the Cross and with his sacred blood satisfy his Eternall Father for her demerits 4. That for her love he would remain in the holy Sacrament to feed her with his own blessed body and Cleanse her with his owne sacred blood A Prayer before receiving the B. Sacrament O Sweet JESUS J most ardently desire to receive you Sacramentally and spiritually although J know my self to be most unworthy you should enter into the house of my soule be favorable unto me wretched sinner and take from me whatsoever is displeasing unto you prepare in me and in all hearts a habitation agreable unto your divine Majesty Would to God O my sweet Saviour JESU would to God J were wholy enflamed with an ardent desire and love of you Behold J here renounce and give up to you all things O sweet JESU O JESU my love for ever A Prayer after receiving the B. Sacrament O Most sweet Lord JESUS CHRIST J humbly beseech thy unspeakable mercy that this holy Sacrament of thy pretious body and blood which J unworthy have received may be to me and to all sinners a full purgation of all our offences a strength against frailties a fortress to defend us against all perills both of soul and body an entire pardon and establishment in all grace an amendment of life a continuall memoriall of thy sacred Passion a nourishment against all spirituall weakness and a staff of our Pilgrimage let it my sweet Saviour JESUS guide us going reduce us straying receive us returning again hold us up stumbling lift us up falling and persevering bring us to glory O highest God let the reception of this most worthy Sacrament so alter the tast of our hearts that at no time we feel any sweetness love or desire and consolation admit any delight esteem any honour feare any adversity or even-live but for thee and to accomplish thy blessed will which may ever be perfected in us Amen Another Prayer O Most glorious and ever blessed Virgin Mary O holy Father S. Francis O holy Mother S. Clare S. Michaël Angels Archangells Vertues Powers Principalities Dominations Thrones Cherubins Seraphins and all celestiall Spirits J beseech you to prostrate before the face of my God and beseech him in favour of his most deare son my Saviour and Redeemer CHRIST JESUS that it will please him to pardon the unworthines and indevotion wherewith J have received the most blessed and dreadfall Sacrament and do not permit the same to cause that the spirit thereof be not communicated unto me also that by the vertue and efficacy of this holy Communion J may feel the effect of his divinë mercy that I may receive this day a full remission of all my sins true light and knowledge of his grace which is in me that be reduce and put me in such an estate as shall be most pleasing unto his divine Majesty augment in me faith hope charity obedience chastity and patience with all other vertues and gifts of the holy Ghost necessary to procure the glory of his divine Majesty and the salvation of my soule to the honour and praise of his holy name Amen What we ought to do the day we communicate 1. BE very careful to govern our sences especially our tongue and if it happen we fall by frailty we ought presently to crave pardon and beseech our sweet Saviour not therfore to absent himself from us 2. To render to this blessed guest all the best services we are able he being infinitely worthy to be served loved and adored of all creatures Wishing above all things his holy honour and pleasure 3. Seek still to entertain this blessed spouse with holy thoughts and desires beseeching him to give you and all others whatsoever he knoweth to be needfull for his love and service beleeving that he is inestimably rich and a most liberal giver 4. Do nothing that day without considering first whether the thing you do will be pleasing and agreable unto him and demand his permission and leave 5. Make fervent aspirations cast forth arrowes of divine love towards that most amiable and sweet Lord with a vehement desire of loving him infinitely and be wholy transformed into him by conformity of will Deo gratias A Prayer before Confession O Soverain Creatour of heaven and earth and of all things which in them are J worm and miserable wretch have offended your divine Majesty I wonder at my folly detest my ingratitude and lament my offences craving through the merits of the bitter Passion and death of your onely begotten son and the infinite love with