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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89897	The daily exercises of a Christian life or the interiour spirit with which we ought to animate our actions throughout the whole day With an easy instruction for mentall prayer, translated out of French by I.W. of the Soc. of Jesus.; Exercices de la vie intérieure. English	Gonnelieu, Jérôme de, 1640-1715.; I. W.; Nepveu, François, 1639-1708, attributed name.	1689 (1689)	Wing N437B; ESTC R230742	75,972	258

✚ E-Libris-F F-Proed-de-Woodchester IHS Ant. Wierx fecit et exend Angele qui meus es custos pietate superiu● Me tibi commissum serua defende aūberna Vt valeam tecum caelestia scandere regna Angele sancte Dei sit tibi cura mei THE Daily exercises of a Christian life OR The interiour spirit with which we ought to animate our actions throughout the whole day WITH An easy instruction for mentall prayer Translated out of French by I. W. of the Soc. of JESUS The 2. Edition with severall additions by the Author Printed at S. OMERS by LUDOVICUS CARLIER in the year 1689. By Permission of Superiours TO THE QUEEN MADAM I First publish'd this treatise for the comfort of English Catholicks then groaning vnder a severe persecution for their Religion whilst their false accusers pretended they suffered for designing the destruction of the late King but now manifest the severity shewed against them was not out of a motive of Loyalty or affection to his Majesty but out of hatred to the Catholick Religion since at present they commit greater treasons against our soveraigne than they accuse the Catholicks to have designed against his Brother and this for no other reason but because he professes and consequently favours that Religion they aime to destroy and now endeavour to depose him because he will not permit them to ruin the same I now publish this second Edition with severall additions made by the same Author whom since your Maiesty's arrival in France you have both heard and approved presume to dedicate it to your Majesty whose sufferings in this second persecution as much exceed what Catholicks vnderwent in the former as your condition does exceed theirs hoping you may finde such a proportionable comfort by the perusall of it as several have own'd they experienc'd and since your Majesty's constant piety prompts you to a daily Exercise of solid vertue these daily Exercises will assist you to an easy performance of your Majestys design and thô your couragious suffering such a change of fortune shewes to how high a pitch of solid vertue you are already arrived yet you will here finde how large pleasant a field vertue is that leads to that Kingdom prepared as a reward for your sufferings not subject to such vicissitudes as you have experienc'd these earthly Kingdoms are and that your Majesty after a long and happy Reign with our King here may arrive to the enjoyment of this everlasting Kingdom hereafter are the hearty wishes and constant prayers of MADAM Your Majesties Most humble and most obedient Subject and Servant J. W. A PREFACE To English Catholicks LIGHTING accidentally upon the ensuing Treatise I was so pleased with its solidity facility and brevity that I was moved to translate it for your use and profit especially for such as understand not french whose present sufferings must needs give you a sight of the vanity and inconstancy of this world and move you to seek a more secure solid and lasting happiness in the next wherunto the instructions you will here meet with will easily and securely lead you For such well disposed persons as you are this Treatise was writ and for such also I translated it who having undergon the sharp tryals of long and severe persecutions are trained up and fitted for a greater combat where you are to become your own adversaries and are to engage with no other enemies then your selves which I call a greater combat because a greater courage and constancy is required thereunto for one blow is sufficient to crown a martyr whereas a war with yourselves is to endure as many years as you live perhaps not so bloody and cruel as the other but yet more irksom and vexatious where you may over-come but can never have truce or peace so much harder is it to live a martyr then to die one and more crowns are due when you die oftner and onely live to add new crowns by dying daily This is a combat common to all Christians to all states and conditions whilst the other has been the happy lot only of a few this reaps a harvest of merits in the toilsome and laborious field of vertue whilst the other is a free gift and favour bestowed somtimes on the greatest sinners Happy therfore and thrice happy are you who are both chosen out for followers of the cross and also continue to follow it by your own free will and election not like those faint hearts who understand not this happiness but turning their backs to glory do comply so much with ease and terrene inclinations as to shrink out of the lists and decline this hard and toilsome enterprise but eouragiously treading that rough yet only secure path to happynesse by which the Eternall Father led his beloved sonne Oportebat Christum pati sic intrare in gloriam are by soe happy a necessity of suffering disposed to such admirable sentiments as this treatis will help you to practis which therfore I hope will be the more acceptable to you who I am sure are so far from shunning the difficulties you will meet with in the exercises here prescribed that you will rather take them for the first copies set to beginners and for easy draughts delineating only the first grounds and out lines of perfection whereby you being daily improved allured to so happy and profitable an enterprise will generously offer at more and greater for the present make it your delight to read a spirituall book to be somtimes retired and to absent and often withdraw your selves from worldly conversation to converse with God become more present to him and your selves to resist corrupted nature and follow Christ in the way of the cross and mortification and hereby become and continue such true pretenders to heaven as I either take you or heartily wish you to be and that I may be one of that happy number and become joynt parraker of what we all pretend to everlasting happiness I humbly beg the assistance of your good prayers THE PREFACE Of the necessity of performing our actions well in order to perfection YOu will not find here either studied discourses or elevated conceits touching the interiour and hidden life and the vertues which it forms in us there are spirituall books enough which give it's maximes teach it's secrets discover it's illusions here are only plaine reflections upon our ordinary actions teaching with what spirit they ought to be animated however I dare affirme that these practices are no less profitable to good souls than all those high and sublime rules which are given them of the severall degrees of prayer interiour abnegation for we want not so much knowledge instruction as the execution and practice thereof we are sufficiently instructed in this age in all spirituall matters but our misery consists in this that we content our selves with the bare knowledge out of books that treat of them it may be with speaKing thereof