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 ...

A TABLE OF THE PRINCIPALL MAT∣ters contained in this first part.

• Abstinence. Acts and rewards of it. pag. 242.
• Adam. How great his fault was. pag. 91.
• Adoration. How it must be made to God at the ente∣ring into praier. pag. 32.
• Affections. Those of deuotion be the ende of medita∣tion 11.52. Affections of the loue of God. 25. Af∣fections of deuotion be of three sorts, 53 affecti∣ons of sinners that be repented 76.
• Ambition. It is the doughter of pride, and the acts thereof. 234.
• Angells. The euill fell thorugh pride. 88. How wee may talk to them in praier. 20. They assist those that pray. 74. They especially assist those that be chast. 249.
• Angre. The acts and punishments thereof, and the rewards of those that doe mortifie the same. 359.
• Ashes. See Lent.
• Aspirations. How wee may pray with them. 49. Attention in praier.
• The meanes to get it, and to resist distractions. 35.
• Auarice. The acts, damages, and chastisments of it. 252. The benefits of mortifying it. 255.
• S. Augustine. His counsel to those that loue God. 2.3.5. His order of mental praier. 14.
• Author. The autor of this woork hath drawen it from

• three principall fountaines 6.7.8.
• Benedictions. Promised to those that keepe the lawe of God. 282.
• Benefits. That come of mortifying pride. 137. That come of mortifying Gluttonie 242. of chastitie. 249. of mortifying Auarice. 255. of mortifying wrath 261. of mortifying Enuie. 267. of morti∣fying Sloth. 272. Of God towardes vs. 111. Blessinge See Benedictions.
• Canticles. VVhat spirituall canticles bee 16.
• Charitie. The acts thereof to be practised in commu∣nicating. 344.
• Chastitie. The acts and excellencies, the fauours and rewards thereof. 247.
• Colloquie. See Speeches.
• Commaundements. See Lavve of God.
• Communion. The manner how to prepare our selues worthelie for sacramentall Communion 333. The manner of communicating spiritually. 340. The manner of thankesgiuing after Communion. 345.
• Confession. The excellencies of sacramentall con∣fession. 313. The vertues that at practised in it. 315. It is a greate meanes to surmounte tentations. 316. The manner how to prepare our selues vnto it. 320. The manner of giuing thanks after it. 328.
• Confidence in God, See Hope.
• Conscience. How we must heare thee good inspira∣tions and instructions of it, and how it will accuse vs in our particular iudgment. 145. and how in the vniuersall iudgment, 196.
• Consolation. See delite spirituall.
• Contrition. VVhat it is, and wherein it consisteth. 108.305.322
• Conuersion. That towards God, how perfect it must bee. 76.77.
• Death. The properties of it. 126. It is hastened som∣times for our sinnes. 127. Three thinges must afflict

• in it. 131. VVhat passeth therein with the soule. 140. That of the wicked how terrible it is. 147.170. VVhat passeth with the bodie at death. 154. the remembrance thereof verie profitable. 162. The forgetfulnes of it daungerous. 167. Of the dreadfull death of king Balthasar. 173.
• Delight spirituall. God hath and vseth diuers waies to cōmunicate spiritual delite in prayer. 55. It is gran∣ted to some to weane them from worldly delits. 62.
• Deuotion. VVherein it consisteth 11. It is the tongue of the soule, according to S. Bernard. 18. How it is obtayned. 53. See Affections.
• Diligence. That in Gods seruice what good it dooth against Sloth. 272.
• Distractions. Those of praier whence they proceede, and the remedies against then. 35 37.38.39.
• Diuel. Hee presseth and streighteneth vs at the hower of death. 138. He accuseth in the particular iudg∣ment. 141.142.144. And in the vniuersall. 194.
• Doctors. Schoole-Doctors the third fountaine of my∣sticall diuinitie. 8.
• End. The finall end of all Christians. 1. The speciall end of religious folkes. 1. Twoe principall ends of mentall praier. 14.17. The end of mentall praier and meditations contained in this woorke. 52. The last end of man, and how it is to be sought for. 80. The last end of other visible creatures.
• Enuie. VVhat it is; whence it groweth; the actions, hurts, and remedies thereof. 263.
• Estates. Three sorts of them; to wit of Beginners, of Proficients, and of the Perfect. 24.
• Examination of Cōscience. That which we must ma∣ke at the end of praier. 43. That which God will make of the sowle at the particular iudgmēt. 146. and in the vniuersall iudgment. 191. How we ought to make it euerie inght of the sinnes we commit in the day-time 301. How it must be made of same particular vice to

