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A06151	The exercise of a christian life. Written in Italian by the Reuerend Father Gaspar Loarte D. of Diuinitie, of the Societie of Iesus. And newly translated into Englishe. by I.S.; Essercito della vita Christiana. English	Loarte, Gaspar de, 1498-1578.; Brinkley, Stephen.	1579 (1579)	STC 16641.5; ESTC S107018	152,306	462

I may feele iust remorse and sorowe for euery sinne and imperfection what soeuer And that I may the better performe this graunt me grace my sweete Sauiour Iesus Christe that I may perseuer in discussing my conscience euery night more diligently thē other according to the good instructions it hath plesed thee by thy seruauntes to impart vnto me and that eche morning I may so happily beginne the day by offering thee the firste fruites of al mine actions as that the rest thereof may euermore be passed to thy glory As for my Penance that is enioyned me and not performed alreadie fauourably I beseeche thee to assist me both in the perfect remembring therof and in the diligent executing in good time And graunt that by thus endeuouring my self daily thorough thy grace to amende my life I may both liue and dye a true Penitent and obteine through the merits of thy blessed passion a ful forgeuenes of my sinnes in this world and in th' other the life eternal wherto thou hast created me To thee mine onely Sauiour Iesus Christ with the Father and the Holy Ghoste one God be al honour praise and glory euerlastinglye Amen A VERY fitt praier to be saide before Masse wherein we exercise very fruitfully our faith and prepare our selues to heare it with dutiful attention O MOST puissant and louing Lorde who haste of thine infinite mercy vouchsafed that thine only sonne our Sauiour Iesus Christe should before his doleful death ordeine his bodye and bloudd to be consecrated in thy Churche by vertue of thy worde in a most miraculous and dreadful misterie graunt me grace I beseech thee O Lorde that as of thy singuler loue towardes vs thou hast ordeined this diuine Sacrament to make vs alwaies mindful of the merits purchased vnto vs by the death of thy deere sonne our Sauiour so I maie with due reuerence and diligent remembrance of those his most bitter tormentes assist here whiles thy seruaunt celebrateth this misterie and offer vp my praiers in most obedient wise vnto thee The souerain desire thou haddest of our wel-fare O Lorde was that which moued thee to leaue vs this moste diuine sacrifice of the Masse that like as thy triumphant Churche hath her sacrifice aboue so thy militant Churche might haue her sacrifice belowe For like as in heauen thy sonne dailie offereth him-selfe vnto thee for bethouse appering before thy face in a visible and glorious maner so hast thou vouch safed that in earth he should dailie be offered to thee by the function of priestes for our sinnes in a maner inuisible and proportionable to our frailtie Yet is it al one onelie and the selfe same Iesus Christe thy sonne and al our profite and auaile is whollie deriued from the Tree of the holie Roode This misterie most mightie Lorde is farre surpassing al humane capacitie and yet right easie for those to beleeue that haue in time sucked the sweete sapp of thy most sauorie and wholesome doctrine For mine owne part Lorde I beleeue through thy gratious goodnes simply whatsoeuer thy holie Catholike Apostolike and Roman Church teacheth me either touching this or anie other of thy most diuine misteries and doctrines and confesse vndoubtedly that as thou hast said that body and bloud is conteined in this most sacred Sacrament and the same bodye to be like-wise on the right hand of thy Father in heauen so beleue I them both most assuredly and th' one as firmelye as th' other seing one is as-wel the wil and worke of the Word God and man as is the other and to be in earth in heauen and in many places at once is in thy power to doo it most easily as thou doest and is in my power through thy grace to beleeue it most constantlye as I doo Herein I vtterly renounce my sence and al mans vnderstāding and cleue only to thy diuine and inexplicable Omnipotencie who as thou madest al things of nothing so canst thou alter and dispose of al thinges at thy wil and pleasure Nowe therefore I beseeche thee most omnipotent and mightie God to driue awai al distractions and wicked thoughts out of my minde that I may attend the celebration of this heauenly misterie with feare and reuerent humilitie Sanctifie also I beseech thee his spirite who is here to present him-selfe before thee to celebrate this diuine Sacrifice to th' ende that he may woorthely doo it to thine honour and glorye his owne auaile and the benefite of al others Geue me grace that by the reuerent ceremonies which are here to be vsed I mai be put in mind of thy most painful torments which they doo represent and that I mai adore thee in thy imperial Sacrament with souerain dread and lowlines This by thy grace I purpose this by thy grace I hope to performe Accept therfore O Lorde to thine honour our welfare and the vnitie of thy Churche the