Canticle Page 381 Med. 8. Canticle ibid. Med. 9. Canticle Page 382 Med. 10. Canticle Page 383 Words of the Holy Scripture for the chast Spouses of the Son of God Page 385 Words of Love taken out of the Book of the Following of Christ for Souls which aspire to Vnion Page 387 The End of the Table of the Second Tome A TABLE OF THE Meditations For the whole Year 1. Sunday of Advent Gospel Luk. c. 21. v. 25. unto v. 34. Med. 1. OF the last Judgment Page 20 Med. 2. Of Death Page 13 Med. 3. Of the End for which Man was made Page 1 Med. 4. Of the same Subject ibid. Med. 5. Of good Works Page 178 Med. 6. Of Pennauce Page 28 Med. 7. Of the same Subject ibid. 2. Sund. of Adv. G. Matth. 21. v. 2. to 11. Med. 1. Of human Respect Page 77 Med. 2. Of Persecutions Page 73 Med. 3. The same again ibid. Med. 4. Of Poverty Page 204 Med. 5. Of Scandal Page 50 Med. 6. Of Conscience Page 39. Med. 7. The same again ibid. 3. Sund. of Adv. G. John 1. v. 19.29 Med. 1. Of Humility Page 149 Med. 2. The same again ibid. Med. 3. Of the judgment of Men. Page 94 Med. 4. Of vain Desires Page 42 Med. 5. The same again ibid. Med. 6. Of Disengagement Page 71 Med. 7. The same again ibid. 4. Sund. of Adv. G. Luk. 3. v. 1.7 Med. 1. That we ought not to deferr our Conversion Page 29 Med. 2. Of the Conditions of true Pennance Page 32 Med. 3. The same again ibid. Med. 4. Of Mortal Sin Page 25 Med. 5. Of the Peace of the Soul Page 41 Med. 6. The same again ibid. Med. 7. Of Tepidity Page 43 25. Dec. On Christmas-Day Med. 1. Gospel Luk. 2. v. 1.25 Med. 2. Gosp Luk. 2. v. 15.21 Med. 3. Gosp John 1. v. 1.15 26. S. Steven G. Matth. 23. v. 34.40 Of the Pardoning of Injuries Page 91 27. S. John G. John 21. v. 19.28 Of the love of our Neighbour Page 164 28. Holy Innocents G. Matth. 2. v. 13.19 That we must be Persecuted Page 75 29. Affections of Tenderness towards the Infant JESUS Page 221 30. Of the Poverty of the Infant Jesus Page 224 31. Of the Humility of the Infant Jesus Page 226 A Preparation for Death Page 105 The four following Meditations may be made on the four last days of every Month for to learn how to Dy well Med. 1. Of the Preparation to Death Page 105 Med. 2. Motives to resolve for Death Page 108 Med. 3. The Affections of a just Soul c. Page 111 Med. 4. A Paraphrase on our Lord's Prayer Page 118 1. January G. Luk. 2. v. 21.22 Of the Holy Name of JESUS Page 229 Med. 2. Jan. Of the good use of time Page 71 Med. 3. Jan. The same again ibid. Med. 4. Jan. Of the divine Humiliations c. Page 227 Med. 5. Jan. Of the Virtues of JESUS c. Page 219 Med. 6. Jan. Epiphany G. Mat. 2. v. 1.13 Of the Kingdom of JESUS Christ Page 232 Med. 7. Jan. The same again ibid. Med. 8. Jan. Of the Kingdom of God Page 231 1. Sund. after the Epiph. G. Luk. 2. v. 42.53 Med. 1. Of the Duty of Fathers c. Page 166 Med. 2. Of the Care of our Salvation Page 6 Med. 3. The same again ibid. Med. 4. Of the leaving of our selves Page 343 Med. 5. The same again ibid. Med. 6. How we ought to leave our selves Page 345 Med. 7. The same again ibid. 2. Sund. after the Epiph. G. John 2. v. 3.12 Med. 1. Of the happiness of a Religious State Page 203 Or Of divine Vnion Page 370 Med. 2. The same again ibid. Med. 3. Of Chastity Page 206 Med. 4. Of the Contempt of the World Page 45 Med. 5. The same again ibid. Med. 6. Of Patience Page 152 Med. 7. The same again ibid. 3. Sund. after the Epiph. G. Matth. 8. v. 1.14 Med. 1. Of Sickness Page 194 Or Of Communion Page 304 Med. 2. Of Faith Page 134 Med. 3. Of venial Sin Page 26 Med. 4. Of Preparation for Death Page 105 Med. 5. Motives to resolve for Death Page 108 Med. 6. The Affections of a just Soul c. Page 111 Med. 7. A Paraphrase on our Lord's Prayer Page 118 4. Sund. after Epiph. G. Matth. 18. v. 23.28 Med. 1. Of the Profit of Temptations Page 56 Med. 2. The same again ibid. Med. 3. Of God's dominion over his Creatures Page 3 Med. 4. The same again ibid. Med. 5. Of Hope Page 139 Med. 6. Motives to Patience Page 152 Med. 7. The same again ibid. 5. Sund. after the Epiph. G. Matth. 