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A06436	Of prayer, and meditation Wherein are conteined fovvertien deuoute meditations for the seuen daies of the weeke, bothe for the morninges, and eueninges. And in them is treyted of the consideration of the principall holie mysteries of our faithe. Written firste in the Spanishe tongue by the famous religious father. F. Lewis de Granada, prouinciall of the holie order of preachers in the prouince of Portugall.; Libro de la oración y meditación. English	Luis, de Granada, 1504-1588.; Hopkins, Richard, d. 1594?	1582 (1582)	STC 16907; ESTC S100761	342,485	696

to drinke that geueth vs the cuppe of saluation he that was so innocent he that was so iust or rather verie innocencie and iustice it selfe was accompted emonge theeues the euerlasting truth was accused with false witnes the iudge of the whole worlde was condemned bywicked men and the worde of god receaued the sentence of death with sylence Consider moreouer at what tyme the Sauiour of the worlde was nailed vpon the crosse and at the verie houre of his death when the sterres were obscured the elementes troubled when the earth quaked when the light was darkened when the sonne tourned awaie his eies and would not suffer his beames to shyne vpon the earth least happelie it might see such a great crueltie Consider I saie how euen at this time our Sauiour did not so much as once open his mouthe or moue him selfe how he would not at the verie last howre and point of death discouer the glorie of his maiestie but suffered continuallie that extreme and violent conflict euen vntill the ende intendinge thereby to leaue vnto vs an example of perfect pacience Yea moreouer and all this if those cruell blouddie ministers that crucified and tormented his most blessed bodie would haue conuerted and bene penitente he was readie to receaue them to his grace and fauour euen at the verie last instant neither would he haue shut vp the gates of his church from anie man Now therefore what thinge in the worlde can possiblie be of greater benignitie and patience then the bloude of Christ that giuethe life euen vnto them that shed the same bloude But such and so great is the patience of our sweete Sauiour Christ which if it had not bene such and of so great power the churche had not had Saint Pawle in it at this daie Hetherto be the wordes of Sainct Ciprian OF THE MOST BLESSED SACRAMENT OF THE AVLTAR and of the causes wherefore it was instituted Panis quem ego dabo caro mea est pro MUNDI vita Johan 6 5● Accipite et comedite hoc est corpus meum Matth. 26.26 § II. ONE of the principall causes of the comminge of our sauiour into this worlde was to enkendle the hartes of men in the loue of almightie God For so said he by sainct Luke Luc. 12. I am come to put fier in the earth and what would I els but that it should burne This fier did our sauiour put in the earthe when he bestowed vpon men such and so manie wonderfull benefittes when he wrowght so great workes of loue emonge them whereby he might steyle awaie there hartes from them and whollie inflame them in this fier of loue Now albeit that all the worckes of his most holie life doe serue to this end Yet of al other those doe most effectually serue for this purpose which he did in the end of his life according as Sainct Iohn the Euangelist signefieth sainge His fryndes that he had in the world Ioan. 13. he loued them espetially in the end For at that time he bestowed greater benefittes vpon them and discouered vnto them greatest pledges and tokens of his loue Emonge which singular pledges one of the most principall was the institution of the most blessed Sacramēt of the Aultar the which thinge shall appeare verie plainlie vnto him that will consider with good attention the causes of the institution of the same But in this behalfe I beseach thee o most mercifull Lord that thou wilt vouchsafe to open our eies and graunt vs light that we maie see what causes they were that moued thy louinge hart to institute for vs this so wonderfull a Sacrament and to leaue it vnto vs. Now that we maye vnderstande some what of this diuine misterie it is to be presupposed good Christian reader that no tounge created is able to expresse the passinge great loue The passinge greate loue Christe bearethe towardes his Catholike Churche and to euerie soule that is in the state of grace Ephes 3. that our sauiour Christ beareth towardes the Catholike Church his spowse and consequentlie vnto euerie soule that is in the state of grace For so much as euerie such sowle is also his