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
the Priest saith the Confiteor COnsider the offences of our first parents with those of the whole world and in particular those which you have your self committed and at the Kyrie elerson aske most humbly pardon for them and beg grace for amendment At Gloria in excelsis COnsider how the Angels in heaven rejoyce at the conversion of a sinner wherfore beseech them through the great desire they have of mans salvation to aid and assist us and all creatures to obtain the same At the Epistle COnsider that this World is a place of Pennance and be sorry that so few do embrace the same but follow vain pleasures and delights and beseech Almighty God to enlighten their hearts and offer your self to suffer whatsoever it shall please him to lay upon you begging grace for the same At the Ghospell COnsider what pains our Saviour took in this world going from one place to another preaching and inviting all men to follow his most perfect example and doctrin begging by the merits of his pains and labours that you may be a true follower thereof At the Creed THink what a multitude of people were converted by the holy Ghospell and nevertheless how many there are which remain in blindnes and wil not be lightned for which be heartily sorry and beseech God to convert them but principally pray for the conversion of England At the Offertory COnsider the promptitude with which our sweet Saviour offered himself into the hands of his heavenly Fathet to suffer his bitter death and Passion for your Redemption and all mankind Wherfore offer your self wholly to his divine goodness with your vowes of obedience Poverty and Chastity purposing from thence forward to be crucified by these three nailes to the Cross of all mortification At the Preface COnsider how our sweet Saviour raised Lazarus after he had been dead four daies and thence you may draw comfort and confidence that although you find many evil customes in your self all hindering you from the true service of God yet acknowledge that he is able to raise and deliver you from them all Wherfore you must purpose strongly to resist them according to the grace and strength which it shall please him to give you At Sanctus COnsider how the Angels in heaven do continually praise Almighty God and how pleasing their service is unto him wherfore pray unto them to obtain for you such fervour of spirit in this life that at your death you may be worthy to be assisted by them in heaven At the Canon COnsider the unspeakable love of our Saviour in offering himself for you in this most holy Sactifice weighing his Majesties greatnes and Omnipotency which is therein contained and here you may pray for the intention of the whole church and for all those you are to pray for that day A prayer at the Elevation of the most B. Host ADoro te Domine Iesu Christe benedico tibi qui pro nobis in cruce moriens redemisti mundum Ave caro Christi immaculata Crucis hostia morte tuâ nos amarâ fac redemptos luce clarâ tecum frui gloriâ Deus propitius esto mihi peccatori Aufer à me quicquid tibi displicet Infunde in me quicquid tibi placet Converte me totum tuum dulcis Iesu Deus meus Amen J adore thee o Lord JESUS CHRIST and J bless thee who dying on the Cross for us hast redeemed the world Haile holy flesh of CHRIST immaculate host of the Cross Make us redeemed by thy bitter death to enjoy with thee in glory eternall light God be mercifull to me a sinner Take away from me all that is displeasing to thee infuse into me all that is pleasing to thee Convert me wholy to thee sweet JESUS my God Amen A Prayer at the Elevation of the Chalice SAnguis tuus Domine Iesu Christe pro nobis effusus sit nobis in remissionem omnium peccatorum nostrorum negligentiarum ignorantiarum nostrarum in robur augmentum fidei spei charitatis gratiarum virtutum in cautelam vitae in adoptionem gloriae aeternae in absolutionem omnium fidelium defunctorum omnium pro quibus orare tenemur Amen Let thy blood O Lord JESUS CHRIST which was shed for us be a remission of all our sins negligences and ignorances a strengthning and encrease of faith hope charity graces and virtues a caution to my life an adoption to eternall glory an absolution of all the faithfull departed and of all for whom we are bound to pray Amen Whilst the Pater noster is said COnsider who made this Prayer and joyne your intention with the Priest's who repeateth it for the necessities of the whole church An Excrcise for the 5. Pater nosters after the Elevation 1. FIrst you make a particular intention to get pardon and to dispose your self to receive the Blessed Sacrament either corporally or spiritually for the which observe this exercise The first Pater and Ave address to the right hand of our B. Saviour beseeching him that the pretious blood which issued out of this his sacred wound may serve you for a bath to wash and purify you from all staines and spots of your sins and particularly those which you have committed since your last confession The 2. address to the left hand beseeching him that the sacred blood which issued from the same may serve for a spirituall balsome to cure all your infirmities and spirituall sicknesses The 3. address unto