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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07957	Our Ladie hath a new sonne	C. N., fl. 1595.	1595 (1595)	STC 18326; ESTC S113033	28,367	104

Godheade Thence his inuinsible courage which could neyther with any promised honour nor present horrour be vanquished Thence his vnspeakable charitie which was so hote and burning within him that hee felt not the scalding oyle The loue which lay within his breast was so potent that fire it selfe in respect of it was cold or at the least had no force in working comparable vnto it for neyther did he desire a tabernacle in mount a. Math. 17 Tabor with Peter nor couet a crowne or b. Mat. 20 next sitting to Christ in heauen with Iames without a firme purpose and a resolute minde to disburse what should be thought conuenient for so great a purchase which fullie and truely he paid vpon his birth day Other Martirs haue their Martirdome and they suffer in it S. Ioh. had his at his masters his Passion but he suffered not in it and therefore hee suffered the more for it was death for him to liue and to die for Christ his gaine But O most mercifull Lorde why didst thou afflict this thy beloued Disciple in this sorte Thou a. Mat. 20 gauest him a promise that he should drinke of thy cup and he expecting a death for thy sake cannot haue it did pittie mooue thee beeing thy darling that thou couldest not see him murdered as thy other Apostles were and whom thou louedst most entirelye and therefore wouldest hee should drinke of no other Cuppe than thine and so to haue him as thy Mother and his a Martyr in life in minde in will but not in death that thou mightest haue to Crowne at once the Mother and the Sonne with the same Crownes of glory Impossible it was O Mary that thou shouldest bee like vnto thy son in al things wherefore in asmuch as it is possible thy Sonne hath made one like vnto thee where also thou shalt not leese the name of a mother beholde then Saint Iohn thy sonne a most pure virgin a most learned Docter a most constant Martir Nowe is it performed which was so long before promised a Isai 56. I will giue vnto mine Euenuches a worthie place in my house within my walkes and a name better than the name of sonnes daughters of Israell I will giue them an eternall name which shall neuer faile VVoman behold thy sonne What name vnder Heauen is comparable vnto this name What name shall endure after this name the Sonne of Marie It. b. Iohn 8. was an honor to be accounted the son of Abraham the son of Israell and happie was hee which coulde bee numbered among them But this name the sonne of Mary none was worthie of but God himselfe the second person in the Trinitie a. Iohn 19 and nowe it is giuen to Iohn by Christ hanging vpon the Crosse for his inheritance whē looking vppon his mother and making signe toward Iohn hee said vnto her VVoman behold thy sonne A name which as it had no greater vnder heauen so did it neuer perish for as Christ dying vpon the Crosse so lest a Sonne with his mother as he himself did not leaue to be her sonne so also shee dying did so ioyne her selfe to her son in heauen as shee left not to be a Mother also vnto him which was in earth that this name might very well bee called a eternall name for whether she were in earth or in heauen aliue or dead her sonne had so prouided it there should bee Maries sonne O blessed Virgin when thou diddest conceaue Saint Iohn a. Iohn 2 thou diddest conceaue him in mirth b. Iohn 19. but thou wert deliuered of him when he was deliuered vnto thee in great sorrow heauines Hee was the first for whose cause at thy request thy Sonne did manifest himselfe vnto the worlde by shewing his power in working miracles and now he is the last the only man committed vnto thee when thy Sonne passeth out of the world by suffering with patience what malice could work against him so that the measure of thy Son his life in this worlde was no more than the time in which thou diddest breed Saint Iohn for when the time was come that Iohn became thy Sonne thou lost thyne other Sonne Nowe that thou shouldest be a comfort vnto others thou hast experience what that saying meaneth a. Gen. 3. thou shalt bring forth in griefe for the ease thou hadst when Christ was borne is with vsurie recompenced at thy deliuerie of Iohn whom with excessiue sorrowe thou broughtest forth thy sonne b. Iohn 16 A woman when she is in trauaile hath sorow because her houre is come but when she hath brought foorth the childe now shee remembreth not the anguish for ioy that a man is borne into the world But thou most blessed Virgin as thou wert priuiledged in this aboue all other women that thou wert deliuered of thy first begotten without any paine so now hast thou this singular aboue any other woman that at thy second trauaile thou feelest as great panges after it as before it Shee ioyeth because a man is borne into the world and thou haste cause to grieue because a man is gone out of the worlde shee is glad because shee hath a sonne and thou haste cause to mourne because thou haste lost a sonne and so much is thy sorrowe more than theyrioy may be as thy sonne exceedeth all other womens sons for although thou wert deliuered of a sonne yet wert thou spoiled of an other such was thy trauaile and with such condition that the birth of thy second son supposed the death of thy