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A42522	A brief explanation of several mysteries of the Holy Mass, and of the actions of the priest celebrating Very necessary for all Roman Catholics for the better understanding thereof. Together with certain reflections upon the Apostles Creed, touching the blessed Sacrament. And also, divers meditations and prayers both before, and after communion. By T. G. heretofore fellow of New-Colledge in Oxon, deceas'd.	Gawen, Thomas, ca. 1610-1684.	1686 (1686)	Wing G395AA; ESTC R220315	43,939	198

Will too as I do still by the Tendencies of my Nature which rests only and un-interruptedly upon Thee as Its Author and support 4. Let me account it a Happiness that I can Perish for Thee and not Be as well as I have receiv'd from Thee to be And that in some forward Disposition to This I may now present my self to Thee at this Sacrifice of Thy Son To be Offer'd up with Him and to die every day Thus before-hand to make my self readier to be Sacrificed to Thee Once really and indeed To yield up this Life for Thee which Thou hast given me in any such Occurrences as it shall please Thee to fit for Me and Me for it 5. Lastly I Worship Thee in the Fore-sight of that Last Sacrifice which at the End of the World Thy Son shall make to Thee of all other Creatures before He Offer up his Elect to Thee as a Sacrifice too but after a far more Admirable manner For He shall first Consume by Fire all visible Things to make men see by the Light thereof That Thou alone art a fit Object for their Love as Thou alone art He that hast a Being firm and Incorruptible The first Memento COnsequently the Priest descends to some Particulars in the Church yet living Commemorating First Those for whom especially he Intends the Offering of this Sacrifice And being thus United to the Living here in Charity in Honour and Reverence growing too from the same Charity he next aspires to joyn with the principal Saints Living in Paradice as the Glorious and Blessed Virgin The Apostles and chief Prelates of the See Apostolick together with other Great Saints in several Conditions Imploring Gods protection to be granted through their Prayers Thereby in this Mystical Bond of Mutual Love testifying the Communion and inseparable Conjunction of the Church-Militant and Triumphant DEVOTION I Offer unto Thee O my Lord Thy whole Church all Thy Chosen and especially Those whom thou in a manner hast given me uniting them to Me by a particular tye that in This little number I may represent to my self Those few which Thy Father hath Chosen out of all the World and Given to Thee from all Eternity that I may Love Them and Serve Them as Thou dost uncessantly Love and Assist all Thine Have in mind O Lord Them and Me by the Intercession of All Thy Saints and particularly of the Blessed Virgin of the Apostles and Bishops of the Apostolick See who are now made by Thee the chief in Heaven as They were First the Chief in Thy Church here on Earth I desire to make one among These in the Offering up my Self together with them This Sacrifice Vpon the Priest's holding over his Hands and saying Hanc Oblationem Hanc igitur Oblationem AFter all the Priest makes the Third General Oblation of the whole matter of the Sacrifice Oblatio Generalis 3 putting his Hands over both the Host and Chalice together By this putting His Hands over them He joyns Himself and the whole Congregation Church to this matter of the Sacrifice protesting then to God That He Offers and Sacrificeth all this to him and substitutes in the place this to be Sacrific'd for Himself and Them since it is not permitted that they should Sacrifice so as to destroy themselves Such a thing just did God Ordain in the Old Testament where he commanded the Jews to lay their Hands upon the Head of the Sacrifice which they Offer'd to Him to shew that they were One with It and that in their stead it was Sacrific'd DEVOTION STretch forth Thy Divine Power Over me as now the Priest Extends his Hands over That Bread and Wine which He is about to Consecrate that I also with those Elements may in some sense be Converted into the Body and Blood of Thy Son and consequently in Him be Offer'd up as an Acceptable Sacrifice and Holocaust which thou canst not Despise The Consecration and Elevation THis Protestation made the Priest proceeds to the Prayer of Consecration including a Commemoration of what Jesus Christ did and said when He Instituted This Holy Mystery and Imitating Him Blesses