13. v. 31.36 Med. 1. Of the flight from occasions c. Page 35 Med. 2. The same again ibid. Med. 3. Of the Purity of Intention Page 144 Med. 4. Of Hell Page 22 Med. 5. Of the hatred of the World Page 45 Med. 6. The same again ibid. Med. 7. Of the two Eternities Page 24 6. Sund. after the Epiph. G. Matth. 13. v. 31.36 Med. 1. Of fidelity in small things Page 176 Med. 2. Of Presumption Page 67 Med. 3. The same again ibid. Med. 4. Of the Conducts of Faith Page 136 Med. 5. Of the troubles and pains of mind Page 61 Med. 6. Of natural Inclinations Page 62 Med. 7. The same again ibid. Septuagesima Sunday G. Matth. 20. v. 1.17 Med. 1. Of the small number of the saved Page 48 Med. 2. Of Slander Page 79 Med. 3. That we ought to do our actions well Page 175 Med. 4. A Preparation for Death Page 105 Med. 5. Motives to resolve for Death Page 108 Med. 6. The affections of a just Soul c. Page 111 Med. 7. A Paraphrase on our Lord's Prayer Page 118 Sexagesima Sund. G. Luk. 8. v. 1.16 Med. 1. Of the Word of God Page 201 Med. 2. Of driness Page 190 Med. 3. Of Alms. Page 180 Med. 4. The same again ibid. Med. 5. Of Inspirations Page 199 Med. 6. The same again ibid. Med. 7. Of Avarice Page 97 Or Of Devotion to the B. Virgin Page 310 Quinquagesima S. G. Luk. 18. v. 31.44 Med. 1. Of the obligation we have to love God Page 10 Med. 2. The same again ibid. Med. 3. Of Modesty Page 196 Med. 4. Ash-Wednesday Of outward Pennance Page 53 Med. 5. The same again ibid. Med. 6. Of the excellence of Mortification Page 55 Med. 7. Of customary Sins Page 102 1. Sunday in Lent G. Matth. 4. v. 1.12 Med. 1. Of the Causes of Temptations Page 58 Med. 2. Of our Lord's Passion in general Page 235 Med. 3. The same again ibid. Med. 4. Of our Lord's Sadness Page 237 Med. 5. The same again ibid. Med. 6. Of his Prayer in the Garden Page 239 Med. 7. The same again ibid. Or The seven Stations Page 274 2. Sund. in Lent G. Matth. 17. v. 1.10 Med. 1. Of Heaven Page 368 Or Of Solitude Page 342 Med. 2. Of the outrages that our Lord suffered c. Page 241 Med. 3. The
They say I am to dy Come I am content I willingly resign up my life I render it to him that gave it me I remit my spirit into his hands I recommend unto him my body and my soul I am sorry that I have offended him I accept of death for to satisfie him I believe all that he has reveal'd I hope for all that he has promis'd I give him all that I possess I will dy for his glory I will dy for his sake I will dy in gratitude I will dy for justice sake I will dy because he died I will dy for him as he died for me I will dy that I may see him I will dy that I may love him I will dy that I may bless him And for to sing his Praises for all Eternity O Father of mercy Behold a Prodigal Child Who has wasted all your goods Who has spent his life in Debaucheries That returns now to your house And who most humbly begs your pardon Alas I have liv'd without reason Since I have had the use of reason I have don nothing but evil Since I knew what was good My Father I have sinn'd against Heaven and against thee I deserve not to bear the name of thy Child I am not worthy to enter into thy house But have you ceased to be a Father Because I have ceased to be your Child Have you lost your goodness Because I have lost my innocence Are you no more a Father of mercy Because I am becom a Child of misery O my Father O the best of all Fathers Have pity on the miserablest of all thy Children I was lost and I am now retrieved I was dead and I am risen again I was gon far from you and now I am here ready to appear before you O my Father Come and meet your Child Give him a kiss of peace Forgive him his offences Revest him with a Nuptial Robe Receive him into your house Give him a place at your Feast O JESUS The Physician of the poor sick The Comforter of the poor afflicted The hope of poor Sinners Here am I before you without strength Without motion without speech But my heart says inwardly Come O my JESVS come quickly Draw my Soul out of this Prison Recal me out of this exile Conduct me to my dear Country Behold the Just do there expect me My friends hold forth their arms to me O how beautiful are thy Tabernacles O how admirable