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A12573	The booke of the holy societye commonly called of tvvelve conteyning the lytanies, and prayers, vvich are to be sayd by those vvho are of that Societye. To obtaine of God the grace to dye well. Lately translated out of the French language for the benefit of English Catholikes by N.N. a Catholic gentleman.	Byfield, Nicholas, 1579-1622, attributed name.; Anderton, Lawrence, attributed name.; N. N., catholic gentleman.	1626 (1626)	STC 22889; ESTC S101962	17,410	150

demand it of god in her name As it doth appeare in the acts of her noble martyrdome vvhich you shall sind in the lines of Saynts vvitten by the reuerend father Rybadeneyra vvith a notable example of one vvho falling dovv●● from the topp of a house that vvas on fire and being buried or rather ouervvhelmed vvith the ruynes of the house and flaming brands vvas in due time succored by the sayd Saynt vvhoe appeared vnto him and promised him that he should not dye before he had receiued the Sacraments and for that end thee had obtayned of god a respit for him till the ne●t day vvhich s●e fell out and he made a most happy end because for a great space of tyme he had be●● deuou● to the foresayd Saynt A PRAYER TO IESVS CHRIST CRVCIFIED O Lord Iesus Christ my most mercifull sauiour I beseech thee by that great bitternes which thou didst suffer on the crosse for me wretched sinner especially at that houre when thy most sanctified soule did depart from thy blessed bodye that it would please thee to haue pitty on my soule and to vse mercye thereto when it shall depart out of this life and that thou wouldest by the merits of thy most precious bloud take it with thee into aeternall life Amen ADVERTISEMENT Caesarius a religious man doth report that a great seruant of god being accoustomed to say the forsayd prayer as often as he passed by the holy Crucifix did merit after his death to goe out of this vvorld directly into paradise vvithout suffring the paynes of purgatory AN ACT OF CONTRITION WITH ALL THE PARTS THEREOF IN FORME OF A PRAYER MY lord Iesus Christ true god true mā for asmuch as thou art accomplished with all perfection and because I doe acknowledg thee for my souueraigne bilsse I do loue thee with all my hart and aboue all things I am infinitly sory that I haue soe vngratefully offended thee Wherefore I doe first of all resolue neuer to offend thee more Secondly to flye from all the occasions of sinne Thirdly to make a sincere confessiō and to performe such pennance as shall be enioyned to mee and for a more full worthy satisfactiō I doe offer vnto thee thy owne merits with those of the blessed virgin thy mother and of all those whom thou hast elected ioyning therewith both my body and foule my temptations sorrowes and afflictions and my whole life Beseeching thee alsoe that thou wouldst pardonne and giue me thy grace wherby I may amend my life and that I may continue therein euē till my death Amen A PRAYER TO OVR BLESSED LADY TO COMMEND OVR SELVES TO HER SPECIALL PROTECTION AND SAFEGARD O Domina mea sancta Maria ego infaelix peccator me in tuam benedictam fidem ac singularem custodiam in sinum misericordiae tuae hodiè quotidiè in hora exitus mei animam meā corpus meum tibi cōmendo omnem spem meam consolationem meam omnes angustias miserias meas vitam finem vitae meae tibi comitto te hodie matrē apud Deum aduocatā meā prae omnibus eligo pręopto tu quę pijssima es mater misericordiae noli me propter nimia peccata mea reijcere sed pertuam sanctissimam intercessionem per tua gloriosa merita omnia mea dirigantur disponantur opera secundum tuam tuique filij voluntatem Amen AN OTHER PRAYER TO IMPLORE THE AYDE OF OVR BLESSED LADY IN TIME OF TRIBVLATION AND IN HORROR OF DEATH O Most chast and mercifull virgin and mother holy Mary stretch forth I beseech thee the hand of thy help and succor to me a miserable and wretched sinner in all those trauayles and necessityes which may happen vnto me at any time or place but principally in this tribulation and affliction which doth oppresse me at this present soe that I may not onely beare it patiently and for the loue of god but alsoe with courage and cheerefully and that by his grace and speciall assistance I may gayne force and constancy in all my other crosses and aduersityes which may fall vpon me aswell from the hand of my god as of mē O mother of mercy and aduocate of sinners be pleased alsoe