obediens after which you may return to that which is read at the table When you have dined make some little reflexion how you have behaved your self if you find to have fallen humbly crave pardon purposing to amend At the going up with Grace exercise your self in the way to Jerusalem From Dinner untill the Examen at night When Grace is finished read your Pater nosters for your benefactours When you come to your Cell you may stay there untill it ring to the work-house employing your self in reading writing or keeping your devotion or doing some other thing which you desir When the Bell calleth you to work exercise your self there according to the same directions which are set down for the forenoon using the Way to Jerusalem After your beads are read untill it ring to Evensong And then leave your work saying Hoc signum c. And making what hast you can into the Church being kneeled down either in your place or elswhere make your short Examin which being don read the little office if you have not read it before Keeping your Devotion untill it ring up to Evensong in the reading of which observe well your thoughts and the manner which was set down from Prime The Office being ended prepare your self to Meditation and afterwads the signe being given make your short Examen as it is set down in the directions for mentall prayer When you go forth of the Church employ your self in the way to Jerusalem untill you go to Collation where when you have time in considering the Mystery of the Washing of the feet give your attention to that which is read at the Table when you have ended Collation you may read that which you meane to make your Meditation of if you have not read it before or do not take that which is read at the table being-sure never to omit the matter before Meditation The best time to read it is the quarter before five when the signe is given after Meditation going up from Collation use the way to Jerusalem and continue the same untill Recollection then kneeling in your place make your Examen First present Your self before Almighty God and give him thanks for all the benefits you have received that day in particular esteeming your self as unworthy of them as any creature on earth or the soules in Hell as also the miseries both spirituall and temporall from which he hath delivered you to be as many and as great as are or might have fallen upon any in the world Secondly beg grace to see the offences committed that day acknowledging your unableness to do the same without his speciall assistance Thirdly how you have spent that day with obedience and exercises you have had weighing wherein you have failed by omission or commission in thought word or work towards Almighty God your sisters and your self how you have exercised your interiour powers your sences particularly your sight and especially how you have observed the services and exercises of your Religion whether you have governed your exteriour with that modesty mortification submission and mildnes that you are taught Fourthly if you see your self to have overcome any imperfection give thanks unto Almighty God and where you find to have failed and offended humbly crave pardon Fiftly purpose with his holy grace to be more carefull and watchfull over your self the day following making such resolutions as may help you most for the overcoming of that vice wherein you find your self that day to have sinned in Then say the Prayer following I Confess unto you O Lord God omnipotent Creatour of heaven and earth all my sins which ever I have committed even from my infancy untill this present-houre wittingly or ignorantly and particularly this day in thought word or work To you O Lord only I confess my offences and beg pardon for them as being innumerable therfore I humbly beseech thee to forgive and forget all whereof thou knowest me guilty in all my life past and enkindle in me a fervent amendment with faith hope and charity O mercifull O pittifull o sweet JESUS sonne of the B. Virgin Mary Going to your cell make use of that which is ordained in the way to Jerusalem and during that time you are undressing your self call to mind the strict account which you are to render unto Almighty God when the day of this life is ended also of the uncertaintie to live untill the next morning much less any longer reflecting how many miseries may and will fall upon thousands before your uprising and alwaies before you go to bed kneeling commend your self to our sweet saviour and his blessed Mother with your good Angell Kissing the ground and the Crucifix Being laid in bed think you lay your mouth to the sacred side or feet of or sweet Saviour saying the prayer following