• roote out and amend the same. 397. How it must be donne before confession. 320.
• Exercises spiritual. Those of our glorious Father Igna∣tius how excellent they are. 7.
• Faith. The acts thereof relying vppon fower pillars 341.
• Fathers. Holy fathers the masters of mysticall diui∣nitie. 7.
• Feare. That which afflicteth for giuing account at the hower of death. 137. Feare of Gods punish∣ments. 116. That which will afflict vs in the ge∣nerall iudgment. 191. It prepareth vs to contri∣tion. 323.
• Fier. Diuine and heauenlie fier, what propertie it hath. 3.4. That of hell. 224.
• Gluttony. The acts, harmes, and remedies thereof. 239. The rewards of mortifiyng the same. 242.
• God. He is our last end. 80.
• Hearing. How God is spiritually heard. 59.
• Hell. VVhat and how terrible it is. 212.217. The eternitie therof. 214. The continuation and varietie of paines therein. 216. The miserie of the inhabitants in it, and their discord. 219. The dre∣adfullnes of its tormētors. 220. The paine of Sense of the damned in hell. 222. The paine of fier that they indure. 224. The paine of theire interiour senses. 225. Their paine of losse or damnation. 227.
• Humility. It riseth of the knowledge of our selues. 76. Humiliation the onlie meanes to get it. 238.
• Hope. That which wee must haue going to commu∣nion. 342.
• Himmes. VVhat spirituall himmes be. 15
• Iesus. The misteries of his life. 25.
• Ignatius. His booke of spirituall exercises of what autoritie it is. 7.
• Ignorance. Not knowing in what sort to discourse or meditat, & the remedies of it 35. That of death what euiles it causeth. 167. It is a proper vice of the vnderstanding. 293.

• Impatience. The acts, hurts, and remedies thereof. 258.
• Inspirations. How God speaketh by them. See Talk.
• How God doth communicate them. 55.
• Intention. The authors intention in this woorke. 1.4.
• Intention that wee must haue in praier. 32.33.
• Ioy. How profitable spirituall ioy is. 272. See delite.
• Iudgment. The particular that is made of the soule at the hower of death, with the circumstances of the Assistants, Iudge, Accusers, Time, Place, and Sentences 140. till 154. The rigorous account to be made therein. 146. The terrible sentence in it against the wicked. 150. Generall iudgment and the causes thereof. 175. The signes going before it. 177. That fire that shall before it, burne the worlde. 180. The resurrection and summoning of the dead to iudgment. 183. The comming of the iudge. 185. The separation of the good from the euil. 188. The publication of consciences to be made at that time. 191. The terrible accusations that shall flow vppon this. 194. The sentences in fauour of the good, and against the wicked, and the execution of them. 196. Sacramentall iudg∣ment in confession, and the acts thereof. 320.321. Rash indgmēt and the euils of it. 294. Self-iudg∣ment and the hurt thereof. 295.
• Kingdome. That of heauen is giuen wholie to the elect in the day of iudgment. 199. The kingdome of this life and of the other, is promised to the poore of spirit. 256. It is iustice peace and ioy in the holie Ghost. 256.317.
• Knovvledge. That of God, Christ, and of our selues, the end of mentall praier. 52. Experimentall knowledge of God wherein it consisteth, and how it is gotten. 57. Knowledg of our owne miseries the roote of humilitie, and how wee may obtaine it. 76.

