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.

III. Lent is a time of solitude.

TIs at this time the better to ho¦nour the solitude of Jesus Christ that we ought to form to our selve•• an interiour & exteriour solitude The first consists in removing from our memorys all ill, human, & un¦profit••ble thoughts, & to let it b•• taken up with nothing but God pre∣sent; or his holy will; to blot out o•• ones understanding, all esteem of va∣nitys, honours, & reputation before men, & to admit thereinto no othe esteem but that which may render u•• great before God; and by a simpl••

returne towards him, to repress in our hearts, all naturall motions, desires, or tyes & inclinations to any creature, and to entertain continually therein an ardent desire to please God & to overcome ones self. In fine, to cut of all the ill & unprofitable satisfactions of the senses. This watching ouer ones heart, & ouer ones senses, is called interiour solitude. To perform the exteriour one, we ought to cut off all visits which are not made either out of charity, or necessity.

2. To visit every week the poor in the Hospitall, or in prisons, to sa∣ti••fie for so many unprofitable or worldly visits made all the year.

3. To keep, if possible, an hour of silence every day, to honour that which our Saviour kept this holy time.

4. To avoid in conversation, that licencious ness in laughter, & dis∣courses, that tend to excess.

5. To interdict ones self, aboue all things, the speaking ill of our neigh∣bour.