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B02468	A new form of meditations for every day in the year. Written originally in French by F. John Crasset. And put into English at the request of several persons of honour and quality, by a well-wisher to devotion.; Nouvelle forme de méditations. English	Crasset, Jean, 1618-1692.	1685 (1685)	Wing C6851A; ESTC R174380	155,968	440

give credit to my word But he credited that of the Serpent A blind credulity ought to repair his curiosity Faith consecrates your Understanding It humbles pour Pride It raises your Knowledges It makes you subject to God You must believe that you may see Faith goes before glory And how can you have Faith If what you see be not hidden The Disciple I will again speak c. Doutless your Humanity For to be an object of our Faith Ought to be hid as well as your Divinity But why under the form of Bread Is this state sutable to you What honour is not due to you Who can honour you in this figure The Master My Wisdom would not be infinit Unless it were incomprehensible It would not be wonderful Unless it were unconceivable Wisdom avoids the open light It hides it self in darkness Goodness flies from obscurity And would produce it self into the light Wisdom hides it self Because it would be admired Goodness discovers it self Because it would be beloved A God under the form of a man Is a more astonishing change Than a man under the form of bread Than a body in form of aliment Did not they eat the Lamb the Manna The loaves of Proposition If the figures were eaten The Truth also ought to be eaten You stood in need of a Sacrament For the nourishment of your Souls As your life is divine You stood in need of a divine food As you have a Soul and Body So there was requisit my Soul and my Body Unless you eat my flesh you will not have life All men were to eat it There was therefore requisit an aliment That all men might make use of Men have different tasts But all men love bread I took this amiable figure That I might be eaten without horrour That I might enter into the bottom of your heart That I might communicate my Spirit to you For to purify your body For to asswage its concupiscence For to cure it of its maladies For to give it my purity And my virginal qualities Bread is an aliment Which shews the effects of the Sacrament I would have you all to be united together I would transform you into my self As I live for my Father So I would have you live for me The Disciple O divine Master How admirable is your Wisdom You are truly a hidden God O what Bread O what a Feast O what a Table O how am I obliged to you That you would remain with us That you would take this figure For to communicate your self to us I believe I will not see I am called a Believer and not a Rationalist What shall I do to acknowledge you Since you remain with me I will remain with you Since you humble your self for me I will humble my self for you Since you destroy your self for me I will destroy my self for you Since you will live in me I will also live in you CXXVII MED Of the Love of JESVS Christ in the Sacrament of the Altar THis Sacrament proceeds from Love This Sacrament contents Love This Sacrament produces Love The Son of God did institute it out of Love He ascended up to Heaven out of Justice But he remain'd on Earth out of Love Did men deserve this favour They made themselves unworthy of it Does there any advantage accrew to him by it He suffers therein a great contempt Love hath triumphed over God Love made him com down on Earth Love made him stay there Love keeps him as it were Prisoner there Love tends unto Unity 'T is the end of all its desires It finds in the Communion All its satisfaction There it is that Jesus unites himself to us There it is that we unite our selves to him That he transforms himself into us That we transform our selves into him That he becoms one self-same thing with us That we becom one self-same thing with him There is but one person made up Of the aliment and of him that takes it There is a distinction every where But there is none in the food This is that which contents Love This is that which makes it a Sacrament of Love Knowledge begets Love Presence nourishes Love Affection enkindles Love Benefits do draw Love The Soul here sees her well-beloved She enjoys his Presence She discovers his affection She is fill'd with his graces and favours The heart may resist hatred But it cannot resist Love She there finds her beloved She there finds her delights She there finds her Love Ah! whence coms it that I am all ice Whence coms it that I have so little love What Nature is my heart made of How can it defend it self Love encompasses it on all sides And yet it knows not what Love is Love shews it self to my eyes Love makes it self be heard to my ears Love makes it self be tasted by my mouth Love makes it self be felt by my heart Love calls me draws me warms me Fights me flatters me obliges me Does all things to win me And yet I know not what it is to love Whence coms this insensibility O it is because I love Creatures It is because I am not disengaged It is because my heart is divided It is because I am not mortified My Soul Wilt thou always be ungrateful Wilt thou never let thy heart be won Shall not a God who is always with thee A God who gives himself all to thee A God who annihilates himself for thee A God who stands not in need of thee Who is happy without thee Who has so much Love for thee Who bestows so many benefits on thee Win thy heart Cannot he deserve thy affection O I can no longer resist this Love No longer defend my self from its pursuits I will no longer withdraw through fear I will approach out of Love O I will mortify my self For I cannot live without loving I will communicate frequently For I cannot live without eating The children of Israel said to one another Manhu which signifies What is this for they were ignorant what it was To whom Moses said This is the bread which our Lord has given you to eat Exod. 16. This is the bread that came down from Heaven not as your Fathers did eat Manna and died He that eats this bread shall live for ever John 6. Who shall give us of his flesh that we may be filled Job 31. My flesh is truly meat John 6. When he had loved his who were in the World he loved them unto the end John 13. CXXVIII MED Of the Holy Communion Ye Daughters of Jerusalem Tell my well beloved That I expect her day and night And that I languish with love I quitted Heaven for to com down on Earth And for to gain her love I took the form of Bread To make my self be loved And eaten without horrour I made my self a food that I might unite My self strictly to this ungrateful Soul I would fain feed her I would enrich her With the treasure of my Graces Why does

same again ibid. Med. 4. Of the contempt that Herod c. Page 243 Med. 5. The same again ibid. Med. 6. Of the preference of Barabbas Page 245 Med. 6. The same again ibid. Or The four Meditations for Death Page 13 3. Sund. in Lent G. Luk. 1. v. 24.27 Med. 1. Of Relapse Page 100 Or Of Slander Page 79 Med. 2. Of our Lord's Flagellation Page 246 Med. 3. The same again ibid. Med. 4. Of his Crowning with Thorns Page 248 Med. 5. The same again ibid. Med. 6. His bearing of his Cross Page 250 Med. 7. The same again ibid. Or The Seven Stations Page 274 4. Sund. in Lent G. John 6. v. 1.16 Med. 1. Of Alms. Page 180 Or Of Hope Page 139 Med. 2. JESUS crucified Page 252 Med. 3. The same again ibid. Med. 4. The 1. Word of Jesus Page 255 Med. 5. The same again ibid. Med. 6. The good Thiefs Repentance Page 275 Med. 7. The same again ibid. Or The seven Stations Page 274 5. Sund. in Lent G. John 8. v. 46.60 Med. 1. Of Aversions Page 65 Or Venial Sin Page 26 Med. 2. Of the Passion of the B. Virgin Page 258 Med. 3. The same again ibid. Med. 4. Of our Lord's Dereliction Page 265 Med. 5. The same again ibid. Med. 6. Of our Lord's thirst Page 264 Med. 7. The same again ibid. Or The seven Stations Page 274 Palm Sunday G. Matth. 21. v. 1.10 The Passion according to S. Matthew Med. 1. Of the Kingdom of Jesus Page 235 Or Of conformity of our will to God Page 162 Med. 2. Of the 6th Word Page 267 Med. 3. The same again ibid. Med. 4. Of the last Word Page 270 Med. 5. The same again ibid. Med. 6. Of our Lord's Death Page 272 Med. 7. Of his Burial Page 278 Or The seven Stations Page 274 Easter-Day G. Mark 16. v. 1.8 Med. 1. Of our Lord's Resurrection Page 280 Med. 2. Of the same again ibid. Or Of the ill effects of sadness Page 83 Med. 3. Of the Peace of the Soul Page 41 Med. 4. The same again ibid. Med. 5. The third spiritual Canticle Page 377 Med. 6. Of the five degrees of Perfection Page 349 Med. 7. The same again ibid. 1. Sund. after Easter G. John 20. v. 19.32 Med. 1. Of the Wounds of our Lord. Page 282 Med. 2. The same again ibid. Med. 3. Of Charity Page 142 Med. 4. The same again ibid. Med. 5. Of the troubles and pains of Mind Page 61 Med. 6. Of Pride Page 89 Med. 7. The same again ibid. 2. Sund. after Easter G. John 10. v. 11.17 Med. 1. Of the good Shepherd Page 284 Med. 2. The same again ibid. Med. 3. Of the sheep of Jesus Christ Page 286 Med. 4. The same again ibid. Med. 5. Of the conducts of God Page 183 Med. 6. Of the benefit of leaving our selves c. Page 186 Med. 7. Of the hurt of leaving God's ways Page 187 3. Sund. after Easter G. Joh. 16. v. 16.23 Med. 1. Of Sadness Page 81 Med. 2. Remedies against Sadness Page 84 Med. 3. The same again ibid. Med. 4. Of Persecutions Page 73 Or The four Meditations of Death Page 13 Med. 5. That it is necessary to be persecuted Page 75 Med. 6. Of disengagement from Creatures Page 7 Med. 7. The same again ibid. 4. Sund. after Easter G. John 26. v. 5.15 Med. 1. The bad effects of Sadness Page 83 Med. 2. Vseful thoughts to make us slight the World Page 12 Med. 3. Of the hatred of the World Page 45 Med. 4. The same again ibid. Med. 5. What is the noblest Intention Page 145 Med. 6. The marks of a pure Intention Page 147 Med. 7. The same again ibid. 5. Sund. after Easter G. John 16. v. 23.31 Med. 1. Of Prayer Page 130 Med. 2. The same again ibid. Med. 3. How God loves Men c. Page 357 Med. 4. The same again ibid. Med. 5. Of the Ascension of our Lord. Page 289 G. Mark 16. v. 14.21 Med. 6. Of Heaven Page 368 Med. 7. Of the Love of our Lord Jesus in c. Page 337 6. Sund. after Easter G. Joh. 15. v. 23.31 Med. 1. Motives to Patience Page 155 Med. 2. Of human respect Page 77 Med. 3. Of Silence Page 191 Med. 4. Of Solitude Page 342 Med. 5. The same again ibid. Med. 6. Of the flight of Occasions Page 35 Med. 7. The same again ibid. Whitsunday G. Joh. 14. v. 28.32 Med. 1. Of the coming down of the Holy Ghost Page 292 Med. 2. The same again ibid. Med. 3. Of the Presence of God Page 341 Med. 4. The same again ibid. Or The four Meditations of Death Page 13 Med. 5. Of divine Vnion Page 370 Med. 6. The same again ibid. Med. 7. The first and second Canticle Page 376 Trinity Sunday G. Matth. 28. v. 18.21 Med. 1. Of the Mystery of the Day Med. 2. Of the divine Perfections Page 350 Med. 3. The same again ibid. Med. 4. Of the Amability of God Page 355 Med. 5. Of the Institution of the B. Sacrament Page 296 Med. 6. The same again ibid. Med. 7. The same again ibid. 2. Sund. after Pent. G. Luk. 14. v. 16.25 Med. 1. Of the Holy Communion Page 304 Med. 2. The same again ibid. Med. 3. Of the love of Jesus Christ in the Sacrament of the Altar Page 301 Med. 4. The same again ibid. Med. 5. A Prayer to our Lord. Page 309 Med. 6. Of Simplicity Page 362 Med. 7. The same again ibid. Or The fifth and sixth Canticle Page 379 3. Sund. after Pent. G. Luk. 15. v. 1.11 Med. 1. Of the Love of Jesus Page 337 Med. 2. Of the Virtues of Jesus Page 219 Med. 3. Of the Amability of God Page 355 Med. 4. How God loves men c. Page 357 Med. 5. Of Pennance Page 28 Med. 6. That we ought not to differ our Conversion Page 29 Med. 7. The Conditions of true Pennance Page 32 4. Sund. after Pent. G. Luk. 5. v. 1.12 Med. 1. Of God's dominion over his Creatures Page 3 Med. 2. The same again ibid. Or Of Religious Disciplin Page 210 Med. 3. Of the Purity of Intention Page 144 Med. 4. Which is the noblest Intention Page 145 Med. 5. Of Humility Page 149 Med. 6. Of Annihilation Page 347 Or Of the happiness of a Religious State Page 203 Med. 7. Of Poverty Page 204 Or The four Meditations of Death Page 13 5. Sund. after Pent. G. Matth. 5. v. 20.25 Med. 1. Of Mildness and Choller Page 170 Med. 2. The same again ibid. Med. 3. Remedies against Choller Page 172 Med. 4. The same again ibid. Med. 5. Of Aversions Page 65 Med. 6. Of the Pardoning of Injuries Page 91 Med. 7. Of the Imitation of Jesus Christ Page 217 6. Sund. after Pent. G. Mark 8. v. 1.10 Med. 1. Of the holy Communion Page 304 Or Of Driness Page 190 Med. 2. Of Confidence in God Page 193 Med. 3. The same again ibid. Med. 4. Of the leaving of our selves Page 349 Med. 5. The seventh Canticle

God and my End Thou art the beginning of my life Thou art the center of my peace Thy hands it were that framed me 'T is thy hands that conserve me 'T is thy hands that sustain me 'T is thy hands that defend me I am always in thy arms And yet I never think on thee I am always in thy heart And yet I have no love for thee Thy Creatures serve me And yet I will not serve thee Was it I that made them Did I give my life for them O my God! Thou didst make me for thy self And didst more-over die for me Thou promisest me eternal goods Thou threatenest me with eternal miseries And yet all this does not work on me And yet after all this I love thee not O God my Lord Burn thy Heaven Extinguish thy Hell I will have no other reward For the services that I render thee Than the honour of having serv'd thee Heaven is too much for him that loves thee Hell is too little for him that loves thee not O how these thoughts do please me I am from God I am God's I am in God I am for God From God as from my beginning God's as my Soveraign's In God as in my Center For God as for my final End Alas I have lived hitherto As though I had been from my self As though I were my own As though I were for my self As though I were sufficient to my self O! I will henceforth be all yours I will seek no rest but in thee I will labour no more but for thee The Lord your God is the God of Gods and the Lord of Lords great and powerful and terrible Deut. 20. v. 17. If I am the Father where is my honour and if I be the Lord where is my fear Mal. 1.6 Thy hands have made me and framed me Ps 128. Who is it that plants a Vineyard and does not eat of the fruit thereof 1 Cor. 9. Who art thou to answer God Rom. 4. Wilt not thou O my Soul be subject to God Ps 61. III. MED Of the care of our Salvation MY Salvation is my business My Salvation is my only business My Salvation is a very great business God from all eternity thinks of this business His Son died on the Cross for this business Our good Angels labour for this business The whole World was created only for this business All my happiness depends on this business My Eternity roles upon this business All the Devils do traverse this business I cannot without care speed in this business Death will soon put an end to this business I am then a Fool if I do not mind this business And yet I neglect this business I mind every thing else but this business I am restless about all things but this business O I will mind nothing else but this business I will labour no more but for this business One thing is necessary Luk. 10. What will it avail a man to gain the whole VVorld if he lose his own Soul Matth. 26. VVhat exchange shall man give for his Soul ibid. Attend to thy self 1 Tim. 6. Have pity on thy soul and please God Eccles 3. IV. MED Of disengagement from Creatures I Never found any true pleasure in Creatures I never found in them any rest any assurance any trust any fidelity They are vain and unconstant They are impure and indigent They are made for me Not I made for them They are more vile than I. I am more noble than they They may indeed amuse me But they cannot satiate me They may disturb my heart But they cannot calm it My God! My heart is small in substance But it is infinit in its desires Though your happiness be never so great It is capable of containing it Thou hast made it for to love thee Thou hast framed me to thy Image 'T is a River that seeks out the Sea 'T is a fire which mounts up to its Sphere 'T is a ray that would return back again To the Principle from whence it took its birth 'T is a piece of Iron which without knowing it Would fain unite its self to its Load-stone O how unhappy have I been When I loved Creatures O my God! Since I am made for thee I perceive very well that I never shall Have any peace or rest but in thee Vanity of Vanities and all is Vanity Eccles 1. In all things I perceived there was Vanity and affliction of Spirit Eccles 2. Turn O my Soul into thy rest because our Lord hath done well to thee Ps 114 VVhy do ye love Vanity and seek after lying Ps 4. V. MED Of the Will of God I Am in this World only for to do What God would have me do I deserve death if I do not do What God would have me do I shall never be perfect unless I do What God would have me do I shall never be at rest unless c. I must whether I will or nill do What God would have me do I shall be wise as God is If I have the same judgment with him I shall be just as God is If I have the same Rule with him I shall be holy as God is If I have the same love as he has I shall be powerful as God is If I will the same things with him I shall be happy as God is If I have the same pleasure as he has All things will obey me as they do God If I have the same will with him Alas how miserable was I Whilst I waged war against God All things thwarted my will Whilst I thwarted the Will of God O my God! Give me not over to my Passions Suffer me not to offend you any more Destroy my will lest it destroy yours Force me if I will not obey you Do your will with me if I will not do your Will Life is in his will Ps 26. As it is his will in Heaven so be it don 1 Mach. 13. Not as I but as thou wilt Mark 14. Let our Lord's will bedon Act. 2. Lord what wilt thou have me to do Act. 9. VI. MED Of the Obligations we have to love and serve God SInce God is the first of all Beings Since he hath fram'd me with his hands Since he hath made me for to love him Since he hath drawn me out of Hell Since he hath given his life for me Since he hath redeem'd me with his blood Since he feeds me with his own flesh Since he quickens me with his Spirit Since he promises me his Heaven Since he hath lov'd me from all Eternity Since he hath bestow'd infinit benefit upon me Since he hath pardon'd me an infinity of sins Since he gives himself wholly to me Since I belong wholly to him Since I subsist only by his favour Since he burns with the love of me Since all his desire is To make me happy as he is himself O I will love him with all my heart O I will never serve any other Master O I will

