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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11826	The spiritual conflict writen in Italian by a deuout seruant of God ; and lately translated into English out of the same language.; Combattimento spirituale. English	Scupoli, Lorenzo, 1530-1610.; Gerard, John, 1564-1637.	1598 (1598)	STC 22126.3; ESTC S2874	38,794	204

fastned vpon the same again how he was nailed vpon the crosse how hanging 〈◊〉 the hard wood he was lifted vp on high with extre●me griefe of all his most sacred wounds and of all his most holy body and other points to which points first of al thou shalt apply thy sences to feele the pain which in euery part and in the whole togither our Lord did feele From hence thou shalt passe to his most sacred soule penetrating as much as thou canst the patience and meekenes with the which he suffred so great afflictions neuer satisfied for all that in his great desire of suffering for the honor of his father and our benefit greater and more cruell torments Behold him afterwards how he is inflamed with a feruent desire that thou resolue willingly to suffer thy present trauaile and how he turneth to his father and prayeth for thee that he will vouchsafe to giue thee grace to suffer patiently the crosse that then thou doost sustaine and what other thing whatsoeuer Afterwards bending thy will many times to resolue to suffer turne thy mind to God the Father and demaund of him the vertue of patience by the same praier of his deare Sonne for thee Of another maner of Prayer by way of Meditation Chap. 24 THou mayst also pray and meditate in any other maner and that is this when thou shalt haue considered attentiuely the passions and the trauailes which thy Sauiour did suffer and hauing applied thy sences to feele them and with thy thought penetrated the promptnes of mind wherwith he did suffer from the greatnesse of his sorrow and of his patience thou shalt proceed to two other considerations th one of the merit of the same Sauior thother of the cōtentment of the eternall Father that he took in the perfect obedience of his Sonne The which twoo things represented to the same Father in their vertue thou shalt demand the grace that thou desirest And this like demaund thou mayst make not only in euery mystery but also in euery particular internall or externall action which the same our Lord at any time performed Of Meditation Of another manner of prayer by meanes of the B. Virgine Chap. 25. BEsides the aforesaid there is another way to meditate pray by means of the most holy mother of our Lord turning first thy mind to the Father afterwards to the Sonne and last of all to the saide glorious Virgine Touching the Father consider two things present them before him that is the delights which from the beginning hee of himselfe did take in her euen before shee had her being in this worlde and in hir vertues and actions after shee was brought foorth into the world About the delightes thou shalt thus meditate lift vp thy selfe on high with thy thoght aboue al time and aboue euery creature and being entred into the verye eternitie and minde of God consider the delights and ioy that himselfe did take in the virgin Mary her perfections and finding God amidst these delights by the vertue of them securely demaund grace and force to destroy thy enemies and particularly that ennemie which doth then assaile thee Proceeding afterwardes to the considerations of her so great and singular vertues and actions sometimes present vnto the sight of the eternall Father some of them particularly sometimes al of them together And for these in like manner craue of this diuine goodnes that which thou desirest And concerning the Sonne thou shalt offer to his sight that virginall wombe which did beare him nine mo neths the reuerence with the which the tender Virgin after his birth adored him and did acknowledge him true man and true God her sonne and creator the pitifull eyes wherwith she beheld him so poore the armes which embraced him the kisses she gaue him the milke wherwith she nourished him the great trauelles and sorrowes that in his life and at his death she sustained for him By vertue of which things thou shalt vse a sweete violence to her beloued sonne that he may heare thee Turne thy selfe afterwardes to the B. Virgine and put her in mind how that by the eternall wisedome and goodnesse of God she was chosen for mother of grace and of pittie and our aduocate wherefore we haue not next vnto hir blessed son more potent recourse than vnto her And moreouer bring into her minde that veritie which of her is both knowne and written that neuer anye hath faithfully called vpon hir to whom she hath not pitifully answered Finally thou shalt laye before her the trauels of her only sonne beseeching her that to the glorye and content of him they may take that effect in thee for which they were sustained How to meditate by meane of the Angells and of al the B. Saints Chap. 26. The Aungelles and all the Saints in heauen may be another potent means the which will serue thee two manner of wayes The one is that thou turne thy selfe to the eternall father and present vnto him the loue and praises wherwith he is exalted by all the celestiall court and the labours and trauells which the Saints haue sustained for him in earth and in the vertue of al these things craue thou his diuine aid The other is that thou haue recourse to those glorious sprits as to them that do not only desire thy perfection but also that thou mayest be placed in a most high roume amongest them demaund their succour in thy combate against vice sometimes also their defence at the houre of thy death Thou shalt also nowe and then purposely considder the many and singular graces they haue receiued of the highest Creator stirring vp in thy self a liuely feeling of loue and ioy that they posses so great gifts as if the same were thine own yea and more also thou shalt reioyce that they not thou had them sith that the will of God was so And that thou mayest doe this exercise with the better order and more facilitie thou shalt diuide the quiers of that blessed company by dayes of the weeke in this manner The Sunday thou shalt take the nine quiers of Angels Monday S. Iohn Baptist. Tuesday the Patriarks and Prophets Wednesday the Apostles Thurseday the Martires Friday the Bishopps with the other Confessors Saturday the Virgins with the other holy women But omitte not anye day to haue recourse to the glorious Virgine to thy Angells guardian to S. Michael the Archangel and to som other Saint to whom thou must haue par ticular deuotion Of meditation of Christ crucified to stirre vp our affections Chap. 27. HItherto I haue treated of Prayer and of Meditation of Christ crucified by way of prayer now I wil treate of the same meditation to shew thee how thou mayest gather out certaine affections whereof I will here set downe some Thou dost purpose to meditate for example the coronation of our Sauiour in this these points may be taken How our Sauior in scorne was clad with purple How his