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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M. DC. X. [1610]
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Jesus Christ -- Meditations.
Meditations.
Meditation.
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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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The fourth Pointe.
FOurthly, I am to consider that God our Lorde by the meanes of the Deade, and of their Skulles, and Bones, sayeth vnto mee these very wordes: Remember that thou art Dust, and that into Dust thou shallt retourne, that they may bee the more strongly imprinted in my Hearte, and that out of them I may collect the greater prossit. This I may ponder calling to memorye that memorable Sen∣tence of Ecclesiasticus, which comprehendeth the sense, and spirit of the saide wordes: Memor esto Iu∣dicij mei, sic enim erit & tuum, mihi heri, & tibi ho∣die, Remember my Iudgement, for so shall thine bee, yesterday for mee, to daye for thee. And for that the Deade had two Iudgements, one of his bo∣dye, by which hee was condemned to turne to Dull, and to VVormes; the other of his Soule by which hee receiueth Sentence conformable to his meritte••
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of both of them hee willeth vs to remember our∣selues. And therefore in seeing any deade bodye, or the sculles, and bones of the deceased, I am to ima∣gine that they say vnto mee: Remember that where thou seest thyselfe, I sawe myselfe, and where I now see myselfe, thou shalt see thyselfe: yesterday ended my life, to day peraduenture thine shall bee ended. Yesterday I turned into Dust, to daye the like will begin for thee. Yesterday the Bells rung for mee, to day perhaps the same shall ring for thee. Yesterday I gaue an accounte to God of my workes, to day thou shallt giue a reckoning of thine. Yesterday I receiued Sentence according to my merits, to day thou shallt receiue according to thine. Consider well that all this shallbee to daye, for all the time of thy Life is but as a daye,
and peraduenture for thee this day shallbee thy last, and thou shallt not liue till to morrowe. O my Soule heare the crye of the Deade, hearken vnto the Lecture that vvithered bones doe reade thee. Consider vvell vvhat Iudgement passed on them, for such shallbee thine. Liue, as they vvishe that they had liued: prepare thyselfe, as they vvould that they had prepared themselues: passe often aliue this carriere that they haue passed, that when thy houre approcheth, thou maiest run it in such sorte that thou mayest obtaine Life euerlasting. Amen.