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A42522	A brief explanation of several mysteries of the Holy Mass, and of the actions of the priest celebrating Very necessary for all Roman Catholics for the better understanding thereof. Together with certain reflections upon the Apostles Creed, touching the blessed Sacrament. And also, divers meditations and prayers both before, and after communion. By T. G. heretofore fellow of New-Colledge in Oxon, deceas'd.	Gawen, Thomas, ca. 1610-1684.	1686 (1686)	Wing G395AA; ESTC R220315	43,939	198

will be of no profit 2. And when the People Answer that They have their Hearts so Elevated and dispos'd and set upon God as he desires them to have 3. The Priest rests not therewith Content unless They make present Reflection upon This and Consider that it is not They themselves but God that hath rais'd their Hearts and drawn them towards Himself and therefore that they ought Instantly to make their Acknowledgement thereof by publick Thanks before they go any further 4. Gratias Agamus c. 5. To which they Reply that this is very fitting and just and so they proceed to do it by the Priest in publick and in private by their own particular Resentments moving their Hearts according to the Words which they hear from him For so now he begins here in a Louder Tone 6. To acknowledge the Mercies and Blessings that God showers down on Men at all Times and in all places and in particular those which at that very occasion the Churches Order recommends to be Commemorated 7. But then She by great Modesty Conscious to her self how mean a Thing Her Laudes and Praises are to be tender'd to Gods Supreme Majesty she makes haste to joyn her Self in this Action to her Lord and Spouse Jesus Christ and by Him to present her Praises and Thanks to the Father Offering up withall joyntly those Infinite and Eternal Benedictions that he uses to give him 8. And not t● omit any Hymnes of this Nature she endeavours to make one too in the Consort of Angels Cherubims and Seraphims that Magnify Adore and tremblingly Reverence through Jesus Christ The Majesty of God Hence It is that she joynes her self to Them under Him as under the common Patron of Men and Angels That so All together by their chief Head may Worship and Glorisie the Deity And therefore now useth she here upon Earth That very Ditty which the Scripture hath reveal'd to be us'd by the Angels in Heaven in their Honouring of God Sanctus Sanctus Sanctus 9. And to It adjoyns another Triumphantly Sung by Men of Jerusalem to Jesus Christ Benedictus qui venit c. Testifying hereby the Unity of Spirit moving Angels and Men to Praise the Divine Majesty for the Approach and Coming of his Son DEVOTION Raise up my Spirit at this Instant Great God far above all the things of this World to fasten It upon and make It Conceive both the Variety and Greatness of Thy Blessings especially those conferr'd upon us by Thy Son Jesus Christ his Assuming and Uniting our Nature into Himself I must needs acknowledge that my single Abilities are much too Weak to perform this as I ought and therefore cannot Thank and Praise Thee as I should Vouchsafe to permit and help Me to joyn the very best I have to those of the Choire of Angels above borrowing from and using with them those Transcendent Acclamations wherewith they Adore Thee to all Eternity that so I may begin to Honour Thee here on Earth as they do in Heaven and imping my Wings with Theirs mount not according to My feebleness but Their force Enrich me also with a Part of the Innocence and almost Angelical Purity of those Souls who Sung to Thee that Triumphant Jubilee at thy Entrance into this lower Jerusalem that so the Song that I would now take Thee with might be more perfectly made up of all its parts especially that Canterelle of Angels and This Base of Men. Why not prepare my Self in this Solemn manner To certainly the greatest Action upon Earth The Sacrificing of Thy Son By as much as I can procure The Holyest Hosanna 's and highest Ravishments of Spirit that Mortality can bear up with In this Elevation and Extasie such as 't is Thee I adore My Saviour Jesus Christ sitting at the Right Hand of Thy Father To Thee as High-Priest and prime Sacrificer I joyn this Wretch my Self though Infinite Infinitely unworthy to be not only in thy Company but here among the Angels and Blessed Saints now Assembled at this Sacrifice of a God O amaze me with that Confusion that belongs to me for not being such as I ought at this Solemnity For the Entrance into the Canon The Canon NExt succeeds the Canon of the Mass so term'd because 't is the Rule and Constant Order which the Church observes in the Celebration of this Sacrifice This is alone never to be alter'd as the other parts of the Mass are which use to be vary'd according to the diversity of several Mysteries and the Feasts by which they are Celebrated But this being the chief part becomes as the Sacrifice it self Immutable Te igitur c. ANd 't is considerable That it begins with an Address to the Father