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B04460	[The] manner of performing the Novena, or, The nine days devotion to St. Francis Xaverius: of the Society of Jesus, and apostle of India. As also the devotion of the ten Fridays to the same saint.	Brown, Levinius, 1671-1764.; Scarisbrike, Edward, 1639-1709.	1690 (1690)	Wing M459B; ESTC R229394	36,323	117

Altar or Picture of the Saint or where else most convenient must also say Ten Pater Nosters and Ten Ave Maria's and Ten Gloria Patri's c. offering to God the Merits of this Saint to obtain the Favour he desires In this two things are to be observed The First is That before one applies himself to this Devotion he must purifie his Intention concerning the Favour he petitions be it Temporal or Spiritual pretending nothing else but the Glory of God and the Salvation of his own Soul for seeing this was the only Aim of this Saint whilst he lived in this World so it will be a more efficacious means now in Heaven to move him to favour us with his Intercession to his Divine Majesty to obtain us our Request The Second is That none of these Devotions omitted either in part or whole have any Obligation even of a venial Sin so that you may continue them or no when begun without any scruple and if Business permits you not to perform Ten Fridays in order go on with them at your leisure Friday is assigned in Memory of the Saint's dying on that Day in the Island of Sanciano The Number is in Honour of the Ten Years he laboured in the Indies for God's greater Honour and the Good of Souls and the same is to be understood of the ten Pater's and Aves and Gloria Patri's To the end this Devotion may have more Fruit and promote the Exercise of some Vertue some Considerations are here set down taken out of the Life of the Saint one for every Friday which is to be read on that Day by those that practise this Devotion stirring themselves up to a lively Imitation of the Saint To every Consideration there is annexed a Colloquy in form of a Prayer begging of the Saint some Spiritual Grace suitable to the foregoing Consideration and profitable for the good of their Souls wherein with a little Labour they may spend their time with much Profit The CONSIDERATION For the First FRIDAY Upon the singular Purity of Mind and Body of St. Francis Xaverius BY Purity of Mind is not only understood Innocency of Life but also a right Intention of doing all our Actions purely for the Glory of God and for no other end How great was this Purity in St. Francis The sole Aim of his immense Labours was the Glory of God not seeking any thing else either in his Voyages by the most dangerous Seas of Europe Asia and Africa or Journeys by Land I may say through both Worlds or in his most troublesome Preaching but that God should be known praised and glorified In a word all he suffered which as Francis Mansilla a great while Companion to the aint said is not to be conceived how much it was was only for the Glory of God never regarding any the least private Interest The Reward of his Labours was a most sublime degree of Sanctity which he arrived unto whereby afterwards he deserved such a Glory in Heaven and received so many Favours here on Earth And our Saviour to shew how pleasing his Labours were to him wrought that continual Miracle that in his Father's House a Crucifix sweat Blood every time the Saint was in any difficult Enterprize or Suffering Examin your self Devout Soul and see what Intention you have in all your Actions if to please God only or else for some other private Interest If the first give God thanks and stir your self up to Perseverance If the second be sorry and purpose an Amendment But by Purity of Body is chiefly understood the Vertue of Chastity which retrenches all sensual unlawful Pleasures He excelled so much in this Vertue that as long as he lived he preserved the Lilly of his Virginity unstained and therefore is generally painted with one And which is yet more to be admired he preserved it most pure even living in the World amongst the Delights and Enticements of his own House in the Heat of his young blood and Liberty of the Students of the University of Paris where he lived and even in the most licentious and loose Manners of the Mahometans and Gentils with whom he conversed so many Years God rewarded this his Angelical Purity with the Incorruption of his Body after his Death and with infinite other Miracles For George Alvarez having buried it in quick Lime that he might the easier carry his Bones from Sanciano the Island where he died to God after three Months found it as entire as if newly buried and which is more the body being cut bled as fresh as if alive This Miracle extended it self also to his Cloaths which were preserved from receiving any Harm from the Lime which naturally would have consumed both The Body also sent out a most fragrant Odour far surpassing any in this World The carrying the body through Malaca freed it from a most desperate and infectious Plague And when it was brought to God the Miracle of its Incorruption did no less continue for several times it bled afresh and even to this day being now above a hundred Years ceases not the Body being as incorrupt as ever Every one may easily see how he behaveth himself in this Vertue according to his State and Condition The COLLOQUY To St. Francis Xaverius To obtain Purity of Body and Soul MOst Glorious Apostle of the East most pure in Body and Soul I a most miserable Creature with all Humility have recourse to you begging you would by your Intercession obtain for me such a pure Intention in all my Actions that I may never aim therein at any thing else but the greater Glory of God and such a pure Chastity that neither in Thought much less in Word or Deed I may ever displease the most pure Eyes of our good God Amen Through the Intercession of St. Francis Xaverius God grant me Purity of Mind and Body The CONSIDERATION For the Second FRIDAY Upon the profound Humility of St. Francis Xaverius ACcording to St. Bernard Humility is a Contempt of ones own Worth according to St. Thomas it is a Vertue whereby a man knowing his own Defects and Imperfections keeps himself within his own Bounds in a low Degree St. Francis pracrtised this Vertue in a most perfect manner towards all sorts of Persons For tho' he was born of the Race of the Kings of Navarre by Office Nuncius Apostolicus and besides endowed with most rare Talents of Nature and Learning yet he humbled himself below all whenever it was for the greater Glory of God He writ to St. Ignatius his Superior always upon his Knees He answered a Friend of his who examined him concerning a dead Child he had raised in the Coast of Comorino with all Humility as it were confounded I raise the Dead to Life And can you believe such a thing of me such a great Sinner as I am In a word all his Life is full of Examples of his most profound Humility and was held for such over all Spain Italy

