Jesus, Maria, Joseph; or, the devout pilgrim, ... 1657
Crowther, Arthur Anselm.
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As a public and permanent Testimony - and Proscription of our being entirely vowed and addressed to your sons, and your honor and service; And we are therefore induced by much more forcible reasons than such as are wont to move men to make an Oblation of their works, to the worthy of this world: For first, you. Glorious Virgin! are the greatest Princeſs of the whole universe, and can therefore repay our endeavours with more real rewards than the richest earthly Monarch can confer upon his Clients. Moreover, you are meek, mild, and merciful, and therefore will not disdain the meanest offerings of your devoted and well-meaning Vaſſalls: Furthermore, The particular and perſonal Favours we have already received, by your powerful patronage, prayers, and protection; (Favours, which can be denied without a space of infidelity) nor disguised without doing you an apparent injury, more suppressed without our expressing ingratitude) give us a certain kind of hopefulness and clemency that (according to your wonted goodness and clemency) you will not now reject us. Hub bofiie you with ohafs present, as For The put on our Je-pre who have so proudly heretofore helped and relieved us, in our own urgent and present favor. And finally, This Book, over aghast Queen-Mocher! Fands immed of your (peculiar favor, to render it fruitful to its Readers; For whoever will make right use thereof, must have simple and Dove-like eyes, saying only at Heaven; single and distressing Hearts, pretending nothing but Piety; humble was obedient spirits, captivated to Faith's mysteries; docile, diligent, and devout souls; willing to learn how they may praise their thoughts to celestial affairs, whilst their tongues run over their common prayers and supplications. Truly, earnest and ardent desires to imitate your Sons, and your vertue, and to express in their lives, manners, and conversations, what they represent and resolve in their meditations. All which necessary capacities, you (O singularly perfect and powerful Virgin!) can principally obtain for them; and which we. Beſeech-you, (O most compaſionate) 'Mother!' I do prepare for 1, and for all the devout children of your sacred Redeemer. A 3 sermons fary; that so or daily Prayers may not be without fervent affections, nor sacred affections without efficacious works nor our works without the sweet fruits of. Eternall life. We pretend not here to worthy Mother of the Word Eternall and Incarnate! To make a Panegyric of your prayers, which were a defirm far above our forces; and we willingly acknowledge, that our wings are too weak, to raise us up to this Sphere of wonders; that our dim eyes were strength to support the radiant splendor of this divine Sun; that we should lose our selves in this large Ocean of your Mervails and fezzally that by our over-near approaching so great a Majesty, we should infallibly act by your Glory. But should we undertake to impossible a task, and adventure upon such an enterprise; have we not summed up all the advantages of your glory, by styling you God's worthy. Mother? Surely to be Mother of the Sayerian Deity, is a Swupreme Dignity, (Since it is the basis, ground-work and foundation of all imaginable things, but yet "tis incompatibility of perception to defer the dignity, pity, and glory of this divine. than to possess it; so that had you, O most holy Virgina, Mother, you deserved it, having it, you had remained much greater than by having it. For your wealth was worth so swiftly to your Mother. For the King, my Dignity to your dearest, as your Dignity might not have separated from your Dignity, as your Dignity might not have separated from your Dignity. Therefore, you have made choice of some other person than your self-sacrificing Wife, as also he could have considered you this plenitude of Grace, whereby you acquired your worth without able to make you believe to make you his Mother; whence it must evidently follow, that deserving to become God, Mother, though you had not been so, is to you a man of great dignity, than had been to another to be so, without having deserved it: And though the greatest Gratificatian, which God can bestow upon a simple creature, is to make it his Mother, yet this kindly considered, is commonly an act of pure Gratification; whereas your Sanctity (Ossarred Virgin) had it not been joined to youraternity, would nevertheless have raised you