O most sweet Lord JESUS CHRIST in union of the love which caused thee to create for us this corporall rest and disdainedst not thy self to take the same whilst thou livedst here on earth I do make use of the same to fulfill the necessity of my body that it may be more prompt and ready to serve thee Amen Before sleeping say thus O Most sweet JESUS let me now rest upon thy sacred breast and grant me to fetch my breath out of thy most sacred heart that thy sweet spirit may flow into my soul vivificate my mind and vnseparably unite me unto thee sweet JESUS so often as this night I do fetch my breath so many millions of praises I beseech thee receive from me Vnto your good Angel say O Angell of God who art my keeper illuminate preserve rule and govern me committed to thy charge by the supernall power this night and evermore Amen A direction how to say the way to Jerusalem 1. AT five a clock when Meditation is ended going to put off your cloake take the Mystery wherein our saviour took leave of his B. Mother 2. When it ringeth to Collation that which is then present his going unto the place where he made his supper 3. When you are at Collation the washing of the feet 4. That of the Institution of the most B. Sacrament the which continue till the end of Compline 5. Then take our saviour's going into the garden with his disciples 6. When the B. Sacrament is seen the three prayers which he made in the garden 7. Going forth of the Church his betraying 8. In your cell his being at Annas's and leave him there untill Matins at which time go with him to Caiphas and find him there at Prime 9. Under which go with him to Pilate and from thence to Herod 10. At Terce take the Mystery of the white garment 11. At Sext the whipping and crowning with thorns Going forth of the Church our saviour's being lead and shewed to the people 12. Making your bed remember the three sentences of death which were given against him 13. Going to the Workhouse his going with his Cross to be crucified
the Cross and with his sacred blood satisfy his Eternall Father for her demerits 4. That for her love he would remain in the holy Sacrament to feed her with his own blessed body and Cleanse her with his owne sacred blood A Prayer before receiving the B. Sacrament O Sweet JESUS J most ardently desire to receive you Sacramentally and spiritually although J know my self to be most unworthy you should enter into the house of my soule be favorable unto me wretched sinner and take from me whatsoever is displeasing unto you prepare in me and in all hearts a habitation agreable unto your divine Majesty Would to God O my sweet Saviour JESU would to God J were wholy enflamed with an ardent desire and love of you Behold J here renounce and give up to you all things O sweet JESU O JESU my love for ever A Prayer after receiving the B. Sacrament O Most sweet Lord JESUS CHRIST J humbly beseech thy unspeakable mercy that this holy Sacrament of thy pretious body and blood which J unworthy have received may be to me and to all sinners a full purgation of all our offences a strength against frailties a fortress to defend us against all perills both of soul and body an entire pardon and establishment in all grace an amendment of life a continuall memoriall of thy sacred Passion a nourishment against all spirituall weakness and a staff of our Pilgrimage let it my sweet Saviour JESUS guide us going reduce us straying receive us returning again hold us up stumbling lift us up falling and persevering bring us to glory O highest God let the reception of this most worthy Sacrament so alter the tast of our hearts that at no time we feel any sweetness love or desire and consolation admit any delight esteem any honour feare any adversity or even-live but for thee and to accomplish thy blessed will which may ever be perfected in us Amen Another Prayer O Most glorious and ever blessed Virgin Mary O holy Father S. Francis O holy Mother S. Clare S. Michaël Angels Archangells Vertues Powers Principalities Dominations Thrones Cherubins Seraphins and all celestiall Spirits J beseech you to prostrate before the face of my God and beseech him in favour of his most deare son my Saviour and Redeemer CHRIST JESUS that it will please him to pardon the unworthines and indevotion wherewith J have received the most blessed and dreadfall Sacrament and do not permit the same to cause that the spirit thereof be not communicated unto me also that by the vertue and efficacy of this holy Communion J may feel the effect of his divinë mercy that I may receive this day a full remission of all my sins true light and knowledge of his grace which is in me that be reduce and put me in such