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death_n	bring_v	heart_n	sin_n	4,079	5	4.7948	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28904	A method of conversing with God Translated out of French by J. W. of the Society of Jesus.; Méthode pour converser avec Dieu. English.	Boutauld, Michel, 1604-1689.; Warner, John, 1628-1692.	1688 (1688)	Wing B3860D; ESTC R214740	21,210	151

in what the greatness of God consists and are far from conceiving that mortal and earthly Greatness is very small and inconsiderable and infinitely less than that of GOD because it cannot suit or equal it self to little things when Wisdom and Love obliges it so to do Take notice if you please that the Immensity of God infinitely surpasses other Immensities and that it alone is Divine and Soveraign because at the same time it is of greater extent then the World it is also as little as the least Creature and that 't is as intirely in a little Flower as in the whole Universe and in the Imperial Heaven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 says a Holy Father of him God is greater than all and equal to all Meditate but a little Devout Soul on this Truth and by it you will clearly discern that God is the most amiable and lovely of all those whom you Love and which also Love you and that he is the true and only object of Love because in him alone you will find the two most necessary things to be Lov'd to wit Superiority and Equality that is a great Infinity which Infinity elevates him above you and an infinite Goodness that as I may say lessens him so far as to be equal with you thereby to bring to pass that all his Perfections and Power may as it were be able to enter into your heart and thereby render you infinitely and eternally Happy He alone is your Master and equal And therefore 't is of him you may say with Truth My beloved to me and I to him Notwithstand he is God and I am nothing by an ineffable Mystery he is fit for me and I for him His Wisdom has taken my measure upon him and rendred my littleness capable after some manner of containing his Immensity CHAP. XVI When particular Reverence is to be shown WHerefore O holy Sunamite in the Church and at times of Adoration and Divine Mysteries appear not in his Presence but as an annihilated Shadow by a profound Humility But in the places and at the times I have before spoken of and during your Solitary and Domestick Conversations you are both to blame and ungrateful if you have not all the liberty familiarity and tenderness that one ought to have for a Spouse he tenderly Loves and at such times speak no other Language but that of Tenderness and Love. 'T is there he stiles you his Beloved his unspoted Dove and even forbids you to call him Lord and Master Call me says he the God of your Heart the God of your Comfort the Father of the Mercies you expect the Beloved of your Hopes and Desires the most Lovely the most Perfect your All and your only One whose Heart is but one with yours and whose Grace enters into your Soul to be its Life never to be separated from it commanding you not to call him hereafter Baalim that is Lord but to call him the Spouse CHAP. XVII How to Discourse with God concerning Himself MOreover during these Colloquies do not always speak of thy self nor of thy own Affair nor of thy own Comfort or Afflictions but Change thy Discourse and after thou hast made thy complaints or entertain'd him with what happens in thy Houshold Affairs Elevate thy Mind and Entertain him with what belongs to himself Speak to him of his Happiness and Greatness of his Divine Attributes and Operations of the power of his Word when by it he gave a Being to all Creatures and drew them out of their eternal nothing speak to him in the Language of the Saints who by Sighs and devout Exclamations shew'd their Eloquence whilst they prais'd his Works How admirable is thy Name How magnificent are thy Works And how profound thy Thoughts O Wisdom that hast form'd this great World. How Sublime art thou and how incomprehensible in thy Thoughts how profound art thou in thy Designs How magnificent and admirable in thy Works What a vast Immensity do the Heavens contain what a Lustre and Brightness do those uncorruptible Lights ranged in so Beautiful an Order send forth what a variety of Goods doth the Earth produce and the Sea and other Elements bring forth How great a magnificence and Beauty have all these Creatures and how pleasing a thing it is to Contemplate them in Silence and to let our Soul be fill'd with Admiration and Heavenly Thoughts whilst it considers them Thy Power and Justice reacheth to the highest how great things hast thou made O God who is like unto thee CHAP. XVIII How to Treat with Him of his Birth and Passion BE not forgetful also of the greatest of all his Miracles the Incarnation of the Word and the Redemption of Mankind Tell him this is the ordinary subject of your Meditation every day as it is the subject of the Meditation of the Angels in Paradise for Eternity O Redeemer of my Life how often do I think of them and how sweet a repose doth the Contemplation of your Crib and Cross your Glorious Annihilations bring along with them Hereupon call to mind such Thoughts as occurr'd during your Meditations or those you have read in Books or heard in Sermons Recount them as things you