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A72089 The practise of Christian workes. Written in Spanish by the R. Father Francis Borgia, sometymes Duke of Gandia, and the third generall of the Society of Iesus. Togeather with a short rule, how to live well. Englished by a father of the same society. VVhereunto are adioyned certaine pious meditations vpon the beades: translated also out of the Spanish Borja, Francisco de, Saint, 1510-1572.; Everard, Thomas, 1560-1633.; Cresswell, Joseph, 1556-1623. 1620 (1620) STC 11315; ESTC S124739 63,056 286

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of all purity which so louest it in soules made to thy in owne Image that to clense them from syn thou hast washed them with thy precious bloud neuer suffer me to loose the beauty of thy grace And graunt to all synners that haue lost the same true sorrow repentance Amen Credo in Deum A Coronary or Crowne with the principall Mysteries of the life death of Iesus Christ our Sauiour A Prayer to the B. Trinity O Diuine and indiuiduall Trinity who hast manifested thy Iustice and Mercy and withall thy infinite Power wisdome and Goodnes in the Redemption of mankynd more then in all the other works which thou hast done teach me the Soueraigne mysteryes examples of the life and Passion of my Redeemer that I may worthily reuerence them and procure to imitate them for thy loue Amen 1. To the Omnipotency of the Father Aue Maria. 2. To the infinite wisdome of the Sonne Aue Maria. 3. And to the incomprehensible goodnes of the Holy Ghost Aue Maria. A prayer in honor of the Mother of God proper to the first Decade 1. O Eternal Prouidēce who didst work this so great and incomprehensible a wonder by giuing to the Diuyne word a Mother of the Children of Adam make me worthy to serue her with all humility and purity of hart Pater Noster 1. In honor of her immaculate Conception Aue Maria. 2. To her birth so much desired of mankind Aue Maria. 3. To her Presentation in the Temple Aue Maria. 4. How she cooperating carefully with the diuyne inspirations increaseth continually in vertue and grace Aue Maria. 5. By consenting with faith humility to the embassage from heauen God is incarnate and she becommeth mother remayning a Virgin Aue Maria. 6. She goeth with diligence vp to the mountaynes to congratulate with S. Elizabeth her cosen Aue Maria. 7. And with her presence and voyce S. Iohn exulteth his mother receyueth the spirit of prophesy Aue Maria. 8. The Virgin Queene in the house of Zachary imployeth her selfe in workes of Charity and humility Aue Maria. 9. S. Ioseph wondereth at that which he seeth and remayneth perplexed vntill the Angell reuealeth to him the Mystery Aue Maria 10. Such a new and incomparable worke required approbation from heauen and an Angel for witnes although the conuenience be manifest that God becomming man should be born of a Virgin mother Aue Maria. A prayer to the infancy of Christ 2. O Prince of all Eternity thy Fathers best beloued whom Legions of Angells do serue in heauen seeing thou vouchsafest to come downe to earth reason it is that all thy Creatures should go forth to meet thee and serue thee admit me o Lord for one of the meanest seruants of thy family Pater Noster 1. He that of nothing made and vpholdeth all that is created is borne poore and naked in a stable at Bethleem Aue Maria. 2. His Angells sing to him glory and peace vpon earth to men of good conscience Aue Maria. 3. The eighth day he sheadeth his bloud and taketh the shape of a synner And his Father honoreth him with the name of Iesus which signifieth a Sauiour Aue Maria. 4. Heauen proclaymeth him King Herod is troubled And heathen Princes guided by a star come from far contries to do him homage Aue Maria. 5. His Parents offer him in the Temple And where Symeon and Anne foretel his conflicts and victoryes Aue Maria. 6. With the cruell and lamentable death of the Innocents his byrth is published to all nations Aue Maria. 7. Aegypt receaueth imbraceth the King of heauen earth whome Iury persecuteth Aue Maria. 8. The Angell signifieth the death of his Persecutors And the Child returneth to Nazareth Aue Maria. 9. He discouereth his Diuine wisdome to the Doctors in the Temple and subiecteth himselfe with al obedience to his parents Aue Maria. 