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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13238	The paradise of delights. Or The B. Virgins garden of Loreto With briefe discourses vpon her diuine letanies, by way of meditation. For the comfort of all such, as be deuout vnto her; and desyre her holy patronage & protection. By I.S. of the Society of Iesus.	Sweetnam, John, 1581-1622.	1620 (1620)	STC 23531; ESTC S118010	56,959	258

down because we see them encountred with so many changes and chances yet they will come vp to their naturall place againe like the flourishing palme grow the faster vnder the greatest burden for that is to florish like the palme as the Kingly Prophet writeth Iustus vt palma florebit These are the foure excellent propertyes of oyle which do shew vnto vs the admirable cures that Christ by his diuine grace vvorketh in our soules And the Blessed Virgin being called Mother of Christ if we vvant food to our soules we must call to her that she would vouchsafe to pray vnto her most louing Sonne to feed vs. If we be destitute of light that she vvould intreate him to enlighten vs. If we be wounded that she would desire him to cure vs. If we be oppressed ready to be drovvned in the depth of misery that she vvould by her Motherly intercession pray him to releeue vs vvith his mercy that we faile not in his cause but like vnto oyle alwayes striue to ascend that so we may shew our selues to haue participation of that diuine oyle Christ vnto whose euer Blessed Mother we must haue recourse saying Mater Christi ora pro nobis Mother of Christ pray for vs. THE VI. MEDITATION Mater diuinae gratiae ora pro nobis Mother of diuine grace pray for vs. THIS Diuine Tile may be giuen to the Blessed Virgin for three reasons which yeald vs three deuout points of Meditation 1. The first reason why she is called Mother of diuine grace is because she is the mother of Christ who is the author of all graces and fauours and replenished with such aboundance of grace that not vnfitly he may be called Grace it selfe whose Blessed Mother was the Queene of Angells of whom we speake and therefore most rightly intitled Mother of Diuine grace For if we consider the menifold benefits which we haue receaued from our Sauiour by his comming amongst vs and the aboundance of grace we may draw from the Holy Sacraments which he hath left as fountaines cōtinually flowing like the seauen-headed Nilus to which we may run at our pleasure to refresh our needy and thirsty soules These things Isay considered how he chose the Blessed Virgin to be the long desired ship that could bring vs in to our hauen at once such a precious Iewel as might not only supply al our wants but also make vs exceeding rich we may with great reason say Mother of diuine grace pray for vs. 2. The second reason of this noble Title is because of the great aboundance of spirituall graces wherewith this sacred Queen was endowed as partly we haue sayd in the former Meditations and after shall more playnely appeare She was saluted by the heauenly Embassadour Gratia plena 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or as the Greeke word imports Singularly gracious because by reason of her great merits she was aboue all creatures pleasing vnto God and for this great aboundance of grace produced in her blessed soule partly by the gift of God and partly by her owne cooperating thereto she may fitly be called Mother of Diuine grace And if we confider with attention how this grace did increase in the Blessed Virgin we cannot choose but acknowledge her to be the Mother of diuine grace For as many Deuines affirme the B. Virgin by euery act doubled the grace she had before receaued and this for the space of all her life which was 72. yeares as the best Writers do proue vvhereby in the end of her life the grace wherwith she was indued vvas almost infinite far surpasseth the weak reach of humane reason to vnfold How rightly then do vve call her Mother of diuine grace 3. The third reason of this appellation is because she is a perpetual Aduocate for vs vnto her beloued Sonne doth by her holy intercession obtaine grace pardon for our sins For as S. Bernard deuoutly writeth Quidquid nos habere voluit id per Mariam transire disposuit Whatsoeuer God would haue vs to receaue that vvould he haue to passe through the handes of the Blessed Virgin And for this cause she is sayd to be as it vvere the Necke Throat of the Church and Christ the Head And as all that maintaynes the body passeth from the head through the Throat to the chiefe parts of the body frō the which it is duely distributed to all the rest of the members so all that commeth from Christ vnto his Spouse the Church he will haue to passe through the sacred handes of the Blessed Virgin vnto the whole body euery member of the Holy Church therfore we say Mater diuinae gratiae ora pro nobis Mother of diuine grace pray for vs. O happy Mother of diuine grace Colloquium who by thy profound humility vnspotted chastity vnspeakable charity and the rest of thy excellent vertues didst bring into the world the author of grace wast thy selfe replenished with all fullnes therof and art as a perpetuall conduct to conuay his diuine fauours vnto vs let vs so be strengthned by thy diuine fauour and holy intercession that we may in such sort shew our selues true children of diuine grace that thou maist not refuse to be our Mother or deny vs to be thy children but according to thy Name as thou art called Mother of mercy for the loue thou shewest vnto repentant sinners so also shew thy selfe Mother of diuine grace in obtayning for vs some portion of that celestiall gift which may make vs truly heyrs of that eternal Kingdom of which this diuine grace is the only pledge and surest warrant Amen Aue Maria. THE VII MEDITATION Mater purissima ora pro nobis Most pure Mother pray for vs. IN this Title of Purity we will not speake of the Virginall purity of the Queene of heauen of which we haue sayd somewhat already in the Title of Virgin of Virgins and shall adde more in the Meditations following but we will now speake of the vnspotted Purity of the B. Virgin from the blemish and staine of sinne 1. First therefore we may consider how free this B. Virgin did alwayes keep her selfe from the foule and vgly blot of all mortall sinne Our first Mother Eue vvas called the Mother of the liuing but was indeed Mother of the dead for being seduced and subdued by the serpents subtilty she intised deceaued Adam to sinne also by whose disobedience we all remayned subiect not only to death but also vnto thousands of miseryes But the B. Virgin mutans Euae nomen changing the name of Eue did alwayes remayne vnited with God and so crushed and bruized the Serpents head that withal his crafty guiles and subtile trickes he could neuer supplant this gracious Queene to giue but the least concent vnto any vnlawfull act or to speake any hurtfull word or haue the least thought that might tend into any mortall sinne but she alwayes kept her selfe most pure ●n thought vvord