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A42522	A brief explanation of several mysteries of the Holy Mass, and of the actions of the priest celebrating Very necessary for all Roman Catholics for the better understanding thereof. Together with certain reflections upon the Apostles Creed, touching the blessed Sacrament. And also, divers meditations and prayers both before, and after communion. By T. G. heretofore fellow of New-Colledge in Oxon, deceas'd.	Gawen, Thomas, ca. 1610-1684.	1686 (1686)	Wing G395AA; ESTC R220315	43,939	198

of this Sacrament which is a Sacrament of Vnion and Love And therefore as this Sacrament is the most Powerful means to work it in them who partake thereof Worthily so doth It prae-require It in Them as far as they by other means can procure It that they may Worthily pertake thereof by express Precept of the Son of God so often repeated and especially in that famous Text which Commands us to go 5 Mat. 24. and be Reconcil'd to our Brother before we Offer up our Gift at God's Altar DEVOTION I Now supplicate Thee O Lord for this First Preparatory Peace which is the necessary and best Disposition toward the receiving of that other which Thou desir'st to confer on Vs by this Holy Sacrament and Sacrifice for in the Gospel we learn Luc. 10.6 that Thy Peace cannot rest upon any but such as are First the Sons of Peace This Peace then not finding how to Repose It self upon me here in a perfect Aboliton of All Passions as It shall do hereafter in Heaven may It at least Possess me in a perfect Absolution from all my past Sins which let me Hate and Abolish perfectly by a True and Vnintermitted Penitence That so I may begin to receive now in the Communion of this Sacrament That Peace which consists in a total Ruine and Extirpation of Passions which are Calm'd and Cur'd more effectually by the Blessed Eucharist than by any other Remedy whatsoever Vpon the Fraction of the Host IT is worth the Noting here That after the Priest hath made Supplication for This Peace of God before He derive It by way of Blessing to the Church He first divides the Host into three parts representing the 3 several Estates and Portions of the Church for which He hath implor'd Peace And the part representing this Portion of the Church Now Militant here on Earth He laye down upon the Altar that which is for That other Portion Now Expectant in Purgatory He holds still in his Hand after he hath sever'd from It a third Part which he puts into the Chalice to signify both that third Portion of the Church Now Regnant and Triumphant and as it were imbib'd and absorpt into the Deity in Heaven And also Jesus Christ Himself as the First Born from the Dead and Re-uniting His Body and Blood and so entring into the Glory of God as the Head and Elder Brother of all the Saints Pax Domini ANd hence in the very joyning of this third part of the Hoste to the Chalice he wisheth the Peace to the People informing Us thereby that Jesus Christ rais'd again and Enter'd into Glory gives Peace to his Church and that This Peace is nothing else but an over-flowing of that Complaisant Tranquility which in His Glory himself infinitely abounds with and fully satisfies the Blessed in Heaven DEVOTION INcrease in me O my Father Faith and Charity That I may Believe as this Sacrament now lying upon the Altar is but one Bread only that came down from Heaven so That the whole Church together with Jesus Christ make but one Body and that the distinction and separation of Persons in It by distant places do no more hinder Its Unity than if They were all and always visibly to the Eye closely compact and joyn'd together even as this Hoste upon the Altar is still after its division into parts here representing the divers Members in the Church as truly and precisely one as it was before I beseech Thee Enable me to Love and Embrace Jesus Christ in Heaven and his Members where-ever dispers'd throughout the World with an Affection as True and with an Enamouredness as Great and Constant as if they were perpetually by me and I enjoyed their Personal Corporal Presence Thy Grace Vniting Me to those from whom I am absent and severing me in a Holy Abstraction even from those to whom I am most Present my very self and all to whom Thou hast any way joyn'd me in this World The Agnus Dei. TO Jesus Christ therefore in particular is this Address made for that Peace Praying Him three several times to vouchsafe It. Now to that part of his Church here yet remaining as at His Ascention he gave it there to them he left behind and as He Himself now enjoys It. and makes others enjoy It too His Fellow-Citizens in that Jerusalem above that City of Peace And all this enforc'd not only by an Ardent Affection imply'd in the Repetition but also by a Choice and most pertinent Compellation of of Him as of the Lamb of God just now lying upon the Altar to take away our Sins the Impediments and so making our full Reconciliation and Peace with the Father DEVOTION I Presume O God to Petition Thee for Thy Peace though it be indeed The greatest of all Thy