An Excellent and very pretious exercise of a very devout and penitent soule passionatly affected to the solace of soules abandoned in the flames of purgatory augmented with the dolors of the B. Virg. and the prayers of the holy sindon to deliver a soule out of purgatory.

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An Excellent and very pretious exercise of a very devout and penitent soule passionatly affected to the solace of soules abandoned in the flames of purgatory augmented with the dolors of the B. Virg. and the prayers of the holy sindon to deliver a soule out of purgatory.
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[Bruges] :: Printed at Bruges by Laurence Doppersii,
1689.
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"An Excellent and very pretious exercise of a very devout and penitent soule passionatly affected to the solace of soules abandoned in the flames of purgatory augmented with the dolors of the B. Virg. and the prayers of the holy sindon to deliver a soule out of purgatory." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A39007.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 5, 2024.

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FOR MVNDAY.

Oblation of the paines which Iesus suffered, affter he was taken untill he was brought to the house of Annas.

1. J offer unto thee ô most sweet Iesus for the soules of Purgato∣ry,

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that amourous promptitu∣de of spirit, when to testisy how nothing could force thee to dye, bur the only love which thou diddest beare tous; thou wentest thy selfe though yett all covered with bloud to cast thy selfe, and as it were aban∣don thy selfe over unto the fu∣ry of thy greatest enemyes; say∣ing unto them whome seeke yee.

2. J offer unto thee ô most sweet Iesus for the soule in Pur∣gatory, the extreame displea∣sure which thou haddest of the infamous perfidiousnes of Ju∣das, who with ahart most cru∣elly covetous, sold thee for thirty pence and betrayed thee

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with à traterous kiss displeasure so great, that it was even one of the greatest that could be.

3. J offer unto thee ô most sweet Iesus for the soules of Pur∣gatory, all those furious and inhumane oppressions which thou didest feele then when as∣saulted by à great number of villains, and enraged souldyers thou wert taken, and bond: but so cruelly, that it is not pos∣sible for our senses to compre∣hent it, and much less for Any tongue to express it.

4. J offer unto thee ô most sweet Iesus for the soules in Pur∣gatory, that patience which no pen is able to sett forth; and which thou madest to appeare

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amidest so many blowes of fists of staffes and of Holberts which those savage executioners gave thee; both on the head, on the shoulders, and not content, did most cruelly tetore the haires from thy head.

5. J offer unto thee ô most sweet Iesus for the soules of Pur∣gatory, all those interiour acts to witt of love of sufferance, and of resignation offering all inholocaust, most pleasing to God thy father, in satisfaction for our enormious sinnes.

6. J offer unto thee ô most sweet Iesus forte soules of Pur∣gatory, all those sharp dou∣lours which transperced thy hart: then when in the middest

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of those cruell executioners and of all thy mortall blowes thou didest behould the selfe aban∣dened of all thy Apostlos, for it is sayed then all the Disciple farsakieg him, fledd away.

7. J offer unto thee ô most sweet Iesus for the soules of Pur∣gatory, all those bloudy wol∣fes did unto thee dragging thee with cruell hands out the Gar∣nen; leading thee to the house of Annas, continually tram∣pling the under ther feete, al∣wayes strinking, and injuring thee, foreing thee to goe on à pace; thy sacred feete all brui∣sed and torne in pieces.

8. J offer unto thee ô most sweet Iesus for the soules of Pur∣gatory

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those incomparable dis∣tresses which thou didst suffer when thou did est pais the Tor∣rent Cedron; which teose bloo∣dy men; made thee alone to pass. But with all the violences and indignityes which were possible one drawing thy on one side, and others haling thee on the other side, as wel by the Chaines which bound thee in most pittifull sort, both thy ar∣mes and hands; as by those which leaded, and cruelly tor∣mented, thy sacred neck.

9. J offer unto thee ô most sweet Iesus for the soules in Pur∣gatory, that extreame con∣tempt which thou didst suffer standing upright with thy

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hands bound, and thy face bent downe to the carth, befo∣re that unworthy high priest, who with à furious regarde did questiou thee as if thou hadst bin one of thee greatest rack∣hels of the world.

10. J offer unto the ô most sweet Iesus for the soules in Pur∣gatory that infamous and rude blow on the face which was gi∣veu thee with the armed hand of à bloody base fellow but with such force and roughnes, that thy sacred lawes all bruised sprung forth blood in great bundance.

11. J offer unto thee ô most sweet Iesus for the soules in Pur∣gatory, the teares the sighes of

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thy most dolorous mother the impressions which tortured her soule when she knew that men more cruell then tigers, had li∣ke as thou hadst bin one madd or frantick bound thee with cords and loaden thee with Iron Chaines and all sorts of indig∣nityes.

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