first begotten a. Luk. 1 When thou gauest consent vnto the wordes of the Angell God spake the worde and the worde was incarnate the same word vouchsafing to speake vnto thee not by the mouth of an Angell but by himselfe hath said the word and thou haste not only conceaued thy second son but art also deliuered of him VVoman behold thy sonne Behold thy Mother Thus hauing eyther of them charge of other glad they were that neither was willing to depart Saint Iohn feared not hee shuld be forced to leaue his Master in following his charge whē she should goe away neither did our blessed Lady doubt what she might doe if Iohn should parte from thence their life was nayled on the Crosse that they could not stirre from it rather had they stay a. Iohn 19 see him wounded a dolefull sight then not see him at all wherefore neuer satisfied with looking vp vppon him they tarried vntill hee was taken downe whome when his Mother receaued in her Armes sorrow and ioy fought so doubtfull a Combat that it was not to bee iudged which of them was the stronger She had lost him and now she hath founde him againe great cause she hath to ioy he was her hope her help her life She had lost him and now she hath founde him againe great cause she hath to mourne hee is past hope past help and past out of his life What ioy was comparable to that he had when she might speake vnto him embrace him and kisse him as shee was wont to doe But alas what griefe was like to that shee had when hee did neyther answere by worde or behauiour as hee was wont to doe Noe ioy to that shee hadde when shee behelde him againe a. Psal 44. for hee was the moste fayre and beautefull of all the Sonnes of men Noe greefe to that shee had when shee behelde him againe and found that b. Isal 53. neyther any fauour nor comelynesse was in him Shee see his heade swollen with the Crowne of Thornes shee see his face blacke and blew with the buffettes of their fistes shee see his bodye torne from toppe to the toe with whippes or to say more true she neyther see heade face nor any part of his bodie but a masse only of congealed blood which couered all his body beeing most grieuously wounded and in so many places that they altogether seemed one on lie wounde which reached from the crowne of his head vnto the soles of his seete So sate she at the foote of the Crosse with the dead bodie in her lap offering it all bloodie to Almightie God Gen. 37. demaunding of him whether that were not his sonne his coate shewing it also vnto the Angels and asking of them whether that were not their Master his Garment Her self was not able to discerne perfectly whether it were any part of her or no it was so dissigured but that with sorrowe shee had brought her selfe so out of sauor that euerye one which see her might easily iudge hee was her sonne and shee his mother Shee hath founde him againe but because whatsoeuer shee founde shee must forgoe except sorrow sorrow got the victorie in which shee did so much abound as her sonne his sorrowe beeing at an end there was now no sorrowe like vnto hers no comfort would shee admit because he was not They sought no water to wash his blessed body fountains there were enough of hoate and scalding teares wherein they bathed him first then buried him against their willes wishing that either they themselues were his sepulcher or his were theirs When thy dayes were come O full of sorow that thou shuldest be deliuered thou broughtest forth thy first begotten Son thou swadlest him in cloutes Luk. 2. laidst him downe in a maunger because there was no place for thee in the Inne and nowe thy daies were fully come that thou shouldest bee deliuered againe thou broughtest foorth thy second sonne Iohn 19. and in steed of swadling him in cloutes and ioyfull laying him downe and tending him thou art constrained to swaddle thy first begotten Sonne againe and with sorrow to lay him downe in a Monument because no other place but that woulde hee make choice of to lie in The Funeralles beeing ended Saint Iohn doth take possession he leadeth home his sorrowfull Mother giuing her what comfort hee could beeing nowe almost spent with griefe with whome hee continued yeelding vnto her that dutie which became him Iohn 19. For from that houre hee tooke her for his owne FINIS

OVR LADIE HATH A NEW SONNE APOCALIP 3. I will write my new name on him which shall ouercome PRINTED AT DOWAIE CVM PREVILEGIO 1595. TO THE RIGHT VERtuous as Honourable Ladie the Ladie M. C. A. health and encrease of Honour RAchell a. Gen. 30.35 the wife of Israell had two sonnes Ioseph and Beniamin b. Iohn 19. Mary the spouse not of Israell that is of one which see God but of God himselfe had likewise two Sons Iesus and Iohn the Mother of the first was a figure of the last Mother and their Children not vnfitly to bee compared together Rachell signifieth a sheepe and Marie c. Iohn 1. broght a Lamb into the world a Lambe which tooke away the sinnes of the world Ioseph the first begotten of Rachell because of his dreames which signified a superiority hee should haue ouer all his bretheren grew so odious vnto them that they sought opportunitie to kill him and in the end was sold to the Egiptians for thirty pence by Iudas Iesus the first begotten of Mary because the Iewes feared hee should be King ouer them being mightie not in dreames a. Luk. 24 but in worke and worde