Gifts since but the day before Thy Death thou left'st to Vs this Legacy in the Persons of Thy Apostles as the Close and Accomplishment of all the Rest and wert pleas'd to stile Vs Children of Peace But let It be Thy Peace not that of the World The Inward Peace of Thy Holy Spirit to at subsists un-impair'd in the midst of all pains and outward Conflicts to be sustain'd by Vs for Thy Service Let it be a Peace wholly proceeding from Thy Mercy The Result of a Conscience undefil'd and of Remission of all Sins The Crown of a Perfect Righteousness obtainable only by Thee who art That Lamb of God Sacrific'd to Reconcile Us unto Thy Father and to make Peace between Heaven and Earth which the Sin and Rebellion of Men and Angels had set at so great an Enmity I beg of Thee then That Peace which is settled upon the Full Forgiveness of Sin which caus'd that division between Thy Father and Vs that the Peace which I ought to have with Men may be the Natural Issue of what I have with God First and so be no Humane but a Divine Peace For as the Wisdom of men with Thee is but Folly so neither is Humane Peace any thing else than a War displeasing to Thee in so much that Thou hast profess'd to Persecute all those and disperse their Bones who so Combine together I am transported with a particular Joy and Consolation to hear it now Thrice Asserted that Thou art He who takest away Our Sins I were undone but for That Mercy and but for that farther Assurance which Faith gives me that Thou in bearing our Sins in Thy Body dost also Extinguish them The Lost Sheep upon Thy Shoulders being both Carry'd and Cur'd The Pax Tecum THen he gives the Pax to all present immediately after he hath ask'd It of Jesus Christ by the peculiar Prayer to Him for that purpose Domine Jesu Christe And after he hath as it were taken It from the Altar submissively by a Holy Kiss a Symbole of Peace But in the Mass for the Dead all this is omitted and only Their Rest Pray'd for because the Giving of the Pax among the Faithful

it may conduce toward the Expiation of All my Sins known and unknown and what other Obliquities are hourly occasion'd by my frail and Infirm Nature And since I cannot be totally exempt from These unless by death which is the only sure-End of all Offending Grant that to Cancel their account as fast as It grows upon me I may offer up and Consecrate to Thee sincerely All the short Remainder of this Life and then pass so much the more Joyfully into the next as where I shall be secur'd from discontenting Thee any longer Of the Mixture of Water and Wine THis puts me in mind of the Union of the Divinty and Humanity in the Person of Jesus Christ and then of the Unity of all the Faithful well denoted by Water a Symbol of Weakness which Jesus Christ well typify'd by Wine an Emblem of strength And as the Priest Offer'd up The Bread before so now he makes 1. Oblation of the Wine and Water and in Them again of the People to God The Suscipiamur 2. And lastly Oblation Generalis ● He makes the First General Oblation of All Bread Wine Himself and People altogether jointly with Humility and Contrition into the Hands of God and thereby Sanctifies and Prepares the whole matter of this Sacrifice DEVOTION O Strengthen my Weakness represented by this Water with a new Force and Virtue of Thy Spirit which is the Muste or New Wine of the Law of Grace Make me depend on Nothing nor cleave to any Thing but Thee since Thou alone art the Power of God and Vigorous Life of the Soul in whose Absence the strongest Activity in Man is but miserable Infirmity And as now The Priest presents to Thee the Chalice thereby to Sanctifie It before He proceed to Its Consecration so help Me O Lord to Offer up my Self to Thee Fortified and Heighten'd by Thy Blessing and Grace by which I may be Encourag'd and Enflam'd and so make my self every time more and more capable to be Offer'd up in Sacrifice to Thee and even to Die for Thee Which is really the Greatest Favour that thou canst do any Mau during His Abode here Washing of the Priest's Hands THis meaneth Repentance for the daily Pollutions we incurr by our Frailty For there 's no approaching This Holy Sacrifice without renouncing and quitting as much as is possible such Impurities by a sincere Grief for and loathing of them though but Sins of Infirmity Hence It is that the Priest Washeth only the Tops of his Fingers To signifie that when one comes to Offer this Sacrifice 't is no time then to set about Repentance for Mortal Sins such one should have been freed and purg'd from before but all that is to be done is only to Wash off yet by unfeigned Grief and true Compunction those lesser Impurities and Defilements which in the course of this Life and by Conversation with things of this World we cannot avoid but that they will be sticking at least to the Outward parts as it were of our Souls and to the Works of our Hands But those that willingly neglect to Purify themselves from these though never so small Imperfections are unworthy of this Sacrament saith St. Denis as on the contrary The greatest Sins and