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A06405	A manuall of devout meditations and exercises instructing how to pray mentally. Drawn for the most part, out of the spirituall exercises of S. Ignatius. Devided into three bookes. Written in Spanish by the R.F. Thomas de Villa Castin of the Society of Iesus. And translated into English by H.M. of the same Society.	Ignatius, of Loyola, Saint, 1491-1556.; Villacastin, Thomas de, 1570-1649.; More, Henry, 1586-1661.	1624 (1624)	STC 16878; ESTC S103982	182,763	570

and humbled wherefore replenished vvith excessiue ioy and comfor they vvould say to ech other Ascend o Lord ascend not to mount Caluary to be crucifyed betweene two theeues on a tree but vnto the holy hill of Sion i● the heauenly Hierusalem to be glorified betweene two diuine persons by the quyers of Angells and blessed soules that inuisibly accōpany thee Ascend O Lord ascend to this soue●aigne Court not to suffer and dye ●ut to triumph ouer death it selfe sinne c. From hence thou mayst gather how well afflictions endured for the loue of God are imployed seeing he can and will reward and recompence them so largely magnifying and exalting aboue all creatures him vvho humbled himselfe and suffered more then all Beseech him that sith he saith by Saint Iohn If I be exalted from the earth I will draw all things to my selfe it may be fulfilled in thee that thy mind and affection being separated from earthly vanities thou maist ascend with him his holy company to heauen THE 3. POINT TO consider how the holy Apostl● after they had lost the sight o● their God and Lord they vven● backe to Hierusalem with great ioy because the same loue that caused them so much to lament their losse enforced them on the other side to reioyce at his glorious triumph entrance into that celestiall countrey where he should be receaued of thos● courtiers of heauen with singuler io● exultation triumph some singing others playing on their admirable melodious instruments Ponder how different this Thursday in mount Oliuet was from that Friday in mount Caluary there solitary heere so well attended there nayled on a Crosse heere exalted aboue the clouds there cucified betweene two theeues heere enuironed with quiers of Angels there blasphemed and scorned heere honoured renowned finally there suffeing dying heere reioyeing tryumphing Gather hence great comfort to see this so wonderfull a mutation change and reioyce in this day of Christs Ascension into heauen to be thy aduocate feare his Comming to be thy Iudge THE 4. POINT TO consider the ioy of Christ our Lord in this triumph of whome it is sayd God is ascended in iubilation seeing the happy end of his trauels Ponder how much the Eternall Father exalted him aboue all vvho humbled himselfe more then all giuing him for the throne of the Crosse a throne of Maiesty for the crowne of thornes a crowne of glory for the company of theeues companies of Angells for the ignominies and blasphemies of men honours and prayses of celestiall spirits And because he descended first into the inferiour parts of the earth he made him ascend aboue all the heauens In conclusion that nature vvherto it vvas sayd Dust thou art into dust thou shalt returne now is raised from the dust of the earth aboue all the heauens Gather hence how requisite it is to humble thy selfe for Christ so to be exal●ed vvith Christ because if thou wilt not be like vnto him in debafing and humbling thy selfe in vaine hopest thou to follovv him in ascending raigning ¶ After the Meditation of the Ascension of Christ our Lord to heauen it vvere much to the purpose to set downe the meditatiō of his glory but in regard vve haue treated therof in the first Booke togeather vvith the last things of man we remit him who desireth to read medicate thereon to that place THE X. MEDITATION Of the comming of the Holy Ghost THE ● POINT TO consider how after our S●uiour was ascended into heauen his disciples retyred themselues into an vpper chamber in Hierusalem where they all perseuered in continuall prayer expecting the Holy Ghost Ponder that the strongest and most effectuall meanes that may be to procure the comming of the Holy Ghost into thy soule is a continuall inflamed and feruent perseuerance in ●rayer for otherwise if when others pray thou sleepest if when others a●●end and are carefull of their saluati●n and spirituall profit thou remay●● carelesse negligent of thy owne if when others haue their minds and conuersation vvith God thou hast thyne