an estate as shall be most pleasing unto his divine Majesty augment in me faith hope charity obedience chastity and patience with all other vertues and gifts of the holy Ghost necessary to procure the glory of his divine Majesty and the salvation of my soule to the honour and praise of his holy name Amen What we ought to do the day we communicate 1. BE very careful to govern our sences especially our tongue and if it happen we fall by frailty we ought presently to crave pardon and beseech our sweet Saviour not therfore to absent himself from us 2. To render to this blessed guest all the best services we are able he being infinitely worthy to be served loved and adored of all creatures Wishing above all things his holy honour and pleasure 3. Seek still to entertain this blessed spouse with holy thoughts and desires beseeching him to give you and all others whatsoever he knoweth to be needfull for his love and service beleeving that he is inestimably rich and a most liberal giver 4. Do nothing that day without considering first whether the thing you do will be pleasing and agreable unto him and demand his permission and leave 5. Make fervent aspirations cast forth arrowes of divine love towards that most amiable and sweet Lord with a vehement desire of loving him infinitely and be wholy transformed into him by conformity of will Deo gratias A Prayer before Confession O Soverain Creatour of heaven and earth and of all things which in them are J worm and miserable wretch have offended your divine Majesty I wonder at my folly detest my ingratitude and lament my offences craving through the merits of the bitter Passion and death of your onely begotten son and the infinite love with which he did both offer and suffer them for my sake and for the whole world grant unto me and all sinners true knowledge and perfect contrition of our sins and offences with entire remission of them all loose us from the chaines of our imperfections and heale the wounds of our soules grant us ever to be purged and refreshed in the fountain of his holy wounds Amen A Prayer after Confession O Good IESU let this my Confession be gratefull and acceptable unto you by the merits of your admirable life and painfull death with all the labours anguishes and sorrowes which you suffered for mankind together with those of your B. Mother and all your holy Saints supplying whatsoever is wanting in me either now or any other time through want of true contrition entire confession or full satisfaction beseeching they may also be unto me light direction and strength in all my wayes unto the perfect possession of you my sweet IESU in eternall glory Amen Directions how to say the Divine Office with due devotion and attention WHat care we ought to have in saying the divine Office according to the examples of the holy men is witten in the 27. Chapter of Paralipomenon Despise not your self our Lord hath chosen you to stand before him and adore him Wherfore since God hath chosen man to so high a preferment it is very requisit we should know how and in what manner humble service doth consist The holy man Gerson affirmeth that in saying your Mattins and other houres carefully and studiously leasurely and distinctly consisteth the greatest exercise of a Religious man and is so fit for him as nothing more S. Benedict doth call this the worke of our Lord especially because it it is the chiefest office that any man can perform gratefull to the divine Majesty S. Jerome doth affirm that to offer up Hymns Psalmes and spirituall prayers and to shed teares for our own offences and those of our neighbour is to reconcile the people to God and to pacify our Lord with his flock all which things are to be accomplished in the divine office Wherfore we ought very diligently to apply our whole study and inward powers to the due execution thereof least perhaps that dreadfull sentence pronounced by the Prophet Jeremy c. 48. v. 10. fall upon us maledictus qui facit opus Domini fraudulenter Artursd be be who do's our lords worke negligently