spouse For this cause one of the thinges that the Apostel Sainct Paule requested and desired was that almightie god would reueale vnto vs the greatnes of his loue which vndowtedlye is so great that it farre passeth all the wisedome and knowledge created yea thowgh it were euen that wonderfull knowledge of the angelles Wherefore this our most sweete Bridegrome The causes of the institution of this most holie Sacramente The first cause when he minded to depart out of this life and to absent him selfe from the Catholike Church his deere spouse to the intent that this his absence might not be anie occasion vnto her to forget him he left vnto her for a remembrāce this most blessed Sacramēt wherein he himselfe would remaine for he could not beare that betwene him and her there should be anie lesse pledge to prouoke her to be myndefull of him then euen himselfe And therefore he pronunced at that time those sweete wordes Luc. 22.1 Cor. 11. So often as ye shall doe this thinge doe it in the remembrance of me that is doe it that ye maie be alwaies mindfull how much I am willinge to doe for you and how much I goe now to doe and suffer for your saluation The seconde cause Moreouer this most sweete and louing bridegrome intended in this his longe absence to leaue some cōpanie to his spouse that she might not remayne solitarie and comfortles And therefore he left her the companie of this most holie Sacrement where euen the bridegrome himifelfe is reallie present which is in verie deede the best and most delitefull companie that he coulde possiblie leaue her At that time also our sauiour would goe to suffer death for his spowse The thirde cause and to redeeme and enriche her with the price of his owne most precious bloude and to the intent that she might whensoeuer she woulde enioye this most pretious and diuine treasure he left her the keis thereof in this most blessed sacrament For as S. Chrisostome saith S. chrisost So often as we come to receaue this most blessed Sacrament we must make accompt that we come to laie our mowthes to Christes verie side to drinke of his most pretious bloude and to be partakers of this soueraigne and diuine misterie Consider therefore in what a dangerous case those men are that for a litle slouthfulnes doe absteine to come vnto this royall banket and to enioye such a great and most inestimable diuine treasure These be those vnfortunate slouggardes of whom the wiseman speaketh Prouerb 19. sainge The slouggard hideth his hand in his bosome and suffereth him selfe rather to die for honger then he will lift it vp to his mouthe Now what greater slouthfulnes can there be imagined in a man than this is that because he will not

principall vertue of a Christian man is not to make anie accompte of the iudgementes and reputations of the worlde Our sauiour Christe is a good exāple vnto vs not to make anie accōpte of the iudgementes and estimations of the worlde Wherefore thou hast here good Christian brother an occasion geuen thee whereby to learne this heauenlie philosophie and by this example to comforte thy selfe whensoeuer thou shalt see thy selfe to be vniustlie despised mocked and persecuted of the worlde For the worlde cannot doe thee anie iniurie nor beare false witnes against thee but it hath done the like vnto our Sauiour Christe before He was accompted as a malefactor and stirrer of sedition and for such a one they accused him before the iudges Luc. 23.2 and accordinglie demaunded sentence of deathe vpon him He was taken to be a nigromancer and as one possessed with a deuill Luc. 11.15 and so they saied That in the power of Bel-Zeb●b he cast out diuelles Math. 9.34 He was taken for a glutton and great eater and so they reported him sayeinge Beholde this man is a glutton Math. 9.34 and a drincker of wyne He was taken for a man of euill behauiour Math. 11.19 Ioan. 8.48 Marc. 2.7 and as one that kepte euill companie sayeinge That he kept companie with publicans and sinners and that he did eate with them He was taken as one that was come of a wicked generation and of a nawghtie race and so they tearmed him sayeinge Thou art a Samaritane and art possessed with a deuill He was taken for an hereticke and blasphemer and so they said that he made him selfe God and forgaue synnes as God There wanted nothinge els but after all this to accompt our Sauiour as a foole and so is he now taken And that not of euerie common person but euen of the rufflinge nobilitie and gentilmen ye and of the chieffest counsellors magistrates and officers in kinge Herodes cowert And so they apparell