is thy Palace O how contented shall I be in Heaven O how happy shall I be in your Company I dy with a desire of dying Com divine Saviour and make me languish no more O holy Mother of God! Who didst see thy Son dying Lo here thy Child is sick Forsake him not in this extremity Com and receive his Spirit And defend him from his enemies O ye Angels of Heaven Com down upon Earth to help me Make a guard round about me Drive away from me the Infernal Lyon Preserve me even unto my Death After having sav'd me from so many Shipwracks Suffer me not to perish in the Haven Come let us go to Heaven Let us go to Paradise My heart is ready O my God my heart is ready It is ready to stay here on earth It is ready to go hence It is ready to live It is ready to dy Thy will be don I recommend my body and soul to you I rejoyced in the things that were said to me we will go into our Lord's house Psal 121. Blessed are those that dy in our Lord. Apoc. 14. Blessed are those that are call'd to the Nuptials of the Lamb. Apoc. 19. In thee O Lord have I hoped I shall not be confounded for ever Ps 30. VVhat is there to me in Heaven and what besides thee would I have on Earth my flesh and my heart have fainted O the God of my heart and my portion God for ever Ps 72. I am straitned on both sides having a desire to be dissolved and be with Christ much more better Phil. 1. One thing have I asked that will I require that I may dwell in the house of our Lord all the days of my life Ps 26. How beloved are thy Tabernacles O God of Hosts my soul doth long and faint after the Courts of our Lord. Ps 83. Blessed are they that dwell in thy house O Lord they shall praise thee for ever and ever Ps 83. All this Psalm is full of sweet thoughts to raise in a sick person a desire of Heaven If thou dost observe iniquities O Lord who can sustain Ps 126. VVith our Lord there is mercy and with him a copious redemption ibid. LII MED A Paraphrase on our Lord's Prayer for the comfort of the sick Our Father I Believe O my God that you are my Father who have given me the life of my soul and body for to serve and love you and which you have repaired by the Death of your Son after I had miserably lost it through my sin You are the Father of all men and of the most miserable of all men whom you see here extended on this Bed O how glad am I that I have such a Father So good so wise so holy so powerful I hope that since you have given â—ne a temporal life you will do me the favour â—lso to give me an eternal one O my Father 〈◊〉 render back unto you the life which you have given me I am sorry that I have employed it so ill and that I have used it to offend you therewith My Father I have sinn'd against Heaven and against you I am not worthy to bear the quality of your Child but receive me I beseech you into the number of your Servants My Father if it be possible let this Chalice of Death and Sufferance pass from my mouth and let me not drink it as yet Yet let your Will be don and not mine My Father glorifie your Son that your Son may glorifie you and since I have not honored you upon Earth make me praise you Eternally in Heaven Which art in Heaven Alas you are in Heaven and I am yet here upon Earth You are in a place of peace and I am in a place of warfare You are in Heaven for to reward me and I am on Earth for to honour you I hope O my God that I shall soon be with you in Heaven I hope so on the merits of the precious blood which your Son hath shed for me O when will that day com How tedious is it to live banished from your presence How the Earth displeases me when I lift up my eyes to Heaven O Heaven O Heaven What ought not we to do to gain thee What ought not we to suffer for to obtain thee All that I endure is nothing in comparison of what I hope for Hallowed be thy Name O admirable name of God! I came into this World for to sanctifie thee and I have don nothing but profane thee I came upon Earth