bottom of the heart 'T is the heart that conceives sin 'T is the heart that must destroy it 'T is the heart that withdraws it self from God 'T is the heart that must return to God Hatred takes its rise out of love One hates only because one loves I ought therefore to hate Sin As much as I ought to love God As much as I ought to love my self As much as I ought to love Heaven As much as I ought to fear Hell I ought to love God singularly I ought to hate Sin singularly I ought to love all things in order to God I ought to hate all things in order to Sin I ought to love God above all things I ought to hate sin above all things I cannot exceed in the love of God I cannot exceed in the hatred of sin That Repentance is nothing worth Unless it be of all crimes Unless grace blots them all out It blots not so much as one out One cannot be reconcil'd by halfs One cannot be both beloved and hated One cannot be both in sin and in grace One cannot be both God's and the Devil 's at once One cannot be both worthy of Heaven and Hell Unless one believes all one believes nothing To be a Son of the Church One must believe all things To be a Son of God one must hate all sin King Saul made exceptions And it was the cause of his ruin He became God's enemy For having saved one of his enemies What does it avail you to conquer one sin If you be a slave to another What good is it to bewail your Cholers If you be a slave to your Impurities One mortal stroke alone Is enough to bereave the body of its life One mortal sin alone Is sufficient to deprive the soul of life That man is no true Penitent Who will be so but for a time One must always hate that evil Which is always hated by God That friendship is not broke off Which one designs to make up again Can he be said to hate sin Who has a mind to commit it again Can he be said to have true Contrition Who only feels some small Aversion One may hate his sin Although he feel not the hatred One may feel sorrow And yet not have a true sorrow Then does one truly hate sin When one is resolv'd to destroy it If you love the causes of sin you still love sin 'T is not enough to hate it You must repair the damages thereof You must restore your ill-gotten goods Restore the honour you have taken away Repair the Scandals you have given Satisfie those whom you have offended You must punish by sorrow The pleasure you have taken in sinning God transfers to Pennance The right he has to punish a Sinner If Pennance spare him Justice spares him not If Pennance punish him Justice punishes him not O my God! How much reason have I to fear Least I be yet in the state of sin Have I hated it Sincerely Universally Constantly Efficaciously Am not I at the end of the year The same man still that I was at the beginning Oh! I will change my life My God change me from my heart Give me a new Spirit that I may lead a new life If with all your heart you will return to our Lord Take away the strange God from the midst of you 1 Kings 17. He that hides his crimes shall not be directed but he that shall confess them and relinquish them shall obtain mercy Prov. 28. Turn unto me with all your heart and rent your hearts and not your garments be converted to God your Lord because he is gracious and merciful patient and of much compassion and ready to be moved upon the malice Joel 2. Ananias why did Satan tempt thy heart to sin to the Holy Ghost and defraud of the price of the field thou didst not ly to man but to God Act. 5. Her transgressing Sister hath not return'd to me with her whole heart but in lying Jer. 3. Cast away from you all your prevarications and make to your selves a new heart and a new spirit And why should you die O house of Israel Ezech. 8. XIX MED Of the flight from Occasions and evil Companies 'T Is but a folly to hide your self The Company you keep betrays you Every one is pleas'd with his like Such you are as those you frequent If you suffer bad Company You may be reckoned to be of an ill life Or that you will at least soon resemble The persons whom you frequent 'T is good example that makes virtuous people Bad example that makes bad people Ignorance and Bashfulness Are the two Bulwarks of Innocency One would have been ignorant of many Crimes Had not one seen them committed One would have a horrour of sin If no body had taught it Example ennobles a Crime It makes it just and lawful It gives it authority It makes a necessity of it One is ashamed to be Innocent In the Company of the Nocent One does not blush at a sin When Example has crown'd it 'T is a vain thing to hope to be good among the wicked An evil is easily contracted Nature has a propension thereunto She imitates what she sees don She desires what is forbidden her One is not healthy for being among the healthy But one falls sick by being among the sick Go down into Hell Look upon those execrable Victims Hearken to their lamentable Cries Inquire into the cause of their Disaster There is never a Reprobate of them all Who will not with many tears tell you That it was Example that undid him That it was Company that damn'd him One is willing to please those whom one loves And you will never please the wicked Unless you be wicked like them O! but you do no harm say you You always remain a Sheep Although you live among Wolves You conserve the sweetness of the waters In the midst of a brackish Sea You draw in an innocent air In a house infected with the Plague And I say that you are dead If you think you are not sick Can any one without sin love the occasion of sin Is not the scandal of your Neighbour a very great evil Who can believe you to be chast With people that are not At least you will not long be so Example is a bad Master You will soon learn to do evil which you have seen don Occasion will draw you to it Company will drag you along to it The temptation will increase Fear will diminish Grace will grow weaker Shame will be blotted out Nature will yield A habit will be gotten The Will will be hardened This is the Progress of Iniquity This is the Road of Impenitence This is the term of Impiety O Christian Soul Retire out of Occasions Fly evil Company Love not those whom you ought not to imitate Please not those who displease God Withdraw from those who withdraw from God Fly away from contagious persons Avoid dangerous occasions

You have grace enough not to go thither You have enough to retire from thence But shall you have grace enough if you stay there Is it not a sin of Presumption To promise it your self in the occasion At least it will be very weak And your enemy will be very strong He is a Dog in a chain When we come near him he bites us He expects us in the occasion If you go thither O rash Soul You will yield to that temptation He that loves danger will not escape danger Be not familiar with a cholerick man neither do thou walk with a furious man least thou learn his foot stept Prov. 22. He that touches pitch shall be defiled with it and he that keeps company with a proud man will put on pride Eccles 14. He that joyns himself to Fornicators will be naught Eccles 14. If any one be a Fornicator amongst you do not so much as eat with such an one 1 Cor. 5. He that loves danger shall perish therein Eccles 3. Go off from the Tabernacles of the wicked men and do not touch any thing that belongs to them that ye be not involv'd in their ruin Numb 16. If thy right eye scandalize thee pluck it out and cast it from thee Matth. 5. We denounce unto you brethren in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ That you withdraw your selves from every brother that walks disorderly 2 Thess 3. XX. MED Of a good and a bad Conscience O How good it is to serve God What a pleasure is there in loving him How good is he to those that love him How terrible to those that offend him How happy is a good conscience How unhappy is a bad Conscience How joyful is a sound heart How sad is a sick heart O what quiet is there in a good Soul O what disturbance in a wicked Soul The Conscience of a just man is a Heaven The Conscience of a Sinner is a Hell God is in the Soul of a just man The Devil is in the Soul of a Sinner A virtuous man fears nothing A wicked man apprehends all things A just man is well with himself A wicked man is ill with himself A virtuous man willingly stays at home Because all is in peace there A wicked man dares not enter into himself Because all things are there in disorder O how sweet is Virtue O how bitter is Vice O how precious is the death of the Just O how horrible is the death of Sinners Ah! I will love God now That I may love him in Eternity I will lead a good life that I may have a good death My sin is always before me Psal 50. There is no peace to the wicked saith our Lord. Isa 48. A good conscience is as it were a perpetual feast Prov. 15. Tribulation and anguish upon every Soul that works evil Rom. 2. Hell is my house Job 17. This is our glory the testimony of our conscience 2 Cor. 1. XXI MED Of the peace of the Soul I Would fain be in peace Whence comes it that I am not Is it not because I defer too much to my own sence Because I am too much wedded to my own will Because I rebel against my Superiors Because I will suffer nothing Because I desire something with eagerness Because I am ambitious Because I am envious Is it not because I wage war against God Because I resist his Will Because I oppose my self to his Providence Because I would have what he will not Because I will not what he wills Who can live in peace that fights against God Who can be contented that is at odds with God O my Soul If thou art against God God will be against thee If thou disturbest his peace he will disturb thy quiet If thou keep his orders his orders will keep thee If thou disturb his order His order will disturb thee Desire nothing and thou shalt have all Do the Will of God and God will do thine He will do the Will of those that fear him Ps 144. VVhence come the wars and brangles amongst you is it not from your concupiscences James 4. Glory be to God on high and on Earth peace to men of good will Luk. 2. My peace I give you let not your heart be troubled John 14. Much peace there is to those that love thy law Ps 118. XXII MED Of vain Desires ARt thou contented O my Soul What dost thou desire upon earth Is not God sufficient for thee Is not he thy happiness When wert thou well without him Or when ill with him What dost thou seek besides God Who can content thee but God Thy desires are thy Tyrants 'T is they make thee miserable 'T is they that rent thy heart How happy would'st thou be if thou desiredst nothing What dost thou get by desiring These sort of desires enter not into Heaven They are the Devils in Hell 'T is they that torment the damned Leave off desiring and thou wilt get out of Hell O my God! Out of you all abundance is to me indigence All sweetness is bitterness to me That Heart is very covetous To which God is not sufficient Covetousness is the root of all evils 1 Tim. 6. The desires of sinners shall perish Ps 122. Desires kill the slothful man Prov. 21. Turn away from me all desires Eccles 23. Yield me not O Lord from my desire to the Sinner Psal 139. Martha Martha thou art Sollicitous and troubled about many things Luk. 10. XXIII MED Of Tepidity How miserable is a Tepid Soul She has lost all relish of God She is depriv'd of all comforts She wanders out of the ways of his Providence She sins without fear She does ill without remorse She dares not enter into her self She is Sick and is not sensible of her Sickness She is wicked and thinks her self good She is a slave and thinks her self free She abuses all remedies She rejects all Inspirations She is insensible to all Grace She discredits Devotion She scandalizes her Neighbour She is a burden to Communities She lies heavy upon God's heart She is just upon the point of being cast out She is in danger of never re-entring more Am not I in that state Am I hot or am I cold Am I all God's Or am I his only by halfs If so I have a tepid Soul O divine Saviour How long have I afflicted you How long have I clogg'd your heart Ah! Vomit me not up yet Deprive me not of your love Drive me if you will out of your Heaven But drive me not out of your Heart Draw in your goods from my soul But draw not back your love from thence Alas I more dread your hatred Than I do the pains of Hell My Soul Remember the state thou art fallen from Resume thy first fervour 〈◊〉 tho I dost it quickly Thy Candlestick will be removed And another put in its place JESUS will drive thee out of his heart And thou shalt never more re-enter therein If thou

because you are a Christian And have a mind to be happy Why does the Devil tempt you 'T is because he hates the Image of God Because he envies man Because he would make you his Slave Because he would have Companions Because he would enter into your heart Because he would ascend God's Throne Because he would profane his Temple Because he would be ador'd therein Because he would Crucifie JESUS Christ And renew all his Ignominies Will you carry on his Designs Will you content his Passion 'T is what you do as often as you consent to Temptation Why does God permit you to be tempted 'T is for his glory and your good He would know whether you love him He would make you know your self He has a mind to try your virtue To keep you in a dependance on him To fit you for a Combat To thrust on your Sloth To take you off from Creatures To oblige you to have recourse to him To make you merit Heaven O my Saviour I wonder not that I am tempted Since you were also tempted 'T is good that I should know you 'T is good that I should know my self I find that Temptation hinders me from entring into Presumption Tempt me O God try me See whether there be no iniquity in me O no! tempt me not Alas I know my own weakness Deliver me rather from my temptation At least fortifie me against my temptation Satan strikes at you as well as me Defend your self in me and through me God tempted Abraham Gen. 20. Fear not for God came for to try you Exod. 20. The Lord your God tempts you to make it publickly known whether you love him or not Gen. 13. Anania why did Satan tempt thy heart Act. 5. Every one is tempted by being drawn and allured by his own concupiscence Jam. 1. God tempted them and found them worthy of him Wisd 3. XXXI MED Of the troubles and pains of Mind HOw these thoughts torment me Why art thou tormented at them I fear I shall give consent to them If you fear you do not consent Your fear ought to secure you I am fallen into sin You must rise quickly out of it God is angry with me 'T is in your power to appease him Walk with more Diligence Labour with more Fidelity Confess your self without delay Humble your self without disturbance One evil does not repair another Sin is not cur'd by Sin This Temptation is importune Yes But it is necessary for you It keeps you in humility It maintains you in your dependance It obliges you to pray It hinders you from presuming Without Temptation one cannot be tryed Without fighting one cannot be crown'd Without a Cross none can be saved O my God! Keep me close to you And I will not fear the Devils Although they were all against me Without you I am nothing but weakness With you I am all fortitude If I have wherewithal to ruin my self You have wherewithal to save me Let not your heart be troubled John 14. Because thou wert acceptable to God it was necessary that Temptation should try thee Tob. 12. God is faithful who will not suffer you to be tempted above what you are able but he will make profit of your temptation that you may be able to sustain it 1 Cor. 10. Blessed is the man who suffers Temptation Jam. 1. XXXII MED Of natural Inclinations TO love by Inclination is to love like a Beast To love with Inclination is to love like a Man To love without Inclination is to love like a Christian To love against Inclination is to love like a Saint Christian Charity embraces all the World Its motive is singular and universal If for God I love him that pleases me I ought also to love him that displeases me They are both of them created by God Both made to his Image Both redeem'd with his Blood Both call'd to his Glory I am not bound to love all the World equally But I am bound to hate no body Particular Friendships are Universal Hatreds The Unions of Inclination Are Schisms and Heresies of Heart The nearer you draw to one person The farther you remove from all others If you are totally one person 's You are nothing to all the rest You commit an injustice You refuse them what you ow them You wound Charity You divide Unity You slight Regularity You scandalize the Community You fly from Solitude You dare not remain any more before God You commit a great many sins Your Spirit is without Recollection Your Heart without Devotion Your Prayers without Gust Your Communions without Fruit. Your Life without Peace Your Labours without merit O my God! How amazed shall I be at my death When I shall see that I have not lov'd you Unless I love all my Brothers I love not so much as one for your sake If I have an Aversion for one I have no Charity for all the rest O how much time ill spent O how many dangerous Familiarites O how many unprofitable Discourses O how many criminal Entertainments O my God! I will for your sake love all sorts of persons I will love my Friends and my Foes The Rich and the Poor The Great and the Little The good humours and the bad humours Those that do me good and those that do me hurt Since they are all your Subjects All your Children All your Members Since you love them all That you are in them all That you order me to love them all There is no acception of persons with God Rom. 2. He makes his Sun to rise upon the good and the bad and rains upon the just and unjust Matth. 5. Thou shalt not make acception of persons Deut. 16. Is there not one Father of us all Is there not one God who created us why then does every one contemn his Brother Mal. 2. These are those that separate themselves Animals that have not the Spirit Jude v. 19. XXXIII MED Of Aversions THe wounds of the heart are mortal Hatred makes Charity die The fairest of all Victories Is to triumph over our Aversions To love a Friend is the virtue of a Pagan To love a Foe is the virtue of a Christian 'T is the strongest of all loves Because it triumphs over the greatest enemy 'T is the amplest of all loves Because it embraces both friend and foe 'T is the purest of all loves Because Nature cannot love an enemy 'T is the most meritorious of all loves Because there is nothing harder than to love an enemy God loves all things that he made He has an Aversion to nothing but sin The Creatures that fight with each other Are at peace in his bosom He has no Antipathy because his Essence is infinit Great Souls have no enmities They have a dominion over all Objects They are not divided by matter All things are at peace in their heart Sin only alone is not there in quiet Because it makes war against Sanctity Self-love is divided within it self Divine love