• Lavve of God. Ten commaundements of Gods lawe, and two wayes of vnderstanding them. 274. The meanes of sinning against them. 275. Male∣dictions of those that breake them. 279. Bene∣dictions of those that keepe them. 282. How they must be written in the tables of our hearts. 289. Reasons mouing to obserue them. 286.
• Lecherie. The acts and chasisements thereof. 244.
• Lent. Of the Ashes which wee take in the beginn∣ing of Lent. 162.
• Liberalitie. The rewardes of it, as it is contrarie to Auarice. 255.
• Loue. Our loue towards God hath three estates, of spirituall childhood, grouth, and of perfection. 25.
• Luxurie. See Lecherie.
• Masse. The manner to heare it by communicating spirituallie. 304.
• Meditation. The matter of meditation. 23. How it must be made. 34. It causeth the fountaine whence it springeth. 75. See Praire.
• Meekenes. The acts and rewardes of it. 161.
• Mentall praier. See Praier.
• Mercie. How much Christ will esteeme the workes thereof at the day of iudgment. 200.
• Modestie. The importance thereof and the manner how to keepe it. 292.
• Mortification. VVherein it consisteth, and how it resēbleth death. 154. It must be by degrees by little and little, and is most necessarie to attaine to vertue. 229. Mortifications of the senses, what good it bringeth vnto vs. 291.
• Oathes. Chastisements of those that be ill made. 273. 282.
• Paines. Paines of hell. pag. 212. till 230. See Punish∣ment.
• Patience. It is contrarie to Anger. 261.

• Penance. The excellencies of Sacramentall Penance. 315. The graces & fauours that God bestoweth in it. 317.
• Perfection. All men ar called by God to persection. 2.
• Petitions. To whome they must be directed, and from whence they must be taken 11. why they ar to be alleaged in praier 13. How we must present them before God 14. How they be made to God. 17. They depende chiefelie of the holy Ghost 18.
• Pouertie. The contraritie that pouertie of spirite hath to couetousnes 255.
• Praier. The holy ghost chiefe master of mentall praier. 6. VVhat mentall praier is, and how the substance thereof cōsisteth in fower things. 9.10.11 The order of mentall praier according to S. Augu∣stine 14. Two principall ends of mentall praier 14.17. How in it we may haue conference with our owne soule, with our B. Ladie, Angels and other Saincte 19. what vertues accompanie men∣tall praier, and the excellencie thereof. 21 23. VVhat the matter of mentall praier is. 23. How it is reduced to there orders fit for three estates of those that meditate 24. Entrance in to praier how it ought to be made. 29. How we may aide our sel∣ues with our imaginations, tongue and other fa∣culties for mentall praier. 40. The examination of praier ended, and the fruites thereof. 43. Di∣uers formes of praier in diuers matters accommo∣dated to sundry persons & times. 46. How mentall praier may be vsed of some without manifoldnes of discourses. 52.53 Formes ordinary & extraordi∣nary of mentall praier, and how diuersly God communicateth himselfe therein.

Presence.

• The presence of God necessarie to be had by vs in praier 20.
• Pride. The acts and punishments of it. 233.235