with men although thou be in company of the good and holy in one house and residence in one same Religion this diuine spirit vvill not come vpon thee Gather hence desires to per●euere in prayer and to be frequent therin that this diuine fire of the holy Ghost may come also vpon thee as it came vpon the Apostles who with so many sighes longing desires expected its comming THE 2. POINT TO consider how there came sodēly a wind that filled the whole house vvhere the Apostles vvere in prayer Ponder first how this vvind and coole ayre of heauen did no● leaue any chamber roome closet o● corner of that house which it did no● penetrate to signif● that this quiknin● spirit is offered giuen to all me● generally in whatsoeuer part or co●●ner of the world they are Ponder secondly that when th● Holy Ghost entreth into a soule it filleth all her faculties by his power vvith verities and celestiall v●rtues not leauing any part voyd or vnfurnished From hence thou shalt gather that if thou desire this soueraigne spirit should replenish the house of thy soule vvith his diuine graces and gifts thou must not wander out of it distracting busiyng thy thoghts about creatures but remayne setled and quietly reposed therein imploying her in good desires thoughts works for doing so this diuine spirit vvill fill thee vvith his aboundan● loue grace THE 2. POINT TO consider how the Holy Ghost descēded in forme of fiery tōgues vpon all the Apostles and disciples that were retyred in that house verifying that vvhich Christ our Lord sayd vnto them I came to cast fire on earth and what will I but that it be kindled and inflame the harts of men Ponder that the cause why this Lord commeth in forme of 〈◊〉 vvas that the Apostles might be like vnto burning torches which should set on fire the vvhole vvorld that they might illuminate inflame the harts of men with this fire of diuine 〈◊〉 making them of wolues to become sheep of crowes doues of lions lambes of brutish people and infernall monsters spirituall Angella Gather hence great desires that this fire would vouchsafe vnto thee one sparke of his ●eat that thy lips being purified as were those of the Prophet thou mayst hence forward neither speake nor discourse of vain● base thinges of the world but o● God and his prayses endeauouring with thy speuches and con●ersation to inflame thy selfe and those vvith whome thou conuersest with the fire of thy diuine loue THE 4. POINT TO consider that albeit the disciple● which were in that chamber wer● more then an hundred and all of 〈◊〉 different merits yet that pure spiri● replenished all with his diuine gifts ●nd graces imparted himselfe entierly to euery one Ponder that although all were full of the Holy Ghost yet some re●●aued greater grace benefit then others that is

called the Illumi●●tiu● Way The end of which way is to Illuminate the soule with the light of sundry truthes and vertues with ●i●ely and effectu●ll desir●● of knowing God and to vnite himselfe wit●●im exercising himselfe in the con●iderations of the diuine Mysterie● of the life and death of our B. Saui●ur for by meditating of these and ●y carrying them alw●yes in his h●rt ●e shall st●r vp and enkindle in him●elfe motions of deuotion proper 〈◊〉 peculiar to this way to wit lou●●nd desire of the vertues of Humi●●ity Patience Chastity Obedience ●ouerty of spirit C●arity the like For to what vertue can any one b●●nclined wherof he may not find in ●he life and death of our Sauiour meruaillous examples it being as i● were a royall table or banquet fur●ished with all sorts of meates a p●●radise full of all delights a garden ●et forth with all manner of flowers ● market abounding with all things ●and as it were a spirituall Faire reple●●●shed with all good thinges that w●●an wish for as in this second book●●halbe seene An Aduertisement ●T seemeth vnto me conueni●●● 〈◊〉 for the better obseruing of our intended breuity not to treate fro● hence forward in the ensuing Meditations of the Preparatory Prayer of the composition of Place or o● the Petition since it wil suffice to hau● done it in all the Medi●ations of th● first Boobe of which euery one may make his benefit and haue a generall knowledge light inough to make alwaies the sayd three thinges according as the subiects of the Meditation shall require for more perspicuity whereof let vs put an example or two Will you meditate vpon the Birth of our Sauiour Christ or on the pennance which he did in the desert c In the Former the composition of place may be as