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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

Confidence Seamen had in his Presence that the oldest and most shivered Ships were reckon'd the most safe and Infidels themselves for more Security loaded all their Goods upon them tho' with double Charges and Expences whom he assisted even after his Death for carrying his Body in a very tottered unsafe and ill-rigged Ship and running upon a Rock the Seamen betook themselves to invoke the Saint's Aid and presently the Rock split in two and opened a Passage for the Ship Whereupon now at Sea he is the Patron of Mariners even amongst Infidels He was eminent for the Gift of Government and directing Souls with no less Satisfaction of Seculars than Religious Grateful always to the People dear to Kings and Princes winning the Hearts of all St. Ignatius would have made him General of his whole Order The King of Portugal reverenced his Words as Commands as did also the King of Bongo and Amangucci The King of Travancor called the great King put out an Edict commanding all should obey the great Father so he called St. Francis as the great King He converted the King of Tanor and several others Pope Paul the III. admired his Sanctity Marcellus the II. desiring to see him sent for him from the Indies to come to Rome so much did he win the Hearts of all far and near The Gentils reverenced him and even erected a Church in his Honour where some wicked Fellows out of Contempt having often stole the Oyl from the Lamp and poured Water in its place enraged to see the Week yet burn and themselves deluded put it quite out which as often lighted of it self to their greater Confusion and Christians greater Comfort Another time being all alone he met a whole Army of Enemies that were Heathens whom he frighted and put to flight with his bare Authority To conclude his Gift of Tongues is no less wonderful than the former They spoke in those Countries a hundred different Languages which St. Francis spoke not only well but also with great Facility and Eloquence yet with these two Privileges The first That preaching to Men of different Nations he was perfectly understoad by every one The second that with one and the same Word and Answer he satisfied the Doubts and Questions of many together although concerning things both hard and of different Matters These and many other things we read of him in Historians and in the Process of his Canonization They add moreover that he was not so well known or so much called by the Name of Francis as sometimes of Angel or Prophet sometimes Raiser of the Dead now by that of Holy Father other times of Great Father but always and by all with the Approbation of the Pope and Applause of the whole World he was called by the Name of Apostle To whose Holy Intercession and Patronage by the Assistance of your Prayers I commend my self hoping you 'll find his Holy Aid and Assistance in all your Necessities if for the good of your Souls as you have seen others before you Observe moreover as it has been more exactly noted in these our latter Days that none with Faith and Devotion ever recommended themselves unto him that missed of their Aim or at least did not receive something more beneficial to themselves and their Souls Good which was and is his only Scope in conferring Benefits Let us comfort our selves with what he told F. Marcellus Mastrilli at Naples when appearing to him he miraculously cured him Non parum se posse in Paradiso That his Power was great in the Court of Heaven AN Advertisement Of the AUTHOR To the Devout Reader SAint Francis Xaverius is always ready to help those that devoutly implore his Aid in all their Necessities of what kind soever and even to obtain of God most miraculous Favours for them as all Christendom can testifie and for this reson he is called the new Thaumaturgus that is Worker of Miracles which are sufficient to fill whole Volumes and we here in short will touch upon the Heads only of some few to animate the Reader to have recourse to this great Saint Peter Veglio a Portuguese Merchant of a very loose Life by means of an Alms he had once given in Necessity deserved God's Mercy through the Saint's Intercession and was brought to Repentance and relieved in all other Corporal Necessities by the same Saint Francis who likewise foretold him the Hour of his Death which accordingly happened He appeared to a Woman that had been a long time sick in Malavar and promising to send her one that should hear her Confession advised her of her Death A Youth in the Hospital of Mozambichi raving through the Sharpness of his Distemper by only the Touch of the Saint was cured both in Body and Soul An Indian by Profession a Schoolmaster by Life a most lewd debauch'd Wretch was converted by the Saint's appearing to him and obeyed that gracious Call of God to a better Life Being desired by a Christian Lady to dispossess a Youth that was tormented by the Devil as soon as he entred the House the wicked Spirit quitted his Habitation and the Youth before ready to die was thereupon restored to perfect Health of Body An Indian Poet that had accidentally lost his Eyes by Gun-powder after many Years applying himself to the Saint recovered his Sight better than before which Miracle he published in Verse over all India He healed a Leper with washing his Sores and drinking that filthy Mixture of Matter and Water An Idolatrous Woman that was barren at the Intercession of St. Francis was blessed by God with a Son who soon after dying was restored to Life again by the Saint He raised another that was drowned in a Well and a third that died of the Plague In the Kingdom of Travancor he raised one that had been buried and another in Murar as he was carried to his Grave In Malaca he brought to Life a Child that had been dead three Days and in the same place the Son of one that was devoted to him In Japony he gave Life to a Daughter of an Idolater To two others in Manapar and to several elsewhere as all the World can testifie and the Transactions of his Canonization do authentically evidence He restored to a Seaman his Son that had been lost six Days at Sea He filled a whole Sea with Fish where none scarce could be found before and with his Blessing turned the salt Water of the Sea into fresh He obtained Rain to free a King from his Enemies that surrounded him A desperate Gamester that had lost all he had in the World encouraged by the Saint to try to mend his Condition recovered his Losses and withall obtained the Conversion of his Soul which was the Saint's only Aim He saved several Ships from perishing in Tempests and Storms He was in several places at once The very Children whom he taught the Christian Doctrine with the Beads and Medals of St. Francis cast out Devils

