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 ...

The Conclusion of what hath beene saide.

By what hath beene saide in this meditation, I Inferre with what spirit wee are to enter into the Meditations ensuing: euery one endeuouring to imitate Christ our Lord most perfectly, con∣formable to the Estate that hee hath chosen. If hee bee a Religious man, following his proper Institution with Perfection. If hee holde an Estate of Continencye, or Preisthood, full filling all his obligations with integritye. And if hee bee a married man, dispoiling his hearte of disordinate Affections to the things that hee possesseth, ac∣cording to the rule of the Apostle which sayeth: Those, which haue wiues, let them bee as if they had none: those, which buye, and possesse, as if they possessed not: and those which vse this VVorlde as if they vsed if not, doing all things in such sorte, that for them they neither loose Christ, nor growe colde in his loue, and seruice.

But those which haue not yet taken an Estate, and desire to make choice of that which is most conuenient for their Saluation, and Per∣fection, their ende must bee, to regarde what our Lord Christ doth Inspire them, to imitate him in that degree of Perfection, where vnto they shall finde they are moued: wherein they shall bee ayded by the 6.7. and 8. meditation of the third Parte.

Notes

• 1 Cor. 7.29.