presenting to Him the Sacrifice as being the Prime Principle and Beginning not only of all Creatures but also of the Divine Persons in the Holy Trinity We Offer up this Sacrifice to Him by and through Jesus Christ His Son our Lord. That is By Jesus Christ as our Only Mediator taking part of the Father in being His Son and so God from all Eternity and taking part with Us in being made Man by his Humanity wherein He hath receiv'd the Power and Dominion over Heaven and Earth and always Offers up A Sacrifice to His Father as the only High-Priest to whom all other Priests here in the Church are but subservient Officers and Ministers Offering up the same with Him For That which the Son of God in Heaven and This which the Priest here below Offers however it differ in the manner is in Reality and Substance but One and the same Sacrifice And it is Offer'd here principally for the Whole Catholick Church in whose Name the Priest presents himself before God to do Homage For though this here and that Sacrifice there as 't is said differ not in the Substance of the Thing yet in the manner of Offering it does and accordingly this is offer'd but for the Church Only and all the Faithful within its Communion though the other of which This yet is Commemorative be for the whole World as the Scripture testifies DEVOTION O God the Father 1. I Here Worship and pay Homage to Thee as to the prime Principle of all Things both in Earth and Heaven too of all Sanctity in Men and Angels of all the Persons in the God-head of the whole Trinity and of all the Deity it self also as far as Thy Church taught by Thee can and doth though but Lispingly speak it It is to Thee I acknowledge in this quality of prime Principle that this Sacrifice is due and so to Thee is It Now Offer'd by Thy Church and by Thine own Son who is prime Priest as Thou art the prime Principle 2. I Worship Thee also as the chiefest and last End of all Creatures recurring and Ebbing into Thee as They flow'd from Thee 3. Vouchsafe me the Grace to Reflect upon Thee always after this manner as well by the Motions of my

Confession and that the Priest and Minister have openly avow'd their Faults and Indignities both severally and joyntly Praying for each other They further Animate and Encourage one another by Reflection on God's Mercy express'd in Words of a Holy Boldness and Confidence as they find them in the Scriptures * Psal 85. of the Messiah Deus tu Conversus c. Ostende nobis Domine c. So proclaiming alternately that though from themselves they can hope for Nothing yet they cannot but grow most Confident in their God considering what he hath given his Word for to perform With such Holy Cheerfulness and yet still check'd by a private Awe occasion'd by his particular sins secretly then also Pray'd against The Priest adventures up again to the Altar and Kisses It. In token say I of a New Reconciliation to Christ Jesus and all His Church-Triumphant for by the Altar is represented Christ Crucify'd and by the Relicks of some Saints enchas'd in It. The whole Body of that Triumphant Society now more nearly joyn'd to their Head and becoming even one with Him DEVOTION I Adore O Lord this Infinite Mercy of Thine which is now brought into my Mind by the Priests going up again unto Thy Altar and Kissing of It in Token that Thou art again Reconcil'd to us So early was Thy Goodness to us that no sooner had We Offended Thee but instantly Thou hadst projected a Way by which we might come to be Pardon'd As appears by thy Calling after and searching out our first Parent in Paradice immediately after he had fled from Thee and lost himself In that so Antient and indeed Eternal project and design it is that Thou hast already in effect Pardon'd us so long before We were Born and extended Thy Grace even to Vs in Jesus Christ before all Ages as one of Thy Apostles hath computed it And now Thy Mercifulness still equally willing to make good that Design and to appear as Great and as Ready to save in Time as it was to Project in Eternity doth here Receive Vs into Favour again as soon as ever We but Acknowledge and Confess our Faults as that Prophet of thine hath Noted and as Thou publickly declarest to Thy whole Church in admitting the Priest thus to Kiss thy Altar which is an Image and stands in stead of thy self suddenly after he hath ended His and Our Confession Thereby to shew that Perform we but our Duty once in a true Confession of our Faults and there 's no doubt to be made but Thou in the same moment art Reconcil'd unto Vs I most Earnestly beseech Thee to give me the Grace to value and entertain this Immense Bounty of Thine with a Respect due to it and to enable me in some degree to imitate it That is that First never never willingly Offending Thee never so next for those Involuntary Lapses and Delinquencies which my surpriz'd infirmity so often stands guilty of and in this frail Life are utterly unavoidable I may so take all diligent Care to discharge my self of Them as soon as ever I perceive them committed as Thy Goodness is