bodie and bloud of our Sauiour thy sonne Iesus Christe offered thee in this Sacrifice Incline thine eares O Lorde to the praiers of thine afflicted flocke and mercifullie restore thy true religion where it is lacking Open the eies of the blind and make them know their errors Relieue the distressed the captiues and the sicke in the vertue of this sacrament Geue grace to the liuing and perpetual place of rest and quietnes to those which are departed in thy faith for the merits of our onely Sauiour thy sonne Iesus Christe to whom with thee and the holy Ghost one God be al renowme praise and soueraintie for euermore Amen ANOTHER short praier to be saide likewise before Masse O MY soueraine Lorde and Sauioure Iesus Christe O Lampe of light and truth I most miserable wretche humbly beseeche thee to stanche my wandring mind in such sort as I maie with due 〈◊〉 and attention assist and waite here in thy imperial presence whiles thou procurest this so important an affair with thy eternal father for my wel fare and of al man-kind Illuminate my soule and stirre vp my lumpish heart O sonne of true Sapience and Iustice with the bright nes of thy countenance that I maie here with a grateful and deuout memorie cal to mind that sacrifice of obedience patience and mosle inflamed charitie which thou being wrapt in extreme woes and ignominious reproches diddest offer vppon the roode with thy life and euerie dropp of thy most sacred bloud to thi celestial Father for our sins Amē AN EXCELLENT praier and adoration to be made in the presence of the blessed Sacrament I MOST wicked wretche and vnwoorthie Christian bow down before my Lorde who hath made and redeemed me who fostreth and susteineth me and euermore remaineth life and veritie O Iesus Christe very God and mē I adore thee here present and cal vppon thee not doubting any whitt at al of the verie real presence of thy flesh and bloud viuificant nor of the presence of thy pretious bodie and most sacred soule Ah Lorde that I coulde in

victory and conquest wherof dependeth the victory and conquest of the rest Whervpon those holy auncient fathers that liued earst in the wildernes end euoured them-selues al they might to dompt and suppresse this vice woting wel that but if this wer firste fullye vanquished the other could very hardly be subdued Yea experience teacheth this for truth howe the deuil most commonly beginneth to geue his first on-set with this temptation Witnesses hereof are our first Parents Adam and Eue yea the very first teptation he propouded to our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christe was of this sort Wherfore to defende thee from this so venemous a vice being one that doth hatch and breed so many other apply these remedies and aduises folowing THEFIRST is that in thy eating thou seeke to obserue fiue thinges that preserue thee from fiue sundrye sortes of gluttony wherof S Gregorie doth in one of his bookes make mention The first is concerning the time when a man eateth before his ordinary houre which thou must beware of forbearing and forcing thy selfe not to take aboue two repasts a day to wit thy dinner and supper and that at such conuenient and accustomed houres as they keepe that gouerne them-selues most orderlye more thē at which times thou oughtest not to eate without some notable necessitie If therefore thou finde thy selfe at any time tempted to infringe this rule and without sufficient cause to anticipate thine houre thou must fight and make a forcible resistance as did that monke which is written of in the liues of holye fathers who on a time being tempted to eate in the morning before his accustomed houre beguiled him-selfe in this maner saying Tarye a while vntil the thirde houre which is at nine a clocke in the morning and then wil we eate And when this houre was come go too let vs worke a while vntil the sixt houre to witt noone afterwardes nowe let vs saye a fewe prayers or psalmes nowe let vs lay our bisquit to steepe and thus passed on the time til his ordinarye howre was come which was at the ninth hour to wit three a clocke at after-noone by this means was he perfectly deliuered from this vice THE SECOND kind of gluttonie 〈◊〉 in the qualitie I meane in eating of too daintie and pleasaunt meates wherof thou must take great heede contenting thy selfe with such meates as may suffice to susteine and 〈◊〉 fleshe and not to delite and 〈◊〉 it according to that S. Bernard doth exhort thee and but if they seeme course and vnsauourye apply that saulce which he 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 hunger 〈◊〉 that shal cause them to seem sauourie ynough Remember thee also of that singuler abstinence of the auncient fathers of Egipt who deemed it superfluous to eate any sodden meates as S. Ierome telleth vs Let therefore this their rigoure shame and confounde thy riot and make thee refraine eating of delicate and sweete meates for feare thou be like to those amongst the people of Israel that desired flesh in the desert and thereby prouoked the wrath and indignation of God against them THE THIRD kinde of gluttonye