THE
WIDDOWES
MITE
.
CAST
INTO
THE
TREASVRE-HOVSE
OF
OVR
B.
LADYES
PRAYSES
.
With
reasons
why
we
are
to
haue
great
confidence
in
her
Prayers
.
CHAP.
I.
THERE
was
neuer
found
within
the
compasse
of
Morality
a
more
excellent
Receipt
and
Secret
,
then
that
of
Friendship
,
towardes
the
softning
&
sweetning
of
all
the
miseryes
of
this
life
.
Friendship
it
is
which
doubleth
our
comforts
,
it
diuideth
our
cares
,
it
locketh
vp
our
secrets
,
it
reuengeth
our
wrongs
,
and
it
maketh
a
large
and
liberall
contribution
of
succour
towardes
the
reliefe
of
all
our
necessityes
.
I
speake
not
this
of
the
thing
which
some
miscall
by
the
name
of
Friendship
,
and
which
indeed
is
no
more
,
then
a
meere
acquaintance
,
or
familiarity
of
conuersation
;
though
the
world
be
growne
to
the
conceipt
of
taking
such
froath
as
this
,
for
the
quintessence
which
I
heer
commend
:
But
I
meane
that
most
faythfull
and
inuiolable
Friendship
which
mingleth
or
confoundeth
fortunes
,
and
vniteth
minds
,
and
which
accompteth
it
for
one
of
the
greatest
hart
soares
it
hath
that
it
cannot
euer
reach
out
the
giuing
hand
.
And
yet
euen
this
truest
Friendship
(
which
being
all
that
I
haue
sayd
)
is
subiect
both
to
imperfection
&
destruction
;
for
sometymes
it
is
changed
by
ficklenes
,
sometymes
it
is
vnstitcht
by
absence
,
sometims
it
is
torn
in
sunder
by
vnfaithfullnes
,
at
least
it
is
sure
to
dye
when
they
dye
that
did
professe
it
;
and
in
fine
,
it
euer
carryeth
such
a
testimony
,
and
superscription
in
the
forhead
of
it
,
as
serueth
to
point
men
out
to
somewhat
els
,
assuring
them
that
it
cannot
possibly
be
complete
,
because
all
the
parties
to
this
contract
are
no
better
then
sinnefull
and
mortall
creatures
.
One
help
there
is
,
whereby
we
may
feed
vpon
this
sweet
bitt
,
without
being
troubled
and
tyred
with
gnawing
vpon
such
bones
as
these
,
&
it
is
by
translating
our
affection
from
these
inferiour
obiects
to
those
other
of
Saints
and
Angells
,
in
whome
there
liueth
a
faculty
of
corresponding
with
vs
much
more
nobly
,
togeather
with
an
impossibility
of
transgressing
the
true
lawes
of
Friendship
,
which
consist
in
the
entire
communication
of
all
things
,
and
hath
for
spurs
an
extreme
ardour
of
affection
,
&
for
bridle
an
impuissance
to
offend
in
the
least
degree
.
A
patterne
or
proofe
heerof
may
be
taken
from
those
extaticall
wishes
of
the
Patriarch
Moyses
,
and
the
Apostle
S.
Paul
,
who
did
so
thirst
after
the
eternall
happynes
of
their
brethren
,
as
that
they
seemed
content
to
lay
aside
the
consideration
and
care
of
their
owne
.
Now
●f
whilest
they
were
yet
encumbred
with
the
heauy
cloaths
of
flesh
and
bloud
,
they
could
soare
so
high
into
that
spher
of
fire
;
how
much
more
eminent
are
they
now
in
this
kind
,
togeather
with
all
those
other
celestiall
spirits
,
since
now
they
are
freed
from
all
impediments
,
&
stand
enioying
,
&
feeding
face
to
face
,
vpon
the
essence
of
God
,
which
is
the
fountayne
of
Loue
it selfe
,
into
which
by
him
they
are
transformed
?
We
are
also
taught
by
holy
Scripture
,
with
what
zeale
the
holy
Angels
do
behould
,
&
protect
their
seuerall
charges
heere
on
earth
.
This
care
and
loue
of
those
happy
soules
and
spirits
,
towards
the
poore
inhabitants
of
this
world
,
proceedeth
from
the
knowledge
they
haue
of
the
bounty
which
his
diuine
Maiesty
hath
vsed
in
bestowing
parts
of
his
owne
perfection
,
and
in
designing
that
vnspeakable
glory
which
he
hath
prepared
for
vs
;
so
that
in
their
louing
of
vs
,
and
cooperating
to
our
saluation
by
their
assistance
,
they
performe
an
act
of
reuerence
,
and
homage
to
our
common
Creatour
.
And
therfore
if
the
Angells
and
other
Saints
desire
and
procure
our
happines
,
if
they
haue
compassion
of
our
affliction
,
if
they
interpose
for
vs
the
merits
of
Christs
death
and
passion
in
the
degree
of
one
,
there
can
be
no
question
amongst
Christians
(
if
indeed
they
be
so
)
but
that
the
Queene
of
Saints
and
Angels
,
the
sacred
and
perpetuall
Virgin
,
the
immaculate
and
glorious
Mother
of
God
,
doth
performe
to
vs
all
these
things
(
with
infinite
others
which
through
our
basenes
and
blindnes
we
cannot
thinke
of
:
)
I
say
not
in
the
degree
of
one
,
but
in
the
degree
of
so
many
millions
of
degrees
as
she
exceedeth
all
the
Angells
and
Saints
of
Heauen
in
the
perfection
and
height
of
the
knowledge
and
loue
of
God
.
One
particuler
reason
of
her
vnspeakable
tendernes
towards
vs
all
(
to
omit
many
others
)
may
be
the
consideration
of
Christ
our
Lords
humanity
,
with
he
tooke
wholy
of
her
,
&
which
he
spent
wholy
vpon
vs
;
besides
that
vpon
the
Crosse
,
he
resigned
her
as
it
were
,
to
be
the
Mother
of
all
mankind
,
whereof
heereafter
I
shall
haue
occasion
to
make
further
mention
.
Now
,
as
the
vnspeakable
loue
of
God
which
he
inspired
her
hart
withall
,
and
wherewith
so
admirably
she
cooperated
,
maketh
God
vnspeakably
to
loue
and
delight
in
her
:
so
it
is
reason
,
that
for
her
loue
to
vs
,
we
procure
to
correspond
in
all
such
deuotion
&
reuerence
to
her
who
is
so
gracious
in
the
sight
of
God
,
and
so
well
deseruing
of
vs
,
as
may
be
affoarded
to
the
most
incomparably
sublime
Creature
,
of
a
meer
creature
,
that
euer
was
,
&
the
most
abundant
,
&
deere
benefactour
of
mankind
that
can
be
thought
of
vnder
God
.
There
is
not
in
this
world
so
great
a
Monarch
,
to
whome
if
we
had
obligation
,
and
meant
to
make
any
retribution
we
might
not
impart
somewhat
which
might
concerne
him
in
a
substantiall
and
solid
manner
.
For
a
very
wealthy
man
might
make
him
somewhat
the
richer
,
a
valiant
man
might
make
his
dominions
the
larger
,
a
wise
man
might
make
his
gouernement
the
happyer
,
a
skillful
man
might
make
his
health
the
firmer
,
and
a
confident
faythfull
man
might
chance
to
make
his
life
the
safer
.
But
with
the
Saints
of
heauen
,
it
is
not
so
;
for
al
they
,
and
especially
this
Queene
of
Heauen
,
hath
such
a
fullnes
of
all
that
,
whereof
they
are
capable
,
as
excludeth
the
possibility
of
mankind
from
giuing
any
thing
to
them
,
and
much
lesse
to
her
,
which
may
increase
her
happynes
in
any
thing
that
inwardly
concerneth
her
;
but
whatsoeuer
we
can
offer
,
is
extrinsecal
vnto
her
,
as
namely
Honour
,
whereof
she
is
only
capable
at
our
hands
.
The
expression
of
this
Honour
may
be
made
by
diuers
wayes
:
by
praysing
her
,
by
praying
vnto
her
,
by
imitating
in
some
small
measure
of
her
admirable
vertues
,
&
by
carrying
in
our
harts
a
continuall
tendernes
of
deuotion
towards
her
.
By
this
tyme
,
if
the
Reader
be
a
Caluinist
,
he
beginneth
to
shrincke
,
he
desireth
to
be
excused
,
he
reuerenceth
(
forsooth
)
the
Mother
of
God
as
he
ought
,
if
you
will
beleeue
him
,
but
he
would
faine
be
thought
a
zealous
preseruer
of
Gods
honour
;
and
holdeth
that
the
termes
we
vse
in
professing
our
deuotion
to
her
,
with
the
custome
which
we
haue
in
directing
to
her
our
prayers
is
to
carry
our selues
idly
,
if
not
impiously
:
and
he
will
needs
take
vpon
him
to
ground
himselfe
vpon
holy
Scripture
.
It
is
strang
to
see
how
these
yong
Prentices
will
needs
be
Merchant-venturers
in
the
art
of
vnderstanding
that
diuin
booke
;
to
the
deep
sea
wherof
they
lanch
out
in
the
shallow
Cock-boats
of
their
owne
conceipts
,
and
thinke
they
are
sailing
into
some
safe
port
,
when
indeed
they
are
splitting
vpon
rockes
.
Strang
I
say
it
is
,
to
see
how
they
are
blinded
by
the
desire
they
haue
to
make
the
Scripturs
serue
their
turnes
of
their
passion
,
which
suffereth
them
not
to
discern
the
euidence
wherewith
it
establisheth
often
tymes
the
very
point
in
Controuersy
which
they
contradict
.
For
how
could
they
otherwise
make
themselus
beleeue
,
as
they
vsually
obiect
,
that
the
Scripture
authorizeth
any
lessening
of
our
Ladyes
honour
,
that
it
excludeth
her
Inuocation
,
and
abridgeth
her
Prayse
,
whilest
indeed
it
doth
abundantly
testify
her
excellency
,
and
giue
great
warrant
for
all
that
the
Catholike
Church
doth
practise
concerning
her
?
There
be
holy
,
&
learned
men
that
affirme
(
&
it
is
full
of
reason
)
that
if
the
Scripture
had
sayd
no
more
of
her
,
but
these
only
words
,
Maria
,
de
qua
natus
est
Iesus
,
The
Aduersaryes
of
her
glory
might
consider
,
that
the
wordes
of
holy
Scripture
are
not
to
be
valewed
after
the
rates
of
number
,
but
of
weight
:
and
who
hath
armes
wherwith
to
weeld
the
ballance
,
into
which
that
massy
quality
of
being
the
Mother
of
God
,
is
layd
?
It
goeth
not
,
euen
in
ordinary
Audits
,
by
the
great
number
of
figures
,
but
if
one
be
placed
before
a
greater
number
of
cyphers
,
that
alone
may
stand
for
many
others
:
&
so
this
halfe
line
alone
,
wherof
I
spake
,
may
&
doth
import
a
greater
eminency
,
then
could
haue
beene
expressed
in
the
whole
Bible
without
it
;
although
both
these
Testaments
,
&
all
those
pens
of
all
the
Prophets
and
Apostles
had
spent
themselues
in
the
celebration
only
of
her
prayses
.
But
because
all
their
cunning-men
and
women
,
though
they
should
be
able
to
write
and
read
the
Scriptures
,
cannot
yet
cast
accompt
,
especially
after
this
manner
;
and
that
vulgar
eyes
are
neuer
satisfyed
with
the
riches
of
a
Iewell
,
vnlesse
it
consist
of
many
stones
;
I
wil
therfore
endeauour
to
let
them
see
,
that
in
holy
Scripture
there
is
no
scarcity
of
that
which
themselues
desire
,
or
rather
of
that
which
I
feare
they
desire
not
,
which
is
,
the
great
aduantages
,
prerogatiues
,
and
priuiledges
of
the
B.
Virgin
.
CHAP.
II.
IN
the
first
place
I
conceaue
that
by
the
way
of
expresse
prayse
,
as
meant
for
prayse
,
there
is
little
sayd
in
the
new
Testament
of
our
B.
Lady
,
no
more
then
of
our
B.
Sauiour
himself
.
I
call
that
expresse
prayse
,
as
meant
for
prayse
,
when
a
person
is
ex
professo
commended
,
and
extolled
for
this
or
that
vertue
,
to
this
principall
end
,
that
he
or
she
may
win
estimation
among
men
:
and
in
this
sense
I
do
not
find
,
that
either
of
them
are
greatly
praysed
:
only
they
testify
some
little
things
of
themselues
,
and
that
concerning
the
selfe
same
vertue
,
which
is
Humility
.
Our
Sauiour
sayd
,
Learne
of
me
for
I
am
Humble
,
and
Meeke
:
and
our
Lady
sayd
;
that
God
had
carryed
respect
to
her
Humility
.
Many
other
persons
are
particulerly
commended
in
both
the
Testaments
.
Noë
,
Zachary
,
S.
Iohn
Baptist
,
and
S.
Ioseph
for
being
iust
:
But
Christ
our
Lord
,
and
our
B.
Lady
are
not
praysed
directly
for
this
or
that
vertue
,
though
the
Apostles
may
secondarily
,
and
vpon
occasion
be
sayd
to
commend
the
life
of
Christ
,
when
they
exhort
the
people
to
whome
they
wrote
,
towards
an
imitation
of
his
vertues
.
We
need
not
go
far
to
seeke
a
reason
that
may
be
subiect
to
our
capacityes
why
the
holy
Ghost
might
thinke
good
to
take
this
course
;
for
to
haue
expresly
commended
them
,
had
beene
to
imply
,
after
a
sort
,
that
words
might
haue
declared
how
much
they
ought
to
be
commended
;
and
a
Reader
might
thereby
haue
imagined
,
that
their
excellency
had
not
surpassed
all
humane
thought
,
if
it
had
beene
made
subiect
therunto
by
speach
;
and
therfore
they
are
both
set
out
much
more
to
the
full
,
in
that
their
prayses
are
couered
with
the
sacred
veyle
of
silence
,
then
they
would
haue
beene
,
if
they
had
beene
exposed
to
sight
,
by
the
pen
euen
of
the
very
Apostles
themselues
.
Wheras
now
by
saying
nothing
in
the
way
of
praise
,
but
by
deliuering
so
much
by
way
of
prerogatiue
,
there
is
left
a
liberty
,
or
rather
there
is
imposed
a
necessity
,
for
men
to
conceiue
as
highly
,
and
nobly
as
they
can
;
and
yet
to
know
,
when
all
is
done
,
that
the
least
part
of
their
excellency
is
not
attayned
.
Hence
it
is
,
that
for
reuerence
the
Prophet
I
say
(
when
he
was
to
describe
God
himselfe
in
a
vision
that
he
had
receaued
)
represented
him
al
couered
with
the
wings
of
Cherubims
.
And
this
course
carryeth
so
great
proportion
,
euen
with
the
very
nature
&
mind
of
man
,
as
that
the
famous
Poets
,
and
Painters
of
the
world
,
haue
graced
their
arts
with
this
point
of
Rhetorique
,
whensoeuer
they
haue
had
occasion
to
describe
the
eminency
of
an
vnspeakable
passion
;
for
in
such
case
they
thought
they
could
do
it
best
,
by
not
expressing
it
:
and
so
in
the
funeralls
of
such
as
were
deerest
to
the
Suruiuers
,
they
set
forth
the
ordinary
mourners
by
seuerall
postures
,
&
countenances
of
lamentation
;
but
as
for
a
husband
of
a
deere
Spouse
,
or
the
Father
of
an
only
daughter
,
they
haue
no
refuge
,
but
to
hide
the
faces
of
those
persons
,
in
the
decyphering
of
whose
passion
they
cannot
satisfy
themselues
.
But
though
there
be
no
particuler
,
and
expresse
prayses
mentioned
as
prayses
,
&
not
as
lights
,
for
imitation
giuen
in
holy
Scripture
to
the
seuerall
vertues
of
our
B.
Lady
,
any
more
then
(
as
I
sayd
before
)
they
are
to
them
of
our
B.
Sauiour
;
yet
as
the
Apostles
,
and
Euangelists
recompt
those
high
and
heroicall
actions
,
and
the
irrefragable
testimonyes
from
heauen
,
wherupon
we
may
inferre
the
supreme
vertue
and
sanctity
of
our
B.
Sauiour
:
in
the
same
manner
are
their
bookes
the
Chronicles
of
many
passages
in
both
those
kindes
,
aforesayd
,
from
whence
the
excellency
of
the
B.
Virgin
may
be
deduced
,
which
is
infinitly
inferiour
to
that
of
our
B.
Sauiour
,
but
incomparably
superiour
to
that
of
all
the
other
creatures
,
and
is
propounded
to
vs
for
the
marke
of
our
admiration
in
some
things
,
and
of
imitation
in
the
rest
.
By
the
Genealogy
of
our
B.
Sauiour
which
is
set
out
by
the
Apostles
,
we
vnderstand
what
also
that
of
our
B.
Ladyes
is
;
for
he
hath
no
Ancestours
but
hers
.
By
them
we
therefore
know
,
that
her
extraction
and
bloud
hath
as
much
prerogatiue
in
it
,
as
a
meere
creature
can
receaue
;
for
she
is
deriued
from
the
Royalty
of
Kings
,
from
the
sanctity
of
Priests
,
and
from
the
illumination
of
Prophets
.
The
gifts
of
Nature
,
and
beauty
of
person
which
she
had
,
are
not
so
litterally
expressed
in
holy
Scripture
,
otherwise
then
by
the
Propheticall
speach
which
is
vsed
of
our
Sauiour
Christ
;
Speciosus
forma
prae
filijs
hominum
:
S.
Paul
,
and
still
accounted
for
a
most
sublimely
learned
,
wise
,
and
holy
Father
in
the
Catholike
Church
of
Christ
.
CHAP.
III.
THESE
external
things
being
so
little
esteemed
by
the
seruants
of
God
,
and
least
of
all
by
her
(
who
was
so
much
the
more
his
seruant
,
as
she
was
more
fauoured
,
and
honoured
by
him
then
all
the
rest
)
I
may
with
the
more
reason
passe
ouer
with
breuity
,
though
I
could
not
perswade
my self
to
passe
ouer
any
thing
entierely
in
silence
,
which
concerneth
her
excellency
any
way
.
But
the
spirituall
graces
which
she
receaued
,
and
the
testimonyes
of
her
dignity
,
which
were
giuen
from
heauen
,
are
they
which
we
ought
more
seriously
to
ponder
&
reflect
vpon
.
Her
life
being
such
as
seemed
ordinary
,
though
interiourly
it
were
not
so
,
and
her
vocation
being
so
extraordinary
as
that
she
was
to
be
made
the
Mother
of
God
himselfe
(
when
once
he
should
be
made
Man
)
it
was
agreable
to
the
wisedome
of
the
diuine
Maiesty
,
to
proclaim
and
publish
to
the
world
,
the
perfection
of
this
creature
,
by
an
irrefragable
euidence
.
The
Arch-angell
then
did
thus
salute
her
;
Hayle
Mary
full
of
grace
,
our
Lord
is
with
thee
.
Our
Aduersaryes
,
the
enemies
of
our
B.
Ladyes
Honour
,
will
needes
translate
the
Greek
word
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
according
to
that
sense
(
of
the
three
seueral
ones
which
it
hath
)
whereby
they
may
hope
to
disaduantage
her
most
;
&
therfore
they
will
not
allow
it
to
signify
Gratia
plena
,
Gratis
dilecta
,
freely
beloued
.
It
is
plainely
shewed
by
Tollet
in
his
Comment
vpon
those
words
,
that
S.
Ambrose
,
S.
Austine
,
S.
Hierome
,
S.
Athanasius
,
S.
Epiphanius
,
and
in
effect
the
whole
Church
hath
vsed
,
&
receaued
the
translation
of
Gratia
plena
;
though
yet
if
it
had
been
otherwise
,
I
see
not
greatly
why
they
should
triumph
as
after
a
victory
:
since
if
our
B.
Lady
were
as
they
must
confesse
,
Freely
beloued
,
with
such
an
eminency
aboue
all
other
creatures
,
as
to
be
made
the
Mother
of
God
;
it
doth
by
necessary
inference
of
congruity
imply
all
those
perfections
,
in
contemplation
wherof
the
Catholik
world
doth
homag
vnto
her
,
with
attributes
incomparably
superiour
to
them
of
all
other
creatures
.
But
she
was
found
full
of
grace
whether
they
will
or
no
;
and
if
then
she
were
full
,
through
the
beauty
of
her
soule
(
which
being
first
adorned
by
Almighty
God
,
drew
his
eyes
afterward
so
downe
vpon
her
,
as
euen
to
be
enamoured
with
her
when
he
was
yet
to
make
her
the
Mother
of
the
Eternal
Word
;
)
let
them
conceaue
that
can
,
how
she
ouerflowed
therewith
afterward
.
And
the
example
of
the
good
Chananaean
who
did
as
it
were
oblige
our
Sauiour
to
bestow
of
those
crummes
vpon
her
(
being
a
Gentile
)
which
fell
from
the
table
of
the
children
of
God
,
(
who
were
the
Iewes
)
may
inuite
vs
to
begge
,
that
some
drop
of
those
ouerflowings
which
cannot
through
the
goodnes
of
God
but
descend
from
the
superabundance
of
that
grace
,
wherewith
the
B.
Virgin
was
so
much
more
then
filled
,
may
be
applyed
to
our
benefit
,
and
to
the
making
of
vs
gracious
in
his
sight
in
som
measure
,
which
she
was
beyond
all
measure
.
It
cannot
but
worke
in
vs
an
extreme
reuerence
on
the
one
side
,
when
we
heare
by
the
voyce
of
that
Archangell
Gabriel
,
that
our
Lord
euen
then
was
with
her
in
a
most
particuler
,
and
plentifull
manner
,
Fili
ecce
Mater
tua
,
Sonne
behould
thy
Mother
:
so
in
this
Incarnation
of
his
she
may
be
sayd
after
a
sort
,
to
haue
transferred
the
propriety
which
she
had
in
Almighty
God
,
The
Angell
proceedeth
(
vpon
occasion
giuen
by
the
sacred
Virgin
)
to
expresse
the
manner
how
the
mystery
of
the
Incarnation
of
the
Sonne
of
God
,
was
to
be
accomplished
in
her
sacred
wombe
;
&
he
declareth
to
her
,
that
she
had
no
cause
to
feare
the
least
spot
in
her
purity
,
that
she
had
found
grace
with
God
,
that
in
her
wombe
she
should
conceaue
&
bring
forth
a
Sonne
,
Sonne
of
the
most
High
,
that
our
Lord
God
would
giue
him
the
seat
of
his
forefather
Dauid
,
that
he
should
raigne
in
the
house
of
Iacob
for
euer
,
that
his
kingdome
should
know
no
end
,
that
the
Holy
Ghost
should
descend
from
aboue
into
her
,
and
the
Vertue
or
Power
of
the
most
High
should
ouershaddow
her
,
and
therfore
,
that
he
who
was
to
be
borne
of
her
should
be
called
the
Sonne
of
God
.