became so much hated amongst them although he were a Iew borne one of their brethren that they thought it long vntil they crucified him but he was first sold b. Mat. 26 by a Iudas also for 30 pence yet did they no more preuaile in preuēting what they feared in him thē did Ioseph his brethren c. Gen. 44. who afterward were forced to bow vnto him for hee had as glorious a name did more worthely deserue it than did Ioseph d. Gen. 41 who was accounted and so called by the Egiptians The Sauiour of the world a. Gen. 35. Beniamin the sccond sonne of Rachell when his Mother was to be deliuered of him came with such defficulty into the world that it was thought neyther shee coulde haue liued to haue beene disburdned nor hee likelier to bee borne to breath than to bee buried in so much that beeing in the middest of her panges of death shee called his name Benoin which is as much to say as the son of my sorrow But with what great sorow our b. Mark 1. bless Lady trauailed whē she was to be deliuered of Ioh. it shall appeare in the discourse following where the danger was not onely of the life of the mother a sonne but of life it selfe which liuing as gratiously gaue euery one their life as dying redemed gloriously each one from death that had not Iohn been verie filty named before his birth his Mother might haue rightly called him Benoin and vppon greater cause then Rachell called hers His name was Iohn and so it remaineth still Iohn that is to say to whom is giuen nothing named what is giuen we are to vnderstande some excellent gift the like whereof was neither before nor since giuen to any man a. Iohn 19. God gaue himselfe to our blessed Lady and then gaue her to Iohn and by this gift of her to him him againe to her by the sonne of God is he borne a new into this world and made our Lady her sonne This birth of Saint Iohn together with his breeding I present vnto you and rather this than anie other thing of his life because it seemeth a matter touching most his honour and a dignitie much passing all his titles to bee the sonne of her who only was thought meete and was the Mother of God His conception I suppose was at his mariage in Cana of Galile Iohn 2 and a. Iohn 19 his birth at Christ his Passion vppon the mount Caluarie the best of both which places were an homely presence for any Honourable personage but since that GOD himselfe made his choice of b. Luk. 1. a Carpenters spouse to set vp the frame of his owne most blessed body right well may it beseeme one of what dignitie soeuer to bee present at the labour of a poore Carpenter Presuming therefore of your vsuall fauoring good endeuours whose outward actions as well as inward intentions neuer sauored any other I will vse no further perswations to forward a gratious acceptance of a slender trauaile in so worthy a labor and forbeare to hold you with anie longer preface TO THE READER IF that may worthelie be iudged true which is not onely discouered by common practise but also disfigured by holy Scripture that where a mans treasure doth lie Luke 12. there his heart doth liue this treatise it selfe will dispose the vertuous to a fauorable censure and a friendly construction of whatsoeuer shall eyther sound harsh in the eare or seeme hard in the History But bycause that some tooched with a superfluous deuotion do seeme to doubt and other troubled with a spirit of contradiction doe sloutlie denay that in the mariage mentioned in the Gospell a. Iohn 2 the Euangelist himselfe was the bridegroome I haue made choice of a late writer but very learned who is no lesse pregnant in giuing antiquities then curious in recording them one aduersarie so mightie as hee hauing the mate all the rest may rest mute Caesar Baronius the light of this Lib. 1. pag. 121. and life of former ages in his Eeclesiasticall Historie is of opinion that in that famous mariage in Cana of Galile Saint Iohn the Euangelist was not the bridegroome which first confirmeth with the authoritie of a. Epist ad Philan. S. Ignatius b. lib. 1. aduer Ioui S. Hierome c. tract vlt. in Ioa. S. Augustine d. in vita 5 Ioa. Abdias and e. Heres 58 Epiphanius Secondly with this reason that doubtlesse neyther Iouinian would haue forgotten that S. Iohn was maried nor the Manichees conceale that Christ called him frō mariage who vrged the example of S. Paul and Tecla eyther of them hauing by this somewhat to say for themselues the one against Virginitie the other against the Sacrament of mariage But vnder correction of so worthie an Antiquarie neither doth S. Ignatius say otherwise then that S. Iohn a. Non de dit operam nuptiis did not giue himselfe to mariage as S. Peter did which no man affirmeth nor S. Hierome then that it cannot bee prooued out of the Scriptures that any of the Apostles were maried but Peter which no man denyeth nor saint August then that others thought that saint Iohn was neuer maried which he saith cannot be proued out of the Scripture although it may be somewhat confirmed by this congruence that by him that life is signified where shal be no mariage but if we shall say Apocalip 19.21 that the Scriptures doe mention a mariage of the Lambe and how that euery blessed soule shal be espoused vnto Christ that life may much better bee perfigured in Iohn beeing maried and remaining chast then if hee were not maried As for Abdias if his authoritie be to be reckoned of