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B04950	The Virgin Mary misrepresented by the Roman Church in the traditions of that church, concerning her life and glory; and in the devotions paid to her, as the mother of God. Both shewed out of the offices of that church, the lessons on her festivals, and from their allowed authors. Part I. Wherein two of her feasts, her conception and nativity, are considered.	Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707.; Patrick, John, 1632-1695.	1688 (1688)	Wing P863A; ESTC R19085	135,709	190

c. 2. citante Novarino a great Author with them who lived above Four hundred Years ago makes this Observation That at least three times this Question is asked in the Canticles in the Person of the Angels Qua est ista Who is this And he imagines the Reason to be That they are desirous that the sweet Name of Mary may be answered to that Question For says he Angels desire that her Name should be mentioned and discovered and that it should not only be renowned in Heaven And if this Concern of theirs does not move us yet Gratitude to her when she her self is also concerned in it will not fail to do it To which Purpose they tell us That her beloved Hermannus whom she married m Barthol de los Rios Hierarch Marian. l. 5. c. 40. ex Surio vit Hermanni Apr. 5. Gononi Chron. Deip. p. 242. being distracted and hindred by Business and Cares of his Monastery grow more negligent and remis● in reciting her Offices and Hours that formerly to whom she appeared in the Shape of an old wither'd wrinkled Woman chiding him that now her Memory was grown old with him whereas formerly he named saluted and praised her a Thousand times Upon this Rebuke he resolved by commemorating her Joys and reciting her Ave's to make her young again which he did The Name of Mary says another n Barthol de los Rios ib. l. 6. c. 11. 20. is the best Image of her and more venerable than all her Reliques and Images He that does invoke her by this sweet Name attending to the Etymology thereof thou recite compendiously great Litanies of extraordinary Merit and Efficacy Poza o Elucidar l. 2. trac 17. c. 5. and others think that the Name of Mary as far as is expedient for our own and others Salvation does confer the Effect ●n opere operato by the Work done just as the Churches Exorcisms do and as many say the same of the Sign of the Cross and of the Name of Jesus From such Principles as these they fall into those heathenish Battologies and vain Repetitions which our Saviour condemns Matt 6.7 and their Prayers become in the Phrase of the Son of Syrach p Ecclus 7.14 much babling consisting of a nauseous Repetition of one and the same Name over and over again Of this the Reader may take a shameful Instance how they abuse in this manner the blessed Name of Jesus in that which they call Jesus Psalter q See Manual of godly Prayers at the end which consists of Fifteen Petitions with the Name of Jesus ten times or rather Thirty times reiterated before every one of the Petitions The Manner of reciting the Psalter of Jesus is as follows The First Petition 1. Jesu Jesu Jesu 2. Jesu Jesu Jesu 3. Jesu Jesu Jesu 4. Jesu Jesu Jesu 5. Jesu Jesu Jesu 6. Jesu Jesu Jesu 7. Jesu Jesu Jesu 8. Jesu Jesu Jesu 9. Jesu Jesu Jesu 10. Jesu Jesu Jesu Mercy The Second Petition 1. Jesu Jesu Jesu 2. Jesu Jesu Jesu 3. Jesu Jesu Jesu 4. Jesu Jesu Jesu 5. Jesu Jesu Jesu 6. Jesu Jesu Jesu 7. Jesu Jesu Jesu 8. Jesu Jesu Jesu 9. Jesu Jesu Jesu 10. Jesu Jesu Jesu Help me Third Petition 1. Jesu Jesu Jesu 2. Jesu Jesu Jesu And so on as before Strengthen me Fourth Petition 1. Jesu Jesu Jesu 2. Jesu Jesu Jesu c. Comfort me Fifth Petition 1. Jesu Jesu Jesu 2. Jesu Jesu Jesu c. Make me constant stable Sixth Petition 1. Jesu Jesu Jesu 2. Jesu Jesu Jesu c. Lighten me Seventh Petition 1. Jesu Jesu Jesu 2. Jesu Jesu Jesu c. Grant me Grace to dread thee Eighth Petition 1. Jesu Jesu Jesu 2. Jesu Jesu Jesu c. Grant me Grace to love thee Ninth Petition 1. Jesu Jesu Jesu 2. Jesu Jesu Jesu c. Give me Grace to remember my death Tenth Petition 1. Jesu Jesu Jesu 2. Jesu Jesu Jesu c. Send me here my Purgatory Eleventh Petition 1. Jesu Jesu Jesu 2. Jesu Jesu Jesu c. Grant me Grace to fly evil Company Twelfth Petition 1. Jesu Jesu Jesu 2. Jesu Jesu Jesu c. Give me Grace to call for Help to thee Thirteenth Petition 1. Jesu Jesu Jesu 2. Jesu Jesu Jesu c. Make me to persevere