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A19583
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Manuale catholicorum A manuall for true Catholickes.
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Crashaw, William, 1572-1626.
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STC 6018; ESTC S118546
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mundus Est iucundus Suam perdit animam Prore leui Atque breui Vitam perdit optimā Ergo caue Ne tam suaue Iugū spernens domini Et abiecta Legerecta Seruias libidini Si sint plagae Curam age Vt curentur citius Ne secrescant Et putrescant Pergas in deterius Ne desperes Nam cohaeres Christi esse poteris Si carnales Quantum vales Affectus excluseris Si formidas Ne diffidas Sed medelam postula Noxam plange Corpus ange Dilue piacula Siviuorum Et funclorum Christum times Iudicem Debes scire Quod perire Non vult suum supplicem Preces funde pectus tunde Flendo cor humilia Penitenti Et gementi Non negatur venia Exorando Et laudando Iesum Christum memora Nam delere Potest vere Quaecunque facinora Et si quando Te temptando Durus serpens laeserit Suspiranti Et oranti Iesus Christus aderit Quod si forte Mortis portae Te vicinum senseris Crede tamen Quod iuuamen Per eum receperis Hunc require Qui lenire Solet corda tristium Certus esto Quod est presto Votis se precantium Ipse multos iam sepultos Fecit reuiuiscere Hic auersos Et subuersos Potest Deo iungere Ipsum ama Ad hunc clama Mentem tuam eleuae Vt sustentet Et presentet Te ad caeli gaudia Ipsum Cole Vt de mole Criminum te liberet Hunc appella Ne procella Vitiorum superet Ipsum posco Quem cognosco Posse prorsus omnia Vt euellat Et repellat Cuncta quae sunt noxia Ipse donet Vt quod monet Eius verbum faciam Vt finita Carnis vita Laetus hunc aspiciam Pater Deus Fili Deus Deus alma charitas Per eterna Nos guberna Secla Deus Trinitas An Orthodoxall Confession of God the Father FIrst and last one God diuine All mens God as well as mine In thy vertue all things framing In thy knowledge all containing In thine essence chiefest good Working all what e're is good All supporting all excelling Without all yet in all dwelling All supporting vndeiected All excelling vnaffected Without all yet not excluded In all neuer yet included Ouer all in Domination Vnder all in sustentation Comprehending all without thee Filling all things round about thee Nothing vnder thee can raise thee Nought aboue thee can debase thee Nought without giues thee dimension Nought within giues thee extension Mouing all thy selfe abiding Placed without circumscribing Changing time thy selfe most stable Varying all Inuariable Force necessity nor art Alter thee in any part Time past present and to come Are one with thee both all and some All the glory now thou hast Vndiminisht aye must last Onely thou art all foreseeing Onely giuing all their being As thy wisedome did foreshow Thou framd'st the elements below A holy and orthodoxall Confession of God the Son Iesus Christ the Sauiour of Mankind SOnne thy Fathers peere in all with him Consubstantiall His figure and his splendor pure Creator made a creature Thou our humane flesh putst on Thou our cause hast vndergon Temporall yet time defying Euer liuing yet once dying God and man without illusion Both in one without confusion Thy Fathers like in Deity But not in fleshlie verity God humanity assuming The same preseruing not consuming The Godhead in this vnion yet Of his Godhead lost no whit God to God and not to 'th other Was Father but Mary to both was mother Thus both natures kept their station In this wonderous Combination Preseruing in the Essence true What was and thence producing new This our Mediator is Our leader to the land of blisse Circumcis'd babtis'd by Iohn Suffered buried and vpon The third day whence he had descended He rose and so to heauen ascended Whence he shall come when time doth cal Tho Iudg'd himselfe to iudge vs all Of Christ againe HE whom Gods power for mankind would haue borne whom borne his miracles proclaimed haue Who thus proclaim'd vpon a crosse was torne To whom thus torne the godly buriall gaue This borne proclaimed torne Entombed King God power againe to heauenly blisse did bring A true and orthodoxall Confession of the holy Ghost SPirit vncreated euer Neuer made begotten neuer From the persons two proceeding Full their equall not exceeding Not preferring them in Deity Nor seuerall from them in quality In quantity all three combine In quality alike Diuine With the Father and the Sunne Neuer ending nor begun One is Father for he begot The Sonne one borne all men wot From these the spirit proceeds alone Thus one is three and three are one Each of these is God truly Yet still but one and not Gods three But in this Deity I asseuer A Trinity vnited euer In the substance is full vnity In the persons perfect Trinity But in these that I haue reckoned None in power is first or second But allas one we must adore Fixed and firme for euermore Nor in selfe for euer changed Nor from it selfe at all estranged The conclusion with a deuour and holy prayer THis is Christian faith vnfained Orthodoxall true vnstained As I teach all vnderstand Yeelding vnto neither hand And in this my soules defence Reiect me not for mine offence Though deaths slaue yet desperation I fly in death to seeke saluation I haue no meane thy loue to gaine But this faith which I maintaine This thou seest nor will I cease By this to beg for a release Let this sacred salue be bound Vppon my sores to make them sound Though man be carried forth and lying In his graue and putrifying bound and hid from mortall eyes Yet if thou bid he must arise At thy will the graue will open At thy will his bounds are broken And forth he comes without delay If thou but once bid come away In this sea of dread and doubt My poore barke is tost about With stormes and pirates farre and wide Death and woes on euery side Come thou steeresman euer blest Calme these winds that me molest Chase these ruthlesse Pyrates hence And shew me some safe residence My tree is fruitlesse dry and dead All the bowes are withered Downe it must and to the fire If desert haue his due hire But spare it Lord another yeare With manuring it may beare If it then be dead and dry Burne it alas what remedy Mine old foe assaults me sore With fire and water more and more Poore I of all my strength bereft Onely vnto thee am left That my foe may hence be chased And I from ruines clawes released Lord vouchsafe me euery day Strength to fast and faith to pray These two meanes thy selfe hast taught To bring temptations force to nought Lord free my soule from sinnes infection By repentances direction Be thy feare in me abiding My soule to true saluation guiding Grant me faith Lord hope and loue Zeale of heauen and things aboue Tcach me prize the world at nought On thy blisse be all my