Love in seeing the greatness of his love 7. Admiration in beholding his unspeakable bounty and goodnes It is written of him dixit multa fecit mira pertulit dura Considerations of the knowledge of ones self 1. Consider what you have been what you are and what you shall be 2. Ponder what you are by nature by fault what you have deserved and what you may do by grace 3. The effectuall cause of your Being is God 4. The matter of which you are made is Earth agreeing with the nature of beasts 5. Our soules to the image of God 6. Our end to serve him and live eternally with him Considerations of sin 1. How much it displeaseth Almighty God and hurteth man 2. How contrary to his justice displeasing and disedifying to our neighbour 3. God's severe punishment of it and what we loose therby 4. The disgust that followeth sin and dishonour that accompanieth it 5. The grief of God his Angels and Saints with the joy of the Divell 6. The difformity of sin and the disagreement between men and it according to the nobleness of the soul How to consider Death 1. That all must necessarily dy and then be deprived of all things 2. Onely accompanied with grief and sicknes of the body with temptations and feares of the soule 3. And nothing will confort you at that houre but only good works 4. Death ought not to be feared contemned or desired Of the Pains of the damned There are many waies to meditate of this as in that which followeth of glory only changing the good for the evill To contemplate Heaven 1. Consider the dowries of the soule which are the vision possession and enjoying of God 2. The dowries and perfections of the body Impassibility Brightnes Agility Subtility 3. The place most excellent most large most beautifull and most rich 4. The company of the Angels and Saints with the Blessed Mother of God which shall endure for all Eternity How to consider vertue 1. In what vertue consisteth 2. What examples and doctrine my sweet Saviour hath given you thereof 3. How beautifull excellent necessary and profitable it is how pleasing unto God and maketh man agreable to him 4. How much it edifieth and profiteth your neighbour 5. The spirituall joy it bringeth with many benefits 6. The victory we gain therby over our selves 7. How farr we are from the perfection thereof and what you ought to do hereafter 8. The power we gain therby in presenting our Prayers to God How to consider the Feasts of Saints 1. In what place they are now and with what glory they are crowned 2. How much they may help us by their Prayers and merits 3. By what works Prayers and vertues they have attained such glory 4. If you will come where they are do as they have don To meditate on the Perfections of Almighty God 1. His infinit Essence 2. His Power 3. His Wisdome 4. His Bounty 5. His Goodnes 6. His Love 7. His Mercy 8. His Justice 9. His Providence 10. His Omnipotency concerning which weigh this sentence of holy scripture or what himself hath don in testimony thereof Caelum terram ego impleo In ipso vivimus movemur sumus I fill heaven and Earth In him we live move and are For his power Dixit facta sunt He said and they were made Considerations of the creatures of Almighty God first in generall 1. BY the largeness of the world consider the greatnes of Almighty God 2. The multitude and variety of things with the infinit perfections of God 3. His bounty in the profit they bring unto us 4. His beauty by the beauty of the creatures 5. His wisdom in the well ordering of all things 6. His Eternity in the roundness which hath neither beginning nor end 7. The unity of the world shewing that God is only one The creatures in particular their beginnings and continuance which is of God 1. The end thereof to wit his honour and the service of creatures 2. Of what and how they were made by his only word and power 3. The qualities and effects of these creatures the reverence they use unto God and his perfections The benefits in brief of Almighty God 1. Who hath don you the benefit 2. Who hath moved him to do it 3. Wherfore he hath don it unto you 4. How great the benefit is 5. How much you are obliged therby 6. How ungratefull you have been What you ought to do in the time to come with the benefits of Almighty God in particular 1. First how God hath predestinated us in perpetuall love before the world was 2. How he hath made man like to himself 3. Given you a body of most seemly features void of all defformity 4. Made your soul immortall and adorned it with three powers 5. Appointed an Angell to keep and defend you 6. Made you to be born of Christian parents and members of the Church The benefit of our Redemption 1. First sent us his well beloved son to be our Redeemer and example 2. By Baptisme purged you from orignal sin and restored you the vesture of originall justice 3. Fortified you with the Sacrament of Confirmation wherby he hath armed you against your enemies 4. Made you a Christian and therby the child of God and coheire of his Kingdome 5. Hath given the holy Ghost in token of adoption of love communicating unto you his benefits inspirations and fruits 6. Lastly the Sacraments of Confession and Communion as a refuge in all Spirituall relapses and necessities The benefit of vocation 1. First the patience of Almighty God with you you falling so often after so many great benefits