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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17125	Instructions for the vse of the beades conteining many matters of meditacion or mentall prayer, vvith diuerse good aduises of ghostly counsayle. VVere vnto is added a figure or forme of the beades portrued in a table. Compiled by Iohn Bucke for the benefit of vnlearned. And dedicated to the honorable good lady, Anne Lady Hungarforde, sister to the duchesse of Ferria.	Bucke, John.	1589 (1589)	STC 4000; ESTC S112699	27,910	90

releeue thee vvhen neede shall requyre This being doen prepare thy selfe as before to the second dolour THhe secounde dolorous mysterie is the apprehension and arraignement of our lorde and maister vvith all manner of contumelious skorne and despite The arraignement of Christ And here marke the traitour Iudas betrayeing his maister vvith a kysse and the barbarous soldiours in armour vvith al violence taking holde of our Sauiour hailing and dravveing hym by night from Iudge to Iudge reviling mocking and vvith their filthines all bespitting hym beholde vvhat sterne and sovver countenances they cast vpon hym hovv rudely they bynde hym to a piller hovv vnmarcifully they vvhip and vvound him vvith scourges made of hard cordes so as no parte of his holy bodie vvas free And vvith thees thoughtes say the seconde Pater noster and tenne Aue Maries deuoutlie and then consider that vvhen thou vpon vvillfull malice doest cōmit any deadly sinne thou art become a persecutor of thy Sauiour and a part taker and cōpanion vvith Iudas in betrayeing skornyng vvhipping and contumelious abusing thy Redemer Learne allso vvith patience to suffer all affliction layd vpon the for thy sinnes and refuse not any payne nor affliction that shall be offered to thee for his sake that suffered so muche for thee This benig done prepare thy selfe to the third dolour as before THe thirde dolorous mysterie is the crovvning of our Sauiour vvith a crovvne of Sharpe thornes The crovvne of thorne a horrible torment and geuen vvith great despite here beholde the most sauaige cruell Infideles bringing vvith great mockerie a crovvne made of most boysterous sharpe thornes lyke vnto nailes and beating the same violently in to his head and vvith lothesome derision saluting hym as king A terrible sight hable to brust the hart of a good Christian to consider rightly VVith this Imaginacion and conceyt saye the third Pater noster and tenne Aue Maries And then note the insolent pryde and hypocrisie of all Ievves heretikes and infideles against the head of the Churche then and novv against his membres And learne to embrace the true adoring of our Sauiour vvithall humilitie and simplicitie vvithout all pryde and insolencie And here note that the propertie of all heretiques is euer vvhith most rigeur and malice to assault the head principall directors of true religion vvhiche is a plain demonstracion of their disobedience thynke therfore hovv thou mayest take the contrarie course and embrace obedience in singlenesse of harte vvhiche all mightie God more estemeth then sacrifice and ther vpon conclude thou that Idolatrie is in no degree vvorse than is disobedience And vvith this thought prepare thy mynde to the fovverth dolour THe fovverth dolorous mysterie vvas the false sentence of Christ his condemnacion Christ cōdemned and the heauye burden of his Crosse Here beholde the dissembling iudge Pilate against his consciēce Leading our Sauiour by the Arme and deliuering that Innocent lambe in to the handes of his foes to vvreak theire vvicked vvilles vpon him And vievv the redemer of mankynde his holie bodie vvorne vvith stripes and blovves all bloudye forced to beare a most heauie burden of the crosse and for verie weakenes falling dovvn vnder it And vvith this sorovvfull sight passe ouer deuoutlie the fovverth Pater noster and tenne Aue Maries And then note that if vve vvill be perfect seruantes of Christ vve must bear our ovvn crosses that is vve must patientlie suffer all paynes afflictions and aduersities vvhiche fall vpon vs for our synnes or for his sake that endured so muche for vs. And here learne to detest all false Iudgement and corrupcion of conscience for any fear or revvarde lest thou become an other Pilat by condemning Christ in his members as he dyd Christ in his ovvne persone And thus thinking prepare thy minde vvith good deuocion to the fist dolour THe fist dolorous misterie vvas the crucifieing of Christ The crucifyeing of Christ And here beholde hovv the cruell tormentors do boysterouslie pull of his clothes fast cleauing to his fleshe vvhiche procured a nevv torment Marke hovv they streched hym alonge and nayled his handes and feete vvith rough and blunt nailes to the crosse Consider vvhat huge torture he endured