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A

GOLDEN TREATISE

OF

MENTAL PRAYER

A

GOLDEN TREATISE

OF

MENTAL PRAYER,

WITH

DIVERS SPIRITUAL RULES AND DIRECTIONS,

NO LESS PROFITABLE, THAN NECESSARY, FOR ALL

SORTS OF PEOPLE.

FIRST COMPOSED BY THE VENERABLE AND BLESSED

FATHER FR. PETER DE ALCANTARA

OF THE SERAPHICAL ORDER OF ST. FRANCIS,

Beatified the I8th of April,1622.

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TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH,

BY GILES WILLOUGHBY.

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TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, A BRIEF RELATION OF THE LIFE AND

DEATH OF THE SAME FATHER, WRITTEN BY GILES WIL-

LOUGHBY, OF THE SAME ORDER AND OBSERVANCE.

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PHILADELPHIA:

PUBLISHED BY M. FITHIAN, 72 NORTH 2D STREET.

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1844.

BRIEF RELATION

OF

THE LIFE AND DEATH

OF

THE BLESSED FATHER,

FR. PETER DE ALCANTARA,

FRANCISCAN FRIAR,

WRITTEN BY GILES WILLOUGHBY, OF THE SAME ORDER AND

OBSERVANCE.

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THE PROLOGUE.

MISERICORDIAS Domini in æternum cantabo: "I will sing the mercies of our Lord for ever,*" saith that kingly Prophet David. And not without cause; for, so great and unspeakable are the mercy-works of the Almighty, which out of the bowels of his infinite goodness, he hath shewed to mankind, from the first instant of his creation, that the tongues of men and angels are never able to express them.

How wonderful was this benefit; that cre- ating man after his own✝ image and likeness,

* Psalm 88. ✝ Gen. i. v. 26.

✝ Magister Sent. lib. 2. dist. 20