that ye may be able to sustaine Let your hartes therfore be comforted be cōstant and expect our Lord. For coming he will come and will not linger his reward is with him and he will comfort his seruants so that what yee haue sowen in teares the same yee shall in ioy and exultattion reape againe Be yee not therfore wearied fainting in your hartes but laying away all waight and sinne that compasseth you by patience runne to the fight proposed vnto you looking on the author of faith and the consummator Iesus who will geue you good measure pressed downe shaken togither and running ouer in the day of eternitie He gouerne and keepe you and replenish you with the grace of the holy Ghost and crowne you vpon the accomplishmēt of your lawfull cōbate Pray for vs deere children for many are the pastorall cares which by night day do vexe trouble vs. Do ye also pray for the Catholicke Church that all contradictions and errors being destroied shee may serue him with secure libertie And we with all affection of fatherly charity do impart vnto you our Apostolicall Benediction Giuen at Rome at Saint Markes vnder the fishers Ring the 18. of September the Sixt yeere of our Popedome DILECTIS FILIIS CAtholicis Albanensibus qui in Albaniae regno sunt Clemens Papa DILECTI filij salutē Apostolicam benedictionē Longo quidem terrarum marisque internallo a nobis disiuncti estis O filij Albaniae sed in vnitate fidei in vinculo charitatis Christi ita nobiscum cōiuncti estis ita propinqui vt vos tanquam presentes intueamur de vobis assidue cogitemus quin etiam quouis rerum vestrarū euentu ita commouemur vt vobiscum at que in vobis gaudeamus vobiscum etiam patiamur Habemus enim vos in corde nostro in visceribus Iesu Christi Gaudio autem singulari afficimur exult at in Domino spiritus noster quum audimus vestram in fide Catholica constantiam vestram patientiam