and Consecrates the Bread and Wine in the same manner and with the same Words as He us'd And immediately after Consecration and profound Adoration of Each to give Example to the People in all Piety He Elevates each aloft both to shew that He Offers them up to God the Father above in Heaven and also to make the People more Visibly behold Jesus Christ and so to bow down and Worship Him DEVOTION BRing now fresh into my Memory and fill my Fancy with all that Thou didst for Vs that Night before Thy Death when Thou Institutedst the Blessed Sacrament of thy Body and Blood as the last and most incomparable Pledge of Thy Love to Vs and a Memorandum indelible of our Obligation to Thee Assist Me with Thy Grace O my Saviour and I will Imitate Thee and give my self to Thee even as thou gavest Thy Self to Me without any reserve Change my Heart as Thou Changest This Bread Create a new Heart in Me by this new Body Transubstantiate in Me that seeming Life and Strength which yet is indeed but a dying feebleness into a True and Divine Spirit as Thou changest the Wine which is but the Blood of the Grape a Terrestrial juice into the Vigour and Blood of God Grant that this present Elevation of Thy Body and Blood in mine Eye may produce another like It in my Heart and Spirit as to Crucifie my Flesh that is my Passions and to deliver me from all Affections to this World so also to enflame me with a desire of that Life above and always to keep my Conversation in Heaven with Saints with Angels and with thine Own Dear Self sweet Jesu I Adore Thee O my Saviour in all Thy Elevations Thy Elevation on the Cross the Day of Thy Passion Thy Elevation in the Air at the great Day of the Last Judgement Thy Elevation to the Right-hand of Thy Father in that never-ending Day of Eternity Immediately upon the Priest's reposing the Body and Blood upon the Altar DEVOTION SAnctify me here now by Thy Presence Renew me again by Thy Nativity Purify me by the Memory of Thy Passion by which Thou hast Obliterated in Thy Self the Memory of those Sins which lay so heavy upon Thee to the very last Gasp of Thy Life here Vnde Memores Domine c. THen immediately to express that by Words which he just now did in Action the Priest makes a Solemn and more distinct Oblation to God the Father Avowing that He Offers this now Holy Pure and Immaculate Sacrifice as for the whole Church so in the Person of Jesus Christ whose room he supply'd in the Mystery of the Consecration And he sayes he does it in the Honourable Memory of the three great Mysteries of the Son of God His Passion Resurrection and Ascension In the word Passion including whatsoever the Son

A Brief EXPLANATION Of several Mysteries of the HOLY MASS And of the Actions of the PRIEST Celebrating Very Necessary for all Roman CATHOLICS For the better Understanding thereof Together with Certain Reflections upon the APOSTLES CREED Touching the Blessed SACRAMENT AND ALSO Divers Meditations and Prayers both before and after Communion By T.G. Heretofore Fellow of New-Colledge in Oxon deceas'd LONDON Printed by Nat. Thompson For the Brother of the said T.G. 1686. THE THOUGHTS Wherewith Generally I use to Hear and to Assist AT MASS ✚ THe true end of the Mass is that which Christ set For his Remembrance And methinks the whole Body of Ceremonies consisting in several Actions Words Postures and Ornaments which make up the External Parts of the Mass do Represent to me as in a kind of Perspective not only the Several Things which Jesus Christ did and Suffer'd whilst he was here upon Earth * Durand's l. 4. c. 1. * 20 Acts 27. but also The whole Councel of God touching mans Salvation by him All what he hath already done or shall yet farther do to that purpose even from the beginning of the World to the very last day of Judgement is here set before me in Short-hand Whereby I am put in mind in the very entrance to my Devotions that That One great propitiatory Sacrifice made Once upon the Altar of the Cross was offer'd up as for all Mankind in general so particularly for every single Person that has been is or shall be from the Worlds beginning to its end according to that Expression in the Revelation 13 Revel 8.1 Pet. 1.19 20. Of the Lambs being slain from the beginning of the World And consequently that this Sacrifice in the Mass is the Commemorative one of that Perpetual Sacrifice which never hath nor ever shall cease to be Offer'd in some kind since the Fall of Adam For the Virtue of that Sacrifice on the Cross