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A23680	An Abridgment of the prerogatives of St. Ann, mother of the mother of God with the approbation of the doctors at Paris, and thence done into English to accompany The contemplations on the life and glory of Holy Mary, and the defence of the same, with some pieces of a like nature : to which a preface is added concerning the original of the story.	Cross, John, 1630-1689. Contemplations on the life and glory of Holy Mary the mother of Jesus.; Clagett, William, 1646-1688.	1688 (1688)	Wing A108; ESTC R6614	31,825	46

AN ABRIDGMENT OF THE PREROGATIVES OF St. ANN MOTHER of the MOTHER of GOD. With the Approbation of the Doctors at Paris And Thence Done into English to accompany The Contemplations on the Life and Glory of Holy MARY and the Defence of the Same with some Pieces of a like nature To which a PREFACE is added concerning the Original of the STORY IMPRIMATUR Liber cui Titulus An Abridgment of the Prerogatives of S. Ann c. Guil. Needham R. R. in Christo P. ac D.D. Wilhelmo Archiep Cant. a Sacr. Dom. Feb. 14. 1687. LONDON Printed for Ric. Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard MDCLXXXVIII THE PREFACE THat Article of the Pastoral Letter of Cardinal Camus which directs his Clergy not to disguise or misrepresent the Doctrine of the Church as it shews the ingenuity of that Illustrious Prelate so it manifestly detects that he thought such Artifices were not unusual I know that Ingenuity and fair Representing are what all will commend but what few can bear and as few practice There is an Order of men whose Talent is generally thought not to lye much that way who cease not with all imaginable vigour to prosecute the giver of so Pestilent Advice Nor is it indeed strange that Dexterity should be looked on as more advantagious to a Party than naked Honesty But I must needs say tho some have played more cunningly there are others who have dealt more honestly among whom I place the Contemplator on the Life of H. Mary For this Gentleman deals plainly enough with the World and gives such a Pattern of Devotion towards the Queen as she is call'd of all pure Creatures as shews he is not ashamed to bring into the greatest Light what others at the same time industriously cast into Shadow And having shew'd himself so very fair and open I expected he would have before this time prevented the office of the following Treatise and that having said so much of the Maternity of Holy Mary he must have more than a little left for the Maternity of St. Anne For if both according to him and the Maids of St. Joseph the Tree is known by its Fruit and the Branches are holy if the Root be sanctified therefore if Jesus was intirely Holy Mary's flesh was never defil'd and if not Marys neither St. Anns If so I say St. Ann has good reason to complain of her being passed over with such silence while so great Adorations are paid to her Daughter And if it look like Protestant-presumption to go to God the Father only through Jesus Christ without the Intercession of his Mother it must needs be less Presumption and greater Humility to beg the Grandmother too to intercede If we can go so far as to suspect the efficacy of our Prayers when offered up in the sole Name of Jesus and think it safest to recurr to the Divine Maternity and the Name of Mary it must needs be the best way to make them throughly effectual to follow the Advice of the Josephine Maids and in the first place to address our selves to St. Ann and in her name approach to the Daughter who to be sure is not able to refuse her Mother any thing no more than her Son can her Nay if we go to St. Anns Mother it will be so much the better yet and the same Reason would still carry us higher till we can go no farther The Principles are plainly own'd and expresly and industriously taught and then it must be somewhat too like foulness to deny evident and palpable Consequences But I am so charitable as to think that the Contemplator on H. Mary who has so Seraphical a Pen in describing her Honours and Glories is just to his Principles and if so none can be fitter to extol the Prerogatives of her Mother For we are told from Apocryphal Writers and his own fruitful Imagination of the strange wonders of Maries Maternity P. 26 28. How she was exempted from the general Curse of Sin in her Passive Conception in the Womb of S. Ann how she had the use of Reason while there understood the Natures and Decrees of God saw into all the Mysteries of Grace exercised Acts of a most pure inflam'd and restless Love and sung a joyful Magnificat to her wonderful Benefactor We are told how the (a) P. 29. Angels sung Glory be to the Mother of God and then it cannot be otherwise but that she who is thus early complemented Queen of Heaven must at her (b) P. 45. Nativity be adorn'd with all inward and outward Graces and have a most harmonious Body and Soul upon which we must believe that Heaven Limbo and Earth were replenish'd with transcendent Joys We are after this told how (c) P. 52. from the hour of her Birth she makes a Vow and at Three years end performs it (d) P. 54. how she is receiv'd into the Temple and plac'd on the steps on each of which she sings forth a Gradual Psalm and contemplates on the several Mysteries of the Rosary and then begs the Chief Priest to be admitted into the Society of the Holy Women who watch'd and pray'd by the Ark how her whole Life both in the Temple and afterward is only (e) P. 80. one continued act of super-eminent Contemplation and Extasy with which at last she is cast into a Feaver of Love which causes her death upon which her Soul is conveyed with ineffable Harmonies of Angels and seated in Glory above all their Quires and (f) P. 83. her Body assum'd up afterward and vested with Super-Seraphical Majesty and (g) P. 90. how the Angels and Elect severally do homage to her how the Angels give her the Badges of Soveraignty over Men Archangels over Nobles Thrones over Kings and so the rest and how solemnly the Blessed Trinity congratulates her and all this is as particularly and exactly describ'd as if he had been no less than Master of the Ceremonies It 's pity the Scriptures should be so scanty and imperfect as to have none of this rare stuff but our Josephine Maids who give the reason for the silence of the Evangelists concerning their great Patroness may give the same why so little is said by them concerning her Daughter viz. That God conceals the greatest Excellencies and that the holiest Saints are lost to the World through the excess of their Merit that Mary being the Soul that nearest approach'd to the Divinity was a Treasure as ineffable as God but that God hath at length been pleased to draw these things out of silence by Annual Commemorations But as many as reason freely cannot but have some suspicion of the late ushering these Commemorations into the Kalendar and be apt to guess at the true Reason of the silence of the Holy Penmen and conclude the Holy Spirit foreseeing that superstitious worship that was to come into the World to undermine the glorious designs of this Blessed Religion took away

