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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

or desires but such as may bring forth this sweet smell this fragrant perfume of purity that we may be grateful in the eyes of our Creator pleasing in the presence of our Redeemer and in thy sight worthy to be beloued Amen Aue Maris stella THE XI MEDITATION Mater amabilis ora pro nobis Louely Mother pray for vs. MANY causes may be assigned many reasons found why the B. Virgin is sayd to be louely which I will endeauour to reduce to three general heads because I will not exceed my wonted breuity 1. The first cause or reason which both maketh her louely moueth vs to loue her may be her excellent beauty which did so abound in this louely Queen as the like hath not beene found in any other For as our Sauiour was the most beautifull of men according to the kingly prophesy Speciosus forma prae filijs hominum beautifull and comely in shape beyond the sonnes of men so the B. Virgin was most beautifull of all the daughters of women that whosoeuer should behould them both might say she could not be Mother but of so fayre a Sonne nor he Sonne but of so beautifull a Mother And this beauty of the B. Virgin of externall beauty comlines we speake did consist in a most perfect proportion of all the lineaments of her sacred body whereby she was pulcherima mulierum the most beautifull of women and therfore most louely in that respect Neither was her virginal comelynes such as vsually doth stir vp wanton lustes or inflame bad desires but altogeather so far contrary that who so should behold the beautifull blush of her modest and virginall countenance could not chose but be inflamed with most chast desires and Feruent loue towardes this vertuous Queene This then may be giuen for the first reason of this louely title Mater amabilis And in this beauty I include her grauity in speach her modesty in countenance her grace in conuersation the due proportion of all her actions being alwayes guided and gouerned by her inward vertues of vvhich heere after we shall haue occasion to speake more Iudith being to worke the ouerthrow of proud Holofernes in defence of her citty and people adorned and decked her selfe withall the richest iewels and best or naments she had and made herselfe as beautiful as with her best skil she could ouer which Almighty God cast a splendour of which holy Writ telleth vs Cui Dominus quoque contulit splendorem Iud. 10. vnto which beauty our Lord also added a lustre And shall we not then thinke of the B. Virgin vvhose figure Iudith did beare that after nature had shewed her selfe in this admirable worke that our Lord also added the chiefest grace of her excellent beauty How then could she be but louely and therfore Mater amabilis 2. The second cause and more chiefe reason of her comelynes which shall be the second point is her invvard beauty that is her excellent vertue by the vvhich deseruedly she may be sayd tvvice beautifull and so in the Canticles she is and that vvith a kind of admiration Quàm pulchra es amica mea quàm pulchra es Hovv beautifull thou art my beloued hovv beautifull Beautifull by reason of her outward comelynes but much more by reason of her invvard vertues For Omnis gloria filiae Regis ab intus all the glory of the Kings daughter is from within Heere therfore we must consider the singular grace comely meeting of all vertues in this gracious Queene her profound humility her humble obedience her shining purity her vnspeakable modesty her burning charity and most perfect resignation of her selfe into the handes of God withall the rest of her excellent vertues in due tyme and place in the best manner guided by reason with exact obseruation of euery circumstance and as it were Castrorum acies ordinata an army of souldiers well ordered This considered as an harmony of perfect musicke where no voyce misseth his right note and tune no instrument iarreth no sound out of order must make vs of force to stand amazed at the rare composition of her inward beauty the singular concord of her matchles vertues thus be moued to loue affect her most worthy person wherin we find them so perfectly vnited and by which indeed she is Mater amabilis a louely Mother 3. The last generall reason and the third point is to meditat how much we are beloued of her and in how princely and bountifull manner she dealeth with vs. For nothing moueth