to that prime place you now possess in your fears Fever. For the sake of the Divine Majesty, Since it is to avouch, That the desert of your Person agrees with the greatest of your Prerogative; and that the great cause of your merit, corresponds to the glory of your Maturity; which is so eminent a Dignity that the Almighty by his absolute power, can exalt no Person created being to any higher pitch of perfection. A Dignity, which the origin, the measure, and the abridgment of all your other numberless excellencies, privileges, and great uses. Adignity, to which they all yield homage as subjects to the Sovereign, on which they all yield homage as subjects to the Sovereign, on which they are all derived a virtue from the Fountain. A Dignity, which (except only God Sovereign Divinity, and our Reformer Sacred Hamanity) the highest subject, the highest object, the highest entertainment of Ment and. A EL -, STRATE; : And what merwail is it, (O Mother!) "EI" "Of God! if me (odles) weak: spirited, By all by wretches! falter in Expressive, eloquent tongues and pens tremble Gleet to treat of this your divine and ins Comprehenable Title? The great Bishop S, Gregory of Neu. Famomu worker of Miracles and wonders, Can find 29 words to unfold the infinite excellencies which are included in The three Syllables, "Gods Mother, Here, his wit, his language, his learning fail him; when he is to fall upon the unexplicable subject, The worthy and wise Prelate of Confrance Saint Epiphanius Serm, de Deipara, professes himself unfortunate for presuming to adventure upon such impossible an employment, as is the explanation of your perfidiousness; the deep exercise whereof so seized all the faculties of his Soul with fear and astonishment, that his heart became (as it were) dry-dusted by his heart, and he became (as it were) dry-dusted by his heart. 4th dress a sufficient apprehension, Bernard [Serm, 4: de Annunciation] A 5 though EefariaſSerm.de Annunciatione] Though he was brought up (if we way - jy) in your bezéed boom and felt at your sacred breasts, yet Sing eni. ouſly protests, that nothing more mazes, terrifies, and troubles Himself. than to treat of your greatness and glories, because they are unspeakable. Innplicable, incomprehensible, Wherefore with these holy Saints we say well confess our incapacities to celebrate your prayers (O great and glorious Mother of God!) and so casting our eyes on the ground, before the Throne of your Greatness; we admiringly (with faithfulness) gaze upon the bush afar off, burning in the flames of the Divinity, without being diminished and reduced into ashes; we expressly reverence, (in the very bottom of our hearts and Souls, and with a chastity and awe,) God's Royal Sanctuary, replenish with all sorts of celestial provisions. We proclaim aloud with S. Gregory, Neocceſarienſis, [Serm, 2. de Annunc.] that the Jenſen this only word, God's. Mother, exceeds all other Encomiums, which Men and Angels can confer upon you, We willingly profess with S. Bernars On this day, We willingly profess with S. Bernars To deny We receive with S. Bernars To deny We receive with all the perfections Which can be collected from his various Creatures, adding that he yet infinitely Excels whatever we have said of him: Sowhenwe speak of you (most sacred Mother of God!) and have rallied together all the dispersed rarities, ornaments, and excellencies, wherewith this Passionate and peculiar world can furnish Our tongues, Pens, and farcies, we just ly conclude, that you not only possess them all, but incomparably out-praise them. We further assert, (being supported by S. John Damaſcens [orat. r, de Nativits B.M. and $, Ildephonſu's lib, de Virgin: & parturitione B, V.] authority that who so desires to shadow forth that sublime degree of honour and dignity, to which you, (O Gloriom Virgin) are elevated by becoming Gods Meither in his temporal generation within years bowels, can propose to himself no or power. Jower Idea; than the divinities. etexnall generation in his Fathers become: For as Gods Son is eternally. emanated from the Fathers, frequently, receiving an entrance from himself without any alteration or division of his substance; he is temporally born of you, his blessed mother, without the least blemish, corruption, or violation of your Virginian integrity. Finally, if we may be permitted to say yet higher upon the wings of our contemplation (preaching on the Angelicall Doctors ranged 1. p. Q.25, we clearly perceive through the curtain of this inaccessible