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A00337	The seauen spirituall exercises of a deuout soule Containing the life and death of our sauiour Christ: compiled in seauen meditations, replenished with most godly, and deuout motions, and seruing for the seauen dayes in the weeke.	Bull, John, fl. 1613, attributed name.	1613 (1613)	STC 1046; ESTC S115252	18,791	130

honour and the saluation of Soules Let me wholy occupy my selfe in the same conforme my selfe to thy holy will doing as much as my estate is able I beseech thee that no loue of transitory things carry me away nor no creature draw mee into perilous dangers Nay rather let mee embrace all things for the loue of thee that are to be imbraced but let mee still hold thee more deare vnto mee then any thing and onely in thee finde rest and quietnesse Iesus drinketh gall vpon the Crosse I Giue thee thankes O most mercifull IESVS that in the houre of thy death Mat. 27.34 to quench thy thirst thou wouldest apply a Sponge full of vineger vnto thy mouth that by tasting in that thy afflicted estate thou mightest satisfie thy heauenly Father for all our intemperances and voluptuousnesse and leaue vnto vs a miraculous example of thy pouertie Grant mee grace O Lord that for the loue of thee I may despise all dilicious sauours and exquisite banquets and that I may be contented with modestie and temperance to eate drinke that onely that may suffice to the sustenance of this body rendring thee infinite thankes for the same Purifie and heale my Soule that whatsoeuer is acceptable vnto thee may be pleasing to mee and what displeaseth thee may be vnsauery and loathsome vnto mee Iesus endeth the worke of our Redemption I Giue thee thankes O Iesu the feruent louer of mankinde that in so absolute order thou didst end the worke of our Redemption offering thy selfe a liuely Sacrifice on the Altar of the Crosse for the sins of the world I beseech thee O my Redeemer that thou wouldest vouchsafe to be the onely harbour of my heart and the scope of my cogitations wordes and workes that in all things with pure chaste intention I may onely looke on thee that I doe that thing onely which thy glorie requireth that nothing please mee but thee and that I desire nothing besides thee Grant ô Lord that hereafter at any time I be not slacke or remisse in thy seruice but that the feruour of thy holy Spirit being daily renued in mee my diligence may increase more and more in thy praise and seruice Iesus dyeth I Giue thee thankes O most meeke Iesus that thou diddest call Death and command thy Spirit to leaue the prison of the flesh being commended into the hands of thy Father in which thing thou declarest Ioh. 19.30 that thou art that true Shepheard that dyed for the safeguard of his flocke Grant mee O Lord that being dead to sinne and all wicked vices I may onely liue vnto thee that the course of this life being ended in charitie I may forth-with enter into thee that art the true Paradise of our soules Iesus is buried I Giue thee thankes O beloued Iesus that with great complaints and mournings of thy friends thou wert taken from the Crosse Iohn 19.40.41 annointed with most precious ointments wrapped in linnen cloths put into another mans Sepulchre O Lord bury with thee all my senses and desires that being ioyned to thee in the strong linckes of loue I may be as it were dead in those things that displease thee And of the contrary part in all things that please thee let mee be wholy aliue ready and ioyfull let me onely be delighted in thee my Redeemer and treasure of my Soule Amen MED●●●● ●●● Christ 〈…〉 I 〈…〉 for 〈…〉 hast not spared to vndergo the torments of death and hell for my sake that thou mightest aduance mee into thy Kingdome Let the consideration of this ô God terrifie me from sinne because thou sparedst not thine onely begotten Sonne but that 〈…〉 endure the grea●● 〈…〉 and 〈…〉 Let it also 〈…〉 in my hea●●● 〈…〉 that thogh 〈…〉 of wrath 〈…〉 in mee Iob 6.4 and 〈…〉 thereof drinke 〈…〉 spirit yet I may still remember that thou my Sauiour hast satisfied for all my sins and conquered both Death and Hell Col. 2.15 when thou diddest leade captiuitie captiue and by the spoyle of all principalities powers of darknesse hast swallowed them vp into victory Behold O Lord behold my infirmities and consider that I am in thy hands but as the clay in the hands of the Potter If thou try me giue mee patience to beare it and when thou smitest me lift me vp againe and if thy terrours should fight against mee Iob. 6.4 yet teach me ô