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A35529	Heaven opened, and the pains of purgatory avoided by the very great indulgences of the two most illustrious archconfraternities : the one of our Blessed Lady, called the Rosary, and the other of the seraphical father, St. Francis, called, The cord of the Passion.	Cyprien, de Gamaches, ca. 1599-1679.	1663 (1663)	Wing C7715; ESTC R17286	39,070	158

which sustained such contradiction such and so great opprobries mockings contumelies blows stripes torments and death of sinners and for sinners who did not only contradict him in words but with deeds and stripes That you be not wearied or loose your force fainting in your minds Heb. 12. Let us therefore arm our selves with the memory of this sacred Passion because nothing is troublesome nothing seemeth hard nothing is accounted adverse to him that remembreth how and what Christ suffered for him There is no shield more efficacious to resist temptations of the Devil the Flesh and the World than the cogitation of Christ crucified And therefore holy Saint Bernard said well That such is the vertue and force of the Cross of Christ that if it be conserved faithfully in memory no disordinate desires no carnal delight no desire of sin can prevail but forthwith at the remembrance thereof all the squadrons of sin will vanish And in another place he saith There is nothing so efficacious to heal the wounds of our conscience and to purge our souls as the frequent meditation of the wounds of Christ St. Augustin knew it by experience saying of himself In omnibus non inveni tam efficax remedium quam vulnera Christi Manual c. 32. I have not found in all things so efficacious a remedy as Christs Wounds And in another place he saith Nihil tam salutiferum nobis est quam quotidie cogitare quanta pro nobis pertulit Deus There is nothing that conduceth more to our salvation than daily to think what great things Christ hath suffered for us Because the Sufferings or Passion of our Saviour well considered doth reform all inordinate affections extinguish all flames of vice and conserve the fire of Devotion in our breasts Nothing more forceable to obtain Mercy than the memory of that which is the Abysse of Mercy so that Albertus Magnus had good reason to say That there was nothing more satisfactory for our sins and to avoid Purgatory than it Yea our Saviour revealed to St. Gertrude that next to the Masse and Communion there was nothing more Meritorious than this exercise And S. Catherine of Bolognia saith That by it we may gain victory in every Combat and without it we shall easily be vanquished it is the cure of all wounds most comfortable refuge in all adversity it is food that sustaineth and fortifieth the weak spirits it is most sweet Manna a ladder that elevateth our hearts to heaven the harbour of our souls a fountain never dry a most plentiful sea and most secure passage Saint Lydwine having been sick for the space of eight and thirty years had no other consolation than the meditation of Christs Passion for it giveth great force against all afflictions and maketh us to fight for as to incite the Elephants to the battail men shew them blood even so by the representation and memory of the blood of Christ shed for us on the Cross we take courage to fight against the world to vanquish our appetites and desires to forsake all vain honours riches and pleasures this is the armour that Saint Paul St. Augustine St. Francis and many other Saints have used against all temptations this is a present remedy for all tribulations and afflictions It is impossible to relate the great good that our souls may reap by this exercise for as St. Bonaventure saith we cannot offer to God a more acceptable sacrifice for the dead nor bring greater joy to the Angels nor give a more excellent sign of recognisance to the holy Trinity than to employ our selves ordinarily in it And in another place he saith That he that doth exercise himself attentively and devoutly in it findeth there abundantly all things that are profitable and necessary for him and needeth not to seek any thing out of Jesus crucified and amongst all other exercises of a spiritual life none more profitable none that carrieth the soul to a higher degree of perfection than the meditation of the life and death of our Redeemer which Christ himself hath revealed to a holy Hermite who earnestly desired Almighty God to shew him what service would be most grateful to his Divine Majesty at length he saw one naked shaking with cold bearing a great Cross of whom he asked what he was who replied I am Jesus Christ thou hast often demanded to know what service is most pleasing unto me assure thy self that to help me to bear my Crosse Wounds and Passion in thy heart is most pleasing and grateful unto me The several Hours of the Passion of our Saviour Whereby the Soul may be alwayes mindful of her Redemption AT 6. a clock in the Evening Our most humble Redeemer Jesus Christ true God and Man on his knees did wash the Feet of his Disciples And shall not I cast away all pride and