Splendor, That you, being and blessed of all creatures, by receiving the honor of being God's mother, are united to a term of infinite perfection, whereby you are in a certain manner elevated to a term of infinite perfection, whereby you appear in some sort to enter into the possession of an Infinit perfeit possession. O Maternity! O Dignity! O submission! What eyes (but those of your divine Son) burnished) can support the piercing dust  of our Lord, with our "Dora" and Speculations, to the non plus ultra gf all created height and perfection. On Sand yet finding our affections deficient, we find ourselves, somewhat longer, in this fair and delights field of your providence. We, therefore, leave to deceive our creditors, and such figurative expressions, as your faithfully devoted Doctors have found out to Parasphaus, to your unparallelled Excellene. We therefore exclaim with the Blessed Archbishop Proclus (in his admirable Oration had upon our Saviour's Birthday in the Council of Ephesus): "You are the pure Treasury, the perfect Ornament, the prime honor of Virginity: you are the splendid Paradise of the second Adam; the delicate Cabinet of that divine Marriage which was made between the two Nations; the great Hall wherein was Celebrated the world's general Reconciliation." Ciliation : yoware the Nuptiall bed « liz the Eternall Word ; the bright Clowd , 1 ſ carrying him who hath the Cherubiys for big.ch.riot ; the Fleece of Wool fild with } % e ſmret dew of Heaven , whereof : WAs W41 wade that admirable robe of our | - Regall Shepherd, in which by woyche | [fel to feck, fber. bis bt heayls you are the Maid and the Mother t he hume | ble Virgin , and the high Heaven both * © togetber.you are the ſacred Bridg,whers by God himſelf deſcended to the Earth, | 104 are that piece of cloath,of which was - © + compos'd the glorious garment off Hye J poſtaticall union ; where the worker mat | #he Holy Ghoſt; the Hand the Vertu of | the moſt high , the wool the old ſpoiles of Adam , the woof your own immaculate Fleſh , and the ſhittle Gods incompre= henjoble goodneſs which freely gave 1a - the ineffable perſon of the Ward -[ n= - earnate. | We continue our glad exclamations with the glorious Martyr Methodius ( orar, in hypopante) yo# ( O moſt Amiable, and Admirable Mother of God!) are the Container of the In comprehenſible ; the Root of the worlds | firſt, beſt, and ad AQ bv Flowers. | #&he Mother of him who made all thingy, &X the Nurſe of him who provides nou» 9 \ riſhment for the whol univerſe ; the Boſom of him who wmfolds all being within his Brea#t; the unſpotted Robe of. bim, who is clath*d with light as witha © | | garment & 7 os ns th Coated "— f twent : you (O'facted Virgio 1 ) are - $allieport , through which God pe-- | 4 "Wirated into the world ; you are the "ff © Pavilion of the Holy Ghoſt ; and you- of « are the Furnace into which the Al- - wiphty bath particularly darted ( « it- ware ) the moſt feruent Sun-beams of B& deareſt love and affeftion, | We cheerfully ſalute you (O-income- parable Virgin- Mother !) with $. An- .. drewef Jeruſalem ( Serm, de Annun- "ciat ) All haily holy Temple of the Ho= h - "are 5h , triumphant Throne of in-. Reliſh to Adam's whole Race, and seen the Past whereof the true life-giving and soul-saving Bread was composed; Ark. of honor in which God himself was pleased to repose, and where very glory itself became sanctified; Golden Pitcher, containing him who provides sweet Man from heaven, and produces Honey from the rock to satisfy the appetites of his hungry people: Spirituall Mirror of sacred Contemplation, from Heaven, presigner of Gods decree to the earth; you (O-molt lovely Lady Mother!) are the incomprehensible essence of the divine Economy; The admirable house of Gods humiliation, though whose doore he descended to, dwells among us; The living Book, wherein the Fathers Eternall Word was written by the Pen of the Holy Ghost; The ancient and iniquitous Instrument of that happy agreement made between God and Man; The Imperial Character, loader with millions of souls, led by you in triumph, and by you presented to the divine Majesty; The Mountain of Sion, where our Sovereign Lord takes his pleasure, and. recreation; The Pillar of Light, not now conducting a captive people through the desert by a periscope by a periscope, but illuminating the true Israelites, and leading them to their promised land: of Conquest: you (Othe most accomplished of all Creatures!) are pleasing and comely as Pericles, and the