which he did both offer and suffer them for my sake and for the whole world grant unto me and all sinners true knowledge and perfect contrition of our sins and offences with entire remission of them all loose us from the chaines of our imperfections and heale the wounds of our soules grant us ever to be purged and refreshed in the fountain of his holy wounds Amen A Prayer after Confession O Good IESU let this my Confession be gratefull and acceptable unto you by the merits of your admirable life and painfull death with all the labours anguishes and sorrowes which you suffered for mankind together with those of your B. Mother and all your holy Saints supplying whatsoever is wanting in me either now or any other time through want of true contrition entire confession or full satisfaction beseeching they may also be unto me light direction and strength in all my wayes unto the perfect possession of you my sweet IESU in eternall glory Amen Directions how to say the Divine Office with due devotion and attention WHat care we ought to have in saying the divine Office according to the examples of the holy men is witten in the 27. Chapter of Paralipomenon Despise not your self our Lord hath chosen you to stand before him and adore him Wherfore since God hath chosen man to so high a preferment it is very requisit we should know how and in what manner humble service doth consist The holy man Gerson affirmeth that in saying your Mattins and other houres carefully and studiously leasurely and distinctly consisteth the greatest exercise of a Religious man and is so fit for him as nothing more S. Benedict doth call this the worke of our Lord especially because it it is the chiefest office that any man can perform gratefull to the divine Majesty S. Jerome doth affirm that to offer up Hymns Psalmes and spirituall prayers and to shed teares for our own offences and those of our neighbour is to reconcile the people to God and to pacify our Lord with his flock all which things are to be accomplished in the divine office Wherfore we ought very diligently to apply our whole study and inward powers to the due execution thereof least perhaps that dreadfull sentence pronounced by the Prophet Jeremy c. 48. v. 10. fall upon us maledictus qui facit opus Domini fraudulenter Artursd be be who do's our lords worke negligently
and passing through the golden gate 14. In the workhouse the three falls the meeting of our sweet saviour with his holy Mother Simon Cyrenean Veronica 15. Going forth from the Workhouse the carrying the Cross up Mount Calvary 16. Between the two peales to None his sitting naked upon the stone 17. At None the nailing to the Cross 18. Going down to Grace how the Cross was reared up and set in the place where it was to stand 19. At twelve a clock behold our saviour hanging on high upon the Cross saying these first words Father forgive them for they know not what they do 20. From evensong exercise your self in the 7. words the piercing of our Saviours side his taking down from the Cross and lyng in the lap of his Mother his buriall and descending into Limbo How to apply the seaven Words 1. FAther forgive them for they know not what they do Here pray for all those that are in mortall sin for all Heathens and Hereticks and beseech Almighty God to illuminate their hearts and pardon their offences 2. This day thou shalt be with me in Paradise Pray for the happy departure of all faithfull Christians and releasement of the soules in Purgatorie 3. Son behold thy Mother and again Woman behold thy son Recommend to our B. Lady your self your Parents kinred and Benefactours and the state of the whole church beseeching our sweet Saviour to give her unto us for Patroness Mother and Advocate and grant us grace to serve honour and obey her 4. I thirst Pray that wee and all creatures may continually thirst after justice and the perfect love of God 5. My God my God why hast thou forsaken me Here pray for the comfort and assistance of all in temptation or affliction either spirituall or corporall 6. It is consummated Beseech Almighty God that his holy will may be accomplished in you and all creatures to the perfect praise of his most holy name 7. Father into thy hands I commend my spirit Pray rhat as he recommended his to his heavenly Father our soules may be protected by him in this life by the fruition of his holy grace and in the next