the wound of his right foot beseeching him by his sacred blood which issued forth thereof that it will please him to adorn you with the garment of charity and purity of heart and mind The 4. address to his left foot beseeching him that his sacred blood which issued forth of this wound may lighten the eyes of the soule to know his greatnes feare his justice and love his goodnes The 5. address unto the sacred blood which issued from thence that he will pardon and extinguish all your inordinate desires and affections and unite your heart to his through perpetuall love and continuall memorie of him A Prayer before spirituall Communion O Pie Domine Iesu Christe qui huc propter me venisti te mihi in panem quotidiaenum imo in omnem desiderabilem usum tribuisti vellem te libenter etiaem in Sacramento suscipere sed heu non audeo nec possum accedere quia timeo te offendere propter indispositionem meam inimicam tamen scio quod sine te vero cibo non possum vivere quare humiliter te rogo ut licèt non sumam te sacramentaliter me tamen reficias ad me descendas spiritualiter velis mihi gratiam impertiri quam te devotè sumentes debent sentire O bone Iesu noli me despicere noli me indignam famulam tuam transire sed digneris ad me venire mecum manere effectus tuos in me operari Amen O most pious Lord JESUS CHRIST who camest
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
and passing through the golden gate 14. In the workhouse the three falls the meeting of our sweet saviour with his holy Mother Simon Cyrenean Veronica 15. Going forth from the Workhouse the carrying the Cross up Mount Calvary 16. Between the two peales to None his sitting naked upon the stone 17. At None the nailing to the Cross 18. Going down to Grace how the Cross was reared up and set in the place where it was to stand 19. At twelve a clock behold our saviour hanging on high upon the Cross saying these first words Father forgive them for they know not what they do 20. From evensong exercise your self in the 7. words the piercing of our Saviours side his taking down from the Cross and lyng in the lap of his Mother his buriall and descending into Limbo How to apply the seaven Words 1. FAther forgive them for they know not what they do Here pray for all those that are in mortall sin for all Heathens and Hereticks and beseech Almighty God to illuminate their hearts and pardon their offences 2. This day thou shalt be with me in Paradise Pray for the happy departure of all faithfull Christians and releasement of the soules in Purgatorie 3. Son behold thy Mother and again Woman behold thy son Recommend to our B. Lady your self your Parents kinred and Benefactours and the state of the whole church beseeching our sweet Saviour to give her unto us for Patroness Mother and Advocate and grant us grace to serve honour and obey her 4. I thirst Pray that wee and all creatures may continually thirst after justice and the perfect love of God 5. My God my God why hast thou forsaken me Here pray for the comfort and assistance of all in temptation or affliction either spirituall or corporall 6. It is consummated Beseech Almighty God that his holy will may be accomplished in you and all creatures to the perfect praise of his most holy name 7. Father into thy hands I commend my spirit Pray rhat as he recommended his to his heavenly Father our soules may be protected by him in this life by the fruition of his holy grace and in the next received to that beatitude which by his death and Passion he ha's purchased for us The 7. Ave's which are to be read for the 7. sorrowes of or B. Lady you may take according to your devotion or these following 1. THe departure of our sweet Saviour when he went to make his last supper 2. When S. John brought her word of our Saviours being apprehended and his cruell usage 3. When shee mett him bearing his Cross 4. When shee beheld him crucified upon the Cross 5. The cruell piercing of his sacred side 6. When shee had him dead in her lap 7. When shee parted from the body of her deare son at his buriall Considerations on the 3. Pater nosters and Aves which are said at the shewing of the B. Sacrament in honour of the Prayer in the Garden offering your intention to gain the Pardon 1. SAy the first Pater and Ave in honour of the unspeakable love with which our sweet Saviour made oblation of his dolorous agony craving by the merits of the same that our sins may be forgiven us and that we be reconciled to his heavenly Father and obtain strength and comfort in our temptations and afflictions 2. The 2. Pater and Ave in honour of the entire resignation with which our B. Saviour offered his Prayer crave therby grace to conform our selves unto the divine will and attain perfect union with Almighty God 3. The 3. Pater and Ave say in honour of our sweet Saviours perseverance in his most painfull prayer beseeching him that by the merits of the same wee may not leave of the good once begun for the repugnance wee feel or want of consolation therein but with love and confidence persever to the end After your Examin at night you may salute our B. Lady with these 3 Ave's 1. BY the first beseech her that she will obtain for you pardon of all your sins and especially those you