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A63641	Antiquitates christianæ, or, The history of the life and death of the holy Jesus as also the lives acts and martyrdoms of his Apostles : in two parts.	Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667.; Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667. Great exemplar of sanctity and holy life according to the christian institution.; Cave, William, 1637-1713. Antiquitates apostolicae, or, The lives , acts and martyrdoms of the holy apostles of our Saviour.; Cave, William, 1637-1713. Lives, acts and martydoms of the holy apostles of our Saviour.	1675 (1675)	Wing T287; ESTC R19304	1,245,097	752

of his Neighbour-creatures the skins of Beasts 〈◊〉 hair and a Leathern girdle and herein he literally made good the character of Elias who is described as an hairy man girt with a Leathern girdle about his Loins His Diet suitable to his Garb his Meat was Locusts and wild Honey Locusts accounted by all Nations amongst the meanest and vilest sorts of food wild honey such as the natural artifice and labour of the Bees had stored up in caverns and hollow Trees without any elaborate curiosity to prepare and dress it up Indeed his abstinence was so great and his food so unlike other Mens that the Evangelist says of him that he came neither eating nor drinking as if he had eaten nothing or at least what was worth nothing But Meat commends us not to God it is the devout mind and the honest life that makes us valuable in the eye of Heaven The place of his abode was not in Kings houses in stately and delicate Palaces but where he was born and bred the Wilderness of Judaea he was in the Desarts until the time of his shewing unto Israel Divine grace is not consined to particular places it is not the holy City or the Temple at Mount Sion makes us nearer unto Heaven God can when he please consecrate a Desart into a Church make us gather Grapes among Thorns and Religion become fruitful in a barren Wilderness 4. PREPARED by so singular an Education and furnished with an immediate Commission from God he entred upon the actual administration of his Office In those days came John the Baptist preaching in the Wilderness of Judaea and saying Repent ye for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand He was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Justin Martyr calls him the Herald to Proclaim the first approach of the Holy Jesus his whole Ministry tending to prepare the way to his entertainment accomplishing herein what was of old foretold concerning him For this is he that was spoken of by the Prophet Esaias saying The Voice of one crying in the Wilderness Prepare ye the way of the Lord make his paths straight He told the 〈◊〉 that the Messiah whom they had so long expected was now at hand and his Kingdom ready to appear that the Son of God was come down from Heaven a Person as far beyond him in dignity as in time and existence to whom he was not worthy to minister in the meanest Offices that he came to introduce a new and better state of things to enlighten the World with the clearest Revelations of the Divine will and to acquaint them with counsels brought from the bosom of the Father to put a period to all the types and umbrages of the Mosaic Dispensation and bring in the truth and substance of all those shadows and to open a Fountain of grace and fulness to Mankind to remove that state of guilt into which humane nature was so deeply sunk and as the Lamb of God by the expiatory Sacrifice of 〈◊〉 to take away the sin of the World not like the continual Burnt-offering the Lamb offered Morning and Evening only for the sins of the House of Israel but for Jew and Gentile Barbarian and Scythian bond and free he told them that God had a long time born with the sins of Men and would now bring things to a quicker issue and that therefore they should do well to break off their sins by repentance and by a serious amendment and reformation of life dispose themselves for the glad tidings of the Gospel that they should no longer bear up themselves upon their external priviledges the Fatherhood of Abraham and their being God's select and peculiar People that God would raise up to himself another Generation a Posterity of Abraham from among the Gentiles who should walk in his steps in the way of his unshaken faith and sincere obedience and that if all this did not move them to bring forth fruits meet for repentance the Axe was laid to the root of the Tree to extirpate their Church and to hew them down as fuel for the unquenchable Fire His free and resolute preaching together with the great severity of his life procured him a vast Auditory and numerous Proselytes for there went out to him Jerusalem and all Judaea and the Region round about Jordan Persons of all ranks and orders of all Sects and Opinions 〈◊〉 and Sadducees Souldiers and Publicans whose Vices he impartially censured and condemned and pressed upon them the duties of their particular places and relations Those whom he gained over to be Proselytes to his Doctrine he entred into this new Institution of life by Baptism and hence he derived his Title of the Baptist a solemn and usual way of initiating Proselytes no less than Circumcision and of great antiquity in the Jewish Church In all times says Maimonides if any Gentile would enter into Covenant remain under the wings of the Schechina or Divine Majesty and take upon him the yoke of the Law he is bound to have 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Circumcision Baptism and a Peace-offering and if a Woman Baptism and an Oblation because it is said As ye are so shall the stranger be as ye your selves 〈◊〉 into Covenant by Circumcision Baptism and a