A spiritual spicerie containing sundrie sweet tractates of devotion and piety. By Ri. Brathwait, Esq.

Title

A spiritual spicerie containing sundrie sweet tractates of devotion and piety. By Ri. Brathwait, Esq.

Author

Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.

Publication

London :: Printed by I. H[aviland] for George Hutton at his shop within turning stile in Holborne,

1638.

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Devotional literature.

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Contents

• title page
• dedication
• Vpon the translation of his Divine Dialogue.
• A TITLE-TABLE; Or Short Summarie of all such Tractates, Me∣ditations, Prayers, Con∣templations, and Motives to Piety, as are compri∣sed within this SPIRITUALL SPICERIE.
• THE LIFE Of JACOBUS GRUYTRODIUS, Author of this Divine Dialogue: Or Christian Manuall, faithfully rendred ac∣cording to the Originall.
• part
  • A Divine Dialogue; Or A Comfortable Conference betwixt our SAVIOUR, and a SINNER.
  • A FAMILIAR Expostulation of the Flesh, to GOD the Father, ouching CHRIST. By Booke enled Stimulus Amoris. Cap. XIV.
  • An Answer of the Father to the Flesh. Cap. XV.
  • A pithy Meditation upon this Expostula∣tion and Answer, to in∣flame the Soule with a devout fervour.
  • GENERALL Rules of living well.
  • THE SORROWFULL Soules solace, Gathered from Saint Augustine in his Tract Upon the 62. Psalme, Upon these words.
    • Meditation.
  • subpart
  • subpart
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  • THE Soules Jubilee, Gathered from Saint Augustine, in his Tract Upon the 85. Psalme, Upon these words:
  • THE Christian Storehouse,
  • MAN His owne Foe.
  • TWO Devout Prayers, Or Meditations of F. Lewis of Granado, gathered forth of his Meditati∣ons in Spanish, and heereto annexed.
    • To Christ Crucified.
    • To the sacred mystery of the Crosse, by JESUS Sanctified: And to JESUS, who was on it crucified.
  • A Short and fruitfull Confes∣sion of a Sinner un∣to God, for obtai∣ning Contrition.
  • A Confession of Sinnes; by Blessed Augustine.
  • A PRAIER before the holy Communion.
  • A PRAIER OF Th. Aquinas, to be said after cele∣bration of the holy Communion.
  • Another Praier of S. Bonaventure.
  • A PRAYER for all Judges, and Justiciaries.
  • A Prayer for Peace or tranquillity of Mind.
  • Of the presence of the Conscience in every place: Gathered out of Saint Bernards Meditations. Cap. XIII.
  • A considerati∣on right pithy, pro∣fitable, and proper, to inforce in us a more serious Meditation of the former.
  • Upon these Miscel∣lane Meditations, with other mixt Subjects, con∣teined in this precedent Tract; A clozing Sonnet.
  • A reply to a rigid Precisian, ob∣jecting, that flowers from Romish Authors extracted, became lesse wholesome and divinely redolent.
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  • To the Generous, Ingenious, and Judicious, Sir WALTER VAVASOR Knight and Baronet; together with his Vettuously accom∣plished Lady: R. B. Zealously consecrates this Christian Diall.
  • THE LIFE of JOHANNES JUSTUS LANSPERGIUS, a Carihusian; Authour of these Medita∣tions entitled, A Christian Diall.
  • A Christian Diall; By which he is dire∣cted how to dispose of his houres while he is li∣ving, how to addresse himself for the houre of his dying, and how to close his daies with a comfortable endng.
  • Wholesome Admo∣nitions, teaching a Christian how to dye well,
  • An Exercise, whereby earely, or whensoever thou willest, thou maist poure out thy heart unto God, for a good death.
  • An oblation of Christ and his me∣rits to his Fa∣ther.
  • THE DYING mans Diary, Or A Christians Memento mori; Divided into a five dayes Exercise.
  • Profitable Counsell for one approaching neare the point of death.
  • An Exercise, where∣in the sick person with sighs and groanes (because otherwise it can scarcely be done) may resigne himselfe unto God, and fervently desire, that he may deserve to be joyned unto him.
  • subpart
    • half title
    • A CHRISTIANS LAST-WILL, OR TESTAMENT.
  • AN ELEGIE OF St. Dionysius, a Car∣thusian, of the judgement of death, and the sun∣drie casualties thereof.
  • An Epistle of Ludovicus Blosius, written to an especi∣all friend, upon the per∣fecting and publishing of his worke entituled, The Parlour of the Soule.
  • CERTAINE choyce or se∣lect sayings of D. Henricus Suso.
  • Of the Passion of our Lord.
  • Of the holy Eucharist.
  • Of resigning, deny∣ing, and mortifying himselfe.
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  • TO HIS MOST Deare and affectio∣nate Sisters, their faithfull Brother dedicates THIS Passionate Pilgrim; AS A living Memoriall of his unfained love never dying.
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  • THE Contemplative Mans Exercise: Or Penitent Soules Sacrifice.
  • DEAHTS Memoriall.
  • Sedeo, Sileo, Signo. Deaths distinction.
• HOLY MEMORIALS; Or Heavenly Memento's. Memor fui Domini, & Delectatus sum.
  • Of his Conception.
  • Of his Birth.
  • Of his Childhood.
  • Of his Youth.
  • Of his Manhood.
  • Of his Age.
  • His Pleasures.
  • His Labours.
  • His Life.
  • His Death.
• Errata's.
• epigraph
• illustration