to be my gratious defendresse at that time when my soule shall part from my body for at that time more thē any other shall I haue neede of thy succor and ayde For alas if I consider the weight of my sinnes and the number of offēces which I haue committed and doe daily committ in the presence of the diuine goodnes I feare to be confounded ouercome by the deuill whoe will neuer cease to present thē before my eyes indeuoring to deceiue me by his false illusions I therfore most hūbly beseech thee the true distributor of gods holy graces that thou wouldest obtayne of my lord thy deare and onely sonne true god and true man that as he hath vouchsafed to come and take humayne flesh in thy chast wōbe not by any humayne but Diuine power that so he might saue mankind from eternall damnation soe likewise it would please him to giue me the force and vnderstanding at that last houre truely to repēt myself of my sinnes and to haue nothing in my thoughts but him alone Which I aske by thy intercession not for my self alone but alsoe for all those whoe are of this holy societye whereof thou art the principall ladye mistresse soe that by thy merits intercessiō wee may all soe well serue thy most sweete sonne in our life that acknowledging him at our death by recieuing al the sacramēts and his holye grace wee may merit one daye in heauen to enioy and possesse without end the cleare vision of the blessed Amen AN OTHER PRAYER TO OVR LADYE O Most mercifull virgin Marye most worthy mother of god assured refuge of sinners conforter of the afflicted I vnworthy sinner haue recourse to thee with great confidence beseeching thee for that great ioye which thou didst feele in thy hart when thou didst see thy onely deare sonne rise from death to life that it would please thee to comfort my soule and more expressely I beseech the for a speciall grace by the bowells of thy infinite pittye that in the last passage of my life whē I shall appeare trembling defore the awefull tribunall of thy deare beloued sonne my sauiour Iesus Christ to giue a strict accompt of my whole life that thou wouldest vouchsafe to assist and prorect me to the end that by thy fauorable intercession most gracious mother I may escape that terrible sentence of eternall death be found or made worthy to enioy with thee that life which neuer shall haue end Amen PROTESTATIONS FOR THOSE WHOE ARE SICK AND DESIRE TO DYE IN THE GRACE OF GOD. I. N. miferable sinner doe protest heere in the presence of the holy Trinity the Father Sōne and Holy ghost of Iesus Christ crucified for my sinnes of the

glorious virgin Marye our aduocate of S. Michael the archangell and of all the angells and saynts in paradise especially my angell gardien and of my patrone S. N. and other Saynts my aduocats and intercessors and of all yee my parents and friends that are here present whom I desire to be witnesses of what I shall speake I doe then first of all protest that I doe take in good part my death with all willingnes of mind and that I doe willingly suffer the griefes and afflictions of this disease for the loue glory of the diuine maiestye yea euen the paynes of purgatorye for such time as it shall please our lord for the remission of my sinnes the punishment due vnto them 2. I protest that I will dye as I haue liued in the true faith of the holy Catholique Apostolique and Romayne church and I doe beleeue and hold inuiolably whatsoeuer it doth beleeue and propose vnto me to be beleeued with all the articles of the Creed which I will now repeate Credo in Deum c and therewithall I doe reproue condemne and detest all the ancient and moderne heresyes principally that of the Caluinists and Protestants of our times 3. I doe protest that I doe entirely trust in the infinite bounty and mercy of my god and sauiour the which doth infinitely exceede all my sinnes how great or grieuous soeuer they be And therefore I doe hope to be saued not by my merits but by the merits of the pretious bloud of the passiō and death of Iesus Christ the onely true sauiour of my soule 4. I protest that I doe pardon with all my hart all those whoe haue at any time offended me wishing them all happynes prosperitye in our Lord beseeching their pardon for euery occasion or subiect that I may haue giuen them to offend me 5. I doe protest that frō the bottome of my hart and with all profound humility I doe ask pardon of all those whome I may at any time haue scandalised