evermore 4. Thy will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven Efficacious Purpose and Resolution of self-deniall I Desire no longer O Eternall Father to follow my irregular appetites and to march under the Banner of my own will and opinion which are the fountains of all my defects disloyalties transgressions No Lord For your love I utterly renounce them with all possible horrour and hatred All my will and wish is that your sacred will may be accomplish'd in me upon Earth in Heaven in all things whatsoever purely perfectly eternally for all your Ordinances are full of Justice and Equity I adore them all I embrace them all I submit to them all Thrice happy those souls which are truly conformable to you which incessantly contemplate you which unweariedly follow you which faithfully serve you and perpetually prayse you 5. Give us this day our daily Bread Petition for a supply of our Necessities IT is the property of Children oppressed with hunger to address themselv's to their Parents with tears and cry's to move them to compassion Behold here your poor Child O loving and liberall Lord God! extreamely labouring with spirituall thirst and hunger exceedingly wearied in the worlds service you are my Father my Feeder my daily Bread And it is you only who are capable to satisfy my hunger quench my thirst comfort me in this my calamitous condition All Creatures are but small Crums falling from your Royall table O how sweet and savory is the Bread of teares and the Water of contrition to a truly Penitent Contrite Converted Soul Your sugred words O Lord and your celestiall inspirations are her most delicious sawce and the participation of your most precious Body and Blood her daily Bread O my God Let not the affection to temporall objects deprive me of spirituall comforts nor let any earthly solicitudes and greediness after worldly goods choak up the memory and gust of those better goods you have promis'd and prepar'd for me in Heaven But let my daily Exercise be to sanctify your holy Name Let the interiour feeling of your Kingdom of Love in my soul be my only pleasure palace and Paradise and let the accomplishment of your sacred Will be my daily Bread and sustenance during the space of this my Pilgrimage But alas 6. Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us Reflection upon our Impieties and Supplication for pardon WHen I consider O Father of Infinit Clemency not only my life past but even my present condition not only all my enormous and innumerable offences but even my daily and hourly imperfections negligences iniquities to wit 1. My Time still lost either in doing Evill or in doing nothing or in doing things impertinent 2. My lingring and voluntary complacencies in thought against Charity Chastity Humility 3. My continued Resistency contristation hinderance of your holy spirit in my self or others 4. My Irreverence Indevotion Tepiditie in my prayers recollections spirituall Exercises 5. My Excesses of Tongue Eyes Ears and all my senses as well in respect of your divin Majestie as my neighbour and my self When I say I seriously reflect upon these and the rest of my manifold transgressions I find my self so deeply indebted that I should undoubtedly turn Bankrupt did not your fatherly goodness and my deer Redeemers boundless mercy and merits give me hope comfort and encouragement For O my God! In what large sum do I stand ingaged to your sacred Justice 1. I owe thanks for so many signall Benefits 2. I owe Contrition for so many committed Crimes 3. I owe love for love my life for your Sons death my whol self for your self given and regiven so frequently unto me And yet insensible wretch that I am I pay none of these just debts but daily increase my obligations by my daily Ingratitude VVhat other course then can I now take but humbly to cry out Dimitte mihi Pardon your prodigall Child O compassionate Father for the love of your dear Son Christ Jesus He is my surety and he hath satisfied for my debts even according to the severe rigour of your divin Justice whose least drop of blood is abundantly sufficient to expiate the whol worlds impieties If therefore my own guilt shuts up my mouth and your Mercy gate yet his sacred blood will be my Key to open both the one and the other Pardon me then O my pious Father for your Crucified Jesu's sake as I for the love of him do most freely heartily and sincerely pardon all them who have injur'd wrong'd and offended me in any thing whatsoever 7. And lead us not into temptation Recourse to the divin Protection I Am day and night O most Powerfull Father and Protector assaulted with an infinit number of Enemyes which incessantly seek my utter ruin and destruction The flesh charmes me the world enchants me the Devill cheats me and every thing becomes an object of Temptation unto me Ah! How shall poor I conquer such powerfull champions I find no other means than to make my addresses to you My all-powerfull Father and humbly to shelter my self under the wings of your paternall Protection For Alas such is my frailty that I shall surely fall without the support of your Grace being faln I shall be unable to rise without the help of your strength being raysed up I cannot hope to persevere without the continuall influence of your assistance Shield me then under your sacred wings Protect me as the Apple of your eye command your Angell of light to preserve me from the darkness of Sin from the dangers of my Adversaries from the dismall sleep of sudden and unprovided death from all that is any way displeasing to your divin will and liking 8. But deliver us from evill Aspirations to perfection fruition union WHen O Father of Glory shall I be freed from sin from Sathans from my self from all that hinders the coming of your Kingdom O Kingdom of Peace Kingdom of love Kingdom of all desirable felicity There it is O Father that I shall sanctify your Name that I shall perform your will purely perfectly eternally There I shall no longer beg of you my daily Bread but remain abundantly satiated with the sight of your blessed face and the fruition of your beatifying glory There my Debts will be all payd my sins pardoned my soul glorified There will be neither Temptation nor Tribulation neither occasion of sin nor punishment of sin but all tranquillity all conformity all perfection There lives thy loving Father O my Soul There is thy home and Countrey there lyes thy portion and patrimony O Jerusalem my dear Countrey my delicious Kingdom my desired Inheritance when shall I possesse thee O sweet Father when shall I sincerely love you O my poor Soul when shall I see thee free from stains and blemishes full of purity and perfection Let 's yield let 's yield to our good Father Let 's promptly submit to all his precepts and Ordinances Let 's serve
Son our Lord. I Believe in the second Person of the sacred Trinity the Son whom the Father begot from all Eternity communicating to him all his own Essence Greatness Perfection who continuing God became Man for the Salvation of Sinners was nam'd Christ Jesus and is the Soveraign Lord and King of all Souls O divin word which descended from Heaven to Earth to deliver me from sin and Satan be you my Lord by Election as you are by Creation and Redemption I freely give and bequeath my self to you for your perpetuall Bondslave Live O Jesu and reign in my Soul as you do in the whol extent of this large Universe Who was conceiv'd by the Holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary I Believe that Gods Son that he might become Man did vouchsafe to unite to his divin Person a Rationall soul and a human body which the Holy Ghost miraculously form'd in the chast bowels of the blessed Virgin Mary and of her proper and pure blood so that he was truly conceiv'd in her and truly born by her without any prejudice to her Virginity O Jesu the lover of Purity who chose the chastest woman of the World for your Mother by the Immaculate Purity of your Conception and Nativitie give me the gift and grace of purity of Life and Conversation Suffered under Pontius Pilate was Crucify'd dead and buryed I Believe that the Son of God Incarnate endured very severe Torments in his humanity for the Worlds Redemption that he was adjudg'd to dy by the Prefident Pilate and that after his death he was buryed and laid in a Sepulchre O Jesu the Redeemer of my Soul your death is the only hope of my Life be you graciously pleas'd to apply to me one single drop of your sacred Bloud and I shall rest secure in this Life and be happy for all Eternitie He descended into Hell the third day he arose again from the Dead I Believe that in the death of my blessed Saviour his Soul was