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A89897	The daily exercises of a Christian life or the interiour spirit with which we ought to animate our actions throughout the whole day With an easy instruction for mentall prayer, translated out of French by I.W. of the Soc. of Jesus.; Exercices de la vie intérieure. English	Gonnelieu, Jérôme de, 1640-1715.; I. W.; Nepveu, François, 1639-1708, attributed name.	1689 (1689)	Wing N437B; ESTC R230742	75,972	258

all mankind how is it possible that I should dare to receive you within my self who have so often provoked your anger O my God receive your self in me because I am unworthy to approach you o my Saviour offer your self within me to your father at the same time sacrifice to your father to your divine justice all that is criminall or human within me O my judge condemn me not for my tepidity O my God one word alone from you suffices to make me a Saint to heal all the maladies of my soul who am unworthy to receive you within my self O my Saviour how sorry am I that I have ever offended you and caused you to suffer so much for my sake O my judge how does your presence pierce my heart with horrour confusion when I think that I go to receive him who one day will judge me concerning the action I am about to perform who bears in his hands my eternal happiness or misery 2. Endeavour to conceive a firm confidence a fervent love an ardent desire to receive Jesus Christ because you ought to be convinced that 't is the same Saviour who is so charitable so good as to heal all those that approach him with faith have recourse to him with confidence 3. ● Excite in your self an ardent desire to receive your soveraign good your redeemer deliverer who are a slave to your passions your Physician who are sick your Saviour who are in danger of perishing 4. Abou● all remember after you have received your God to recollect your self for some time eith●r casting your self at his feet with S. Magdelen to hear his instructions or adoring him with the Leper in the Gospell saying with him Lord if you please you can cure me or in fine consecrating your self intirely to him begging of him to take possession of your heart of your body to unite transform you into himself to become for the future the soul of all your actions the rule model of your life that it may be he that lives in you by you that all you do may be animated with his spirit If you find your self much transported by the sweetness deliciousness that the presence of Jesus Christ may diffuse in you remain with silence at his feet begging him to receive himself and to thank himself in you be contented to remain with a profound respect in his presence 5. Make your petitions to him with fervency with a firm confidence of being heard in them beg of him the grace never to loose his favour by a mortall sin to die in an act of his love Beseech him earnestly to inspire you with a contempt of the world with a disengagement from all earthly objects patience in the government of your family charity in conversation so as never to be backbiting your neighbours liberality towards the poor fidelity to his graces with the spirit of devotion in your prayers 6. lastly after having returned thanks most affectionately to the goodness of Jesus Christ in vouchsafing to come into your heart offer to him in gratitude the victory you may have gotten over the sallys of your humour or any other imperfection that displeases him in you which is most customary take care till the next communion to be faithfull in this point to correct this imperfection five times a day quell this passion in honour of the five wounds of our Saviour 7. Put your self from time to time during the day in mind of what passed in communion remember the favour you have received of your Jesus to give him thanks for it And keep a guard over your heart tongue that you may not prophane either by any word or inordinate desires of your own a soul that is sanctified by the presence of a God. 13. In fine remember to make reflections from time to time in the day time upon the great truths of Christianity to convince your mind of them engrave them deep in your heart Think often 1. that you have but one soul to loose or save but once to die well or ill 2. that one cannot go to heaven without merit that one cannot merit but by using violence over ones passions 3. that God whom we serve so carelesly is the disposer of our misery or happiness that he has heaven hell at his disposal Alas if we search with so much earnestness the favour of those upon whom depends a good success of our affairs why do we neglect his freindship upon whom depends a happy or miserable Eternity 4. What a blindness is it to regret the loss of what we have here in this world not be concerned at the loss of a God which by a mortall sin we sustain 5. It is impossible to love serve God the world at the same time and to save ones self the broad and easy way we must necessarily renounce either the heavenly or earthly paradise 6. what will it profit you to have gained all the riches of the world if you loose your own soul A SAINT FOR THE YEAR SAINT ROSE THE VERTVE The renouncing of the pleasures of sense curiosity vanity and rallerie THE PRACTICE First to say nothing in passion Secondly not to be so easy as to comply with any that shall backbite others Thirdly to seek nothing out of pure curiosity or self-satisfaction I. Before Communion 1 J go to receive a God who is my judge O grant my Jesus that I may not receive thee to my damnation 2. I am about to receive in my heart a God who is my Saviour o God receive thou thy self there with the love thou deservest 3. O my judge I tremble I am ready to die with confusion grief whilst I approach your majesty O my Saviour I hope in your goodness I abandon my self entirely to you I burn with desire to open my heart to you I will die with love of you breath my last in you I unite my self to all the respect which Angels to all the love which Seraphins bear you to all the confidence of the sick that you have cured o my Jesus during your whole life I hope with them that you will give a speedy remedy to all the diseases of my soul II. During Communion 1. O my Jesus o my love o God of glory o God of goodness o majesty of my God! who are you who am I 2. Receive your self in me thank your self in me Sacrifice your self upon my heart for me I unite my self to all that you are going to do in me 3. In your passage thorough my heart heal all its curiosities all the ill words of my tongue III. After Communion 1. O liberality of my Jesus how am I obliged to you for having given me a God for the nourishment of my soul O that all creatures all the Angels would oyn with me in giving you due

