THE
LIFE
OF
THE
BLESSED
VIRGIN
MARY
.
Of
our
Blessed
Ladyes
high
,
and
holy
Pedigree
.
CHAP.
I.
THOSE
texts
of
the
new
Testament
,
wherin
the
Mother
of
God
is
mentioned
,
are
not
vnfitly
,
by
a
graue
Authour
,
compared
to
deep
grounds
in
musicke
,
so
cunningly
layd
,
as
no
discant
of
humane
prayses
,
can
neerly
expresse
them
.
Her
lineal
discent
from
Dauid
registred
by
two
of
the
Euangelists
,
and
her
being
Cosin
to
S.
Elizabeth
(
as
the
Angell
called
her
)
do
sufficiently
assure
vs
,
that
her
high
and
holy
Pedigree
was
of
Patriarchicall
,
Propheticall
,
Priestly
,
and
Princely
Progenitours
iointly
composed
.
These
foure
sortes
of
Persons
therein
contayned
,
were
as
foure
rootes
,
out
of
which
,
this
flourishing
branche
of
Iesse
his
tree
,
happily
issued
.
They
were
like
to
the
foure
Riuers
flowing
in
Paradise
,
from
whose
cleare
streames
,
meeting
togeather
,
this
inundation
,
and
full
of
sea
of
heauenly
graces
(
as
we
may
rightly
call
this
sacred
Virgin
)
was
deriued
.
They
were
as
foure
Wheeles
,
on
which
this
royall
Chariot
of
Maiesty
,
and
Loue
,
was
brought
vnto
vs
,
prepared
for
the
King
of
Heauens
triumphant
entrance
into
this
world
,
to
conquer
Sinne
,
Death
,
and
Hell
for
vs
.
She
was
(
as
S.
John
Damascene
from
an
Apostolical
tradition
assureth
vs
)
conceaued
of
barren
and
aged
Parents
,
that
Grace
might
preuayle
aboue
Nature
,
&
Lust
haue
no
place
in
her
holy
Conception
.
S.
Ioachim
and
S.
Anne
(
sayth
this
holy
Father
)
were
great
Almes-giuers
,
and
very
deuout
persons
,
both
to
deserue
at
Gods
hands
,
the
blessing
of
such
a
child
;
and
that
sanctity
likewise
(
as
S.
Ambrose
writeth
of
S.
John
Baptist
)
might
descend
,
as
it
were
,
hereditarily
on
her
,
in
whome
the
Authour
of
sanctity
was
to
be
contayned
.
An
Angell
is
sayd
to
haue
fortould
her
birth
,
by
whome
,
the
ruines
caused
in
heauen
by
the
fal
of
Angells
were
to
be
repayred
.
Her
Patents
,
hauing
in
pious
vses
,
giuen
away
,
the
greatest
part
of
their
worldly
substance
,
&
liuing
as
they
did
in
a
remote
Prouince
of
Palestine
,
and
that
poore
Village
of
Nazareth
,
prepared
,
as
it
were
,
the
way
to
our
heauenly
Redeemers
poore
Natiuity
,
and
humble
life
,
lead
afterward
among
vs
.
Of
our
B.
Ladyes
immaculate
Conception
.
[
Chap.
2.
AS
Almighty
God
had
elected
this
sacred
Virgin
,
to
the
highest
office
,
and
greatest
vnion
with
himselfe
,
which
a
pure
creature
could
be
assumed
vnto
:
so
did
he
no
doubt
,
singularly
prepare
her
therunto
,
by
conferring
on
her
proportionable
graces
.
For
as
from
our
Sauiours
high
title
,
of
being
called
the
Son
of
God
,
S.
Paul
collecteth
his
infimite
excellency
aboue
the
Angels
,
only
called
Gods
Ministers
,
and
seruants
:
so
may
we
in
like
manner
from
this
B.
Virgins
soueraigne
title
of
being
the
mother
of
God
,
well
gather
her
graces
to
haue
been
farre
greater
,
then
her
diuine
Father
,
Sonne
,
&
Spouse
had
at
any
time
before
bestowed
vpon
the
greatest
of
their
seruants
.
And
,
as
she
concurred
in
an
especiall
manner
,
to
redeeme
the
world
by
communicating
flesh
,
and
bloud
,
to
the
heauenly
Redeemer
thereof
,
the
high
prices
of
our
redemption
:
So
did
she
(
no
doubt
)
singularly
partake
the
fruites
therof
,
&
holiest
manner
of
being
by
him
redeemed
.
That
whereas
other
soules
,
in
their
first
creation
&
vnion
with
bodies
,
contracte
the
hatefull
foulenes
of
originall
sinne
;
she
by
her
sonnes
sweet
blessing
,
was
from
that
fowle
infection
graciously
preserued
:
so
as
Nature
,
&
Grace
began
togeather
in
her
,
and
happily
conspired
to
make
her
complete
,
in
naturall
,
and
supernaturall
perfection
.
As
a
bright
starre
of
the
sea
,
according
to
the
mysterious
signification
of
her
name
;
a
heauenly
splend
our
in
her
first
rising
did
wonderfully
adorne
her
.
〈…〉
,
out
of
which
the
flowing
spring
of
all
graces
was
to
rise
;
no
filth
of
sinne
did
euer
defile
her
.
As
a
liuely
,
and
most
louely
tabernacle
of
the
highest
,
she
was
no
sooner
raysed
,
but
the
seauen-headded
lampe
of
the
Holy
Ghost
did
flame
in
her
:
and
as
a
mysterious
Arke
placed
in
the
beautifull
Temple
of
her
body
,
her
innocent
soule
,
was
with
Cherubims
wings
,
acts
to
wit
of
heauenly
knowledge
&
loue
,
graced
and
protected
.
Syria's
King
had
no
power
to
cast
any
of
his
deadly
dartes
,
into
this
euer
holy
,
and
diuinely
guarded
Hierusalem
.
This
louely
spouse
of
heauenly
Assuerus
,
was
from
the
rigourous
penalty
of
his
lawes
,
made
not
for
her
,
but
for
ordinary
subiects
,
graciously
exempted
.
The
naturall
,
and
immediate
vnion
which
this
sacred
Virgin
was
to
haue
afterwards
with
her
diuine
sonne
,
preuay
led
far
more
with
graces
to
enrich
her
,
then
her
remote
deriuation
from
Adam
,
sinfully
to
infect
her
.
Eues
oldnes
,
had
no
place
in
this
new
womans
conception
,
ordayned
to
be
the
gracious
helper
of
the
sonne
of
God
,
in
our
heauenly
regeneration
,
and
in
graces
therfore
to
be
likened
vnto
him
.
And
surely
,
that
particular
enmity
,
which
Almighty
God
promised
to
place
betweene
her
and
Satan
,
in
the
hearing
of
our
first
parents
,
importeth
her
,
to
haue
byn
dearely
vnited
to
the
gracious
Author
of
that
promise
,
&
neuer
by
any
kinde
of
sinne
enthralled
to
him
,
ouer
whome
by
her
Sonne
,
she
so
gloriously
triumphed
:
Pious
eares
,
and
harts
abhorring
to
heare
spoken
,
that
this
sacred
mother
of
their
heauenly
Redeemer
inherited
sinne
(
as
other
children
do
)
for
her
birth-right
in
this
world
,
and
became
therby
her
enemies
slaue
,
a
child
of
wrath
,
hatefull
to
her
diuine
spouse
,
and
guilty
for
a
tyme
of
eternall
damnation
.
No
certainly
it
could
not
be
,
but
that
he
,
who
by
aboundant
graces
preserued
her
(
as
all
Catholiques
belieue
)
from
venially
offending
him
,
by
a
like
,
and
indeed
far
lesse
priuiledge
of
his
loue
,
freed
her
also
,
from
all
mortall
,
and
sinfull
contagion
.
Of
our
B.
Ladyes
Natiuity
.
[
Chap.
3.
THis
dawning
of
our
Eternall
Day
,
(
as
the
Church
calleth
the
sacred
Virgin
)
being
cleared
in
her
first
rising
,
and
brightly
mantled
with
that
sunnes
beames
,
which
to
illuminate
the
whole
world
,
rose
afterwards
in
her
,
S.
Annes
wombe
,
became
as
a
quiet
Oratory
,
for
her
to
pray
in
,
and
render
humble
thankes
to
her
diuine
Lord
,
for
his
gracious
fauours
newly
then
conferred
on
her
,
with
such
an
infused
kind
of
knowledge
,
as
S.
Iohn
Baptist
had
,
when
in
his
mothers
wombe
,
at
his
Redeemers
presence
,
he
ioyfully
exulted
.
Her
first
graces
actuall
and
habituall
,
were
such
(
no
doubt
)
as
well
became
so
diuine
and
liberall
a
Sonne
,
to
bestow
,
for
her
first
welcome
into
the
world
,
vpon
so
deseruing
a
Mother
,
as
he
foresaw
,
she
would
be
vnto
him
.
The
Eternall
Father
likewise
,
began
euen
then
,
as
his
humble
handmaid
,
graciously
to
respect
her
:
and
the
subsisting
spirit
of
Loue
and
Bounty
as
his
designed
spouse
,
by
wonderfull
graces
,
to
indeare
her
vnto
him
.
Angells
,
as
their
Lords
future
Mother
,
highly
honoured
this
gracious
Infant
,
and
Gabriell
a
chiefe
Prince
amongst
them
,
was
then
appointed
,
and
most
gladly
accepted
to
be
a
Guardian
vnto
her
,
by
whose
happy
birth
,
and
holy
life
,
all
mankind
was
to
be
graced
and
blessed
.
Her
Infancy
,
was
(
as
we
may
well
call
it
)
a
holy
Exercise
of
Charity
towards
God
,
brought
into
the
earth
with
her
,
dutifull
Loue
to
her
Blessed
parents
,
and
glad
Patience
in
sustayning
all
infirmities
common
to
children
;
resembling
then
in
her
innocent
,
and
holy
demeanures
,
the
like
carriages
of
her
diuine
Sonne
,
in
his
childhood
afterwards
:
so
as
she
had
no
way
ward
fancyes
,
or
childish
passions
,
ordinarily
proceeding
from
the
vse
of
reason
,
and
actuall
graces
,
wanting
in
other
children
:
but
Innocency
graced
her
,
from
her
first
entrance
amongst
men
,
Purity
consecrated
her
to
her
diuine
spouse
,
Sanctity
enriched
her
,
Humility
prepared
her
to
receaue
from
him
frequent
and
wonderfull
fauours
,
Modesty
did
set
out
her
rare
bewtyes
,
&
made
them
more
gracefull
to
such
as
beheld
her
.
Of
our
B.
Ladies
Presentation
,
and
life
in
the
Temple
.
[
Chap.
4.
THE
mother
of
God
,
was
in
her
tender
yeares
,
to
her
own
great
comfort
,
and
the
merit
of
her
holy
Parents
,
planted
(
say
th●
S.
Iohn
Damascene
)
as
a
fruitfull
Oliue
in
the
house
of
God
,
to
become
fatned
there
,
&
to
flourish
with
all
graces
.
As
another
Hester
,
she
was
translated
,
into
heauenly
Assucrus
Pallace
,
to
be
adorned
there
,
sweetned
,
and
made
ready
for
his
future
imbracements
;
where
not
Egeus
the
Eunuch
,
but
Gabriel
a
chiefe
Angell
with
his
glorious
companions
,
tenderly
regarded
her
by
the
appointment
of
their
Lord
,
and
familarized
themselues
with
her
.
Her
life
there
(
as
S.
Ambrose
describeth
it
)
was
such
,
as
she
became
therein
,
a
mirrour
to
others
of
vertuous
perfection
.
To
her
superiours
(
sayth
he
)
she
was
humbly
obedient
,
courteous
to
her
inferiours
,
and
mildly
sweet
to
her
equals
;
not
eating
oftner
,
or
more
at
any
tyme
,
then
naturall
necessity
inforced
her
vnto
;
praying
much
,
sleeping
litle
,
and
neuer
so
,
but
that
her
hart
was
waking
in
a
manner
the
while
;
often
interrupting
,
with
holy
thoughts
,
the
repose
of
her
senses
.
Her
bodily
beauty
,
was
like
a
flower
,
sweetned
with
internall
graces
,
and
blowne
forth
to
the
fulnes
of
corporall
perfection
,
neuer
faded
much
in
earth
,
and
in
heauen
now
gloriously
repayred
.
Her
holy
Parents
hauing
enioyed
themselues
,
and
yielded
to
the
world
,
the
blessing
of
such
a
child
,
happily
departed
this
life
(
as
great
Authours
haue
coniectured
)
during
her
aboad
in
the
Temple
,
because
there
is
not
in
the
Euangelicall
History
any
mention
at
all
of
them
;
as
certaynly
there
would
haue
byn
,
had
they
byn
liuing
at
,
and
after
our
Sauiours
Incarnation
.
Of
our
B.
Ladyes
Espousalls
to
S.
Ioseph
.
[
Chap.
5.
THis
sacred
pure
Virgin
liuing
amongst
a
carnall
people
,
farre
more
respecting
the
blessing
of
children
by
marriage
,
then
virginall
integrity
,
and
perfection
,
was
about
the
15.
yeare
of
her
age
by
the
will
of
them
,
who
were
Rulers
of
the
Temple
,
espoused
to
a
man
of
her
owne
Tribe
,
fitly
chosen
,
first
by
God
,
and
afterwards
by
them
,
as
a
husband
for
her
;
ripe
in
yeares
,
chast
in
the
profession
of
his
life
,
&
farre
excelling
(
sayth
S.
Bernard
)
as
well
in
the
future
dignity
of
his
office
,
as
in
heauenly
sanctity
,
that
holy
Patriarch
,
and
best
beloued
sonne
of
Iacob
,
whose
Name
also
he
mysteriously
enioyed
;
a
true
heyre
of
Dauids
vertues
,
whose
Sonne
the
Angell
called
him
,
and
a
man
according
to
Gods
owne
hart
,
much
more
then
he
;
worthy
as
a
mortal
man
could
be
,
to
deuide
the
name
of
a
Father
with
God
himselfe
,
&
to
haue
,
as
a
good
and
faythfull
Steward
such
heauenly
treasures
,
as
were
the
Incarnate
Word
,
and
his
gracious
Mother
,
recommended
vnto
him
.
Her
being
so
espoused
,
was
(
sayth
S.
Hierome
)
for
the
legitimation
of
our
Sauiours
birth
to
the
Iewes
,
and
help
of
his
education
needfully
required
:
and
that
also
his
being
borne
of
a
spotles
Virgin
,
might
be
concealed
from
the
diuell
.
Which
reason
alleadged
by
great
Jgnatius
,
who
liued
to
know
her
and
our
Redeemer
himselfe
,
seemeth
to
inferre
,
that
neyther
in
the
miraculous
Conception
of
her
child
,
or
at
any
tyme
after
,
infernall
spirits
dared
to
approach
her
,
Angelically
garded
,
and
like
an
Army
ranged
for
a
battayle
,
terrible
vnto
them
.
Holy
Ioseph
was
before
marriage
(
as
may
be
most
probably
ghessed
)
made
acquainted
with
her
virginall
vow
,
&
being
himselfe
a
Virgin
purely
and
piously
disposed
,
most
willingly
yielded
thereunto
,
and
resolued
gladly
to
accompany
her
in
the
obseruance
thereof
.
They
liued
to
geather
at
her
poore
house
in
Nazareth
S.
Ioachims
Sheepcote
(
as
S.
John
Damascene
calleth
it
)
first
graced
with
the
B.
Virgins
happy
birth
,
and
afterwards
more
highly
dignifyed
,
by
the
diuine
Words
Incarnation
,
and
life
lead
there
from
his
returne
out
of
Egypt
,
till
after
his
Baptisme
:
so
that
,
as
a
sacred
monument
of
Christianity
,
and
a
sure
testimony
of
of
our
Sauiours
pouerty
,
it
was
first
by
the
Apostles
themselues
,
conuerted
into
a
Chappell
,
and
since
,
not
only
preserued
in
the
miserable
ruines
of
Palestine
,
but
from
place
to
place
,
likewise
for
the
greater
veneration
thereof
,
by
Angels
translated
.
Deuour
people
come
from
seueral
Countryes
thronging
vnto
it
;
Princes
haue
with
their
votarie
guifts
&
Donaries
enriched
it
;
miracles
haue
wonderfully
graced
it
;
and
where
now
it
remayneth
,
it
is
as
a
most
precious
Iewell
,
cabbined
in
a
curious
Couering
of
white
marble
,
and
hath
besids
a
fayre
Church
built
ouer
it
,
wherin
it
standeth
as
a
most
holy
Sanctum
Sanctorum
,
breathing
sanctity
into
the
pious
visitours
thereof
,
and
delighting
(
I
doubt
not
)
heauenly
Creatures
to
behod
it
.
Of
our
B.
Ladyes
salutation
by
the
Angell
.
[
Chap.
6.
THe
sacred
Virgin
,
and
her
holy
Spouse
,
had
not
liued
long
togeather
,
but
the
fulnes
of
tyme
was
come
,
(
as
S.
Paul
calleth
the
happy
instant
of
our
Sauiours
Incarnation
)
when
the
diuine
persons
,
sent
a
chiefe
Prince
of
their
Court
,
as
a
Paranymph
,
to
salute
this
pure
Mayden
from
themselues
,
and
obtayne
her
consent
,
to
be
diuinely
fecundated
by
the
holy
Ghost
,
and
haue
the
Eternall
Word
Incarnate
within
her
.
Who
,
knowing
the
wonderful
Excellency
of
her
to
whome
he
was
sent
,
saluted
her
with
the
highest
Titles
,
which
could
be
giuen
to
an
vnglorified
Creature
,
saying
,
Hayle
full
of
grace
&c.
and
he
had
further
perchance
dilated
himselfe
in
her
prayses
,
had
she
not
by
her
humble
feare
,
sweetly
interrupted
him
.
