seas of teares to shed for having thus often cruelly tormented thee 4 O if it had been thy will my sweetest Jesu I wish I might have endured not only temporall but endless pains rather then have caused the least part of thy affliction 5. O Sacred wounds of my dearest Saviour in revenge of my cruelty wound my heart with ten thousand darts of true remorse 6. O sin how deformed and unjust art thou that thus has't defiled the beauty of heaven and crucifyed my Immaculate Jesus 7. O that I might with a thousand millions of lives and infinit seas of blood blot out of my soule the guilt of thy death and Passion 8. Sweet Jesus ingulfe and drown me in thy sacred wounds that there I may learn to love Tuesday Compassion 1. O That I could shed for thee my Lord so many teares as the sea contains drops of water in true compassion of thy torments 2. O who will give water to my head and a fountain of teares to my eyes to weep upon thee the love of my soule 3. O love and only comfort of my heart what consolation hadst thou in all thy torments 4. Alas my well beloved why am not J alwaies present to suffer with thee at least by compassion on thy pains 5. My sweet JESUS O that I might be crucified with thee 6. O love of my soule that I might have had the priviledge of the launce to have rested in thy heart 7. My dearest Saviour permit me the favour to remain at the foot of thy Cross to the end that I may weep continually sigh bleed cry and consume in compassion of thee 8. Give me an endless spring of teares to wash away the sacred blood of my sweetest love which still issueth as flowing rivers from thee Wensday Imitation 1. O Most sweet JESUS give me grace in imitation of thy sacred Passion most willingly to undergoe the burthen of this transitory life 2. For that thou hast suffered so many and cruell torments for my sake let me never O mercifull God fly any tribulation which thou shalt vouchsafe to send me by thy self or others 3. My Jesus to accompany thee in thy manifold afflictions I would be glad not onely to endure the wants which thou sendest me but seek others and never be satisfied in suffering with thee 4. In imitation of thy nakedness reproaches and whippings at the pillar I will endeavour to strip my self of all inordinate desires and affections 5. I will continually follow thee my dearest Saviour with the Crosse of perfect obedience and never for any difficulty leave the same till I come to dy with thee 6. O my Eternall God that wouldst for my sake be nailed to the Cross let me by true mortification be alwaies crucified with thee 7. My loving spouse I beseech thee that with a full renunciation of my self and perpetuall death of all earthly things I may irrevocably dy with thee Thursday Thanksgiving 1. WHat thanks shall I yield unto thee my Eternall life who wouldst endure unspeakeable torments to free me from the snare and fetters of death 2. All you seraphins and celestiall Spirits with whatsoever hath been created praise my Redeemer for the unspeakeable price of my Redemption 3. O my soule how can'st thou devise to render the least part of due gratitude unto thy Jesus who hath by his own humility so much exalted thee 4. O let me ever acknowledge my deare Saviour that endless bond of gratitude which thy Passion alone exacteth of me 5. Sweet JESUS that I could incessantly love thee for these inestimable treasures which thou by thy torments hast purchased unto me 6. Good IESUS since I have nothing but my self to offer in requitall of thy infinit love I beseech thee to accept in love and gratitude what by-right is thy own 7. O eternall God that I had a thousand hearts and lives to offer unto thee who by thy death hast given and bequeathed thy self to me 8. Grant sweet IESUS that thy dolorous death and Passion be ever imprinted in my heart my true thankfulness and imitation thereof Friday Admiration O My God who art thou who hast endured so many and cruell torments sweet and dearest love hast thou forgotten thy Majesty and glory 2. O light of heaven and splendour of thy Fathers glory unto what art thou now reduced 3. Alas my Saviour what art thou who art so despightfully treated 4. O love of loves that through the excess of thy love thou wouldst for me endure so bitter a death 5. O love how strong art thou which with thy force surmounted'st him that by no other means may be overcome 6. O incomprehensible God for whom dost thou suffer but for miserable sinners ungratefull creatures thy enemies children of the divell and those who contemn thee 7. O dearest love that my heart is not pierced with thy dolours 8. What were it o Lord if I had all the loves of the world to unite and offer unto thee 9. My sweet IESUS if I could reduce all thy drops of blood into teares of love what were it compared unto thy love Saturday Ioy. 1. My heart and soule rejoyce and praise the mercies of my God who out of his infinit love hath died to give thee life 2. O my delight