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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

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 too as I do still by the Tendencies of my Nature which rests only and un-interruptedly upon Thee as Its Author and support 4. Let me account it a Happiness that I can Perish for Thee and not Be as well as I have receiv'd from Thee to be And that in some forward Disposition to This I may now present my self to Thee at this Sacrifice of Thy Son To be Offer'd up with Him and to die every day Thus before-hand to make my self readier to be Sacrificed to Thee Once really and indeed To yield up this Life for Thee which Thou hast given me in any such Occurrences as it shall please Thee to fit for Me and Me for it 5. Lastly I Worship Thee in the Fore-sight of that Last Sacrifice which at the End of the World Thy Son shall make to Thee of all other Creatures before He Offer up his Elect to Thee as a Sacrifice too but after a far more Admirable manner For He shall first Consume by Fire all visible Things to make men see by the Light thereof That Thou alone art a fit Object for their Love as Thou alone art He that hast a Being firm and Incorruptible The first Memento COnsequently the Priest descends to some Particulars in the Church yet living Commemorating First Those for whom especially he Intends the Offering of this Sacrifice And being thus United to the Living here in Charity in Honour and Reverence growing too from the same Charity he next aspires to joyn with the principal Saints Living in Paradice as the Glorious and Blessed Virgin The Apostles and chief Prelates of the See Apostolick together with other Great Saints in several Conditions Imploring Gods protection to be granted through their Prayers Thereby in this Mystical Bond of Mutual Love testifying the Communion and inseparable Conjunction of the church-Church-Militant and Triumphant DEVOTION I Offer unto Thee O my Lord Thy whole Church all Thy Chosen and especially Those whom thou in a manner hast given me uniting them to Me by a particular tye that in This little number I may represent to my self Those few which Thy Father hath Chosen out of all the World and Given to Thee from all Eternity that I may Love Them and Serve Them as Thou dost uncessantly Love and Assist all Thine Have in mind O Lord Them and Me by the Intercession of All Thy Saints and particularly of the Blessed Virgin of the Apostles and Bishops of the Apostolick See who are now made by Thee the chief in Heaven as They were First the Chief in Thy Church here on Earth I desire to make one among These in the Offering up my Self together with them This Sacrifice Vpon the Priest's holding over his Hands and saying Hanc Oblationem Hanc igitur Oblationem AFter all the Priest makes the Third General Oblation of the whole matter of the Sacrifice Oblatio Generalis 3 putting his Hands over both the Host and Chalice together By this putting His Hands over them He joyns Himself and the whole Congregation Church to this matter of the Sacrifice protesting then to God That He Offers and Sacrificeth all this to him and substitutes in the place this to be Sacrific'd for Himself and Them since it is not permitted that they should Sacrifice so as to destroy themselves Such a thing just did God Ordain in the Old Testament where he commanded the Jews to lay their Hands upon the Head of the Sacrifice which they Offer'd to Him to shew that they were One with It and that in their stead it was Sacrific'd DEVOTION STretch forth Thy Divine Power Over me as now the Priest Extends his Hands over That Bread and Wine which He is about to Consecrate that I also with those Elements may in some sense be Converted into the Body and Blood of Thy Son and consequently in Him be Offer'd up as an Acceptable Sacrifice and Holocaust which thou canst not Despise The Consecration and Elevation THis Protestation made the Priest proceeds to the Prayer of Consecration including a Commemoration of what Jesus Christ did and said when He Instituted This Holy Mystery and Imitating Him Blesses and Consecrates the Bread and Wine in the same manner and with the same Words as He us'd And immediately after Consecration and profound Adoration of Each to give Example to the People in all Piety He Elevates each aloft both to shew that He Offers them up to God the Father above in Heaven and also to make the People more Visibly behold Jesus Christ and so to bow down and Worship Him DEVOTION BRing now fresh into my Memory and fill my Fancy with all that Thou didst for Vs that Night before Thy Death when Thou Institutedst the Blessed Sacrament of thy Body and Blood as the last and most incomparable Pledge of Thy Love to Vs and a Memorandum indelible of our Obligation to Thee Assist Me with Thy Grace O my Saviour and I will Imitate Thee and give my self to Thee even as thou gavest Thy Self to Me without any reserve Change my Heart as Thou Changest This Bread Create a new Heart in Me by this new Body Transubstantiate in Me that seeming Life and Strength which yet is indeed but a dying feebleness into a True and Divine Spirit as Thou changest the Wine which is but the Blood of the Grape a Terrestrial juice into the Vigour and Blood of God Grant that this present Elevation of Thy Body and Blood in mine Eye may produce another like It in my Heart and Spirit as to Crucifie my Flesh that is my Passions and to deliver me from all Affections to this World so also to enflame me with a desire of that Life above and always to keep my Conversation in Heaven with Saints with Angels and with thine Own Dear Self sweet Jesu I Adore Thee O my Saviour in all Thy Elevations Thy Elevation on the Cross the Day of Thy Passion Thy Elevation in the Air at the great Day of the Last Judgement Thy Elevation to the Right-hand of Thy Father in that never-ending Day of Eternity Immediately upon the Priest's reposing the Body and Blood upon the Altar DEVOTION SAnctify me here now by Thy Presence Renew me again by Thy Nativity Purify me by the Memory of Thy Passion by which Thou hast Obliterated in Thy Self the Memory of those Sins which lay so heavy upon Thee to the very last Gasp of Thy Life here Vnde Memores Domine c. THen immediately to express that by Words which he just now did in Action the Priest makes a Solemn and more distinct Oblation to God the Father Avowing that He Offers this now Holy Pure and Immaculate Sacrifice as for the whole Church so in the Person of Jesus Christ whose room he supply'd in the Mystery of the Consecration And he sayes he does it in the Honourable Memory of the three great Mysteries of the Son of God His Passion Resurrection and Ascension In the word Passion including whatsoever the Son

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