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Christian doctrine composed by Robert Bellarmine ; translated into better English than formerly.
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Bellarmino, Roberto Francesco Romolo, Saint, 1542-1621.
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Wing B1822; ESTC R23680
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Saviour Jesus Christ Father Son and Holy-Ghost to the great glory of thy most holy name to the honor of the most blessed Mother the Virgin Mary To the honor of my Angel-keeper and of S. Michael S. Gabriel S. Raphael and the S. S. N. and N. my holy Patrons and Patronesses and to all the holy Saints and Blessed Spirits in Heaven to the increase of their joy and glory Here I a most wretched and miserable sinner prostrate adore and worship thee offering up in all humility immortal praise thanksgivings for all thy Blessings especially for that unspeakable charity wherein thou didst send down thy only begotten Son into the Vale of Tears for the Work of our Redemption Eternal love of Heaven Earth I praise and magnify thy ever glorious Name for thy Sons most holy Incarnation Nativity for his poverty innocent conversation for heavenly Doctrine Miracles for his Death and Passion for his Resurrection and Ascension I yield thee all due and possible thanks for that Divine Mystery of his precious Body and Blood in the venerable Sacrament of the Eucharist wherewith we are nourished cleansed sanctified and our Souls made partakers of all Heavenly Graces and Spiritual Benedictions I give thee most humble hearty thanks that of a handful of dust and nothing thou hast vouchsafed first to wash me with the Laver of Baptism in remission of that Original corruption contracted in my first Parents that after in due and convenient time thou hast brought me to the exercises and acts of a right Faith not ceasing daily to increase the same in me by the Doctrin and Instruction of the Holy-Ghost I most humbly thank thee also that from my cradle thou hast nourished cloathed me supplying all things necessary for the relief and maintenance of this my feeble body I evermore extol and magnify thy holy Name that in thy great mercy thou hast hitherto spared me wantonly rioting in manifold excesses patiently expected me till by thy Grace I might be awaked from the sleep of sin and reclaimed from my vanities and wicked Courses For hadst thou dealt with me according to my demerits my Soul long ere this oppress'd with innumerable sins had been plunged in Perdition yea the yawning gulph of hell had swallowed me quick In respect of all which thy mercies and blessings I most humbly desire that my heart may be evermore enlarged to render thee a more ample tribute of Praise and Thanksgiving then heretofore it hath done O my Lord most indulgent Father never leave me to my self but let the bridle of thy holy fear be ever in my jaws to curb keep me within the compass of my obedience that I may dread nothing so much in this world as in the least sort to offend thee To which end let thy holy love so temper all trials and temptations which befall me that I may profit my self by them for thou knowest how frail I am of my self and how my strength is nothing Moreover most merciful Father even by the profound humility of thy Son Jesus Christ I beseech thee that thou wouldst preserve me thy Servant from all Pride of mind all self-love and vain-glory all obstinacy and disobedience all craft and dissimulation Cast down I beseech thee the Spirit of gluttony and uncleaness the Spirit of Sloth heaviness the Spirit of malice envy the spirit of hatred and disdain that I may never despise any of thy Creatures nor prefer my self before others but ever seem little in my own eys to think the best of others and judge the worst of my self Invest me most holy Father with the weding-garment of thy beloved Son the supernatural virtue of heavenly Charity that I may love thee my Lord GOd with al my heart with all my soul with all my strength that neither life nor death prosperity nor adversity nor any thing else may ever separate us from thy love Grant that all inordinate affections to the transitory things of this world may daily decay in me that thou alone mayest be acceptable to my soul O my most gracious God give thy servant an humble contrite and obedient heart and understanding always imployed in honest pious cogitations A will tractable and ever prone to do good affections always calm and moderate a watchful