comes up from the desert leaning upon her beloved Cant. 8. Those who hope in our Lord shall change their strength they shall take wings like Eagles they shall walk and not faint Isa 40. Many are the scourges of a sinner but him that hopes in our Lord mercy shall encompass Psal 31. Our Lord said to Gideon you have much people with you nor shall Madian be delivered up into his hands least Israel glory against me and say I was delivered by my own strength Judg. 8. Command the rich men of this world not to be high-minded nor to trust in the uncertainty of their riches but in the living God who does bestow abundantly on us all things for us to enjoy 1 Tim. 6. LVIII MED Of Charity CHarity is a treasure of Merit that enriches us A treasure of Grace that sanctifies us A treasure of Sanctity which makes us perfect A treasure of Peace which makes us happy Charity blots out all sins Calms all Passions Produces all Virtues Sweetens all Pains Makes us like unto God Unites us intimately to God Transforms us in som kind into God It makes God to be all ours And us all his Charity seeks not her self She loves for loves sake Her love is her pleasure Her love is her reward She is Humble Patient Mild Doing good Is not bitter Is not puffed up Not disdainful Not envious Believes all Hopes all Suffers all Pardon 's all O Charity my God! Why do you command me to love you Should not you rather have forbidden me Can there be a greater good than to love you Can there be a greater ill than not to love you Can you threaten me with a greater misery Than to forbid me to love you How is it possible not to love a God that is so infinitly good A God who love us infinitely A God who does us infinit Benefits A God who is united to us by infinit Alliances And yet I love you not O God of goodness I have in my heart only a Phantom of Charity I am Proud Impatient Troublesom Cholerick Doing ill Envious I will suffer nothing Pardon nothing Alas how shall I be saved Since I have no Charity O I have lov'd you too late Beauty always ancient and always new O I will never cease from blessing you From praising you from loving you Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart Matth. 22. The end of the precept is Charity out of a pure heart a good conscience and an unfeigned faith 2 Tim. 1. Charity covers a multitude of sins 1 Pet. 4. Many sins are forgiven her because she loved much Luk. 7. God is Charity and he that remains in Charity remains in God and God in him 1 John 4. This is the charity of God that we keep his Commandments 1 John 5. He that has my Commandments and keeps them 't is he that loves me John 14. LIX MED Of Purity of Intention YOu belong wholly to God You are totally for God You have all from God You ought therefore to do nothing but for God Such is your Action as is your End If your End be good your action is good If your End be ill your Action is ill If you have the same End with God Your Action will be holy as God's is God works only for himself And you work only for your self God seeks only his own glory And you seek only yours God would have you saved And you will damn your self If you will do nothing for him What must you expect from him If you be naught to your self Who will you be good to God looks not on the hand but the heart He considers not the gift but the giver So much you do as you intend to do So much you give as you intend to give So much you gain as you intend to gain The Intention alone sometimes is profitable without the action But never the action without the intention You please God if you intend to please him You love God if you intend to love him Is not that a great comfort to you O I will never henceforth labour for the World O I will henceforth serve God! Since you are pleas'd O my God when we intend to please you Since we love in intending to love you You are the best of all Masters I will never more think on any thing But how to please and love you All men seek their own interefts Phil. 2. Do I seek to please men Gal. 1. If I should yet please men I should not be Christ's servant ibid. VVhether yeeat or whether ye drink or whatsoever else you do do all things to the glory of God 1 Cor. 10. LX. MED Which is the noblest Intention WE never lose any thing by serving God The less we intend to get The more we get We may serve him for profit sake But this service is not so profitable True Love is contented with its self The thing it loves is its reward That Love is suspected Which seeks any thing else with God That Love is mercenary Which expects any other good but God That Love is weak Which relishes any thing else but God That Love is perfect Which contents it self with God To labour for gain Is an interested service To labour for to perfect Is a Love that is not quite purified To labour for to please God Is a Love in its Infancy To labour because it pleases God Is Love in perfection My God! I have not strength enough to fly so high My heart clings too much to the Earth To raise it self even above Heaven I will serve before I love I will kiss your hand Before I kiss your mouth I will love your reward That I may have no other but your love O how rich shall I be When I labour for you only O how perfect shall I be When I desire to please none but you O how happy shall I be When I love nothing but you I have inclin'd my heart to do your justifications for retribution Ps 118. VVhat is there to me in Heaven and what would I besides thee on Earth Ps 72. Let no man seek his own interest 1 Cor. 20. To thee alone Ps 50. Not as pleasing men but God who trys our hearts 2 Thess 7. LXI MED Of the Marks of a pure Intention IF I labour without disturbance Without eagerness without a Witness As if there only God and I I am glad that others should labour as well as I. If I rejoyce when they labour more than I If I am not angry when my labour is interrupted If I am contented when my labour succeeds not If I love the bad as well as the good success If I love rest as well as business If I am pleased to do nothing When God will have it so As well as to do much If I love contempt as well as glory If I make no vain reflexion After I have don a good action 'T is a mark that I had a good Intention O my

great things How beautiful is God Since he hath created such beautiful things How good is God Since he hath created such good things What favours has God don to me From what danger has he preserved me From how many evils has he delivered me What great goods he promises me Who deserves my heart better than he Who offers me a greater price for to have it To whom shall I give it if not to him Who has given me his To whom shall I sell it if not to him Who has bought it at the price of his Blood Is a naughty heart worth the blood of a God Worth the life of a God Worth the heart of a God Worth the Kingdom of God I deserve not to live If I will live for any one but you I ought not to have a heart If I will love any thing else besides you O I have loved you too late Beauty always new always ancient O I have too soon offended you Bounty always amiable always adorable I acknowledge my darkness I abhor my ingratitudes I will always love you O God of goodness I will never offend you O God of majesty Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart and with thy whole soul and with all thy forces Luk. 10. In this did appear the charity of God because God sent his only begotten son into the World that we may live by him 1 John 4. Let us therefore love God because he loved us first ibid. I will love thee O Lord my strength our Lord is my establishment and my refuge and my deliverer my God and my helper c. Ps 17. CLI MED How God loves men and how men ought to love God LEt us love God because he loves us Let us love him as he hath loved us The Love of God is ancient He hath lov'd us from all Eternity We were always in his thought in his heart His Love is as ancient as his Being He no sooner was but he loved us And as he always was So he always loved us And he will still love us During all Eternity The Love of God is pure and disinterested He loves us without standing in need of us Without expecting any thing from us Without any desert on our side Without any obligation on his He loves us that he may be loved And to make us happy through his love The Love of God is tender 'T is a Love of sweetness 'T is the sweetness of Love 'T is the Love of a Father And Mother and Nurse The Love of God is strong It triumphs over all difficulties It does good to the ungrateful To Rebels to his Enemies The Love of God is infinit He loves us with the love that he loves himself He has bestowed infinit benefits on us He has suffered infinit evils for us He has given his blood which is of an infinit price He communicates to us his grace Which is an infinit treasure He prepares his glory for us Which is an infinit good The Love of God is universal It embraces all men There is no body that he does not love That he does not visit To whom he has not appointed an Angel Whom he does not help Whom he has not redeemed Whom he is not willing to save O incomparable Lover Where shall I find a friend So faithful and so ancient as you O my Soul Canst thou not love him Who has loved thee so much Canst thou refuse thy heart to him Who has given thee his Compare one with the other Measure the greatness of the one and the other O my God! my Love Was there ever Ingratitude comparable to mine You love me from the time that you were And I offend you from the time that I had a Being You love me from all Eternity And I will not love you now O I will henceforth love you As you have loved me I will love you constantly purely strongly Eternally universally In all places in all times in all states And in the accomplishment of all your wills I have loved thee in perpetual charity Jer. 31. The Father himself loveth you John 6. He will have all men to be saved and to com to the knowledge of truth 1 Tim. 2. He loved them to the end John 13. Is the death of the wicked man my Will saith the Lord God and not rather that he should be converted from his ways and live Ezek. 18. CLII. MED Of the Incomprehensibility of God ALL times together Cannot measure the Being of God All places together cannot inclose him All understandings whatsoever Cannot comprehend him All hearts together Cannot love him sufficiently God is nothing of what I see He is nothing of what I touch He is nothing of what I hear He is nothing of what I know He is nothing of what I imagin He is an invisible spiritual And incomprehensible Being O my God! How rich am I When I have nothing but you How enlightned am I When I see nothing but you How knowing am I When I know nothing but you How contented am I When I relish nothing but you I see all things when I see nothing I tast all things when I tast nothing I hear all things when I hear nothing I possess all things when I possess nothing I am all things when I am nothing I honour the Power of God By the Sacrifice of my power I honour the Greatness of God By the Sacrifice of my glory I honour the Goodness of God By the Sacrifice of my desires I honour the Incomprehensibility of God By the Sacrifice of my thoughts Empty your Memory from its Images And God will fill it with his Essence Empty your Heart of its Affections And God will fill it with his Goods Empty your Understanding of your Conceits And God will fill it with his Lights Great in counsel and incomprehensible in thought Jer. 32. To whom have you compared me and made me like unto Isai 46. My Soul hath refused to be comforted I was made full of God and was delighted Ps 76. All my bones shall say Lord who is like unto thee Ps 34. Rase it rase it unto the foundation thereof Ps 136. CLIII MED Of Simplicity BE simple in mind Be simple in heart That Spirit is simple That has but one thought That heart is simple that has but one desire Without these two Simplicities You will never arrive to Unity God is a pure Act. There is nothing more simple than his Being He cannot be multiplyed He cannot endure Duplicity He has from all Eternity But one thought and one love He says all in one word And this word is nothing but Truth If you would unite your self to God You must imitate this Simplicity To what purpose are so many thoughts To what end so many discourses Are not you convinc'd of the truth Why should you seek after what you have found Do what you know Tast what you see God is one great Word A great matter for Prayer Cast

repose That is the Paradise of my delights There is no noise in the house of God There is silence in Heaven Lord I am no more able to speak Since you have spoken to me I am full of thoughts And I have no more words O my heart Preserv Charity the Treasure which thou possessest The Bridegroom enters the doors being shut He goes out when they are open Shut upon thee the doors of thy Senses Peace Love Secrecy Silence This is what puts the soul in security V. CANT I Have lost all I have nothing more to lose I have found all I have nothing more to seek I am contented I desire nothing else I am God's I apprehend nothing now I have left all for God I have found all in God My desires have there met together As Rivers do in the Sea Without noise without distinction Without motion without violence Without those narrow banks Which locked them in on the Earth As soon as I lost the sight of him I entred into an Ocean I plunged my self into these Abysses I lost my self happily I confounded my Being with that of God's I was in time And I believ'd I was in Eternity I was a Creature And I found my self united to the Divinity O mysterious and fortunate night Where God unites himself to our spirit In the silence of its desires and thoughts O how sweet is that hour but how short Let all flesh be silent in the presence of our Lord. VI. CANT I Am threatned with death I am encompassed with darkness Beaten with storms At the very gates of Hell But all this does not astonish me Love is stronger than death He makes his bed in darkness He sleeps in the midst of Storms He finds Heaven in Hell He carries his Heaven with him Because he has within himself All that he desires He would have all things And would have nothing He possesses all things and possesses nothing God is his treasure and his felicity He to whom God is all All the World is nothing VII CANT JESUS thinks on me and I think of him JESUS works for me and I work for him My heart suffices him And he suffices my heart He is contented with me and I with him This is the Canticle of love Which I sing to him day and night The only good which I would have Is to will nothing To live without care and without desire Is that which makes up all my pleasure VIII CANT WHat do I feel in the bottom of my Soul What passes in the bottom of my heart The Wedding is made in Cana. JESUS there works a Miracle He chang'd the Water into Wine He entred in at midnight The doors of the senses being shut I saw him without seeing him I knew him without knowing him My eye did not see him pass My ear did not hear him walk I smelt the odour of his perfumes I tasted the honey of his sweets O my God! Into what Country do you bring me Am I in Heaven or on Earth Am I in time or in Eternity I see you without Image I touch you without a Body I feel you without an Organ I am doubtless in Heaven O if this lasts long I must dy IX CANT REtire from me my beloved But retire not for any long time Withdraw your presence But withdraw not your love Withdraw your sweetnesses But leave me your sorrows Draw your heaven out of my soul Or else draw my soul into your heaven I can have no joy if I am not on a Cross Unless you make me suffer You will make me dy Your sweets are too many Your sorrows are to few O my God my love All my pleasure is to suffer All my desire is to dy My Soul Sing for ever this sweet Canticle of joy I will content God I will be contented with God He will be contented with me When I am contented with him I shall testify to him my contentment When I am calm in my pains I am not contented with him If I murmur against him X. CANT I Place all my glory In being despised for you I place all my riches In possessing nothing but you I place all my pleasure In suffering much for you I live I live no longer I am and I am no more my self You and I are no longer but one All my wills are destroyed All my hopes are ruined All my desires are extinct All my Being is annihilated I labour no longer but for you I breath no more but by you I subsist no more but in you You in me I in you You for me I for you To be where you would have me To will what you will To do what you would have me To suffer what you would have me Is what makes a man perfect and happy FINIS Words of the Holy Scripture for the chast Spouses of the Son of God My beloved to me and I to him Cant. 2. I found him whom my Soul loveth Cant. 3. I adjure you O ye daughters of Jerusalem that you raise not up nor make the beloved to awake till her self will ibid. I sleep and my heart watcheth Cant. 5. Put me as a seal upon thy heart as a seal upon thy arm c. Cant. 8. Let him kiss me with a kiss of his mouth Cant. 1. Under his shadow whom I desired I sate Cant. 2. My soul melted as he spake I sought and I found him not I called and he did not answer me Cant. 5. For what is to me in heaven and besides thee what would I upon Earth my flesh hath fainted and my heart God of my heart and God my portion for ever Ps 72. v. 25. And now what is my expectation is it not our Lord c. Ps 38. v. 8. I said to our Lord thou art my God Ps 15. Our Lord is the part of my inheritance ibid. To thee did my heart say my face hath sought thee out Ps 26. v. 8. Lord before thee is all my desire Ps 37. The violence of the river maketh the City of God joyful Ps 45. v. 5. The Lord of Hosts is with us our Protector the God of Jacob. ibid. v. 11. In peace in the self-same I will sleep and rest Ps 4. This is my rest for ever and ever Ps 131 He put darkness his covert darksom water in the clouds of the air Ps 17. v. 12. When he shall have given sleep to his beloved to the inheritance of our Lord. Ps 126. I am thine save me Ps 118. Much peace there is to those that love thy law ibid. Thou wilt bless thy people in peace Ps 18. Enter into thy rest because our Lord hath don well to thee Ps 114. My heart waxed hot in me and fire shall burn in my meditation Ps 38. Expecting I expected our Lord and he hath attended me Ps 39. I will hear what my Lord says in me because he will speak peace to his people Ps 84. Unless our Lord keep the city in vain does he watch that