concerneth the quantitie that is of eating more then sufficeth to sustein nature wherof foloweth as S. Ierome saith that looke by how much the more the bellye is filled and by so much the more is the soule made feeble Thou must therefore shun such excesse sith meate is according to S. Austins counsail to be taken in maner of a medicine whereof we vse not to receaue anye great quantitie Take heede then of ouercharging thy heart with too much meate and drinke as our Sauior doth admonish vs that by this meanes thou maiest escape his future indignation and a million of mischiefes that proceede out of this vice THE FOVRTH kinde of gluttonye respecteth the maner When a man eateth his meat too greedily and with too great a feruour which appereth wel by his hastie and disorderly feeding and when he is too muche bent and affectionate vpon his meate Thisvice doth the wise man in these wordes reprehend saying Long not after euery kind of meate nor eate not greedilye vpon euery dishe Whose counsaile see thou endeuour thy self to folow minding not so seriouslye thy corporal foode and nutriture whiles thou eatest but either listen to the lesson if there be any read or lift vp thy mind to God with some good thought or enterlace som praier or psalm amōgst that by thus doing both thy soule body may be fostred sed together THE FIFT and last kinde of gluttonie is an excessiue eare and thoght to seek out 〈◊〉 of cates new-fangled tasts which thou oughtest as a very blame-worthy thing greatlye to eschewe and beware of for feare of being like to those the Apostle speaketh of that make their belies their God seeking with as great care to serue and satisfie it as were requisite for discharge of their dueties to God-ward For remedie both of these and al other kindes of gluttony these considerations folowing shal greatly helpe which thou maiest take for a seconde remedie FIRST consider howe much the ouercharging and heuines that remaineth in thy stomack after hauing surfeted doth more hurt trouble thee thē the diuersitie of delicate sweete meates can delite do thee good the tast plesure wherof lasteth no longer thē whiles the meat is passing frō the mouth vnto the throte neither af ter it is once thus gone is ther any me morial or signe of this delite remai maiest thou much better vnderstand if thou examine what now resteth of al that euer thou hast swalowed and swilled al thy whole life time What hast thou nowe left of al the repasts of al the sweet tastes of al the daintie morcels that thou euer deuouredst What hast thou now extant forth comming of al this Thou seest how al is quite vanished away as though there had neuer been any such Make accompt therfore when thou feelest thy selfe tempted with this vice that the pleasure is already gone which so speedily doth passe away And care not for condescending to thy fleshe in that it thus disordinately may couet and desire SECONDLY consider the inconueniences that rise of this sinne First the cost and trouble thou must be at to satiate this thy gluttony Secondlye the number of bodily infirmities that growe by meanes of surfeting Thirdly it dulleth and doth obfuscate the mind and maketh a man afterwardes vnfit for spiritual exercise Fourthly cal to minde that euerlasting hunger and thirst that shal-be in the next world wher no one drop of water shal-be graunted as we gather plainly by that example of the riche glutton Remember also what a filthie substance thy tenderly pampered fleshe once being dead shal-be resolued too THE THIRD Remedie is to thinke of Christe and his Disciples abstinence being forced

for so is moste expedient forsomuch as the thinges that are here intreated of sith they be the rules and remembrances which thou oughtest in spiritual life to leuel and guide thy worke by it behoueth at al times to reade them when thou purposest to practise thē For besides that the bare reading shal-be a laudable and meritorious exercise for thee and serue as a part of prayer the reiterating and frequētation of reading shal helpe thee to learne by heart what in action thou art bound to execute and so maiest thou afterwardes exercise thee in ech point with much more facilitie and lesse adoo a great deale And therfore albeit this litle labour maye profite eche one that with good and godlye intent wil vouchsafe to reade it yet was it principally intended for the simple and more ignorant sort and for that cause haue I thought good to annexe here in the end such thinges as many of them wot not and yet are bound to knowe Seing that if euerye Artisan thinke it meete to knowe such thinges as belonge vnto his Art howe much more is a true Christian bound to knowe what appertaineth to his profession an Arte aboue al Artes and to be prepared as the Apostle S. Peter saith to yeeld accompt of that he beleeueth and hopeth and what it behooueth him to doo to liue according to Gods wil and pleasure and to obteine euerlasting life withal Wherefore for such as be in this behalfe blame-woorthye negligent I haue here set downe such thinges as without daunger of their owne wel-doing they neither ought