is diff●s'd throughout All Times both preceding and following the … on of Jesus Christ And by I● are sav'd all that have or shall be sav'd In which sense it is call'd the General Perpetual Sacrifice of the whole Church ✚ Vpon the Priest 's Recess from the Altar and standing at a distvnce on the lowest degree thereof BEing thus Dispos'd and Figur'd by this Fundamental Notion I no sooner see the Priest in his Sacerdotal Habit or Vestment Ascending up to the Altar first and suddenly Descending again to the very lowest degree But it remembers me instantly of Man's Propinquity to God in Adam whilst he stood Innocent and then of his being thrust out of his Presence again quickly upon Adam's sin of which by being deriv'd from him we are every one Guilty and so not only driven out of Paradice but even debas'd down to the lowest degree that such a Creature could fall DEVOTION O My God! I am sensible of my present Condition that during This Life I am in a Banishment from Paradice caus'd by that sin which I committed in my first Parent Adam and that by That Original and many more Personal Transgressions whereof I stand Guilty before Thee I am fallen into the Lowest State that a poor Creature can likely be brought unto And I feel that by thy Grace which Thou art pleas'd to Afford me even in this miserable Condition of mine I do thereof Repent me and therefore Ought to range my self as I do among the Lowest of any that can pretend to be Thy Servants that is among the Penitents 'T is also by the same Grace that Thou put'st me in the Humble Posture of a Stranger and Wayfaring-man only in This World by causing me to Turn again by Little and Little as the Motions and Conduct of Thy Holy Spirit Guide me toward That Paradice out of which for my sins I was driven O keep me Thus Humbled I beseech Thee and never suffer me to forget either of these Low Conditions which are so proper to the state of a Sinner and so proper to the state of a Convert too Nor let me swell higher by the least proud Conceit That being It that ruin'd me at First Take out of my Spirit all Inclinations to Things of Greatness or Port and give Me a Holy Affection to Meanness as being most suitable to what indeed I am to the Example of my Saviour Jesus Christ as He liv'd here and especially to this present Cendescention of His in the Sacrament Humbling himself to be in such Ordinary and Despicable Elements and this at the Word of a poor frail Man The Confiteor THe Priest standing Thus at a distance yet still between Hope and Despair bethinking himself what to do 1. Bowing 2. Advancing the Cross of Christ 3. Calling on the Trinity In Nomine c. * Vt supra and encouraging himself towards God 4. By a Psalm of David's Judica c. 5. At last in an Humble Posture he acknowledgeth and Confesseth That he is unworthy to approach nearer to Him or so much as to His Altar And that Thus 't is with him most deservedly as for that Original sin wherein he was Conceiv'd and to which he Implicitly Assented so likewise for many other committed by him with a more express Will throughout the whole course of his Life And here I conceive that surely he maketh not this Confession for Himself only but for Every one Present yea for the whole Church for in Her Name he comes now to Offer the Sacrifice And hence it is that the Minister who represents the People makes a Confession with him in the same Words By It is the whole Assembly and every one of us in particular for whom he therefore speaks in the Singular Number Invited to put himself together with him in the Posture and State of a Penitent and to acknowledge before God our own unworthy Condition DEVOTION VOuchsafe me O my God! The Grace of Tenderness of Heart Seriously and deeply to resent my own vile and dangerous Condition so far at least that Presently without any longer delay I may lay open the worst of my Self and Confess to Thee together with the Priest and Own in Thy sight All my Faults by a Repentance so True and Real as may last and make it self ever hereafter appear to be so more and more in All the Actions of my Life to come Imprint in my Soul a Restless desire of Returning to Thee for Good and All Eternally to serve Thee Beginning this Service now in this World as I mean to continue it hereafter in the next without Interruption or Relaxation at least carrying it on so Evenly from this my last Penitence that so I may make Reparation in some sort for my Failings and Recidivations and Breaches of Faith and Promise since my First Conversion which I should have taken care not to have prov'd so false unto nor ever once to have violated Upon the Priest's Re-ascending to the Altar and Kissing It. Deus tu Conversus c. AFter this