in Vertue Fourteenth Petition 1. Jesu Jesu Jesu 2. Jesu Jesu Jesu c. Give me Grace to fix my Mind on thee Fifteenth Petition 1. Jesu Jesu Jesu 2. Jesu Jesu Jesu 3. Jesu Jesu Jesu 4. Jesu Jesu Jesu c. As many times as the First Give me Grace to order my Life to thee Here you see an Hundred and Fifty Rows of the Name of Jesus which being Three in a Row make up Four hundred and Fifty which must be all pattered over before those few Words that make up the Fifteen Petitions are concluded There is no Atheist or Infidel who if he had a Design to turn Prayers into 〈◊〉 could more effectually do it than by such a Prescription as 〈◊〉 But we have not the worst of it yet For you must know that it is not the Petition and the Sence following this oft rep●…ted Name that is necessary but the N●… 〈◊〉 oft used without any thing else adjoined is that which they lay much Stress upon and which makes acceptable Devotion with them For thus I find in that Book of the Jesuit P. Barry r Le paradise Ouvert p. 166. The Author of 〈◊〉 is so fond of the Virgin 's Name that instead of Paul Barry he desired to be called Paul of S. Mary which contains an hundred Devotions to the blessed Virgin and is bought up for common Use as our Practise of Piety or the Whole Duty of Man for I observe Seventeen Editions of it in less than Thirty Years he gives this for one Often to pronounce the Name of Mary in imitation of a Japan Woman Concerning whom the Annals of the Jesuits report That in honour of a Deity which that Country worships called Amida she used to repeat that Name an Hundred and forty thousand times daily rising very early every Morning as she had need to perform this Task and being assisted by a familiar Spirit that awaked her This Woman was baptized An. 1621. And after she was a Christian changed this Superstition into Devotion and obliged herself in gratitude for her Conversion to pronounce every day as many times viz. a Hundred and forty thousand the sacred Names of Jesus and Mary and because now the Devil would come no more to awake her in the morning her Angel Guardian succeeded in that Office so pleasing to God says the Author was her Simplicity and Devotion This Worship so Japan and unparallell'd cannot he says be practised the Number is so great unless God give some special Grace However he advises his Philagie so he calls the devout Person he instructs to chuse a good round Number of Maries to repeat as a way to get Comfort

to hear of her when they bring her upon the stage of the World give me leave only to premise how they consider her in the Divine Decree before she was conceived and born into the World. SECT I. Of the B. Virgin 's Predestination Lectio Prov. 8. Missal Rom. ad Sept. 8. 8. Decemb. Dominus possedit me in initio viarum suarum antequam quicquam faceret ab initio Ab aeterno ordinata sum ab antiquis antequam terra fieret Nondum erant abyssi ego concepta eram necdum montes gravi mole constiterant ante colles parturiebar c. The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways from the beginning before he 〈◊〉 any thing I was ord●…ed from everlasting and of old before the Earth was made When there was no Abyss I was already conceived the heavy Mountains were not yet settled I was brought forth before the Hills Capitulum Ecclus 24. Brev. Rom. ad 8. Sept. 8. Decemb. Ab initio ante secula creata sum usque ad futurum non desinam in habitatione sanctâ coram ipso ministravi From the beginning and before all Ages I was created and I shall never fail and I ministred before him in the holy habitation The late Contemplations of the Life and Glory of H. Mary have given us a formal Office for the Eternal Predestination of the Mother of Jesus which runs thus The Praise P. 22. Hail Mary full of Grace our Lord is with thee Blessed art thou amongst Women and blessed is the Fruit of thy Womb Jesus Holy Mary Mother of God pray for us Sinners now and in the hour of our Death Vers Open my lips O Mother of Jesus Resp And my Soul shall speak forth thy praise V. Divine Lady be intent to mine aid R. Graciously make hast to help me V. Glory be to Jesus and Mary R. As it was i● and ever shall be The Hymn All hail most high most holy one Above the Angels beneath the Son c. Sad Rhimes Anthiem I was pre-ordained from the beginning before the Creation of the World my Habitation was in the highest and my Throne was seated on a Pillar of