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A09667	Breife meditations of the Most Holy Sacrament and of preparation, for receuing the same. And of some other thinges apertaining to the greatnes and deuotion of so worthy a misterie. Composed in Italian by the rev. father Luca Pinelli of the Societie of Iesus.	Pinelli, Luca, 1542-1607.; Garnet, Henry, 1555-1606.	1600 (1600)	STC 19937; ESTC S106099	79,090	338

in doing of marueilous works there is none like vnto you Since therfore good Lord it is proper vnto you to do greate and maruailous thinges beholde me a pore weake creature bringe to passe I most humble beseech you that I by meanes of this most glorious Sacrament become riche with your heauenly giftes and strong in the aduersitie of this life THE FOVRTH MEDITATION Of the effectes of this most glorious Sacrament CHAP. IIII. Pointes to meditate 1 CONSIDER how this glorious Sacrament doth in such sorte lighten manes vnderstanding that it maketh him to knowe God for which cause those tow Disciples which went to Emaus Luc. 24. presently as sone as they had communicated had as the sctipture saieth their ere 's opened and knew our Sauiour 2 It remitteth veniall sinnes as corporall nourishment doth restore that which naturall heat hath cousnmed so this heauenlie nourishment reneweth that which the soule hath lost by sinning venially through the heate of concupiscence 3 It conioineth vs with Christ our head and with our neighbours which are his members mouinge vs to loue them as we ought for this respect it hath bene called of the holy fathers the Sacrament of vnion and of charity therfore S. Augustine affirmeth that for this it was instituted vnder the formes of bread and wine that as bread is made of many cornes of wheat so this Sacrament of many harts maketh one will 4 It giueth vs force to walke well in this daungerous pilgrimage and for this cause it is called our viaticum our voiages prouision It helpeth vs likewise to gaine eternall felicitie Ioan. 6. and ther fore our Sauiour saieth He that eateth my flesh hath life euerlasting The fruit The profit of this 4. Meditation shal be to desire with our whole hart and to procure moste efectually a good disposition to be made partakers of the worthy effcts of this most holsome Sacrament and to pray vnto God to make vs worthy therof Adnotations Of three maners of receauiug the blessed Sacrament and of the fruit which is receaued by euery one of these Taken out of S. Thomas De Aquino Opusculo 58. cap. 17.18.19 Of che which the holy Councel of Trent likewise intreateth ses 13. cap. 8. 1 SOME communicating doe receaue only the Sacramēt these are notorious sinners who receuinge the Most Holy Sacrament vnwhorthely not only receue not any of the most holsō effectes therof but as the Appostle well sayeth Iudicium Sibimanducant Cor. 11. that is they make them selues whorthy of Damnation this also the Church signifieth when as in her Hunne she saieth Mors est malis vita bonis that is the Sacrament is life vnto the good and death vnto sinners I here call al those sinners which hauing their conscience defiled with mortall sinne are not confessed when as they may or are excommunicated or else do receaue for some euell intention 2 There are others which communicate spiritually and these are such as with a liuely faith do beleeue that in the consecrated Hoast is our Lord Iesus Christ and therefore they desire to be vnited with him and so they cōmunicate with affection and desire preparing them selues vnto this spirituall receauing with humility and dtuotiō such as these receaue not all the effects of this Sacrament but some parte of them 3 Others finally being well prepared and beawtifully adorned with the wedding garment of charitie and puritie do not only communicate spiritually with desier but also Sacramentally by receauing the most sacred bodie of our Lord. And these togither with the Sacrament receue all the effectes thereof conformably vnto their preparation the which looke how much greater it is so much more capeable the soule is made of the vertue giftes and graces which this Sacrament giueth and conferreth this Almighty God doth signifi when as by his holy Prophet he saieth Dilata os tuum et implebo illud Open wide the mouthe of thy soule and I will fill and replenish it A spirituall speach in manner of a Dialogue betwixt man and his Soule MAN It is trew my soule that this sacred meat is giuen thee of our most louing Iesus but tell me trewly what help can meate doe vnto a dead man albeit that it were verie precious SOVLE Nothinge M. and therfore the holy Sacrament willnot helpe