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THE 
 
 DEVOTIONS 
 OF THE 
 STATIONS or roe PASSION 
 
 OF 
 
 JESUS CHRIST 
 
 CRUCIFIED, 
 
 WHICH ARE MADE IN JERUSALEM. 
 
 By Tue Rev. FaTHer ADRIAN PARVILIERS, 
 Or THE Society or JESUS, 
 ArosToticarn Missioner or THE Hoty Lanp, 
 
 : : eee ad 
 TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH, 
 
 17 ag 
 
 PRINTED IN THE YEAR 1796, 
 
PREM 
 
 REALS NES EE IIIS HET 
 
 TO 
 Tue CHRISTIAN READER. 
 J voce CHRIST crucified, is the 
 
 book of pious fouls, according to 
 the fentiments of St. Pa af —- This book 
 is every way wonderful: ’Tis not like 
 others, pr printed on paper, but on the 
 flefh of a Man-God: ’Tis not written 
 with pen and ink, but with thorns, 
 nails, and blood: Its binding is not 
 lefs furprifing than its printing. He 
 was beaten aan thoufands of blows of 
 fits, of tticks, whips, and hammers; in 
 taking him prifoner, in dragging h im 
 along ‘the ftreets of Jerufalem, in whip- 
 ping him, in driving the crown of 
 thorns into his head, in nailing him 
 to the crofs: He was wrapped in clouts 
 at his birth, bound with cords at his ap- 
 prehenfion, and likewife wr rapped in a 
 winding fheet at his death. ’Tis the 
 only Book which the Word Incarnate 
 brought to light at the end of his li fe, 
 A2 for, 
 
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 for, as St. Jerome remarks, our Saviour 
 left us no book wrote with his own 
 hand, being pleafed to give us himfelf 
 on the crofs for a book. This book 
 came from heaven, teaches all the vir- 
 tues of a chriftian and perfect life, not 
 by fimple words, but by the moft heroic 
 actions. ’Tis fo intelligible to every 
 one, that if we have the light of reafon 
 we cannot but comprehend it. As 
 foon as our crucified Lord had given it 
 the finifhing ftroke, he cried out, * It is 
 confummated.” The book of the elect 
 is finifhed ; caft then your eyes, dear'rea- 
 der, upon this admirable copy, imagine, 
 when looking on a crucifix, that you 
 hear the fame words St. Auguftin for- 
 metly heard, juft upon the point of his 
 converfion, “* Take up and read, take 
 up and read,” 
 
 THE 
 
LE a a sas th od SI 
 
 THE 
 PRACTICE of the DEVOTION 
 OF THE 
 STATIONS. 
 
 HOSE who have a zeal for the 
 . glory of their Saviour Jefus 
 Chrift crucified, and for their own fal- 
 vation, will let no one day of their life 
 pafs, without performing fome ftation. 
 This is the way of doing it,—Read 
 with refpeét, attention and devotion, 
 or caufe to be read to you one of the 
 following meditations, ftopping at that 
 which moves you moft. After this 
 reading, place ;yourfelf on your knees, 
 and fay the Pater and Ave for the In- 
 tention fet down, and make the act of 
 contrition which you will find at the end 
 of the firft ftation, 
 Every place is proper for the perfor- 
 mance of this devotion, the chamber, 
 the church, the cloifter, the garden, the 
 
 field, 
 
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 field. The propereft time is that in 
 wltich one is the leaft hurried with bu- 
 finefs: The morning at rifing, at night 
 before you go to bed, any time of the 
 day, in hearing Mafs, in affifting at Vef- 
 pers. Fathers and mothers, mafters and 
 miftrefles, who fhall affemble all their 
 families at night, and publickly perform 
 one ftation with their children and fer- 
 vants, will pleafe Jefus Chrift crucified 
 more, than if they do it alone.— They 
 are much to be commended, who on 
 Sundays and Holy. days, after affifting 
 at the church fervice, go, by way of 
 a fpiritual walk, and pious relaxation, 
 to perform fome of the ftations, from 
 church to church, from Vefpers till 
 fupper. -We read in the Ecclefiaftical 
 Hiftory, that Kings, Queens, Princes, 
 and Princefles, have practifed this de- 
 votion of the Stations with much fer- 
 vour and zeal, and thereby acquired 
 great fanctity. 
 
 & 
 
A 
 
 SUPPLICATION 
 
 TO 
 
 CONFESSORS and DIRECTORS. 
 
 "HE author of this book moft 
 humbly befeeches all Confeffors 
 and Directors, in the name of Jefus 
 Chrift crucified, to inftil into their pe- 
 nitents, and all thofe under their con- 
 duct, a devotion to the Stations, either 
 by enjoining it by way-of penance, or by 
 exhorting them to vifit churches, and 
 there to read fome’ part of the paflion of 
 their charitable and amiable Redeemer. 
 We perform the office of ambaffadors 
 for Jefus Chrift, and it is God himfelf 
 who exhorts you by us. We conjure 
 you to do it in the name of Jefus 
 Chrift, . 
 
 A 
 
REMARKABLE ADVERTISEMENT, 
 gir tradition of Jerufalem is, that 
 t! 
 
 e. Blefled Virgin the whole 
 time flie lived there, after the death of 
 her Son our Lord; vifited every day the 
 ftations of his pafiion, diftributing all the 
 money fhe could fpare in charitable 
 alms. 
 
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 THE 
 STATIONS of the PASSION 
 
 OF 
 
 JESUS CHRIST, 
 Which are perfomed in Ferufalem. 
 
 STATION I. 
 
 The Supping-Room where our Lord infti- 
 tuted the holy Sacrament of bis body and 
 blood. | 
 
 ¢ Bee hall or holy fupping- room 
 
 where our Saviour wafhed the 
 
 feet of his apoftles, and inftituted the 
 moft holy Sacrament of his body and 
 blood, to prepare himfelf for his paffion, 
 is four and twenty fteps or paces long, 
 and fixteen in breadth. In this hall you 
 muft 
 
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 muft contemplate Jefus Chrift upon his 
 knees, and his head uncovered, wafthing 
 and kiffing the feet-of the traitor Judas, 
 and after that, giving him his own moft 
 precious body to eat, and his blood to 
 drink; and fay to yourfelf, with a mot 
 profound admiration: O unparalleled 
 humility! O infinite charity of God- 
 Man! Where fhall 1 place myfelf for 
 the future, to abafe and humble myfelf, 
 if my Saviour be at the feet of infamous 
 Judas !- And how can I refufe love and 
 fervice to an enemy, feeing the Son of 
 God does not refufe his body and blood 
 to the moft abominable of all men! 
 *Twill likewife be proper here to con- 
 fider what our moft charitable Saviour 
 faid to Judas’s heartto converthim. O 
 Judas, my difciple and apoftle! What 
 have I done to thee, that thou thould# 
 abhor me, and fell me to the Jews, my 
 mortal enemies? If thou haft any caufe 
 to complain: of me, here am I at th 
 feet, do what thou wilt with me, provie 
 ded thou offend me not, and by offend- 
 ing me lofe thyfelf, Thou mayeft affure 
 thyfelf that in wafhing thy feet, my ri 
 ire 
 
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 fire is likewife to cleanfe the ftains of 
 thy foul; don’t then refufe the pardon I 
 offer thee, *tis infinitely more valuable 
 than the thirtypieces of filver thou ho- 
 peft to receive in payment for thy trea- 
 fon. If thou perfevere in thy damnable 
 refolution, thoufhalt be curfed of God 
 and condemned to eternal flames. One 
 may likewife imagine that our Lord 
 fhed tears, feeing the hardnefs of this 
 unfortunate man, and that his tears, in 
 falling, mixed with the water he had int 
 the bafon, with which he wafhtied his 
 feet. But it was all to no purpofe, be- 
 eaufe his mind and heart were filled 
 with an avaricious devil. O curfed, O 
 deteftable avarice! O furious paftion for 
 money, what havock doft thou not make 
 n Chriftendom? How many doft thou 
 
 not damn? ‘Thou doft not even fpare 
 the life of a Man-God! The reft of 
 my life fhall be fpent in-abhorring, and 
 abominating thee. You mutt here fay 
 a Pater and Ave, to obtain the virtues 
 -of humility, devotion to the blefled Sa- 
 crament of the altar, and a horror of 
 fin; 
 
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 fin: Then make the following a& of 
 contrition, viz. 
 
 Aw ACT oF CONTRITION. 
 
 My moft dear and adorable Redeemer 
 Jefus Chrift crucified, who haft fuffered 
 fo much for me, and likewifé for me 
 died fo generoufly; I am forry with all 
 my heart for having offended thee, be- 
 caufe thou art infinitely good and in- 
 finitely amiable, and that fin difpleafeth 
 thee; pardon me, O moft merciful Sa- 
 viour, [ conjure thee to it, by thy pa- 
 ternal mercy, and by all the torments 
 of thy dolorous paffion. Grant me here, 
 at this prefent, all the races, all the 
 favours, and all the indulgences, that 
 thou ufually and moft liberally giveft 
 to all thofe who in Jerufalem perform 
 the Stations which [ haye juft been 
 making. Amen. 
 
 STA- 
 
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 STATION Hi. 
 The Grotto of the Garden of Olives, 
 
 where our Saviour fweated blood in 
 his agony. 
 
 ‘ROM the facred Supping- Room, 
 FR to the Garden of Olives, there are 
 about fifteen hundred paces.’ The Gar- 
 den of Olives may be in length about 
 feventy paces; where, to this day, ate’ 
 to be feen nine great ftrong Olive-trees. 
 The grotto where Chrift agonized, is’ 
 fixty paces diftant.from the place where 
 he left bis three apoftles, Peter, James, 
 and John. The place where thefe 
 three apoftles were left, is ‘ten paces 
 within the entry of the garden, where 
 are yet to be feen fome tracks or figures 
 of their bodies, imprinted on three 
 {mall outfhots of a great rock, which 
 are of a reddifh colour. ’Twas there 
 that our Lord aflured them that his 
 foul was forrowful evento death, The 
 grotto of the agony is almoft round, 
 fupported by three great pillars, which: 
 are quite unhewn and fhapelefs, belong- 
 
 ing 
 
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 ing to the rock itfelf, It has an opeti« 
 ing in the middle of the vault, which 
 Jets in a lictle light, from whence our 
 
 Saviour might fee the fky during his 
 
 ptayer. One goes into it Wy feven or 
 t 
 
 eight fteps roughly cut. may be 
 about fourteen or fifteen paces diameter. 
 There are fuch bleflings in this grotto, 
 that in entering into it one finds one’s 
 heart tendered, which makes one fhed 
 tears of devotion. *Twas there that 
 our Saviour, reprefenting to himfelf the 
 Greadful torments which the juftice of 
 God, his Father, prepared for his ex- 
 piation of all the offences of the world, 
 which had been, or were to be commit- 
 ted againft: his Divine Majefty, volun- 
 tarily conceived fo exceffive a fear, fuch 
 an uneafinefs, and an anguifh fo ex- 
 treme, that he fell into an agony of 
 grief. ~Pwas likewife there that, ap- 
 pearing in the eyes of his eternal Fa- 
 ther, loaden with the fins of the whole 
 world, he was oppreffed with fo much 
 fhame and confulien, that he fweated 
 
 bleod in great drops, which fell from: 
 
 all parts of his body. °*Dwas there. in 
 
 fine, 
 
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 fine, that, by the moft furprifing of all 
 _ humiliations, he refufed not to be com- 
 forted, fupported and encouraged by an 
 “angel, as St. Luke witnefles by thefe 
 words, Apparu't illi angelus, de ccclo con= 
 fortuus eum, “An angel from beaven 
 _ appeared unto him, comforting him.” 
 Enter in Spirit this holy place, and 
 there contemplate our Lord with his 
 face proftrate on the ground, agonizing 
 -in a bloody fweat, and reprefent to 
 _ yourfelf an angel-comforter, who raif- 
 eth him from the earth, who holds him 
 in his arms, and encourages him to die? 
 And after this devout contemplation 
 you may fay the following words to 
 _ your Saviour: Ah! my dear Redeemer, 
 death muft needs be very terrible, fince 
 thou fheweft fo muft fear and appre- 
 ~henfion of it, Ah! be propitious tome 
 in my agony, and fend me thy angel- 
 comforter to affift me to die well, and 
 happily to pafs from this world to your 
 
 _ bleffed eternity. 
 Say here a Pater and Ave for all in 
 their agony, and the A& of Contriticn 
 
 as before, 
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 STATION HY, 
 
 The entrance of the Garden of Olines 
 where our Saviour. was taken and 
 bound by the Fews. 
 
 OU mutt confider how our Sa- 
 
 Y viour, after tifing from his do- 
 dorous and bloody agony, prefented 
 himfelf to Judas and the ‘foldiers who 
 » came to take him, with {6 much be- 
 “Mignity and fweetnefs, that he even 
 - permitted himfelf to be kiffed by his ih- 
 famous difciple, calling him friend, and 
 Jetting himfelf be bound like a robber. 
 