followeth Imagine that you see with the eyes of consideration as it were ● house or cottage vnhabitable forsaken of all open on euery side full of cobwbes and filth exposed vnto the wind and snowy weather and in a corner thereof on the ground vpon ● little straw the only begotten Sonne ●f Almighty God Iesus Christ ou● Lord crying like a little infant tr●bling and quaking for cold the most Bl●ss●d Virgin our Lady and her Spouse S. Ioseph full of deuotion admiration and astonishment adoring him on their knees Let thy Petition be to obtain● grace of his Maiesty to performe the like with them and to know serue and be gratefull for the fauours and benefits he commeth to bestow vpon thee thou being so vnworthy of ●hem In the Meditation of the desert the composition of the place may be made thus Behold with the interiour sight of thy soule Iesus Christ our Lord all alone in a desert compassed with high mountaines and cragg● rocks doing for the space of forty dayes hard and rigorous pennance not eating any thing at all enuironed with the fierce and wild be●stes of the woods cast vpon the ground vnder a hedge or at the foo● of some tree for such was his shelter and place of repose treating day and ●ight with his Eternall Father about thy saluation The Petition shal be that his Maiesty will vouchsafe to doe thee so great a fauour as thou maist serue accompany him in that desert willdernes for such holy company wilb● to thee a paradise and glory And after this manner ●hou mayst alvvaies make in the beginning and entrance of thy Prayer the Composition of place and Petition according as the passage or Mystery which thou dost meditate shall req●ire humbly crauing ayd and fauour of the holy Ghost who as ● most excellent maister of spirit will teach thee far better then I can But one thing is specially to be noted that when thou art to make the Composition of place in some passage or Mistery of Christ either newly borne or bound to the pillar or nayled ●o the crosse thou must not imagine as though it happened a far off in Bethelem or in Ierusalem a thousand and so many yeares since for this doth wear● the im●gination and is not of so much force to moue But rather imagine those thinges as if they were present and euen now did passe before thyne eyes seeing and beholding with the eyes of thy soule the infant Iesus weeping and crying in the cradle or manger And as it were heare the strokes of whips and knocking of the nailes whereby ●hou shalt both pray with more facility swetnes attention and de●otion and be moued more rea● more aboundant fruite and profit ●hereof THE I. MEDITATION Of the Conception of our B. Lady THE 1. POINT TO consider and with the ey●● of thy vnderstanding to behold the three diuine Persons Fa●her Sonne and Holy Ghost in th●●hrone of their glory and Maiesty in whose presence do assist an innu●erable number of Angells orday●ing and decreeing in tha● suprem● Councell that seeing the ●uine ●nd perdition of mankind and the forgetfullnes of their eternall weale and saluation was so great to redresse the domage and vniuersall hurt the second person of the most B. Trinity the only begotten Sonne of the Eternall Father should become Man to redeeme vs. Ponder the excessiue lou● which did burne and in●●ame his di●ine breast for hauing many other meanes to redeemee thee which would haue cost him farre lesse he would notwithstanding make choice of no ●ther but of that which should ●ost him most of all the more to declare his vnspeakable loue towardes thee making himselfe Man that he might be more humbled therby and inue●ting himselfe with the basenes of thy flesh to communicate vnto thee ●is greatnesse he that was before impassible became mortall be that was Eternall temporall and o● a Lord a ●laue of the king of heauen a worme and reproach of the earth Hence thou mayst gather the great longing desire our good Lord had of thy saluation seeing he would vndertake so much for thee for thy soules health Stir thou vp likewise in thy selfe feruent desires of humiliation the better to serue him for that he so hūbled himself to redee● thee THE 2. POINT To consider how Almighty God hauing determined to make himselfe Man and to be borne of a Mother as other men are ordayned that his holy spirit should begin to build the house wherein he vvas to dwell creating the sacred Virgin our B. Lady pure and without spo● or blemis● free from all stayne of sinne originall or Actuall And certainely it ●as meete that such a priuiledge should be graunted her in whom● God was to lodge and dwell as in hi● holy Temple Ponder that as all our hurt and perdition entred into the world by a man and woman God in like manner would that our redemptio● should haue beginning by another ●an and another women And 〈◊〉 death entred into the world by Adam and E●e when they sinned so the life of grace should enter by Iesus Mary which neuer sinned vnto whom● men should repa●re for remedy of their