to your holy Mother I choose her for mine and I desire to dy betwixt her arms I recommend my spirit into thy hands and I conjure thee by thy dereliction not to forsake me at the hour of my death but to receive me into thy Heaven there to see thee there to love thee there to praise and bless thee for all Eternity Amen This Prayer may be recited in the time of Mass before Confession and Communion especially when one is sick and on all Fridays in the year at the foot of the Cross You must make a little Pause at each Station and produce in heart the acts that you pronounce with your mouth CXVIII MED On the Burial of Jesus Christ JEsus from the Cross is laid in the Tomb. Here is an end of his labours This is the place of his rest This is the term of his journeys His Disciples do almost lose their Faith By having lost his Presence They are fearful and dejected Because they see and hear him no longer Happy is he who receives into his heart Jesus descending from the Cross The grain of wheat that it may fructify Must dye and be hidden The arms of the Priest at the Altar Are the arms of the Cross Your heart is the grave wherein he would rejoyce Happy is he who is crucified Who is dead and buried Who is hid in the ground Who is trod under foot Who is unknown to men Who reposes in God He will soon rise again with Jesus Immortal and impassible like him Happy is he who conceives his Faith In the death and obscurity of his Senses Who loses not his hope having lost his support Who ceases not to love Having nothing that can comfort him O Jesus Hide me in thy grave Bury me in thy shrowd That I may be no more known by men Let me dy to all my senses I am ready to go along with you Even into the Prisons of Hell Provided that I be in your company I shall have nothing to apprehend Hell with you would be a Heaven to me Heaven without you would be a Hell to me Joseph taking the body wrapt it in a clean Sindon and laid it in his own new monument which he had hewed out of a rock Matth. 27. Woman why weepest thou They have taken away my Lord and I know not where they have put him John 20. My Soul was filled with evils and my life drew near unto Hell Ps 87. I was reputed with those that descend into the lake I became like a man without help free amongst the dead ibid. They laid me in the lower lake in dark places and in the shadow of death ibid. Like the vvounded that sleep in their graves ibid. CXIX MED Of the Resurrection of our Lord. JEsus is risen again He enjoys a glorious life He is com out of his grave He has conquered death He has triumphed over Satan He has broken to pieces the gates of Hell He has carried away the spoils He has frightned his guards He has confounded the Jews He is victorious over all his Enemies My Soul weep no more Jesus has resumed a new life He will dy no more in thy heart Unless thy Sin do crucify him there Jesus is risen again in our Souls He is re-entred into his Kingdom He has droven the Devils thence He has triumphed over Sin He keeps our Passions Captives He dwells therein by his Grace He lives there by his Spirit He reigns there by his Love He reposes there by his Peace All the whole Church is risen again His whole Body is out of the grave All his Members are re-animated They are no more dead nor sick My Soul weep no more Jesus has c. Jesu tarry with us for night draws on The day is going down The Devils gather together The Lions roar Our Passions revolt Ill habits awaken The World takes arms Our flesh takes strength again Your life is not in assurance Hell has conspired against you The wicked have sworn your death They will renew your sufferings My Soul c. O ye senceless Galathians What do you intend to do Do not you know Jesus any more But two days ago you lamented his death And now you are contriving To take away his life You are preparing Scourges for to tear him Thorns to crown him with Crosses to nail him to What has he don for to be crucified Is he criminal for having loved you Does he deserve death for having saved you My Soul c. Our Lord is truly risen and hath appeared to Simon Luk. 24. Christ rising from the dead dies no more death shall domineer no more over him Rom. 6. If ye are risen with Christ seek the things that are above not that are on earth Col. 3. Crucifying to