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B04460	[The] manner of performing the Novena, or, The nine days devotion to St. Francis Xaverius: of the Society of Jesus, and apostle of India. As also the devotion of the ten Fridays to the same saint.	Brown, Levinius, 1671-1764.; Scarisbrike, Edward, 1639-1709.	1690 (1690)	Wing M459B; ESTC R229394	36,323	117

by once dying a Martyr Through the excess of these ardent Wishes he was forced to cry out Amplius Domine Amplius More Lord more when in his Sleep he seemed to carry upon his Back a heavy Moor and in him the new World of the Indies Out of the same inflamed Desire he bore a holy Envy to the Fathers of the Society who were in future Ages to convert all the Islands of Moro hoping withal as he said that those Islands would come to change their Names and be called the Islands of Martyrs To one that endeavour'd to dissuade him with the Apprehensions of Death from those his heroick Enterprizes he answered with no less Humility than Generosity that it was what he so much desired but he knew himself unworthy of such a signal Favour What he writ to a Friend of his sheweth most clearly what were the Desires of his Great and Noble Soul I says he sometimes do abhor even Life it self and covet rather to die than to see God so much offended without being able to hinder it as I desire So that the Acts of his Canonization say with reason of this Glorious Apostle Varia infidelium loca peragravit non minus ut pro Christi fide sanguinem profunderet quam ut fidei lucem gentibus inferret That he travalled over so many Countries of the Infidels with no less desire to shed his Blood for the Faith of Christ than to enlighten the Gentils with the Light of the true Faith Reflect weak Soul upon what has been said and be ashamed of your Carriage so little resembling this great Pattern and Example and ask your self this Question Was not Xaverius of Flesh and Blood as I am Was not he a Man a Son and Child of Adam as my self and yet how comes it to pass that he is so much enflamed with the Divine Love and I so little And you 'll find the Origin of his so singular Perfection to have been a total Abnegation of him self and Alienation from all Self love whereby being transformed into God he desired to dye to the World that he might live to him alone Ah! if you could but once resolve to dye to Self Love then assure your self the Holy Love of God would abundantly encrease in your Soul The COLLOQUY To St. Francis Xaverius To beg the Grace to dye to Self-love YOU bad reason to say Holy Xaverius with St. Paul * Gal. 2.20 I live now not I but Christ liveth in me who kindled in your Soul those great Desires of dying once to Flesh and Blood that so by Death you might be united to your Spirit which was Christ But I unhappy Wretch live still to my self I live to my own Flesh to my Body and to Self-love And what wonder if I desire not to dye for Christ thereby to be united to him What Wonder if I love him not as my Life Beg of Almighty God for me Dear Saint that I may dye to Self-love to the end that every day so dying I may become wholly dead thereunto and begin to live to Christ that then I may likewise with truth say with St. Paul and you Glorious Saint I desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ Amen The CONSIDERATION For the Tenth FRIDAY Upon the perfections of St. Francis Xaverius ST Francis Xaverius was an Apostle sent by Jesus Christ by command of his Vicar Paul the third with the title of Nuncius Apostolicus to Preach the Gospel to the Indians and Convert them to our Holy Faith Whereof he Converted many hundred Thousands amongst whom were several Kings Queens Princes and Great Men. His Sister a Holy Woman Abbess of the Poor Clares at Gandia foretold he should be such an one for desiring her Father to let him Study Divinity she said he should prove a Great Apostle of the Indies He was a Prophet and in such a manner that a most Vertuous and Wise Man sticked not to say that in some the Spirit of Prophecy was by fits but in St. Xaverius it seemed a constant Habit. He was not only Master of Human Philosophy at Paris but of the Divine also in the East where to all sorts of People he Preached the Gospel and Instructed them in what belonged to our Holy Faith He Confuted many Masters of the Idolaters in several Disputes the Brachmans of the Indians and Carizi of the Moors and the Bonzi of the Japonians He was endowed with all manner of Vertues whether you mean Power of Working Miracles as you have seen in the former Considerations or Vertuous Habits that adorn the Soul as Humility Chastity Patience Charity c. He had the Gift of Curing Diseases as we have shewn you by several wonderful examples He had the Gift of Helping the Needy in so much that he never refused his Aid to any if conducing to their Eternal Salvation He governed all with rare Prudence as well Seculars as Religious which Talent made him esteemed by the greatest Princes The King of Portugal Reverenced him as an Oracle receiving and following his Directions as Commands The King of