Quis
surdus
sicut
populus
meus
?
sayth
the
Holy
Ghost
by
the
Prophet
:
The
consideration
heerof
made
the
ancient
&
holy
Fathers
fly
vp
,
as
if
they
had
beene
in
Extasies
,
when
they
entred
vpon
the
prayses
of
this
Blessed
Virgin
(
which
afterward
I
shall
with
better
oportunity
relate
:
)
and
in
the
meane
tyme
they
who
cannot
see
the
high
titles
of
Honour
that
are
imparted
to
the
B.
Virgin
in
Holy
Scripture
,
are
in
a
miserable
obscurity
of
mind
,
which
they
haue
deseruedly
fallen
into
,
through
the
paynes
they
take
to
beare
no
tendernes
of
deuotion
towards
her
.
I
thinke
I
say
well
,
in
affirming
,
that
they
take
paynes
to
this
purpose
;
for
otherwise
it
seemeth
impossible
that
men
who
professe
themselues
Christians
,
and
who
take
vpon
them
to
vnderstand
so
well
what
is
recommended
in
Holy
Scripture
,
should
carry
such
an
auersion
,
as
it
is
certayne
they
doe
(
howsoeuer
sometymes
they
professe
the
contrary
for
very
shame
)
from
the
Mother
of
that
Sonne
,
by
whome
they
say
they
hope
for
their
saluation
,
notwithstanding
that
the
Holy
Ghost
hath
taken
pleasure
,
to
expresse
al
the
circumstances
that
belong
to
her
;
and
that
he
did
not
only
imploy
the
Euangelists
thereabout
when
Christ
was
to
be
Incarnate
,
but
the
Prophets
also
so
many
hundreds
of
yeares
before
,
who
fortold
what
kind
of
creature
she
was
to
be
.
To
which
purpose
these
are
the
wordes
of
S.
Bernard
;
The
generation
of
our
B.
Lady
is
knowne
to
haue
beene
graunted
from
heauen
,
for
the
singular
priuiledge
of
sanctity
which
she
had
.
Her
birth
was
forepromised
by
the
auncient
Fathers
,
it
was
prefigured
by
mysticall
miracles
,
it
was
insinuated
by
propheticall
Oracles
,
the
Sacerdotall
Rod
which
florished
without
a
roote
,
the
Fleece
of
Gedeon
which
grew
most
in
the
middest
of
a
d●y
floore
,
the
Orientall
gate
spoken
of
in
the
vision
of
Ezechiel
,
which
was
neuer
open
to
the
accesse
of
any
,
did
designe
,
&
prediscouer
this
Virgin
.
CHAP.
IIII.
THE
next
Publication
of
the
admirable
priuiledges
of
our
B.
Lady
was
in
the
Visitation
which
she
made
of
S.
Elizabeth
,
at
which
tyme
our
B.
Sauiour
(
being
then
incarnate
in
her
sacred
wombe
)
did
also
visit
S.
Iohn
the
Baptist
,
whome
S.
Elizabeth
had
conceaued
in
hers
,
some
monethes
before
.
The
excellency
of
our
B.
Lady
appeareth
in
liuely
colours
by
the
happy
change
which
was
wrought
in
S.
Elizabeth
by
her
presence
.
S.
Elizabeth
had
no
sooner
heard
her
salutation
,
then
(
by
the
testimony
of
the
sacred
Text
)
the
infant
in
her
wombe
did
euen
spring
which
ioy
;
S.
Elizabeth
her self
was
replenished
with
the
holy
Ghost
,
she
cryed
out
with
a
loud
voyce
,
&
sayd
to
the
Virgin
to
this
effect
;
Blessed
art
thou
among
women
,
and
blessed
is
the
fruit
of
thy
wombe
:
and
how
come
I
to
receaue
this
honour
that
the
Mother
of
my
Lord
should
visite
me
?
for
behould
(
sayth
she
)
as
soone
as
euer
the
voyce
of
thy
salutation
did
approach
mine
ears
,
the
Infant
in
my
wombe
did
spring
with
ioy
;
and
happy
art
thou
who
didst
beleeue
,
for
those
thinges
shall
be
performed
which
were
tould
thee
by
our
Lord
.
What
stupendious
priuiledges
,
&
prerogatiues
are
heere
expressed
by
the
Holy
Ghost
,
to
haue
beene
imparted
to
the
glorious
and
immaculate
Virgin
?
Vpon
the
first
approach
of
her
presence
,
and
the
least
sound
of
her
voyce
,
an
infant
in
the
wombe
of
his
Mother
did
spring
with
ioy
:
S.
Elizabeth
her selfe
reflected
vpon
her
,
as
a
great
meanes
therof
.
Againe
,
the
Mother
was
for
her
part
,
immediatly
vpon
the
hearing
of
the
Virgins
salutation
,
replenished
with
the
Holy
Ghost
,
in
the
strength
whereof
,
she
did
with
a
loud
and
Propheticall
voyce
,
proclaime
the
blessednes
of
that
Mother
and
Sonne
,
and
confound
her selfe
with
the
mercy
which
was
vouchsafed
her
,
in
that
the
Mother
of
our
Lord
would
descend
so
low
,
as
to
visit
her
.
This
heape
alone
of
miracles
,
which
did
as
it
were
ouerwhelme
S.
Elizabeth
,
and
the
acknowledgement
she
made
of
her
own
extrem
vnworthines
to
receaue
such
graces
from
the
mother
of
our
Lord
may
iustly
kindle
an
vnwonted
ardour
of
deuotion
in
the
hearts
of
Catholikes
towards
the
Blessed
Virgin
;
and
as
iustly
humble
the
proudest
Caluinists
hart
in
the
world
with
shame
inough
,
to
consider
how
straitely
at
least
they
conceaue
of
the
glorious
Queene
of
Heauen
,
who
raigneth
and
shineth
with
immortal
maiesty
,
when
they
see
a
S.
Elizabeth
,
a
neere
kinswoman
of
Christ
himselfe
,
and
consequently
deriued
from
the
loynes
of
so
many
Kinges
,
a
Saint
in
so
eminent
degree
,
a
Prophetesse
,
and
the
Mother
of
the
greatest
among
the
children
of
Men
,
who
was
the
very
Precursour
,
and
Baptist
of
Christ
our
Lord
,
so
loose
her selfe
as
it
were
with
admiration
,
which
she
discouereth
by
those
interiections
of
exclamation
,
to
see
that
the
Mother
of
God
whilest
yet
she
was
but
mortall
,
and
the
Sauiour
of
the
world
not
yet
borne
of
her
should
diminish
her selfe
so
much
,
as
to
vouchsafe
her
a
visit
.
But
I
shal
afterward
resume
this
point
,
by
occasion
of
the
impiety
,
and
fearefull
blasphemy
of
some
Caluinists
,
when
I
compare
the
base
mention
which
they
tremble
not
to
make
of
her
,
with
the
most
honourable
memory
which
the
lights
,
&
ornaments
of
the
Catholike
Church
,
the
holy
Fathers
,
haue
euery
where
expressed
.
And
in
the
mean
tyme
such
as
loue
the
Sonne
(
as
no
man
doth
indeed
who
will
not
giue
all
due
honour
to
the
Mother
)
must
rise
to
more
then
ordinary
veneration
and
deuotion
towardes
this
perpetuall
Virgin
,
to
the
end
,
that
the
visits
which
she
vouchsafeth
to
impart
,
not
once
,
but
often
by
her
motions
to
vs
,
&
her
prayers
for
vs
,
may
make
the
spirituall
fruit
of
our
harts
which
is
our
actions
,
spring
vp
with
ioy
,
vpon
the
presence
,
&
approach
of
Christ
in
the
Holy
Sacrament
;
and
that
we
may
keep
such
accompt
of
the
inspirations
,
which
she
procureth
for
vs
,
and
sendeth
so
often
into
the
eares
of
our
soule
,
as
may
make
it
proue
a
fit
house
for
the
holy
Ghost
to
inhabite
.
Well
may
we
say
with
S.
Augustine
;
To
my
vnderstanding
there
is
no
one
circumstance
that
more
setteth
out
the
vnspeakable
excellency
of
our
B.
Lady
then
that
which
now
I
shall
expresse
.
As
soone
as
S.
Elizabeth
had
ended
that
holy
speach
of
hers
,
our
B.
Lady
being
also
the
much
more
plentifully
inspired
with
prophesy
,
did
enter
into
that
diuin
Hymne
of
the
Magnificat
,
whereof
the
Church
doth
euery
day
serue
it selfe
in
offering
vp
her
prayses
to
God
.
It
is
certaine
that
the
humblest
pure
creature
,
without
all
exception
,
that
euer
was
,
or
will
be
,
was
the
B.
Virgin
In
so
much
as
that
although
the
perfection
of
al
those
vertues
(
which
afterward
are
to
be
mentioned
)
did
florish
and
fructify
beyond
al
humane
imagination
in
her
sacred
hart
,
yet
in
comparison
of
that
height
,
or
rather
depth
of
humility
,
which
reigned
in
her
,
she
may
be
accounted
to
haue
scarce
excelled
in
those
other
vertues
:
or
rather
to
speake
both
more
safely
,
and
most
truly
,
as
in
the
other
vertues
she
without
all
comparison
excelled
all
other
creatures
,
so
in
this
she
excelled
her selfe
.
Such
as
hunt
after
prayse
(
and
whosoeuer
doth
not
,
hath
reason
to
giue
God
thankes
,
for
he
hath
beene
enriched
by
him
with
a
great
treasure
)
do
know
that
there
is
not
in
the
world
a
greater
thirst
,
then
they
haue
to
obtain
their
end
,
and
that
they
find
no
torment
more
vnsufferable
then
if
they
be
vnderualued
&
contemned
.
And
yet
this
other
truth
is
as
certaine
,
that
the
person
who
is
ambitious
of
prayse
,
doth
not
more
abhorre
to
be
despised
,
then
the
soule
which
is
truly
humble
,
doth
apprehend
and
hate
to
be
applauded
.
And
if
it
indure
not
to
be
praysed
by
others
,
how
well
,
and
how
worthily
soeuer
it
may
deserue
it
;
how
much
would
men
be
ashamed
to
prayse
themselues
,
which
not
only
the
perfection
of
vertue
,
but
euen
modesty
and
ciuility
so
far
disswadeth
,
as
that
whosoeuer
(
being
of
piety
and
discretion
)
doth
it
,
we
must
suppose
both
some
vnquestionable
and
knowne
truth
of
the
thing
itselfe
,
&
some
most
necessary
and
iust
motiue
or
mystery
which
vrgeth
him
to
it
.
Heereby
it
may
easily
be
inferred
,
what
auersion
our
B.
Lady
must
be
confessed
to
haue
had
from
making
honourable
mention
of
her selfe
vpon
any
occasion
;
and
so
it
appeares
how
that
at
the
instant
wherein
she
grew
the
Mother
of
God
(
and
by
that
meanes
became
so
far
superiour
to
all
the
creaturs
both
of
earth
and
heauen
)
she
would
know
herselfe
by
no
other
title
,
but
of
a
bondslaue
.
Yet
neuertheles
the
Holy
Ghost
entring
at
that
tyme
into
her
,
in
a
most
particuler
,
and
abundant
manner
,
did
so
possesse
all
the
powers
of
her
soule
and
so
as
it
were
inebriate
,
and
transport
her
with
the
spirit
of
vnspeakable
ioy
,
as
that
she
fell
,
in
this
Canticle
(
as
soone
as
she
had
first
done
her
homage
to
Almighty
God
,
in
acknowledging
,
and
adoring
him
as
the
Authour
of
all
the
Graces
that
had
beene
powred
vpon
her
)
to
declare
and
auow
to
the
world
,
how
humble
and
abiect
she
was
in
her
owne
eyes
:
but
that
yet
withal
she
was
so
gracious
in
the
sight
of
God
as
she
sayd
,
would
not
only
serue
to
mak
her
Blessed
,
all
generations
should
professe
,
and
publish
her
to
be
such
.
Happy
were
the
man
,
that
could
but
feele
the
least
part
of
that
which
passed
in
her
pure
soule
,
when
she
spake
those
words
;
in
heauen
we
may
hope
to
haue
some
notice
therof
,
and
at
the
present
it
may
serue
vs
for
an
inuincible
demonstration
of
her
being
incomparably
prayse-worthy
,
the
paradise
of
whose
hart
being
hedged
in
with
so
much
humility
,
was
yet
content
to
celebrate
her
owne
praise
,
or
rather
which
was
ouer
wrought
by
the
Holy
Ghost
himselfe
,
to
professe
how
she
was
to
be
honoured
,
and
admired
for
all
eternity
;
to
the
confusion
of
al
such
as
repine
thereat
,
and
to
the
entire
comfort
of
deuout
Catholiks
,
since
they
,
and
they
alone
,
are
the
men
who
dayly
striue
to
accomplish
the
prophesy
of
her
glory
.
CHAP.
V.
BVT
how
much
soeuer
we
shall
endeauour
heerein
,
it
will
neuer
come
to
that
height
which
it
deserueth
;
especially
if
we
consider
what
succeeded
in
the
person
of
our
B.
Lady
,
to
whome
the
Scripture
sayth
,
the
Sonne
of
God
and
her
,
was
subiect
.
This
testimony
was
giuen
vpon
the
returne
he
made
with
her
from
disputing
in
the
Temple
amongst
the
Doctors
.
And
as
it
is
euident
inough
that
in
all
his
life
till
that
time
(
which
were
twelue
years
)
he
had
beene
subiect
,
and
obedient
to
her
;
so
it
is
yet
more
euident
,
that
in
the
residue
thereof
,
(
which
continued
for
the
space
of
eighteen
years
till
he
came
to
preach
&
publish
himself
)
he
continued
to
be
so
.
The
Scripture
sayth
,
Et
erat
subditus
illis
,
S.
Ioseph
,
who
was
but
his
supposed
Father
,
how
much
more
to
the
B.
Virgin
,
who
was
(
for
as
much
as
concerned
his
sacred
Humanity
,
)
all
the
parents
of
flesh
and
bloud
that
he
had
.
To
S.
Ioseph
,
euen
for
that
former
reason
he
liued
in
so
plaine
subiection
,
as
that
when
afterward
the
Iewes
(
making
reflection
vpon
his
admirable
doctrine
)
sayd
,
though
it
were
with
scorne
;
Nonne
hic
est
faber
,
&
filius
fabri
?
Is
not
this
a
Carpenter
,
and
the
sonne
of
a
Carpenter
?
Whereby
diuers
things
are
insinuated
,
both
that
in
the
eyes
of
all
that
knew
him
he
appeared
as
S.
Iosephs
sonne
,
who
was
a
Carpenter
(
&
consequently
that
they
noted
in
him
such
a
carriage
as
became
the
obedience
of
a
Sonne
to
his
Father
:
)
and
secondly
,
it
is
cleare
,
that
the
Wisedome
of
God
becomming
flesh
for
our
sake
,
did
abase
it selfe
so
farre
,
as
to
performe
the
actions
,
and
office
of
a
Carpenter
.
And
from
thence
it
might
come
,
that
he
tooke
the
manner
of
speach
which
he
often
vsed
afterward
for
expressing
his
mind
,
&
declaring
his
doctrine
by
Parables
and
Similitudes
(
as
the
ordinary
custome
of
the
Iewes
did
beare
)
taken
from
the
Plow
,
By
the
way
I
cannot
but
heere
aske
leaue
of
the
Reader
,
to
extoll
and
magnify
the
height
of
dignity
,
to
which
this
holy
Patriarch
S.
Ioseph
was
aduanced
,
who
as
the
B.
Virgin
was
chosen
from
out
of
all
mankind
,
to
be
the
Mother
of
our
Sauiour
Christ
,
so
was
he
designed
from
all
eternity
,
as
the
fittest
and
worthyest
in
the
whole
world
,
to
be
the
Guardian
both
of
him
,
&
her
.
He
it
was
that
assisted
in
the
Natiuity
,
Adoration
,
Circumcision
,
and
Presentation
;
He
that
secured
the
honour
of
the
spotles
Virgin
from
suspition
;
He
that
defended
both
him
,
and
her
,
by
his
incessant
labours
,
and
endles
cares
(
though
accompanyed
with
vnspeakable
comforts
)
from
dangers
in
that
peregrination
of
Aegypt
;
He
that
had
so
familiar
commerce
with
Angells
,
and
was
as
it
were
the
interpreter
of
Gods
ordinances
to
them
both
;
He
of
whome
it
may
be
litterally
,
and
in
the
highest
degree
of
truth
affirmed
,
that
he
was
indeed
,
Fidelis
seruus
&
prudens
,
quem
constituit
Dominus
super
familiam
suam
.
But
it
is
no
disparagement
to
S.
Ioseph
,
yea
it
is
honour
to
him
,
that
the
B.
Virgin
be
infinitly
preferred
before
him
,
both
in
dignity
otherwise
,
and
in
the
obligation
as
it
were
of
duty
,
wherby
our
Sauiour
Christ
was
more
tyed
to
her
,
than
to
him
.
So
as
since
our
externall
actions
are
qualifyed
,
and
ought
to
be
denominated
by
our
intentions
;
how
much
more
was
our
Sauiour
Christ
to
be
accounted
subiect
to
our
B.
Lady
,
then
to
S.
Ioseph
,
and
consequently
how
much
greater
was
the
superiority
which
she
had
ouer
him
,
then
S.
Ioseph
had
?
Let
vs
consider
then
,
what
a
sea
,
or
rather
what
a
world
of
excellency
is
heereby
inferred
,
to
haue
been
in
the
person
of
our
B
Lady
,
of
whome
the
Sonne
of
God
was
not
only
borne
for
our
saluation
,
but
to
whome
he
continued
(
during
very
many
years
)
so
truely
subiect
for
her
exaltation
,
and
for
our
instruction
.
Let
vs
consider
what
prudence
,
and
power
to
gouerne
,
had
beene
infused
into
that
soule
of
hers
,
which
the
Wisedome
of
God
,
the
Word
Incarnate
was
appointed
to
obey
?
And
now
if
you
will
looke
a
little
vpon
the
mislike
which
is
taken
,
that
we
accompt
her
for
the
Queene
of
Angells
,
and
Saints
;
consider
both
how
impiously
,
and
how
childishly
withal
she
is
denyed
to
be
so
,
they
being
but
seruants
and
sonnes
adopted
;
whereas
she
cannot
without
blasphemy
be
denyed
to
haue
beene
so
many
yeares
Superiour
to
the
true
,
only
,
&
begotten
Sonne
of
God
,
who
is
the
Lord
both
of
Saints
and
Angells
.
Let
others
who
haue
not
the
light
of
fayth
play
the
Hyprocrits
in
saying
they
feare
to
exceed
in
honour
to
our
Lady
,
least
thereby
they
should
derogate
from
that
which
they
owe
to
our
B.
Sauiour
:
but
let
vs
haue
scruples
of
offend
God
,
and
let
vs
continue
to
know
that
he
receaueth
a
most
acceptable
honour
at
our
hands
by
our
professing
deuotion
,
and
profound
subiection
to
this
sacred
Virgin
,
to
whome
the
Lord
of
life
was
not
only
subiect
,
but
the
notice
of
it
is
left
to
vs
vpon
record
,
that
we
might
learne
therby
how
to
carry
our selues
towards
his
Mother
by
this
example
,
and
that
so
much
the
more
,
because
afterwards
she
was
to
become
also
ours
.
And
indeed
though
Christ
had
not
beene
subiect
to
her
,
but
that
only
she
had
receaued
the
happynes
to
cohabite
with
him
so
long
,
vnder
the
same
roofe
;
euen
from
thence
a
great
reason
might
be
drawn
for
the
proofe
of
her
vnspeakable
sanctity
.
Therefore
was
the
Prophet
Dauid
so
carefull
,
to
keep
wicked
persons
out
of
his
house
,
because
he
knew
that
,
Cum
Sancto
sanctus
eris
,
Sunne
of
Iustice
,
which
to
her
neuer
set
,
&
her
Will
be
inflamed
with
the
neighbourhood
which
she
had
to
those
excessiue
ardours
of
that
sphere
of
Fire
,
whose
very
countenance
hath
serued
to
heate
frozen
hearts
,
though
it
found
in
the
B.
Virgin
no
such
matter
,
as
that
to
worke
vpon
.
And
(
to
conclude
)
that
from
the
sea
of
perfection
,
vpon
the
top
whereof
she
was
so
long
sayling
with
a
full
&
prosperous
gale
of
the
holy
Ghost
,
she
must
needs
be
adorned
and
enriched
with
inualuable
treasures
,
which
by
moments
is
cast
vp
into
her
lappe
.
The
Scripture
is
not
therefore
so
barren
in
description
of
the
excellency
of
our
B
Lady
,
as
they
who
enuy
her
honour
would
fayne
make
themselues
beleeue
,
but
in
diuers
parts
thereof
it
pointeth
out
sundry
thinges
with
their
circumstances
,
whereby
we
may
,
(
and
must
if
we
will
not
be
as
bad
as
beasts
)
acknowledge
her
to
be
of
so
incomparable
an
excellency
,
as
whereof
the
least
part
cannot
be
arriued
to
,
by
our
highest
thoughts
.
Nor
were
the
flowers
which
grew
in
that
delicious
garden
of
her
heart
without
abundance
of
fruit
,
nor
were
those
causes
,
I
meane
the
priuiledges
,
&
great
prerogatiues
which
she
had
,
without
the
effect
of
most
Heroicall
vertuous
actions
,
which
may
partly
appeare
by
the
obseruation
of
her
proceeding
in
al
things
,
but
through
the
depth
and
massines
therof
,
cannot
by
any
created
vnderstanding
be
penetrated
,
and
admired
as
they
deserue
.
There
is
nothing
which
serueth
more
to
humble
men
,
then
to
imploy
themselues
in
reading
and
pondering
well
the
liues
of
Saints
;
for
thereby
we
are
taught
to
thinke
our selues
to
be
those
poore
creatures
that
indeed
we
are
.
But
whosoeuer
shall
meditate
vpon
the
actions
of
our
B.
Lady
,
will
find
that
in
comparison
of
her
,
euen
eminent
Saints
do
fal
much
more
short
,
then
we
of
them
.
And
indeed
they
deserue
to
be
thought
of
in
the
way
of
meditation
,
which
a
kind
of
Constructio
loci
,
as
they
call
it
,
which
may
represent
to
our
imagination
,
as
well
the
circumstances
as
the
substance
thereof
.
They
are
innumerable
amongst
our
writers
,
who
haue
at
large
discoursed
heerupon
:
as
for
me
I
am
so
mindful
both
of
my
disability
and
of
breuity
,
that
I
will
but
touch
and
go
,
like
those
dogs
vpon
the
bankes
of
Nilus
,
one
of
which
might
yet
more
easily
drinke
that
deep
Riuer
drye
,
then
any
man
can
with
the
studdy
of
his
whole
life
,
expresse
the
least
perfection
of
her
least
Vertue
.