more to loue then to know we are beloued since loue can neuer be repayed but by loue seeing she hath shewed her selfe so louely a Mother vnto vs we are bound in all gratitude and dutifull respect to the vttermost of our power to requite it She had but one only Sonne whome she loued far more then al the Mothers in the world loue their children yet was she content that in his infancy he should be our companion at his last supper our food at his death the price of our Redemption and now she continually prayeth for vs that he may be our endles ioy and happines How could she shevv her selfe more louing or hovv more louely then like another Abraham to offer vp her owne beloued Son at the commandment of Almighty God only for our good Let vs therefore louingly and deuoutly say Mater amabilis ora pro nobis louely Mother pray for vs. O gloriosa Domina c. THE XII MEDITATION Mater Admirabilis ora pro nobis Admirable Mother pray for vs. IN this admirable title we must first suppose the force of this world Admirable for it doth import some strange and wounderfull thing which is cause of admiration and from hence miracles do take their name because being beyond our naturall reach they make vs admire But if we consider the vertuous life the miraculous death or departure the excessiue glory of the B. Virgin we shall not only see hovv iustly this Title is applyed vnto her but also vvith how great reason we may say Mater admirabilis admirable Mother pray for vs. 1. First then in a briefe and compendious manner we are to call to mind the admirable life of the B. Virgin Admirable was her cōception obtayned by prayer and vow denounced by an Angel of aged barren parents without the spot of originall sin all these thinges are great causes of admiration Admirable was her strang Natiuity borne in the field as S. Iohn Damascen witnesseth in a certaine grange of her Fathers among the sweet tuned notes of innocent bleating Lambes as one who vvas to be the Mother to the immaculate Lambe of God designed to be slaine for ransome of vs all or as one who vvas to bring vs the true sheep-heard of our soules vvho would haue most tender care of vs. Admirable in that she vvas preuented vvith the vse of reason either in her Mothers wombe or at the third yeare of

to obtaine of him what we most desire Yea let vs not looke only into this mystical glasse but also let vs vse it as a powerful help to obtain our wished suite and petition let vs frame our actions according to the liuely portraict of her excellent vertues that we may with greater confidence implore her powerfull ayde let her be our Patterne and Patronesse in life and death let vs deuotly say Speculum Iustitiae ora pro nobis Myrrour of al perfection pray for vs. Aue Maris stella THE XXII MEDITATION Sedes Sapientiae ora pro nobis The seate of wisdome pray for vs. IT is written by the diuine instinct of the holy Ghost and left for our instruction that Wisdome built himselfe a howse vnderpropped and borne vp with seaue● stately Pillars which not vnfitly we may apply vnto the Eternal Wisdome of the Sonne of God i● beautifying and adorning the B. Virgin for his mother and making her indeed Sedes sapientiae th●● seate of Wisdome Let vs therfore consider the seauen stately Pillars which ou● Sauiour did erect in this his spirituall Soule his mysticall seate for doubtlesse they were the seauen guifts seauē-fould grace of the holy Ghost to wit Wisdō Vnderstanding Counsell Fortitud Science Piety feare of our Lord al which how eminent they were in our B. Lady no true Christian wil cal in question wherby she became the worthy seate of VVisdome the princely throne of the true Salomon the holy mother of God 1. And for two reasons vve may call the B. Virgin the Royall seate of VVisdome First in that she was the most blessed and selected Creature chosen amongst and aboue all women to be his holy mother in whose sacred wombe he was to take his nyne moneths ●●est and then to be most louingly ●fe●ded in her tender armes and seated on her lappe with all respect vnto him as her God and no lesse loue as to her Sonne and therfore was the seate of VVisdome 2. The second reason why sh● may be so intytled is because i● wisdome be taken for the grace of the holy Ghost or the spiritual dwelling of Christ in a soule we shall find that neuer in any pure Creature the like aboundance o● wisdome was found the like graces fauours supernaturall gifts