custody of my Senses that by those Windows no sin may enter into my soul a perfect government of my tongue that no corrupt or unseemly language may proceed from my lips that I may never slander or speak ill of any whomsoever that I may not busie my self in the faults and imperfections of others but wholy attend to the amendment of my own And finally most loving Lord so long as I am detained in this Prison of my body let this be my comfort that being free from all secular cares I may wholly devote my self to thy Service and only give entertainment to thy Heavenly Doctrin and to the good Motions and Inspirations of thy Holy Spirit In these sweet exercises let me pass the solitary hours of my tedious confinement with Patience expecting the shutting up of my days and a happy end of this my miserable life And grant O Redeemer of mankind my Lord and God that when this my Earthly Tabernacle shall be dissolved through contrition and the virtue of the Sacraments of the Holy Church I may be reckoned in the number of those blessed souls who through the Merits and Passion of thy dear Son are held worthy to reign with thee and to enjoy the glorious presence of the blessed Trinity Father Son and Holy-Ghost to whom by all Creatures in Heaven and Earth be rendred Praise and thanksgiving world without end Amen O Lord my God O Lord my God Possess my Soul Possess my Soul Possess my Soul A Table of SINS To help the Ignorant and ill of Memory wherein when they would be confessed they may presently find out with little labour the sundry and manifold ways of offending God Of the Ten Commandments The First Commandment NOT loved God above all things Born over much love to Creatures Doubted or staggered in matters of Faith Ignorant of the Ten Commandments Of the Commandments of the Church Of the Articles of Faith Murmured against God in adversity Lack of Confidence in God Presumption of his Goodness Desperation of his Mercy Believed Dreams or tellers of Fortunes Gone to witches or cunning men for counsel Read or keep Heretical Books Favoured Hereticks Conversed with them without necessity Hindred any ones Conversion from Heresie or Schism Not recommended my self daily to God and his Saints Not conformed my Will in all things to the Divine Will The Second Commandment TAken the Name of God in vain Blasphemed God Forsworn my self Sworn by the Body or Members of Christ Cursed my self Cursed the Creatures Given my self or others to the Devil Broken my Vows Angred others so far as to make them Swear or Blaspheme God The Third Commandment NOt
kept Holy the Sabbath day and other days commanded Bought or sold things not of necessity for that day Done or commanded some servile work Nor heard Mass Talked gazed or laughed in the Church Not cared to hear Catholick Sermons Spent the day in dancing drinking dicing or carding Omitted to say my Mattins Even-song or other Devotions The Fourth Commandment NOt Honoured my Parents or Superiours Despised them Spoke evil of them Disobeyed them Not succoured them Made them heavy Cursed them Murmured against them Not prayed for them Not used due reverence to aged Persons Mocked or jested at them The Fifth Commandment DEsired the death of some one or of my self Born hatred Oppressed my Debtors Desired Revenge Not forgiven Refused to speak Given discourteous Language Threatned or strucken others not in your Charge The Sixth Commandment COmmitted Adultery Procured pollution Unclean thoughts word or deeds Jealous without cause Unchast looks Lascivious dressing Over-curious beholding Lewd company Dishonest Books Unchaste Songs Love Letters Shewed my Skin or some naked part of my body to entice others Eaten hot Meats or drunken hot Wines to procure Lust The seventh Commandment STealth Cozenage Deceit in Gaming In Reckoning In Buying In Selling. In Wares Prices or Weights Bought of such as could not Sell. Taken of such as could not give Wilfully endamaged another mans Goods Negligently spoiled them Forged false Money Clipped Money Not payed my debts Not fulfilled my Promise The Eighth Commandment BOrn false witness Called one filthy Names Uttered anothers secret Sin Spoke evil of others Dispraised others Believed false Reports Not defended their good Names Sowed Discord Opened others Letters Judged rashly False suspected Too much distrusted Listned to others talk Concealed the truth to the detriment of a another The Ninth Commandment Coveted my Neighbours House The Tenth Commandment COveted his Wife His Man Servant His