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mercy_n	full_a	lord_n	psal_n	2,435	5	7.5110	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

They say I am to dy Come I am content I willingly resign up my life I render it to him that gave it me I remit my spirit into his hands I recommend unto him my body and my soul I am sorry that I have offended him I accept of death for to satisfie him I believe all that he has reveal'd I hope for all that he has promis'd I give him all that I possess I will dy for his glory I will dy for his sake I will dy in gratitude I will dy for justice sake I will dy because he died I will dy for him as he died for me I will dy that I may see him I will dy that I may love him I will dy that I may bless him And for to sing his Praises for all Eternity O Father of mercy Behold a Prodigal Child Who has wasted all your goods Who has spent his life in Debaucheries That returns now to your house And who most humbly begs your pardon Alas I have liv'd without reason Since I have had the use of reason I have don nothing but evil Since I knew what was good My Father I have sinn'd against Heaven and against thee I deserve not to bear the name of thy Child I am not worthy to enter into thy house But have you ceased to be a Father Because I have ceased to be your Child Have you lost your goodness Because I have lost my innocence Are you no more a Father of mercy Because I am becom a Child of misery O my Father O the best of all Fathers Have pity on the miserablest of all thy Children I was lost and I am now retrieved I was dead and I am risen again I was gon far from you and now I am here ready to appear before you O my Father Come and meet your Child Give him a kiss of peace Forgive him his offences Revest him with a Nuptial Robe Receive him into your house Give him a place at your Feast O JESUS The Physician of the poor sick The Comforter of the poor afflicted The hope of poor Sinners Here am I before you without strength Without motion without speech But my heart says inwardly Come O my JESVS come quickly Draw my Soul out of this Prison Recal me out of this exile Conduct me to my dear Country Behold the Just do there expect me My friends hold forth their arms to me O how beautiful are thy Tabernacles O how admirable is thy Palace O how contented shall I be in Heaven O how happy shall I be in your Company I dy with a desire of dying Com divine Saviour and make me languish no more O holy Mother of God! Who didst see thy Son dying Lo here thy Child is sick Forsake him not in this extremity Com and receive his Spirit And defend him from his enemies O ye Angels of Heaven Com down upon Earth to help me Make a guard round about me Drive away from me the Infernal Lyon Preserve me even unto my Death After having sav'd me from so many Shipwracks Suffer me not to perish in the Haven Come let us go to Heaven Let us go to Paradise My heart is ready O my God my heart is ready It is ready to stay here on earth It is ready to go hence It is ready to live It is ready to dy Thy will be don I recommend my body and soul to you I rejoyced in the things that were said to me we will go into our Lord's house Psal 121. Blessed are those that dy in our Lord. Apoc. 14. Blessed are those that are call'd to the Nuptials of the Lamb. Apoc. 19. In thee O Lord have I hoped I shall not be confounded for ever Ps 30. VVhat is there to me in Heaven and what besides thee would I have on Earth my flesh and my heart have fainted O the God of my heart and my portion God for ever Ps 72. I am straitned on both sides having a desire to be dissolved and be with Christ much more better Phil. 1. One thing have I asked that will I require that I may dwell in the house of our Lord all the days of my life Ps 26. How beloved are thy Tabernacles O God of Hosts my soul doth long and faint after the Courts of our Lord. Ps 83. Blessed are they that dwell in thy house O Lord they shall praise thee for ever and ever Ps 83. All this Psalm is full of sweet thoughts to raise in a sick person a desire of Heaven If thou dost observe iniquities O Lord who can sustain Ps 126. VVith our Lord there is mercy and with him a copious redemption ibid. LII MED A Paraphrase on our Lord's Prayer for the comfort of the sick Our Father I Believe O my God that you are my Father who have given me the life of my soul and body for to serve and love you and which you have repaired by the Death of your Son after I had miserably lost it through my sin You are the Father of all men and of the most miserable of all men whom you see here extended on this Bed O how glad am I that I have such a Father So good so wise so holy so powerful I hope that since you have given ●ne a temporal life you will do me the favour ●lso to give me an eternal one O my Father 〈◊〉 render back unto you the life which you have given me I am sorry that I have employed it so ill and that I have used it to offend you therewith My Father I have sinn'd against Heaven and against you I am not worthy to bear the quality of your Child but receive me I beseech you into the number of your Servants My Father if it be possible let this Chalice of Death and Sufferance pass from my mouth and let me not drink it as yet Yet let your Will be don and not mine My Father glorifie your Son that your Son may glorifie you and since I have not honored you upon Earth make me praise you Eternally in Heaven Which art in Heaven Alas you are in Heaven and I am yet here upon Earth You are in a place of peace and I am in a place of warfare You are in Heaven for to reward me and I am on Earth for to honour you I hope O my God that I shall soon be with you in Heaven I hope so on the merits of the precious blood which your Son hath shed for me O when will that day com How tedious is it to live banished from your presence How the Earth displeases me when I lift up my eyes to Heaven O Heaven O Heaven What ought not we to do to gain thee What ought not we to suffer for to obtain thee All that I endure is nothing in comparison of what I hope for Hallowed be thy Name O admirable name of God! I came into this World for to sanctifie thee and I have don nothing but profane thee I came upon Earth

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