aromatic all odours issuing from your garments, outlive all the delights of Mount Lebanon: you are the sacred Pix of celestial parodies, whose sweet exhalations shall never be exhausted; you are the Lamp, the unfading Flower, the Royal vetment, the Eternal Diadem, the Throne of the Divinity the Gate of Paradise, the Queen of the Universe, the Cabinet of the holy Oly; the undying Fide, the Fountain ever-flowing with celestial Illustrations. More words are wanting to the Mother, worthy of all prayers, for the further expression of our Concept, and our Conceptions are to show and languishing to second the ardours of our affections; and yet our Affections are not to be compared to the ardours of our affections. Encolifage 14 to keep on the ninth Carrière of your Commendations and to salute you as a servant, your steadfast servant, pains (Or at least, the honor of virtue, the divine Latham, encompassing that Christian Lamb, whose light outshines the Sun in its midday splendor; The mystical Ark of glory; The undrawny, course of sweetness; The spiritual Sea, whence the worlds rich Pearl was extrafted; The radiant sphere, inclining Him within your sacred folds, whom the Heavens cannot contain within their vast circumference, The celestial Throne of God more pleasing than that of the glories Cherubins; To the temple, Tabernacle, and Seat of the Divinity, Fa. 7. And with Sophronius (Ser. Peter Chrysologus (Serm. de Annunciat, ) but Compassionate such - poor spirited Christians, who pretending to any true knowledge of your Sons great-worship, find no motives to contemplate your glories: O their Ignorance! Stupidity! Infidelity! For what thought can frame right conception concerning any in Motors of ares? And yet separate you from him - your divine Son! The heavens (ays he) are terrified, the two angels tremble, all creatures stand on their knees, and yet you (O blessed Virgin Mother!) remain amazed at the birth of this great-littleness-man-God into the world; whilst you (O blessed Virgin Mother!) remain nameless, and not only lodge him in your bosom, receive him into your embraces, refresh his with your breast-milk, but moreover with a unparalleled confidence, you make him pay for his entertainment, king of his a reward for his nine months lodging, than the grant of a general and universal Peace to the world. Gry for the beavenly Inhabitants, Grace for Eighty Criminals, Life for the dead, a strict league. Between the CHURCH Militant, and Trinm-Phant, and a perpetual Alliance of his divin Perſos with our-haman na-Free. But now, being at an absolute loss, and not knowing what more can be added to these Epithetes of your Excellencies, great successes, and glories; we again beg. We p 0 al 1 gour [cect (O most Blessed Virgurt- "Mother! ) ro breathe out what remains in meer raptures and astonishments: Crying out to you with the great Patrie arch of earth $2 Iona tius (epilt; ad:; "Joan.) O celestial Prodigy! O sacred "[peftacle! © | VR With S. Chrysostom (Sermon. de B. Þ * V.) O Miracle! O Miracle of Mie Þ|; racles! _ With S. Avguftin: (Sermon. 11;"de Þj Temp.) O- Miracles! O Prodigies! ' The Laws of Nature are changed, Goll - becomes Man you (O sacred Virgin!) remaining a maid, are made a Mother; you are a Mother, but without corruption; you are a Virgin, but you have a child; you come entirely, and yet, you become fruitful! O Miracles! O Prodigies! CID. with S, John Damascen (orat- I. Nat. B. V.) O eAbyſmus of IM» r with S, John Damascen (orat- I. Nat. B. V.) O eAbyſmus of IM» r with S. John Damascen (orat- I. Nat. B. V.) O eAbyſmus of IM» r with S. John Damascen (orat- I. Nat. B. V.) O eAbyſmus of IM» r with S. John Damascen (orat- I. Nat. B. V.) O eAbyſmus of IM» r with S. John Damascen (orat- I. Nat. B. V.) O eAbyſmus of IM» r with S. John Damascen (orat- I. Nat. B. V.) O eAbyſmus of IM» r with S. John Damascen (orat- I. Nat. B. V.) O eAbyſmus of IM» r with S. John Damascen (orat- I. Nat. B. V.) O eAbyſmus of IM» r with S. John Damascen (orat- I. Nat. B. V.) O eAbyſmus of acles | you (O Virgin. Mother! ) are as much elevated above the Seraphins', as your Son is humbled below the Angels.' With S. Epiphanius (orat. de Santa Deipara) O extraordinary Prodigie in Heaven A woman, infolding. God be born | O new created throne of her Cherubins. When a man; who is the Father of her Mother | SS & rc 0 I - TU R- z «d. wm no ds | #21710 be directly exposed to the beams Cherubins, containing the Son of a woman. Q:pretions nuptiall bed ; prepard- in. yorr. ſacred womb