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.

THE III. DAY. The Gift of Knowledge.

1. COnsider that the gift of know∣ledge when it enlightens a soul, it makes it judge of things, as God himself does, that is to say, it makes it esteem nothing great but the service of God, to fear nothing but his dis∣pleasure, to love nothing but what makes us more agreable in his eyes.

2. This gift enlightens us in the knowledge of the Crucifix, that is to say, it makes us behold with res∣pect, all the crosses that God sends us, proceding from the cross deify'd in Jesus-Christ, & therefore makes us far from complaining of them; it receives them with gratefull acknow∣ledgement, & thanks our Saviour for them, as for a singular favour, it thinks it self more happy in suffring a contempt, an affliction, an injury,

a persecution, an affront, a refusall a drieness, a sensible dereliction of Go•• in prayer, more then in possessing the whole earth; wherefore the so•• thus enlightened with the gift o•• knowledge, when any pain happen to it, goes immediately & casts i•• self on its knees before a Crucifix, t•• receive its cross as from the hand o•• God, with respect, submission, & loue

2. O my Jesus! O that the beam•• of your cross were more known to the world! O how do they contemne the holy reliques of your cross, which you offer to us shut up in the pain of this life! O cross of my Saviour. O how often have I adored you i•• my Crucifix which is your image, & despised in my pains, which are you•• true effects, &, as it were, your s•• many other selves!