what joy will it give to my heart to receave that life that infinit good through the merits of thy most bitter and dolorous passion 3. Sweet JESUS I praise thee with eternall joy for having in thy most cruell death so perfectly accomplished the work of our Redemption 4. It was by thee O beloved Cross that peace hath been established between God and man 5. O triumphant glory and most puissant King who by thy most sacred death hast overcome the Prince of Hell and delivered our soules out of his bondage 6. O Heaven Earth sea and all things therein yield praises in our behalf unto the saviour of our soules and let us rejoyce in the merits of his sacred passion 7. If all my members were tongues O how willingly would I employ them in the praise of thee my sweet saviour and thy health-bringing wounds 8. O all yee celestiall spirits assist me to love and praise my God by the vertue of whose Passion your ruins are repaired 9. Sweet JESUS what glory and comfort is it unto human nature to be exalted in thee unto the right hand of thy Eternall father Sunday Love 1. When shall it be my crucified JESUS that both the senses of my body and powers of my soule shall be wholy employed in thy praise 2. O my JESUS when by perfect love and imitation shall I be daily crucified and continually dy with thee 3. O my beloved JESUS when shall I love thee in such sort as that thy sacred wounds be by burning love imprinted in my heart 4. O my beloved JESUS when wilt thou bring me into the wine cellar of thy blessed side and make me wholy drunke with the most sacred wine which floweth from
the Priest saith the Confiteor COnsider the offences of our first parents with those of the whole world and in particular those which you have your self committed and at the Kyrie elerson aske most humbly pardon for them and beg grace for amendment At Gloria in excelsis COnsider how the Angels in heaven rejoyce at the conversion of a sinner wherfore beseech them through the great desire they have of mans salvation to aid and assist us and all creatures to obtain the same At the Epistle COnsider that this World is a place of Pennance and be sorry that so few do embrace the same but follow vain pleasures and delights and beseech Almighty God to enlighten their hearts and offer your self to suffer whatsoever it shall please him to lay upon you begging grace for the same At the Ghospell COnsider what pains our Saviour took in this world going from one place to another preaching and inviting all men to follow his most perfect example and doctrin begging by the merits of his pains and labours that you may be a true follower thereof At the Creed THink what a multitude of people were converted by the holy Ghospell and nevertheless how many there are which remain in blindnes and wil not be lightned for which be heartily sorry and beseech God to convert them but principally pray for the conversion of England At the Offertory COnsider the promptitude with which our sweet Saviour offered himself into the hands of his heavenly Fathet to suffer his bitter death and Passion for your Redemption and all mankind Wherfore offer your self wholly to his divine goodness with your vowes of obedience Poverty and Chastity purposing from thence forward to be crucified by these three nailes to the Cross of all mortification At the Preface COnsider how our sweet Saviour raised Lazarus after he had been dead four daies and thence you may draw comfort and confidence that although you find many evil customes in your self all hindering you from the true service of God yet acknowledge that he is able to raise and deliver you from them all Wherfore you must purpose strongly to resist them according to the grace and strength which it shall please him to give you At Sanctus COnsider how the Angels in heaven do continually praise Almighty God and how pleasing their service is unto him wherfore pray unto them to obtain for you such fervour of spirit in this life that at your death you may be worthy to be assisted by them in heaven At the Canon COnsider the unspeakable love of our Saviour in offering himself for you in this most holy Sactifice weighing his Majesties greatnes and Omnipotency which is therein contained and here you may pray for the intention of the whole church and for all those you are to pray for that day A prayer at the Elevation of the most B. Host ADoro te Domine Iesu Christe benedico tibi qui pro nobis in cruce moriens redemisti mundum Ave caro Christi immaculata Crucis hostia morte tuâ nos amarâ fac redemptos luce clarâ tecum frui gloriâ Deus propitius esto mihi peccatori Aufer à me quicquid tibi displicet Infunde in me quicquid tibi placet Converte me totum tuum dulcis Iesu Deus meus Amen J adore thee o Lord JESUS CHRIST and J bless thee who dying on the Cross for us hast redeemed the world Haile holy flesh of CHRIST immaculate host of the Cross Make us redeemed by thy bitter death to enjoy with thee