our Sauiour like a foole that he might be also taken of all men for such a one O wounderfull humilitie of our sweete sauiour Christe O example of all vertu A singuler cōfort for al troubled and persecuted Catholickes O comfort of all troubled and persecuted Catholickes Wherefore o thou Christian that art persecuted by Turckes Moores or heretickes for thy publicke zealous profession of the Catholike religion be of good comfort as a trewe Christian ought to be in bearinge patientlie and willinglie thy crosse in this worlde as a faithfull disciple of our Sauiour Christe And to the intent thou maist make the lesse accompte of the iudgmentes and estimations of the worlde and verie euidentlie perceiue how foolishe and franticke the worlde is in his sayeinges doinges opinions and iugmentes fixe thyne eyes vpon this liuelie purtraiture of all vertues looke vpon this generall comforte of all miseries and beholde here how the wisedome of almightie God is holden for follie vertu for vice truthe for blasphemie temperance for glottonie the peace maker of the worlde for a seditious disturber of the worlde the reformer of the lawe for a breaker of the lawe and the Iustifier of sinners for a sinner and a follower of sinners In all these goinges and comminges and in all these demaundes and answeres made before the Iudges consider diligentlie and note the constancie and modestie of our sauiour the grauitie of his countenance and the integritie of his minde which was neuer ouercome nor once dismaied for all these great conflictes And when he sawe him selfe in the presence of so many officers and Iudges sittinge in theire Iudgmente seates when he sawe him selfe in the middest of so manie iniurious villanies and furious blowes and in such a confusion of outcries and clamowrs thundered out vehementlie by the accusers and conspirers of his death when he sawe him selfe in such a thronge of outragious and cruell ennemies his death and Crosse standinge as it were presente before his face when our sauiour I saie sawe himselfe thus tossed and turmoyled vp and downe with so manye tempesteous waues and blusteringe stormes of all aduersitie and persecution it was wonderfull to beholde his constancie his patience and his temperance insomoche as what so euer he did or spake made a plaine demōstration of a noble harte and couragious minde in him There came no one bitter or sharpe worde out of his mowthe He neuer yeelded or submitted himselfe so much as to frame anie maner of supplication or intreatie to his ennemies for his life neither shed he anie one teare or made anie lamentation vnto them in that behalfe But in all pointes and respectes he obserued such a comelie grauitie and maiestie as was seemelie for the dignitie of so highe and worthie a personage What sylence kept he emonge so manie and those so false accusations How circumspecte was he in his wordes when so euer he spake How wiselie behaued he him selfe in all his answeres To conclude such was the forme and showe of his countenance and minde in these his trowbles that euen that alone with out anie further testimonie might haue suffised to iustefie his cause if the grossenes of theire wicked and malitious vnderstandinges had bene able to conceaue the highnes and excellencie of such a proofe OF THE CREWELL SCOVRGINGE AND WHIPPINGE OF oùr Sauiour at the pillar Communicantes Christi passionibus gaudete vt et in reuelatione gloriae eius gaudeatis exultantes 2. Petr. 4.13 § III. AFTER all these iniuries consider what scourginges and whippinges our sauiour suffered at the pillar For when the Iudge perceaued that he was not able to pacifie the furious rage of those his most cruell ennemies he determined to punnishe our sauiour with such a seuere kinde of punnishement as might suffice to satisfie the malicious outrage of such cruell hartes that they beinge contented therewith shoulde cease and seeke no more after his deathe This is one of the greatest and most wonderfull sightes that euer was seene in the worlde Who woulde euer haue thowght that whippes and lasshes shoulde haue bene laide vpon the shoulders of almightie God The Prophet Dauid sayeth Psalm 90. that the place of thy habitation o Lorde is most highe and that there shall none euell approche neere vnto thee he saieth that there shall no whippe be felt in thy tabernaele Now what thinge is farther from the highe maiestie and glorie of almightie God than to be villaynously whipped and scourged This is suerlie a ponnishement rather for bondslaues and thieues yea it was accompted generallie so vyle and infamous that in case the offendor were a Citezin of Rome though his offence were neuer so haynous he was thereby quitte and exempted from that most slauishe and villeynous kinde of ponnishement All which notwithstanding beholde here howe the Lorde of the heauens the creator of the worlde the glorie of the angells the wisedome power and glorie of the liuinge God vowchesafeth for our sakes to be

