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A35529	Heaven opened, and the pains of purgatory avoided by the very great indulgences of the two most illustrious archconfraternities : the one of our Blessed Lady, called the Rosary, and the other of the seraphical father, St. Francis, called, The cord of the Passion.	Cyprien, de Gamaches, ca. 1599-1679.	1663 (1663)	Wing C7715; ESTC R17286	39,070	158

our Lord Jesus Christ being come to Mount Calvary was stripped off his Cloths and his hands and feet most cruelly nailed to the Cross in the presence of his most afflicted Mother The Prayer O Holy Mary Mother of God as the body of thy beloved Son was for us extended on the Cross so may our desires be daily more and more stretched out in his Service and our hearts wounded with compassion of his most bitter passion And thou O most B. Virgin vouchsafe to negotiate for and with us the work of our salvation by thy powerful Intercession Amen Hail holy Queen c. with the vers and prayer as above The Glorious Mysteries for Wednesdays and Saturdays through the year and Sundays after Faster until Advent LEt us contemplate in this Mystery how our Lord Jesus Christ triumphing gloriously over death rose again the third day Immortal and Impassible Our Father Hail Mary as before The Prayer O Glorious Virgin Mary by that unspeakable joy thou receivedst in the Resurrection of thy only Son we beseech thee obtain of him for us that our hearts may never go away after the false joyes of this world but may be ever and wholly employed in the pursuit of the only true and solid joyes of heaven Amen The second Mystery The Meditation LEt us contemplate in this Mysterie how our Lord Jesus Christ forty dayes after his Resurrection ascended into heaven attended by Angels in the sight of his most Holy Mother his Holy Apostles and Disciples to the great admiration of them all The Prayer O Mother of God comfort the afflicted as thy beloved Son when he ascended into heaven lifted up his hands and blessed his Apostles so vouchsafe most holy Mother to lift up thy pure hands to him for us that we may enjoy the benefit of his Blessing and thine here on earth and hereafter in heaven Amen The third Mystery The Meditation LEt us contemplate in this Mystery how our Lord Jesus Christ being seated on the right hand of God sent as he had promised the Holy Ghost upon his Apostles who after he was ascended returning to Jerusalem continued in prayer and supplication with the B. Virgin Mary expecting the performance of his promise The Prayer O Sacred Virgin Tabernacle of the Holy Ghost we beseech thee obtain by thy intercession that this most sweet Comforter whom thy beloved Son sent down upon his Apostles filling them thereby with spiritual joy may teach us in this world the true way of Salvation and make us walk in the pathes of vertue and good works Amen The fourth Mystery The Meditation LEt us contemplate in this Mysterie how the glorious Virgin twelve years after the resurrection of her Son passed out of this world unto him and was by him assumed into Heaven accompanied by the Holy Angels The Prayer O Most Prudent Virgin who entring the Heavenly Palace didst fill the Holy Angels with joy and men with hope vouchsafe to intercede for us in the hour of our death that free from the illusions and temptations of the devil we may joyfully and securely pass out of this temporal state to enjoy the happiness of Eternal Life Amen The fifth Mystery The Meditation LEt us contemplate in this Mysterie how the glorious Virgin Mary who was with great Jubilee and exultation of the whole Court of Heaven and particular glory of all the Saints crowned by her Son with the brightest Diadem of Glory The Prayer O Glorious Queen of all the heavenly Citizens we beseech thee accept this Rosary which as a Crown of Roses we offer at thy feet and grant most glorious Lady that by thy Intercession our souls may be inflamed with so ardent a desire of seeing Thee so gloriously crowned that it may never dye in us until it shall be changed into the happy fruition of thy blessed sight Amen Advertisement concerning the Arch-Confraternity of Saint Francis Honour is to be given to those to whom it is due Therefore let the Reader be pleased to understand that this Treatise is collected out of the great Manuel of Father Angelus Francis Professor of Divinity of the Seraphical Order of St. Francis my dear and most honoured Friend THE ARCH-CONFRATERNITY Of the Seraphical Father St. FRANCIS Called The Cord of the Passion The Original of this Arch-Confraternity AS in all things our holy Father St. Francis hath born the figure and sign of Christ crucified thereby to reduce unto