in glory eternall light God be mercifull to me a sinner Take away from me all that is displeasing to thee infuse into me all that is pleasing to thee Convert me wholy to thee sweet JESUS my God Amen A Prayer at the Elevation of the Chalice SAnguis tuus Domine Iesu Christe pro nobis effusus sit nobis in remissionem omnium peccatorum nostrorum negligentiarum ignorantiarum nostrarum in robur augmentum fidei spei charitatis gratiarum virtutum in cautelam vitae in adoptionem gloriae aeternae in absolutionem omnium fidelium defunctorum omnium pro quibus orare tenemur Amen Let thy blood O Lord JESUS CHRIST which was shed for us be a remission of all our sins negligences and ignorances a strengthning and encrease of faith hope charity graces and virtues a caution to my life an adoption to eternall glory an absolution of all the faithfull departed and of all for whom we are bound to pray Amen Whilst the Pater noster is said COnsider who made this Prayer and joyne your intention with the Priest's who repeateth it for the necessities of the whole church An Excrcise for the 5. Pater nosters after the Elevation 1. FIrst you make a particular intention to get pardon and to dispose your self to receive the Blessed Sacrament either corporally or spiritually for the which observe this exercise The first Pater and Ave address to the right hand of our B. Saviour beseeching him that the pretious blood which issued out of this his sacred wound may serve you for a bath to wash and purify you from all staines and spots of your sins and particularly those which you have committed since your last confession The 2. address to the left hand beseeching him that the sacred blood which issued from the same may serve for a spirituall balsome to cure all your infirmities and spirituall sicknesses The 3. address unto the wound of his right foot beseeching him by his sacred blood which issued forth thereof that it will please him to adorn you with the garment of charity and purity of heart and mind The 4. address to his left foot beseeching him that his sacred blood which issued forth of this wound may lighten the eyes of the soule to know his greatnes feare his justice and love his goodnes The 5. address unto the sacred blood which issued from thence that he will pardon and extinguish all your inordinate desires and affections and unite your heart to his through perpetuall love and continuall memorie of him A Prayer before spirituall Communion O Pie Domine Iesu Christe qui huc propter me venisti te mihi in panem quotidiaenum imo in omnem desiderabilem usum tribuisti vellem te libenter etiaem in Sacramento suscipere sed heu non audeo nec possum accedere quia timeo te offendere propter indispositionem meam inimicam tamen scio quod sine te vero cibo non possum vivere quare humiliter te rogo ut licèt non sumam te sacramentaliter me tamen reficias ad me descendas spiritualiter velis mihi gratiam impertiri quam te devotè sumentes debent sentire O bone Iesu noli me despicere noli me indignam famulam tuam transire sed digneris ad me venire mecum manere effectus tuos in me operari Amen O most pious Lord JESUS CHRIST who camest
the Cross and with his sacred blood satisfy his Eternall Father for her demerits 4. That for her love he would remain in the holy Sacrament to feed her with his own blessed body and Cleanse her with his owne sacred blood A Prayer before receiving the B. Sacrament O Sweet JESUS J most ardently desire to receive you Sacramentally and spiritually although J know my self to be most unworthy you should enter into the house of my soule be favorable unto me wretched sinner and take from me whatsoever is displeasing unto you prepare in me and in all hearts a habitation agreable unto your divine Majesty Would to God O my sweet Saviour JESU would to God J were wholy enflamed with an ardent desire and love of you Behold J here renounce and give up to you all things O sweet JESU O JESU my love for ever A Prayer after receiving the B. Sacrament O Most sweet Lord JESUS CHRIST J humbly beseech thy unspeakable mercy that this holy Sacrament of thy pretious body and blood which J unworthy have received may be to me and to all sinners a full purgation of all our offences a strength against frailties a fortress to defend us against all perills both of soul and body an entire pardon and establishment in all grace an amendment of life a continuall memoriall of thy sacred Passion a nourishment against all spirituall weakness and a staff of our Pilgrimage let it my sweet Saviour JESUS guide us going reduce us straying receive us returning again hold us up stumbling lift us up falling and persevering bring us to glory O highest God let the reception of this most worthy Sacrament so alter the tast of our hearts that at no time we feel any sweetness love or desire and consolation admit any delight esteem any honour feare any adversity or even-live but for thee and to accomplish thy