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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28645	The soliloquies of St. Bonaventure containing his four mental exercises and also his treatise called, A bundle of myrrh, concerning the passion of our Saviour : with XII spirituall exercises of the said St. Bonaventure.	Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, ca. 1217-1274.	1655 (1655)	Wing B3555; ESTC R27893	73,818	360

Christ but let it be by the ascendings before spoken of that thou maiest here leave vice because no vice ascendeth with our Saviour as Saint Augustine saith After that our Lord sent from Heaven the Holy Ghost in fiery tongues See and behold how the Apostles were afterwards comforted and grounded in Charity Meditate why the Holy Ghost appeared in fire why in tongues why in both together and why in the forme of other Creatures and study to obtaine in thy selfe the proprieties of such things Consider the effects and gifts of the Holy Ghost and many other such like things concerning the sending of the Holy Ghost and the signes of him fighting against Gluttony to witt sleep hardnesse of heart Idlenesse Malapartness of laughter contradiction and Insensibility SPIRITUALL EXERCISES IN this little work our Author proposeth thirteen spirituall Exercises and to the last he annexeth a certaine short forme taken out of Saint Bernard whereby we may climbe from Externall to the Internall and from these to the supernall All which truly by how much the shorter they are proposed of the Author by so much the oftner they ought to be exercised o● us That thou mayest be preserved in vertues it is necessary for thee to have spirituall exercises wherewith thou mayest employ thy mind because unlesse thou dost so thou canst not persevere in vertues First therefore thou shalt exercise thy selfe in Prayer after this manner and feruently at these times Before the beginning of every work or Act thou shalt cal upon our Lord and shalt pray a little with some such short Prayer O God make hast to help me Have mercy on me O God or the like Also whensoever thou hearest the Bell to toule thou shalt pray or when thou hearest it to strike the houres fervently thou shalt make secretly within thy selfe these Prayers and thou shalt do it so that though thou be nere unto others they shall not perceive that thou prayest Thy second Exercise shall be this to wit that thou earnestly determine whensoever thou hearest the Bell toule generally to amend thy selfe and pray to God that thou mayest Before thou beginnest any notable work thou shalt briefly consider how thou hast determined to carry thy selfe in thy former purpose In like manner every morning thou maist consider how thou wouldest behave thy self the whole day and this before thou dost thy outward Actions and when thou dost any Act thou shalt briefly weigh how thou hast purposed Also three or four times a day thou must vehemently set thy self against Pride Thy third Exercise shal be the meditation of some good thing when time admitteth For thou shalt have every day one speciall memoriall whereof thou shalt often think and to what course thou intendest For on Sunday thou shalt have for thy memoriall to think on the Kingdome of Heaven Munday of the last Judgment Tuesday of the benefits of God Wednesday of Death Thursday of the paines of Hell Friday of the passion of our Lord. Saturday of their owne sinnes Nothwithstanding Thou shalt consider every day together of the passion of our Lord with the matter of the day and the benefits of God And in every hour of the morning as of the prime Terse c. thou shalt thinke and consider somthing of the passion of that houre mixt with the matter of the day Thus therefore by purposing and Acting I hope that thou wilt competently spend thy time Thy fourth Excercise shall be That thou dayly exercise thy selfe in humble and abject works alwaies to choose the lowest place and with all thy heart to despise thy self and to esteem thy selfe unworthy any praise but to ascribe all to God nor shalt thou care whether thou art praised or dispraised Be mindfull and look into thy self and thou shalt find that thou art unworthy of any esteeme but most worthy of all Reproach For when thou art neer unto others thou art to carry thy self silently courteously and modestly yet so as it may become thee Thy fift Excercise shall be that thou shunne all signes of Pride to witt clamour in speech and so of all other things The sixth Exercise shall be that thou often consider wherein thou carriest thy self evilly wheresoever thou shalt be and thou shalt not suffer any little vice passe over without Judgement because he that doth not weigh little faults falleth often into greater The 7th Exercise shall be that chiefly wheresoever thou shalt be thou keep a Guard on thy Eyes because from the not looking to them infinite mischeifs and evills proceed Therefore have an especiall care unto thy Eyes The 8th Exercise is to consider the good Actions of others and not the evill For when thou seest or perceivest any one to sinne thou shalt think that if he should have so much Grace from God as thy selfe much more fervently he would amend himselfe then thou And if thou perceivest any one to do any good thou shalt consider how thou maist imitate that good Thy 9th Exercise shall be that all that thou seest and hearest from men that thou Conster it to the best and so thou shalt not be censured Thy 10th Exercise shall be that alwayes wheresoever thou shalt be thou maist carry thy selfe mannerly and decently in thy outward carriage least thou maist give an ill example to others because the externall indecency is a signe of an indevout mind Thy 11th Exercise shall be that alwayes wheresoeuer thou art thou mayest take heed that thou dost not that thing whereby thou maist give an ill example to any one or wherein any may interpret ill of thee because it is very dangerous to shew an ill example to others The 12th Exercise shall be couragiously to resist temptations and to abstaine and withdraw thy selfe from carnall concupiscences because in them there is no health The last shall be that thou maist alwayes stand in feare and carry thy selfe modestly and so keep thy selfe being alone as when thou art with others For God seeth all things which thou dost Thou shalt study to perform these Exercises commonly as much as in thee lyes and thou shalt diligently entreat our Lord that he will give thee grace to do them because without him thou canst do nothing c. I will returne from things externall to the Internall and will ascend from the internall to the supernall that I may know from whence I come or whither I goe what I am and from whence I am that so from the knowledge of my selfe I may be able to come to the knowledge of God For by how much I profit in mine own knowledge by so much the nearer I come to the knowledge of God From whence do I come according to the exteriour man from those Parents who caused me to be damned before I was borne they being sinners have begotten me a sinner in their sinne and in sinne have nursed me what am I A man of a slippery humour for I am in a moment of conception conceived of humane seed moreover this Spume being coagulated by encreasing a little is made flesh afterward lamenting and wailing I am delivered to the exile of this World and behold now I waxing greater am full of Iniquities Incontinently I shall be presented before the severe Judge Then it shall be said of mee behold the man and his works Consider those things more seriously DEO GRATIAS AMEN FINIS