for the (cleſtiall _ Brigegroom , who us together your own Sox , andthe truly and ovly Son of God, '” With S. Anſelme (lib.deexcellentia Virginis ) Inviting all fatthfull Chris flians » to behold, contemplate , admire. ' the height of honour to which the. Etere nall Fathers affeition hath raiſed you , ( © Royall Virgin-Mother ! ) He had but one only Son every way equall to himſelf, and of his own ſubſtace; and he condeſcended to have him in. common # with you! O bis incomprehenſible Arg = nation | O your incomparable dignity). And finally , with your S, Bernard: ( Hom. 4. ſuper Mifſus eſt) ſolum da- tum eſt nofſe , cui ſolum datum eſt ex+ _ periris your own Greatneſſes (O glori- erm Virgin 1.) are only known to your own ſelf , who only had'the happineſs to experience them..: which . perchance may be the proper meaning of that pro- found [emtence 3 The yertu of the:moſt high ſhall overſhaddow you z where- by the celeſtiall Paranimph . would ſeem to intimate , That as you had the ho- of . of that divin Sun,which by an unheard . of Intimacy and friendſhip , foſter d you- ' #nder the Petar 42 cn or f his own ' fplendor; So you had alſo the riches of Þ_ ur own rare excellenties , prerogne.-. tives, and perfettions reveaÞd unto guns of But beſides your ſelf ( O Blefled M cher 1) who were thus prodigiouſly ads. mitted to be an Instrumental Partner with the most Sacred Trinity in thus secret Mystery? It is in vain to conceive that any other capable of unfold or comprehend them, wherefore we humbly let fall on our weak hand and wearied wings, and convince yourself of miracles (O incomprehensible Mother of God!) be inexplicable, incomprehensible, inacceasing to all created imbecility; the glory whereof must necessarily be reserved by us, and all your dearest and most cherished and admired, to the Son, who hath created such a Daughter; to the Son, who hath chosen such a Mother; to the Holy Ghost, who hath thus enriched, adorned, and beautified his Supreme Palace, his Temple; to the most sacred Trinity, who beareth understandings the sublime height of his own most holy handy. And now, O worthy Mother of God, since we have hitherto presented you with the fervent Actions which your faithful servants have put into our hearts and months, (as well knowing that our own faint inventions could furnish us with none more pithy, or to more pleasing) permit us all to say, "We are the same upon your pious Mother, the Virginitate Mariz cap. 1, for this on our concluding Proclamation, That the height of all our ambitions desires is, To pray you as much as you deserve to be prayed, To love you as much as it is possible to leave you; and to render you as much service as your self can-devise from such calamities as We at the same time desire. Yes, Sacred Queen Mother!) had two hearts larger than the Empire heaven, we would most willingly employ their whole extent in loving you: Had we the Crowns, Kingdoms, Riches of all earthly Monarchs and Princes, and many lives as the Seas have sands, we world most cheerfully leave all, lose all, forfeit all, for the defense of your honor, for The procuring of your affection, for the promoting of your service: Finally, had either of us as much as possible. Fed Cupacity as all creatures have, diligently, it would come far short of our anticipated desires and affections, which are to Love, Honour, and Serve you, perfect, entirely, eternally. Receive our Hearts (O Sovereign Queen of all Hearts!) replenished with these our pious intentions and protections, together with this small Mite, which we here again most humbly offer, up to your sacred Majesty, as a votive. Table of the now promised Homage, we will ever hereafter be performing. In the end that all such as shall make use of these enjoining Devotions, may, already know, that in the solemn tender of this small pledge, we jointly intend to include an absolute Dedication of the whole remainder of our lives and labours to your Love and service; and that we are content every Line, Syllable, Letter, and Title of this Treatise, shall rise so many accués with us to call for just revenge upon us; and remain as so many marks to bring us with eternally inamy, if we at any time hereafter maliciously, ungratefully, dishonor. ally forfeit the sum our maturely made. Resolutions of being your faithful servants: And finally, that we hereby acknowledge in the face of our most sincere thanks. > - X f : ES "hr _— {SN » I, », — Heaven and Earth,to eſteem nothing in this world, ( after the ineſtimable benefits