Canticle Page 381 Med. 8. Canticle ibid. Med. 9. Canticle Page 382 Med. 10. Canticle Page 383 Words of the Holy Scripture for the chast Spouses of the Son of God Page 385 Words of Love taken out of the Book of the Following of Christ for Souls which aspire to Vnion Page 387 The End of the Table of the Second Tome A TABLE OF THE Meditations For the whole Year 1. Sunday of Advent Gospel Luk. c. 21. v. 25. unto v. 34. Med. 1. OF the last Judgment Page 20 Med. 2. Of Death Page 13 Med. 3. Of the End for which Man was made Page 1 Med. 4. Of the same Subject ibid. Med. 5. Of good Works Page 178 Med. 6. Of Pennauce Page 28 Med. 7. Of the same Subject ibid. 2. Sund. of Adv. G. Matth. 21. v. 2. to 11. Med. 1. Of human Respect Page 77 Med. 2. Of Persecutions Page 73 Med. 3. The same again ibid. Med. 4. Of Poverty Page 204 Med. 5. Of Scandal Page 50 Med. 6. Of Conscience Page 39. Med. 7. The same again ibid. 3. Sund. of Adv. G. John 1. v. 19.29 Med. 1. Of Humility Page 149 Med. 2. The same again ibid. Med. 3. Of the judgment of Men. Page 94 Med. 4. Of vain Desires Page 42 Med. 5. The same again ibid. Med. 6. Of Disengagement Page 71 Med. 7. The same again ibid. 4. Sund. of Adv. G. Luk. 3. v. 1.7 Med. 1. That we ought not to deferr our Conversion Page 29 Med. 2. Of the Conditions of true Pennance Page 32 Med. 3. The same again ibid. Med. 4. Of Mortal Sin Page 25 Med. 5. Of the Peace of the Soul Page 41 Med. 6. The same again ibid. Med. 7. Of Tepidity Page 43 25. Dec. On Christmas-Day Med. 1. Gospel Luk. 2. v. 1.25 Med. 2. Gosp Luk. 2. v. 15.21 Med. 3. Gosp John 1. v. 1.15 26. S. Steven G. Matth. 23. v. 34.40 Of the Pardoning of Injuries Page 91 27. S. John G. John 21. v. 19.28 Of the love of our Neighbour Page 164 28. Holy Innocents G. Matth. 2. v. 13.19 That we must be Persecuted Page 75 29. Affections of Tenderness towards the Infant JESUS Page 221 30. Of the Poverty of the Infant Jesus Page 224 31. Of the Humility of the Infant Jesus Page 226 A Preparation for Death Page 105 The four following Meditations may be made on the four last days of every Month for to learn how to Dy well Med. 1. Of the Preparation to Death Page 105 Med. 2. Motives to resolve for Death Page 108 Med. 3. The Affections of a just Soul c. Page 111 Med. 4. A Paraphrase on our Lord's Prayer Page 118 1. January G. Luk. 2. v. 21.22 Of the Holy Name of JESUS Page 229 Med. 2. Jan. Of the good use of time Page 71 Med. 3. Jan. The same again ibid. Med. 4. Jan. Of the divine Humiliations c. Page 227 Med. 5. Jan. Of the Virtues of JESUS c. Page 219 Med. 6. Jan. Epiphany G. Mat. 2. v. 1.13 Of the Kingdom of JESUS Christ Page 232 Med. 7. Jan. The same again ibid. Med. 8. Jan. Of the Kingdom of God Page 231 1. Sund. after the Epiph. G. Luk. 2. v. 42.53 Med. 1. Of the Duty of Fathers c. Page 166 Med. 2. Of the Care of our Salvation Page 6 Med. 3. The same again ibid. Med. 4. Of the leaving of our selves Page 343 Med. 5. The same again ibid. Med. 6. How we ought to leave our selves Page 345 Med. 7. The same again ibid. 2. Sund. after the Epiph. G. John 2. v. 3.12 Med. 1. Of the happiness of a Religious State Page 203 Or Of divine Vnion Page 370 Med. 2. The same again ibid. Med. 3. Of Chastity Page 206 Med. 4. Of the Contempt of the World Page 45 Med. 5. The same again ibid. Med. 6. Of Patience Page 152 Med. 7. The same again ibid. 3. Sund. after the Epiph. G. Matth. 8. v. 1.14 Med. 1. Of Sickness Page 194 Or Of Communion Page 304 Med. 2. Of Faith Page 134 Med. 3. Of venial Sin Page 26 Med. 4. Of Preparation for Death Page 105 Med. 5. Motives to resolve for Death Page 108 Med. 6. The Affections of a just Soul c. Page 111 Med. 7. A Paraphrase on our Lord's Prayer Page 118 4. Sund. after Epiph. G. Matth. 18. v. 23.28 Med. 1. Of the Profit of Temptations Page 56 Med. 2. The same again ibid. Med. 3. Of God's dominion over his Creatures Page 3 Med. 4. The same again ibid. Med. 5. Of Hope Page 139 Med. 6. Motives to Patience Page 152 Med. 7. The same again ibid. 5. Sund. after the Epiph. G. Matth. 13. v. 31.36 Med. 1. Of the flight from occasions c. Page 35 Med. 2. The same again ibid. Med. 3. Of the Purity of Intention Page 144 Med. 4. Of Hell Page 22 Med. 5. Of the hatred of the World Page 45 Med. 6. The same again ibid. Med. 7. Of the two Eternities Page 24 6. Sund. after the Epiph. G. Matth. 13. v. 31.36 Med. 1. Of fidelity in small things Page 176 Med. 2. Of Presumption Page 67 Med. 3. The same again ibid. Med. 4. Of the Conducts of Faith Page 136 Med. 5. Of the troubles and pains of mind Page 61 Med. 6. Of natural Inclinations Page 62 Med. 7. The same again ibid. Septuagesima Sunday G. Matth. 20. v. 1.17 Med. 1. Of the small number of the saved Page 48 Med. 2. Of Slander Page 79 Med. 3. That we ought to do our actions well Page 175 Med. 4. A Preparation for Death Page 105 Med. 5. Motives to resolve for Death Page 108 Med. 6. The affections of a just Soul c. Page 111 Med. 7. A Paraphrase on our Lord's Prayer Page 118 Sexagesima Sund. G. Luk. 8. v. 1.16 Med. 1. Of the Word of God Page 201 Med. 2. Of driness Page 190 Med. 3. Of Alms. Page 180 Med. 4. The same again ibid. Med. 5. Of Inspirations Page 199 Med. 6. The same again ibid. Med. 7. Of Avarice Page 97 Or Of Devotion to the B. Virgin Page 310 Quinquagesima S. G. Luk. 18. v. 31.44 Med. 1. Of the obligation we have to love God Page 10 Med. 2. The same again ibid. Med. 3. Of Modesty Page 196 Med. 4. Ash-Wednesday Of outward Pennance Page 53 Med. 5. The same again ibid. Med. 6. Of the excellence of Mortification Page 55 Med. 7. Of customary Sins Page 102 1. Sunday in Lent G. Matth. 4. v. 1.12 Med. 1. Of the Causes of Temptations Page 58 Med. 2. Of our Lord's Passion in general Page 235 Med. 3. The same again ibid. Med. 4. Of our Lord's Sadness Page 237 Med. 5. The same again ibid. Med. 6. Of his Prayer in the Garden Page 239 Med. 7. The same again ibid. Or The seven Stations Page 274 2. Sund. in Lent G. Matth. 17. v. 1.10 Med. 1. Of Heaven Page 368 Or Of Solitude Page 342 Med. 2. Of the outrages that our Lord suffered c. Page 241 Med. 3. The

Mortification 53 Of Venial Sin 26 June 29. SS Peter and Paul Of Faith 134 Of Charity 142 Of Obedience 208 June 30. Commemoration of S. Paul Of the conducts of God 183 Of the love of Jesus 337 July 2. The Visitation of our B. Lady 321 July 22. S. Mary Magdalen Of Simplicity 362 The conditions of true Pennance 32 Of Charity 142 Of divine Vnion 370 July 25. S. James Apostle Of the Duties of Fathers c. 166 Of Conformity 162 Of vain Desires 42 July 26. S. Anne of Driness 190 Of the Will of God 9 Of leaving our selves c. 186 July 29. S. Martha Of good Works 178 That we ought to do our works well 175 Of divine Vnion 370 July 31. S. Ignatius Conf. Of the love of JESUS 337 Of the love of our Neighbour 164 Which is the noblest Intention 145 Aug. 5. Our B. Lady ad Nives Of Devotion to our B. Lady 310 Aug. 6. Transfiguration of our Lord. Of Solitude 342 Of the Imitation of J. Christ 217 Of Heaven 368 Aug. 10. S. Laurence Of Patience 155 Of Mortification 53 Of the Two Eternities 24 Aug. 15. Assumption of our B. Lady 328 Of the Death of our Lady 323 Of her Resurrection 325 Aug. 24. S. Bartholomew Apostle Of the excellence of Mortification 55 Aug. 25. S. Lewis King Of the conducts of God 183 Of the Benefit of letting our selves be conduducted 186 Of God's Dominion over his Creatures 3 Aug. 28. S. Austin Doctor Of God's Incomprehensibility 360 Of God's Amability 355 Of Faith 134. Of Humility 149 Aug. 29. Decollation of S. John Baptist Of the Hatred of the World 45 Of Fidelity in small Matters 176 Of Human respect 77 Sept. 8. Nativity of our B. Lady 331 Sept. 14. Exaltation of the Holy Cross 155 Of the Cross 155 Remedies against Sadness 84 Sept. 21. S. Mathew Apostle Of Avarice 97 Of Poverty 204. Of Inspirations 199 Sept. 29. S. Michael Archangel Of Pride 89. Of Humility 149 Oct. 4. S. Francis Of Assis Of Poverty 204 Of the Cross 155. Vseful Thoughts 12 Oct. 9. S. Denys Of divine Vnion 370 Of divine Perfections 350 Of Prayer 130 Oct. 15. S. Teresa Of Dryness 190 Of Annihilation 347 Of the fulness of God's riches 366 Oct. 18. S. Luke Evang. Of the excellency of Mortification 55 Of the Peace of the Soul 41 Of the Pains of the Mind 61 Oct. 28. SS Simon and Jude Of the love of our Neighbour 164 Of Persecutions 73 That Persecutions are necessary 75 Nov. 1. All Saints Of Heaven 368 Of the Two Eternities 24 Of the Divine Perfections 350 Nov. 2. All Souls Of venial Sin 26 Of Pennance 28 Of the good use of Time 71 Nov. 11. S. Martin Of Alms. 180 Of good Works 178 Of the Death of the Just 14 The affections of a Just Soul 111 Nov. 21. Presentation of our B. Lady 333 Nov. 30. S. Andrew Apost Of the Cross 155 Of the Five degrees of Perfection 349 The End of the Table of the Meditations for the FEASTS A TABLE OF MEDITATIONS For the renewing of VOWES 1. OF the End for which Man was made 1 2. Of the Dominion of God over his Creatures 3 3. Of the care of our Salvation 6 4. Of the Obligation we have to love God 10 5. Of the Will of God 9 6. Of Tepidity 43 7. Of Customary Sins 102 8. Of the Conditions of true Pennance 32 9. Of the Happiness of a Religious state 203 10. Of Poverty 204 11. Of Chastity 206 12. Of Obedience 208 13. Of Regular Disciplin 210 The End of all the TABLES The FIRST Meditation Of the End for which Man was made I Came from God I belong to God I subsist only in God I live only for to serve God As I cannot be but from God I cannot be but for God It is not necessary that I should be in the World But supposing that I am therein I must be all God's All things speak to me of God All things draw me to God All things make me know God All things tell me that I deserve not to live Unless I live for God That I ought not to have a Heart Unless I will love God That I cannot serve two Masters That I must either be the Devil 's or God's Whom have I obey'd Which of the Two has been my Master For whom have I labour'd Whom have I contented Alas it has been the Devil This is the Master that I have preferr'd before God I have made my self his slave I have don all his Wills and Commands Oh I abhor my infidelity I acknowledge my injustice I will henceforth be God's I will love none but God I will live no more but for God I will serve none but God I will make it an absolute necessity For me to love and content God Lord make mine end known to me that I may know what is lacking to me Ps 38.5 I have created him framed him and made him for my glory Isa 43.7 I am the beginning and the end Apoc. 2.8 I have brought up Children and exalted them but they have despised me Isa 2. v. 2. II. MED Of the Dominion of God over his Creatures YOU have not always had a Being There was a time wherein you were not It was God who drew you out of nothing 'T was He that gave you a Being You are therefore His Creature He has an absolute dominion over you He may command you what He pleases He may put you where He pleases He may preserve you or destroy you Raise you up or pull you down Comfort you or afflict you Make you die or make you live As He depends upon none So is He answerable to none God is your first Beginning He is Master of your life He is the preserve thereof He is the repairer thereof You depend upon Him necessarily You depend upon him 1. Essentially 2. Absolutely 3. Continually 4. Eternally Is it not then just that you should obey The Master on whom you depend He that planted the Vine Has he not right to eat of it He that built the House Has he not right to dwell in it What injustice is it to expel God Out of a heart which he framed with his own hands From a heart which he Redeemed with his own Blood From a heart wherein he has a mind to dwell From a heart which he would sanctifie What a pride is it for a Vessel of Earth To murmur against its Maker God is your final End He created you for his glory He desires to make you happy 'T is for that end he has placed you in this world Every thing tends to its own end That is the term of its motions That is the center of its rest That is the beginning of its strength The weight of its inclination The very top of its perfection Out of that end a thing is unhappy It is weak It is vicious Ah! why do we not then go to God Ah! whence comes it that we quit God O my

