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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17282	The practice of meditating with profit The misteries of our Lord, the Blessed Vergin & saints. Gathered out of diuers good authors, and published by the very Reuerend Master Iohn Alberto Buronzo, chanon of the cathedral church of Verselles. Reuiued and augmented by the same author, & translated into English by a Father of the Societie of Iesus.	Berzetti, Nicolas.; Talbot, Thomas, 1572-1652.	1613 (1613)	STC 4125; ESTC S104826	77,217	308

spoken hartely God is here before me God standeth behoulding what I am to doe God is here present to giue me as gratious audience as if he had nothing els to attend vnto Yf the imagination doe frame this presence of God yt ys to be done by way of apprehension that in diuers manners First by imagining Gods presence in that manner as the paynters vse to paint the blessed Trinity Secondly apprehending a great globe of inaccessable light which may cause in him a certayn pious horrour according to that of S. Iohn God is light in him there is no darknes at all Thirdly representing God vnto himself in that manner as he ys described by the Prophet meditate fruitfully must marwell that yt greatly helpeth attention to conceaue the presence of God in the most liuel● manner he can and to procur with the psalmist that his med●tation be still fixed as much a humane frailty will suffer in vision or contemplation of hi● diuine majesty vsing to th 〈…〉 purpose some especiall diligence vntill such tyme as the good habit thereof procure facillity Yet must not God be alwaye conceiued with the self sam● forme but according to the variety of the meditations sometymes with a benigne pleasant other tymes with a seuer● and terrible countenance no● with a gentle and mild then with a hard and stern look that he may talk with Gods divine majesty in such sort as the matter requireth which he ys to meditate and according to the different apprehensions of his diuine presence Actes to be produced after this of the presence of God AFTER that he hath conceiued the majesty of God present in one of the manners afore said he may reflect on his owne basenes and indignity stirr vp in himself a pious reuerent feare reciting to that purpose some sentēce of holy scripture as Loquar ad Dominum Deum meum cum sim puluis cinis I will speak vnto my Lord though I be dustad ashes or the like Thē let him setle himself to doe reuerence to God vvith an humble externall gesture together vvith an externall act of adoration and vvith Manasses bovving the knees of his hart before his Lord let him kneele dovvne hereby acknovvledging the presence of the most high and diuine Trinity vvith these or the like vvords Blessed be the holy and vndeuided Trinity c. Or els Glory be to the Father and to the Sonne and to the holy Ghost c. Or els Holy Holy Holy Lord God omnipotent who was ys and euer shal be or Benediction clarity wisedoms and thank giuing honour vertue and power to our God world without end Amen Being on his knees for that the just is the first in accusing himself let him professe himself vvith much invvard remorse to be a sinner let him demaund pardō for his defects saying the first foure verses of the Psalme Miserere yf no other more fit occur and at the midst of the fift verse let him add these vvords Confige timore tuo carnes meas à judiciis enim tuis timui Pearse my flesh vvith thy feare for I am afraid of thy judgmēts And let yt not seeme from the purpose to stirr vp in himself this reuerentiall child-like feare and the sorrow for his synnes which ys before described not with standing that he framed the presence of God after a pleasant and gratious māner for euen the Seraphins although they haue God alwayes most fauourable vnto them yet were they seene for our example to couer theyr faces with theyr wings in the presence of God And besides we for our part ought alwayes to retayn feare and sorrow for the many imperfections wherewith we are replenished And yet for all this we must not forbeare on the contrary side to raise our mind with cōfidence towards God euen at the tyme when we frame him present in a seuere and dreadfull manner remembring as the Prophet saith Non in perpetuum irascetur he wil not perpetually be angry And persuading our selues that God being now present to heare our prayers we may conceue ground hereby to moue vs to confidence But heare we must note that all this ys to be done very briefly that yt may not take away the tyme alotted for meditation therefore yt must be done only in such manner as ys necessary for our better dispositiò to treat with the majesty of God before whom yt ys not fit we appeare rashly or vnprepared Preparatory Prayer AFTER recouering a litle boldnes as one who hath obtayned pardō for his synnes let him take hart to lift vp his countenaunce towards the most high majesty of God and acknowledging the obligation he hath to imploy himself wholy in the seruice of God his maker let him with great feeling and deuotion make his preparatory prayer desiring grace of our Lord That all his forces and actions may be incearely directed to the honnour and glory of his divine majesty and this preparatory prayer as yt should be alwayes the same in words so yt should euer be done with the greatest affect that may be The first Preamble HE shall make his first preamble reducing briefly to mynd the history of the mistery proposed and that as though he should recount y● only to some other withou● making any discourse at all fo● beginning to dispose his soul to the matter more immediately the better to rest yt self afterward in euery part thereof by pondering yt well and penetrating yt thoroughly in the tyme of his meditation The second Preamble LET him make the second preamble imagining himself to see those places in which all or part of the mystery was wrought but he must endeuour to represent them so liuely as though really he had them these present And here let him mark that ●e ys to frame so many seuerall ●laces for his meditation as were the places in which any art of the mistery did happon which he ys to meditate although yt should be needfull to ●ame 2. or 3. or more in one only myditation As for example in the most ●oly mistery of the incarnation ●e ys to frame the place of heavē where as in a kingly palace that highest consistory of th● most blessed Trinity was celebrated also the distance betweene heauen and earth b● which the Archangel Gabrie● did passe likewise the superfices of the whole earth in which diuers sorts of men did dwel● diversly busied then also the house of Nazareth in which the B. Virgin remayned and in which the mistery was accomplished Let him also note that wh● he hath framed a place in a● fashion concerning some m●stery with happy successe neede not at any tyme chan● that imaginary place or compositiō so well made althou 〈…〉 he should vse to meditate to same mistery oftentymes v● lesse perhaps yt shal be to add some circumstance therein to perfit yt the more Two wayes of making the second Preamble THE way of framing such places shal be either imagining that