now first how vncertain that houre is Of the vncertaintie of the houer of our deathe in which death will assault thee For thou knowest not neither what daie nor in what place nor how thou shalt be disposed when death shall come vnto thee Onely this thou knowest for most certain that die thou shalt all the rest is vncertain sauinge that ordinarily this houre is wonte to steale vpon vs at such a time as a man is most careles and thinketh least of it Secondlye consider what a separation shall then be made Of the separation from all worldlie thinges and of the partinge of the sowle from the bodye at the hower of our deathe not onely betwene vs and all the thinges we loue in this worlde but also euen betwene the sowle and the bodie which haue bene such auncient and louinge companions If it be thought so grieuous a matter to be banished out of our natiue countrie and from the naturall aier in which a mā hath bene bredde and brought vp although the banished man myghte carie awaye with him what soeuer he loueth how much more grieuous then shall that vniuersall bannishement be from all thinges that we haue from our landes from our goodes from our howse from wife father mother children kinsfolke friendes and acquaintance from this light and common aier yea to be short from all thinges of this worlde If an oxe make so great a bellowinge at what time he is seperated from an other oxe with whom he hath bene vsed to be yoked and to drawe in the ploughe what a bellowinge will thy hart then make when death shall seperate thee from all those thinges wherewith thou hast bene yoked and carried the burthens of this lyfe Consider also what a grieuous paine it shal then be to a man Of the payne that is at the houre of our deathe to consider what shall then become of our bodie and sowle when a certayne representation shal be made vnto his mynde foreshewinge in what case his bodie and sowle shal be after his death For as towchinge the bodie he knoweth for certaine alreadie that though it hath bene heretofore neuersomuch cherished and honored yet there shall no better prouision be made for it but onelie a hoole seuen foote longe where it shall remayne in companie of other dead bodies But as concerninge the sowle he knoweth not certainlie what shall becomme of it what considerations maye moue vs at the houer of death both to hope and feare nor what lotte shall fall vnto it For although the hope which he hath in the mercie of almightie God maie strengthen and comforte him yet the consideration of his owne sinnes maie dismaie him and make him afraied especiallie if he consider withall the greate iustice of almightie God and the profoundnes of his iudgementes who vseth oftentimes to crosse his handes and to alter the lottes of men Luc. 23. The theiffe went vp from the crosse to paradise Math. 27. and Iudas fell downe from the honorable dignitie of Apostelshippe into hell fier Manasses also after his so manie abhominations 2. Paral. 33. and wickednes obteined grace to become repentant And as yet we knowe not whether Salomon obteined the like for all his vertues This is one of the greatest grieffes and angwishes that men are commonlie trowbled withall at the houre of death to vnderstande that there is to ensue glorie euerlastinge and paine euerlastinge and that then a man is so neare both vnto the one and to the other and yet knoweth not whether of these two lottes beinge so farre different as they are shall fall vnto his share Of the particular accounte we must make to almightie God at the houer of our deathe of all our whole lyfe Arsenius After this angwishe there followeth an other no lesse then this to witt the particular accompte of all our whole lyfe which at the verie hower of euerie mans deathe must be made vnto almightie God This accompt is so dreadfull that it causeth euen the most stowtest men that are to tremble and qwake for verie feare It is written of the famous holie father Arsenius that beinge at the point of death he beganne to be afraied whereat his schollers meruayled and saied vnto him What father are you now afraid of your accompt Vnto whom he answered yea yea my sonnes this feare is no newe thinge in me