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A01645	Gerards meditations written originally in the Latine tongue by Iohn Gerard Doctour in Divinitie, and superintendant of Heidelberg. Translated and revised by Ralph Winterton fellow of Kings Colledge in Cambridge.; Meditationes sacrae. English	Gerhard, Johann, 1582-1637.; Winterton, Ralph, 1600-1636.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.; Gerhard, Johann, 1582-1637. Exercitium pietatis quotidianum quadripartitum. English. aut	1638 (1638)	STC 11778; ESTC S103073	189,715	520

therefore now to renew it Gerards Meditations had never seen English light for me if yours and others bountie had not set my head on work to finde out some occasion to give publick testimonie of my thankfulnesse If Gerard had not been I might still have been to seek for an occasion As often therefore as Gerard and I live together at every impression you may challenge at my hands a new expression of my service This debt I shall be alwayes readie to pay but not as men pay money for that being once paid can be required no more But this I shall be alwayes paying and still remain your debter Ità testor R. WINTERTON SOme say that plants do better grow When they 're translated to and fro I 'm sure when books translated be They more and more do fructifie Gerard did bring forth fruit before But now it is deriv'd to more What be beyond the sea did sow Now Englishmen at home may mow Come Countreymen take what is yours The crop's brought home unto your doores John Boh●am IF pleasure may or profit may thee move Here 's that which may deserve thy chiefest love If thou desirest riches to enjoy The doore is open to the treasurie If beautie please On this glasse cast thine eye Here 's that will soul and bodie beautifie If honour please The way 's prepar'd for thee To honour him whose service honours thee If thou beest hungrie thirstie Taste and see Christs flesh and bloud presented unto thee If thou beest naked To this wardrobe hie Where Christ his robe of righteousnesse doth lie If sick thou art For every maladie Here is a very present remedie If thou thy self defiled hast with sinne Here is a fountain for to bathe thee in If thou delightst in flowers Here do grow Such flowers as Art and Nature ne're could show Choose what thou wilt here 's what thou canst desire Riches and beautie honours and attire Meat drink and med'cine and a living spring A paradise of every pleasant thing Here 's heaven on earth if heaven on earth can be And so I wish thee to go in and see Francis Winterton GErard of late was but in Latine read But now he hath his language altered Behold a change see how Arts pencill can A Latine turn into an English-man Gerard in this ten thousand doth excell In three moneths space to speak our tongue so well Thomas Bonham REader if thou fain wouldst know To whose labours thou dost ow These sacred lines think who't may be Seeks thy souls good and that is he Some say these writings Gerards be He wrote indeed but not to thee He was to those that learned were To thee he was not though be were Before thou couldst not understand He 's now translated to thy hand Reade him and use him as thy friend And hee 'l be thine unto the end William Norrice THou that desir'st on earth a blessed end And seek'st the way to th' heavens to ascend Resort to Gerard hee 'l direct the way Whereby thou mayst ascend and live for ay Thou needst no guide 't is easie to be gone All lets removed are by Winterton The way 's made plain which was before obscure That thou thereby mayst heavenly blisse procure Endeavour then this way to walk aright And it will lead thee to eternall light T. Gore UPon a good the more communicate We alwayes set a better estimate The sunne it self though of it self most bright None would admire did not he see its light Gerard himself though of himself hee 's good Had not been so to us not understood This mov'd my friend this Gerard to translate Gods glory and thy good to propagate Edward Bonham The table for direction to finde out any Meditation contained in this book Meditation 1 OF confession of sinne Page 1 Meditation 2 An exercise of repentance from the crosse of Christ. Page 7 Meditation 3 Of the fruit of true and serious repentance Page 12 Meditation 4 A meditation upon the name of JESVS Page 19 Meditation 5 An exercise of faith from the love of Christ in the agonie of death Page 23 Meditation 6 Consolation for the penitent from the crosse of Christ. Page 28 Meditation 7 Of the fruit of the Lords passion Page 34 Meditation 8 Of the certaintie of our salvation Page 39 Meditation 9 That God alone is to be loved Page 44 Meditation 10 Of our reconciliation with God Page 51 Meditation 11 Of the satisfaction made for our sinnes Page 56 Meditation 12 Of the nature and properties of true faith Page 61 Meditation 13 Of the spirituall marriage of Christ and the soul. Page 68 Meditation 14 Of the mystery of Christs incarnation Page 74 Meditation 15 Of the saving fruit of Christs incarnation Page 80 Meditation 16 Of the spirituall repast of the godly Page 