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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56724	The third part of the soul's delight collected and composed out of the works of the glorious virgin, St. Teresa of Iesus (author of the reformation of the Holy Order of the B.V. Mary of the Mount Carmell,) by the R.F. Paul of St. Vbald, religious of the same order, for the comfort of those that are more spirituall, and haue supernaurall prayer.; Jesus Maria Joseph Teresia. The soul's delight.	Teresa, of Avila, Saint, 1515-1582.; Paul, of St. Ubald, Brother.	1654 (1654)	Wing P876B; ESTC R218976	49,433	122

18. make that admirable vowe to doe in all things what she conceiued or should be informed were most to God's honour and glory or of most perfection which is a wonderfull thing and a rare act to tye her selfe so strictly vnder the penalty of a mortall sin doing the contrary But this is the efficacy and effect of diuine loue and this she did exactly performe during her life and her desyre of god's glory and honour was so great that she prayed earnestly that his diuine Maiesty would depriue her of the fauours which he bestowed vppon her and giue them to others that might doe more good with them for the conuersion of soul's and the good of his Church only that he might be the more honored glorified and praised 9. One of these soules though but simple and ignorant will doe more good in the Church of God then many eloquent preachers with all their art and learning Consider S. Francis who had no learning and our Holy Mother a simple woman yet it is admirable to see what great good they haue done in the Church of God and how many thousand soules by their meanes were and are daily saued and so of others who did the like the spirit of God doth efficaciously concurre with them and their words doe powerfully moue such as they conuerse with to a vertuous life and the loue of God of these things you may read more at large in her life and workes for I doe speake but briefly of them heere to giue some small notice of what his diuine Maiesty is graciously pleased to worke in the soules which dispose themselues and endeauour in what they can to loue and serue him that others may be encourraged to vse this Holy exercise of prayer in which God doth communicat his fauours and gifts to deuout soules and giue them a taste of those ioyes which are in heauen I beseech his diuine maiesty to graunt this gift of prayer to many for his glory and the good of his Holy Church Amen THE V. CHAPTER Of seuerall other eleuations of the spirit and how they differ from vnion 1. OVr Holy Mother doth declare that they that come to perfect vnion commonly haue visions and reuelations extasis flights and rapts and that though the extasis flights and rapts seeme to be one and the same thing yet in truth they are not as they who haue experience of them by their effects can easily obserue in themselues I shall touch briefly some of them heere and so with God's help end this worke leauing the reader to peruse them more fully in her workes whence I haue collected these and where they are farre more plainly exprest then I doe heere 2. The difference betwixt vnion and these others and of these betwixt themselues is knowen by their effects and first the effects of vnion are inward only the soul alone enioying that happinesse of which I spoake in the former chapter for the body is senslesse and destitute of any operation or comfort I speake of the totall or perfect vnion but in the extasis or ra●●● the effects are inward and outward for the body is not destitute of its operations also one may resist the vnion though with great paine but not the others for often on a sudden the soul is surprised and carryed away she then not thinking of God and vnlesse the rapt be very great or in the height for then she knowes nothing as in the vnion the senses are not lost and one may perceiue that the head is drawen after she spirit and somtymes by the force of the spirit the whole body is eleuated vpp into the ayer and the party then seing the body so farre aboue ground doth begin to feare and wonder at it yet in this both body and soul haue great comfort and ioy 3. Heere the soul doth obserue the great power of God to whom there can be no resistance but when he is pleased he will eleuat both soul and body without our consent and against our will for at these tymes as we are nothing so we can doe nothing with our selues but he as Lord of all disposeth of his owne as he thinks fit so that the soul is carryed in these rapts she knoweth not whither how or by whom but away she must goe and for her greater comfort his diuine Maiesty is often pleasd to shew vnto her the kingdome of heauen and what glory he hath prepared there for his true seruants for euer at other tymes the Angells then some saints also his magnificent power and he doth make 2. Gor. 12. v. 4 her vnderstand high misteryes and great secrets of which as S. Paul saith it is not lawfull to speake also she doth see the Queene of Angells the Mother of God in great glory and the sacred humanity of our Sauiour in vnspeakable Maiesty and glory and when he is so pleased she doth enioy the sight and company of the most Holy Trinity and at other tymes she is endued with the spirit of Prophecy and knowledg of things to come and the vnderstanding of the Holy Scripture our Holy Mother In her life chap. 37. Mans 7. chap. 1. doth relate as by obedience she was commanded how the holy Trinity did appeere vnto her in the very center of her soul and that she could not but see euery person and the admirable glory and Maiesty that was present she did speake to euery person in particular and they to her in which her ioy and content was so great that it cannot be imagined and it is no wonder if the senses should not returne to their owne functions from so great happinesse that they doe there enioy neither would they willingly vnlesse it were as seruants doe to obey and fullfill the will and command of their Lord for his Maiesty will often haue it so either for her spirituall profit the good of others or his owne honour and glory 4. She also doth relate how she was in a rapt eleuated and taken to behold the kingdome and Glorious inhabitants of heauen her owne parents and some frends and was brought to the blessed throne of God to behold how the eternall Se her life chap. 38. word the second person of the holy Trinity the sonne of God is resident in the bosome of his Father and she saith that the soul in these occasions can doe nothing of it selfe nor behold litle or much but only what our Lord will haue her to see or know and as there be seuerall degrees of eleuations of the spirit or rapts in euery one of them the light is greater the knowledg more and purer the alienation from all things created more perfect the vertues more solid humility chiefly more profound and the loue of God increasing as they ascend one degree after an other is so ordent and vehement that the soul doth loath to liue on earth and her absence or separation from God is so heauy a loade that she doth