thee yf thou shalt be dead S. It is trew but how can I die beinge immortall M. Trew it is that thou canst not die of corporall death as brute beastes doe die but thou mayst die by spiritu all death which consisteth in the separation of the grace of God from the soule as corporal death consisteth in the separation or the soule frō the bodie S. Then doth the grace of God giue life vnto the soule M. Noeorherwise then the soule giueth life vnto the bodie S. And what can depriue the soule frō grace which is her life M. Mortall sinn Ezech. Cap. 18. wherfore the Prophet Ezechiel saieth Anima quae peccauerit ipsa morie tur The soule which sinneth shal die That is shall be depriued of grace S. From whence hath sinne such powre M. From the ordination of Allmighty God for that the soule consentinge vnto Mortall sinne rebelleth a gainst God And therfore as a rebell is iustly depriued of his goodes soe the soule by sinning cometh to be depriued of grace which is an inestimable good giuen vnto the soule by Allmightie God S. If therfore to receaue the effectes of this Heauenly meate it is necessarie that the soule liue in grace this SACRAMENT doth not reuiue the soule by raysinge it from death to life M. Ordinarily noc but beinge spirituall meate it presupposeth spirituall life and beinge receued by the soule it nourisheth it and prescrueth it from vice S. But tell me I pray you what is conuenient to be don for to tast this facred meate to be made partaker of the worthy effects thereof M. First it is necessary to bee hungrye because our Lord Animan esurient em satiat bonis Psal 106 will fill the hungrie soule with good thinges afterward with contemplation to ruminat and chewe this celestiall meate considering the greatnes and excellencie thereof S. Alas that the poison of pleasures and delightes haue cleane taken away my tast Alas that the vanities of the world doe soe occupie possesse my hart that they neither suffer me to tast uor yet to consider this most maruelous meate wretch that I am wretch that I am M. Lett vs torne our selues my soule vnto him who is able for to healpe vs. To my Most mrcifull IESVS who will draw forth from this my poore soule all deadly poyson to th end that I remaine not depriued of the tast and of the effectes of so holsome a SACARMENT who will prepare for me this Notable Medicine O my LORD I will noe other healpe but you since that your heauēly Father hath sent you from heauen to be our Phisitian O holy Kinge Dauid

Hierome a litle before his death demaunded the most holy SACRAMENT which being brought vnto him he caused him selfe to be placed on the grounde vpon a sacke where kneeling hee communicated with many teares Eusebius i● eius vita S. Iohn Crysostome in his sixt booke of Preisthood writeth that in his time a venerable and deuout oulde man sawe a great multitude of Angells with great brightnes to stand about the most holy Sacrament and bowing downe them selues they did reuerence thereunto in maner of souldiars when as their Captaine is present with them or else passeth by them The same S. Crisostome Homelia 60. ad populū Antiochenū speaketh vnto vs after this manner Thinke O man how much thou art honoured of God and what table thou enioiest when as thou doest communicate for that the Angells seeing it doe tremble and by reason of the greate brightnes which commeth frō thence they dare not freely to behold it he saith yet farther Vnus sit nobis dolor hac mensa priuari For no one thing we ought to be so much greued as when we are depriued of this table And the same Saint Homelia 61. calleth this Blessed Sacrament the Miracle of misteries of the lawe of CHRIST in the which our Sauionr hath giuen vnto vs his body to shew vnto vs the desire which he hath towards vs for to make vs the selfe same thing with him selfe which is only proper vnto those which loue most intierly And in Homelia 45. in Ioannem he saieth that by receauing of this blessed Sacrament we become terrible vnto very deuills and that we ought to rise vp from this table in maner of Lions which breatheth forth fire S. Cirill Bishoppe of Alexandria In Ioannem lib. 4. cap. 17. exhorting vnto deuotiō to ward● this B. Sacrament saieth that it doth not only driue away death but also deliuereth vs from sicknes quieteth the crewell disordinate lawes of our members strengtheneth our deuotion and pacifieth the perturbatiōs of our soule And Christ being receaued of vs as a good Pastor which yeel deth his life for the safegard of his sheepe deliuereth vs from the perilles of this trouble some life S. Thomas of Aqu●ne Opus● 57. after that he had called the B. Sacrament