nor can be ignorant of that by reading these notes and short remembrances they may both vnderstande what they want and learne it here commodiously without further seeking of other bookes And as for the textes I haue here set them foorth both in the latine and vulgar tonge for euery one to learne them as best shal like thē not respecting so much the wordes as the substance and sapp conteined in the same SIMBOLVM APOSTOLORVM which in vulgare tonge is called the Creede 1. CREDO in Deū Patrem Omnipotentem Creatorem coeli terrae 2. Et in Iesum Christum filium eius vnicum Dominum nostrum 3. Qui conceptus est de Spiritu Sancto natus ex Maria virgine 4. Passus sub Pontio Pilato crucifixus mortuus sepultus 5. Descendit ad inferos tertia die resurrexit à mortuis 6. Ascendit ad coelos sedit ad dextram Dei Patris Omnipotentis 7. Inde venturus est iudicare viuos mortuos 8. Credo in Spiritum Sanctum 9. Sanctam Ecclesiam Catholicam Sanctorum Communionem 10. Remissionem peccatorum 11. Carnis Resurrectionem 12. Vitam aeternam Amen 1. I beleeue in God the Father Almightie Maker of heauen and earth 2. And in Iesus Christ his onely sonne our Lord. 3. Which was conceaued by the holy Ghost born of the virgin Marye 4. Suffred vnder Pontius Pilate was crucified deade and buried 5. Descended into hel the third day he rose againe from the deade 6. Ascended into heauen sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almightie 7. From thence he shal come to iudge both the quicke and the deade 8. I beleeue in the holy Ghoste 9. The holy Catholike Churche the Communion of Saintes 10. The forgeuenes of sinnes 11. The Resurrection of the bodye 12. And the life euerlasting Amen A BRIEFE declaration of the. 12. Articles conteined in the Crede ¶ Cap. 30. FOR thy better remembring of these xij Articles conteined in the Creede aforesaid wherin the whole summe of our holy Catholike fayth is comprehended I haue thought good in this second impression to adioyne a briefe declaration as-wel thereof as also of such other thinges as be needful for thee to haue by hart Wherby thou maiest easily learn not onely to rehearse the bare wordes but to sucke out the sense and sapp also of that which thou beleeuest con fessest and witnessest or at least wise oughtest to doo in al thy life and actions It is therfore for declaration of this Creede or Simbole to be noted howe God being one in substance three in person al the three persons of the most sacred and souerain Trinitie are in this Creede especified and vnto eche one of them their peculier and proper Articles assigned THE FIRST Article sheweth vnto vs the first person of the Trinitie to wit the Father vnto whom is attributed the creation of heauen earth and of al things visible and inuisible al the which as he for vs hath by his Omnipotencie created of nothing so doth he forovs through his wisdome and goodnes still mainteine and gouerne them whereby we are done to wit what great loue we are bounde to beare towarde this our so good a father who hath for vs created and kept so manye thinges What trust we may also repose in him and howe greatly we ought to dreade the offending of so omnipotent a Father THE SECOND Article declareth vnto vs the second person of the sacred Trinitie which is the Sonne who touching his diuinitie is from al eternitie ingendred of his Father of the self-same substaunce with his father and coequal to him This one only and eternal sonne of God as he tooke humane nature and fleshe vppon him is called Iesus Christe that is to saye Sauiour annointed IESVS which signifieth Saurour for that he came to saue and redeeme his people from their sinnes and CHRISTE which is as much to say as annointed for that he was annointed by the holye Ghoste ful of grace and truth He is also called MESSIAS whom God had erst promised to sende into the worlde a KING BISSHOP and LORDE for that he bought vs with his most precious bloud and thereby is geuen vs to vnderstande howe much we are bound to honour loue and reuerence him THE THIRD Article teacheth vs the incarnation and temporal natiuitre of this our Lord for that being as God eternally engendred of his father without mother he for our loue descended frō heauen and tooke humane fleshe vpon him and was as man conceaued without father or operation of man in that most sacred vessel the virginal wombe of the euermore virgin Mary and was afterwardes borne in Bethlcem of this his blessed mother she remayning euermore a virgin By this incarnation of the 〈◊〉 of God we are al of vs regenerated of carnal that we were made spiritual and the children of God in Iesus Christe THE FOVRTH Article doth informe vs of the Passion death and burial of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christe who hauing preched and done many miracles for the space of three yeres the Iewes of meere spite and malice accused him to Pontius Pilate their Iudge who albeit he wist wel his innocencie and cleernes frō any crime yet did he adiudge him to suffer death vpon the Roode and so was he by that means crucified dead and buried whose holy wounds passion Crosse