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FIrst, I am to consider the most feruent de∣sier that our Lord IESVS Christ had, being
Meditations vppon the mysteries of our holy faith with the practise of mental praier touching the same composed in Spanish by the R.F. Luys de la Puente ... ; and translated into English by F. Rich. Gibbons ...
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- Meditations vppon the mysteries of our holy faith with the practise of mental praier touching the same composed in Spanish by the R.F. Luys de la Puente ... ; and translated into English by F. Rich. Gibbons ...
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- Puente, Luis de la, 1554-1624.
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"Meditations vppon the mysteries of our holy faith with the practise of mental praier touching the same composed in Spanish by the R.F. Luys de la Puente ... ; and translated into English by F. Rich. Gibbons ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/B15418.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 23, 2024.
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in the wombe of his mother, to perfect, and bring to ende the businesse of our Redemption; and consequently to be borne in the Worlde, to frame all things according to the will of his Father. For euen from his mothers belly that Sentence was true, that afterwardes he vttered: I am to be baptized with a bapt••me, o how am •• straitened vntill it be dispatched? For howsoeuer his bodye was pressed, and straitened in that straite Wombe of his mother, his hearte was much more pressed, and straitened with the force of this vehement desier: for the which I ought to giue him infinite thankes, and to be correspondent vnto him, with such another hearty desier truely to serue him. But notwith∣standing this desier, he would not be borne be∣fore the nine moneths, which is the time wherein commonly all other Children are borne. First, to conforme himselfe vnto all, [ 1] and to suffer that prison entirely without omitting as much as a daye: for in that which concerned suffering, he would vse with himselfe no dis∣pensation, exception, nor priuiledge: and there∣fore he would not be borne at the euen moneths, nor at the eight, but at the wine mo∣neths compleate. Secondly, [ 2] for that he tooke all this time, as a time of retirednesse for his en∣trance into the Worlde, spending it in perpetuall Praier, and Contemplation. As he was r••••ired fortye dayes in the Desert, before he mani••••••ed himselfe to the Worlde by his Preaching: ••••••ui∣sing vs heerein, how we ought to recollect ••ur∣selues, dedicating some time to retired praier, and to be vacant to God only, before we issue out in publike, and begin any greate enterprize: as likewise how we should recollect ourselues
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to celebrate with Deuotion his holy natiuitye.
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Luc. 12.50