 : After this confideration, you may fay 
 to our Lord, from the bottom of ‘your 
 heart, O moft fweet and meek Lamb, 
 how much reafon hadtt thou to recom-~ 
 
 - mend to us the love of our enemies, and 
 : the pardoning injuries, fince thou gavett 
 us fo rare an example of it, in the fa- 
 vourable and carefling reception which 
 thou gavelt-to the moft: abominable of 
 all mankind, the deteftable judas, who 
 ; ame to rob thee of thine honour and 
 life by bis nototious treafon, O Lord, 
 beftow 
 
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 beftow thy grace upon us, that we may 
 ever obey this precept of charity, to the 
 end that, having pardoned our enemies 
 the injuries we have received from 
 them, thou mayeft likewife pardon our 
 offences againft thy Divine Majetty. 
 
 Say here a Pater and Ave for thofe 
 that have offended you in any kind, 
 and make the A&t of Contrition as at 
 the end of the firft Station. 
 
 At the entry of the Garden of Olives, 
 the way of captivity began, that is to 
 fay, the way our Saviour went from his 
 being taken and bound by the Jews, to 
 his laft condemnation by Pilate. 
 
 | STATION IV. 
 The Torrent Cedron into which our Sa- 
 viour fell in paffing over it. 
 
 P] IS a tradition of Jerufalem, that 
 our Saviour, tied and bound by 
 
 the Jews, being tumultuoufly and vio- 
 Jently dragged by them in the night, 
 acrefs the Valley of Jofaphat, to the 
 Aoufe of Annas, fell in when paffing the 
 B 3 Torrent 
 
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 Torrent of Cedron, which was fwollen 
 by the rains of the feafon, and that 
 upon the rock which js at. its bottom, 
 he imprinted his footteps, which are 
 yet to be feen —David feems to have 
 prophefied this fall by thefe words; 
 ** De torrente in via bibet, propterea 
 exaltabit caput;” that is to fay, that our 
 Lord, ignominioufly precipitated into 
 this ‘torrent by the infolent malice of 
 the foldiers who dragged him, and in 
 derifion made him drink, fhall make 
 himfelf an iluftrious reparation of ho- 
 nour in the fame place, when he fhall 
 eome there with his angels and faints to 
 judge the living and the dead. Upon 
 which, fay to our Lord, with moft 
 cordial affection, O! Saviour of man- 
 kind, in confideration of thy fall into 
 the ‘Forrent Cedron, permit me not to 
 fallinto the filth of mortal fin; and, if 
 I fhould be fo unhappy as to fall into 
 it, | beg thou wouldf immediately 
 draw me out of it, by a true and fin- 
 cere repentance, 
 
 _ Say a Pater and Ave for all in the 
 ftate of mortal fin, and make the AG 
 of Contrition as before, STA 
 
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 The Houfe of Annas, where our Saviour 
 
 \qwas tied to a tree, and received a blow. 
 
 FYRHE Houle of Annas, father-in- 
 
 law to Caiphas, is turned into 
 an hofpital or. monaftery of Armenian 
 Chrifians. They fhew you in. its 
 court, a great olive-tree, to which they 
 hold by tradition, that our Lord was 
 tied, whilft an audience to Annas was 
 expected. °Tis perhaps of this indig- 
 nity he complains by the mouth of the 
 Royal Prophet in thefe terms; Ut ju- 
 wmentum factus fum apud te.—1 fhall ar- 
 Sive quite broken by the fatigue of the 
 way, Quite wet with the water of the 
 torrent, and fmoking by my bloody 
 fweat, which began again by reafon of 
 the impetuous agitation with which 
 they dragged me; and, as if ] had been 
 a beaft of burden, they bound me toa 
 tree, where for fome hours my poor fa~ 
 tigued body grew cold, and my blood 
 congealed in the cool night air, A 
 church is built in the fame place where 
 
 the 
 
20, 
 
 the hall food, in which. our Saviour 
 was prefented to Annas, and received a 
 low from the hand of an infamous 
 fervant.. A lamp burns conftantly day 
 and night in the place where ’tis be- 
 lieved our Saviour ftood when he ree 
 ceived this outrage. Say to him, rather 
 in your heart than with your mouth, O 
 the piteous and the fhameful figure the 
 “Jews make of thee, my dear Redeemer, 
 in keeping thee bound to a tree like a 
 beaft of burden! They know not what 
 they do, in thus outrageoufly difho- 
 ‘nouring thee; but this teaches me that 
 thou haft loaden thyfelf with all our 
 iniquities, and haft carried them to 
 Calvary, there to expiate them by thy 
 ‘blood.— Then add, in memory of the 
 ‘blow, O the moft beautiful of mankind, 
 why doft thou feffer an abominable 
 hand to tarnifh the beauty of thy Di- 
 vine Face, by fo grievous and fhamefu} 
 a blow! Thou art the Son of God, and 
 a vile man covers thy cheek with a 
 blow, in the full view of the Judge, 
 and no one takes thy part nor defends 
 thee, nor reprehends this infolent fel- 
 low. 
 
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 low. My dear Redeemer, according to 
 thy example, I will bear patiently all 
 the injuries, offences, and il] ufage 
 which I fhall receive from any crea- 
 + etire: 
 
 Say a Pater and Ave for all in afflic- 
 ‘tion, and the Act, of Contrition as be- 
 fore. 
 
 STATION VI. 
 
 - Xhe Honfe of Caiphas, where our Saviour 
 was judged worthy of death, and fuf-. 
 fered a thonfand indignities. 
 
 HE Houfe of Caiphas, the High- 
 " Prieft, is likewife:turned into an 
 “hofpital. or monaftery of Armenian 
 Chriftians. They fhew you. in. the 
 court, the place where St, Peter warmed 
 _himfelf with the foldiers, and denied 
 his dear Mafter. A church is buile 
 
 upon the place where our Saviour was 
 declared a blafphemer, and judged guilty 
 of death by the whole council of the 
 Jews, for having faid that he was the 
 Son of God.. They likewife fhew. in 
 that 
 
| ( 22 ) * 
 _that church a little dungeon, which is 
 but about three feet fquare, where they 
 hold that our saviour was .thut up one 
 part of the night, after the foldiers that 
 kept guard with him had wearied them- 
 Aelves with (pitting at him, particularly 
 in his face, in ftriking him with their 
 fifts and fticks, pulling off the hairs 
 from his head and beard, and heaping 
 upon him .a thoufand fhameful and doe 
 lorous outrages, . 
 
 After a brief contemplation of the 
 indignities and torments our Saviour 
 fuffered at the Houfe of Caiphas, you 
 may fay to him with a moft cordial af- 
 fection, Ah! my God and my Saviour, 
 *tis 1, who, by my ingratitudes and in- 
 fidelities, deferve to be {pit at, to have 
 my face beaten and bruifed by a thou- 
 fand blows of fifts, to have my hair 
 torn off, and to be condemned to an 
 ignominious death, as guilty of an in« 
 finite number of fins againft thy Divine 
 Majefty: Why wilt thou, being the 
 Holy of Holies, and at an infinite dif. 
 tance from fin, be, initead of me, treated 
 as criminal of the highet treafon againtt 
 
 the 
 
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 the Divine Majefiy? Ah! the well-be~ 
 Joved of my foul, I will never go to 
 bed without cafting myfelf on my knees 
 upon my chamber floor, and there make 
 thee an honourable arhends, and a rea 
 paration of honour, and an entire fatis- 
 faction for fo many ourages which thou 
 haft vouchfafed to fuffer for the love 
 of me! I will imitate the penitent St. 
 Peter, and daily weep for my own fins, 
 and the fins of blafphemers and deniers 
 of the holy name of God. 
 
 Say a Pater and Ave for blafphemers 
 and deniers of the holy name of God, 
 that they may correct this execrable 
 fin, and make the A& of Contrition a¢ 
 before. 
 
 STATION VUI. 
 
 Lhe Palace of Herod, where our Saviour 
 
 _ was in derifion clothed with a white 
 garment. 
 
 ‘E_YEROD’s Palace has been totally 
 ruined, which now retains no- 
 
 thing cf its ancient magnificence. The 
 Deke houfe, 
 
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 houfe, built upon the old ruins, belongs 
 to a Turk, who lets no Chriftian go 
 into it. "Tis not to be imagined what, . 
 our dear Saviour there fuffered in poing. 
 of contempts, fcoffs, infults, and in- 
 juries. This Prince, after having firft 
 carefled and flattered him, in hopes to 
 fee him work miracles, perceiving he. 
 could not fo much as draw one word 
 from him, he, with all his court, deri- 
 ded him, treated him as a fool and mad-. 
 man, ordered him to be clothed in an old 
 white garment, and _fent him back te 
 Pilate in this ignominious garb, to fhew 
 his contempt of him. 
 
 Upon which let us fay to our merci-. 
 ful Lord, with the utmoft fentiments of 
 compaffion’ and grief, Ah! «my dear Sa- 
 viour, how many Herods are there ftill 
 in the world, even amongft Catholics, 
 who deride and fcoff at thee, and who 
 infult thee in thy churches, and before 
 thine altars, committing their irreve- 
 rences and immodefties, which they- 
 would be afhamed to be guilty of in the 
 houfe of any perfon of honour, OF 
 . with I could, at the expence of my 
 
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 very life, put a ftop to thofe infolent 
 facrileges, which, fooner or later, will 
 draw upon us the juft vengeance of 
 heaven! But how comes it, O charitable 
 Redeemer, that thou refufedft to {peak 
 the leaft word to King Herod? I ima~ 
 gine that he, having for three years 
 neglected to hearken to thy divine fer- 
 mons, deferved not to hear one word 
 from thy facred mouth. 
 
 Say a Pater and Ave for thofe who are 
 guilty of irreverences in churches, and 
 thofe that negleét to hear fermons, that 
 Almighty God may vouchfafe to con- 
 vert them, and make the AG of Contri- 
 tion as before, 
 
 STATION VIIL. 
 The Hall of Flageilation, where our Sa- 
 
 viour was torn with whips. 
 
 HE Hall, where our Saviour was 
 whipt, is feven or eight paces 
 {quare. The pillar to which our Sa- 
 viour was faftened, was in the middle 
 of it, and probably upheld the. vault, 
 C as 
 
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 as in St. Jerome’s time it fuftained the 
 ‘porch of the church of Mount Sion, 
 being ‘ftill {potted with blood. My 
 foul, enter with a facred horror into 
 this hall, there to contemplate the cruel- 
 eft and moft tragic fpectacle that can 
 be feen under heaven! Doft thou know 
 who it is they thus ftrip quite naked 
 and bind to a fatal pillar? ’Tis the Son 
 ‘of Mary, ’tis the Son of the Eternal 
 Father, tis Jefus thy Redeemer. In 
 what fhame and confufion nuit this 
 Man-God be, to fee himfelf expofed 
 naked to the impudent eyes of thefe 
 executioners, and the derifion of an in- 
 folent rabble. What! can no leaves be 
 found to cover the virgina) body of the 
 fecond Adam,. as .well as that of the 
 firft? OQ Seraphims, defcend quickly 
 from heaven to veil him with your 
 wings! O Sun, be eclipfed and hidé 
 thy light, thereby to fteal from the fight 
 of a croud of infamous wretches, this 
 facred flefh, which none but the angels 
 ought to look upon. But you execu. 
 tioners, why do you fo ftraitly bind the 
 delicate arms of this innocent Lamb? 
 
 Do 
 
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 Do not you know that ’tis the love 
 he bears to mankind, that makes him 
 embrace the pillar, and that no other 
 ties than his charity could poffibly faf- 
 ten him to it? O pillar! O that! had 
 been fo happy as to have ftood in thy 
 place, and to have been embraced by 
 my Saviour during the time of his fla- 
 gellation! Befides the honour of finding 
 myfelf in his arms, and enjoying his di- 
 vine embraces, I might perhaps have 
 faved him from fome of the ftripes by re- 
 ceiving them forhim. What dol ftop at? 
 Here are the executioners, loaded with 
 whips of knotted cords, rods of thorns 
 and iron chains, who furioufly begin to 
 difcharge a fhower of blows upon the 
 delicate and tender body of my dear 
 Saviour; éven ftriving to out-do each 
 other in cruelty, neither fparing arms, 
 legs, fides, or any part of him, upon 
 which they leave not horrible marks 
 and bloody traces of their diabolical 
 malice. Give over, unhappy wretches 5 
 ’tis enough, tis too much, “tis a moft 
 furprifing excefs which you commit 
 againft an innocent perfon, a King “of 
 
 C2 Heaven, 
 
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 Heaven, an only Son of God; his blood 
 runs in great ftreams ; the pavement, 
 the pillar, and walls, are ftained with it, 
 Ceafe, cruel executioners, ftop, in God’s 
 name. But what terrible voice do [ 
 hear, who cries out moft frightfully, 
 
 ' €¢ Strike, executioners, redouble your 
 blows, and fpare not this patient perfon 
 who is put into your hands, go beyond 
 five thoufand ftripes?” ’Tis the voice 
 of the Eternal Father. O Eternal 
 
 Father, where is thy mercy ? Where is. 
 
 thy juftice? Thy mercy having no 
 compaffion on thine only Son; thy juf- 
 tice having no regard to his innocence 5 
 but makeft him be tormented inftead of 
 the guilty. Thou knoweft ’tis our 
 crimes which have drawn upon him 
 the evils he fuffers. Is it not then more 
 juit that we fhould bear the pain. of 
 them ? ’Tis we that have offended ; 
 this innocent Lamb never did other 
 than pleafe and honour thee; why muft 
 he then be fo rigoroufly punifhed? Fil- 
 thy fins of the flefh, ’tis you that make- 
 this innocent and chafte Saviour un- 
 dérgo this ignominious and dolorous | 
 torment 
 
 = eee eee 
 
 ne ee ee eT 
 
 Sr a ee ee 
 
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 torment of the flagellation. I deteft you, 
 J abhor you, and I befeech Almighty 
 God to exterminate you out of the 
 world. 
 
