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A28645	The soliloquies of St. Bonaventure containing his four mental exercises and also his treatise called, A bundle of myrrh, concerning the passion of our Saviour : with XII spirituall exercises of the said St. Bonaventure.	Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, ca. 1217-1274.	1655 (1655)	Wing B3555; ESTC R27893	73,818	360

that hope in him for no deceit no snare or allurement shall be able to deject the mind relying on God through hope or overcome him persevering Now let humane despaire be ashamed and cursed be the feare of cowardlinesse which beleiveth that he can deny or withhold his benefits from them being rich and very liberall to all those that call upon him and put their perfect hope in him For hath not the eternall Father in whom there is no change of his sole exceeding great bounty sent his only begotten Son in whom he hath given all that he had all that he wold all that he was So that if his liberality should now diminish his infinite goodness perhaps our infirmity and weaknesse not unworthily would stagger But because he is good of himselfe and not by any accidentall good he is not by the communication of his goodnesse diminished nor by Addition of any others goodness augmented MAN O my soule Great is thy faith thou art very strong in hope and confidence And although the hope which proceeds from the promise of God and a holy life and conversation be worthy of praise and ought to be eternised yet truely I councell thee before thou scendest to get Inebriation into thee that thou first wholesomely descend below thy selfe by the consideration of thy selfe that thou mayest learne reverently to feare thy Spouse before that thou beginnest to enter into his secret Bed-chamber whom thou oughtest not only to feare when he is angry but also when he doth most sweetly and delicately cherish thee The end of the second part The third Exercise How the Soule by mentall Exercise ought to convert the beames of Contemplation to things below her that shee may understand 1 The Inevitable necessity of mans death 2 The Formidable austerity of finall Judgment 3 The Intollerable paine of Infernall punishment CHAP. I. Of the Inevitable necessity of Mans death SOVLE TEll me I pray thee O man what are those Inferiour things to which my consideration is to be converted I hasten to ascend I seek Inebriation of the divine comfort I am not able long to rest on those things which are below me Even now I desire O Lord my helper thy beloved Tabernacles I covet with all my strength to dwell in the Courts of our Lord. MAN THese are the Inferiour things O my Soul that thou mayst convert thy selfe unto and may see the inevitable necessity of Death and mayst lament all the infallible equity and truth of the Divine Judge and mayst tremble and be afraid of the intollerable austerity of infernall punishment Consider therefore often weigh and revolve diligently that death cannot be avoided that the hour of death cannot be discovered that the time pre-ordained of God cannot be altered Isidorus In humane things nothing is more certain then death nothing more uncertain then the hour of death it hath not any pity on Poverty it is not afraid of power it respecteth not the excellency of manners or kindred it spareth not youth or age it is at the old mans gate and at the young mans heels SOVLE I Understand that our life is nothing else but a passage to death Why then are temporall things loved which for such an uncertain time are possessed Why desire we this life to continue so long wherin by how much the longer we live by so much the more we sin by how much our life is prolonged by so much the more numerous is our transgression for daily evills encrease and good things are diminished For who is able to consider how many evills wee commit in a moment of time or how many good things we neglect For truely it is a great sinne when wee neither do good nor think of good but suffer our mind to wander after vain and unprofitable things MAN AS St. Gregory saith Carnall minds O my Soul for that cause love temporall pleasures because they consider not how fleeting this life is For if they should but look into the swiftness of the passage thereof truely they would not affect this so little enduring a prosperity My life is like to one sailing for whether I sleep or watch I am still hastning to my end O present life how many dost thou deceive which whilest thou flyest art nothing when thou art seen but a shadow when exalted but a fume to fools pleasant to wise men bitter they that love thee know thee not they that fly thee onely understand thee To some thou promisest thy selfe for a long season that thou mayst deceive them to others for a short time that thou mayst bring them into despair With continuall meditation let us exercise our understanding Author de spiritu Anima and let us consider our miseries With sorrow we entred this life with labour we live therin with fear go out therof St. Bern. How many of us have lived in this Region of the shadow of death in sickness of body in conflict and in the place of tentation if wee diligently take notice therof wee miserably labour with a threefold discommodity For we are easie to be seduced weak to resist and frail to operate SOVLE NOw I see that he lives unprofitably in this world that hastens not to gain that wherby he may live for ever Therfore it should not be any ones care to live long but rather that he may live well Because although it may be granted to any one that he live well yet it is certain that it is not granted to any that he may live long St. Bern. Therefore that is a secure life where the conscience is pure where death is expected without feare or trembling is wished to be at hand with delight and received with devotion MAN O My Soul if thou understandest these things to be so hear my councel and in this life so long as it lasteth prepare for thy self that life which lasteth eternally Whilst thou art in the flesh dy to the World that afterwards thou mayst begin to live in God Understand that there is no one that admitteth death approaching merrily and jocundly but he that hath prepared himself therto by good works whilst he lived give attention to that of Seneca The indiscreet man that is the sinner and the guilty man beginneth his death in dying but the wise man and virtuous overcometh death by death SOVLE O Man J perceive that the death of good men is blessed and the death of Sinners unhappy and miserable MAN O My Soul according to St. Bern. the death of the just man is good in respect of rest better in respect of change the best in respect of security Contrarywise the death of Sinners is most miserable and well may it be termed the worst evil in the loss of the world worse in the separation of the flesh but the worst in the double sorrow and suffering of the Worme and fire and that which is worst of all is in the privation of divine Contemplation CHAP. II. Of the Formidable austerity