Lord to resolue that it is thy fatherly worke to kill sinne in me that I being mortified in my sinfull flesh may be raised vp vnto the life of glory Amen Christ is risen from the dead I Giue thee thankes O good IESVS that victoriously comming out of thy Sepulchre with most noble triumph after thou haddest ouercome death diddest rise againe the third day in great Glory and Maiestie visiting thy Disciples comforting them with exceeding gladnes Grant ô Lord that being quickned from death and the deadly action of my sinfull life and vngodly conuersation I may walke in the newnesse of life and seeke onely for those things which are high and heauenly and not those things which are vile and transitorie that when thou being the true life shalt secondly appeare in the glory of thy Father with the Angels I may likewise appeare with thee in glory and be made euerlastingly blessed in the ioyfull fruition of that Kingdome that neuer shall haue end Iesus ascendeth into heauen I Giue thee thankes O louing Iesus that fortie dayes being ouer-past after thy Resurrection thy Disciples did behold thee triumphantly Acts 1. and gloriously ascending into heauen where sitting at the right hand of thy Father thou rulest and raignest as King world without end Let it be pleasing vnto thy goodnesse ô Lord that my Soule may be rauished with the loue of thee Coloss 3.1 and to seeke those things that are aboue and may despise al worldly things Let it alwayes aspire vnto thee that it may be lift vp vnto the heauens from whence must come my comfort my crowne and my ioy And that my prayer may ascend vnto thee as the morning Incense let it affect or be delighted in nothing but in thee my onely Lord and God Iesus sendeth the HOLY GHOST I Giue thee thankes O most louing Iesus that didst send thy holy spirit vpon thy elect which perseuered in prayer and didst send them to preach and teach the people throughout all the world I beseech thee O LORD to purifie the inward parts of my heart and to giue mee true puritie and cleannes of conscience that the same Comforter finding in my soule an acceptable dwelling-place may adorne and beautifie it with the most fruitfull gifts of his Graces Let him onely comfort me onely strengthen me onely rule mee and be onely respected of me Let me neuer want the comfort of thy Spirit ô God but that I may finde him in his sweet influence of grace and assistance to sanctifie my Soule and to strengthen the

THE SEAVEN SPIRITVALL Exercises of a deuout Soule CONTAINING the Life and Death of our Sauiour CHRIST compiled in seauen Meditations replenished with most godly and deuout motions and seruing for the seauen dayes in the Weeke PSALME 119.15 I will meditate in thy precepts and consider thy wayes LONDON Printed by T. S. for Iohn Budge and are to be solde at the great South-doore of Paules and at Britaines Bursse 1613. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL Mr. William Bull MAYOR of the Citie of WELS I. B. Wisheth all prosperitie in this life and eternall happinesse in the life to come IF all men are by nature and duty bound to gratifie their wel-deseruing Friends most deare and much respected VNCLE then must I not ouerslip time to make requitall of your manifold kindnesses by some slender gift such as the zeale of my dutie and the abilitie of my minde is able to performe And now to make it appeare not so much in complements as in action I haue sent you a small Treatise which in the iudgement of some Diuines whom I reuerence in my heart is for matter of worthy respect for method plaine for practise godly and I hope for the fruits of it profitable for what of higher regard of more facilitie of deeper deuotion and of greater comfort then the meditation of the Historie of our Sauiour CHRIST which you see here parted into seauen dayes practise and may be the Christians daily taske I will say no more of it onely vse it peruse it practise it and after your charitable censure if it may seeme worthy your patronage claime it as your owne your owne you may then call it for without you it had neuer seene the Sunne nor the Sunne it The reflexe of your fauours towards me and the vndeserued kindnesse of Some that are neare allyed to you whom I onely point at R. B. c. I neede no more as also the godly disposition of you all in matters of pietie and deuotion haue called this light out of darknesse and made it that long hath wandred from the Author like a wearyed Pilgrime to flye to you for protection As you loue Christ so fauour it and as you fauour