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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Conduct of life
Christian life
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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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DIVERSE AFFECTIONS which may be made in time of prayer.
1. Of Confidence.
MY God, since I find my self so weak & inconstant in my re∣solutions, grant, I may execute them as effectually as you have assisted me to make them: I expect all from your goodness, my Iesus, & confide as much in the assistance of your grace, as I diffide in my own weakness.
2. Love.
O my Jesus, o my amiable father, o infinite goodness, which has loved me from all eternity, & which daily bestows infinite graces & favours upon me, & which has destin'd me for Paradise: ah, how can I live without loving you! shall I never leave offen∣ding you, who never leave of doing me good! How can I behold you my
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Jesus, how can I see you dying with love & sorrow for me, & not live intirely to you, I have a heart for no other and then to love you a mind onely to Know you, & yet I love & think of nothing less then you: o, that I had, never thus displeased you!
3. Resignations to the difficulties we meet with in prayer.
I am confounded, o my God, to see my self so insensible of your love, & so little touched with the truths which I meditate: you see, o Lord, my miseries & extream poverty: I em∣brace it with my whole heart, I sub∣mit to your pleassure; I sacrifice my self to all the severities of your justice; I am contented never more to tast the sweetness of your presence, so that I may but have the whole fruit & effect of it: tis but just, that you should retire your self, & leave a heart so unfaithfull to you, & which hath withdrawn it self a hundred times from you: revenge your self, o my God, & satisfie your justice, I desire no other satisfaction but to see you
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satisfied: & I am sure you are more pleased to see me contented with my weakness, & to suffer with peace in your presence, then if I were filled with consolation.
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