blessed will which may ever be perfected in us Amen Another Prayer O Most glorious and ever blessed Virgin Mary O holy Father S. Francis O holy Mother S. Clare S. Michaël Angels Archangells Vertues Powers Principalities Dominations Thrones Cherubins Seraphins and all celestiall Spirits J beseech you to prostrate before the face of my God and beseech him in favour of his most deare son my Saviour and Redeemer CHRIST JESUS that it will please him to pardon the unworthines and indevotion wherewith J have received the most blessed and dreadfall Sacrament and do not permit the same to cause that the spirit thereof be not communicated unto me also that by the vertue and efficacy of this holy Communion J may feel the effect of his divinë mercy that I may receive this day a full remission of all my sins true light and knowledge of his grace which is in me that be reduce and put me in such an estate as shall be most pleasing unto his divine Majesty augment in me faith hope charity obedience chastity and patience with all other vertues and gifts of the holy Ghost necessary to procure the glory of his divine Majesty and the salvation of my soule to the honour and praise of his holy name Amen What we ought to do the day we communicate 1. BE very careful to govern our sences especially our tongue and if it happen we fall by frailty we ought presently to crave pardon and beseech our sweet Saviour not therfore to absent himself from us 2. To render to this blessed guest all the best services we are able he being infinitely worthy to be served loved and adored of all creatures Wishing above all things his holy honour and pleasure 3. Seek still to entertain this blessed spouse with holy thoughts and desires beseeching him to give you and all others whatsoever he knoweth to be needfull for his love and service beleeving that he is inestimably rich and a most liberal giver 4. Do nothing that day without considering first whether the thing you do will be pleasing and agreable unto him and demand his permission and leave 5. Make fervent aspirations cast forth arrowes of divine love towards that most amiable and sweet Lord with a vehement desire of loving him infinitely and be wholy transformed into him by conformity of will Deo gratias A Prayer before Confession O Soverain Creatour of heaven and earth and of all things which in them are J worm and miserable wretch have offended your divine Majesty I wonder at my folly detest my ingratitude and lament my offences craving through the merits of the bitter Passion and death of your onely begotten son and the infinite love with which he did both offer and suffer them for my sake and for the whole world grant unto me and all sinners true knowledge and perfect contrition of our sins and offences with entire remission of them all loose us from the chaines of our imperfections and heale the wounds of our soules grant us ever to be purged and refreshed in the fountain of his holy wounds Amen A Prayer after Confession O Good IESU let this my Confession be gratefull and acceptable unto you by the merits of your admirable life and painfull death with all the labours anguishes and sorrowes which you suffered for mankind together with those of your B. Mother and all your holy Saints supplying whatsoever is wanting in me either now or any other time through want of true contrition entire confession or full satisfaction beseeching they may also be unto me light direction and strength in all my wayes unto the perfect possession of you my sweet IESU in eternall glory Amen Directions how to say the Divine Office with due devotion and attention WHat care we ought to have in saying the divine Office according to the examples of the holy men is witten in the 27. Chapter of Paralipomenon Despise not your self our Lord hath chosen you to stand before him and adore him Wherfore since God hath chosen man to so high a preferment it is very requisit we should know how and in what manner humble service doth consist The holy man Gerson affirmeth that in saying your Mattins and other houres carefully and studiously leasurely and distinctly consisteth the greatest exercise of a Religious man and is so fit for him as nothing more S. Benedict doth call this the worke of our Lord especially because it it is the chiefest office that any man can perform gratefull to the divine Majesty S. Jerome doth affirm that to offer up Hymns Psalmes and spirituall prayers and to shed teares for our own offences and those of our neighbour is to reconcile the people to God and to pacify our Lord with his flock all which things are to be accomplished in the divine office Wherfore we ought very diligently to apply our whole study and inward powers to the due execution thereof least perhaps that dreadfull sentence pronounced by the Prophet Jeremy c. 48. v. 10. fall upon us maledictus qui facit opus Domini fraudulenter Artursd be be who do's our lords worke negligently