85 Meditation 17 Of the fruits of Baptisme Page 91 Meditation 18 Of the saving communion of the body and bloud of Christ. Page 97 Meditation 19 Of the mystery of the Lords supper Page 102 Meditation 20 Of due preparation before we come to the Lords supper Page 107 Meditation 21 Of Christs ascension Page 112 Meditation 22 An homilie of the holy Ghost Page 118 Meditation 23 Of the Churches dignitie Page 125 Meditation 24 Of predestination Page 132 Meditation 25 Of the saving efficacie of prayer Page 139 Meditation 26 Of the holy angels guarding us Page 146 Meditation 27 Of the devils treacheries Page 153 Meditation 28 Generall rules for the leading of a godly life Page 159 Meditation 29 Of shaking off securitie Page 166 Meditation 30 Of the imitation of the holy life of Christ. Page 174 Meditation 31 Of the denying of a mans self Page 180 Meditation 32 Of the true rest of the soul. Page 187 Meditation 33 Of a pure conscience Page 193 Meditation 34 Of the studie of true humilitie Page 201 Meditation 35 Of fleeing from covetousnesse Page 206 Meditation 36 Of the properties of true love and charitie Page 214 Meditation 37 Of the studie of chastitie Page 222 Meditation 38 Of the flitting swiftnesse of this present life Page 229 Meditation 39 Of the worlds vanitie Page 236 Meditation 40 Of the profit of tentations Page 244 Meditation 41 Foundations of Christian patience Page 250 Meditation 42 How we must overcome tentations by perseverance Page 257 Meditation 43 Of the daily meditation of our death Page 262 Meditation 44 Consolation at the death of friends Page 268 Meditation 45 Of the last judgement Page 277 Meditation 46 Of the desire of eternall life Page 283 Meditation 47 Of the beatificall vision of God in heaven Page 290 Meditation 48 Of our fellowship with the angels in heaven Page 296 Meditation 49 Of the grievousnesse of hell-torments Page 302 Meditation 50 Of the eternitie of hell-torments Page 309 Meditation 51 Of the spirituall resurrection of the godly Page 316 Meditat. I. Of true confession and acknowled●ment of sinne Confession is to cure sinne A very present medicine HOly God

worldly comfort but by tentations Stephen when he was stoned saw the glorie of Christ So Christ manifests himself unto the contrite soul in calamities There is no true and solid joy but where God dwelleth and Gods dwelling is in the contrite and humbled spirit Affliction it is and tentation which humbleth the spirit and maketh it contrite Therefore true and solid joy is in the soul of the afflicted Tentation is the way to come to the knowledge of God Therefore the Lord saith I will be with him in trouble I will deliver him and make him see my salvation Blinde Tobie saw nothing either above him beneath him or before him and therefore he saw not himself But being enlightned of God by the angel Raphael he saw all things which before he could not see using no other medicine but the gall of a fish To shew that our eyes are to be anointed with the gall of bitternesse that so we may be enlightned and come to the true knowledge of our selves and worldly things Why saith the Apostle that we know but in a glasse Because in tentations we come to know that God maketh the elect joyfull under the shew of sorrow and quickeneth them under the shew of death and healeth them under the shew of sicknesse and enricheth them under the shew of povertie Therefore must the crosse and tentation be welcome unto him whosoever is not unthankfull to Christ who was crucified and tempted for us O good Jesus Let me be burned here let me be smitten here that I may be spared hereafter O good Jesus Thou which dost often cast us off from thee by sparing us make us to return unto thee by striking us Afflict and presse the outward man that the inward man may grow and increase O good Jesus Fight within me against me Be thou the moderatour of the fight and the crown of my victorie Whatsoever adversitie I feel in this life let it tend to the strengthening and increasing of my faith O good Jesus Help my weak faith For so thou hast promised by thy holy prophet As a mother comforteth her children so will I comfort you As a mother cherisheth and nourisheth her sucking infant with much care So do thou O good Jesus erect and confirm my languishing faith Grant that thy inward comforts may prevail more with me then the contradictions of all men and the devil himself yea and the cogitations of mine own heart O thou good Samaritane poure the sharp wine into the wounds made by my sinnes but poure in also the oyl of divine comfort Multiply my crosses but give me also strength to endure them Meditat. XLI Here are foundations of Christian patience Take up thy crosse do but endure To overcome thou shalt be sure BE quiet O devout soul and endure with patience the crosse which God hath laid upon thee Consider the passion of Christ thy bridegroom He suffered for all of all and in all He suffered for all yea even for them which despise his precious passion and wickedly trample his bloud under their feet He suffered of all He is delivered he is broken in