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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45924	The institutions of the Congregation of the Oratory, at St. Maries in Vallicella, within the city of Rome. Founded by St. Philip Nerius	Congregation of the Oratory. Santa Maria in Vallicella (Church : Rome, Italy)	1687 (1687)	Wing I233A; ESTC R215995	48,632	109

better success by this help 28. Melancholly and trouble of mind brings great hurt to the spirit whereas chearfulnes fortifies the heart and makes one persevere the better in a good life Therefore the servant of God ought always to be chearful 29. Scruples because they disquiet the mind and make it melancholick ought to be greatly shunned 30. We must not ask of God temporal blessings as health riches prosperity and the like absolutely but conditionally if it please God and if they be expedient 31. When God bestows on us any internal grace we ought not to diclose it except to our spiritual Father otherwise we loose it 32. Who goeth to serve the sick or do other charities must imagin such a sick person to be Christ and all he doeth to him to be done to Christ himself for so it is done with more love and benefit 33. When any man doth a good work and another ascribes it to himself and assumes the glory of it he who did it ought exceedingly to rejoice and acknowledge it a great favour from God that others take that from him before men because he shall recover it with greater reward before God. 34. He doth ill who hath confidence of himself and he who puts himself on the occasion of a sin saying I shall not fall commonly doth fall with greater damage of his own soul who would not fall let him not trust to himself nor presume on his own strength but say to God Lord trust not to me nor expe●t any thing else of me but evil and I shall assuredly fall if thou help me not 35. To keep far off all danger of impurity young men ought to fly carefully whatsoever even the smallest occasion of this sin Therefore this H. man forbad his spiritual children to touch one another not so much as by the hands altho but in jesting 36. When the soul resigns it self into the hands of God and is contented with the divine good pleasure it remains in good hands and is very secure that it will go well with it and it belongs especially to a sick man to resign over himself and to say to God Lord if thou wilt have me behold here I am tho I have done no good at all do with me what seems good unto thee 37. Who willeth any thing but Christ knoweth not what he would have who asketh any thing but Christ knoweth not what he asketh who worketh and not for Christ knoweth not what he doth 38. We must not be fastned to any thing in this world be it never so small a matter but we must be humbly affected amongst the creatures and desire to have so low a condition as to stand in need of Six-pence and begging for it to be denied it 39. Who would have riches shall never have the Spirit 40. The soul who gives it self to God must be wholly God's and what love is bestowed on Parents and kindred or on studies or on it self of so much love is God deprived 41. The man who loves God with true love and prizeth him above all things sometimes in his prayers meets with an overflowing of tears and a concours of graces or feelings of the Spirit in such abundance that he is forced to beg an abatement 42. One ought to reserve for himself neither place nor time when there is need to help his neighbour and ought to quit his Spiritual gusts and his prayers for his neighbour and leave Christ for Christ And this is a great perfection and few know how to do it 43. When God's servant hath no troubles nor any to persecute him and treat him injuriously if he would find the Spirit let him imagin that some wicked man comes to affront him and sayeth much villany against him and to injurious words addeth as uncivil deeds beats him with a cudgel or wounds him with a sword and with his fist makes his face black and blew and being thus abused then with great servency of love in imitation of Christ let him incline his heart to pardon the wrong that is done him and overcoming all angry motions that may arise and not willing for the love of God to take any revenge let him with great love forgive him as if he had truly received such an injury that by the frequent practice of such imaginations the heart may accustom it self to pardon a real injury as the souldier who learns to play at foils by accustoming himself to handle his armes afterwards makes use of his art to fight in good earnest 44. Suffering Penance is still necessary to the servant of God and when straightned with any affliction then let him expect a consolation for God never sends an affliction but that he sends after it a consolation and in summe the whole life of him who serves God is nothing else but first a consolation and then another trouble 45. When God visits any man with an affliction and he hath not patience to bear it it may be well said unto him Thou art not worthy of God's visitation nor deservest so great a benefit 46. When there come against us tribulations infirmities and things much contrary to us we are not timorously to fly them but valiantly to overcome them because if thou fly from any of them another worse will come upon thee who flies from a hoar-frost will be covered with snow who flies from a Bear meets with a Lion. 47. When God's servant goeth to receive in the Sacrament the glorious Body of Christ in which are all the delights of heaven he ought to stand in fear and prepare himself more than ordinarily for future temptations because the marvelous Graces which are conferred in that divine Sacrament God will not have to lie idle for Grace more abhors idlenes than Nature doth vacuities 48. When any one feels within his heart a new and extraordinary spirit for the reason before mentioned let him stand prepared for some temptation and tribulation and whilst one feels in him this ardor of the Spirit let him ask of God strength to be able to endure whatsoever from heaven he shall be ordained to suffer and that the temptation induce him not to any sins great or little 4● If any should ask what is the greatest tribulation a true servant of God can have It may be answered him Not to have any tribulation at all 50. Let young men beware of the sin of the flesh and old men of the sin of avarice the first is overcome by flying the second by resisting 51. A man must always stand in fear and not trust to himself because the Devil makes his assault unexpected and darkens the understanding and who stands not in fear is overcome because self-confident he is destitute of the help of God. 521. In the temptations which the lasciviousnes of the flesh suggests to us let the tempted have recourse instantly to God and make thrice on his heart the sign of the H. Cross and say Christ thou Son of God have

