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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Title: 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.
Author: Gonnelieu, Jérôme de, 1640-1715.
Publication: Printed at S. Omers [i.e. Saint Omers] :: by Ludovicus Carlier,; in the year 1689.
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Subject terms: Conduct of life; Christian life
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Simple reflections of faith upon a Crucifix.

1. WHat do you suffer my IE∣SVS? and how litle am I moved with your sufferings? What paines? What injuries? and what blood do you shed for an ungratfull creature?

2. You dye my IESVS, you dye of griefe for me, and can I live to my self or live without suffering for you? Can I live without a Cross? ô what lost moments are these, in which I suffer not for you, ô let me suffer or dye.

3. O wounds, ô nailes, ô thornes, ô torments, ô Cross, what pain do you give to my IESVS, ô my Savi∣our what confusion ought I to have, seeing you suffer thus much? Yet what griefe ought I not to have that I am the cause of your sufferings.

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4. Behold my soul the worke of thy infidelityes; and the love of a God, cease then to satisfye thy self, to content thy dying JESVS.

Advices.

1. EVERY night, cast some one of these simple reguards upon your crucifix after your examen, for a short space, one alone suffices each time, and even one word of each.

2. Make vse of these aspirations in prayer, and when you are at Masse, being troubled or opprest, to sup∣port your self.

3. Read them often in the day time, especially the last, and the other before Masse and prayer.