reap'd by the precious Death of Jour divin Son our dear Redeemer CHRIST FESUS) compa- gable to the honour we have in being, Moſt worthy Mother of G O D! The meaneſt of your Chaplains at the Head-Altar of your Holy Roſary , | A. Co and F4 P. _» I» _ 9 ID» _"» 9 O00” M—__— » 7» WV. =D 2 | axpgaaeae4pe88ee | SHITITETSTSX oj PITFTTrOnITE: TO TH E IR Pager, HONORABLE; fd {fe I Nob Patron ; and 7 moſt worthy Pre- {& of this Sacred Confraternity ofthe Rosaxrr. TR; © 72ht Homrable} T. hough thy little Book, 7 hr i» its Front , the | lovely lovely Names of T E:S-0'S;;} MARIA, JOSEPH; can want n0 forreizn recommen; | dation , whereby to invite all faith-h full Chriſtians ,, and eſpecially the devout Roſariſts toreceive and en-® brace it , and that the excellencie, ſublumitie , and utilitie of the ſub- gect , i 103t (elf ,a ſufficient, ſafe guard , nd proteition. Tet ſurely could this Book havel been conveniently dedicated to any Other than the Queen of + Heaven { whoſe honour is its chief aym and entention \ it muſt neceſſarily have] had recourſe unto your ſelf nndey}; whoſe wings it received its-birth i growth ,. and accompliſhment : In acknowledement whereof', andihe": many ſignal faweurs , you have”. charitably conferred upon us and upon this holy Confirmation of the sacred Royalty, we conceived our felicity bound to give this public testimony of our sincerity. We, therefore, in gratitude and with all to declare our earnest desire of contributing something towards your own spiritual advancement and perfection. For notwithstanding that your piety to God, and devotion to the sacred Virgin Mother, are so deeply seated in your heart, it may seem superfluous to let you any assistance in order to their furtherance or confirmation. Let the personal of this present Treasury, which so far exceeds all others of this nature, in the solidity of the deliverance, in the explanation of the most important points, and in the clear, facile, and familiar information of this sort of Press, testify that we need not blush to yield to their judgment, who esteem their fidelity and devotion. The chief of them which have yet. "ſeu. lizht in our mother land, "muſt; needs prove both "pleasing" and profitable unto your, As mess for perfect Mirrour of what you either are already, or zealously wish to be: where you will find, the Fewell to foment your fervour, and Fire to add to it; where you will read the Precepts of Persecution reduced into Prisons, and the Doctrine of Devotion drawn into forms of Duty; Briefly where you may learn a companions way to extract the fruits of your Predestination to glory, to taste the sweetness of heavenly afflictions during this your earthly Piety imagined, and to procure your Souls repose here, and its salvation hereafter, which is the desired end - and Crown of yours, and all pious Christians endeavor And all these Appliances found more, if more can be imagined, are obtained by means of the sacred Rofary, whereby these influences of - ; x: HF; of colefliall blofrwgs flide rffieucte | oufly inpe faithfink boaxts from het 1 * boly hands » who. ws pointed by [| ber oll- powenfull Son t0b6 vhe wh: 5 £ * ritable Difſpenſartiz' of bib atoin ® zreaſures , and the Common Mo- 2; ther of all the piers Chriſtians , & which are regenerated 3 Baptifon-, by his moſt pretions Blood and Paſs Jon. | # For as all they , who are prede- fttnatedto glory,are properly Gods + Children ; ſince they have the felf fame heavenly Father by Grace 8 F- Adoption , which the Son of God 3 -ath by Birth and Nature ( accor= = dingto that expreſſion of S. Johny 5 5 i © = * Þ Behold how great the Fathers g00dnes is towards uszfor that-we ; 3 arecalld8& are the Sons of God:). = And as the Eternall Father in # begetting his Co. eternalf Son, gives Z part of the hawowr of this Divin 3 Eiltation 70 ſuch a5 he forefees cons. 8 b 4 formabl _ " —_ formable to his Sons Image 4 ſo that they may truly call him their Fa- | ther, who is the Father of God's | Son. as himſef expreſly devlares by \ reaching us\ 10 ſay , Our Father which art in heaven : a Sothe Son in his human zenera- | 2$10n ( given him by a Mother upon earth) is pleas'dtomake his friends % partakers with himſelf in the title. of his Temporall Filiation , by gi- X wing them the ſame Mother, whom | he choſe for himſelf; whereby they Þ become Brethren to Gods Son , both. on the Fathers ſide who adopts. them, and on the Mother's side, who by her own Sons will and commands acknowledges them for her Children: Behold your Mother, said