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

mercifully recalleth me and though both of us be against God yet he is against him that doth not seek him but I am against him that dyed for me Behold him whose Image I abhorred when as I may find my selfe in many things far more horrible MAN FLy Fly from me O horrible substance fly from thy selfe being terrified of thy selfe Thou shoutest not therefore without sorrow of thy heart endure thy horror If thou dost endure thou knowest not thy selfe This is not fortitude but dulnesse of understanding this is not health but an obdurate wickednesse SOVLE IF I should see my selfe it is an intollerable loathing if I should not see my selfe it is an inevitable death O how unhappy he is that is horrible to himselfe but yet he is much more unhappy who is sensible of death Eternall O most meek Father Saint Anselme in his prayers O most clement King J am not able to hide J cannot excuse and yet J do not a little blush to confesse Now J perceive the Cause of so many Evills now I acknowledge what heretofore evilly lay secret For my miserable heart so long as it hath not cared for the joy to come Saint Ber. in his Meditations nor hath sought after divine Councell hath been far estranged from it selfe and busied in the love of earthly things and as long as it hath departed from those and is involved in these Vanity hath deceived it Lvxurie hath defiled it curiosity hath withdrawn it Envy tormented it Anger did vex it Covetousnesse separated it Sloth did make it sorrowfull and thus it was overwhelmed with all vices because it hath forsaken thee our only good which was able to have satisfied it Let therefore O most mercifull God all my time-evilly spent be forgotten of thee and grant that the residue of my time perhaps too short and momentary may be to thee well pleasing to mee fruitfull and to my Neighbour Edification Now O most holy God for the greatnesse of the losse which I unhappy and miserable have miserably incurred I see and acknowledge that I am not able sufficiently to bewaile my selfe and my sinne as I have deserved seeing the detestation of sin not unworthily ought to be as great as the delight was in our miserable will MAN O My Soule if of thy selfe as thou affirmest thou art not able neither sufficient to lament thy fault it is necessary for thee to addresse thy selfe to the Sonn of God thy Saviour dost thou not know thou hast through him him a secure access to God the Father Thy Saviour doth shew his side and wounds to his Father Thinkest thou that there shall be any repulse where there is such an advocate In all dangers therefore distresses and also in doubtfull things think on God Let him not retire from thy heart let him not depart from thy mouth Following him thou canst not stray Imploring him thou canst not despaire Holding him thou canst not fall he protecting thou needest not feare he being thy guid thou canst not be faint if he be propitious thou shalt have pardon Doubt not O my soule Saint Anselm and though thou hast offended the Father and the Son both yet both are mercifull both most holy Let the guilty therefore flye from the anger of the just God to the mercy of his sonne and say O Son of God which art become the sonne of man that thou mayest satisfie for the sin of man either have mercy on me a wicked sinner or shew me one more mercifull to whom I miserable soul may address my self SOVLE O Man how cordiall thy councell is how comfortable thy speech is to me a miserable soule because when I rightly look unto my sinne then I find then I know that I have stained the Elements by my sinnes defiled the Heavens darkened the Starres thereof tormented the damned in Hell troubled the Saints in Heaven irreverently used the Angels ordained for my custody Wherefore I feare to seek help from all these And because the just have justly disdained me I do not presume to fly unto them MAN O My Soule too great is thy feare although thy humiliation be acceptable Knowest thou not that many of the Saints have sinned who have learned in their great offences how they ought to have pitty on us sinners Reflect on Moses that exceeding great Prophet doubting of the divine power Think on David the holiest of Kings sinning against the Divine Law in Adultery and Murther Remember Salomon the wisest adoring vaine and most wickd Idolls Call to mind Manasses the wickedst King who had sinned more then all the Kings of Israel who said I have sinned above the number of the sand of the Sea and I am not worthy to see the height of Heaven in respect of the multitude of my Iniquities reflect alwayes on these obtaining Pardon But to what end shall I say more of the Saints of the old Testament Consider now reflect on a few of the Saints of the new Testament Look upon the Matthew sitting in the Custom House the Publican sinner and received to be a Disciple Look upon Paul stoning Stephen and chosen to be an Apostle Look upon Peter denying Christ and by by obtaining pardon Look upon the Souldier crucifying Christ and yet not despairing of the divine mercy Look upon the Theef hangon the Crosse and obtaining pardon Last of all consider O my soule that that famous unclean sinner Mary Magdalen becomming so singular and speciall a lover of Christ For all how many soever they be which now raign with God have in times past either sinned like us or at least they might have sinned if the divine clemency had not preserved them from sinne Because to whom soever it was granted that he could not at all sinne this was not of nature but of Heavenly Grace SOVLE EVen now I securely implore the Prophets and Kings even now I boldly call upon the Apostles and Martyrs I constantly mediate the most blessed Sonne of God For I know that he is so Holy sweet and favourable that he cannot be named but hee inflames nor thought upon but he recreates the affection of them that love him For this is he that hath procured Health for all These St. Bern. and hath obtained reparation of the whole world O God my Saviour wonderfully singular and singularly wonderfull by whom the Elements are renewed the infirme are healed Saint Anselme men are saved and Angels are restored O my Redeemer from whose abundance of plenitude sprinkled about every Creature is revived O blessed fountaine of Life and Health by thee we have access to the through Grace and by thee even God himselfe doth receive us who hath given thee to us Let thy integrity excuse the fault of our Corruption to him let thy humility obtaine pardon for our vanity give us of thy grace here and vouchsafe to make us partakers of thy glory hereafter CHAP. III. How the Soule is reformed by Grace EVen