by once dying a Martyr Through the excess of these ardent Wishes he was forced to cry out Amplius Domine Amplius More Lord more when in his Sleep he seemed to carry upon his Back a heavy Moor and in him the new World of the Indies Out of the same inflamed Desire he bore a holy Envy to the Fathers of the Society who were in future Ages to convert all the Islands of Moro hoping withal as he said that those Islands would come to change their Names and be called the Islands of Martyrs To one that endeavour'd to dissuade him with the Apprehensions of Death from those his heroick Enterprizes he answered with no less Humility than Generosity that it was what he so much desired but he knew himself unworthy of such a signal Favour What he writ to a Friend of his sheweth most clearly what were the Desires of his Great and Noble Soul I says he sometimes do abhor even Life it self and covet rather to die than to see God so much offended without being able to hinder it as I desire So that the Acts of his Canonization say with reason of this Glorious Apostle Varia infidelium loca peragravit non minus ut pro Christi fide sanguinem profunderet quam ut fidei lucem gentibus inferret That he travalled over so many Countries of the Infidels with no less desire to shed his Blood for the Faith of Christ than to enlighten the Gentils with the Light of the true Faith Reflect weak Soul upon what has been said and be ashamed of your Carriage so little resembling this great Pattern and Example and ask your self this Question Was not Xaverius of Flesh and Blood as I am Was not he a Man a Son and Child of Adam as my self and yet how comes it to pass that he is so much enflamed with the Divine Love and I so little And you 'll find the Origin of his so singular Perfection to have been a total Abnegation of him self and Alienation from all Self love whereby being transformed into God he desired to dye to the World that he might live to him alone Ah! if you could but once resolve to dye to Self Love then assure your self the Holy Love of God would abundantly encrease in your Soul The COLLOQUY To St. Francis Xaverius To beg the Grace to dye to Self-love YOU bad reason to say Holy Xaverius with St. Paul * Gal. 2.20 I live now not I but Christ liveth in me who kindled in your Soul those great Desires of dying once to Flesh and Blood that so by Death you might be united to your Spirit which was Christ But I unhappy Wretch live still to my self I live to my own Flesh to my Body and to Self-love And what wonder if I desire not to dye for Christ thereby to be united to him What Wonder if I love him not as my Life Beg of Almighty God for me Dear Saint that I may dye to Self-love to the end that every day so dying I may become wholly dead thereunto and begin to live to Christ that then I may likewise with truth say with St. Paul and you Glorious Saint I desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ Amen The CONSIDERATION For the Tenth FRIDAY Upon the perfections of St. Francis Xaverius ST Francis Xaverius was an Apostle sent by Jesus Christ by command of his Vicar Paul the third with the title of Nuncius Apostolicus to Preach the Gospel to the Indians and Convert them to our Holy Faith Whereof he Converted many hundred Thousands amongst whom were several Kings Queens Princes and Great Men. His Sister a Holy Woman Abbess of the Poor Clares at Gandia foretold he should be such an one for desiring her Father to let him Study Divinity she said he should prove a Great Apostle of the Indies He was a Prophet and in such a manner that a most Vertuous and Wise Man sticked not to say that in some the Spirit of Prophecy was by fits but in St. Xaverius it seemed a constant Habit. He was not only Master of Human Philosophy at Paris but of the Divine also in the East where to all sorts of People he Preached the Gospel and Instructed them in what belonged to our Holy Faith He Confuted many Masters of the Idolaters in several Disputes the Brachmans of the Indians and Carizi of the Moors and the Bonzi of the Japonians He was endowed with all manner of Vertues whether you mean Power of Working Miracles as you have seen in the former Considerations or Vertuous Habits that adorn the Soul as Humility Chastity Patience Charity c. He had the Gift of Curing Diseases as we have shewn you by several wonderful examples He had the Gift of Helping the Needy in so much that he never refused his Aid to any if conducing to their Eternal Salvation He governed all with rare Prudence as well Seculars as Religious which Talent made him esteemed by the greatest Princes The King of Portugal Reverenced him as an Oracle receiving and following his Directions as Commands The King of Travancor called the Great King published an Edict commanding every one to obey the Great Father St. Xaverius as the Great King St. Ignatious resolved to make him General of the Society of Jesus Lastly he had the Gift of Tongues In those Countries they speak above a Hundred several Languages Thirty whereof are quite different yet St. Francis when he entered those parts did not only understand the Natives but spoke the very same Languages most Elegantly yet with these two privileges first of being understood tho' Preaching to an Auditory of different Nations by every one in their Mother Tongue secondly of Satisfying with one only answer the demands of several proposed to him at the same time tho' relating to different matters Hereby we see that God by a special Favour seems to have Endowed St. Francis with all those Gifts St. Paul speakes of to have been divided amongst several in the Primitive Church * 1 Cor. 12.28 Some God hath placed in the Church first Apostles secondly Prophets thirdly Doctors next Miracles then the graces of Curing Diseases Helps Governing kinds of Tongues All these gifts and graces were requisite for that great Enterprise of Converting the New World to the Faith of Christ for which God had Designed his great Servant St. Francis Xaverius These things mentioned in short ought Devout Reader to stir up in you a lively Confidence and Devotion to this great Saint so much beloved by God and for his Extraordinary Sanctity enriched with such singular and rare Graces and Favours by the hand of his so Bountiful Creator Seeing therefore the nature of love is to change him that loves into him that is beloved and to create such a likeness in their Lives and Actions that they seem to live in one another you ought to endeavour to liken your self according to your state and condition in all your Actions to St. Xaverius that