 Say a Pater and Ave for the exter= 
 mination of filthy uncleannefs, and the 
 abominable fins of the flefh, and make 
 the Act of Contrition as before. 
 
 STATION IX, 
 
 Pilates Pretorium, where our Saviour 
 was crowned with thorns. 
 
 HE remains of Pilate’s Palace is 
 
 now the lodging of the Turkifh 
 Governor, whom the Grand Signior 
 fends every year to Jerufalem. One 
 cannot without grief look at the ancient 
 Pretorium, it being made ufe of as a 
 kitchen to an infidel. ’Tis a great 
 vaulted hall, where the Roman Prefi- 
 dents fat upon juftice. Formerly they 
 went up to it by a pair of ftairs of 
 twenty-eight fteps of marble, which 
 have been fince carried to Rome, and 
 are commonly called the Holy Stairs. 
 3 You 
 
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 You muft in fpirit place yourfelf in this 
 hall, there to fee your Saviour fuffer a 
 new kind and an unheard-of torment, 
 and which could have had no other in- 
 ventor than the Devil, difguifed under 
 human fhape. Scarce had the Man of 
 dolorous Jefus been untied from the 
 pillar, and dragged in his own blood te 
 his poor clothes, and put them on again, 
 but-the executioners, more cruel and 
 mercilefs than tigers, dragged him in 
 this lamentable condition into the Pre- 
 torium of Pilate’s Palace, there to be 2 
 common fport for all the foldiers that 
 were on guard. O fun! didft thoa 
 ever fee a more horrible diverfion than 
 this they are going to take at the ex 
 pence of my dolorous Redeemer! They 
 tudely pull off his clothes again, clo- 
 ven to his bleeding and torn fleth, judge 
 with what encreafe of.pain! They again 
 expofe his virginal flefh quite naked ta 
 the fight of that impudent rabble, con- 
 . €eive the confufion he muft have been 
 in! What do thefe mifereants pretend 
 tof To make a pitiful and dolorous 
 man of Jefus, they caft an. old fearlet 
 Or 
 
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 or purple garment. upon his fhoulders ; 
 they feat him upon an.old jafper pillar 
 as upon a throne; they put upon his 
 head a crown of thorns of fea-rufhes, 
 which had feventy-two long pricks : 
 they put a cane into his hand in form 
 of a feeptre. O how well is he here 
 placed, clothed, and royally crowned f 
 No mere ther remains but to treat him 
 as a mock-king ! Will they have the 
 courage to do it? What, is it pofible ~ 
 to infult a poor patient Man, imbrued 
 im blood, whofe body is quite torn and 
 wounded from head to foot ? No, fure 
 that is impoffible, unlefs Hell have a 
 hand in it. See how they frame to it - 
 one bends his knee to him, and feem- 
 ingly adores him, in faying, Hail, King 
 of the Jews, and at the fame time 
 ftrikes at him and fpits in his face. 
 Another takes the reed out of his hand, 
 and with it gives him great blows upon 
 his head, to make the thorns go the 
 deeper in. So did the reft of - them 
 ufe him in this manner, ftriving ta 
 exceed each other. O Heaven! O An- 
 gels! O God! can you fee this a 
 
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 ful and tragic fport, without breaking 
 out into lightning and thunder upon 
 the facrilegious heads of thofe who 
 have been the authors of it? Vanity, 
 ambition, and pride, ye are the caufe 
 of my Saviour’s being crowned with 
 thorns, ye have caufed thefe unmerci- 
 ful exceffes againft his facred head. En- 
 ter, my foul, into an extafy of grief 
 and contrition ; caft forth loud cries 
 againft thefe curfed fins; fay, with 
 fighing and fhedding floods of tears, 
 Sin of Vanity, I deteft thee; Sin of 
 Ambition, 1’ll exterminate thee; Sin of 
 Pride, Il] bury thee in the abyfs of 
 hell, with the devils and damned fouls, 
 that thou mayeft be no more thought of 
 amongft mankind, and that my moft 
 dear and merciful Saviour may be no 
 more crowned with thorns. 
 
 Say a Pater and Ave for the extir- 
 pation of the fin of vanity, ambition, 
 and pride, and the Act of Contrition as 
 before. 
 
 STA 
 
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 STATION X, : 
 The Arch or Balcony of the Ecce- Homos, 
 
 where our Saviour was put in compe= 
 tition with Barabbas, who was pre- 
 
 Serred before him. 
 , : VHE Arch of the Eece-Homo is 
 
 the remains of an ancient gallery 
 belonging to Pilate’s Palace, which 
 overlooks the great ftreet, from whence 
 the Roman Prefident might be feén and 
 {peak to the people. Pilate, having a 
 mind to fave the life of Jefus, whom 
 he knew to be innocent, made him go 
 up with him into this gallery, and front 
 thence fhewed him to the people in that 
 pitiful condition, retaining no Jonger 
 the figure of a man, {0 much was his 
 poor body fwelled, covered with blood, 
 bruifes, and fpittle; and to foften the 
 moft hardened hearts of the Jews, he 
 faid to them, ** Behold the’ Man,” 
 whom you purfue to death, more than 
 fufficiently punithed ! Are you not 
 content ? Shall I not fet him at liberty 
 without Proceeding any farther? Then 
 Was 
 
was raifed a general cry of the popu- 
 Jace, «* Away with this man out of our 
 fight, condemn him without delay to 
 the laft torment of the crofs.” ** But 
 he is innocent, fays Pilate, ‘would you 
 have me put a guiltlefs perfon to death, 
 and that thereby his blood cry out for 
 vengeance againft’ me?’ The people 
 then cry out more vehemently, ** He 
 is guilty of high treafon, both divine 
 and human, againft God and his So- 
 vercign. He has made himfelf God 3. 
 he has made himfelf King; he muft 
 die; let his blood be upon us, and upon 
 our children.” Pilate, to try all means 
 poflible to fave Jefus, faid to the people, 
 «© Now is your feaft of Pafch; there-: 
 fore, according to cuftom, | muft give: 
 life and liberty to one criminal: I pro-. 
 pofe two-to you, Barabbas, an infaq: 
 mous thief and murderer, who lately. 
 killed an honeft Burgefs, and this Je-~ 
 fus, who is faid to have wrought fo 
 many miracles for your fake, as curing 
 your fick, reftoring fight to your blind, 
 raifing your dead to life; which of the 
 two fhall I give you?” O heaven andy 
 earth, 
 
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 earth, be aftonifhed ! The populace, in- 
 ‘fluenced by the Scribes and Pharifees, 
 and, moved by a diabolical fpirit, cry 
 out many times, “* Releafe us Barab- 
 bas, and crucify Jefus! whoever would 
 fave the life of Jefus, is an-enemy to 
 Cefar!” Ah! my dear Saviour, thy life 
 is gone, thou art a dead man, fince Pi- 
 late is threatened with the lofs of Cz 
 far’s friendfhip ! 
 
 Make reflection, my foul, on the 
 comparifon made betwixt Jefus and 
 Barabbas, and upon the preference 
 which is made‘of Barabbas to Jefus ; 
 and after having well confidered both 
 indignities, move thyfelf toa juft indig- 
 nation, not againft the Jews, but againft 
 thyfelf, who fo often compareft thy own 
 intereft, honour, and pleafure, with Je= 
 fus; and who fo often giveft the prefe« 
 rence to thy intereft, honour, and plea- 
 fure, to the prejudice of the love and 
 fervice of Jefus. 
 
 Say a Pater and Ave for the perfons 
 who unfortunately prefer their temporal 
 intereft to the fervice of God and their 
 foul’s falvation, and the AG of Contri- 
 tion as before, 
 
 The 
 
The way of captivity finifbes at Pilate’s 
 Palace.-—The number of paces which 
 our Saviour walked in the road of cap- 
 tivity, til] his condemnation at Pilate’s 
 
 Houfe. 
 
 _ FROM the Garden of Olives to the 
 Houfe of Annas, father-in-law to Cai- 
 phas, there are about thirteen hundred 
 fteps or paces.--From the Houfe of 
 Annas to that of Caiphas, there are 
 two hundred and fixty fteps. From the 
 Houfe of .Caiphas to Pilate’s Palace, 
 there are about thirteen hundred fteps.—- 
 From Pilate’s Palace to that of Herod, 
 there are fixfcore fteps, and’ as many in 
 going back.--From the Palace of Pilate 
 to the Hall of Flagellation, there are 
 twenty-five fteps, and the fame in going” 
 back; which in all make three thoufand 
 ene hundred and fifty fleps or paces. 
 
 ‘Tut HOLY STAIRS. 
 
 OUR dear Saviour went three times 
 tip and down the ftairs of Pilate’s Pa- 
 laces 
 
SO 
 
 a } 
 Jace, which ate called the Holy Stairs, 
 and are now at Rome. The firft time 
 he wént up them, was in coming from 
 Caiphas. The firft time he went 
 down them; was when he went to 
 Herod. He went up them the fecond 
 time in returning from Herod. He 
 went down them the fecond time, when 
 he went to the Hall of Flagellation. He 
 afcended them the third time; when hé 
 went from the hall where he was feour« 
 ged, and he defcended theth the third 
 time, when he went to Calvary. Thefe 
 tairs are fo venerated at Romie, that 
 when the Pope goes up them, he does 
 it on his knees, and {0 do all Chri@ians 
 
 according to his example. 
 The way which is betwixt Pilate’s 
 
 Palace and Calvary, is ealled the do- 
 
 lorous way, becaufe our Saviour walked 
 this way, being condemned to death, 
 torn and all over bloody with the cruel 
 flagellation, his. head crowned with 
 therns, and earrying his erofs, 
 
 D STA- 
 
Cd 
 
 STATION XI. 
 
 The place where the Bliffed Virgin fell 
 into an extafy of grief at the Sight of 
 our Saviour, her Sony carrying his crofs 
 to Calvary. 
 
 HE tradition of Jerufalem is, that 
 
 the Bleffed Virgin, having been 
 advertifed by St. John Evangelift, that 
 her dear Son Jefus was condemned to 
 death, and that with his body quite torn 
 in pieces with the lathes of the whips, 
 his head pierced with thorns, he was 
 carrying his crefs upon his fhoulders to 
 Calvary, in the company of two thieves, 
 fhe went to meet him, pierced to the 
 very bottom of her heart with the fword 
 of forrow, of ‘which the holy old man 
 Simeon foretold her the day of her pu- 
 rification, and in a lamentable manner 
 faid to the crowd of people and the fol- 
 diers who hindered her paflage, Let a 
 poor afilicted mother pafs by, let her, 
 for the laft time, fee her dear and only 
 Son! And that at a convenient diftance 
 having got a fight ef him, in the ing 
 
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 and disfigured condition he was in, fhe 
 caft forth loud cries, and addreffed this 
 fpeech to him in a moft lamentable 
 manner, and interrupted by fobs: ¢ My 
 moft amiable Jefus, is it thou I fee? | 
 no longer know thee! Look at me, the 
 dear child of my womb! And that our 
 Blefled Saviour having wiped his eyes, 
 covered with blood and fpittle, to look 
 at her, fhe fell into an extafy of grief, 
 fuch as are called fwoons, in the arms 
 of St. John Evangelift and St. Mary 
 Magdalene, who accompanied her. 
 _ They fhew to this day the ruins of a 
 little chapel, formerly built in honour 
 of this devout and mournful myftery. 
 You muft here fay to the Blefled 
 Virgin, O Mother of God, ’tis with 
 good reafon we ftile thee our dolorous 
 Lady. Was there ever in the world a 
 mother more worthy of compaffion than’ 
 thyfelf? I will deeply engrave in my 
 foul the. idea of this affiGing meeting, 
 and, if poffible, remember it every day 
 of my life, that I may condole with 
 thee for the grief thou fuferedt in it. 
 D 2 Say 
 
INT IO Og I eS NE SE. aT pe 
 
 ( 40 ) 
 Say a Pater and Ave for all that are 
 
 fick, and the At of Contrition as bee 
 fore. 
 
 STATION XII, 
 
 Phe place-where our Saviour Teh unde 
 the burden of his crofs, was raifed upy 
 aud helped to carry it by Simon the 
 Cyrencan. 
 