received long expecting your return and not letting you dy in an evill state 2. Sought to recall you by inward inspirations admonitions and exhortations 3. Mollified your heart giving you a good will to vertue and removed such impediments as might withdraw you from him 4. Lovingly received you at your return as the Father did his prodigall child putting on you the stole of innocency which you had lost by sin 5. Hath called you from the vanities and miseries of the world as he did Lot from Sodom 6. What great plenty of means he hath given you in Religion wherby you may satisfy for your sins increase your crown and merit The benefit of justification 1. First how God hath changed your will and moved you to do pennance made bitter things sweet and that which was unsupportable to be easy unto you 2. Secondly he hath given unto you perseverance in his feare and love many beginning well have failed in the end to their condemnation 3. Thirdly he hath given to you the Evangelicall vertues of hope and grace to persever in your good purposes to avoid vice and labour for vertue 4. Fourthly hath left the holy scriptures and devout books wherein as in a glass you may behold your defects and imperfections 5. Fiftly the examples of Martyrs Confessours Virgins and
J confess before thee and will acknowledge to all the world that J am the most vile and unprofitable of all creatures 5. O my God there is not on earth to be found a creature so disloyall and ungratefull as J am unto thee 6. J am not worthy to look up to heaven and much less to possesse the same 7. If the greatest sinner in the world had those inspirations and daily means of vertue which J o Lord confess to have J verily think he would not be so wretched as J am Tuesday Confidence 1. ALthough every moment deare JESUS J commit many imperfections yet J hope by thy help to attain to Christian perfection 2. My sweet Saviour if J committed all the sins and crimes which have been from the beginning of the world yet would J be confident of pardon 3. J hope most firmely O son of God my Redeemer by thy holy merits and Sacraments to enjoy eternall life 4. O infinit clemency was there ever any sinner that truly asked pardon to whom you denied it 5. My sweet Saviour if all creatures both in heaven and earth should tell me that thou hadst forsaken me and didst refuse to help me yet J would not beleeve them 6. O sweet JESU albeit the furies in Hell together with all the afflictions of this life should torment me yet would J trust in thee 7. O good JESUS thou that said'st Aske and it shall be given beleeve and you shall receive J humbly beg and unfainedly confide in thy goodnes whatsoever is necessary for me either spirituall or corporall thou wilt give me Wednsday Poverty 1. O My Lord J desire no riches ease or sensuall delights but only the love of thee 2. O that J had a thousand worlds with all the fained pleasures thereof not to possesse but willingly to leave for the love of thee 3. Most deare Lord J will possess nothing but thee and what J have only for thy sake 4. O dearest spouse all riches without thee are unto me unsupportable poverty joy sorrow ease paine consolation a consuming grief 5. O my sweet Saviour that was 't both in life and death so poor and naked of all things for thee I most willingly embrace the want of what is necessary for corporall life and health 6. My sweetest Jesu which was 't so poor and free from the posession of your will even in the repugnance of death for thee I entirely forsake my own will and sence to the consummation of my life 7. O my dearest Saviour that Wouldst not admit in all thy torments the least comfort I beseech thee make me so perfectly poore as for thy love I entertain no unnecessary consolation Thursday Gratitude 1. O my good God I render thee eternall thanks for all thy gifts both of grace and nature bestowed on me and on all creatures 2. O most liberall God thou hast don to me above all I can ask or desire 3. O my Saviour what shall J render for all those numberlesse benefits which I have and continually do receive from thee 4. O deare Saviour in gratitude for all thy mercies towards me I offer and beseech thee to accept of my heart and soule with what else thou hast bestowed on me 5. O my Creatour and deare Redeemer that I could be gratfull unto thee 6. Teach me my God to render thee such thanks as may be most acceptable unto thee 7. O would to God I had the gratitude of creatures both in heaven and earth to offer up unto thee my onely good but all being too little I beg thou wilt thy self supply these wants Friday Obedience and Resignation 1. O Most benigne Lord let me but know what you would have me to do 