For
by
way
of
Parenthesis
,
or
rather
by
way
of
a
short
Preface
,
two
ponderations
are
to
be
made
.
First
that
our
B
Lady
did
whatsoeuer
she
did
with
perfect
liberty
of
will
,
though
preuented
and
assisted
by
the
rich
grace
of
God
,
to
the
very
last
point
whereof
,
she
did
most
eminently
cooperate
as
a
most
eleuated
,
actiue
,
and
liuely
instrument
;
and
was
not
of
no
more
vse
vnto
her selfe
then
a
very
stocke
,
or
stone
could
be
,
according
to
that
Manichaean
,
or
Mahometan
Principle
,
to
which
I
would
to
God
the
Sectaries
of
our
age
did
not
approach
so
neer
.
But
as
she
was
Blessed
who
beleeued
and
consented
to
the
message
of
the
Angell
,
by
the
testimony
of
S.
Elizabeth
;
so
could
she
not
haue
been
so
in
beleeuing
and
consenting
,
if
she
could
not
haue
chosen
but
beleeue
&
consent
,
and
with
the
selfe
same
eleuated
&
entire
liberty
she
performed
all
the
rest
of
her
incomprehensible
actions
.
The
second
point
to
be
pondered
,
and
well
imprinted
in
our
minds
,
is
the
intense
perfection
,
with
al
her
actions
receaued
from
the
great
degree
of
hergrace
and
the
sublime
quality
of
her
person
she
being
the
Mother
of
God
,
who
performed
them
;
and
the
eminency
wherwith
she
did
them
,
being
answerable
to
the
dignity
of
a
most
worthy
Mother
.
CHAP.
VI.
FIRST
then
let
it
be
weighed
with
how
great
humility
and
charity
(
immediatly
after
that
she
was
made
the
Mother
of
God
)
she
went
vp
with
hast
,
towardes
the
mountaynous
part
of
that
Countrey
,
to
visit
and
salute
S.
Elizabeth
,
It
was
no
walke
of
recreation
,
but
a
long
and
laborious
iourney
of
fourescore
and
fifteene
miles
after
the
English
account
,
from
Nazareth
to
Hebron
.
It
is
already
shewed
by
the
exclamation
of
S.
Elizabeth
,
how
far
it
is
from
the
power
of
proud
flesh
and
bloud
,
to
fall
into
a
due
consideration
of
such
humility
,
as
this
was
for
the
Mother
of
God
,
and
the
bearer
of
him
then
in
her
sacred
wombe
,
to
honour
thus
her
ould
kinswoman
,
with
a
visite
that
cost
her
so
much
paynes
.
But
as
S.
Paul
sayd
afterward
,
Charitas
Christi
vrget
nos
,
we
are
vrged
to
these
thinges
by
the
loue
which
Christ
hath
borne
vs
:
For
my
part
I
can
hardly
meet
with
any
thing
in
the
life
of
our
B.
Lady
which
I
find
more
admirably
strang
,
then
the
contempt
she
shewed
of
reputation
,
in
not
discharging
the
suspition
of
S.
Ioseph
by
some
little
protestation
of
her
innocency
,
when
he
reflected
vpon
her
being
so
great
with
child
.
She
could
not
but
know
that
he
must
needs
obserue
in
what
state
she
was
,
and
it
can
hardly
be
imagined
,
but
that
the
little
countenance
which
peraduenture
he
cast
towards
her
,
might
giue
her
assurance
of
how
ill
he
tooke
it
;
wherein
he
went
so
far
,
as
that
the
scripture
speaketh
of
a
designe
in
him
to
dismisse
her
secretly
.
When
the
tyme
was
come
,
wherin
she
was
to
bring
forth
the
Blessed
Infant
that
she
had
borne
,
who
is
able
to
comprehend
the
merit
that
she
(
being
then
the
Mother
of
God
,
as
much
as
she
is
now
)
should
vouchsafe
to
go
in
the
middest
of
winter
as
far
as
Bethleem
from
Nazareth
,
that
being
the
space
of
fourscore
and
sixteen
miles
,
to
haue
her
name
enrolled
,
and
her
head
taxed
by
the
Officers
of
a
prophane
Emperour
;
and
at
that
iourneyes
end
to
content
her selfe
with
a
Stable
for
want
of
better
commodity
,
and
with
clouts
insteed
of
robes
,
wherin
to
lodge
,
and
wherewith
to
cloath
the
King
of
Glory
.
Which
though
it
do
infinitly
more
weigh
in
the
person
of
Christ
then
of
hers
,
he
being
God
,
and
she
being
but
a
pure
creature
;
yet
so
far
is
that
from
diminishing
her
excellency
,
as
that
therby
is
it
sublimed
.
For
without
him
that
patience
&
pouerty
had
not
been
exercised
by
a
Mother
of
God
,
but
only
by
her
as
she
was
otherwise
,
though
euen
otherwise
she
was
the
most
excellent
creature
in
the
whole
world
,
the
most
perfectly
,
and
highly
vertuous
,
the
most
beautifull
and
the
most
nobly
borne
.
Our
Sauiour
Christ
was
not
only
her
Sonne
,
but
her
Sauiour
,
her
God
,
her
Father
,
and
her
Maister
,
and
there
was
neuer
any
disciple
who
followed
on
so
neere
in
imitation
as
she
did
of
him
.
And
therfore
,
because
afterward
he
was
pleased
to
be
circumcised
,
wherby
he
stiched
a
badge
of
sinne
vpon
his
sleeue
(
not
that
he
was
bound
therto
,
but
that
he
might
leaue
an
example
of
Obedience
to
vs
)
she
thought
it
would
become
her
also
to
be
purified
according
to
the
ordinary
custome
of
women
,
whereby
it
was
supposed
that
she
was
vncleane
,
and
had
reason
to
seeke
such
remedyes
as
were
resorted
vnto
by
others
;
whereas
indeed
she
had
no
more
need
of
Purification
,
then
Christ
had
of
Circumcision
:
for
as
he
was
without
sinne
,
so
had
she
euer
been
without
the
commerce
of
any
other
spouse
then
the
Holy
Ghost
:
but
the
imitation
of
our
Sauiour
,
&
the
holy
zeale
she
had
to
giue
high
examples
of
vertue
,
made
her
glory
in
nothing
,
but
that
which
might
serue
to
make
her
inglorious
.
Her
flight
to
Aegypt
gaue
her
not
only
shame
,
but
paine
,
which
yet
she
entred
into
,
and
accepted
with
that
proofe
of
vnspeakable
humility
,
which
gaue
most
bright
lustre
to
all
her
actions
.
According
to
the
discourse
of
flesh
&
bloud
she
might
haue
made
answere
to
S.
Ioseph
when
he
declared
the
Angells
message
,
that
in
all
liklyhood
he
was
mistaken
:
That
it
became
not
the
Sonne
of
God
,
&
God
himselfe
to
flye
from
the
face
of
an
angry
Tyrant
:
That
if
any
such
thing
had
beene
ordayned
,
it
was
rather
for
her
to
haue
receaued
the
Order
then
for
him
:
That
the
warning
was
to
short
,
the
prouision
too
strait
,
the
iourney
too
long
,
the
way
too
dangerous
,
the
countrey
too
Idolatrous
,
and
Barbarous
,
themselues
without
attendance
,
and
without
language
,
and
such
other
cogitations
of
humane
prudence
,
or
pride
might
easily
haue
occurred
to
any
creature
,
her selfe
only
excepted
.
But
she
who
had
dedicated
her selfe
already
to
the
seruice
of
Almighty
God
,
by
the
name
of
Ancilla
,
that
is
a
Bondslaue
,
or
Handmayd
,
meant
nothing
lesse
then
to
resume
her
graunt
;
but
did
that
which
King
Dauid
describeth
in
the
Psalme
;
S.
Ioseph
)
by
his
owne
,
or
by
an
Angells
voyce
,
but
she
contented
her selfe
with
Beckes
or
Signes
,
that
is
,
with
the
least
signification
of
his
diuine
pleasure
.
In
conformity
whereof
,
this
being
at
midnight
,
she
instantly
put
herselfe
vpon
the
departure
,
and
consequently
vpon
the
sustayning
(
for
the
space
of
tyme
to
which
there
was
no
limit
put
)
of
more
incommodityes
then
we
are
able
to
imagine
;
not
feeling
or
rather
not
weighing
(
for
that
delicate
constitution
could
not
chose
but
feele
to
the
extreme
offence
of
flesh
and
bloud
)
the
ardour
of
that
intemperate
Climate
,
through
the
much
more
excessiue
inward
heate
of
loue
,
to
the
sacred
humanity
of
our
B.
Sauiour
,
which
did
both
consume
,
and
yet
withall
incredibly
comfort
her
deare
and
tender
hart
.
They
had
not
beene
long
returned
from
thence
into
Palestine
,
but
that
euery
yeare
at
Easter
,
they
began
to
performe
a
pilgrimage
from
their
poore
Home
(
which
was
then
in
Galilie
)
to
Ierusalem
being
fourescore
and
ten
miles
forward
,
and
as
much
backeward
,
that
so
they
might
assist
at
the
Ceremonyes
&
Sacrifices
of
that
holy
tyme
and
place
.
In
this
she
continued
till
the
very
death
&
Passion
of
our
B.
Sauiour
.
Two
other
feasts
there
were
besides
that
of
Easter
,
one
called
Hebdomadarum
of
the
Weekes
,
or
of
Pentecost
;
the
other
Tabernaculorum
,
of
the
Tabernacles
,
wherupon
men
were
tyed
to
go
to
Hierusalem
by
obligation
,
though
women
were
not
obliged
otherwise
then
by
voluntary
deuotion
.
But
our
B.
Lady
,
whose
busines
was
to
fill
the
world
with
the
odour
of
a
most
excellent
example
,
did
in
all
likelihood
put
her selfe
to
the
payn
of
both
these
other
iourneys
,
as
well
as
we
are
certainly
tould
by
Scripture
,
that
she
performed
this
of
Easter
.
And
as
a
man
had
need
be
a
great
Saint
,
who
would
enable
himself
fully
to
conceaue
&
comprehend
the
least
degree
of
that
sanctity
wherwith
our
B.
Lady
(
hauing
euer
the
Sonne
of
God
in
her
eye
,
and
the
will
of
God
in
her
heart
)
made
so
many
millions
of
most
holy
pases
:
so
he
is
no
Christian
,
yea
and
not
so
much
as
a
reasonable
creature
,
that
shall
not
carry
a
kind
of
compassion
,
to
a
person
euery
way
so
conditioned
as
she
was
,
who
measured
so
many
thousand
miles
with
her
sacred
,
but
weary
feet
,
although
there
had
beene
nothing
in
it
,
but
the
very
labour
,
which
yet
in
her
case
was
the
least
.
How
good
cheap
do
our
Gossips
speake
impiously
,
by
speaking
meanely
of
this
sacred
Virgin
?
But
their
muddy
souls
are
far
from
considering
,
that
notwithstanding
hers
was
full
,
not
only
of
innocency
,
but
absolute
perfection
,
yet
her
body
was
neuer
free
from
being
imployed
vpon
penall
actions
of
fasting
,
watching
,
praying
,
passing
through
the
heates
,
and
colds
of
most
tedious
and
laborious
iourneys
,
with
that
obiect
for
her
eyes
to
look
continually
vpon
,
which
ould
Simeon
had
set
before
her
;
CHAP.
VII
.
THE
height
and
perfection
of
her
owne
condition
,
made
her
not
condescend
the
lesse
towards
the
feeble
,
and
frayle
state
of
others
,
as
the
manner
often
is
with
the
men
&
women
of
this
world
to
do
.
A
proofe
heerof
may
be
taken
from
her
gracious
proceeding
at
the
marriage
of
Cana
of
Galiley
,
where
she
found
her selfe
,
&
that
for
the
present
,
without
her
Sonne
.
For
the
Text
affirmeth
,
That
he
was
inuited
afterward
,
togeather
with
his
disciples
;
and
it
is
most
probable
that
she
was
the
cause
thereof
,
as
she
is
now
incomparably
more
the
occasion
of
the
comming
of
our
B.
Sauiour
,
I
say
not
,
to
the
marriage
of
others
but
to
espouse
himselfe
to
the
soules
of
such
as
desire
it
by
her
meanes
.
It
was
much
for
our
B.
Lady
to
let
her selfe
fal
so
low
,
as
to
be
present
at
the
celebrating
of
a
marriage
:
Which
howsoeuer
it
be
an
honourable
,
and
lawfull
state
,
yet
is
it
far
from
the
purity
&
perfection
of
Virginity
;
as
al
Virginity
of
others
is
incomparably
inferiour
to
that
of
our
B.
Lady
;
and
the
obiects
thereof
are
such
as
yield
no
pleasure
to
a
soule
that
meaneth
inuiolably
to
be
chast
.
It
seemeth
to
haue
beene
made
amongst
the
poorer
sort
of
people
,
whose
conuersation
she
chiefly
,
and
only
loued
,
when
she
saw
the
King
of
heauen
so
impouerished
for
our
sakes
,
that
he
wanted
a
cradle
after
he
was
borne
,
a
house
wherin
to
liue
,
and
a
bed
wheron
to
dye
.
Her
eyes
gaue
her
to
vnderstand
,
that
at
the
wedding
dinner
the
wine
had
fayled
,
&
she
who
had
those
very
bowels
of
compassion
about
her
,
wherein
Mercy
it selfe
had
taken
the
nature
of
man
,
could
not
chose
but
declare
their
necessity
to
him
who
was
best
able
to
relieue
it
.
If
she
had
found
that
they
had
been
in
want
of
bread
,
which
is
the
most
necessary
sustenance
of
mans
life
,
it
seemeth
that
in
charity
she
had
euen
been
obliged
to
begge
,
and
procure
reliefe
for
them
,
but
since
she
had
so
much
compassion
for
their
only
want
of
wine
,
which
is
a
creature
that
serueth
rather
for
recreation
then
for
necessary
refection
;
we
are
taught
heereby
how
deare
a
Mother
she
is
towards
her
children
;
&
that
her
piety
extendeth
not
only
to
the
obtayning
of
such
thinges
without
which
we
cannot
liue
at
all
,
but
of
such
others
also
as
without
which
we
cannot
liue
with
comfort
.
That
wine
was
good
,
and
for
such
it
was
praysed
in
the
Ghospell
;
meliora
sunt
vbera
tua
vino
,
thy
brests
,
o
Blessed
Lady
,
are
better
then
the
best
wine
,
that
is
,
the
dearnesse
of
affection
and
fauour
wherwith
thou
dost
obtayne
helpes
for
vs
,
is
no
lesse
estimable
and
honourable
often
tymes
,
then
are
the
very
helps
themselues
.
Out
of
these
degrees
of
Humility
,
Purity
,
Patience
,
and
Charity
grew
that
height
of
Fortitude
which
she
expressed
at
the
Passion
of
our
B.
Sauiour
,
at
which
tyme
in
effect
there
was
nothing
els
amongst
the
creatures
to
content
the
eyes
of
Almighty
God
.
The
Synagogue
was
corrupt
,
the
Apostls
were
fled
all
but
one
who
was
there
to
receaue
(
as
it
were
by
letter
of
Atturney
,
from
al
mankind
)
the
rich
legacy
of
the
B.
Virgin
for
his
Mother
,
and
in
his
person
for
ours
,
There
was
nothing
in
our
B.
Lady
which
deserueth
not
to
be
esteemed
,
as
longè
superioris
ordinis
,
&
therfore
when
after
the
Passion
,
the
Resurrection
of
our
Sauiour
was
by
some
,
in
some
sort
,
expected
(
among
whom
the
mirrour
of
Pennance
the
holy
enamoured
Saint
Mary
Magdalen
was
one
,
who
with
incredible
affection
rather
then
fayth
(
because
it
was
compounded
of
hope
and
feare
)
ran
to
the
sepulcher
to
see
what
there
had
happened
)
it
is
not
read
of
the
glorious
Virgin
(
the
rocke
of
whose
sayth
was
not
only
not
to
be
battered
,
but
euen
not
so
much
as
touched
with
the
lightest
waue
of
infidelity
,
or
doubt
)
that
she
so
much
as
once
stirred
from
those
contemplations
wherin
she
was
imploying
her
high
thoughts
;
but
she
attended
the
accomplishment
of
that
whereof
she
was
already
more
certaine
without
seeing
,
then
her
eyes
could
make
her
.
Though
we
doubt
not
,
but
that
both
our
B.
Sauiour
appeared
instantly
to
her
after
the
Resurrection
,
and
that
the
cause
why
she
forbare
to
record
her
appearance
at
the
Sepulcher
,
was
not
for
want
of
thirst
to
enioy
the
first
moment
of
our
B.
Sauiours
presence
,
but
to
shew
both
what
her
fayth
was
,
and
what
kind
of
thing
ours
ought
to
be
.
The
Holy
Scripture
indeed
sayth
,
that
first
our
Sauiour
appeared
to
S.
Mary
Magdalen
,
and
of
the
truth
thereof
no
Christian
doubteth
;
but
so
yet
withall
we
vnderstand
those
wordes
to
be
meant
of
ordinary
persons
,
&
who
were
need
to
haue
their
fayth
confirmed
,
and
euer
with
exception
to
our
B.
Lady
,
of
whome
S.
Ambrose
,
who
wel
had
weighed
the
afornamed
place
of
Scripture
,
doth
yet
affirme
,
that
she
was
testis
prima
Resurrectionis
Dominicae
,
our
Blessed
Lady
was
the
first
witnes
of
the
Resurrection
of
our
Lord
.
These
are
the
most
expresse
Attributs
,
Excellencies
and
actions
of
our
B.
Lady
,
whereof
the
Holy
Ghost
in
the
Ghospell
maketh
mention
in
few
,
but
infinitely
massy
words
;
for
there
is
not
one
of
them
which
concerneth
her
,
that
contayneth
not
Mysteries
beyond
mans
capacity
.
And
as
in
humane
knowledge
it
is
the
fashion
for
Professours
to
hid●
their
ignorance
when
they
cannot
gi●●
a
reason
of
hard
thinges
by
turning
it
ouer
to
certayne
sympathies
,
and
secret
propertyes
:
so
in
the
vnderstanding
of
Scripture
,
it
is
as
ordinary
on
the
other
side
,
with
men
that
would
be
thought
to
know
all
,
to
make
a
poore
Paraphrase
vpon
a
Text
,
and
to
say
bouldly
that
no
other
thing
is
meant
by
it
,
then
the
little
which
they
haue
beene
able
to
expresse
.
Wheras
yet
in
truth
there
is
no
doubt
,
but
that
the
passages
of
holy
Scripture
,
and
especially
when
they
speake
of
our
Sauiour
Christ
,
and
that
which
concerned
him
so
neere
as
doth
his
holy
Mother
,
do
containe
infinite
misteryes
.
They
looke
both
vpward
and
downeward
,
forward
and
backward
,
and
on
all
sides
,
as
I
shall
shew
afterward
;
&
are
not
to
be
comprehended
by
any
one
,
till
we
may
see
as
we
shal
be
seene
in
the
next
life
.
And
as
for
many
other
prerogatiues
and
excellencyes
of
our
B.
Lady
which
appeare
to
such
as
peruse
the
Ecclesiasticall
Historyes
,
both
concerning
her
most
deuout
education
continually
in
the
Temple
from
three
years
of
age
,
till
immediatly
before
the
Annunciation
,
of
her
diuine
life
after
the
Passion
in
the
society
of
the
beloued
disciple
of
Christ
,
then
her
Sonne
S.
Iohn
,
and
of
her
miraculous
Assumption
into
heauen
,
which
is
recorded
(
to
omit
others
)
by
S.
Iohn
Damascen
,
that
great
Saint
,
and
great
Scholler
,
&
great
Chapplaine
of
our
B.
Ladyes
,
to
haue
beene
at
that
tyme
(
which
is
almost
nine
hundred
yeares
ago
)
beleeued
and
receaued
in
the
Church
by
a
Tradition
,
which
then
he
sayd
was
Ancient
.
These
things
,
I
say
,
with
many
others
I
passe
ouer
,
partly
,
because
with
Catholikes
they
would
be
needles
,
as
being
already
so
notoriously
knowne
,
and
by
them
so
piously
imbraced
,
and
partly
because
for
the
instruction
of
Caluinists
they
will
not
be
of
much
weight
,
because
forsooth
they
are
not
registred
in
Holy
Scripture
.
I
proceed
further
,
and
will
shew
in
few
wordes
how
little
reason
they
haue
,
who
laying
aside
so
many
and
expresse
passages
of
holy
Scripture
as
I
haue
mentioned
,
which
do
highly
honour
our
B.
Lady
(
both
in
the
Attributes
it
giueth
,
&
by
the
actions
which
it
describeth
)
do
catch
greedily
at
three
or
foure
others
,
which
when
they
haue
construed
like
Schoole-maisters
rather
then
Deuines
,
they
hope
the
excellency
of
our
B.
Lady
(
which
in
their
harts
they
cannot
endure
)
may
be
obscured
thereby
:
wheras
if
either
grace
or
reason
did
preuaile
,
it
wold
teach
them
rather
to
rule
doubtfull
,
and
obscure
passages
by
plaine
ones
;
then
on
the
contrary
side
such
as
are
expresse
,
by
others
that
are
obscure
;
and
in
true
accompt
,
conclude
nothing
but
by
way
of
inference
made
without
booke
.
CHAP.
VIII
.
I
Will
therefore
in
this
place
by
way
of
conclusion
,
for
as
much
as
concerneth
Scripture
in
relation
to
our
B.
Lady
,
extract
a
few
periodes
,
which
I
haue
found
in
effect
togeather
in
that
holy
man
Canisius
,
writing
of
this
admirable
subiect
,
where
he
setteth
downe
in
a
cluster
,
that
which
is
found
in
Scripture
but
in
seueral
passages
,
as
so
many
distinct
grapes
of
the
old
Testament
,
being
so
interpreted
by
the
Fathers
and
Doctours
of
the
Catholike
Church
;
and
those
others
also
of
the
new
,
being
expressed
plainly
without
figure
as
my selfe
haue
heere
already
related
them
,
but
in
a
more
scattered
manner
.
and
now
to
make
a
faire
full
point
,
I
thought
good
,
to
see
if
by
drawing
all
these
seuerall
beames
into
one
burning
glasse
,
I
might
inflame
the
Reader
to
more
deuotion
.
He
sheweth
then
in
his
first
booke
of
the
B.
Virgin
,
and
2.
Chapter
,
how
she
was
the
[
(a)
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(a)
Bern.
hom.
2.
super
missusest
.
woman
whose
seed
was
promised
in
Paradise
;
She
was
[
(b)
](A01368-e14830-b)
(b)
Bern.
serm.
de
B.