Abominations that be cannot render those unworthy of approaching to It who have dis-engag'd their Wills from them and truly detest them in their Hearts DEVOTION SVffer not O my God the Pollutions of this World so to Defile My Hands that is My Actions as that they should contract any store of Filth from It but since 't is impossible to Converse here in this Earthly Habitation cleanly without All Sullying Grant that at most The Spots may but arrive to the outmost and lesser parts of Them as It were to the very Tops of the Fingers only A Petition suggested to me by the Priests Washing His. First Possess my Heart intirely and at all times and then let my Actions regard Thee too as their Principal Object and if secondarily in their Out-sides and parts farthest off They touch the fouling Earth Let me never cease Washing them with Tears of True Repentance and in the Water and Grace of Thy Holy Spirit till They be again Purify'd Especially as often as I come before Thee to partake of the Communion of Thy Blessed Body and to assist at That most Holy Sacrifice to which it would become Vs to approach in the greatest Purity Man in this Life can be capable of Because It is a darker Vision of God and some Representation of our Imployment in Heaven whither no Unclean Thing can Enter Vpon the Suscipe Sancta Trinitas The Kissing the Alar and Orate Fratres and the Secreta Suscipe Sancta Trinitas THe Priest having put himself into This Purity of Body and Mind with most profound Humility makes a Second General Oblation of all Oblation Generalis 2 1. Directing it to the proper Object of Worship The Holy and Blessed Trinity And 2. Applying it to the right End Of Commemoration of the Passion Resurrection and Ascention of Jesus Christ Of Honour to all the Glorify'd Saints in the Church Triumphant and of Salvation to all yet in the Militant by their Intercession implor'd 3. Kisses the Altar Orate Fratres THe Priest having already implor'd the Intercession of the Glorious Saints above for the things specify'd and particularly for that Acceptance of This Oblation and Sacrifice Now turns himself to the People desiring them to Joyn their Prayers to the same End DEVOTION DErive into me O Lord That Grace which the Priest Receives upon the Kissing of the Altar that stands in stead of Thee that assisted by It I may bear a part in That Common Prayer which He now Exhorts all the Faithful to joyn in with Him To Supplicate Thee favourably to Receive The Sacrifice He is here going to Offer unto Thee in the Behalf of the whole Church And do it the rather for the Honour of those Great Mysteries and Those Holy Saints which he hath just now made particular Commemoration of on purpose to teach us the Value of this Extraordinary Act of Grace by the Greatness of the Means imploy'd to obtain It. Agitate now in the Strictest Closet of my Soul by the means of this other Prayer which the Church calls Secret and produce therein the proper Effects of those good Thoughts which Thou hast been pleas'd to form in Me to Prepare me the better for this Sacrifice The Preface SO call'd because 't is the Entry to the Canon of the Mass and the last Immediate Preparation-general to the Sacrifice For here the Priest endeavours to prepare the People by putting them in mind 1. Of raising up their Heart in Devotion to God and taking It off from all Thoughts or Inclinations to any thing here below That they begin this Sacrifice of Offering up Christ to His Father by first Offering up their own Hearts which must be still the Anti-Sacrifice to all others or else they

will be of no profit 2. And when the People Answer that They have their Hearts so Elevated and dispos'd and set upon God as he desires them to have 3. The Priest rests not therewith Content unless They make present Reflection upon This and Consider that it is not They themselves but God that hath rais'd their Hearts and drawn them towards Himself and therefore that they ought Instantly to make their Acknowledgement thereof by publick Thanks before they go any further 4. Gratias Agamus c. 5. To which they Reply that this is very fitting and just and so they proceed to do it by the Priest in publick and in private by their own particular Resentments moving their Hearts according to the Words which they hear from him For so now he begins here in a Louder Tone 6. To acknowledge the Mercies and Blessings that God showers down on Men at all Times and in all places and in particular those which at that very occasion the Churches Order recommends to be Commemorated 7. But then She by great Modesty Conscious to her self how mean a Thing Her Laudes and Praises are to be tender'd to Gods Supreme Majesty she makes haste to joyn her Self in this Action to her Lord and Spouse Jesus Christ and by Him to present her Praises and Thanks to the Father Offering up withall joyntly those Infinite and Eternal Benedictions that he uses to give him 8. And not t● omit any Hymnes of this Nature she endeavours to make one too in the Consort of Angels Cherubims and Seraphims that Magnify Adore and tremblingly