Considerations and Devout Meditations for Every Day During Lent, by a Member of the Society of Jesus (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866. Excerpt: ... WORDS OF SCRIPTURE. "God tempted Abraham."--Genesis, xxii. "Fear not; for God is come to prove you."--Exodus, xx. "Ananias, why hath Satan tempted thy heart V--Acts, v. "God hath tried them, and found them worthy of himself."--Wisdom, iii. "As gold in the furnace he hath proved them."--Ibid. MEDITATION FOR FIRST MONDAY IN LENT. THE PASSION OF OUR LORD IN GENERAL. 1st Point. Jesus is the true Son of God. He is the holiest of men, the greatest of kings, the faithfulest of friends. He never injures any, but does good to all. And all the world have conspired against him, all the world have persecuted him. As he suffered for all men, so all men have made him suffer. Men and women of all ranks have contributed to his passion. Jews, Gentiles, priests, kings, soldiers, and people, men and women, and his own disciples even, have all put a hand to his cross, and added to his miseries. Are you not of the number 1 are you not the most cruel of his persecutors 1 2nd Point. Jesus suffered every description of evil in his soul and body, mind and heart, memory and imagination, his honour and goods, his parents and friends; in his senses and in all his limbs He was a man of sorrows, and I wish to be devoted to sensual pleasures He suffered from all the world, and I wish to suffer from none He suffered all imaginable evils, and I wish to suffer none He suffered the worst of evils, and I wish for those only which are light He suffered voluntarily, I suffer only what I cannot avoid 3rd Point. Oh, my sweet Jesus thy holy passion fills me with grief and confusion. It is a great source of grief to me to behold thee suffering for me It is a source of great confusion to me not to be able to suffer for thee Give me grace, at least, to suffer ordinary evils with patience, ...