Calling
her
Mary
,
familiarly
afterwards
(
which
at
first
for
reuerence
he
did
not
)
he
made
her
to
know
him
,
with
whome
,
she
had
often
,
and
familiarly
conuersed
before
(
as
great
Authours
haue
supposed
,
and
is
gathered
from
the
Euangelists
words
)
affirming
her
to
haue
byn
troubled
not
as
his
sight
,
but
at
his
speach
,
and
high
Titles
,
therein
giuen
vnto
her
.
Feare
not
(
said
he
)
thou
hast
found
grace
with
God
;
such
a
Grace
indeed
,
as
Hester
found
in
Assuerus
eyes
,
and
hart
togeather
,
when
as
a
louely
spouse
,
and
Queene
he
meant
to
exalt
her
:
Telling
her
further
,
that
she
shold
conceaue
in
her
wombe
,
and
bring
forth
a
Sonne
promised
by
God
(
as
the
rest
of
his
wordes
do
import
:
)
foretould
by
his
Prophets
,
Jsay
especially
,
whose
very
wordes
he
vsed
vnto
her
;
diuine
in
himselfe
,
glorious
likewise
,
&
eternall
in
his
kingdome
.
How
(
sayd
she
)
shall
this
be
done
,
because
I
know
not
man
?
Which
question
had
byn
idly
made
(
as
sundry
ancient
&
great
Fathers
haue
obserued
)
had
she
not
byn
debarred
,
by
her
virginall
vow
,
from
knowing
her
husband
.
When
the
Angell
had
cleared
her
difficulty
,
&
told
her
,
the
diuine
&
pure
manner
of
her
sonnes
conception
;
with
great
humility
and
deuotion
,
she
threw
herselfe
,
as
it
were
,
into
the
opened
armes
of
her
omnipotent
gracious
Spouse
to
be
purely
imbraced
,
and
fecundated
,
with
admiration
and
loue
yielding
herself
vnto
him
:
Behold
(
said
shee
)
the
handmaide
of
our
Lord
,
be
it
vnto
me
,
as
you
haue
said
.
O
Happy
Turtles
voyce
(
sayth
S.
Bernard
)
sweetly
vttered
heere
in
earth
,
yet
working
wonders
in
heauen
,
by
causing
forthwith
Gods
eternall
sonne
,
to
descend
from
his
Fathers
bosome
,
into
her
sacred
wombe
,
and
therin
to
assume
humane
Nature
personally
vpon
him
.
Of
the
Eternall
Word
in
her
Blessed
wombe
.
[
Chap.
7.
IN
this
miraculous
Conception
of
God
,
and
Man
,
our
heauenly
Redeemer
,
not
the
Essence
,
but
the
manner
only
of
humane
generation
was
many
wayes
altered
,
and
of
the
Virgins
pure
bloud
a
humane
body
was
sodainly
,
and
perfectly
framed
,
but
not
vnited
with
a
gracious
,
and
glorified
soule
,
then
created
also
,
before
they
were
by
the
diuine
Word
personally
assumed
,
that
she
maternally
concurring
in
her
sacred
wombe
to
vnite
them
,
might
be
the
true
mother
of
him
that
was
perfect
God
,
and
perfect
man
,
in
one
Person
vnited
.
This
Celestiall
Babe
,
behoulding
himself
at
that
happy
instant
,
by
created
graces
,
and
a
diuine
greatnes
,
aboue
all
creatures
infinitely
exalted
,
adored
likewise
by
all
the
Quires
of
Angells
,
and
orday
ned
to
redeeme
mortalls
,
amongst
all
the
designed
children
of
glory
,
then
presented
before
him
;
he
first
,
and
most
especially
beheld
his
holy
Mother
,
in
nature
neerest
,
in
dignity
chiefest
,
&
in
loue
dearest
vnto
him
,
actually
then
prepared
in
an
humble
ardour
of
heauenly
loue
to
receaue
,
what
graces
he
would
giue
her
,
whose
guifts
no
doubt
,
equalled
his
measurelesse
loue
towards
her
,
and
aboundantly
requited
the
harty
welcome
she
gaue
him
.
And
that
her
loue
towards
him
naturally
,
as
to
her
sonne
,
and
supernaturally
as
to
her
God
,
might
then
and
afterwards
become
happly
increased
;
he
is
conceaued
by
great
Authors
,
to
haue
at
that
instant
infused
into
her
soule
,
a
clearer
sight
of
his
personall
Maiesty
and
greatnes
,
then
Moyses
,
or
any
other
Saint
before
her
,
enioyed
,
lying
in
her
wombe
as
a
louely
Bride
in
his
marriage
bed
sweetly
reposed
;
as
a
tree
of
life
newly
planted
in
this
heauenvly
Paradise
;
as
a
fragrant
fayre
flowre
out
of
her
flourishing
braunches
graciously
budded
;
as
a
pretious
Margarite
in
a
cleere
mother-pearle
safely
inclosed
;
finally
as
an
amourous
louer
sweetly
lulled
in
the
Virgin-lappe
of
her
,
his
chiefly
beloued
,
corporally
growing
in
her
nature
,
and
liberally
communicating
his
spirituall
guifts
,
and
graces
vnto
her
.
Of
our
B.
Ladyes
visit
of
S.
Elizabeth
.
[
Chap.
8.
THis
mayden-gracious-Mother
was
no
sooner
wakened
out
of
her
sweet
traunce
of
loue
,
&
diuine
fecundity
,
but
Humility
prepared
,
and
feruent
Charity
incited
her
to
vndertake
a
paynfull
iourney
of
3.
dayes
trauell
,
ouer
the
craggy
mountaynes
of
Iewry
,
to
visit
her
aged
Cosen
S.
Elizabeth
in
Hebron
,
and
to
sanctify
S.
John
her
sonnes
Precursor
,
by
the
breath
of
her
salutation
;
of
which
not
the
words
,
but
effects
are
by
the
Euangelist
declared
,
to
haue
byn
heauenly
light
,
and
aboundant
graces
,
diuinely
infused
into
the
child
first
,
and
mother
afterwards
;
which
he
with
exultation
,
and
she
with
outcryes
of
ioy
and
loue
,
prophetically
vttered
,
conioyning
in
her
blessings
this
sacred
mother
,
and
her
diuine
son
;
as
in
nature
then
and
loue
she
beheld
them
graciously
vnited
:
Blessed
(
sayd
she
)
art
thou
amongst
women
,
&
blessed
is
the
fruite
of
thy
wombe
.
Blessed
indeed
in
herselfe
,
as
hauing
the
height
of
all
created
blessings
bestowed
vpon
her
;
and
blessed
in
her
sonne
,
the
flowing
fountayne
of
them
.
He
,
as
the
fruit
of
life
growing
in
her
wombe
was
blessed
,
and
she
was
blessed
as
the
tree
that
bore
him
:
&
surely
such
a
heauenvly
fruit
,
as
the
Incarnat
Sonne
of
God
was
,
could
not
but
haue
a
tree
of
rare
goodnes
to
produce
him
,
since
the
goodnes
of
trees
are
by
their
fruites
to
be
chiefly
discerned
.
This
diuine
graine
of
corne
falling
from
heauen
into
the
earth
according
to
his
owne
words
in
the
Ghospell
had
no
doubt
,
a
fat
,
and
fertile
soyle
to
fall
into
;
this
pretious
margarit
of
Heauen
,
had
a
cleere
mother-pearle
to
breed
it
;
this
bright
sonne
of
Iustice
finally
had
a
fayre
dawning
to
rise
in
by
his
most
resplendent
beames
,
before
other
Saints
mantled
and
adorned
.
Whence
is
it
(
sayd
this
Saint
,
admiring
the
B.
Virgins
Humility
,
and
gratefull
for
her
charity
in
comming
to
a
person
so
much
in
dignity
and
graces
inferiour
vnto
her
)
that
the
mother
of
my
Lord
,
is
come
vnto
me
?
S.
Elizabeth
was
a
great
Saint
,
canonized
and
commended
highly
with
her
husband
by
God
himselfe
;
yet
being
humble
&
actually
illuminated
to
know
the
dignity
and
wonderfull
graces
of
her
Cosin
,
she
saw
her
owne
sparcles
by
the
others
huge
flames
incomparably
exceeded
;
her
smal
light
by
the
others
sunny
brightnes
ecclipsed
;
and
the
mother
of
a
Creature
,
by
the
blessed
Parent
of
her
Creatour
and
Redeemer
himselfe
,
incomparably
excelled
.
Then
gladly
,
&
thankefully
she
acknowledged
the
holy
effects
in
her
child
,
and
her selfe
;
of
her
salutation
,
praysing
her
beliefe
yielded
to
the
Angells
speaches
,
&
prophetically
assuring
her
,
that
all
should
be
fulfilled
,
which
he
had
tould
her
,
concerning
the
greatnes
of
her
sonne
,
redemption
of
the
world
by
him
,
and
glory
of
his
kingdome
.
Of
our
B.
Ladyes
Canticle
,
and
stay
with
her
Cosin
S.
Elizabeth
.
[
Chap.
9.
SAint
Elizabeth
is
sayd
to
haue
byn
newly
replenished
with
the
Holy
Ghost
,
before
she
spake
to
the
mother
of
God
;
so
were
Zachary
her
holy
husband
,
and
Simeon
,
before
they
brake
out
into
their
propheticall
Canticles
.
But
before
the
B.
Virgin
entred
into
hers
,
no
new
inspiration
is
mentioned
;
to
let
vs
thereby
know
,
that
she
did
no
more
therin
,
then
a
litle
open
the
enriching
Treasures
of
diuine
Loue
,
and
knowledge
,
humbly
by
her
before
hidden
,
and
euer
concealed
,
but
when
in
gratitude
to
the
liberall
Authour
of
them
,
she
was
sweetly
enforced
to
discouer
them
.
And
as
her
Cosin
had
magnifyed
her
,
so
did
she
for
them
magnify
her
Lord
:
and
as
S.
Iohn
exulted
in
the
wombe
,
so
her
spirit
likewise
exulted
in
God
her
Sauiour
:
an
humble
Prophetesse
afterwards
(
sayth
S.
Basil
)
of
her
owne
future
greatnes
,
and
a
deuout
Preacher
in
the
rest
of
her
high
Canticle
of
her
Creatour
prayses
,
and
mercyes
,
especially
in
sending
his
sonne
graciously
to
redeeme
vs
.
Behould
(
sayth
she
)
from
henceforth
all
Generations
shall
call
me
blessed
,
because
he
that
is
mighty
hath
done
great
things
to
mee
&c.
giuing
vs
to
vnderstand
,
that
holy
soules
euen
to
the
worlds
end
,
should
admire
Gods
gracious
goodnes
towards
her
,
and
blesse
not
only
him
the
Giuer
,
but
her
also
the
Receauer
,
of
such
wonderfull
blessings
.
Then
sweetly
delighted
to
vtter
Gods
mercifull
loue
to
men
,
and
dreadfull
seuerity
in
tumbling
downe
the
proud
Angells
from
their
high
seates
for
offending
him
,
shee
concludeth
her
sacred
Canticle
,
with
a
feruent
and
gratefull
acknowledgement
of
that
high
Blessing
of
Blessings
,
which
by
her
,
he
intended
to
his
people
.
She
is
sayd
,
to
haue
stayed
,
about
three
monethes
with
her
Cosin
,
that
this
holy
family
,
might
lastingly
enioy
the
comfort
of
her
presence
,
whose
first
approach
had
byn
the
cause
of
such
blessings
vnto
them
;
&
that
the
little
Champion
(
as
S.
Ambrose
calleth
S.
Iohn
)
might
be
the
more
fully
annointed
,
and
in
the
lappe
and
armes
of
this
mayden
,
and
gracious
Mother
of
his
diuine
Redeemer
,
haue
new
graces
breathed
into
him
.
For
by
the
Ecclesiasticall
order
,
of
celebrating
the
feast
of
our
Ladyes
Visitation
the
day
after
S.
Johns
Octaue
,
we
are
giuen
to
vnderstand
,
that
she
stayed
with
her
Cosin
,
vntill
the
childes
circumcision
.
Holy
Zachary
likewise
,
no
stranger
in
his
owne
house
,
nor
vnworthy
to
haue
these
secrets
of
heauen
imparted
vnto
him
,
may
well
be
supposed
,
to
haue
heard
,
in
his
owne
miraculous
silence
,
the
propheticall
outcryes
of
his
wife
,
and
mysterious
Canticle
of
his
Cosin
,
pondering
them
deuoutly
in
his
hart
,
vntill
with
his
tongue
in
the
circumcision
of
his
child
his
speach
was
restored
,
and
himselfe
newly
inspired
to
add
his
owne
Canticle
vnto
them
.
Of
our
Sauiours
Incarnation
manifested
to
S.
Ioseph
.
[
Chap.
10.
AS
the
Mother
of
God
,
had
eminent
graces
,
and
fauours
heaped
from
heauen
continually
vpon
her
;
so
had
she
two
excellent
vertues
,
Humility
to
wit
,
&
Taciturnity
to
hide
them
,
which
after
her
returne
to
Nazareth
she
holily
exercised
.
For
in
a
short
tyme
the
happy
grouth
of
her
diuine
Babe
,
appeared
in
her
wombe
,
and
her
sacred
breasts
,
as
pearly-bottels
,
tipped
with
rubyes
,
and
filled
from
heauen
,
to
nurse
God
himselfe
,
in
humane
nature
,
plainely
discouered
that
to
S.
Ioseph
,
her
louing
and
beloued
Spouse
,
which
she
desired
not
to
haue
hidden
from
him
.
Her
knowne
sanctity
,
&
vowed
purity
of
life
,
caused
him
not
to
suspect
on
the
one
side
,
any
adulterous
sacriledge
to
haue
byn
committed
by
her
,
more
&
more
stil
appearing
gracious
vnto
him
;
yet
seeing
on
the
other
side
euident
signes
of
her
being
with
child
,
ignorant
(
sayth
S.
Hierome
)
of
this
high
mystery
,
and
holily
resolued
not
to
liue
perplexedly
with
her
,
or
to
expose
her
to
infamy
,
and
death
ordayned
by
the
Iewish
law
for
adulterous
women
,
with
a
griefe
(
no
doubt
)
proportionable
to
his
great
loue
towards
her
,
and
vnspeakable
delight
,
which
he
tooke
in
her
sweet
society
and
presence
,
he
resolued
secretly
,
to
leaue
her
:
and
she
the
while
,
though
dearely
respecting
him
,
resolued
not
to
satisfy
him
in
his
doubt
,
by
reuealing
,
without
a
diuine
warrant
,
such
heauenly
secrets
reserued
indeed
by
a
heauenly
messenger
to
be
related
vnto
him
.
Joseph
sonne
of
Dauid
(
said
the
Angell
vnto
him
in
his
sleepe
)
feare
not
to
take
Mary
to
thy
wife
,
for
that
which
is
borne
of
her
,
is
of
the
holy
Ghost
:
she
shall
bring
forth
a
Sonne
,
&
thou
shalt
call
his
name
IESVS
,
for
he
shall
saue
his
people
from
their
sinnes
;
ouerioying
him
(
no
doubt
)
by
so
happy
a
tidinges
,
&
comforting
him
far
more
,
then
his
intended
departure
from
so
deare
,
and
gracious
a
spouse
,
had
formerly
afflicted
him
;
for
then
he
foresawe
,
and
with
due
thankfulnes
acknowledged
such
wonderfull
fauours
,
and
diuine
blessings
,
as
by
being
husband
to
such
a
wife
,
and
foster-Father
to
such
a
child
,
as
was
the
Incarnate
Sonne
of
God
himselfe
,
and
Redeemer
of
the
world
,
would
be
heaped
vpon
him
;
making
many
feruent
resolutions
,
with
an
awfull
loue
,
&
glad
diligence
from
thence-forth
to
serue
them
;
and
vttering
them
in
a
ioyfull
and
louing
maner
to
his
Blessed
spouse
as
humbly
and
thankfully
accepting
them
.
Such
calmes
after
stormes
,
Almighty
God
is
wont
,
for
their
triall
,
and
merit
,
to
bestow
on
his
seruants
,
&
children
dearest
vnto
him
.
Of
our
B.
Ladies
Expecting
,
&
longing
for
the
byrth
of
her
Child
.
[
Chap.
11.
THe
Indian
Oysters
vse
to
shut
vp
within
their
shells
,
Pearles
which
they
haue
bred
,
so
fast
,
as
without
violence
they
open
not
themselues
,
to
yield
vp
such
treasures
:
But
it
was
not
so
,
in
this
sacred
mother-pearle
of
Heauen
,
for
as
she
had
in
her
Virginall
wombe
,
for
the
worlds
redemption
,
diuinely
conceaued
her
sonne
;
so
was
she
for
this
high
end
,
desirous
to
produce
him
.
Whome
she
well
knew
to
lye
,
as
a
rich
treasure
mined
within
her
body
,
which
should
no
sooner
be
brought
to
light
,
but
other
holy
persons
,
the
sheephards
for
example
,
the
3.
Kings
,
old
Simeon
,
Anna
,
and
many
with
them
,
would
togeather
with
her selfe
,
come
to
be
enriched
holily
,
and
happly
by
it
.
Or
like
a
burning
cole
buryed
vnder
hot
embers
,
he
was
inclosed
in
her
wombe
,
which
bared
and
layd
open
,
would
sparcle
,
&
send
forth
flames
,
with
which
the
whole
world
was
afterwards
to
be
fired
,
lightened
,
and
purged
,
according
to
his
owne
words
in
the
Ghospell
;
J
came
to
send
fire
into
the
world
,
and
what
will
J
,
but
that
it
should
be
kindled
?
