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B02468	A new form of meditations for every day in the year. Written originally in French by F. John Crasset. And put into English at the request of several persons of honour and quality, by a well-wisher to devotion.; Nouvelle forme de méditations. English	Crasset, Jean, 1618-1692.	1685 (1685)	Wing C6851A; ESTC R174380	155,968	440

Reason but Reason tells us That we must submit to faith That that man is not rational Who will not submit his reason To the Principle of his reason That man is without understanding Who would by his reason comprehend What is above his understanding Faith is not evident But reason shews evidently That we have the true Faith The Antiquity of our Religion The Establishment of our Religion The unavoidable continuance of our Religion The Miracles of our Religion The Extent of our Religion The Sanctity of our Religion The Majesty of our Religion The Doctors of our Religion The Witnesses and Martyrs of our Religion Do perswade all Understandings That there is no Religion in the World Or that ours is the true one If the Church deceives me 'T is God that deceives me If the Church leads me astray 'T is God that leads me astray I would not believe the Gospel If the Church did not bid me believe it I should not receive the sence of the Scripture Unless the Church did bid me receive it One believes nothing except he believes all For to be a Catholick one must believe Universally humbly firmly efficaciously O Truth my God! You have plac'd your Throne in the Sun Your Church is as bright as the Sun She enlightens all the World like the Sun She gives life to all the World like the Sun O I will live and dy a Child of your Church I am one of your Sheep I cannot live without a Shepherd I renounce all my own lights I submit my self to the lights of Faith My Religion would not be divine Unless it were above reason You would not be my God If you were not incomprehensible My heart could not adore you If my understanding could comprehend you My heart must submit to your Law And my Understanding to your faith Behold he that is incredulous his soul will not be upright in himself but the just man shall live in faith Hab. 2. Faith is the substance of things to be hoped an argument of things that appear not Heb. 11. Reducing every understanding into captivity to the obsequiousness of faith 2 Cor. 10. Unless ye believe ye will not understand Isa 7. according to the Septuagint We have a firmer Prophetical speech to which you do well to attend as it were to a light shining in the dark 1 Pet. 3. LVI MED Of the Conduct of Faith REason is the light of Man Faith is the light of a Christian To be a man one must be rational To be a Christian one must be a believer God is to be honoured by my Understanding As well as by my Heart I honour God with my Heart When I obey his Law I honour him with my Understanding When I submit unto Faith My Heart submits its self entirely When it does that which does not please it My Understanding submits it self perfectly When it believes what it understands not Faith consecrates the spirit of man It makes him Religious It submits him to the authority of God It sacrifices him to his glory It unites him to his wisdom It fills him with his truth It makes him upright like God It makes him certain and infallible like him Faith discovers to us The Mysteries of our Religion It conducts us to our End It conserves us in Unity It maintains us in Humility It sustains our Hopes It encourages our Charity It disposes us to Grace It makes us merit Glory Without Faith the Spirit is profane It is a Libertin and without Religion It wanders in its knowledge It loses it self in its Ratiocinations It rises not off from the Earth It merits nothing for Heaven It submits not it self to its Creatour It obeys not its Soveraign It will never see the first truth O how great a gift of God's is Faith O how blind is that man that hath not Faith O how rational it is to submit our Spirit to God My God! I believe what I understand not I do what pleases me not I adore you by the submission of my thoughts I love you by the submission of my desires For to obey your Law We must renounce our own proper will For to obey your faith We must renounce our own lights That man is not your Subject Who will do nothing but what pleases him That man is not your Disciple Who will not believe but what he understands We walk by faith and not by sight 1 Cor. 5. I will espouse thee to my self by faith and thou shalt know that I am the Lord. Os 2. Abraham believed God and it was reputed to him to justice Rom. 4. He went forth not knowing whither he was to go Heb. 11. VVilt not thou be subject to God O my Soul Ps 61. LVII MED Of Hope and Confidence in God HOpe is a Divine Virtue Which leans upon her beloved She honours his goodness She renders homage to his grandure She acknowledges his Providence Of Men she makes us Gods Of Impotent she makes us Omnipotent Of poor she makes us rich We never ought to hope more Than when all things seem desperate We never ought to fear less Than when all things seem to be feared We never ought more to give our selves up Than when we think all is lost God gives his own subsistence To him that strips himself of his own God gives his Omnipotence To him that acknowledges his own weakness God gives all his Treasures To him who owns his Poverty Abundance seeks out Indigence The weak man leans upon the strong man The strong man takes delight in the weak one God sustains that human nature Which relies only on his Divinity Be you without support And God will support you Have no Human subsistence And you shall have a Divine one Trust not to your own lights And you shall have the Wisdom of God Trust not to your own strength And you shall have the power of God Trust not to your own virtues And you shall have the holiness of God Alas O my God! Who am I And who art thou Thou art my Being And I am a mere Nothing Thou art my strength And I am nothing but weakness Thou art my Holiness And I am nothing but malice O my God and my hope I leave my self to you I repose in you I rely on you If I go astray you shall be the cause of my stray If I fall you shall be the cause of my fall If I ruin my self you shall ruin me For I put all my trust in you You can neither ruin nor lead me astray I therefore will be afraid of nothing Provided that I leave my self to you To know God and not to know ones own misery Is that which begets Presumption To know our own misery without knowing God Is that which begets Despair JESUS is not only a God But he is a God-Mediatour JESUS is no more JESUS If you take his mercy from him He is no more a Saviour If he has no tenderness for a Sinner VVho is she that

