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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06360	The life of Gregorie Lopes that great servant of God, natiue of Madrid, written in Spanish by Father Losa curate of the Cathedrall of Mexico. And set out by Father Alonso Remon of the Order of our Lady de la Merced, with some additions of his owne.	Losa, Francisco de, 1536-1624.; White, Thomas, 1593-1676. aut; Remón, Alonso, 1561-1632.	1638 (1638)	STC 16828; ESTC S105406	99,533	326

Father the life Passion and death of Iesus Christ his son and our Redeemer This offering sometimes he made for the whole world othertimes for particular persons or intentions according as he vnderstood that it was the will of God he made such account of this Sacrifice or spirituall Masse that one day talking with me about it he told me that God had thousands of priests in the world who made this offering spiritually many times in the day and that he did frequent two kinds of spirituall communions both consisting in ardent desires the one of receiuing Sacramentally our Sauiour Christ the other of receiuing within himself the Father the son and and holy Ghost making himself a liuing and pure temple of the Blessed Trinity and giuing it actually entertainment in his heart where it might come and allwaies remaine I asked him one day how he did exercise the loue of God and his neighbour he answered me that he onely repeated some versicles of Dauid such as these Praise yee our lord all nations praise yee him all people All the workes of our lord blesse yee our lord praise yee him and glorify yee him for euer Let all the earth o Lord adore thee and blesse thee Wherwith I remained not onely satisfied but allso well affected to that manner of praving which containeth so much in it He was allso very carefull to pray for our holy Mother the Church for her increase and for the exaltation of our holy Catholick faith throughout all kindo●es He did pray very carnestly for those that were in sin and he said that this prayer was very pleasing vnto God relating vpon this occasion that which had passed betwixt our Sauiour and saint Catherine of Siena who praying vnto him instantly for those that are in mortall sin heard from his diuine mouth I intreat thee to pray vnto me for them and he was wont to repeate those wordes with much tendernes and commiseration when there was occasion to talke of those that are in sin To the same purpose he related an exemple which saint Denys the Areopagite in his eighth Epistle to Demophilus affirmeth that he had heard from the mouth of saint Carpus the Bishop to whom by reason of his cleanenes and sincerity of heart God reuealed many thinges and it was this the said saint Carpus vnderstanding for certaine that an idolater had peruerted a Christian and made him forsake his faith was so incensed against both as that he instantly besought God to take them away from the face of the earth not being able to endure that such wicked men should liue vpon it since that they peruerted the way of God and looking vp towardes heauen he saw therin Iesus Christ sitting enuironned with innumerable Angells and saints then looking downe into the earth as it were by the mouth of a well he saw hell and its tourments and in the very brinke of the well were those two wicked men whom he had cursed staggering and ready to fall and trembling in pittifull manner because those hellish serpents sought to catch hold and pull them in Carpus was told that he would doe well to pray for them that they might be freed from those grieuous paines but he would not yea he prayed vnto God to let them fall into that well and lifting vp his eies againe towardes heauen he saw the most mer●ifull Iesus who moued with compassion rose vp and offered them his hand that they migh● es●hape sent his Angells allso to help them and truning to Carpus said vnto him oh Carpus I am ready to suffer againe for mens sake see whether it would like you to be for euer in this hell and liue amongst those serpents depriued of the sight of God and the company of his Angells and saints He made vse of such examples to practise himself and teach others the spirit of Iesus Christ He did amorously and earnestly importune God in his prayers to draw vnto him all countries and nations couerting them and making them enter into the lap of the Church and to reduce the Iewes and heretikes to the holy Catholike faith This he did without eue● desisting from that act of loueing God which we spoke of The chiefe scope of his prayer for his neighbours was that the will of God might be fullfilled in them on earth as it is in heauen and he tooke occasion from all thinges to make that prayer If he heard men say how the king for his great power and iustice was feared and reuerenced and that he enioyed his kingdome in peace he presently turned to God and said thou art allmighty ād iust ô Lord let all feare thee and reuerence thee and possesse ô Lord all this thy kingdome in peace When he heard that a father for his goodnes was loued by his sons he presently said vnto God ô Father and fountaine of all good let all thy sons loue thee When he vnderstood how a gardiner endeauoured to make all his trees yeeld fruit he presently turned to the Creatour of all saying let none of thy creatures be lost oh Lord let them yeeld their fruit in their proper season When he heard of great warres and shedding of bloud he lifted vp his heart vnto God saying your sons and my brethren whom you command me so much to loue behold ô Father how they behaue themselues and to say in briefe all the goods and euills of the world were vnto him motiues of prayer Sometimes he told me that he saw in God all whatsoeuet was in the world as it were gathered into one point without any discourse the which it might be was by some great light of contemplation which he receiued in certaine occasions wherby we may gather something of the excellence of his prayer and how eleuated his soule was and like vnto God since that he had the whole world abridged in his vnderstanding and with such particular light reduced to an vnity that he might offer it vnto God He desired much that his neighbours should neuer cease to pray vnto God euen in their exteriour workes because as one well experienced he knew the great good that it containes and he was wont to praise the Machabes for that vertue who in their greatest battailes as is related in their history did at the same time fight with their handes and pray in their hearts He vsed another manner of praying worthy the learning and imitating for whensoeuer he was to speake answer or aske any thing he first fixed his mind on God by mentall prayer imploring his diuine assistance To this purpose he was wōt to tell that which befell Nehemias with Artaxerzes as is written in the second Chapter of the second of Esdras for this great Monarch asking of Nehemias his cup bearer what it was that he desired the text saith that before he began to speake he made his prayer vnto the God of heauen wherby he obtained of the king all whatsoeuer he asked He was much deuoted to the Pater