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The Christian diurnal Written in French by Fa. Nic. Caussin of the Soc. of Iesus. And translated by T.H.; Journée chrestienne. English
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Caussin, Nicolas, 1583-1651.; T. H. (Thomas Hawkins), Sir, d. 1640.
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indispositioÌ„s we liue in a world greatly corrupted of which may be sayd it is a monster whose Vnderstanding is a pit of darknesse Reason a shop of malice Will a hell where a thousand passions outragiously infect him His eyes are two conduit-pipes of fire from whence fly sparkles of concupiscence his tongue an instrument of maledictioÌ„ his visage a painted Hypocrisy his body a spunge of ordures his â—handes the Talons of Harpies finally seemeth to haue no other faith but infidelity no law but his passion no other God but his owne belly What contentment can it be to liue with such a Monster The seauenth If there be pleasures in life they do nothing but a little slightly ouerflow the hart with a superficial delectatioÌ„ Sadnesse diueth into the bottome of our hart and when it is there you will say it hath feet of lead neuer to forsake the place but pleasure doth sooth vs onely in the outward partes of the skinne and all her sweet waters runne downe with a ful speed into the salt sea Behold wherefore S. Augustiâ—e sayd wheÌ„ any prosperity presented it selfe to his eyes he durst not touch it He looked vpon pleasure as vpoÌ„ a fleeting bird which seemeth as it were ready to be seyzed on and flyeth away as soone as euer he sees himselfe almost surprized The eight Pleasures are borne in the senses like abortiues are consumed in their birth Their desires are full of disturbaÌ„ces their accesse is of violent forced and turbulent agitations Their satiety is forced with shame repentance they passe away after they haue wearied the body leaus it like a bunch of grapes the iuyce wherof is crushed out by the presse as sayth S. Bernard They hold it a goodly matter to extend their fullnesse it must end with life and it is a great hazard if during life it selfe they serue not their Host for an Executioner I see no greater pleasure in this world then the contempt of pleasure Nulla maior voluptas quam voluptatisfastidium sayth Tertullian The ninth Man which wasteth his tyme in pleasures when they are slipped away much like waters engendred by a storme findeth himselfe abandoned as a Pilgrime despoyled by a theefe So many golden haruests which tyme presented vnto him are passed and the rust of a heauy Age furnisheth him with nothing but sorrow to haue done ill and inabilities of doing well what then remayneth to be sayd but as the miserable King who gaue his scepter for a glasse of water Alas must I for so short a pleasure loose so great a kingdome The tenth Euill alwaies beareth sorrow behind it but not true Pennance It is a most particuler fauour of God to haue tyme to deplore the sinnes of our passed life to take occasion by the for-locke Many are packet away into the other world without hauing at any tyme thought vpon their passage and some suppose they shall haue many teares at their death who haue not one good Act of repentance they bewayle the sinnes which forsake them and not God whom they haue lost True Contrition is a hard piece of worke how can he obtaine it who hath euer sought to neglect it Facilius inueniqui innocentiam seruarent quam qui congruè paenitentians agerent sayth S. Amborse The eleuenth In the meane tyme Death approacheth apace it expecteth vs at all houres in all places and you cannot attend it one sole minute so much this thought displeaseth you The decrees thereof are more cleare perspicuous then if they were written with the beames of the Sun and yet we caÌ„not read them His trumpet soundeth perpetually more audibly then thunder yet we heare it not It is no wonder that Dauid in the 48. Psalme calleth it an Aenigma euery one beholdeth the table and few know the sense of it Notwithstanding it case coÌ„cluded we must take a long fare wel froÌ„ all things which appertaine to life that can extend no further then life it selfe and it is a case concluded also that serpents worms must be inherited in a house of darkenesse It is a goodly lesson whosoeuer can well learne it To know it wel once it must euery day be studyed Nothing is seene euery where but watches clocks and dyalls some of gold some of siluer and others enchased with pretious stones They aduertise of all the houres but of that which shal be our last