themselves again the Son of God and setting him at nought Heb. 6. CXX MED Of our Lord's Wounds JEsus hath Wounds altho he be risen Do not wonder at the Wounds That remain after your Resurrection There is no hurt in feeling them There is merit in enduring them Be impassible to your passions Be immovable in your temptations The Wounds of Jesus enlighten our Faith They support our Hope They inflame our Love We cannot doubt of his affection We see his heart through his Wounds We ought no longer to be diffident Jesus is our Advocate in Heaven He prays for us by as many mouths As he has Wounds in his Body The Nails are the Keys that have opened This Ark of our Redemption All the Treasures which it includes Are now at our disposal O Jesus my Saviour How do your Wounds comfort me Secure me encourage me There issues from thence a Balsam Which cures all my sorrows Who will dare to accuse me Knowing that you are my Advocate Who will dare to condemn me Knowing that you are my Judge Who will dare to declare against me Knowing that you are my Saviour O divine Saviour Imprint on me your sacred Stigmats Imprint them in my Soul and in my Body Who can live without Wounds Seeing you covered with Wounds I cannot love my heart Unless it be wounded like yours Alas that which shall be the joy of the Predestinate Will be the torment of the damned He shewed them his hands and feet Luk. 24. He shewed them his hands and side John 20. What are those wounds in the midst of thy hands With these was I wounded in the house of those that loved me Zech. 13. Behold I have written thee in my hands Isai 49. Whom thou hast stricken they have persecuted and they have added to the pain of my wounds Ps 68. CXXI MED Of the good Shepherd JEsus is a good Shepherd He knows all his sheep He knows them as he is known by his Father He gives them life as he receives it from him He calls them all by their name He conducts them in streight ways He has a particular Providence for them He always walks before them With the Crook of the Cross in his
glory of Jerusalem thou the joy of Israel thou the honour of our People Judith 25. Who is she that comes forth like the rising morning Cant. 6. Do thou and thy Son rule over us Judg. 8. He shall comfort us from all the works and labours of our hands in the land that God hath cursed Gen. 5. CXL MED Of the Presentation of the B. Virgin in the Temple MAry offered up unto God all that she had She offered it up as soon as she could She offered it up with a full will for ever And by an irrevocable promise We give to God but half our heart We give it as late as we can We give it with regret We give it but for a time Give all Give quickly Give cheerfully Give for ever O Holy Virgin I give my self wholy to you without reserve I give my self with all my heart I am sorry that I gave my self so late I give my self for ever And by an irrevocable donation Offer up my heart to your Son I give it to him all entire without delay Without regret without return for ever And by an irrevocable donation 'T is good for a man when he has born the yoke from his youth he shall sit solitary and shall be silent because he hath raised himself above himself Thren 3. And having not found where to rest her foot she returned unto him into the Ark. Gen. 18. In the simplicity of my heart I offered up all Kings 8. Ananias with Saphira his wife sold a field and bringing the price he laid it at the Apostles feet Ananias why hath Satan tempted thy heart to ly to the Holy Ghost and defraud of the price Act. 5. Their heart is divided now will they perish Os 10. A Protestation of Service to the B. Virgin which ought to be made on all Holy-Days and Communion Days O Holy Virgin most worthy Mother of God altho I know my self unworthy to be in the number of your Servants and of your Children yet trusting in your goodness and in your mercy and pushed on with a desire of serving you I declare in the Presence of God and of all the Heavenly Court that I choose you this day for my Queen for my Mother and for my Advocate And I make a firm resolution never to forsake your Service