mercy on me or the verse of the Psalm O God make speed to save me O Lord make hast to help me or this Create in me a clean heart O God and renew a right spirit within me and let him kiss the earth and say to the tempter I will accuse thee to my spiritual Father if thou temptest me any more 522. Obedience against our inclinations is to be practised in small matters and which seem of no consequence because thus we attain a facility to yeild it in greater 523. The mortification of the will and understanding in matter of obedience to Superiors is much more beneficial and attains sooner to perfection than great corporal Penances 524. It is not sufficient to consider if God will have such good done as is attempted but if he will have it done by our means in such a manner at such a time which appearing not to be God's will we ought contentedly to desist from any such enterprise 53. There is nothing better for man than Prayer and without it he cannot endure long in the way of the Spirit therefore every moment must he have recourse to this most powerful means of Salvation 54. The enemy of our salvation fears nothing more nothing makes him sadder nothing he seeks more to hinder than Prayer 5● When one is praying let not his bodily eyes be so fixed on an Image that he never removes them from it for this will hurt the Head but let him make use of an Image for the help of his memory as for example to reduce into his mind the benefit of the Incarnation of Christ or his Nativity or his death on the Cross or if it be the Image of a holy man or a holy woman let him make use of it to put him in mind of their virtues that he may imitate them and pray them to intercede to God for him 56. To know how to pray well it is a very great help to read the Lives of Saints and when the Spirit inclines him then to meditate on them and so when it inclines to think on the passion of Christ then to follow that attraction and not to pray or meditate differently from that to which the Spirit moves 57. Fancies which intervene are a great disturbance to prayer and many troubled with such by-thoughts give it over but they do not well for notwithstanding any such fancies one ought to persevere still as much as may be in prayer and God often gives in a moment that which could not be obtained in a long time 58. Amongst other things we are to ask of God a chief is perseverance in well-doing and well-serving of God because if any hath patience and perseverance in well doing in a good life after once begun he will acquire an exceeding great measure of Spirit 59. In the beginning of the conversion of a soul to God the Spirit useth to come sometimes strongly upon him but afterward it seems as it were to go away and the Lord shews thereby as if he had forsaken him but stand he firm and it will return again 60. God useth almost never to send death to one who much serves him but that he first notifies it to him by some sign or by giving him the Spirit extraordinarily 61. There are three degrees in a Spiritual life the first is called an animal life the second the life of a man the third the life of an Angel that is to say the Lord useth in the beginning for the drawing of souls to himself to entice them with sweetnes and with a certain spirit and gusts extraordinary and then afterward he makes a shew to go far from them witholding his most holy hand from these sweet treatments to see if they stand firm in the Spirit leaving them to fight it out for a little time and then when they have made resistance for a while and have overcome those tribulations and temptations he restores afterward their heavenly gusts and consolations doubled and this is a life Angelical void of all pain or offence 621. It is no pride to desire to exceed in sancity any Saint whatsoever because to desire to be Saint is to desire we may have the will to love and to honour God above all things and this desire if it were possible ought to be extended to infinity because God is worthy of infinite love and because his greatness is infinite 622. No man ever ought to trust his own prudence but in all things to ask counsel of God consult his Confessor and beg the prayers of others 63. To maintain our selves in a good life and the holy service of God frequent Confession and the holy Communion are most necessary for the right practising of these is a very great help 64. For Graces obtained by the way of prayer we must continue so long our prayer till the grace be perfected and if prayer be intermitted God doth sometimes suspend the grace Therefore if a sick man for whom prayer is made begin to mend upon the prayers made for him these then must not be ceased but as such recovery was begun by prayer even so by the strength of prayer must it be perfected 65. When he who prayeth feels in the continuation of his prayer great quietness of spirit it is a good sign that God either hath or will grant the grace he sues for 66. Many feeling within themselves carnal temptations or the like doubt sometimes whether they have consented or no but if the person tempted feel in himself still a love toward that vertue against which he was tempted and an hatred against that vice it is a sign he hath not consented Likewise if he would not swear that he hath consented it is a sign that he hath not consented because when there is a deliberate consent the soul easily perceives it 67. After the temptation past we must not reason if we have consented or not for such reasonings cause a return of carnal temptations 68. Carnal temptations ought to be feared and fled even in sickness and in old age it self so long as we are able to shut and open our eyes for the spirit of fornication spares neither time nor person 69. The servant of God if with more security he will walk amongst so many snares spread abroad in all places let him have for an intercessor for him to her Son the Bl. Virgin. 70. Church-goods must be employed sparingly and not be spent but upon necessity because they are goods which belong to God. 71. Chearfulness and mirth is good in him who serves God but he must file dissolutenes and be careful not to fall into a spirit of jesting for they who delight in jesting render themselves incapable of ever receiving the Spirit of God and if they have any thing that is good in them they lose it suddenly 72. When the Priest visits the sick let him not play the Prophet saying that the sick person will not recover because sometimes having prophesied death if