dissimulation, excellency without envy, multitudes without confusion, music without discord; there the understandings are rich, the will is satisfied, the affections are all love, and all joy; and they shall reign with God and Christ for ever and ever.24

This is the catholic faith, which except a man believe faithfully, he cannot be saved.

Tertull. de velandis Virgin.

Regula quidem fidei una omnino est, sola immobilis et irreformabilis, credendi; scilicet, in unicum Deum omnipotentem, &c. Hac lege fidei manente, cætera jam disciplinæ et conversationis admittunt novitatem correctionis, operante, scil. et proficiente usque in finem Gratia Dei."

The rule of faith is wholly one, unalterable, never to be mended, never changed; to wit, I believe in God, &c. This law of faith remaining, in other things, you may increase and grow.

S. Aug. de Fide et Symb.

"Hæc est fides, quæ paucis verbis tenenda in Symbolo Novellis datur. Quæ pauca verba fidelibus nota sunt; ut credendo subjugentur Deo, subjugati rectè vivant, rectè vivendo cor mundent, cor de mundo quod credunt, intelligant."

This is the faith which in few words is given to novices. These few words are known to all the faithful; that by believing they may be sub→ ject to God, by this subjection they may live well, by living well they may purify their hearts,

and with pure hearts they may [relish and] understand what they do believe.

Max. Taurin. de Tradit. Symb.

"Symbolum tessera est et signaculum, quo inter fideles perfidosque secernitur.

This creed is the badge or cognizance by which the faithful are discerned from unbelievers.

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Leo M. ad Pulcheriam Aug.

Hujus Catholici Symboli brevis et perfecta confessio, quæ duodecim apostolorum totidem est signata sententiis, tam instructa est in munitione cœlesti, ut omnes hæreticorum opiniones solo possint gladio detruncari."

This short and perfect confession of this catholic creed, which was consigned by the sentences of twelve apostles, is so perfect a celestial armour, that all the opinions of heretics may by this alone, as with a sword, be cut in pieces.

Agenda:

OR,

THINGS TO BE DONE.

The DIARY; Or, a Rule to spend each Day religiously.

1. SUPPOSE every day to be a day of business; for your whole life is a race, and a battle; merchandise, and a journey; every day propound to yourself a rosary, or a chaplet of good works, to present to God at night.

2. Rise as soon as your health and other occasions shall permit; but it is good to be as regular as you can, and as early. Remember, he that rises first to prayer, hath a more early title to a blessing but he that changes night into day, labour into idleness, watchfulness into sleep, changes his hopes of a blessing into a dream.

3. Never let any one think it an excuse to lie in bed, because he hath nothing to do when he is up: for whosoever hath a soul, and hopes to save that soul, hath work enough to do to make his calling and election sure; to serve God, and pray; to read and to meditate; to repent, and to amend;

to do good to others, and to keep evil from themselves. And if thou hast little to do, thou oughtest to employ the more time in laying, up for a greater crown of glory.

4. At your opening your eyes, enter upon the day with some act of piety.

1st. Of thanksgiving for the preservation of you the night past.

2nd. Of the glorification of God for the works of the creation, or any thing for the honour of God.

5. When you first go off from your bed, solemnly and devoutly bow your head, and worship the holy Trinity, the Father, the Son, and Holy Ghost.

6. When you are making ready, be as silent as you can, and spend that time in holy thoughts; there being no way left to redeem that time from loss but by meditation, and short mental prayers. If you choose to speak, speak something of God's praises; of his goodness, his mercies, or his greatness ever resolving, that the first-fruits of thy reason, and of all thy faculties, shall be presented to God, to sanctify the whole harvest of thy conversation.

7. Be not curious nor careless in your habit, but always keep these measures.

1st. Be not troublesome to thyself, or to others, by unhandsomeness or uncleanness.

2nd. Let it be according to your state and quality.

3rd. Make religion to be the difference of your

habit, so as to be best attired upon holy or festival days.

8. In your dressing let there be ejaculations fitted to the several actions of dressing: as, at washing your hands and face, pray God to cleanse your soul from sin; in putting on your clothes, pray him to clothe your soul with the righteousness of your Saviour; and so in all the

rest.

For religion must not only be the garment of your soul, to invest it all over; but it must be also as the fringes to every of your actions, that something of religion appear in every one of them, besides the innocence of all of them.

9. As soon as you are dressed with the first preparation of your clothes, that you can decently do it, kneel and say the Lord's prayer; then rise from your knees, and do what is necessary for you in order to your farther dressing, or affairs of the house, which is speedily to be done; and then finish your dressing according to the foregoing rules.

10. When you are dressed, retire yourself to your closet, and go to your usual devotions; which it is good that at the first prayers they were divided into seven acts of piety.

1st. An act of adoration.

2nd. Of thanksgiving.

3rd. Of oblation.

4th. Of confession.

5th. Of petition.

6th. Of intercession.