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A07964	Maria triumphans Being a discourse, wherein (by way of dialogue) the B. Virgin Mary Mother of God, is defended, and vindicated, from all such dishonours and indignities, with which the precisians of these our dayes, are accustomed vniustly to charge her.	N. N., fl. 1635.; Anderton, Lawrence, attributed name. aut	1635 (1635)	STC 18331; ESTC S102869	83,816	338

prayeth for vs to God for Mercy And it is no good kind of arguing to say God is the Father of Mercy therfore the Virgin cannot in any sense be so called For we read in Iohn 9. that Christ is called Lux mundi and yet Christ sayth of the Apostles Vos estis lux mundi Math. 5. Againe Christ is said in Iohn 1. to be plenus Gratiae And yet we read in Luc 1. Maria plena Gratiae in Act. 8. Stephanus plenus Gratiae Thus the same Titles may be giuen to God and men in a different relation without any dishonour to God Mariamastix Well to come to the last point of the foresaid Antiphone or Prayer How do you playster that ambitious Title of ealling Her Regina a Queene You see that she is content to call herselfe only a Handmayd according to her answere to the Angell Ecce ancilla Domini And yet you Papists will needes inuest her with the title of a Queene Mariadulus I answere The attribution of this title to her is most warrantable seing we read Be●ti panperes spiritu quoniam ipsoru● est reguum caelorum Blessed are the poore in spirit for theirs is the kingdome of Heauen Matth 5. And further more it is said Venite Benedicti Patris me● possidete paratum vobis regnum Come you blessed of my Father Possesse the kingdome prepared for you Matth. 25. Now then if all such a● do inherit Kingdomes may truly becaused Kings or Queenes why then should this title be denyed to our B. Lady Adde hereto that since she is the Mother of the King of Kings she then most peculiarly and pen excellentiam deserueth the Title of Queene And thus far touching the explication of the Antiphone or Prayer of the Salue Regina and how all those titles there may in a sober and reserued construction be iustly applyed to the Virgin Mary the sound of which Titles doth so much iarr in the eares of our new Gospelliers 〈◊〉 that the Dialect of their speach against the Mother of God is commonly deliuered in the black Notes of detraction and Obloquy Mariamastix I grant Mariadulus you haue playstered the Antiphone with some shew of probability I euer meane in a vulgar and vndiscerning eye only though to the iudicious it still remaynes as afore it was But to come to your Litanies directed to Mary and accordingly by you called Our Ladies Litanies You do by your titles therein ascribe such superlatiue and high prayses to her as that they stand not compatible with the Nature of any Creature Christ only excepted Vpon whose Honour you Papists by this your irregular proceedings seeme ouer neere to trench And therefore I could wish you to shew how you can apologize in her behalfe herein you therby much dishonoring the Sonne in ouermuch honoring the Mother Mariadulus You are Mariamastix far transported with a secret or rather most manifest sulluation and repining against the Holy Virgin her deare Sonne alter your mind But know you that the Prayses giuen to her are Relatine to Christ since they are giuen to her because she is the Mother of Christ And thus since the child is in some sort the Image of its Parents the Proto●●●on after an accustomed manner is here honored in behalfe of the Antitypon But to remoue the scales of preiudice and dislike if it be possible from the eyes of your iudgment I will as it were anatomize litle by litle the afore mentioned Litanies or prayers that so you may euidently discerne by what authorities we Catholiks are secured to imbalme her memory in the sweet ointments of such her due Laudes But before I come to that I must put you in mynd that since Gods vniuersall Church which cannot erre 1. Tim. 3. approueth the foresaid Litanies you ought to haue no reason to doubt of the warrantablenes thereof except you will aduance your selfe for Pry de of Iudgment is euer clyming being but one priuate man but competently learned and lately appearing aboue the Authority of Gods Church consisting of men in number many for literature most exquisite and for tyme most ancient Which if you do if you were in the Schooles among the graue and learned you would rather be thought worthy to be exploded from thence for such your procacity and petulant insolency then to be disputed with Mariamastix Such your Authorities are but the Words of men And we read Psalm 115. that all men are lyars And therfore I cānot hold it secure for me to entrench my selfe in any such doubtfull and vncertaine Proofes for one man illuminated by the Lord may as infallibly fynd out the Truth as seuerall other Hundreds Spiritus vbi vult spirat Ioan. 3. Neuerthelesse you may proceed to your Authorities Mariadulus Well seing you neglect the authority of Gods whole Church vpon whom Christ hath bequeathed his spirit of not erring Ego vobiseum sum vsque ad consummationem Mundi Matth. 28. I can but commulerate your most dangerous state of soule which treads such different tracts not only to your owne learned (a) M. Fox Act. Mon. p. 999. D Bantroft in his Sermon preached anno 15●● The diuines of Genous in their Propositions and Principles disputed pag. 141. Brethren but euen to Gods Holy Writ assuring vs that the Church of God is the Pillar and foundation of Truth 1. Tim. 3. Yf then you will not obediently submit your iudgment to the iudgment of the Vniuersall Church make your shipwrack vpon that dangerous rocke of those Words Yf he will not heart the Church let him be to thee as an Heathen or Publican Matth. 18. But to recall my selfe and to shew how warrantable with sufficient authority is euery Article or Point of the Lita●ies of our B. Lady In the displaying whereof I will not be ryotous as I may say in alledging the Authorities of diuers ancient Fathers and Doctours but for greater breuity and only for some tast and delibation I will content my selfe with the authority of two Fathers commonly in proofe of euery particular Article or passage And to begin The Blessed Virgin is in the Litanies First thus saluted Sancta Maria. Of which Title we thus read Maria is interpreted star of the Sea And the as a remarkable star shynes brightly by the grace of a speciall Priuiledge among the waues of this wauering World So writeth S. Bede ad Euang in festo Annuntiat B. Mariae Isidorus Hispalensis de vita obitu Sanctorum c. 48. who liued in the sixt Century after Christ thus accordeth with S. Bede Mary it interpreted Lady and one that giueth light 2. Sancta dei genitrix Of which title the generall Councell of Chalcedon thus decreeth Act. 5. Holy Mary ●●●●dnes the mother of God Who bouideth not so is an Heretike Proclus Constantinopolita●●s who liued in the fourth age thus amplifieth of this point de Nati●itate Christi Who hath heard of the like God who cannot be contained in a place wells in a Wombe Whom