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

by Infidels Thieves Devils false Brethren had in Derision scoffed at and most barbarously misus'd by those he had been most charitable and beneficial unto beaten most cruelly by the wicked Spirits and molested with their Temptations threatned to be murdered by Cut throats by Idolaters held for a Mad-man even in the Court of the King of Amangucci where they reviled him with Curses cover'd him with Dirt overwhelmed him with Stones and treacherously laid Snares to take away his Life often endeavouring to poison him twice giving him into the Hands of Assasinates to be dispatched Being stoned by the Gentils of the Island of Moro he made his escape over a broad River by the means of a great Timber Beam which he handled and turned like a little Wand How often did he give his Life for Christ When he attended those that were infected with the Plague when he upbraided their Infidelity to the very Gentils ready armed with Stones to kill him when in spite of Princes and Priests he threw down their Idols when he alone resisted a whole Army of Badaga that in a fury intended to oppress the Christians when he intrusted himself going into Japony in a small Boat to Pirates infamous for killing Passengers when he entred the Island of Moro where they eat Man's Flesh when he went to China where it was Death for any to enter So much did he love God and his Neighbour but contemned and made himself most despicable exercising all Severity imaginable upon his tender Flesh A Man that was so nobly born of the Race of the Kings of Navarre and honoured with the Title of Nuncius Apostolicus kneeled to every poor and ordinary Priest to kiss his Hand making and deeming himself a Slave to all In the Ships Inns Hospitals serving the very meanest Beggar and basest Servants looking after their Horses sweeping their Chambers washing their dirty Linnen and Vessels exercising the lowest Offices even cleansing their Sores and Wounds with that Charity and Victory of himself as to sup up the Water wherewith he had washed one that had a Leprosy and another time to suck out the Putrefaction and Matter of a most leathsome Sore I omit his other Vertues He eat only once a Day and then only a little burnt Rice and often nothing for four five six and seven Days together His Drink was Water he was cloathed with a Hair-shirt wore one single Garment of black Canvas all patched His Sleep was either at Land upon the hare Ground or the Cables on Ship-board His Penance so rigid and austere that he fainted often thro' his Fastings and severe Disciplines wherewith he core his tender and innocent Body If by Vertue you mean Miracles he wrought infinite In the Fire stopping it with his bare Word when a House was actually burning In the Air driving away the Plague from Malaca with the sweet Savour of his dead Corps and making it rain Stones and Ashes upon the City of Tolo rebelling from Christ and the Portuguese which filling up the Ditches and demolishing the Walls forced them to a Surrender In the Water allaying Tempests sweetning Salt Water by the Sign of the Cross or dipping his Foot therein In the Earth causing Earthquakes In his own Body raising it in the Air preserving it incorrupt and in the Flower of Virginity ever free from the least Motion of Concupiscence He still lived tho' amongst so many Snares Diseases Labours Plagues and Poisons even without the least Infection or Hurt untouch'd and after Death sending out a most odoriferous Savour even amongst quick Lime and moist and wet Earth The very Beasts obeyed him a Lobster brought to Shore his Cross that had fallen into the Sea The Devils feared him dispossessing all that were brought to him In the Island of Moro at his first Sermon he preached there the Earth shaking and opening hideous Cries and Shreiks or Devils were heard that fled from their so long inhabited Dominions insomuch that they appeared all surrounded with Fire in the Air to the People crying out You burn and torment us Francis you drive us from our Kingdom He was no less famous for the fifth Gift of curing Diseases Witness Father Francis Perez Rector then of the College of Malaca who upon the point of Gasping was perfectly cured by St. Francis's embracing him He that he healed of his Wounds by only carrying him upon his Back That Leper whose Sores he cured with only washing them Witness also the Bishop of Malaca who desiring a Summary of all the Miracles the Saint had wrought and finding after strict examination eight hundred only in his own Diocess ceased to prosecute his first thoughts despairing ever to reckon them Let the Indies confess and acknowledge his Power in this point where not he in his own Person only but his Hair Girdle Beads the very Pulpit he preached in the Lamps that burnt before his Shrine the Water wherein was dipped only a Medal of his even his very Shadow which is yet more wonderful cured many Diseases Let him answer for himself he can testifie that in an instant by Prayer he was healed of those most dangerous Incisions mortal of themselves and beyond the Art of Man as the Surgeons confessed caused by the little Cords wherewith out of too much Fervour he had girded his Thighs and Arms. This is inconsiderable if compared to his Power of raising the Dead Besides many others it is authentically proved that five and twenty have obeyed his Call some as they were carried to their Graves others have been buried several Days refreshing hereby the Memory of Christ's own Actions A Noble Gentil entreated him to come and raise his Daughter now deceased and receiving this Answer that she was alive dissatisfied left St. Francis but was soon comforted by his Servants that told him she lived A Lady like Martha lamenting her Loss said if you had been here my Daughter had not died Why said the Saint she is not dead Yes replyed she and three Days buried The Saint accompanying her to the Grave restored the Daughter alive to the afflicted and incredulous Mother His whole Life was nothing but an Exercise of the sixth Gift of helping the Needy He was totally taken up in tending the Sick and the Poor succouring the Oppressed instructing the Ignorant and Sinners assisting all that were in Necessity and Danger either Spiritual or Temporal with so much Carefulness and Industrious Zeal that none is able to express it One Saint Francis was not sufficient to work according to the great Charity he bore to all To the end he might help several he was actually present to each at the same time in different Places As when called upon by a Merchant who suffer'd Shipwrack he obeyed and staid with him three Days upon the Plank till all the rest of the Ship were dead and then brought him safe to Shore And when with the same miraculous Apparition he saved ten Men in a little Boat Such was the