received to that beatitude which by his death and Passion he ha's purchased for us The 7. Ave's which are to be read for the 7. sorrowes of or B. Lady you may take according to your devotion or these following 1. THe departure of our sweet Saviour when he went to make his last supper 2. When S. John brought her word of our Saviours being apprehended and his cruell usage 3. When shee mett him bearing his Cross 4. When shee beheld him crucified upon the Cross 5. The cruell piercing of his sacred side 6. When shee had him dead in her lap 7. When shee parted from the body of her deare son at his buriall Considerations on the 3. Pater nosters and Aves which are said at the shewing of the B. Sacrament in honour of the Prayer in the Garden offering your intention to gain the Pardon 1. SAy the first Pater and Ave in honour of the unspeakable love with which our sweet Saviour made oblation of his dolorous agony craving by the merits of the same that our sins may be forgiven us and that we be reconciled to his heavenly Father and obtain strength and comfort in our temptations and afflictions 2. The 2. Pater and Ave in honour of the entire resignation with which our B. Saviour offered his Prayer crave therby grace to conform our selves unto the divine will and attain perfect union with Almighty God 3. The 3. Pater and Ave say in honour of our sweet Saviours perseverance in his most painfull prayer beseeching him that by the merits of the same wee may not leave of the good once begun for the repugnance wee feel or want of consolation therein but with love and confidence persever to the end After your Examin at night you may salute our B. Lady with these 3 Ave's 1. BY the first beseech her that she will obtain for you pardon of all your sins and especially those you have committed that day 2. That shee will please to present all your works unto her blessed son rendring them agreable by her merits in whatsoever is wanting on their part 3. Recommend your self unto her and beseech her that shee will preserve you from all sin deceits and illusious of the divell and particularly from all evills How to say your Pater noster's and Ave's in thanksgiving unto Almighty God for his benefits either for night or any other time 1. THe first Pater and Ave address to the right hand of our sweet Redeemer offering to his Eternall Father the precious blood which issued out of his most sacred wound in thanksgiving for the benefit of your Creation and the Creation of all others as also of all things created for mans use 2. The 2. address unto the sacred wound of his left hand in thanks giving for the benefit of consetving you from evils and the like for others 3. The 3. address unto the wound of his right foot in thanksgiving for the benefit of your Redemption and the like for others 4. The 4. address unto the sacred wound of his left foot in thanksgiving for the benefit of your vocation and all others on whom he hath bestowed the like 5. The 5. address unto the sacred wound of his blessed heart for all generall and particular benefits either spirituall or corporall which with so great love he hath bestowed on you and all creatures An Exercise for Mass FIrst know that Mass is a sacrifice wherein is offered the very same body and blood of our Saviour that was before offered upon the Cross and was infinitely able to redeem infinit worlds and sith the world is sufficiently redeemed with one redemption he gives unto every one such and so great grace as he hath prepared himself to receive therfore like as a man that fetcheth water forth of the sea cannot want for any scarcity that is there yet he may want by reason of the littleness of his vessell even so no man need want grace coming unto this holy sacrifice if the vessell of his heart be of sufficient bigness Wherfore prepare your self worthily and beg such grace devotion reverence and attention as the worthines of the sacrifice following requires The Exercise THe Priest signifieth God the Altar the church and as the Altar is of many stones so is the church of God of many people Wherfore you must not heare Mass for your self alone but for the whole church for since he is a common Lord he is not delighted with particular service A Prayer before Mass O Good JESUS vouchsafe me the vertue of your holy grace and grant J beseech you that J may purely assist at this divine sacrifice of the holy Mass to the eternall praise of your holy name in memory of all that you have been pleased to suffer for my sake and for all mankind When