2. Sweete Jesus I offer my self both in time and Eternity most entirely to accomplish thy will 3. Although J should be lost yet if it be thy will for love of thee I most willingly yield to live in continuall affliction and torment 4. I offer my self with all my heart my sweete Saviour in what I may possibly in body life and soule to be disposed of by thy blessed will and pleasure 5. Behold sweet Lord for love of thee I abandon and deny my senses renounce my understanding and wholy forsake my self to prove and accomplish thy holy will 6. Most deare God for thy sake I firmly purpose rather to dy a thousand deaths then once to be disobedient to thee 7. O good Jesus when shall I see that happy houre wherein by perfect obedience and entire Resignation I shall wholy live in thee and thou in me Saturday Love of neighbour 1. MOst mercifull Lord I beseech thy infinit goodnes so to illuminate the hearts of all sinners that they may be truly penitent for their sins to seek thee with all care who art the onely God 2. I beseech thee my sweet Lord by the bowels of thy infinit mercies that all such as seek after ambition and earthly delights may turn all their affections to love thee 3. Grant sweet Jesus through the merits of thy bitter Passion that all those for whom thou hast suffered may reape the benefit thereof 4. Most mercifull Lord I humbly beseech thee to comfort all afflicted soules 5 Most sweet Saviour give such grace and vertue unto all creatures as they may be truly conformable unto thy holy will 9. Most mercifull God release for thy own sake and thy B. Mother's all those who either in Earth or Purgatory thou dost by justice punish Sunday Love of Almighty God 1. TAke form me O sweet Saviour that which separateth me so farr from thee 2. Purge my soule O Lord from all sin and imperfection by which it is defiled and made unworthy of thy Image 3. Behold O my God I hate and detest with all my heart even the least offence that ever I have committed against thy divine Majesty 4. Forgive sweet Saviour all that which justly thou mightest lay to my charge for that now I desire to be perfectly united unto thee 5. My sweetest Lord as a channell of all uncleannesse desirous to be purified I present my self unto thee 6. O Eternall God I beseech thee that I who am the least of all creatures may by perfect love of thee be elevated above all created things and my spirit only satisfied in thee 7. What shall I render thee my beloved Lord for all thou hast bestowed on me that am but dust and ashes and yet thou hast made all things for me Aspirations for every day in the Weeke upon the Passion of our blessed Saviour Munday Contrition 1. O Vile and most detestable sin by which I have so oft betrayed and sold thee my Eternall Father yea even for a momentary pleasure 2. O that I had never by ingratitude bound thy liberall hands and therby deprived my self of thee and of thy will and mercifull pleasure in me 3. O my soule unto what streights have thy sins and offences brought thy Saviour would to God I had some
seas of teares to shed for having thus often cruelly tormented thee 4 O if it had been thy will my sweetest Jesu I wish I might have endured not only temporall but endless pains rather then have caused the least part of thy affliction 5. O Sacred wounds of my dearest Saviour in revenge of my cruelty wound my heart with ten thousand darts of true remorse 6. O sin how deformed and unjust art thou that thus has't defiled the beauty of heaven and crucifyed my Immaculate Jesus 7. O that I might with a thousand millions of lives and infinit seas of blood blot out of my soule the guilt of thy death and Passion 8. Sweet Jesus ingulfe and drown me in thy sacred wounds that there I may learn to love Tuesday Compassion 1. O That I could shed for thee my Lord so many teares as the sea contains drops of water in true compassion of thy torments 2. O who will give water to my head and a fountain of teares to my eyes to weep upon thee the love of my soule 3. O love and only comfort of my heart what consolation hadst thou in all thy torments 4. Alas my well beloved why am not J alwaies present to suffer with thee at least by compassion on thy pains 5. My sweet JESUS O that I might be crucified with thee 6. O love of my soule that I might have had the priviledge of the launce to have rested in thy heart 7. My dearest Saviour permit me the favour to remain at the foot of thy Cross to the end that I may weep continually sigh bleed cry and consume in compassion of thee 8. Give me an endless spring of teares to wash away the sacred blood of my sweetest love which still issueth as flowing rivers from thee Wensday Imitation 1. O Most