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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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