our Savior, to all her friends, and Brethren, represented in Saint John's person, Behold, your Children, said he to the sacred Virgin, soewing her Saint John who represented all the faithful Words, appointing her our Mother, and adopting us her Sons: Words, recommending to Her Mother, care and affection towards us, and your loving a faithful duty and reverence towards us, and towards her wards Her. Nor are we only Children of this blessed Mother, being the adopted Brethren of her divine Son, but moreover as being the Children of her Child, by whom we are regenerated to a spiritual life. Thus, thus; She also our Mother's cause, she is Mother to him, by whom we are all re-born to the Life of Grace. Thus we are truly Mary's Children, since we are the fruits of the blessed fruit of her womb. Jesus. She indeed brought forth, but One only Son, but By that One, She begot All them who are by him regenerated and who, whoever derive from Jesus their spiritual life, are sorely debased to Mary, who gave Him his. Nativity. Finally, if the dear Blood of Christ Jesus, the divine seed of our Baptismal regeneration; which pretious Blood, issued first out of the Mothers' Veins, who sees not that our birth and being, is in some manner borrowed from Bleached Mary, and hath from her Blood its beginning and Origin. Where (by the way) this is a Circumference well worth all pious Christians consideration. That our Redeemer then gave us Mary for our Mother. Saint John. Person, when he powred forth his Blood, (the blessed seed of our regeneration) of the Cross for us. To the end, that at the same time, in which he gave us this seed of our new life; we should acknowledge Her to be for her. # + ©, Rp BER % 3 3 St; % #4 (33 F by 4 oh Wo 5 we £ T5 " ; , $27 i for wr Mother , from whowi th life-yiving ſeed was derived nog [og Bt A 3H OY IG UL oP p24 is; ant that the name ava title of Mary's being our Mother , was impoſ 'd upon Her , at the wery in- fant, when the Blood from Her at- riv'd , conſtituted ys her Chil- " Now, if the ſacred Pirgin (45 hath been plainly deduced and pro- ved) t thecommon Parent. of al Chriſftians',both in quality of their bting her Sons Brethren, adaptea and choſen by his Father ;, aud al{a 17 t uality & their being her Sans ehildren , regenerated and refuſcts futed by his Death: Haw much mare fingwlarly is fhe their. Mother, whe make it their profeſſus ta render wnto her a particular; honour. and homage,and to receive her far thee frecs3y Proteftrice and Patrons If jhe is ( in the Churches DelecF,) the Mother of love and Charity F | an and conſequently cannot but btar '4 ora affettion towards all man- | ind : How much qmore tengerly | doth ſhe affet? ſuch faithfull and du- # and dedicate themſelves to her love by and ſervice ? | 7 ' A moneſt which, the pion Ro: i ſariſts , ( whereof your felf , Hono- rable Patron, and moſt worthy Pre- fett is a prime Scion,) may without preſumption arrogate to themſelves © this {ran prerogative .of being | the Joſephs and Benjamins of her * maternall affections , (not in quali | ty of yongeft Children , ſince thein. Orizin is very ancient, as will be, hereafter declared; But as much more particularly cherished by this compassionate mother, or at least most highly enriched with her Royal favors and benefits (as will also hereafter be exemplified.) All Flowers Spring and Night, with full children, totally adds to the Sun's dominion. The Sun is singularly styled the Parent of the Heliotrope; or borrows from his glorious beams the gala-lute of its leaves, from his course the motion of its body, and from his name its denomination of Sunflower. Sothe Sacred Virgin hath undoubtedly (by, 40 influente of her blessings and prayers) given birth to all Religious orders, Sorectics, and Contraternitics; (which Saint Hicrom calls the Church-fowers,) but surely amongst all these fair Flowers (which with their variety beautify and enrich her garden), the Confraternity of the sacred Rose, way, fitly be said to be the Heliotrope of the Sun, the Paragon of this Garden, the Darling and Minion of the Mother, so also from Her. It derives its regeneration, draws its oerth, receives its beauty and ornament. £ Hap Pp , ; Happy -Rofarifts ! who ( by rhe ſpeciall grace and favour of Chriſt Jeſus your Saviour) can ſay to God, you are my Father! #ndto the Son of God, you are my Brother ! and fo the Daughter of the Eternal Fa- 3 they , to the Mother of the Son of © God , to ghe Spouſe- of the Holy © Ghoſt, to th# @uten of Men and f