do his will And sacrifice my self to his glory My God! Let me cease to live unless I will live for thee Destroy my being unless I will be thine Oppose my desires if I desire ought else but thee Thou art my Servant Isa 41. I am thine Ps 118. VVhether we live or whether we die we are the Lords Rom. 14. You are not your own for you have been bought with a great price 2 Cor. 6. O Lord I am thy servant I am thy servant and the Son of thy Handmaid Ps 115. VII MED Profitable thoughts fit for to draw us off from the World WHo was it that put me into this World To what end am I in this World What do I do in this World What rest have I in this World When shall I go out of this World Whether shall I go at my departure out of this World What would I wish to have don At my going out of this World Shall I damn my self for the goods of this World If I lose my Soul what will it avail me To have gained the whole World And yet for all that I labour only for the World O my God! Either draw me out of this World Or draw me off from this World Either make the World die in me Or make me die to the World Either separate my Soul from her Body Or take her off from the affection of the World VVhat will it avail a man should he gain the whole VVorld Luk. 19. Ye are of this VVorld I am not of this VVorld John 8. O just Father the VVorld hath not known thee John 4. Ye are not of this VVorld John 15. VIII MED Of Death YOu must die once And you will die but once You know not when you shall die How you shall die In what place you shall die In what state you shall die You will die sooner than you imagin And unless you take heed you will die Before you think of it Such is the Death as is the Life One cannot learn in a moment A Trade which one never practised Nor can one unlearn in a moment A Trade one has still been at After Death you will be judged After Judgment you will be in Eternity What would you then wish to have don What good will these goods do you Which you have scraped up together O Death O Judgment O Salvation O Damnation I am a dead man unless I think of Death I am a Mad man unless I think on Eternity I deserve not to be saved Unless I fear being damned Behold the day of thy Death is at hand Deut. 31. O death how bitter is thy remembrance to a man who has peace in his Riches Eccles 41. Man knows not his end Eccles 9. It is decreed that all men must die once Heb. 9. Be ye therefore prepar'd because in the hour that you think not of the Son of Man will come Luk. 12. Dispose of thy house for thou wilt die Isa 38. IX MED Of the Death of the Just WHat a pleasure is it to die When we have no pleasure to live One quits that without pain Which one possesses without affection Death is sweet to him Who has no comfort at all here The Soul leaves without repining A House that doth not please her A divorce is pleasing to those That do not love each other That which you love during your life Will be your torment at your death That which afflicts you in this life Will be your comfort at your Death What can cause any grief To a spirit disengag'd from all things Love is as strong as Death It prevents what that is to do It separates the soul from the body And leaves Death nothing to do What need is there to pluck up by force A Heart that cleaves close to nothing The Treasure of his merits Is a possession that cannot be taken from him 'T is a precious inheritance That death cannot rob him of O what comfort does the sight Of a good action then afford There is nothing in our life that is goodly But a fair Gate to get out of it Of all the goods that man can desire The greatest is to die well Death is not dreadful To him that has liv'd well It is the end of his combats And the Crown of his merits God preserves in that evil day The Soul which has been faithful to him He makes her sleep in his bosom He strengthens her with his grace He allayes her pains He dissipates her frights He gives order to his blessed Spirits To comfort and defend her To maintain her in peace And to conduct her to Heaven O how precious in the sight of God Is the death of the Just O how honourable is this Sacrifice to him O how pleasing to him is this Victim My God! May I hope for a good death Having led so wicked a life 'T is true I have lost my Innocence But I may repair it by Pennance O I will live like the Vertuous That I may die like the Vertuous O I will lead the life of the Just That I may obtain the Death of the Just Blessed are the dead that die in our Lord. Apoc. 14. To him that fears our Lord it shall be well in his extremity and he shall be blessed in the day of his departure Eccles 2. Precious in the sight of our Lord is the death of his Saints Psal 115. VVhen these things being to be don look up and lift up your heads for then your Redemption is at hand Luk. 21. Ye shall go forth in gladness and be conducted in peace the mountains and hills shall sing praises before you Isa 5. X. MED Of the Death of Sinners DEath is a great evil But Sin is a much greater But Death joyned with Sin Is the most frightful of all evils 'T is an universal evil 'T is an eternal evil 'T is an evil without remedy 'T is the most dreadful threat That a provoked God can make O how evil is the death of sinners How are they seized with horrour Seeing themselves e're they are aware At the last line of time Which they have spent so ill Seeing themselves just ready to go Into the Prisons of Eternity From whence they cannot save themselves To begin to see what they never saw To begin to conceive what they never before conceived To begin to measure What they never before considered To begin to feel what they had never experienced To begin to suffer an Evil as long as Eternity To quit a place of Pleasures For to enter into a place of Torments To descend from a Paradise Into a bottomless Hell To pass from plenty into extream want To fall from a throne of glory Into an Abyss of Confusion O what a dreadful change is this O what a sensible misfortune O how surprizing a novelty O what an amazing downfal That which causes a desire in the good Will cause a fear in the wicked A virtuous man desires nothing more Than to present

thou have in Hell Where thou wilt have for tormentors All those that thou hast damned O my God! Forgive me my own proper sins And impute not to me the sins of others I have hitherto been a Tyrant I will henceforth be a Martyr I have lived like a Devil I will now live like an Angel I have labour'd only to destroy Souls I will now labour to save them I shall not be in security Unless I save as many as I have damn'd I am not born for my self alone I must likewise answer for my Neighbour My life is only necessary for my self But my reputation is necessary for others I ow Chastity to my self But I ow Modesty to the whole World Wo unto the world from scandals Matth. 17. He that scandalizes one of these little ones it were better for him to have a Milstone hung about his neck and to be flung into the Sea Matth. 17. If thy hand scandalize thee cut it off Mark 4. VVo unto him by whom scandal cometh Luk. 7. XXVII MED Of outward Pennance and Mortification THere is nothing more united than Soul and Body Nothing less united than Soul and Body When the one goes forward the other goes backward When one goes up the other goes down When the one is well the other is sick When the one is strong the other is weak I am not a man if I obey my Passions I am no Christian unless I fight against my Passions I am no Penitent unless I mortifie my Passions How do I know whether my sins be forgiven me Whether the punishment be remitted me Whether God will chastise me spiritually Or punish me corporally If I spare my self God will not spare me If I punish my self God will not punish me If I hate my self God will love me If I love my self God will hate me O! I will chastise my Body That I may be predestinated I will fight against this enemy of God That I may be crowned I will mortifie my senses That I may live a life of the spirit I will be crucified with JESUS That I may rise again with JESUS I abhor my body unless it have wounds as his had Since I have not the heart to make my self any I will suffer those that God shall make me O Christian Soul Make of thy body a living and dying victim Mortifie thy Passions thy Senses and thy Desires Mortifie thy self at all times In all places In all things Mortifie thy self discreetly and prudently Give thy flesh unto God and he will give thee his spirit Do thou take care of the exteriour And he will take care of the interiour Do thou do what is easie and he will do that which is hard Walk as long as thou art able And he will carry thee when thou canst go no longer The flesh lusteth against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh Gal. 5. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God Rom. 8. Those that belong to Christ have crucified their flesh with its vices and lusts Gal. 5. If you live according to the flesh you shall die Rom. 8. XXVIII MED Of the excellency of Mortification WHat is Mortification 'T is a death of love which kills the criminal life Which takes the Soul off from the senses Which severs her from the body Which makes her live in spirit What is Mortification 'T is a Martyrdom of love without Crime or Tyrant Less bloody than that of faith but longer and more tedious More free and more voluntary More honourable and more innocent More troublesom and more constant What is Mortification 'T is a continuation of the Sacrifice of JESUS Which fills up what is wanting to his Passion Which makes our Bodies Members of his Which enlivens us with his Spirit Gives us a share of his Sorrows Which merits for us a treasure of his Grace Which disposes us to the throne of his Glory O let me die the death of the Just That I may live the life of the Just O let me be a victim to love That I may die a death of love I beseech you brethren through the mercy of God that you yield your bodies a living and holy Host and pleasing to God Rom. 12. I die every day 1 Cor. 15. I am fastned to the Cross Gal. 2. I fulfil the things that are wanting to the Sufferances of Christ in my flesh for his body which is the Church Col. 1. If by the spirit you mortifie the works of the flesh you shall live Rom. 8. XXIX MED Of the Profit and necessity of Temptations THe evil purifies the good A Storm makes Trees take deeper Roots Wind blows away the Chaff Fire refines Gold Snow warms the Ground A Combat tries ones strength Infirmity conserves Humility Temptation increases Charity Every thing hath its contrary War produces Peace Every thing subsists by opposition You will be saved but by Temptation Unless you be tempted you will not be predestinated Unless you fight you will not be crowned Unless you be assaulted you are already overcome This Combat is troublesom but it is necessary It gives an exercise to your virtue But it gets you a Crown That which encourages you to resist Will crown your patience The feeling of Temptation hurts not Provided the heart consent not God is with you what do you fear You are stronger than your enemy He cannot overcome you unless you will He cannot bite you unless you go near him Be vigilant in the first beginnings Pray to God at all times Fly occasions Be firm in your resolutions Take counsel in your Doubts Seek for succour in your Combats Go up to Heaven there to see your Throne Go down into Hell there to see your place 'T is on this Combat peradventure That your Salvation depends 'T is on this Moment that your Eternity depends 'T is on this Crisis that your life depends 'T is on this Temptation that depends your Predestination O JESUS my King I fight for you and before you You are the Spectator of my labours You are the Witness of my feebleness Suffer me not to betray you Permit me not to ruin my self Arise O God of Hosts make hast unto my succour Defend me against my foes Scatter away those that hate me He that is not tempted what does he know Eccles 34. Gold and Silver is tried in the fire and men that are acceptable in the furnace of humiliation Eccles 12. Esteem it all joy brethren when you fall into several temptations Jac. 1. Vexed in few things in many things they shall be well disposed Wisd 3. XXX MED Of the causes of our Temptations WHy am I tempted 'T is because you are proud Or because you watch not over your Senses Or because you avoid not Occasions Or because you have ill Habits Or because you are not in order Or for that you have quitted your Vocation Or because you are not sufficiently employed 'T is because you are a man Because you are a Sinner And

wrath Ps 9. LXVI MED Of Conformity to the Will of God TO judge as God judges is to be wise as God is To will as God wills is to be holy as God is His judgment is the Rule of our judgments His will is the Rule of our wills God alone has right to do what he will He alone can have a will of his own Wilt not thou then my Soul obey God Wilt thou always make war against him Wilt thou wrestle with the Almighty Hast thou measur'd thy arms with his Art thou wiser than he Wilt thou teach him to govern the World If thou wilt not do his Will Thou wilt take away his Crown Thou wilt ascend his Throne Thou wilt be independent as he is Is it just that God should do thy will Or that thou should'st do his Will How happy would'st thou be If thou would'st nothing but what God will In what a profound peace wouldst thou live How would thy affairs change their face What cares and disquiets wouldst thou spare God does the affairs of those who do his He obeys those who obey him He loves those that love him He contents those that content him Is it not to be in Heaven To will all that God wills Is it not to be in Hell To will nothing of what God wills A man does always his own will When he has no proper self-will A man never does what he will When he does not do what God will The Will of God is always don one way or other If I oppose him he will oppose me If I afflict him he will afflict me If I disturb him he will disturb me If I serve him he will serve me O my God! There is no pleasure in displeasing you There is no profit in offending you Since I have been at odds with you I have been at odds with my self Since I have made war against you I never could find any peace Do with me what you please If I will not do what you will have me Make me serve you if I will not love you Force me if I will not obey you Draw me if I will not follow you Good and evil life and death poverty and honour are from God Eccles 11. I have found a man according to my heart who will do all my wills 1 Kings 13. Whatsoever shall befal a just man shall never make him sad Prov. 12. Whosoever shall do the will of my Father he is my Brother and Sister and Mother Matth. 12. Not as I will but as thou Matth. 29. LXVII MED Of the love of our Neighbour MY Neighbour is a man as I am He is framed to the Image of God as I am Redeemed with his Blood as I am Is a Member of his Body as I am Is a Child of his Church as I am Is fed with the same Sacraments as I am Is design'd to the same Heaven as I am God commands me to love him as my self Jesus prays me and orders me to do it He reckons it as don to himself All that is don to our Neighbour He has substituted him in his own place He has transferr'd all his rights to him He will have me pay him all that I owe him I am not his Disciple Unless I love my Neighbour I am no Christian unless I assist him If I afflict him God will afflict me If I excuse him God will excuse me If I support him God will support me If I pardon him God will pardon me God will use me as I have used him God will judge me according to my charity to him O I will then love him that I may be beloved I will assist him that I may be assisted I will support him that I may be supported I will save him that I may be saved I will love him Tenderly Universally Generously Constantly Thou shalt love thy neighbour as t' y self Matth. 12. To love your neighbour as your self is more than all Holocausts and Sacrifices Mark 12. Bear one another's burdens and so you will fulfil the Law of Christ Gal. 6. But above all things having continual Charity in your selves because Charity covers a multitude of sins 1 Pet. 4. In this all shall know that ye are my Disciples if you have a love for one another John 3. LXVIII MED Of the duty of Fathers to their Children and of Masters towards their Servants A Father owes to his Children Nourishment of Body and Soul He must not bring them into the World For to send them to Hell Why will you be a Father Unless you will also be an Instructor What does it avail you to feed the Body If you leave the Soul forlorn The first life of Children Is but the life of Beasts They becom men but with time 'T is wise instruction that discloses their reason 'T is a new Birth 'T is the Organ of Faith 'T is the Principle of Salvation 'T is the Ground-work of Virtue Salvation and Damnation depend often upon Education Unhappy are those Children Whose Fathers will pardon them in nothing But much more unhappy are those To whom their Fathers grant all things A good education ought to be mildly severe Parents ought to imitate God Who does the office both of a Father and Mother Of a Father by severity Of a Mother by tenderness One must not always punish Nor must one always pardon One must not always be silent Nor must one always chide Never correct a Child when you are in Choler A Physician that is sick must first cure himself A Father that is hurried along with passion Does himself deserve correction Punishment is a Medecin Which is to be given in its due time When Chastisement is just and moderate It gives Understanding But it creates a Contempt When it is us'd too often For to breed up ones Children well They are to be loved equally The partiality of affections Is the cause of all disorders Why should you make a difference Where Nature has made none Why should you violate the rights Which she has wisely establish'd Ought not the Branches of the same tree Bear the same Leaves Nature acts by Inclination But those who love out of charity Do more good to those persons For whom they have most aversion Imitate God in his conduct Has he not more tenderness For the Predestinate than the Reprobate But he hides it in this life The wicked are not jealous of it He oftentimes shews more friendship To those by whom he has been most offended Instructions bring but little fruit Unless they be accompanied with example You destroy by your Actions What you build up by your Words The Hand advances more than the Tongue Example is more powerful than Discourse The Child gives more credit to his Eyes Than he does to his Ears He thinks he has a right to do What he sees his Parents do He places his glory in imitating them And his perfection in being like them All your sins are Scandals Which infect your

Descendents They are inheritances of iniquity Which pass down to posterity Fathers If you have Children Take care to instruct them Correct them moderately Love them all equally Hearken not to your Inclinations Follow not your Aversions Dissemble not their Disorders Flatter not their Passions Entertain not their Divisions Pardon when you ought to pardon But punish when you ought to punish Masters treat your Servants As if they were your Children They are not so by birth But by a kind of Adoption they are God relies upon you For their Breeding and Education You owe to them as to your Children Instruction Correction and Example Your Children and your Servants At the day of Judgment Will be your Judges and your Parties Your Witnesses and your Accusers Son hast thou Children instruct them Eccles 7. Fathers provoke not your Sons to wrath that they may not becom pusillanimous Gol. 3. He that spares the rod hates his Son Prov. 13. He that scandalizes one of these little ones it were better that he had a Mill-stone c. Matth. 18. If any one has not care of his own folks and especially of his Domesticks he has denied his faith Tim. 5. LXIX MED Of Mildness and Choler How happy is a mild man How unhappy is a cholerick man How wise is a mild man How foolish is a cholerick man How amiable is a mild man How hateful is a cholerick man How holy is a mild man How wicked is a cholerick man To be mild is to be a Man To be cholerick is to be a Beast To be mild is to be a King To be cholerick is to be a Slave To be mild is to be a Christian To be cholerick is to be a Pagan To be mild is a mark of one Predestinate To be cholerick is a mark of a Reprobate A mild man is like unto God He is a perfect expression of Jesus Christ He is Master of his Passions He re-enters into the state of Innocency He enjoys a profound Peace He is always equal to himself The Holy Ghost reposes in his heart Grace establishes her Empire therein God treats him with mildness He forgives him his sins He tolerates his defects He perfects him with his graces A cholerick man is like the Devil He is always furious like him He is a slave to his Passions He is banish'd the commerce of men He is never in quiet He never possesses himself He disturbs the Kingdom of grace He drives the Holy Ghost out of his heart He gives an entrance to the Devil He spares neither God nor man Nor will God likewise spare him He handles him with rigour He chastizes him with wrath He punishes him without remission O Jesus the mildest of all men Have pity on the fiercest of all Devils O most meek Lord Who didst suffer thy self to be stripped And put to death without uttering a word Make me meek and patient in my pains O good Shepherd Who drivest away the Wolves from thy fold How dost thou endure me in thy house How dost thou endure me among thy sheep Either kill this Sanguinary Beast Or change him into one of thy sheep Be not hasty to be angry because anger will rest in the bosom of a fool Eccl. 7. He will direct the mild in judgment he will teach the mild his ways Ps 24. The naughty man always seeks out brangles but a cruel Angel shall be sent against him Prov. 17. But the meek shall inherit the land and shall be delighted in the multitude of Peace Ps 36. Every one that is angry with his brother is guilty of judgment Matth. 5. Blessed are the meek for they shall possess the Earth ibid. LXX MED Remedies against Choler FOr to be mild one must be humble One ought to hate himself One must be taken off from self love From the love of things created Those who are gentle to themselves Are ordinarily severe to others Those who are gentle to others Are ordinarily severe to themselves What do you get by being angry You impair your health You take away the life of your Soul You drive out the Holy Ghost from thence You let in the Devil there You do not advance your affairs You do not remedy your evil You disturb your Family You make a Hell of your House Does one Evil cure another O that you could but see your self in your Choler You would see your self transform'd into a Beast You houl like a Wolf You foam like a Boar. You bite like a Dog You are cruel like a Tyger You are furious like a Lion You gnash your teeth like a damned Man You have the contorsions of a possest Man Is that the figure of a man Is that the figure of a Christian Is that the figure of a Predestinate What reason have you to be in Choler Does God bear with nothing from you Do not you make others suffer Have not you deserved Hell Were not you to burn in the flames thereof Why do you then find it strange That your will is a little cross'd What wrong is don you Do not your goods belong to God Cannot he take them back again Cannot he recal them When he pleases and by whom he pleases Who can take a hair from you unless he will What Mercy willtyou obtain of God If you use none towards your Neighbour O My God! I confess that I am in the wrong to be cholerick Since I cannot have so much hurt don me As I have deserved They have reason to offend me Since I have so much offended you O how just is it that my will should be opposed Since I have so often opposed yours How do I deserv to be despised Since I have so much dishonoured you Can I complain of my affliction After I have so much afflicted you O most meek Jesus do me the favour That I may imitate your Meekness and your Patience I firmly purpose to keep silence When I feel my self moved Never to speak when I am in wrath On whom shall I look but on the meek one and the contrite in spirit and him that trembles at my speeches Isai 66. Blessed are the meek for they shall possess the land Matth. 5. Learn of me for that I am meek and humble of heart Mat. 11. Why art thou angry and why is thy countenance fallen Gen. 4. LXXI MED That we ought to do all our Actions well GOd will be honoured by me by this Action He expects I should serv him this Action He has annex'd his Grace to this Action He will know whether I love him by this Action His Glory depends on this Action His Wisdom has dispos'd of this Action His Majesty heightens this Action His Sanctity consecrates this Action His Will commands this Action His Providence ordains this Action His Greatness ennobles this Action His Love requires this Action My Peace is included in this Action My Merit proceeds from this Action My Perfection is annexed to this Action God will be offended if I fail

