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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06155	The godly garden of Gethsemani furnished with holsome fruites of meditation and prayer, vpon the blessed passion of Christ our Redeemer.	Loarte, Gaspar.	1580 (1580)	STC 16645.5; ESTC S120872	49,927	279

sayde Remember thou my pouertie my wormwood and gall And in an other place our Lorde him selfe doth likewise lament vs that we haue likewise forgottē him and that which he hath done and suffered for vs. That we maye therefore the better exercise our selfe in this kind of meditation it behoueth often to reade the historie of the passion as the foure Euangelistes do set foorth the same and is to be founde in certayne godly bookes or els to be learned at sermons or by other spiritual talke so that thou must trauell to haue the same well fixed and rooted in thy memorie imagining and thinking alwayes vpon it chewing it in thy minde vntill thou finde thy selfe so ready and prompt in it that if thou were apposed in any part of the historie of the passiō thou mightest be able to answer to it declare it perfectly And to this it shal helpe thée often to exercise thy selfe in meditation of Christes passion Also to this maner it doth apperteine to cal to thy remembraunce according to that which thou hast read or learned by bookes or preaching that whatsoeuer thou seest in thy contemplation thy sauiour to haue suffred they were before figured and foreshowen by many holy Prophetes And so thou shalt knowe and well perceiue that the truth of that thou goest about to meditate doth answere to the olde figures and auncient prophecies the which shall minister gret cause of consolation and more confirme thée in faith and also chase and driue away all other fancies whiche distract the minde and make the same more attentiue and ben● to the matter in meditation And so this shall be as a beginning to passe further to the other considerations ¶ A declaration of the seconde manner of meditation which is by way of compassion The seconde maner of meditation vpon the blessed passion which is by way of compassion is more acceptable to our Lord and that is to endeuour to trauell in sorrow and griefe with him And it is also no lesse profitable for vs for that as Saint Paule sayth if we will suffer with Christ we shal also reigne together with Christ In this kinde the matter of meditation is so plentiful and copious that it shuld be long to write or meditate the same at large and therfore it shall suffice to consider therein two poyntes to the which the other may be reduced that are vsed for that purpose to be considered of The first is to consider the person that suffereth The seconde to conside● the thing which he suffereth th● which two poyntes well considered of may suffice to moue any hard hart to compassion Fo● what hart will not mollifie o● melt to consider first the qualities which do concurre in the person that would suffer béeing very God man And touching his diuine nature no man is able to declare or comprehende neither his generation nor his dignitie nor his maiestie nor his highnesse nor his eternitie nor yet the fulnes of his perfections And touching his humanitie he is most noble of blood royal the sonne of the most cleare Virgin mother formed by the operation of the holy Ghost the most beautifull body that euer was séene amongst men the most gracious swete humble meeke ●ouing with all other excellencies more then can be thought And touching the soule in him is the fulnesse of grace of charitie of holynes of all other noble vertues and heauenly giftes in more high degrée then euer was communicate to any creature And this such and so mightie a Lord did suffer béeing most innocent without any faulte or sinne more grieuous payns and terrible tormentes then mans tongue or Angels can expresse Nowe let this be the seconde poynt that is to say the things which he hath suffred and therof thou hast to remember in thy meditation howe he suffered in his body from the crowne of his head to the sole of his foote from top to toe yea and in al his sences and féelings and so running in through discourse of them thou shalt finde that there remayned in him no one part nor sence or féeling in the which he did not suffer so many sortes of tormentes as can not be thought yea and that in fleshe moste tender delicate and quicke to féele for the perfection of his complexion Consider here withall that he dyed in the flowre of his age when to liue was most swéete and death the cause of more sorrowe Remember also the blasphemies they gaue him the iniuries the reproches the scornings mockings they deuised against him sometimes clothing him in one fashion of garment somtimes in an other with so many kinds of mockinges and finallye in spoyling and stripping him bare and crucifying him naked before suche a multitude of people that it can not be declared and it passeth mans wit to expresse howe great the spite and shame was they wrought against him O infinite heape of sorrowes and reproches so great that there can not be found the wit or vnderstanding to thinke nor yet tong finde words to expresse and vtter them yea or howe much soeuer they were able to thinke or vtter yet should it be the least part of all that he suffered O my Redéemer how well worthy maye those wordes be spoken of thée by the Prophet Ieremie O all ye that passe by the way consider and sée if there were euer any sorow like vnto mine And so truly it is O our Lorde that like as there was neuer loue to be compared to thine so also verily there was neuer sorrowe like nor equall vnto thine neither in quantitie nor in qualitie nor yet in all other circumstances that can be imagined How then good brother can thy hart holde out and not with pitie relent and melt and with compassion be moued when thou shalt consider these and many other things whiche thou mayest call to thy remembrance and which do aggrauate and make more lamentable the bitternesse the sorrowes the tormentes and great iniuries done to thy Sauiour And this is that he suffered in his body and to our sight outwardly which in déede was the least part because muche more grieuous and percing were the inwarde sorowes paynes and afflictions of his moste blessed soule As that his sorrowe vnto death did witnesse which he said he felte and also that agonie which he suffered in his prayer hauing diuers and infinite obiectes of paynes before his glorious sight whiche so troubled and tormented him that it caused him to sweate that bloody sweate trickling downe from his face and body to the ground The causes of that so greate heauinesse and affliction of his blessed soule may in our meditation be gathered to be these First the cōsideration he had of the sinnes of all people from the beginning of the world in time past time present and time to come the number the malice and wickednes the abhomination he both saw and euidently knewe and playnly vnderstood how great iniurie and dishonor they committed