• Profit. Spirituall profit and aduancement, is gotten by dooing and suffering. 26.
• Prouidence. That of God towards such as resigne them selues to him. 86.
• Psalmes. Interiour psalmes what they be 15.
• Punishments. Punishment of the Angels that sinned. 89. Of our first parents. 92. Of anie mortall sinne. 94.116. That which Christ suffered for sinnes. 96. Punishments of pride. 235. Of gluttonie 240. Of luxurie. 245. Of auarice. 154. Of Of wrath. 259. Of enuie. 295. Of slothe. 270. Of those that breake Gods comaundements. 279. See paines.
• Purgatorie. The terriblenes of it, with other cir∣cunstances of the soules that be therein. 35••. How godly a thing it is pray for the soules that be there. 358.359.
• Puritie. Purenes of heart is the end of the purgatiue way. 75.
• Purposes. Good purposes and determinations, how they ought to bee made by vs in the morning & at praier time. 308.
• Reading. In reading of good bookes God speaketh vnto vs. 70. It is the first steppe of the spirituall ladder. 74.
• Religion. It, with three waies thereof is a spirituall imitation of death. 157.
• Resignation. That which we ought to haue in the vse of thinges created. 85,
• Resurrection. The generall of all men with many circumstances. 183.
• Reuerence. That which is due to God in praier. 31.
• Satisfaction. Of that which we must make for our sinnes, and meanes to stire vs vp vnto it. 326.
• Scripture. Holiescripture the principall fruite of spi∣rituall science. pag. 7.
• Seeing. How God is seene spirituallie, and what is

• seene in him. 57.58.
• Senses. Sinnes of our corporall exteriour senses, and their chastisements. 287. Mortification of them 291. Internall & spirituall senses. 56.
• Sinne. It is most contrarie to ou•• last end. 87. The griuousnes of it by diuers examples. 88. By the paines that Christ endured for them. 96. By the multitude of them, and for the being against rea∣son. 100. By the basenes of them that committ∣eth them. 104. by the greatnes of God against whome they are committed. 108. By the vile motiue that induceth to sinne. 115. By compa∣ri••on betwixt the temporall and eternall paines thereof. 116. It is worse then all the euils of paine laide together that are suffered in hell. 123. Of the seauen called deadlie sinnes by order. 230. Sinnes against the commaundements of God. 273. Senses and sinnes of them, and of the tongue. 287. Sinnes of the vnderstanding. 293. Those of our owne selfewill. 296. How much veni∣all sinnes is to bee abhorred for feare of purgato∣rie. 352.
• Sloth. what it is, the acts, and harmes and chastise∣ment thereof. 268. The reward of him that mor∣tifieth it. 272.
• Smelling. How we doe spiritually smell God. 60.
• Sorovve. Sorowe for sinnes some riseth of loue. 322. Some of feare preparing vs to that other sorowe of loue. 323.
• Speeches. Colloquies or speeches how they must bee made in praier with God. 11.17. with ourselues, with our B. Lady, Angels, and Saintes. 19.
• Talke. How we may talke with God in mental pra∣yer. 14. Talke with God cause of greate good. 21. Talke of God with vs what it is, and what it woorketh. 22.59. See Speeches.
• T••st. How wee doe tast God spirituallie. 61:

• Teares. Those of loue and feare how they are ob∣tained. 322.
• Temperance. See Abstinence.
• Tentations. Those that be against praier, and their remedies. 39.
• Thankesgiuing. VVhat they are. 16. The acts thereof, and how to bee practised after Confession. 328. How euerie day in the examination of our con∣sience. 302. How after communion. 345.
• Thinges. The last thinges of man mouing vs effectu∣allie to detest sinne. 125.
• Tongue. The sinnes thereof, and the manner how to mortifie it. 288.291.
• Touchinge. How wee doe and may touch God with vnion of loue. 62.
• Vaine glory. The acts and hurtes thereof. 233.
• Vertues. They ar not obtained by consideration only, but by mortification of our vices. 231.
• Vices. See Sinnes.
• Virginitie. See Chastitie.
• Vnion. Diuers formes and manners of it pertaining to contemplatiue life. 62.
• VVayes. Three wayes, Purgatiue, Illuminatiue, and Vnitiue; accommodated to three states of persons. ••4.
• VVill, Selfe will what acts it hath, the harmes and pu∣nishments thereof, and meanes how to mortifie it. 295.296.
• VVoorde. That of God, with what spirit to be ru∣minated. 48.
• VVrath. See Anger.