Confession and that the Priest and Minister have openly avow'd their Faults and Indignities both severally and joyntly Praying for each other They further Animate and Encourage one another by Reflection on God's Mercy express'd in Words of a Holy Boldness and Confidence as they find them in the Scriptures * Psal 85. of the Messiah Deus tu Conversus c. Ostende nobis Domine c. So proclaiming alternately that though from themselves they can hope for Nothing yet they cannot but grow most Confident in their God considering what he hath given his Word for to perform With such Holy Cheerfulness and yet still check'd by a private Awe occasion'd by his particular sins secretly then also Pray'd against The Priest adventures up again to the Altar and Kisses It. In token say I of a New Reconciliation to Christ Jesus and all His Church-Triumphant for by the Altar is represented Christ Crucify'd and by the Relicks of some Saints enchas'd in It. The whole Body of that Triumphant Society now more nearly joyn'd to their Head and becoming even one with Him DEVOTION I Adore O Lord this Infinite Mercy of Thine which is now brought into my Mind by the Priests going up again unto Thy Altar and Kissing of It in Token that Thou art again Reconcil'd to us So early was Thy Goodness to us that no sooner had We Offended Thee but instantly Thou hadst projected a Way by which we might come to be Pardon'd As appears by thy Calling after and searching out our first Parent in Paradice immediately after he had fled from Thee and lost himself In that so Antient and indeed Eternal project and design it is that Thou hast already in effect Pardon'd us so long before We were Born and extended Thy Grace even to Vs in Jesus Christ before all Ages as one of Thy Apostles hath computed it And now Thy Mercifulness still equally willing to make good that Design and to appear as Great and as Ready to save in Time as it was to Project in Eternity doth here Receive Vs into Favour again as soon as ever We but Acknowledge and Confess our Faults as that Prophet of thine hath Noted and as Thou publickly declarest to Thy whole Church in admitting the Priest thus to Kiss thy Altar which is an Image and stands in stead of thy self suddenly after he hath ended His and Our Confession Thereby to shew that Perform we but our Duty once in a true Confession of our Faults and there 's no doubt to be made but Thou in the same moment art Reconcil'd unto Vs I most Earnestly beseech Thee to give me the Grace to value and entertain this Immense Bounty of Thine with a Respect due to it and to enable me in some degree to imitate it That is that First never never willingly Offending Thee never so next for those Involuntary Lapses and Delinquencies which my surpriz'd infirmity so often stands guilty of and in this frail Life are utterly unavoidable I may so take all diligent Care to discharge my self of Them as soon as ever I perceive them committed as Thy Goodness is ready to Pardon them as soon as ever in a true Penitence and Detestation I acknowledge them before Thee At the Introit THis which is call'd the Introit * Vide Durand l. 4. c. 5. Goar p. 124. of the Mass signifies That great Declaration Evangelical which God made to Mankind presently upon Adam's Fall Of his good Pleasure and Will to deliver them from that Misery wherein they lay and to restore them to Grace and Favour again by giving them a Saviour This seems so to me because every Introit in particular either Prayes or gives Thanks for or Celebrates with some Joy some special Execution of that Will of God suitable to the Feast or Mystery for which the Mass is said DEVOTION I Thank Thee O my God for that ever since that first Inclination and Good Will of Thine To be again Reconcil'd to Mankind Thou hast taken care all along to make it evidently Appear to men by some real effect thereof and by some particular Grace and way of Dispensation suitable to each Age hast gone on advancing and Accomplishing by little and little that thy Great Design of Redeeming and Saving the World even to the very Fulness of Time wherein it was to be Entirely perfected O that the Resolutions which I too have already taken or shall farther yet take to do Thee Service towards this End might have something in them