really seperated for a time from his Body to descend into that part of Hell which was call'd Limbus Patrum where all such souls as from the Worlds first beginning departed this life in a good estate were till then detaind I believe that he deliver'd them from that Dungeon and that upon the third day his Soul return'd to his buryed Body became reunited unto it and rays'd it up to Life and Immortality O most glorious Soul of Christ my Saviour which thus mercifully visited the Patriarchs lying in the sad Prison of Limbus vouchsafe to give me also a gracious vâ—sit that whil'st I live I may duly and devoutly love and honour you and when my Soul shall be call'd out of this imprisoning Body it may be rays'd up to Contemplate admire and prayse your greatness goodness and glorie for all Eternitie He ascended into Heaven and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Allmightie I Believe that Jesus my Redeemer being by his own power resuscitated from death to life ascended up to Heaven by his own strength where he sits at the right hand of God his Father to whom he is every way equall as the chief of all the Blessed full of glory and felicity O Jesu my Redeemer how worthy are you thus to triumph to reign to be exalted above all creatures But O forget not in the state of your greatness the condition of your miserable Creature bought with the price of your precious Bloud O King of glory grant that all my thoughts words actions and desires may aym at nothing but your only honour From thence he shall come to judge the Quick and the Dead I Believe that Christ Jesus when he shall please to put a Period to time and all sublunary things will descend visibly from Heaven in his glorious Humanity to judg all Manking both the good and the bad and publickly to reward to punish every one according to their works Ah! just Judg of all consciences what shall I then do or what shall I answer when you shall question me concerning my whol lives transactions I believe in the Holy Ghost I Believe in the third person of the sacred Trinitie the Holy Ghost who joyntly proceeds both from the Father and from the Son and is to them equall in Greatness in Majestie in all things whatsoever O sacred Spirit the God of Infinit Love and Charity breath upon my flinty heart mollify it into meekness towards my Neighbour and melt it into the sweet affections of your pure and perfect Love I believe the Holy Catholick Church the Communion of Saints I Believe the Catholick Church to be the only Church of Christ that it is holy universall apostolical and infallible in things appertaining to Faith and that in this Church there are found many pious Souls pleasing to the divin Majesty which mutually help each other by their prayers and good works O my Lord and my God! I render you most humble and hearty thanks for having made me a child and member of this holy Church in which I have so great hopes and so many helps to save my soul give me your grace good Jesu that I may improve this signall favour and persever in this saving Faith that from it I may pass to the clear vision of your prepared glory The Forgiveness of Sins I Believe that God is both able and willing to forgive me my Sins and that he hath left power in his Church to remit them be they never so heynous and enormous and this especially by the Priests absolution in the Sacrament of Penance O God of Infinit goodness and mercy let all Creatures Eternally prayse and magnifie your sacred Name for having given such power to men and such comfort to poor sinners The Resurrection of the Flesh I Believe that the very body in which my Soul now lives and breaths and all human bodyes though after death they are redâ—c'd into dust in their graves shall at the end of the World and at the great day of generall Judgment be rays'd to lâ—fe by Gods omnipotent command and his Angells ministry to be then rejoyn'd to their same souls and to live for evermore O Dread Soveraign in whose hands are life and death and to whose beck all things are obedient Ingrave deeply in my heart and soul the hope of a happy Resurrection that the horrour of this temporall dissolution and death of my body may not over-terrify and dismay me And life everlasting Amen I Believe that the good shall live in Heavenly glory for all Eternitie and that the wicked shall live eternally in infernall torments O good God! grant that I may so live in your grace during this my short Pilgrimage that I my live with you in glorie in your Eternall Paradise Amen §. 3. Of the Pater Noster or our Lords Prayer The second part of the Rosary THe Pater Noster is the Prayer which our Lord Jesus taught his disciples informing them from his own sacred mouth
in following you more carefull in keeping you more sincere constant perseverant in serving and obeying you Be you my guid O most glorious Virgin-Mother in this my inquest after your dear Son Following your footsteps to the sacred Temple I shall find him by your favour whom I have lost by my own fault And having once found him O let me never more loose him by my disloyaltie that living here and dying in his sweet embraces I may live with him hereafter and enjoy him eternally in his blessed Kingdom Amen Then end this first part of the Rosary with the Profession of your Faith and the sign of the Cross saying I Believe in God c. with the Prayer To the sacred and undivided Trinity c. as it is set down in the end of the 5. § The second Part of the Rosary containing the Five Dolorous Mysteries Begin this Part of the Rosary with the Prayer sign of the Cross and Creed as in the first Part. The First Dolorous Mystery He Prays THe Agony of Christ whilst he was at his Prayers in the Garden Matth. 26. Christ in the Garden pray's his anguish'd Brest Is in his face through sweats of blood exprest As in the Precedent Joyfull Mysteries we have shew'd that those five principall and common heads comprehended under their signall notions severall particular Joys of the sacred Virgin-Mother so each one of these five generall Dolorous Mysteries like a long chain made up of many links includes a multitude of particularly aggravating circumstances in our dear Redeemers Passion and his holy Mothers compassion which Concatenation of sorrows we shall endeavour as before in the Cohesion of Joys to reduce briefly to Ten Heads or points of Contemplation correspondent to the respective Decades of this second part of the Rosary Our Father c. Our Blessed Saviour was exceedingly sad and sorrowfull 1. At the apprehension of the loss of his corporall life FOr if Death is of all things most horrible to human nature it was surely according to the said human nature much more horrible to him than to any other because his life was of greater dignity than that of all others by reason of its conjunction to the Divinity Hail Mary 2. At the foresight of his sufferings FOr his understanding clearly comprehending the quality and quantity of his approaching pains and torments And his souls eyes efficaciously seeing all the causes of fear and sadness and furthermore he permitting say's S. John Damascen each one of his senses and Powers to act according to its own naturall propertie it must needs follow that as his knowledge was most perfect his sufferings were most excessive Hail Mary 3. At the consideration of Sins heynousness FOr he came to suffer for all the offences of Mankind in generall and for each ones sin past present and to come in particular O the anguish of his soul at the sight of their multitude and malice Hail Mary 4. At the Iewes Ingratitude FOr besides his particular Benefits showr'd down from time to time upon that perverse people he had now borrow'd his humanity from their Blood conversed many years amongst them preached his Gospell unto them wrought infinit Miracles before them And that they after all this should so inhumanly unnaturally ungratefully condemn kill and crucify him was surely a corrosive more bitter to his afflicted heart than death it self Hail Mary 5. At the little profit which Christians would reap from his Passion FOr though the least drop of his precious Blood was abundantly sufficient to redeem not only all men but many worlds yet he well knew how few would make themselves partakers of the fruits thereof And this foreseen sloth negligence and wilfull ingratitude of Christians if we will credit S. Bernard Bonaventure and Hugo more afflicted our dear Redeemer than all the corporall calamities he endur'd on the Cross for them Hail Mary 6. At the Treason of Judas FOr that a Servant should betray his Master a Disciple his Lord an Apostle his Saviour And this by a fraudulent Kiss the sign of peace friendship and affection are