II. Lent is a tyme of penance.
PEnance is either interiour, which consists in an efficacious sorrow for our sins, or exteriour, which com∣prehe••ds satisfactory works. For the first one, ought all the lent long
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.
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- Gonnelieu, Jérôme de, 1640-1715.
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- Printed at S. Omers [i.e. Saint Omers] :: by Ludovicus Carlier,
- in the year 1689.
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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 May 20, 2024.
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to have ones heart continually con∣trite & humble before God, & so perform out of this stock of sorrow, & state of compunction, a conti∣nuall mortification during this holy time consecrated intirely to penance. So that every hour, it were good to make an act of contrition for ones sins, rather by a sigh of our heart, then by Formall words: my God, forgive me, I'le sin no more, my God, I'le do no∣thing more to displease thee. For the second, one ought to observe, when at age, the fast of the Church. But (1.) we must perform it with such joy, as our saviour instructs us to do, as may be so much the greater, the more pain we have to do it, for then the merit is also greater. 2. We must perform it in union with the fast of Iesus Christ, for to honour it. 3. In the exact privation of all things that may flatter our senses I mean, of the curiosity of our eyes, our ears, or the satisfactions or nice choice of words, for we ought to joyn the abstinence of our other sences, with our mouths.
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2. We ought to augment our ordi∣nary austeritys according to the ad¦vice of our directour.
3. We ought to distribute greate almes then ordinary, yet not without our directours advice, because w•• ought to do penance at this time fo•• our whole years sins.