 “Rf SHE better to comprehend this fall, 
 & you muft remark that the crofs 
 
 was fifteen feet long and eight broad, | 
 
 and of a proportionable thicknefs, and 
 confequently it muft have been very 
 heavy ; that. our dear Redeemer’s 
 firength was exhaufted, upon account 
 of his agony, his bloody fweat, and all 
 the fatigues of the foregoing night, ag 
 likewife upon account of the cruel and 
 fenfible torments he had undergone, 
 and the great lofs of blood he had fuf. 
 fered during the time of his feourging 
 and crowning with thorns; that he 
 had no refrefhment fince the Laft Sup- 
 per, but a isttle cold, muddy water, 
 which 
 
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 i 
 
aie ee 
 which he had drank in falling into the 
 brook Cedron; that the. mercilefs. fol- 
 diers gaye him no time to breathe, but 
 forced him on -by the blows they gave 
 him, and put him quite out of breath; 
 that the end of the crofs dragged upon 
 the ground, which being very un- 
 evenly paved, continually hit his head 
 with terrible jolts, and {truck the crown 
 of thorns the deeper in; that the mourn- 
 ful meeting of his dear and tender Mo- 
 ther mortally afflicted, -hhad wounded his 
 very heart: (hus all thefe things con< 
 curring together, made our dear Saviour 
 fall under the weight of his crofs. 
 ' Contemplate then, my foul, thy cha- 
 ritable Redeemer half crufhed under 
 the preffing tree of God’s juftice. See 
 how his precious blood runs from each 
 part of his body, and ftains the pave+ 
 ment on which he fallss Hear the juft 
 complaints he makes againft finners, 
 who ceafe-not by their continual offen= 
 ces to make his crofs weigh more heavy, 
 and thereby increafe his torment. 
 What! fhall there be no one found who 
 has compaflion on him, and that helps 
 D 3 hin 
 
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 him to rife up again, and to walk to the 
 end of his career? Every one has a hore 
 ror of the crofs; no body will touch ity 
 deft it fhould make them infamous ; 
 threats and promifes muft be ufed to 
 oblige a ftranger, who cafyally paf- 
 fes by, to give a helping hand. O for» 
 tunate Simon Cyrenean, didf thou 
 but know the honour the Jews do thee 
 without thinking on it! Thou art, un- 
 known to thee, the colleague of 2 
 Man-God, the coadjutor of the Re- 
 deemer of mankind, the bearer of the 
 inftrument of the world’s falvation, 
 Affociate me to thy glorious office of 
 carrying the crofs, that, accompanying 
 Jefus in his paffion, I may deferve to 
 accompany him in his glory, 
 
 Say a Pater and Ave for the enemies 
 of the crofs, and the AG@ of-Contrition 
 as before. 
 
 STA. 
 
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 STATION XIII, 
 | Fhe place where the holy women of Ferus 
 
 Salem wept over our Saviour. 
 
 ' HIS is the firft comfort our dear 
 i Lord received in the fufferings of 
 his paffion. A number of devout wo- 
 men, who had affifted at his divine fers 
 mons, and had been eye-witnefles of 
 his miracles, feeing him pafs by in fo 
 Jamentable a condition, fo unworthy of 
 his reputation and the efteem in which 
 he had fo lately been, were moved with 
 an extreme compaffion, and, by a ten- 
 dernefs of heart fo natural to their fex, 
 ‘began to caft forth mournful Cries, and 
 to make moft doleful lamentations, 
 - fhedding ftreams of tears, 
 
 This public teftimony of gtief and 
 condolence which they fave our Sa- 
 viour, was moft juft and commendable, 
 and one may fay one can f{carce weep 
 from a better motive, than to fympa- 
 thize with our fuffering Saviour, Ne. 
 verthelefs our Bleffed Redeemer, turns 
 ing towards them, faid, Daughters of 
 
 Jerufalem, 
 
( 44) 
 Jerufalem, weep not for me, but for 
 yourfelves and your children; becaufe 
 if they do thefe things to the greén tree, 
 what will they do to the dry? That 
 is to fay, if the innocent be fo rigo- 
 roufly punifhed, what torments may not 
 the guilty expect? and if the only Son 
 of God ts delivered over to the death of 
 the crofs for the fins he has not com- 
 mitted, have finners, who are but his 
 flaves, any réeafon to promife themfelves 
 a freedom from the punifhment due to 
 their crimes? You muft here remark 
 that our Saviour:does not condemn the 
 tears they fhed through compaffion to 
 his fufferings, but intimates that he had 
 rather that they fhould deplore the fins 
 that have caufed his fufferings. O what 
 a fine employ!.O what a divine occu- 
 pation, to lament one’s own fins, and 
 the fins of the world, with a dolorous 
 fenfe of contrition |! O how agreeable a 
 ' {pectacle is it to the eyes of the angels, 
 and even to thofe of Almighty Gad, to 
 fee a Chriftian foul upon its knees, 
 with tears in its eyes, and fobs in its 
 - heart, weeping before a crucifix for the 
 
 fin 
 
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( 45 ) 
 
 fins which are daily committed again 
 his Divine Majefty, and which crucify 
 Jefus Chrift anew, as St. Paul fays. 
 omen of quality, as St. Chryfoftom 
 yemarks, to give the greater luitre to. 
 their beauty, wear rich ear-rings of 
 pearls, &c. But holy fouls, to appear 
 more beautiful in the eyes of God and 
 his angels, fhew their faces bedewed 
 with tears of contrition. Thefe tears, 
 fays St. Bernard, are a precious wine, 
 an aromatical wine, a wine moft celef- 
 tial and divine, which is prefented te 
 God’s own table by the hands of an- 
 gels. Thefe tears, fays St. Hilary, 
 perform for us, with God, the office of 
 ambafladors, and obtain for us, of his 
 poctatie the pardon of our offences. 
 how miraculous are thefe tears! they 
 yun down and go up; they are filent, 
 and yet {peak aloud; they dry up in 
 Malling to the ground, and are moft 
 earcfully preferved in the treafury of 
 heaven. David heard them earneftly 
 plead his caufe without uttering a word, 
 and petition efficacioufly for the pardon 
 of bis erlme without fpeaking. Here is 
 the 
 
as (le 
 the reafon why he faid to God, “ Aus ; 
 ribus percipe lacrymas meas,” Lord, 
 give ear to my tears, and hear my weep- 
 ing. The holy prophet, Jeremiah, 
 ‘made ufe of the filent eloquence of his 
 ‘weeping eyes, to appeafe Cod’s anger 
 and move him to compaffion, and ex-- 
 cited the city of Jerufalem to do as he 
 had done. “ Non taceat pupilla oculi 
 tui ;” give neither reft nor triice to the 
 apple of thine eye, make it inceflantly 
 cry out to God by its tears, St. Peter, ; 
 after having three times denied his good 
 
 Mafter, wept fo much for his fin, that 
 he effaced with his tears, as with a 
 f{punge, the ftain of his tripple dénial ; 
 and St. Mary Magdalene, after having 
 withered the flower of her youth in-a 
 libertine and impure life,’ cleanfed her- 
 felf fo perfetly in the baptifm of her- 
 tears, that fhe furpafled feveral holy vir- 
 gins in purity. 
 
 I beg of thee then, my God, this fo 
 
 falutary and precious gift of the tears of 
 contrition; and that | may obtain it, I 
 conjure thee to pive it me, by the tears 
 which my dear Saviour poured forth 
 during 
 
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 during the courfe of his life and 
 paffion. 
 
 Say a Pater and Ave, to beg of God 
 the gift of the tears of contrition, and 
 the Act of Contrition as before. 
 
 STATION XIV. 
 
 The houfe of the pious Veronica, who with 
 her veil wiped our Lord’s face, which 
 "Was quite covered with fweat, bloody 
 
 and fpittle. 
 
 HIS is one of the actions moft ex- 
 
 _ preflive of compaffion that was 
 ever performed in favour of our fuffering 
 Redeemer. The devout Veronica was 
 employed in {fpinning, when, hearing 
 the tumult and clamours’ of an infinite 
 multitude of people and “foldiers who 
 conducted our Saviour to the place of 
 execution, fhe quickly rifes, looks out 
 of her door, cafts her eyes in the middle 
 of the croud, and perceives her Re- 
 deemer, who fends forth a ray of his 
 countenance, and by the light of faith 
 affures her he is the Son of God. At 
 this 
 
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 this fight, quite tranfported out of hers 
 felf, fhe takes her veil, cafts herfelf into. 
 the ftreet, runs amongft the officers of 
 juftice and the foldiers, without heeding 
 the injuries and blows they gave her, 
 and places herfelf before our Lord, 
 whofe face’ was quite covered with 
 blood and fweat ; fhe proftrates at his 
 feet, fhe adores him notwithftanding alk 
 the oppofition they make, and with her 
 veil folded in three doubles, fhe wipes 
 his face, obfcuréd under the cloud of the 
 fins of the world. Go, generous foul, 
 thou art the incomparable ome, thou 
 haft not thy parallel upon earth! In 
 the time the whole univerfe confpires 
 again{t the life of thy Saviour; at a timé 
 when God his Father has abandoned 
 him. into the hands of finners; at a time 
 when the angels of peace weep bitterly, 
 without being able to afift him; at a 
 time when his apoftles left, betrayed, 
 and denied him; at a time when his 
 holy Mother, the Blefled Virgin, by a 
 tranfport of grief, has infinitely added 
 to his affi@tion; at a time when the’ 
 whole city of Jerufalem purfues his 
 
 death 
 
( 49 ) 
 
 death and crucifixion; at a time when 
 *tis a crime and a facrilege to own him 
 to be a good man, thou doeft re» 
 verence him as thy Meffiah! Thou 
 adoreft him as thy God! Thou giveft 
 him refrefhment and comfort in the 
 midft of his greateft enemies. Trely 
 thou deferveft an immortality of glory 
 In time and in eternity ! and our Sa- 
 viour has made thee, his holy Mother 
 excepted, the ineftimable richeft prefent, 
 by having given thee his picture, thrice 
 imprinted on the three doubles of thy 
 veil. Extend this veil before the four 
 parts of the univerfe; fhew to all man- 
 kind, the fad and disfigured face of a 
 fuffering God. Preach, by thy pic~ 
 tures, the paflion of Jefus Chritt, far- 
 ther and in more different places than 
 the apoftles have preached it. For my 
 part I promife thee that, as long as f£ 
 live, I’li venerate thee, upon account of 
 this heroic act of charity, and that, liv- 
 ing and dying, I fhall ever retain the 
 remembrance in my mind and in my 
 mouth, the name of the incomparable 
 Veronica. 
 
 E Say 
 
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 Say a Pater and Ave for the preachers 
 of Jefus Chrift crucified, and the A& 
 or Contrition as before. 
 
 STATION XV 
 
 The judiciary -Gate, where our Bleffed 
 Saviour beard the Sentence of death 
 read. 
 
 a IS the gate through which they 
 formerly went from ferufalem 
 to the place of execution, called Cal- 
 vary, upon account of the many {culls 
 that were there. There is flill to this 
 day fome remains of that gate, and a 
 pillar to which they fay was ufed to be 
 faftened the fentence of death pro- 
 nounced againft the criminal who was 
 led to execution, to the end that as he 
 pafled through it, it fhould be read 
 aloud to him, and thereby all the people 
 be informed what it was that had con- 
 ftrained the judges to condemn him to 
 death. 
 Contemplate then, my fou!, how our 
 divine Saviour, being arrived. .at., this 
 fatal 
 
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 fatal gate, places himfelf upon his knees, 
 that, with the more humility, he might 
 hear his laft fentence read. They de- 
 clare to him that he is attainted and 
 convicted of the crime of the higheft 
 treafon, both divine and human, for 
 having affected divinity and royalty : 
 the divinity, in faying he was God’s 
 own Son; the royalty, in declaring 
 himfelf the King of the Jews; and 
 that, in punifhment of this double ate 
 tempt, which in enormity furpaffes all 
 Others, he is condemned to die upon an 
 infamous crofs, to which he fhould be 
 nailed betwixt two thieves. Can one 
 imagine a greater heart-breaking than 
 what our Lord then fuffered? He who 
 for four thoufand years had been pro- 
 mifed to the Jews; he who had been 
 preficured by fo many patriarchs; he who 
 had been announced by fo many pro- 
 phets; he who had wrought fo many 
 prodigies and miracles to make himfelf 
 known; to fee himfelf reproved, treated 
 as an impoftor and blafphemer, and cons 
 demned to the death of the crofs by his 
 well-beloved people and favourites; truly 
 nothing more afflicting and infupportable 
 
 L 2 can 
 
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 can be imagined ! Neverthelefs this fweet 
 Lamb of God hears, without complaint 
 or murmuring, the unjutt fentence of his 
 condemnation, and moft willingly fub- 
 mits to it, to fatisfy his Eternal Father’s 
 jeftice, and fave mankind by dying. I 
 am infinitely indebted to thee, my Lord 
 and Redeemer, for fo exceffive a chae 
 rity; I give thee a thoufand thanks for 
 it; and as a teftimony of my acknow- 
 Jedgments thereof, | will, from hence- 
 forward, fubmit to the hardeft orders of 
 thy divine providence, and with refpeé 
 kifs thy hand whenever it hall pleafe 
 to affli& me. 
 
 Say a Pater and Ave for the inno» 
 cent who are unjuftly oppreffed, and the 
 Ac of Contrition as before. 
 
 The number of fteps which our Saviour of 
 the world walked in the dolorous WAY 
 crowned with thorns and carrying bis 
 
 crofs. 
 FROM Pilate’s Palace, to the arch of 
 
 the *“* Ecce Homo,” there are feventy 
 fteps or paces. From the arch of the 
 “* Fece 
 
nce: Bea, 
 
 te Ecce Homo,” to the place of the do- 
 Jorous meeting of the Bleffed Virgin, 
 there are a hundred fteps. From that 
 place, to the crofs-way where our Sa- _ 
 viour fell under his crofs, was raifed up, 
 and helped to carry it by Simon Sy- 
 renean, there are.forty fteps. From that 
 crofs-way, to the place where the holy 
 women wept over our Lord, there are 
 ten fleps. From that place, to the lite 
 tle habitation of Veronica, there are a 
 hundred and feventy fteps. From Ves 
 ronica’s houfe, to the Judiciary-Gate, 
 where our Saviour went out of Jerufa= 
 lem, there are fixty fteps. From the 
 Judiciary-Gate, to the foot of Calvary, 
 there are two hundred fteps. From the 
 foot of Calvary, to the top, there were 
 at that time about fifty fleps; which, in 
 ‘all, makes feven hundred iteps. 
 