Reverence through Jesus Christ The Majesty of God Hence It is that she joynes her self to Them under Him as under the common Patron of Men and Angels That so All together by their chief Head may Worship and Glorisie the Deity And therefore now useth she here upon Earth That very Ditty which the Scripture hath reveal'd to be us'd by the Angels in Heaven in their Honouring of God Sanctus Sanctus Sanctus 9. And to It adjoyns another Triumphantly Sung by Men of Jerusalem to Jesus Christ Benedictus qui venit c. Testifying hereby the Unity of Spirit moving Angels and Men to Praise the Divine Majesty for the Approach and Coming of his Son DEVOTION Raise up my Spirit at this Instant Great God far above all the things of this World to fasten It upon and make It Conceive both the Variety and Greatness of Thy Blessings especially those conferr'd upon us by Thy Son Jesus Christ his Assuming and Uniting our Nature into Himself I must needs acknowledge that my single Abilities are much too Weak to perform this as I ought and therefore cannot Thank and Praise Thee as I should Vouchsafe to permit and help Me to joyn the very best I have to those of the Choire of Angels above borrowing from and using with them those Transcendent Acclamations wherewith they Adore Thee to all Eternity that so I may begin to Honour Thee here on Earth as they do in Heaven and imping my Wings with Theirs mount not according to My feebleness but Their force Enrich me also with a Part of the Innocence and almost Angelical Purity of those Souls who Sung to Thee that Triumphant Jubilee at thy Entrance into this lower Jerusalem that so the Song that I would now take Thee with might be more perfectly made up of all its parts especially that Canterelle of Angels and This Base of Men. Why not prepare my Self in this Solemn manner To certainly the greatest Action upon Earth The Sacrificing of Thy Son By as much as I can procure The Holyest Hosanna 's and highest Ravishments of Spirit that Mortality can bear up with In this Elevation and Extasie such as 't is Thee I adore My Saviour Jesus Christ sitting at the Right Hand of Thy Father To Thee as High-Priest and prime Sacrificer I joyn this Wretch my Self though Infinite Infinitely unworthy to be not only in thy Company but here among the Angels and Blessed Saints now Assembled at this Sacrifice of a God O amaze me with that Confusion that belongs to me for not being such as I ought at this Solemnity For the Entrance into the Canon The Canon NExt succeeds the Canon of the Mass so term'd because 't is the Rule and Constant Order which the Church observes in the Celebration of this Sacrifice This is alone never to be alter'd as the other parts of the Mass are which use to be vary'd according to the diversity of several Mysteries and the Feasts by which they are Celebrated But this being the chief part becomes as the Sacrifice it self Immutable Te igitur c. ANd 't is considerable That it begins with an Address to the Father presenting to Him the Sacrifice as being the Prime Principle and Beginning not only of all Creatures but also of the Divine Persons in the Holy Trinity We Offer up this Sacrifice to Him by and through Jesus Christ His Son our Lord. That is By Jesus Christ as our Only Mediator taking part of the Father in being His Son and so God from all Eternity and taking part with Us in being made Man by his Humanity wherein He hath receiv'd the Power and Dominion over Heaven and Earth and always Offers up A Sacrifice to His Father as the only High-Priest to whom all other Priests here in the Church are but subservient Officers and Ministers Offering up the same with Him For That which the Son of God in Heaven and This which the Priest here below Offers however it differ in the manner is in Reality and Substance but One and the same Sacrifice And it is Offer'd here principally for the Whole Catholick Church in whose Name the Priest presents himself before God to do Homage For though this here and that Sacrifice there as 't is said differ not in the Substance of the Thing yet in the manner of Offering it does and accordingly this is offer'd but for the Church Only and all the Faithful within its Communion though the other of which This yet is Commemorative be for the whole World as the Scripture testifies DEVOTION O God the Father 1. I Here Worship and pay Homage to Thee as to the prime Principle of all Things both in Earth and Heaven too of all Sanctity in Men and Angels of all the Persons in the God-head of the whole Trinity and of all the Deity it self also as far as Thy Church taught by Thee can and doth though but Lispingly speak it It is to Thee I acknowledge in this quality of prime Principle that this Sacrifice is due and so to Thee is It Now Offer'd by Thy Church and by Thine own Son who is prime Priest as Thou art the prime Principle 2. I Worship Thee also as the chiefest and last End of all Creatures recurring and Ebbing into Thee as They flow'd from Thee 3. Vouchsafe me the Grace to Reflect upon Thee always after this manner as well by the Motions of my