Maid-Servant Or somewhat that is his Of the Seven deadly Sins The First of PRIDE PRide Vain-glory Ambition Superfluity Presumption Vaunting Hypocrisie Idolatry Dissimulation Obstinacy Curiosity Flouting and Scoffing Contempt of others Of Covetousness COvetusness Niggardliness Greediness Miserableness Unprofitableness Not given Alms. Not lent to some in need Non contented with my own Estate Of Luxury OF the Sins of Luxury see the Sixth Commandment Of Anger ANger Impatience Hastiness Rage or Fury Disdainfulness Waywardness Fretfulness Discontentedness Picking of Quarrels Immoderate Grieving Severe Correcting Of Gluttony GLuttony Drunkeness Delicate Dishes Eating more than one Meal on Fasting days Eaten Flesh on prohibited days Banquited and Feasted above my ability Given to Dogs that which the Poor would have been glad off Of Envy ENvy Grieved at another mans prosperity or gettings Or to hear them well spoken of Rejoyced at their hurt Dispraised their Merchandize Interpreted their Words or sayings in worser sort Of Sloth SLoth Indevotion Drowsiness or sleepiness Idleness or Laziness Overmuch seeking mine own ease Inconstant in good purposes Neglected things given me in charge Ingratitude to God for his benefits Unthankful to my friends and benefactors Chosen rather to want than to work or labor for my living Not prayed for the faithful Souls departed PRAYERS O God whose Property is always to have Mercy and to spare receive our Petition that the tender Mercy of thy Pity may mildly absolve us and all thy servants whom the Chain of sin doth bind HEar we beseech thee O Lord the Prayers of thy Supplicants and pardon the sins of them that confess to thee that thou being to us Benign mayest in like manner give us Pardon and Peace SHew with Clemency O Lord thy unspeakable mercy unto us that thou dost acquit us of our sins and deliver us from the Pains which for them we deserve Prayers O God who by sin art offended and by Penance pacified mercifully respect the Prayers of thy supplicants and turn away the scourges of thy anger which for our sins we deserve O Almighty and eternal God have mercy upon thy Servant N. our chief Bishop and direct him according to thy clemency in the way of everlasting Salvation that thou condescending he may desire things agreeable to thy will with all his Power may perfect them O God from whom all Holy Desires righteous Counsels and just Works proceed give unto thy servants that Peach which the World cannot give that our hearts being disposed to keep the Commandments and the fear of our enemies taken away the times through thy Protection may be peaceable ENflame O Lord our reins and heart with the holy fire of thy holy Spirit to the end we may serve thee with a chaste body and clean heart O God the Creator Redeemer of all the Faithful give the Souls of thy Servants Men and Women remission of their sins that through godly Supplications they may obtain the Pardon they have always wished for PRevent we beseech thee O Lord our actions by thy grace assisting and in helping forward prosecute them that all our Prayers and works may begin always from thee and begun may by thee be ended O Almighty and Eternal God who hast Power over the living as also over the dead and hast mercy on all those whom thou foreknowest shall be thine by Faith Works we humbly beseech thee that for whom we have determined to pour forth our Prayers and whom this present world as yet in Flesh retains or the world to come hath taken unto it now being delivered from the body all thy Saints making for them Intercession through the Clemency of thy pity they may obtain Pardon of all their sins through our Lord Jesus Christ thy Son who liveth and reigneth God with thee in the Unity of the Holy-Ghost world without end Amen V. O Lord hear my Prayer R. And let my cry come unto thee V. Almighty and most merciful Lord graciously hear us R. Amen V. And let the souls of the faithful through the mercy of God rest in peace R. Amen Grace before Meat GOod Lord bless us and these thy Gifts to us which we receive of thy bounty through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Grace after Meat WE give thee thanks Almighty God for all thy benefits who livest and reignest world without end Amen Blessed be the Name of our Lord from this time forth for ever Amen Vouchsafe we beseech thee O Lord to all our Benefactors for thy names sake life everlasting Amen And may the Souls of the Faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in Peace Amen FINIS