 E 3 ST A- 
 
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 STATION xXvr. 
 
 Caluary, where our Lord was crucified 
 betwixt two thieves, 
 
 ALVARY was a high rock, out 
 C of the city of Jerufalem, which 
 ferv d for a place of execution where 
 criminals fuffered death : ’tis now in the 
 middle of the town, enclofed within a. 
 church, and changed into a fine chapel 
 of twenty-four feet fquare; they go up 
 to it by nineteen fteps, but fteeper than 
 thofe that are ufed in houfes. One fees 
 there the place of the crucifixion, that 
 is to fay, the place where the’ crofs was 
 thrown down when Chrift was nailed 
 to it. One fees there the hole where 
 the crofs was fixed after our Lord was 
 mailed to it. One fees there the place 
 from whence the Bleffed Virgin, St. 
 John ELvangelift, St. Mary Magdalene, 
 and the devout women, contemplated 
 with grief the bloody tragedy of the 
 crucifixion. One fees there the places 
 where the crofles of the two thieves were 
 fixed. he good thief’s was placed 
 
 four 
 
a ee Se 
 four feet and a half from our Saviour’e, 
 and the bad thief’s crofs was fix feet 
 diftant- from our Lord’s, © One {ees 
 there the miraculous cleft of Calvary, 
 which was made by the earthquake 
 which happened at our Saviour’s death ; 
 *tis within a foot of the hole where the 
 impenitent thief’s. crofs was planted, 
 and it made a myfterious feparation be~ 
 twixt our dear Saviour and that bad 
 thief. This chapel is the moft holy place’ 
 in the world. ’Twas there that Jefus 
 Chrift, the Son of God, operated the 
 redemption of mankind by dying upon 
 the crofs; ’tis there you mult often 
 enter in fpirit to make the following 
 contemplation. Our Saviour, being at 
 the foot of Calvary, found himfelf fo 
 weakened, and his ftrength fo exhaufted, 
 that, to encourage him to go up it, they 
 ave him wine mingled with myrrh. 
 ae he would not accept of this com- 
 fort, nor permit them to difcharge him 
 from the burden of his crofs, defiring, 
 as another Ifaac, to carry his wood to 
 the place of facrifice. O what had he 
 to fuffer in mounting this rugged and 
 
 uneven 
 
Lae F . 
 uneven rock! How often were his’ fa- 
 éred feet cut by the fharp points which 
 he run againft! How many horrible 
 jolts did not his crofs give to his crown 
 of thorns,’ renewing the wounds of his 
 head! As foon as he was come to the 
 top, they made him lay his crofs down 
 upon the ground, in the place of the 
 erucifixion, and whilft one part of the 
 foldiers prepared the hammers, nails, 
 cords, and other inftruments of his tor- 
 ments, whilft another fet of them bored 
 the holes, nailed the title to the crofs, 
 and digged the hole where it was to be 
 planted, they flripped him quite naked 
 a third time, and by ftripping him of 
 his cloaths, renewed all the wounds of 
 his flagellation. *Twas a moft lamen- 
 table ipectacle to fee our dear Saviour’s 
 body al! rent and bloody. The execu- 
 tioners faid to him, Poor man, ’tis timé 
 te put an end to thy miferable life, lie 
 down upon this dolorous bed of ‘the 
 crofs! Some of the moft mercilefs 
 amoneft them take him by the hair and 
 beard, and throw him upon the hard 
 wood. See in what manner he’ was 
 fi crucified ; 
 
c 97 3 
 erucified: They take his right-hand, 
 and placing it upon a hole made on 
 purpofe in the crofs, they nail it down 
 (as is related) by thirteen great blows 
 of a hammer. What exceffive pain ! 
 a part fo nervous, full of mufcles, ten- 
 dons, veins, atid: arteries, to be bored 
 through with a great nail! As many 
 blows of the hammer as were given to 
 our Saviour’s hand, fo many martyr- 
 doms did he endure, and fo did his holy 
 Mother, who in her heart felt the 
 blows. After the right-hand, they 
 took the left; but as all the nerves and 
 mufcles were drawn up and fhrunk, it 
 would not reach the hole that was made 
 for it; therefore, with all their ftrength, 
 they drew and forced it to the place 
 prepared for it. “Phink with what fen- 
 fations of pain they bored and nailed 
 this other hand by thirteen more great 
 ftrokes of the hammer! O what blood 
 poured forth from thefe two hands ! 
 When they began to nail the two feet, 
 what force and violence were they not 
 obliged to ufe to make them reach the 
 holes prepared. ‘They nailed them one 
 
 after 
 
a 
 
 after the other, each by eighteen great 
 blows of the hammer. “OQ holy Virgin, 
 ene might truly fay you then fuffered a 
 fea of dolours! See then the Man of Grief 
 crucified; nothing now remains but to 
 raife the crofs, and to place it in the 
 hole dug for it. Executioner, fpare a 
 little this patient fufterer; do not thake 
 him too roughly, for the leaft jog will 
 make him endure a -new martyrdom, 
 But to whom do I fpeak? I {peak to 
 -mercilefs creatures, who not content to 
 drag the crofs.after a rude manner, but 
 dikewife let it fall into the trench with 
 fuch an impetuous rufh, that, as it was 
 revealed to St, Mechilda, our Saviour, 
 during the whole courfe of his paffion, 
 never fuffered fo fenfible a pain. Stop 
 here, my foul; proftrate.thyfelf before 
 the crofs; enibrace the feet of thy dying 
 Saviour; mix the tears of thine eyeg 
 with the blood of his veins ; exprefs the 
 utmoft regret for having offended him, 
 and obliged him by thy fins to die fo 
 eruel and difgracefal a death.  Addrefs 
 thyfelf to him with a heart pierced with’ 
 eontrition ; Adorable Jefus! ’rwas my 
 sarin fins 
 
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 fins that caufed thy death; ’twas my 
 fins that crowned thee with thorns, and 
 drove the nails into thy hands and feet; 
 7twas my fins that faftened thee to the 
 crofs. Ah! great God! amiable cru- 
 cified Man! pardon me, and have mercy 
 on me. Mercy, my God, merey, Vi 
 never offend thee more, which [ public} 
 ly proteft to thee; and I conjure thee, by 
 the blood which ran from thy veins, by 
 thy head pierced with thorns, and by 
 thy hands and feet bored through with 
 hails, to receive.me into thy favour, 
 and to give a general abfolution of all 
 my pat offences. The bowing down 
 of thy head in.expiring, is a fign thou 
 ‘pardoneit me, which 1 will make. ufe 
 
 of as a powerful motive never to offend 
 thee more. Vouchfafe then, O adorable 
 Jefus, to accept of my good refolution, 
 and, bleffing me with thy crofs, never 
 permit fin to draw me from obedience 
 to thy divine will. - 
 
 Say here a Pater and Ave, to obtain. 
 grace to avoid fin, and the A&t of Con» 
 trition.as before, 
 
 STAs 
 
( 60 ) 
 STATION. XVII. 
 
 Lhe Holy Sepulchre, where the dead body 
 of Chrift was buried. 
 
 OSEPH of Arimathea had ordered a 
 fepulchre to be cut out of a rock for 
 himfelf, on the defcent of Calvary, 
 which joined to his garden, but he gave 
 it to our Lord, his good Matter, thro® 
 affection and to honour him. ’Tis like 
 a little room, being about feven feet 
 {quare and eight high. There is within, 
 a raifed place cut in the rock in the 
 form of an altar, upon which our dear 
 Saviour’s body was laid. The door be» 
 longing to it is very low, and one muft 
 ftoop low to go through it. This holy 
 fepulchre feems now to be parted from 
 Calvary, fince, to build the church 
 which inclofeth them both, ’twas necef- 
 fary to hew and plane off a great part 
 of the rock. It is, as it were, enchafed 
 in a pretty chapel, which ferves as a 
 cafe and prefervative to it. Forty-three 
 little filver lamps, and one of gold en~ 
 riched with jewels, burn day and night 
 im 
 
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 in that facred place, which makes it vety 
 clofe and ftifling. ; 
 
 Enter, in thought and with affection, 
 this holy fanétuary, Chriftian foul, 
 there to render the laft funeral duties 
 to thy Redeemer; thou haft followed 
 him every ftep through all the ftations 
 of his paffion and death, accompany 
 him to his tomb. Here is what thou 
 haft to confider: As foon as our deaf 
 Saviour had expired and rendered his 
 {pirit into the hands of God his Father, 
 Jofeph of Arimathea, a man of great 
 note, went boldly to Pilate to-beg thé 
 body, that he might give it an honouré 
 able burial in his own tomb, where no 
 one had ever been lain; and having obs 
 tained. it, he took the pains himfelf, 
 with another confiderable perfon called 
 Nicodemus, and John the beloved dif= 
 ciple, to take it down from the crofs, 
 The Blefled Virgin received this holy 
 depofitum into her arms. Think with 
 what fentiments of grief and maternal 
 affection! My Son, faid fhe, who has 
 put thee to death after fo cruel a mané 
 rier? Whe has fo horribly disfigured 
 
 F thee ? 
 
thee? O adorable head! worthy to weat 
 the crown of eternal glory, who has 
 pierced thee with thorns? O face, full of 
 charms and attraCtives, which ravifhed 
 the angels, who has robbed thee of all 
 thy beauty and graces? QO» beautiful 
 eyes, brighter than the fun, who has 
 eclipfed thy light?’ O cheeks, O lips, 
 O mouth, fo virmilioned and florid, 
 who has tarnifhed thy delightful. co- 
 Jour? Is it thou: that waft the mot 
 beautiful of mankind? From whence 
 then comes this livid palenefs, thefe 
 contufions, thefe bruifes, thefe wounds, 
 this congealed blood, this fpittle, this 
 deformity ! O facred breaft! O opened 
 fide! O heart pierced with a lance! O 
 veins, emptied of all thy blood! O back; 
 torn with fcourges of whips, iron chains, 
 and thorns! O diflocated arms! © hands 
 and feet pierced with nails! Is it. thy 
 body that I fee, my dear Son, or that of 
 fome criminal? Ah! 1 know but too well 
 that it. is thy own. Let, me then kifs 
 this divine body which has been. fo il} 
 ufed ; let me adore thee, and repair, by 
 kifles and ARoraHans, the outrages which 
 
 é thou 
 
t. 8) 
 thow haft received; but lef me, in a pare 
 ticular manner, kifs this open fide, this 
 fource of love and:charity, this door of 
 ‘thy heart; let me enter into it; let mé 
 there remain hidden all the reft of my 
 life, and if any one have a mind to find 
 mie, let them feek me in this fide, burn 
 ing with love. ie 
 Whilft the Bleffed Virgin made thefe 
 mournful complaints over the dead body 
 of herdear Son, Mary Magdalene was 
 likewife not deficient in’ making her | 
 doleful lamentations over her dear Ma- 
 fter’s body. Ah! faid fhe, pouring | 
 forth a torrent of tears, and tearing off 
 her fine hair with extreme grief and 
 anguifh, Ah! can I bear to fee my Jefus 
 dead without me, or can I live any 
 longer without him? No, no, love muft 
 crucify me. Divine love, here is m 
 body, [am content it fhould die; here 
 are my hands and feet, pierce them 
 with thy nails; here are my members, 
 imprint on them my Saviour’s wounds. 
 O that I-could by my fufferings redeem ~ 
 the hfe of my amiable Jefus, whom I 
 fee dead! I would fuffer(a thoufand 
 ett: in 2 martyrdoms 
 
( 64 ) 
 
 martyrdoms to give him one moment. 
 of life. But all is over, ke is dead, he 
 breathes no more; all his members are 
 cold and motionlefs, no more figns of 
 life remain in him. Magdalene, you 
 muft then here die in this place of exes 
 Cution, you muft die at the feet of this 
 charitable Saviour, who has loved you 
 fo much; or, if it be not permitted you 
 to die fo foon, you muft lead a dying 
 life amidft fighs, fobs, and tears; and 
 if creatures afk you the reafon of it, 
 tell them confidently, that the faithful 
 lover, Magdalene, ‘has declared fhe will 
 for ever weep for the death of her 
 amiable Lord. 
 _ After that the Blefled Virgin and 
 Mary Magdalene had fatisfied the tene 
 dernefs of their affection towards theiv 
 dead Saviour, the three perions aboves 
 named embalmed his divine body with 
 a great quantity of myrrh, aloes, and 
 other aromatical fpices, wrapped it up in 
 three fine linens, or winding-fheets, and 
 Jaid it in the fepulchre. Vis in this 
 fepulchre, Chriftian foul, thou mutt 
 eltablifh thy dwelling ; tis in this fee. 
 
 pulchre 
 
Hee en | oly sO502) : 
 pulchre thou mutt live and dies ’tis in 
 this fepulchre thou muft bury thyfelf 
 with Jefus Chrift, there to lead a re- 
 tired and folitary life, a life dead to the 
 world, and to all the vanities of ‘the 
 age, a rigorous and penitent life. ”Tis 
 in this-hole of the rock thou muft hide 
 thyfelf to figh, lamént, and’ weep all 
 the reft of thy days, the paffion and 
 death of thy amiable Redeemer; and by 
 fighing, lamenting, and weeping fo 
 holily, prepare thyfelf to die well. 
 