Or
like
a
rich
Iewell
he
lay
cabbined
vntill
his
birth
in
her
,
with
whose
gracious
lustre
,
when
it
came
to
be
exposed
,
men
and
Angells
,
were
to
be
exceedingly
and
equally
delighted
:
or
finally
like
some
delicious
holsome
fruite
,
he
lay
shelled
,
and
vntasted
,
vntill
he
came
by
holy
soules
,
to
be
relished
,
and
fed
vpon
.
For
her
owne
comfort
also
,
this
sacred
Mother
desired
her
sonnes
birth
,
with
vnspeakable
longing
,
to
see
him
,
imbrace
him
,
and
performe
all
motherly
duties
vnto
him
,
which
whilst
he
lay
in
her
pure
wombe
she
could
not
.
All
that
she
could
do
there
for
him
,
was
to
adore
him
in
his
humility
,
yield
the
Enclosure
of
her
body
freely
vnto
him
,
embracing
him
as
he
lay
within
it
,
eating
chiefly
to
sustayne
him
,
esteeming
herself
happy
in
bearing
him
,
and
willing
with
her
hart
bloud
,
if
she
could
,
to
haue
yielded
nutriment
vnto
him
.
Who
was
not
dull
the
whilst
,
or
careles
in
requiting
her
affectionate
intertaynement
;
but
as
the
sunne
is
wont
more
&
more
to
mantle
,
&
cleare
the
Easterne
part
of
heauen
,
before
his
rising
therein
:
so
did
this
diuine
fountayne
of
heauenly
charity
,
illuminate
,
inflame
,
and
adorne
with
his
brightest
beames
,
the
soule
of
this
sacred
Virgin
,
before
his
rising
from
her
,
in
our
earthly
Horizon
.
Of
our
B.
Ladies
iourney
to
Bethleem
.
[
Chap.
12.
CAEsars
Edict
hastned
odedient
Ioseph
and
his
humble
spouse
towards
Bethleem
,
there
to
be
enrolled
,
then
a
ruinous
poore
Village
,
and
farre
different
from
what
it
had
byn
,
when
great
Salomon
,
as
his
fathers
birth-place
,
with
high
wals
,
turrets
,
and
stately
pallaces
guarded
graced
and
enriched
it
,
yet
neuer
dignifyed
the
same
so
much
,
as
did
these
poore
strangers
,
by
entring
into
it
,
and
bringing
with
them
Israels
heauenly
King
,
and
great
Captayne
,
to
be
borne
there
,
as
long
before
Micheas
had
prophesied
;
so
as
it
ioyed
in
an
vnspeakable
manner
this
holy
couple
,
to
know
that
they
were
now
arriued
,
at
the
designed
place
of
their
Sonnes
and
Sauiours
natiuity
.
Weary
of
their
foot-iourney
friendles
,
&
as
poore
persons
reiected
at
the
Inne
stored
with
richer
guests
,
humbly
&
patiently
they
betooke
themselues
to
a
poore
stable
,
or
Caue
there
(
as
S.
Hierome
calleth
it
)
to
beasts
&
beggars
equally
exposed
;
fitly
chosen
by
the
Sonne
of
God
,
notwithstanding
,
as
mysteriously
representing
the
worlds
estate
darkened
by
insidelity
,
&
with
horrible
sinnes
abominably
defiled
,
at
his
entrance
into
it
.
Expressing
withall
,
the
obscurity
,
and
vncleanenesse
of
soules
,
before
he
come
by
heauenly
graces
,
to
be
borne
within
them
,
when
of
foule
stables
,
they
become
cleane
tabernacles
for
the
diuine
persons
to
remayne
in
.
The
pouerty
likewise
of
the
place
,
and
want
of
all
things
therin
,
aptly
yield
exemplar
documents
to
holy
soules
,
of
contemning
for
his
sake
,
pallaces
,
pompes
&
worldly
commodities
,
which
this
heauenly
King
for
our
merit
and
example
,
as
in
his
birth
,
so
throughout
his
whole
life
,
vtterly
wanted
.
Of
our
B.
Ladies
Child-birth
.
[
Chap.
13.
SAint
Bonauenture
,
in
a
holy
contemplation
of
this
sacred
mystery
,
conceaueth
the
B.
Virgin
being
come
to
Bethleem
,
and
entred
into
the
stable
,
to
haue
byn
excessiuely
replenished
with
ioy
that
the
long
desired
houre
of
her
Diuine
Sonnes
Natiuity
so
neerly
approached
:
and
whilest
prostrate
on
her
knees
in
prayer
,
she
delighted
her
soule
with
holy
apprehensions
thereof
,
and
longing
to
behold
him
,
he
miraculously
ascended
out
of
her
vnopened
pure
wombe
,
into
her
blessed
armes
,
ready
to
imbrace
him
.
This
high
priuiledge
(
sayth
S.
Bernard
)
of
being
a
mother
,
yet
remayning
still
a
Virgin
,
hauing
byn
for
her
singularly
reserued
,
whose
child
was
God
&
Man
personally
vnited
,
able
in
his
power
,
&
willing
in
his
loue
to
preserue
his
Mother
from
all
payne
,
impurity
,
and
corruption
:
in
so
much
as
learned
Suarez
conceaueth
the
pure
Nest
,
in
which
this
diuine
Phenix
and
heaueuly
Bird
of
loue
was
hatched
,
and
ripened
for
his
birth
,
to
remayne
entirely
yet
preserued
,
as
it
was
at
his
going
out
from
it
,
that
Angells
intellectually
,
and
Saintes
corporally
also
may
transparently
in
all
eternity
,
and
delightefully
behold
it
.
Insteed
of
midwife
,
&
women
to
help
her
,
Angels
in
their
kings
birth
,
gladly
became
his
Adorers
,
and
her
Attendants
;
so
that
a
poore
stable
,
by
the
happy
birth
of
this
diuine
Babe
therein
,
was
sodainly
conuerted
into
an
Empyriall
heauen
;
a
hard
crib
in
which
she
layd
him
,
became
this
humble
Kings
bed
of
State
to
repose
in
;
poore
cloutes
in
place
of
purple
robes
serued
to
inuest
him
;
and
the
papps
of
a
poore
maiden
,
filled
from
heauen
then
,
as
her
wombe
had
byn
before
,
serued
to
giue
him
sucke
,
who
fed
the
birds
of
the
ayre
at
that
instant
,
and
attyred
the
flowers
of
the
field
in
their
fayre
and
various
beauties
;
neuer
greater
,
then
in
being
so
lessened
;
neuer
more
glorious
then
in
being
so
obscured
;
neuer
more
exalted
,
then
in
being
so
humbled
;
neuer
more
louely
,
then
in
humane
beauty
assumed
;
neuer
more
powrefull
,
then
in
our
infirmityes
sustayned
.
Mercy
moued
him
to
vndertake
the
painefull
taske
of
of
our
Redemption
,
Wisedome
guided
him
,
Fortitude
hartned
him
,
and
Charity
moued
him
ardently
to
imbrace
whatsoeuer
he
saw
needfull
,
or
expedient
to
be
done
,
or
suffered
therein
for
vs
.
Of
our
B.
Ladyes
intertayning
the
shepheards
in
Bethleem
.
[
Chap.
14.
THe
Angells
of
heauen
hauing
ioyfully
themselues
adored
their
king
,
hastned
into
the
fields
of
Bethleem
,
to
make
the
poore
shephards
,
there
watching
their
flockes
,
sharers
of
ioyes
with
them
.
Feare
not
(
said
the
chiefest
of
them
,
appearing
singly
,
and
gloriously
vnto
them
)
for
J
come
to
,
tell
you
a
ioy
which
shall
be
to
all
people
,
because
a
Sauiour
is
borne
vnto
you
this
day
in
Bethleem
;
and
forthwith
to
second
these
happy
tydinges
,
the
whole
Host
of
heauen
,
was
seene
trooping
in
the
ayre
,
&
heard
to
sing
,
in
a
mysterious
canticle
,
the
fruites
of
our
Sauiours
comming
in
earth
and
in
heauen
:
Glory
in
the
highest
to
God
,
and
peace
to
men
&c.
And
they
were
no
sooner
mounted
vp
to
heauen
,
but
the
shephards
hasted
to
Bethleem
,
where
at
the
cribbe
of
Christ
,
they
ioyfully
vttered
what
the
Angells
had
tould
them
.
And
our
B.
Lady
,
is
said
mysteriously
by
the
Euangelist
to
haue
conserued
,
and
conferred
all
these
things
in
her
hart
,
aswell
to
illuminate
&
delight
her
soule
,
by
a
high
,
and
amourous
contemplation
of
them
,
as
she
did
all
the
passages
of
her
sonnes
life
afterwards
:
as
also
to
be
able
,
for
the
good
of
others
,
and
instruction
perchance
of
this
Euangelist
himselfe
,
afterwards
to
relate
them
:
who
professing
(
as
he
doth
)
in
the
beginning
of
his
Ghospell
,
to
haue
collected
the
sacred
verities
therof
from
such
,
as
had
byn
ministers
from
the
beginning
,
&
witnesses
of
them
;
we
may
well
thence
inferre
him
to
haue
receaued
from
this
sacred
Virgins
mouth
,
all
such
particulers
of
our
Sauiours
Incarnation
,
and
infancy
,
as
she
alone
could
testify
vnto
him
,
hauing
byn
the
chiefe
,
and
happy
actour
in
them
,
called
therefore
by
sundry
holy
Fathers
,
the
Mistresse
of
the
Euangelists
:
and
S.
Cyrill
before
his
Thesaurus
vpon
S.
Iohn
,
wondreth
not
,
that
like
an
Eagle
he
soared
aboue
his
fellowes
,
hauing
had
from
his
Lords
Crosse
,
this
sacred
Arke
and
rich
treasury
of
heauenly
knowledge
recommended
vnto
him
,
who
hauing
liued
with
her
diuine
sonne
,
as
his
most
inward
,
and
wise
secretary
30.
yeares
togeather
,
was
all
that
tyme
sitting
,
as
it
were
,
at
a
continuall
banquet
,
gustfully
feeding
,
&
delighting
her
soule
,
with
the
heauenly
viandes
of
his
mysterious
speaches
,
and
actions
,
conserued
still
in
her
hart
,
&
deuoutly
considered
.
Of
our
Blessed
Ladyes
nursing
,
and
seruing
her
diuine
Sonne
.
[
Chap.
15.
AS
it
is
certayne
that
our
Sauiour
was
complete
in
the
graces
,
and
glory
of
his
soule
,
from
the
first
instant
of
his
humane
conception
,
wanting
only
that
experimentall
knowledge
,
which
was
by
degrees
(
as
in
vs
)
to
be
gayned
by
the
vse
of
his
senses
:
so
are
we
to
conceaue
this
diuine
Babe
,
to
haue
byn
wholy
free
from
all
waywardnesse
,
vncleanenes
,
violency
of
passions
,
fancyes
,
and
other
childish
imperfections
,
intuitiuely
still
behoulding
those
very
obiects
,
which
experimentally
he
learned
.
And
whereas
other
children
,
by
frequent
aspects
,
come
to
know
the
faces
of
their
Mothers
,
and
beginne
a
naturall
loue
towards
them
,
for
continuall
fauours
receaued
;
this
diuine
child
did
not
only
exteriously
know
his
Mother
,
but
interiourly
also
behold
the
humble
thoughts
&
enflamed
affections
of
her
soule
towards
him
,
her
pure
intentions
,
and
harty
gladnes
in
doing
motherly
offices
vnto
him
;
and
according
to
the
wonderfull
merit
of
them
with
heaped
graces
presently
requited
them
.
For
surely
they
apprehend
meāly
the
diuinesse
of
this
child
&
Theandricall
sublimity
of
his
actions
,
who
conceaue
his
huggings
,
kisses
,
and
other
like
expressions
of
filiall
Ioue
towards
his
B.
Mother
,
to
haue
byn
no
more
,
then
fruiteles
and
naked
signes
of
childish
affections
:
wheras
indeed
they
were
continuall
breathings
of
new
graces
into
her
soule
,
euer
humble
and
prepared
to
receaue
them
.
Naturall
&
supernaturall
loue
sweetly
conspired
(
no
doubt
)
to
indeare
them
to
ech
other
;
He
,
as
his
naturall
mother
,
and
most
excellent
Creature
,
humanly
and
diuinly
affected
her
;
and
she
,
as
her
God
,
and
Sonne
respectfully
adored
,
and
delightefully
serued
him
.
Which
harmony
of
mutuall
loue
,
betweene
them
,
neuer
of
her
part
sinfully
interrupted
,
happily
still
increased
;
so
as
heauenly
Creatures
themselues
,
were
delighted
to
behould
him
recreated
,
and
her
enriched
,
by
their
mutuall
affections
.
Of
our
B.
Ladyes
sorrow
in
her
sonnes
Circumcision
.
[
Chap.
16.
THe
sonne
of
God
was
vpon
the
8.
day
after
his
birth
,
in
the
pure
partes
of
his
body
,
paynefully
circumcised
,
that
he
might
,
as
in
the
end
,
so
in
the
beginning
of
his
life
shed
painefully
his
bloud
for
vs
.
For
we
are
not
to
conceaue
,
that
he
who
was
aboue
all
lawes
,
and
the
Author
of
them
,
suffered
this
wound
,
because
the
Law
commaunded
him
,
but
rather
he
made
this
law
,
that
to
fulfill
the
same
,
he
might
take
an
occasion
,
to
be
so
wounded
for
vs
.
This
bloudy
ceremony
,
&
sacramentall
remedy
of
originall
sinne
in
Male
children
,
(
arguing
therfore
Christs
wonderfull
humility
in
vndergoing
it
)
was
vsually
performed
in
ech
parish
by
some
Leuite
,
appointed
by
his
office
to
do
it
,
and
the
house
where
the
child
was
borne
,
was
the
ordinary
place
of
performing
it
;
so
as
the
Blessed
Virgin
may
be
conceaued
,
compassionatly
to
haue
seene
this
first
and
painefull
wound
,
made
in
the
tender
body
of
her
sonne
,
as
she
did
afterwards
behould
his
last
woundinges
,
agonyes
,
and
torments
,
hauing
byn
indeed
not
casually
,
but
diuinely
ordayned
,
to
share
in
sufferings
with
him
.
Lust
,
the
beastly
and
ouer-common
vice
of
men
,
was
so
hatefull
to
this
heauenly
Author
of
purity
,
and
Sonne
of
an
immaculate
Virgin
,
as
in
the
very
entrance
of
his
life
,
he
seemed
to
proclayme
war
against
it
,
by
causing
the
pure
partes
of
his
owne
body
,
to
smart
,
and
bleed
,
that
from
such
a
fountayne
of
grace
opened
in
himselfe
,
his
deuout
children
,
from
raging
heates
and
impurityes
in
theirs
,
might
become
afterwards
cooled
,
and
cleansed
.
Neither
was
this
wound
only
painefully
made
,
but
(
as
we
read
of
Sichem
and
his
people
)
the
stiffnes
,
and
smarting
payne
therof
continued
many
dayes
after
:
so
as
we
may
well
call
this
wound
,
a
paynfull
tast
which
our
heauenly
Redeemer
was
pleased
to
take
,
of
his
bitter
,
and
deadly
chalice
;
and
a
sharpe
exercise
of
patience
with-all
,
in
his
louing
Mother
,
dressing
this
wound
whilst
it
continued
,
and
often
bathing
it
,
with
flowing
teares
of
tender
compassion
,
as
she
did
afterwards
,
his
deeper
,
and
deadlier
woundes
,
suffering
still
in
her
soule
his
bodily
torments
.
Of
our
B.
Ladyes
imposing
on
her
Sonne
,
the
Name
IESVS
.
[
Chap.
17.
WIth
the
sacramentall
signe
of
Circumcision
,
children
then
were
wont
to
be
enrolled
in
the
number
of
Gods
people
;
and
because
this
name
IESVS
,
imported
the
saluation
of
mankind
,
he
would
not
without
shedding
his
bloud
,
whereby
he
was
to
redeeme
vs
,
haue
it
imposed
.
This
Name
,
holy
and
high
aboue
all
Names
(
as
S.
Paul
telleth
vs
)
was
misteriously
imposed
vpon
two
Iosua's
,
or
Jesus'es
,
types
of
our
Sauiour
in
reducing
Gods
people
from
their
first
and
second
captiuity
;
but
commonly
afterwards
giuen
to
children
,
that
the
mysteriousnesse
therof
,
might
not
become
noted
in
him
who
was
to
performe
the
high
office
of
sauing
mankind
,
chiefly
by
it
imported
.
This
name
(
IESVS
)
reuealed
by
the
Angell
to
the
B.
Virgin
first
,
and
to
S.
Ioseph
afterwards
,
with
the
comfortable
meaning
thereof
,
was
as
Oyle
powred
out
,
to
mollify
the
griefe
of
his
wound
felt
in
her
hart
,
and
still
to
increase
the
gracious
flame
of
her
ardent
loue
towards
him
.
It
was
like
sweet
Musicke
in
her
eares
,
hony
in
her
mouth
,
and
a
continuall
iubily
in
her
hart
,
to
name
it
herselfe
,
or
heare
others
name
it
.
Her
sons
humane
&
diuine
greatnes
hauing
byn
mentioned
by
the
Angell
vnto
her
,
for
this
end
chiefly
that
she
might
conceaue
the
mysteriousnes
of
it
.
All
vertues
exercised
by
him
in
the
worke
of
our
Redemprion
,
his
actions
,
his
sufferings
,
and
fruites
of
them
,
in
earth
,
and
in
heauen
,
were
continually
to
her
by
that
holy
name
(
IESVS
)
compendiously
,
and
sweetely
imported
:
so
as
wee
may
well
affirme
her
,
to
haue
begun
that
Veneration
to
this
holy
Name
heere
in
Earth
,
which
is
now
to
the
same
in
heauen
also
yielded
.
Of
the
Sages
finding
the
Child
with
the
B.
Virgin
his
Mother
.
[
Chap.
18.