hither for me and hast given thy self to me for my ' daily bread yea to every desirable use J would willingly receive thee even in the Sacrament but alas J dare not nor can J approach because J am afraid to offend thee by reason of my indisposition offensive to thy eye and yet J know that J cannot live without thee the true food Wherfore J most humbly beseech thee that altho J do not receive thee Sacramentally yet that thou wouldst refresh me and come down to me spiritually and impart unto me that grace which those that receive thee devoutly must feel O Good JESU despise me not and pass not by me thy unworthy servant but vouchsafe to come to me and to remain with me and work thy effects in me Amen An Exercise to be said by word or heart when you Communicate spiritually or corporally 1. WHen the Priest saith Domine non sum dignus say interiourly at the 1. time O my God J am not worthy for the multitude of my sins that the earth should beare me 2. At the 2. O my God J merit not to lift up my eyes to behold the heavens 3. At the 3. O my God J am she who for my iniquities merit no other then hell but notwithstanding O infinit goodnes leave not to visit me A devout Prayer to be said in time of Communion O Bone JESU dilecte mi charissime mi amor meus dulcedo cordis mei vita animae meae O aeternum bonum meum melliflue JESU miserere mei uni me tibi intimè ad gloriam nominis tui Amen O good JESU my beloved my dearest my love the sweetness of my heart the life of my soule O my Eternall good mellifluous JESU have pitty on me unite me to thy self most intimately to the glory of thy name Amen Another O Light increated illuminate my darkness illuminate my understanding with pure knowledge replenish my memory with holy remembrance and chast thoughts set my will on fire with a holy and enflamed love quicken my soule and make that J may tast the vertue of your holy presence and by the same ever remain in me and let me remain in you Amen A Thanksgiving after you Communicated spiritually or Corporally GRatias tibi ago Domine JESU CHRISTE qui me tantis Sacramentis spiritualibus refecisti indulge Domine obsecro reverentiam mane mecum per gratiam fac me hodie semper tuis obedire mandatis ut effectus virtutes hujus Sacramenti sentiam Amen J give thee thanks O Lord JESU CHRIST who hast refresht me with such great spirituall Sacraments grant me J beseech you reverence stay with me by your grace and make me this day alwayes obedient to your commands that J may feel the effects and vertues of this Sacrament Amen When the Priest sayes Agnus Dei. COnsider how your sweet saviour is rhe lamb of God who hath offered himself for all the sins of the world and is now at the right hand of his Father to be the Advocate and Judge of sinners Pray him humbly to pardon you your offences and make you worthy spiritually to receive him which indeavour to do with the Priest in the devoutest manner you can and with the greatest affection you are able When the Priest saith the last Collect or Prayer GIve thanks unto the holy Trinity for having granted you so great a benefit as to be present and prataker of so worthy a Mystery At the last Dominus Vobiscum IMagin as if you heard the sound of the Angels trumpet wherwith our Lord at the end of the world will call to Judgment and beseech him to give you grace to be ready and prepared against that day When the Priest saith Ite Missa est COnsider that at the last day of Judgment the wicked shall be condemned to everlasting pain and torment and perpetually deprived of the presence of Almighty God At the last Benediction COnsider the Benediction which Almighty God will give to all the Elect and will lead them unto everlasting rest wherfore beseech him so to bless you and all creatures both in this life and in the next as you and all other may perpetually bless his holy Name Amen At the End of Mass say the Prayer following SWeet JESUS I offer unto thee the sacrifice of this holy Mass and of all the Masses which shall be said throughout the whole world by means whereof I beseech you to give me knowledge of my sins and miseries as also to restore the ruins and defects of my poor soule and to supply my wants and unworthiness mortify in me whatsoever is displeasing unto your divine