pieces he is forsaken of his heavenly Father he is forsaken of his disciples he is rejected of the Jews his own peculiar people For they preferred Barabbas the thief before him He is crucified of the Gentiles He suffers for the sinnes of all men And therefore he is afflicted of all men He suffered also in all His soul was sorrowfull even unto death and being pressed with the sense and feeling of Gods anger cries out that he was forsaken of God All the members of his bodie are in a bloudy sweat His head is crowned with thorns His tongue tastes a cup of gall and vineger his hands and feet are boared with nails his side is wounded his whole bodie is scourged and he is stretched forth on the crosse He suffered hunger thirst cold contempt povertie reproches wounds death and the crosse And then how unjust a thing were it for the servant to rejoyce when the Lord suffereth How unjust were it that we should rejoyce in our sinnes when our Saviour is so grievously punished for them How unjust were it that the other members should not condole when the head is afflicted But rather it is necessary that we enter through many tribulations into the kingdome of heaven as it was necessary that our Saviour should by his passion enter into celestiall glorie Consider also the bountifull reward The sufferings of this present life are not worthy of the glorie which shall be revealed unto us How great soever our suffering is it is but temporall yea sometimes but for a day But the glorie is everlasting God doth exactly observe all our adversities and will at length bring them to judgement How disgracefull a thing then will it be at the generall assembly of the whole world to appear without the jewels and bracelets of the crosse and passions He shall wipe away all tears from the eyes of those that are his O happy tears which shall be wiped away by the hand of such a great Lord O happy crosse that shall finde a crown in heaven David was not ten whole yeares in his exile but he was fourtie in his kingdome Here we have the shortnesse of our suffering prefigured and the eternitie of the glorie which is to follow It is but a moment of time wherein the Saints are exercised by the crosse But the mercies by which they are comforted are for ever And thus after adversitie in the morning follows prosperitie in the evening Consider also the tribulation of all the Saints Behold Job mourning on the dunghill John hungry in the wildernesse Peter stretched out upon the crosse James beheaded of Herod with the sword Behold Mary the blessed mother of our Saviour standing under the crosse She was the type of the Church the spirituall mother of our Lord. Blessed are ye saith Christ when men shall persecute you for my names sake For so have they done to the Prophets O glorious persecution which makes us conformable unto the Prophets and Apostles and all the Saints and even unto Christ himself Let us therefore suffer with those that suffer let us be crucified with those that are crucified that we may be glorified with those that are glorified If we be true sonnes indeed let us not refuse the condition of the rest of our brethren If we truly desire the inheritance of God let us accept it wholly For the sonnes of God are not onely heirs of joy and glory in the world to come but also of heavinesse and sufferings in this present world For God scourgeth every sonne whom he receiveth He punisheth their sinnes here that he may spare them at the judgement to come He multiplies tribulations here that he may multiply their reward hereafter And so not

that the raging madnesse and desire to persecute which they have in their mindes may hereafter cease Let them know O Lord and acknowledge that it is not onely a vain thing but also very dangerous to kick against the pricks Why do they imitate the furie of wolves when as they know that the bloud of Christ the immaculate Lambe was poured 〈◊〉 for us Why do they thirst to shed that innocent bloud for which they know that the bloud of the very Sonne of God was poured ●orth upon the altar of the crosse Convert them O Lord that they may be converted unto thee from their heart and so obtain the fruit of their conversion in this life and in that which is to come Amen PRAYER VII He supplicates for those that are afflicted and in miserie ALmighty eternall and mercifull God which art the Saviour of all men especially of the faithfull and by thy Apostle hast commanded us to make prayers for all men I intreat thee for all those that are afflicted and in miserie that thou wouldest support them by the consolation of thy grace and succour them by the aid of thy power Indue with power and strength from above those that labour and sweat in the most grievous agonie of Satans tentations Make them partakers of thy victory O Christ thou which didst most powerfully overcome Satan Let the cooler of thy heavenly comfort raise up those whose bones are become dry with the fire of grief and sorrow Bear up all those that are ready to fall and raise up those that are already fallen Be mercifull unto those that are sick