for I haue alwaies liued with the same At that time all the synnes of a mans former lyfe are represented vnto him lyke a squadrone of enemies readie sette in battayle arrye to assaulte him Then are the greatest sinnes and those wherein he hath taken greatest delight represented most liuely vnto him and are the cause of greater feare Then commeth the yonge virgine to his minde which he hath dishonored Then come the maides and howsholde seruantes whom he hath solicited and prouoked to lewdnes Then come the poore folkes whom he hath iniuried and euill entreated Then come his neighboures whom he hath offended Then shall there crie out against him not the bloode of Abell Genes 4. but the pretious blood of our Sauiour Iesus Christ which he shedde when he gaue scandale and offence to his neighbour And if his cause must be adiudged accordinge to the lawe that saieth Eie for eie Exod. 21. tooth for tooth and wounde for wounde what shall he looke for that by his euill counsell or lewde example hath bene the occasion of the losse of a Christian sowle if he be iudged by that lawe O how bitter shall the remembrance of the delightes and pleasures past be at that time vnto him which at other times seemed so sweete Vndowtedly the Wiseman had verie good cause to saie Prouerb 23. Looke not vpon the wine when it is redde and when it shewethe his coullour in the glasse for although at the time of drinkinge it seeme delectable yet at the ende it will byte like a serpent and poison like a cockatrice O that men woulde vnderstande how true a sayinge this is that we haue here rehearsed What serpentes stinge is there that doth so prycke and and vexe a man as the dreadfull remembrance of his pleasures past shall doe at the howre of his death These are the dregges of that poisoned cuppe of the enemye Ierem. 51. These be the leauinges of the cuppe of Babilon Apoc. 14. that seemeth so gaylie gilted in outwarde apparance After this there followeth the Sacrament of Confession the blessed Sacrament of the Aultar and last of all the Sacrament of extreme Vnction How the Catholicke Churche cōforteth ād helpeth the sycke person with Sacramētes and prayers at his departure our of this worlde which is the last succour and releefe that our mother the Catholike Churche maie helpe vs withall in that troublesome time And as well herein as in the other thinges thou hast to consider what great greiffe and anguishe of mynde the sycke person shall then abide in

MORNINGE THIS Daie when thou hast made the signe of the Crosse and prepared thy selfe hereunto thou hast to meditate vpon the presentation of our sauiour before the busshopes and Iudges First before Annas Secondly before Caiphas Thirdlie before Herode Fourthlie before Pilate And afterwardes how he was most crewellie whipped and scourged at the piller Omnis qui piè vosunt ●●●re in Christo Jesu persecutionem patientur 2. Timoth. 3.1.2 The text of the holie Euangelistes VHEN our sauiour was brought before Annas the highe preist Ioan. 18. he demaunded him of his Disciples and of his doctrine Iesus answered him and said I spake openlie to the worlde I euer tawght openlie in the sinagoge and in the temple whither all the Iewes resorte continually and in secrete haue I said nothinge why askest thou me Aske them that harde me what I said vnto them when he had spoken these wordes one of the officers that stoode by smote Iesus with his hande sayinge Answerest thou thus the high preist Iesus answered him If I haue euill spoken beare witnes of the euill But if I haue well spoken why smytest thou me And Annas sent him bownde vnto Caiphas Marc. 14. where the doctours of the lawe Math. 26. and the auncientes of the people were gathered together And the highe preist and the Scribes and the whole councell sowght for false witnes against Iesus to put him to death but fownde none thowghe manie false witnesses came thither but theire witnes agreed not together But at the last came two false witnesses and said This man said I can destroie the temple of God and builde it vp againe in three daies Then the cheife preist ' arose and said to him I coniure thee in the name of the liuinge God that thou tell vs whither thou be Christ the sonne of God Iesus said to him Thou hast said it Neuerthelesse I saie vnto you Hereafter shall ye see the sonne of man sittinge at the right hande of the power of God and come in the clowdes of the heauen Then the high preist rent his clothes sayinge He hath blasphemed what neede we anie more witnesses Beholde ye haue nowe harde his blaspemie what thinke ye They