10. He liueth retired eighteene yeares in Nazareth to teach vs to liue vnknown when it is conuenient to expect due season for all our workes Aue Maria. A Prayer to Christ as the Guide Example of our life 3. O Soueraigne Doctor syth the tyme is come wherin thou art pleased to discouer thy Eternall secretes vnto men Make me a worthy disciple of thy heauenly doctryne Pater Noster 1. The tyme being come for him to performe his office he leaueth the comfort of his Mother his house quietnes to serue the common good Aue M. 2. He passeth alone to the riuer Iordan where S. Iohn Baptist discouereth him And they contend in acts of humility Aue Ma. 3. The heauens open themselues and the holy Ghost descendeth vpō him in a visible forme And the Eternall Father acknoledgeth him for this Sonne And commaundeth vs to heare him Aue Maria. 4. The great Maister of pennance retyreth himselfe to the desert to teach vs the same by his example and to be beginne our works with prayer And there he ouercommeth the infernall Spirit Aue Maria. 5. After he had vanquished the infernal enemy that tempted him the Angells come to adore and serue him Aue Maria. 6. He entertayneth the disciples of Saynt Iohn And with his curtesy sweetnes obligeth them to his seruice Aue Maria. 7. He sheweth compassion vpon synners And fatherly care of his subiects Aue Maria. 8. His patience in all corporall wants and incommodities Aue Maria. 9. His meeknes in the wrongs and calumniations of his enemyes Aue Maria. 10. His miraculous works for the benefit of man returning alwaies good for euil Aue Maria. A prayer to Christ in the sorrowes of his Passion 4. O Louing Maister most faythful only friend seeing thou giuest me leaue to call thee by this Name giue me also leaue and courage to accompany thee as a friend with loyalty and loue in all the passages of thy Passion Pater Noster 1. Hauing fynished the Sacrifices and ceremonyes of the old Law with the Paschall Lambe he washeth the feete of his disciples and of Iudas the Traytor Aue Maria. 2. He leaueth vs for a memoryall and pledge of his infinite loue the new and admirable Sacrament of his pretious body bloud Aue Maria. 3. He ouercometh all humane infirmities with the force of prayer And perseuereth in the same sweating bloud Aue Maria. 4. He sheweth his omnipotency before he permitteth himselfe to be taken that his enimies might see it was his will to suffer Aue Maria. 5. That night the Iewes treated him vnworthily and cruelly in the place of Iudgment and for reason of State conspired his death as they thought to saue their Commonwealth which they came to loose for this very same syn Aue Maria. 6. In the morning they accuse him before the heathen President who admiring his magnanimity patience laboureth to set him free Aue Maria. 7. He is despised of Herod and by him attyred with contempt bycause he answereth not to his curiosityes Aue Maria. 8. They teare his
THE PRACTISE OF Christian Workes Written in Spanish by the R. Father FRANCIS BORGIA sometymes Duke of Gandia and the third Generall of the Society OF IESVS Togeather with a short Rule How to liue well Englished by a Father of the same Society VVhereunto are adioyned certaine pious Meditations vpon the Beades ●r●nslated also out of the Spanish IHS Permissu Superiorum M.DC.XX TO THE RIGHT REVEREND AND RELIGIOVS MOTHER CLARA MARIANA ABBESSE OF THE ENGLISH POORE CLARES IN GRAVELING RIGHT REVEREND AND RELIGIOVS MOTHER IF I Should mak choice of any other thē of your Selfe to present this Booke of The Practise of Christian VVorkes vnto I should not only not discharge my debt of singular affection vnto You but also seeme to commit an offence euen against the Authours owne desire and intention For since in the language wherein he first wrote it it was dedicated to his Aunt the worthy Abbesse of the famous monastery of your Order at Gandia in Spaine it may seeme that now first appearing in English it should by a pious consequence be due vnto you that are Abbesse of the only English Monastery of that Holy Order at this day remayning in the world And when withall I consider how far my selfe am growne indebted for the many benefits I haue receaued frō your selfe and your holy Family I am out of hope to satisfy for the present the least thereof and so am forced to excuse my selfe by paying this interest vntill I may be better able to discharge the principall In this little Booke is contained a methode of Meditation much matter of singular piety and deuotion both for practise speculation sufficient to inflame not only your already enkindled Hart but also many others who desire that the celestiall incense of Prayer may burne continually on the altar of their soule I shall not need to say any thing of the Authour whose rare vertues are so known to the World as they require none of my prayses since my pen should but blot the fayre paper of his Worth if I should goe about to blazon