his memory the Passion of our Saviour Even so he hath done it in his exterior habit as may be seen in the 3. Chap. of his Life written by St. Bonavent where it is related that he having heard the words of our Saviour Mat. 10 to his Apostles going to preach Do not possess gold or silver nor money in your purses nor a scrip for the way neither two coats neither shooes c. he cryed out with great joy This is that I desire this I covet earnestly from the bowels of my heart And thereupon presently cast off his shooes from his feet laid away his staff cast away his purse and detesting money was content with one thin coat or tunick made in the form of a Cross which he girded with a Cord. Then St. Dominick Founder of the holy Order of Preachers who was a great friend and very familiar with St. Francis one day after much spiritual discourse concerning their holy Orders he demanded of him the girdle which he did wear which after many humble denial he obtained and ever after did wear with great reverence under his habit by whose example each one did prosecute it with great devotion And truly such was the Vertue and Holiness of the Partriark St. Francis that all the people did flock to him of all qualities sex conditions ages men and women Clergy and Layetie married and single noble and poor Citizens and Pesants they did forsake the Towns Husbands left their Wives the Wives their Husbands and houses were depopulated through devotion they did bear to the Saint each one striving to get something that the holy man had touched One would say that these assemblies were like to that of the Christians in the Acts of the Apostles Ch. 19. who brought from St. Pauls body napkins or handkerchiefs laid upon the sick and the diseases departed from them and the wicked spirits went out The words in the Latin Text are sudaria semicinctia which as the Reverend Father Cornelius a lapide saith in his learned Commentaries on this place may very well signifie small or sirait girdles or half girdles which he proves out of Isidore lib. 19. whereby we may gather that it is no new thing to take the girdles of Saints and holy men out of devotion neither is it done without profit both spiritual and temporal as is to be seen in the life of our holy Father Saint Francis where amongst other Miracles Saint Bonaventure recounts one of a certain man religious and searing God who having a Cord wherewith the Saint

salvation of his soul yet these heights are not there obtained with that alacrity facility security and abundance as in conjunction with sacred Confraternities which are the Academies of Devotion Schools of Sanctity and Buttresses of Religion Piety and Perfection where the fervour and good example of his faithful associates will warm his tepidity excite his piety adde continual fewel of courage and constancy to his resolutions and make him partaker of many Prayers Merits and spiritual Graces Dum singuli orant pro omnibus omnes orant pro singulis When as every single person pray for all it followeth that all pray for every single person saith St. Ambrose The Brethren and Sisters of these Confraternities being any where received are every where priviledged and so made happy partakers of the spiritual perfections of all those persons who are registred either in Rome in Paris or in any other part of the world To come now in particular to the Confraternity of the Rosary Surely that manner of Prayer cannot but be very pleasing to God profitable to our selves and grateful to the Blessed Virgin which directly tendeth to the advancement of the Divine Honour the promotion of our own Happiness and the encrease of the Sacred Mothers glory Now the exercises of the Rosary aim at these three heroick ends For 1. Since the Rosary consists of the two richest pieces of Christian Piety viz. the Pater noster and Ave Maria together with the principal mysteries of our Christian Faith what Subject can be imagined more proper What Object can possibly be more powerful to raise our souls to the love praise honour of our Creator Redeemer then the due and daily consideration of those Divine mysteries which are as it were the Sacred Tables and lively Pictures representing continually to our memories their admirable benefits excessive love and infinite liberality to mankind 2. By what Prayers can we more confidently promise to our selves the obtaining of our just desires and consequently the promoting of our Salvation then by the Pater noster a prayer dictated by our Redeemers own Divine Mouth enjoyned by his special command to be frequently used of all faithful Christians and by him endued with so great efficacy and vertue 3. By what Ladder of Praise can we