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A28645	The soliloquies of St. Bonaventure containing his four mental exercises and also his treatise called, A bundle of myrrh, concerning the passion of our Saviour : with XII spirituall exercises of the said St. Bonaventure.	Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, ca. 1217-1274.	1655 (1655)	Wing B3555; ESTC R27893	73,818	360

Christ but let it be by the ascendings before spoken of that thou maiest here leave vice because no vice ascendeth with our Saviour as Saint Augustine saith After that our Lord sent from Heaven the Holy Ghost in fiery tongues See and behold how the Apostles were afterwards comforted and grounded in Charity Meditate why the Holy Ghost appeared in fire why in tongues why in both together and why in the forme of other Creatures and study to obtaine in thy selfe the proprieties of such things Consider the effects and gifts of the Holy Ghost and many other such like things concerning the sending of the Holy Ghost and the signes of him fighting against Gluttony to witt sleep hardnesse of heart Idlenesse Malapartness of laughter contradiction and Insensibility SPIRITUALL EXERCISES IN this little work our Author proposeth thirteen spirituall Exercises and to the last he annexeth a certaine short forme taken out of Saint Bernard whereby we may climbe from Externall to the Internall and from these to the supernall All which truly by how much the shorter they are proposed of the Author by so much the oftner they ought to be exercised o● us That thou mayest be preserved in vertues it is necessary for thee to have spirituall exercises wherewith thou mayest employ thy mind because unlesse thou dost so thou canst not persevere in vertues First therefore thou shalt exercise thy selfe in Prayer after this manner and feruently at these times Before the beginning of every work or Act thou shalt cal upon our Lord and shalt pray a little with some such short Prayer O God make hast to help me Have mercy on me O God or the like Also whensoever thou hearest the Bell to toule thou shalt pray or when thou hearest it to strike the houres fervently thou shalt make secretly within thy selfe these Prayers and thou shalt do it so that though thou be nere unto others they shall not perceive that thou prayest Thy second Exercise shall be this to wit that thou earnestly determine whensoever thou hearest the Bell toule generally to amend thy selfe and pray to God that thou mayest Before thou beginnest any notable work thou shalt briefly consider how thou hast determined to carry thy selfe in thy former purpose In like manner every morning thou maist consider how thou wouldest behave thy self the whole day and this before thou dost thy outward Actions and when thou dost any Act thou shalt briefly weigh how thou hast purposed Also three or four times a day thou must vehemently set thy self against Pride Thy third Exercise shal be the meditation of some good thing when time admitteth For thou shalt have every day one speciall memoriall whereof thou shalt often think and to what course thou intendest For on Sunday thou shalt have for thy memoriall to think on the Kingdome of Heaven Munday of the last Judgment Tuesday of the benefits of God Wednesday of Death Thursday of the paines of Hell Friday of the passion of our Lord. Saturday of their owne sinnes Nothwithstanding Thou shalt consider every day together of the passion of our Lord with the matter of the day and the benefits of God And in every hour of the morning as of the prime Terse c. thou shalt thinke and consider somthing of the passion of that houre mixt with the matter of the day Thus therefore by purposing and Acting I hope that thou wilt competently spend thy time Thy fourth Excercise shall be That thou dayly exercise thy selfe in humble and abject works alwaies to choose the lowest place and with all thy heart to despise thy self and to esteem thy selfe unworthy any praise but to ascribe all to God nor shalt thou care whether thou art praised or dispraised Be mindfull and look into thy self and thou shalt find that thou art unworthy of any esteeme but most worthy of all Reproach For when thou art neer unto others thou art to carry thy self silently courteously and modestly yet so as it may become thee Thy fift Excercise shall be that thou shunne all signes of Pride to witt clamour in speech and so of all other things The sixth Exercise shall be that thou often consider wherein thou carriest thy self evilly wheresoever thou shalt be and thou shalt not suffer any little vice passe over without Judgement because he that doth not weigh little faults falleth often into greater The 7th Exercise shall be that chiefly wheresoever thou shalt be thou keep a Guard on thy Eyes