Peace-offering so ought the Proselyte also in all Ages to enter in Though this last he confesses is to be omitted during their present state of desolation and to be made when their Temple shall be rebuilt This Rite they generally make contemporary with the giving of the Law So Maimonides By three things says he the Israelites entred into Covenant he means the National Covenant at Mount Sinai by Circumcision Baptism and an Oblation Baptism being used some little time before the Law which he proves from that place 〈◊〉 the People to day and to morrow and let them wash their Clothes This the Rabbines unanimously expound concerning Baptism and expresly affirm that where-ever we read of the Washing of Clothes there an obligation to Baptism is intended Thus they entred into the first Covenant upon the frequent violations whereof God having promised to make a new and solemn Covenant with them in the times of the Messiah they expected a second Baptism as that which should be the Rite of their Initiation into it And this probably is the reason why the Apostle writing to the Hebrews speaks of the Doctrin of Baptisms in the plural number as one of the primary and elementary Principles of the faith wherein the Catechumens were to be instructed meaning that besides the Baptism whereby they had been initiated into the Mosaic Covenant there was another by which they were to enter into this new 〈◊〉 that was come upon the World Hence the Sanhedrim to whom the cognizance of such cases did peculiarly appertain when told of John's Baptism never expressed any wonder at it as a new upstart Ceremony it being a thing daily practised in their Church nor found fault

Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover And when Jesus was twelve years old and was in the Holy City attending upon the Paschal Rites and solemn Sacrifices of the Law his Parents having fulfilled their days of Festivity went homeward supposing the Child had been in the Caravan among his friends and so they erred for the space of a whole day's journey and when they sought him and found him not they returned to Jerusalem full of fears and sorrow 2. No fancy can imagine the doubts the apprehensions the possibilities of mischief and the tremblings of heart which the Holy Virgin-Mother felt thronging about her fancy and understanding but such a person who hath been tempted to the danger of a violent fear and transportation by apprehension of the loss of a hope greater than a Miracle her discourses with her self could have nothing of distrust but much of sadness and wonder and the indetermination of her thoughts was a trouble great as the passion of her love Possibly an Angel might have carried him she knew not whither or it may be the son of Herod had gotten the prey which his cruel Father missed or he was sick or detained out of curiosity and wonder or any thing but what was right And by this time she was come to Jerusalem and having spent three days in her sad and holy pursuit of her lost jewel despairing of the prosperous event of any humane diligence as in all other cases she had accustomed she made her address to God and entring into the Temple to pray God that knew her desires prevented her with the blessings of goodness and there her sorrow was changed into joy and wonder for there she found her Holy Son sitting in the midst of the Doctors both hearing them and asking them questions 3. And when they saw him they were amazed and so were all that heard him at his understanding and answers beyond his education beyond his experience beyond his years and even beyond the common spirits of the best 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 up to the height of a Prophet with the clearness of an Angel and the infallibility of inspiration for here it was verified in the highest and most literal signification that out of the 〈◊〉 of babes God had ordained strength but this was the strength of 〈◊〉 and science of the highest Mysteries of Religion and secret Philosophy 4. Glad were the Parents of the Child to find him illustrated with a Miracle concerning which when he had given them such an account which they understood not but yet Mary laid up in her heart as that this was part of his imployment and his Father's business he returned with them to Nazareth and was subject to his Parents where he lived in all Holiness and Humility shewing great signs of Wisdom indearing himself to all that beheld his conversation did nothing less than might become the great expectation which his miraculous Birth had created of him for he increased in 〈◊〉 and stature and favour with God and Man still growing in proportion to his great beginnings to a miraculous excellency of Grace sweetness of demeanour and excellency of understanding 5. They that love to serve God in hard questions use to dispute whether Christ did truly or in appearance only increase in Wisdom For being personally united to the Word and being the eternal Wisdom of the Father it seemed to them that a plenitude of Wisdom was as natural to the whole Person as to the Divine Nature But others fixing their belief upon the words of the story which equally affirms Christ as properly to have increased in favour with God as with Man in wisdom as in stature they apprehend no inconvenience in affirming it to belong to the verity of Humane Nature to have degrees of Understanding as well as of other perfections and although the Humanity of Christ made up the same Person with the Divinity yet they think the Divinity still to be free even in those communications which were imparted to his inferiour Nature and the Godhead might as well suspend the emanation of all the treasures of Wisdom upon the Humanity for a time as he did the Beatifical