since they cannot strike that houre we must make it sound in our conscience At the very instant when you read this a thousand a thousaÌ„d perhaps of soules vnloosned from bodyes are presented before the Tribunall of God what would you do if you were presently to beare them coÌ„pany Omnia ista contâ—mnitâ— quibus solutus corpore non indigebis There is but one word Timely despise in your body the thinges of which you shall haue no need out of your body The twelfth your soule shall go out and of all the attendants of life shall haue nothing by her sides but good and enill If she be surprised in mortall sinne Hell shal be her share Hel the great lake of the anger of God Hell the common sewer of all the ordures of the world Hell the store-house of eternall fire Hell a depth without bottome where there is no euill but we may expect nor good to be hoped These twelue Considerations are very fit to be monethly meditated on at leasure SECT II. Seauen pathes of Eternity which conduct the Soule to great Vertues THese twelue ConsideratioÌ„s well weyghed cause vs to take a serious resolution to hasten directly to good whereof if you yet desire some notable demonstration I tell you that S. Bonauenture sheweth vs with a finger seuen faire pathes and seauen large gates which lead vs in a right line to this most happy Eternity and I hartily wish we had as much courage to follow them as he grace to vnfold them First seeing the beginning of your vertues and felicities consisteth in the knowledge of God the condition of the other life of which one cannot be ignorant without some crime which is neuer wel vnderstood without profit you must know the first gate of Eternity is to haue good and sincere intentions in the matter of thinges eâ—ernall To conceaue a strong resolution to worke your Saluation at what price soeuer To hold all temporall thinges as wild birdes which looke vpon vs from the braunch of a Tree make vs some light chirping-musicke then fly away To thinke that in hauing a vitious soule in remarkeable ornaments of fortune is to hold a leaden sword in an iuory scabbard To banish thoroughout all the course of your life and excercise of Charges intentions euill hypocriticall impure and meâ—â—enary to go to God to do for God to intend the honour and glory of God aboue all thinges You shall make no slight progresle if you will tread this path From thence you shall come to the second which is the meditation of things
the Auncients Tâ—isagion these words may be sayd drawne from the Liturgy of S. Iames S. Chrysostome To thee the Creatour of all Creatures visible inuisible To thee the Treasure of eâ—ernal blessingâ— To thee the fountaine of life immortality To thee the absolute Mayster of the whole world be the praise honour and worship yielded which thou deseruest Let the Sunne the Moone the Quire of Starres the Ayre the Earth the Sea all that is in the Celestiall Elementary world blesse thee Let thy Hierusalem thy Church from the first birth therof already enrolled in heauen glorify thee Let so many chosen soules of Apostles Martyrs and Prophets Let Angels Archangels Thrones Dominations Principalityes Powers and Vertues Let the dreadfull Cherubins Seraphins perpetually sing the hymne of thy triumphs Holy Holy Holy Lord God of Hoasts Heauen and Earth are filled with the glory Saue vs thou who doest inhabite Heauen which is the Pallace of thy Maiesty After Consecration at the Adoration of the Hoast Saint Thomas sayd MY Lord Iesus thou art the Sonne of the Eternall Father It is thou who to redeeme the world hast cloathed thy selfe with our flesh in the wombe of a Virgin It is thou who hauing ouercome the Agonies of death openedst heauen to vs. It is thou who sittest at the right hand of the Eternal Father who shalt iudge the liuing and the dead My God help thy seruants whome thou hast Redeemed with thy most precious bloud Hauing adored the Hoast say this Prayer of S. Bernard in his Meditations vpon the Passion O HeaueÌ„ly Father Behold from thy Sanctuary and Throne of thy glory this venerable Hoast which is offered to thee by our Bishop lesus thy most innocent and sacred Son for the sinnes of his Brethren and mollify thy hart vpon the multitude of our offences and miseryes Behold the voice of the bloud of this most innocent LaÌ„be which cryeth out to thee and himselfe all crowned with glory and honour standeth before thee at the right hand of thy Maiesty Looke O my God on the face of thy Messias who hath been obedient to thee euen to death and let not his sacred wounds be euer farre distant