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B04460	[The] manner of performing the Novena, or, The nine days devotion to St. Francis Xaverius: of the Society of Jesus, and apostle of India. As also the devotion of the ten Fridays to the same saint.	Brown, Levinius, 1671-1764.; Scarisbrike, Edward, 1639-1709.	1690 (1690)	Wing M459B; ESTC R229394	36,323	117

he was always ready to do it for them which did so mollifie and win their Hearts that it is incredible how many thro' this only Motive did embrace the Christian Faith whereupon Father Melchior Nugnez then Superior of the Indies a Man of rare Prudence and no less Vertue said that converting Infidels to Christ in St. Francis Xaverius did not seem a Gift infused or a Vertue got by Habit but a natural Inclination So bent was he upon that only Work that he could not live nor take any Satisfaction in any other Employment than the Instructing and bringing Souls to the Knowledge and Love of the only true God This perpetual Motion of Charity was his only Respite this Exercise his only Repose Nothing will be better able to shew the Greatness of this his Charity and zealous Assiduity therein then the Number of those he Baptized with his own Hand which amounted to a Million and two hundred thousand Persons As for what belongs to the temporal Assistance of his Neighbour who can reckon up the Deeds of Charity he shewed to every one as well poor as rich nor was there any Work of Mercy that he did not practice either in his own Person or when he could not himself by using others Help for the succouring the poor and needy His tender Care of the sick will be a sufficient Proof of his boundless Charity He was to them a Father Mother Brother Physician and a Nurse in the meanest Offices in private Houses and in publick Hospitals if any died he washed and layed them out with his own Hands digged their Graves and buried them himself God seeming to second these Heroick Desires of St. Francis so much bent upon serving his Neighbour endowed him in a particular manner with that divine Gift of Curing the Sick For in the Deeds of his Canonization you will find the wonderful Cures of all Diseases wrought by the Power of this great Xaverius to be innumerable The Blind received the Benefit of their Eyes the Lame the use of their Limbs the Lepers were cleansed the Dumb restored to Speech the Deaf to their Hearing Possessed Persons freed from Malignant Spirits that Tormented them To be short so many were these Prodigious Cures that in and about the City of Naples only there are sufficient to fill a whole Book Yet these Cures of Diseases are nothing if compared to those he raised from Death to Life which amount according to the Authentick Transactions of the Saints Canonization to above Five and Twenty What has been here said is but an Abridgement and only helps to frame some conceit or Idea of the Saints great Charity to his Neighbour referring you to the Writers of his Life to see the innumerable other Graces and Favours through his means and Intercession confered upon all sorts of Persons as Seamen Merchants Barren Women or in Childbed Soldiers c. We may gather two Fruits from what has been said The First a Holy Confusion in our selves for helping and furthering so little the good of our Neighbour either Spiritual or Temporal Who of us is troubled or concerned to see him offend God Who is there that either hinders him from falling or gives his helping hand to raise him again from Sin Which of us grieves at his losses or suffers any thing to Promote his Good Do we Visit him in the Hospitals and Prisons Are we Charitable unto him Do we relieve his Wants with Alms Or rather do we not spend that on Beasts that only serve for Sport and Pastime which ought to be employ'd in Succouring and Assisting our Neigbour the very Image of God himself The Second Fruit is a lively confidence of being assisted by this Holy Apostle in our Necessities as well Corporal as Spiritual if we apply our selves unto him as we ought The COLLOQUY To St. Francis Xaverius To obtain a true Love of our Neighbour I Know too too well O most zealous Apostle the Coldness of my Heart towards my Neighbour I own and condemn my self for the small Charity I shew in succouring his Necessities either Temporal or Spiritual and I am ashamed and totally confounded considering your admirable Zeal and Concern for his Good Obtain for me O true Lover of your Neighbour the least Spark of that great Fire that consumed your Heart which may kindle in my Soul a true Zeal and Love of others Good that grieving at their Misfortunes and equally compassionating them in mind comforting them in Words and helping them in Deeds I may the better imitate you in this Vertue of Charity which is so properly termed yours The CONSIDERATION For the Ninth FRIDAY Upon St. Francis Xaverius's great Desire to Dye for Christ THE Consideration of this Day is far different from the former for tho' in some you have seen Devout Reader the Desire this Saint had to suffer for Christ yet we have not spoken of what belongs to the dying for him and giving testimony of his holy Faith by the Shedding of his Blood and becoming a Martyr Saint Francis had this Desire in the greatest excess imaginable that he could with reason say with St. Paul Quotidie morior I dye daily by always desiring to dye and because I never am so happy as to die and give my Life for my God And tho' Almighty God preserving him alive for his greater Honour and Glory would not grant him the Favour of a Martyrdom consummated by Death yet he tryed his Constancy by several Combats not inferior to those of Martyrs and above all permitted him to survive to that languishing desire of dying that he might at least live a Martyr tho' he could not die one He was apprehended twice in Japony sent to Sea arid delivered over to Murtherers to be dispatched who upon the point of Executing their cruel Design were so terrified and frightned by a sudden Tempest that they spared his Life He was also twice led to the common place of Execution by the furious incensed People Twice stoned by the Moors Often beaten several times shot at with Arrows and as often presented with Poyson Upon the Sea Coast of Piscaria the Idolatrous Badagi sought to kill him The Mahometans persecuted him with no less Malice and Rage And because their own Children whom the Saint had Baptized stood often Centinels to defend him from their Parents Fury and sometimes found ways for the Saint to escape their cruel Hands they set fire to the Houses where they suspected him to lye hid Whence a grave and learned Doctor Martino Navarra reflecting upon the Life of St. Francis Xaverius always exposed to Danger of Death sticks not to call it a perpetual Martyrdom All I have touched upon here and more that I omit is nothing to the real Desire he had to dye for so honourable a cause as the Faith of Christ And certainly he endured more Anguish in his Mind by always tho' in vain desiring to lose his Life then he could have suffered in his Body