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

shall lift up his Heart to God and profoundly humbling himself in Spirit and offering up all his Prayers Thoughts and Words to his Glory in Honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary St. Francis Xaverius and to all the Angels and Saints of Heaven he shall make the Sign of the Cross and say the following Prayer O Lord Jesus Christ true God and Man my Creator and Redeemer for thy sake alone and because I love thee above all things I am sorry from the Bottom of my Heart for having offended thee and I do firmly purpose never to fall into Sin again to shun all Occasions of offending thee to Confess my Sins and perform the Penance that shall be enjoyn'd me and to make Restitution and Satisfaction wherever it shall be due from me For the Love of thee I forgive all my Enemies to thee I offer up my Life Actions and Sufferings in Satisfaction for my Sins and since I humbly beg it of thee I trust in thy Goodness and infinite Mercy that thou wilt forgive me them through the Merits of thy precious Blood and Passion and wilt give me Grace to amend my Life and to persever in thy Service unto my Death Amen MOst Glorious St. Francis Xaverius Apostle of the Indies if it be for the Glory of God and to thy Honour that I obtain what I desire and beg by performing this Novena do thou obtain me this Grace of our Lord if not do thou guide my Petition and beg of our Lord for me that which is most proper for his Glory and the benefit of my Soul O God and Lord of the Angels whom thou dost intrust with the Guardianship of Men I make thee an Offering of all the Merits of these Heavenly Spirits and of those of thy Servant St. Francis Xaverius who was call'd an Angel for his Purity and because he preserved Men from many Spiritual and Corporal Dangers I beseech thee grant me that Purity of Soul and Body which thou didst confer on this thy holy Apostle and that particular Grace which I beg in this Novena to thy greater Honour and Glory Amen Here say three Pater Nosters and three Ave Maries and then the following Prayer to St. Francis Xaverius MOst Holy Father Francis Xaverius who receivedst thy Praises from the Mouth of innocent Children I most humbly implore thy bountiful Charity for the Sake of the most precious Blood of Jesus and of the Immaculate Conception of our Blessed Lady Mother of God to the end thou may'st obtain of God's infinite Goodness that at the Approach of my last Hour my Heart may be separated and withdrawn from all wordly Thoughts and Distractions and be fixed in the most ardent Love of him and a vehement Desire of an happy Eternity so that laying aside the multiplicity of earthly things which hitherto have perplexed me I may most diligently seek and perfectly find that one thing which is necessary which is to Die and rest in Peace under the Protection of the most Holy Virgin Mary in the Wounds of Jesus her most Blessed Son in the sweet Embraces of my God and in thy Presence Holy Saint through whose Intercession I hope to obtain this Mercy But yet whilst it shall please the Divine Providence to preserve my Life I beseech thee my most loving Protector and most affectionate Father to obtain for me of his Divine Majesty that I may Live â—s one that is to Die and as I would wish to have lived at the Hour of my Death ever imitating thy Virtues and fulfilling the most Holy Will of God that so my temporal Death may be to me a Passage into Life Everlasting I also beseech thee to obtain for me that which I ask in this Novena if it be for the Glory of God and Good of my Soul Amen In the next Place you are to ask of St. Francis Xaverius the particular Favour you desire to obtain heightning as much as in you is your Confidence in him with such Words as your affectionate Thoughts shall suggest or with such Aspirations as your Devotions shall dictate Then the more to please this Holy Apostle in Imitation of him say that Prayer which he himself composed and used to say every Day for the Conversion of Infidels which is as follows ETernal God Creator of all things remember that thou alone didst create the Souls of Infidels framing them to thy own Image and Likeness Behold O Lord how to thy Dishonour Hell daily is replenished with them Remember O Lord thy only Son Jesus Christ who suffered for them most bountifully shedding his precious Blood Suffer not O Lord thy Son and our Lord to be any longer despised by the Infidels but rather being appeased by the Intreaties and Prayers of thy Elect the Saints and of the Church the most Blessed Spouse of thy Son vouchsafe to be mindful of thy Mercy and forgeting their Idolatry and Infidelity cause them also to know him thou didst send Jesus Christ thy Son and our Lord who is our Health Life and Resurrection through whom we are made free and saved to whom be all Glory forever â—â—en Then conclude with the Prayer proper to this Saint Antiph Well fare thee good and faithful Servant because thou hast been faithful over a few things I will place the over many things Enter into the Joy of thy Lord. Vers Our Lord hath guided the just Man by right Ways Resp And hath shewed him the Kingdom of God The Prayer O God who wert pleased to reduce to the Bosom of thy Church the Nations of the Indies thro' the Preaching and Miracles of S. Francis Xaverius mercifully grant us that we may imitate his Vertues whose glorious Merits we hold in Veneration Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen A Commemoration of St. Ignatius de Loyola Antiph This man despising the World and triumphing over Earthly things heaped up Riches in Heaven by Word and Work Vers Our Lord hath guided the just Man by right Ways Resp And hath shewn him the Kingdom of God The Prayer O God who for the Propagation of the greater Glory of thy Name hast by Blessed Ignatius strengthen'd the Church Militant with new Auxiliaries graciously vouchsafe that we by his Assistance and Imitation solicitously combating upon Earth may obtain with him an everlasting Crown in Heaven A Commemoration of St. Gregory the Great Apostle of England Antiph O most excellent Doctor Light of the Holy Church Blessed Gregory Lover of God's Law supplicate the Son of God for us Vers Our Lord hath as above The Prayer O God who hast bestowed the Rewards of Eternal Blessedness on the Soul of thy Servant Gregory Grant mercifully that we who are deprest with the Weight of our Sins may by his Prayers be delivered Through our Lord. The Second Day Lord Jesus Christ true God and Man c. as before on the First Day Most Glorious St. Francis Xaverius c. as the First Day and so on all the following Days A Prayer for this