Yea blessed are those who hear the Word of God and keep it Luk 11. He that turns away his ear that he may not hear the Law his Prayer shall be execrable Isai 28. Not in bread alone shall man live but in every word that proceeds from the mouth of God Matth. 4. See that you refuse him not speaking Heb. 11. The seed is the Word of God Luk. 8. LXXXIV MED Of the Happiness of a Religious State REligion is a Paradise God is always seen there His Voice is always heard there One is always in his Presence there One enjoys always his Company there One always does his Will there One always sings his Praises there There one falls seldom Commits but light sins Rises soon Merits continually Dies quietly and is saved securely O how heavy is the Yoke of the World O how troublesom are its Crosses O how bitter is its Chalice O how pricking are its thorns O how pestilent are its Examples O how dangerous are its Conversations O how Tyrannical are its Laws O how pernicious are its Maxims O how shameful are its Pleasures O how imaginary are its Goods Cursed Onions of Egypt You draw Tears from those that eat you You make those weep that love you He took away his people like sheep and brought them through like a flock in the desart Ps 77. They remembred not his hand in the day that he redeemed them from the hand of the afflicter ibid. How beloved are thy tabernacles O Lord my Soul doth long and faint into the courts of our Lord Ps 89. I have chosen to be abject in the house of my God rather than to dwell in the tabernacles of Sinners Better is one day in thy courts above a thousand ibid. Every one who shall leave his house or Brothers or Sisters or father or mother or vvife or children or land for my sake shall receive a hundred fold and possess life everlasting Matth. 19. Amen I say unto you That there is none c. vvho shall not receive novv in this time a hundred fold vvith Persecutions and in the World to com life everlasting Mark 10. Much more in this time c. Luk. 18. LXXXV MED Of Poverty ONe that is Poor in spirit Busies himself with nothing One that is Poor in heart desires nothing He contents himself with what is necessary Nay he is willing to want even Necessaries Few things are wanting To a Poor man that is contented All things are wanting to a rich Miser Few things suffice Necessity Nothing is sufficient to Covetousness How rich is that man who possesses God How poor is that man who has lost God How happy is that man Who will have nothing but God How covetous is that man Who is not contented with God God fills an empty heart All is establisht in Nothing You shall have All if you desire Nothing You will find All when you have Nothing O my Saviour How rich an inheritance is Poverty What good do you to those that have quitted all Could any one be poorer Than you were born Could any one live poorer than you lived You were rich and you made your self poor I am poor and I would fain becom rich You had all and yet you wanted all I had nothing and I would want nothing O how unjust a thing is it that the Slave Should be better accomodated than his Master Fear not my Son vve lead indeed a poor life but vve shall have many goods if vve fear God Tob. 4. Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven Matth. 5. If thou vvilt be perfect go and sell all thou hast and give it to the poor Matth. 14. We brought nothing into this World nor doubtless shall vve carry any thing avvay 1 Tim. 6. LXXXVI MED Of Chastity JESVS loves those that are Virgins JESVS chose a Virgin-Mother JESVS cherished a Virgin-Disciple JESVS in Heaven is followed by Virgins I am more than an Angel if I am a Virgin I resemble God if I am a Virgin I am the Spouse of Christ if c. I am the Handmaid of Christ if c. I shall have a Garland in Heaven if c. I shall have more right to Resurrection if c. Virginity is a great treasure But hard to preserve One must be humble to be chast God humbles the Proud He lets them fall into infamous Sins He punishes the Soul by the Body He covers those with shame and confusion Who have not Submission No man can command Who knows not how to obey No man can be a Master If he never learnt to be subject The Body obeys an obedient Spirit It is submiss to a submiss Spirit It is rebellious to a rebellious Spirit He that does not obey his Superiour Loses his empire over his Inferiour He that does not mortify his senses Becoms a slave to his Body Watch over your self and Pray Fly occasions or else you will perish O my God! How I dread Pride Since it casts one into impurity How I love Obedience Since it conserves Innocency I will be very humble that I may be very chast I will obey my Superiours That I may be obeyed by my Inferiours O let me rather fall into Hell Than let me fall into Impurity The Disciple whom Jesus loved Jo. 21. These are they who were not stained with women for they are Virgins Apoc. 14. Incorruption makes one near unto God Wisd 6. In the Resurrection they shall neither marry nor be married but they shall be like the Angels of God in Heaven Matth. 22. Therefore God delivered them up to the desires of their hearts into uncleanness for to abuse their own bodies among themselves ignominiously Rom. 1. Therefore God hath delivered them into passions of ignominy ibid. LXXXVII MED Of Obedience HOw happy is an obedient man He always does what God would have him He is in some manner impeccable He possesses all Virtues He is victorious over all Vices How miserable is a rebellious Subject How wicked and vicious is he He labours much and gains nothing He is strongly tempted And he yields to the Temptation He fights against the Will of God And God fights against his He goes out of the order of his goodness And he enters into that of his justice He will not bow And God breaks his Obstinacy He will not obey And God opposes his Inclination He loses the command he had over his Body From the time that he will not submit his Spirit He is not obeyed by his Inferiours Because he obeys not his Superiours O Christian and Religious Soul Acknowledge and adore Jesus in all his Images In those of Wood and Earth As well as in those of Gold and Silver Receive with respect God's orders By the Organ of Amos as well as that of Isaiah By the mouth of a Peasant As well as of a Courtier Obey all your Superiours Obey them in all that is not sin Obey them with all your Heart Obey them with

therefore believe it JESUS has don this We must therefore do it His Doctrin is the Rule of our Faith His Example is the Rule of our Manners He is infallible in his words He is impeccable in his actions I am an Heretick in my Spirit If I do not believe what he has said I am an Heretick in heart If I do not do what he has don I shall be perfect if I am like unto Jesus I shall be cherished by God if I am like unto Jesus I shall love God if I am like unto Jesus I shall be saved if I am like unto Jesus O what a happiness to be like unto God To live like God To speak like God To act to suffer and to dy like a God Was it thus that Jesus spoke Was it thus that JESUS acted Was it thus that JESUS suffered My Brethren put on Jesus Christ As a Garment which covers Body and Soul Look on and make it according to the pattern that was shewed thee in the Mount Exod. 25. Whom he has predestinated to be made conformable to the Image of his Son Rom. 8. He that says that he remains in him ought as he walked to walk also 1 John 2. I have given you an example That as I have don so you do also John 13. XC MED Of the Virtue of Jesus compared to our Vices JESUS was poor and I am rich JESUS was humble and I am proud JESUS was mild and I am cholerick JESUS was patient and I will endure nothing Jesus did pardon and I will revenge my self Jesus obeyed and I will command Jesus was hated and I would be beloved Jesus was slighted and I would be honoured Jesus lay hid and I would appear Jesus ascended into Heaven by pain And I would ascend through Pleasure Is it just that the Slave Should be better treated than the Child And the Criminal than the Innocent O how I fear to be reprobated Being so little like to the first of the Predestinate Is thy heart upright as mine is 4 Kings 10. The Disciple is not above his Master nor the Servant above his Lord. Matth. 10. He is made unto us Wisdom from God and Justice and Sanctification and Redemption 1 Cor. 2. I am the way the truth and the life Jo. 14. XCI MED Of the Nativity of JESVS Christ NEver did God shew himself greater Than when he made himself little Never more powerful Than when he made himself weak Never more amiable Than when he made himself miserable When I see God becom the Son of man I know that man may becom the Son of God When I see him in a stable I know that we ought to humble our selves When I see him on the straw I know that the grandures of the World Are nothing but dung When I see him weep I know that we must suffer All the Wisdom of God Is included in this Child All his Actions are Rules of Wisdom His Stable is the School of Wisdom His Crib is the Throne of Wisdom His Silence is the Voice of Wisdom His Sleep is the Extasie of Wisdom Either Jesus is deceived Or the World is mistaken Which of the two will you believe The Birth of Jesus is the Reprobation of the World He has condemn'd all that he has rejected Unless I am like unto this Child I shall never be saved I Evangelize unto you great joy c. Luk. 1. She swathed him in clouts and laid him down in a manger ibid. A child is born to us and a Son is given to us Is 9. Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this Word that is don Luk. 2. The Word was made flesh John 1. XCII MED Affections of tenderness towards the Infant Jesus O God of Wisdom who hast chosen a Stable For the Palace of thy greatness Who hast chosen a Crib for thy Throne of glory Where shall I hide my self in thy Presence What a confusion is it to a Proud man To see a God on a Dunghil What insolence is it for a worm of the Earth To be yet desirous to raise himself Is it You or the World that is mistaken Can the Wisdom of God be deceived O God of Goodness How have you hid your Greatness But how have you made your Mercy to shine You never render'd your self more amiable Than when you made your self miserable You never appear'd greater in goodness Than when you annihilated your Majesty I did dread you heretofore as you were God But I am forc'd to love you as you are Man Who can be apprehensive of an Infant Who is not melted by the tears of an Infant Your weeping moves compassion but not fear It gives me hopes but not a diffidence If you could make your Son the Son of Man Cannot you make me the Son of God If you could make your self miscrable Cannot you make me happy O divine Babe O the love of all Ages O the fairest of Men O the desires of Heaven When I hear you groan and sigh I cannot hinder my self from loving you I have a long time resisted your power I yield now unto your weakness I have slighted your greatness But I submit my self to your humility I have fought against you as you were God But you triumph over my heart as you are Man I defended my self against your wrath But I cannot resist your love O the greatest of all Kings How does your Majesty astonish me But how does your Humility ravish me How wonderful are you as you are God But how lovely are you as you are Man I am more surprized to see you humbled Than to see you elevated To hear you cry than to hear you thunder One only Tear of yours stirs up in my heart A greater fire of love than all the fires of Sinai O since you have taken on you my Miseries I hope you will give me your goods Since you are com down upon Earth I hope that you will raise me up to Heaven O dear Son of Mary Com into my arms Repose your self on my heart Water me with your tears Warm me with your love Bless me with your little hands Kiss me with your little mouth I forget what I am Since you forget what you are If I fail in the respects that I owe you 'T is your love that is the cause thereof Make your self less amiable If you will not be beloved When I shall see you on a Throne I shall be seized with fright But when I consider you in a Crib I shall love you with all my heart I shall approach you without fear I shall love you without diffidence I shall serve you without disgust I shall give you all without reserve I shall bless you without respit I shall praise and bless you without end Both in Time and Eternity Amen XCIII MED Of the Poverty of the Infant Jesus JEsus made himself poor to enrich us Jesus stripped himself to cloath us Jesus came down on a Dunghil For to raise us up to a

deserves He was forsaken in his Soul And consumed with sorrows in his Body All his Senses were crucified His Eyes by the sight of his Enemies His Ears by their Blasphemies His Smell by the infection of the place His Touch by his wounds His Tast by the bitterness of the gall His Memory by the sight of our crimes His Understanding by the darkness His Will by the terrours His Appetite by infirmity By disgust and by sadness He had no Part in his Body Which was not loaden with wounds He suffered like a mere man Who neither had been God nor happy The Victim was indeed flayed But it was still sound within The whips had taken off the skin But they had not touch'd the entrails That he might afflict all the organs Of our Excesses and Gluttonies He suffered a cruel Thirst He makes the bitterness of his Chalice Descend down into his Body Then was the Book of this divine Lamb Written both within and without Jesus complains that he is athirst Knowing that they would give him gall to drink He discovers to us his sorrow And the love that consumed him He thirsts after our Salvation and Perfection He desires to suffer more 'T is Love that makes him dy O Jesus my Saviour What can I do for your relief Cannot I quench your thirst Doubtless you desire something of me What is that thirst that burns you O I know what it is that you require You would have me quit this Sin Renounce that company Draw near unto your Cross Entertain my self with your Sufferings Apply my self a little to Prayer Give my self to Devotion Keep silence when I am provoked and offended This is what you desire of me This is what will quench your thirst Shall I dare to refuse This relief to your Pains O that I did burn with your love As you burnt with mine O that I could suffer for you As much as you suffered for me O how love makes me languish O I have long desired to dy That the Scripture might be fulfill'd he said I thirst John 19. O that som one would give me water of the cistern of Bethlehem which is in the gate 1 Par. 11. Woman give me to drink John 4. They gave for my food gall and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink Ps 98. As the heart desires the fountains of waters so doth my soul thirst after the living God Ps 41. CXIV MED On the sixth Word of our Lord on the Cross ALL is Consummate Jesus having taken the Vinegar said All is accomplished The Holocaust is consummated The Commands of my Father are executed The Gospel is announced The Prophecies are verified The ransom of mankind is paid Their sins are pardoned The Captives are delivered Heaven is opened The Sacraments are instituted The Devils are overcom The World is repaired I have nothing more to say do or suffer I have nothing now to do But to give up my soul 'T is now in the power of men To live well and save themselves O the happy Consummation of the just O the unhappy Consummation of the wicked All is Consummate the sinners will say Our pleasures are past Our pastimes are at an end Our fair days are eclipsed Our hopes are vanish'd away Our time is slid away Our life is ended Our malice is Consummated We must now begin to suffer An evil which can never end We must begin a misery Which will never be Consummated All is Consummate the Just will say Our evil days are past away Our sufferings are terminated Our combats are ended Our troubles are calmed Our sorrows are allayed Our infirmities are cured Our tears are wiped away Our Miseries are Consummated There is no more Cross for us to bear No more evil to suffer No more Pennance to do We are going into a Country of Peace Where our joy shall never have an end Choose O Christian Soul One of these two Consummations You must of necessity one day say All is Consummate Will you say it as Lazarus did Or will you say it as Dives did Will you say it as JESVS did Or as Pilate did When your time is Consummated You will find that all is but vanity O Jesus the Author of our Faith And the Consummator of our Salvation Let me consume my life for you As you consumed yours for me Let me accomplish all your commands Let me spend my self for your glory Let me burn with your love Let me make a victim of my body Let me annihilate my self continually Let me fulfil all your designs Let me acquit me of all my duties Let me say with truth when I dy All is ended All is consummate It is consummate John 19. By this one oblation he consummated for ever the sanctified Heb. 10. Looking upon the Author of faith and the Consummator Jesus Heb. 12. He learnt by those things which he suffered obedience and he was made consummate Heb. 5. If a man lives many years and do rejoyce in all these things he must remember the darksom time and the evil days which when they com the things that are past will be argued of vanity Eccles 11. CXV MED On the last Word of JESVS Christ on the Cross FAther into thy hands I commend my soul Jesus leaves himself to his Father When he is forsaken by him He teaches us how to dy As he taught us how to live He teaches us confidence After he had taught us patience Let us imitate Jesus living Let us imitate Jesus dying Let us rest betwixt his arms Let us recommend our souls into his hands He is our Father Can he forsake us He is our Saviour Will he damn us Let us at our death say to Jesus Christ Father into thy hands I recommend my Spirit It came from thee as from its beginning It returns to thee as to its end It is a blast of thy mouth 'T is an emanation of thy spirit 'T is the price of thy blood 'T is the Sanctuary of thy Grace I recommend it into thy hands Which were pierced for its sake I recommend it to thy heart Which burnt with love for it O Lord take it into thy care And when it hath left its body I beseech thee not to forsake it Unless it fall into thy hands Alas its Salvation is desperate O Lord permit not that Soul to be lost Which has cost thee so dear Go forth O my Soul quit thy Body How coms it that thou apprehendest death JESUS has answered for thee He has recommended thee to his Father When he recommended to him his own Spirit Go forth of thy Body O Christian Soul In the name of the Father who created thee In the name of the Son who redeemed thee In the name of the Holy Ghost who sanctified thee Jesus calls thee to his Heaven Bow down thy head through obedience Fear nothing thou art in security In the hands of JESUS Christ Jesus crying with a loud voice said Father into thy hands