godlinesse so loue It. Make it your daily Viz. This Booke though not your whole taske and resolue of this that Christ cals men as well to Mount Tabor by diuine Meditation to admire his goodnesse and glory as Caesar cals them to beare the Sword for the defence and countenance of authoritie Thus crauing your fauourable acceptance of this poore mite vndertaking the patronage of the same I wish you all health and happinesse Leauing this to you with the remembrance of my humble dutie London this 3. of October 1612. Your Cosen in all seruice to be commanded I. B. THE PREFACE to the seauen Meditations of the Life and Death of our SAVIOVR CHRIST AMongst all spirituall Exercises if we may giue credit to an Ancient Writer there is none more profitable In Prol. of the Medit. of the Life of Iesus then the Meditations of the Life and Death of our Sauiour For as they worke in vs a despising and contempt of all visible things so doe they arme vs against all the power of the world the flesh and the Diuell They purchase familiaritie with God they procure his loue towards vs they make vs confident and they bring our soules to the Paradise of all vertues and height of all heauenly perfections For where may wee finde the force vertue and true effects of pouerti humilitie patience meeknesse loue obedience and other celesliall Graces more perfectly displayed then in the life of our Sauiour Therefore Bernard speaketh rightly when he saith That man that would get vnto himselfe vertue laboureth in vaine if hee seeke it any where else or desire it of any other then of him that is Lord of all vertues whose doctrine is the rule of Wisedome whose mercy is the work of Iustice whose life is the example of Temperance and whose death is the perfect president of Patience In this Exercise this sweet and holy Teacher spent and consumed his whole time making benefit and fruit of the godly collections which hee gathered together of the anxieties and bitternesse of Christ his Passion in whose person he pasionately speaketh Sup. Can. Serm. 63. O homo vide quae pro te patior non est dolor sicut dolor meus Whereof also he was not at any time vnmindfull as he witnesseth of himselfe Therefore a man shall doe a worke of exceeding worth if once at the least in euery weeke eyther by prayer or Meditation hee runne ouer the whole life of our Sauiour Iesus seeing there is no prayer more acceptable vnto him then that in which is made a remembrance and commemoration of his life and death of his merits and benefits which hee hath done for vs. And that this may be done more fitly the Authour hath comprehended the Life Death and Resurrection of Christ in seauen Prayers or Meditations following that they might serue for the seauen dayes in the weeke and the same in manner of a thanksgiuing seeing there is no benefit for which wee owe greater thanks vnto Almightie God Then let God haue the glory that requires no more of vs then the Confession and remembrance of his benefits optima beneficiorum custos est ipsa memoria beneficiorum Hom 25. sup Mat. perpetua confessio gratiarum saith Chrisostome The best preseruer of the graces of God is the mention and confession of his graces SEAVEN MEDITATIONS of the Life of IESVS MEDITAT I. Christ descendeth from heauen and is conceiued in the Virgines Wombe I Render vnto thee immortall thanks oh sweet Iesu that for the loue of mee didst descend from thy Regall Pallace and high bosome of thy Father into this low vaile of all miseries and vouchsafedst to take vpon thee humane flesh in the holy wombe of thy blessed Mother Mat. 1.18 I beseech thee O Lord to prepare my heart a Tabernacle for thee and to that end to adorne the same with all manner of vertues that thou maist therein make perpetuall habitation Oh would to God it might please thy goodnesse to make my heart to be such towards thee that I be not afraid to inuite thee but that thou maist come to dwell in mee and that I may be fit to receiue thee with spirituall delight Luke 19.6 as Zacheus which receiued thee ioyfully and that thou maist sweetly rest in my heart without end Oh that I could embrace thee with the armes of strong affection that at any time I be not drawne from thee by thought word deed or vaine imagination Mary visiteth Elizabeth I Giue thee thankes O sweet Iesu for that after thou wert conceiued in the wombe of the blessed Virgin Mary thou willedst her by thy Angell Gabriel Luke 1.39 to goe by the Mountaines and visit Elizabeth that she might salute and congratulate with her for that GOD had made