was made receauing for the sonne of the liuing God the sonne of a poore fisherman for the Mayster of heauen an earthly disciple for the Lord a seruant for him that can do all things him that can do nothing without his grace Gather hence a great earnest desire to take this Blessed Lady ●or thy mother to loue and serue ●er with speciall care And a firme ●urpose to obey the diuine will lear●ing to reuerence as in place of God his creature that is to say thy Superiour Father or Mayster which he shal a●●igne thee whosoeuer he be to serue obey him as God himselfe as our B. Lady did who tooke S. Iohn for her Son he tooke her for his mother THE 4. WORD TO consider the fourth Word which Christ sesu● our Lord spak to his Eternall Father repr●s●nting him the affliction which he felt by reason of his internall desolation of mind for he cried with a loud voicc and sayd My God my God why hast thou forsaken me Ponder how the Eternall Father permitted the most sacred humanity of his Eternall Son to suffer and to continue in torment and released him not out of those terrible paines sorrows which he had vndertaken for our good and remedy neyther in them did he giue him any comfort or ease at all To the cross● it selfe he could not leane his head on any side without increase of pain● and griefe the thornes thrusting in deeper thereby of this hands he had no help because he could not wipe avvay the drops of bloud which ran downe from his head vpon his face nor the tears which he did shed from his eyes they being nayled fast to the Crosse. Neyther of his feet for they were not able to sustaine the poyse of ●is body but rent themselues vvith ●reater payne Wherfore our Lord ●eeing himselfe so afflicted cryed vn●to his Eternall Father and sayd My God why hast thou forsaken me Gather hence sorrow and compassion to see that there is scarce any ●hat make benefit of his passion or ●hat accompany our Lord in his hard 〈◊〉 painefull t●auels foz his disciples 〈◊〉 forsaken him his people abandoed him many men lost their faith ●hich before they had in him Harti●● beseech him that he will not for●●ke thee now nor at the houre of 〈◊〉 death THE 5. WORD TO consider how that our Sauiour being novv quite and cleane exhaust his body though the abundance of bloud which he had shed being dryed vp and all the conduit● of his veines emptied he had natura●ly a most grieuous thirst therfor● he sayd I thirst Ponder how great griefe pierced the soule of the B. Virgin seein● her beloued Sonne and her God 〈◊〉 abandoned and destitute of all manner of ease and comfort for asking little water to coole his thrist with●● there was no body that would giue him and albeit she could haue go●● for water she durst not leaue hi● fearing least in the meane tyme 〈◊〉 shold depart this life seeing him no● at the point of death Ponder secondly that beside● corporall thirst which our Lord 〈◊〉 had he had a much greater thirst other three thinges First he had insatiable thirst to obey his eter● Father in all thinges without 〈◊〉 ting any thing how painfull soeu● should be And because he knew it to be the will of God that they should giue him vinegar and gall he would not omit to fulfill his will in accepting that also His second thirst was an inflamed desire to suffer for our sakes far more then he had yet suffered The third thirst was of the saluation of soules and in particuler of thyne and that thou wouldst serue him with perfection Gather hence confusion and shame seeing that thy thirst is not to suffer for Christ our Lord nor to be obedient patient humble and poore as he was but to haue plenty of all thinges and that nothing be vvan●ing euen for superfluous expences Beseech him to graunt thee some pra●ticall knowledge of the thirst which ●e had that thou mayst become his ●isciple in something THE 6. WORD To consider that the sixt word that Christ our Lord spake from the ●aire of the Crosse was Cons●ma●m est It is consumate all what so●uer my Father commanded me to suffer from the cribbe vnto the Cros●● is accomplished ended Ponder how thy Lord vvho now in