to your holy Mother I choose her for mine and I desire to dy betwixt her arms I recommend my spirit into thy hands and I conjure thee by thy dereliction not to forsake me at the hour of my death but to receive me into thy Heaven there to see thee there to love thee there to praise and bless thee for all Eternity Amen This Prayer may be recited in the time of Mass before Confession and Communion especially when one is sick and on all Fridays in the year at the foot of the Cross You must make a little Pause at each Station and produce in heart the acts that you pronounce with your mouth CXVIII MED On the Burial of Jesus Christ JEsus from the Cross is laid in the Tomb. Here is an end of his labours This is the place of his rest This is the term of his journeys His Disciples do almost lose their Faith By having lost his Presence They are fearful and dejected Because they see and hear him no longer Happy is he who receives into his heart Jesus descending from the Cross The grain of wheat that it may fructify Must dye and be hidden The arms of the Priest at the Altar Are the arms of the Cross Your heart is the grave wherein he would rejoyce Happy is he who is crucified Who is dead and buried Who is hid in the ground Who is trod under foot Who is unknown to men Who reposes in God He will soon rise again with Jesus Immortal and impassible like him Happy is he who conceives his Faith In the death and obscurity of his Senses Who loses not his hope having lost his support Who ceases not to love Having nothing that can comfort him O Jesus Hide me in thy grave Bury me in thy shrowd That I may be no more known by men Let me dy to all my senses I am ready to go along with you Even into the Prisons of Hell Provided that I be in your company I shall have nothing to apprehend Hell with you would be a Heaven to me Heaven without you would be a Hell to me Joseph taking the body wrapt it in a clean Sindon and laid it in his own new monument which he had hewed out of a rock Matth. 27. Woman why weepest thou They have taken away my Lord and I know not where they have put him John 20. My Soul was filled with evils and my life drew near unto Hell Ps 87. I was reputed with those that descend into the lake I became like a man without help free amongst the dead ibid. They laid me in the lower lake in dark places and in the shadow of death ibid. Like the vvounded that sleep in their graves ibid. CXIX MED Of the Resurrection of our Lord. JEsus is risen again He enjoys a glorious life He is com out of his grave He has conquered death He has triumphed over Satan He has broken to pieces the gates of Hell He has carried away the spoils He has frightned his guards He has confounded the Jews He is victorious over all his Enemies My Soul weep no more Jesus has resumed a new life He will dy no more in thy heart Unless thy Sin do crucify him there Jesus is risen again in our Souls He is re-entred into his Kingdom He has droven the Devils thence He has triumphed over Sin He keeps our Passions Captives He dwells therein by his Grace He lives there by his Spirit He reigns there by his Love He reposes there by his Peace All the whole Church is risen again His whole Body is out of the grave All his Members are re-animated They are no more dead nor sick My Soul weep no more Jesus has c. Jesu tarry with us for night draws on The day is going down The Devils gather together The Lions roar Our Passions revolt Ill habits awaken The World takes arms Our flesh takes strength again Your life is not in assurance Hell has conspired against you The wicked have sworn your death They will renew your sufferings My Soul c. O ye senceless Galathians What do you intend to do Do not you know Jesus any more But two days ago you lamented his death And now you are contriving To take away his life You are preparing Scourges for to tear him Thorns to crown him with Crosses to nail him to What has he don for to be crucified Is he criminal for having loved you Does he deserve death for having saved you My Soul c. Our Lord is truly risen and hath appeared to Simon Luk. 24. Christ rising from the dead dies no more death shall domineer no more over him Rom. 6. If ye are risen with Christ seek the things that are above not that are on earth Col. 3. Crucifying to themselves again the Son of God and setting him at nought Heb. 6. CXX MED Of our Lord's Wounds JEsus hath Wounds altho he be risen Do not wonder at the Wounds That remain after your Resurrection There is no hurt in feeling them There is merit in enduring them Be impassible to your passions Be immovable in your temptations The Wounds of Jesus enlighten our Faith They support our Hope They inflame our Love We cannot doubt of his affection We see his heart through his Wounds We ought no longer to be diffident Jesus is our Advocate in Heaven He prays for us by as many mouths As he has Wounds in his Body The Nails are the Keys that have opened This Ark of our Redemption All the Treasures which it includes Are now at our disposal O Jesus my Saviour How do your Wounds comfort me Secure me encourage me There issues from thence a Balsam Which cures all my sorrows Who will dare to accuse me Knowing that you are my Advocate Who will dare to condemn me Knowing that you are my Judge Who will dare to declare against me Knowing that you are my Saviour O divine Saviour Imprint on me your sacred Stigmats Imprint them in my Soul and in my Body Who can live without Wounds Seeing you covered with Wounds I cannot love my heart Unless it be wounded like yours Alas that which shall be the joy of the Predestinate Will be the torment of the damned He shewed them his hands and feet Luk. 24. He shewed them his hands and side John 20. What are those wounds in the midst of thy hands With these was I wounded in the house of those that loved me Zech. 13. Behold I have written thee in my hands Isai 49. Whom thou hast stricken they have persecuted and they have added to the pain of my wounds Ps 68. CXXI MED Of the good Shepherd JEsus is a good Shepherd He knows all his sheep He knows them as he is known by his Father He gives them life as he receives it from him He calls them all by their name He conducts them in streight ways He has a particular Providence for them He always walks before them With the Crook of the Cross in his

Draw me quickly For I am weary of living Alas What a life Ah! What a death O my dear Life Give me death that I may dy to my self And live Eternally to you And our Lord Jesus after he had spoken was assumed into Heaven and sitteth at the right hand of God Mark 16. Ascending on high he led captivity captive he gave gifts Eph. 4. Let not your heart be troubled I go to prepare you a place I will take you to my self that where I am you also may be John 14. And if I be exalted from the Earth I will draw all to my self John 12. Draw me after thee Cant. 5. CXXIV MED Of the coming down of the Holy Ghost WE are not members of Jesus Christ Unless we live by his Spirit The Spirit of JESVS Is a Spirit of Life which animates us 'T is a Spirit of Grace that sanctifies us A Spirit of Wisdom which instructs us A Spirit of Love which unites us A Spirit of Peace which pacifies us A Spirit of Purity which purifies us A Spirit of Liberty which disengages us A Spirit of Joy which comforts us A Spirit of Humility which humbles us A Spirit of Obedience which subjects us The Spirit of JESVS Makes men Gods Of sinners just Of weak makes us strong Of sad glad Of cold fervent Of cholerick mild Of ignorant wise Of timid courageous The Spirit of JESVS Does not descend upon the proud It does not repose in turbulent hearts It has a horrour of impure souls It withdraws it self from vain spirits It is not in agreement with the flesh It makes a mortal War with it It could not com down upon the Apostles Whilst they saw JESUS sensibly It lives in us by Grace It dwells in us by Charity It reigns in us by Love It reposes in us by Peace We afflict it by Venial sin We stile it by Mortal sin We lose it by the love of the World We drive it away by the love of the Flesh O my God! How gentle is your spirit How severe is mine How holy is yours How profane is mine How humble is yours How proud is mine O Holy Spirit Father of the poor Comfort of the afflicted Com and descend down to us and comfort us Enlighten us by your Light Conduct us by your Grace Sanctifie us by your Love Support us by your Strength Penetrate us by your Unction Adopt us by your Charity Pacifie us by your Presence Save us by your Mercy 'T is the Spirit which enlivens John 6. They were all replenisht with the Holy Ghost Act. 2. Grace is diffused in our hearts by the Holy Ghost who is given to us Rom. 5. If any one hath not the Spirit of Christ he is not his Rom. 8. Whoever are acted by the Spirit of God they are the Sons of God ibid. If we live in spirit let us walk in spirit Gal. 5. CXXV MED Of the most Sacred Trinity MAn believes that there are as many Gods As he loves Creatures He adores a Trinity on Earth And contemns the Trinity of Heaven He esteems only the grandures of the World He seeks after nothing but earthly riches He desires nothing but the pleasures of the Senses He despises the Wisdom of God He laughs at the power of the Father He outrages the goodness of the Holy Ghost Is it to believe that God is wise And not to apprehend his Wrath Is it to believe that God is holy And yet offend him by so many Crimes Is it to believe that God is pure And yet to cleave to the pleasures of the Senses Is it to believe that God is good And yet not to love him Is it to believe God to be independent And yet not to adore him Is it to believe God to be beneficent And yet not to thank him O most Holy Trinity I bless thee and I adore thee I will love thee both in Time and Eternity Glory be to the Father who created me Glory be to the Son who redeemed me Glory be to the Holy Ghost who sanctified me Glory be to the Father who supports me by his Power Glory be to the Son who governs me by his Wisdom Glory be to the Holy Ghost who sanctifies me by his Love Glory be to the Father who sustains my Being Glory be to the Son who enlightens my Understanding Glory be to the Holy Ghost who consecrates my Will Let the Holy Trinity be blessed By Angels and Men in Time and in Eternity Amen So be it Going teach ye all Nations baptizing them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Matth. 28. Three there are who give testimony in Heaven the Father Word and Holy Ghost and these three are one 1 John 5. Holy holy holy Lord God of Hosts the Earth is full of thy glory Isai 6. All that is in the World is the concupiscence of the flesh and the concupiscence of the eyes and pride of life 1 John 8. CXXVI MED In form of a Dialogue Of the Institution of the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar The Disciple I Will speak unto my Lord Altho I am but ashes and dust O my God! How wonderful is your Wisdom How profound are your Mysteries Whence coms it that you would remain on Earth Since your Body is glorious Ought not the noblest of all Bodies To be on the top of the highest Heavens Your Throne is in the Firmament The Earth is but your Foot-stool Why do not you dwell in your Palace What do you do upon our dunghill The Master I would remain here upon Earth For to content my love I converse with men For to content their desires I am with my Disciples For to content them by my Presence I am amongst my sheep For to defend them against the Wolves I leave my self to my Church For to serve them for a Victim I immolate my self on the Altars For to do homage to my Father You would have no Religion If you had no Sacrifice The ancient ones are abrogated There is only I alone that can be immolated My body is in Heaven as in its Natural place My Body is on Earth as in a Sacramental place When I came down upon Earth I did not for that quit Heaven And when I re-ascended to Heaven I did not for all that quit the Earth The Disciple I will again speak to you O Lord Altho I am but ashes and dust Whence coms it that remaining on Earth You did not make your self visible Why did you hide your self Since you desire to be beloved You would have won all hearts If you had discovered your self to your eyes The Master I am a hidden God One must dy for to see me I hid my Divinity under the form of a Man And I hide my Humanity Under the form of Bread Your life is a state of Faith My Body ought therein to be veyled Your life is a state of Merit Your Understanding ought therein to be humbled Adam did not

obeyed Serve her whom God hath served Love her whom God hath loved Salute her whom the Angel did salute Say to her often with heart and mouth Hail full of Grace Give us a part of your fulness Our Lord is with thee As Father as Son as Spouse Blessed art thou among Women With infinit blessings Thou alone art a Virgin and a Mother Thou alone wert conceiv'd without Crime Thou alone didst live without Sin Thou alone didst dy without Pain Thou alone hadst God for thy Son and Subject Thou alone art his Daughter his Mother his Spouse Thou art the repairer of the World The Queen of the Universe The Gate of Paradise The Dispenser of Graces O Blessed Virgin give me thy blessing And blessed be the Fruit which thou gavest to the World Most holy Mary and most worthy Mother of God Pray for the Just and for Sinners Now that thou seest them Beaten by so many Temptations Slaves to so many vices Overwhelm'd with so many miseries But especially at their Death When their Salvation is in greatest danger And thy succour will be most necessary for them The Word was made flesh John 1. You know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that for you he was made poor whereas he was rich that by his poverty you might be rich 2 Cor. 3. He exinanited himself Phil. 1. He was subject to them Luk. 2. All generations shall call me blessed Luk. 2. CXXXV MED Of the Visitation of the B. Virgin JESVS visits S. John Mary visits S. Elizabeth Jesus sanctifies both the Mother and the Son By the mouth of Mary As soon as ever she had spoken John Baptist was sanctified Her speech was a Conduit-pipe of grace which gave sight to a blind man Which delivered a captive Which raised up one that was dead Which justified a sinner Mary applies to the first amongst men The first fruit of our Redemption She conceives man spiritually After having conceiv'd God corporally She becoms the Mother of men After having becom the Mother of God She is the Mother of grace She is the Mother of mercy Of grace for the just Of mercy for sinners O Mother of grace Mother of mercy Visit us frequently together with thy Son You want not grace Since you have the fulness thereof You want not mercy Since it dwelt nine months in your bowels Exercise it on a poor blind man And on a poor captive On a sinner a slave to his Passions On one dead to the life of grace Com and enlighten and enlarge him Com and raise him and sanctify him Make thy voice to be heard to the ear of my heart For thy voice is sweet And thy beauty incomparable Speak and my heart will leap with joy Say the word and my soul will be healed For you have in you the Word of God Which gives life to the World Mary Mother of grace Mother of mercy Defend us from our Enemies And receive our Souls at the hour of our Death For to honour the Virgin You must imitate her Virtues Love Solitude as she did Go not out of it but for to do good Visit the Prisoners Help the Miserable Deliver Captives Sanctify Sinners Be a Mother of grace to their Souls A Mother of mercy to their Bodies Blessed is the Lord God of Israel because he hath visited c. Luk. 1. Through the bowels of the mercy of our God in which he visited us ibid. Visit us in thy salvation Ps 205. Thy visitation hath preserved my Spirit Job 10. As soon as she heard the salutation of Mary Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost Luk. 1. Arise make hast my friend my sister let thy voice sound in my ears for thy voice is sweet and thy face comely Cant. 2. CXXXVI MED Of the Death of the B. Virgin WHat is it that makes the Chalice of Death bitter It is the loss of the World 'T is the separation from the Body 'T is the account that is to be given We feel sadness in quitting the World We feel pain in quitting our Body We dread being to appear before God Mary died without Fear Sadness Pain Because she liv'd without Sin ty Pleasure O let my soul dy with the death of the Saints O let my death be like the death of Mary Live the life of Saints And thou wilt dy the death of Saints Live like Mary and thou wilt dy like Mary Live without sin and thou wilt dy without fear Live without ty and thou wilt dy without sadness Live without pleasure And thou wilt dy without pain If you lead the life of sinners You will dy the death of sinners If you live in disorder You will dy in confusion If you live in sin you will dy in fear If you live in pleasure You will dy in pain That which makes your delight during your life Will make your torment at your death That which is your pain during your life Will be your pleasure at your death O Holy Virgin I care not by what death I dy Provided that I dy in a good state I shall dy without fear if I dy in your arms I shall dy in grace if I dy in your service For you save those that belong to you You never suffer your Children to perish O fail not to be present at your Son's death All the Predestinate must dy in your arms Since you saw the first Predestinate dy I will disengage my self from the World That I may dy without sadness I will afflict my Body That I may dy without pain I will abstain from sin That I may dy without fear I will live in pain that I may dy in pleasure I will live in Pennance That I may dy with assurance I will live in Charity That I may dy in Sanctity I will live a Child of the Virgins That I may dy like a Predestinate I will live in grace that I may dy in grace I will live in love that I may dy in love I adjure you O ye daughters of Jerusalem that if you find my beloved you will tell him that I languish with love Cant. 5. Love is as strong as death Cant. 8. Let my soul dy the death of the just Numb 23. The Death of sinners is very bad Ps 33. He shall laugh at the latter day Prov. 31. Into thy hands O Lord I recommend my spirit Luk. 23. CXXXVII MED Of the Resurrection of the B. Virgin MAry is risen again Her body is no longer in the grave So pure a flesh as hers Ought to be exempt from corruption So holy a Temple ought not to be profaned Mary is the chastest of Virgins She ought therefore to be incorruptible Mary is the best of Mothers She ought therefore to be with her Son If the body of Jesus by its Communion Gives a right to a Resurrection Who ought to rise again If not she who gave him flesh If the Servants are with their Masters Where ought his Mother to be If this favour

