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fire_n	cloud_n	night_n	pillar_n	4,723	5	10.5941	5	true

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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

Spouse by that wonderfull similitude of thy conception natiuitie life and death to that of him whose baptist thou wert by the graces priuiledges and prerogatiues extraordinarily bestowed vpon thee loose my tongue that I may praise God as thou didst loose the tongue of thy Father Zacharie Obtaine for me that I may flie the occasion of sinne according to that example thou hast left me who from thy tender yeares diddest retire thy selfe into the desert Obtaine I say that the dew of thy grace may fall aboundantly vpon me that I may be washed and clensed in the floud of pennance by the merites of that precious bloud the sacred vessels whereof were washed by thee in the floud of Iordan 2. And if I must be great let my ambition bee to aspire to that greatnesse which was in thee that is to bee great before God If I must be couetous that it may be after the imitation of thee a couetousnesse of the riches which are Eternall If voluptuous let it be of these pleasures which thou diddest seeke with thy haire and sackcloath 3. I haue I confesse a ●ee very contrary to that vertue wherewith thou wert indued and this vice is the too great loue and care of this body which is nothing else but a sacke of wormes a dunghill of corruption and sincke of miseries Obtaine for me O great Anchorite great Prophet and great Martyr that I may from henceforth become an enemy to the sensuall and brutish part of my soule and aduersary to this stinking dunghill and a rigorous iusticer towards this liuing carkasse It being a thing most certaine that no man can hurt him who hurteth not himselfe 4. Thou hast maintained truth and iustice with danger yea with losse of thy owne life procure for mee that the one may be immouably seated in my heart and the other inuariably placed in my mouth 5. Inconstancie mother of perfidiousnesse accompanieth me and I am the reede continually exposed to the windes from which thou wast shadowed Obtaine for me by the merites of this thy vertue and by the abundant heauenly succour which thou neuer wantedst that from henceforth I may be more firme constant in such resolutions as proceede from the holy Ghost I aske this of thee O Champion of the liuing God and vnconquerable Soldiour by all the victories which thou hast gotten to the honour of him who by a speciall grace did with his owne mouth canonize thee 6. Heauen hath powred vpon thee so many benedictions that thou hast beene a wonder of the world and an astonishment of all ages by these graces I aske of thee as of the Angell of great Councell wisdome as of a Patriarcke saith as of a Prophet hope as of an Apostle of God the Father charitie as of a Martyr constancie as of a Doctor vnderstanding as of a Confessor deuotion as of an Anchorite v●ion with God and the guift ●f teares as of a Virgin puri●ie as of one who was kinne to ●esus Christ and his holy Mother that holinesse and alliance which the Sonne of God hath promised to contract with them who shall doe his holy will To whome hee hath promised that he will take them and treat them as his brethren Mother and sister O inestimable honour Title 14. To Saint Ioseph 1. TReasure-house of the incomparable treasures of Heauen earth Foster-father of him who nourisheth all creatures true and faithfull spouse of the Mother of God what comparison betweene the commaund giuen by Pharaoh ●o Ioseph the Patriarch ouer all Aegipt and this commaund giuen by God to thee Moyses conducted the people of God thou hadst the conduction of God him selfe Abrahā was Father to the children of adoption but the true Son of God called thee Father Dauid gouerned the people of Israel according to Gods harts desire● but thou wert the gouernour and as it were the maister of God him selfe The Queene of Saba iudged the seruants of Salomon happy because they were eye witnesses of his maiesticall cariage and great wisdome but thou hast bene an eye witnesse of him in whome are all the treasures of knowledge wisdome of the father and who was the very originall source or spring from which Salomon did draw the wisdome that was in him Many Kings and Prophetes desired to see but one of the dayes of him whome thou didst bring vp and nourish both in his childhood in his youth Simeon thought himselfe happy to haue receued him but once into his armes thou hast an hundred and an hundred times had him in thine and placed him in the armes of his Mother sweetly kissing his feete as the feete of thy God his hands as the hands of thy Lord his cheeke as the cheeke of the Infant of thy Spouse God conducted his people going out of Egypt thou conducted'st God going into Egypt Hee by Iosua brought them into the Land of promise and thou broughtest backe Iesus into Palestine and broughtest him into Nazareth God was in the middest of his people by the mediation of Angels by day in the forme of a cloud and by night in the figure of a pillar of fire God himselfe in person hath been dayes nights weeks monthes and yeares one of thy familie thy foster childe The Arke of God gaue victorie in time of warre and plentifull benediction to Obedience in time of peace the humanitie of the Sonne of God which he tooke of thy holy Spouse was the true Arke of God in which was kept the Manna of diuinitie the Rodde of discipline the Tables of exacte obedience to the lawe of his Father 2. What graces what vertues what blessings did the Father then power vpon thee by the merittes of his Sonne the Sonne by the prayers of his Mother O thrice and foure times happy Patriarch by these so great priuiledges obtaine I beseech thee for me this grace that I neuer abuse the graces of my God And seeing that in the heauenly Sacrament of the Eucharist wee haue the same Child Lord and God of which thy Spouse was deliuered at Bethelem in Iuda and which was carryed by thee into Egypt and Nazareth and there nourished by thee and called there thy Sonne by the credit thou hast with him and by thy instant prayer bring to passe that I may be most deuout to this holy Sacrament and that my soule may melt in the presence thereof and that I may liue as it is fit hee liue who so often partaketh of that ineffable mysterie 3. By that extaticall affection which thou feltst towards the Sonne of God when hee called thee Father and towards his holy Mother of whome thou wert the Spouse beg of God by thy intercession for me the guift of an intrinsceall vnion and familiaritie with God accompanied with three qualities which were very eminent in thee Tender loue Humble reuerence Loyall fidelitie Title 15. To Saint Peter 1. LOuing Apostle Porter of Paradice and supreame Leiftenant of the crowne of Heauen by the