more probably reach the glorious Virgin Moihers perfections then by the Ave-Mary a Salutation framed in Heaven by the holy Trinity it self and from thence brought down to earth by it's Ambassador the Angel Gabriel in which all the Greatness Excellency and Prerogatives of Gods Mother are so briefly distinctly and Divinely Couched The Author of the Rosary THe Author of the Rosary in the particular method and manner wherein we now recite it and the beginner of this Sacred Confraternity was St. Dominick as appears by the Bull of Pius quintus in these words The blessed St. Dominick directed as is piously believed by Gods Holy Spirit when France and Italy were miserably overspread with the Heresie of the Albigenses lifting up his eyes to Heaven and beholding that Mountain the Glorious Virgin Mary Gods holy Mother invented and propagated a very easie plain and pious method of Prayer c. The Name and manner of Recital of the Rosary THis Devotion hath several Names some having reference to the number of Salutations therein contained call it the Virgin Maries Psalter in imitation of the Psalter of David consisting of the same number of Psalms viz. an hundred and fifty Or alluding to that musical Instrument by the Ancient Grecians called Organum and by the later Psalterium composed of an hundred and fifty pipes the just number of these our Salutations on which the Psalms of David were usually sung to the Divine Praise and Honour Others call it by the now commonly received denomination of the Rosary and that most properly for as a Rosary litterally signifieth a place beset with odoriserous Roses so this our Rosary mystically betokeneth the sweet fragrancy which replenisheth their Souls who devoutly praise the Divine Majesty and honour the Virgin Mary The Rosary then is a certain peculiar manner of offering up our prayers to the Divine Majesty in honor of his holy Mother by the recital of one hundred and fifty Angelical Salutations prefixed to each ten of them the Lords Prayer with a Meditation upon one of the Mysteries of our Saviour or our blessed Lady These Mysteries are in all fifteen whereof five are called Joyful five Sorrowful and five Glorious The Joyful are 1. The Annunciation of the Angel 2. The Visitation of St. Elizabeth 3. The Nativity of our Lord 4. His Presentation in the Temple 5. His Disputing being a Child with the Doctors The five Sorrowful are 1 Christs Agony in the Garden 2. His Whipping at the Pillar 3. His Crowning with Thorns 4. His carrying of the Cross 5. His Crucifying and Death The five glorious are 1. The Resurrection of our Lord 2. His Assension 3. The coming of the Holy Ghost 4. The Assumption of our blessed Lady 5. Her Crowning above all Angels The Excellency of the Rosary ALL that can make any Association excellent is in this Confraternity Antiquity Extent Generality easiness Spiritual profit large community of Merits vast treasures of Indulgencies c. Antiquity of above four hundred years Extent being spread over the whole habitable world acknowledging no other limits then those which bound the Universal Catholick Church Generality no person being excluded from it's participation Easiness requiring no more knowledge then the skill to recite the Pater and Ave no more expences than the prise of a paire of Beads no other place than where every one lives no other scite of body than that in which Devotion finds us whether it be standing sitting lying walking or kneeling Spiritual profit first in respect of the especial Patronage and Protection of the Blessed Virgin for though She is a careful Mother of all faithful Christians yet surely She is more tenderly solicitous for the domesticks of Her Family more heedfully diligent for the advancement of Her devoted Servants more seriously studious for the good of Her dutiful Children Secondly in respect of the community of Merits amongst the Members of this Sacred society for it is a point of our Faith that the Merits of all the Saints are common to all faithful Christians that there is a communication between the Church militant upon Earth and the Church suffering in Purgatory and the Church Triumphant in Heaven But besides this general communication of spiritual goods and merits among all faithful Christians there is another bank in the bodies of Confraternities common to them alone who are of their particular Family and Community and from whence all the influences of Graces and Blessings which Heaven imparts to this whole body inflow into each one of its Members Now what an immense profit is it to have a part in all the zealous Prayers Meditations actual Charity and exercises of Vertue and Piety performed in a whole Confraternity