this chaire of ignominy rea●●dy to giue vp the Ghost will come●the day of iudgement in another ve●● different throne of glory and maies● to iudge and will say in like mann●this word Consummatum est no● the world is at an end and the vay● pompe and glory thereof now 〈◊〉 delights of the wicked are past 〈◊〉 also the trauels of the iust From hence thou mayst gath●● desires t● liue in such sort that at 〈◊〉 houre of thy death thou mayst 〈◊〉 with S Paul I haue consumated 〈◊〉 course I haue ended my life wher●●as a good Christian or as a good R●ligious man I haue fulfilled the ob●● gations of my state But if thou 〈◊〉 been slacke remisse in this 〈◊〉 mayst not say It is consumated 〈◊〉 now my payne eternall woe beg●●neth Beseech our Lord to giue 〈◊〉 grace that thou mayst begin from 〈◊〉 day forward continue to the 〈◊〉 in his holy seruice THE 7. WORD TO cōsider that the last word which our Lord spake on the Crosse be●●g now ready to giue vp the Ghost ●as to commend his spirit into the ●ands of his Eternall Father Ponder first that he sayth not I ●●mend vnto thee my liuings or pos●●ssions for he hath none not my ●onour for he is not much follicitous ●erof not my body for ●●at is not that which he regardeth most but his ●pirit which is the principall ought ●ost to be reckoned of by man Ponder secondly that our Lord ●oth not only commend vnto his Fa●●er his own ●●irit alone but also the spirit of his elect which he esteemet● 〈◊〉 his Gather hence desires in thy lif● 〈◊〉 and in the houre of thy death 〈◊〉 ●●mmend thy spirit into the hands of ●od for theron dependeth the eter●●●ll w●ale of thy soule THE L. MEDITATION Of the taking downe from the Crosse of the buriall of our Lord. THE 1. POINT TO consider that the euening o● that sad and dolef●ll da● bein● novv come the Blessed Virgi● being poore and besides destitute o● all help knew not which way to tur●●e her selfe for there was no bod● that would bring her a ladder to tak● downe the body of her beloued Son●● neither had she any body to assist h● disciple Saint Iohn the night dre●●on euery one be tooke himselfe 〈◊〉 his home At last she saw two princi●pall men comming Ioseph Nico●demus who brought necessaryes fo● the buriall Ponder how our Lord God o● dayned that because his most Hol● Sonne had a poore and reproach fu●● death he should haue a rich glor●●ous sepulcher and that vvhereas 〈◊〉

〈◊〉 thy selfe poorely apparelled and to want necessi●ies seeing so rare an example as Christ our Lord hath giuen thee of s●fferances nakedn●sse pouerty in all his life and specially in his death for his nakednes must be thy garment his dishonour thy liuery his pouer●y thy riches his con●usion thy glory and his death thy life of grace glory THE 2. POINT TO consider how Christ our Lord being now naked the souldiers ●aying the Crosse on the ground they commanded him to lye downe vpon it on his backe that he might be nayled to it so he did Ponder first the most excellent obedience of thy Sauiour which shined most in hearing and obaying in whatsoeuer hard difficult matters those cruell tormentors proposed vnto him giuing thee an example to subiect thy selfe to euery humane creature for his loue where there is no sinne Ponder secondly ●ow our Sauiour lying vpon that bed of the Crosse which thy sinnes had prepared for him lifted vp his eyes to heauen and rendred thankes to his Eternall Father for hauing brought him to that point wherein he beheld himselfe so poore so dishonoured and misused for his loue Gather hence wh●n thou shal● see thy selfe in ad●ersity and distres●e to be resigned to the diuine vvill in th● giuing Almighty God due thanks for them for once giuing thanks to God in aduersity is more worth and of m●re merit then many tymes i● prosperity THE 3. POINT To consider how Christ our Lord was mayled on the Crosse the ●x●essiue paines which he felt when those rough and boisterous nail● e●tred breaking the veynes piercing 〈◊〉 sinewes and renting th● most tender parts of the most delicat● body of all bodyes enduring with great patience and loue to see himselfe so loaden with pain●● ful of v●●peakable sorrowes Ponder how our Lord permitted the nayles to pierce his sac●ed hands and diuine feet to shew the● that he should haue thee alwayes imprinted in his hands feet so great was the loue and holy zeale whic●●e had of the saluation of soules and of thine in particuler Gather hence de●ires of thy he owne saluation and of thy neighbours setting light by whatso●uer difficultyes paynes and trauells which to