them I haue the more willingly commended this Treatise to your Protection hoping that your the deuotions of your holy family wil giue it new force that now translated into English it may produce no lesse copious fruite then it hath done in the originall Spanish and other languages Accept then Right Reuerend Religious Mother this poore mite in testimony of my true affection which I trust shall heerafter appeare in a more aboundant manner when my ability shall find a more fortunate subiect wherby to expresse and shew my selfe Your R. euer humble seruant in Christ Iesus I. W. THE EPISTLE of the Authour To the Right Reuerend and Religious Abbesse of the Monastery of S. Clare at Gandia his deare Aunt and Lady in Christ WHERAS my desire Right Reuerend Mother was in some part to giue you satisfaction for the many troubles and afflictions which by my sinnes I haue caused you I thought I could not do it better by any other way then by good workes But finding thē wholy wanting in my selfe I began to thinke how I might come to attaine thereto by practice and meditating on the most holy works of Christ our Sauiour hoping by his merits and examples to be at last able to do some good therein And therefore in this Treatise which I call An Exercise of Christian workes I haue gathered and set down some things which seeme to me may in part serue for the making you that satisfaction whereof I spake before These most respected Mother I now adresse present to you beseeching you to assist me with your prayers therein since of my selfe I am in that kind so weake and insufficient as I dare not aduenture to make you recompēce without your owne help And no lesse indeed doe you owe if not to me yet at least to your Lord and Maister Christ Iesus who offered himselfe vp to his Heauenly Father vpon the Crosse for our sinnes And seeing as the Holy Prophet sayth God rendreth to euery one according to his workes we must imbrace that counsaile of the Apostle when he admonisheth vs to worke and do good towards all whilst we haue tyme For the night will come saith S. Iohn when none can worke Wherefore as soone as any good worke is conceaued and approued by the iudgment of Reason and so admitted and accepted of the Will as that it be determined to do what may be most to the glory of God or profit of our Neighbour it must diligently and without delay be put in practise and execution For if we neglect to do good when we may and are able great domage will returne vnto vs thereby and better had it byn not to haue made any purpose therof at al then afterward not to fullfill or neglect the same It is a common saying that Hell is full of good desires howbeit I hould that there is not a more soueraign antidote or more present remedy against euil then the dayly exercise of good workes For if a man haue sinned they help him greatly towardes the giuing ouer and forsaking of sinne if he be to make satisfaction he cannot performe it better then by good works if he haue a desire of perseuerance in doing well he may not better or more readily effect it then by good workes For as the Wiseman sayth they that worke in me shall not sinne And we are to take example of the Prophet Isay who sayth in like manner My worke is with God and all our workes are to be done in God and referred to his glory for so they will be stable and permanent for euer And because our works cannot be pleasing vnto God but by Christ therfore let vs offer them vnto him accompanied with the workes of his only dearely beloued Sonne Iesus our Sauiour that by his merits and grace they may be admitted into the sight of God For Christ did put on our pouerty that he might cloath vs with his riches and vouchsafed to walke eate fast sleep watch to do like workes for our profit that we might offer them to his Father and by that oblation reape vnto our soules no small vtility And though euery one according to his particuler talent giuen him by God may profit more or lesse by the exercise of Christian Workes without this direction of ours yet haue we thought it not amisse to set downe in the ensuing Treatise some few thinges touching this point that may at least instruct and giue light to the ruder sort in matters of spirit and deuotion THE TABLE of the Contentes The Preface pag. 1. The first Exercise pag. 3. The second Exercise pag. 11. The III. Exercise VVherin is deliuered how a soule may confound it selfe by consideration of those thinges that are vnder earth pag. 24. The IIII. Exercise wherin is declared how we ought to confound our selues by the consideration of those things that we see vpon earth pag.
