The daily exercises of a Christian life or the interiour spirit with which we ought to animate our actions throughout the whole day: With an easy instruction for mentall prayer, translated out of French by I.W. of the Soc. of Jesus.

XI. EXAMEN.

A Litle before dinner, recollect your self & take a view of the ••nfidelitys which you have been guilty of that morning in the practice of the vertue of the month, in overcoming ••our own ill humours, bad inclina∣tions and natural repugnances, beg pardon for them of God by a sigh or two from the bottom of your heart. At night before you go to bed, make your generall Examen, first of your ordinary faults & sudden sallies of passion; Secondly touching the ill use of divine graces, & the ill imployment of your time; Thirdly touching the spirit & intention wherewith you have animated your actions, examining whether they proceeded from natural inclination, passion, or meer custome, or else were performed with a good intention and inward fervour, then make a solid & sincere act of sorrow, rather then a sensible one, & unite

it by your intention with that act of contrition, which you shall endeavour to make ar your next confession, & that you may produce this act the better, cast your eyes upon Iesus cru∣cified by you & for you, & behold with confusion & regret, a God ex∣piring through grief & loue in your behalf sometimes consider the bounty and Goodness of God, in expecting you, in seeking after you, & in re∣ceiving you with loue, after so many infidelities and offences; sometimes hearken to what he says in the bot∣tom of your heart. Grow you weary of offending me, since you see I do not grow weary of doing what good I can for you; Sacrifice to me that vanity, that curiosity, that hu∣mour, that sudden motion of an∣ger, which has so many years stood in competition with me for the pos∣session of your heart, for which •• have sacrificed the very last drop of my blood. After your Examen say five Paters and Aves in pennance for your faults. When you go to bed, think a little on death which may

perhaps surprise you that very night.