Majesty and make me one according to your own heart conform my spirit soul and body to that of your sacred humanity and alwayes illuminate and direct me by the sight of your incomprehensible Divinitie Amen Having said this Prayer under the Ghospell Examin how you have behaved your self in this holy Mystery and if you find your self to have failed humbly crave pardon of Almighty God purposing by his holy grace to amend be more diligent the next day DEO GRATIAS Certain intentions or Meditations which we ought to have when we Communicate out of S. Bonav 1. FIrst to unite our selves more more to Almighty God 2. To gain therby some vertue or grace 3. To acknowledge his benefits which we cannot do in any thing which is more pleasing and agreable to him then by worthily frequenting this holy Sacrament 4. The desire of the praise of Almighty God and his goodness the same being a Sacrifice of praise 5. To receive the spirit of Christ Jesus to live in humility charity Obedience Poverty of spirit mortification of body and contempt of the world that thy Redeemer may live in thee who is thy finall end 6. To renew the memory of the Passion of Christ Jesus Considerations before Communion taken out of the same Saint 1. WE are to meditate vhat we are about to do which is to receive Christ Jesus true God and true man who died upon the Cross for us 2. That we are to receive the Holy of Holies for which cause it behoveth that we approach thereunto without sin purging our selves by true Contrition 3. Consider the divine Excellency and our own misery how great this Lord is and how meane the servant Ponder that his goodness is much more then our offences or vertues 4. Stirr up in your self a most fervent desire to harbour in your heart such a loving Lord The holy Doctour saith it is a very strange thing that man receiving into his soule Almighty God in the most B. Sacrament his heart does not even faint yea even burst through vehemency of love Fooure considerations of S. Mathildis before Communion 1. THe great love of God who had remembrance of her from all Eternity 2. That he created her Knowing how ungratefull shee would be unto his divine Majesty 3. That he would dy for her upon
THE FOLLOWING COLLECTIONS OR PIOUS LITTLE TREATISES TOGETHER WITH THE RVLE OF S. CLARE AND DECLARATIONS VPON IT Are printed for the use of the ENGLISH POOR CLARES IN AYRE An Index whereof begin's in the sequent page This shall be unto you a direct Way Is 35. v. 8. You shall not decline neyther to the right hand nor to the left Deut. 5. v. 32 ⧠†⧠Printed at Doüay by MICHAELL MAIRESSE PERMISSV SVPERIORVM 1684. A TABLE OF THE CONTENTS IN THE ENSUING BOOK I. A Pious Collection of severall profitable directions and devotions fitted for the ENGLISH POOR CLARES in order to the better observance of their holy Institute very usefull and necessary for all Religious Persons both men and woemen A Morning exercise for every day in the week p. 1 From the rising untill the work house p. 5 In dressing your self severall praiers p. 5 A morning purpose p. 9 From the workhouse till dinner p. 13 From dinner till the examin at night p. 15 Before sleeping prayers p. 19 A direction how to say the way to Ierusalem p. 19 How to apply the seaven words Christ spoake upon the Cross p. 21 The 7. Ave's which are to be read for the 7. sorrows of our B. Lady how they are to be said p. 22 Considerations on the 3. Pater's and Ave's which are said at the shewing of the B. Sacrament p. 23 After your examin at night how to salute our Lady with 3. Ave's p. 24 How to say your Pater's and Ave's in thanks giving to Allmighty God for his benefits for night or any other time p. 24 An exercise for Mass p. 25 Certain Intentions or Meditations which we ought to have when we communicate out of S. Bonaventure p. 37 Considerations before Communion taken out of the same Saint p. 37 Four considerations of S. Mathildis before Communion p. 38 A Praier before and another after receaving the B. Sacrament p. 39 What we ought to do the day we communicate p. 41 A Prayer before and after confession p. 42 Directions how to say the divine Office with due devotion and attention p. 43 Certain holy Meditations of the 7. effusions of blood distributed for the canonicall hours p. 47 A direction for mentall Praier p. 51 An Instruction for mentall Praier p. 54 Colloquies or speeches part in meditation and part in Praier