by my ill example or in any other sort whatsoeuer offended in word or deed eyther in body goods or fame offring my self with all readynes to giue them all manner of satisfaction as farre as I shall be able 6. I doe protest being humbly prostrated before the diume maiesty that from the bottome of my hart I doe ask pardon and for giuenes for all my sinnes and offences which I haue committed agaynst him agaynst my neighbour my self being chiefely greeued and troubled in my soule that I haue transgressed his will considering his infinite goodnes and merit and in regard of the exceeding and notorious fauors which it hath pleased him to bestowe vpon me much offended with myself that I haue not had that griefe sorowe and cōtrition which I ought and should desire to haue and that I haue not peraduenture confessed myself as I ought and am obliged to doe for which I am hartyly sorye and doe propose to my self for the time to come in better manner then I haue hitherto done to serue god faithfully for euer remitting my self to his diuine prouidence and perpetuall goodnes 7. I doe protest that I giue thankes with the vtmost power and forces of my hart to my lord my god for all the benefits already recieued and which I doe hope to recieue from his diuine maiestye which are infinite I doe alsoe thank all those whoe in any manner whatsoeuer haue eyther done or desired any benefit seruice or good office eyther for my soule or bodye and more expressely and particularly those whoe haue eyther giuen or offered me any occasion to merit 8. I protest that I doe offer to my lord and god all the satisfactions merits sorrowes with the bloud which hath bene shed by my sauiour Iesus Christ his sonne the merits of the blessed virgin Mary of all the Saynts seruants of god whoe shall liue heere till the end of the world for the remission and satisfactiō of all my sinnes and for a perpetuall thākesgiuing and fit acknowledgment of the infinite benefits graces recieued of his diuine maiestye 9. I protest that I doe most humbly beseech the sacred virgin Marye my angell gardiē my patron and the saynts to whom I haue speciall deuotion with all the angells and Saynts of paradise that they would ayd and assist me at my last poynt of life and obtayne for me by theire intercessions and merits euerlasting repose in their blessed company Marye mother of grace mother of mercie protect vs from our ennemye recieue vs at the houre of death All the saynts of heauen make intercession for me 10. I protest that if soe be that our Lord permit that I should be tempted by the deuill with any temptation whatsoeuer eyther agaynst faith hope or charity towards god or neighbour or agaynst ought that I haue nowe sayd that I will not harken answeare or cōsent thereto or beleeue his false perswasions and if soe be that by his craft and deceipts or by the violence of my maladie and payne I should happē to consent to any sinne I doe nowe beseech my good god that such consent of mine may be voyd of none effect and this I ask for the valewe and merit of the precious bloud of my Lord Sauiour Iesus Christ Finally I protest that I doe recommend at this present my poore soule to the sacred wounds of the feete hands and side of my sweete and mercyfull sauiour Iesus Christ the which I doe kisse and imbrace with all my hart in the which I will liue and dye Betwixt the armes of my redeemer I will liue and I desire to dye Into thy hands ô lord I cōmend my spirit Thou hast redeemed me my lord god of truth god of my hart and my portion for euer I beseech all those whoe are presēt at my houre of death when I shal not be able to speak any more that they would ayd succor me with their prayers offring vp to the eternall father my agonye sweate suffrings in the vnion of the agonye sweates and suffrings of the bloud paynes and passions of my well beloued Iesus Christ for the remission of my sinnes When thou shalt haue ended these protestations the which thou mayst recite many times if thou think good thou shalt say with great reuerence deuotiō and attention the two prayers the one to Iesus Christ Crucified the other to the B. Virgin by which is demanded grace to make a happy passage from this life to the next which prayers are placed aboue pag. 65 and pag. 78. OTHER DIRECTIONS VERY PIOVS AND PROFITABLE 1. After the foresayd protestations and prayers it is requisite that the assistants with an intelligible voyce should saye the letanyes of our ladye or those of the saynts and that the sick party should indeuor to answeare at least by hart if hee cannot by mouth to the end that hee may more surely obtayne the grace which is desired Then shall

