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COURTEOUS READER.
THe experience I had in Rome, and other parts of Italy of the fol∣lowing Devotions to the Glorious Saint XAVERIVS made me desirous that our nation out of ignorance of the meanes of obtain∣ing them, might not want the like; and therfore I thought my time well
spent in translating this treatise, in which you will find neither quaint∣n••ss nor eloquence, but such a plaine & easy stile, as is most suitable to devo∣tion, and fittest for the meanest capacities, being desirous all should profit by it. Let not the perfect practice of those eminent vertues proposed to you to imitate in this Great Saint, discourage you from endeavouring their imita∣tion out of a pusilanimous despaire, ever to arrive to so
high a pitch of perfection; but endeavour to imitate at least this so admirable a pattern in a lower degree; and the more sensible you are of your own weakness, the more confide in his powerfull intercession who (as the writers of his life testifie) allways obtained what was for the spirituall advantage of those that begged his intercession, as you may assure yourself he will think these vertues to be. I cannot wish a bet∣ter success to this transla∣tion,
then the original had, nor better effects of these devotions in my own Country then they have had in Italy; and I hope whoever experiences any advantage by them, will be moved to pray for the translatour of them who is
DEAR READER
Your most harty-well-wisher and humble servant N. N.