praising Allmighty God's excellency goodness holyness worthyness c. p. 67 Causes of distractions p. 68 The means to resist distractions of heart and tediousness of spirit p. 69 The chiefest effects of praier p. 70 Things to be considered in meditating the Passion of our Saviour p. 72 Severall Affections to be drawn from the consideration of the same Passion p. 72 Considerations of the knowledge of ones self p. 73 Considerations of sin p. 73 How to consider death p. 73 Of the pains of the damned p. 74 How to contemplate Heaven p. 74 How to consider vertue p. 75 How to consider the feasts of Saints p. 75 How to meditate on the perfections of Allmighty God p. 76 Considerations of all Gods creatures in generall p. 76 Considerations of Gods creatures in particular p. 77 The benefits in brief of Allmighty God p. 77 What you ought to do in the time to come with God's benefits in particular p. 77 The benefit of our Redemption p. 78 The benefit of our Vocation p. 78 The benefit of our Iustification p. 79 The benefit of donation p. 80 The benefit of Preservation p. 81 The benefit of glorification p. 81 The eight Beatitudes p. 82 A Religious person ought often to consider the benefit of his vocation by these circumstances Vnde es Quo Quomodo Quando Quo fine vocatus p. 84 The Priviledges and benefits of a Religious Person p. 86 Iesus Maria. Certain aspirations for every day in the week p. 86 Aspirations for every day in the week upon the Passion of our B. Saviour p. 92 An Oblation unto our B. Lady to say on any of her feasts 70 Ave Maria's and then during every day 5. Ave's and the praiers there following p. 99 A Prayer to Iesus Christ p. 99 When you pass by the B. Sacrament a prayer p. 100 When you take holy water p. 101 How to honour the B. Virgins Name p. 101 Litanies of our holy Father S. Francis p. 104 Litanies of our B. Mother S. Clare p. 106 Litanies for the conversion of England p. 108 A dayly exercise of prayers with weekly meditations upon the Passion p. 113 Meditations upon the Passion for every day in the week p. 117 A method for meditation p. 123 A prayer before meditation p. 124 A prayer after meditation p. 125 A Table of daily Patrons Meditations Vertues Vices and Intentions p. 126 II. A Short treatise concerning the perfection of à Religious life written by S. BONAVENTURE to his devout Sisters The Preface p. 3 CHAP. 1. By what means a man may attain to the true knowledge of himself p. 8 CHAP. 2. Of humility and the stepps or degrees by which it is attain'd p. 14 CHAP. 3. Of Religious poverty p. 22 CHAP. 4. Of silence and how necessary it is to all Religious p. 30 CHAP. 5. Of the study of Prayer p. 35 CHAP. 6. A remembrance of Christ's Passion p. 44 CHAP. 7. Of the perfect love of God p. 54 CHAP. 8. Of finall perseverance p. 57 III. The Rule of the holy Virgin S. CLARE faithfully translated into English The Apostolicall Confirmation of the Rule p. 3 CHAP. 1. Of the rule and forme of life of the order of the poor sisters given by S. Francis CHAP. 2. Of those who desire to enter into this Religion and how they shall be received p. 6 CHAP. 3. Of the divine office of Fasting of Confessing and Communicating p. 10 CHAP. 4. Of the election of the Abbess p. 11 CHAP 5. Of silence and of the manner of speaking at the speak-house and Grate p. 14 CHAP. 6. How the sisters may not receive any possessions by themselves or by any person interposed p. 16 CHAP. 7. The manner that the sisters shall observe in their manuall works p. 18 CHAP. 8. How the sisters shall not appropriate any thing to themselves and of the sick sisters p. 19 CHAP. 9. Of penance to be enjoined the sisters that offend and of the manner of conversing without the Monastery p. 21 CHAP. 10. Of the Admonishment and visitation of the sisters p. 23 CHAP. 11. Of the duty of the Portress p. 24 CHAP. 12. Of the visitour and Chaplin p. 26 The rest of the Bull for the Confirmation of the Rule p. 27 The Testament of our holy Mother S. Clare p. 28 Our holy Mother S. Clar's Benediction unto her sisters present and to come p. 36 The Bull of Pope Innocent the fourth that the Religious may not be constrain'd to receive Rents or Possessions p. 38 IV. The Declarations and Ordinances made upon the Rule of our holy Mother S. Clare A letter of the Approbation and Confirmation of the