Virg.
the
true
Rebecca
;
The
true
[
(c)
](A01368-e14850-b)
(c)
Hier.
ad
Saluianum
.
Iudith
;
The
true
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(d)
](A01368-e14870-b)
(d)
Lyra
supra
Esther
.
Esther
;
The
true
[
(e)
](A01368-e14890-b)
(e)
Rupert
.
in
Cantic
.
temple
and
Sanctuary
of
God
prophesied
by
Ezechiel
,
and
the
very
way
of
Saints
;
She
was
aboundantly
celebrated
in
spirit
by
[
(f)
](A01368-e14920-b)
(f)
Bern.
hom.
2.
super
m●ssusest
.
Salomon
;
She
was
that
which
Moyses
saw
in
the
[
(g)
](A01368-e14960-b)
(g)
Ibid.
bush
and
fire
;
That
which
Aaron
[
(h)
](A01368-e14980-b)
(h)
Bern.
ser.
signum
magnum
saw
in
the
rod
and
flower
;
The
Orientall
gate
of
[
(i)
](A01368-e15000-b)
(i)
Ibid.
Ezechiel
;
The
fleece
and
dew
forshewed
to
[
(k)
](A01368-e15020-b)
(k)
Bern.
hom.
1.
super
missusest
.
Gedeon
;
The
starre
which
rose
out
of
[
(l)
](A01368-e15050-b)
(l)
Amb.
serm.
80.
Iacob
,
and
from
whence
that
beame
proceeded
which
did
illustrate
the
whole
world
;
She
was
the
mysticall
Arke
of
the
[
(m)
](A01368-e15080-b)
(m)
Ber.
de
assum
.
B.
Virg.
Testament
,
which
conteyned
the
bread
both
of
men
and
Angells
;
She
was
the
golden
propitiatory
;
The
throne
of
that
true
[
(n)
](A01368-e15100-b)
(n)
Bern.
ibidem
.
Salomon
;
The
Princes
Court
;
The
[
(o)
](A01368-e15120-b)
(o)
Bern.
ibidem
.
bed
of
honour
,
wherein
the
Lord
,
and
King
of
heauen
did
most
delightfully
repose
.
Now
in
the
new
Testament
,
behold
that
vnited
which
before
you
saw
scattered
,
and
consider
the
weight
of
those
wordes
of
the
Ghospell
spoken
,
either
to
her
,
or
by
her
,
or
of
her
.
All
hayle
,
O
thou
full
of
grace
,
Our
Lord
is
with
thee
,
Thou
hast
found
fauour
or
grace
with
God
,
He
hath
done
great
thinges
to
me
who
is
powerfull
,
All
generations
shall
call
me
Blessed
,
Blessed
is
the
wombe
which
bare
thee
,
Blessed
are
the
brests
that
gaue
thee
suck
.
How
commeth
it
to
passe
that
the
mother
of
my
Lord
should
visite
me
;
Blessed
art
thou
among
women
,
and
blessed
is
the
fruite
of
thy
wombe
;
She
alone
it
is
of
whome
the
world
doth
ioyfully
professe
,
that
it
is
of
the
holy
Ghost
which
is
borne
in
her
;
She
alone
vnto
whom
the
Angell
did
promise
,
that
the
Holy
,
which
was
to
be
borne
of
her
,
should
be
called
the
Sonne
of
God
;
She
alone
to
whome
the
Archangell
who
was
sent
from
heauen
,
and
S.
Elizabeth
vpon
earth
did
celebrate
with
such
sublime
prayses
.
Thus
sayth
Canisius
,
and
this
he
sheweth
.
In
fine
I
do
much
desire
,
that
Catholikes
for
their
comfort
,
&
Caluinists
for
the
conuersion
of
their
soules
to
deuotion
,
&
tendernes
towards
this
sacred
Virgin
,
may
resort
to
this
excellent
work
of
Canisius
,
where
they
shall
see
,
besides
the
euidence
of
these
things
whatsoeuer
they
can
expect
from
any
man
,
concerning
the
greatnes
of
our
B.
Lady
,
most
excellently
deliuered
,
&
clearely
proued
not
only
by
the
Scripturs
of
both
Testaments
,
but
by
the
authority
of
the
Fathers
of
the
Church
in
al
ages
,
&
of
these
Fathers
I
will
in
due
place
vse
a
few
testimonyes
,
before
I
end
this
discourse
,
&
by
those
few
,
the
spirit
of
the
rest
may
be
conceaued
.
Therfore
it
is
great
peruersnes
,
and
a
sinne
euen
against
common
sense
,
that
since
there
are
so
many
places
of
Scripture
,
which
testify
our
B.
Ladyes
perfections
,
those
few
others
which
they
imagine
to
be
in
her
preiudice
,
must
yet
be
rather
opposed
vnto
those
former
by
these
men
,
then
any
way
reconciled
,
or
ranged
vnder
them
.
Yet
indeed
what
can
they
argue
out
of
those
very
places
?
They
say
,
that
the
words
of
our
Sauiour
;
Quid
mihi
,
&
tibi
mulier
,
which
he
vsed
at
the
marriage
of
Cana
,
in
answere
of
her
suite
,
concerning
their
want
of
wine
,
do
shew
that
she
was
worthy
of
reprehension
,
and
that
he
rebuked
her
.
They
translate
those
wordes
,
Woman
what
haue
I
to
do
with
thee
?
and
they
inferre
thereby
,
that
our
B.
Sauiour
gaue
therein
a
great
checke
to
his
sacred
Mother
;
whereas
it
is
plaine
,
that
they
were
only
spoken
for
the
instruction
of
them
that
heard
,
&
of
vs
that
read
them
;
to
shew
that
he
was
not
to
manifest
himself
as
God
by
working
of
Miracles
,
till
the
tyme
appointed
by
his
Father
,
&
therfore
it
is
that
he
sayd
also
further
;
Nondum
venit
hora
mea
,
My
houre
is
not
yet
com
,
as
also
to
make
the
world
know
that
we
are
more
to
respect
the
immediate
and
knowne
ordinance
of
God
,
then
the
suite
of
friends
,
though
neuer
so
pious
and
meritorious
.
I
omit
to
shew
that
those
wordes
do
more
naturally
signify
to
this
effect
;
Quid
mihi
,
&
tibi
?
What
haue
thou
,
This
is
not
such
necessity
as
ought
to
vrge
me
toward
the
working
of
miracles
so
soone
.
But
whatsoeuer
the
words
crudely
taken
may
seeme
in
some
construction
to
say
;
certayne
it
is
,
that
when
our
Sauiour
had
made
vs
know
by
them
,
that
which
he
intended
we
should
learne
,
he
not
only
disposed
himself
inwardly
to
shew
that
mercy
by
meanes
of
our
B.
Ladyes
prayers
(
euen
as
it
were
before
his
own
tyme
appointed
)
but
by
the
manner
he
held
in
speaking
the
words
,
and
by
the
gracious
countenance
which
he
vsed
,
he
gaue
her
puidently
to
vnderstand
that
he
would
graunt
her
suite
.
For
otherwise
,
it
would
not
haue
become
her
discretion
to
haue
so
instantly
required
them
that
serued
at
the
dinner
to
be
punctuall
in
performing
of
whatsoeuer
her
Sonne
should
require
of
them
.
Yea
,
and
by
the
circumstances
of
the
Text
(
which
describe
the
action
succeeding
after
a
most
particuler
manner
,
in
such
sort
,
as
if
they
had
not
beene
forwarned
,
it
is
morally
certaine
that
they
would
haue
made
some
fault
)
it
is
most
probable
that
our
B.
Sauiour
did
not
only
let
her
know
that
he
would
do
the
thing
,
but
in
what
manner
also
he
would
do
it
And
this
at
least
is
confessed
,
that
the
miracle
was
wrought
,
immediatly
after
our
Ladyes
suite
was
presented
:
which
is
a
reall
proofe
of
her
greatnes
,
and
the
acceptablenes
of
her
prayers
in
the
sight
of
God
:
and
this
truth
deserueth
to
put
to
eternall
silence
whatsoeuer
conceipt
is
framed
out
of
those
wordes
te
her
disaduantage
.
In
like
manner
do
they
vrge
,
how
our
Sauiour
Christ
(
being
sought
by
our
B.
Lady
,
and
S.
Ioseph
,
and
found
at
last
in
the
Temple
,
&
made
acquainted
with
the
much
care
which
they
had
vsed
in
seeking
him
)
answered
thus
;
Nazareth
,
Et
erat
subditus
illis
,
and
he
there
liued
vnder
them
in
subiection
:
whereby
if
men
were
not
wholy
blinde
,
they
would
both
be
content
to
acknowledge
this
truth
,
That
it
is
infinitly
a
greater
dignity
to
haue
God
for
her
Son
,
and
her
subiect
,
then
to
be
the
Superiour
and
Empresse
of
all
things
created
;
and
consider
also
heere
,
as
soon
as
he
had
performed
the
office
of
a
Doctour
,
he
made
hast
to
restore
the
B.
Virgin
to
her
possession
of
him
againe
as
his
Mother
.
Another
offer
there
is
made
to
impeach
the
excellency
of
our
B.
Lady
vpon
this
occasion
.
and
behoulding
them
that
sate
about
him
he
sayd
,
Behould
my
Mother
,
and
my
brethren
;
for
he
that
doth
the
will
of
God
he
is
my
brother
,
my
sister
,
and
my
Mother
.
This
place
is
much
in
the
discourse
of
some
,
as
if
it
were
indiminution
of
our
B.
Ladyes
eminency
,
which
yet
yieldeth
so
little
ground
for
an
obiection
,
as
that
,
euen
for
this
very
reason
,
it
is
hardly
capable
of
an
answere
.
The
occasion
of
that
speach
was
this
.
Our
B.
Sauiour
was
most
wickedly
and
foolishly
slaundred
by
the
Scribes
that
came
down
thither
from
Hierusalem
,
that
he
was
himselfe
possessed
with
Beelsebub
,
and
that
in
the
strength
of
that
maister-diuell
,
he
did
cast
out
others
of
inferiour
rancke
.
Our
Sauiour
did
not
only
demonstrate
the
falshood
,
and
the
extreme
absurdity
of
that
allegation
,
but
he
did
withal
insinuate
,
that
euen
they
knew
as
much
;
and
that
of
meere
&
perfect
malice
they
had
layd
that
imputation
vpon
him
against
the
dictamen
of
their
own
conscience
.
With
all
he
denounced
against
them
the
finall
danger
that
they
were
in
,
by
saying
that
all
other
sinnes
should
be
forgiuen
to
the
sonnes
of
men
,
only
that
the
sinnes
and
blasphemyes
against
the
Holy
Ghost
(
wherby
the
sinnes
of
desperate
&
confirmed
malice
which
impugneth
a
knowne
truth
,
are
vnderstood
)
should
neuer
be
forgiuen
,
but
punished
with
eternity
of
hell
fire
.
The
representation
of
which
verity
being
made
by
our
B.
Sauiour
,
with
so
great
liberty
,
in
the
very
teeth
of
them
whom
it
concerned
as
partyes
,
and
who
did
so
viperously
desire
to
bite
him
to
death
,
might
reasonably
moue
his
friendes
,
to
retyre
him
out
of
those
dangers
,
wherein
they
vnderstood
him
to
be
,
and
to
aske
for
audience
.
But
our
Sauiour
desyring
not
to
secure
himselfe
,
but
to
saue
those
people
,
seemed
to
lay
aside
that
petition
,
and
still
to
attend
to
their
instruction
.
So
as
this
exception
taken
by
the
Caluinists
can
proceed
from
no
other
cause
,
then
a
great
ingratitude
to
God
,
a
great
opposition
to
our
B.
Lady
,
and
a
great
contrariety
to
common
sense
,
that
the
speaches
which
our
Sauiour
vsed
to
make
it
apparant
to
the
world
how
infinitely
,
dearly
and
tenderly
he
would
loue
both
all
them
and
vs
,
who
would
performe
the
will
of
God
his
Father
,
by
saying
that
he
would
reckon
of
them
no
worse
then
if
they
were
his
own
flesh
and
bloud
,
should
serue
to
no
other
end
with
than
,
but
only
to
derogate
from
that
same
flesh
and
bloud
,
yea
from
his
B.
Mother
her selfe
,
who
was
the
only
precious
creature
from
whome
he
fetched
al
his
sacred
humanity
.
Another
like
this
last
is
,
the
exception
which
is
taken
from
a
like
speach
of
our
B.
Sauiours
,
which
he
vttered
vpon
a
like
occasion
.
He
was
instructing
his
disciples
both
in
what
manner
,
and
in
what
wordes
,
they
were
to
make
their
prayers
to
God
;
and
at
the
end
therof
,
he
was
also
conuincing
some
of
the
Iewes
,
by
prouing
,
that
he
did
not
cast
out
one
diuell
by
another
,
but
by
the
power
of
God
.
The
multitude
admired
,
though
some
few
calumniated
him
;
and
whilest
he
was
deliuering
most
profitable
doctrines
,
a
woman
in
the
company
(
being
as
it
were
rapt
into
an
Extasy
of
admiration
,
to
see
both
his
diuine
presence
,
&
his
supernaturall
workes
,
and
to
heare
withall
those
wordes
of
Eternall
Life
,
which
were
deliuered
by
his
heauenly
mouth
)
could
not
containe
her selfe
from
exclayming
thus
;
Beatus
venter
quite
portauit
,
But
indeed
,
it
is
not
our
B.
Lady
,
who
is
immediatly
and
principally
commended
by
the
good
woman
of
this
Ghospell
,
but
it
is
our
B.
Sauiour
;
and
she
is
praysed
there
,
but
vpon
the
reason
of
hauing
brought
him
into
the
world
,
and
for
being
the
choyce
cabinet
of
such
a
precious
Iewell
as
she
esteemed
him
;
and
therfore
it
is
so
much
the
more
absurdly
done
,
to
inferre
by
the
declining
which
our
B.
Sauiour
made
from
his
own
prayses
,
that
he
meant
any
way
to
diminish
the
dignity
of
his
Mother
.
And
yet
abstracting
this
consideration
for
the
answere
of
our
Sauiour
,
it
is
it selfe
so
pregnant
in
the
proofe
of
what
I
say
,
as
that
it
needeth
not
to
be
much
inforced
.
For
first
it
may
be
considered
,
that
he
was
in
a
great
multitude
of
people
,
That
he
was
treating
about
the
state
of
their
soules
,
That
he
was
in
the
act
of
working
a
miracle
,
at
the
end
whereof
the
people
were
already
drawne
into
admiration
,
and
whilest
he
might
expect
to
reap
the
fruit
of
their
conuersion
(
which
was
to
be
ripened
by
driuing
away
out
of
their
minds
those
clouds
of
ignorance
and
obscurity
,
and
those
stormes
of
malice
and
enuy
;
this
passionatly
affection
at
&
deuout
woman
with
more
feruour
of
louing
zeale
,
then
exact
consideration
of
all
due
circumstances
,
brake
off
by
her
exclamation
that
profitable
discourse
of
our
B.
Sauiour
,
to
which
he
with
diuine
wisedome
made
the
aforesayd
answere
:
Wherby
they
might
vnderstand
how
true
it
was
,
that
as
his
Mother
was
incomparably
happy
,
so
should
they
also
be
,
according
to
their
measure
,
if
they
would
make
their
benefite
of
those
instructions
,
that
from
tyme
to
tyme
he
gaue
them
;
&
about
which
he
was
in
a
particuler
endeauour
at
that
instant
,
and
therfore
it
it
is
no
meruaile
if
he
did
not
cherish
the
distraction
which
speach
had
caused
in
the
hearers
.
But
least
of
all
other
places
doth
this
decrease
the
extent
of
our
B.
Ladyes
felicity
,
for
by
it
we
learne
that
she
was
doubly
happy
.
Happy
she
was
,
because
her
wombe
had
borne
the
Sauiour
of
the
world
,
and
because
her
breasts
had
giuen
him
sucke
;
for
our
Sauiour
Christ
did
not
reuerse
this
sentence
of
the
holy
woman
pronounced
vpon
her
which
though
it
were
not
then
so
seasonable
,
was
yet
in
it self
most
highly
true
.
Nor
could
he
who
was
Truth
it selfe
say
that
to
be
vntrue
,
which
the
holy
Ghost
by
the
B.
Virgins
owne
sacred
mouth
,
had
formerly
pronounced
concerning
her
being
Blessed
,
in
that
diuine
Canticle
of
the
Magnificat
.
And
happy
againe
we
find
that
she
was
,
since
by
the
testimony
of
our
B
Sauiour
they
all
are
happy
,
who
heare
the
word
the
word
of
God
and
keep
it
;
for
what
creature
did
euer
come
so
close
to
the
keeping
of
the
word
of
God
,
as
she
who
had
in
her
sacred
wombe
kept
God
himselfe
,
who
was
,
and
is
the
Word
,
to
which
she
communicated
all
the
Humanity
that
it
had
,
whose
presence
afterward
she
continually
enioyed
,
during
the
whole
tyme
of
his
aboad
on
earth
?
whose
perfections
she
imitated
,
whose
Church
whilest
she
suruiued
she
instructed
,
and
whose
kingdome
,
now
that
she
is
assumed
into
heauen
,
she
hath
beautifyed
.
And
al
this
because
Almighty
God
who
made
her
the
Mother
of
God
,
made
her
in
all
respect
to
be
as
worthy
of
that
incomprehensible
vocation
,
as
the
state
of
a
creature
could
be
capable
,
and
with
which
also
she
did
concurre
after
an
vnconceuable
manner
.
Now
to
be
a
Mother
,
and
a
Mother
worthy
of
God
himselfe
implyeth
such
mountaynes
of
perfection
,
as
euen
fill
,
and
exceed
the
world
,
and
from
which
the
least
graine
cannot
be
taken
in
any
discourse
of
reason
vnder
the
pretence
either
of
holy
Scripture
,
or
common
sense
.
But
it
were
well
(
since
it
is
so
ill
)
that
it
were
no
worse
,
Conduct
of
water
,
insinuating
thereby
,
as
if
Christ
had
scarce
taken
flesh
of
her
,
or
els
that
at
the
best
hand
he
infused
not
any
vertue
into
her
.
Luther
is
often
disgracing
her
,
and
ranking
her
with
the
rest
of
creatures
in
generall
,
&
Caluin
doth
as
good
as
deduce
that
proposition
into
particulers
,
and
draw
Conclusions
out
of
those
principles
:
now
saying
,
That
the
Virgin
was
at
least
inconsiderate
,
That
she
was
importune
,
and
did
preposterously
endeauour
to
breake
off
the
course
of
her
Sonnes
doctrine
;
That
she
sinned
by
exceeding
her
boundes
,
and
by
intruding
her selfe
so
far
,
as
that
she
might
chance
to
haue
obscured
the
glory
of
Christ
thereby
;
and
,
that
our
Sauiour
made
in
a
manner
no
accompt
of
that
which
the
woman
in
the
Ghospell
did
only
extoll
,
which
was
her
being
his
owne
Mother
,
as
also
when
the
Angel
announceth
the
Incarnation
of
the
Sonne
of
God
,
he
findeth
,
That
she
had
want
of
fayth
,
he
sayth
,
That
she
did
not
with
lesse
malignity
restraine
the
power
of
God
,
then
Zacharias
had
done
before
vpon
another
occasion
,
and
when
he
hath
done
,
the
blasphemous
Heretike
concludeth
,
Quod
non
sit
magnoperè
laborandum
&c.
That
there
is
no
cause
why
he
should
take
much
paines
in
excusing
the
Virgin
from
not
hauing
committed
some
fault
.
To
this
let
it
be
added
,
that
they
thinke
,
&
often
say
,
That
she
was
deliuered
of
our
Sauiour
after
the
same
laborious
,
vulgar
,
and
vncomly
manner
to
which
other
women
are
subiect
by
their
descendence
from
Eue.
Some
againe
,
That
she
liued
afterward
with
Ioseph
,
to
all
purposes
as
women
vse
to
do
with
their
husbands
:
With
a
thousand
such
other
beastly
blasphemyes
,
and
heresies
as
these
.
For
Heluidius
by
the
testimony
of
S.
Hierome
was
condemned
as
an
Heretike
within
foure
ages
after
Christ
,
for
only
houlding
that
our
B.
Lady
did
not
continue
in
virginity
after
the
birth
of
our
B.
Sauiour
vntill
the
end
of
her
mortall
life
:
and
I
would
to
Christ
that
our
poore
Countrey
did
not
swarme
with
these
vile
,
and
far
worse
opinions
.
But
as
the
soule
is
infinitly
to
be
more
esteemed
then
the
body
,
so
may
she
be
concluded
to
haue
receaued
more
offence
by
Caluins
tongue
who
wounded
her
in
her
soule
,
by
his
charging
her
thus
with
sin
,
then
by
these
others
who
haue
subiected
her
sacred
body
to
so
much
shame
:
&
yet
euen
in
that
kind
,
And
those
famous
,
or
rather
infamous
Magdeburgians
,
who
are
called
Centuriatours
,
being
certaine
Lutheran
Doctours
,
who
in
corps
and
by
publique
Authority
pretended
to
draw
downe
an
historicall
narration
of
the
Church
from
age
to
age
speaking
in
the
first
booke
of
the
first
Century
,
of
the
life
of
our
B.
Sauiour
,
tooke
occasion
therby
to
taxe
most
boldly
&
blasphemously
the
immaculate
Mother
of
God
,
&
to
say
,
that
when
she
lost
her
Sonne
in
the
Temple
,
she
committed
so
great
a
sinne
,
as
that
they
tremble
not
to
compare
it
with
that
first
most
grieuous
sinne
of
Eue
,
and
so
doubt
which
of
the
two
sinnes
were
the
worse
.
CHAP.
IX
.
THE
beliefe
and
practise
of
the
Holy
Catholike
,
Apostolike
,
Roman
Church
is
very
different
from
that
of
these
men
,
and
hath
beene
most
expresse
in
this
point
;
for
it
hath
,
throughout
the
whole
course
of
so
many
ages
,
decerned
,
and
applyed
the
highest
honours
,
vnder
God
,
to
our
B.
Lady
,
by
giuing
her
most
glorious
titles
by
erecting
in
memory
of
her
most
sumptuous
Temples
,
by
enioyning
Christians
to
keep
in
contemplation
of
her
most
solemne
festiuityes
;
and
by
powring
out
before
her
continuall
supplications
and
prayers
,
that
by
her
intercession
of
meditation
,
the
intercession
of
Redemption
which
was
performed
by
Christ
our
Lord
,
and
could
only
be
performed
by
him
,
may
be
applyed
to
the
sauing
of
mans
soule
.