because from the not looking to them infinite mischeifs and evills proceed Therefore have an especiall care unto thy Eyes The 8th Exercise is to consider the good Actions of others and not the evill For when thou seest or perceivest any one to sinne thou shalt think that if he should have so much Grace from God as thy selfe much more fervently he would amend himselfe then thou And if thou perceivest any one to do any good thou shalt consider how thou maist imitate that good Thy 9th Exercise shall be that all that thou seest and hearest from men that thou Conster it to the best and so thou shalt not be censured Thy 10th Exercise shall be that alwayes wheresoever thou shalt be thou maist carry thy selfe mannerly and decently in thy outward carriage least thou maist give an ill example to others because the externall indecency is a signe of an indevout mind Thy 11th Exercise shall be that alwayes wheresoeuer thou art thou mayest take heed that thou dost not that thing whereby thou maist give an ill example to any one or wherein any may interpret ill of thee because it is very dangerous to shew an ill example to others The 12th Exercise shall be couragiously to resist temptations and to abstaine and withdraw thy selfe from carnall concupiscences because in them there is no health The last shall be that thou maist alwayes stand in feare and carry thy selfe modestly and so keep thy selfe being alone as when thou art with others For God seeth all things which thou dost Thou shalt study to perform these Exercises commonly as much as in thee lyes and thou shalt diligently entreat our Lord that he will give thee grace to do them because without him thou canst do nothing c. I will returne from things externall to the Internall and will ascend from the internall to the supernall that I may know from whence I come or whither I goe what I am and from whence I am that so from the knowledge of my selfe I may be able to come to the knowledge of God For by how much I profit in mine own knowledge by so much the nearer I come to the knowledge of God From whence do I come according to the exteriour man from those Parents who caused me to be damned before I was borne they being sinners have begotten me a sinner in their sinne and in sinne have nursed me what am I A man of a slippery humour for I am in a moment of conception conceived of humane seed moreover this Spume being coagulated by encreasing a little is made flesh afterward lamenting and wailing I am delivered to the exile of this World and behold now I waxing greater am full of Iniquities Incontinently I shall be presented before the severe Judge Then it shall be said of mee behold the man and his works Consider those things more seriously DEO GRATIAS AMEN FINIS

contemplation the comfort of the Celestiall Kingdome forget by contempt and detestation thy People and thy Fathers house that is to say the World the Devill thy selfe and vain Ambition See therefore and devoutly consider how those divine and Heavenly Spirits which have escaped the danger of this present life and misery although they can never convert themselves from that splendour of that eternall Sonne sometimes notwithstanding they convert the light of their contemplation to things below them sometimes to things above themsometimes to things interiour somtimes to things exteriour They convert themselves I say to things below them and rejoyce for three reasons First That they have overcome by the divine power such impious horrible and cruell enemies Secondly that they have avoided all their defects and sins either by the divine wisdome or long ago have amended their faults transgressions Thirdly That they have escaped such lamentabe and eternally interminable torments by the divine mercy and clemency O my Soul With how great Joy thinkest thou do they daily rejoice when they perceiue so many to be overcome of the flesh the world and the devill so many to be defiled with such diversity of sins of which they shall never obtain pardon so many without end eternally to be damned Truly then I beleive to have passed from death to life redoubleth the joy of life O Lord God if the danger in war be now so greivous how great shall the joy be in Triumph when after the world is overcome and utterly vanquished wicked Pharoah and his Army being drowned in the Red Sea all the Elect shall hold their Timbrels playing singing praising and blessing our Lord saying with one voice Let us sing unto our Lord for glorious c. Then two Cherubims shall be framed that is to say two quiers of the elect to wit the Innocenes and Penitents the one answering the other Holy Holy Holy Lord God of the Sabboth Holy God the Father that hast powerfully delivered us from the world the flesh and the devill Holy God the Son which