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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B14373	The litle garden of our B. Lady. Or, diuers practicall exercises in her honour. Written in Latin, by the R. Father Francis de la Croix, of the Society of Iesus. And translated into English	Lacroix, François de, 1582-1644.; Wilson, John, ca. 1575-ca. 1645?	1631 (1631)	STC 15117.7; ESTC S103207	107,080	613

expounding the mysteries thereof vnto you as once she did to a certayne deuout Priest who being often tempted to doubt of the Reall Presence of the Body of our Lord in the Sacramēt of the Altar one Saturday as he was saying Masse perceaued the sacred Host to be suddainly vanished away whereat being much amazed whilest he looked about the Altar to find it he beheld our Blessed Lady standing neere him holding her little I ESVS in her armes who spake thus vnto him Behould him whō I brought forth of my chast wombe whom thou hast consecrated handled and eleuated I deliuer this my sonne vnto thee take him finish thy Masse The priest receaued the heauenly Infant laying him downe vpon the Corporall when he came to that place of the Masse where he was to deuide the holy Host the child sodainly vanished away and the Host remayned in place therof as before Wherupō the cloudes of his misbeliefe being wholy dispersed he euer after inioyed great peace and tranquility of mynd Pelbart in pomer B. Vigin lib. 12. p. vlt. § 1. Oh that you could in hearing of Masse but once heare the B. Virgin saying vnto you Behold this or that is now presented or signified Or that at the eleuation she would say Behould now my B. Sonne whome I bare in my most chast wombe heere offered vp in this vnbloudly sacrifice Or in tyme of Communion you did imagine her putting her most beloued sonne into your armes as she did once to old Simeon to the Sheephards to the three Kings and others CHAP. IX Of the Imitation of the B. Virgin in receauing the Blessed Sacrament THe most feruent Piety of the B. Virgin and her vnspeakable propensiō vnto things diuine together with the deuout custome of Christians in those primitiue times do manifestly proue that whiles she remayned on Earth after the Ascensiō of our Sauiour she did dayly receaue the Blessed Sacrament of the Aultar Whosoeuer therfor desyreth to imitae our B. Ladyes most holy Example in often frequenting the Holy Communion yet by the speciall direction of his Ghostly Father let him haue a speciall care of that due preparation purity humility charity and other Vertues which she dayly practised diligently obserued And first of all let it be your chiefest care to make that consideration very familiar vnto you especially the day before you are to communicate or els the same morning which F. Robert Southwell of the Society of Ieus famous for his constant suffering for the Catholique Cause in England did dayly vse with great gust of mynd and no lesse fruite of Spirit and which he hath left written with his owne hād in these words If sayth he the B. Virgin were to beare Christ agayne in her wōbe or receaue him in the holy Communion and knew the houre and moment in which he were to come with what preparatiō wold she dispose herselfe What continuall actes of loue do you thinke would she make How carefully wold she prepare the chamber of her heart to receaue him with how many tears with what sighs with what ardēt prayers would she expect that day and houre And when she knew the tyme to be at hād how humbly how deuoutly how reuerently would she prepare herselfe for the entertayning of him She would no doubt spēd that tyme wholy in the contemplation of God and consideration his infinite Goodnes Loue Mercy and Maiesty in such manner that euen enflamed with the fire of Charity she would now become more diuine then humane for getting all earthly things would euen be rauished amōgst the Celestiall Quires of Angels togeather with him whome she prepareth to receaue So wryteth Fa. Southwell concerning a more remote preparation But now in the tyme of that Masse wherat you are to receaue you must dispose your selfe in another manner by styrring vp in your selfe actes of Fayth Humility Confusion and Sorrow for your sinnes with these or the like short Aspirations O how feruēt how intent were those actes of Fayth which the B Virgin stirred vp in her self when she was to communicate They were euen as great as that which she exercised in belieuing the Angell Gabriell announcing the so admirable and incomprehensible Natiuity and Conception of the Sonne of God! Or as that wherewith she belieued and adored him as true God most wise most Powerfull most Holy of an infinite Maiesty Perfection and Glory euen when she saw him hanging naked on the Crosse exposed to iniuries and scornes of men and last of all dying an infamous death With this light of Fayth how profundly did she enter into herselfe and how lowly did she humble herselfe before the diuine Maiesty she I say who being elected the Mother of God yet reputed and called herselfe his Handmayd and who among the Apostles and disciples when they were gathered togeather expecting the cōming of the Holy Ghost had placed herselfe in the lowest ranke among them Do you striue to imitate as neer as you can this humility fayth of the B. Virgin and falling downe before the most B. Sacrament acknow ledge your owne vnworthinesse confessing your sins detesting them from the bottome of your hart begging earnestly of the most pure Virgin who prepared a most decent place to receaue our Sauiour comming into the world that she would offer you vp vnto her Bl. sonne cleansed and purged from all sinne and render you gracious in his sight You must also exercise acts of Hope and Confidence in the mercy of God and stir vp in your selfe an carnest desire of receauing Christ in the same manner in imitation of the B. Virgin Who can imagine how she did erect her selfe vp towards God that so she might be made a most worthy habitation to receaue his B. sonne hauing first tasted of the diuine Mercy perceaued her selfe to be inuited vnto this most holy Sacrament and disposed therto by celestiall guifts and vertues Or who can once conceyue her earnest and fixed desire of receauing Christ which was with out doubt no lesse then that with which more earnestly then any of the Patriarkes she expected his comming into the world Or that wherewith she sought him with so great solicitude the three dayes he was lost in the Temple Or els that wherewith for the 3. dayes after his death like the mourning Turtle she sighed after his Resurrection Imitate the most B. Virgin in exercising the like acts of Hope Confidence and Desire of receauing so bountiful a guest by whom so many benefits do accrew vnto thee Desire of her that she would intreat thou maist be drawne after him by the odour of those celestiall perfumes of his and that he would adorne thy soule with all decent ornaments of vertue S. Gertrude doth recount of her selfe how that she was admonished by the B. Virgin to repeat three tymes ouer the 116. Psalme Laudate Dominum omnes gentes in her honour as often as she did communicate therby to prepare herselfe more