When
I
name
the
Catholike
,
Apostolike
,
Roman
Church
,
I
meane
not
,
by
Roman
,
that
Congregation
of
Christians
only
,
which
is
comprehended
within
the
walls
or
diocesse
of
the
Citty
,
or
Sea
of
Rome
(
as
some
would
fayne
impose
vpon
vs
,
and
thereby
inferre
an
absurdity
vpon
that
proposition
,
as
if
the
same
Church
whereof
we
speake
,
were
both
vniuersall
in
being
Catholike
,
and
particuler
in
being
but
of
the
Citty
of
Rome
:
)
but
when
I
say
the
Catholike
,
Roman
Church
,
I
meane
the
Church
of
Christ
which
is
spread
into
all
the
corners
of
the
earth
,
but
yet
communicating
euery
where
in
the
same
fayth
,
and
Sacraments
,
doth
acknowledge
the
Bishop
of
Rome
for
the
visible
&
supreme
Head
therof
vnder
Christ
.
The
dignity
and
eminency
whereof
if
it
be
considered
,
&
be
weighed
withall
,
how
deuout
it
hath
euer
beene
in
tenderly
honouring
,
&
religiously
praying
to
our
B.
Lady
.
I
think
there
is
no
man
of
modesty
,
and
euen
common
sense
,
who
will
not
be
induced
not
only
to
an
excuse
,
but
euen
to
an
imitation
thereof
.
S.
Augustine
,
which
he
spake
being
yet
no
Christian
;
and
the
same
weight
which
that
kind
of
discourse
had
against
Paganisme
,
or
Manicheisme
in
his
tyme
,
the
same
hath
it
,
at
the
least
in
fauour
of
Catholike
Religion
,
concerning
the
honour
and
inuocation
of
our
B.
Lady
,
amongst
and
aboue
all
the
other
Saints
of
God
,
against
Caluinisme
,
or
whatsouer
other
such
Innouation
.
Non
vacat
,
non
est
inane
,
it
is
no
toy
,
it
is
no
contemptible
thing
,
which
the
whole
Body
of
Catholikes
,
hath
so
long
,
and
so
deuoutly
practised
,
concerning
the
honour
of
our
B.
Lady
,
and
the
need
which
it
findeth
mankind
to
haue
of
her
helping
hand
.
Yea
,
and
a
Protestant
,
that
is
either
morally
wise
,
or
discreetly
modest
,
as
S.
Augustin
was
before
he
was
a
Catholike
Christian
,
will
thinke
and
speake
reuerently
of
this
Church
,
though
he
shall
abstract
from
this
beliefe
,
That
it
is
the
only
true
Church
of
Christ
,
and
do
but
confesse
(
which
no
body
in
his
wits
will
deny
)
that
it
is
a
congregation
of
great
Order
,
Wisedome
,
Vertue
,
Learning
,
Extent
,
and
Continuance
.
Though
indeed
(
whatsoeuer
may
be
pretended
by
our
opposits
)
it
is
both
more
true
,
and
more
euident
then
the
Sunne
is
bright
,
That
either
Christ
hath
no
Church
at
all
,
That
the
prophesyes
of
the
old
Testament
were
false
,
and
,
That
the
promises
of
the
new
Testament
were
feigned
,
or
els
that
this
church
is
the
true
and
only
true
Church
of
Christ
,
since
all
those
markes
,
and
plaine
tokens
,
which
were
deliuered
as
belonging
thereunto
,
do
clearly
apply
themselues
to
this
Church
and
to
no
other
.
For
what
other
but
this
can
(
without
the
impudent
face
of
an
harlot
)
pretend
,
2.
1.
Tim.
3.
To
haue
conuerted
Nations
,
To
haue
beene
fostered
and
nursed
by
a
longe
series
of
Kinges
and
Queenes
,
To
haue
imbraced
euen
the
very
ends
of
the
world
,
To
haue
beene
espoused
to
the
Messias
with
an
indissoluble
bound
of
Matrimony
,
as
was
fortould
by
those
men
of
God
in
the
old
Testament
?
Or
what
other
then
this
,
can
with
any
colour
affirme
,
That
it
is
the
piller
,
and
ground
of
Truth
,
as
S.
Paul
did
witnes
,
That
it
is
but
one
,
That
it
is
,
and
hath
euer
beene
,
and
is
to
be
euer
Visible
,
That
it
hath
beene
,
and
euer
must
be
Infallible
,
as
is
clearely
to
be
conuinced
by
that
one
direction
which
our
B.
Sauiour
gaue
,
Dic
Ecclesiae
,
Tell
the
Church
:
And
Si
Ecclesiam
non
audierit
,
sit
tibi
tamquam
Ethnicus
&
Publicanus
,
let
him
be
to
thee
as
a
Pagan
,
and
Publican
,
if
he
obey
not
the
orders
of
this
Church
.
For
vnles
this
Church
were
euer
to
be
indued
with
Vnity
,
with
Visibility
,
and
with
Infallibility
,
impossible
it
were
either
for
that
counsaile
of
our
Sauiours
to
be
followed
(
and
this
were
to
impute
folly
to
him
)
or
els
though
it
were
followed
,
it
would
be
impossible
for
men
to
be
saued
by
meanes
therof
,
and
that
were
to
lay
a
worse
note
if
worse
may
be
,
vpon
the
fountaine
of
all
Wisedome
,
and
goodnes
?
Or
what
other
Church
then
this
,
S.
Paul
to
the
Ephesians
affirmed
to
haue
beene
giuen
to
mankind
by
our
Sauiour
Christ
,
when
he
ascended
vp
to
heauen
,
namely
Doctours
,
and
Pastours
to
continue
from
that
tyme
till
the
end
of
the
world
,
that
so
the
body
of
Christ
might
be
built
vp
,
and
Christian
soules
be
kept
by
the
ancker
of
true
fayth
,
from
floating
(
after
the
fashion
of
Heretikes
)
by
the
windes
,
or
waues
of
phantasticall
and
foolish
doctrines
.
No
other
congregation
then
the
Catholik
,
will
so
much
as
pretend
to
many
of
these
true
marks
of
the
Church
;
at
least
none
but
she
can
proue
that
they
any
way
belong
to
theirs
or
them
,
who
therfore
by
a
miserable
necessity
are
constrained
to
hide
themselues
in
certaine
castles
of
the
aire
whilst
they
talke
of
Scripture
,
wherby
they
meane
nothing
els
but
that
interpretation
or
conceipt
of
their
own
which
the
interest
either
of
their
profits
or
passion
doth
suggest
.
By
al
which
I
infer
,
that
since
we
make
so
faire
a
claime
to
be
the
true
,
&
neuer
erring
Church
of
Christ
,
which
euen
our
moderate
Aduersaryes
will
confesse
to
be
of
great
appearance
;
that
doctrine
which
it
teacheth
,
&
from
whence
the
honour
&
inuocation
of
our
B.
Lady
proceedeth
,
ought
not
in
any
reason
to
be
so
blasphemed
,
euen
by
them
who
will
not
yet
imbrace
it
.
This
Church
hath
also
further
(
being
inspired
and
guided
by
the
Holy
Ghost
)
framed
an
Office
of
our
B.
Lady
,
that
is
to
say
,
it
hath
composed
a
Seruice
out
of
the
Psalmes
,
and
other
Scriptures
,
togeather
with
the
writings
of
the
Holy
Fathers
,
which
it
commandeth
to
be
recited
at
such
tyme
as
her
festiuall
dayes
are
celebrated
;
and
now
and
then
it
interposeth
certaine
affectuous
versicles
,
to
shew
the
admiration
wherein
it
hath
her
supreme
dignity
,
through
the
vouchsafing
which
God
Almighty
hath
pleased
to
vse
with
her
,
in
making
her
a
fit
Mother
for
himselfe
.
Sometymes
it
exclameth
thus
,
Faelix
namque
es
sacra
virgo
Maria
,
&
omni
laude
dignissima
:
quia
ex
te
ortus
est
sol
iustitiae
Christus
Deus
noster
.
And
againe
;
Sancta
&
immaculata
virginitas
,
quibus
te
laudibus
efferam
nescio
:
quia
quem
caelicapere
non
poterant
,
tuo
gremio
contulisti
!
Beata
es
Virgo
Maria
quae
Dominum
portasti
Creatorem
mundi
:
Genuisti
qui
te
fecit
,
&
in
aeternum
permanes
Virgo
.
Beata
mater
,
&
intacta
virgo
gloriosa
Regina
mundi
,
intercede
pro
nobis
ad
Dominum
.
Happy
art
thou
,
O
sacred
Virgin
Mary
,
and
most
worthy
of
all
prayse
;
for
the
Sonne
of
Iustice
Christ
our
Lord
is
borne
of
thee
.
O
thou
holy
and
immaculate
virginity
.
with
what
prayses
shal
I
extoll
thee
,
since
thou
hast
contayned
him
in
thy
wombe
,
whom
the
heauens
themselues
could
not
comprehend
!
Blessed
art
thou
,
O
Virgin
Mary
,
who
hast
borne
our
Lord
the
Creatour
of
the
world
:
thou
hast
borne
him
that
made
thee
,
and
thou
eternally
remaynest
a
Virgin
.
O
blessed
Mother
and
immaculate
Virgin
,
O
thou
glorious
Queene
of
the
world
,
pray
for
vs
vnto
our
Lord
.
In
this
manner
doth
the
Church
performe
to
her
all
due
honour
.
And
in
other
parts
of
the
same
office
it
applyeth
many
other
places
of
Scripture
,
and
especially
out
of
the
Canticles
,
the
book
of
Wisedome
,
and
the
Apocalyps
,
towardes
the
dignifying
,
&
celebrating
the
praises
of
our
B.
Lady
,
vesting
,
as
it
were
,
her
person
,
with
all
those
appellations
,
and
other
termes
of
honour
which
are
there
to
be
found
in
full
measure
,
and
among
others
these
;
Veni
columba
mea
,
veni
sponsa
mea
,
veni
electa
mea
,
veni
coronaberis
,
pulchra
vt
Luna
,
electa
vt
Sol
,
terribilis
vt
castrorum
actes
ordinata
,
mulier
amicta
sole
,
&
Luna
sub
pedibus
eius
.
Astitit
Regina
à
dextris
tuis
circumdata
varietate
:
and
a
thousand
such
passages
as
these
are
sung
by
the
Holy
Church
,
in
honour
of
our
B.
Lady
,
as
being
the
Doue
,
the
Spouse
,
the
eiect
of
the
King
of
heauen
,
one
clad
,
and
enuironed
with
the
Sunne
,
supported
by
the
Moone
,
a
Queene
all
clad
with
variety
of
riches
,
and
standing
at
the
right
hand
of
God
.
Which
sentences
of
Holy
Scripture
howsoeuer
they
are
also
applyed
otherwise
,
as
sometymes
to
a
Soule
in
grace
,
sometymes
to
Heauenly
Wisedome
,
sometymes
to
the
celestiall
Hierusalem
,
yet
this
is
no
impediment
why
they
may
not
also
truly
,
and
most
properly
be
applyed
to
the
person
of
our
B.
Lady
,
since
the
same
Scripture
hath
seuerall
senses
,
and
all
of
them
may
be
true
,
so
that
they
be
not
contradictory
to
one
another
.
And
the
Holy
spirit
of
God
deliuering
them
by
the
pen
of
the
Prophets
,
and
Apostles
,
had
seuerall
regards
and
aymes
at
seuerall
things
to
be
expressed
by
the
same
words
,
which
the
Holy
Fathers
,
and
Interpretours
(
as
children
of
the
Catholike
Church
)
were
directed
,
and
enabled
by
the
same
spirit
to
declare
.
Which
howsoeuer
it
may
seem
strang
,
to
such
as
in
themselues
are
strangers
to
the
truth
of
that
which
passeth
in
this
particuler
,
yet
it
must
be
confessed
to
be
,
as
I
say
,
by
such
as
will
not
generally
taxe
the
Holy
Fathers
,
both
of
folly
,
and
falshood
,
since
they
haue
expounded
the
Holy
Scriptures
according
to
foure
seuerall
senses
,
namely
the
Litterall
,
the
Morall
,
the
Anagogicall
,
and
the
Allegoricall
.
Nay
it
is
certayne
,
how
strange
soeuer
it
may
seeme
,
that
the
same
Scripture
hath
sometymes
diuers
senses
euen
Litterall
:
and
so
hath
that
of
,
Expedit
nobis
vt
vnus
homo
moriatur
pro
populo
,
ne
tota
gens
pereat
,
Filius
[
(a)
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(a)
Cyril
.
in
psal.
2.
de
humana
generat
.
August
.
de
aetern
.
meus
es
tu
,
ego
hodie
genuite
.
Omnia
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(b)
Psal.
8.
Aug.
de
natur
.
human
.
&
Chrys.
peculiariter
de
Christo
orat
.
4.
in
ep.
ad
Haebr
.
c.
2.
August
.
confess
l.
12.
c.
25.
&
31.
subiecisti
sub
pedibus
eius
:
and
the
authority
of
S.
Augustine
alone
may
suffice
to
shew
,
that
out
of
the
same
words
of
Scripture
may
be
drawne
,
magna
copia
verissimarum
sententiarum
,
great
aboundance
or
variety
of
senses
,
which
be
all
true
.
This
he
sayth
by
occasion
of
the
seueral
interpretations
of
those
only
words
,
In
principio
fecit
Deus
caelum
&
terram
:
In
the
beginning
God
made
the
heauen
,
and
earth
.
And
he
sheweth
afterwards
,
why
Moyses
may
be
conceiued
to
haue
forseen
al
those
true
seueral
senses
of
those
words
which
should
afterwardes
be
gathered
,
Per
quem
Deus
vnus
sacras
literas
vera
,
&
diuersa
visuris
multorum
sensibus
temperauit
.
God
did
by
the
pen
of
Moyses
,
so
temper
and
dictate
those
dimme
bookes
,
which
he
wrote
,
as
that
all
the
senses
might
be
true
,
and
yet
differing
from
one
another
,
according
to
the
variety
of
interpretations
which
diuers
men
should
make
therof
CHAP.
X.
BVT
to
returne
to
the
aforsaid
Office
of
the
Church
,
there
are
further
brought
in
vpon
occasion
diuers
passages
of
many
ancient
and
Holy
Fathers
(
for
I
will
not
touch
vpon
them
of
the
later
times
)
which
may
excite
the
Readers
to
beare
all
due
deuotion
to
our
B.
Lady
,
through
the
pathetical
and
tender
speach
which
they
deliuer
of
her
.
And
I
will
accompany
them
which
are
taken
out
of
the
Breuiary
with
som
others
of
the
same
authority
&
tyme.
Hearken
then
a
while
whosoeuer
you
be
,
who
are
so
miserable
as
not
to
be
deuoted
to
the
B.
Virgin
,
that
you
may
perceaue
how
dangerous
and
different
a
way
you
take
from
those
lights
and
ornaments
of
God
Church
,
who
are
ready
if
you
will
to
be
your
guides
.
And
note
that
except
S.
Iohn
Damascen
,
S.
Anselme
,
and
S.
Bernard
,
there
is
none
of
this
full
Iury
but
aboue
a
thousand
yeares
old
.
And
to
beginne
with
the
most
ancient
,
S.
Irenaeus
in
his
third
book
against
heresyes
33.
Chapter
,
hath
these
words
,
Sicut
Eua
inobediens
&c.
As
Eue
by
disobedience
was
made
the
cause
of
death
;
so
Mary
was
made
a
cause
of
saluation
,
both
to
her selfe
,
and
to
all
mankind
.
S.
Athanasius
in
his
Epistle
to
Epictetus
,
full
of
grace
,
because
she
did
abound
with
all
graces
by
the
filling
of
the
Holy
Ghost
,
and
was
ouershaddowed
by
the
vertue
of
the
most
high
.
S.
Ephrem
in
an
Oration
of
the
prayses
of
the
most
Holy
Mother
of
God
,
Heare
what
the
holy
and
learned
S.
Ambrose
sayth
in
his
booke
of
the
Institution
of
Virgins
.
Christi
lilia
&c.
A
Maria
&c.
(
sayth
S.
Epiphanius
)
of
the
Virgin
Mary
,
S.
Hierome
vpon
the
eleuenth
Chapter
of
Isay
,
Virgam
de
radice
&c.
Let
vs
vnderstand
the
holy
Virgin
Mary
,
to
be
the
Rod
that
springes
out
of
the
roote
of
Iesse
.
S.
Theodoret
vpon
the
Canticles
,
Inter
tot
animas
omnium
hominum
&c.
Amongst
the
soules
of
all
the
men
and
women
that
shall
be
saued
,
that
only
one
is
as
the
elected
doue
,
who
brought
forth
Christ
,
a
virgin
,
a
Mother
,
a
mayd
,
who
doubtles
did
excell
in
purity
both
the
Cherubim
and
the
Seraphim
.
S.
Gregory
the
great
vpon
the
first
booke
and
Chapter
of
Kinges
Potest
huius
montis
nomine
&c.
The
euer
most
B.
Virgin
Mary
Mother
of
God
,
may
be
designed
by
the
name
of
this
mountaine
.
For
she
was
a
mountaine
who
by
the
dignity
of
her
election
did
transcend
the
altitudes
of
elected
creaturs
.
Was
not
Mary
a
high
mountaine
,
who
that
she
might
arriue
to
the
conception
of
the
Eeternall
Word
,
did
raise
the
top
of
her
merits
aboue
all
the
Quires
of
Angells
,
till
she
came
vnto
the
throne
of
the
Deity
:
for
of
the
most
excellent
dignity
of
this
mountaine
the
Prophet
I
say
doth
say
;
In
the
last
dayes
there
shall
be
a
mountaine
of
our
Lord
prepared
in
the
top
of
the
mountaines
.
For
she
was
a
mountaine
in
the
top
of
mountaines
,
because
the
height
of
Mary
doth
shine
aboue
all
Saints
.
And
she
is
aptly
called
both
a
mountaine
,
and
house
,
who
being
illustrated
with
incomparable
merits
,
did
prepare
her
sacred
wombe
wherein
the
only
Sonne
of
God
might
repose
.
S.
Iohn
Damascen
in
his
booke
of
Catholike
fayth
,
affirmeth
of
our
B.
Lady
,
that
reuera
Domina
facta
est
&c.
Clamemus
cum
Gabriele
&c.
Let
vs
crye
out
with
the
Angell
Gabriell
,
All
hayle
,
O
thou
full
of
grace
,
All
hayle
O
thou
inexhausted
sea
of
ioy
,
Al
hayle
,
o
thou
especial
lightner
of
our
burthens
;
All
hayle
,
O
thou
medicine
of
all
the
afflictions
of
our
harts
,
All
hayle
,
O
thou
holy
Virgin
,
by
whome
death
was
banished
and
life
introduced
.
S.
Anselme
in
his
Treatise
of
originall
sinne
Chapter
18.
Decebat
vt
illius
&c.
It
was
fit
that
the
Conception
of
that
man
(
he
speaketh
there
of
Christ
our
Sauiour
)
should
be
made
of
the
most
pure
Virgin
,
and
therefore
it
was
fit
,
that
this
virgin
should
most
sweetly
shine
with
so
great
purity
then
which
a
greater
cannot
be
imagined
vnder
God
,
to
whome
God
the
Father
resolued
to
giue
his
only
Son
.
S.
Bernard
in
his
sermon
vpon
the
corporall
Assumption
of
the
B.
Virgin
into
heauen
sayth
thus
;
Quis
cogitare
sufficiat
&c.
Who
is
able
to
conceaue
how
gloriously
the
Queene
of
the
world
went
forward
as
vpon
this
day
,
and
with
how
great
entiernes
of
tender
deuotion
the
whole
multitude
of
those
celestiall
legions
came
forth
to
meete
her
?
With
what
canticles
she
was
conducted
to
the
throne
of
glory
?
With
how
serene
a
face
,
with
how
deare
a
countenance
,
with
how
diuine
imbracements
she
was
receaued
by
her
Sonne
,
&
with
that
glory
which
became
such
a
Sonne
.
In
his
fourth
Sermon
vpon
the
Assumption
,
after
he
had
with
this
protestation
,
Non
est
quod
me
magis
delectet
&c.
There
is
nothing
wherein
I
take
more
ioy
,
&
so
yet
there
is
also
nothing
which
putteth
me
into
a
greater
trembling
of
feare
,
then
to
discourse
vpon
the
glory
of
the
Virgin
Mary
&c.
he
proceedeth
shortly
after
to
say
this
;
Quae
enim
vel
Angelica
puritas
&c.
What
purity
though
Angelicall
will
presume
to
compare
it selfe
to
this
virginity
,
which
was
made
worthy
to
become
the
sacred
repose
of
the
Holy
Ghost
?
But
how
great
and
how
precious
was
the
vertue
of
thy
humility
with
so
great
purity
,
with
so
great
innocency
,
with
a
conscience
wholy
free
from
sin
,
yea
with
the
fullnes
of
so
much
grace
?
Whence
hadst
thou
humility
,
&
so
great
humility
,
O
thou
blessed
Creature
?
Indeed
thou
wert
worthy
whom
our
Lord
should
regard
,
whose
beauty
the
King
should
desire
,
by
whose
fragrant
odour
he
might
be
drawne
from
that
eternall
resting
place
of
his
Fathers
bosome
.
Behould
,
O
B.
Virgin
,
we
accompany
thee
a
far
off
,
as
we
may
,
with
these
acclamations
,
whilest
thou
art
ascending
to
thy
throne
.
Let
it
be
an
effect
of
thy
piety
to
make
knowne
vnto
the
world
that
grace
which
thou
foundst
with
God
,
by
obteyning
through
thy
holy
prayers
pardon
for
such
as
are
faulty
,
cure
for
the
sicke
,
strength
of
mind
for
the
weake
,
comfort
for
the
afflicted
,
and
help
and
liberty
for
such
as
are
in
danger
.
And
now
in
this
day
of
thy
solemnity
&
ioy
,
by
thee
,
O
gracious
Queen
,
let
thy
Sonne
Christ
Iesus
our
Lord
(
who
is
God
for
euer
blessed
aboue
all
thinges
)
bestow
the
giftes
of
his
grace
vpon
vs
his
poore
seruants
,
who
with
prayse
are
calling
vpon
the
sweet
name
of
Maria.
These
are
some
of
those
passages
,
which
I
find
recorded
amongst
many
others
of
some
few
Fathers
,
who
partely
speake
,
though
but
compendiously
,
in
the
Roman
Office
or
Breuiary
,
and
some
other
few
which
I
take
out
of
their
own
vndoubted
workes
,
whereby
the
Reader
may
see
not
only
the
iudgement
of
the
Church
,
but
how
expresse
,
and
earnest
the
most
excellent
members
thereof
haue
beene
,
and
how
deuoutly
they
haue
not
only
celebrated
the
praises
,
but
recommended
themselues
to
our
B.
Ladyes
prayers
And
there
would
neuer
be
an
end
if
I
should
striue
to
deliuer
the
almost
infinite
attributes
of
excellency
which
they
haue
giuen
to
her
,
which
some
of
her
deuout
seruants
,
hauing
gathered
out
of
their
works
,
they
grow
euen
to
fil
whole
bookes
.
