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B04460	[The] manner of performing the Novena, or, The nine days devotion to St. Francis Xaverius: of the Society of Jesus, and apostle of India. As also the devotion of the ten Fridays to the same saint.	Brown, Levinius, 1671-1764.; Scarisbrike, Edward, 1639-1709.	1690 (1690)	Wing M459B; ESTC R229394	36,323	117

finding in your Soul some of his Vertues he may love you the more and loving you recommend you to our Lord and obtain for you the Favours you ask of him To which end you shall finish your Ten Fridays with this following Colloquy The COLLOQUY To St. Francis Xaverius To obtain Grace to Imitate his Vertues IF I love you O most Holy Apostle I have just reason for it finding in you a Thousand Motives to wit your many perfections that render you worthy of all love But if you love me as I am sure you do it is purely your Goodness and only upon the account of my being a Sinner I am ashamed O Holy Xaverius that I have nothing that can win your Love but the deformity of my Soul nor any other Title that may any way seem to challenge your Affection then what in reality deserves your hatred wherefore I most earnestly beseech you to obtain for me the grace to Imitate your Vertues and those chiefly that did particularly render you so dear and pleasing to the Divine Goodness That being so adorned I may both please you and be acceptable in this life to the most pure Eyes of the all-seeing God and have an assurence of enjoying him with you in the next for an Eternity Amen THE LITANIES OF St. Francis Xaverius Compos'd by the most Illustrious Francis Gaspar de Villarouel Lord Bishop of St. James 's in the Kingdom of Chile in Honour of this Saint by whose Assistance after having been buried in the Ruins of an Earthquake he was miraculously deliver'd and in Performance of a Vow he had made said them upon set Days and imparted them to the publick to awaken and stir up the Piety of the Devout And have been approv'd and publish'd by the Order of several Prelates in the Low Countries and lower Germany LOrd have mercy on us Christ have mercy on us Lord have mercy on us Christ hear us Christ graciously hear us God the Father of Heaven Have mercy on us God the Son Redeemer of the World Have mercy on us God the Holy Ghost Have mercy on us Holy Trinity One God Have mercy on us Holy Mary Pray for us Holy Father Ignatius Pray for us St. Francis Xaverius most worthy Son of St. Ignatius Pray for us St. Francis Xaverius Apostle of the Indies Pray for us St. Francis Xaverius evangelizing Peace Pray for us St. Francis Xaverius evangelizing all Good Pray for us Vessel of Election carrying the Name of Jesus before Gentiles Pray for us Vessel full of Divine Grace Pray for us Firmament of the Oriental Church Pray for us Defender of the Faith Pray for us Enemy of Infidelity Pray for us Preacher of Evangelical Truth Pray for us Destroyer of Idols Pray for us Chosen Instrument of the Eternal Father for the Propagation of Divine Glory Pray for us Faithful Follower and Companion of Jesus Christ Pray for us Trumpet of the Holy Ghost Pray for us Pillar of the Church of God Pray for us Light of Infidels Pray for us Master of the Faithful Pray for us Mirror of true Piety Pray for us Guide in the Way of Virtue and Perfection Pray for us Pattern of Apostolical Spirit and Sanctity Pray for us Light of the Blind Pray for us Curer of the Lame Pray for us Helper of those who suffer Shipwrack Pray for us Health of the Sick Pray for us Protector in time of Plague Famine and War Pray for us From whom the Devils fly Pray for us Life of the Dead Pray for us Whose Power the Sea and Tempests obey Pray for us Whose Command the Sea and all Elements reverence Pray for us Wonderful Worker of Miracles Pray for us Refuge of the Miserable Pray for us Comfort of the Afflicted Pray for us Splendor of the East Pray for us Tabernacle of Incorruption Pray for us Treasury of Divine Love Pray for us Glory of the Society of Jesus Pray for us Xaverius most poor Pray for us Xaverius most chast Pray for us Xaverius most obedient Pray for us Xaverius most humble Pray for us Xaverius most desirous of the Cross and Labours of Christ Pray for us Xaverius most vigilant in the Safety of your Neighbour Pray for us Xaverius most zealous of God's Glory and the Good of Souls Pray for us Angel in Life and Manners Pray for us Patriarch in Affections and Care of God's People Pray for us Prophet in Gift and Spirit Pray for us Apostle in Dignity and Merit Pray for us Doctor of Gentiles in all sorts of Languages Pray for us Martyr in desiring to dye for Christ Pray for us Confessor in Vertue and Profession of Life Pray for us Virgin in Body and Mind Pray for us In whom alone we reverence thro' the Divine Goodness the Merits of all the Saints Pray for us Lamb of God who