of the finall Judgment SOVLE NOW thou hast spoken sufficiently of death so also speak of the state of final Judgment MAN O My Soule J do what thou exhortest yet J entreat thee to hear with patience Thou oughtest to know that although it be a horrible thing to meditate on death yet to meditate on the state of finall Judgment as I am perswaded it is no less formidable because there is not any that then shall be able to deceive his Wisdom to alter his Justice to incline his Clemency to avoid the sentence of revenge and just retribution St. Bern. Consider therfore O my Soule with trembling how it shall bee with theein the last day when thy Conscience shall speak against thee of thy thoughts when the Elements shall accuse thee of all thy Actions when the Cross of Christ shall be carried for a testimony against thee when his stripes shall cry out against thee his wounds plead against thee his nails speak against thee his scarrs complaine against thee O Anguish hence shall proceed the accusing sins from thence terrifying justice within a burning Conscience below the horrible Chaos of Hell above the angry Judge of just Judgment without the flaming World within the fearfull justice of the Judge And if then the just shal scarcely be saved where shall the wicked man and sinner appear Where shall they hide themselves To lye hid impossible to appeare is intollerable O sinfull Soul Anselm in meditationibus unprofitable and dry wood adjudged to eternal flames what will thou answer at the day when all the time bestowed on thee shall be even to the twinkling of an eye exacted how thou hast spent it Ah Ah! O my Soul what shall then become of vain and idle thoughts of light sportfull and ridiculous words of unprofitable and unfruitfull works Woe is me St. Amb. on St. Luke if I shall not lament for my sins woe is me if I shall not rise at midnight to confess to thee Now the Axe is laid to the Tree let him that may bring forth fruits the works truly worthy of repentance O my Soul whether thou wakest or sleepest let that horrible Trumpet alwaies sound in thy Ears Arise yee dead and come co judgment O my Soule never let this pass from thy memory Go yee cursed into fire everlasting Come yee blessed receive a Kingdom O what can bee thought more lamentable or more terrible then Go yee And what can bee exprest more pleasant then Come yee They are two Voyces then the one whereof there is nothing can be heard more horrible then the other nothing mre delightful O my Soule now separate thy self from the world that hereafter thou mayst abide with Christ Now fly the world that thou mayst follow God Now forsake the Companies and Societies of wicked people that hereafter thou mayst be able to follow the Troops of Saints CHAP. III. Of the intollerable pain of Infernall punishment MAN AFter all these convert thy Contemplation to the torments of Reprobates take notice how various they are how sharp how intollerable St. Bernard to Eugenius I am afraid of and am astonied at the gnawing Worm never dying death O infernall Region to be flyed where there is flaming fire chilling cold the immortall Worm intollerable stench and brusing mallets palpable darkness confusion of Sinners and intangling of Fetters and the horrible sight of Devils Wo be to him for whom the gnawing worm St. Aug. in quodam sermone burning flame thirst without drink weeping and gnashing of teth continuall tears shall be prepared where death is wished for but shall not bee granted where there is no order but ever lasting horrour doth inhabit What dost thou think then shall bee the sorrow what the grief what the lamentation when the wicked shall bee separated from the company of the just and shal be delivered to the power of Devils and shall go with them to everlasting punishment and shall for ever be with them in lamentation mourning groaning without end far from the joyes of Paradice never to receive comfort or recreation but to be tormented for many thousands of years and yet alas most miserable never to be released There the tormentor and Punisher shall never bee weary there he that is tormented shall never dye For so shal that fire consume that it shall alwaies notwithstanding preserve life they shall so suffer old torments as if they were alwaies renewed they shall alwaies so live without hope of pardon or mercy as they should dy notwithstanding they shall so dye as notwithstanding they may never be consumed SOVLE O Man wherfore is death as thou sayest in Hell sought for and not found And wherfore is that punished eternally which was committed temporally MAN BEcause according to Sr. Gregory to whom life is offered in this world and they would not receive it in Hell they shall seek death shall not find it idem The wicked willingly would live eternally that they might persist in their Iniquities for ever Therfore it pertaineth to the justice of the just Judg that they should never want punishment whose mind in this life would never want sin St. Hierome O death how sweet will thou be to those to whom thou hast been so bitter they only desire thee who so vehemently have hated thee O my Soul if these before spoken of seem so terrible unto thee heare those things which are more harsh then all these If thou sest before me a thousand Hells St. Chrysost upon St. Matthew I do not so much weigh them as to be expelled from the pleasure of that glorious Society and to become hatefull to my Creator O my Soul Hell is terrible but more terrible is the angry countenance of the Judge but that which surpasseth all terrour is the perpetuall elongation from the Contemplation of the most sweet and most blessed Trinity To be excluded from the eternall good and be estranged from that which God hath prepared for them that love him doth beget so much torment that if outwardly no torment or punishment should torment this only was sufficient and it would be better to endure a thousand thousand flames then to behold that most meek face of Christ angry and from it to be eternall separated O if God hath dealt thus with the Angells growing proud what shal become of Earth and Ashes He was proud in a Celestiall Palace but I upon a Dunghil Who will not affirm that it is more tollerable in a rich man to be proud then in a poor man Wo is me if pride bee so austerely and harshly punishable in an Angel how in me miserable and poore is it to be adjudged O mercifull Jesus for thy names sake grant me thy mercy and pardon me proud provoking thee Behold me miserable humbly calling upon thee and acknowledge O most benign God what is thine and wipe away what is any others Have pity O Lord whilst there is time of pity least