he kisse the sacred wounds of the holy Crucifix sayeing each time Iesu the sonne of Dauid haue mercy vpon me 2. The sick person shall cause a Crucifix or some other deuout image of our Lord Iesus Christ or our blessed Lady to be hung vp in some place where he may easily behold hold and contemplate it many times as well by nyght as by day and pray sometimes to Iesus Christ sometimes to our blessed ladye and recommēding himself cordially vnto them to speake these words or such like O Iesus my sauuiour saue my soule O mercifull virgin Marye defend my soule O Iesus and Marye grant patience and strength to my soule O Iesus and Marie recieue my soule neere vnto yee He shall likewise recōmend himself to the blessed patriarchs S. Ioseph Saint Francis Saint Augustin and Saynt Barbara speciall protectors and intercessors for the holy Association of twelue and to other his particular friends and deuout persons and aboue all to his good Angell guardien 3. Theye whoe haue charge of the sick partyes shall be carefull that theire children or such like persons doe not come neere them or but very seldome by reason of the particular and naturall affection that they beare to them because the presence of such persons doth vsually trouble sicke people for the tēdernesse of affection which is stirred vp in them which is very hurtfull as well to the body as to the soule 4. All lasciuious paintings profane pictures are to be remoued from the chamber of the sick body or at least to be kept out of his sight because they might without doubt cause in him by the craft of the deuill euill thoughts and effects 5. Those whoe shall visit the sick must be carefull that they doe not entertayne them with vayne discourse or vnproffitable and worldly buisinesses but shall speake vnto thē such things as may spiritually recreate them and edify the assistants in our Lord. 6. The sick partye shall be diligent to discouer vnto his spirituall father all the temptations doubts scruples and sinnes orderly as they come to his memorye to the end that conseruing by this meane the peace and tranquillity of his conscience the deuill be not able to deceiue him in any thing ● Besides the sick or ●hose whoe attend about ●im must indeuor to gett ●eligious men to come ●ften vnto him particu●arly his confessor or spi●ituall father that he may ●e ayded by them com●orted solaced especi●lly towards the end of ●is life For it is certayne ●that the presence onely of ●ood religious men espeially if they be priests ●oth bring cause great ●are and terror to the infernall deuills which neuer forsake the sick person till he be dead 8. To conclude I will say● one thing very profitable for sick persons who desire to make a good and quiet end and which perchance is not much practised by worldly men which is not to put of the sayeing of masses for th● after theire death or t● giue almes for the goo● of theire soules but they ought to doe it whill they liue for as much as such like good workes are then without comparison farre more profitable to the soule then after theire death First for that they obtayne of god diuersity of proffit and spirituall helpes with or by which the soule is excited to doe supernaturall workes and which deserue eternall saluation as acts of forrowe and contrition for sinne of the loue of god hope and such like by which a habit of diuine grace doth increase in the soule and consequently the glory which is due thereto in paradise 2. Because the soule doth receiue of these spirituall helps great force and is meruailously strengthned and incouraged in time of death agaynst the assaults of his ennemy In a word these meanes are of great force and vale we to obtayne of god a true and harty repentance at the houre of death and a most perfect conuersiō to him wherein a happye end doth consist and in his grace and consequently our eternall saluation in the life to come whereunto may it please our redeemer to conduct vs all by the merits of his most holy passion THE COMPLAINT OF A SOVLE APPREHENDING THE AETERNITYE OF HELL FOr EVER neuer ending my good god S'an infinite that knovvs no period Restlesse hovvlinge burninge dyinge EVER So endlesse each a part and all togeather If after many