and therefore eate in sorrow and say with the Prophet My teares were to me bread both day and night 2. Thanke him that for you who were ingratefull for the benefit of dinner he hath prepared a supper 3. Craue of him that by that charity wherwith he gaue himselfe in his last supper he may prepare and dispose vs that we may humbly receaue him and be euer vnited vnto him with the band of charity 1. When you pray at your going to bed be confounded for that when as Christ did vpon his Crosse powre out prayer with so great both loue and sorrow for you yet you loue him but a little and sorrow for him lesse 2. Thanke him for this that he dyeth and that you liue 3. And craue of him that by that heauines which himself felt dying and his mother also had seeing him to dye he will please to grant vs this that both at our owne death we may remember his that for his death our death may be accepted of his eternall father 1. When at your going to bed you put off your cloaths be confounded for that you desire to rest in bed and without your cloathes also when as Christ did for you both sleep in his cloaths and had not where to repose and lay downe his head 2. Giue him thanks for that by those thinges which he suffered for you he despoiled you off your concupiscence 3. Finally craue of him that by the payne which he felt when being to be crucifyed he was stripped off his cloathes he may strip vs of our euill habits of mind and conditions that naked of earthly thinges we may imbrace the Crosse and dying vpon it may deserue that nuptial garment which the eternal Father hath prepared for all those that loue him THE II. EXERCISE AND because it would be long to accommodate the forme and manner of this exercise to all our works that which hath beene sayd may serue to shew vnto vs how other things may be addressed according to the same rule And if any shall please further to exercise himself in other things he may vse this forme and manner following 1. When he standeth let him remember Christ standing before Pilate the Iudge 2. When he sitteth let him consider Christ sitting when the wicked mocking him sayd Haile King of Iewes 3. When he walketh let him thinke vpon Christ passing through Samaria and going vp to the Mount of Caluary 4. When he is weary let him contemplate Christ wearied of his iourney and sitting vpon the Well 5. When he rideth on horsback let him reflect vpon Christ sitting vpon an Asse and entring into the Citty of Hierusalem 6. When he visiteth the sicke let him remēber Christ visiting and healing the sicke 7. When his good workes are found fault with let him cal to his remembrance the Iewes accusation and their murmuring against Christ for healing on the Sabbaoth day 8. When any one giueth him a sharpe and churlish answere let him thinke on that answere made vnto Christ when it was sayd Doest thou answere the High Priest so And that blow which the wicked minister gaue Christ vpon his most sacred face 9. When he is angry let him cal to remembrance that hunger which our Sauiour endured in the desert 10. When he is a cold let him remember Christ trembling for cold in the manger 11 When he is a thirst of Christ thirsting vpon the crosse 12. When he is awaked frō sleep of Christ awaked by his Apostles when he was a sleep in the ship 13. When he is in diuers accidents abandoned o● friendes o● Christ forsaken of his discipls leauing him and running from him 14. When he departeth frō friendes of our Sauiours going from his Mother to his Passion 15. When his good workes are detracted of the detraction of the Iewes when they sayd of our Sauiour In the prince of the Diuells he casteth out Diuells 16. When he suffereth contumely or reproachfull wordes openly of our Sauiour brought forth before the people by Pilate when he sayd Behold the man 17. When he is falsly accused of Christ falsly accused in Caiphas his house 18. When he suffereth iniury of Christ most vniustly condemned 19. When sorrow paine or sicknes troubleth a man let him remember Christ scourged at the Pillar crowned with thornes and nayled vpon the Crosse where there was not any whol or sound part in him from the sole of the foot to the crown of his head 20. Finally when he is at the point of death let him think vpon Christ dying and recommēding his spirit into the hands of his Father And thus may a man in al thinges offer himselfe to Christ whome he remembreth either to haue done or to haue suffered the like And so of these and the like effects he who shall out of charity diligently exercise himselfe in this manner may profit himselfe much And because we haue hitherto for the most part layd downe and proposed examples only of external things without we haue thought good to add some few also of things internall or within and that especially for spirituall persons who are not molested with the troubles and trauailes of body so much as with those of spirit 1. Wherfore when he seeth that the counsaile which out of his charity he giueth his neighbour is not accepted of let him remember that Christ gaue coūsaile to many and yet they contemned it 2. When he seeth God euery where offended and he is grieued and angry thereat let him remember that Christ was once much mooued at those who bought and sold within the Temple and thereupon draue them out with a whip 3. When he seeth some spirituall friend of his to giue ouer the way of vertue let him consider what our Sauiour thought and felt in himselfe when he saw Iudas to abandone and forsake the way of truth 4. When he considereth how few Pastours there be in Gods house who exercise their functiō charge as they ought let him call to memory what Christ thought when he sayd The haruest is indeed great but the workemen few and for that cause how sorely he wept 5. When he is sorry and grieued for his owne defects let him consider that our Lord saw them before they were and was sorry for them 6. When he seeth any fallen from the state of perfection let him call to remembrance how sorry our Sauiour was for S. Peters fall who had before confessed him to be the Sonne of God and had seene his Transfiguration vpon the Mount 7. When he is troubled and pressed with tentations let him call to mind the tentations that our Sauiour endured in the desert 8. When he seeth the society and company of the good displeasing to the bad let him consider how Christ was afflicted in mind when the Gerasens to whome moued out of his charity and goodnes he came desired him to depart from them 9. When he is sorry at his neighbours sinnes let him remember how