cannot forbear Speaking or Meditating of and mingle with them Acts of Love Thanksgiving Admiration and Faith I believe those inestimmable Mysteries what your Church and Gospel Teaches I have believed them ever since my Birth and I say every day and will say to the hour of my Death that Jesus Christ Crucified is my Lord and my God. This is the first Word they taught me in my Cradle and I hope it will be the last I shall pronounce going out of the World and that I shall bear Engraven upon my Heart going to appear in Judgment My Lord and my God. CHAP. XIX How to Converse with God concerning the Sins of our past Life TEll him with Devotion that upon the Cross you do no less clearly behold your own Humiliations and the Disgraces of your Life then the Exaltations of the Justice and Goodness of God. What I would say is that during these sorts of Conversations with our Saviour you ought not to fail Entertaining him with the sins and miseries of your Youth Speak of them to this dear Spouse and though in your former days of Pennance you forgot not to tell him all you knew yet be not afraid to importune him by humbling your self in repeating the same things Tell him the whole Story of those miserable years and all those sad occasions of offending him into which your Companions brought you Remember each fault Sigh and Lament it with Tears and exercise Acts of Contrition worthy of those Graces which the Death of your Spouse hath merited and which have drawn you out of Hell. That which displeaseth me my Beloved and above all afflicts me in these my enormous Sins is that my Heart is too weak to have hatred for them Alas it is very little that mine alone

as if they were made by a feeble and faithless Man I continue to fear and so to offend the adorable Truth of your Word and of your Love by my inconsiderate disquiets Ah my God I detest them from hence forward and will use my utmost endeavours to force them out of my Heart and not to let any thing remain within me that carries with it such an unworthy and criminal diffidence Ah my God let me sooner perish than offend you by fearing and trembling under the shadow of your protection Sustain'd by you and elevated above all that is mortal or created I fear nothing I hope in none nor love any thing but you To assist you the better to confirm this comfort and confidence in your Heart recount often the most remarkable Benefits you have received from God and the occasions you are conscious of wherein he hath exprest his particular goodness towards you Repeat all these to him and remember there are three Histories which your Spouse hears very willingly and that you need not fear to repeat them too often wherefore make them the ordinary subject of your Domestick Entertainments the History of your sinful Life the History of your Redemption and his Death upon Mount Calvary and in fine the History of all his Conduct towards you and the miraculous Succors you have received from his Providence in all those occasions wherein you were in danger to perish and at this very hour in which you speak to him if he had not had pitty of you and heard your Voice in those miserable occasions you know of you had been lost to all Eternity 'T is you my God who reach'd out your Hand and drew me out of the Death of Sin and Misery 'T is you have dry'd up my Tears and broken my Chains Pardon my Ingratitude and heal my Infirmity and Diseases who hast given me Health Hope and Grace hast Crowned me with Benedictions and heap'd thy Benefits upon me and hast revealed to me the secrets of thy Wisdom and most sublime Truths of thy Gospel and from that miserable state I was in which had brought me to the Gates of Hell and even into the Hands of Devils hast elevated me to the rank and condition of Angels bless the Lord O my Soul and forget not his Benefits In fine speak to him of all things and endeavour the most intimate familiarity and secret Communications which one Friend can have with another Exercise them boldly O Devout Soul and fear nothing more than to be afraid or tremble in his presence whom nothing so displeaseth in his Saints as the fears of diffierence and the disquiets of a fearful and Pusillanimous Soul. CHAP. XXI How God whilst we speak to him doth silently speak to our Heart THat which is most advantageous in these sorts of Conversations with God is that though it seems that so long as you entertain him he lets you speak without speaking himself or answering you yet nevertheless it is not so There is a certain voice which is proper only to himself and without the knowledge of your interior Faculties even whilst your imagination understands nothing Prints in your Soul such Verities as his Love would have you know You feel imperceptibly to rise in your mind such Thoughts as comfort you and extinguish your Fears Lights that dissipate your Doubts and Apprehensions Reflections which discover to you what you are to do and which teach you the certain means how you may happily conduct all your Designs It is much that he hears you But when you speak to him with this respectful confidence he cannot forbear answering and comforting you He does it not by forming words in the Air but by applying his Lights his Thoughts and his Sweetnesses to your Heart It is his Heart which speaks to his Spouses and it is a Language they understand FINIS