ready to Pardon them as soon as ever in a true Penitence and Detestation I acknowledge them before Thee At the Introit THis which is call'd the Introit * Vide Durand l. 4. c. 5. Goar p. 124. of the Mass signifies That great Declaration Evangelical which God made to Mankind presently upon Adam's Fall Of his good Pleasure and Will to deliver them from that Misery wherein they lay and to restore them to Grace and Favour again by giving them a Saviour This seems so to me because every Introit in particular either Prayes or gives Thanks for or Celebrates with some Joy some special Execution of that Will of God suitable to the Feast or Mystery for which the Mass is said DEVOTION I Thank Thee O my God for that ever since that first Inclination and Good Will of Thine To be again Reconcil'd to Mankind Thou hast taken care all along to make it evidently Appear to men by some real effect thereof and by some particular Grace and way of Dispensation suitable to each Age hast gone on advancing and Accomplishing by little and little that thy Great Design of Redeeming and Saving the World even to the very Fulness of Time wherein it was to be Entirely perfected O that the Resolutions which I too have already taken or shall farther yet take to do Thee Service towards this End might have something in them also of the Stability and Immutableness of that Thy unchangeable and everlasting Purpose And that though sometimes I be not able to Execute them fully according to my Intention yet even then they may discover themselves in some partial yet seasonable Effects enough to testifie that I have not forgot them or am Vnfaithful to Thee but only do expect with some Passion the Time wherein I may according to my little Abilities most compleatly acquit my self Kyrie Eleison Kyrie Eleison Kyrie Eleison c. WHat are these but ardent Aspirations and Sighs of the Saints for the fulfilling of that Promise of the Father in the sending his Son address'd to the Son himself whom they Invoke as a Saviour and would incline Him to come quickly They are Thrice repeated in Honour of the Holy Trinity from whom they beg the accomplishment of that Mystery Christe Eleison Is said in the second place to shew 't was the second Person they demanded to be their Saviour And every person is Invok'd thrice to shew the numerous multitude of these Desires which they put up to the Trinity before the attaining them The number of Three signifying Often or many times in Scripture So St. Paul is said to Pray Thrice c. 1. Often to have his Temptation remov'd DEVOTION INcrease in me O Lord my Faith Of the Holy Trinity and of Thy Incarnation by which means thou art become the Saviour of the whole World and kindle in my Heart a lasting longing Desire of Thy second Coming no way Inferior to What the Antient Patriarchs had to See Thy First As the chief Point of Their Piety and Devotion consisted in This Of a Strong Faith and Passionate yet Patient Attendance for the Day of Thy Incarnation and Resurrection So by thy Grace and Favour Let It be the scope of Mine still to be in an Earnest Expectation and Waiting for the Great Day of thy Triumph when Thou shalt appear so Gloriously to All Men and to All Angels And let me Live in This Interim with the Eye of my Intention so uncessantly fix'd Upon Thy Divine Person as thou thy self Livest by having Thine perpetually plac'd on That of Thy Father And may my Heart ever and anon breath out her Wishes in these words Veni veni Domine Noli tardare Even Come Come Lord Jesu and tarry no longer Gloria in Excelsis NOw is Represented the Performance of That Promise of the so much desired and so long expected

Impart to Us and account Ours DEVOTION DO not forget O Lord Those Souls whom though gone out of this World Thou hast yet a Favour for because they are better dispos'd for the receiving the Effects of Thy Mercy in That Condition than those who are still joyn'd to this Body of Clay Haste so much the more to help Them as They do more Humbly and more Patiently wait for Thy help desiring no other Happiness than to fulfill thy Will and good Pleasure and therefore finding so far as That is done upon them even in Purgatory and in the midst of extream pains which they suffer a kind of Paradice I would I had as much Purity as They to be the more capable of Interceding for Them But since I come far short of That I interpose and present Thee with that of those Saints who now reign with Thee which is the best that can be found among Creatures but especially with that of the King of Saints Thy Son from whom as from the Fountain and Head flow all those Graces and Merits which Thou hast Communicated to Thy Servants and to whom thou canst not deny the farther Perfecting and Final Accomplishment of Thine Elect since Thou hast already begun to work Righteousness and Holiness in Them Add then and Finish the Rest of what is to be done in Them and Unite both the Living and the Dead to Thy Son as to the proper Head of Their Body and only Source of their Virtue and Victory that together with Him