never to do or say any thing against your honour and never to permit that any that depend upon me ever offend you or dishonour you in any manner whatsoever I most humbly beseech you to receive me into the number of your Servants and of your Children to help me in all my Necessities and not to forsake me at the hour of my Death Amen I thought my self obliged to make this Form for those who know not the manner how to give themselves to the B. Virgin The End of the Third Part. THE FOURTH PART FOR THE VNITIVE LIFE CXLI MED Of the Love of JESVS JESVS is the most beautiful of all Men. JESVS is the greatest of all Kings JESVS is the most charitable of all Fathers JESVS is the most faithful of all Friends JESVS is the mildest of all Masters JESVS is the perfectest of all Spouses JESVS made himself man for me and like me JESVS made himself poor for me and like me JESVS made himself miserable for me and like me JESVS suffered death for me and like me JESVS is my Father and my King He is my Brother and my Spouse My Master and my Shepherd My Chief and my Physician My Salvation and my Redemption My Hopes and my Comfort JESVS loves me with all his heart He is always at the door of my heart He intreats me to give him my heart He has given his life to have my heart I am ungrateful if I refuse him my heart Wo unto him who divides his heart Cursed is he that loves him not with all his heart O Love of all Loves O Heart of all Hearts Let me love you as you love me Let me love you as you deserve to be loved Nothing above JESVS Nothing comparable to JESVS Nothing with JESVS Nothing after JESVS Goodly of beauty above the Sons of men Ps 44. All in all Christ Col. 3. Simon of John dost thou love me John 14. He that has my Commandments and keeps them it is he that loves me John 14. If any one doth not love our Lord Jesus Christ be he Anathema 1 Cor. 16. CXLII MED Of the Vnity of Love LOve comes from Unity tends to Unity Reposes in Unity conserves it self by Unity A strait heart cannot be bowed A pure heart cannot be stained A free heart cannot be captivated A single heart cannot be divided Wo unto those that have a double heart God's heart cannot love them No man can have two Heavens No man can serve two Masters No man can have two Spouses No man can love God and the World There must be but one Soul to one Body But one Sun to the Universe But one King in a State But one Governour in a Place But one Shepherd to one Flock But one Pilot to one Ship But one Love to one Heart But one God to one Creature You will say you give God half your heart Ah! did not God create the other half Did God redeem but half your heart Will God save but half your heart Did God give you but half his heart Ah! why will you give him but half of yours Is the heart of a man too much for God O the God of my Heart You have always been mine And I have never been yours I have made to my self as many Idols As I have loved Creatures I have divided my Faith When I divided my Charity I destroy'd both the one and the other When I divided them Ah! I lost my self when I did not love you I will henceforth O my God Love you with all my heart I will never more divide my affections All to all One to one One alone to one alone This is the Device of my heart O my God and my All. Since you have given me your whole heart Which is so great 'T is very just that I should give you all mine That is so small No man can serve two Masters Matth. 6. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart Matth. 22. How long do you halt on both sides if our Lord is God serve him c. 3 Kings 18. Wo unto the double hearted Eccl. 2. Their heart is divided now they will perish Os 10. CXLIII MED Of the Presence of God GOD is before me with me in me He is before me for to consider me He is with me for to govern me He is in me for to enliven me I ought therefore to be before God By thinking on nothing but him With God by labouring only for him In God by loving nothing but him I am never alone God is always with me I never work alone God always works with me I never suffer alone God always suffers with me