3. How JESUS thus adorned is led forth by Pilate shown to the Jewes with Behold à Man O sad Spectacle Yet still they cry Crucify Him Oh! the heavy weight of my sins Affect Oh my JESU that I could obey Thee even to loss of life Resolve To practise Obedience shun Sloath c. FRYDAY Carrying the Cross CONS 1. How JESUS thus derided whipped crowned goes forth carrying the Cross whereon he is to be sacrifized for thy Sins 2. What shouts of joy the Jewes make after Him through the streets of Jerusalem thus is Innocency despised 3. How the devout woemen meet bewaile Him thy hard heart sheds not one Teare amidst these his sorows or for thy own sins Affect Oh my JESU that I could abandon all sensuall satisfactions for the Love of Thee Resolve To practise Temperance shun Gluttony c. SATURDAY Crucifying of Iesus CONS 1. How JESUS with much pain shame arrived to Mount Calvary is again uncloath'd thus all his soares are renewed My Sins not blotted out by Repentance shall one day be disclosed to the whole World 2. How they streatch thy JESUS upon the Cross fastning him with nayles therunto then raise him up where he hangs between two theeves Oh what ignominy 3. How He there hangs for the space of three houres reviled by Jews Gentiles forsaken by his Disciples drenched with gall vineger peirced to the heart with a speare yet He prays for his Enemies Enter make thy aboade in that love-wounded-Heart Affect Oh my JESU that I could imitate Thee in the purity of thy Life Doctrine Resolve To practise Modesty shun All contrary Therunto c. A Method for Meditation 1. PReparation hath 3. parts Presence of God Choyce of matter and Invocation 2. Meditation it self hath 3. parts Consideration Affection and resolution 3. Conclusion hath 3. parts Thanks-Giving Oblation and Prayer A Prayer before Meditation O my God my Sovereign my Creatour and my All I here most humbly prostrate my self with the profoundest adoration J am possibly capable of before your devine Majesty earnestly imploring à continuance of your blessings vpon me your poor needy Creature and that you would be pleased out of your infinite bounty by meanes of your holy spirite so to illuminate my vnderstanding inflame my will recollect from distractions and strengthen in good resolutions all the powers of my soule as that J may worthily attentively and devoutly performe this sublime exercise of mentall prayer J am now vndertaking to your honour and glory the comfort of my own distressed soule the joy of the Saints in heaven and the edification of men on earth thro' your mercyes the meritts of my Blessed Saviour and the inspirations of your Coelestiall Paraclet Amen A Prayer after Meditation BEhold O my God Behold o my most patient and merciful Lord how J have passed over this time of Meditation and treating with thee with how much negligence sloth coldnes and distraction and with how litle feeling of thy good motions within me but thou O Lord knowest all my infirmities and Miseries and therfore J crave of thee pardon for them J thank thee also most heartily and humbly for all the good thoughts and suggestions which have presented themselves to my mind in time of this my meditation as most holy Embassadours sent from thy heavenly Throne to deale with me for the gaining of thy kingdome whos blessed voices and most profitable speeches J beseech thy divine goodnes to give me grace to imprint in my heart and seeke to put in execution in the cours of my life to come to the end that my judgment and Damnation be not the more grievous in respect of thes thy Benefits but rather that my life being mended therby and my soul stirr'd up to more zeale of thy service J may be finally made partaker with thy true Children of that eternall blïss which thou hast prepared for such os love feare and serve thee and yeeld obedience to those holy inspirations which thou sendest them for their eternal happines Amen A Table of dayly Patrons Meditations Vertues vices and Intentions Day Patron Meditation Vertue Vice Intentions Sund. H. Angels washing feet Charity Envie For the H. church Mund. Apostles Prayer in the Garden Humility Pride For Vnion of Christian Princes Tuesd Martyrs Mocking Self denyall Self love For benefactors Wednesd Bishops Whipping Patience Anger For Religious orders Thursd Doctors Crowning Obedience Sloath. For conversion of Infidells Frid. Confessors Carrying the Cross Temperāce Gluttony For soules departed Saturd Virgins Crucifying Modestie Impurity For distressed persōs