Light. Psalm 8. Mary Mother of Jesus how wonderful is thy Name even to the ends of the Earth All magnificence be given to Mary and let her be exalted above the Stars and Angels Reign on high as Queen of Seraphims and Saints and be thou Crowned with Honour and Glory Innocency and Mercy hath exalted my Name above the 〈…〉 Exceeding glorious is Mary the Mother of Jesus thy Name is wonderful above the Clouds Glory be to Jesus and Mary as it was is and ever shall be Amen Anth. I was Pre-ordained V. Holy Mary Mother of God R. Pray for us Sinners now and in the hour of our Death The Blessing Through the Merits and Intercession of the Mother of Jesus may we come safe to the harbour of eternal Salvation V. Bid us be blessed O Holy Mary R. Bless us O Mary the Mother of Jesus The Lesson I Issued forth out of the Bosom of God on High the first conceived before all Creatures my Abode is in the Depths and my Throne in a Pillar of Light. He who made me took his rest in my Tabernacle my In●…ence is in the choisest Blessings of my God and my Possessi●… in the fulness of the Saints For I am the Mother of 〈…〉 of holy Fear Knowledge and Hope In me is all grace of Truth and righteous Ways and all hope of Life and Vertue Vers Be thou O Mary merciful to us R. And by thee be all Glory to Jesus The Cantique Let us Praise thee O Mother of Jesus let us acknowledge thee our Sovereign Lady Let Angels and Men give Honour to thee the first conceived of all pure Creatures To thee the morning Stars and highest Seraphims sing Glory for thy magnificence Make Intercession for us O powerful Mother of Jesus for God will not refuse thee our Petitions Then shall we rejoice in the fulness of thy Glory and shall sing the Praises of Jesus for ever REMARKS IT were easie if it were as needful to give the Reader a large Catalogue of the Ancients who have made use of the forenamed places in the Proverbs to prove the Divinity of our Saviour against the Arians understanding Wisdom there of him who is the Increated Wisdom of God. But just as they have betrayed the Christian cause against the Heathens in the case of Images since the same Distinctions and Answers this Church makes me of to defend their Worship of them may all be pleaded for the Justifying the Heathen Idolatry in that particular So by their Application of these places of scripture to the B. Virgin whi●… the Fathers generall● thou●ht did belong only to Christ and proved his existence before all Ages of the World they have plainly put Answe● into the mouths of those Hereticks to evacua●… the 〈◊〉 of all those Arguments for those places may then be applied to Christ though supposed a Cr●… 〈…〉 ●eer Man as well as to la● 〈◊〉 must be 〈…〉 a meer Woman Cartha●…na a L. 1. de arc Deip. ho. 2. p. 9. is so 〈…〉 that not being able to deny what by the Authority of his Church he is forced to own nor yet to disown the other he thus agrees the matter Since those things which are spoken of the infinite Wisdom of God are verified also of the B. Virgin it is necessary that from the infinity of the Son she borrow a kind of infinite Dignity and from thence those Words may agree to both though in a different Sence And another b Carre Sweet thoughts of Jesus and Mary p. 293. thus What was said of the eternal Wisdom by eternal Birthright and property is applied to her by the wisdom of the Church guided by the H. Ghost by attribution and participation Our Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways This therefore is now their business to advance her as high as is possible and to give her Prerogatives above all other Creatures of which many of their Authors c Cited by Raynaudus Pipt Mar. p. 130. make this to be one That after Christ she was elected the first of all others So our Contemplator d Contemplat I. and Gl. of Mary p. 21. Thou wast the first and most delicious Object of God's Love towards pure Creatures from the beginning of Eternity Which they Illustrate thus e Carthagena Ibid. p. 7. As God decreed to constitute our first Parent Adam to be the Head of Mankind and gave him Eve for his Companion taken out of his side while he was a sleep so for the Reparation of Mankind he predestinated Christ to be the Head of another spiritual Off-spring and out of his side whilst he slept upon the Cross he brought out this second Eve the Mother of all Living by Grace And to this purpose they cite Prov. 8.25 Before the