Travancor called the Great King published an Edict commanding every one to obey the Great Father St. Xaverius as the Great King St. Ignatious resolved to make him General of the Society of Jesus Lastly he had the Gift of Tongues In those Countries they speak above a Hundred several Languages Thirty whereof are quite different yet St. Francis when he entered those parts did not only understand the Natives but spoke the very same Languages most Elegantly yet with these two privileges first of being understood tho' Preaching to an Auditory of different Nations by every one in their Mother Tongue secondly of Satisfying with one only answer the demands of several proposed to him at the same time tho' relating to different matters Hereby we see that God by a special Favour seems to have Endowed St. Francis with all those Gifts St. Paul speakes of to have been divided amongst several in the Primitive Church * 1 Cor. 12.28 Some God hath placed in the Church first Apostles secondly Prophets thirdly Doctors next Miracles then the graces of Curing Diseases Helps Governing kinds of Tongues All these gifts and graces were requisite for that great Enterprise of Converting the New World to the Faith of Christ for which God had Designed his great Servant St. Francis Xaverius These things mentioned in short ought Devout Reader to stir up in you a lively Confidence and Devotion to this great Saint so much beloved by God and for his Extraordinary Sanctity enriched with such singular and rare Graces and Favours by the hand of his so Bountiful Creator Seeing therefore the nature of love is to change him that loves into him that is beloved and to create such a likeness in their Lives and Actions that they seem to live in one another you ought to endeavour to liken your self according to your state and condition in all your Actions to St. Xaverius that

by Infidels Thieves Devils false Brethren had in Derision scoffed at and most barbarously misus'd by those he had been most charitable and beneficial unto beaten most cruelly by the wicked Spirits and molested with their Temptations threatned to be murdered by Cut throats by Idolaters held for a Mad-man even in the Court of the King of Amangucci where they reviled him with Curses cover'd him with Dirt overwhelmed him with Stones and treacherously laid Snares to take away his Life often endeavouring to poison him twice giving him into the Hands of Assasinates to be dispatched Being stoned by the Gentils of the Island of Moro he made his escape over a broad River by the means of a great Timber Beam which he handled and turned like a little Wand How often did he give his Life for Christ When he attended those that were infected with the Plague when he upbraided their Infidelity to the very Gentils ready armed with Stones to kill him when in spite of Princes and Priests he threw down their Idols when he alone resisted a whole Army of Badaga that in a fury intended to oppress the Christians when he intrusted himself going into Japony in a small Boat to Pirates infamous for killing Passengers when he entred the Island of Moro where they eat Man's Flesh when he went to China where it was Death for any to enter So much did he love God and his Neighbour but contemned and made himself most despicable exercising all Severity imaginable upon his tender Flesh A Man that was so nobly born of the Race of the Kings of Navarre and honoured with the Title of Nuncius Apostolicus kneeled to every poor and ordinary Priest to kiss his Hand making and deeming himself a Slave to all In the Ships Inns Hospitals serving the very meanest Beggar and basest Servants looking after their Horses sweeping their Chambers washing their dirty Linnen and Vessels exercising the lowest Offices even cleansing their Sores and Wounds with that Charity and Victory of himself as to sup up the Water wherewith he had washed one that had a Leprosy and another time to suck out the Putrefaction and Matter of a most leathsome Sore I omit his other Vertues He eat only once a Day and then only a little burnt Rice and often nothing for four five six and seven Days together His Drink was Water he was cloathed with a Hair-shirt wore one single Garment of black Canvas all patched His Sleep was either at Land upon the hare Ground or the Cables on Ship-board His Penance so rigid and austere that he fainted often thro' his Fastings and severe Disciplines wherewith he core his tender and innocent Body If by Vertue you mean Miracles he wrought infinite In the Fire stopping it with his bare Word when a House was actually burning In the Air driving away the Plague from Malaca with the sweet Savour of his dead Corps and making it rain Stones and Ashes upon the City of Tolo rebelling from Christ and the Portuguese which filling up the Ditches and demolishing the Walls forced them to a Surrender In the Water allaying Tempests sweetning Salt Water by the Sign of the Cross or dipping his Foot therein In the Earth causing Earthquakes In his own Body raising it in the Air preserving it incorrupt and in the Flower of