 Say a Pater and Ave to obtain a‘ten-= 
 der dévotion to. our Saviour’s paffion, 
 and grace to die happily, and the Ac 
 of Contrition as before. PPL) 
 
 STATION XVII. 
 
 Mount Olivet, From whence our Saviour 
 afcended glorioufly into heaven, after 
 his refurreétion from the dead. 
 
 9 IS but juft, that after having fo 
 T much lamented the death and 
 
 paflion of our Lord, to rejoice with hint 
 
 in his glorious refurre€tion and triumph- 
 
 : ae ant 
 
( 66.) 
 
 ant afcenfion into heaven; fince thefe 
 two glorious and triumphant myfteries 
 have made him tafte the fruits of his do- 
 lorous terments, and are the illuftrious 
 and worthy recompences of them. And 
 though the refurreétion was at the fepul- 
 chre, neverthelefs, to celebrate it with 
 the greater order, folemnity, and joy, 
 part it from the place we have juft been 
 fecing the Bleficd Virgin and St. Mary 
 Magdalene caft forth their fighs and 
 fhed fo many tears,. and. | transfer it to 
 the top of Mount Olivet to join it with 
 the afcenfion. 
 
 The Mount of ‘Olives faces Jerufa- 
 jem on its eaft fide, at a thoufand paces 
 diftant, there being nothing but~the 
 Vale of Jofaphat betwixt them. It has 
 three points or tops; the middlemoft is 
 the higheft, it having fix hundred fteps 
 in height. Onevfees ftill upon it the 
 impreffion of our Saviour’s left foot, 
 which he left, in afcending into heaven, 
 imprinted on the rock. 
 
 fo make a good conclufion of the 
 Stations of our Crucified Redeemer’s 
 Paftion, we mutt in fpirit tran{port our- 
 
 _ felves 
 
key D4 
 
 felves on this facred mount, and join 
 ourfelves to the five hundred difciples 
 who were prefent at his afcenfion, there 
 to contemplate with joy the infinite 
 glory of the charitable Redeemer of 
 mankind, and with how much advan~ 
 tage the fufferings of this life are rew 
 warded in the other. What a difference 
 is there betwixt Jefus Chrift crucified 
 and Jefus Chrift glorified! My foul, 
 admire this body which is fo beautiful, 
 this glorious body, this impaffible body, 
 this immortal body, this body a thou- 
 fand times more refplendent than the 
 fun in his higheft meridian. Admire 
 this head crowned with a diadem, wo- 
 ven with as many ftars as it has fuffered 
 pricks of thorns. Admire the five 
 wounds of the hands, feet, and fide, 
 which in one moment caft forth more 
 light than the fun and ftars have given 
 fince their creation. Admire this charm-= 
 ing face, upon which it feems that the 
 Divinity has made itfelf vifible, thereby 
 to become the more amiable. Admire 
 the mein and carriage, the countenance, 
 the majefly, the glory, the pomp, the 
 
 {plendor, 
 
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 fplendor, the train, of this Jefus, who 
 ‘was fo lately called the man of dolours. 
 See how he afcends the heavens by his 
 own power, in the midft of thoufands 
 ‘and thoufands of angels, who fing his 
 victories and triumphs. Conjfider the 
 infinite ‘multitude’ of thefe illuftrious 
 captives. whom he delivered by his 
 death, glorified by his refurreGtion, and 
 that he leads to heaven at his afcenfion, 
 And after having contemplated all thefe 
 ‘wonders, cry out with St. Paul, Videmus 
 ede propter paffionem mortis gloria F 
 
 onore coronatum: We fee Jefus crowne 
 ed with glory and honour, in recom- 
 pence of his death and paffion. O pal. 
 fion! O fufferings! O death of my Sa- 
 viour! 1 blefs thee, I plorify thee, I 
 confecrate my mind to think continue 
 ally on thee, my heart to have an eter- 
 nal affeCtion for thee, my tongue to 
 {peak often of thee, my ears molt wil- 
 lingly to hear thee fpoken of, my eyes 
 to look devoutly at the images and pic- 
 tures that are made of thee, my feet to 
 go the ofteneft I can to the church to 
 hear 
 
 & 
 
( 69 ) ; 
 hear thee praifed, and my whole body 
 to fuffer fomething for the love of thee. 
 
 Accept, my. dear Redeemer, accept, 
 my crucified Jefus, the good-will thou 
 now giveft me, and conferve it to the 
 end of my life, and permit no one, who 
 has had a cordial devotion to the fta- 
 tions of thy paffion and death, to perith 
 or be eternally damned. Amen. 
 
 Say a Pater and Ave for the increafe 
 of the devotion to the facred Stations, 
 and for the Author of them, and make 
 the Act of Contrition as before in the 
 firft Station. 
 
 Powerful 
 
e ‘ 
 , ‘ 
 ’ Fai ame seen SS 
 y 
 
 Powerful Motives to oblige a Chri- 
 ftian to meditate on the Paffion of 
  Gefus Chrift Crucified, 
 
 MOTIVE I. 
 
 N the frequent meditating on our 
 if Saviour’s paffion, we gain the favour 
 ef the Eternal Father, and appeafe his 
 wrath, if he be angry with us. Becaufe 
 God'the Father, cafting his eyes upon 
 Jefus Chrift crucified, he fees a Son in- 
 finitely deferving of being heard; a Son 
 equal to him in power, wifdom, and. 
 holinefs ; a Son infinitely amiable, who 
 offers him his divine life in facrifice, 
 who fheds all his blood for the repara- 
 tion of his honour, and he fees himfelf 
 infinitely more honoured by this magni-« 
 ficent reparation, than he had been 
 difhonoured by all the fins of rhe world. 
 Thus has he an infinite complacency 
 for this well-beloved Son, who facri- 
 fices himfelf for the glory of his Father; 
 
 ** Hic 
 
os t 7t .) | 
 * Hic eft Filius meus dile&tus in quo 
 mihi bené complacui.” Now, when 
 we think on our Saviour’s paffion, 
 when in our minds, we ruminate on the 
 torments of his death, we prefent to 
 the eyes of the Eternal Father, an ob- 
 ject infinitely amiable, which is his dear 
 Son, the crucified Jefus, and by this re= 
 prefentation we win his heart. A Chri- 
 ftian, devoted to our-Saviour’s paffion, 
 may fay with St. Paul, « Adimpleo ea 
 que defunt paffionem Chrifti;” I ac. 
 complifh what was wanting in the fuf- 
 ferings of our Saviour’s paffion, This 
 charitable Redeemer vould willingly 
 have remained faftened to the crofs for 
 the honour of God his Father, and for 
 the love of mankind, to the end of the 
 world, if it had been convenient ; but 
 that not being proper, he would remain 
 crucified in the hearts of the faithful 
 and his eleét, who continually meditate 
 on the torments of his paffion and death. 
 ‘Therefore God the Father never looks 
 upon a Chriftian devoted to the paffion 
 of Jefus Chrift his Son, without feeing 
 in that Chriftian, as in a clear mitror, 
 ; the 
 
{ 72 ) 
 
 the image of his amiable crucified Je, 
 fus, without his having an amorous 
 complacency for that Chriftian, nor 
 without feeling his mercy moved in fa- 
 vour of a perfon who reprefents to him 
 fo powerful a Reconciler. He feels him- 
 felf, as it were, forcéd to love a crea- 
 ture whom he fees filled with the love 
 of his dear Son Jefus Chrift crucified. 
 
 MOTIVE II. 
 
 HE meditation of the paffion is a 
 
 door by which the juft enter into 
 their Saviour’s friendfhip; Hac porta 
 Domini, jufti intrabunt in eam. Firkt, 
 our Savour could not have done an ac- 
 tion that was more heroic for the glory 
 of God his Father, and for the love of 
 mankind, than that of dying upon the 
 crofs; for what greater thing can one 
 conceive, than to be God, and to offer 
 a divine life in facrifice? Secondly, he 
 could not have made his glory more re+ 
 fplendent than by dying on the crofs for 
 the 
 
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 the falvation of his people; Dedit fe ut 
 liberaret populum fuum, & acquireret fibt 
 nomen aternum. ’°* Twas neceflary to be 
 both man and God to fave mankind by 
 dying; man, to be capable of dying; 
 and God, to give an infinite ‘merit to 
 his death. From whence it comes,’ 
 that our Saviour takes nothing more to 
 heare than to conferve the memory of 
 his paffion and death, and likewife to fee 
 that his ele&t conferve it. If a king) ia 
 a day of battle, had got the victory with 
 his own hand, killed his enemy’s Gene-= 
 ral, and faved his people from death, 
 would he not rejoice to hear this brave 
 action fpoken of, and to have elogiums 
 made of it, and in having the memory 
 of it conferved through the whole king- 
 dom, by infcriptions engraven on mar- 
 ble and fteel? Thus we moft particu- 
 larly rejoice our Savour, when we think 
 on his death and paffion, ‘when we en- 
 tertain ourfelves with the thoughts of 
 his whips, thorns, and nails, and when 
 we admire his ignominies, opprobiums, 
 and torments; and we may affure our- 
 
 felves, that he will look upon us with a 
 G favourable 
 
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 favourable eye, will honour us with his 
 friendihip, and grant us whatever. we 
 afk of him, if we have an aff tionate 
 and cordial devotion to his paffion, and 
 perform the {tations with true zeal. 
 
 MOTIVE III. 
 
 HE devotion which we have to 
 meditate on Chrift’s paffion, is a 
 great fign of predeftination, ”Tis moft 
 alluced. according to the doétrine of Sr. 
 Paul, that jefus ‘Chrift is only Saviour; 
 and by confequence the beginner of fal- 
 pation and the author of predeftination, 
 by the virtue of his crucifixion. This 
 great Apoftle fufficiently declares his 
 fentiments, by the words addrefled to 
 the Chriftians of Philippi: ‘* He has 
 humbled himfelf, making himfelf obe- 
 dient unto death, even the death of the 
 crofs.”’ Pisctafare “sod has exalted 
 him, and given him a name above all 
 names, that at the name of Jefus all 
 knees fhould bow, &c. The Son of 
 ‘ God 
 
C757) 
 
 God was not properly called Jefus our 
 Saviour, our Redeemer, by the myftery 
 of his incarnation, nor by that of his 
 birth, nor by any other of his life, but 
 by that of his paffion and death: ? Twas 
 his death that reftored us to life; ’twas 
 his blood which cleanfed us from our 
 fins; and "twas his crofs which was the 
 key which fhut the gates of hell again{t 
 us, and opened to us thofe of heaven. 
 The Chriflian then, who fhall join and 
 engage himfelf to this Son of God dy- 
 ing upon the crofs, by a grateful re- 
 membrance of his fufferings, and a core 
 dial affection to his torments; the Chri- 
 ftian who fhall be careful daily to me- 
 ditate-on fome point of his Saviour’s 
 paflion, can he perifh, being ftridly 
 bound and united to the Author of his 
 falvation? No, fays St. Auguftine, or 
 the author of the Manual. Al] my hope 
 is in my Saviour’s death. His death is 
 my merit, my refuge, my falvation, my 
 life, and my refurreétion. 
 
 G2. MOTIVE 
 
 ? 
 
{ 7) 
 MOTIVE IV. 
 UR Saviour has declared by fey 
 
 veral revelations, that no devotion 
 
 is more pleafing to him than that which 
 we have to his paffion and death. Blef- 
 fed Lewis of Blois affures us, that our 
 Saviour revealed to St. Gertrude, that 
 as often as any one fhould with devo, 
 tion look upon a crucifix, fo often 
 fhould he be amoroufly looked upon by 
 the benign mercy of God. Another 
 author fays, that a certain religious 
 perfon, defiring to know by what devo, 
 tion he might beft pleafe Almighty God, 
 Our Saviour appeared to him carrying 
 his crofs, telling him that ’twas by 
 jointly bearing his crofs with him, and 
 never to lofe the remembrance of it; by 
 often {peaking of his crofs, by hearing 
 it fpoken of, by looking frequently upon 
 it, and by fharing in his paffion by fome 
 exterior mortification. St. Mary Mage 
 dalene, that incomparable lover of Je- 
 . fus Chrift crucified, having retired her- 
 felf into that famous folitude of St. 
 Baume, 
 
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 Baume, and having begged of our Lord 
 to make known to her in what exercife 
 
 he defired fhe fhould chiefly be em- 
 ployed to become the more agreeable to 
 him, and thereby daily teftify her love 
 to him, our Saviour fent an ange] to her 
 with a crofs in his hand, which he 
 placed at the door of her cell, telling 
 her, that fhe fhould ever have that crofs 
 before her eyes, and that fhe ought to be 
 continually taken up in the confidera- 
 tion of the myfteries that were wrought 
 upon it; which fhe did for the fpace of 
 thirty-two years, which after that the 
 lived. 
 
