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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1. EAch day of the Octave, renew these sentiments in your prayer in the evening, take part in the joy which the Angells and shepheards, te∣fied at the sight of a God become an Infant. Acknowledge a God, by the markes which heaven gives of him in the crib; To witt, in the swadling cloths, & in the extream poverty in which he was born, & stongly con∣vince your self that you ought to be poor either in effect, or in heart to resemble Iesus & to save your self.

2. Give in the honour of Jesus the Infant, some suit or swadling cloths to the child of some poor body, & vi∣sit during this office, the children brought up in the Hospitall, doing them some service with as much affe∣ction,

as you would to the Infant Iesus.

3. Apply your self to keep your heart in an indifferency to all things, in a resignation to the divine provi∣dence, in peace & silence before this divine Infant, as Infants are wont to live in indifferency to all things, & without concerning themselves for any thing, reposing wholly upon the care of their parents.

4. Speak little to creatures during this tyme, to be the better able to imploy your self the more in the thoughts & loue of the Infant Iesus; forget your self, to be able to thinK of nothing but him. O love, ô love, how powerfull art thou to make of God an Infant! O my heart how in∣gratefull art thou, if thou lovest not this Infant God! This is the aspira∣tion, which thou oughtest to renew severall times a day.

5. In fine, approach often, if your Directour rhink fit, to holy commu∣nion, during the Octave, to incor∣porate your self with the Infant Je∣sus, to act nothing but by his spirit,

to live no more but by his life, to love humiliations, poverty, the in∣teriour renunciation of all satisfa∣ction of the heart, or the senses, that is, the better to conform your self to these inclinations of little Ie∣sus.