circumstances says S. Ambrose much aggravating our Redeemers sorrow Hail Mary 7. At the Scandall scattering and flight of his dearest Disciples friends and followers O the Affliction of his tender heart To see Them whom he lov'd so sincerely Them whom he had serv'd so diligently Them whom he had so lately comforted and confirmed by his long Sermon and so earnestly commended to his Fathers care and custody Them whom he had from time to time fed so efficaciously with his sacred Doctrin and feasted so deliciously with this Blessed Body and Blood in the very last nights Banquet to fly now fearfully from him to be scandaliz'd at him and to seem to doubt of his Divinity And above all to see Peters Ingratitude Infidelity Pusillanimity did surely pierce his Soul with inexplicable sorrow Hail Mary 8. At his taking binding and bringing out of the Garden of Mount Olivet IMagin O my Soul What injuries thy Innocent Saviour here suffer'd by a band of barbarous Souldiers set on by the spitefull Jews ledd on by the Sacrilegious Judas egg'd on by their own malice and fury See how violently they rush upon him binding his armes baring his head beating his body pulling his beard tearing his hair and every way abusing him insulting over him deriding him blaspheming him Hail Mary 9. At his presentation to Annas and Caiphas and the suborning of false witnesses against him O What an affliction To be tryed by such unjust and partiall Judges and to be made guilty by such envious and sinister proceedings Hail Mary 10. At his Blows Buffets and other opprobrious usage all night long FOr when the wearied Ring-leaders and wicked Priests had deliver'd him over to be baited by the rabble of the enraged people O how inhumanly did they handle the meek humble and patient JESUS His face says S. Bonaventure which fills Heaven with Joy is here defiled with loathsom spittle smiten with sacrilegious hands cover'd with mock-hoods c. and nothing was omitted which malice could invent to torment him Hail Mary Glory be to the Father and to the Son c. These prayers Angelicall with bended knee c. Affections Elevations Petitions O holy Jesu the absolute Pattern of heroick Resignation grant that in all the accidents which by the dispensation of your divin providence shall befall me during this my earthly Pilgrimage I may cheerfully cordially affectionately say with you and to you Not my will O my heavenly Father but yours be done O let me have no wishes but that your will may be accomplish'd no desires but that your commands may be obey'd no designes but that you may be faithfully serv'd lov'd prays'd by all creatures Give me O Jesu the gift and spirit of Prayer which is the chief exercise of Religion that in Imitation of your example I may henceforth more seriously addict my self unto it especially in the time of my
crown'd with cruell thorns your amiable face besmear'd with the mixture of tear's blood and spittle your whol Body mangled with whips and scourges and all this for my sake can I choose but loath my self for my sins and love you for your sufferings O my soul what dost thou in token of thy gratefull acknowledgment for thy Saviours great charity thus crown'd wounded mangled martyr'd for the expiation of thy sins and procurement of thy Salvation Canst thou see thy Redeemer doing so much for thee and not be asham'd to do so little for thy self and him and to live so unconformably to his example which should be the modell and pattern of thy life and actions Is it decent for a member to addict it self to sinfull vanities pleasures and sensualities under a head crown'd with thorns O what an excess or rather an abuse of love and sorrow do I here contemplate Love is mistaken in making choyce of so amiable and honourable a person to be the object of undeserv'd derision and torments and sorrow is as much mistaken in not seizing upon some odious and abominable wretch who might have justly deserv'd to be so dealt withall 'T is I alas 't is I who deserve to be thus despis'd tormented crown'd with cruell thorns and every way punish'd persecuted afflicted since 't is I that have by my heynous Crimes betray'd my Creators cause incurr'd his indignation and willfully forfeited all my claim and pretention to the Kingdom which he had mercifully prepar'd for me I deserve to wear no worthyer a Crown upon my wicked head than one gather'd from the Tree of Malediction plaited together with perpetuall woes and interlac'd wirh the sharp prickles of all sorts of punishments miseries and torments Such a Crown is according to my deserts O dear Jesu I most heartily acknowledg it most humbly confess it and most obediently submit to it But since you are evermore ready O compassionate Redeemer to Crown a truly contrite converted and penitent soul with your favours and benefits bow down your blessed Head I beseech you towards me your unworthy servant and according to your wonted mercy bestow on me some effect of your tender affection Behold O my most loving and most beloved Lord Jesu my soul being pierc'd with a lively sense of your severe sufferings for her sake and desirous to conform her self O that she could do it perfectly to you her most perfect Saviour makes here a deliberate choyce of this Crown of sufferance in this world thereby to obtain the Crown of Justice which is the only means to purchase the Crown of Grace and lastly to attain to a Crown of Glory which she hopefully expects from your goodness in your heavenly Kingdom A Prayer In honour of the sacred Crown of Thorns THE ANTHEM O Blessed Crown whereby we are delivered from the severe punishments of eternall death which our sins have justly deserv'd Thou art the hope of offenders thou art the strength of weaklings thou recoverest our lost Crowns for us Vers O Christ we adore your sacred Crown Answer And renew the memory of your glorious Conquest Let us Pray GRant we beseech you O Almightie Father that we renewing the memory of your dear Sons Passion and humbly reverencing his holy Crown of Thorns upon earth may become worthy to receive from him the happy Crown of honour and glory in his celestiall Kingdom where he lives and reigns with you and the Holy Ghost for ever and ever The fourth Dolorous Mysterie Carries Christ our Saviour painfully carries his Cross to Mount Calvary John 19. Of shame and dolour to increase th' account They make Christ bear his Cross up to the Mount Our Father c. Our blessed Saviour was exceedingly aggriev'd 1. At the Jews new invented accusation FOr they perceiving the unwillingness of Pilate to condemn the innocent Jesus produc'd their last envious Stratagem to strik him dead This man say they hath made himself Gods Son and therefore deserves to be destroy'd as a blasphemer of the divin Majesty which they so vehemently urge and so maliciously aggravate against him till at last they force the fearfull President by their threats and clamors to give way to their unjust desires Hail Mary 2. At the pronunciation of Deaths cruell sentence upon him FOr when the Judg saw that neither pity would move them nor justice could prevail with them apprehensive of Cesars indignation and of the peoples disfavour he sentences Jesus to dy on a Cross O how easily doth he swerve from Justice who seeks not Gods honour but is sway'd by human respects in his actions Hail Mary 3. At his contumelious leading out of Ierusalem FOr the cruell sentence was no sooner spoken but the greedy hang-men flock about this meek lamb fastning cords to his neck and hands and tugging him as a Traytor Blasphemer and notorious Malefactor out of the Town towards the place of Execution Hail Mary 4. At his association with Thieves THey had already prefer'd Barrabas the murderer before him and now they place him in the Thieves company that so the ignorant people might conceive him to be a complice in their Crimes Hail Mary 5. At the carrying of his own Cross on his shoulders O Unheard of proceedings It was never known that any wicked criminall was constrain'd to carry his own Gallows but only the good Jesus O Saviour the true Isaac you bear the wood on your back and the fire in your heart to be immolated for me upon Mount Calvarie Hail Mary 6. At the oppressing weight of the heavy Cross WHich was fifteen foot long say severall holy Doctors and Fathers and of a massie thickness proportionable to its length O ponderous burthen to his tender and already bruised weakned and wounded shoulders Hail Mary 7. At the multitude of people thronging about him SOme triumphing at his miserie and laughing scoffing spitting at him others pressing pulling thrusting stricking and spurning him Hail Mary 8. At the doleful lamentation of the devout women WHich were those who had faithfully serv'd him before his Passion charitably sustain'd him and his Disciples with their temporall faculties painfully follow'd him from Galilee into Judea and now mournfully waited on him to Mount Calvarie 9. At the compassion of his most sorrowfull Mother WHo undoubtedly made one amongst the sad number of his followers O her inexplicable grief to see her dear Son Jesus in this dismall condition And O the anguish of his affectionate heart to behold his sweet Mothers tears and tribulation Hail Mary 10. At the circumstances of the place TO which he was led and where he was to be put to death to wit the most loathsome stinking despicable Mount Calvarie the common Theater for the execution of all Malefactors to shew that he suffered in generall for all Mankind Hail Mary Glory be to the Father c These prayers Angelicall c. Affections Elevations Petitions O Jesu my dear Redeemer are you not equall in omnipotency to your eternall