thousand yeares vvere past These ills should end there vvould be hope at last But this for EVER termelesse all consumes And old past Age its infancy resumes The fullest mirth hard EVER doth controule And sad and silent strikes th' afflicted soule By Attoms could a vvrenne ouer the mayne Transfer the headlesse Alpes vvith easlesse payne And euery thousand yeares but once could fly Or vvhen an Ant had suckt the Ocean dry Should be the terme this tardy hope might please The Damned soules that once there vvould be ease But Horred EVER tyme and all or'e past Exists alone vvith him that ● first and last FINIS OFFICIVM PARVVM in honorem S. IOSEPH Sponsi B. Mariae AD MATVTINVM Vers Iesus Maria Ioseph DOmine labia mea aperies Resp Et os meum annunciabit laudem ruam Vers Deus in adiutorium meum intende Resp Domine ad adiuuandum me festina Vers Gloria Patri Filio Spiritui sancto Resp Sicut erat in principio nunc semper in secula seculorum Amen Alleluia A septuagesima vsque ad Pascha loco Alleluia dicitur Laus tibi Domine Rex aeternae gloriae Hymnus IOseph Dauid filius clara stirpe natus Virgini dèsponsus mente copulatus Vtriusque custos caelo de stinatus Antiphona Salue Patriar charum decus Ecclesiae sanctę Dei oeconomus cui panem vitae frumentum electorum conseruasti Vers Ora pro nobis sancte Ioseph Resp Vrdigni efficiamur promissionibus Christi Oremus SAnctissimae Genitricis tuae sponsi quęsumus Domine meritis adiuuemur vt quod possibilitas nostra non obtinet eius nobis intercessione donetur Qui viuis regnas cum Deo Patre in vnitate Spiritus sancti Deus per omnia secula seculorum Amen AD PRIMAN Vers Iesus Maria Ioseph Versus DEus in adiutorium meum intende Resp Domine ad adiuuandum me festina Vers Gloria Patri Filio Spiritui sancto Resp Sicut erat in principio nunc semper in secula seculorum Amen Alleluia Hymnus TV qui sponsam grauidam dolens cùm videres Cogitabas anxius an ●am retineres Sed coelestis nuntius ne ampliùs tim●res In somnis admonuit sed potiùs gauderes Antiphona Salue Patriarcharum decus Ecclesię sanctę Dei oeconomus cui panem vitae frumentū electorum conseruasti Vers Ora pro nobis sancte Ioseph Resp Vt digni efficiamur promissionibus Christi Oremus SAnctissimae Genitricis tuae sponsi quaesumus Domine meritis adiuuemur vt quod possibilitas nostra non

our blessed Lady and of the forsayd Saynts the grace to dye well and that with as much deuotion and attention as possibly he can indeuoring with all his power by his good life to make himself meritorious of that grace For as saynct Augustin sayth he can hardly dye ill whoe hath liued well he cā scarcly dye well whoe hath liued ill And it is as a secret iudgment of god noted by the same S. Augustin in his sermon of innocēts It is iust o Lord that he whoe whilst he liued was forget full of thee at his death should forget himself that is his owne saluation the sacraments restitution c and dye like à beast To conclude those of the company are exhorted and intreated in our lord Iesus Christ to beare in memory and carefully to practise these fiue poynts which followe The first that assoone as they can they should free themselues from mortall finnes if eyther they doe belieue or doubt that they are touched with any flying by all meanes possible those occasions which they knowe doe cause soe great à miserye and that where they are able to hinder it they doe not suffer that any offend god in theyr presence or in any other place where they haue power to hinder The second poynt that they both confesle and communicate if they can beside those dayes which are appoynted therefor as wee haue shewed euery month The 3. that they heare euery day masse if they canne doo it without preiudice to that whereunto they are obliged and that they pray for the catholique church and for our holy father the pope for the king and state and for the kings assue for the peace and vnity of Christiā princes for the extirpation of heresyes for those that are in mortall sinne for such as are afflicted in temptation for those that are in the agonye of death and for theyr enimyes The 4. that they indeuour to discharg themselues faithfullye and with conscience of such dutyes and obligations as belong to theire charge vocation whereto they are called The 5. that euery night they make as they are able an examination of theyr conscience and eyther say before or after it the prayer which is vsed to obtayne a true contrition for theire