heart says to you O blessed Soul Which listens to God in the silence from all Discourses Be silent all human and carnal thoughts Let all flesh be silent in the presence of God Let all flesh be silent before the face of our Lord. Zach. 2. I was reduced to nothing thou hast like the wind taken away my desire Job 30. My substance is like nothing before thee Ps 38. When I was gon a little beyond them I found him whom my soul loveth Cant. 3. Bring me yet another Vessel 4 Kings 4. CXLVIII MED Of the five degrees of Perfection ONe ought to be a Traveller on Earth One ought to be crucified One ought to dy on the Cross One ought to be buried One ought to go down into Hell A Traveller fixes upon nothing He that is crucified acts nothing A dead man feels nothing The body that is under ground is trampled on In Hell one is without comfort O Sacred Nothing Where the Soul loses her Being For to be transformed into God O living Sepulchres Where the wise do build Solitudes to themselves O Evangelical field Wherein the grain of Wheat dies for to rise again O God alone How amiable art thou I had rather be in Hell with thee Than be in Heaven without thee O let me be one of those living dead Who are wounded with love Let me sleep with them in the Tomb Of my Senses and Passions O my God! Let me dy that thou maist live in me Let me no more be any thing to my self That I may be all thine Be thou all in me all mine And if I may be so bold as to say so All my self My dearest I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims to refrain your selves from carnal desires 1 Pet. 2. With Christ I am fastned to the Cross I live now not I but Christ lives in me Gal. 2. Ye are dead and your life is hidden with Christ in God Rom. 6. The sorrows of Hell have encompassed me Ps 17. Thou hast brought my soul out of Hell Ps 27. CXLIX MED Of the Divine Perfections WHat is God I know not I should be God if I could declare that You would be God If you could comprehend him What is God 'T is he who is 'T is he from whom all is 'T is he for whom all is In whom all is Without whom nothing can be He is the beginning the end the center And the foundation of all Beings What is God He is an omnipotent will He is an obliging goodness A Sovereign happiness An Eternal light An infallible reason An invincible power An invincible justice He is all that I see He is nothing of what I see He is the beauty by which all is beautiful He is the goodness by which all is good 'T is he that gives me light in the Sun Who warms me in the Fire Who refreshes me in the Water Who feeds me in the Bread Who rejoyces me in the Flowers Who sustains me on the Earth What is God My eyes have you not seen him No because he has no colour My ears have you not heard him No because he has no sound My tongue have you not tasted him No because he has no saviour My hands have not you touched him No because he has no body What then is God He is the essence of colour The noise of sound The principle of savour The ground-work of all substances A light above all light which the eye sees not A voice above all voice Which the ear hears not An odour above all odours Which the smelling smells not A sweetness above all sweetness VVhich the tast savours not A substance above all substance VVhich the hand touches not He is an incomprehensible Being VVhich comprehends all things Invisible who sees all things Indivisible who unites all things Eternal who produces all things Immoveable who removes all things Unchangeable who changes all things What is God He is a Spirit that dwells in himself VVho is happy by himself VVho is sufficient to himself VVho finds all in himself VVho is great without quantity Good without quality Infinit without number Immense without extension Eternal without duration Beautiful without figure What is God He is a Spirit who is every where And yet is not divided Who is in all things and is not inclosed Out of all and yet is not excluded Above all and is not elevated Below all and is not depressed What is God He is a Spirit whose nature is goodness Whose greatness is nothing but Majesty Whose life is nothing but fecundity Whose Understanding is nothing but Wisdom Whose Will is nothing but sanctity Whose thought is nothing but light Whose virtue is nothing but power Whose inclination is nothing but love Whose actions are miracles Whose motions are rest Whose duration is nothing but Eternity What is God He is a Spirit always present And always secret Always acting and always in rest Always heaping up without gaining Always giving and never drain'd Always loving without disquiet Always seeking without going forth From the center of his Beatitude O great God! O great Spirit How terrible are you to our Understandings But how amiable to our Wills O the Saint of Saints All my bones as insensible as they are Are sensible at your presence They cry out night and day Lord who is like unto thee O my Soul What dost thou seek after upon Earth Goodness It is in God without malice Beauty It is in God without blemish Perfection It is in God without defect Science It is in God without errour Strength It is in God without weakness Peace It is in God without disturbance Pleasure It is in God without pain Abundance It is in God without poverty Felicity It is in God without misery O my God! I love you with all my heart Since you are my joy and my happiness I will seek after nothing out of you Because I find all that I seek after in you O what a satisfaction I have to think That I can love you more than I know you That I cannot comprehend you in my Understanding But that I can contain you in my heart Why is not my heart all yours Since you are all his O ravishing Beauty O infinit Goodness When shall it be that I shall love you When shall it be that I shall see you Since one must dy for to see you It is just for to have this good That I should dy an infinity of times I am who am Exod. 3. I am the Alpha and Omega the beginning and the end says our Lord God who is and who was and who is to com Omnipotent Apoc. 1. Who is like unto thee among the strong O Lord who is like unto thee magnificent in sanctity terrible and laudable doing wonderful things Exod. 25. Out of him and through him and in him are all things to him be glory for ever Amen Rom. 15. CL. MED Of the Amability of God HOw great is God Since he hath created such

keepeth it Ps 126. My Prayer shall be turned into my bosom Ps 34. It it good for me to cleave to God to put my hope in our Lord God Ps 72. To thee have I lifted up my eyes who dwellest in heaven Ps 122. I am thy servant give me understanding Ps 118. If I should walk in the midst of the shadow of Death I will fear no evils because thou art with me Ps 22. The God of my heart and God my portion for ever Ps 72. I have made my bed in the dark Job 17. Let no man look upon me Job 7. Our Lord is not in a whirlwind 3 Kings 4. Behold God and my Saviour I will act confidently with him and will not fear Isai 12. But thou art in us O Lord c. Jer 14. Let all flesh be silent in the sight of God Zach. 2. I have laboured a little and have found much rest Eccl. 52. In all these things I sought rest and I shall abide in the inheritance of our Lord. Eccl. 24. He that loses his life shall find it Matth. 16 The Holy Ghost shall com down on thee Luk. 1. My Lord and my God John 20. I eace be to you fear not it is I. Luk. 25. I give you peace John 14. Behold the Bridegroom cometh Matth. 25. They who were ready entred with him ibid. Why do ye fear O ye of little faith he commands the wind and the sea Matth. 8. Remain in me and I in you John 15. Be like unto men expecting their Master when he shall return from the wedding Luk. 12. The Peace of God that surpasseth all understanding preserve your hearts and your understandings in Christ Jesus Phil. 4. We will com unto him and make our mansion with him John 14. The Disciple whom Jesus loved and who leaned on his brest at supper John 21. Ye are dead and your life is hidden with Christ in God Col. 3. He is our peace Eph. 2. In him we live we move and we are Act. 17. Blessed are the dead that dy in our Lord. Apoc. 14. Words of Love taken out of the Book of the Following of Christ for Souls that aspire to Vnion HAppy is he whom Truth teaches 1 Book c. 3. All proceeds from one word and all speaks one word ibid. He to whom all is one thing ibid. O Truth my God make me one thing with thee ibid. I am often weary of reading ibid. Let all Doctors be silent ibid. The Kingdom of God is in you ibid. When you have JESUS you will be rich ibid. O JESUS splendour of glory c. ibid. This whole Chapter is divine and fit to comfort a Soul that is in Privation I will hear what my Lord shall say 3 Book c. 1. This is what the beloved says I am thy salvation thy peace and thy life 3 b. c. 1. Lord my God thou art all my good 3 b. c. 2. Thou O Lord alone art good ibid. O Lord my God c. ibid. Thou art my glory and the joy of my heart 3 b. c. 5. Thou wilt suffice to him that loves thee ibid. Thou art the true peace of heart 3 b. c. 15. My soul thou wilt always be at rest 3 b. c. 21. O when shall I see my Lord and my God c. ibid. Read all the 48 Chapter of the Third Book which is of an infinit sweetness and comfort Son as much as thou canst go out of thy self 3 b. c. 56. Lord what confidence can I have in this life 3 b. c. 59. I had rather be poor for thy sake ibid. Read all this Chapter which is the last of the Third Book and you will find much comfort Who will give me to find you alone O my Lord. 4 b. c. 13. O Lord my God ibid. Be in me and I in you ibid. Truly thou art my Peace-maker ibid. O truly thou art a hidden God ibid. O God how sweet is thy spirit ibid. O truly there is no Nation c. ibid. O JESUS splendour of eternal glory ibid. These words taken out of the Book of the following of Christ may sweetly and profitably employ a Soul in Prayer and after Communion FINIS

she slight me Why does she fly me O ye Daughters c. I am Bread and not Poyson I would make her live and not make her dy It was for to be loved that I took this shape 'T was for to be eaten That I made my self Bread And not for to be admired It is to sanctify her Body That I give her my Flesh 'T is for to enliven her Soul That I give her my Spirit 'T is for to unite her to my Divinity That I give her my humanity As wise as I am I know not what more to give her As rich as I am I have no more to give her As powerful as I am I can give her no more Why then does she sly me Why does she fear me O ye Daughters c. I have been at infinit Charges For to prepare this Banquet I have spared nothing for to content her I give her my Body to be eaten I give my blood to be drunk I heap up my graces on her I enrich her with my Merits I fill her with my Virtues I invite all the World to my Feast The sick for to cure them The weak for to fortify them The blind for to give them sight The sad for to comfort them Sinners for to sanctify them What reason has she to apprehend I do not require the end of the Sacrament For a disposition necessary to this Sacrament O ye Daughters of Jerusalem Tell my well-beloved That I expect her day and night And that she makes me languish with Love Tell her that she will dy with hunger Unless she eats this Bread That she will have no grace Unless she eats at my Table That she will have no strength no life No health no comfort That she will be strongly tempted That she will sink under that temptation Unless she eat at my Table That if she excuses her self from coming She shall not tast of my Meats Neither in her life time nor at her death Neither in Heaven nor on Earth That I will give her place To the Blind and to the Lame That she contemns me Instead of honouring me That she afflicts me Instead of comforting me That she offends me Instead of contenting me O Bread of Angels Who cam'st down from Heaven Shall I dare make thee com down into my heart Can I receive thee knowing who I am Can I refuse thee knowing who thou art Can I approach thee knowing thy Sanctity Can I draw off without necessity O Divine Lover Who dost invite us to thy Wedding And who dost invite us so lovingly Give a Nuptial Robe to this Prodigal Penitent I do not deserve this honour I am unworthy of this favour But the sentiment of my humility Will supply the want of my sanctity You will have it so You desire it You order it You command it You threaten me with your anger If I fail to be present at it 'T is better to side with Love than Fear Obedience is surer than Diffidence I will therefore approach with Respect I will receive you with Confidence I will imbrace you with Love I will thank you with Tenderness I will eat you with Pleasure I will speak to you with Liberty I will serve you with Fidelity I will bless you in time and in Eternity Amen With desire have I desired to eat this Pasch with you before I suffer Luk. 22. He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him John 6. A certain man made a great Supper and called many and they all began to excuse themselves Luk. 14. I say to you that none of those men that were called shall tast my Supper Bring in hither the poor and weak and blind and lame force them to com in c. ibid. CXXIX MED In Form of Prayer to our Lord Jesus Christ which may serve for a Thanksgiving after Communion SOul of JESUS sanctify me Blood of JESUS wash me Passion of JESUS strengthen me Wounds of JESUS heal me Heart of JESUS receive me Spirit of JESUS enliven me Goodness of JESUS pardon me Beauty of JESUS draw me Humility of JESUS humble me Mildness of JESUS gentle me Peace of JESUS pacifie me Love of JESUS inflame me Kingdom of JESUS com into me Grace of JESUS replenish me Mercy of JESUS have pity on me Sanctity of JESUS consecrate me Purity of JESUS purify me Cross of JESUS support me Nails of JESUS hold me fast Thorns of JESUS crown me Gall of JESUS inebriate me Mouth of JESUS bless me In my life and at my death In Time and Eternity Amen You must pause at every verse and relish that which shall touch your heart CXXX MED Of Devotion towards the B. Virgin FOr to be a Son of God's You must be the Son of Mary She is the Mother of all the just The Advocate of all sinners The Queen of all the Predestinate She brought them forth on Mount Calvary They were given to her at the foot of the Cross She hath given life to all men In giving life to God She hath co-operated to their Salvation In sacrificing him to his Father No man can go to the Father But by the Son Nor to the Son but by the Mother The Father refuses nothing to his Son Nor the Son to his Mother I shall not be saved But by the Merits of the Son Nor shall I be saved But by the intercession of the Mother The Son is our Mediatour with his Father The Mother is our Mediatrix with her Son JESVS is the Head of the Church Mary is the neck of the Church JESVS is the fountain of graces Mary is the bason of them JESVS is the Sun of the World Mary is the Moon thereof Nothing is produced in grace But by JESVS and by Mary The Moon receives the whole Sun And contributes to the generation of Beings Mary receives all from JESVS And contributes to the sanctification of Souls O holy Mother of God! I begin to breath Because my salvation depends on you Your Son is my Saviour But he is also my Judge His Goodness encourages me But his Justice affrightens me I am a Criminal I dare not appear before him But you my dear Mother You have nothing to frighten me You are a Mother of Grace and not of Justice You became a Mother Only for to give us a Saviour You would not have been the Mother of God If there had been no Sinners O I will be your child That I may be God's child O I will be your servant That I may be God's servant He saith to his Mother Woman behold your Son Then he saith to his Disciple Behold thy Mother And from that hour the Disciple received her for his John 19. Dwell in Jacob and have thy inheritance in Israel and take root in my Elect. Eccl. 24. He that shall find me shall find life and draw salvation from our Lord. Prov. 8. CXXXI MED Of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin MAry is happy In