to make your meditation that day upon the subject of death exercise ones self more particularly in good works in the practice of mortification other vertues You must also take notice that thô there be many acts noted in this exercise 't is onely to facilitate the practice of them to those who for want of being habituated in them ' would otherwise find great difficulty to perform them for the best are those that love produces in our heart We have added at the end of this discourse the recommendation of the soul in English for those who having the devotion thereby in a holy manner to anticipate their death to joyn these to the foresaid devotions do not understand them in Latin in this case one ought to change the termes that concern another to ones self as in stead of saying pray for him or her or receive this soul say pray for me receive my soul so in other places reserving the conclusion of this exercise till after your last prayer Now the fruit which one ought to draw from hence as shall be noted in the following meditation is the contempt of the world a weaning ones self from creatures the renouncing of ones self the amendment of ones faults which are the true means to obtain the grace to die a deat● that hshall be the beginning of a most happy blessed l●fe If we make this exerc●se with care during our lives t is not to be conceived how profitable we shall find it at our death where we may repeat the same or cause it to be read to us You may make the meditation in the morning after your prayer before you go out The first part part of the exercise for death may be made in the Curch before Communion or during mass the other part in the evening towards four or five a clock A MEDITATION DISPOSITIONS FOR A happy death Put your self in to the presence of God beg of him his divine inspiration FOr the ground of this meditation one must be well possest of this truth That life is onely a gage given us by God in trust wherefore i● follows if we be not always prepared and disposed to give it back we refuse him the right of soveraignty which he has upon our beings It is appointed for all men once to die after that to be judged Says the great Apostle to the Heb Chap. 9. COnsidering this truth That one dies bur once that an ill death can never be repair'd throughout the whole vast extent of Eternity we may easily perceive how necessary it is not to be surprised but to be always upon our guard as that servant of whom the Gospell speaks which waits for the coming of his master in the 12. Chap of S. Luke I. POINT Since we must necessarily dye it behooves us much to conceive well this truth That death is certain the hour of death uncertain that all the prudence of a Christian consists in preparing ones self well for it that we may not faile in an affair which in truth is the affair of affairs and the sole onely one we have to do in this world since we come into it onely to save our souls in loosing them we lose all For what shall it profit a man to gain the whole world if he loose his own soul Says our Soveraign master Jesus Christ i● the 8. Chap of S Mark. O my God how great is the blindness of the most part of mankind who not thinking on this great truth live onely an earthly sensuall brutish life never elevating their minds to heavenly things fix their affections so fast to this mortall life that they prefer it before the eternal He that loves his life Says our saviour shall loose it 〈◊〉 he that hates it in this world shall gain for it life everlasting in the next in the 12 Chap of S. Iohn O my God ●is no● therefore to love our lives ● to have to ● great a fondness for them si●ce this fondness for a em●orall life proceeding from an irregu●ar love of our selves ● puts us in danger of loosing an everlasting one that you assure me o my divine Jesus that if any one comes to you does not hate this sensuall life even his own soul he cannot be your disciple Give me o Lord a holy hatred of this mortall life which may make me continually tend pretend to the eternall one where I may love you for ever II POINT The death of Saints is precious in Gods sight says the Psalmist in the 118. Psalm If we will dye the death of Saints we must live their lives 1. by keeping our affections always as much weaned from the things of this world as if we were to dye every moment because there is no moment in which death may not surprise us in which we ought not to be prepared to receive it if we will not hazard our salvation 2. by overcoming the naturall fear which we have of death by faith by the confidence which we ought to have that Jesus Christ in whose hands are the keys of life death who loves us infinitely more then we love our selves will send it us at such a time in such a manner as in the order of his divine providence he foresees best for us Has he not created us for life everlasting do not we believe that life better then this mortall life we lead if we are not of this beliefe we want faith by consequence have no hope because we cannot obtain that happiness he has promised in the other life but by death But what charity also can an interessed soul have which loves its own life more then the will of God has a greater fear to dye then to see unite it self to him Perfect charity says the holy Scripture in S. John● Gospell chap 24. excludes fear And as we ought to shew our love which we have for God by our hatred to sin what hatred do we express to it when for all we know we cannot live without committing every day some yet we are so much affraid of death O if we had a true love with what joy should we embrace death that we might be in a state in which we could no more offend his infinite goodness Since the least sin as the Doctours of the Church affirm is so more to be feared then death III. POINT Should God give us the choice of of the time the hour the manner of our death could we make a better choice then he who ordains it by his infinite wisdome power goodness who having created us for himself redeemed us with his blood accordingly desires nothing more then to save to bring us to the enjoyment of that happy end And since faith teacheth us this verity why do not we entirely abandon the care of our lives deathes to him what can there