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.

Advice in desolation in time of Prayer.

1. SUpport your self by the former feellings, renewing them by a simple reguard in God, begining your prayer to annihilat your self before God, intirely abandoning your self to him, to believe you are not idle whilst you do this, thô you neither feel nor know any thing; but be in peace and contented to be nothing in Gods presence. The arme that holds it self without mo∣tion dos it do nothing? You aban∣doning all things, running to, and putting your self continually in God, is it not to act after a divine manner? In a word God would have you to be in the state you are, obey, and remain in peace.

2. Be not one of those souls, who reject all the good thoughts God gives them to remain without action as they call it, and in pure passivenesse: which is an errour and a pure idlenesse; but when you feel your self moved to adore and love God, and to abandon your self to him, receave humbly, and follow simply this impulse, yet without tying your selfe to it, or desire of keeping or augmenting it, and be equally con∣tented to have or loose it, one is not to act as of ones self, but to follow the impression of grace.

3. In fine, make it your employ∣ment, your repose, your satisfaction in prayer to content God. Remain firme there to honour his greatness by the sense of your nothing: and go from it intirely resolved to re∣nounce your self in all things.