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A78099	A brief explication of the Office of The Blessed Virgin Marie Mother Of God together with a small treatise concerning the institution thereof &c. / composed by the R.F.E.VV. Priest and Monke of the Order of S. Benedict.	Byfleet, John Edward, b. 1607.	1652 (1652)	Wing B6401A; ESTC R203969	220,898	605

religious to relinquish the saied office But behold the diuine iustice which is euer vigilant obseruing our iniquities shortly after such aduersities ād afflictiōs fell vpon the saied Monastery that the monkes were daily in daunger to loose their liues on euery side there were made roberies and rapines of their goods their corne was burnt and their familiar friends and seruants were murthered in soe much that they became weary of their liues and were inforced to be at much expences to obtaine of the Emperour to interpose his authoritie which when they had compassed it nothing at all auailed them Wherefore I being intreated by them for he was imploied abroad in many Embassadges to see if I could fynd some way whereby to redresse these calamities did giue them this answeare Christ saied I is our peace of whome when he was newly borne of the B. Virgin the Angells did sing Glory in the highest to God and in earth Luc. 2. peace Because therefore you haue banished out of your Monastery the mother of true peace these tribulations calamities haue deseruedly been layd vpon you which words the Monkes hauing by many signes experienced to be most true being now in great distresse they begane to consider better with themselues and casting themselues vpon the ground before me promised with one consent that they would neuer afterwards neglect their accustomed praise of the mother of God After which their humiliation and promise put in practise the enioyed their desired peace euen to this present CHAPT IV. Shewing the reasons why the holy Church hath diuided the diuine offi●e and consequentlye this of the B. Virgin conformable vnto it into so many parts or how●rs MY purpose is not to make à long narration of the diuersitie of opinions concerning the number of the Canonicall howers the precise tyme when they were saied and the space which was intermitted betweene them in diuers places for that the pious reader whose comfort I hereby intend would rather gather leaues then fruit by such à sterill discourse relishing best with curious palates which sometimes are more delighted with the shadow then with the substance Notwithstanding soe much as may serue for instruction I will as breifly as I can declare concerning this matter Our holy Father S. Benedict in his Cap. 16. Psal 118. Rule hath these words Seuen tymes in the daie saieth the Prophet I haue saied praise to thee which sacred number of Seuen will be accomplished by vs if we performe the office of our seruice at the tyme of Mattines or ●auds Prime Terce Sext None Vespres and Compline because the Prophet spake of these howers when he saied Seuen tymes in the daie I haue saied praise to thee For of the Nocturnes or night office the same Prophet alsoe saieth At midnight I arose to confesse to thee Wherefore at these tymes let vs praise and giue thanks to our Lord and sauiour for the iudgments of his iustification I meane at Mattines or Lauds Prime Terce Sext None Vespres and Compline and at night let vs rise to confesse to him Thus farre our holy Father The saied night office is not ordained without great reason that we may be found watching and prepared to receaue the spowse for that our sauiour doth seeme to affirme that the generall Iudgment shall bee in the night tyme In the Math. 25. Luc. 17. middest of the night à great noyse was made behold the spowse is at hand Moreouer In that night two shall bee in one bed c. and in another place VVatch yee therefore for you Marc. 13. know not when the Lord of that howse cometh at euen or at midnight or at the cocke crowing or in the morning least cōming vpon à suddaine he fynd you sleeping and that which I saie to you I saie to all watch which night watch Act. 16. S. Paul and Silas did obserue as appeareth in the Acts of the Apostles Cardinall à Turre Cremata vpon the Tract 73. Rule of S. Benedict saieth that according to the auncient custome there were eight Canonicall howers and Hugh of S. li. 2. Eccles office c. 2. Victor proueth the same by this reason In tymes past saieth he the Nocturnes or night office were not onely seperated by à certaine interposition of tyme but alsoe were terminated with à proper extreame or ending that is with à collect or praier by which manner of terminatiō the vnitie or diuision of howers are vsually distinguished The same alsoe is affirmed by diuers others Yet now that laudable custome giuing place to humane infirmitie the common practise is that the Nocturnes and Mattines or Lauds are recited at one tyme make but one hower and thereupon it is become the generall receaued opinion that Tom. 3. pag. 94. Prouer. 