in euery member and parte of his bodie through all his senses ot one instant vvhiles they hoysed hym vp thus hanging vpon nailes by his handes and fete vvith all the vveight of his bodie hauing no other thing to rest vpō And vvith this terrible sight say the fift and last Pater noster and tenne Aue Maries And then dravv together all thy senses and vvith all the povvers of thy mynde consider hovv thou mayst fall in to a true mortificaciō of al thy vices and concupiscences and prepare thy selfe to dye vvith hym that thou mayst be foūde vvoorthie to arise vvith hym This sight onlie if thou vievv all circumstances duelie and througlie vvil be hable by the grace of God to pull the avvay from all vvordlie delites and to setle the loue of God rightlie in thy hart Novv vvhen you haue vvell mused vpon thees matters you may conclude vvith a good confidence the Credo And this muche for the second Rosarie or seconde part of the psalter of our ladie Of fyue glorious Mysteries to be thought vpon when you are to pray vpon the beades VVhen you haue tvvyse sayd the Rosarie The resurrection of Christ or the beades tvvyse once vvith the meditacions and thoughtes before mencioned then if your laisure serue It shall be good vvith lyke deuocion as before to thinke vpon the fiue glorious mysteries vvhiche came after the death of our redemer The first glorious mysterie vvas the resurrection of Christ here may you present to the eyes of your minde in vvhat beautie brightnes and glistering clearnes the bodie of our Sauiour so before disfigured vvith stripes and tormentes is novv risen again impassible and immortall Beholde hovv he visiteth first is sorovvfull mother to comfort her Hovv he shovveth him selfe to Marie Magdalen and to all his disciples And vvith this comfortable sight repeat the first Pater noster and tenne Aue Maries deuoutlie And then vveaghe the glorious victorie of our Sauiour against vvhome neither deuell nor hell vvith all their ministers vvas hable to preuail further than he hym selfe lysted Note hovv all the practizes of Ievves against the Gospell are disapointed and ouerthrovven Euen so shall all deuises of heretikes vvhen it shall please God Therfore consider hovv in all tentacions afflictions persecutions and troubles for a Iust cause vve must not yeeld nor relent to the vvicked but expect vvith true patience the vvil of God vvho after a storme sendeth fair vvether after many troubles geueth quietnes vvith euer lasting rest And here may vve conceiue an assured hope of our resurrection in soule and bodie and in mean time by continuall prayers and good lyfe to haue many visions and sightes of our Sauiour in our hartes as the blessed Marie Magdalen

nede to fear enioyeng all thinges vve can desyre Thus muche touching the benefites vvhiche God haith geuē vs. Theise thinges euerie good Christian is bovvnd to thynk vpon daily eyther in all or in parte and to endeuour him felfe to be thankefull For ingratitude is a great part of Iniustice And among all Christian exercises none is more easie if vve be vvilling none more nedefull if vve regard our duetie none more profitable if vve look for revvarde than is often to meditate consider and thynke of the great and manisolde benefites vvhiche vve haue receiued of God for vvhat may be the cause vvhy vve fele so great decrease and vvant of guyftes and graces vvhiche in time past vve enioyed but only our ingratitude vvhat other better meā can vve fynde to preserue our selues in the fauour of God than by often callyng to mynde and memorie the benefites of God tovvardes vs This kynde of meditacion is as it vvere a corde to hall and dravv vs to God Nothing more kyndleth in our hartes the loue of God sayeth seynt Augustin than often to vveagh and consider the benignitie of God tovvarde vs. Certein circumstances touching the passion of our Sauiour verie profitable to be often thought vpon to moue contricion and amendement of life A Man may vvith great commoditie meditate vpon the passion of Iesus Christ our Redemer in admiring his vvonderfull great charitie humilitie and patience vvhiche appeareth by fovver circumstances To vvitt if a man consider vvho he vvas that suffered vvhat he suffered by vvhom he suffered and for vvhom he suffered Vnderstand then that he vvhiche suffered vvas the Creator of the vvorlde Lord commaunder and gouernour of all creatures Goodnesse it selfe the sonne of God and God him selfe he suffred banishement hungar thurst colde tentacions I kornes contumelies bondes beatinges vvoundes and villanouse crueltie vvith all despite that the deuill by man could execute against hym Therfore in vveighing of thies tvvo circumstances who and what you may easilie conceiue that the parsone so persecuted vvas so great and the indignities vvhiche he endured vvere