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A13466 The life and death of the most blessed among women, the Virgin Mary mother of our Lord Iesus VVith the murder of the infants in Bethlehem, Iudas his treason, and the confession of the good theife and the bad. Taylor, John, 1580-1653. 1620 (1620) STC 23770; ESTC S103494 9,738 44

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call Because heel 'e come to saue his people all She humbly mildly heauens high Nuntius heares But yet to be resolu'd of doubts and feares How can these things quoth she accomplisht be When no man hath knowledge had with mee The Holy Ghost the Angell then replide Shall come vpon thee and thy God and guide The power of the most High shall shadow thee That holy thing that of thee borne shall bee Shall truely called be the Sonne of God By whom sin death and hell shall downe be trod Then MARY to these speeches did accord And said Behold the hand-maid of the Lord. Be it to me according to thy will I am thine owne obedient seruant still This being said she tun'd her Angell tongue My soule doth magnifie the Lord she sung My spirit and all my faculties and voyce In God my Sauiour solely doth reioyce For though mans sinnes prouoke his grieuous wrath His humble hand-maid he remembred hath For now behold from this time henceforth shall All generations me right blessed call He that is mighty me hath magnifide And holy is his name his mercies bide On them that feare him to prouoke his rage Throughout the spacious world from age to age With his strong arme he hath shewed strength and batterd The proud their imaginations scatterd He hath put downe the mighty from their seat The meeke and humble he exaulted great To fill the hungry he is prouident When as the rich away are empty sent His mercies promis'd Abraham and his seed He hath remembred and helpe Israels need This Song she sung with hart and holy spright To laud her Makers mercy and his might And the like song sung with so sweet a straine Was neuer nor shall e'er be sung againe When Mary by the Angels speech perceiu'd How old Elizabeth a childe conceiu'd To see her straight her pious minde was bent And to Ierusalem in three dayes she went And as the Virgin comne from Nazareth Talk't with her kinswoman Elizabeth Iohn Baptist then vnnam'd an vnborne boy Did in his mothers belly leape with ioy Both Christ and Iohn vnborne yet Iohn knew there His great Redeemer and his God was neere When Ioseph his pure wife with childe espide And knew he neuer her accompanide His heart was sad he knew not what to say But in suspect would put her quite away Then from the high Almighty Lord supreame An Angell came to Ioseph in a Dreame And said Feare not with Mary to abide For that which in her blest wombe doth recide Is by the Holy Ghost in wonder done For of thy Wife there shall be borne a Sonne From him alone Redemption all begins And he shall saue his people from their sinnes This being said the Angell past away And Ioseph with his Wife and Maid did stay Then he and she with speed prepared them To goe to Dauids City Bethelem Through winters weather frost winde snow Foure weary dayes in trauell they bestow But when to Bethlem they approched were Small friendship lesse welcom they found there No Chamber nor no fire to warme them at For harbour onely they a stable gat The Inne was full of more respected guests Of Drunkards Swearers and of Godlesse beasts Those all had roomes whilst Glory and all Grace But amongst beasts could haue no lodging place There by protection of th' Almighties wings Was borne the Lord of Lords and King of Kings Our God with vs our great Emanuel Our Iesus and our vanquisher of hell There in a Cratch a Iewell was brought forth More thē ten thousand thousand worlds in worth There did the Humane nature and Diuine The Godhead with the Manhood both combine There was this Maiden Mother brought to bed Where Oxen Kine and Horses lodg'd and fed There this bright Queen of Queens with heauenly ioy Did hug her Lord her life her God her Boy Her Sonne her Sauiour her immortall blisse Her sole Redeemer She might rocke and kisse Oh blessed Lady of all Ladies blest Blessed for euer for thy sacred brest Fed him that all the famisht soules did feed Of the lost sheepe of Israells forlorne seed A Stable being Heauen and Earths great Court. When forty dayes were ended in that sort This Virgin Mother and this Mayden Bride All pure yet by the Law was purifide Old Simeon being in the Temple than He saw the Sonne of God and Sonne of Man He in his aged armes the Babe imbrac't And ioying in his heart he so was grac't He with these words wisht that his life might cease Lord let thy Seruant now depart in peace Mine eyes haue seens thy great Saluation My loue my Iesus my Redemption Vnto the Gentiles euerlasting light To Israell the glory and the might Hope Faith and zeale truth constancy and loue To sing this song did good old Simeon moue Then turning to our Lady most diuine Thy Sonne said he shall once stand for a signe And he shall be the cause that many shall By faith or vnbeleefe arise or fall He shall be raild vpon without desert And then shall sorrowes sword peirce through thy heart As Iesus fame grew dayly more and more The Tyrant Herod it amazed sore The Sages said borne was great Iudaes King Which did vsurping Herod● conscience sting For Herod was an Id●mean base Not of the Kings of Iudahs royall Race And hearing one of Dauids true borne Line Was borne he fear'd his State he should resigne And well he knew he kept the Iewes in awe With slauish feare not loue gainst right and law For'tis most true A Prince that 's fear'd of many Must many feare and scarce be lou'd of any Herod beleaguer'd with doubts feares and woes That Iesus should him of his Crowne dispose He chaf't and vext and almost grew starke mad To vsurpation he did murther adde An Edict sprung from his hell hatched braine Commanding all male Infants should be slaine Of two yeares old and vnder through the Land Supposing Iesus could not scape his hand But God so Ioseph downe an Angell sent Commanding him by flight he should preuent The Murderers malice and to Egypt flye To saue our Sauiour from his tyrannie Our blessed Lady with a carefull flight Her blessed Babe away did beare by night Whilst Bethelem with bloody villaines swarmes That murdered Infants in their Mothers armes Some slaughter'd in their Cradles some in bed Some at the Dugg some newly borne strook dead Some sweetly fast asleepe some smiles awake All butcher'd for their Lord and Sauiours sake Their wofull Mothers madly heere and there Ran rending of their cheeks their eyes and hayre The Tyrant they with execrations curst And in despaire to desperate Acts out-burst Some all in fury end their wofull liues By banefull poyson halters or by kniues And some to sorrow were so fast combind They wept and wept and wept themselues starke blind And being blinde to lengthen out their mones They peic'd their sorrows out with sighs grones Thus with vnceasing griefe