they may Sing to Thee Triumphant Lauds to all Eternity after they have Labour'd and Suffer'd as He and in Him to Thy Glory in this World At the Nobis quoque Peccatoribus DEVOTION O That these Words now spoken out by the Priest might Humble me Effectually to make me Cry to Thee for Mercy for my self and all Thy Faithfull upon Earth who all with me now appear before Thee but as One and the same sinner and one and the same Penitent Work in me the Flexibleness and Humble dejection of that Publican whom Thou hast Justify'd in the Temple and under the Law that smiting my Breast like Him I may obtain the same Grace which Thou accorded'st to Him at the same time that Thou didst blast the Pride of the Pharisee Per quem Haec Omnia c. ANd from this Acknowledgment of our own Worthlessness the Priest goes on to another much Greater Confessing to God the Father that also This Sacrifice now upon the Altar and all its worth and Virtue or what ever else contain'd in it comes only from Him by Jesus Christ by whom He Creates It to be a Source of Sanctity and Life and all Blessings and so Gives It to Vs Not but that Jesus Christ was all this before But because by the same Act by which He produceth Him in this Sacrament He likewise Communicates to Him all those Graces and Virtues which he hath as by that Act by which He begot Him from all Eternity He also endow'd Him with all those Excellencies and Perfections proper to the Son of God and so is the production of this Sacrament a lively Image of that Eternal Generation Nor is this yet all that is acknowledg'd but farther That the same God the Father thus producing qualifying this Sacrament also Gives it to Vs Praestas Nobis and by it derives into Us a Participation of all the Excellencies it contains so that this Sacrament becomes not only an Image of that Eternal Generation of Jesus Christ before all time but also of that Incarnation of Him by which in time the Father gives Him to Us and with Him all His Perfections by a New Production as in many Places Holy Scripture testifies DEVOTION THee O God the Father Thee I Adore as the Prime and Original Author of this Sacrifice and wonderful Mystery The Holy Ghost makes It by the Priest Jesus Christ makes It by the Holy Ghost but Thou makest It by Jesus Christ and 't is from Thee as from its Fountain that all the Graces all the Perfections all the Great things contain'd in this Sacrament are deriv'd and It again becomes another Fountain of them to Vs I Admire and Celebrate from the bottom of my Heart this Miracle and more yet that Bounty which after it hath wrought it so Applies it to Men thereby to Feed them thereby to Save them just as for Thy Works have no Parallels but Thy works just as Thou gavest Thy only Son to Men by another Miracle of Incarnation in the fulness of time after Thou hadst first begotten Him in Thy bosom before all Time by which transcends all Miracles an Eternal Generation O let this account of Thy goodness debase and cast me down as low as doth mine own Illness since in the midst of all these Fountains and Sluces of Graces so super-abundantly deluging from forth this Mystery wretched I shall still remain parch'd and barren and dry and Wither'd I unless thou stream into me from thence and that uncessantly another new Grace by which I may suck in the Benefit of all the rest Per Ipsum cum Ipso in Ipso c. NExt to these Two Acknowledgements the Priest here makes a Third That That Honour and Glory that ariseth to God the Father from this His Infinite Bounty comes not to Him but By and With and In Jesus Christ By Jesus Christ as through the Hands of a Mediator for God receives nothing from Us immediately nor we from Him but Jesus Christ standing in the middle between Hands all things from the Father to Us and so back again from Us to the Father With Jesus Christ Because the Son being in all things equal to the Father receives too equally with Him the Glory that men render unto Him and all in the Union of the Holy Spirit In Jesus Christ Because He is the Vine and all men but the Branches in Him and only by being in Him can they bear any Fruit to His Father the Husbandman DEVOTION EStrange me O my God from from all Humane Inventions and ways of Worshipping Thee of what sort soever though never so specious and Holy in Appearance In things of Thy Service let me never be Acted by my own private Spring by my own proper Spirit nor upon any Motive tending to give my self Satisfaction That I may do nothing but at the Call and in submission to the Conduct and by the Spirit of Thy Son since Thou Receivest not any thing from Us but what we Offer unto Thee by Him as being the Mediator nay as being the First Mover and Author of all the Good we do nor received'st it so neither but in the same Act by which He receives It together with Him because both are one and the same Nature One and the same God and therefore are both equally concern'd and Honour'd by the Homages we pay Lastly Thou receivedest nothing but in Him also that is but from Those who are so in Him as that He