froÌ„ thine eyes no more then the remembrance of the satisfaction he presented to thee for the remedy of our crimes O Let all tongues prayse blesse thee in remembrance of the super-aboundance of thy bounty thou who hast deliuered thine only Sonne ouer to death vpon earth to make him our most faithfull Aduocate in Heauen FOR PETITION At our Lords prayer when you haue sayd it repeate these words of the Liturgy heere before alleadged MY God be mindfull of all Pastours and faithfull People who reside in all Regions of the habitable world in vnion of the Catholicke Faith preserue them in thy holy peace Good God saue our most Gracious King and his whole Kingdome lift vp the prayers which we offer to thy liuing Image vpon thine Altars My God Eternall remember those who trauell by Sea or Land and are exposed to so many dreadfull daungers Remember so many poore Pilgrimes Prisoners Exiles who sigh vnder the miseries of the world My God remember the sicke and al those who are in any discomfort of mind Remember so many poore soules toyled out with acerbities who implore thyne assistance Remember also the conuersion of so many Heretiques Sinners and Infidels whome thou hast created to thyne owne image My God remember our friends benefactors take this great sacrifice for the liuing and the dead and so do that all may tast the effect of thy mercyes dissipate scandals warres and Heresies and affoard vs thy peace and Charity And at the end of Masse MY God powre downe thy graces vpon vs direct our steps in thy paths fortify vs in thy freare confirme vs in thy friendship and in the end giue vs the inheritance of thy children It is also very expedient to haue your deuotions ordered for euery day of the weeke SECT XIX Deuotions directed for the dayes of the weeke IF you desire this distinction of dayes I tell you that some dedicate Sunday to the most holy Trinity Munday to the comfort of faythfull soules which are departed into the other world Tuesday to the memory of Angels Wednesday to that of the Apostles of al Saints Thursday to the veneration of the Sacrament of the Altar Friday to the mystery of the passion and Saturday to the honour of our Blessed Lady Others employ their remembrance to be particuler for euery day as for SuÌ„day the glory of Paradise Munday the iudgmeÌ„t-day Tuesday the blessinges of God Wednesday death Thursday the paynes of Hell Friday the passion Saturday the vertues of our Lady as heeretofore It is the Counsell of S. Bonauenture in his lesser workes We deriue also a singular practise of deuotion for euery day of the weeke froÌ„ the Hymnes of S. Ambrose which the Church for euer makes vse of For from thence we learne to thank God for euery worke of creation and to make the greater world correspond with the lesse Sunday which is the day wherin the light was created we should render thanks to God that he hath produced this temporall light which is the smiling of heauen the ioy of the world distending it as a piece of cloath of gold ouer the face of the ayre earth enkindling it as a torch to behold his workes by From thence penetrating further we will giue him thankes that he hath afforded vs his sonne called by the holy Fathers the Day-bringer to communicate vnto vs this great light of sayth which is as sayth Saint Bernard A copy of the Eternity we will humbly beseech him this light may neuer be Eclypsed in our vnderstandings but may daily replenish vs with more more knowledge of his holy will And for this purpose we must heare the word of God and be present at diuine Seruice with all feruor and purity Carefully preserue your selfe froÌ„ pollution through any disorder on the day which God hath reserued to himselfe and from giuing to DagoÌ„ the first fruits of the weeke which you should offer vp at the feet of the Arke of Couenant Monday which is the day wherein the Firmament was created to separate the waters the Celestiall from the inferior and terrestriall waters we shal represent vnto our selues that God hath giuen reason vnto vs as a firmament to separate diuine cogitations from animal and we will pray vnto him to mortify in vs anger and concupiscence and grant vs a perfect maistery ouer all the passions which oppose the law Eternall Tuesday the day wherin the waters which before couered the whole element of the Earth were ranked in their places the earth appeared to become the mansion nurse tombe of man we shall figure vnto our selues the great worke of the iustification of the world made by the Word Incarnate when it had raysed vp a huge masse of obstacles as well