Father How then do I see you panting fainting falling down through feebleness Are not you the supporting strength of this spacious Universe did not your power extend the Firmament encircling therewithall the celestiall Orb 's and fix the Earth upon the point of its own upholding center How then do I now behold you lying prostrate under the oppressing weight of this one single burthen O my Saviour you promise to lend men your helping hand and send them the assistance of your Angells to keep them from all harms in their fallings and your self falls here under your heavy Cross without admitting any succour from your own divin Person from your Angells or from Men in this your extream necessity O my soul how heynous are thy sins which ly so heavily upon thy Saviours shoulders And O my proud perverse spirit which refusest to submit thy stubborn neck to the sweet weight and light burthen of God and his Church Didst thou ever seriously contemplate thy Redeemer Christ Iesus groaning for thee under the burthen of his Cross How then dost thou still continue thy disobedience ingratitude impietie Or didst thou ever take into thy serious consideration thine own perchance nearly approaching passage out of this World to an eternity How then dost thou not apprehend what a heavy weight will oppress thy wicked heart at that dreadfull hour and how thou wilt be beaten down under the burthen of thy sins And alas who will then assist thee when thy angry Creator shall thunder his just judgments upon thy head which like formidable waves wil overflow and drown thy frail vesell What succour canst thou expect when a sad dispair seizing upon thee thou shalt vainly desire to ly cover'd in some cranny of the Rocks or to hide thy head in some hole of the Mountains or to be deep buryed in some Dungeon within the Earths bowels Who will then lend thee a charitable hand in this thy extream calamity or what can comfort a conscience thus cauteriz'd crucify'd oppress'd with so many crimes crying out against themselves for vengance O my soul Let 's not remit our conversion to that dismall hour but let 's now efficaciously do what we shall then fruitlesly desire to have done Leâ—… in the first place discharge our conscience of its deadly crimes whilst time and opportunity afford us leave and leasure Then let 's away with all these fardles of ill-gotten Goods cancell all unlawfull usurarie extortionous contracts cut off all our sinfull customs concupiscences sensualities and finally shake off the two long carryed and over-heavily charging yoake of the World the Flesh and the Devill This done let 's cheerfully receive the Cross of Penance and mortification from the sacred hands of suffering Jesus He carries it before us to encourage us to follow him his is weighty to make ours light and easie he fall under his that we may stand fast under ours and we shall neither want strength nor comfort in this our heroick enterprise of vertu and piety if we frequently cast our faithfull eyes upon our valiant Captain marching before us towards Mount Calvarie with his royall Standard on his shoulders The fifth Dolorous Mysterie Is kill'd Christ our Saviour is crucify'd and dy's on the cross John 19. Luke 23. Mark 15. Matth. 27. With nayles extended on the Cross he dy's Who 's God and Man for Man a sacrifice Our Father Our Blessed Saviour was put to excessive pain and torture 1. At the pulling off of his Garments FOr when by the help of a certain poor fellow call'd Simon he had train'd his heavy Cross to Golgotha His Executioners tear off his cloathes together with his skin and flesh to which they were in severall parts in a manner fast glued with the Blood flowing out of his wounds Hail Mary 2. At his there standing again naked in the sight of all the Spectators TO be hang'd up naked was the greatest disgrace they could put upon the most despicable person and don only to the worst sort of Malefactors Hail Mary 3. At the boysterous stretching out of his body on the Cross WHich they rack'd with such vioâ—ence by the help of ropes ty'd to his wrists and ankles that according to the Royall Prophets prediction all his dislocated Bones might have been numbred Hail Mary 4. At the Piercing of his hands and feet with nayls O Christ my Rock out of these sacred holes I may suck hony draw forth oyl and fully tast the sweetness of your affection Hail Mary 5. At the Erection of the Cross with Iesus upon it TO publish his Crucifixion and shew him to all the greedily expecting people What faithfull Christian will not be now rays'd to hopes of obtaining pardon When he considers his Redeemers arms thus extended to embrace him and his hands thus open'd to bestow benefits upon him Hail Mary 6. At the superscription of the Title of Iesus of Nazareth King of the Iews WHich was written in a threefold language that no one might be ignorant of the cause of this his cruell usage but that all might conclude He was justly crucifi'd who had unjustly usurp'd a Kings title Hail Mary 7. At their continued calumnies whilst he hung on the Cross O Princes and People How implacable was your hatred how great your malice how insatiable your fury which could not forbear your abuses in his last Agony But he endur'd your peevishness and kept his own patience and though he descended not now from the Cross he soon after arose from the Sepulcher Hail Mary 8. At the sight of his compassionate Mother standing by his Cross O Sorrowfull Mother you see the Innocent Son of your chast womb wounded and cannot cure him weltring in blood and cannot wipe it off inclining and hanging down his weak and wearied head and cannot uphold it c. What tongue can express the compassion of your tender heart at the sight of these your Sons afflictions Or the grief of his tender heart at the sight of his thus afflicted Mother Hail Mary 9. At his Thirst upon the Cross GReat surely was the naturall thirst of his Body which was almost exhausted and drained dry of all his blood and moysture But far greater was his Souls spirituall thirst for the salvation of Mankind What do you thirst after O dear Redeemer says S. Augustin wine of the grape or water of the River your thirst is my salvation your drink my Redemption Be thou also thirsty O my dry Soul and drink thy fill of that blessed Fountain which thirsts thus after thee Hail Mary 10. At his giving up the Ghost and expiration on the Cross JESUS bowing down his head breath'd out his soul and deliver'd up his spirit freely voluntarily unconstrainedly into the hands of his eternall Father And so compleated and consummated the penall and afflictive part of the great Mystery of mans Redemption Hail Mary Glory be to the Father and to the Son c. These prayers Angelicall c. Affections Elevations