A NEW FORM OF Meditations For every Day in the Year Reviewed Corrected and Enlarged Written Originally in FRENCH by F. JOHN CRASSET And put into ENGLISH at the Request of several Persons of Honour and Quality by a Well-wisher to Devotion LONDON Printed for William Grantham in Cock-Pit Alley near Drury-Lane MDCLXXXV The AUTHOR's Necessary Advertisements FOR The better Use of the ensuing MEDITATIONS THere are many People already advanced in Prayer who cannot away with long Meditations Som because they have not time enough to read them Others because they have not a Memory good enough to retain them Besides their Understanding seeing that ready made which it was to have wrought out and finding without difficulty what it was to have searched out by its discourse becoms slack and negligent and does ordinarily wander away in those vast Regions which are discovered to it Whereas having but a little matter to meditate upon it retains it without difficulty it relishes it with Pleasure because every Workman loves his own Handiwork which has cost him so much pains to make A Hunter who has been a long time in quest of his Game finds much joy when he has discovered it The discovery of a Truth makes a greater impression upon the Soul that finds it than a hundred that are proposed to her She acknowledges better the effect of the favour when being in a barren and waterless Desart she sees a Heavenly Manna fall down from Heaven for to feed her and Waters break forth in abundance out of the bosom of Rocks for the quenching of her Thirst The Kingdom of Heaven is like unto a grain of Mustard-seed which is very small but when it is beaten and pounded it warms the Stomach We must not load our Mind with too much Matter no more than our Stomach with too much Meat otherwise it will not be able to disgest it For that reason St. Ignatius that great Man of Prayer in his Book of Exercises gave us very short Meditations And the more one advances the less matter he gives to the end that the Soul may put her Confidence in God and may beg Lights of him apply her own Powers expect his Succour and sensibly acknowledge what she has from her self for her Humiliation thereby and what she receives from God that she may thank him for it There is a great difference between a Lecture and a Meditation He who reads a good Book ought to understand what he reads without pain and without labour Truth ought to present it self to his Understanding without his being obliged to search after it But he who meditates must by his reasoning dig in the Evangelical Field that he may find the Treasure of Grace that lies hid therein 'T is true that all the World are not capable of busying themselves and framing Discourses And indeed that very Reason has obliged som very Learned Men of our Time to Publish long Meditations wherein Truths are propounded in all their force and in all their extent that those who have not such penetrating Wits might help themselves by their Reading and have nothing more to do in their Prayer but to have an affection for what they Read But those who have their Wit quick active curious earnest and solid require much Matter to busie themselves with and are like unto Fire which goes out when it has no more Fewel I confess that it is a hard matter to content all the World yet I dare be so bold as to promise my self that both the one and the other will be fitted with the Meditations which I present them Those who desire but a little Matter will find in one only Line employment enough for a long time Those who desire a great deal by passing from one line to another will rather want time than matter for their entertainment Learned Persons will without difficulty find out that most part of the Propositions of which these Meditations are made up are Sentences of the Holy Fathers translated word for word into our Language I was once in the mind to have quoted them in the Margent But having considered that such like Citations are only for Books of Doctrin and that R.F. Pontus has not made them in his Meditations I thought I might dispense with my self therein But instead of the Passages out of the Holy Fathers I have set down som out of the Scripture for the maintenance of the Truths which are in these Meditations and for to give them as I may say a little seasoning for the words of Men are flat and insipid without the salt of the Word of God nor do they make that impression in Hearts as the Sacred Text is wont to do whose Weight and Authority do persuade mens Minds more efficaciously than all human Ratiocinations Thus those who have a Mind to act by Faith may stop upon the Scripture Passages those who have a mind to discourse may take the matter of the Meditations There are Meditations upon almost all Virtues and upon all Vices as also upon all the Mysteries of our Lord and of our Lady And because the sense of these Truths is to be included in one or two lines it was necessary to make these Meditations in form of Sentences and little Verses for to give them a more pleasing Cadence without mingling any Rhimes which I broke off as much as I could possible I confess you will find som Repetitions therein But is there any Book of Meditations wherein there are none And is it possible to handle so many Matters so like without falling into the same thoughts Moreover I affirm That it is good to meditate the same things three or four times over For a Truth that doth not touch you at one time does often touch you at another as S. Ignatius takes notice And for that reason I voluntarily left some Repetitions therein which I might have changed As for the order of the Meditations it is conformable to that of the three States of a Spiritual Life to wit Of Beginners Proficients and Perfect that every one may without difficulty find Matters conformable to their Disposition 'T is the Method that F. Ponte makes use of which I thought fit to follow But for to content those who desire to have different Matter for all the year long I have made a Table which marks out to them for every Day the subject of their Meditation Now whereas it is not possible to furnish different Matters of this Nature for a whole year and because these Meditations are filled with so great a number of Truths that each one of them is sufficient to take up several days I was forced twice or thrice in the year to give the same subject to meditate on leaving it to every one's Devotion to change his Meditation when that which he meets with pleases him not I have for every day proposed the Subjects the most conformable to the Gospel of the Sunday Wherefore you would do well to Read it