THis
humbled
king
of
maiesty
,
and
greatnes
,
was
pleased
to
haue
his
poore
birth
graced
by
the
comming
of
Gentill
Princes
,
from
the
vtmost
endes
of
the
Earth
,
by
the
conduction
of
a
mysterious
and
miraculous
Star
,
in
Bethleem
to
adore
him
,
not
debased
in
their
high
thoughts
,
by
his
pouerty
,
but
appearing
therin
,
as
a
king
of
heauenly
maiesty
and
greatnes
;
purposely
so
humbled
,
and
disguised
in
humane
nature
,
afterwards
to
redeeme
them
more
louely
and
gracious
,
whilst
with
adorations
,
prostrations
,
and
guifts
they
testified
their
faith
in
him
.
And
as
the
Childs
greatnes
,
so
his
B.
Mothers
Excellency
was
discouered
,
no
doubt
,
diuinely
vnto
them
.
Wherefore
to
intimate
their
ioyes
,
by
behoulding
her
also
increased
,
the
Euangelist
my
steriously
telleth
vs
,
that
,
they
found
the
child
with
Mary
his
Mother
:
viewing
him
as
the
bright
Sunne
of
heauen
newly
appearing
in
our
earthly
Horizon
,
and
her
as
that
cleere
dawning
which
he
had
chosen
to
rise
in
.
His
gracious
beames
adorned
her
,
and
she
with
her
naturall
bewty
had
sweetly
attired
him
;
so
as
her
liuely
and
louely
forme
,
was
in
his
humane
face
delightfully
resembled
.
Who
in
the
silence
of
her
sonne
,
became
(
as
we
may
conceaue
)
his
interpreter
vnto
them
,
and
an
humble
relatour
of
such
mysterious
verities
,
as
in
loue
,
&
dewty
,
they
desired
to
know
of
him
,
concerning
the
miraculous
manner
of
his
Natiuity
&
Conception
,
and
what
the
Angell
had
tould
her
,
of
his
owne
future
glory
,
with
the
eternall
greatnes
of
his
kingdom
:
how
likewise
he
had
byn
promised
to
the
Patriarcks
,
Abraham
,
Jsaac
,
Jacob
,
&
Dauid
her
propheticall
Princely
Father
;
foretold
by
the
Prophets
,
and
expected
by
faithfull
holy
soules
throughout
all
generations
,
according
to
the
words
of
her
diuine
Canticle
for
merly
vttered
.
She
knew
them
to
haue
made
a
long
iourney
,
and
not
likely
to
stay
long
with
her
Sonne
,
esspecially
after
the
Angell
had
warned
them
for
their
returne
.
Humility
therefore
,
moued
by
charity
,
euer
in
holy
soules
(
and
most
eminently
in
her
,
then
and
afterwards
)
conioyned
,
yielded
to
disclose
such
heauenly
secrets
of
her
diuine
Sonne
vnto
them
,
as
might
confirme
their
faith
,
&
increase
in
absence
,
their
present
loue
towards
him
.
So
as
we
may
well
thinke
,
the
day
,
and
night
which
they
spent
in
Bethleem
,
to
haue
byn
a
happy
tyme
,
for
their
comfort
,
and
instruction
.
Of
our
B.
Ladyes
Purification
.
[
Chap.
19.
THis
facred
Virgin
albeit
in
the
Conception
and
birth
of
her
child
rather
purified
then
defiled
,
went
notwithstanding
as
other
women
did
,
to
be
legally
clensed
;
carrying
Christ
into
the
Temple
with
her
,
there
to
be
offered
,
and
as
other
children
ceremoniously
redeemed
.
Who
as
the
Lord
of
the
Iemple
himselfe
,
meant
therby
to
make
the
glory
of
this
second
house
,
greater
then
that
of
the
first
,
as
had
byn
foretould
by
his
Prophets
,
by
being
more
highly
graced
and
exalted
by
the
corporall
presence
of
himselfe
in
it
:
and
that
likewise
such
holy
persons
,
as
Saint
Simeon
,
&
Saint
Anne
were
,
might
happily
enioy
the
promised
and
blessed
sight
of
him
.
Sincon
is
said
to
haue
entred
the
Temple
(
in
spirit
)
diuinely
,
to
wit
,
inspired
,
and
taught
to
know
,
amongst
so
many
children
,
as
were
there
continually
presented
,
the
bright
Sunne
of
heauen
(
albeit
then
in
humaue
nature
and
pouerty
wholy
obscured
)
ordayned
to
be
afterwards
a
light
to
the
Gentils
,
and
the
glory
of
his
people
,
as
he
sung
in
his
Canticle
,
whilst
he
enioyed
the
sweet
comfort
of
holding
Christ
in
his
armes
for
a
moment
,
which
the
blessed
Virgin
and
her
Spouse
,
for
many
whole
yeares
togeather
,
happily
enioyed
.
And
as
if
in
ardent
imbracings
,
and
kissings
of
this
diuine
Babe
,
he
desired
to
haue
gasped
out
his
holy
soule
into
his
sacred
mouth
,
breathing
sanctity
into
him
,
he
cryed
out
to
be
dismissed
,
and
let
forth
of
this
world
,
that
he
might
not
liue
perchance
to
see
this
beloued
and
gracious
Lord
of
his
hart
,
persecuted
in
his
Infancy
,
toyled
in
his
life
,
calumniated
in
his
actions
,
contradicted
in
his
doctrines
,
hared
by
those
whome
he
hartily
loued
,
and
finally
to
be
,
before
his
Mothers
eyes
butchered
and
disgraced
.
So
as
he
could
not
contayne
himselfe
amidst
his
rauishing
contentments
,
from
sadly
fortelling
their
ioynt
griefes
&
sufferings
;
A
sword
of
sorrow
(
sayd
he
blessing
the
Mother
of
God
,
and
her
spouse
)
shall
passe
through
thy
soule
;
metaphorically
so
expressing
that
killing-wound
,
or
rather
those
many
deadly
woundes
,
which
shold
be
made
in
her
soule
by
behoulding
,
as
she
did
afterwards
,
her
sonnes
agonies
,
and
torments
:
and
insinuating
withall
,
that
noble
kind
of
Martyrdome
which
she
was
to
suffer
,
without
other
woundes
,
then
such
as
Loue
made
,
by
vniting
her
so
neerly
,
and
dearly
to
her
sonne
,
as
to
feele
in
her
very
soule
,
by
a
strang
kind
of
compassion
,
his
corporall
torments
.
Of
our
Blessed
Ladyes
flight
with
her
Child
into
Egypt
.
[
Chap.
20.
THe
Sages
entrance
into
Hierusalem
to
seeke
a
new
King
,
troubled
Herod
,
yet
their
priuate
departure
homewards
another
way
,
seemed
to
argue
,
that
they
had
not
found
him
;
but
when
such
holy
Propheticall
persons
,
(
as
S.
Simeon
,
and
S.
Anne
were
knowne
to
haue
byn
)
had
so
publiquely
proclaymed
him
,
this
bloudy
Tyrant
sent
out
his
murderous
guardes
,
to
kill
all
male
Children
of
two
yeares
old
and
vnder
,
in
,
and
about
the
Confines
of
Bethleem
.
When
the
Angell
had
forewarned
S.
Joseph
in
the
night
,
of
this
danger
,
Loue
quickly
awakened
him
and
his
B.
spouse
,
to
prouide
for
the
safty
of
the
child
,
by
flying
into
Egypt
,
as
the
Angell
had
appointed
them
.
Pouerty
eased
their
care
of
carrying
much
with
them
,
&
the
darkenes
of
the
night
,
serued
fitly
to
hide
them
from
dangers
approaching
.
The
strangenes
of
the
Country
which
they
were
sent
vnto
,
did
not
trouble
them
;
the
length
of
the
way
did
not
terrify
them
;
nor
any
other
difficulty
dismay
them
occurring
in
their
iourney
,
which
they
made
through
a
sandy
vast
Desart
so
blessed
than
(
sayth
Baronius
)
by
our
Sauiours
presence
as
it
became
afterwards
a
holy
,
and
solitary
retyrement
of
innumerable
Saintes
,
gladly
leauing
worldly
noyses
,
&
contentments
,
quietly
there
,
and
holily
to
serue
him
.
Their
manner
of
carrying
the
child
so
long
&
paynefull
a
iourney
,
may
be
supposed
to
haue
byn
no
other
,
then
beggars
vse
,
when
trussed
at
their
bosome
,
or
backes
,
from
place
to
place
,
they
carry
their
children
.
Idolls
are
sayd
to
haue
falne
downe
(
as
Dagon
before
the
Arke
)
and
oracles
to
haue
ceased
,
when
the
incarnate
Word
and
heauenly
Author
of
Truth
in
that
Countrey
appeared
.
Their
entertaynment
is
by
learned
Suarez
,
conceaued
to
haue
byn
no
other
,
then
such
as
beggars
are
wont
to
receaue
amongst
strangers
,
vntill
S.
Joseph
by
the
exercise
of
his
poore
trade
,
was
towards
their
reliefe
,
able
to
gayne
something
.
The
place
of
their
aboad
is
sayd
to
haue
byn
neere
Ramasses
,
a
Citty
built
long
before
,
by
the
Israelites
hard
labours
,
during
their
captiuity
:
and
in
that
place
is
yet
shewed
a
well
,
wherein
the
B.
Virgin
is
sayd
haue
washed
her
sonnes
cloathes
,
watring
a
valley
of
Balme-trees
,
onely
growing
in
that
part
of
the
Country
,
as
if
from
that
sanctified
fountayne
,
the
place
had
receaued
a
singular
vertue
.
The
chiefe
,
and
vnspeakable
Comforts
of
these
holy
Parents
in
their
exile
,
may
be
thought
to
haue
byn
,
the
gracefull
grouth
of
their
diuine
child
,
his
wise
speaches
after
he
could
speake
,
&
louing
behauiours
towards
them
.
Of
our
B.
Ladyes
returne
,
with
her
Child
out
of
Egypt
.
[
Chap.
21.
TAke
the
child
(
said
the
Angell
the
second
tyme
)
and
his
Mother
,
and
returne
into
the
land
of
Israell
,
for
they
are
dead
that
sought
his
life
&c.
omitting
not
to
giue
the
sacred
virgin
her
highest
title
,
to
wit
of
being
Mother
to
such
a
child
,
&
insinuating
withall
by
this
manner
of
speaking
(
as
learned
Suarez
,
with
other
great
Authors
obserueth
)
that
this
Blessed
Saint
was
to
respect
her
,
not
only
as
his
wife
,
but
as
the
Mother
of
his
redeemer
withall
;
who
with
a
reuerentiall
&
humble
kind
of
glad
loue
,
yielded
accordingly
his
ready
seruices
vnto
her
.
Herod
(
as
Baronius
gathereth
from
Iosephus
,
&
other
Authors
)
dyed
the
7.
yeare
after
his
murder
of
the
Infants
,
at
which
tyme
our
Sauiour
could
not
be
carried
backe
agayne
in
the
armes
of
his
Parents
,
as
he
had
byn
brought
thither
,
nor
well
vndergoe
the
trauell
of
so
long
a
iourney
,
but
that
his
charity
was
such
towards
vs
,
as
for
our
greater
example
,
&
merit
,
he
would
not
in
his
very
infancy
from
labours
,
and
sufferings
be
spared
.
His
Parents
returned
with
him
to
Nazareth
a
poore
Village
,
seated
in
the
confines
of
Galile
,
where
till
his
Baptisme
he
liued
so
meanely
,
as
he
was
reputed
no
other
then
S.
Iosephs
naturall
Sonne
,
succeeding
him
afterwards
in
his
poore
trade
,
and
labouring
to
make
a
plow
,
who
was
able
without
labour
to
haue
created
many
worlds
at
that
instant
;
praying
with
the
Nazarites
,
&
the
whilst
,
as
their
God
,
prayed
vnto
by
them
;
gazing
with
his
humane
glorious
soule
on
the
diuine
persons
,
and
intuitiuely
behoulding
all
created
Obiects
.
So
as
he
gayned
no
knowledg
,
but
experimentall
from
them
,
wherein
with
his
yeares
,
he
is
by
the
holy
Euangelist
said
to
haue
increased
,
and
seemed
exteriously
to
mens
eyes
more
and
more
gracious
in
his
person
,
and
behauiour
,
not
by
any
new
graces
gayned
in
his
blessed
soule
,
euer
consummated
in
them
,
but
in
gracefull
manifestations
,
and
expressions
of
sanctity
,
and
knowledge
,
ignorance
being
no
defect
of
humane
nature
,
needfull
to
be
assumed
by
the
sonne
of
God
,
to
make
&
increase
for
our
sinnes
his
intended
satisfaction
;
but
wholy
indeed
vnbeseming
him
,
who
was
to
be
the
heauenly
teacher
of
soules
,
and
to
deliuer
the
highest
verities
,
as
a
cleere
behoulder
of
them
more
then
all
the
Prophets
before
him
,
and
able
to
secure
and
warrant
,
after
an
especiall
manner
,
the
infallible
Authority
of
his
speaches
vnto
vs
.
With
millions
of
holier
thoghts
,
then
ordinary
Soules
can
conceaue
,
did
his
holy
Parents
continually
behould
him
,
and
draw
from
all
his
gracious
behauiours
and
speaches
(
his
B.
Mother
especially
)
as
bees
do
gather
sweet
hony
from
flowres
,
new
motiues
&
increase
of
loue
towards
him
;
and
he
the
whilst
,
was
delighted
in
no
earthly
obiect
more
,
then
to
see
the
wonderfull
effects
of
graces
in
her
soule
,
&
to
behold
modelled
as
it
were
,
his
owne
vertues
in
her
,
as
in
Archimedes
christall
Sphere
,
the
vast
Orbes
of
heauen
,
&
their
seuerall
motions
were
wonderfully
expressed
:
her
guifts
and
fauours
continually
from
him
receaued
,
being
no
other
indeed
,
then
flowings
of
his
fountayne
,
sparcles
of
his
flame
,
&
beames
of
his
infinite
brightnes
.
Sinne
for
example
,
was
repugnant
in
him
,
to
the
maiesty
of
his
owne
person
,
and
she
by
her
neere
vnion
with
him
,
was
from
the
same
,
or
any
inclination
therevnto
totally
preserued
.
Acts
of
vertue
were
Theandricall
in
him
,
and
by
the
dooers
person
infinitely
dignified
:
and
in
her
they
were
euer
heroicall
,
and
highly
enobled
by
her
wonderfull
graces
.
Finally
,
as
in
his
bodily
bewty
he
was
like
to
her
;
so
did
she
in
her
soule
resemble
more
&
more
his
gracious
perfections
,
that
so
in
both
sexes
humane
nature
might
become
graced
and
exalted
,
as
it
had
byn
before
vilified
by
sinne
,
and
extremely
debased
.
Of
our
B.
Ladyes
finding
her
lost
sonne
in
the
Temple
.
[
Chap.
22.
IT
was
an
yearely
custome
(
as
the
Euangelist
telleth
vs
)
of
Christ
,
and
his
Parents
to
celebrate
as
other
deuout
people
did
,
their
Easter
in
Hierusalem
,
the
sonne
of
God
being
pleased
so
to
dignfy
the
Temple
by
his
presence
therin
,
and
grace
those
legall
sacrifices
,
the
types
of
his
Passion
.
The
mysterious
obseruances
of
that
Feast
ended
,
S.
Joseph
and
his
B.
Spouse
returned
homewards
,
conceauing
their
diuine
sonne
,
then
12.
yeares
old
,
to
haue
gone
with
their
kinsfolkes
,
and
neighbours
out
of
the
citty
before
them
.
Whome
when
at
night
they
found
not
,
with
wearyed
stepps
,
&
carefull
thoughts
,
they
returned
backe
againe
,
presently
to
seeke
him
,
and
after
much
labour
and
griefe
,
they
found
him
the
third
day
,
amidst
the
Doctours
of
the
Temple
,
by
his
wise
demaundes
wonderfully
astonishing
them
.
His
Mother
,
when
she
could
come
to
speake
conueniently
with
him
,
with
an
humble
expostulation
of
ioy
and
loue
,
asked
him
:
Sonne
why
hast
thou
done
so
vnto
vs
?
as
wifely
knowing
he
was
not
absent
,
but
by
his
owne
will
from
them
,
thy
Father
and
I
,
sorrowing
did
seeke
thee
:
naming
her
Husband
first
,
to
expresse
her
humble
loue
,
&
respect
towards
him
;
and
how
her
owne
sorrow
,
by
his
afflictions
had
byn
increased
,
whilst
S.
Ioseph
by
silence
shewed
his
respect
to
them
both
,
his
aufull
Reuerence
restrayning
loue
,
from
any
such
boldenes
,
as
the
B.
Virgin
with
a
greater
right
,
and
neuer
but
with
his
leaue
&
gracious
allowance
,
vsed
towards
him
.
Know
you
not
(
answered
our
B.
Sauiour
)
that
I
am
to
be
in
the
things
of
my
Father
?
Giuing
them
so
to
vnderstand
,
that
for
the
seruice
of
his
heauenly
Father
he
had
so
stayed
behind
them
:
to
teach
perchance
those
Doctours
&
guides
of
his
people
by
occasion
of
his
wise
questions
,
some
profitable
verities
,
fit
to
be
knowne
and
taught
to
others
by
them
;
&
that
as
the
Iewes
then
,
so
now
,
wee
might
by
such
a
glimse
,
conceaue
his
sunny
brightnes
,
&
those
enriching
treasures
,
of
diuine
wisedome
&
knowledge
,
which
in
his
tendrest
yeares
,
were
hoarded
vp
in
him
.
We
may
also
piously
ghesse
him
,
priuatly
and
alone
in
those
3.
dayes
of
his
absence
to
haue
visited
the
holy
places
of
his
future
sufferings
,
and
with
an
vnspeakable
ardour
of
loue
,
and
prompt
obedience
,
to
haue
made
his
primitiue
offerings
seuerally
in
them
,
and
vented
,
in
lasting
prayers
and
prostrations
,
the
feruent
longings
of
his
gracious
soule
,
afterwards
to
vndergo
them
.