so monstruous as you may vvell say and thinke that the Iudge of the vvorlde vvas him selfe arraigned and Iudged Iustice it selfe vvas condemned Innocencie it selfe vvas accused blamed and defamed Glorie it selfe vvas vvith all opprobrie spit at God him selfe openlie to his face blasphemed light extinguished and life vvas slaine The Segnior lorde and maister of heauen and earthe vvas put to death to the most cruell most shamefull and most reprochefull death of the Crosse and so horriblie abused as the verie elementes repined against the fact The sonne loft his light and the earthe trembled vvhith the horror therof Here beholde the meruelous pacience of the sufferer vvhiche in a moment vvith a thought might haue consumed all those vvreches and throvvne them in to the fyre of hell And at vvhose handes did he beare all thies indignities of vvhom did he suffer thies contumclious cruelties for suthe of his ovvn creatures vvhom he had made of naught of his ovvn seruantes and vassailes vvho had there being of him and euerie other good thing else VVhom he had chosen and picked out from the rest of the vvorlde for his ovvn peculiar people vvhom he had higlie aduaunced in the sight of the vvorlde But for vvhome dyd he suffer thies afflictions not for any fault that he him selfe committed but euen for them that thus traiterouslie abused him for them he suffered vvhiche contemne him and all goodnesse he suffered these paynes to deliuer his enemies from payne to pay their ransome and to redeme them from the daunger of sinne from damnacion deathe and hell if they vvolde repent in time and reconcile them selues to him If you deeplie thinke of thies fovver circumstances you shall finde matter enough to vvonder at the marcie clemencie patience longanimitie and charitie of our Redemer and Iust cause shal you see to accuse blame and condemne your selues of ingratitude to fall in to repentance grefe and sorow for your sinnes to seke to reforme your selues and to flee to him for succour to studie vvith all loue and dutie to requite him vvith loue vvhiche for your sakes endured all thies miseries Of thre speciall sortes of meditacion some what hard to exercise but passing profitable THere is one kinde of meditacion vvhiche if you can reache vnto you shall need neither booke nor beade to direct you the vvay to life euerlasting This kynde of meditacion is no more but to imitate and folow our Sauiour his life and conuersacion as a most perfect patern and exemplar of all integritie in vvoorde deed and thought to be charitable obedient humble patient meke and marcifull as he vvas to renounce proprietie and possession of Riches at least in desire as hedyd to be poor and needy at least in mynde and vvill as he vvas To professe and exercise all chastitie or continence as he dyd to reiect all delicate fare svvete odours soft beddes and daintines as he dyd to employ all your trauaill industrie and povvers in profiting others as he dyd for you all yea patientlie to sustein affliction contempt and all persecucion euen death it selfe and death vvithcruell tormēt for truthe sake and for defence of iustice if occasion be offered as he did for the deliuerie of mankynd from damnacion and for testimonie of true Religion This is the most perfect kynde of meditacion consideracion and thinking of God that can be vsed There is an other kinde of meditaciō of great perfection and commoditie and is a good mean to help vs to the formor And that is a continuall compassion and suffering vvith our Sauiour vvhiche suffered so muche for vs As vvhen his afflictions and tormentes haue suche an Impression in our myndes and thoughtes as vvhe haue some sensible feeling therof in mynde and bodie or at least in mynde and affectiō Suche an Impression had the blessed virgin vvho as it vvere felt the stinges of the vvhippes the prickes of the thornes the stampes of the nailes the tormentes of the crosse and the vexaciōs of all his passion vvho so euer can reache to this contemplacion is in an highe degree of perfection There is yet a third speciall kynde of meditacion verie gainfull and cōmodious not so hard as the other too And that is if thou cannest not attayn to the one or thother of the too yet to set dovvn a free resignacion and perfect resolucion of thy vvill hart and mynde vvith all thy povvers as farre as thou cannest to folovv the vertues of our Sauiour and a desire to suffer vvith him and so to transforme thy vvil and mynde in to Iesus Christ crucified as he be neuer or seldome out of thy sight euen as he vvas hanging vpon nailes on the crosse for vs sinfull creatures according to the sayeing of him vvhiche sayd he felt nothing in him selfe but Christ crucified mocked and blasphemed This continuall thinking of Christ vvith a desire to folovv his steppes