Among
others
the
Margarita
,
&
Hebdomada
Mariana
may
be
considered
,
where
the
Reader
shall
find
S.
Irenaeus
,
S.
Cyprian
,
S.
Athanasius
,
S.
Ephrem
,
S.
Epiphanius
,
S.
Ambrose
,
S.
Chrysostome
,
S.
Augustine
,
S.
Gregory
,
S.
Iohn
Damascen
,
S.
Anselme
,
S.
Bernard
with
the
rest
of
these
later
ages
,
who
haue
al
striued
to
expresse
themselues
,
as
there
you
may
find
particulerly
cyted
,
in
calling
her
;
The
window
of
heauen
;
The
treasure
of
the
Diuinity
;
The
solace
of
the
world
;
The
woman
which
transfused
grace
into
vs
;
The
ensigne
of
fayth
;
A
cause
of
saluation
to
mankind
;
The
throne
of
the
Diuinity
;
The
Captaine
Generall
;
The
fountaine
of
all
Consolation
;
The
ioy
of
Saints
;
The
Queene
of
Angells
;
The
Mother
of
Mercy
;
The
mother
of
the
liuing
;
The
succour
of
such
as
are
in
danger
;
A
Queen
assisting
,
and
raigning
at
the
right
hand
of
her
Sonne
;
The
vnlocker
of
Heauen
gates
;
The
scepter
which
commandeth
all
;
The
roote
of
glory
;
The
rose
which
hath
perfumed
all
thinges
with
heauenly
odours
;
A
temple
beautifyed
by
the
holy
Ghost
;
She
who
confoundeth
all
hereticall
prauity
;
The
scepter
of
orthodoxall
Fayth
;
A
mountaine
of
our
Lord
prepared
in
the
top
of
the
mountaines
.
Innumerable
I
say
are
the
Attributes
of
honour
which
the
Holy
Fathers
haue
giuen
to
this
sacred
Virgin
,
and
many
of
them
haue
beene
deliuered
,
though
with
great
profit
,
and
piety
,
yet
in
such
affectuous
tearmes
,
as
the
Catholikes
at
this
day
dare
scarcely
vse
,
through
the
extreme
malignity
of
our
Aduersaryes
and
hers
:
because
as
there
is
no
word
which
may
not
haue
diuers
significations
;
so
they
will
be
sure
to
interprete
them
euer
in
the
worst
sense
:
whereas
Charity
requireth
iust
the
contrary
.
And
if
they
proceeded
according
to
the
rule
thereof
,
they
would
neuer
charge
,
either
the
holy
Fathers
,
or
vs
their
children
with
derogating
any
thing
from
Almighty
God
,
by
the
honour
we
do
to
our
B.
Lady
.
But
whensoeuer
they
find
vs
to
ascribe
any
quality
or
title
to
her
,
which
to
a
weake
,
or
wrong
iudgment
may
seeme
only
to
belong
to
him
;
they
may
know
once
for
all
,
that
we
impute
such
thinges
to
God
as
to
the
Tree
,
from
which
she
tooke
her
growth
;
he
is
the
fountaine
,
she
is
the
streame
;
he
is
the
great
Artificer
and
primary
cause
,
and
she
a
most
eleuated
Instrument
;
he
is
the
Sunne
,
and
she
the
Beame
,
whereby
he
hath
communicated
his
light
,
and
heat
to
this
darke
&
frozen
world
of
ours
.
So
that
they
need
not
thus
peruersly
continue
to
aske
vs
what
it
is
,
that
we
can
say
more
in
honour
of
Christ
,
then
we
say
in
honour
of
our
B.
Lady
?
For
we
can
say
,
and
we
do
say
according
to
these
most
true
professions
,
and
protestations
following
,
which
may
for
euer
serue
to
the
iustification
of
our
whole
practis●
heerein
,
and
for
the
discouery
of
their
either
folly
,
or
malice
that
oppose
it
.
We
professe
this
difference
between
the
excellency
of
Christ
our
Lord
,
and
that
of
the
B.
Virgin
,
That
the
B.
Virgin
is
no
more
but
a
pure
creature
,
but
that
Christ
is
God
,
and
so
there
is
no
comparison
at
all
betweene
the
excellency
of
God
,
and
her
;
That
in
respect
of
God
she
is
infinitely
lesse
then
the
least
graine
of
dust
is
lesse
then
the
whole
world
;
That
it
was
the
only
goodnes
of
God
,
that
chose
her
first
out
of
all
mankind
to
be
his
Mother
;
That
all
her
greatnes
,
and
perfection
dependeth
vpon
the
first
grace
that
God
gaue
her
.
This
I
say
,
is
that
we
all
professe
,
and
this
being
supposed
and
kept
inuiolable
,
it
is
euident
that
whatsoeuer
honour
or
excellency
we
ascribe
to
her
,
so
far
we
are
from
robbing
God
Almighty
of
his
honour
by
it
,
as
that
on
the
contrary
side
we
highly
honour
him
,
in
acknowledging
his
vnspeakable
benignity
and
bounty
towardes
mankind
,
a
part
whereof
he
hath
so
much
enobled
,
as
to
make
it
the
Mother
,
and
the
so
worthy
Mother
of
Christ
our
Lord
,
who
is
also
God
.
Now
,
since
the
honour
we
do
to
the
most
sacred
Virgin
,
proceedeth
only
from
this
roote
,
&
the
dependance
thervpon
:
let
it
be
considered
what
a
ridiculous
proposition
this
is
?
That
we
dishonour
Christ
by
the
excesse
of
honour
which
we
do
to
the
Mother
of
God
,
whome
yet
we
chiefly
honour
,
because
she
was
his
Mother
,
and
whome
we
honour
not
at
all
beyond
the
capacity
of
a
pure
creature
.
These
propositions
being
then
supposed
,
it
will
be
leudly
done
heerafter
,
by
such
as
shall
take
exceptions
at
the
termes
wherewith
the
Catholike
Church
,
or
her
children
,
haue
thought
fit
to
celebrate
our
B.
Ladyes
memory
.
For
if
they
be
not
rather
schoole
boyes
,
then
schoole
men
,
if
they
be
not
such
as
had
rather
find
a
knot
in
a
rush
,
then
vntye
it
,
they
will
follow
the
counsaile
of
S.
Augustine
in
his
booke
de
vtilitate
credendi
cap.
7.
That
whensoeuer
any
phrase
,
or
speach
is
vsed
by
Catholikes
which
may
sound
lesse
plausible
,
men
are
to
trauaile
vp
and
downe
ouer
a
whole
world
,
if
need
be
,
for
the
finding
of
an
excusable
interpretation
therof
,
rather
then
to
inferre
therby
that
the
doctrine
or
practise
of
the
Catholike
Church
is
impure
.
And
so
much
the
rather
are
they
bound
to
do
it
,
because
there
is
no
word
which
hath
not
in
this
respect
,
the
nature
of
a
Medall
,
that
is
,
it
hath
a
right
side
,
and
a
wrong
;
and
so
hath
euery
garment
which
they
weare
.
And
as
he
were
a
foolish
seruant
that
would
apparell
his
Maister
with
the
wrong
side
outward
,
because
there
are
two
sides
:
so
they
are
to
be
contemned
,
and
cast
out
as
wranglers
who
wil
needs
take
the
words
of
another
man
in
the
ill
sense
,
especially
when
he
protesteth
to
meane
them
in
the
good
;
&
most
certaine
it
is
that
by
the
same
measure
whereby
they
would
take
honour
from
our
B.
Lady
,
vnder
the
pretence
which
they
make
of
our
vsing
termes
that
are
subiect
to
the
misconstruction
of
malice
,
a
man
may
as
well
take
credit
from
the
holy
Scripture
it selfe
which
sayth
;
That
God
Almighty
hath
armes
,
and
leggs
,
and
passions
of
the
mind
like
mortall
and
sinnefull
creatures
.
For
if
those
wordes
be
not
vnderstood
by
a
Religious
discretion
,
that
manner
of
speach
will
proue
as
vnsafe
at
least
as
any
other
that
we
vse
,
when
there
is
question
of
doing
honour
to
our
B.
Lady
.
But
as
our
case
standeth
,
we
need
not
,
that
our
Aduersaryes
should
put
themselues
to
ouer
much
paynes
,
since
by
the
professions
that
are
already
made
it
is
euident
,
how
all
titles
of
honour
vnder
God
may
agree
to
the
B.
Virgin
,
and
not
only
that
they
may
be
giuen
without
sin
,
but
that
it
is
both
piety
in
them
that
do
it
,
and
impiety
in
them
that
oppose
to
it
.
What
dishonour
is
it
to
an
earthly
King
,
if
his
Mother
be
called
the
Queen
of
his
Countrey
:
the
kingdom
is
known
to
belong
in
right
of
propriety
to
the
King
and
she
leaueth
not
to
be
a
subiect
though
she
haue
the
honour
to
be
called
,
&
to
be
the
Queen
?
Or
what
dishonour
were
it
to
a
King
,
if
that
Queene
were
called
the
Queen
of
his
subiects
,
of
whose
persons
howsoeuer
the
King
alone
can
dispose
in
rigour
,
yet
who
among
them
(
being
indeed
a
loyall
,
&
louing
subiect
to
the
King
)
would
not
hould
himselfe
for
happy
,
in
being
able
to
execute
any
iust
commandment
of
his
Mothers
?
Thus
thinges
do
passe
euen
heere
on
earth
,
and
it
is
well
that
they
passe
so
;
for
these
are
not
apish
customes
,
nor
humorous
inuentions
,
nor
effects
of
seruile
flattery
,
but
they
flow
from
reason
,
and
nature
,
and
they
are
warrantable
by
all
lawes
,
both
diuine
and
humane
.
And
when
any
thing
is
so
warrantable
,
a
man
may
well
inferre
,
that
in
the
spirituall
Kingdome
of
Christ
such
thinges
are
practised
with
much
more
eminency
,
&
perfection
.
Nor
doth
it
by
infinite
degrees
so
well
become
an
earthly
Monarch
,
that
his
Mother
be
acknowledged
for
the
Queene
of
his
Countrey
,
and
of
his
subiects
,
as
it
becometh
the
Humanity
of
Christ
our
Lord
,
that
the
sacred
Virgin
(
from
whome
he
tooke
all
the
humanity
that
he
had
,
vniting
it
hypostatically
to
the
God-head
)
should
haue
the
honour
to
be
the
Queene
of
heauen
which
is
his
Contrey
,
and
the
Queene
of
Angells
&
Saints
who
are
his
subiects
;
and
who
are
glorious
,
and
immortall
by
the
merits
of
that
bloud
which
he
tooke
from
her
alone
,
and
vnited
it
to
himselfe
.
CHAP.
XI
.
THvs
standeth
the
case
concerning
the
Attributes
of
honour
,
which
Catholikes
are
glad
they
haue
the
grace
to
giue
our
B.
Lady
:
and
touching
the
other
point
of
her
inuocation
,
which
is
also
both
auowed
,
&
deuoutly
practised
by
the
Fathers
,
whome
I
haue
alleadged
,
and
with
whom
,
and
in
whose
company
I
might
cyte
the
rest
,
If
inuocation
of
the
Saints
in
generall
,
and
in
particuler
of
the
glorious
Virgin
be
reiected
,
our
Aduersaryes
must
doe
it
first
(
if
they
will
be
true
to
their
own
grounds
)
for
reasons
drawne
from
Holy
Scripture
.
When
they
presse
vs
to
proue
it
by
testimony
therof
,
they
are
iustly
tould
,
that
they
proceed
impertinently
.
For
they
are
the
men
who
should
proue
it
to
be
forbidden
by
Scripture
,
&
not
we
that
it
is
expresly
enioyned
.
For
vnles
it
be
forbidden
,
they
cannot
vpon
that
reason
disclaime
from
the
vse
thereof
,
who
doe
themselues
practise
diuers
things
,
whereof
there
is
no
expresse
commandment
in
Holy
Scripture
,
as
namely
they
baptize
Infants
,
and
they
obserue
the
Sabbaoth
vpon
the
Sunday
&c.
the
eating
of
bloud
,
and
strangled
meats
,
was
prohibited
to
the
Christians
of
the
Primitiue
Church
which
yet
the
Caluinists
make
no
scruple
to
eate
as
well
as
we
,
which
in
vs
is
no
offence
,
who
obey
the
Church
,
which
telleth
vs
that
the
tyme
of
keeping
the
Sabbaoth
was
ceremoniall
,
and
consequently
abrogated
by
the
comming
of
Christ
,
&
that
the
Precept
about
abstaining
from
those
meats
was
but
temporary
,
and
that
now
the
date
therof
is
expired
.
But
our
Aduersaryes
,
who
say
they
are
only
guided
by
that
which
is
deliuered
to
them
in
Scripture
,
are
conuinced
by
their
owne
practise
to
be
Hypocrits
;
and
may
iustly
,
be
doubly
accompted
so
,
if
whilest
they
practise
those
thinges
which
are
expresly
against
the
Commandment
of
Holy
Scripture
,
they
do
yet
reiect
the
Inuocation
of
Saints
,
only
because
we
do
not
shew
as
they
say
,
that
it
is
expresly
inioyned
by
Scripture
.
Two
reasons
they
vse
to
bring
against
it
,
the
former
whereof
pretendeth
to
shew
,
that
it
is
not
lawfull
,
the
latter
that
it
is
not
conuenient
.
But
whosoeuer
marketh
their
proceeding
well
,
shall
find
the
weaknes
of
their
cause
by
this
,
that
howsoeuer
these
reasons
be
of
very
different
nature
,
and
independent
of
one
another
;
yet
if
they
be
well
encountred
,
they
neuer
sticke
to
either
of
these
pretences
a
part
,
but
are
euer
hopping
,
or
rather
halting
from
one
to
the
other
.
The
former
of
them
is
,
That
(
forsooth
)
inuocation
of
Saints
is
both
derogatory
to
the
honour
of
God
,
and
iniurious
to
the
mediation
of
Christ
;
and
then
they
display
their
colours
(
for
they
are
but
colours
)
Gloriam
meam
alteri
non
dabo
:
Vnus
est
mediator
Christus
Iesus
;
But
howsoeuer
to
the
first
place
of
Scripture
it
is
truly
answered
,
that
the
Glory
which
there
is
spoken
of
,
is
the
Glory
incommunicable
,
and
only
due
,
and
proper
vnto
God
himselfe
;
but
that
the
Glory
giuen
by
vs
to
Saints
in
beseeching
them
to
pray
for
vs
,
is
both
so
far
of
an
inferiour
nature
,
as
that
we
impart
it
to
sinnefull
men
and
women
,
as
often
as
we
recommend
our selues
to
their
prayers
;
and
we
also
giue
by
them
,
a
particuler
increase
of
honour
to
God
,
in
acknowledging
the
mercy
he
sheweth
to
his
creaturs
whilest
he
enableth
his
better
seruants
to
assist
vs
.
To
the
second
,
no
more
occurreth
to
be
sayd
,
but
that
Christ
our
Lord
is
the
only
mediatour
of
Redemption
,
whereof
the
Apostle
speaketh
in
that
place
;
but
if
he
were
also
the
only
mediatour
of
Intercession
betweene
God
and
man
,
not
only
should
all
the
Children
in
England
be
ill
brought
vp
,
when
they
are
appointed
to
aske
their
Parents
blessing
,
but
the
holy
Apostle
himselfe
when
he
commended
the
necessity
of
his
soule
to
the
prayers
of
the
Romans
,
The
third
place
breedeth
so
little
difficulty
,
as
that
it
scarce
deserueth
an
answere
.
For
our
B.
Sauiour
therein
exhorteth
all
men
who
were
either
ouer-burthned
with
the
obligations
of
the
old
Law
,
or
frighted
with
the
horrour
of
their
ould
consciences
,
that
they
would
resort
to
him
,
as
to
one
that
would
deliuer
them
from
both
.
But
he
was
far
from
diuerting
the
members
of
his
body
from
participating
with
the
rest
of
their
owne
communion
,
and
from
approaching
to
his
mercy
,
by
the
meanes
of
his
deerest
seruants
,
whether
they
liued
still
in
this
earthly
pilgrimage
,
or
were
transplanted
into
that
Garden
of
Eternall
glory
.
And
if
the
meaning
of
these
passages
of
Holy
Scripture
had
been
such
as
the
Caluinists
pretend
,
it
were
strang
that
no
one
Father
of
the
Church
in
any
age
should
interprete
them
towards
the
impugnation
of
the
inuocation
of
Saints
.
Nay
euen
by
the
Scripture
it selfe
which
cannot
be
contrary
to
Scripture
,
we
are
taught
that
this
place
doth
contribute
nothing
to
the
Caluinists
opinion
;
since
we
find
diuers
instances
of
men
,
that
came
to
God
by
meanes
of
the
prayers
of
other
men
,
who
yet
were
so
farre
from
derogating
therby
,
either
from
the
glory
of
God
,
or
their
owne
good
otherwise
,
as
that
therby
they
obtayned
their
iust
desires
.
There
was
a
tyme
when
Almighty
God
made
the
children
of
Israë
know
,
that
he
would
not
pardon
them
,
The
second
reason
which
they
bring
against
the
inuocation
of
Saints
,
is
because
they
say
,
they
cannot
heare
vs
.
Let
this
therfore
be
considered
of
,
and
let
them
talke
no
more
of
the
former
,
since
these
depend
not
vpon
one
another
.
It
is
euident
in
the
history
of
Tobias
,
by
the
relation
of
the
Archangell
Raphael
,
that
the
Angells
of
heauen
do
so
reioyce
at
the
conuersion
of
sinners
?
That
the
Angells
were
still
offering
vp
their
prayers
which
were
made
vpon
earth
?
We
are
taught
also
by
Truth
it selfe
,
Againe
,
Onias
,
Ieremias
,
and
other
Saints
,
after
they
had
departed
out
of
this
life
,
did
instanily
,
and
incessantly
make
their
prayers
for
the
inhabitants
of
this
world
;
what
inconuenience
can
be
imputed
by
our
Aduersaryes
to
the
beliefe
we
haue
,
that
in
his
face
who
seeth
all
things
,
they
see
also
the
prayers
we
make
to
him
by
their
meanes
?
And
since
we
all
professe
that
the
Saints
of
heauen
are
completely
happy
,
how
enuious
deserue
they
to
be
accompted
who
would
abridge
them
of
all
power
to
help
&
heare
miserable
creatures
,
who
ranke
themselues
vnder
their
patronage
,
and
recommend
themselues
earnestly
to
their
assistance
?
Not
as
they
would
do
to
God
vpon
whome
their
good
originally
dependeth
,
and
from
whome
all
grace
and
glory
floweth
;
but
as
to
his
friends
,
and
fauorits
,
who
on
the
one
side
haue
had
experimentall
knowledg
of
our
miseryes
and
on
the
other
side
haue
beene
assumed
to
the
reward
of
eternall
happynes
,
and
are
as
so
many
conueyances
,
and
rich
conducts
of
celestiall
graces
to
the
soules
of
men
.
CHAP.
XII
.
THERE
is
no
article
of
our
Religion
which
is
more
impugned
by
the
enemy
of
mankind
,
then
this
of
Saints
:
&
I
could
name
a
great
Caluinist
,
and
a
great
man
that
liued
not
long
agoe
,
who
could
patiently
inough
be
tould
that
he
was
not
truly
called
to
the
place
he
held
,
who
yet
when
there
was
speach
of
the
inuocation
of
the
B.
Virgin
,
grew
abruptly
into
such
a
passion
,
or
rather
fury
,
as
that
he
seemed
to
be
little
better
then
possessed
.
And
as
all
of
them
are
extremely
auerse
in
the
generality
of
praying
to
Saints
,
so
particulerly
it
hath
place
when
there
is
no
question
of
honouring
,
or
imploring
the
ayde
of
our
B.
Lady
.
But
it
hath
pleased
Almighty
God
in
his
goodnes
,
that
after
the
rate
of
their
malice
who
impugne
this
article
;
so
is
the
euidence
,
whereby
they
are
to
be
conuinced
,
plaine
,
and
testifyed
not
only
by
the
practise
of
the
Church
,
the
expresse
inference
of
Holy
Scripture
,
the
conformity
with
nature
and
reason
,
but
with
infinite
arguments
of
miracles
which
God
hath
set
as
so
many
seales
vpon
this
Truth
.
It
is
strang
(
and
would
be
incredible
,
if
we
were
tould
by
lesse
then
experience
it selfe
)
that
there
should
be
such
a
deale
of
infidelity
in
the
world
,
as
to
make
men
doubt
,
and
of
impudence
as
to
make
them
deny
,
that
the
power
and
gift
of
miracles
is
still
in
the
Church
,
&
that
they
haue
beene
abundantly
wrought
by
the
prouidence
and
power
of
God
,
in
proofe
of
inuocation
of
Saints
,
&
aboue
all
of
the
glorious
,
and
immaculate
Virgin
the
Mother
,
the
Daughter
,
and
the
Spouse
of
God
.
There
is
no
corner
of
the
Christian
Catholike
world
,
which
is
not
full
of
them
;
but
no
tyme
or
place
will
be
able
more
redily
to
rise
vp
in
iudgment
against
our
Caluinists
,
then
the
mercy
of
this
kind
which
God
hath
shewed
,
in
honour
of
the
sacred
Virgin
,
in
these
very
dayes
of
ours
,
and
euen
in
the
next
confines
of
our
Country
.
For
they
are
great
numbers
of
most
certaine
miracles
which
haue
beene
wrought
in
Brabant
neere
to
Sichem
,
in
a
Chappell
there
deuoted
to
our
B.
Lady
.
The
storyes
of
the
men
,
and
women
that
haue
receaued
miraculous
cure
by
the
prayers
of
the
B.
Virgin
,
to
whome
they
recommended
themselues
,
after
exact
,
and
seuere
examination
of
the
parties
themselues
,
of
the
persons
who
knew
them
both
before
and
after
,
of
whole
Colledges
of
Phisitians
&
Surgeons
who
had
been
formerly
priuy
to
their
infirmityes
,
haue
been
proued
and
inrolled
in
the
records
of
principall
Cittyes
.
Yea
&
the
prouidence
of
God
hath
beene
such
,
as
to
make
some
one
of
these
miracles
,
fall
vpon
the
most
known
begging
cripple
of
a
whole
Country
,
Iohn
Clement
.
They
are
wont
to
tell
vs
,
I
know
not
what
of
counterfaited
miracles
;
and
I
doubt
not
but
diuers
may
haue
beene
counterfaited
,
and
that
euen
in
the
Apostles
dayes
,
as
well
as
ours
:
but
so
far
off
is
that
from
prouing
that
ther
are
no
true
miracles
,
as
this
would
be
a
ridiculous
inference
:
The
Kings
hand
is
counterfeited
,
therfore
the
King
knoweth
not
how
to
write
his
name
.