imitate the humility of my God willingly exercising all offices how base and humble soever for the profit of my neighbour At 7. Our most charitable Redeemer Jesus Christ by an ineffable love towards men gave them his body and his blood for the nurture of their souls ordaining the blessed Sacrament of the Altar What love shall I render to my Saviour for so great love what desire what reverence what affection ought I to have towards this venerable Sacrament At 8. Our most amiable Redeemer Jesus Christ gave his last adieu to his faithful recommending unto them mutual Charity demanding it of God his Father O my Soul by charity to one another we are known whether we be true children of God At 9. Our most pious Redeemer Jesus Christ coming to the Garden of Olivet surprised with a natural sadness of death had recourse to prayer three times and resigned his will to God his Father and did cast a bloody sweat from all his body let us presently run to God by prayer when we are in any affliction or danger let us never stay in the creatures but cast our selves into the hands of our Creator At 10. Our most couragious Redeemer Jesus Christ goeth to meet his enemies voluntarily offering himself to death and refuseth not to kiss the Traytor Judas And shall I O my God dare to betray thee by my sinne for some base creature or vain pleasure it were better for me to embrace all the torments of this life yea to die and so to suffer with my Saviour At 11. Our most milde Redeemer Jesus Christ did suffer himself to be taken by the wicked and to be bound with rough Cords and to be treated as a malefactor and thief and I who by my sins am the cause of all this will not suffer any thing from my neighbor without seeking revenge At 12. Our most sweet Redeemer Jesus Christ Lamb of God is outragiously treated before Annas the high Priest and he who is innocency it self is falsly accused before him yet I who am repleat with imperfections and offences towards God and my neighbour cannot endure that any should accuse me or

our Lord Jesus Christ being come to Mount Calvary was stripped off his Cloths and his hands and feet most cruelly nailed to the Cross in the presence of his most afflicted Mother The Prayer O Holy Mary Mother of God as the body of thy beloved Son was for us extended on the Cross so may our desires be daily more and more stretched out in his Service and our hearts wounded with compassion of his most bitter passion And thou O most B. Virgin vouchsafe to negotiate for and with us the work of our salvation by thy powerful Intercession Amen Hail holy Queen c. with the vers and prayer as above The Glorious Mysteries for Wednesdays and Saturdays through the year and Sundays after Faster until Advent LEt us contemplate in this Mystery how our Lord Jesus Christ triumphing gloriously over death rose again the third day Immortal and Impassible Our Father Hail Mary as before The Prayer O Glorious Virgin Mary by that unspeakable joy thou receivedst in the Resurrection of thy only Son we beseech thee obtain of him for us that our hearts may never go away after the false joyes of this world but may be ever and wholly employed in the pursuit of the only true and solid joyes of heaven Amen The second Mystery The Meditation LEt us contemplate in this Mysterie how our Lord Jesus Christ forty dayes after his Resurrection ascended into heaven attended by Angels in the sight of his most Holy Mother his Holy Apostles and Disciples to the great admiration of them all The Prayer O Mother of God comfort the afflicted as thy beloved Son when he ascended into heaven lifted up his hands and blessed his Apostles so vouchsafe most holy Mother to lift up thy pure hands to him for us that we may enjoy the benefit of his Blessing and thine here on earth and hereafter in heaven Amen The third Mystery The Meditation LEt us contemplate in this Mystery how our Lord Jesus Christ being seated on the right hand of God sent as he had promised the Holy Ghost upon his Apostles who after he was ascended returning to Jerusalem continued in prayer and supplication with the B. Virgin Mary expecting the performance of his promise The Prayer O Sacred Virgin Tabernacle of the Holy Ghost we beseech thee obtain by thy intercession that this most sweet Comforter whom thy beloved Son sent down upon his Apostles filling them thereby with spiritual joy may teach us in this world the true way of Salvation and make us walk in the pathes of vertue and good works Amen The fourth Mystery The Meditation LEt us contemplate in this Mysterie how the glorious Virgin twelve years after the resurrection of her Son passed out of this world unto him and was by him assumed into Heaven accompanied by the Holy Angels The Prayer O Most Prudent Virgin who entring the Heavenly Palace didst fill the Holy Angels with joy and men with hope vouchsafe to intercede for us in the hour of our death that free from the illusions and temptations of the devil we may joyfully and securely pass out of this temporal state to enjoy the happiness of Eternal Life Amen The fifth Mystery The