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A19433	The interiour occupation of the soule Treating of the important businesse of our saluation with God, and his saints, by way of prayer. Composed in French for the exercise of that court, by the R. Father, Pater Cotton of the Societie of Iesus, and translated into English by C.A. for the benefit of all our nation. Whereunto is prefixed a preface by the translator, in defence of the prayers of this booke, to the saints in heauen.; Interioure occupation d'une âme devote. English	Coton, Pierre, 1564-1626.; Anderton, Christopher, attributed name.; Apsley, Charles, attributed name.; C. A., fl. 1619.	1618 (1618)	STC 5860; ESTC S108849	75,781	318

Iudgement from eternall Damnation and lastly making me heyre of the inaccessible glory of God thy Son Which I beseech thee againe and againe most holy Lady and Mother of God that I may obtaine by thy intercession and fauour through the grace and mercy and humanitie of thy onely begotten Soone our Lord and God and Sauiour Iesus Christ Likewise the most renowned and vncontroled Doctor of the Church St. Augustine in his 2. Sermon of the Annunciation after many other wordes in praise and prayer to her concludeth as followeth O Blessed S. Augus● S●●m 1 8 de sanct● Mary who is able to rep●r thee the right of praise and thankesgiuing which is due vnto thee who by thy singuler assent didst releeue the world when it was lost what prayses can the fragil●tie of mankinde giue the which onely by thy meanes found the beginning of recouerie Receiue therefore our thankesgiuing though small as it is though vnequall to thy great merites and when thou hast receiued our desires by thy prayer excuse our faultes Receiue our prayers into thy sanctuary of thy excudition and returne vnto vs the Antidote of reconciliation By thee let that bee excusable which wee importune and let that bee impitrable which wee aske with a fatihfull minde Receiue that wee offer render that wee aske excuse that wee feare for thou art the Hope of all sinners By thee wee ●pes vni●a silicet ●ne qua ●on confide to haue pardon for our demerites and in thee most Blessed is the expectation of our rewards Holy Mary succour the miserable help those that are weake minded cherish those that weepe pray for the people Mediate for the Clergie make intercession for the deuout sex of Women let all feele thy assistance whosoeuer doe celebrate thy remembrance Thus these holy Fathers who as our last Author saith That which they learned they taught that Aug. lib ● cont Iulianum ●um which they receiued from their fathers the same they deliuered to their children Now therefore my friend if these speeches of the holy Fathers to our blessed Lady be lawfull certainly there is no prayer of this book as made to Saints vnlawful for if they be not lawful as prayers they bee lawfull as Apostrophes And if thy stomack rise not against these wordes of the Fathers no reason it should detest the like speeches of ours And if these may faynedly be vsed to exite affection the others also may be likewise practised to inflame our deuotion Wherfore if thou canst frame thy conscience to beleeue that all these prayers and the like are nothing else but fayned speches this will be one way according to the doctrine of thine owne masters not onely to serue thy selfe but also to satisfie others that shall obiecte the reading of this Booke or the practise thereof vnto thee But if according to truth and reason thou be so perswaded that neither wee nor the holy Fathers either doe or may vse such figmatiue or fayned prayers it will import thee to followe the other way and to beleeue with vs that they are really spoken vnto the Saints not as vnto walles and woods but as vnto those that verily heare vs and are able to help vs. And therefore because I do not thinke thou wilt easily cōdemne the holy Fathers of Idolatry wherein no ignorance can excuse their damnation but rather will desire some further satisfaction in this point according to the Scripture with thy Masters would seeme to make the onely ground of their Religiō That I may the better content thee I will set thee down here in this Preface such euident proofes out of Scripture for prayer to Saintes ●● may be sufficient not onely to quiet thy own minde but also to conuince the most learned Protestant that hereafter shall attempt to speake against it But before I begin I desire to informe thee of 4. short perticulers wherof the two first are such as may suffice of themselues alone to resolue this question The first is that many principall Protestants haue agreed with vs in this point For the opinion of Luther in his owne words was this that followeth Luther in purgatione quorūdam articulorum Of intercession of Saints I thinke and iudge with the whole Christian Church that the Saints are to bee honoured by vs and also to be inuocated With whom doe agree a acts mon pag 462. Bilnay and b acts and mon pag 1312. Latimer canonized Martyrs of the Protestant Calender Wherefore this being the beleefe not only of their first Apostle but also of their latter Martyrs I cannot imagine how it may stand with the reputation of a zealous Protestant either to condemn vs or to mislike vs for it The second perticuler which I would haue thee well to consider is this That the principall ground whereon the Protestants doe especially build their deniall or rather their detestation of this Doctrine is most vaine and friuolous contending Inuocation of Saints to be altogether vnlawfull because it is no where expresly commaunded or approued in holy Scripture For I wold but aske a Protestant where he readeth Hunting or Hawking to be expresly commanded or cōmended in the Word of God which vnlesse he loue Hawkes and Dogs better then Saints or Angels were enough to make him see the impertinencie of this position In a word I will demaund where he findeth either this Assertion it self which they make the ground of their beleife to bee expresly deliuered or to giue instance in some other particulers where he can shew me The eating of Blood and strangled meat the celebration of Christmas and of the Feastes of the Apostles the vse of Surplisse Cappe and Typpet in the seruice of Christ Or in fine The abrogation of the Iewes Saboth which is Saturday to be expresly either inioyned or approoued in holy writ Which not being able to performe he not onely condemneth himselfe in the continuall practise of all these particulers if hee stand to his owne ground but also maketh the Ground it selfe to ouerthrow it selfe as being no where expresly taught in holy Scripture Wherfore though no laudable example of prayer to Saints departed could be found in the written Word yet this is no sufficient cause to cōdemne it From whence also it foloweth That vnlesse y● Protestants can shew which they will neuer be able to doe that prayer to Saints is euidently forbidden either by the word of God or light of nature or lawe of the Church They can neuer be defended or excused from great impietie and damnable scisme in deuiding them selues not only from the Catholicke brethren but also from the Saints themselues by this occasion Thirdly therefore to come nerer the question in hand that we dispute not of wordes but of the matter it selfe now in controuersie betwene thee and me Thou must vnderstand that the worde Prayer is somtimes taken for a request made vnto him whom we honour as the first omnipotent cause