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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 18th of April, 1622.



TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH,

BY GILES WILLOUGHBY.



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.




PHILADELPHIA:

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


1844.