Virginity ever free from the least Motion of Concupiscence He still lived tho' amongst so many Snares Diseases Labours Plagues and Poisons even without the least Infection or Hurt untouch'd and after Death sending out a most odoriferous Savour even amongst quick Lime and moist and wet Earth The very Beasts obeyed him a Lobster brought to Shore his Cross that had fallen into the Sea The Devils feared him dispossessing all that were brought to him In the Island of Moro at his first Sermon he preached there the Earth shaking and opening hideous Cries and Shreiks or Devils were heard that fled from their so long inhabited Dominions insomuch that they appeared all surrounded with Fire in the Air to the People crying out You burn and torment us Francis you drive us from our Kingdom He was no less famous for the fifth Gift of curing Diseases Witness Father Francis Perez Rector then of the College of Malaca who upon the point of Gasping was perfectly cured by St. Francis's embracing him He that he healed of his Wounds by only carrying him upon his Back That Leper whose Sores he cured with only washing them Witness also the Bishop of Malaca who desiring a Summary of all the Miracles the Saint had wrought and finding after strict examination eight hundred only in his own Diocess ceased to prosecute his first thoughts despairing ever to reckon them Let the Indies confess and acknowledge his Power in this point where not he in his own Person only but his Hair Girdle Beads the very Pulpit he preached in the Lamps that burnt before his Shrine the Water wherein was dipped only a Medal of his even his very Shadow which is yet more wonderful cured many Diseases Let him answer for himself he can testifie that in an instant by Prayer he was healed of those most dangerous Incisions mortal of themselves and beyond the Art of Man as the Surgeons confessed caused by the little Cords wherewith out of too much Fervour he had girded his Thighs and Arms. This is inconsiderable if compared to his Power of raising the Dead Besides many others it is authentically proved that five and twenty have obeyed his Call some as they were carried to their Graves others have been buried several Days refreshing hereby the Memory of Christ's own Actions A Noble Gentil entreated him to come and raise his Daughter now deceased and receiving this Answer that she was alive dissatisfied left St. Francis but was soon comforted by his Servants that told him she lived A Lady like Martha lamenting her Loss said if you had been here my Daughter had not died Why said the Saint she is not dead Yes replyed she and three Days buried The Saint accompanying her to the Grave restored the Daughter alive to the afflicted and incredulous Mother His whole Life was nothing but an Exercise of the sixth Gift of helping the Needy He was totally taken up in tending the Sick and the Poor succouring the Oppressed instructing the Ignorant and Sinners assisting all that were in Necessity and Danger either Spiritual or Temporal with so much Carefulness and Industrious Zeal that none is able to express it One Saint Francis was not sufficient to work according to the great Charity he bore to all To the end he might help several he was actually present to each at the same time in different Places As when called upon by a Merchant who suffer'd Shipwrack he obeyed and staid with him three Days upon the Plank till all the rest of the Ship were dead and then brought him safe to Shore And when with the same miraculous Apparition he saved ten Men in a little Boat Such was the

Altar or Picture of the Saint or where else most convenient must also say Ten Pater Nosters and Ten Ave Maria's and Ten Gloria Patri's c. offering to God the Merits of this Saint to obtain the Favour he desires In this two things are to be observed The First is That before one applies himself to this Devotion he must purifie his Intention concerning the Favour he petitions be it Temporal or Spiritual pretending nothing else but the Glory of God and the Salvation of his own Soul for seeing this was the only Aim of this Saint whilst he lived in this World so it will be a more efficacious means now in Heaven to move him to favour us with his Intercession to his Divine Majesty to obtain us our Request The Second is That none of these Devotions omitted either in part or whole have any Obligation even of a venial Sin so that you may continue them or no when begun without any scruple and if Business permits you not to perform Ten Fridays in order go on with them at your leisure Friday is assigned in Memory of the Saint's dying on that Day in the Island of Sanciano The Number is in Honour of the Ten Years he laboured in the Indies for God's greater Honour and the Good of Souls and the same is to be understood of the ten Pater's and Aves and Gloria Patri's To the end this Devotion may have more Fruit and promote the Exercise of some Vertue some Considerations are here set down taken out of the Life of the Saint one for every Friday which is to be read on that Day by those that practise this