It
would
rather
hould
on
the
otherside
,
That
because
sometims
either
for
pride
,
or
profit
some
men
are
so
wicked
as
to
counterfeite
miracles
,
it
is
an
euident
signe
that
true
miracles
are
wrought
sometymes
,
which
no
man
would
els
be
so
sottish
as
to
counter faite
,
as
no
man
would
counterfeite
the
Kings
hand
if
the
King
could
not
write
.
But
howsoeuer
,
I
assure
the
Reader
in
the
word
of
a
Christian
,
and
as
in
the
presence
of
God
,
who
needeth
not
that
any
man
should
tell
a
lye
in
his
behalfe
,
and
who
will
grieuously
punish
such
impostures
wheresoeuer
he
findeth
them
,
That
the
Church
our
Mother
detesteth
all
such
impotent
,
&
impure
proceeding
;
and
excommunicateth
such
as
concurre
to
the
countenancing
therof
.
And
as
by
occasion
of
the
frequent
miracles
wrought
lately
in
diuers
parts
of
Brabant
,
there
haue
beene
some
found
so
wicked
,
as
to
the
vttermost
of
their
power
,
to
make
some
very
few
false
miracles
passe
for
true
ones
;
so
(
the
prouidence
of
God
working
by
the
prudence
of
such
as
haue
the
office
of
looking
into
those
matters
)
they
haue
beene
detected
,
and
grieuously
punished
with
whipping
,
hauing
their
tongues
bored
through
,
and
being
banished
out
their
Countrey
,
as
appeareth
vpon
record
in
Bruxells
.
And
in
those
parts
where
miracles
haue
beene
so
frequently
seen
in
these
later
tymes
,
the
examination
of
the
truth
of
them
doth
not
(
as
God
would
haue
it
)
lye
there
in
the
handes
of
Ecclesiasticall
persons
(
whome
the
rage
of
heresy
is
wont
to
charge
with
at
least
conniuency
in
this
point
,
if
not
collusion
)
but
the
custome
hath
beene
of
many
yeares
,
for
the
secular
Magistrates
to
take
knowledge
thereof
,
who
will
not
be
pretended
euen
by
our
Aduersaryes
to
be
so
partiall
as
those
others
.
Now
,
for
asmuch
as
concerneth
the
truth
,
or
falshood
of
our
miracles
,
although
it
should
be
true
that
the
most
part
of
them
are
wholy
false
(
which
yet
is
no
more
possible
then
that
the
whole
world
except
our
Aduersaryes
,
should
be
all
growne
fooles
or
knaues
)
yet
if
all
that
were
graunted
,
and
that
yet
either
they
shall
confesse
,
or
it
may
be
iustifyed
that
any
one
miracle
was
euer
wrought
by
God
vpon
the
prayers
made
to
our
B.
Lady
,
with
the
inuocation
of
her
ayde
,
(
which
truth
the
Diuell
himselfe
is
not
so
dogged
,
or
so
damned
as
to
deny
)
one
of
these
two
thinges
will
follow
,
that
either
Almighty
God
hath
cooperated
so
far
to
a
false
doctrine
,
as
to
credit
it
by
supernaturall
meanes
(
which
cannot
be
conceiued
without
blasphemy
)
or
els
that
the
inuocation
of
Saints
,
and
in
particuler
of
the
immaculate
and
most
glorious
Virgin
,
cannot
be
impugned
,
or
denyed
without
hereticall
impiety
.
And
if
the
inference
of
one
true
miracle
be
so
pregnant
,
what
will
that
be
which
may
be
made
from
so
many
hundreds
,
which
howsoeuer
they
be
most
euidently
true
,
and
most
easily
knowne
to
be
so
,
we
are
the
lesse
to
wonder
at
the
incredulity
of
our
Aduersaryes
,
through
the
doctrine
which
is
deliuered
in
the
person
of
Abraham
,
and
recorded
by
the
Euangelist
S.
Luke
,
had
Moyses
among
them
and
the
Prophets
,
and
if
they
refused
to
heare
them
,
neither
would
they
beleeue
though
one
should
rise
to
them
from
the
dead
.
By
changing
only
the
termes
it
falleth
out
to
be
the
Caluinists
case
,
who
hauing
the
Church
of
Christ
in
such
a
visible
,
and
vndoubted
manner
before
their
eyes
,
do
yet
contest
,
yea
and
detest
the
authority
thereof
;
for
the
punishment
of
which
peruersnes
,
the
most
vndoubted
miracles
which
are
wrought
by
God
,
in
confirmation
of
the
doctrine
which
she
teacheth
,
The
corporall
miracles
wrought
by
God
at
the
intercession
of
our
B
Lady
are
in
a
manner
innumerable
;
yet
are
they
few
in
comparison
of
the
spirituall
miracles
,
which
are
dayly
seene
by
the
conuersion
of
soules
to
Gods
seruice
,
through
the
prayers
of
the
Mother
of
God
and
vs
.
It
is
most
certainely
true
and
knowne
to
be
so
,
that
innumerable
sinners
haue
beene
reduced
to
pennance
before
their
death
,
to
which
grace
they
were
neuer
knowne
to
haue
had
any
other
disposition
,
but
by
some
tendernes
of
deuotion
,
though
imperfect
,
which
in
their
harts
they
euer
carryed
to
our
B.
Lady
.
Innumerable
they
are
who
only
comming
into
those
Sanctuaryes
,
where
God
hath
been
most
honoured
in
the
deuotion
borne
to
his
B
Mother
(
as
particulerly
in
that
holy
house
of
Loretto
)
and
there
hauing
recommended
themselues
(
though
vnworthily
inough
)
to
our
B
Lady
,
they
haue
yet
found
themselues
,
sometymes
strocken
downe
with
the
horrible
feare
of
Gods
iudgmentes
,
sometymes
raised
vp
with
an
extraordinary
hope
of
mercy
sometymes
strocken
through
with
reflecting
vpon
the
vglines
and
basenes
of
sinne
as
that
in
the
same
very
instant
they
haue
resolued
vpon
a
whole
change
of
their
liues
,
without
taking
any
longer
tyme
then
of
so
many
minutes
as
might
conduct
them
,
and
cast
them
at
the
feet
of
a
Ghostly
Father
,
for
the
making
of
entire
Restitutions
,
the
quitting
of
sensuall
conuersations
,
the
deposing
of
mortall
or
rather
immortall
emnityes
,
and
the
performing
of
such
other
heroicall
,
and
high
acts
of
mind
;
which
as
they
cannot
be
purchased
but
by
the
infinite
merit
of
Christs
passion
,
so
that
is
neuer
more
comfortable
,
and
effectually
applyed
,
then
by
the
meanes
of
our
B.
Ladyes
sacred
protection
,
and
deare
prayers
.
And
although
the
acts
&
records
of
these
spirituall
miracles
be
not
so
well
kept
in
parchment
as
are
the
corporall
;
yet
I
appeale
to
the
conscience
of
obseruing
and
curious
Catholikes
,
which
cannot
faile
to
beare
witnes
with
me
of
this
truth
,
that
the
bowels
of
our
B.
Ladyes
compassion
do
by
the
prouidence
of
God
extend
themselues
as
much
more
frequently
to
the
strang
cure
of
soules
then
of
bodyes
,
as
the
body
is
lesse
considerable
then
the
soule
:
in
so
much
as
a
whole
Citty
in
Italy
hath
been
found
vpon
some
deuotion
which
it
hath
taken
to
our
B.
Lady
,
In
the
same
manner
if
the
State
of
Brabant
,
and
the
Prouinces
adioyning
(
for
as
much
as
concerneth
Morality
or
Religion
)
be
considered
,
and
the
difference
well
weighed
concerning
the
great
example
of
vertue
,
and
manners
,
and
the
integrity
of
Fayth
,
to
the
contrary
in
both
these
respects
,
whereby
those
countryes
were
indangered
vntill
the
miracles
(
wrought
by
the
intercession
of
our
B.
Lady
,
neere
Sichem
,
and
other
places
)
made
them
cast
a
quicker
eye
of
humble
deuotion
towardes
her
:
If
it
be
considered
I
say
,
how
all
the
states
of
people
are
admirably
improued
since
that
tyme
,
all
such
,
as
togeather
with
common
sense
haue
not
the
poyson
of
preiudicate
passion
in
their
harts
,
and
heades
,
will
acknowledge
the
powerfull
and
gracious
hand
of
our
B.
Lady
in
this
heauenly
worke
,
and
will
not
faile
to
esteeme
it
for
a
spirituall
miracle
.
It
is
tyme
that
I
grow
to
a
conclusion
,
and
I
will
procure
to
tye
it
vp
in
as
straite
a
compasse
as
I
can
.
I
haue
endeauoured
to
shew
,
how
highly
our
B.
Lady
is
honoured
by
the
testimony
of
holy
Scripture
,
and
to
remoue
such
obiections
as
her
Aduersaryes
take
from
thence
,
whereby
to
do
her
disparagement
.
I
haue
shewed
her
Genealogy
,
her
Beauty
,
her
perfection
of
vertue
which
filled
the
whole
world
with
heroicall
actions
.
I
haue
accompanyed
that
discourse
,
with
shewing
how
the
whole
Church
hath
imployed
it selfe
in
her
deuotion
,
&
how
the
ancient
,
most
holy
,
and
most
learned
Fathers
haue
endeauoured
to
excell
one
another
in
piety
towardes
her
,
wherein
the
Sectaryes
of
our
tyme
are
as
wholly
vnlike
them
as
in
other
thinges
.
I
haue
offered
to
the
Readers
consideration
the
authority
both
of
corporall
,
and
spiritual
miracles
,
wherby
Almighty
God
hath
as
it
were
laboriously
concurred
,
in
this
age
of
ours
,
towardes
the
planting
of
a
Trophey
to
our
B.
Lady
in
the
harts
of
all
men
.
Happy
are
they
who
meane
to
take
occasion
heereby
,
either
to
begin
,
or
to
increase
in
a
most
reuerend
,
and
filiall
affection
towardes
her
:
and
most
happy
should
I
accompt
my selfe
,
if
the
little
which
I
haue
beene
able
to
say
,
or
doe
,
might
cause
some
few
mites
,
after
the
example
of
this
of
myne
,
to
be
cast
into
the
rich
Treasury
of
her
Prayses
.
CHAP.
XIII
.
BVT
it
is
to
be
considered
(
for
now
I
chiefly
speake
to
my
fellow-Catholikes
)
that
the
knowledge
of
our
B.
Ladyes
greatnes
,
and
goodnes
must
not
go
for
a
speculatiue
,
but
for
a
practical
kind
of
knowledge
,
because
it
doth
excitare
animum
ad
amorem
,
excite
the
mind
of
man
to
loue
,
as
also
it
must
be
remembred
that
true
loue
is
not
idle
,
but
operatiue
,
and
doth
shew
it selfe
by
a
conformity
of
the
will
towardes
that
of
the
partie
beloued
.
And
therfore
as
in
the
beginning
of
this
discourse
,
I
moued
my
Reader
to
contract
friendship
with
the
Queen
of
Angells
(
for
as
her
Humility
holp
to
make
her
so
,
so
her
greatnes
maketh
her
not
yet
the
lesse
humble
,
or
depriueth
her
of
vouchsafing
to
contract
an
indissoluble
league
of
amity
with
the
meanest
of
those
soules
,
for
which
the
Son
of
God
and
her
was
pleased
to
dye
)
so
now
in
the
end
of
it
,
I
can
aduise
nothing
more
to
purpose
,
then
that
the
law
of
true
friendship
towardes
her
may
be
performed
,
which
is
idem
velle
,
and
idem
nolle
,
to
will
,
and
not
will
the
same
thinge
.
We
haue
already
seene
how
she
stood
affected
in
this
life
,
al
which
was
spent
with
extrem
ioy
of
hart
in
Pouerty
,
Chastity
,
Recollection
,
Mortification
,
Humility
,
Patience
,
and
Charity
.
The
thinges
that
she
cared
not
for
,
were
the
contrary
of
all
those
vertues
,
&
now
that
she
is
assumed
both
in
body
and
soule
,
into
that
height
of
glory
which
exceedeth
the
capacity
of
all
the
rest
of
Creatures
put
togeather
,
what
other
thing
can
she
will
,
in
respect
of
her selfe
,
but
the
good
Will
of
God
;
and
what
other
thing
can
she
wil
concerning
vs
,
but
that
euery
one
in
his
seueral
calling
should
adore
with
her
the
same
Will
of
God
,
&
procure
to
ariue
at
that
iourneys
end
,
by
those
wayes
which
she
hath
traced
out
for
our
wandring
steps
-
It
will
not
become
me
to
deliuer
any
opinion
,
or
to
giue
any
aduise
of
the
particuler
deuotions
,
which
men
should
do
wel
to
nourish
in
themselues
,
towards
this
B.
Lady
.
The
natures
,
&
affections
,
and
spirits
of
men
are
different
,
and
it
would
be
hard
for
a
wiser
man
then
my selfe
to
chance
faire
,
in
the
giuing
of
any
such
addresse
.
The
most
generally
imbraced
deuotions
which
are
performed
to
her
be
two
.
The
former
whereof
is
the
reciting
of
the
Rosary
,
which
was
cast
into
that
method
by
that
great
Patriarch
S.
Dominicke
,
the
Founder
of
a
most
florishing
Order
.
It
is
a
most
excellent
kind
of
prayer
,
compounded
both
of
mentall
&
vocall
.
The
Vocall
consisting
all
of
Pater
Nosters
,
and
Aue
Maria's
(
which
are
also
of
that
kind
the
most
excellent
prayers
)
and
the
Mentall
part
,
hauing
no
lesse
matter
for
the
subiect
,
then
all
the
principall
Mysteryes
of
our
B.
Sauiours
incomprehensible
Incarnation
,
his
most
admirable
life
,
his
most
dolorous
Passion
,
and
most
glorious
Resurrection
,
and
Ascension
.
The
other
is
of
the
Sodality
of
our
B.
Lady
,
so
called
by
the
society
which
men
haue
one
with
another
,
in
doing
her
honour
and
seruice
,
and
consequently
in
being
happy
by
her
assistance
.
It
was
principally
instituted
in
remembrance
of
her
most
glorious
Assumption
.
The
practise
thereof
consisteth
in
mens
resoluing
at
their
first
entrance
,
vpon
a
renouation
of
their
life
,
by
making
then
a
generall
confession
,
and
by
growing
afterwardes
in
spirit
through
the
frequenting
of
Sacraments
at
certaine
tymes
,
vnder
the
happy
conduct
and
direction
of
the
Fathers
of
the
Society
of
Iesus
.
And
in
particuler
,
besides
the
fasting
vpon
the
eues
of
all
our
B.
Ladyes
feasts
,
and
the
recyting
of
those
Psalmes
,
and
Prayers
euery
day
whereof
her
Office
is
composed
,
it
doth
recommend
a
carefull
and
dayly
examination
of
the
conscience
,
especially
for
the
getting
and
keeping
of
that
purity
,
which
maketh
the
soule
so
gratefull
in
the
sight
of
God
.
They
meet
togeather
at
least
once
a
weeke
,
and
then
they
receaue
light
and
help
towards
the
performing
both
of
that
which
hath
beene
sayd
already
,
as
also
for
the
exercising
of
such
workes
of
charity
,
whether
they
be
corporall
or
spirituall
,
as
in
their
seuerall
callinges
they
can
reach
vnto
,
namely
visiting
the
sicke
,
burying
of
the
dead
,
releasing
of
prisoners
,
reconciling
of
enemies
,
and
the
like
.
And
both
to
this
Sodality
,
and
to
that
other
company
of
the
Rosary
,
great
Indulgences
are
applyed
by
the
Sea
Apostolike
,
and
the
particulers
aswell
of
priuiledge
as
obligation
,
may
easily
be
learnt
,
by
such
as
will
,
of
their
Ghostly
Father
.
As
for
priuate
deuotions
some
exercise
themselues
in
saying
their
Beades
,
in
contemplation
of
the
most
holy
actions
of
our
B.
Lady
:
Others
say
the
holy
Office
before
mentioned
,
which
the
Church
hath
composed
in
her
prayse
of
Psalmes
,
and
Lessons
taken
out
of
Holy
Scripture
for
that
purpose
:
Others
recite
her
Letanyes
,
wherby
she
is
both
highly
praysed
,
and
by
her
principall
attributes
prayed
vnto
:
Some
fast
vpon
the
Saturday
,
because
that
day
is
particulerly
dedicated
to
her
seruice
:
Some
take
a
discipline
or
weare
a
haircloth
in
vnion
of
the
spiritual
Martyrdome
that
she
suffered
:
Some
make
a
vow
of
Chastity
in
conformity
with
her
more
then
Angelicall
purity
:
And
some
there
be
who
giue
often
almes
for
her
sake
with
as
good
a
will
as
if
it
were
for
the
reliefe
of
her
wonted
pouerty
.
These
deuotions
with
many
others
are
performed
by
good
Christians
in
the
Catholike
Church
,
wherwith
to
honour
the
Mother
of
God
.
Let
euery
man
continue
in
that
,
wherin
he
findeth
himselfe
most
to
profit
;
for
there
is
none
of
them
which
procureth
not
,
to
the
reuerend
vsers
thereof
,
extraordinary
comforts
in
this
life
,
and
which
layeth
not
vp
incomparable
rewards
for
the
next
.
I
only
desire
leaue
,
that
I
may
expresse
a
poore
thought
of
myne
.
It
is
,
that
for
as
much
as
our
B.
Lady
hath
the
office
of
assisting
our
soules
when
they
are
to
depart
out
of
this
life
(
as
doth
euidently
appeare
by
the
practise
of
the
Church
which
commandeth
her
children
to
call
dayly
&
hourely
vpon
her
for
that
purpose
)
I
thinke
it
would
be
profitable
,
and
nothing
painefull
(
for
such
as
haue
the
means
)
to
giue
dayly
(
by
way
of
addition
to
their
other
deuotions
)
some
little
almes
,
though
it
were
but
a
penny
(
or
euen
lesse
rather
then
nothing
,
where
lesse
coyne
is
to
be
found
)
in
honour
of
the
immaculate
Conception
of
our
B.
Lady
,
to
which
misery
English
Catholiks
haue
reason
to
be
particulerly
deuoted
(
because
in
England
it
grew
soonest
to
be
most
declared
)
&
this
to
be
offered
to
the
end
that
she
may
be
pleased
in
particuler
manner
to
assist
,
&
comfort
their
soules
in
that
fearefull
passage
.
Such
as
will
not
charge
their
memoryes
to
call
this
to
mind
,
or
will
not
trouble
their
handes
in
disposing
of
so
miserable
an
almes
,
shall
do
wel
(
though
yet
lesse
well
)
in
commanding
some
very
honest
seruant
to
do
that
duty
;
but
with
this
further
caution
,
that
if
by
negligence
the
almes
of
one
day
should
be
forgotten
,
the
next
day
it
must
not
faile
to
be
doubled
;
and
they
who
are
so
poore
as
to
want
this
meanes
,
whether
they
be
Religious
persons
or
secular
may
insteed
of
that
litle
almes
make
some
litle
prayer
in
honour
of
our
B
Lady
,
in
contemplation
of
the
same
Mystery
,
and
in
expectation
of
the
same
benefite
:
I
haue
not
heard
of
a
shorter
,
or
a
sweeter
prayer
then
this
which
was
vsed
by
that
holy
Archbishop
of
Canterbury
S.
Ans●lme
,
and
may
in
this
case
be
thrice
repeated
,
P●e
Domine
Iesu
,
parce
seruo
Matris
tuae
.
Amen
.
O
deare
Lord
Iesus
,
forgiue
the
seruant
of
thy
Mother
.
Amen
.
And
I
haue
also
knowne
this
other
,
vsed
by
some
great
seruants
of
God
,
and
with
admirable
successe
in
their
necessityes
,
Maria
Iesu
,
sponsa
Ioseph
,
per
immaculatam
Conceptionem
tuam
,
&
purissimam
Virginitatem
tuam
adiuua
me
.
O
Mary
the
Mother
of
Iesu
,
&
the
spouse
of
Ioseph
,
by
thy
immaculate
conception
:
and
thy
pure
virginity
I
beseech
thee
to
assist
me
.
For
as
we
cannot
better
expresse
our
loue
to
Christ
our
Lord
,
then
by
giuing
honour
to
our
B.
Lady
;
so
neither
can
we
more
obligingly
honour
her
,
then
by
reuerently
remembring
her
only
Sonne
,
and
her
deare
Spouse
S.
Ioseph
,
as
heere
is
done
.
But
to
make
either
of
these
prayers
with
good
hope
of
grace
,
a
man
must
indeed
be
her
Seruant
,
as
is
expressed
in
the
former
of
them
;
and
though
I
do
but
point
out
the
other
particuler
deuotion
,
without
daring
to
aduise
in
the
election
,
I
must
needes
aduenture
to
recommend
two
generall
considerations
,
wherof
the
one
will
facilitate
the
other
.
The
first
of
them
may
be
,
to
accustome
ones
selfe
after
an
easy
,
and
liberall
manner
,
and
without
ouer
paineful
reflection
,
to
conserue
in
the
eyes
of
his
mind
,
the
continuall
presence
of
our
B.
Lady
,
&
to
consider
the
Nobility
,
and
Solidity
,
togeather
with
the
extreme
Facility
wherewith
she
performed
all
her
actions
:
and
the
second
to
breed
,
and
cherish
a
kind
of
tender
,
&
sweet
affection
to
her
name
,
to
her
prayse
to
her
festiuityes
,
to
her
deuoted
seruants
,
and
to
be
frequent
in
giuing
God
entiere
thankes
for
the
infinite
graces
which
he
imparted
to
her
,
and
wherewith
she
did
so
diuinely
cooperate
.
This
practise
of
this
deuotion
,
need
not
distract
any
man
from
others
,
it
need
not
displace
his
temporal
busines
,
the
vse
of
it
rather
may
be
to
fill
vp
vacant
tyms
;
and
I
know
no
cause
,
why
a
man
may
not
hope
from
hence
to
find
such
helpes
,
as
may
serue
to
make
him
runne
with
pleasure
through
the
cariere
of
this
disordered
,
and
distastfull
life
.
For
whosoeuer
be
the
authour
of
this
conceipt
,
to
me
it
seemeth
no
ill
one
:
That
as
the
strength
of
a
spiritual
mans
life
must
proceed
to
him
from
the
bloud
and
consideration
of
the
Passion
of
our
B.
Sauiour
:
so
his
comfort
,
and
delight
in
God
is
the
vsuall
effect
of
the
sacred
milke
,
and
the
contemplation
of
the
life
of
our
B.
Lady
.
Of
whose
goodnes
to
mankind
let
vs
heare
and
ponder
what
S.
Bernard
sayth
,
Sileat
misericordiam
tuam
Virgo
beata
&c.