scandal to Christianity and the Invention of the Father of Lies I know not what is But God be praised it has fell out very happily that these False Evangelists have notoriously given themselves the Lye having not either Learning or Wit enough to lay the Plan of their Story so as not to clash with the greatest Evidences of Time and Place Hence they bring upon the Stage such persons as Issachar Reuben c. who we are certain never were And who that is in the least acquainted with the Customs of the Jews can believe that a Girl of Three years old was ever put into the Sanctum Sanctorum and there liv'd alone without any body to take care of her for many years Certainly if only the High Priest entred there and he not above one day in the year and then neither not above once or twice and if he entred three or four times was to be put to death nothing can be grosser than to place there a young helpless Child And if we believe this it is not much if we believe she lived there without Meat Drink Bed and Conversation for Ten or a Dozen years Besides that there were no Nuns or Holy Women in the Temple as the Story supposes is at large proved against Baronius by * Exercit. ad Bar. App. Annal N. 21 22 23. Casaubon Having said so much of the Matter and Foundation I have but little to add of the following Book it self The Publisher tells you That it relates directly to the Glory of the Supream Creator of all things And the Approvers tell you that they find nothing in it but what is conformable to the Apostolical Roman Church and that it is very useful to maintain the Devotion to S. Ann. But how directly that Devotion relates to the Glory of the Supream Creator they may be better able to reconcile than I am I might easily compare some of the Doctrines with those of a Spanish Doctor lately condemn'd at Rome nay and parallel some of the very Expressions to shew that what is Heretical at one time may be Orthodox at another I might also shew how the Legend came to be patch'd up out of the History of Hannah Samuel's Mother and that of our ever Blessed Lord and might give a view of some other † Ave Maria Gratia plena c. benedicta sit Anna Mater sua de qua sine macula tua processit caro Virginea Devotions made to St. Ann But I am afraid I have too extravagantly already tired the Reader 's patience and therefore do conclude TO THE Queen Regent MADAM IT is Divine Providence and not Fortune or Humane Industry that bestows Scepters and Crowns and all France visibly discovers in the Regency of YOUR MAJESTY the Mild and Loving thoughts of the Divine Regent of the World in giving us the Best as well as the Greatest Princess of the Earth to Govern it But may YOUR MAJESTY be pleas'd to suffer us the poor Daughters of St. JOSEPH to declare That it is in You that we have not only observ'd but felt one of the most beautiful draughts of this Divine Providence which is That as it hath its Eye and Scepter over the least of the Worms that creep upon the Earth as well as over the most exalted of Monarchs who is lifted up on the Throne So Great Queen Your Regency bearing its Glory already beyond Admiration by so many Glorious Actions which seem to rob each other of their splendor in the Government of Your State You judged that it would have lost somewhat of its Lustre had not You shew'd Your self as well a Charitable Mother of the poor Orphans as a worthy Queen Regent of this great Monarchy You have said from the beginning what the Wisdom Incarnate said formerly in this World Suffer these little Souls to come to me I am pleas'd to assist the Designs of Preventing Grace which has drawn 'em out of the evil steps and perils of great Miseries to which an extreme Poverty would have reduc'd 'em Divine Providence has taken 'em into its care and it pleases Me to make My self its Agent or Lieutenant in the means of Loving and Helping them I receive them under my Protection and into My Bosom Truly it is an Action so much the more Powerful and Meritorious before God as it has the less of Interest and as he alone could be its motive But 't is an Action which perfectly resembles and worthily honours the steps of Divine Providence of whose Favours and Succours the Little as well as the Great the Shorn as well as the Crowned heads partake The most sublime cares in which YOUR MAJESTY is constantly to Admiration taken up for the Glory and Felicity of this State are it must be confess'd the lively Colours of its Pourtraiture But Divine Providence was willing that the little destitute Maids whose Honour and Life You preserve should give the Shades That therefore all France may admire the wonders of Your Conduct Your poor Maids of St. Joseph will do nothing else in the World but publish to it the Miracles of Your Charity and declare in the condition wherein we mean Creatures are That as there is nothing too high for Your Regency so nothing is too low for Your Goodness which by too much meriting towards us puts us into an entire inability of being ever able to be sufficiently Thankful Behold nevertheless a small Testimony of our profound Acknowledgment which carries our Hearts to the Feet of Your Majesty by this little Work and Abridgment of the Prerogatives of St. Ann which we adjudged ought to be if not worthy at least not unworthy of Your Eyes for the dignity of the Subject which it treats And the motives which invited us to this Duty are That as it was the day of St. Ann when God inspir'd into us the first designs of Erecting an House after the Pattern of his where Maids should be bred and instructed till the time they be provided for in like manner as the Holy Virgin her Daughter was so carefully and so holily educated by her So is it this same Saint which we believe to have been among the second Causes that which procur'd us from the First this incomparable favour of the greatest Queen in the World who imitates her Virtues as well as worthily bears her Name Wherefore after having taken St. Ann for our Tutelar and the Governant in this House and Dedicated to her a Chappel in the Design of erecting thereto a Confrairy in her Honour who hath tied us to her self by Adoption and by Spirit and Grace to Jesus and Mary who compose her Family we have presum'd for the best return of Thanks which we have been able to present to Your Majesty to represent to You upon this little Paper as in a Map a World of Merits and Perfections which were in this Great Saint so to make yours acknowledg'd and admir'd and God prais'd by seeing your Majesties