to rain down by his power plenty of pious thoughts to possess your memory God the son the true light and wisdom to illuminate and instruct your Understanding with heavenly knowledge God the Holy Ghost who is an infinit burning fire of charity to enflame your will with pious affections The 2. Condition of Mentall Prayer is Preambles which are for the most part three 1. THe fitst whereof is a tepetition to your self as you would to another of the matter sentence or verse of which you are to meditate 2. The 2. if the matter be Historicall is to represent unto your self the place and persons present As for example Meditating some Mystery of Christ put before your eyes some mountain citty or desert fitting the place to the Mistery or sentence which you are to consider If what you purpose to meditate be spirituall matter void of such similitude abstain from the 2. Preamble accordingly If of Hell think of the length breadth and depth of that horrid place with all things that may give horrour unto If of Heaven represent the spacious pleasantness of that Celestiall Country If on death your self lying on your death bed or laid in your grave If on Judgement our sweet Saviour sitting on his Judgment seat If on sin your soule to be held prisoner in your body fettered with chaines of disordered passions and clogged with the burden of the flesh But if the sentence of your Meditation be such as cannot make these nor the former similitudes call to mind who spoke or did it in what manner sort or with what intention reciting that sentence two or three times unto your self which manner you must also accustome in all sorts of Meditations expecting what it shall please God to teach you therfore saying Speak Lord thy servant heareth 3. The 3. Preamble or petition is briefly to crave light and knowledge of the Mystery you meditate on and grace to stirr up in your self such particular good affections of this or that vertue as you shall see the matter is most apt to minister occasion for your spirituall profit The 3. Condition of mentall Prayer is Meditation which consisteth in the three powers of the soule 1. FIrst let the memory remember to call to mind the presence of Almighty God before whom you are to chuse the matter whereon you are to meditate in what manner you are to do it and the end wherfore 2. Secondly the Understanding must discourse of the matter whether it be of some person as of our Saviour some words of holy scripture some actions as of the Passion of CHRIST JESUS or the suffering of his Saints the verity cause properties effects conveniences and circumstances as WHO WHAT WHY WHERE WHEN BY WHAT MEANS And this is not to be don slightly but very seriously so as they may move the will pondering and as it were shewing them again 3. Thirdly the will must stirr up in it self these affections and make such good purposes as the subject doth require and the understanding hath before approved for good seeking to perform towards God 1. The affections of praise of his holy name 2. Love of his goodness 3. Confidence in his mercy 4. Faith in his verity 5. Feare of his justice 6. Gratitude for his benefits Towards your self affections of love or hatred desire or disdain joy or sorrow conversion or aversion feare or hope dislike or pursuit of the matter which you have discovered and in these of the will you must incite and stay your self in every point of your meditation How to proceed with fruit in every point of your Meditation FIrst the memory is to present the matter unto the understanding as is above said and that is to consider the persons actions and circumstances as is set down and when by discourse and particular view of the matter you shal sufficiently understand any speciall point to move affections as to discover Gods goodness love or any benefit don towards us by him example of vertue or difformity of vice then stay that discourse and seek to stirr up such good affections as the matter will most aptly afford As for example when by discourse you have found the goodness of God or some great benefit of him to us then stay love view and admire him for the greatnes thereof inciting your self to have a perpetuall memory and acknowledgment of them drawing somthing for your instruction and encouragement to his most perfect service and your own progress in vertue This is a great part of the fruit which you are to reap of Meditation the which you must perfect by colloquy and Prayer Helps if the will do's not yield unto those affections which you desire REflect with your self what affections such cōsiderations ought to move in you towards God whose love goodnes and benefits you see to be so great and you have deserved so little the which consideration ought to produce in you exceeding great love praise gratitude obedience confidence c. Then come to your will again and see whether it will yield to those affections If it do not then labour to move it either by