a pretiouse banquet marueilous wholsome full of all sweetnes to induce vs ●o deuotion towardes the same ●e adioineth these wordes say●ng● that no one Sacramente is ●●ore holesome thē this for that ●●ereby sinnes are purged ver●ues do increase and the soule is ●atted with the aboundance of ●●ll spirituall goodnes the sweer●es wherof no one is able wor●●ely to expresse for that in it ●●irituall sweetnesse is tasted in is owne proper fountaine He ●aieth moreouer that CHRIST ●nowing that his disciples wold ●e sad and sorowfull for his de●arture from them he left vnto ●hem this Sacrament as an only ●olace consolation vnto them ●nd also to the wholle militant Church Againe he affirmeth ●hat this Sacramēt doth not on●y helpe the liuing but also the ●●ead S. Ignatius in Epist 10. ad Ephes saieth that by this blessed Sacrament is expelled and driuen away the power of Sathan who directeth his actions like so many fierie dartes to induce vs vnto sinne Cap. 25. OF the fruites of this marueilous Sacrament many haue written as Richardus in 4. sent dist 11. S. Thomas Opuse 98. from the 21. chapter vntill the 25. But yet all may be reduced vnto these twelue pointes 1. it reuiueth 2. it releaseth 3. it inflameth 4. it giueth patience 5. it nourisheth 6. it restoreth 7. it vniteth 8. it Communicateh 9. it healeth 10. it conscrueth 11. it streng theneth 12. it conducteth S. Bernard saieth that it is the proprietie of the holy Eucharist to make man meet to receaue correction patient in traiuells ardent in loue prompt to obey and douout in thankes giuing S. Vincentius addeth an other which is that this diuine Sacrament is the best remedie of all others to escape the paines of Purgatorie for that by frequenting of this blessed Sacrament it diminisheth the paines dew vnto sinnes that are past S. Laurentius Iustinianus here noteth that as corporall meate doth nourish vs and causeth vs to increase albeit that we doe not perceaue it Euen so this diuine Sacrament comforteth and strengthneth oursoule with increase of grace although we per ceaue it not Cap. 26. Now concerning the reuerentiall feare which ought to be had of this so greate so dreadfull a Sacrament I haue haue noted some things First S. Luke in the Actes of the Apostles cap. 1. Math. cap. 27. do write that sacrilegious Iudas hauing alrea die suiour and now going about to deliuer him into the Iewes handes and did not withstanding communicate with his peruerse intention at the end seeing that Chirst our Sauiour was condemned Laqueo se suspendet crepuit medius essusa sunt viscera eius He hanged him selfe with a halter burst in the middest and all his bowels gushed forth which were so crewell against his bening Maister and benefactor S. Paule likewise 1. Cor. 11. writeth of the Corinthiās that many of them were sicke and diseased and many died not only spiritually but also corporally because they vnworthely receaued the body of our Lord. S. Iohn Crisostome Homeli 6. Adpopulum Antiochenum saith If thou art offended against Iudas because he betraied Christ our Sauiour likewise against the Iewes because they crucified him what wilbecome of thee if after so many benefites which Christ our Lord hath bestowed vpon thee by being made man by suffering and by dying for thy loue thou neucrthe lesie receauest him with a soule defiled with sinne Et Homelia 83. in Mat. he saith that God will vse great reuenge not only against those which vnworthely do cōmunicate but also against them which knowing such to be wicked and vnworthy do communicate vnto them the blessed Sacrament furthermore he saith Eucn as corporall meat finding the stomacke full of bad humors doth hurt and greately offend him which receaueth it Euca so the most holy Sacrament being spirituall meate finding malignitie and wickednes in the soule doth ruine and destroy the same which proceedeth by the fault of him which receiueth the same with an ill dispositiō S. Augustine affirmeth the like in the place before cired saying that they sinne no lesse who receaue Christ with a hart defiled with sinne then they did who deliuered Christ vnto me Iewes that they should crucifie him S. Hierome in a certaine Epistle vnto Preists hath these words Tell me wicked catiue saith he who receauest the B. Sacramēt how darest thou with those lips tokisse the sone of God with the which thou hast kissed a strūpet O Iudas with a kisse betraiest thou the sonne of man S. Bernard tractatu de modo viuendi ad sororem sermone de communione Saith The body of our Lord is life vnto them in whome Christ doth liue and it is death vnto them who by their owne faulte are members