His
Parents
are
said
to
haue
wondred
at
his
words
,
and
the
B.
Virgin
,
to
haue
conserued
and
conferred
them
in
her
hart
;
that
so
we
might
come
truly
to
know
,
that
she
did
euer
do
so
,
letting
none
of
her
diuine
Sonnes
mysterious
words
and
actions
to
passe
,
but
that
by
conseruing
them
in
her
fresh
memory
,
&
pondering
them
deuoutly
in
her
hart
,
sheenriched
and
raysed
her
illuminated
soule
continually
by
them
.
Of
our
B.
Ladyes
life
with
her
sonne
vntill
his
Baptisme
.
[
Chap.
23.
THe
Euangelist
concludeth
our
Sauiours
whole
life
,
from
his
being
found
in
the
Temple
vntill
his
Baptisme
,
in
these
words
;
He
returned
with
his
Parents
,
to
Nazareth
,
and
was
obedient
vnto
them
;
to
wit
,
by
a
voluntary
submission
of
himself
,
and
a
louing
readines
to
do
what
they
would
haue
him
:
who
priuy
to
his
hidden
maiesty
and
greatnes
,
with
a
louing
boldenes
,
so
commaunded
him
as
their
sonne
,
that
as
God
the
whilst
,
and
their
Redeemer
,
they
humbly
in
their
thoughts
,
and
affections
adored
him
.
Wherfore
we
may
well
conceaue
the
blessed
order
of
that
family
,
wherein
three
persons
only
liued
,
one
of
them
diuine
,
and
the
other
two
eminently
holy
,
exercising
Humility
,
and
Charity
towards
ech
other
;
he
in
obeying
,
and
they
in
commaunding
him
,
for
the
glory
of
his
Father
,
and
future
instruction
of
his
seruants
,
subiected
vnto
them
.
He
with
filiall
loue
respected
his
gracious
Mother
as
the
naturall
,
and
instrumentall
cause
of
his
humane
being
,
omitting
at
no
tyme
,
the
duty
of
a
child
towards
her
:
and
to
S.
Ioseph
his
reputed
Father
,
he
yielded
a
gratefull
behauiour
for
his
many
painfull
labours
,
and
fatherly
offices
towards
him
,
with
heaped
graces
(
no
doubt
)
and
diuine
fauours
,
from
tyme
to
tyme
,
liberally
requiting
them
.
Their
liuing
with
him
alone
,
as
his
secretaries
and
seruants
,
for
30.
yeares
together
(
for
S.
Ioseph
may
be
thought
,
not
to
haue
dyed
long
before
our
Sauiours
Baptisme
)
was
as
a
long
haruest
of
heauenly
merits
plentifully
by
them
both
(
according
to
their
aboundant
sowing
)
happily
reaped
.
And
as
this
sunne
of
heauenly
brightenes
,
by
doctrine
,
and
examplar
actions
,
did
shyne
to
others
with
whome
he
conuersed
after
his
Baptisme
,
for
3.
yeares
together
:
so
with
the
like
,
and
a
far
greater
clarity
did
he
appeare
louely
,
and
imitably
gracious
in
all
his
behauiours
&
speaches
to
these
two
only
,
knowing
his
greatnes
,
for
30.
yeares
together
,
&
conuersing
domestically
with
him
,
who
were
neither
dull
to
conceaue
,
nor
hard
to
belieue
the
mysterious
verity
of
his
speaches
vnto
them
.
And
if
that
be
true
which
Salomon
sayth
,
that
with
the
good
,
a
man
shall
be
good
;
how
good
then
were
these
two
who
liued
with
goodnes
it selfe
,
and
had
their
soules
euer
opened
,
and
prepared
to
receaue
full
streames
flowing
from
the
fountayne
therof
,
continually
into
them
?
And
if
our
Sauiour
proclaymed
the
eyes
of
his
disciples
happy
in
hauing
seene
him
,
whome
so
many
Kings
&
Prophets
had
desired
to
see
,
and
could
not
;
and
their
eares
likewise
blessed
in
hearing
his
speaches
:
how
happy
,
and
blessed
may
we
conceaue
his
holy
Parents
to
haue
byn
,
who
with
eyes
and
eares
of
soule
and
body
together
,
more
lastingly
,
clearely
,
and
deuoutly
beheld
their
diuine
Sonne
,
pondering
his
mysterious
speaches
,
and
in
their
hartes
(
as
it
is
sayd
of
the
B.
Virgin
twice
by
the
Euangelist
)
deeply
,
and
delightfully
considering
them
?
Of
the
B.
Virgins
charitable
sorrow
,
for
S.
Iosephs
death
.
[
Chap.
24.
WHen
this
Blessed
man
dyed
,
cannot
out
of
the
Ghospell
be
any
wayes
gathered
:
Only
it
may
most
probably
be
ghessed
,
that
our
Sauiour
sent
him
to
a
happy
rest
,
before
he
began
his
owne
preaching
&
labours
.
The
place
of
his
death
is
likest
to
haue
byn
in
Nazareth
,
where
he
liued
,
and
the
circumstances
therof
are
vnknown
further
,
then
that
as
he
was
a
iust
man
,
aduanced
to
a
dignity
more
then
Patriarchicall
,
in
being
spouse
to
the
Mother
of
God
,
and
Foster-father
to
the
incarnate
Word
himselfe
,
so
was
his
end
no
doubt
blessed
,
and
his
merits
suitable
vnto
it
.
And
whereas
we
read
of
many
Saintes
,
so
diuinely
fauoured
in
their
sicknesse
and
death
,
as
they
had
their
good
Angells
visibly
&
comfortably
attending
them
;
this
Blessed
man
enioyed
a
far
greater
priuiledge
,
when
in
his
sicknesse
and
death
,
the
sonne
of
God
himselfe
,
and
his
gracious
mother
,
with
a
most
charitable
diligence
were
ready
to
performe
all
seruiceable
offices
vnto
him
.
The
disease
of
which
he
dyed
,
seemeth
to
haue
byn
old
age
,
and
the
vsuall
infirmities
thereof
,
increased
perchance
in
him
,
by
the
hard
labours
of
his
life
,
as
Pomegranuts
vse
to
breake
and
fall
to
the
ground
,
by
the
ouer-filling
grouth
of
their
sweet
kernells
,
to
rise
againe
in
a
new
spring
afterwards
.
And
whereas
holy
Men
are
said
to
dye
in
our
Lord
;
Blessed
S.
Ioseph
,
may
be
said
to
haue
dyed
in
him
after
a
higher
manner
;
to
wit
,
reposed
in
the
armes
&
imbacements
(
as
we
may
conceaue
)
of
his
heauenly
Redeemer
,
his
immaculate
louing
Spouse
not
fayling
the
whilst
to
close
his
dying
eyes
,
to
kisse
his
cold
cheekes
&
with
flowing
streames
of
teares
,
to
take
her
leaue
of
him
by
whome
liuing
she
,
&
her
diuine
Sonne
had
byn
so
purely
beloued
and
faithfully
serued
.
His
gracious
soule
was
no
sooner
breathed
out
,
but
Angells
there
present
ioyfully
carryed
it
to
the
holy
troopes
of
Patriarks
,
Prophets
,
and
Saintes
disceased
before
him
,
as
their
heauenly
Redeemers
Foster-father
,
to
be
honoured
,
imbraced
,
and
ioyfully
welcommed
by
them
,
whilst
his
Spouse
&
her
diuine
Sonne
,
caused
his
pure
body
,
to
be
decently
interred
,
&
put
into
the
earth
;
where
perchance
,
it
was
from
corruption
graciously
preserued
,
to
be
gloriously
repayred
in
our
Sauiours
Resurrection
,
with
other
saintes
bodies
then
miraculously
raysed
;
since
no
Saint
deserued
more
then
he
,
to
accompany
his
God
,
and
Sonne
,
at
his
first
entrance
into
his
heauenly
Kingdome
.
Of
the
Blessed
Virgin
,
being
in
Cana
with
her
sonne
at
a
wedding
.
[
Chap.
25.
AFter
S.
Joseph
his
death
,
the
B.
Virgin
liued
alone
with
her
diuine
sonne
,
flowing
in
heauenly
delights
,
then
without
a
partner
,
receaued
continually
from
him
,
vntill
his
going
to
be
baptized
by
S.
John
in
the
Riuer
of
Jordan
:
whence
after
his
Baptisme
,
fasting
in
the
desert
,
and
calling
of
many
disciples
to
follow
him
,
he
returned
into
Galilee
,
and
was
with
his
B.
Mother
at
Cana
inuited
to
a
wedding
,
mysteriously
graced
,
&
shewed
not
to
be
sinfull
(
as
some
ancient
Heretiques
affirmed
)
by
the
sacred
presence
of
two
such
guests
,
who
pleased
to
be
present
at
the
same
.
Whose
wedding
this
was
,
is
not
known
,
but
that
the
Brides
were
poore
,
may
be
well
gathered
,
from
their
want
of
wine
before
the
Dinner
was
ended
:
which
want
of
theirs
,
being
knowne
by
the
mother
of
compassion
,
she
came
to
her
sonne
well
knowing
his
diuine
power
to
effect
,
&
her
owne
graciousnes
to
obtayne
what
she
meant
to
aske
of
him
,
saying
,
they
haue
no
wine
,
briefly
intimating
so
their
wantes
,
and
her
owne
charitable
desires
of
relieuing
them
,
to
him
,
who
without
words
did
(
she
doubted
not
)
know
them
before
hand
,
&
would
in
his
bounty
there
presently
redresse
them
.
His
reply
(
woman
what
is
that
to
thee
,
and
me
?
)
was
not
harsh
(
as
Caluin
wickedly
affirmed
)
but
mysterious
;
to
let
vs
therby
know
,
that
not
her
will
(
albeit
euer
holy
and
pleasing
vnto
him
)
but
the
decree
of
his
eternall
Father
did
in
doing
miracles
chiefly
direct
him
.
And
by
telling
her
,
(
that
his
houre
was
not
yet
come
)
yet
doing
withall
what
she
intreated
him
,
he
gaue
vs
sufficiently
to
vnderstand
,
that
her
request
made
him
to
exercise
,
sooner
than
otherwise
he
would
haue
done
,
his
miraculous
power
,
in
performing
that
charity
which
she
intreated
so
of
him
;
and
by
going
afterwards
to
the
wayters
,
and
bidding
them
do
whatsoeuer
her
Sonne
commaunded
them
,
she
wisely
and
charitably
prepared
them
(
as
Cardinall
Tolet
well
noteth
)
not
to
hinder
by
their
vnwillingnes
,
what
she
knew
he
intended
,
as
hauing
byn
diuinely
inspired
to
aske
that
miracle
of
him
,
and
taught
to
know
withall
his
manner
of
performing
it
,
by
causing
,
to
wit
,
water
to
be
drawn
by
the
wayters
,
afterward
into
wine
miraculously
conuerted
.
And
the
fruites
of
this
first
miracle
so
obtayned
by
her
,
are
said
to
haue
byn
,
the
manifestation
of
her
sonnes
glory
,
&
confirmation
of
his
disciples
.
Of
our
B.
Ladies
going
to
dwell
at
Capharnaum
,
with
her
Son
.
[
Chap.
26.
OVr
B.
Sauiour
,
intending
when
he
began
to
preach
,
to
transferre
his
dwelling
from
Nazareth
to
Capharnaum
,
is
sayd
to
haue
taken
his
B.
Mother
with
him
,
that
mutually
they
might
enioy
ech
others
company
,
and
withall
that
such
persons
as
were
conuerted
vnto
him
,
might
haue
her
a
liuely
mirrour
of
vertuous
and
exemplar
perfection
,
conuersant
with
them
.
So
that
this
heauenly
Sun
of
Iustice
,
shining
heere
on
earth
,
had
two
Maries
,
bright
starres
indeed
of
the
Sea
(
as
their
names
importe
)
illustrated
by
him
in
their
seuerall
graces
,
and
wayting
louingly
on
him
;
the
one
euer
a
cleere
mirrour
of
vnspotted
perfection
,
the
other
a
liuely
patterne
at
length
of
harty
Contrition
:
Graces
were
in
the
one
,
as
a
bright
sun-shine
,
neuer
sinnefully
clowded
;
and
in
the
other
as
a
radiant
sky
from
storms
newly
cleared
.
The
one
was
as
a
full
fountayne
of
liuing
waters
neuer
defiled
;
&
the
other
as
a
deepe
well
,
freshly
clensed
,
and
filled
.
The
one
neuer
wanted
a
rich
patrimony
of
heauenly
graces
,
still
by
her
wonderfully
increased
;
&
the
other
had
hers
,
once
wasted
,
graciously
agayne
,
and
with
a
great
increase
happily
restored
:
and
both
were
to
him
in
their
sweet
societyes
especially
delighfull
,
contemplating
his
speaches
,
and
noting
his
actions
,
to
enrich
their
soules
holily
by
them
;
she
especially
,
who
from
his
childhood
had
byn
accustomed
to
do
so
;
considering
his
miraculous
curing
of
diseased
and
miserable
persons
not
onely
as
acts
of
gracious
loue
and
mercy
towards
them
,
on
whom
they
were
wrought
:
but
as
misterious
representations
likewise
,
of
the
like
spirituall
wonders
,
which
then
,
&
after
he
meant
to
worke
in
soules
,
by
his
heauenly
graces
.
Honours
likewise
done
,
and
thankes
yielded
vnto
him
,
for
benefits
receaued
,
delighted
her
humble
soule
;
not
only
because
they
were
deseruedly
giuen
vnto
him
,
but
for
that
wisely
likewise
she
knew
how
liberally
he
meant
afterwards
to
requite
them
.
As
contrarily
,
his
disgraces
much
grieued
her
,
not
only
as
iniuries
done
vnto
him
,
who
no
wayes
deserued
them
;
but
as
they
were
great
sinnes
in
such
as
did
commit
them
,
&
meanes
to
increase
their
eternall
damnation
.
Of
the
woman
blessing
the
wombe
&
paps
of
the
B.
Virgin
.
[
Chap.
27.
IT
cannot
be
doubted
,
but
that
such
as
belieued
Christ
to
be
the
sonne
of
God
,
and
their
heauenly
Redeemer
,
highly
also
respected
his
gracious
mother
,
louely
in
her
person
,
and
exemplarly
holy
in
her
conuersation
amongst
them
;
inso
much
as
a
woman
,
rauished
with
the
heauenvly
sweetnes
of
our
Sauiours
words
,
and
diuinely
raysed
in
her
thoughts
to
apprehend
the
blessednes
of
his
Mother
,
vttered
first
that
mysterious
outcry
,
Blessed
is
the
wombe
that
bore
thee
&
the
paps
which
thou
didst
sucke
;
and
since
enlarged
by
the
Church
in
that
sweet
versicle
sung
by
her
:
Blessed
are
the
bowells
of
Mary
the
Virgin
,
which
carryed
the
sonne
of
the
eternall
Father
;
and
Blessed
be
the
pappes
which
nursed
Christ
our
Lord
:
fulfilling
therein
her
owne
humble
prophesy
,
that
all
generations
should
blesse
her
.
Neither
did
our
B.
Sauiour
in
his
reply
to
the
woman
,
Yea
but
blessed
are
they
that
hear
the
word
of
God
and
keep
it
,
contradict
the
blessing
of
his
mother
;
but
(
saith
venerable
Bede
)
was
couertly
pleased
,
to
intimate
a
more
high
and
imitable
commendation
of
his
Mother
,
for
that
she
had
not
only
corporally
,
but
spiritually
also
conceaued
him
;
wherby
she
deserued
not
the
womans
blessing
alone
,
but
to
haue
his
own
prayses
added
vnto
it
.
For
as
learned
Interpreters
note
vpon
this
misterious
passage
of
the
Ghospell
,
this
sacred
Virgin
may
after
two
manners
be
conceaued
to
haue
byn
the
Mother
of
God
;
first
barely
,
to
wit
,
according
to
his
corporall
Conception
and
Natiuity
,
and
so
it
was
possible
,
for
her
to
haue
byn
his
mother
,
without
any
graces
at
all
therby
obtayned
:
and
secondly
as
she
was
singularly
chosen
,
and
prepared
with
wonderfull
graces
,
to
that
high
office
,
of
giuing
a
new
nature
,
life
,
and
being
to
her
omnipotent
Creatour
,
for
the
glory
of
himselfe
,
and
redemption
of
mortall
Creatures
;
wherby
she
was
raysed
to
the
highest
dignity
,
and
greatest
vnion
with
himselfe
,
which
a
pure
Creature
could
be
assumed
vnto
:
Gods
vsuall
manner
hauing
euer
byn
as
he
raysed
his
seruants
to
high
dignities
,
to
bestow
on
them
suitable
graces
.
And
it
were
a
most
detestable
wickednes
to
conceaue
,
that
he
dealt
otherwise
with
his
owne
most
sacred
,
and
beloued
Mother
,
who
as
in
Nature
was
neerest
,
so
in
Loue
was
no
doubt
,
dearest
vnto
him
.
It
is
true
,
indeed
,
that
as
his
creature
,
she
was
tyed
in
duty
to
do
all
motherly
offices
and
seruices
vnto
him
,
without
any
obligation
on
his
part
,
in
iustice
to
requite
them
:
But
supposing
the
gracious
,
and
free
tye
of
his
owne
liberall
promises
,
not
to
let
so
much
as
a
cuppe
of
cold
water
,
giuen
for
his
sake
,
passe
vnrewarded
,
togeather
with
the
dutifull
loue
and
piety
of
children
towards
Parents
,
commaunded
by
himselfe
and
accordingly
,
no
doubt
,
obserued
,
may
we
not
reasonably
conceaue
,
&
piously
assure
our selues
,
that
he
was
neither
in
the
piety
of
a
louing
child
nor
bounty
of
a
gracious
Lord
,
wanting
vnto
her
,
who
not
only
gaue
him
the
integrity
of
human
nature
,
but
spent
her
whole
life
afterwards
,
in
motherly
offices
,
and
seruices
towards
him
,
for
which
other
children
can
make
to
their
parents
no
equall
requitall
.