answered and said he is worthie to die Then spat they in his face and buffeted him and others gaue him blowes on his face sayinge Areede O Christ who is he that smote thee The next daie in the morninge Luc. 23. the whole multitude of them arose and led our sauiour vnto Pilate And they beganne to accuse him sayinge we haue fownde this man peruertinge the people and forbiddinge to paie tribute to Caesar sayinge that he is the kinge Messias And Pilate asked him sayinge Art thou the kinge of the Iewes And he answered him and said Thou saiest it And when he was accused of the cheife preistes and elders he answered nothinge Then said Pilate vnto him Hearest thou not how manie thinges they laie against thee But he answered him not to one worde insomuch that the president meruailed greatly Then said Pilate to the highe preistes and to the people I finde no fault in this man But they were more fierce sayeinge He moueth the people teachinge throwghout all Iudea beginninge at Galilee euen to this place Now when Pilate heard of Galilee Luc. 23. he asked whether the man were of Galilee borne And when he knewe he was of Herodes iurisdiction he sent him to Herode who was also at Ierusalem in those daies And when Herode sawe Iesus he was exceidinglie gladde For he was desirous to see him of a longe season because he had hearde manie thinges of him and trusted to haue seene some signe done by him The highe Preistes and the Scribes stoode forthe and accused him vehementlie And Herode with his men of warre contemned and mocked him and put a white garmente vpon him and sent him againe to Pilate And by reason of the solemnitie of the feaste of Easter Math. 27. the president was wonte then of custome to deliuer vnto the people a prisoner whom they woulde demaunde And there was at that time a notable malefactor in prison called Barrabas When they were then gathered altogether Pilate saied vnto them Whether of the two will ye that I let lose vnto you Barrabas or Iesus that is called Christe And they answered Not this man but Barrabas Luc. 23. This Barrabas was cast into prison for a certaine insurrection and murder committed in the cittie Then said Pilate vnto them What shall I doe then with Iesus that is called Christ Math. 27. They cried all let him be crucified Then Pilate tooke Iesus and scourged him I H S MEDITATIONS VPON THESE POYNTES OF THE TEXT MANIE thinges hast thou O my sowle this daie to contemplate and consider This daie must thou accompanie our Sauiour to manie stations vnlesse thou intend to runne awaie with his disciples or ells feelest thy feete ouer heauie to treade those pathes which our Sauiour vowchsafed to treade for thy sake This daie is he browght fyue times before diuers Iudges and for thy sake is euill entreated in each of their howses and paieth that which thou hast deserued In one howse he is buffetted in an other spitted vpon in an other mocked and scorned in an other whipped and crowned with thornes and condemned by an vniust sentence to a most cruell death Consider whether these stations be not of force to breake and ryue thy hart and to make thee to goe barefoote with him with the bloude runninge about thy feete Let vs goe then to the first station which was in Annas howse How our Sauiour was led to the howse of the Bishoppe Annas and marcke there how whilest our Sauiour answered verie courteouslie vnto the demaunde that the Bisshoppe made vnto him concerninge his disciples and doctrine one of those wicked caytifes that stoode there by gaue him a great blowe vpon the face sayeinge Ioan. 18. Answerest thou thus the Bisshoppe Vnto whom our sauiour verie gentlie answered If I haue spoken euill shewe me wherein and if I haue spoken well why strykest thou me Consider here now ô my sowle not onelye the myldnes of this gentle answere but also that diuine face which beareth the print and is chaunged verie red in colour with the force and violence of the blowe Consider also that most constant and modest looke of his clear eies which were nothinge at all distempered in that so feirce and shamefull assault Consider withall that most holie sowle that was inwardlie so humble and readie to haue turned the other cheeke if the nawghtie wretched caitiffe had required it O cursed and vnfortunate hande that durst thus stryke and beraye that diuine face before whose reuerent aspect the verie heauens doe stowpe and bowe At whose maiestie euen the Seraphines and all thinges created do tremble and quake What sawest thou in him that thou shouldest thus be prouoked to disfigure him who is the liuelie