Devotion stirring themselves up to a lively Imitation of the Saint To every Consideration there is annexed a Colloquy in form of a Prayer begging of the Saint some Spiritual Grace suitable to the foregoing Consideration and profitable for the good of their Souls wherein with a little Labour they may spend their time with much Profit The CONSIDERATION For the First FRIDAY Upon the singular Purity of Mind and Body of St. Francis Xaverius BY Purity of Mind is not only understood Innocency of Life but also a right Intention of doing all our Actions purely for the Glory of God and for no other end How great was this Purity in St. Francis The sole Aim of his immense Labours was the Glory of God not seeking any thing else either in his Voyages by the most dangerous Seas of Europe Asia and Africa or Journeys by Land I may say through both Worlds or in his most troublesome Preaching but that God should be known praised and glorified In a word all he suffered which as Francis Mansilla a great while Companion to the aint said is not to be conceived how much it was was only for the Glory of God never regarding any the least private Interest The Reward of his Labours was a most sublime degree of Sanctity which he arrived unto whereby afterwards he deserved such a Glory in Heaven and received so many Favours here on Earth And our Saviour to shew how pleasing his Labours were to him wrought that continual Miracle that in his Father's House a Crucifix sweat Blood every time the Saint was in any difficult Enterprize or Suffering Examin your self Devout Soul and see what Intention you have in all your Actions if to please God only or else for some other private Interest If the first give God thanks and stir your self up to Perseverance If the second be sorry and purpose an Amendment But by Purity of Body is chiefly understood the Vertue of Chastity which retrenches all sensual unlawful Pleasures He excelled so much in this Vertue that as long as he lived he preserved the Lilly of his Virginity unstained and therefore is generally painted with one And which is yet more to be admired he preserved it most pure even living in the World amongst the Delights and Enticements of his own House in the Heat of his young blood and Liberty of the Students of the University of Paris where he lived and even in the most licentious and loose Manners of the Mahometans and Gentils with whom he conversed so many Years God rewarded this his Angelical Purity with the Incorruption of his Body after his Death and with infinite other Miracles For George Alvarez having buried it in quick Lime that he might the easier carry his Bones from Sanciano the Island where he died to God after three Months found it as entire as if newly buried and which is more the body being cut bled as fresh as if alive This Miracle extended it self also to his Cloaths which were preserved from receiving any Harm from the Lime which naturally would have consumed both The Body also sent out a most fragrant Odour far surpassing any in this World The carrying the body through Malaca freed it from a most desperate and infectious Plague And when it was brought to God the Miracle of its Incorruption did no less continue for several times it bled afresh and even to this day being now above a hundred Years ceases not the Body being as incorrupt as ever Every one may easily see how he behaveth himself in this Vertue according to his State and Condition The COLLOQUY To St. Francis Xaverius To obtain Purity of Body and Soul MOst Glorious Apostle of the East most pure in Body and Soul I a most miserable Creature with all Humility have recourse to you begging you would by your Intercession obtain for me such a pure Intention in all my Actions that I may never aim therein at any thing else but the greater Glory of God and such a pure Chastity that neither in Thought much less in Word or Deed I may ever displease the most pure Eyes of our good God Amen Through the Intercession of St. Francis Xaverius God grant me Purity of Mind and Body The CONSIDERATION For the Second FRIDAY Upon the profound Humility of St. Francis Xaverius ACcording to St. Bernard Humility is a Contempt of ones own Worth according to St. Thomas it is a Vertue whereby a man knowing his own Defects and Imperfections keeps himself within his own Bounds in a low Degree St. Francis pracrtised this Vertue in a most perfect manner towards all sorts of Persons For tho' he was born of the Race of the Kings of Navarre by Office Nuncius Apostolicus and besides endowed with most rare Talents of Nature and Learning yet he humbled himself below all whenever it was for the greater Glory of God He writ to St. Ignatius his Superior always upon his Knees He answered a Friend of his who examined him concerning a dead Child he had raised in the Coast of Comorino with all Humility as it were confounded I raise the Dead to Life And can you believe such a thing of me such a great Sinner as I am In a word all his Life is full of Examples of his most profound Humility and was held for such over all Spain Italy