And
supposing
the
sonne
of
God
was
able
to
rayse
his
most
deseruing
Mother
to
what
measure
of
sanctity
,
and
heauenly
nobility
he
would
,
for
the
good
of
her
,
and
glory
of
himselfe
,
to
whome
she
so
neerely
appertayned
;
why
should
any
Christian
,
against
the
knowne
goodnes
of
such
a
Lord
,
and
Sonne
,
doubt
him
actually
to
haue
done
so
?
Of
our
B.
Ladyes
expecting
her
Son
,
at
the
doore
of
a
house
in
Capharnaum
.
Math.
12.
[
Chap.
28.
OVr
Sauiour
teaching
&
doing
miracles
within
a
house
at
Capharnaum
,
being
tould
that
his
Mother
,
&
Brethren
(
for
so
his
Cosins
are
called
in
Scripture
)
stayed
at
the
doore
to
speak
with
him
;
eyther
not
willing
to
be
interrupted
in
his
holy
discourses
,
or
glad
rather
of
the
occasion
,
to
teach
his
Auditory
a
profitable
lesson
,
to
wit
,
how
they
also
might
spiritually
become
his
Mother
and
Brethren
,
he
extended
his
hands
towards
his
Apostles
,
asking
,
who
is
my
mother
,
and
who
are
my
Brethren
?
And
then
answering
himselfe
sayd
,
with
an
earnest
asseueration
to
the
future
comfort
,
and
instruction
of
his
seruants
,
He
that
heareth
my
words
and
keepeth
them
,
he
is
my
brother
,
my
sister
,
and
my
mother
.
Insinuating
so
,
in
the
very
order
of
his
speach
,
by
naming
a
Mother
last
,
the
especiall
neerenes
of
a
mother
to
a
child
,
and
so
consequently
her
dearenes
to
him
,
who
not
only
in
her
body
corporally
,
but
spiritually
also
in
her
soule
,
had
conceaued
,
nursed
,
and
brought
him
vp
,
to
a
wonderfull
ripenes
of
heauenly
perfection
;
and
was
like
to
become
in
others
a
fruitefull
Parent
,
and
Nurse
afterwards
of
him
,
being
by
her
examplar
life
,
as
a
sweet
odour
to
draw
others
into
the
bedchamber
of
her
sonne
(
sayth
S.
Ambrose
)
to
be
espoused
,
&
fecundated
also
diuinely
by
him
.
Her
motherly
power
sayth
an
other
deuout
Author
,
hath
byn
the
protection
and
helping
of
innumerables
soules
to
grace
and
glory
;
her
greatnes
their
gayne
,
her
treasures
their
enrichings
,
by
being
able
,
and
euer
ready
,
to
obtayne
fauours
&
blessings
for
her
sounes
children
,
by
himself
therefore
vpon
his
Crosse
recommended
vnto
her
.
So
that
they
belong
not
to
him
or
her
(
as
children
or
seruants
)
who
haue
vilified
her
in
their
thoughtes
,
and
debased
her
in
speaches
,
so
farre
as
to
teach
,
that
her
diuine
Sonne
,
did
in
those
former
words
blame
her
for
interrupting
him
vnseasonably
in
his
doctrine
,
and
plainely
to
renounce
her
for
his
mother
:
wheras
the
Euangelist
only
affirmeth
her
,
to
haue
stayed
at
the
dore
expecting
him
.
And
it
proceeded
out
of
the
respect
rather
of
others
towards
her
,
that
he
was
could
of
her
being
there
,
then
that
of
her selfe
,
she
sought
to
speake
importunely
vnto
him
.
And
should
she
for
iust
causes
or
not
,
haue
done
so
,
had
it
not
byn
against
the
very
duty
of
a
child
towards
a
Parent
(
as
she
was
knowne
to
be
vnto
him
,
)
common
discretion
also
,
&
morality
it selfe
,
for
so
small
a
fault
scandalously
and
publiquely
to
renounce
her
?
O
monsters
of
men
and
viperous
brood
of
him
whose
head
she
crushed
happily
for
vs
,
that
dared
(
as
some
moderne
heretiques
haue
done
)
to
vtter
such
horrid
,
and
groundesse
blasphemyes
agaynst
her
!
Whome
according
to
the
humble
prophecy
of
her selfe
,
all
generations
,
of
holy
soules
,
were
to
call
,
and
account
eternally
Blessed
,
as
well
for
those
great
things
,
which
Almighty
God
,
did
vnto
herselfe
,
as
for
those
many
&
vnspeakable
blessings
likewise
which
by
her
he
bestowed
vpon
vs
.
Of
our
Blessed
Ladies
suffering
with
her
sonne
.
[
Chap.
29.
AS
Eue
(
sayth
S.
Austine
)
was
made
to
helpe
Adam
,
in
mans
naturall
propagation
;
so
was
the
B.
Virgin
ordayned
,
to
help
the
sonne
of
God
in
our
supernaturall
regeneration
.
Those
two
were
our
old
,
and
these
two
our
new
Parents
:
they
,
threw
vs
miserably
downe
,
from
the
happy
estate
of
innocency
to
sinne
;
and
these
,
to
more
then
lost
graces
happily
raysed
vs
.
Humane
nature
was
in
them
by
sinne
vilified
and
debased
,
in
both
sexes
;
but
contrarily
by
these
,
wonderfully
dignified
and
exalted
.
The
sonne
of
God
by
his
passion
soly
redeemed
vs
,
as
Adam
by
his
fault
only
condemned
vs
:
yet
withall
,
as
Eue
our
old
Mother
by
eating
the
forbidden
fruit
,
&
causing
her
husband
to
do
the
same
,
occasioned
our
ruine
;
so
Mary
our
new
Mother
,
by
beholding
the
fruit
of
her
wombe
fastned
to
the
tree
of
the
Crosse
,
happily
concurred
to
our
raysing
;
&
by
sustayning
deadly
sorrow
,
with
her
diuine
Sonne
in
his
death
,
recompenced
,
in
a
sort
,
the
others
fault
,
and
satisfyed
for
Eues
sinfull
sensualities
,
by
her
innocent
sufferings
.
For
albeit
she
shed
nor
her
bloud
,
nor
had
the
faire
Temple
of
her
body
,
by
woundes
(
as
her
Sonne
was
)
lamentably
defaced
;
yet
suffered
she
a
higher
kind
of
Martyrdome
,
when
loue
so
vnited
her
vnto
him
,
as
his
agonyes
became
hers
,
by
a
tender
compassion
,
his
griefes
her
dolours
,
his
torments
her
tortures
,
his
corporall
woundings
paynefull
rendings
of
her
very
soule
,
and
sharpe
thrusts
of
that
piercing
sword
of
sorrow
,
which
good
old
Simeon
had
foretold
her
.
So
that
she
could
not
haue
liued
to
the
end
of
them
,
had
she
not
byn
supernaturally
assisted
,
to
offer
iointly
with
him
to
his
Eternall
Father
,
that
redemptory
Sacrifice
.
Iacobus
Acosta
in
his
booke
de
Christo
reuelato
,
affirmeth
the
Royall
Psalmist
to
haue
sung
the
19.
Psalme
in
the
person
of
this
B.
Virgin
,
standing
vnder
the
Crosse
of
her
sonne
:
Let
our
Lord
heare
thee
in
this
day
of
thy
tribulation
;
the
name
of
Iacobs
God
protect
thee
.
Let
him
send
help
vnto
thee
,
from
his
sanctuary
;
and
from
Syon
defend
thee
.
Let
him
he
mindfull
of
thy
whole
sacrifice
;
and
thy
holocaust
become
a
fat
one
.
Let
him
giue
vnto
thee
according
to
thyne
owne
hart
;
and
confirme
all
thy
counsell
.
We
will
reioyce
in
thy
saluation
&c.
So
that
when
in
the
Antiphone
of
Aduent
(
sayth
this
deuout
Author
)
the
Church
ordayneth
me
in
her
office
to
say
before
that
Psalme
,
Maria
dixit
,
I
seeme
to
be
therby
,
warned
,
as
in
the
person
of
this
sacred
Mother
,
and
with
a
sad
memory
of
her
sufferings
,
vnder
her
sonnes
Crosse
,
deuoutly
to
pronounce
it
.
Of
our
B.
Ladyes
last
leaue
taken
of
her
Sonne
in
Bethania
the
euening
before
his
Passion
.
[
Chap.
30.
WE
find
not
any
where
expressed
in
the
Ghospell
,
that
the
Mother
of
God
,
was
with
her
sonne
the
day
before
his
death
in
Bethania
,
as
we
read
of
S.
Mary
Magdalens
being
there
,
and
his
Apostles
with
him
:
yet
is
there
an
insinuation
,
that
other
guests
likewise
were
there
present
,
amongst
whome
we
cannot
reasonably
conceaue
his
B.
Mother
,
dearest
aboue
all
vnto
him
,
to
haue
byn
excluded
;
or
that
he
omitted
his
affectionate
&
last
respect
vnto
her
,
appointed
to
share
the
next
day
in
deadly
agonies
with
him
.
But
piously
rather
&
prudently
we
may
conceaue
him
to
haue
armed
her
for
his
farewell
,
against
griefes
then
approaching
,
by
manifesting
,
first
his
Fathers
holy
will
vnto
her
,
and
the
mysterious
causes
of
her
sufferinges
;
secondly
by
telling
her
the
happy
fruites
which
were
in
heauen
,
and
in
earth
to
redound
afterwards
of
them
;
and
thirdly
how
she
was
with
himselfe
to
be
glorifyed
Eternally
for
them
:
Counselling
,
and
enabling
her
by
heauenly
graces
withall
,
to
carry
her selfe
,
(
as
she
did
)
manfully
in
them
,
when
without
out-cryes
,
soundings
,
or
other
passionate
,
and
vnseemely
expressions
of
her
griefes
,
she
stood
by
his
Crosse
(
as
the
Euangelist
telleth
vs
)
letting
downe
silently
into
her
soule
,
the
whole
bitternes
of
his
Chalice
,
and
opening
as
it
were
her
brest
,
to
receaue
the
saddest
,
and
deadliest
stroakes
which
affliction
could
lay
vpon
it
.
His
last
words
to
her
,
were
(
as
we
may
conceaue
)
vttered
with
teares
,
and
sadde
expressions
of
loue
and
compassion
towards
her
for
those
innocent
sufferinges
which
were
to
be
by
his
torments
soon
afterwards
occasioned
.
And
she
for
her
last
farewell
to
him
,
may
be
thought
to
haue
vttered
some
such
words
as
these
,
with
motherly
&
affectionate
imbracinges
:
Go
my
gracious
sonne
,
and
heauenly
Redeemer
to
pay
on
thy
paynefull
Crosse
,
the
high
price
of
our
Eternall
Redemption
,
wisely
no
doubt
,
and
iustly
by
thy
diuine
Father
exacted
.
Let
this
goodly
Temple
of
thy
sacred
body
,
framed
of
mine
,
and
miraculously
raised
,
with
blouddy
woundes
in
sight
also
of
me
thy
louing
Mother
,
&
obedient
Creature
,
be
(
as
thy
cruell
Aduersaries
shall
please
)
lamentably
,
and
painefully
defaced
;
for
now
I
can
do
no
more
motherly
offices
and
seruices
for
thee
:
I
offer
heere
my selfe
willingly
,
to
suffer
all
extremities
with
thee
.
Of
our
B.
Ladies
seuerall
griefes
in
her
Sonnes
passion
.
[
Chap.
31.
AS
our
B.
Lady
is
expresly
said
to
haue
stood
neere
to
her
sonnes
Crosse
in
the
tyme
of
his
passion
:
so
is
it
most
probable
,
that
she
sadly
beheld
him
in
all
his
other
publique
torments
,
and
disgraces
,
fearing
not
as
the
other
Iewes
did
to
be
defiled
,
by
entring
the
Pretorian
,
&
Courtes
within
it
,
sanctified
by
her
sonns
presence
,
and
sacred
streames
painefully
in
them
effused
.
So
that
the
accusations
vrged
by
the
Iewes
to
Pilate
,
and
ioyned
with
outcryes
against
him
,
were
as
dolefull
&
deadly
summons
of
her
sorrow
.
Disgracefull
cueltyes
done
by
Herod
afterwards
&
his
soldiars
against
him
were
as
vnsheathings
of
that
sharp
sword
which
afterwards
pierced
her
hart
.
The
loud
blowes
and
bloudy
stripes
lamentably
tearing
all
partes
of
his
body
,
were
as
wide
rendings
of
her
soule
,
and
deadly
piercinges
of
sorrow
.
His
thorny
Crowne
did
sharpen
the
swordes
point
,
and
make
it
enter
more
deeply
;
and
finally
Pilats
sentence
,
was
as
the
stroke
of
a
deadly
thunderbolt
vnto
her
.
Her
iourney
after
her
Sonne
to
Mount
Caluary
,
was
to
them
both
,
mutually
grieued
for
ech
other
,
a
dolefull
procession
,
where
the
gaul
giuen
him
,
did
increase
the
bitternes
of
her
sorrowes
;
&
when
she
saw
his
cloathes
plucked
off
,
and
raggs
of
flesh
cleauing
vnto
them
,
the
smart
of
his
woundes
became
in
her
soule
freshly
renewed
;
&
when
she
saw
him
mercilesly
throwne
downe
on
the
hard
bed
of
his
Crosse
,
she
also
was
cast
downe
into
the
lowest
depth
of
griefe
with
him
;
&
had
euen
her
hart
pierced
with
those
very
nayles
,
which
entred
into
him
.
Those
bloudy
streames
which
she
saw
running
from
him
to
the
ground
,
and
there
trodden
vnder
the
Hangmens
feet
,
did
make
the
woundes
of
her
soule
bleed
freshly
;
so
,
as
she
became
cooled
at
that
sad
spectacle
,
&
had
instantly
died
(
as
persons
do
,
wounded
in
the
hart
)
had
she
not
byn
,
to
see
her
sonnes
sacrifice
fully
ended
,
supernaturally
preserued
.
The
Iewes
were
mysteriously
forbidden
by
their
law
,
to
boyle
the
Kid
in
his
Dams
milke
:
yet
heere
they
did
more
,
when
they
caused
the
child
to
be
crucified
in
the
sight
,
and
hart
of
his
Mother
,
by
loue
,
and
compassion
so
neerly
,
and
dearly
(
as
she
was
)
vnited
vnto
him
.
Of
Christs
speach
to
his
mother
and
disciple
,
vpon
the
Crosse
.
[
Chap.
32.
THis
God
of
loue
and
mercy
(
as
we
may
well
call
him
)
lying
bent
like
a
bow
on
his
Crosse
,
was
no
sooner
lifted
from
the
ground
,
but
he
began
to
dart
vpwards
,
towards
the
bosome
of
his
Father
,
fiery
and
flaming
arrows
of
loue
to
him
,
&
men
togeather
:
first
charitably
excusing
and
praying
for
his
enemies
,
who
at
the
same
instant
blasphemed
,
and
derided
him
,
Father
forgiue
them
for
they
know
not
what
they
do
.
Secondly
,
of
tender
and
deare
compassion
towards
his
B.
Mother
,
dying
togeather
with
him
,
woman
(
said
he
)
behould
thy
sonne
,
meaning
S.
Iohn
standing
by
her
;
and
then
to
him
,
Behould
thy
Mother
.
He
called
her
,
woman
,
least
by
naming
her
Mother
,
he
should
haue
moued
the
Iewes
to
outrages
against
her
,
and
mysteriously
insinuating
her
withall
,
to
be
that
woman
which
was
ordayned
to
crush
the
Serpents
head
long
before
,
and
vtterly
to
vanquish
him
.
And
he
so
commended
her
for
a
Mother
to
S.
Iohn
,
as
we
also
had
a
share
(
albeit
after
him
)
in
this
mysterious
adoption
;
so
that
we
haue
reason
to
glory
,
&
thanke
him
for
a
double
adoption
:
wherby
he
vouchsafed
to
make
vs
,
as
by
his
Father
,
so
by
his
Mother
likewise
,
bretheren
vnto
him
;
that
,
to
the
dewty
which
all
owe
her
,
for
being
Mother
vnto
himselfe
,
we
might
add
filiall
piety
also
,
and
seruiceable
loue
,
to
her
who
was
euen
as
a
Mother
from
his
Crosse
recommended
,
to
obtayne
graces
of
her
sonne
,
and
Motherly
blessings
,
temporall
and
eternall
for
vs
.
Who
indeed
,
if
we
consider
the
sad
tyme
,
and
circumstances
of
our
adoption
,
whilst
he
with
torments
,
and
she
with
griefes
were
togeather
languishing
,
we
may
be
rightly
called
,
as
Beniamin
was
by
his
dying
Mother
,
Benoni
,
Sonnes
of
sorrow
;
yet
children
of
her
loue
withall
,
if
we
consider
,
well
that
ardent
Charity
,
with
which
her
diuine
sonne
bequeathed
vs
for
children
vnto
her
;
&
that
humble
Loue
,
with
which
she
accepted
vs
from
him
,
actually
dying
then
with
herselfe
,
graciously
to
redeeme
vs
.
Of
our
B.
Ladies
particular
sorrow
in
the
death
,
and
buriall
of
her
Sonne
.
[
Chap.
33.
OVr
B.