takest away the Sins of the World Spare us O Lord. Lamb of God who takest away the Sins of the World Hear us graciously O Lord. Lamb of God who takest away the Sins of the World Have mercy on us Christ hear us Christ graciously hear us Lord have mercy on us Christ have mercy on us Our Father c. Vers Pray for us St. Francis Xaverius Resp That we may be made worthy of the Promises of Christ Let us pray LOrd God who hast vouchsafed by the Preaching and Miracles of St. Francis Xaverius to join unto thy Church the Countries of the Indies grant propitiously we beseech thee that reverencing his Glorious Merits we may also imitate his Examples Through Christ our Lord. Amen A PSALM IN TRIBULATION This Psalm was said by the Saint in time of Trouble WHen I was in Tribulation I cried to our Lord and he heard me O Lord deliver my Soul from unjust Lips and from a deceitful Tongue What may be given thee or what may be added to thee to a deceitful Tongue The sharp Arrows of the Mighty with Coals of Desolation Wo is to me that my sojourning is prolonged I have dwelt with the Inhabitants of Cedar My Soul hath been long a sojourner With them that hated Peace I was Peaceable when I spoke to them they impugned me without Cause FINIS

Confidence Seamen had in his Presence that the oldest and most shivered Ships were reckon'd the most safe and Infidels themselves for more Security loaded all their Goods upon them tho' with double Charges and Expences whom he assisted even after his Death for carrying his Body in a very tottered unsafe and ill-rigged Ship and running upon a Rock the Seamen betook themselves to invoke the Saint's Aid and presently the Rock split in two and opened a Passage for the Ship Whereupon now at Sea he is the Patron of Mariners even amongst Infidels He was eminent for the Gift of Government and directing Souls with no less Satisfaction of Seculars than Religious Grateful always to the People dear to Kings and Princes winning the Hearts of all St. Ignatius would have made him General of his whole Order The King of Portugal reverenced his Words as Commands as did also the King of Bongo and Amangucci The King of Travancor called the great King put out an Edict commanding all should obey the great Father so he called St. Francis as the great King He converted the King of Tanor and several others Pope Paul the III. admired his Sanctity Marcellus the II. desiring to see him sent for him from the Indies to come to Rome so much did he win the Hearts of all far and near The Gentils reverenced him and even erected a Church in his Honour where some wicked Fellows out of Contempt having often stole the Oyl from the Lamp and poured Water in its place enraged to see the Week yet burn and themselves deluded put it quite out which as often lighted of it self to their greater Confusion and Christians greater Comfort Another time being all alone he met a whole Army of Enemies that were Heathens whom he frighted and put to flight with his bare Authority To conclude his Gift of Tongues is no less wonderful than the former They spoke in those Countries a hundred different Languages which St. Francis spoke not only well but also with great Facility and Eloquence yet with these two Privileges The first That preaching to Men of different Nations he was perfectly understoad by every one The second that with one and the same Word and Answer he satisfied the Doubts and Questions of many together although concerning things both hard and of different Matters These and many other things we read of him in Historians and in the Process of his Canonization They add moreover that he was not so well known or so much called by the Name of Francis as sometimes of Angel or Prophet sometimes Raiser of the Dead now by that of Holy Father other times of Great Father but always and by all with the Approbation of the Pope and Applause of the whole World he was called by the Name of Apostle To whose Holy Intercession and Patronage by the Assistance of your Prayers I commend my self hoping you 'll find his Holy Aid and Assistance in all your Necessities if for the good of your Souls as you have seen others before you Observe moreover as it has been more exactly noted in these our latter Days that none with Faith and Devotion ever recommended themselves unto him that missed of their Aim or at least did not receive something more beneficial to themselves and their Souls Good which was and is his only Scope in conferring Benefits Let us comfort our selves with what he told F. Marcellus Mastrilli at Naples when appearing to him he miraculously cured him Non parum se posse in Paradiso That his Power was great in the Court of Heaven AN Advertisement Of the AUTHOR To the Devout Reader SAint Francis Xaverius is always ready to help those that devoutly implore his Aid in all their Necessities