have all at once but content to receive it as we need it and as the Divin Giver pleases to dispense it with a constant relying upon his continued providence which therefore feeds us with extemporarie provisions that being always needie we may always be begging and being daily supplyed we may be daily gratefull for the past joyfull for the present and confident for the future 2. We beg the Bread of sinners Contrition Tears Repentance 3. We beg the Bread of Children Love Devotion Obedience Resignation 4. We beg the Bread of Angells the nourishment of our souls Contemplation Communion Union The fifth Petition For give us our trepasses as we forgive them that trespass against us 1. Whereby we confess our selvs to be deeply indebted fearfull to be condemn'd carefull to be releas'd and therefore humbly sue for Mercy Compassion Remission 2. We here petition for a Pardon not only of our sins of frailty ignorance and sudden surprisall but those of deliberation of election of express malice 3. We petition for a Pardon not only of our Sins of Om ssion but of Commission not only of our Carnall sins but of our Spirituall not only of our known sins but of our secret ones not only of sins don directly against the divin Majesty but also against our Neighbour and our selvs not only of mortall sins but of veniall 4. Forgive us as we forgive By which condition we tacitly oblige our selvs to forgive all such as have any way injur'd and offended us even from our hearts not entertaining so much as a thought of Revenge but truly loving all them that have wrong'd us for so only and not otherwise we desire our Creators Pardon for our own committed crimes and impieties The sixth Petition And lead us not into Temptation 1. Where by we desire light that we fall not help that we fail nor strength that we saint not a guide that we erre not comfort that we perish not 2. St. Cyprian out of an old latin copie reads Suffer us not to be led into Temptation that is permit us not to be overcome by Temptation nor to give our assents to sinfull suggestions 3. Since our life upon Earth is a perpetuall warfare and no one can be Crown'd unless he couragiously resist the World the Flesh and the Devill his swoâ—n Enemies therefore we instantly implore the divin assistance against them that we may be able to resist the Devill chastise our Flesh despise the World and so finally obtain a Crown of Glory after our Victory 4. Finally we here acknowledge our own weakness frailty nothing and that all our sufficiencie is from our Creators grace mercy and bounty which we therefore beg and implore not to abandon us in our necessities afflictions temptation The seventh Petition But deliver us from Evill Whereby as weary of all things which hinder our desired union and conjunction with our beloved Lord and the only Spouse of our Souls and the finall End of our Life and Pilgrimage upon Earth we beg to be delivered First not only from all temporall and corporall Evâ—lls as Famine Pestilence Wars 2. But also from all spirituall Evills as impatience pusâ—illanimity distrust of the divin succour in our tribulations sufferings persecutions 3. From this World which allures us to sin and from these bodyes which imprison our Spirits 4 Finally from all that displeases the divin Majesty under whose sacred wings we desire to shelter our selvs from the violence of all our adversaries that so no Temptation may weaken our Faith discomfort our Hope distroy our Charity daunt our Courage alter our Resolutions hinder our Perseverance or overthrow our Glories An Exercise upon our Lords Prayer Dialated with Acts and Affections 1. Our Father which art in Heaven Adoration and Acknowledgement O Heavenly Father I no sooner had a Being but I see the Effects of your paternall Bountie inflowing upon me all things necessary for my preservation even to this present Instant in which I appear before your dread Majesty to adore you prayse you and to implore your Mercy I humbly acknowledg my own Ingratitude Rebellion Disobedience all which notwithstanding you have still continued the affection of a tender Father towards me in cherishing me comforting me correcting me pardoning me protecting me and treating me not as a Traytor a Prodigall a Slave but as one of your dearly beloved Children Wherefore I adore you as my Soveraign Lord God and I honour you as my heavenly Father and I prayse you as my powerfull Creator and I love you as my mercifull Preserver and I promise for the future to obey you more punctually to serve you more faithfully to prayse you more fervently and to procure the dilatation of your divin honour and glory more zealously upon all occasions with a syncere filiall and cordiall affection Hallowed be thy Name A desire of true Light O what a Father How full of pity patience compassion to have so long endured the undutifullness irreverence insolencie of an â—ll behaved uncivill unnaturall child who instead of procuring the sanctification of your sacred Name in all your creatures and the exaltation of your honour in all his actions hath still continued to dishonour your Majesty to disedify his Neighbour to misuse your gifts graces and mercyes and to defile his heart and soul with all sorts of sins and impieties Grant O Father of Light and Love that I may have a clear sight and lively apprehension of your affection and my obligation that truly considering youâ— mercy and my own misery I may rely confidently upon that and rise speedily out of this so recovering your favour and friendship and eternally sanctifying praysing and magnifying your sacred Name and Majesty 3. Thy Kingdom come Sorrow for our Sins and sighing for Heaven I freely confess O Father of Mercy anâ— King of Majesty that my own willfulâ— blindâ—ess and disobedience hath moâ—… justly deâ—riv'd me of a Childs title anâ— quality Permit me therefore to presenâ— my self before you as a poor Bond-slave or at least as the Prodigall Child with tears in my eyes sighs in my heart and this humble petition in my mouth Father I have offended against Heaven and before you I have dissipated all the graces you so lovingly and liberally gave me and forfeiting my whol freedom am become the absolute slave of sensuality vanity impietie which now over-rule me raign within me and render me a rebell against your divin Majesty Mercy O most compassionate Father Destroy this Kingdom of Sin and Satan and Establish yours in my soul Live Lord Jesu in my heart I will have no other King but him Deprive me not Dear Father of that happy inheritance which your Son my Saviour hath purchased for me with the price of his precious blood But mercifully grant that your glorious Kingdom may come to be my lot and portion at my departure out of this place of banishment that I may there contemplate praise and love you for
tribulation and temptation with due humility fervour and perseverance You O meek Jesu receiv'd the malicious Judas with the sweetness of a Saviour you permitted him to kiss you with the calmness of a friend you suffered the souldiers to bind you buffet yo u abuse you with a patience exemplary to all ages and you cured the wound of him that came to kill you with the affection of a Parent Embrace me also O blessed Jesu with the entertainments of a Saviour kiss me with the countenance of a friend cure me with the compassion of a Father and bâ—ud me fast unto your self with all the chains of perfect charity that I may henceforth truly serve you please you and live with you for evermore O my Soul what are thy thoughts at the sight of thy sweet Saviour thus suffering for thy sake Behold He is fad for thee even unto death and dost thou rejoyce in sinfull delights He lies with his body prostrate on the ground and snortest thou on thy downy bed wallowing in thy sensuality He is bath'd in tears of blood sighing sweating lamenting for thy wickedness and wilt not thou shed one tear send forth one sigh nor give one groan in token of thy true sorrow for thy own grievous offences O his love and O thy insensibility thou shalt one day sadly sigh sweat weep lament O thou obdurate Core of mine when alas it will prove too late if thou now presumptuously delay'st it Wherefore O my God! look upon me even now at this very instant returning repenting lamenting all my former ingratitude disloyaltie impietie and whil'st you behold my misery cast also an eye upon your dear Son Jesus to move you to mercy Look O compassionate Father upon the face of your Christ not now out-vying the Suns Splendor upon Mount Thabor yet still the self-same object of your eternall Complacency See his Garments not now white as Snow yet still representing the Robe of your beloved Joseph There he appear'd in Glory Here sadly prostrate on the ground There he was elevated with honour Here he lyes bleeding sweating languishing with sorrow yet both here and there He is your Son and my Saviour and every where the powerfull motive of your mercy towards poor Mankind And you O sacred Virgin the most accomplish'd of all women and the most compassionate of all Mothers look also upon your beloved Son not now white and ruddy the chosen of thousands and the most beautifull amongst the Sons of men but all pale and wan with weeping all discoloured with blood and sweat and every way the most afflicted of all creatures O what thought can comprehend the resentment of your tender heart condoling with your so dearly beloved and so deeply distressed Son Jesus And thou O my soul what dost thou what say'st thou what resolv'st thou contemplating these sad objects of the here lamenting Mother and the there languishing Son Thou who art the cause of her anguish and of his Agony wilt thou still