Trinity and Unity blessed for ever Amen The end of the last part The humble and Contrite sinners thankfulness to Almighty God for his mercy and goodnesse towards him O Eternall God my Creator behold me wretched sinner thy poore Creature prostrate at the seet of thy mercy craving pardon most humbly of thy Divine Majesty for my horrible ingratitude towards thee in that being made by thee of nothing to thy owne Image and ordained to enjoy thee eternally I have made no account of thee but preferred every trifle before thee and heaped sinne upon sinne with extreame contempt of thy Justice and abuse of thy mercy longanimity and patience Therefore how admirable hath thy clemency been towards me in that thou hast forborne to poure downe thy vengeance upon me to strike me with suddaine death and to cast me headlong to Hell as thou hast done many others not so greivous sinners as I whiles neverthelesse thou hast spared me But seeing it hath pleased thee out of thy infinite goodnesse now to open my eyes and to discover unto me both the horrour of my own Conscience and the bottomless pit whereinto I was ready to fall vouchsafe I beseech thee to consummate and perfect thy owne good work in me giving me an humble and contrite heart that my eyes may be conduites and fountaines of Water to bewaile my sinnes that my teares may be my Bread day and night and that I may bring forth fruits worthy of repentance that thy Justice being satisfied by the merits of thy Son and my Saviour the inevitable and dreadfull houre of my death may serve me for a happy and sure passage to those everlasting and incomprehensible joyes whereto out of thy infinite mercy thou hast ordained me Amen F. Fits-Herbert A BUNDLE OF MYRRHE Concerning the Passion of Christ made by St. BONAVENTURE that famous Dr. of the Church This Tractate is devout and full of all piety wherein a Bundle of Myrrhe is put between the breasts of the spouse that the study of vertues and the desire of compassion to the sufferings of Christ may be increased The first Bundle Of our Lords Praying in the Garden and of his taking MY beloved is to me a Bundle of Myrrhe he shal rest betwixt my breasts The devout soule speaketh thus signifying the bitternesse of the passion of Christ that shee moreover continually beareth about this gathered to gether in her breast And as thou also whosoever thou art that desirest to reforme thy memory by the meditation of Christs passion mayest have these bundles in readinesse which may rest in thy memory The passion of Christ here handled we have compendiously compiled only in order of the Evangelists that from these few the work the manner and the Cause thou mayst have matter copiously to meditate and maist from these few collect many more Think therefore and consider how in that Sollemne Supper Above spoken of whereof it is spoken of before being celebrated and a hymn said Christ God and man seeing his time to approach rise up that hee might go to the Mount this is the work which he did Consider the manner how he carried himselfe within and without going he foretold the flight of his Disciples He affirmed that Peter should thrice deny him and other things he spoke and again consider this work Consider also how he declared those words with exte●iour love and with how great interiour affection he disclosed them Thus thou maist do every where neither is it needfull alwayes to repeat them Taking with him Peter James and John he saith my Soule is sorrowfull even unto death leaving them he prayeth alone on the Mount The third time of his prayer being ended through the imagination of death and internall griefe and feare his sweat is made like unto blood demonstrating his unspeakable pain thereby for we read no such thing of any other Then one Angell comforteth his Lord. Consider how Christ mett his Enemies and of his owne accord offered himselfe and with his word prostrated them upon the earth Afterward he is kissed of Judas apprehended by the Iews drawnbound and lead unto Annas house and all his Disciples fled And let this be one bundle for thee to keep in memorie And here if it pleaseth thee thou mayest look upon Christ what hee was that suffered these things and thou maist commit thy self unto him by assent of reason Beleeve there fore and think that he is truly the Sonne of God the Beginning of all things the Saviour of all People and the rewarder of all The Second Bundle Of the mocking of him before Annas and Caiphas and Peter denying him BEfore Annas speaking the truth he is smitten of a wicked Servant Think here of the work the manner and the cause or at least some of them as it liketh thee After this in Caiphas house where the Scribes and Pharisees expected him he is led scorned and strucken as if he were a blasphemer A false witnesse is sought for and is not found he is adjured of the high Priest thrice denyed of Peter But Christ looking back on Peter constrained him to go forth and to weep most bitterly morning being come he is brought bound unto Pilate Think on the manner how they brought him because it was in the worst kind as though he were a theef and a malefactor c. Judas perceiving that they intended to put Christ to death repented so much in himselfe that he had betrayed so good a man hanged and himselfe brought back the money wherewith a field was bought as the Prophet Hieremie foretold Before Pilate he is many wayes falsly accused he is sent unto Herod of him he is scorned at as a fool Here most diligently consider what he is that suffered and make thy selfe like unto him that thou mayest partake in sufferance with the most innocent most meek most loving and most noble And let this be the second bundle The third Bundle Of his Crowning and Crucifying AFter this at the Jews request Pilate dismisseth Barabbas and delivereth Jesus to be crucified being overcome by the importunity of the Iews and the feare of Caesar Then Iesus after the manner and form of a King is diversly scorned is roabed with a mantle crowned with Thornes strucken with a Reed and as a King is adored in scorne Here O man think on the manner consider the cause to wit how Christ carried himselfe and how the Jewes behaved themselves the cause why he suffered so great torments going that he might be crucified carrying his own cross the peopl following the women weeping to whō he said weep not for me but weep for your selves He is crucified on Mount Calvarie And here diligently consider the manner of his Crucifying For they either first raised up the Crosse and Christ ascended thereon or surely they put the Cross on the earth and there fastened him thereon with nailes For there appeareth no other manner And here in the third place it is convenient more