deliuer them out of si●ne may befall thee that by this meanes as a souldier of this spirituall warfare thou mayst imitate in some ●ort thy Captaine Iesus who vvith so great loue gaue his life for them hanging on the Crosse. THE 4. POINT TO consider that after Christ our Lord was nayled to the Crosse his enemies lifted it vp on high with that true lambe of God vpon it who taketh away the sinnes of the world letting it fall downe voilently into the pit which they had made for the purpose Ponder the paine confusion and shame vvhich Christ our Lord had when he savv himselfe on high naked in the middest of an open field full of innumerable people and as another Noe exposed shamefu● to the sight of all without any thing to couer his nakednes withall no● hauing any to affoard him any thing but many who were ready to take from him all that might be giuen him Gather hence a great shame confusion at the small griefe sense feeling thou hast of the paynes of our Lord not shedding so much as on● teare of compassion wheras he powreth out all his bloud And seeing the insensible creatures which want both reason and feeling made so wonderfull demonstration of sorrow at the death of this our Lord that they were ●orne and rent in pieces for euery griefe it is good reason that thou who art his creature and the cause ●hy he endured that which he did shouldst acknowledge be thanke●ull for it and haue a speciall and in●ard feeling thereof seeing he suffe●ed it in benefit of thee THE XLIX MEDITATION Of the seauen wordes which our Lord spake hanging on the Crosse. THE I. WORD TO consider the great charity of our Lord which wa● such that before he vvould comfort his Mother before he vvould prouid● for his friends before he would cōmend his spirit to his Father he promideth his enemies of remedy Wherfore the first word he spake on th● Crosse was to excuse his en●mi●● who crucified blasphemed murdered him Ponder how Christ Iesus our Lord being full of grie●ous d●lors paines in euery part of his body no● finding any place of rest in that har● bed of the Crosse euen then did lif● vp his diuine eyes to heauen shed●ding teares of most tender loue an● compassion opening his diui● mouth not to commaund that fir●● should c●me from heauen as Eli●● prayed but to beseech his Eternall Father to pardon those which were there and the sinne they committed in crucifying him Gather hence how exactly our Lord God fulfilleth the precept he bath giuen thee To loue thyne enemyes to pray for them that persecure thee that by this example thou mayst learne and know to doe the like THE 2. WORD TO consider how that the second Word which thy Redeemer spake from the chayre of the Crosse was to pardon the Theefe graunt him heauen Because he confessed his fault and declared the innocency of Christ our Lord and freely and plainely ●alling him King craued fauour a● his hands saying Lord remember ●e when thou shalt come into thy Kingdome And so our Lord Iesus ●id honouring this th●e●e before his ●ternall Father a● he con●essed him ●efor● men ●nduing him with so exceeding great graces priuiledes that being the last 〈◊〉 made him of all mortall men the first who departing this life should presently re●eaue the reward of glory Ponder that if God rewarded him with so great liberality who did only follovv him not fully three houres hovv will he reward those who shall serue and follow him vvith perfection all the houres dayes of their life And if our Lord shewed himselfe so gratefull to this sinner who had iniuried him innumerable tymes for one only time that he confessed and honoured him what manner of gratitude will he shew to him who shall spend his vvhole life in seruing and honouring him Gather hence desires to serue him alwayes that securely vvit● confidence thou mayst haue acc●ss● vnto him and aske him th●● vvhich this good theese did aske him saying Remember me o Lord that is remember not my sinnes nor the robberies which I haue done but that am a frayle man and infirme that am thy creature made to thy imag● likenesse wherefore I bese●h the to remember me THE ● WORD TO consider that the third word which Christ our Lord spake frō the Altar of the Crosse was to recommend his B. Mother to Saint Iohn S. Iohn vnto his Mother And from that houre the disciple tooke her to his owne and loued her with speciall loue Ponder the exceeding great griefe vvith vvhich this vvord of recommandation pierced the hart of the Blessed Virgin for she throughly weighed the inequality of the change which