by thy sinfull obstinacy sleight the Sons blood and the Mothers tears No my dear Mother no my sweet Saviour I here in your presence protest the contrary and for the love respect and honour I ow unto you both I absolutely renounce all sin and impiety and whatsoever is displeasing to your holy wills and likings The Second Dolorous Mystery Is Whipp'd THe most cruell Flagellation or whipping of Christ our Saviour John 19. While to a Pillar Christs dear hands are bound His body is Scourg'd till all become one wound Our Father c. OUr Blessed Saviour was exceedingly afflicted 1. At his Presentation to Pilate FOr after the spitefull Jews had spent the night in punishing him and the morning in plotting his death They led him bound from the house of Caiaphas the Priest to Pontius Pilat the President there anticipating the sentence of his condemnation by their prejudicating clamors to the end that Pilat should not dare to absolve whom they all desired should perish Hail Mary 2. At his standing before a Pagan Iudg in quality of a notorious Criminall O The stupendious Humility of Innocent JESUS He is ordain'd by his Eternall Father the Supreme Judg of all creatures and here he stands as a guilty Malefactor before a Petty-President of Judea Hail Mary 3. At the Iews false Accusation AS if he were a Subverter of the people an Abettor of rebellion against Cesar a Broacher of Blasphemy against God Hail Mary 4. At his being sent to Herod WHereby he was not only forc'd to undergo another tiresom troublesom and afflictive journey But also to hear and endure new false and malicious accusations before this perverse Prince of Galilee who was a wicked incestuous sensuall wretch and the murtherer of the holy Baptist Hail Mary 5. At Herods scorn and contempt WHo sent him back to Pilat as an Idiot in a white garment Hail Mary 6. At the Peoples clamour to have Barrabas pardon'd and Christ put to death O the hard-heartedness of this Inhuman Nation To prefer a Thief before Jesus a Man-slayer before Mans Saviour A Murtherer before the Life giver O the Jews blindness and brutishness Set Barrabas free and Crucifie Christ What means this but let him dy who rayses the dead and let him be dismis'd to destroy yet more of the living Hail Mary 7. At his most cruell and contumelious whipping By the Ministers of Pilat who by their Masters command fall like ravenous Wolves upon this meek Lamb tear off his garments tye him to a pillar and try their strength in tormenting him Hail Mary 8. At his being stripp'd naked before the whol multitude O How did this afflict the virginall heart of Jesus the Lord of purity and lover of Chastity Hail Mary 9. At the stretching and distorting of his tender Body WIth coards and ropes to force and fasten it to the whipping stock Hail Mary 10. At the tearing and wounding of his flesh with the whips WHich was done with such severity that from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head there was no part of it left unmangled Hail Mary Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost c. These Prayers Angelicall with bended knee c. Affections Elevations Petitions O Innocent and Immaculat Lamb of God! who wert mercifully pleas'd to suffer these multitudes of shames and sorrows to be thus hurried from Tribunall to Tribunall thus treacherously betrayd maliciously accus'd unjustly condemn'd and rudely scourg'd even for my sake I most humbly beseech you by all the fountains of blood issuing from your sacred Body to give me a lively apprehension of sins heynousness that so I may perfectly hate the cause of your sufferings and perfectly love you for your sufferings What am I Dear Redeemer that you the Eternall Son of God should endure one stripe for me But O the excess of your affection And shall I by new crimes abuse so signall a favour despise so miraculous a mercy provoke so
great a goodness incense so immense a clemency and inflict fresh wounds upon Gods Son by my continued wickedness Tell me O my soul dost thou truly believe that thy sweet Saviour suffer'd all this for thy sake That he was stripp'd naked to cover thy crimes fastned to a pillar to loose the fetters of thy bondage Whipp'd with cruell rodds to secure thee from the scourges of his Fathers severe Justice all over beaten bruis'd and worried to cure the wounds of thy soul Believest thou all this and hast thou no sense of compassion no feeling of compunction no resolution of correcting thy life cancelling thy sin converting thy self to his love and service who for these very ends and intentions underwent all these wofull torments O meek Jesu seeing you thus patiently bearing all sorts of abuses shall I storm at the least offer'd injury O Son of God! seeing you stripp'd naked in the sight of your Enemies shall I be asham'd to discover my faults before a Priest O sweet Saviour seeing your whol Body torn with whips and your flesh turn'd into as many open mouths as it had wounds to proclaim the love you bear me shall not I open my mouth to manifest your Mercy to admire your goodness to adore your bounty to acknowledg my obligation to testify my compassion to renounce my impiety And since you O my dear Redeemer Spilt all your blood for me shall not I shed one tear for my self and you You O charitable Samaritan permitted your tender skin to be torn from off your back and shoulders with cruell scourges to serve as swathes wherewith to bind up my ulcers You were content O pious Pelican to have the blood drain'd out of your veines to make therewith a precious balsum of oyl and wine for the efficacious cure of my wounds and shall I yet ly dead and buried in the sepulcher of sin and Impenitencie You weep tears of blood over my dead corps and cry out aloud unto my soul with as many Tongues as you endured Torments N. Come forth of thy grave And I cry out to you Dear Jesu the Abysmus of misery calls upon the Abysmus of mercy O when shall I be led out of this loathsom sepulcher when shall this head-kercher of evill customs sinfull habitudes vicious inclinations be unty'd and taken off from my eyes and face which hinder my desired sight and enjoyment of you my dear Saviour Behold I appear upon your summons but yet bound hand and foot and in quality of a guilty Criminall before you my God and my Judg I come creeping as a poor prodigall child and ready to perish to you my pious Father I cast my self at your sacred feet with tears in my eyes contrition in my heart and Confession in my mouth as a Penitent Magdalen O compassionate Saviour unbind and absolve your guilty Criminall Receive and embrace your fearfull Prodigall Comfort and pardon your Penitent Magdalen Apply to me one small drop of your sacred blood and I shall be cured Speak only the word sweet Jesu and my soul shall be saved The third Dolorous Mystery Is Crown'd THe Crowning of Christ our Saviour with Thorns Matth. 27. His sacred Head is pierc'd with pungent thorns And made the subject of ten thousand scorns Our Father c. Our blessed Saviour was evceedingly tormented 1. At the pressing of the sharp-pointed thorns into his sacred Head FOr Pilat having call'd him in derision The King of the Jews the Soldiers at their instigation twisted thorny brakes into the shape of a Crown boysterously placing it upon his bare head and violently pressing it into his skull to encrease his misery and make him a more ridiculous object of all mens mockery Hail Mary 2. At the pulling it off and on WHich was done both upon a pretence of fitting it to his head and also to augment his torments Hail Mary 3. At his cloathing with Purple FOr they sportingly invented all manner of tricks to please their fancies glut their malice and aggravate his miseries Not content therefore to have Crown'd him they would also cloath him as a counterfeit King and so rashing off his garments which were now glu'd to his body with the former goares of blood they scornfully cast a despicable Purple-cloak over his naked shoulders which was a colour us'd by the ancient Kings Hail Mary 4. At the holding a Reed in his right hand THis was intended as a mock Scepter being after the Crown and purple the third Royall Ensign Hail Mary 5. At the scoffing Salutations Genuflexions Adorations ANd the like feigned Actions of Religion and worship whereby the Soldiers and Jews maliciously derided him as blasphemously usurping the title of the divinity Hail Mary 6. At the spitting in his face WHich amongst the Jews was held the greatest contempt injury and disgrace could be put upon any person For as spittle is a superfluous matter whereof the Mouth endeavors to be discharg'd so they reputed our Blessed Redeemer no better than a base despicable wretch and a thing worthy