of what kind soever and even to obtain of God most miraculous Favours for them as all Christendom can testifie and for this reson he is called the new Thaumaturgus that is Worker of Miracles which are sufficient to fill whole Volumes and we here in short will touch upon the Heads only of some few to animate the Reader to have recourse to this great Saint Peter Veglio a Portuguese Merchant of a very loose Life by means of an Alms he had once given in Necessity deserved God's Mercy through the Saint's Intercession and was brought to Repentance and relieved in all other Corporal Necessities by the same Saint Francis who likewise foretold him the Hour of his Death which accordingly happened He appeared to a Woman that had been a long time sick in Malavar and promising to send her one that should hear her Confession advised her of her Death A Youth in the Hospital of Mozambichi raving through the Sharpness of his Distemper by only the Touch of the Saint was cured both in Body and Soul An Indian by Profession a Schoolmaster by Life a most lewd debauch'd Wretch was converted by the Saint's appearing to him and obeyed that gracious Call of God to a better Life Being desired by a Christian Lady to dispossess a Youth that was tormented by the Devil as soon as he entred the House the wicked Spirit quitted his Habitation and the Youth before ready to die was thereupon restored to perfect Health of Body An Indian Poet that had accidentally lost his Eyes by Gun-powder after many Years applying himself to the Saint recovered his Sight better than before which Miracle he published in Verse over all India He healed a Leper with washing his Sores and drinking that filthy Mixture of Matter and Water An Idolatrous Woman that was barren at the Intercession of St. Francis was blessed by God with a Son who soon after dying was restored to Life again by the Saint He raised another that was drowned in a Well and a third that died of the Plague In the Kingdom of Travancor he raised one that had been buried and another in Murar as he was carried to his Grave In Malaca he brought to Life a Child that had been dead three Days and in the same place the Son of one that was devoted to him In Japony he gave Life to a Daughter of an Idolater To two others in Manapar and to several elsewhere as all the World can testifie and the Transactions of his Canonization do authentically evidence He restored to a Seaman his Son that had been lost six Days at Sea He filled a whole Sea with Fish where none scarce could be found before and with his Blessing turned the salt Water of the Sea into fresh He obtained Rain to free a King from his Enemies that surrounded him A desperate Gamester that had lost all he had in the World encouraged by the Saint to try to mend his Condition recovered his Losses and withall obtained the Conversion of his Soul which was the Saint's only Aim He saved several Ships from perishing in Tempests and Storms He was in several places at once The very Children whom he taught the Christian Doctrine with the Beads and Medals of St. Francis cast out Devils

all Creatures HEre are Devout Reader two Considerations the first to be imitated the second to be admired yet both very profitable for you for whether you imitate or admire Saint Xaverius you may assure your self of his Protection and Intercession The first is his Love of God the second his Power over all Creatures As for the first what do you think Devout Client of St. Francis of the Love he bore to God His whole Life is a sufficient Proof thereof according to that great Saying Probatio dilectionis exhibitio est operis Deeds are the Marks of Love But yet to give you some more particular Signs thereof here are some few Reflections no less true than wonderful This Love of God did so enflame his Heart and set it all on fire that he was not able to suffer it's insupportable Heat nor scarce endure his Cloaths Once as he was walking in the Streets of Goa he was so totally absorped with the Love of God that he took no notice of an Elephant that broke loose and threatned Death to all it met but yet afterwards to the great Wonder of all it retired The like happened to him going from Amangucci to Meaco when he run like a Servant behind a Noblemans Horse never feeling the Thorns that continually tore his Feet so much was his Mind absorpt in the Abyss of the Love of God Every where he was out of himself and totally in God But above all in Prayer Mass and Thanksgiving after the Divine Sacrifice His Soul betrayed it self so clearly in his very Countenance that the Pope said of him that he was Vultu adco inflammatus ut Angelicam prorsus Charitatem repraesentaret Seeming rather a burning Seraphim and a blessed Spirit upon Earth than a Man What say you pious Reader you do wonder and admire him and I am comforted thereat