also of the Stability and Immutableness of that Thy unchangeable and everlasting Purpose And that though sometimes I be not able to Execute them fully according to my Intention yet even then they may discover themselves in some partial yet seasonable Effects enough to testifie that I have not forgot them or am Vnfaithful to Thee but only do expect with some Passion the Time wherein I may according to my little Abilities most compleatly acquit my self Kyrie Eleison Kyrie Eleison Kyrie Eleison c. WHat are these but ardent Aspirations and Sighs of the Saints for the fulfilling of that Promise of the Father in the sending his Son address'd to the Son himself whom they Invoke as a Saviour and would incline Him to come quickly They are Thrice repeated in Honour of the Holy Trinity from whom they beg the accomplishment of that Mystery Christe Eleison Is said in the second place to shew 't was the second Person they demanded to be their Saviour And every person is Invok'd thrice to shew the numerous multitude of these Desires which they put up to the Trinity before the attaining them The number of Three signifying Often or many times in Scripture So St. Paul is said to Pray Thrice c. 1. Often to have his Temptation remov'd DEVOTION INcrease in me O Lord my Faith Of the Holy Trinity and of Thy Incarnation by which means thou art become the Saviour of the whole World and kindle in my Heart a lasting longing Desire of Thy second Coming no way Inferior to What the Antient Patriarchs had to See Thy First As the chief Point of Their Piety and Devotion consisted in This Of a Strong Faith and Passionate yet Patient Attendance for the Day of Thy Incarnation and Resurrection So by thy Grace and Favour Let It be the scope of Mine still to be in an Earnest Expectation and Waiting for the Great Day of thy Triumph when Thou shalt appear so Gloriously to All Men and to All Angels And let me Live in This Interim with the Eye of my Intention so uncessantly fix'd Upon Thy Divine Person as thou thy self Livest by having Thine perpetually plac'd on That of Thy Father And may my Heart ever and anon breath out her Wishes in these words Veni veni Domine Noli tardare Even Come Come Lord Jesu and tarry no longer Gloria in Excelsis NOw is Represented the Performance of That Promise of the so much desired and so long expected

Messias coming together with the Joy of Men and Angels immediatly upon It. This being the Hymne Sung at His Nativity Very properly therefore is This Angelical Hymne of Joy omitted upon days of Sadness and Penitence such as are days of Commemorations of the Dead and Ordinary Feria's which in going before Sunday the day of the Resurrection sitly shaddow out to us the Time of this Life to be a Time of Repentance and preparing our selves for that Great Lords-day at the General Resurrection And so this Hymn of Glory is Sung still on every Lords-day and the days of the Blessed Virgin and the other Saints now Regnant in the Glory of Christ their Lord. DEVOTION I Humbly Thank Thee my God! That thou hast been pleas'd to give Me my Being Now after thy Incarnation and Nativity Vnder the New-Law and In Thy Holy Church Thus separating me from so many Infidels so many Hereticks and Schismaticks as be without and if I be not Treacherous to my self from so many False Christians that Live even in the midst of It as if they had as little Faith as those I beseech Thee that As the Reflection upon this Transcendent Good is deservedly the Cause of so Great Joy and Jubilation common to All the Angels in Heaven and on Earth to All Men of good Will so It may ever Affect my Soul more sensible and more piercingly then All the Pleasures or then All the Pains that can befall It in this World Make me count it my chiefest Felicity to be One in the Number ber of those Men of Peace and Good-Will that the Angels Saluted and gave the Joy to at Thy Nativity Give me that Peace which the World cannot give and That Good Will which alone gives me back again to Thee There 's no good Good Will but in a True Love of Thee O give me That Dominus Vobiscum HEre the Priest turning about to the People and Blessing Them seems to Communicate to them the Benedictions of Christ Jesus now born in the Flesh for this very purpose to Bless Mankind And therefore his Blessing in particular is That God may continue amongst Vs Exprest in those very words which unfold That Name which the Scripture gives to Christ in order to his Incarnation that is Emanuel as much as