such persuasions as you would give to another whom you desire to incite to the same affections Or else reprove your dulness or ask your self the question why you should not yield thereunto seeing that you can remember your self and others to be exceedingly moved unto such affections towards creatures for less motives And again say Why should not I feel the like to my Creatour or at least yield with my will to desire it and purpose the same Then have recourse to Prayer and say O my God J will purpose c. J desire you to assist me with your grace confessing your misery and unworthines beseeching him to be your help And somtimes say these words of Jacob I will not leave thee O Lord untill thou givestme thy blessing or those of the Cananean woman Yes Lord I am a dog yet doggs eate the crums which fall from their Maisters table or other such like And thus having at least by some meanes or other stirred up the foresaid affections though not so fervently as we desire persever in exercising the will drawing forth somthing for your profit This example in due proportion may serve to teach you how to proceed upon any other matter as when you have by discourse discovered any vertue or vice in some word deed or thought of some person who is presented in the Meditation first by staying or pondering or sometimes admiring how worthy a thing that vertue is in that person and how foule the vice the fruit and profit which ariseth of the one and the loss and shame of the other Then proceed as you will to move and stirr up the affection you seek never contenting your self with generall affections be they never so fervent nor spend to much time in them but make some particular resolutions of which you stand in most need for the advancement and correction of
Love in seeing the greatness of his love 7. Admiration in beholding his unspeakable bounty and goodnes It is written of him dixit multa fecit mira pertulit dura Considerations of the knowledge of ones self 1. Consider what you have been what you are and what you shall be 2. Ponder what you are by nature by fault what you have deserved and what you may do by grace 3. The effectuall cause of your Being is God 4. The matter of which you are made is Earth agreeing with the nature of beasts 5. Our soules to the image of God 6. Our end to serve him and live eternally with him Considerations of sin 1. How much it displeaseth Almighty God and hurteth man 2. How contrary to his justice displeasing and disedifying to our neighbour 3. God's severe punishment of it and what we loose therby 4. The disgust that followeth sin and dishonour that accompanieth it 5. The grief of God his Angels and Saints with the joy of the Divell 6. The difformity of sin and the disagreement between men and it according to the nobleness of the soul How to consider Death 1. That all must necessarily dy and then be deprived of all things 2. Onely accompanied with grief and sicknes of the body with temptations and feares of the soule 3. And nothing will confort you at that houre but only good works 4. Death ought not to be feared contemned or desired Of the Pains of the damned There are many waies to meditate of this as in that which followeth of glory only changing the good for the evill To contemplate Heaven 1. Consider the dowries of the soule which are the vision possession and enjoying of God 2. The dowries and perfections of the body Impassibility Brightnes Agility Subtility 3. The place most excellent most large most beautifull and most rich 4. The company of the Angels and Saints with the Blessed Mother of God which shall endure for all Eternity How to consider vertue 1. In what vertue consisteth 2. What examples and doctrine my sweet Saviour hath given you thereof 3. How beautifull excellent necessary and profitable it is how pleasing unto God and maketh man agreable to him 4. How much it edifieth and profiteth your neighbour 5. The spirituall joy it bringeth with many benefits 6. The victory we gain therby over our selves 7. How farr we are from the perfection thereof and what you ought to do hereafter 8. The power we gain therby in presenting our Prayers to God How to consider the Feasts of Saints 1. In what place they are now and with what glory they are crowned 2. How much they may help us by their Prayers and merits 3. By what works Prayers and vertues they have attained such glory 4. If you will come where they are do as they have don To meditate on the Perfections of Almighty God 1. His infinit Essence 2. His Power 3. His Wisdome 4. His Bounty 5. His Goodnes 6. His Love 7. His Mercy 8. His Justice 9. His Providence 10. His Omnipotency concerning which weigh this sentence of holy scripture or what himself hath don in testimony thereof Caelum terram ego impleo In ipso vivimus movemur sumus I fill heaven and Earth In him we live move and are For his power Dixit facta sunt He said and they were made Considerations of the creatures of