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The book of the holy society commonly called of twelve containing the litanies, and…The booke of the holy societye commonly called of tvvelve conteyning the lytanies, and…
The book of the holy society commonly called of twelve containing the litanies, and prayers, with are to be said by those who are of that Society. To obtain of God the grace to dye well. Lately translated out of the French language for the benefit of English Catholics by N.N. a Catholic gentleman.The booke of the holy societye commonly called of tvvelve conteyning the lytanies, and prayers, vvich are to be sayd by those vvho are of that Societye. To obtaine of God the grace to dye well. Lately translated out of the French language for the benefit of English Catholikes by N.N. a Catholic gentleman.
Douay: printed by Laurence Kellam, 1626
Title page typeset from the transcription.
THE TRANSLATOR TO THE DEVOUT READERS.THE TRANSLATOR TO THE DEVOVT READERS.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
THE TRANSLATOR TO THE DEVOUT READERS.
THE TRANSLATOR TO THE DEVOVT READERS.
AS it is most certain, that we shall all of us die once; so is it no •esse certain that after our death we shall receive a doom of an irrevocable sentence of at•ernall life, or eternal ⟨p. 4⟩death, accordingly a• we shall be found worthy or unworthy at tha• hour: And therefore i• concerneth us very near• so to provide our selves whilst time permitteth that at the last hour we may be found in such case, as is most befitting for that end, which w• all aim at•, which is happy life without end. This considerati•• ⟨p. 5⟩hath from my very childhood taken such deep impression in my hart, that although to satisfy my curiosity, I have travailed over the greatest part of Europe, yet in my travails I had always this end set before mine eyes, to observe where ever I might •earne, what course was best to be undertaken for à man to secure himself ⟨p. 6⟩(as far as the instability of this mutable world will permit) of à good and happy end. I saw from the beginning there was no better security could be had in this world of dying well, then to live well: And for this reason considering that saying of S. Bernard. In Religione homo vivit purius &c. In Religion a man liveth more ⟨p. 7⟩