to say A God with Vs But before he pronounceth This Blessing He Kisses the Altar as It were taking It in his Mouth first from Jesus Christ himself in whose stead stands the Altar as from whom being an in-exhaustible Spring open'd by God for our refreshment All manner of Blessings Favours and Graces are deriv'd upon Us. DEVOTION VOuchsaefe me the Grace to lead in this Blessed Time of the New-Law and in the Communion of thy Holy Church where thou art still Present with Vs after a special manner such a Life as may render me capable of all thy Blessings that thou mayst still Turn thy Face towards Me and lift up the Light of Thy Countenance upon Me to succour Me and to impart unto Me every day more and more of that Rich Treasure which thou hast provided for Me. V upon the Priest's turning back again and Praying Oratio HAving breath'd forth this Benediction over the People He turns him to Jesus Christ again 1. to the Altar to present to Him some Prayers as the time requires one or more for Confirmation of That Blessing and humbly to testifie his Dependance on him as not being any thing but his Instrument nor able to confer on others the least good but only by way of Humble Petition to his Divine Majesty DEVOTION ENable me to Pray without Ceasing as thy Scriptures Command me since in this Life thou bestowest Nothing upon Us for our good but by being Petition'd first Let me then still be putting up Requests unto Thee often Re-inforcing the Old and Multiplying as Thy Priest at the Altar does New upon every important occasion At the Reading the Epistle NExt is read The Epistle taken sometimes out of the New Testament Sometimes out of the Old This puts me in mind of that Notice which was all along given To the Jews of the Coming of their Messias first by the Prophets fore-told and then exhibited to them by St. John and the Apostles And for this reason I think 't is read on that Corner of the Altar which is on the Priest's Right-hand because the Jews were a Nation chiefly Belov'd of God and at first his chosen People to whom he entrusted his Oracles DEVOTION I Do not a little Wonder at Thy Constant and Vntyr'd Love to the Jews who were the Only People whom Thy Prophets were sent to Save to whom Thou thy Self cam'st and Preached'st the Gospel And though not the Only yet the First to whom Thy Apostles declar'd Thy Resurrection Thy Resurrection A point of such moment that to Represent It the more Lively The Priest who sustains the Person of Thee Risen throughout the Whole Mass even in the Act of Sacrificing and Oblation Celebrates all Standing O my God Permit not Me to Slight Thy Holy Word or to Undervalue its Preachers who come to Vs in Thy Name and on thy Errand As that Stiff-necked Hard-hearted and Rebellious People have rejected the Addresses of the Prophets and Apostles Thy Servants nay of Thy Son Christ Jesus himself Let not thy Holy Commands be a New Occasion and Aggravation of Sin to Me as to Them It was but Improve them to Me into True Gospel and Words of Salvation by Inspiriting me to do That which Thy Law injoyneth and not suffering my Sinful Inclinations to Quench this Spirit and Evacuate Thy Grace Gradual and Alleluja or Tractus Immediately after the Epistle read succeeds the Gradual with either Alleluja or the Tractus IF with the Alleluja I apprehend that thereby Priest and People joyn in Acclamations of Praise and Thanks to God as It were in lieu and Supplement for the Jews Ingratitude Infidelity and great neglect of the Gospel as if therefore by way of Reparation we would shew our selves the more zealous and by certain Degrees of Versicles and Benedictions raise our selves to be more Attentive to what they slighted Or if in the place of Alleluja a Tractus be annex'd which being a Mournful Ditty therefore appointed for days of Penitence and Sorrow and to be read more Gravely and drawn out more leasurely and Sadly We are admonish'd thereby to compose our selves to ask Pardon of God for Those Sins which we also no less than the Jews have committed in our Great Neglect of the Gospel and to look on our selves as partakers of their Guilt and to be Penitent for It. DEVOTION LEt Thy Goodness prevent me from such Jewish Ingratitude and more Now I have received from thee so many more and Greater Favours than They. As particularly The Light of the Gospel the Grace of Baptism and then a greater Portion of Thy Holy Spirit Confirming Me and Even Thine Own Body and Blood for Nourishment Be It the Business to