Meditation LEt us contemplate in this Mysterie how the glorious Virgin Mary who was with great Jubilee and exultation of the whole Court of Heaven and particular glory of all the Saints crowned by her Son with the brightest Diadem of Glory The Prayer O Glorious Queen of all the heavenly Citizens we beseech thee accept this Rosary which as a Crown of Roses we offer at thy feet and grant most glorious Lady that by thy Intercession our souls may be inflamed with so ardent a desire of seeing Thee so gloriously crowned that it may never dye in us until it shall be changed into the happy fruition of thy blessed sight Amen Advertisement concerning the Arch-Confraternity of Saint Francis Honour is to be given to those to whom it is due Therefore let the Reader be pleased to understand that this Treatise is collected out of the great Manuel of Father Angelus Francis Professor of Divinity of the Seraphical Order of St. Francis my dear and most honoured Friend THE ARCH-CONFRATERNITY Of the Seraphical Father St. FRANCIS Called The Cord of the Passion The Original of this Arch-Confraternity AS in all things our holy Father St. Francis hath born the figure and sign of Christ crucified thereby to reduce unto his memory the Passion of our Saviour Even so he hath done it in his exterior habit as may be seen in the 3. Chap. of his Life written by St. Bonavent where it is related that he having heard the words of our Saviour Mat. 10 to his Apostles going to preach Do not possess gold or silver nor money in your purses nor a scrip for the way neither two coats neither shooes c. he cryed out with great joy This is that I desire this I covet earnestly from the bowels of my heart And thereupon presently cast off his shooes from his feet laid away his staff cast away his purse and detesting money was content with one thin coat or tunick made in the form of a Cross which he girded with a Cord. Then St. Dominick Founder of the holy Order of Preachers who was a great friend and very familiar with St. Francis one day after much spiritual discourse concerning their holy Orders he demanded of him the girdle which he did wear which after many humble denial he obtained and ever after did wear with great reverence under his habit by whose example each one did prosecute it with great devotion And truly such was the Vertue and Holiness of the Partriark St. Francis that all the people did flock to him of all qualities sex conditions ages men and women Clergy and Layetie married and single noble and poor Citizens and Pesants they did forsake the Towns Husbands left their Wives the Wives their Husbands and houses were depopulated through devotion they did bear to the Saint each one striving to get something that the holy man had touched One would say that these assemblies were like to that of the Christians in the Acts of the Apostles Ch. 19. who brought from St. Pauls body napkins or handkerchiefs laid upon the sick and the diseases departed from them and the wicked spirits went out The words in the Latin Text are sudaria semicinctia which as the Reverend Father Cornelius a lapide saith in his learned Commentaries on this place may very well signifie small or sirait girdles or half girdles which he proves out of Isidore lib. 19. whereby we may gather that it is no new thing to take the girdles of Saints and holy men out of devotion neither is it done without profit both spiritual and temporal as is to be seen in the life of our holy Father Saint Francis where amongst other Miracles Saint Bonaventure recounts one of a certain man religious and searing God who having a Cord wherewith the Saint

that any one should reprehend me At 1. Our most clement Redeemer Jesus Christ who is Goodness and Justice it self and the Soveraign Judge of all is rudely led from Annas to Caiphas a most wicked and most unjust Judge But I cannot endure with patience to be judged or condemned of my superiours of my equals of my inferiours be it right or wrong At 2. Our most wise Redeemer Jesus Christ did confess in the presence of the high Priest that he was the Son of God although he received a blow from the hand of a bloody butcher Let us never leave to do good or to serve God for the hate of men At 3. Our most amiable Redeemer Jesus Christ is denied by Saint Peter but when our Blessed Saviour beheld him he presently repented and bitterly deplored his sin O Lord God what man can presume that he will not offend thee let us bewail our sins with Saint Peter At 4. Our most meek Redeemer Jesus Christ is blind-folded spitted on beaten mocked blasphemed as a false Prophet Consider my soul that thou hast spitten upon the face of Jesus Christ that thou hast mocked and blasphemed him when thou hast done it to any one of thy neighbours who are his Brethren At 5. Our most Innocent Redeemer Jesus Christ the Holy of Holies in a full Assembly and Counsel of the Jews is condemned to death through envy O how this Passion of envy doth make us often-times to judg evil of others better than our selves At 6. Our most Gracious Redeemer Jesus Christ is presented to