Vision which most certainly was not imparted in the interval of his sad and dolorous Passion But whether it were truly or in appearance in habit or in exercise of act by increase of notion or experience it is certain the promotions of the Holy Child were great admirable and as full of wonder as of Sanctity and sufficient to entertain the hopes and expectations of Israel with preparations and dispositions as to satisfie their wonder for the present so to accept him at the time of his publication they having no reason to be scandalized at the smalness improbability and indifferency of his first beginnings 6. But the Holy Child had also an imployment which he undertook in obedience to his supposed Father for exercise and example of Humility and for the support of that holy Family which was dear in the eyes of God but not very splendid by the opulency of a free and indulgent fortune He wrought in the trade of a Carpenter and when Joseph died which happened before the Manifestation of Jesus unto Israel he wrought alone and was no more called the Carpenter's son but the Carpenter himself Is not this the Carpenter the son of Mary said his offended Countrymen And in this condition the Blessed Jesus did abide till he was thirty years old for he that came to fulfil the Law would not suffer one tittle of it to pass unaccomplished for by the Law of the Nation and custom of the Religion no Priest was to officiate or Prophet was to preach before he was thirty years of age Ad SECT VII Considerations upon the Disputation of JESVS with the Doctors in the Temple 1. JOseph and Mary being returned unto Nazareth were sedulous to enjoy the priviledges of their Countrey the opportunities of Religion the publick address to God in the Rites of Festivals and Solemnities of the Temple they had been long grieved with the impurities and Idol-rites which they with sorrow had observed to be done in Egypt and being deprived of the blessings of those holy Societies and imployments they used to enjoy in Palestine at their return came to the offices of their Religion with appetites of fire and keen as the evening Wolf and all the joys which they should have received in respersion and distinct emanations if they had kept their Anniversaries at Jerusalem all that united they received in the duplication of their joys at their return and in the fulfilling themselves with the resection and holy Viands of Religion For so God uses to satisfie the longings of holy people when a Persecution has shut up the beautiful gates of the Temple or denied to them opportunities of access although God hears the Prayers they make with their windows towards Jerusalem with their hearts opened with desires of the publick communions and sends them a Prophet

alone it was that Men if ever must be justified and acquitted from that Guilt and Condemnation which all the pompous Ceremonies and Ministeries of the Mosaic Law could never do away That therefore they should do well to take heed lest by their opposing this way of Salvation they should bring upon themselves that prophetical curse which God had threatned to the Jews of old for their great contumacy and neglect This Sermon wanted not its due effects The 〈◊〉 Jewes desired the Apostles to discourse again to them of this matter the next Sabbath Day the Apostles also perswading them to continue firm in the belief of these things The Day was no sooner come but the whole City almost flocked to be their Auditors which when the Jewes saw acted by a spirit of envy they began to blaspheme and to contradict the Apostles who nothing daunted told them that our Lord had charged them first to preach the Gospel to the Jews which since they so obstinately rejected they were now to address themselves to the Gentiles who hearing this exceedingly rejoyced at the good news and magnified the Word of God and as many of them as were thus prepared and disposed towards eternal life heartily closed with it and embraced it the Apostles preaching not there only but through the whole Country round about The Jews more exasperated than before resolved to be rid of their company and to that end perswaded some of the more devout and honourable Women to deal with their Husbands Persons of prime rank and quality in the City by whose means they were driven out of those parts Whereat Paul and Barnabas shaking off the dust of their Feet as a Testimony against their ingratitude and infidelity departed from them 5. THE next place they went to was Iconium where at first they found kind entertainment and good success God setting a Seal to their Doctrine by the Testimony of his Miracles But here the Jewish malice began again to ferment exciting the People to sedition and a mutiny against them Insomuch that hearing of a 〈◊〉 to stone them they seasonably withdrew to Lystra where they first made their way by a miraculous cure For S. Paul seeing an impotent Cripple that had been lame from his Mothers Womb cured him with the speaking of a word The People who beheld the Miracle had so much natural Logick as to infer that there was a Divinity in the thing though mistaking the Author they applied it to the Instruments crying out That the Gods in humane shape were come down from Heaven Paul as being chief Speaker they termed Mercury the God of speech and eloquence Barnabas by reason of his Age and gravity they called Jupiter the Father of their Gods accordingly the Syriac Interpreter here renders Jupiter by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Lord or Soveraign of the Gods The fame of this being spread over the City the Priest of Jupiter brought Oxen dressed up with Garlands after the Gentile Rites to the House where the Apostles were to do Sacrifice to them Which