22. there are onely Seuen Canonicall howers according to which Peter Damian doth proceed where he saieth that there are Seuen lesser sorts of sinns into which The iust man as it is written doth daily fall but straightwaies gette●h footing againe for that he sinneth not out of malice or deliberatly but out of humane frailtie The saied sinns are these that follow vizt Thought Ignorance Inconstancy Necessitie Infirmitie Obliuion and Inconsideration For e●piation whereof the holy Doctors of the Church by the instruction of the holy Ghost haue ordained that we doe seuen tymes à daie offer our praiers to God for in very deed saieth he the offices of the seuen Canonicall howers are like vnto seuen Baptismes which wash away the seuen staines which we doe soe daily contract There are many Texts of the holy scriptures touching the number of Seuen which may seeme to haue moued the holy Church to make choise of that sacred number of tymes wherein to praise our Lord as in Genesis in memory of the benefit of our ●reation The Seuenth Gen. 2. daie God ended his worke Alsoe in other places as Naaman the leper washed himself lib. 4. Reg. c. 5. Iosue 6. seuen tymes in the riuer of Iordan And VVhen the army of the Hebr●wes had gone seuen daies about the Citty of Ierico the seuenth tyme seuen Priest sounded seuen trumpetts of the Iubilie and the wall of the Citty fell downe And Our Lord oast out of Marie seuen deuills Mare 16. With à multitude of other places which for breuity sake I willingly ouer passe Moreouer our Lords Praier consisteth of seuen petitions our sauiour spake seuen tymes whilst he hung vpon the Crosse and there are seuen guifts Apoc. 1. of the holy Ghost I saw saieth S. Iohn seuen candlestickes of gold and in the middest of them one like the sunne of man Ludouicus de Ponte in his tome of the Perfections of Christ after he hath shewed Tract 3. c. 1. out of S. Iohn Chrisostome that praier is like to the sunne he doth compare the seuen parts of the diuine office to the seuen Planetts because by them doth descend into the Church the influx of

properly tearmed Hymnes Which words agree with that of S. Mathew where he Math. 16. saieth that our Sauiour and his disciples after they had recited an Hymne went forth which Hymne consisted of diuers Psalmes as hath been saied in our second Chapter of this worke In the primitiue Church the vse of them was wery frequent as maie appeare by diuers of the Epistles of S. Paul as namely by the first to the Corinthians the fowerteeneth the first to the Ephesians and the third to the Collossians Philo Iudaeus saieth that lib. de vita cōtemplatiua De diuinis nominibus c. 4. Ibidem ca. 3. the disciples of S. Marke did not onely contemplate but alsoe compose Canticles Hymnes in the diuine praise and S. Dionysius maketh mention of one Hierotheus his instructor in the sacred letters whome he affirmeth to haue composed hymnes some of which he setteth downe and moreouer that he the saied Hierotheus together with the Apostles did set forth the diuine praises at the funerall of the B. Virgin mother of God which words Necephorus expounding saieth that 〈◊〉 22. they recited Hymnes The Hymnes which are vsed in the diuine office were for the greatest part composed by S. Hilarie S. Ambrose and S. Thomas of Aquine Yet our holie Father S. Benedict in diuers chapters of his Rule c. 9. 12 13. in stead of the word Hymne hath the word Ambrosian by which it maie be gathered that the Hymnes vsed in the diuine office in his tyme were principally if not altogether composed by S. Ambrose If we haue regard to the signification of the words there is small differēce betweene an Hymne à Psalme and à Canticle Yet the holie Fathers doe vse these words diuersly for by the Psalmes they seeme to vnderstand those which Dauid composed to be song to the harp and other musicall instruments by the Canticles those Ten Canticles which are taken out of the other bookes of holie writ and appointed to be song at Laudes Vespres Compline Seauen whereof are taken out of the old Testament and the rest out of new and finally by Hymnes are vnderstood certaine Odes composed in the diuine praise by Ecclesiasticall though