Pilate and falsly accused but not answering a word he is found Innocent O what silence of my Saviour so grievously accused and I sinner that I am do nothing but make excuses At 7. Our most Prudent Redeemer Jesus Christ is sent from Pilate to Herod and being demanded of vain things held his peace whereby he was mocked esteemed as a fool and as such is cloathed in a white garment O how much ought we rather desire to be contemned of men and not to condesend to their evil will than to displease God! At 8. Our most Just Redeemer Jesus Christ is sent from Herod to Pilate and Barrabas the murderer is preferred before him And thou sinner dost thou not do the same dost thou not prefer the Devil before God when thou inclinest to vice and forsakest vertue At 9. Our most Dolorous Redeemer Jesus Christ is most rudely despoyled and bound all naked to a pillar most cruelly whipped all torn with stripes and bruised with blows Behold O my soul how they handle the Virginal flesh of thy Saviour and how thou dost flatter and pamper thine which hath so much offended At 10. Our most Patient Redeemer Jesus Christ revested with purple crowned with thorns having a reed for a scepter is shewn to thee for a pattern of patience and all vertue if thou wilt be glorified by him O how much ought I to be ashamed to be so delicate a member under a head crowned with thorns for me At 11. Our most constant Redeemer Jesus Christ condemned to death by Pilate carrieth his own Cross to Mount Calvary Whosoever will follow him to Paradise he must carry the Crosse which are the afflictions of this life after him with patience At 12. Our most obedient Redeemer Jesus Christ is stretched out nailed and elevated upon the Cross between two theeves for the salvation of the world Since our sinnes have been so punished in the person of our Redeemer How shall they be punished in sinners if they do not amend At 1. Our most merciful Redeemer Jesus Christ did pray for those that crucified him and promised Paradise to the good Thief Let us also pardon those that offend against us if we will that God should pardon us At 2. Our most Devout Redeemer Jesus Christ did give Saint John to his Mother for her Son and his Mother to Saint John for a Mother O what affection did Saint John bear to the Mother of God O that my soul might burn with the like devotion to the blessed Virgin At 3. Our most Perfect Redeemer Jesus Christ did cry out My God my God Why hast thou forsaken me I thirst All is consummated and recommending his Spirit to God the Father he expired Let the earth tremble the dead arise the Sun be darkened day become night since the Creator and Saviour of the world is dead but thou O my soul awake from sin At 4. Our most victorious Redeemer Jesus Christ being dead his Soul descended to Limbo for to deliver the elect in the mean time his body transpierced with a lance doth shed forth blood and water Enter O my Soul within the side of Jesus Christ by a great considence in his mercy give heart for heart love for love to him that hath done and given all for thee At 5. The precious body of our Redeemer Jesus Christ being taken down from the Cross is put into the arms of the Virgin his Mother and afterward is most honourably buried Receive my Soul receive him in thy memory and retain this sacred Passion of Jesus Christ in all thy thoughts words and works living in such sort that thou mayest be worthy of the name of a Christian redeemed by the precious blood of the Son of God The Soul of Christ sanctifie me the body of Christ save me the precious blood of Jesus Christ inebriate me the water of the side of Jesus Christ wash me the Passion of Jesus Christ comfort me O good Jesus hear me hide me in thy holy wounds suffer me not to be separated from thee defend me from the malign enemy call me at the hour of my death and command me to come to thee for to praise bless and glorifie thee eternally with thy Saints Amen The Obligations and Rules of this Confraternity 1. ALL those that are to be admitted into this Confraternity are to be of that age that they may confess and communicate which is gathered by the express words of the Bull in that it ordains that at their entrance they are to confess and communicate 2. They shall endeavour daily morning and evening to make examine of their conscience and to say some prayers according to each ones devotion but principally for the gaining of the Indulgences five Paters and Aves adding to the end of each one the Gloria Patri c. saluring devoutly the five Wounds of our Saviour whereto they must join one Pater Ave for the Popes Holiness which after the example of the Frier-Minors if they be not hindred by Infirmity or otherwise they may say with their armes stretched out in manner of a Cross according as hereafter shall be declared 3. The end of this Confraternity is vertue Christian piety and imitation of our Saviour in his Passion and therefore the Brethren and Sisters thereof ought diligently to observe the Commandements of God and his Church and above all things not to give any scandal but good example in all