sweet JESUS give me grace in imitation of thy sacred Passion most willingly to undergoe the burthen of this transitory life 2. For that thou hast suffered so many and cruell torments for my sake let me never O mercifull God fly any tribulation which thou shalt vouchsafe to send me by thy self or others 3. My Jesus to accompany thee in thy manifold afflictions I would be glad not onely to endure the wants which thou sendest me but seek others and never be satisfied in suffering with thee 4. In imitation of thy nakedness reproaches and whippings at the pillar I will endeavour to strip my self of all inordinate desires and affections 5. I will continually follow thee my dearest Saviour with the Crosse of perfect obedience and never for any difficulty leave the same till I come to dy with thee 6. O my Eternall God that wouldst for my sake be nailed to the Cross let me by true mortification be alwaies crucified with thee 7. My loving spouse I beseech thee that with a full renunciation of my self and perpetuall death of all earthly things I may irrevocably dy with thee Thursday Thanksgiving 1. WHat thanks shall I yield unto thee my Eternall life who wouldst endure unspeakeable torments to free me from the snare and fetters of death 2. All you seraphins and celestiall Spirits with whatsoever hath been created praise my Redeemer for the unspeakeable price of my Redemption 3. O my soule how can'st thou devise to render the least part of due gratitude unto thy Jesus who hath by his own humility so much exalted thee 4. O let me ever acknowledge my deare Saviour that endless bond of gratitude which thy Passion alone exacteth of me 5. Sweet JESUS that I could incessantly love thee for these inestimable treasures which thou by thy torments hast purchased unto me 6. Good IESUS since I have nothing but my self to offer in requitall of thy infinit love I beseech thee to accept in love and gratitude what by-right is thy own 7. O eternall God that I had a thousand hearts and lives to offer unto thee who by thy death hast given and bequeathed thy self to me 8. Grant sweet IESUS that thy dolorous death and Passion be ever imprinted in my heart my true thankfulness and imitation thereof Friday Admiration O My God who art thou who hast endured so many and cruell torments sweet and dearest love hast thou forgotten thy Majesty and glory 2. O light of heaven and splendour of thy Fathers glory unto what art thou now reduced 3. Alas my Saviour what art thou who art so despightfully treated 4. O love of loves that through the excess of thy love thou wouldst for me endure so bitter a death 5. O love how strong art thou which with thy force surmounted'st him that by no other means may be overcome 6. O incomprehensible God for whom dost thou suffer but for miserable sinners ungratefull creatures thy enemies children of the divell and those who contemn thee 7. O dearest love that my heart is not pierced with thy dolours 8. What were it o Lord if I had all the loves of the world to unite and offer unto thee 9. My sweet IESUS if I could reduce all thy drops of blood into teares of love what were it compared unto thy love Saturday Ioy. 1. My heart and soule rejoyce and praise the mercies of my God who out of his infinit love hath died to give thee life 2. O my delight what joy will it give to my heart to receave that life that infinit good through the merits of thy most bitter and dolorous passion 3. Sweet JESUS I praise thee with eternall joy for having in thy most cruell death so perfectly accomplished the work of our Redemption 4. It was by thee O beloved Cross that peace hath been established between God and man 5. O triumphant glory and most puissant King who by thy most sacred death hast overcome the Prince of Hell and delivered our soules out of his bondage 6. O Heaven Earth sea and all things therein yield praises in our behalf unto the saviour of our soules and let us rejoyce in the merits of his sacred passion 7. If all my members were tongues O how willingly would I employ them in the praise of thee my sweet saviour and thy health-bringing wounds 8. O all yee celestiall spirits assist me to love and praise my God by the vertue of whose Passion your ruins are repaired 9. Sweet JESUS what glory and comfort is it unto human nature to be exalted in thee unto the right hand of thy Eternall father Sunday Love 1. When shall it be my crucified JESUS that both the senses of my body and powers of my soule shall be wholy employed in thy praise 2. O my JESUS when by perfect love and imitation shall I be daily crucified and continually dy with thee 3. O my beloved JESUS when shall I love thee in such sort as that thy sacred wounds be by burning love imprinted in my heart 4. O my beloved JESUS when wilt thou bring me into the wine cellar of thy blessed side and make me wholy drunke with the most sacred wine which floweth from