they no sooner understood but in detestation of those undue honours offered to them they rent their clothes and told them that they were Men of the same make and temper of the same passions and infirmities with themselves that the design of their Preaching was to convert them from these vain Idolatries and superstitions to the worship of the true God the great Parent of the World who though heretofore he had left Men to themselves to go on in their own ways of Idolatrous worship yet had he given sufficient evidence of himself in the constant returns of a gracious and benign providence in crowning the Year with fruitful Seasons and other acts of common kindness and bounty to Mankind 6. A SHORT discourse but very rational and convictive which it may not be amiss a little more particularly to consider and the method which the Apostle uses to convince these blind Idolaters He proves Divine honours to be due to God alone as the Sovereign Being of the World and that there is such a Supreme infinite Being he argues from his Works both of Creation and Providence Creation He is the living God that made Heaven and Earth the Sea and all things that are therein Providence He left not himself without witness in that he did good and gave rain from Heaven and fruitful seasons filling our hearts with food and gladness Than which no argument can be more apt and proper to work upon the minds of men That which may be known of God is manifest to the Gentiles for God hath shewed it unto them For the invisible things of him from the Creation of the world even his eternal power and Godhead are clearly seen and understood by the things that are made It being impossible impartially to survey the several parts of the Creation and not see in every place evident footsteps of an infinite wisdom power and goodness Who can look up unto the Heavens and not there discern and Almighty wisdom beautifully garnishing those upper Regions distinguishing the circuits and perpetuating the motions of the Heavenly lights placing the Sun in the middle of the Heavens that he might equally dispence and communicate his light and heat to all parts of the World and not burn the Earth with the too near approach of his seorching beams by which means the Creatures are refreshed and cheared the Earth impregnated with fruits and flowers by the benign influence of a vital heat and the vicissitudes and seasons of the year regularly distinguished by their constant and orderly revolutions Whence are the great Orbs of Heaven kept in continual motion always going in the same tract but because there 's a Superiour power that keeps these great wheels a going Who is it that poises the ballancings of the Clouds that divides a water-course for the overflowing of waters and a way for the lightning of the Thunder Who can bind the sweet influences of Pleiades or loose the bands of Orion Or who can bring forth Mazaroth in his season or guide Arcturus with his sons Do these come by chance or by the secret appointment of infinite wisdom Who can consider the admirable thinness and purity of the Air its immediate subserviency to the great ends of the Creation its being the treasury of vital breath to all living Creatures without which the next moment must put a period to our days and not reflect upon that Divine wisdom that contrivedit If we come down upon the Earth there we discover a Divine providence supporting it with the pillars of an invisible power stretching the North over the empty space and hanging the Earth upon nothing filling it with great variety of admirable and useful Creatures and maintaining them all according to their kinds at his own cost and charges 'T is he that clothes the Grass with a delightful verdure that crowns the Year with his loving kindness and makes the Valleys stand thick with corn that

beheaded at the same time Thus fell S. James the Apostolick Proto-Martyr the first of that number that gained the Crown chearfully taking that cup which he had long since told his Lord he was most ready to drink of 9. BUT the Divine vengeance that never sleeps suffered not the death of this innocent and righteous man to pass long unrevenged of which though S. Luke gives us but a short account yet Josephus who might himself remember it being a youth at that time of seven or eight years of age sets down the story with its particular circumstances agreeing almost exactly with the Sacred Historian Shortly after S. James his Martyrdom Herod removed to Caesarea being resolved to make war upon the neighbouring Tyrians and Sidonians While he was here he proclaimed solemn sights and Festival entertainments to be held in honour of Caesar to which there flocked a great confluence of all the Nobility thereabouts Early in the morning on the second day he came with great state into the Theatre to make an Oration to the people being clothed in a Robe all over curiously wrought with silver which encountring with the beams of the rising Sun reflected such a lustre upon the eyes of the people who make sensible appearances the only true measures of greatness as begot an equal wonder and veneration in them crying out prompted no doubt by flatterers who began the cry that it was some Deity which they beheld and that he who spake to them must be something above the ordinary standard of humanity This impious applause Herod received without any token of dislike or sense of that injury that was hereby done to the supreme Being of the World But a sudden accident changed the scene and turned the Gomick part into a black fatal Tragedy Looking up he espied an Owle sitting upon a rope over his head as probably also he did an Angel for so S. Luke mentions it which he presently beheld as the fatal messenger