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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

immutable aeternitie 29. I wil not then make supplication to thee to call to minde but to regard these prayers as present and in particuler for the spirituall and corporall health of the King Queene his royall house all the Kingdome Euen those that the good Patriarch Ioseph did present vnto thee for all Egipt Samuel for Saul Daniel for Darius the three Children for Nahuchodonozer Elias for the Kings of Israel Nathan for Dauid Esay for Ezechias Toby for Salmanaz Hester for Assuerus St. Iohn Baptist for Herod St. Siluester for Constantine St Chrisostome for Eudoxia St. Ambrose for Theodosius St. Gregory for Maurice the Empeior St. Stanislaus for Boleslaus St. Thomas of Canterbury for the then King and Realme of England and those of all the Saints for the Kings and Princes with liued in their time 30. Who is able to pray for the necessities of the Church with that seruour and efficacie as did St. Gregorie for the Reformation of religious Orders as did Saint Francis St. Dominicke St. Thomas and St. Bonauenture For States Realmes and Empires as did St. Sigismund King of Burgundy St. Carnut King of Denmarke St. Oswald St. Edmund Kings of England St. Lewis King of France Henry the Emperor St. Caenigand his wife St. Clothe and St. Radigand Queenes of France St. Edwin Dutches of Poland St. Elizabeth in Hungary and others who by thy grace knew how to ioyne Pietie with the Scepter greatnesse temporall with aeternall perishing honours with honors immortall If I my God King of Kinges and Lord of Lordes I could speake vnto thee with the same accent and aequal deuotion how many graces and blessings should I obtaine of thy most liberall clemencie for this Monarchie for the Monarch that commaunds vs and represents thee Accept then for him and all that appertaine to him the same vowes sacrifices and prayers which haue beene presented vnto thee by all the Saintes whose honourable names are written in the Booke of life and looke not at mee but looke vpon them of whome I present vnto thee the merites and prayers by thy Son our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ Title 4. Protestation 1. I Knowe to my cost and to my great damage how preiudiciall I am to my selfe and how great my fra●ltie is and therefore haue occasion to feare least that so soone as I shall be departed hence I breake my purposes and doe cleane contrary to that which I promised O omnipotent and immutable God haue pittie vpon me thy fraile creature Stretch forth thy strong hand and inuincible arme to giue s 〈…〉 ur to the worke of thy han● permit not that a creature which hath cost thee so deare be so easily and so dishonorably taken from thee If my will be requisite hereunto behold it is in thy hands I giue it thee nay I restore thee it neuer to be reuoked And since there is no better title then the title of donation O God of my heart commaund that the guift which thou hast pleased to make vnto mee of thy selfe may authorize the guift which Iowe and which I giue of my selfe And that this donation made by me liuing and confirmed by thy death may be so emoled in the Records of thy eternitie that albeit I would it may not be reuoked such being the disposition of thy grace and my last will 2. And in truth were it reasonable that an euill will which passeth should disanull a determined resolution made before so resolutely 3. I protest out of all the corners of my will and with all the strength of my freedome and libertie and with a consent as full as is possible that I will not offend thee in any thing I will be thine wholly without exception I will that which thou wilt and detest that which thou detestest And if it fall out otherwise if it so happen that I seeke my selfe that I commit theft in this holocaust that I doe or omit any thing contrary to thy will and p●easure it shall be nothing else but a surprise and a stolne will altogether contrary to that which now by thy grace whilest I am in my perfect sence and iudgement and by thy assistance mistresse of my consent I so resolutely will and desire 4. And if it should so fall out that by exceeding frailtie at the shadow whereof I tremble for feare I should giue my consent to any thing that is repugnant to thy will permit not O God of truth and of infinite goodnesse that such a fault be for euer imputed vnto me since I renounce it both now and then And that consent which is authorized by thine and of which thou art the author ought to preuaile against that which is not mine but by vnhappinesse and of which the instigator and first mouer is the enemie of thy glory and my saluation 5. Euery one they say may renounce his right I renounce then the right of my free will whē it shall be tempted in danger to offend thee And therefore spare not to force it to that which is good at what time soeuer without hauing any regarde to my freewill the which otherwise thou wouldst leaue to her owne libertie as thy holy word doth teach vs. 6. And if yet not to contradict thy selfe thou hast regard to leaue my will to her freedome Consider O most wise Architect of Man that my will is not to haue any will to doe that which is naught and herein thou shalt cōdescend to my free will though thou shouldst not respect it at all seeing it renounceth absolutely herselfe in any thing which hath relation to that which is euill 7. What perfection is it to haue power to consent to that which is euill thou hast it not O my God for it is an imperfection Make me then thus farre more according to thine Image that as thou my prototype canst not sinne by nature so I may bee impeccable by grace 8. And if to haue the power to faile in my dutie bee a thing appertaining to my condition as being the seruant and slaue of sinne is it not enough that I haue wretch that I am finned so often but that I must make further proofe thereof to the preiudice of thy honour and glory better it were for mee not to be at all then to continue still to offend thee 9. The loue of my selfe maketh me enemy to my selfe and that in seeking my selfe I loose my selfe and not finding my selfe I am still lost I renounce this enmitie and I detest it with as much hatred and as often as I haue hitherto so loued my selfe or shall hereafter by my euill custome 10. Allow O good God this declaration of my will And receiue in thy iudgement and in the account that thou holdest of my actions wordes and thoughts all such affections as if they were so many afflictions all such inclinations as so many auersions all such pursuites as so many flights and all such tacite consents as so many expresse resistances 11.