not Canonicall writers Those that are desirous to read à more exacte narration of the difference betweene these three words maie fynd them sufficiently discussed in the Commentaries of S. Ierome vpon the fift of S. Paul to the Ephesians in the Prologue of lib. 3. S. Hilarie to his explication vpon the Psalmes and in the Preface of Euthimius to the Psalmes whereunto for breuitie sake I referre the studious reader VVhy the holie Church hath made choice of the Psalmes of Dauid to be recited in the diuine office rather then other parts of the holie Scriptures CArdinall à Turre Cremata vpon the Tract 75. in c. 18. Regulae S. Bened. Rule of our holie Father S. Benedict doth set downe Eight reasons which maie seeme to haue moued the holie Church to make vse of the Psalmes of Dauid in the diuine office rather then the other parts of the holie Scriptures The First is because sinners by reading of the Psalmes are wonderfully excited and animated to doe pennance when they behold Dauid cheifly celebrated in the Church who by pennance became soe great à Prophet and more illuminated by the spirit of God then any of the rest of the Prophets of which opinion Praefa in Psal S. Ambrose seemeth to be where he saieth In the Psalmes I am taught to auoid sinne and to blush when I doe pennance Soe mightie à King soe great à Prophet doth prouoke me by his example that I studie with all diligence ●ither to extenuate the fault committed or to beware of the fault as yet not committed The Second is because there is not any one booke of the holie Scriptures that doth treat soe familiarly with God for in almost euery part of the Psalmes the Prophet seemeth to discourse with God almightie which is a very proper methode for such as praie The Third is because the Psalmes are as it were ● plentifull Mother of spirituall affections abounding with celestiall fruits as most of the holie Fathers doe witnesse The Fowerth is because the Psalme● are very profitable to be read by all sorts for they minister spirituall nutriture sutable to the degree of perfection that each man hath attained or doth aspire vnto Such as haue newly laied the foundation of C●ristian discipline maie there find comfort and incouragement to prosecute their course proficients that are aduanced to an higher degree maie there find matter wherein to exercise themse●ues and finally those that are happily arriued at the top of perfection maie there ●nd fe well to maintaine their flames of loue The Fift is because this heauenly philosophy is most apt to furnish euery man aboundantly with all doctrine necessary to saluation as best agreeing with those words of the Apostle where he saieth That all Scripture inspired by God is 2. ad Timoth. 3 profitable to teach to argue to correct to instruct in iustice Concerning which point see the Glosse in the beginning of the Psalter The Sixt is because this Prop●esie excelleth all others in perspicuitie The Seauenth is because there is almost nothing contained in the Psalmes but it is either the praise of God or a Prai●r vnto him both which are most proper for the diuine office The Eight end last is because they are diuided into verses and the manner of distinction there obserued is esteemed of learned men farre better then that of the other parts of the holie Scriptures by verses or numbers and consequentlie doe best Psal 17. v. 50. agree with the alternate modulation of à quite The Grecian Fathers in their exposition of these words of the Psalmist I will confesse to thee among nations O Lord and will saie à Psalme to thy name doe affirme that the Prophet did fore shew that the Psalmes by him composed should be song in all parts of the world in the Churches of the Gentils and the same in effect doth the Prophet expresse in diuers places as namely I will confesse to thee in the Psal 34. v. 18. Psal 56. v. 10. great Church in à graue people I will praise thee And againe I will confesse to thee among peoples O Lord I will saie à Psalme to thee among the Gentils in many other places which for breuitie I omitt Certaine memorable sayings of the auncient holie Fathers in praise of the Psalmes of Dauid S. Dyonisius doth affirme that the Psalter li de eis nominibus cap. 3. Homil. 1. de Ezechiele is à certaine Inuentorie of the whole Scriptures wherein all the mysteries thereof are succinctly discribed and tempered with à wonderfull sweetnes of the verse S. Gregorie the great doth write that if the Psalmes be song from the heart and not with the voice onely they doe prepare à waie for almightie God to enter into the most inward