to be cast out from amongst the people Hail Mary 7. At the smiting His head with the Reed WHereby the prickles of the thorny Crown were driven deeper and deeper into his wounded skull and the Blood forc'd out of the new open'd surrows trickled down a fresh upon his neck and forehead which embodying with the beastly spittle wherewith they were before besmeared chang'd our Redeemers sweet countenance which the Angells admiringly contemplate into an object of horror and into the likeness of a Leper most loathsom to be look'd upon Hail Mary 8. At the iterated and multipli'd blow's boxes and buffetings O Barbarous cruelty Was 't not enough to cane his head but you must cuff his cheeks His face and flesh is already one continued tumour by your former stripes the colour of his skin is already metamorphoz'd into blackness and blueness by your former beatings And have you the hearts hard-hearted wretches to add yet more blows to blows more torments to torments O meek Lamb of God! How great is my malice which is the cause of all these your miseries Hail Mary 9. At his being shew'd to the people in such a posture IEsus came forth says the Gospell carrying a Crown of Thorns and a purple garment and Pilate spake to them Behold the Man O prodigious spectacle O Jesu King of Glory what a Crown what a Garment what a Scepter do you here shew for your royall Ensignes Hail Mary 10. At the Iew 's horrid clamors and repeated vociferations OF away with him away with him crucify him crucify him nothing but his death can satisfie their implacable malice O harsh words yet you sustain'd them sweet Saviour to free me from the harsh sentence of eternall death and damnation Hail Mary Glory be to the Father c. These prayers Angelical c. Affections Elevations Petitions O Jesu the beauty of Men and Angels the glory of Heaven and Earth when I behold your venerable head
the Son and to the Holy Ghost c. These Prayers Angelicall with bended knee c. Affections Elevations Petitions WHy weep you O sacred Virgin Why do you grieve and mourn O glorious Mother of Jesus your Son lives triumphs reigns He that was lately accounted the out-cast of the people is now the most happy of all mankind He that was crucifi'd dead and buried appears now cloathed with Clarity Agilitie Subtility Impassibilitie Behold the Man look up O Blessed Mary upon your beloved Jesus the lively Image of the Eternall Father the beauty and brightness of Heaven and Earth the Crown and ornament of Men and Angells Lo He here presents himself unto you to wipe all tears from your eyes and disperse all sorrows from your heart Hear him speaking unto you in his wonted tone and tearms of respect All Hail my most honoured Mother Peace and joy be with you 'T is I my self who am the comfortable Messenger of this happy exchange of yours and my sorrows into gladness and Jubilation both that you may with me incessantly prayse and bless my Eternall Father and also that you may take the first and best share of joy who have the greatest interest in me and had the greatest part with me in my passion of any mortall creature See and admire the power of the Almightyes right hand in the person of your Son The disgrac'd is glorifi'd the defam'd is justifi'd the condemn'd is absolv'd the crucifi'd is resuscitated Rejoyce then dear Mother together with you joyfull Son for whom you need not now fear any further miseries persecutions Crosses since he is above the reach of mans malice and the Devils power having put on the robes of glory impassibility immortality The short Winter of suffering is turn'd into a perpetuall Summer of consolation The stormy showers of blood into a sweet dew of blessings All my wounds are perfectly cur'd and the scarrs only remain as Rubies of my honour and badges of my victory O the excesses of Joy which transported your extasi'd heart and soul O sacred Virgin-Mother at the sight of your now again living and gloriously triumphing Son Jesus And O my soul If thou desirest a share in these Joys and gloryes of Jesus and Mary thou must also resolve to bear a part in their sorrows and sufferings Thou art much mistaken in thinking to triumph without trying for the Victory or to be crown'd without conquering No my delicate Soldier Christ thy King and Captain suffer'd before he entred into his glory Queen Maries heart was pierced with sorrow before it was replenish'd with comforts All the Saints combated before they were crown'd And refusest thou all sufferings all sorrows all combates all that thy flesh and blood cannot relish O dear Jesu What will you do with me who dare not encounter with the least difficulties How will you deal with me who bear the name of a Christian soldier and am indeed no better than a base and cowardly sensualist If I love the glory of your Crown why dislike I the ignominie of your Cross If I desire the reward of a Conqueror why do I not adventure into the field of the combat O why should your painfull death and passion so much affright me since your glorious Resurrection confirms me in the Hope and Faith of a future felicity why should I more dread in reflecting upon the difficulties occurring in my Pilgrimage than rejoyce in fixing my thoughts upon the pleasures of Paradise which is the end of my Pilgrimage O why am I not content to suffer with Jesus and for Jesus were there no reward to be expected for all my sufferings It being a sufficient glory to a faithfull Christian to be conformable to Christ his Captain Behold therefore I humbly prostrate my self here at your sacred feet O my victorious Redeemer imploring your pardon for my past pusillanimity and purposing to behave my self hereafter more manfully Come all sorts of crosses and losses all sorrows and sicknesses all punishments and persecutions all derelictions and desclations I will no more be daunted or dismay'd but animated by your example and assisted by your grace O Christ my King my Captain my glorious Conqueror I will either pass through them couragiously or pass by them patiently or pass over them victoriously Yes my Lord Jesu I will receive henceforth all afflictions from the hands of your divin providence as pledges of your paternall affection and most willingly joyfully resignedly embrace them as the happily offered occasions for the encrease of my merit the exercise of my vertu the perfection of my soul the expiation of my sins the crowning me with glory The second Glorious Mystery Ascends THE Ascension of our Lord Jesus into Heaven Mark 16. His great work don and his Commisons given In Glorious triumph he ascends to Heaven Our Father c. THE Glorious Virgin-Mother exceedingly rejoyced 1. At the Ascension of her Son Iesus in hers and his Disciples presence FOr upon the fortieth day after our Redeemers Resurrection his sacred Mother with the Apostles the seventy two Disciples and many more of his faithfull friends and followers met together by the divin instinct upon Mount Sion and march'd from thence proâ—essionally to the Mount Olivet distant a mile from Jerusalem to be spectators of this admirable catastrophe of their dear Saviour Christs humanity and to receive his last blessing before he left the Earth to ascend into Heaven Hail Mary 2. At his great Power shew'd in his Ascension FOr he elevated himself by his own strength and vertu nor could he need any forreign help or assistance whose inhabiting Divinity and glorifi'd soul could move his impassible and agile body as himself pleased Hail Mary 3. At the joyfull meeting and acclamation of the Angelicall spirits WHich undoubtedly descended all to accompany his humanity to congratulate his victory to echo forth the triumphs of his prayses Hail Mary 4. At his soaring above all the Heavens TO wit above the spheres of the seven Planets above the Christallin orbe above the starrie Firmament even to the Empyreall seat of the Divinity according to that sentence of the Apostle He ascended up far above all the Heavens that he might fulfill all things Hail Mary 5. At his ascending above the Angelicall quires and all creatures whatsoever ACcording to that expression of the same Apostle God the Father placed him his son Jesus far above all principalities and Powers and Dominations and every thing that is nam'd not only in this world but in that which is to come and hath put all things under his feet Hail Mary 6. At his being seated on the right hand of his Eternall Father ACcording to that of S. Mark He was assumpted into Heaven and sits on his Fathers right hand And of S. Paul His Father set him on his own right hand in the heavenly places Which is a Metaphoricall expression signifying equality and society of Majesty honour power felicity c. Hail Mary 7.