of his death as heretofore it had been of his prosperity and success An incurable melancholy immediately seised upon his mind as exquisite torments did upon his bowels caused without question by those 〈◊〉 S. Luke speaks of which immediately fed and preyed upon him Behold said he turning to those about him the Deity you admired and your selves evidently convinced of flattery and falshood see me here by the Laws of Fate condemned to die whom just now you stiled immortal Being removed into the Palace his pains still encreased upon him and though the people mourned and wept fasted and prayed for his life and health yet his acute torments got the upper hand and after five days put a period to his life But to return to S. James 10. BEING put to death his Body is said to have taken a second voyage into Spain where we are with confidence enough told it rests at this day Indeed I meet with a very formal account of its translation thither written says the Publisher above DC years since by a Monk of the Abby of La-Fleury in France The summ whereof is this The Apostles at Jerusalem designing Ctesiphon for Spain ordained him Bishop and others being joyned to his assistance they took the Body of S. James and went on board a Ship without Oars without a Pilot or any to steer and conduct their voyage trusting only to the merits of that Apostle whose remains they carried along with them In seven days they arrived at a Port in Spain where landing the Corps was suddenly taken from them and with great appearances of an extraordinary light from Heaven conveyed they knew not whither to the place of its interment The men you may imagine were exceedingly troubled that so great a treasure should be ravished from them but upon their prayers and tears they were conducted by an Angel to the place where the Apostle was buried twelve miles from the Sea Here they addressed themselves to a rich Noble Matron called Luparia who had a great Estate in those parts but a severe Idolatress begging of her that they might have leave to intomb the bones of the holy Apostle within her jurisdiction She entertained them with contempt and scorn with curses and execrations bidding them go and ask leave of the King of the Country They did so but were by him treated with all the instances of rage and fury and pursued by him till himself perished in the attempt They returned back to their Gallaecian Matron whom by many miracles and especially the destroying a Dragon that miserably infested those parts they at last made Convert to the Faith who thereupon commanded her Images to be broken the Altars to be demolished and her own Idol-Temple being cleansed and purged to be dedicated to the honour of S. James by which means Christianity mightily prevailed and triumphed over Idolatry in all those Countries This is the summ of the Account call it Romance or History which I do not desire to impose any further upon the Readers faith than he shall find himself disposed to believe it I add no more than that his Body was afterwards translated from Iria Flavia the place of its first repose to Compostella Though a Learned person will have it to have been but one and the same place and that after the story of S. James had gotten some footing in the belief of men it began to be called ad Jacobum Apostolum thence in after-times Giacomo 〈◊〉 which was at last jumbled into Compostella where it were to tire both the Reader and my self to tell him with what solemn veneration and incredible miracles reported to be done here this Apostle's reliques are worshipped at this day Whence Baronius calls it the great store-house of Miracles lying open to the whole World and wisely confesses it one of the best arguments to prove that his Body was translated thither And I should not scruple to be of his mind could I be assured that such Miracles were truly done there The End of the Life of S. James the Great THE LIFE OF S. JOHN S. IOHN Evangelist Having lived to a great age he died at Ephesus 68 years after our Lords Passion and was Buried neere that City Baron S t John put into a Cauldron of boyling oyl Joh. 21. 21 32. Peter sait Lord what shall this man do Jesus saith unto hun if I will that he tarry till I come what is that to thee 1 Pet. 4. 12. Think it not strange concerning I fiery trial that is to try you as though some strange thing hapned to you His kindred and relations whether eminent for Nobility The peculiar favours conferred upon him by our Saviour His lying in our Lord's Bosom His attending at the crucifixion Our Lord 's committing the Blessed Virgin to his care The great intimacy between him and Peter How long he resided at Jerusalem Asia his Apostolical Province His planting Christianity there and in other parts of the East His being sent prisoner to

all publick Societies of men one word or an intimation from Christ would have sounded an alarm and put us into postures of defence when all Christ's excellent Sermons and rare exemplar actions cannot tie our hands But it is strange now that of all men in the World Christians should be such fighting people or that Christian Subjects should lift up a thought against a Christian Prince when they had no intimation of encouragement from their Master but many from him to endear Obedience and Humility and Patience and Charity and these four make up the whole analogy and represent the chief design and meaning of Christianity in its moral constitution 11. But Jesus when himself was safe could also have secured the poor Babes of Bethlehem with thousands of diversions and avocations of Herod's purposes or by discovering his own Escape in some safe manner not unknown to the Divine wisedom but yet it did not so please God He is Lord of his Creatures and