 We read of St. Bridget, that, when 
 fhe was but very young, our Saviour 
 appeared to her nailed to the crofs and 
 quite covered with blood, which he 
 feemed to have then newly fhed ; and 
 from that time fhe ceafed not continu- 
 ally to meditate on the paffion of the 
 Son of God, which fhe fearce ever did 
 without many tears. We likewife read 
 in the life of St. Francis, that having 
 three times opened the Miffal, there to 
 Jearn evangelical perfe@tion, by a par- 
 pi 3 ticular 
 
( 78 ) 
 
 ticular providence of God, he always 
 opened it at the paffion of Chrift, as i 
 God would have thereby faid to him, 
 You feek the means of making yourfelf 
 perfect, and of pleafing me; ’tis by giv- 
 ing yourfelf to the contemplation and 
 ‘imitation of my fufferings. Upon that 
 fame account, the crofs was fhewn to 
 that holy man, feven feveral times, as 
 the pattern he ought to follow, and-to 
 load him with favours, our Lord ape 
 peared to him in the form of a crucified 
 feraph, and imprinted the marks of his 
 five wounds upon him, with fo tender 
 2 devotion to his paffion, that con- 
 ftantly, when he thought of it, he broke 
 eut into fighs and lamentations, and 
 melted into tears. But what need have we 
 to fearch for revclations to prove the ex 
 cellency of the devotion to the paffion of 
 Jefus crucificd ? Does not the holy fcrips 
 ture teach us, that our Saviour thought 
 eontinually on his paffion and death ? 
 Dolor meus in confpectu meo Jemper Do 
 we not read it in the Golpel, that ig 
 was the ordinary fubject of his difcourfe 
 to his apoftles and difciples, even fo far 
 
 as 
 
79 
 
 as to fpeak of it to Mofes and ElNas, in 
 the midft of the glory of his transfigura- 
 tion on Thabor? And did he not carry 
 with him his five wounds to heaven, to 
 have before his eyes the marks of his 
 paflion for a whole eternity? What fhall 
 I fay of the great St. Paul? Did he not 
 profefs that he knew nothing but Chrift 
 crucified ? What did he preach but the 
 paflion of Jefus Chrift crucified? In 
 what did he glory, but in the crofs of 
 our Lord Jefus Chrift? What other de- 
 votion had he, but to be crucified with 
 our Lord Jefus Chrift ? 
 
 Let us conclude the Motives with 
 the words of the Seraphical St. Bona- 
 venture, who-had ever the image of a 
 crucifix before his eyes, which he called 
 his library: I will, fays he, take my 
 repofe in the facred fide of my Saviour; 
 I will there watch, read, pray, drink, 
 €at, and treat of all my affairs; I will 
 there {peak to his heart, and fhall obtain 
 of him whatever I pleafe, 
 
 A 
 
( 80°} 
 A PRAYER. 
 TO JESUS CHRIST CRUCIFIED, 
 AGONIZING AND DYING, 
 
 Zo obtain a Happy Agony and Holy Death. 
 
 Y moft dear and adorable Saviour 
 IV Jefus, who waft crucified, I be- 
 feech thee, by the bowels of charity 
 which thou haft for the falvation of 
 poor finners, by thy dolorous paffion, by 
 thy piteous agony, by the effufion of 
 all thy blood, by the recommendation 
 of thy holy foul into the hands of God 
 thy Father, by the laft cry thou gavelt 
 before thou expiredft, by the la iff fich 
 in which thou gaveft up the Ghoft, and 
 by thy death, which was the accom- 
 plifhment of our redemption, that thou 
 wilt vouchfafe to have mercy on me 
 now, and in my agony, and to receive 
 my fpirit into thy hands, and into the 
 bofom of thy mercy at the hour of my 
 death. AMEN, 
 
 _Made at Calvary, by, the author of this 
 book, before ibe place where our Saviour’s 
 crofs 
 
C82 3} 
 erofs was planted, in the year 1654, upor 
 Good-Friday. 
 
 A PRAYER 
 TO 
 
 JESUS CHRIST CRUCIFIED. 
 
 ESUS, the Saviour of Mankind, 
 
 who was faftened to the crofs with 
 three nails, faften my heart to the fame 
 crofs with the three nails of 
 
 FAITH, HOPE, and CHARITY. 
 AMEN, 
 
 P.5. The number of fieps our Saviour? ,. 
 
 4 walked in the road of captivity 335° 
 
 The number he walked in the ae ne 
 lorous way 7 
 
 En allo. 600 3350 
 
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LITANY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 PASSION or JESUS CHRIST. 
 
 PVUGHAUDIG Gr 
 
 YRIE eleifon. 
 
 Chritte eleifon. 
 
 Kyrie eleifon. 
 
 Chrifte audi nos. 
 
 Chrifte exaudi nos. 
 
 Pater de celis Deus, 
 miferere nobis. 
 
 ~ Fili Redempter mundi 
 
 Deus, miferere. 
 
 Spiritus fan&e Deus, 
 miferere, 
 
 Sanéta Trinitas unus 
 Deus, miferere. 
 
 Jefu Chriftte, qui pro 
 redemptione noftra, 
 de coelis defcendifti, 
 miferere. 
 
 Jefu Chrifte, qui-de 
 gloriofa Virgine Ma- 
 ria dignatus es nafci, 
 tniferere, 
 
 ORD have merey 
 on us. 
 Chrift have mercy on use 
 Lord have mercy on us. 
 Chrift hear us. 
 Chrift gracioufly hear us 
 God the Father of } 
 Heaven, 
 God the Son, Re- 
 deemer of the 
 
 God the Holy fen} 
 Ghoft, | < 
 Holy Trinity one 3 
 God, . o 
 Jefus Chrift, who ; oe 
 for our redemp- | ¢ 
 tisncameftdown | 3 
 from heaven, a 
 
 Jefus Chrift, who 
 vouchfafedft to 
 be born of the 
 Glorious Virgin 
 Mary, 
 
LITANY. 
 
 Jefe Chrifle, qui pro 
 nobis formam fervi 
 accepifti, miferere, 
 
 Jefu Chrifte, qui in 
 proefepio jacuifti, 
 miferere. 
 
 Jefu ChriRe, qui lacry- 
 Mantem peccatri- 
 cem non horruifti, 
 miferere, 
 
 Jefa Chrifte, qui fame 
 et fiti corpus tuum 
 macerafti, miferere, 
 
 Jefu Chrifte, quia Ju- 
 dweis tentatus, et af- 
 fliftus  fuitti, mi- 
 ferere. 
 
 Jefu Chrifte, qui pro 
 nobis ufque ad fu- 
 dorem fanguineum 
 prolixius orafti, mif. 
 
 Jefu Chrifte, qui a Ju- 
 da tradi et ofculari 
 te permififti, mi- 
 ferere. 2 
 
 Jefo Chrifte, qui ab 
 impiis Judzis com- 
 prehenfus et in terram 
 projectus fuifti, mi- 
 ferere nobis. 
 
 Jefa Chrifte, qui ligatis 
 manibus poft tergum 
 te duci permififti, 
 miferere, 
 
 83 
 
 Jetus Chrit, who} 
 for us did take 
 the form of a 
 fervant, 
 
 Jefus Chrift, who 
 did lie in the 
 
 nanger, 
 
 Jefus Chrift, who 
 didft not abhor 
 the weeping fin- 
 ner, 
 
 Jefus Chrift, who 
 did macerate 
 ‘thy body with 
 hunger & thirft, 
 
 Jefus Chriit, who 
 waft tempted and 
 mocked by the 
 Jews, >s 
 
 Jefus Chrift, who 
 continvedft in 
 prayer for us, | 
 even unto fweat, | 
 
 NESS SACOM SPC OTE pre, 
 
 gag 
 
 ist 
 
 *$t-uo A> 
 
 Jefus Chrift, who 
 fufferedtt thyfelf 
 to be betrayed & 
 kiffed by Judas, 
 
 Jefus Chrift, who 
 waft taken by the 
 
 wicked Jews and 
 caft down upon 
 the ground, 
 
 Jefus Chrift, wo | 
 fuffered? thyfeif 
 to be led with thy 
 hands tied be- 
 hind thy back, J 
 
84 
 Jefu Chrifte, qui Pon- 
 tificibus prafentatus 
 et mendaciter accu- 
 fatus fuifti, miferere. 
 
 Jefe Chrifte, qui pug- 
 nis et alapis in facie 
 percuffus fuifti, mi- 
 ferere. 
 
 Jefa Chrifte, qui di- 
 verfis opprobiis illu- 
 fus fuifti, miferere. 
 
 Jefu Chrifte, qui Pilato 
 traditus fuilli, mi- 
 ferere. } 
 
 Jefu Chrifte, qui ad 
 columnam ligatus et 
 ufque ad fanguinem 
 verberatus fuitti, 
 miferere. 
 efu Chrifte, qui a mi- 
 litibus: vefte purpu- 
 rea indutus fuifti, 
 miferere. 
 
 Jefu Chrifte, qui fpinis 
 durifimis coronatus 
 fuiftti, miferere. 
 
 Jefu Chrifte, qui ver- 
 bum durifimum, 
 Tolle, toile, cruci- 
 fige, fepius audifti, 
 miferere. _ 
 
 Jefa Chrifte, qui du- 
 rifimum ligaum cru- 
 cis feffus, et oneratus 
 futtinuifti, miferere. 
 
 Jefus Chri, who} 
 watt brought be- 
 fore the Chief 
 Priefts and falfe- 
 ly aceufed, ‘ 
 
 Jefus Chrift, who 
 waft {mitten with 
 fits and firipes 
 upon the face, 
 
 Jefus Chrift, -_ 
 
 “waft mocked with 
 divers reproaches, 
 
 Jefus Chrift, who 
 watt delivered to 
 Pilate, 
 
 jefus Chrift, who 
 waft tied to the 
 pillar and fcour- 
 ged even unto! 
 blood, ? 
 
 Jefus Chrift, who 
 waft clad with a 
 purple garment 
 by the foldiers, 
 
 Jefus Chrift, who 
 waft crowned 
 with moit hard 
 thorns, 
 
 Jefus Chrift, who 
 
 often heard | 
 J 
 
 *gn UO AQIQU? DAE EL 
 
 thofe hard words, 
 Away with him, 
 Crucify him, 
 Jefus Chrift, who 
 being wearied and 
 burdened, didft 
 bear moft the hard 
 wood of the crofs, 
 
LITANY. 85 
 
 Jefu Chrifte, qui in 
 cfuce levatus, cum 
 jatronibus affociatus 
 Suitti, miferere. 
 
 Jefu Chrifte, qui mani- 
 bus et pedibus fixis 
 in cruce, a praetere- 
 wntibus .blafphema- 
 tus fuifti, miferere. 
 
 Jefu Chrifte, qui fpeci- 
 ofam faciem tuam, 
 quafa leprofam hae 
 buifti, miferere. 
 
 Jefu Chrifte, qui pro 
 crucifixoribus orafti 
 ad Patrem, et latro« 
 Mem in cruce exaue 
 Gikti, miferere. 
 
 Jefu Chrifte, qui Ma- 
 riam Matrem tuam 
 dulcifimam  Joanni 
 commendatti, mife« 
 rere. 
 
 Jefu Chrifte, qui lan- 
 cea perforatus fuifti, 
 €t proprio fanguine 
 mundum  redemitti, 
 miferere. 
 
 Jefu Chrifte, qui in 
 "Mmonumento fepultus 
 fuifti, miferere. 
 
 Jefu Chrifte, qui tertia 
 die a mortuis refur- 
 Sexittiy mil. nebis. 
 
 Jefus Chrift, who} 
 being lifted up 
 upon the crofs, 
 waft made the 
 companion of 
 thieves, 
 
 Jefus Chrift, who 
 having thy hands 
 and feet nailed to 
 the crofs, wat 
 blafphemed by 
 them that paffed 
 by, 
 
 Jefus Chrift, whofe 
 beautiful face 
 waft made, as it 
 were, leprous, per 
 
 Jefus Chrift, who < 
 prayedit to thy | 3 
 Father for thy t & 
 crucifiers, and ig 
 gracioufly heard- | 
 eft the thief upon 
 the crofs, 
 
 Jefus Chrift, who 
 didft recommend 
 thy moft dear 
 Mother to Saint 
 John, 
 
 Jefus Chrift, mi 
 
 waft pierced with 
 afpear, &redeem-~ 
 ed the world with 
 thy own blood. 
 Jefus Chrift, who 
 
 waft buried ina 
 tomb, 
 Jefus Chrift, who 
 
 didit rife from the 
 dead thethirdday, 
 
86 
 
 Fefu Chrifte, qui qua- 
 dragefima die in cce- 
 Jum afcendifti, mi- 
 ferere nobis. 
 
 Jefu Chrifte, qui fedes 
 ad dexteram Patris, 
 miferere nobis, 
 
 Jefu Chrifte, qui ven- 
 turus es jadicare vi- 
 vos et mortuos, mi- 
 ferere tobis. 
 
 Agnus Dei qui tollis 
 peccata mundi Parce 
 nobis Domine. 
 
 Agnus Dei qui tollis 
 
 peccata mundi Ex- 
 audi nos Domine. 
 
 Agnus Dei qui tollis 
 peccata mundi, mi- 
 ferere nobis. 
 
 Chrifte audi nos. 
 
 Chrifte exaudi nos. 
 
 Kyrie eleifon. 
 
 Chrifte eleifon. 
 
 Kyrie eleifon. 
 
