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A10877	A short and sure way to heauen, and present happines Taught in a treatise of our conformity with the will of God. Written by the Reuerend Father Alfonsus Rodriguez of the Society of Iesus, in his worke intituled, The exercise of perfection and Christian vertue. Translated out of Spanish.; Ejercicio de perfección y virtudes cristianas. Part 1. Treatise 8. English	Rodríguez, Alfonso, 1526-1616.; I. C., fl. 1630.	1630 (1630)	STC 21144; ESTC S102292	144,041	352

other Saints and it would be a good and laudable deuotion vpon their particular feasts to spend some part of our prayer in this exercise seing it is the most especiall seruice and honour which we can exhibit to them as declaring the greatest loue that we can beare them which is to wish them all the good which they can possibly haue and reioyce and congratulat their great excellent glory Which exercise the holy Church proposeth to our deuotions on the feast of the euer glorious Virgin Hodie Maria virgo caelos ascendit gaudete quia cum Christo regnat in aeternū to day the virgin Mary ascendeth vp to heauen reioyce therfore because shee raigneth eternally with God And the office of the holy Masse both in this solemnity and diuers others doth inuite vs to this holy exercise and incite vs by the example of Angells in this office imployed Gaudeamus omnes in Domino diem festum celebrantes sub honore beatae Mariae Virginis de cuius Assumptioue gaudent Augeli collaudāt filium Dei let vs euery on reioyce in our Lord in celebrating this feast day in honour of the B. Virgin Mary for whose Assumption the Angells reioyce and praise the sonne of God There is moreouer an other great good and profit resulting from this deuotion vnto the Saints and particularly vnto the sacred humanity of Christ our Lord which is that from hence we come by little and little to raise our selues vnto a higher light of the diuinity Ioan. 10.7 Ioā 14.6 seing as Christ our Sauiour saieth this is the way gate which leadeth vs vnto the eternall Father This exercise of considering God so far-forth as he is God hath likewise its degrees and we may render it more familiar vnto vs by descending vnto the consideration of worldly things for although it is most certaine that God in himselfe can receaue no increase seing he is euery waies infinit and therfore there is no good falling within the compasse of our wish which he hath not already neuertheles he may accidentally in his creatures become greater and increase when he is better knowne more loued serued by them and therfore there is place for vs to employ our selues in this act of loue in wishing to God the addition of this exteriour good And so the deuout soule by considering in prayer how most worthy God Almighty is to be loued honoured and serued of his creatures is to wish and earnestly desire that all the soules which are or euer shall be may know him loue him praise him and glorify him in euery thing and out of the depth of its deare affection say ô Lord who shall conuert all the Infidells and sinners of the world so as there may not be left any to offend you more but that all may be obedient to you and employ themselues wholly vnto your seruice both now and for euer more Marc. 6.9 Psal 65.4 Sanctificetur nomen tuum Omnis terra adoret te psallat tibi psalmum dicat nomini tuo And here we may insist and imagine with our selues a thousand waies wherby creatures may come to serue Almighty God and wish them all particularly put in practise From hence is each on to descend vnto a desire of performing the will of God procuring his greater glory in euery thing which belongeth to them to do euer endeauouring to do whatsoeuer we may know to be the will of God redounding to his greater glory Conformable to that which our Sauiour saieth of himselfe in the Euangell Ioan. ● 29 quia ego quae placita sunt ei facio semper I do alwaies that which is pleasing to my Father For as S. Iohn the Euangelist saieth Ioan. 2.4 qui dicit se nosse Deum mandata cius non custodit mendax esi in hoc veritas non est he who affirmeth that he knoweth God and doth not keepe his cōmaundements is a lyer and there is no truth in him Qui autem seruat verbum eius verè in hoc charitas Dei perfecta est but he who obserueth his word hath the charity of God perfectly indeed within him So that to loue God and to haue an entire conformity with his will it is not sufficient that a man conceaueth a great ioy and delectation for the felicity which God enioyeth or desireth that all creatures may loue and glorify him but it is requisit that he resigne himselfe wholly to the accomplishmēt of the will of God for how can one say with any colour of truth that he desireth the greater glory of God when euen in those things which lie in him to do he procureth it not And this is that loue which a soule actuateth when in prayer it conceiueth good purposes and true desires of performing the will of God in this or that or any particular thing which may present its selfe with which exercise we commonly entertaine our selues in praver Thus haue we laid open a large field to exercise our selues for long time together in prayer and declared the great profit and rare perfection which is comprehended in this exercise wherfore there only remaineth that we set our hand to worke and begin be times on earth to take essay of that which we are euer after to practise in so excellent a manner in heauen Isai 31.9 Cuius ignis est in Sion caminus eius in Hierusalem here we are to enkindle in our selues that fier of loue but the flame therof must shine and spread it selfe and its height and sublime perfection appeare in the celestiall Hierusalem which is our lasting glory THE TABLE OF THE CHAPTERS THE I. CHAPTER IN which there are laid two principall foundations pag. 1. Chap. 2. Wherein the second foundation is more amply declared pag. 11. Chap. 3. Of the great good and prosit which is included in this Conformity with the will of God pag. 20. Chap. 4. That this perfect conformity with the will of God is a blessednes and a kind of heauen in earth pag. 29. Chap. 5. That contentment is only in God and whosoeuer seeketh it in any thing els shall neuer find it pag. 38. Chap. 6. Wherin is in an other manner declared how the only way to arriue to true contentment is to conforme our selues with the will of God pag. 49. Chap. 7. Of diuers other felicities and profits which are to be found in this conformity with the will of God pag. 60. Chap. 8. Wherin is confirmed by some examples how gratefull vnto God this exercise is of the conformity of our wills with his and of the great perfection which is conteined in it p. 68. Chap. 9. Of some other considerations which may render this exercise of conformity with the will of God both easy and pleasant to vs. pag. 74. Chap. 10. Of Gods fatherly and particular prouidence of vs and of the filiall confidence which we ought to haue in him pag. 82. Chap. 11. Of