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.

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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.
Author
Gonnelieu, Jérôme de, 1640-1715.
Publication
Printed at S. Omers [i.e. Saint Omers] :: by Ludovicus Carlier,
in the year 1689.
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Conduct of life
Christian life
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A89897.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 1, 2024.

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XII.

WE ought to go to confession with a spirit of sorrow, & to come from it with a spirit of sacri∣fice & oblation, in offering our selves intirely to the rigours of the justice of God, & arming our selves with a just desire of tevenging on our selves all the injuries which we have done to God. We ought moreover, to remem∣ber after confession, to apply the sa∣tisfactions of our dying Iesus for our

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sins, offering them to his Eternall father; as also, to present to the ju∣stice of God all the sufferings which he shall please to send us till our next confession, resolving to impose some pennance on our selves over and aboue what the Confessour has enjoyn'd us, as some almes, some restraint of our humour or passion, or the like; but aboue all we, ought to take care not to dissipate or distract our selves im∣mediately after confession.

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