have committed that day 2. That shee will please to present all your works unto her blessed son rendring them agreable by her merits in whatsoever is wanting on their part 3. Recommend your self unto her and beseech her that shee will preserve you from all sin deceits and illusious of the divell and particularly from all evills How to say your Pater noster's and Ave's in thanksgiving unto Almighty God for his benefits either for night or any other time 1. THe first Pater and Ave address to the right hand of our sweet Redeemer offering to his Eternall Father the precious blood which issued out of his most sacred wound in thanksgiving for the benefit of your Creation and the Creation of all others as also of all things created for mans use 2. The 2. address unto the sacred wound of his left hand in thanks giving for the benefit of consetving you from evils and the like for others 3. The 3. address unto the wound of his right foot in thanksgiving for the benefit of your Redemption and the like for others 4. The 4. address unto the sacred wound of his left foot in thanksgiving for the benefit of your vocation and all others on whom he hath bestowed the like 5. The 5. address unto the sacred wound of his blessed heart for all generall and particular benefits either spirituall or corporall which with so great love he hath bestowed on you and all creatures An Exercise for Mass FIrst know that Mass is a sacrifice wherein is offered the very same body and blood of our Saviour that was before offered upon the Cross and was infinitely able to redeem infinit worlds and sith the world is sufficiently redeemed with one redemption he gives unto every one such and so great grace as he hath prepared himself to receive therfore like as a man that fetcheth water forth of the sea cannot want for any scarcity that is there yet he may want by reason of the littleness of his vessell even so no man need want grace coming unto this holy sacrifice if the vessell of his heart be of sufficient bigness Wherfore prepare your self worthily and beg such grace devotion reverence and attention as the worthines of the sacrifice following requires The Exercise THe Priest signifieth God the Altar the church and as the Altar is of many stones so is the church of God of many people Wherfore you must not heare Mass for your self alone but for the whole church for since he is a common Lord he is not delighted with particular service A Prayer before Mass O Good JESUS vouchsafe me the vertue of your holy grace and grant J beseech you that J may purely assist at this divine sacrifice of the holy Mass to the eternall praise of your holy name in memory of all that you have been pleased to suffer for my sake and for all mankind When
your life which having stirred up confirmed and resolved to practice conclude alwaies the part and much of the whole Meditation with devout colloquies or speaches of heart unto Almighty God The 4. Condition of Prayer or Colloquy to be said at the end of Meditation or part of them during the same 1. THe first is to give God thanks for the holy affections resolutions and purposes which he hath inspired into you as also for his goodnes and mercy which you have discovered in the discourse of your Meditation 2. Secondly by way of oblation wherein you present unto God the self same goodnes and mercy of his which you have tasted in Meditation together with the death Passion vertues and merits of his holy son our Redeemer and consequently with all the affections and resolutions which by his holy grace you made in your Meditation 3. Thirdly by Petition or Obsecration which you demand of God and earnestly conjure him as it were through the death and Passion of our fweet Saviour the merits of the glorious Virgin Mary the intercession of your good Angel and all the holy Saints to bless your affections and resolutions which to his honour and glory you have made to the end you may faithfully put them in execution and for making your self more capable of his grace crave pardon for your sins and offences committed against his divine Majesty with remedy of some vice and augmentation of some vertue offering your self wholy unto his holy service with a firm purpose to avoid whatsoever may offend him 4. Fourthly besides these particular petitions which appertain unto your self it is very good to make a generall sute for all both living and dead but especially for those who have most need and to whom you are most obliged and particularly for the soules in Purgatory The 5. Condition of Mentall Prayer is Recollection FIrst your Meditation being ended it is very profitable to ponder well and consider how it succeeded whether you followed the method that was taught you in the preparation Preamble Meditation and all the rest and what point moved you most and how you have exercised your self therein craving pardon for your defects and giving Almighty God thanks for what was well resolving to follow what you see to be profitable unto you and avoid the contrary 2. You must have a particular care to conform your felf unto those good motions which Almighty God shall give you in Prayer for so to do is a most speciall means to obtain the increase of grace for the contrary