Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 edition. Excerpt: ... faith towards God, is a prayer which virtually asks for what I need; and the clearer and more earnest the acknowledgment, the more burning the desire, the more lively the faith, the more effectual will be the prayer. There is another sort of virtual prayer of a briefer j kind, offered up by a mere glance of the mind to God j to obtain His Aid, which glance is nothing but a silent remembrancer and entreaty for that grace for which we have before prayed. And thou shouldest diligently learn this kind of prayer, and become familiar with its use, because, as experience will show thee, it is a weapon of inexpressible value and assistance, which thou mayest have in hand at all times and on all occasions. chapter xlvi. of prayer by means of meditation. Being desirous to pray for some space of time, half an hour, or perhaps a whole hour, or more, thou wilt add to prayer a meditation on the Life and Passion of Jesus Christ, always applying His Actions to that virtue which thou desirest. Thus, if thou desire to obtain the grace of patience, thou wilt, perhaps, take for the subject of thy meditation some points in the mystery of the Scourging. First. How, after the command given by Pilate, our Lord was dragged amid scoffs and cries, by the ministers of wickedness, to the place appointed for His Scourging. Secondly. How He was stripped with headlong fury, so that His most Pure Flesh was left naked and exposed. Thirdly. How His innocent Hands were bound with hard cords and made fast to the pillar. Fourthly. How His Body was so torn and lacerated with scourges, that His Sacred Blood flowed down to the ground. Fifthly. How, by repeated stripes on the same place, the anguish of the Wounds already inflicted was still more aggravated. Thus, in order to...