Sauiour
hauing
hung
silently
on
his
Crosse
for
almost
three
houres
togeather
,
to
tast
more
quietly
,
and
feelingly
the
extremity
of
his
torments
(
much
increased
throgh
the
coldnes
of
the
ayre
,
darkened
about
him
)
awakened
himselfe
,
and
his
blessed
Mother
buryed
as
it
were
in
a
traunce
of
deadly
sorrowes
,
together
with
him
,
by
a
loud
complaint
made
to
his
eternall
Father
of
being
forsaken
,
and
in
the
sensitiue
part
of
his
humane
nature
,
left
comfortles
by
him
,
O
my
God
,
my
God
,
why
hast
thou
forsaken
me
?
and
roused
himselfe
vp
withall
to
dye
as
it
became
him
,
breathing
out
his
euer-blessed
soule
into
the
hands
of
his
Father
.
And
when
his
body
was
dead
&
cold
,
more
new
anguishes
were
added
to
her
former
griefes
,
by
beholding
euen
his
dead
corps
not
spared
,
but
with
the
wide
piercing
of
a
speare
wounded
then
againe
,
and
more
then
before
lamentably
defaced
.
When
he
was
taken
downe
from
his
Crosse
,
so
as
she
might
more
neerly
he
hold
his
wounds
,
kisse
,
and
bath
them
with
her
teares
,
sorrow
seemed
to
be
brought
neerer
to
her
hart
,
and
his
mangled
cold
body
to
haue
byn
buryed
therin
before
it
was
embalmed
,
and
layd
in
the
sepulcher
;
leauing
it
when
others
did
,
but
carrying
home
with
her
a
liuely
,
&
sad
memory
of
all
his
sufferings
,
in
silent
and
deepe
thoughts
mournfully
reuoluing
them
;
wanting
not
,
whither
she
went
companions
of
affliction
,
&
sorrowes
to
attend
her
.
So
as
Christs
mother
&
friends
returning
from
mount
Caluary
togeather
,
made
a
most
dolefull
procession
to
S.
Marks
house
seated
vnder
mount
Syon
,
where
the
B.
Virgin
wasted
with
sorrow
,
receaued
such
comforts
,
as
that
afficted
family
of
friends
could
affoard
her
.
And
S.
Iohn
not
vnmindful
that
he
had
byn
adopted
her
sonne
by
his
louing
mayster
,
offered
no
doubt
,
with
all
loue
&
duty
,
filiall
seruices
vnto
her
.
Of
our
Sauiours
first
apparition
to
his
B.
Mother
.
[
Chap.
34.
ALmighty
God
is
said
to
wipe
away
teares
from
the
eyes
of
his
seruants
;
which
he
doth
no
otherwise
,
then
by
manifesting
vnto
them
obiects
of
ioy
,
contrary
to
the
causes
of
their
sorrowes
;
which
also
he
performed
towards
his
B.
Mother
,
early
in
the
morning
of
his
glorious
Resurrection
,
when
according
to
the
multitude
,
and
greatnes
of
her
griefes
,
he
reioyced
her
hart
,
with
diuine
,
and
vnspeakable
comfort
.
She
is
noted
by
holy
Authors
,
not
to
haue
gone
with
the
other
deuout
women
,
to
embalme
her
sonnes
Body
,
as
faithfully
no
doubt
persuaded
,
that
he
would
rise
againe
the
third
day
,
as
formerly
he
had
assured
her
,
and
confident
withall
so
soone
as
he
was
risen
,
to
be
visited
by
him
.
His
apparition
to
her
,
is
not
by
any
Euangelist
recounted
,
because
a
Mothers
testimony
of
so
great
a
mystery
,
might
haue
by
n
suspected
,
and
the
circumstances
of
his
apparition
vnto
her
,
were
ouerhigh
withall
to
be
historically
related
,
especially
if
learned
Suarez
coniecture
thereof
be
true
;
that
as
she
had
sadly
beheld
,
and
accompanied
him
in
his
greatest
humiliations
,
and
afflictions
;
so
likewise
she
ioyfully
saw
him
in
his
highest
glory
and
contentments
,
with
a
double
trayne
of
Angells
,
and
Saintes
triumphant
,
attending
him
;
amongst
whome
we
may
conceaue
her
gladly
to
haue
seene
,
bodily
also
perchance
raysed
,
her
beloued
pure
spouse
S.
Joseph
,
her
holy
Parents
likewise
,
&
others
whome
she
had
knowne
before
happily
disceased
:
yielding
likewise
gratefully
vnto
her
amongst
the
rest
,
as
to
the
gracious
Mother
of
their
Redeemer
,
due
honors
and
prayses
.
His
fiue
greater
Woundes
in
his
body
still
retayned
,
did
shine
then
as
rich
Rubyes
,
by
their
colour
to
adorne
the
louely
candour
and
transparency
thereof
,
and
their
depth
therin
did
shew
them
to
haue
byn
flowing
fountaynes
of
graces
,
for
vs
once
opened
on
the
Crosse
,
and
neuer
agayne
closed
.
The
tearings
likewise
of
the
thornes
and
whips
she
saw
beautifully
in
him
,
and
gloriously
repayred
.
By
his
louing
imbracings
he
caused
heauenly
languishings
in
her
soule
,
&
by
kisses
of
his
sacred
mouth
,
he
breathed
new
feruours
,
and
graces
into
her
:
&
as
he
appeared
first
after
his
Resurrection
vnto
her
,
so
was
he
during
his
stay
on
earth
,
most
frequently
with
her
.
Neither
had
she
at
any
time
(
as
is
sayd
of
others
when
he
appeared
vnto
them
)
the
eyes
of
eyther
her
body
or
soule
restrained
from
knowing
,
and
delightfully
beholding
him
.
Finally
,
as
the
world
from
her
wombe
,
by
his
natiuity
,
receaued
him
:
so
did
he
in
the
day
of
his
Ascension
from
her
armes
&
imbracements
ascend
towards
heauen
.
Of
our
B.
Ladyes
receauing
the
holy
Ghost
.
[
Chap.
35.
AMongst
the
Apostles
,
and
disciples
remaining
in
Hierusalem
,
expecting
,
and
preparing
themselues
to
receaue
that
Diuine
Paraclete
and
Spirit
of
truth
,
which
our
B.
Sauiour
had
promised
to
send
to
them
after
his
Ascension
,
S.
Luke
affirmes
the
B.
Virgin
to
haue
byn
one
,
saying
after
he
had
named
the
Apostles
;
All
these
were
persouering
with
one
mynd
in
prayer
,
with
the
women
,
&
Mary
the
Mother
of
IESVS
;
numbring
her
last
as
the
humblest
amongst
them
&
naming
her
alone
with
her
soueraygne
Title
,
of
the
Mother
of
Jesus
,
to
grace
that
holy
assembly
the
more
by
the
presence
of
so
sacred
a
person
amongst
them
.
That
diuine
Spirit
of
loue
and
goodnes
,
came
to
the
rest
,
first
with
eminent
guifts
and
graces
to
possesse
them
;
but
he
had
come
to
her
,
twice
before
,
to
wit
,
in
the
Conception
of
her selfe
,
&
her
Son
,
&
was
both
times
abondantly
replenished
by
him
.
This
heauenvly
builder
came
to
rayse
in
them
as
from
the
ground
a
heauenly
habitation
for
himselfe
,
and
the
other
diuine
persons
;
but
he
came
to
adorne
her
soule
as
a
stately
pallace
already
raysed
,
and
accomplished
by
him
.
This
diuine
Painter
and
beautifier
of
soules
,
began
only
to
draw
in
them
a
liuely
and
louely
image
of
their
gracious
Redeemer
;
wheras
he
perfected
his
former
draughts
in
her
,
&
made
her
an
admirable
,
and
matchles
maister-peece
of
heauenly
perfection
.
That
working
fire
which
Christ
longed
to
kindle
,
and
make
to
flame
in
the
world
,
according
to
those
his
words
,
J
came
to
send
fire
into
the
world
&c.
descended
on
the
Apostles
&
disciples
,
to
consume
those
drossie
imperfections
for
which
their
mild
Lord
,
had
frequently
blamed
them
;
but
on
her
,
euer
pure
and
cleane
,
the
gracious
effects
of
his
diuine
presence
were
cleere
illustrations
,
inflamed
affections
,
and
the
highest
guifts
,
which
for
any
end
he
cold
bestow
vpon
a
Creature
.
They
finally
as
lesser
vessells
,
yet
great
in
respect
of
vs
,
were
sodainly
and
happily
filled
from
the
flowing
sea
of
all
goodnes
;
but
she
who
had
already
contayned
within
her
,
the
euer
full
,
and
flowing
fountayne
of
all
graces
,
was
as
by
a
deeper
tide
,
&
larger
Channell
which
it
bad
to
runne
in
,
made
a
full
sea
,
and
a
blissefull
depth
of
heauenly
waters
,
flowing
fully
into
her
.
If
any
one
should
curiously
aske
me
,
what
kind
of
graces
were
heaped
so
on
her
?
I
can
only
tell
him
,
they
were
such
as
in
the
happy
Course
of
her
life
afterwards
,
might
be
vsefull
,
and
as
the
Mother
of
God
,
serue
singularly
to
enrich
and
exalt
her
.
Of
the
aboad
and
manner
of
our
B.
Ladyes
life
,
after
her
receauing
the
holy
Ghost
.
[
Chap.
36.
S.
Iohn
speaking
of
this
sacred
treasure
recommended
by
his
dying
Maister
vnto
him
,
telleth
vs
,
that
he
tooke
her
into
his
owne
:
not
that
he
had
any
worldly
fortunes
to
bring
her
vnto
,
but
that
he
had
a
louing
care
to
performe
all
filiall
dutyes
vnto
her
;
so
that
,
till
the
Apostles
dispersion
abroad
she
liued
for
the
most
at
Hierusalem
with
him
,
sustayned
by
common
almes
,
with
other
holy
widowes
,
and
greatly
delighted
in
her
pouerty
,
as
formerly
she
had
byn
:
where
it
ioyed
her
no
lesse
to
see
the
zealous
and
fruitfull
labours
of
the
Apostles
,
in
conuerting
soules
to
the
knowledge
of
her
diuine
Sonne
,
then
it
comforted
,
and
edified
them
all
,
to
behold
her
humble
and
examplar
conuersation
amongst
them
,
blessing
her
pure
wombe
which
had
miraculously
conceaued
their
heauenly
Redeemer
,
her
Paps
which
had
nursed
him
,
her
Hands
which
had
cloathed
him
,
and
the
other
partes
of
her
louely
body
,
which
had
byn
seruiceable
vnto
him
.
And
the
more
they
were
illuminated
to
conceaue
the
diuine
maiesty
of
their
Lord
,
the
more
highly
they
apprehended
her
excellency
,
and
with
a
reuerentiall
loue
,
accordingly
respected
her
.
Afterwards
when
S.
John
with
the
other
Apostles
left
Hierusalem
,
he
tooke
this
B.
Virgin
to
Ephesus
with
him
,
(
as
the
Fathers
of
the
first
Generall
Counsell
holden
there
,
traditionally
affirmed
)
where
she
was
no
doubt
holily
delighted
,
to
behould
Iewes
and
Gentills
together
with
her
sonns
graces
happily
,
and
equally
enriched
;
holpen
,
no
doubt
,
in
their
first
conuersions
,
and
much
recreated
to
behould
this
modell
of
perfection
,
and
second
light
,
ordayned
to
shine
in
heauen
,
conuersant
most
humbly
,
and
examplarly
amongst
them
.
Neither
were
the
holy
places
of
Palestine
so
visited
(
as
she
is
sayd
to
haue
byn
)
by
other
deuout
Christians
;
repayring
thither
to
behold
the
mother
of
their
Lord
ready
with
an
humble
gladnes
to
welcome
them
,
and
to
confirme
them
in
their
fayth
,
by
relating
many
mysterious
speeches
,
and
passages
of
her
sonnes
life
,
which
none
,
as
an
eye
&
eare
witnesse
,
but
her selfe
,
could
deliuer
vnto
them
.
And
especially
she
is
sayd
,
sweetly
and
frequently
to
haue
repeated
vnto
them
these
words
of
her
diuine
sonne
,
Be
you
perfect
,
as
your
heauenly
Father
is
perfect
.
A
high
lesson
indeed
,
and
by
her
fitly
taught
,
who
next
vnto
the
heauenly
Authour
therof
practised
the
same
,
and
liued
so
long
after
him
for
the
comfort
,
&
instruction
of
such
holy
soules
as
were
by
his
Apostle
(
S.
John
especially
)
conuerted
vnto
him
.
Of
our
B.
Ladyes
manner
of
prayer
.
[
Chap.
37.
PRayer
(
sayth
S.
Augustine
)
is
as
the
breathing
of
holy
soules
,
whereby
they
draw
the
pure
ayre
of
heauenvly
graces
into
them
.
Light
&
Loue
are
the
chief
fruits
thereof
,
and
best
meanes
to
perfect
the
same
in
vs
:
for
Light
increaseth
Loue
,
and
Loue
when
it
is
ardent
augmenteth
that
heauenly
Clarity
,
wherby
it
is
produced
;
and
by
mutually
intending
ech
other
,
both
of
them
grow
in
holy
soules
to
such
perfection
,
as
the
one
is
seldome
darkned
,
or
the
other
cooled
at
any
tyme
so
but
that
like
Ouens
frequently
&
throughly
warmed
with
new
fyres
,
they
euer
retayne
great
warmth
,
&
holy
feruour
in
them
.
Their
fancies
in
sleep
often
imitate
their
Vnderstanding
,
and
borrow
as
it
were
from
the
rich
store-houses
of
their
memories
,
holy
Obiects
,
and
Discourses
,
which
as
heauenly
alarums
do
easily
waken
their
wills
,
&
make
them
interrupt
often
the
repose
of
their
senses
,
by
breaking
forth
into
holy
aspirations
;
as
dry
wood
is
with
slender
sparkles
soone
kindled
,
and
inflamed
.
This
great
guift
of
Prayer
arriued
in
the
mother
of
God
,
with
her
other
graces
,
to
a
wonderfull
perfection
:
so
as
her
Soule
therein
,
was
with
a
heauenly
splendor
,
next
to
Beatificall
Clarity
it selfe
,
continually
raysed
;
and
her
Loue
naturall
and
supernaturall
,
to
her
God
and
Sonne
,
like
two
fiery
wings
,
mounted
her
thoughts
&
affections
more
&
more
towards
him
,
by
whome
they
were
inflamed
.
An
immaculate
innocency
of
life
added
a
most
gracious
sweetnes
to
this
rising
rod
of
all
heauenly
perfums
and
spices
sweetly
composed
.
Humility
raysed
it
,
a
pure
Intention
made
way
for
it
,
and
a
constant
perseuerance
therin
did
surely
obtayne
what
by
her
prayer
she
intended
.
The
high
Attributes
of
God
,
and
the
sacred
mysteries
of
her
sonnes
life
and
death
,
still
conserued
in
her
memory
,
and
conferred
in
her
hart
,
as
the
Euangelist
twice
telleth
vs
,
were
the
vsuall
subiects
therof
;
&
her
discourses
therein
,
were
free
from
all
manner
of
distractions
,
and
by
heauenly
illuminations
cleared
so
,
as
like
Eagles
mounted
to
their
high
pitch
aboue
the
cloudes
,
she
soared
with
little
labour
,
and
became
in
them
,
euer
sweetly
,
and
diuinely
inflamed
.
Of
the
wonderfull
merit
of
our
B.
Ladyes
actions
.
[
Chap.
38.
LEarned
Suarez
writing
of
this
fubiect
,
from
certaine
groundes
of
fayth
and
Philosophy
,
gathered
so
strong
a
conclusion
concerning
the
B.
Virgins
wonderfull
manner
of
meriting
,
and
redoubling
,
by
ech
act
,
her
former
graces
,
as
he
dared
not
to
publish
his
doctrine
,
vntill
the
learned
Diuines
of
Spayne
,
had
with
their
opinions
approued
it
.
The
summe
of
his
discourse
is
this
.
As
naturall
habits
are
produced
by
naturall
acts
,
when
they
are
intense
and
perfect
;
so
supernaturall
habits
are
by
the
diuine
infuser
of
them
,
conferred
on
holy
soules
,
according
to
the
perfection
of
those
supernaturall
acts
,
wherby
holy
soules
merit
an
increase
of
them
.
Wherefore
since
the
B.
Virgin
,
did
in
ech
holy
act
done
by
her
,
cooperate
with
former
graces
giuen
her
,
fully
,
and
according
to
their
whole
intension
,
as
hauing
no
sinfull
inclination
to
hinder
her
:
so
did
she
still
merit
,
according
to
the
full
intension
&
perfection
of
her
acts
,
to
haue
new
graces
infused
into
her
,
and
consequently
to
haue
former
graces
redoubled
,
by
ech
one
of
them
;
so
that
she
heaped
in
her
soule
hourely
,
treasures
of
merits
,
and
by
them
in
the
end
of
her
life
arriued
to
an
immensity
of
graces
.
Sinfull
Ignorance
did
neuer
darken
her
illuminated
soule
,
Errour
seduce
,
or
Malice
corrupt
her
.
Sense
neuer
rebelled
against
Reason
;
and
Concupiscence
the
roote
of
sinne
,
was
according
to
S.
Thomas
euer
kept
from
growing
,
and
totally
at
length
extinguished
in
her
.
Wherby
this
heauenly
Sulamite
,
became
ordered
in
all
vertues
so
,
as
a
high
Wisedom
guided
them
in
their
seuerall
operations
,
&
Charity
commaunded
them
;
wherby
she
came
,
as
weighty
things
remayne
in
their
Center
,
to
be
in
them
immoueably
fixed
.
Pride
did
at
no
tyme
rayse
her
,
or
Pusillanimity
deiect
her
.
Passions
did
not
perturbe
her
,
or
sensuall
Appetites
disorder
her
.
Sanctity
did
cleare
,
like
a
rich
pearle
,
her
gracious
grouth
;
and
an
Angelicall
Purity
of
mind
and
body
,
did
for
her
diuine
spouse
consecrate
&
spotlesly
conserue
her
.