would be an ingratitude and contempt of Gods graces which deserveth not to have the like hereafter a principall help for the same is to have care to remember them and for that end it is good at Mass and the Divine Office to renew and offer them to Almighty God and divers times in the day to do the like 3. Thirdly and lastly if at any time it happen that through ill disposition want of due Preparation or yielding to temptation your Meditation doth not succed be not dismayed or discouraged but humbling your self in Gods sight acknowledge your imperfections and negligences crave pardon of his divine Majesty purposing by his holy grace to be more carefull and diligent the next time for the obtaining of which have confidence in his divine goodnes and thank him that he hath vouchsafed to permitt you the favour to be so long in his presence And if it were to have the least good affection in all the time of your meditation or but a remembrance of Almighty God think not the time lost and labour fruitless but rather if you wil make use of that little you have by often remembring it doubt not but that little spark by laying wood to it and often blowing the coales will turn to a great fire of the love of God An advice how to overcome some difficulties that fall out in Meditation THe first is when you find your self without gust of devotion and so dry that Meditation will not only seem to be cumbersom unto you but also time lost To overcome this difficulty you must understand that aridity and driness may come somtimes out of your own fault as when you used not that diligence you ought either in meditation or in preparing your self by foreseeing what you are to meditate on according as hath been said whereof it cometh that you do it with negligence dryly and Almyghty God in punishment thereof doth worthily deprive you of the consolation and tast of Meditation The remedy to rid your self of this punishment is to take away the cause At other times this aridity cometh without fault and we must not therfore leave Meditation for as a time of consolation doth please you when our Lord like the sun in the spring cometh neare to you and mak's you have gust in meditation so you must not be displeased or leave your Exercise when the self same saviour as the sun in winter doth go from you which he also doth for your good that you may plant roots of humility exercise patience and resignation knowing that when he goeth from you you remain dry without devotion having confidence that God will accept of your Meditation and endeavours and send you consolation when he thinketh most fitting and persevering with courage and hope remember the words of Tobias Qui post tempestatem tranquillum facit Who after a storme mak's a calme As also that of Job If we have received good things why should not we beare with the basd It may be also that Almighty God suffereth you to be dry in Prayer to try with what intention you come to so holy an Exercise proving whether you be his souldier for payment expecting he should reward you with gust and devotion or else to make you know that your tast and comfort in meditation is his gift which he bestoweth on whō ād when he will that by this means you dispose your self to ask humbly of him and with confidence expect what you aske whēsoever you prav to please God therby as you ought to do you may say I did not begin my meditation to feel gust or devotion but for the love of God my sweet saviour JESUS for his love I will continue it Another difficulty is that the divell will represent Meditation unto you as very hard and difficult so to make you differr it and afterwards wholy forsake it But if you have a true desire to do a thing acceptable to your Creatour either Meditation will not seem so tedious or you will hold all well employed for his love How many courtiers do you see going a hundred times a yeare unto the Princes chamber without hopes of once speaking unto him onely to be seen-by him that he may take notice how they endeavour to shew their duty unto him so must you come to the Exercises of Prayer which is as it were Gods Chamber of Presence purely and meerly to do your duty and testify
thy loving heart 5. O when shall it be my dearest JESU that the flame of thy love shall pierce and wound my heart that I may be wholy conformable unto thee 6. Sweet JESUS let me love thee so unfainedly as that by force of thy love I neither feel see nor take comfort in any thing but accompanyng thee my afflicted Lord. 7. My sweetest Saviour when shall I have my full and wisht repose within thy crucified armes 8. O sacred wounds of my JESUS especially of his tender side and most amourous heart why do you not burn and consume my soule in the delightfull flames of his love An Oblation unto our B. Lady to say on any one of her Feasts 70. Ave Maries and then during every day 5. Ave's and these Prayers following 1. O B. Virgin Mary and Eternall Queen of Angels I offer my self unto you in all that I am or ever shall be beseeching you to receive me as your own 2. O B. Virgin Mary preserve me living and dyng from all evill for I am your own 3. O B. Virgin Mary receive me for your own ever govern and protect me as your own and have mercy on