Almighty God first in generall 1. BY the largeness of the world consider the greatnes of Almighty God 2. The multitude and variety of things with the infinit perfections of God 3. His bounty in the profit they bring unto us 4. His beauty by the beauty of the creatures 5. His wisdom in the well ordering of all things 6. His Eternity in the roundness which hath neither beginning nor end 7. The unity of the world shewing that God is only one The creatures in particular their beginnings and continuance which is of God 1. The end thereof to wit his honour and the service of creatures 2. Of what and how they were made by his only word and power 3. The qualities and effects of these creatures the reverence they use unto God and his perfections The benefits in brief of Almighty God 1. Who hath don you the benefit 2. Who hath moved him to do it 3. Wherfore he hath don it unto you 4. How great the benefit is 5. How much you are obliged therby 6. How ungratefull you have been What you ought to do in the time to come with the benefits of Almighty God in particular 1. First how God hath predestinated us in perpetuall love before the world was 2. How he hath made man like to himself 3. Given you a body of most seemly features void of all defformity 4. Made your soul immortall and adorned it with three powers 5. Appointed an Angell to keep and defend you 6. Made you to be born of Christian parents and members of the Church The benefit of our Redemption 1. First sent us his well beloved son to be our Redeemer and example 2. By Baptisme purged you from orignal sin and restored you the vesture of originall justice 3. Fortified you with the Sacrament of Confirmation wherby he hath armed you against your enemies 4. Made you a Christian and therby the child of God and coheire of his Kingdome 5. Hath given the holy Ghost in token of adoption of love communicating unto you his benefits inspirations and fruits 6. Lastly the Sacraments of Confession and Communion as a refuge in all Spirituall relapses and necessities The benefit of vocation 1. First the patience of Almighty God with you you falling so often after so many great benefits received long expecting your return and not letting you dy in an evill state 2. Sought to recall you by inward inspirations admonitions and exhortations 3. Mollified your heart giving you a good will to vertue and removed such impediments as might withdraw you from him 4. Lovingly received you at your return as the Father did his prodigall child putting on you the stole of innocency which you had lost by sin 5. Hath called you from the vanities and miseries of the world as he did Lot from Sodom 6. What great plenty of means he hath given you in Religion wherby you may satisfy for your sins increase your crown and merit The benefit of justification 1. First how God hath changed your will and moved you to do pennance made bitter things sweet and that which was unsupportable to be easy unto you 2. Secondly he hath given unto you perseverance in his feare and love many beginning well have failed in the end to their condemnation 3. Thirdly he hath given to you the Evangelicall vertues of hope and grace to persever in your good purposes to avoid vice and labour for vertue 4. Fourthly hath left the holy scriptures and devout books wherein as in a glass you may behold your defects and imperfections 5. Fiftly the examples of Martyrs Confessours Virgins and
J confess before thee and will acknowledge to all the world that J am the most vile and unprofitable of all creatures 5. O my God there is not on earth to be found a creature so disloyall and ungratefull as J am unto thee 6. J am not worthy to look up to heaven and much less to possesse the same 7. If the greatest sinner in the world had those inspirations and daily means of vertue which J o Lord confess to have J verily think he would not be so wretched as J am Tuesday Confidence 1. ALthough every moment deare JESUS J commit many imperfections yet J hope by thy help to attain to Christian perfection 2. My sweet Saviour if J committed all the sins and crimes which have been from the beginning of the world yet would J be confident of pardon 3. J hope most firmely O son of God my Redeemer by thy holy merits and Sacraments to enjoy eternall life 4. O infinit clemency was there ever any sinner that truly asked pardon to whom you denied it 5. My sweet Saviour if all creatures both in heaven and earth should tell me that thou hadst forsaken me and didst refuse to help me yet J would not beleeve them 6. O sweet JESU albeit the furies in Hell together with all the afflictions of this life should torment me yet would J trust in thee 7. O good JESUS thou that said'st Aske and it shall be given beleeve and you shall receive J humbly beg and unfainedly confide in thy goodnes whatsoever is necessary for me either spirituall or corporall thou wilt give me Wednsday Poverty 1. O My Lord J desire no riches