hath absolute dominion over our lives and he had an end of Glory to serve upon these Babes and an end of Justice upon Herod and to the Children he made such compensation that they had no reason to complain that they were so soon made Stars when they shined in their little Orbs and participations of Eternity for so the sense of the Church hath been that they having dyed the death of Martyrs though incapable of making the choice God supplied the defects of their will by his own entertainment of the thing that as the misery and their death so also their glorification might have the same Author in the same manner of causality even by a peremptory and unconditioned determination in these particulars This sense is pious and nothing unreasonable considering that all circumstances of the thing make the case particular but the immature death of other Infants is a sadder story for though I have no warrant or thought that it is ill with them after death and in what manner or degree of well-being it is there is no revelation yet I am not of opinion that the securing of so low a condition as theirs in all reason is like to be will make recompence or is an equal blessing with the possibilities of such an Eternity as is proposed to them who in the use of Reason and a holy life glorifie God with a free Obedience and if it were otherwise it were no blessing to live till the use of Reason and Fools and Babes were in the best because in the securest condition and certain expectation of equal glories 12. As soon as Herod was dead for the Divine Vengeance waited his own time for his arrest the Angel presently brought Joseph word The holy Family was full of content and indifferency not solicitous for return not distrustful of the Divine Providence full of poverty and sanctity and content waiting God's time at the return of which God delayed not to recall them from Exile out of Egypt he called his Son and directed Joseph's fear and course that he should divert to a place in the jurisdiction of Philip where the Heir of Herod's Cruelty Archelaus had nothing to do And this very series of Providence and care God expresses to all his sons by adoption and will determine the time and set bounds to every Persecution and punish the instruments and ease our pains and refresh our sorrows and give quietness to our fears and deliverance from our troubles and sanctifie it all and give a Crown at last and all in his good time if we wait the coming of the Angel and in the mean time do our duty with care and sustain our temporals with indifferency and in all our troubles and displeasing accidents we may call to mind that God by his holy and most reasonable Providence hath so ordered it that the spiritual advantages we may receive from the holy use of such incommodities are of great recompence and interest and that in such accidents the Holy Jesus having gone before us in precedent does go along with us by love and fair assistences and that makes the present condition infinitely more eligible than the greatest splendour of secular fortune The PRAYER O Blessed and Eternal God who didst suffer thy Holy Son to fly from the violence of an enraged Prince and didst chuse to defend him in the ways of his infirmity by hiding himself and a voluntary exile be thou a defence to all thy faithful people when-ever Persecution arises against them send them the ministery of Angels to direct them into ways of security and let thy holy Spirit guide them in the paths of Sanctity and let thy Providence continue in custody over their persons till the times of refreshment and the day of Redemption shall return Give O Lord to thy whole Church Sanctity and Zeal and the confidences of a holy Faith boldness of confession Humility content and resignation of spirit generous contempt of the World and unmingled desires of thy glory and the edification of thy Elect that no secular interests disturb her duty or discompose her charity or depress her hopes or in any unequal degree possess her affections and pollute her spirit but preserve her from the snares of the World and the Devil from the rapine and greedy desires of Sacrilegious persons and in all conditions whether of affluence or want may she still promote the interests of Religion that when plenteousness is within her palaces and peace in her walls that condition may then be best for her and when she is made as naked as Jesus to his Passion then Poverty may be best for her that in all estates she may glorifie thee and in all accidents and changes thou mayest sanctifie and bless her and at last bring her to the eternal riches and abundances of glory where no Persecution shall disturb her rest Grant this for sweet Jesus sake who suffered exile and hard journeys and all the inconveniences of a friendless person in a strange Province to whom with thee and the eternal Spirit be glory for ever and blessing in all generations of the World and for ever and ever Amen SECT VII Of the younger years of JESVS and his Disputation with the Doctors in the Temple The House of Prayer It is written My house shall be called of all Nations the house of prayer Mark 11. 17. If they return confess thy name and pray and make supplication before thee in this House Then hear thou in heaven and forgive 2. Chron 6. 24. 26. IESUS disputing with the Doctors S. LUKE 2. 46. 47. They found him in the Temple sitting in the midst of the Doctors both hearing them and asking them questions And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding answers 1. FRom the return of this holy Family to Judaea and their habitation in Nazareth till the blessed Child Jesus was twelve years of age we have nothing transmitted to us out of any authentick Record but that they went to