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A35529	Heaven opened, and the pains of purgatory avoided by the very great indulgences of the two most illustrious archconfraternities : the one of our Blessed Lady, called the Rosary, and the other of the seraphical father, St. Francis, called, The cord of the Passion.	Cyprien, de Gamaches, ca. 1599-1679.	1663 (1663)	Wing C7715; ESTC R17286	39,070	158

salvation of his soul yet these heights are not there obtained with that alacrity facility security and abundance as in conjunction with sacred Confraternities which are the Academies of Devotion Schools of Sanctity and Buttresses of Religion Piety and Perfection where the fervour and good example of his faithful associates will warm his tepidity excite his piety adde continual fewel of courage and constancy to his resolutions and make him partaker of many Prayers Merits and spiritual Graces Dum singuli orant pro omnibus omnes orant pro singulis When as every single person pray for all it followeth that all pray for every single person saith St. Ambrose The Brethren and Sisters of these Confraternities being any where received are every where priviledged and so made happy partakers of the spiritual perfections of all those persons who are registred either in Rome in Paris or in any other part of the world To come now in particular to the Confraternity of the Rosary Surely that manner of Prayer cannot but be very pleasing to God profitable to our selves and grateful to the Blessed Virgin which directly tendeth to the advancement of the Divine Honour the promotion of our own Happiness and the encrease of the Sacred Mothers glory Now the exercises of the Rosary aim at these three heroick ends For 1. Since the Rosary consists of the two richest pieces of Christian Piety viz. the Pater noster and Ave Maria together with the principal mysteries of our Christian Faith what Subject can be imagined more proper What Object can possibly be more powerful to raise our souls to the love praise honour of our Creator Redeemer then the due and daily consideration of those Divine mysteries which are as it were the Sacred Tables and lively Pictures representing continually to our memories their admirable benefits excessive love and infinite liberality to mankind 2. By what Prayers can we more confidently promise to our selves the obtaining of our just desires and consequently the promoting of our Salvation then by the Pater noster a prayer dictated by our Redeemers own Divine Mouth enjoyned by his special command to be frequently used of all faithful Christians and by him endued with so great efficacy and vertue 3. By what Ladder of Praise can we more probably reach the glorious Virgin Moihers perfections then by the Ave-Mary a Salutation framed in Heaven by the holy Trinity it self and from thence brought down to earth by it's Ambassador the Angel Gabriel in which all the Greatness Excellency and Prerogatives of Gods Mother are so briefly distinctly and Divinely Couched The Author of the Rosary THe Author of the Rosary in the particular method and manner wherein we now recite it and the beginner of this Sacred Confraternity was St. Dominick as appears by the Bull of Pius quintus in these words The blessed St. Dominick directed as is piously believed by Gods Holy Spirit when France and Italy were miserably overspread with the Heresie of the Albigenses lifting up his eyes to Heaven and beholding that Mountain the Glorious Virgin Mary Gods holy Mother invented and propagated a very easie plain and pious method of Prayer c. The Name and manner of Recital of the Rosary THis Devotion hath several Names some having reference to the number of Salutations therein contained call it the Virgin Maries Psalter in imitation of the Psalter of David consisting of the same number of Psalms viz. an hundred and fifty Or alluding to that musical Instrument by the Ancient Grecians called Organum and by the later Psalterium composed of an hundred and fifty pipes the just number of these our Salutations on which the Psalms of David were usually sung to the Divine Praise and Honour Others call it by the now commonly received denomination of the Rosary and that most properly for as a Rosary litterally signifieth a place beset with odoriserous Roses so this our Rosary mystically betokeneth the sweet fragrancy which replenisheth their Souls who devoutly praise the Divine Majesty and honour the Virgin Mary The Rosary then is a certain peculiar manner of offering up our prayers to the Divine Majesty in honor of his holy Mother by the recital of one hundred and fifty Angelical Salutations prefixed to each ten of them the Lords Prayer with a Meditation upon one of the Mysteries of our Saviour or our blessed Lady These Mysteries are in all fifteen whereof five are called Joyful five Sorrowful and five Glorious The Joyful are 1. The Annunciation of the Angel 2. The Visitation of St. Elizabeth 3. The Nativity of our Lord 4. His Presentation in the Temple 5. His Disputing being a Child with the Doctors The five Sorrowful are 1 Christs Agony in the Garden 2. His Whipping at the Pillar 3. His Crowning with Thorns 4. His carrying of the Cross 5. His Crucifying and Death The five glorious are 1. The Resurrection of our Lord 2. His Assension 3. The coming of the Holy Ghost 4. The Assumption of our blessed Lady 5. Her Crowning above all Angels The Excellency of the Rosary ALL that can make any Association excellent is in this Confraternity Antiquity Extent Generality easiness Spiritual profit large community of Merits vast treasures of Indulgencies c. Antiquity of above four hundred years Extent being spread over the whole habitable world acknowledging no other limits then those which bound the Universal Catholick Church Generality no person being excluded from it's participation Easiness requiring no more knowledge then the skill to recite the Pater and Ave no more expences than the prise of a paire of Beads no other place than where every one lives no other scite of body than that in which Devotion finds us whether it be standing sitting lying walking or kneeling Spiritual profit first in respect of the especial Patronage and Protection of the Blessed Virgin for though She is a careful Mother of all faithful Christians yet surely She is more tenderly solicitous for the domesticks of Her Family more heedfully diligent for the advancement of Her devoted Servants more seriously studious for the good of Her dutiful Children Secondly in respect of the community of Merits amongst the Members of this Sacred society for it is a point of our Faith that the Merits of all the Saints are common to all faithful Christians that there is a communication between the Church militant upon Earth and the Church suffering in Purgatory and the Church Triumphant in Heaven But besides this general communication of spiritual goods and merits among all faithful Christians there is another bank in the bodies of Confraternities common to them alone who are of their particular Family and Community and from whence all the influences of Graces and Blessings which Heaven imparts to this whole body inflow into each one of its Members Now what an immense profit is it to have a part in all the zealous Prayers Meditations actual Charity and exercises of Vertue and Piety performed in a whole Confraternity