Let
him
,
(
if
any
such
there
be
)
who
can
remember
that
thou
didst
euer
fayle
him
,
when
he
inuoked
thyne
ayde
in
his
necessity
;
but
as
for
vs
thy
poore
seruants
,
when
we
consider
the
rest
of
thy
vertues
,
we
reioyce
rather
in
respect
of
thee
;
but
in
this
of
thy
mercy
we
are
glad
in
regard
of
our selues
.
We
prayse
thy
Virginity
,
we
admire
thy
Humility
,
but
yet
thy
Mercy
is
to
vs
of
a
sweet
tast
.
We
imbrace
thy
Mercy
more
dearely
,
we
remember
it
more
frequently
,
and
we
inuoke
it
more
feruently
.
Thus
he
.
And
whosoeuer
shall
consider
the
life
of
Saint
Bernard
,
one
of
the
most
deuout
seruants
of
our
B.
Lady
that
she
euer
had
,
and
see
how
full
it
was
on
the
one
side
of
extrem
austerity
,
&
sicknes
,
&
yet
on
the
other
how
his
soule
did
euen
regorge
againe
with
the
excesse
,
and
satiety
of
spirituall
comfort
,
will
easily
find
in
the
passages
of
it
,
that
our
B.
Lady
is
a
Mistresse
well
worth
the
seruing
,
and
that
she
did
cast
some
such
ingredient
into
the
bundle
of
myrrh
,
that
S.
Bernard
would
needs
lay
next
his
heart
,
as
made
him
euen
languish
and
halfe
dye
with
loue
.
CHAP.
XIIII
.
HOw
fit
then
it
were
,
that
since
the
Caluinists
will
not
follow
the
instinct
of
this
most
holy
Father
,
in
giuing
high
honour
to
our
B.
Lady
,
they
should
at
least
heare
the
voyce
of
the
very
Mahometans
themselues
,
who
notwithstanding
,
that
they
beleeue
not
our
B.
Sauiour
to
haue
been
the
Sonne
of
God
,
but
only
that
he
was
an
holy
man
,
and
an
extraordinary
Prophet
,
yet
after
the
rate
of
the
Mother
of
such
a
Prophet
,
they
frankely
yield
so
high
honour
to
our
B
Lady
,
and
they
mention
her
purity
and
excellency
vpon
al
occasions
with
such
tender
and
entiere
respect
,
as
no
Caluinist
in
the
whole
world
hath
beene
euer
knowne
to
do
.
For
howsoeuer
when
a
Catholike
shall
ioyne
issue
with
a
Caluinist
in
the
hearing
of
moderate
men
of
his
own
Religion
,
concerning
the
excellencyes
of
our
Lady
,
he
wil
be
drawn
to
say
(
though
duly
inough
)
that
she
was
a
most
happy
creature
,
a
blessed
Virgin
,
and
in
fine
our
Sauiours
Mother
:
yet
as
it
is
euident
that
they
do
not
penetrate
and
ponder
the
vnspeakable
dignity
which
the
being
of
his
Mother
doth
inuolue
;
so
they
are
neuer
carryed
to
do
her
honour
with
any
willingnes
and
cheerefullnes
,
but
only
as
it
were
by
constraint
,
and
violence
.
Some
of
them
wil
prayse
her
faintly
,
when
they
see
that
they
must
dispraise
themselues
if
they
do
it
not
;
but
otherwise
if
a
man
leaue
them
to
the
worke
of
Nature
,
and
of
the
principles
which
indeed
they
hold
concerning
her
,
a
man
may
liue
amongst
them
so
many
yeares
as
to
make
euen
Matthusalem
seeme
yong
,
before
he
find
them
once
enter
voluntarily
into
any
affectuous
speach
in
honour
of
her
,
exprofesso
.
For
the
proofe
heere
of
I
might
appeale
to
euery
mans
particuler
experience
,
and
to
the
conscience
of
my
Reader
at
large
.
But
to
shew
it
yet
better
,
as
vpon
Record
,
let
it
be
considered
,
that
since
Caluinisme
was
set
on
foot
,
there
hath
not
beene
(
for
ought
that
euer
I
could
learne
)
any
one
discourse
or
book
writen
by
any
one
of
that
profession
in
honour
,
and
admiration
of
this
B.
Virgin
,
either
to
publish
her
prerogatiues
,
or
to
reflect
vpon
her
vertues
,
or
to
make
contemplations
vpon
her
most
holy
and
happy
actions
;
and
much
lesse
to
exhort
the
world
to
imitate
that
most
excellent
Originall
of
piety
,
which
she
did
set
before
vs
by
her
life
and
conuersation
.
Nay
in
all
my
dayes
I
haue
not
beene
able
to
vnderstand
that
euer
they
bestowed
so
much
as
one
expresse
sermon
in
honour
of
her
,
wherein
howsoeuer
they
might
(
according
to
their
erroneous
beliefe
)
haue
discredited
the
doctrine
of
her
inuocation
,
yet
withall
they
might
at
least
haue
largly
described
,
&
praised
her
vertues
,
they
might
haue
magnifyed
her
prerogatiues
,
they
might
haue
perswaded
men
to
the
imitation
of
her
examples
,
if
in
their
harts
they
had
prosecuted
her
with
true
affection
and
admiration
.
For
could
this
omission
peraduenture
come
from
want
of
matter
worthy
to
be
obserued
in
the
B.
Virgin
?
Or
be
these
thinges
but
fables
which
haue
been
brought
out
of
Scripture
,
and
layd
heere
before
your
eyes
?
No.
But
the
true
reason
is
,
that
there
is
something
in
the
spirit
of
etrour
,
which
is
not
compatible
with
a
true
,
and
tender
,
and
filiall
reuerence
of
affection
to
the
sacred
Virgin
,
which
maketh
them
all
carry
a
kind
of
tooth
towardes
her
:
some
grinne
,
and
shew
it
,
others
beare
it
with
more
appearance
of
modesty
,
but
with
no
lesse
malice
,
and
generally
all
of
them
haue
some
kind
of
antipathy
(
whereof
some
of
themselues
do
scarse
know
the
roote
)
against
her
.
By
whome
although
their
soules
may
be
assisted
and
fauoured
as
soone
,
and
sometymes
before
they
haue
the
grace
to
desire
so
great
a
blessing
;
yet
their
opinions
are
hated
by
her
who
brought
him
forth
,
that
hath
beene
the
destruction
of
all
former
,
and
will
be
so
of
all
future
heresyes
.
And
it
should
seem
that
the
enemy
of
mankind
finding
the
wound
to
be
so
deadly
which
he
hath
receaued
in
great
part
by
her
meanes
,
procureth
to
reuenge
himself
in
a
particuler
manner
,
by
arming
such
as
he
hath
drawn
into
errour
,
towardes
an
auersion
from
her
.
For
whereas
Catholikes
are
taught
to
know
that
they
do
not
honour
her
too
much
in
giuing
her
whatsoeuer
a
pure
creature
is
capable
of
,
and
in
beleeuing
her
to
haue
been
preserued
by
the
speciall
prerogatiue
of
Almighty
God
,
from
those
shames
,
and
sinnes
to
which
all
the
rest
of
mankind
is
subiect
;
and
euen
the
Mahometans
though
they
do
not
so
much
as
beleeue
in
the
diuinity
of
our
Sauiour
Christ
,
yet
do
they
admire
,
and
magnify
her
out
of
the
very
historicall
relation
that
they
haue
of
her
life
:
These
other
aduersaryes
of
Gods
Truth
,
and
Church
(
whereof
they
once
were
,
though
now
they
are
departed
from
thence
)
such
as
are
only
Iewes
,
and
Heretikes
be
the
only
two
races
of
men
,
that
can
be
found
vnder
the
cope
of
heauen
(
for
the
Pagans
know
little
of
her
)
to
haue
lift
vp
their
hands
,
and
opened
their
mouths
to
the
reproach
and
blasphemy
of
this
sacred
,
and
immaculate
Virgin
.
But
I
would
beseech
them
euen
by
the
bowells
of
Christ
Iesus
our
Lord
(
if
they
care
indeed
for
those
bowells
of
his
,
who
carry
no
more
reuerence
to
these
bowels
of
hers
which
brought
him
forth
)
that
if
they
will
not
be
as
pious
towardes
her
as
they
ought
,
they
will
at
least
not
be
so
dangerously
imprudent
as
they
are
to
themselues
.
Let
them
take
heed
how
they
continue
to
arme
themselues
towards
the
assault
of
this
Tower
of
strength
:
He
that
stumbleth
vpon
it
shall
fall
,
and
he
vpon
whom
the
stone
falleth
,
shall
be
driuen
to
powder
:
which
howsoeuer
it
be
principally
,
&
litterally
true
of
him
,
in
regard
of
them
who
offend
him
first
,
and
afterward
prouoke
him
to
take
vengeance
of
them
for
their
other
sinnes
;
yet
experience
telleth
vs
,
that
it
carryeth
some
proportion
towards
such
others
as
oppose
themselues
,
and
offend
the
honour
of
our
B.
Lady
,
who
haue
come
,
after
liues
led
in
extreme
obscurity
of
mind
and
misery
,
to
end
wretchedly
in
despayre
.
I
remit
my selfe
to
good
obseruers
,
whether
some
such
as
hauing
beene
Catholikes
,
and
comming
after
to
loose
(
togeather
with
their
Religion
)
the
very
reputation
both
of
Christianity
,
and
common
honesty
,
haue
not
beene
formerly
knowne
to
carry
a
secret
,
and
subtile
spite
to
the
honour
of
our
Lady
:
and
on
the
other
side
,
I
could
for
a
need
name
some
Caluinists
,
who
being
in
a
faire
way
to
obtaine
both
temporall
,
and
eternall
felicity
by
finding
themselues
to
be
moued
internally
to
grow
into
some
tendernes
of
deuotion
towards
our
B.
Lady
,
vpon
an
expresse
resistance
of
those
good
motions
,
and
a
fortifying
themselues
in
the
contrary
purpose
,
haue
fallen
into
such
pouerty
,
and
misery
,
and
disreputation
,
and
confusion
,
as
that
,
at
the
instant
wherein
now
I
speake
,
they
are
growne
to
be
the
very
By-wordes
,
and
Prouerbs
of
the
places
wherein
they
liue
.
And
as
for
such
as
are
,
and
by
the
grace
of
God
are
to
continue
of
our
communion
,
whether
they
be
of
England
,
or
any
other
Countrey
(
as
there
is
a
latitude
in
the
natures
,
and
inclinations
of
men
)
and
some
euen
amongst
vs
are
much
more
deuoted
to
our
B.
Lady
then
some
others
(
yet
so
that
none
of
vs
doe
not
take
ioy
in
giuing
her
gladly
all
her
rights
,
none
of
vs
that
do
not
extoll
her
,
none
of
vs
that
do
not
desire
her
prayers
,
that
God
Almighty
may
be
mercifull
vnto
vs
through
Christ
our
Lord
:
)
so
I
can
protest
,
as
in
the
diuine
presence
,
that
whosoeuer
they
be
amongst
vs
,
that
are
,
and
appeare
to
be
the
most
tenderly
affected
towards
the
honouring
,
and
louing
of
this
sacred
Virgin
,
are
also
found
to
be
the
men
who
in
other
respects
deserue
to
be
acknowledged
as
most
eminent
in
all
kind
of
Angelicall
vertue
.
So
that
deuotion
to
her
,
is
not
only
a
distinct
signe
between
good
and
bad
,
that
is
,
between
Catholikes
and
no
Catholikes
,
but
it
is
in
like
manner
a
signe
of
difference
betweene
good
,
and
better
,
that
is
between
ordinary
Catholikes
and
such
others
,
as
are
the
best
amongst
vs
.
And
though
some
may
haue
their
mouths
and
pens
ful
of
her
prayses
,
whilest
their
harts
are
voyde
of
her
vertues
(
and
I
beseech
Iesus
from
my
very
soule
that
my selfe
may
not
be
found
the
foremost
of
that
ranke
)
yet
in
the
generality
,
that
proportion
which
I
first
deliuered
is
most
certainely
true
.
Towards
the
further
building
vp
of
her
greatnes
,
in
the
iudgment
of
any
reasonable
man
,
I
will
desire
him
yet
to
let
one
only
other
stone
be
added
,
by
remembring
that
Parable
of
the
Penny
,
which
was
giuen
for
the
dayes
worke
in
the
Ghospell
,
and
by
considering
that
speach
of
our
Sauiour
which
he
vsed
against
those
enuious
old
labourers
:
Is
it
not
lawfull
for
me
to
do
what
I
will
with
my
owne
?
Is
your
eye
therfore
euill
because
I
am
good
?
For
heereby
he
may
vnderstand
,
that
Almighty
God
is
not
any
bodyes
Ward
,
that
he
disposeth
of
his
treasures
according
to
the
latitude
of
his
owne
heart
;
and
that
he
would
haue
the
world
rather
enlarge
it selfe
towards
the
admiration
of
his
vnspeakable
bounty
,
powred
forth
vpon
his
creatures
,
then
be
accustomed
,
through
certaine
mechanicall
,
and
enuious
little
thoughts
,
to
paint
him
out
,
as
if
he
were
some
miserable
aged
Prince
,
that
were
in
feare
of
being
deposed
,
if
he
should
raise
his
fauorits
to
any
extraordinary
degree
of
greatnes
.
But
the
case
standeth
far
otherwise
;
for
as
God
is
infinite
in
all
thinges
,
so
is
●e
most
eminently
infinite
in
the
communication
,
and
effusion
of
himselfe
vpon
all
such
soules
as
do
nobly
serue
him
,
and
especially
such
as
do
it
with
greatest
perfection
,
and
are
enabled
by
him
to
vndertake
,
and
discharge
the
highest
functions
.
The
Patriarkes
were
made
wonderfully
fit
for
their
offices
,
the
Apostles
for
theirs
,
the
Precursour
of
Christ
for
●his
,
his
supposed
Father
S.
Ioseph
(
who
really
was
his
conductour
,
guide
,
&
gouernour
)
for
his
.
And
so
the
immaculate
,
pure
,
most
gracious
,
and
most
glorious
mother
of
God
,
was
aboue
all
made
most
fit
for
hers
.
But
we
may
first
descend
a
great
deale
lower
,
&
yet
not
loose
the
sight
of
her
greatnes
.
For
there
is
not
the
meanest
of
vs
all
who
shall
not
at
the
day
of
iudgment
,
if
he
dye
in
the
state
of
Grace
,
haue
a
body
which
shall
then
be
knit
to
the
Soule
,
more
glorious
then
the
Sunne
,
as
impassible
as
the
Angells
,
incomparably
more
subtile
then
lightning
;
and
we
cannot
now
so
easily
translate
a
thought
from
one
end
of
the
world
to
another
,
as
then
we
shall
be
able
to
transport
our selues
,
as
it
were
in
an
instant
.
We
shall
be
immortall
,
we
shall
be
Heires
of
the
kingdome
of
heauen
,
we
shall
be
Coheirs
with
Christ
,
and
if
he
be
a
King
,
we
shall
all
be
also
kings
of
heauen
.
Fellowship
in
possessing
of
that
kingdome
doth
not
weaken
,
or
lessen
the
excellency
of
dominion
,
as
it
would
do
heere
on
earth
:
but
it
doth
highly
beautify
and
increase
it
through
the
vnion
of
will
,
which
reigneth
in
those
happy
soules
.
Our
Sauiour
speaking
to
his
Apostles
and
disciples
,
and
in
their
persons
to
such
as
would
keep
his
commandments
,
entreth
so
far
by
words
of
tendernes
as
to
despoyle
them
of
seruitude
,
and
to
cloath
them
with
the
precious
robes
of
friendship
;
We
see
then
the
vnspeakable
bounty
of
Almighty
God
towards
all
such
as
are
to
prayse
and
serue
him
in
the
Court
of
heauen
for
all
eternity
;
we
see
that
some
of
vs
shall
iudge
the
world
;
That
we
shal
iudge
Angells
;
That
we
shall
be
Kings
of
heauen
,
heires
to
God
,
and
coheirs
with
Christ
;
yea
and
,
That
euen
in
this
life
such
as
keep
his
Commandements
are
already
intituled
by
the
name
of
Friends
,
or
Fauorits
of
Christ
Iesus
.
And
is
it
possible
for
any
Christian
to
haue
so
little
,
and
so
poore
a
soule
,
as
to
thinke
that
the
Mother
of
God
is
not
to
be
honoured
in
a
manner
much
superiour
to
all
this
?
Is
it
possible
that
since
God
doth
not
make
Officers
as
earthly
Kings
make
them
(
who
take
such
as
they
find
,
whether
they
be
good
or
bad
,
&
so
they
continue
)
but
he
first
maketh
men
fit
for
the
places
to
which
he
calleth
them
?
Is
it
possible
,
since
the
dignity
of
the
Mother
of
God
,
doth
vnspeakably
exceed
the
dignity
of
Patriarchs
,
Prophets
,
Precursours
,
Apostles
,
and
whatsoeuer
imployment
wherof
a
pure
creature
is
capable
,
that
any
man
should
be
so
voyd
of
natural
Logick
as
not
to
draw
an
argument
from
the
lesse
to
the
greater
:
That
if
the
lesse
hath
much
excellency
,
the
greater
hath
much
more
?
Or
rather
that
he
should
haue
so
little
wit
,
or
common
sense
,
as
not
to
see
,
That
as
in
numbers
the
more
do
exceed
the
fewer
,
so
our
B.
Lady
doth
outstrip
all
the
other
creatures
of
God
in
greatnes
in
grace
,
in
authority
,
and
in
Maiesty
.
Let
not
therefore
our
Aduersaryes
,
(
for
so
in
respect
of
their
opinions
they
wil
needs
deserue
to
be
called
)
deceaue
themselues
.
Mary
Magdalen
(
as
wasting
that
precious
oyntment
vpon
his
head
,
and
crying
out
that
it
should
rather
haue
beene
imployed
vpon
the
poore
)
would
as
willingly
,
&
perhaps
with
as
much
reason
,
haue
giuen
his
voyce
with
Iudas
against
Christ
,
as
these
men
do
eagerly
maligne
and
of
whome
I
haue
seene
some
grow
pale
,
and
euen
sicke
through
the
rage
of
enuy
,
when
they
obserue
how
curious
,
and
costly
we
are
content
to
be
in
our
desire
,
not
only
to
anoynt
as
it
were
,
and
adorne
the
head
of
this
sacred
Virgin
with
our
prayses
,
but
to
cast
our selues
at
her
pure
feet
by
our
Inuocations
.
Therefore
heere
the
Prouerbe
may
well
come
in
,
All
is
not
gould
that
glistereth
;
and
that
twinckling
Brother
,
who
in
the
zeale
he
pretendeth
to
carry
to
Gods
honour
,
doth
secretly
repine
and
snarle
at
that
of
our
Blessed
Lady
,
insteed
of
making
for
himselfe
a
Crowne
in
heauen
,
may
then
be
hammering
out
eternall
chaynes
for
his
soule
in
Hell
.
This
may
serue
to
them
for
a
word
of
aduice
,
that
at
least
they
may
vse
modesty
in
this
matter
,
if
they
will
not
be
drawne
to
vse
piety
.
But
we
Catholikes
are
farre
from
needing
such
aduice
as
this
,
who
know
our
dutyes
towardes
the
blessed
Mother
of
Almighty
God
,
and
who
are
not
,
in
this
respect
,
to
be
drawn
from
lesse
wandring
,
but
to
be
incouraged
towardes
a
faster
going
.
I
doe
therefore
presume
to
cast
my selfe
,
with
most
entiere
veneration
,
at
thy
pure
feet
,
O
thou
most
gracious
,
and
most
triumphantly
glorious
Queene
of
Heauen
,
the
Mother
of
my
Sauiour
,
&
my
God
,
the
summe
and
top
of
all
excellency
,
and
perfection
vnder
him
.
I
beseech
thee
by
those
thy
immaculate
bowells
of
mercy
which
imbraced
,
and
inclosed
the
Lord
of
life
by
those
sacred
brests
which
gaue
him
sucke
and
fed
him
towardes
the
accomplishment
of
our
Redemption
,
looke
downe
vpon
vs
with
those
eyes
,
which
since
they
be
thyne
,
cannot
choose
but
be
of
extreme
compassion
.
Looke
not
only
vpon
vs
but
vpon
those
others
also
whom
before
I
mentioned
who
howsoeuer
they
be
our
Brethren
according
to
the
flesh
,
yet
they
will
needes
make
themselues
strangers
from
the
Couenant
of
thy
Sonne
,
rightly
vnderstood
,
and
particulerly
from
doing
thee
the
honour
that
belongs
to
his
most
worthy
,
and
most
sacred
Mother
,
Tros
,
Tyriusque
tibi
nullo
discrimine
—
Intercede
for
vs
who
are
now
begging
thy
assistance
;
intercede
for
them
,
who
do
not
so
,
to
the
end
that
they
may
haue
the
grace
to
do
it
.
Tota
pulchra
es
amica
mea
,
&
macula
non
est
in
te
:
Thou
art
all
faire
,
and
sweet
,
thou
wast
as
entierely
immaculate
in
thy
Conception
,
as
in
thy
Assumption
.
There
was
neuer
any
sinne
in
thee
,
or
any
sad
aspect
towardes
vs
.
Then
let
me
resort
to
that
notion
of
Friendship
,
wherewith
I
began
this
discourse
,
which
I
yet
am
making
in
thy
honour
.
We
Catholiks
are
thy
humble
,
&
obsequious
seruants
,
and
Serui
are
humiles
amici
;
a
kind
of
humble
friendes
we
are
in
being
thy
seruants
:
nor
wilt
thou
disdaine
to
know
vs
by
the
name
of
Friends
since
Christ
himselfe
thy
Sonne
our
Sauiour
vouchsafed
to
call
,
and
accompt
them
his
friends
,
that
follow
his
directions
,
as
hath
beene
sayd
.
Performe
to
vs
therefore
,
all
those
parts
of
Friendship
,
and
protection
,
which
thy
State
of
Glory
may
affoard
,
and
our
State
of
misery
doth
need
;
and
obtaine
Grace
for
vs
,
that
we
may
neuer
fayle
of
Fayth
,
and
loyalty
towardes
thee
.
Thou
art
the
Woman
who
wert
not
only
cloathed
by
the
Sunne
,
but
thou
didst
also
cloath
the
Sunne
of
Iustice
,
whilest
thy
immaculate
flesh
,
and
bloud
was
imparted
to
the
Sonne
of
thy
womb
.
By
him
we
beg
of
thee
,
that
thou
wilt
intercede
for
vs
to
him
,
that
we
may
liue
in
his
feare
,
and
dye
in
his
fauour
:
and
that
as
heere
we
haue
the
comfort
to
enioy
thee
,
as
our
chiefe
Mediatrix
of
Intercession
towards
him
;
so
with
thee
&
at
thy
feet
,
we
may
prayse
,
and
glorify
him
in
al
eternity
,
as
our
only
Mediatour
of
Redemption
.
FINIS
.