sinnes which doth beginne My lord Iesus with the next following prayer to our blessed lady which examination may be reduced for such as eyther knowe not how or cannot imploye themselues longer therein to two poynts The one to giue god thanks for all the graces benefits which wee haue recieued at his hands cheefly that he hath that day preserued vs frō mortall sinne sudden death and infinite dangers aswell spirituall as corporall which haue that very day fallen vpon soe many others better and more conformable to the diuine goodnes then wee The other is to fift and search out into what and how many offences wee haue fallen or pexmitted or caused others to fall then to demand pardon for them and to propose vnto our selues to confesse and amend them OF THE GREAT BLESSINGS WHICH THOSE VVHOE ARE OF THIS HOLY SOC●ETYE DOE RECIEVE IF thou be in sinfull estate of life those who are of the cōpany through out the whole world by theire prayers and merits dispose thee to leaue such māner of life to acknowledg thy sinne and that thou mayst not dye in it 2. If thou be in state of grace they pray to god to conserue thee therein to augment and confirme it vnto thee 3. Thou dost participate of the infinite good workes of soe many good Christians as are admitted to this societye 4. They help thee by theire prayers to obtayne the excellent guift of final perseuerance and other vertues which are necessary as charity patience chastitye deuotion c. 5. They ayde thee also to obtayne of god that he would vouchsafe to keep thee from suddayne or at least from vnprouided death And from falling into mortall sinne and in case thou doe committ any that he would soe powerfully in spire thee with his grace that thou mayst presently rise from it againe And alsoe that he would assist thee agaynst thy enimyes at the hower of thy death 6. The sacred virgin mother of this holy cōpany and the glorious patrons thereof Saint Ioseph S. Francis S. Augustin and S. Barbara whom thou hast soe often called vpon for these ends and soe many thousands as are of this societye which dayly pray for thee will assist thee particularly in this dangerous passage 7. By these meanes thou shalt receiue great consolation shalt be freed from great apprehensions which perplex many 8. After thy death if thou haue any guilt to be purged they will assist thee that thou mayst be speedily deliuered from that clensing and correcting fier as S. Augustin calleth it vpon the sixt psalme 9. In à word thou shalt recieue à thousand other blessings which are all cōprised and farre more in the communion of Saynts and in that which S. Iames saith The daily prayer of the iust man is of great force Then consider deare brother if the prayer of one iust mā be of soe great valew how much more meritorious and auayleable will the continuall prayers of fiue or six hundred thousand seruants of god bee whoe doe dayly increase and applye themselues to this exercise of prayer through the whole world according to the rule and order of this holy company to sollicit thy requests affayres with god and that especially which is the most principall of them all to make à happy end and to dye in the faith of the church with the benefit of the sacraments in the grace of god Yea euen then when thou dost walk sleepe eate and peraduenture offēd god a great number of people fall downe vpō theire knees and lift vp theire hands to heauen beseeching god to preserue thee from mortall sinne and from a sinfull death and his anger fearefull iudgmēt Therefore deuout reader procure this blessing for thy soule whilst thou hast time and despise not this fayre occasion which is soe easy for thee and without any obligation at all Think with thy self seriously what thou wilt wish that thou hadst done for thy selfe when thou shalt be layd vpō thy bed waiting for the last stroke of death and pray to god that he will giue thee grace to finde that in thy selfe at that hower then lett him dispose of thee according to his holye will for the rest THE LETANYES OF OVR LADYE OF LORETTO VVHICH THOSE OF THE COMPANY DOE DAILYE SAYE KYrie eleison Christe eleison Kyrie eleison Christe audi nos Christe exaudi nos Pater de coelis Deus miserere nobis Fili redemptor mundi Deus miserere nobis Spiritus sancte Deus miserere nobis Sancta Trinitas vnus Deus miserere nobis Sancta Maria ora pro nobis Sancta Dei genitrix ora S. Virgo Virginum ora Mater Christi ora Mater diuinç gratiae ora