A golden treatise of mentall praier with diuerse spirituall rules and directions, no lesse profitable then necessarie for all sortes of people. First composed by the venerable and blessed father, Fr. Peter de Alcantara, of the Seraphicall Order of S. Francis. Beatified the 18. of Aprill. 1622. Translated into English by G.VV. To vvhich is prefixed a breife relation of the life, and death of the same father vvritten by G.VV. of the same order and obseruance.
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A golden treatise of mentall praier with diuerse spirituall rules and directions, no lesse profitable then necessarie for all sortes of people. First composed by the venerable and blessed father, Fr. Peter de Alcantara, of the Seraphicall Order of S. Francis. Beatified the 18. of Aprill. 1622. Translated into English by G.VV. To vvhich is prefixed a breife relation of the life, and death of the same father vvritten by G.VV. of the same order and obseruance.
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Peter, of Alcantara, Saint, 1499-1562.
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At Bruxelles :: By the widowe of Hubert Antone, called Velpius, sworne printer of the Court, at the signe of the golden Eagle by the Palace,
1632.
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Meditations -- Early works to 1800.
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"A golden treatise of mentall praier with diuerse spirituall rules and directions, no lesse profitable then necessarie for all sortes of people. First composed by the venerable and blessed father, Fr. Peter de Alcantara, of the Seraphicall Order of S. Francis. Beatified the 18. of Aprill. 1622. Translated into English by G.VV. To vvhich is prefixed a breife relation of the life, and death of the same father vvritten by G.VV. of the same order and obseruance." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A09514.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 8, 2024.
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The second Admonition.
AS it is not lawfull to desire consola∣tions and spirituall comforts, to that end, that in them we should sett vp our rest, but only as they assist vs in our spiri∣tuall progresse, much less is it lawfull to wish for visions, reuelations and the like, which to those who are not well groun∣ded in humility, may be a great cause of their vtter ruine, neither is there any reason to feare, that those who refuse or reiect thē should be disobedient to God, because when it shall please God to reueale any thinge, he will doe it after such a fashion, that he to whome such thinges shall be reuealed, shalbe so certaine of them, that he will haue no reason either to feare or doubt, though he should himselfe neuer so much striue against them.
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