because hereby you may frame some Conceit of the great Love St. Xaverius bore to God But why do not you endeavour also to love the same God For he is the same he was then ever deserving to be beloved above all things Created and should you not love him you would always prove the most miserable Creature in the World for not placing your Affection upon a God that is so worthy of Love seeing to Love him is the sole happiness of Man As for the second Point proposed in the beginning God even in this Life seemed to reward his Saint with an universal Power and Dominion over all Creatures The Heaven saw the Day encreased three Hours by the Prayers of this second Josue that the Christians might give a total Overthrow to the Infidels The Earth rent it self with most horrid Earthquakes to frighten the Citizens of Tolo to the Christian Faith which they had so shamefully forsaken the Air bore him up from the Ground several times both by Night and Day The Fire raging and threatning several Houses obey'd his Command and offered not to pass the Limits prescrib'd by St. Xaverius But the Water seem'd to acknowledge most of all his Power He was an Anchor to Ships in the greatest Storms a favourable Gale to carry them thro' the most dangerous Shallows and Sands of the Seas a Calm allaying Tempests and a Haven for those that suffered Shipwrack The very Idolaters called him the God of the Sea and spared no charge for themselves and their Goods to sail in the Ship Saint Xaverius went in In the Indies he often changed Salt Water into Fresh and once by only dipping his Foot into the Sea He allayed tempests sometimes by Prayer other times with Relicks he wore or with the Sign of the Cross and once by letting his Cross into the Water which God to double the Wonder permitted a Wave to snatch away and so bereft him of his o●●● Comfort when behold soon after a Lobster with open Claws above Water brought it to St. Francis again It is impossible to specifie every particular Miracle wrought in this kind by St. Francis let these few in short suffice to convince you that in this Glorious Saint you have a Patron ready to command all Creatures for your Good so that in all Occasions and Necessities you may have recourse to him with Confidence and hope in his most powerful Intercession and Assistance The COLLOQUY To St. Francis Xaverius To obtain the Holy love of God WHat did you aim at throughout the whole course of your life O Holy Apostle but to bring all the World to the love of God And now will you not O great lover of God! obtain for me a poor helpless creature an ardent desire of loving him above all things Ah! I doubt not of your help and intercession but I apprehend my own Weakness least permitting my self to be deceived by the foolish Love of Creatures I may swerve from the true love of my Creator Help me then O Holy St. Francis That I may not be so deluded but yielding up my will to God I may by a holy necessity always love him both in this life and in the next Amen The CONSIDERATION For the Eighth FRIDAY Upon the Love of St. Francis Xaverius towards his Neighbour HE that truly loveth God does extend his Affection also to his Neighbour as being dear to God and his lively Image So that Saint Xaverius loving God as you have seen ought consequently to love his Neighbor which he did in the perfectest manner he could fulfilling those Words of St. Paul * Omnibus omnia 1 Cor. 9.22 factus to all men becoming all things that he might save all * 2 Cor. 6.6 In Charitate non ficta sed verà In true not feigned Charity He never spared any Labours Troubles Difficulties nor even Life it self to benefit him either in his Temporal or Spiritual Necessities tho' he laboured most to succour the Soul as being the more noble Part. The only Aim and Design of his Apostolical Missions and hard Enterprizes was the Salvation of Souls and where he proposed to himself any Hopes of converting any to God he let slip nothing that might any way promote or further his Intentions With Children he was one always so concerned for their Spiritual Profit that tho' he was a Man of that Authority and Esteem yet he disdained not to go about with a little Bell exhorting Parents to send their Children to be instructed in the Christian Doctrine With Sinners he became as I may say a Sinner familiarly treating and conversing with them that so he might bring them to God for pretending to be ignorant of their Vices Blasphemies Murders Usuries and all their whole Life he changed the Hatred they bore him into Love and the Love they bore to all vicious Habits and Propensions into a detestable Hatred of Sin To Infidels as particularly recommended to him from Heaven he shew'd such Charity that no body can express it And if the Height of this according to the Oracle of Truth it self be to give his Life for his Beloved