Angels, tithe Empreſs of Heaven | awd Earth , you are my Mother , |} by my own peentids chojee \and ett2 : k fHion. © | <Y | Happy you! if acknowledging the. 7 honours and advantages which ac- * erme toyou from fach a Filiations ? you correſpond tothe height of ſo dis | Uin an alliance , by your holy life and conver ſation, Happy you ! if ſeriouſly conſide- rinz aha a worthy Mother you |, are-Children;yos efectnally exdea-- - wdur 10'btJuch as ſhe deſerves, fuch _ ſhe armands fach- as: fhe- He- .» Fires. ! Which T the Which that you all, ( andyour - rift oble ſelf in particalar,) may truly o4,|be; ſhall be the daily prayer ( at the Fon\head-Altar of your holy Mother of - vants, A.C.ardT.V. TT MARIAN | KALENDAR, F 0 By. 7A Catalogue of cs 7 few, amonglt the multi- b tude of glorious. Saints of 7 OS, Bennets Order , who. | havebeen Cingularly devo- —_ to the ſacred Virgin. Mary, Together with the several Festivities of any Blessed Lady, according to the monthly days upon which they are celebrated. PINS G— S. Augustine lib, 10; de Civitate Dei.c. 4; We take the and consecrate the memory of Gods benefits, to certain days, feasts, and solemnities, least by length of time uneratefull forcerfulus should creep in. Fr EW IR a t VEIN THE MARIAX KALENDAR, ECT YA Catalogue of some few, among the multitude of glorious Saints of Rome, Bennets Order, who have been singularly devoted to the sacred Virgin Mary. De Ee INS Together with the several Festivities of our Blessed Lady, according to the monthly days upon which they are celebrated. De Ee INS Auguftin lib. 10. de Civitate Dei.c. 4; We dedicate and consecrate the memory of Gods benefits, to certain days, feasts. Us, and solitudes, least by length of time ungrateful for the sufferings of the people, should. John Chrysostom. Tom, Sern I, de Martyr, No Christian is so ignorant, as we know that the greater of the Saints are telegraphed to God's people, both to the end, they may be duty honored, and we instructed by the 60,117 people of their virtues. A, JANUARY, Br. C. ODILO, Abbot of Cluy, A most faithful servant of the sacred Virgin-Mother, even from his tender years, till his last gasp, in his youth he was seized on by a languishing "Wing disease, which deprived him of the use of his limbs yet making a hard life to creep along into the holy Church dedicated to the sacred Virgin-Mother, he was there presently and prodigiously cured in the light of many admiring spectators, Whereupon he made an Oblation of himself unto her in these tears; O most sacred Virgin, and many of the worlds Savior from this day forward I resolve to serve you, hoping to have you for my compassionate Melia. trix upon all occasions: for after God, I prefer not being before you; and therefore I freely deliver up my life unto you, as your peculiar servant and Boudoir, He dyed in the 87th year of his age, and of Christ, now, He, Egwinus, Bishop of Worcester, was born in England when being of the Royal blood, changed his purple for a pou? Come, in Worcester Cloyster, which he never left off in his Episcopalian dignity, to which he was so frequently called for his excellent learning and sanctity. He was ever more modest in the sacred Virgin Mary, by whose example he was frequently commanded by his most gracious and acceptable. He dyed in the year of our Redeemer, 712. 15. -S. C. Manrus, Abbot of S. Afaur's in France, the Diſciple of our. © Glorious Patriark S, Benner , the moſt 2 diligent Promotor of the ſacred Virgin. | Mothers honour , and the devout Pro+ Pagator of her Pſalter, according to | the infticute and praRiſe of his pious. ! Father, He dyed in the year 583. Item, S -BonituBiſhop of Auvergne. | In France , commonly called theſacred Virgins Chaplain, for that he was ſeen. | | ea 54 _— oo +5 3. I% on S F +. C10 Ig: 0, "Regt, wn” 206K celebrate the holy Mals:-by her com- * mand , and in her preſence, in the orceChurch of S. Michael: where. there Roy(Fetmains even till this day , an evident pogmnark. of this miraculous apparition, hictFimprinted upon the maine Pillar of the die ſaid Temple , againſt which the Saint Zleaned ; where 2l{ois reſerved the ad- mirable yeſtment , { of a-colour , Mat- ter, Contexrure, Softneſs,and;Lightneſs altogether celeſtiall and-prodigious oy | wherewith the Queen of Heaven-ador- 14 ned her holy Chaplain: Ia the year , 21. The Feaſt of the Eſpouſalls of the ſacred Virgin Mary to S. Jo- ſeph, inſtituted in France by Petrms eAnratus a Dominican , who com= pos d the Office of this ſolemnity in ' the year 1546. 