And because she so carefully kept these gracious guifts that she alwayes deserued to keep God in her blessed soule therfore she may more properly be said to be the seate of wisdome For although Christ many tymes visiteth most mercifully the vnworthy howse of our soules yet by reason of ou● strange ingratitude wee do not esteeme as we ought the heauēly company of so worthy a ghest the singular fauours of so speciall a friend but by our offences we expell him from the howse of our soules and yeild his rightfull seate vnto his vsurping enemy But our blessed Lady was alwaies constant euer true vnto him and therfore his perpetuall seate according as our Sauiour witnesseth of euery iust man Ioan. 14. ad eum veniemus mansionem apud eum fa●iemus vve vvill come vnto him and make our mansion or place of abroad with him O Blessed and euer most happy Virgin Mother Colloquium the Regall seat of Eternall wisdome Let thy povverfull intercession so preuayle vvith thy louing Sonne that vve may in such sort receiue him into the hovvse of our soules that vve do not vngratefully cast him forth againe but vvithall honour and respect so serue him in this life that vve may deserue to dwell in those heauenly mansions of Eternity Amen Salue Regina THE XXIII MEDITATION Causa nostrae laetitiae ora pro nobis Cause of our Ioy pray for vs. HEEREVVE are to conside the great ioy vvhich the B. Virgin brought into the world a her sacred birth according to tha● which we read in the office of he● Natiuity Natiuitas tua Dei Gentrix Virgo gaudium annunciau● vniuerso mundo Thy Natiuity 〈◊〉 Virgin Mother of God hath been the long desired messenger of ioy to all the world for of thee is borne the some of Iustice who destroying the former curse brought a generall blessing vnto vs all Yet for the better vnderstanding of the greatnes of the ioy we all re●eiued by her happy comming it vvill be good to make vse of this contemplation 1. Imagine after a long and ●edious vvinter hovv gratefull ●he approach of a pleasant spring ●oth seeme not only vnto man ●ut euen vnto brute beasts see● birds yea in some sort to the ●ery plants and the earth it self vvho vesteth herselfe in nevv ap●arell to vvelcome the neere ap●roach of the gladsome Sunne ●●e pretty birds in their lāguage df the like to shevv the greatnes oo their ioy vvith their best musicke 2. Or els consider how gratefull is the beautifull breaking of a fayre morning after a darke tempestuous night telling vs vvith a gladsome blush that the ioy ful Planet the Sunne is neere a hand 3. Ponder moreouer hovv comfortable vvas the commin● of Iudith to the sorrovvfull gate of beseiged Bethulia vvhen sh● brought them certaine nevves o● their present deliuery and futu● safety Then apply all this to th● B. Virgin cause of our ioy w●● after so long and tendious a wi●ter of sinne and vvickednes 〈◊〉 her happy comming into th● world did signify vnto vs th● the Lambe of God who taketh avvay the sinnes of the world was novv neere at hand that the bright shyning lampe of heauen would spread ere long his beautiful beams of light vpon the earth that the Sunne of Iustice would shortly appeare vnto vs that it might be fulfilled as the Prophet had foretold The people that sate in darkenes saw great light and to them that dvvelt in the region shaddovv of death light is risen Her happy birth was the fore runner of greater light and her appearing in this world the ioyfull dawning of a blessed day her prudent demeanour and religious cariage of farre more profit and comfort vnto vs then the wonder and vvonderfull acts of Iudith to the Bethulians She to one people only was the cause of ioy out B. Lady vnto all Nations she vnto one Citty the B. Virgin vnto al the world brought ioy and gladnes Let vs therfore not only acknowledge this great benefit but let vs encourage our selues Colloquium with greater confidence to inuocate her blessed Name and say Causa nostrae laetitiae ora pro nobis Cause of our ioy pray for vs that as by her persō the Sonne of God became man for our redemption so by her holy intercessiō we may profit our selues by so pricelesse a ransome Salue Regina THE XXIIII MEDITATION Vas Spirituale ora pro nobis Spirituall vessell pray for vs. HEERE we call vpon the B. Virgin by the name of Spirituall vessell to signify the great abundance of her spirituall Graces and blessings wherwith she was replenished We will therfore cōsider the sweet odours