my soule when it shall part out of my body 4. O mercifull Mother through your holy departure make joyfull my departure and in the houre of my death receive my soule A Prayer to Iesus Christ ANima Christi sanctifica me Corpus Christi salva me Sanguis Christi inebria me Aqua lateris Christi lava me Passio Christi conforta me O bone IESV exaudi me Intrà tua vulnera absconde me Ne permittas me separari à te Ab hoste maligno defende me In hora mortis meae voca me Et jube me venire ad te Vt cum Sanctis tuis laudem Te In saecula saeculorum Amen In English thus SOule of Christ sanctify me Body of Christ save me Blood of Christ inebriate me Water of Christ's side wash me Passion of Christ comfort me O good JESU heare me Within thy wounds hide me Suffer me not to be separated from thee From the malignant enemy defend me In the houre of my death call me And bid me come to thee That with thy Saints I may praise thee For ever and ever Amen When you passe by the B. Sacrament DVlcissimum nomen Domini nostri Iesu Christi gloriosae Virginis Mariae Matris ejus sit in aeternum benedictum In English Let the B. Name of our Lord JESUS CHRIST and the glorious VIRGIN MARY his MOTHER be blessed for ever and ever And then offer your intention herein to get the pardon which is gained When you take Holy water Aqua benedicta sit nobis salus protectio vita Asperges me Domine hissopo c. In English May this holy water be to us health protection and life Thou shalt sprinkle me o Lord with hissope c. How we may honour the most holy and B. Name of the most glorious Virgin Mary by sayng these 5. Verses with 5. Psalmes 1. MAter amabilis Maria nomine Multò nobilior quocunque lumine Muni me miserum in tuo nomine Malignis obvians tuo juvamine Magnificat 2. Aurora rutilans lunâque pulchrior Astris fulgentior luce clarior Afflictum respice qui nimis crucior Averte jaculum hostis quo ferior Ad Dominum cum tribularer 3. Regina nobilis filia filii Rosae consimilis flori lilii Refove flebiles lacte consilii Ruentes per dies huius exilii Retribue servo tuo 4. Iesse tu congruè vocata virgula Immarcessibilis sine macula IESV jam florid o qui regit saecula Ipsa tu suggere ut solvat vincula In Convertendo 5. Ancilla Domini sumens tam nobilis Ave quod Gabriel dedit mirabilis Accipe canticum servi inutilis Adsis in omnibus mihi placabilis Ad te levavi ℣ Dignare me laudare te Virgo sacrata ℟ Da mihi virtutem contra hostes tuos OREMUS COncede nos famulos tuos quaesumus Domine Deus perpetuá mentis corporis sanitate gaudere glorio â B. Mariae Virginis intercessione à praesenti liberari tristitia aeternâ perfrui laetitiâ Per Christum Domenum nostrum Amen The 5. Verses Englished 1. O Amiable Mother ô Mary hail by name More noble then the light of natur's frame Defend me by your meanes which way so'ere J goe And by your shelt'ring help preserve me from my foe 2. Bright shining dawn fairer then the moon More sparkling then the starres and brighter then the sun Look on me wretch afflicted and tormented so As to put by those darts my foes do at me thr'o 3. O noble queen and daughter to thy son Like to the Rose and Flower-de-Luce at noone 'T is milk of your good counsel must cherish us that weep 'T is you that from all banish't ruin's must us keep 4. You are the rod of Jesse fittly nam'd You neyther wither nor with spot are sham'd Pray to our Jesus who the world doe's rule That J from bonds of sin may save my soule 5. O handmaid of our Lord who took the noble haile From wond'rous Gabriel's mouth the world 's great baile Receive the sacred Cantick your worthless servant sing's And gratious be to me sweet Mary in all things LITANIAE B. P. N. FRANCISCI KYRIE eleïson Christe eleïson Kyrie eleïson Christe audi nos Christe exaudi nos Pater de caelis Deus Miserere nobis Fili Redemptor mundi Deus Miserere nobis Spiritus sancte Deus Miserere nobis Sancta Trinitas unus Deus Miserere nobis Sancte Francisce Pater amabilis ora pro nobis Pater admirabilis Pater benigne Pater venerabilis Vexillifer Jesu Christi ORA PRO NOBIS Eques Crucifixi Imitator filii Dei Seraphim ardens Fornax Charitatis Arca Sanctitatis Cultor pacis Vas Puritatis Norma Justitiae Speculum Pudicitiae Regula Poenitentiae Magister Obedientiae Exemplar Virtutum Patriarcha Pauperum Profligator Criminum Lumen tuae Patriae Decus Morum Vivificator Mortuorum Saturator Famelicorum Obsequium Leprosorum ORA PRO NOBIS Praeco magni Regis Forma Humilitatis Consors Sublimitatis Victor Vitiorum Dux Minorum Praedicator Silvestrium Portans dona Gloriae Auriga militiae nostrae Novis utens Prodigiis Caelum caecis aperiens Gratum gerens obsequium Templum Christo consecrans Hostes malignos proterens Tenens vitae bravium Spargens virtutum munera Amplians iter ad Gloriam Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi Parce nobis Domine Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi Exaudi nos Domine Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi Miserere nobis ℣ Ora pro nobis beate Pater Francisce ℟ Ut digni efficiamur promissionibus Christi OREMUS DEus qui Ecclesiā tuā B. Fraucisci meritis foetu novae prolis amplificas tribue nobis ex ejus imitatione terrena despicere caelestium donorum semper participatione gaudere Per Dominum