 Pater Nofter, &c. 
 
 OREMUS. 
 
 ESPICE Quefu- 
 
 mus Domine fu- 
 per hanc familiam tu- 
 am, pro gua Dominus 
 nofter Jesu CHristTus 
 non dubitavit manibus 
 tradi nocentium et cru- 
 cis fubire- tormentum: 
 Qui tecum vivit et reg- 
 nat. 
 Miferere tei Deus, &c. 
 
 LITANY. 
 
 Jefus Chrift, who}. . 
 forty days after, ~ 
 afcende{t into 
 heaven, 
 
 Jefus Chrift, who f° 
 titteft at the right | 
 hand of theFather, 
 
 Jefus Chrift, who 
 art to come to 
 judge the Guick | 
 
 and the dead, 
 
 Lamb of God, &c. 
 
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 Lamb of God, &c. 
 
 Lamb of God, &c. 
 
 Chrift hear us. 
 
 Chrift gracioufly hear us 
 Lord have mercy on us. 
 Chrift have mercy on us. 
 Lord have mercy on uS«. 
 Our Father, &c. . 
 
 LET US*(PRAY. 
 
 OOK down, O 
 LL. Lord, we befeech. 
 thee, upon this family;- 
 for which our Lord Je- 
 sus Curist waft plea- 
 fed to be delivered into 
 the hands of the wicked,. 
 and fuffer-the torment + 
 of the crofs, who live 
 and reigneft, &c. . 
 
 Stabat Mater dolorofa, &c. 
 
Bosca LM, 
 
 PrOn ar Pag 
 
 ISERERE mei 
 
 Deus, * fecun- 
 dum magnam miferi- 
 cordiam tuam. 
 
 Et fecundum multi- 
 tudinem: miferationum 
 tuarum, * dele inigyi- 
 tatem meam, , 
 
 Amplius lava me ab 
 iniquitate’ mea: * g 3 
 peccato meo munda2a me, 
 
 Quoniam iniquita em 
 
 meam ego eognofco;: * 
 & peccatum meum con- 
 tra me eft femper. 
 * Tibi foli peccavi, & 
 malum coram té feci; * 
 ut juftificeris in fermo- 
 nibus tuis, & vincas 
 cum) judicaris. 
 
 Ecce enim in iniqui- 
 tatibus conceptus fum: 
 * & in peccatis concepit 
 mie mater mea. ; 
 
 Ecce enim veritatem 
 dilexifti: *sincerta’ & 
 occulta fapientiz tu 
 manifeftaRi mihi; 
 
 AVE. mercy on 
 
 me, O God, ace’ 
 cording to thy great 
 mercy. 
 
 And according to the 
 multitude of thy come 
 miferations, blot out 
 my iniquity. 
 
 Wath me fill more 
 from my iniquity: and 
 cleanfe me from my fin, 
 
 Becaufe I know my 
 iniquity: and my fin is 
 always againft me, 
 
 T have finned to thee 
 only, and done evils be 
 fore thee: that thou 
 Mayeft be jaftified in 
 thy words and overcome 
 when thou art judged, 
 
 For behold I was con 
 ceived in iniquities ; and. 
 in fins my mother cone 
 ceived me. a 
 
 For behold thou hat 
 loved truth; the uncer. 
 tain and hidden things 
 of thy wifdom thoy hag 
 manifefted to me, 
 
 H 2 
 
83 
 
 Afperges me hyffopo, 
 & mundabor: * jJavabis 
 me, & fuper nivem 
 dealbabor. 
 
 Auditui meo dabis 
 
 gaudium & Jetitiam: * 
 & exultabunt offa hu- 
 ymiliata. 
 ‘ Averte faciem tuam 
 2 peccatis meis: * & om- 
 més iniquitates meas 
 dele. 
 
 Cor mundum crea in 
 
 me Deus: * & fpiritum 
 yectum innova in vifce 
 ribus meis. 
 " Ne projicias me @ fa- 
 eie tua: * & fpiritum 
 fan@um tuum ne au 
 feras a me. 
 
 Redde mihi lztitiam 
 falutaris tui: * & fpi- 
 ritu principali confirma 
 me. 
 
 Docebo iniquos vias 
 €uas: * & impii ad te 
 convertentor. 
 
 Libera me de fangui- 
 Mibus Deus, Deus falu- 
 tis mea: * & exultabit 
 lingua mea juftitiam 
 tua, “4 
 
 ’ Domine labia mea 
 aperies : * & os meum 
 annuntiabit laudem tus 
 am. 
 
 PSALM. 
 
 Thou wilt fprinkle me 
 with hyfop and I thall 
 be cleanfed: thou wile 
 wafh me, and I fhall be 
 whiter than fnow. 
 
 Thou wilt give joy 
 and gladnefs to my 
 hearing: and the hume 
 ble bones fhall rejoice, 
 
 Turn away thy face 
 from my fins: and blog 
 out all my iniquities. 
 
 ‘Create in me a cleay 
 heart, O God: and res 
 new a right fpirit in my 
 bowels. 
 
 Caft me not, away 
 from thy faces: and 
 take not thy holy fpi~ 
 rit from me. 
 
 Render to me the jop 
 of thy falvation: and 
 ftrengthen me with a 
 fovereign fpirit. 
 
 1 will teach thy ways 
 to the unjuft: and the 
 impious fhall be cons 
 verted to thee. 
 
 Deliver me from 
 blood, O God, the God 
 of my falvation: and 
 my tongue fhall extel 
 thy juftice. 
 
 Qpen my. lips, O 
 Lord sand ) mouth 
 fhali declare thy praife. 
 
PSALM. 
 
 Quoniam fi voluviffes 
 facrificium,: dediffem 
 weigne holocauftis non 
 
 delectaberis, 
 
 Sacrificium Deo {pi- 
 ritus contribulatus :; * 
 _eor contritum & humi- 
 liatum Deus non defpi- 
 cies. 
 
 Benigne fac Domine 
 in bona voluntate tua 
 Sion: * ut adificentur 
 muri Jerufalem. 
 
 Tune acceptabis fa- 
 crificium juftitig, obia- 
 tiones, & holocaufta: 
 * tunc imponent fuper 
 aitare tuum vitulos. 
 
 Pek ner 
 
 89 
 
 For if thou wovld® 
 have had facrifice, ve- 
 rily had pivenit: with 
 holocaufts thou wilt not 
 be delighted. 
 
 An affliGed fpirit.ig 
 a facrifice to God: a 
 contrite and humble 
 heart thou wilt not de» 
 fpife, O God. 
 
 Be favourable, O Lord, 
 in thy good- will to Sion: 
 that the walls of Jeru- 
 falem may be built up. 
 
 Then thou wilt ac. 
 cept a facrifice of juf. 
 tice, eblations, and he. 
 locautts: then they wil] 
 lay calves on thy altar,’ 
 
 H 3 
 
( 9° ) 
 
 Supplices recurramus ad Virginem Inmac 
 culatam, Sub Cruce Cbrifti aoloris gladia 
 transfixam. 
 
 TABAT Mater dolorofa, 
 Juxta Crucem lachrymofay 
 Dum pendebat Filius. 
 
 Cujus animam gementem, 
 Contriftatam et dolentem, 
 Petranfivit Gladius. 
 
 O quam triftis, et affiéta, 
 Fut illa benedicta 
 Mater Unigeniti ? 
 
 Quz merebat et dolebat, 
 Et tremebat, cum videbat 
 Nati peenas inclyti. 
 
 Quis eft homo, qui non fleret, 
 Chrifti Matrem & videret 
 In tanto fupplicio? 
 
 Quis non poffet contriftari, 
 Piam Matrem contemplarj 
 Dolentem cum Filio ? 
 
 Pro peccatis {uz gentis 
 Videt Jefum in tormentis, 
 Et fagellis fubditum. 
 
Let us have recourfe to the Immaculate Vip 
 gin, Mother of God, pierced with the Savord 
 of Grief at the Foot of the Cro/s. 
 
 NDER the World-redeeming Rood, 
 The moft affli€ted Mother ftood; 
 Mingling her Tears with her Son’s Blood, 
 
 As that ftream’d down from every part, 
 Of all his Wounds the felt the fmart; 
 What pierc’d his Body pierc’d her Heart, 
 
 Who can with tearlefs Eyes look on, 
 When fuch a Mother, fuch a Son, 
 Weunded and gafping, does bemoan ? 
 
 ©! worfe than Jewith heart that thould, 
 Unmov’d, behold the double Flood 
 Of Mary’s Tears, of Fe/u’s Blood. 
 
 Alas! our fins they were, not his 
 In this atoning Sacrifice, 
 For which he bleeds, for which he dies} 
 
 When Graves did open, Rocks were rent, 
 When Nature and each Element, 
 His Torments, and her Grief refent, 
 
 Shall Man, the caufe of all his Pain, 
 And all his Grief, thall finfyl Man, 
 Only infenfible remain? 
 
(. 92.) 
 Videt fuum dulcem Natuny 
 Morientem defolatum, 
 Dum emifit Spiritum, 
 
 Eia Mater, fons Amaris, 
 Me fentire vim doloris, 
 Fac, at tecum lugeam, 
 
 Fac, ut ardeat cor meum 
 in amando Chriftum Deum, 
 Ut fibi complaceam. 
 
 Sancta Mater iftud agas, 
 Crucifixi fige plagas, 
 Cordi meo valide. 
 
 Tuj nati vulnerati, 
 Tam dignati pro me pati, 
 ' Poesas mecum divide, 
 
 Fac me vere tecum flere, 
 Crucifixo condolere, 
 Donec ego vixero. 
 
 Juxta Crucem tecum ftare, 
 Te libenter {ociare, 
 In plun@u defidero. 
 
 Virgo Virginum preclara, 
 Mihi jam non fis amara, 
 Fac me tecum plangere. 
 
 Fac ut portem Chrifti mortem, 
 
 Pafionis fac confortem, 
 Et plagas recelere. 
 
€ 93 ) 
 Ah! pious Mother, teach my Heart, 
 Of Sighs and Tears the holy Art, 
 And in thy Grief to bear a part. 
 
 That Sword of Grief which did pafs thro® 
 Thy very foul, O! may it now 
 One kind Wound on my Heart beftow ! 
 
 Great Queen of Sorrows! in thy Train 
 Let me a Mourner’s place obtain, 
 With Tears to cleanfe al! finful ftain. 
 
 To heal the Leprofy of Sin, 
 We muft the Cure with Tears begin, 
 All Flefh corrupt without their bring. 
 
 Refuge of Sinners, grant that we _ ? 
 May tread thy Steps, and let it bé;..,. 
 Our Sorrow not to grieve like thee. 
 
 O! may the Wounds of thy dear Son 
 Our contrite Hearts poffefs alone, 
 And all terrene Affections drown ! 
 
 Thofe Wounds which now the Stars outfhine, 
 Thofe Furnaces of Love divine, 
 May they our droffy Souls refine. 
 
 And on us fuchImpreffion make, 
 That we, of fuifering for his fake, 
 May joyfully our Portion take, 
 
 Let us his proper Badge put on, 
 Let’s glory in the Crofs alone, 
 By which he marks us for his own $ 
 
f. 94 ) 
 
 Fac me plagis vulnerari, 
 
 « Cruce hac inebriari, 
 Ob amorem filii, 
 
 Inflammatus et accenfus 
 Per te Virgo fim defenfus 
 In die Judicii, 
 
 Fac me Cruce cuftodir}, 
 
 Morte Chrifti premuniri, 
 Confoveri gratia, 
 
 Quando corpus morietur, 
 Fac ut anime donetur 
 Paridifi gloria, Amen, 
 
 Perf, Tuam i 
 gladius.., ga! 
 
 Rep. Ut revelentur ex mul 
 cogitationes. 
 
 Pfius animam_pertranfivit 
 
 tis cordibus 
 
 OREMUS, 
 
 NTERVENIAT Pro nobis quefumus 
 Domine Jefu Chrifte nunc, & in hora 
 Mortis noftre, apud tuam Clementiain 
 beata Virgo, Maria Mater tua, cujus Sa. 
 cratiffimam Animam in hora tuz Paffionis 
 doloris gladivs pertraufivit. Per te Jefu 
 Chritte Salvator mundi, qui cum Patre, -& 
 fpiritu: fan&to vivis & regnas Deus in 
 Secula feculorum. yen, : 
 
: 95 ) 
 That when the dreadful Trial’s come 
 For every Man to hear his Doom, 
 On his Right Hand we may find Room; 
 
 O! hear us, Mary / Fef/us, hear 
 Our humble Prayers! fecure our Fear, 
 When thou in Judgment fhalt appear. 
 
 Now give us Sorrow, give us Love, 
 That fo prepar’d, we may remove, 
 When call’d to the blet World above. 
 
 Verf. The Sword of Grief has penetrated 
 thy Soul.’ 
 
 Rep. That out of many Hearts cogita- 
 tions might be revealed, 
 
 LET US. PRAY. 
 
 E befeech thee, O Lord Jefus Chrift, 
 
 ‘that the bleffed Virgin Mary, thy. 
 Mother, may intercede for us with thy 
 Clemency, both now and at the hour of 
 our Death, who at the hour of thy Paffion 
 had her moft holy Soul run through with 
 the Sword of Sorrow. Who livett and 
 reigneft with the Father, and the Holy 
 Ghoft, one God, World without end, Amen. 
 
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