Humility
to
conclude
,
made
her
ponderous
in
all
actions
,
Obedience
rounded
her
,
and
other
graces
smoothed
her
,
in
such
sort
,
as
finally
she
became
in
them
,
a
rare
,
and
matchlesse
vnion
of
Created
Perfection
,
doing
all
her
actions
in
the
substance
,
and
circumstances
of
them
,
so
,
as
it
is
a
Catholique
point
of
faith
to
belieue
,
she
neuer
offended
,
by
omission
,
or
commission
venially
in
them
.
Of
our
B.
Ladies
Sacramentall
graces
heere
gayned
.
[
Chap.
39.
GReat
Authors
(
S.
Clement
and
others
)
haue
affirmed
our
B.
Sauiour
himselfe
to
haue
baptized
his
Mother
,
aswell
to
bewtify
her
soule
by
the
fairest
character
of
that
Sacrament
,
as
to
take
an
occasion
therby
,
besides
the
wonderfull
merit
of
her
owne
actions
,
to
heape
in
his
owne
bounty
,
on
her
soule
,
vnconceauable
graces
.
The
descension
of
the
Holy
Ghost
vpon
her
in
the
day
of
Pentecost
,
was
as
an
eminent
vnction
,
and
Confirmation
of
her
graces
therein
receaued
,
and
the
most
holy
sacrifice
,
&
sacrament
of
her
sonnes
body
&
bloud
daily
with
other
Christians
receaued
,
was
as
an
euer-full
,
and
flowing
fountayne
of
heauenly
blessings
running
into
her
.
Her
oblation
thereof
in
the
Apostles
hands
,
&
preparation
to
receaue
it
,
was
suitable
(
no
doubt●
)
to
the
immenfity
of
actuall
and
habituall
graces
in
her
soule
:
their
Clarity
did
illuminate
her
,
their
Feruour
inflame
her
,
Humility
prostrated
her
,
Piety
disposed
her
,
&
faith
made
her
so
firmely
to
belieue
her
sonnes
glorious
,
albeit
inuisible
,
presence
therein
,
as
if
she
had
apparently
beheld
him
;
humbly
thanking
him
in
behalfe
of
her selfe
,
and
vs
also
,
for
that
second
annihilating
,
as
it
were
of
himselfe
,
to
communicate
the
fruites
of
his
passion
to
faithfull
soules
worthily
receauing
him
;
frequently
enioying
glimses
almost
of
beatificall
Clarity
it selfe
,
as
often
as
she
sacramentally
receaued
him
;
he
recompencing
so
,
in
a
sorte
,
the
wonted
,
and
desired
Comforts
of
his
visible
prefence
with
her
.
And
if
S.
Mary
Magdalen
in
her
holy
retyrement
neere
Marsills
in
France
,
had
bodily
rapts
,
Angelicall
visits
,
heauenly
melody
,
and
greater
fauours
,
by
her
louing
and
beloued
Lord
,
daily
affoarded
her
;
can
we
reasonably
doubt
,
but
that
in
higher
&
more
delightfull
manners
he
expressed
his
loue
to
her
,
graciously
aboue
all
Creatures
indeared
vnto
him
?
Or
do
so
many
authenticall
&
vndoubted
histories
mention
his
glorious
apparitions
to
other
Saintes
,
men
and
woomen
,
for
yielding
them
,
yet
aliue
,
particular
comforts
,
and
instructions
;
and
may
we
not
iustly
conceaue
him
to
haue
byn
more
open-handed
,
and
liberall
,
in
shewing
his
loue
to
her
,
who
best
deserued
such
fauours
,
and
had
as
a
gracious
Mother
,
from
a
louing
Sonne
,
most
right
to
receaue
them
?
Of
our
B.
Ladies
death
.
[
Chap
40.
SAint
Denis
not
conuerted
by
S.
Paul
at
Athens
before
the
16.
yeare
after
our
Sauiours
Passion
,
(
as
Baronius
,
with
Suarez
,
and
other
great
Authors
haue
collected
)
&
writing
as
he
doth
of
his
hauing
byn
at
Hierusalem
with
S.
Peter
,
S.
Iohn
and
others
aswell
Apostles
as
chiefe
disciples
of
our
Sauiour
,
at
the
death
and
funeral
of
this
sacred
Virgin
,
conuinceth
her
to
haue
liued
well
nigh
20.
yeares
after
her
Sonnes
passion
,
to
gayne
no
doubt
a
long
&
happy
haruest
of
heauenvly
merits
for
her selfe
,
to
comfort
likewise
the
Apostles
themselues
in
their
holy
labours
,
and
to
edify
others
by
them
conuerted
by
her
gracefull
person
,
exemplar
life
,
&
conuersation
amongst
them
.
Her
happy
end
may
be
thought
to
haue
byn
prophetically
reuealed
to
the
Apostles
,
and
disciples
,
that
besides
their
mutuall
comfort
of
seeing
ech
other
,
they
might
also
enioy
so
contentfull
a
blessing
,
as
to
be
hould
the
ioyfull
passage
of
this
sacred
Mother
to
her
diuine
Sonne
,
take
their
last
leaue
of
her
,
heere
in
this
world
,
and
celebrate
her
funeralls
with
due
loue
and
veneration
.
The
sicknes
wherof
she
dyed
may
be
thought
to
haue
byn
a
rauishing
excesse
and
sweet
languishment
of
heauenly
loue
,
and
longinging
to
hasten
to
her
sonne
,
calling
her
vnto
him
,
Come
my
beloued
from
Libanus
,
thou
shalt
be
crowned
:
which
freely
yielded
vnto
by
her
,
might
cause
such
a
concurrence
of
vitall
spirits
,
to
rayse
the
thoughts
and
affections
of
her
soule
,
as
they
failed
,
to
conserue
a
needfull
disposition
for
life
,
in
her
bodily
members
and
senses
.
So
as
lying
sweetly
reposed
on
her
bed
,
with
all
the
Apostles
,
&
many
chiefe
Disciples
of
her
Sonne
kneeling
about
her
,
hauing
newly
before
,
for
a
happy
viaticum
to
heauen
most
deuoutely
receaued
him
,
whom
first
in
her
wombe
,
she
had
diuinely
conceaued
,
with
an
vnexpressible
ardour
of
loue
,
giuing
her
blessing
,
and
farewell
to
all
present
,
she
breathed
out
her
gracious
soule
into
her
Sonnes
hands
,
there
present
to
receaue
it
,
waited
on
by
the
most
glorious
Princes
of
his
Court
,
gladly
attending
him
their
Lord
,
and
her
his
beloued
Mother
,
in
their
triumphant
procession
.
Of
our
B.
Ladies
Assumption
.
[
Chap.
41.
PIous
eares
,
and
harts
worthily
abhorre
to
heare
spoken
,
that
corruption
(
sayth
S.
John
Damascene
)
inuaded
,
and
wormes
deuoured
that
sacred
flesh
,
a
part
whereof
the
Author
himselfe
of
immortality
had
assumed
:
or
that
this
stately
branch
of
Iesses
root
,
euer
rotted
in
the
ground
,
whose
flowre
was
in
Heauen
so
gloriously
ripened
:
or
finally
that
this
louely
Tabernacle
of
the
Highest
became
in
the
bewtifull
frame
therof
,
after
death
,
vtterly
dissolued
.
No
surely
,
as
the
same
had
byn
whilst
it
was
aliue
,
many
wayes
graced
by
her
diuine
sonne
:
so
was
it
,
being
dead
from
loathsomnesse
,
and
corruption
totally
preserued
,
as
for
many
reasons
it
was
fitting
.
First
,
in
that
it
had
not
byn
with
sinne
originally
infected
,
as
other
bodies
are
,
when
soules
void
of
grace
are
first
vnited
vnto
them
.
Secondly
for
that
it
was
euer
a
most
pure
habitation
of
her
gracious
soule
,
neuer
by
it
actually
defiled
,
or
viciously
inclined
.
Thirdly
,
because
it
had
byn
the
subiect
of
heauenly
wonders
for
her
Creatours
glory
,
and
mans
eternall
saluation
,
wrought
happily
in
it
;
and
ech
part
thereof
made
sacred
,
by
immediate
touches
,
and
seruices
done
to
the
Eternall
Word
Incarnate
within
it
,
and
nursed
by
it
.
Her
wombe
for
example
was
(
as
the
Spouse
,
for
the
wonderfull
purity
,
and
fertility
thereof
,
calleth
it
in
the
Canticles
)
a
Heape
of
heauenly
Grayne
,
to
nourish
soules
eternally
,
with
lillyes
inuironed
:
a
pure
Nest
,
wherein
the
celestiall
Phaenix
,
and
Birde
of
Diuine
Loue
was
hatched
:
the
Tyring-house
wherin
the
sonne
of
God
was
for
high
ends
humanely
disguised
;
finally
a
Bed-chamber
,
richly
prepared
for
the
celestiall
Bride
,
to
become
therin
,
to
our
nature
first
,
and
to
all
holy
soules
afterwards
,
eternally
espoused
.
Her
sacred
breasts
,
were
as
two
Pearly-bottels
,
tipped
with
rich
rubies
,
and
filled
once
from
heauen
,
sweetly
to
nurse
him
,
by
whome
(
as
the
Church
singeth
in
her
Office
)
birds
are
fed
,
and
all
Creatures
sustayned
.
Her
lappe
was
as
an
easy
Couch
wherein
the
sonne
of
God
lay
neere
to
her
louing
hart
contentfully
reposed
.
Her
armes
and
hands
had
byn
for
many
yeares
togeather
,
holy
instruments
fitly
made
and
moued
,
to
imbrace
,
and
serue
him
.
Her
lipps
were
as
two
Ruby
gates
,
at
which
her
soule
and
her
diuine
sonnes
had
often
met
,
&
parlied
with
mutuall
significations
of
loue
,
and
new
breathings
from
him
of
heauenly
graces
into
her
.
Her
eyes
had
byn
as
cleare
windowes
,
for
her
soule
,
delightfully
to
behould
,
for
33.
yeares
togeather
,
his
corporall
bewtyes
and
deepely
to
imprint
in
her
hart
a
liuely
,
and
louely
image
of
him
.
To
conclude
,
all
other
parts
of
her
virginall
pure
body
,
for
seruiceable
acts
done
to
the
omnipotent
Authour
therof
,
were
by
him
after
her
death
,
highly
respected
(
no
doubt
)
gloriously
perfected
,
and
wonderfully
exalted
.
Of
the
glory
of
our
B.
Lady
assumpted
.
[
Chap
42.
HEr
sepulcher
is
sayd
to
haue
byn
placed
in
the
garden
of
Gethsemani
,
wherein
by
the
Apostles
and
other
chiefe
disciples
of
her
Sonne
,
her
body
was
solemnely
and
deuoutly
intombed
.
And
as
flowers
do
smell
sweetly
in
their
first
buddings
;
so
this
fayre
flower
,
about
to
open
it self
in
its
immortall
beauty
,
yielded
to
all
present
a
heauenvly
fragrancy
(
as
S.
Iohn
Damascene
from
Apostolicall
tradition
recounteth
)
and
sweetned
that
stony
receptacle
,
and
part
of
the
earth
,
whence
it
was
soone
after
into
her
sons
heauenly
garden
,
to
be
gloriously
transplanted
.
So
that
when
the
Apostolicall
intombers
thereof
had
left
it
,
Angelical
spirits
,
as
a
sacred
treasury
conserued
it
,
&
attended
it
vntill
the
third
day
,
when
it
was
by
their
Lord
,
and
her
Sonne
ioyfully
raysed
,
and
with
such
a
glorious
change
,
as
those
celestiall
Princes
wondred
to
see
agayne
in
her
,
as
before
they
had
seene
in
their
Lord
,
a
clodd
of
earth
so
curiously
molded
,
&
graciously
transformed
,
asking
ech
other
,
not
as
ignorant
who
she
was
,
but
admiring
her
greatnes
:
Who
is
she
that
ascendeth
from
the
desert
,
in
delights
,
leaning
on
her
beloued
?
Delights
indeed
(
sayth
S.
Bernard
)
abounding
in
her
,
and
flowing
still
in
earth
and
in
heauen
graciously
from
her
,
which
can
be
no
more
expressed
,
then
her
glories
described
:
suitable
no
doubt
to
the
graces
of
her
soule
,
&
such
(
sayth
he
)
as
well
beseemed
so
diuine
a
sonne
to
bestow
vpon
so
deseruing
a
mother
.
His
heauenly
Father
was
likewise
openhanded
at
the
same
tyme
in
heaping
gratious
fauours
on
her
,
who
had
byn
Mother
of
his
eternall
sonne
,
and
ioint-parent
with
himselfe
of
him
,
&
the
holy
Ghost
was
effused
no
doubt
in
his
bounty
then
to
her
,
whom
here
on
earth
he
had
singularly
espoused
to
himselfe
,
and
made
mother
of
a
diuine
child
,
first
from
him
(
saith
S.
Leo
)
in
her
soule
,
and
afterwards
in
her
wombe
most
graciously
conceaued
.
And
as
they
had
raysed
her
in
the
holy
merits
of
her
life
far
aboue
all
Creatures
:
so
was
she
at
her
entrance
into
heauen
highly
in
throned
,
and
supremely
exalted
for
them
.
Of
our
B.
Ladyes
Coronation
.
[
Chap.
43.
THe
Diademe
with
which
this
Queene
of
Heauen
was
crowned
by
her
sonne
,
at
her
glorious
entrance
into
his
Kingdome
,
was
in
the
riches
thereof
,
suitable
(
no
doubt
)
to
her
wonderfull
merits
,
and
graced
with
twelue
such
Starrs
,
as
adorned
the
head
of
that
mysterious
woman
mentioned
in
the
Apocalyps
,
importing
twelue
peculiar
Graces
,
conferred
by
the
diuine
Persons
on
her
.
The
first
of
them
was
,
her
maternall
dignity
,
and
office
of
hauing
the
eternall
word
incarnate
within
her
,
wherby
she
came
to
haue
a
singular
neerenes
,
and
dearenes
vnto
him
.
The
2.
was
,
her
immaculate
conception
,
happily
therein
beginning
a
rich
haruest
of
heauenly
merits
,
brought
out
of
her
mothers
wombe
into
the
world
with
her
.
The
3.
was
,
her
preseruation
from
venially
offending
afterwards
,
wherby
she
alone
of
all
Adams
naturall
children
equalled
Angells
themselues
,
in
the
vnspotted
innocency
of
her
life
,
as
in
the
graces
of
her
soule
,
she
incomparably
excelled
them
.
The
4.
added
an
Excellency
to
the
former
,
&
arriued
to
the
happiest
effect
of
originall
iustice
itself
,
which
was
to
feele
no
Concupiscence
,
or
rebellion
at
all
in
her
members
&
senses
,
but
to
haue
nature
and
grace
euer
in
her
,
harmoniously
composed
.
The
5.
was
,
her
virginall
vow
of
Purity
,
wherby
she
consecrated
herselfe
to
her
Heauenly
spouse
;
and
before
the
Ghospell
of
her
sonne
,
in
this
,
and
other
graces
arriued
to
the
highest
top
of
Euangelicall
perfection
.
To
6.
was
,
the
pure
Conception
,
and
manner
of
her
sonnes
Natiuity
,
a
Priuiledge
indeed
(
sayth
S.
Bernard
)
for
Gods
mother
alone
graciously
reserued
.
The
7.
was
,
her
hauing
besides
Fayth
,
and
continuall
Illustrations
of
heauenly
Graces
,
in
a
most
affectuous
cleare
manner
,
an
experimentall
knowledge
of
many
chiefe
mysteries
of
faith
wrought
by
her
Sonne
;
so
as
her selfe
was
with
him
an
actour
also
in
them
,
as
his
miraculous
Conception
,
Natiuity
&c.
happily
seruing
to
illminate
&
inflame
her
.
The
9.
was
,
naturall
&
supernaturall
loue
towards
him
,
as
to
her
God
and
sonne
sweetly
conioyned
,
&
like
two
fiery
wings
,
ray
sing
her
soule
incessantly
towards
him
.
The
9.
was
,
her
life
led
for
30.
yeares
&
more
,
inseparably
with
him
,
affording
her
hourely
occasions
of
doing
motherly
seruices
immediately
vnto
him
.
The
10.
was
,
her
great
sufferinges
for
him
,
&
martyrdome
finally
with
him
,
caused
by
Loue
,
making
his
wounds
&
torments
her
own
by
a
most
tender
Compassion
.
The
11.
was
,
her
happy
end
,
graced
by
the
Apostles
present
thereat
,
and
much
more
highly
honoured
by
her
Sonnes
personall
readines
to
receaue
her
blessed
Soule
,
recommended
vnto
him
.
The
12.
was
her
bodily
Assumption
after
death
,
wherby
she
preuented
the
raysing
of
other
Saints
bodies
in
the
generall
resurrection
,
and
came
to
be
with
a
complete
fulnes
of
blessed
ioyes
,
eternally
possessed
.
Where
I
leaue
thee
(
O
sacred
Virgin
,
and
gracious
Mother
of
my
heauenly
Redeemer
)
in
the
bright
Noone
of
thy
glorious
Clarity
neuer
setting
;
in
the
ardour
of
thy
loue
euer
flaming
;
and
in
the
flowing
of
thy
delights
neuer
ebbing
,
but
increasing
still
;
so
as
holpen
by
thy
powerfull
intercession
,
I
hope
,
albeit
a
farre
of
as
men
gaze
on
the
starres
,
to
behould
thee
on
a
stately
Throne
,
neere
thy
sonnes
right
hand
gloriously
exalted
:
purposing
in
the
meane
tyme
during
my
mortall
and
miserable
life
,
in
all
I
may
,
next
to
thy
diuine
sonne
,
my
Lord
and
Sauiour
himselfe
,
to
honour
and
serue
thee
.
FINIS
.