hast so wisely justified us both from the sinne and punishment Holy God the Holy Ghost which hast so mercifully preserved us from the Eternall Torments All the Earth is full of his Glory who hath called us from the misery of the world to the joyes of the celestiall Kingdome O my Soule what a one shall that day be unto thee when thou shalt be assumed into this quier when all thy torments if thou shalt live well if thou wilt patiently suffer shal be converted into Eternall Jubisee Then thou shalt praise with exultation the Lord thy God for all these things saying I will sing the mercies of our Lord for ever Then which Song according to Saint Aug. that is fung to the praise of the glory of Christ by whose precious blood wee are delivered nothing shall be more pleasant to that City nothing more sweet Thou therefore when thou art tryed with Temptations when thou art overcom with Persecutions and when thou art molested in this World with divers Tribulations then mentally fly into Heaven and consider that this is no other thing but the Subject of eternall joy and then the consideration of the Reward lesseneth the violence of the punishment If we would consider what and how great the Rewards are which are promised us in Heaven all things on Earth would seem vile in our mind and truly not only the goods which delightfully we possesse but also the evills which lamentably wee sustain The troubles of this world are not equivalent to the fault past which is forgiven to the present Grace which is bestowed and for the future glory which is promised which thou then O my Soul with joy shalt possess when thou perfectly understandest that thou hast lived in the world with so great danger wherewith the most are oppressed that thou hast overcome the deceitfull wiles of Satan wherewith many are deceived that thou hast escaped the eternall torments wherewith innumerable are afflicted CHAP. II. Of the ineffable Delight SOVLE O Man how sound and wholsome is thy Consolation for when I consider these things which thou hast proposed by hope I receive very much comfort But O Lord God what thinkest thou shal then that be when I shall truly possess that which now I but hope for MAN O My Soule These are but little which thou hast heard yea comparatively they are as none which thou hast mentally perceived but erect the eyes of thy understanding a little and weigh and devoutly consider how great the joyes are which thou shalt perceive by these which are nere unto thee Attend therefore and consider the beautiful place which the divine wisdome hath built for thee Consider also the delicate food the curious bravery the precious Treasure which the eternal power hath gathered for thee Consider likewise the renowned Colledge with whom thy mind shall eternall rejoice by the divine clemency O my Soul consider how glorious how renowned how gladsome that house of God is the Heavenly City the secure mansion the Countrey coutaining all that delighteth Consider how clear how light how glorious that City is which needeth neither Sun nor Moon that they may shine therein but the Lord himselfe the Sun of Justice the Candor of Eternall light is the light thereof and the Lamb is the Lamp thereof O my Soule consider how high and how spacious how fair and how beautifull how comely and how renowned that City is which the most blessed Trinity of himself adorneth O City of God how glorious are the things which are spoken of thee O Israel how magnificent is the house of God and great is the place of his possessions O my Soule contemplate there the Tabernacles of the Patriarcks and Prophets the Habitacles of the Apostles and Martyrs the stately and lofty Chambers of the Confessors and Virgins the Palaces of the most heavenly Spirits that most beautifull Throne of the most blessed Trinity O my Soul though thou art here corporally yet be there mentally O my Soul fly over all things search all things visit all things enter into all the Gates in order untill thou shalt come into the Palaces of the highest King let thy mind St. Aug. be there and here shall be thy rest O my Soule willingly endeavour to be stayed willingly to be conversant in that holy City because there is life without death youth without old age light without darknesse peace without disturbance For my People shall sit in a Tabernacle of confidence and in a rich rest saith our Lord. Secondly consider the delicate food the curious bravery and the pretious treasure And who shall there be out food but that most blessed Lamb that pure and Immaculate Jesus the Son of God the Father of whom they shall administer most excellent dainties to the holy spirits in all sufficiency very excellent truly of the most pure humanity but most of the more then most blessed Divinity For then the soule