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A06405	A manuall of devout meditations and exercises instructing how to pray mentally. Drawn for the most part, out of the spirituall exercises of S. Ignatius. Devided into three bookes. Written in Spanish by the R.F. Thomas de Villa Castin of the Society of Iesus. And translated into English by H.M. of the same Society.	Ignatius, of Loyola, Saint, 1491-1556.; Villacastin, Thomas de, 1570-1649.; More, Henry, 1586-1661.	1624 (1624)	STC 16878; ESTC S103982	182,763	570

the more holy receaued greater plenty of grace And so the most B. Virgin as fullest of grace vertue receaued more abundance therof then all the rest togeather Gather hence a great desire to dispose and prepare thy selfe to receaue this diuin spirit with the grea●●st feruour thou canst because he communicateth himselfe more abundantly to him that is best prepared to make thy selfe such the principall vertue which thou must procure to haue is Humility which conserueth the rest as the Prophet Isay sayth Vpon vvhome reposeth my spirit sayth our Lord but vpon him that is humble and meeke Be thou then such a● one that with like dispos●tion thou mayst receaue and preserue in thy soule this diuine spirit who resisteth the pro●d and to the humble giueth his grace THE XI MEDITATION Of the death of the most Blessed Virgin our Lady THE 1. POINT TO consider hovv the B. Virgin our Lady being now in years God hauing determined her some tyme in this life which some belieue vvere fifteen others more probably say that she liued twenty three yeares after the death of Christ and that she departed this life to heauen the 7● yeare of her age Almighty God hauing preserued her heere al this tyme to giue light to the vvorld for the comfort and benefit of the whole Church also that she might see the faith and name of her Blessed Sonne diuulged and spred ouer all parts of the world she had novv most earnest and inflamed desires to go to heauen vvhere she vvas to find out Lord Iesus Christ her Sonne victorious and triumphant whome she instantly besought to take her out o● this exile banishment tempestuous sea conduct her to that secure port of happines where for euer she might enioy his glorio●s sight conpany Ponder how this most Blessed Sonne approuing the pious desires of his deerest Mother and acknowledging the aspirations of her hart to be greater then those of Dauid where he sayd Euen as the Hart desireth after the fountaines of waters so doth my soule desire after thee o God he sent vnto her an Angell which many ho●ly Fathers imagine was the Angell S. Gabriel who came with a palme in his hand in token of the victory that this triumphant Lady had gotten of sinne of the Diuell of death it selfe And the B. Virgin receaued him with great comfort ioy of spirit confi●ering what she so much desired was ●ow to effected Gather hence enkindled desires to see and enioy God that when thy dayes shall end and death arriue ●hou mayst receaue it with gust and ●oy hoping by meanes thereof to participate in heauen of the svveet presence and company of Christ our Lord and of his most Blessed Mother THE 2. POINT TO consider hovv the Sonne of God determining to fulfill the desires of his most B. Mother the Apostles being deuided ouer the vvhole world preaching the victories of their Lord were miraculously assembled in the house of the B. Virgin who reioyci●g much at their comming disclosed vnto them the newes of her death vvith a cheerfull graue coūtenance declaring vnto them her desire to depart this life to go to heauen which Almighty God had gra●nted vnto her Ponder the feeling teares and tendernes of hart wherewith this dole●uli relation afflicted them all seeing their Mother ready to depart thi● life and that diuine Sunne illuminating the Chruch to withdraw it self● go downe Ponder s●condly how the Ble●●sed Virgin without any infirmity o● payne at all but of meere loue and desire to see and enioy her Sonne in heauen betooke her selfe to her poore bed beholding them all vvith a countenance rather diuine then humane willed them to come neere gaue them her blessing saying God be with you my deerly beloued children lament not because I leaue you but reioyce because I goe to my best beloued Sonne Gather hence an exceeding desire to approach in spirit neere vnto this B. Lady ioyning thy selfe to his good company beseech her to giue thee her holy blessing also that ●herwith thou mayst increase goe ●orward in grace loue of her God thy Lord. THE 3. POINT TO consider how Christ our Lord this happy houre being at hand 〈◊〉 downe from heauen accompa●●ed with innumerable Angells by ●●eir sight and presence to reioyce his ●ost B. Mother to conduct her i● heauen Ponder first the gracious and sweet vvordes vvhich the Sonne of God vsed vnto his sacred Mother the Blessed Virgin Mary vvhich might be the same that the holy Ghost speaketh to his Espouse in the Canticles 〈◊〉 Arise make hast my loue my doue my beautifull and come for winte● is now past the raine is gone and departed The flowers haue appered i● our Land Come from libanus m● Espouse come from Libanus com● thou shalt de crowned vvith th● crowne of Iustice which thou hast s● well deserued Ponder secondly what ho● great the iubilies and comforts vve●● that did trauerse the hart of this 〈◊〉 Lady what thanks she gaue her So● and her God for such benefits b● stowed vpon her and for vouch s●●fing to cloth himselfe with her fle●● and bloud in her virginall womb● and calling to mind the manner of 〈◊〉 death on the Crosse would say O 〈◊〉 Father as thou art God and my 〈◊〉 as man into thy hands o Lord I co● mend my spirit And vvith th● words she yielded her spirit to hi● whome she had inuested within her selfe From hence thou shalt gather ●ffections to prayse God our Lord in whose sight the death of this Lady was precious giuing her so copious and large a recompence for her labours Trust in like sort to receaue reward for that thou hast endured for his seruice glory that so thy death may be precious in his sight as is that of his Saints THE 4. POINT TO consider how the holy Apostles and disciples of our Lord vvhen they beheld that body without life of which our life had taken flesh they ●ll prostrated themselues vpon the ground kissing it with great tender●es deuotion affection then lay●ng it forth with vpon a Beere they ●ooke it on their shoulders and car●yed it through the Citty of Hierusa●em singing Hymnes and deuout ●rayers till they arriued at the sepul●her where it was to be placed Ponder how their griefe at such ●me as the holy body vvas put into the Monument was renewed that they deuoutly kissed and with great reuerence adored it againe againe not being able to withdraw their eies from thence vvhere they had their harts Hence stir vp in thy selfe a tender feeling sorrow for the absence of this B. Lady an earnest desire spiritually with thy best endeauour to accompany her holy body conforging thy selfe with the quiers of Angels the disciples to sing with them her prayses beseeching her to obtain● thee such a death as thou mayst in● her company enioy for euer the presence glory of her