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.

XIII. The spirit of mortification for every day.

YOu shall practice this mortifica∣tion, first, in your eyes, depriving them of all curiosity and voluntary levity. Secondly in your tongue, for∣bearing all words of curiosity, anger, vanity, impatience, & detraction Thirdly, in your taste, restraining and moderating its sensuality, and the too great desire & curiosity of your ap∣petite, & aboue all, by not eating with∣out necessity between meals: Fourth∣ly, in the sense of hearing, avoiding to hearken after news, or other unpro∣fitable curiosities touching the life or manners of others, & such affairs

as do not belong to you. Fifthly, in your body, fasting or using some other mortification, according to the advice, & with the permission of your directour. Sixthly, in your mind, cut∣ting off all unprofitable reflections upon your self or others, but espe∣cially such as disquiet you or proceed from human respects. Seventhly, in your heart, restraining its solicitude & hasty eagerness in what it goes about, the excessive ardour of its de∣sires, the disquiets & anxieties that afflict it when it is discontented, the vain satisfaction which it takes in any graces received from Almighty God, its too great tie or in ordinate affection to its devotions, & in fine, whatsoever is sensible therein; since your heart must die to all these things, that it may live intirely to God, wherefore by little & little, you must wholly destroy, or at least moderate them. Aboue all, study to deny your own will by an exact fidelity & a con∣stancy in that rule or course of life which you have undertaken, & by overcoming all your naturall repug∣nances;

& this is the exercise where∣in (properly speaking) true devo∣tion & solid vertue consist.