LOVE O MERCY O MERVAIL You will unite your Greatness to our Baseness your Eternity to our Mortality your Divinity to our humanity becoming Son of Man Son of Mary for an Eternity as from all Eternity you are the Son of GOD the only Son of the Eternall Father 4. Gods Son gives his Eternall Essence and Subsistence to our nature I Adore you in this highest Councill and divin Will I Adore you in this new estate and deep Mystery I Adore you in the unity of your divin Person and in the diversity of your natures the one Divin and Eternall the other human and temporall I Adore you as receiving your Eternall Essence from the Eternall Father and as giving your Essence you subsistency to human nature united to your self for an Evermore Vnited I say to your self so intimatly and so powerfully so gloriously and so divinely O Adorable Estate O Unspeakable Mystery O happy Moment of the Incarnation which makes man God and God man Which gives to Heaven a King of Glory and to the Earth a Soveraign To Angells a Repayrer and to Men a Saviour 5. Jesus is born lives suffers dyes for us O JESU my Lord and my Saviour I Adore you as Gods Son I Adore you as Mans Son and Man God I Adore you in these two different Estates The one Eternall the other Temporall the one uncreated the other created the one divin the other human joyned together and joyned inseparably But I must yet Adore you as Man-God for man For 't is for us that you would be made Man 't is for us that you live and dy 't is for us that you do suffer 't is for us that you are born in a Stable and bedded on straw 't is for us that you lead an abject laborious suffering life 't is for us that you dy upon Mount Calvary and hang on the Cross 't is for us that you arise and ascend into Glory O Birth O Life O Death O Divin glorious heavenly Life O blessed hour of the Incarnation of the Expiration of the glorification of Gods Son O Estates of Jesus in his Fathers bosom and at his Mothers breasts hanging on the Cross and sitting on the right hand of God! O Abodes O Estates O Mysteries of Jesus in Judea in Egypt in Galilee in Bethleem in Nazareth in Jerusalem in the Crib on the Cross in the Grave on Earth in Hell in Heaven Who can recount your thoughts your griefs your delights in these places But Heaven will one day reveal them unto us and the Contemplation hereof shall be one of the employments of our Eternity till when the Earth must remain ignorant hereof must Reverence them and must be content with the Crums falling from your Saints Tables whom you plentifully nourish with this living and life-giving bread on Earth and in Heaven 6. Jesus Adores his Heights by his Lownesses and rayseth up his Lownesses by his Greatnesses 1. BY their Example and Imitation I Contemplate and Adore you O Jesu my Lord I Adore you in your Greatness and in your Abjectness in your Cross and in your Glory in your life and in your death 2. I Adore you as raysing up your Lowness by your Greatness your human life by your divin Life your disgraces by your glory and your suffring estate by your impassible immutable and eternall condition 3. I Adore you as Adoring your self your Greatness by your Littleness your Divinity by your Humanity your Birth in your Fathers bosom by your Birth of your Mother-Virgin in the Ox-stall your supreme Authority by your humility and your uncreated Essence by your Created Being 4. And after this Contemplation of you in your self I contemplate and Adore you as going forth of your self as extending and spreading your self and as filling Heaven and Earth with your Grace and your Glory with your gifts and your Mysteries and finally with your self O God! O Man O Man-God O Infinitly prodigall of your self 7. Jesus's excessive love in the effusion of his last drop of Blood for us thereby testifying the effusion of his Greatness and Goodness also upon us I Inlarge my self in the variety of these thoughts I am ravisht in these different Exercises which my Soul makes of your self and I lose my self in the Contemplation of these so high and great verities For in honour of that supream Communication which you receive from your Father in the Eternall generation and in honour of that Ineffable Communication of your Divinity with our Humanity in the Incarnation I look upon you I admire you I Adore you O my Lord as annihilating your self and as exhausting your self that you may bestow your self on men You as it were drayn your Divinity powring it out upon your humanity consuming it incessantly in the furnace of your love and at last sacrificing it in the Holocaust of your Cross you shed your Blood in suffering and you dy by the effusion thereof chosing that kind of death to demonstrate the effusion of your self And the Nayls and Executioners being unable to empty it all the ardour of your love which cannot be extinguish'd in death it self preserv's liquid in death's coldness that residue left in your heart and body to be drain'd out even to the last drop Such was your good pleasure to make an aboundant and super-aboundant Effusion both of your blood and also of your self together 8. Jesus is all ours and we are all his yea we are in him we live in him we are parts of him WHat shall I say what shall I do in the Contemplation of these things Let me forget my self for you forget Your self for me Let me leave and loose my self for you annihilate Your self for me Let me be yours for You are mine let me be all yours for you are all mine Let me be all yours for ever for you are all mine for ever Your Divinity as it were Incarnated is my substance and my subsistence your humanity as it were divinized is my health my life your Body is my diet and your Blood is my Bath your Death is my life your weakness is my strength your Cross is my quiet your suffering is my rejoycing Thus I am yours and you are mine And I am yours O my loving Saviour by your self and by a means so noble and so divin so dear and near unto you and by so many sorts of ways which give you unto me which consecrate me to you and which even draw and drain you all out for me But I discover yet a greater secret in your love and in your Mysteries and a greater favour in your way of dealing with me For you are not only mine and I yours but I am in you I perceive that whilst I Contemplate your self and your Father and see that you are in him that you live in him you frame within me a lively Image of your self and of your divin Emanation and by your Incarnation you establish a new manner of gracious