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Pious instructions, in meeter fitted to the weaker capacities.
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Leo of S. Mary Magdalen.
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she went To keep the Sabbath-day But little rest sad Mary found Reflecting on her Lord. No meat no drink or sleep I judge She did her self afford Early next morn Mark 16. v. 1. with Marys two She took her ointments dear To give her Lord the last farewell The Guards she did not fear Nor who should roll away the stone v. 4. Which passed much their strength Love gave her wings Love gave her will Love brought her joy at length But lo Mary a second grief Lik 24. v. 3. The Body is not here The Tomb is open some have stol'n Away my Lord I fear Chear up Mary An Angel asks Woman Io. 20. v. 13. why dost thou weep I know not where they 've laid my Lord Which wounds my heart full deep v. 2. She runs and tells his Brethren this Peter and John ran fast And found what she had said was true And back again they past But Mary still stood weeping at The Tomb v. 11. would not depart Where her Lord's Body last was lay'd She had intomb'd her heart No longer could Christ's clemency Forbear but did appear v. 15. Say'ng Woman why do you thus weep And whom do you seek here She took him for a Gard'ner by His habit v. 15. and replies If thou him took'st I 'le fetch him back Tell me but where he lies Christ seeing Mary's loving tears No longer could conceal Himself but open'd Mary's eyes And did himself reveal MARY v. 16. says Christ She knew him then And Rabby she reply'd She saw he was no Gard'ner but Her Lord who for her dy'd And fell down at her usual place His Feet to kiss but see New grief Her Lord denies her this Say'ng v. 17. Woman touch not me v. 17. But go and tell my Brothers dear That I again do live Mat. 28. v. 7.10 In Galily they shall me see Where I will blessing give Mary obeys and in the way v. 9. Christ lets her kiss his feet Love made him first appear to her Her Love with Love did meet How oft to her Christ did appear The Scripture doth not tell 10. 11. v. 5. But we may judge it often was For he lov'd Mary well And when to Heav'n he did ascend Act. 1. v. 14. Mary was with the rest When Holy Ghost he promis't them And his Beloved Bless't Behold how Mary serv'd her Lord And never did depart From him in Joy or Misery So constant was her Heart Grant JESUS dear for Magd'len's sake That I adhere to Thee In Life and Death and that her Prayr's True Joy may bring to me Dear Mother Look in the old Hymn at Lauds beg this of your Lord As you did for your Brother That in this Life he 'l give me grace And glory in the other THE THIRD PART Containing the rest of her life after Christ's Ascension to her death YOu 'l say While Christ was here on Earth Mary was led in hand Now he is gone and out of sight Let 's see how she doth stand Io. 11. v. 44. Christ raising Laz'rus up from Death Confirm'd his doctrin so How to defame and blast the same The Jews no longer know Io. 12. v. 10. To kill him therfore they resolve But God permitting not How to destroy the family They next contrive and plot The brother sisters and some more They put into a boat Without Sails Oars or any guide Upon the Sea to float Intending to destroy them thus of humane help depriv'd But by God's Providence they all Safe at Marselles arriv'd Where Magdalen began to preach One God and Saviour dear Such Doctrine these poor Heathens blind Before did never hear From Idols many turned were By word and works she wrought Till at the last they would adore Her for the God she taught Which made her beg of God to take Her from the praise of men Convey'd she was by Angels hands Into a lonely Den. Where never Man or Woman she Beheld for thirty years Her meat was what the Mount did yield Her drink was wrought by tears For shedding tears for her past sins And Death of Master here Immediatly at her request Sprung up a Fountain clear To keep fresh in her memory Her dear Lord's death and loss She begs some Instrument of God An Angell brings a Cross She spent her life in tears of love And heav'nly Contemplation Her Heart curs't Satan nêre could move With any vain Temptation Christ her dear Lord could nêre forget This his dear Penitent But to her seaven times a day His gloriôus Angels sent Who by their virtue rais'd her up Into the air so high That with a ravish't Soul she heard The Heav'nly Harmony And in that space of thirty years As Mary lived there Her Lord an hundred and ten times Did gloriously appear What ravishments he gave her then Of Joy and what excess Excells Man's fancy to conceive Or Tongue well to express God willing now that Magdalen In soul this World should leave Reveal'd her who from Maximin Christ's Body did receive And being thus prepar'd for Death Her Soul left presently Her Mortall Body and with wings Of Love to God did fly Where now with him she doth remain In joy of Heav'nly Bliss Become a Patroness for those Who here have done amiss Behold the Soul of Magdalen At first defil'd with sin Refin'd by Love and purg'd by tears At last did Heaven win Let no poor Sinner then despair Of Mercy here and Grace If Mary's Life he 'l imitate And her rare Virtues trace This let him beg of God in faith Of JESUS Passion dear And merits of this glorious Saint Whose Pray'rs he 'l ever hear Blest Mary my poor love accept And be to me a Mother Pray in this Life God's Grace I have And Glory in the other Amen THE LIFE OF THE SERAPHICALL FATHER S. FRANCIS IN VERSE DIVIDED INTO THREE PARTS The First Part to the making of his Rule GOd made Man's nature innocent Adorned with Free-will Gen 4. v. 7. Eccli 15. v. 17. Gen. 2. v. 17. And gave him one Commandement His pleasure to fulfill To break it Death to keep it Life Was for Eternity And while on Earth void of all strife And human misery Luk. 10. v. 18. Rev. 12. v. 9.12 Curs't Satan who from glory fell Did hate Man's happy state Made for his place in joy to dwell Where once this proud Fiend sate Wisd 2. v. 24. Gen. 3. v. 4. And to deprive him of his Bliss He tempts the fruit to take Thou shalt not dy 't is not amiss Do but experience make Man yielding to his Wife's desire v. 6. Rom. 5. v. 12. Made that unhappy tast Incurr'd for him and his Hell-Fire Who here on Earth were plac't Environed with misery In Reason blinded so They fell into Idolatry Their God they did not know For this and many other sins Gen 6. v. 7. v. 8. God thought all