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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SAy every day, the Veni creator, at the end of the book, & make seven elevations of mind, to demand the seven gifts of the holy Ghost; the disengagement from creatures, the victory over our humours, which is the life of our own spirit oppo∣sed to that of the holy Ghost. Make

one elevation of mind to the eternall father, another to the son, a third to the holy Ghost, a 4.^th. to the holy Virgin, a 5. ^th. to the Apostles, a 6. ^th. to your good Angell, & the last to S. Phillip Nery who reeived with such fullnessh the, oly Ghost upon the day of Pentecost.

These elevations of mind ought to be made with ardent desires of obtaining this singular grace. Aboue all, beg a total change of your heart, & beseech the holy Ghost, that he would cause you to live a life wholly supernaturall, & to die to all the longing & & hankering appetites of the human & sensuall life.

VENI CREATOR OR The Hymne of the holy Ghost.

COme Creatour, Sp'rit divine, Visit now the souls of thine; Fill with grace distill'd from heau'n,

Hearts, to whom thou life hast giv'n;

Whom the comforter we call, Gift of God transcending all, Living spring, fire, fervent love, Ghostly unction from aboue:

Sev'nfold grace thou dost impart, And Gods right hand finger art: Thou, the fathers promise, which Tongues with language doth enrich,

Kindle light in every sense, Love into our hearts dispence: Strengthen what in flesh is fraile, With a vertue cannot faile:

Drive away our mortall foe, Peace upon us soon bestow: As a guide before us shine, That all vice We may decline.

By thee may it so be done, That we father know & Son, And in thee believe, who dost Flow from both, the holy Ghost.

Glorious may the father reign, And the Son who rose again, So the holy Paraclite, During Ages infinite.