and diseased and grant that the disease of the body may be unto them the medicine of the soul and the adversities of the flesh the remedies of the spirit Let them know that diseases are the handmaids of sinne and the forerunners of death Give unto them the strength of faith and patience O thou which art the most true Physician both of soul and body Restore them again unto their former health if it be for the everlasting salvation of their souls Protect all those that are great with childe and those that be in labour Thou art he that dost deliver children out of the straits of their mothers wombe and dost propagate mankinde by thy blessing be present with those that be in labour O thou lover and giver of life that they be not oppressed with an immoderate weight of sorrows Nourish those that are orphans and destitute of all help and succour Defend the widows that are subject to the reproches of all men thou which hast called thy self the Father of the fatherlesse and the judge and defender of the widows Let the tears of the widows which flow down from their cheeks break through the clouds and rest not untill they come before thy throne Heare those that be in danger by sea which cry to thee and send up their sighs unto thee seeing before their eyes their neighbours suffer shipwrack Restore libertie unto those that are captive that with a thankfull heart they may sing of thy bounty Confirm those that suffer persecution for righteousnesse sake that they may get the conquest over all their enemies and purchase the everlasting crown of martyrdome Be present with all those that be in danger and calamitie and grant that they may possesse their souls in true patience and denying their own wills take up their crosse Let them follow him under the crosse on whom they beleeve that he died for us upon the crosse And especially I commend unto thee most gracious Father those which are about the gates of death and are between time and eternitie and wrestle with all their strength with that last enemie Confirm them O thou most potent Conquerour of death Deliver them O most glorious Captain and Authour of life that they be not overwhelmed in the waves of tentations but by thy conduct they may be brought unto the haven of everlasting rest Have mercy upon all men thou which art the Creatour of all Have mercy upon all men thou which art the Redeemer of all To thee be praise and glory for ever and ever Amen FINIS The summe of Gerards prayers red●ced into a form of morning prayer for the use of an English familie The foure capitall words signifie the foure parts of Gerards prayers and the Arithmeticall figures point 〈◊〉 every prayer of those parts HOly God and just Judge Thine eyes are more pur● then the sunne and cannot behold any thing that is unclear The Cherubims and Seraphims cover their faces before thy glorious majestie The heavens of heavens are not clean in thy sight How the● shall earth sinfull earth dust and ashes appear before thee We presume not O Lord to come before th● tribunal to plead for our righteousnesse for all our righteousnesse is a● filthie rags But we prostrate our selves with all humilitie of body and soul at thy mercy-seat to make CONFESSION of our sinnes Heare Lord and have mercy We confesse that 1 We sinned in the loyns of our first parents we were conceived in sinne we were shapen in iniquitie 2 In our childhood originall sinne brought forth actuall and actuall sinnes have increased in us ever since as our dayes have increased Who can reckon up the sinnes of his youth Who can tell how oft he offendeth The just man sinneth seven times a day But 3 We have sinned seventy times seven times every day ● 5 All thy holy laws and commandments we have broken in thought word and deed 6 We have been partakers of other mens sinnes 7 We are many wayes convinced of our sinnes We are convinced 8 By the contrition of heart and the testimonie of our conscience 9 By the greatnesse of thy mercy and thy benefits bestowed upon us 10 By the severitie of thy ●ustice declared in the death and passion of thy Sonne our Saviour Iesus Christ. Thou art an holy God and nearest not sinners Thou art a just Judge and thy justice must be satisfied We are sinners and the wages of sinne is death Thy justice must be satisfied or else we cannot escape death We have nothing of our own to give for the ransome of our souls Therefore we offer unto thee holy Father that which is not ours but thy Sonnes 1 For our originall sinne we offer unto thee just Judge his originall righteousnesse who is righteousne● it self for our conception in sinne we offer unto thee his most sacred conception who was conceived by the holy Ghost for our birth in sinne we offer unto thee his most pure nativitie who was born of a pure virgin 2 For the offences of our youth we offer unto thee his most perfect innocencie in whose mouth was found no guile 3 For our daily slips and falls we offer unto thee his most perfect obedience who made it his meat and drink to do thy will in all things 4 5 For our often breach of thy commandments we offer