3. How JESUS thus adorned is led forth by Pilate shown to the Jewes with Behold à Man O sad Spectacle Yet still they cry Crucify Him Oh! the heavy weight of my sins Affect Oh my JESU that I could obey Thee even to loss of life Resolve To practise Obedience shun Sloath c. FRYDAY Carrying the Cross CONS 1. How JESUS thus derided whipped crowned goes forth carrying the Cross whereon he is to be sacrifized for thy Sins 2. What shouts of joy the Jewes make after Him through the streets of Jerusalem thus is Innocency despised 3. How the devout woemen meet bewaile Him thy hard heart sheds not one Teare amidst these his sorows or for thy own sins Affect Oh my JESU that I could abandon all sensuall satisfactions for the Love of Thee Resolve To practise Temperance shun Gluttony c. SATURDAY Crucifying of Iesus CONS 1. How JESUS with much pain shame arrived to Mount Calvary is again uncloath'd thus all his soares are renewed My Sins not blotted out by Repentance shall one day be disclosed to the whole World 2. How they streatch thy JESUS upon the Cross fastning him with nayles therunto then raise him up where he hangs between two theeves Oh what ignominy 3. How He there hangs for the space of three houres reviled by Jews Gentiles forsaken by his Disciples drenched with gall vineger peirced to the heart with a speare yet He prays for his Enemies Enter make thy aboade in that love-wounded-Heart Affect Oh my JESU that I could imitate Thee in the purity of thy Life Doctrine Resolve To practise Modesty shun All contrary Therunto c. A Method for Meditation 1. PReparation hath 3. parts Presence of God Choyce of matter and Invocation 2. Meditation it self hath 3. parts Consideration Affection and resolution 3. Conclusion hath 3. parts Thanks-Giving Oblation and Prayer A Prayer before Meditation O my God my Sovereign my Creatour and my All I here most humbly prostrate my self with the profoundest adoration J am possibly capable of before your devine Majesty earnestly imploring à continuance of your blessings vpon me your poor needy Creature and that you would be pleased out of your infinite bounty by meanes of your holy spirite so to illuminate my vnderstanding inflame my will recollect from distractions and strengthen in good resolutions all the powers of my soule as that J may worthily attentively and devoutly performe this sublime exercise of mentall prayer J am now vndertaking to your honour and glory the comfort of my own distressed soule the joy of the Saints in heaven and the edification of men on earth thro' your mercyes the meritts of my Blessed Saviour and the inspirations of your Coelestiall Paraclet Amen A Prayer after Meditation BEhold O my God Behold o my most patient and merciful Lord how J have passed over this time of Meditation and treating with thee with how much negligence sloth coldnes and distraction and with how litle feeling of thy good motions within me but thou O Lord knowest all my infirmities and Miseries and therfore J crave of thee pardon for them J thank thee also most heartily and humbly for all the good thoughts and suggestions which have presented themselves to my mind in time of this my meditation as most holy Embassadours sent from thy heavenly Throne to deale with me for the gaining of thy kingdome whos blessed voices and most profitable speeches J beseech thy divine goodnes to give me grace to imprint in my heart and seeke to put in execution in the cours of my life to come to the end that my judgment and Damnation be not the more grievous in respect of thes thy Benefits but rather that my life being mended therby and my soul stirr'd up to more zeale of thy service J may be finally made partaker with thy true Children of that eternall blïss which thou hast prepared for such os love feare and serve thee and yeeld obedience to those holy inspirations which thou sendest them for their eternal happines Amen A Table of dayly Patrons Meditations Vertues vices and Intentions Day Patron Meditation Vertue Vice Intentions Sund. H. Angels washing feet Charity Envie For the H. church Mund. Apostles Prayer in the Garden Humility Pride For Vnion of Christian Princes Tuesd Martyrs Mocking Self denyall Self love For benefactors Wednesd Bishops Whipping Patience Anger For Religious orders Thursd Doctors Crowning Obedience Sloath. For conversion of Infidells Frid. Confessors Carrying the Cross Temperāce Gluttony For soules departed Saturd Virgins Crucifying Modestie Impurity For distressed persōs