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.

FOR MASSE AND COMMVNION.

To which one must carry the state of a victime and the spirit of a Sacrifice.

1. O JESUS, victime of my sal∣vation who offered your self as one for me; cause all that is within me to become a victime of your love, and that I may be entirely sa∣crificed to your good will and plea∣sure, and to your glory.

2. O God annihilated, crucified, and sacrificed for me; annihilate crucify and sacrifice all that is hu∣mane sensible, and savours of self love in me.

3. O my JESUS you worke mi∣racles to put your self in a condition to enter into my hart, work one more by gaining it intirely to your self;

make an altar of it where you may never cease to be offering your self a sacrifice to your Father; sacrifice in me all that is not yours, that I may cease to be, and may expire in you.

4. All in JESUS is a victime upon the Altar, all is there annihila∣ted, all is destroyd, nothing of him appeares. Behold what I ought to be, to heare Masse well, and to com∣municat as I ought. A simple faith ought to sacrifice the light of my un∣derstanding; the love of the good will and pleasure of God, ought to sacrifice the intire satisfaction of my hart; The respect to the presence of my God ought to make me forget my self and to sacrifice my person intirely vnto him. O how glorious is it, to be the victime of a God; to destroy ones self for him, and to expire in him.

5. During the time of Masse re∣main in the spirit of an united sa∣crifice; annihilated and lost in JESVS; offered vp for you vpon the altar; the abandoning your self, the silence

and respect in presence of JESVS honouring his Father after this man∣ner, ought to be the foundation of all your dispositions. Jn this manner did Mary assist at the bloody sacrifice of her son vpon the altar, her eyes and hart were fixt vpon him by a simple reguard full of respect and love, and t'is after the same manner you ought to assist at Masse.

6. O my JESUS, I consent to all that you do for me upon the altar, and I do the same in you, and for you. All is yours ô my love nothing but you, all for you. What streames of blood; what wounds; what inju∣ries do you my JESVS suffer for so ungratfull a hart as myne is, my IE∣sus dies of love for me, and can I still live to my self?

7. Go from Masse with peace, courage and a firme resolution to dye to all things for IESVS, and to sacri∣fice to him all your satisfactions and humours, this determination and this resolution is the true fruit of holy Masse; O my soule thou must live

no longer any other life but that which is crucified, annihilated, and sacrificed to IESVS, become a victime for love of him.

For Communion.

1. TIs the end and fruit of a good communion, to receive a God, to live the life of a God, to unite our selves to God, to be like IESVS by the assistance of his grace, to have his sentiments his inclinati∣ons, and his qualities, to be no more to ones self, and to live no other but such a supernaturall and divine life as that of IESVS.

2. O the infinit Majesty of a God! who dares approach you? Yet ô So∣veraign love ô infinit bounty of my God, who is able to be from you? You are in the host for no other end but to enter into my hart, and take possession of it, you burn with de∣sire to be there receiued, you make it your delight to remain in it; oh! come my IESVS; come presently

into it, I burn with a desire to re∣ceive you there, and to make you the God of my hart. Come thither to receive yourself, and to love your self there, for I of my self am no∣thing, and can do nothing, so I leave all to you, and will remain in my nothing in your presence.

3. O yee Seraphins that I had your respect! O Mary that I had your love! O my hart what can you desi∣re, love and breath after but your IESVS, I will live no longer to my self I ought to be nothing to all things, and IESVS ought to be all to me.

4. O my love enter into my hart to reign there absolutly, to possesse it alone; and to animate it with your self, let all within me give place to IESVS, humour, satisfaction, plea∣sure, vanity, self love, let all give place to IESVS, he is master here, he is the God of my hart.

5. Remain at the feet of IESVS as a Magdalen in silence, and as it were retired into thy own nothing;

let him give thanks and honour his Father in you, let him consummat in your hart the holocauste of his love to which he will joyne yours. O love, ô lover, ô God of love, live, reign, triumph, distroy sacrifice in me all that is not your self.

6. When your state consists of pure faith in darknesse and aridity, remain in peace in it, and content your self to have JESVS within you; it is enough, it is sufficient for you to have him; seeke not a great many thoughts, nor many acts to make known your gratitude and love to him, let him do what he pleases in you. My God and my all let me only live for you, by you, and in you.

8. Going from communion re∣member that IESVS ought to act, speake and suffer in you and by you. O tongue dyed with the blood of a God. O hart full of the Majesty of God. O sense, ô mind, ô body, ani∣mated with the purity of a God, can you tye your selves any longer to a creature.