all Creatures HEre are Devout Reader two Considerations the first to be imitated the second to be admired yet both very profitable for you for whether you imitate or admire Saint Xaverius you may assure your self of his Protection and Intercession The first is his Love of God the second his Power over all Creatures As for the first what do you think Devout Client of St. Francis of the Love he bore to God His whole Life is a sufficient Proof thereof according to that great Saying Probatio dilectionis exhibitio est operis Deeds are the Marks of Love But yet to give you some more particular Signs thereof here are some few Reflections no less true than wonderful This Love of God did so enflame his Heart and set it all on fire that he was not able to suffer it's insupportable Heat nor scarce endure his Cloaths Once as he was walking in the Streets of Goa he was so totally absorped with the Love of God that he took no notice of an Elephant that broke loose and threatned Death to all it met but yet afterwards to the great Wonder of all it retired The like happened to him going from Amangucci to Meaco when he run like a Servant behind a Noblemans Horse never feeling the Thorns that continually tore his Feet so much was his Mind absorpt in the Abyss of the Love of God Every where he was out of himself and totally in God But above all in Prayer Mass and Thanksgiving after the Divine Sacrifice His Soul betrayed it self so clearly in his very Countenance that the Pope said of him that he was Vultu adco inflammatus ut Angelicam prorsus Charitatem repraesentaret Seeming rather a burning Seraphim and a blessed Spirit upon Earth than a Man What say you pious Reader you do wonder and admire him and I am comforted thereat because hereby you may frame some Conceit of the great Love St. Xaverius bore to God But why do not you endeavour also to love the same God For he is the same he was then ever deserving to be beloved above all things Created and should you not love him you would always prove the most miserable Creature in the World for not placing your Affection upon a God that is so worthy of Love seeing to Love him is the sole happiness of Man As for the second Point proposed in the beginning God even in this Life seemed to reward his Saint with an universal Power and Dominion over all Creatures The Heaven saw the Day encreased three Hours by the Prayers of this second Josue that the Christians might give a total Overthrow to the Infidels The Earth rent it self with most horrid Earthquakes to frighten the Citizens of Tolo to the Christian Faith which they had so shamefully forsaken the Air bore him up from the Ground several times both by Night and Day The Fire raging and threatning several Houses obey'd his Command and offered not to pass the Limits prescrib'd by St. Xaverius But the Water seem'd to acknowledge most of all his Power He was an Anchor to Ships in the greatest Storms a favourable Gale to carry them thro' the most dangerous Shallows and Sands of the Seas a Calm allaying Tempests and a Haven for those that suffered Shipwrack The very Idolaters called him the God of the Sea and spared no charge for themselves and their Goods to sail in the Ship Saint Xaverius went in In the Indies he often changed Salt Water into Fresh and once by only dipping his Foot into the Sea He allayed tempests sometimes by Prayer other times with Relicks he wore or with the Sign of the Cross and once by letting his Cross into the Water which God to double the Wonder permitted a Wave to snatch away and so bereft him of his oâ—â—â— Comfort when behold soon after a Lobster with open Claws above Water brought it to St. Francis again It is impossible to specifie every particular Miracle wrought in this kind by St. Francis let these few in short suffice to convince you that in this Glorious Saint you have a Patron ready to command all Creatures for your Good so that in all Occasions and Necessities you may have recourse to him with Confidence and hope in his most powerful Intercession and Assistance The COLLOQUY To St. Francis Xaverius To obtain the Holy love of God WHat did you aim at throughout the whole course of your life O Holy Apostle but to bring all the World to the love of God And now will you not O great lover of God! obtain for me a poor helpless creature an ardent desire of loving him above all things Ah! I doubt not of your help and intercession but I apprehend my own Weakness least permitting my self to be deceived by the foolish Love of Creatures I may swerve from the true love of my Creator Help me then O Holy St. Francis That I may not be so deluded but yielding up my will to God I may by a holy necessity always love him both in this life and in the next Amen The CONSIDERATION For the Eighth FRIDAY Upon the Love of St. Francis Xaverius towards his Neighbour HE that truly loveth God does extend his Affection also to his Neighbour as being dear to God and his lively Image So that Saint Xaverius loving God as you have seen ought consequently to love his Neighbor which he did in the perfectest manner he could fulfilling those Words of St. Paul * Omnibus omnia 1 Cor. 9.22 factus to all men becoming all things that he might save all * 2 Cor. 6.6 In Charitate non ficta sed verÃ In true not feigned Charity He never spared any Labours Troubles Difficulties nor even Life it self to benefit him either in his Temporal or Spiritual Necessities tho' he laboured most to succour the Soul as being the more noble Part. The only Aim and Design of his Apostolical Missions and hard Enterprizes was the Salvation of Souls and where he proposed to himself any Hopes of converting any to God he let slip nothing that might any way promote or further his Intentions With Children he was one always so concerned for their Spiritual Profit that tho' he was a Man of that Authority and Esteem yet he disdained not to go about with a little Bell exhorting Parents to send their Children to be instructed in the Christian Doctrine With Sinners he became as I may say a Sinner familiarly treating and conversing with them that so he might bring them to God for pretending to be ignorant of their Vices Blasphemies Murders Usuries and all their whole Life he changed the Hatred they bore him into Love and the Love they bore to all vicious Habits and Propensions into a detestable Hatred of Sin To Infidels as particularly recommended to him from Heaven he shew'd such Charity that no body can express it And if the Height of this according to the Oracle of Truth it self be to give his Life for his Beloved

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