ease or sensuall delights but only the love of thee 2. O that J had a thousand worlds with all the fained pleasures thereof not to possesse but willingly to leave for the love of thee 3. Most deare Lord J will possess nothing but thee and what J have only for thy sake 4. O dearest spouse all riches without thee are unto me unsupportable poverty joy sorrow ease paine consolation a consuming grief 5. O my sweet Saviour that was 't both in life and death so poor and naked of all things for thee I most willingly embrace the want of what is necessary for corporall life and health 6. My sweetest Jesu which was 't so poor and free from the posession of your will even in the repugnance of death for thee I entirely forsake my own will and sence to the consummation of my life 7. O my dearest Saviour that Wouldst not admit in all thy torments the least comfort I beseech thee make me so perfectly poore as for thy love I entertain no unnecessary consolation Thursday Gratitude 1. O my good God I render thee eternall thanks for all thy gifts both of grace and nature bestowed on me and on all creatures 2. O most liberall God thou hast don to me above all I can ask or desire 3. O my Saviour what shall J render for all those numberlesse benefits which I have and continually do receive from thee 4. O deare Saviour in gratitude for all thy mercies towards me I offer and beseech thee to accept of my heart and soule with what else thou hast bestowed on me 5. O my Creatour and deare Redeemer that I could be gratfull unto thee 6. Teach me my God to render thee such thanks as may be most acceptable unto thee 7. O would to God I had the gratitude of creatures both in heaven and earth to offer up unto thee my onely good but all being too little I beg thou wilt thy self supply these wants Friday Obedience and Resignation 1. O Most benigne Lord let me but know what you would have me to do 2. Sweete Jesus I offer my self both in time and Eternity most entirely to accomplish thy will 3. Although J should be lost yet if it be thy will for love of thee I most willingly yield to live in continuall affliction and torment 4. I offer my self with all my heart my sweete Saviour in what I may possibly in body life and soule to be disposed of by thy blessed will and pleasure 5. Behold sweet Lord for love of thee I abandon and deny my senses renounce my understanding and wholy forsake my self to prove and accomplish thy holy will 6. Most deare God for thy sake I firmly purpose rather to dy a thousand deaths then once to be disobedient to thee 7. O good Jesus when shall I see that happy houre wherein by perfect obedience and entire Resignation I shall wholy live in thee and thou in me Saturday Love of neighbour 1. MOst mercifull Lord I beseech thy infinit goodnes so to illuminate the hearts of all sinners that they may be truly penitent for their sins to seek thee with all care who art the onely God 2. I beseech thee my sweet Lord by the bowels of thy infinit mercies that all such as seek after ambition and earthly delights may turn all their affections to love thee 3. Grant sweet Jesus through the merits of thy bitter Passion that all those for whom thou hast suffered may reape the benefit thereof 4. Most mercifull Lord I humbly beseech thee to comfort all afflicted soules 5 Most sweet Saviour give such grace and vertue unto all creatures as they may be truly conformable unto thy holy will 9. Most mercifull God release for thy own sake and thy B. Mother's all those who either in Earth or Purgatory thou dost by justice punish Sunday Love of Almighty God 1. TAke form me O sweet Saviour that which separateth me so farr from thee 2. Purge my soule O Lord from all sin and imperfection by which it is defiled and made unworthy of thy Image 3. Behold O my God I hate and detest with all my heart even the least offence that ever I have committed against thy divine Majesty 4. Forgive sweet Saviour all that which justly thou mightest lay to my charge for that now I desire to be perfectly united unto thee 5. My sweetest Lord as a channell of all uncleannesse desirous to be purified I present my self unto thee 6. O Eternall God I beseech thee that I who am the least of all creatures may by perfect love of thee be elevated above all created things and my spirit only satisfied in thee 7. What shall I render thee my beloved Lord for all thou hast bestowed on me that am but dust and ashes and yet thou hast made all things for me Aspirations for every day in the Weeke upon the Passion of our blessed Saviour Munday Contrition 1. O Vile and most detestable sin by which I have so oft betrayed and sold thee my Eternall Father yea even for a momentary pleasure 2. O that I had never by ingratitude bound thy liberall hands and therby deprived my self of thee and of thy will and mercifull pleasure in me 3. O my soule unto what streights have thy sins and offences brought thy Saviour would to God I had some