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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13466	The life and death of the most blessed among women, the Virgin Mary mother of our Lord Iesus VVith the murder of the infants in Bethlehem, Iudas his treason, and the confession of the good theife and the bad.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1620 (1620)	STC 23770; ESTC S103494	9,738	44

THE LIFE AND DEATH of the most blessed among women the Virgin MARY Mother of our LORD IESVS VVith the Murder of the Infants in Bethlehem Iudas his Treason and the Confession of the good Theife and the bad Printed at London by G. E. and are to be sold at Christ-church gate 1620. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE AND truly vertuous Lady the Noble Patronesse of good endeuours MARY Countesse of Buckingham Right Honourable Madam AS the Graces the Vertues the Senses and the Muses are emblemed or alluded to your noble sex and as all these haue ample residence in your worthy disposition To whō then but to your selfe being a Lady in goodnes compleat should I commit the patronage of the memory of the great Lady of Ladyes Mother to the high and mighty Lord of Lords And though I a Taylor haue not apparell'd her in such garments of elocution and ornated stile as befits the glory and eminency of the least part of her Excellency yet I beseech your Honor to accept her for her own worth and her Sonnes worthinesse which Sonne of hers by his owne merits and the powerfull mercy of his Father I heartily implore to giue your Honour a participation of his gracious Mothers eternall felicitie Your Honors in all humble seruice to be commanded IOHN TAILOR The Argument and cause of this Poem BEing lately in Antwerpe it was my fortune to ouerlooke an old printed Booke in prose which I haue turned into Verse of the life death buriall of our blessed Lady wherin I read many things worthy of obseruation and many things friuolous and impertinent out of the which I haue like a Bee suck't the sacred hony of the best authorities of Scriptures and Fathers which I best credited and I haue left the poyson of Antichristianisme to those where I found it whose stomackes can better disgest it I put it to the Presse presuming it shall be accepted of pious Protestants and charitable Catholikes as for luke-warme Neutralists that are neyther hot nor cold they doe offend my appetite and therefore vp with them The schismaticall Separatist I haue many times discoursed with him and though he be but a Botcher or a Button-maker and at the most a lumpe of opinionated ignorance yet hee will seeme to wring the Scriptures to his opinions and presume to know more of the mysteries of Religion then any of our Reuerend learned Bishops and Doctors I know this worke will be vnrelished in the pestiferous pallates of the dogmaticall Amsterdammatists but I do must and will acknowledge a most reuerend honor and regard vnto the sacred memory of this blessed virgin Lady Mother of our Lord and Redeemer Iesus and in my thoughts she shall euer haue superlatiue respect aboue all Angels Principalities Patriarkes Prophets Apostles Euangelists or Saints whatsoeuer vnder the blessed Trinity yet mistake me not as there is a difference betwixt the Immortall Creator and a mortall creature so whilst I haue warrant sufficient from God himselfe to inuocate his Name onely I will not giue man Saint or Angell any honour that may be derogatory to his eternall Maiestie As amongst Women she was blest aboue all being aboue all full of Grace so amongst Saints I beleeue she is supreame in Glory and it is an infallible truth that as the Romanists doe dishonour her much by their superstitious honourable seeming attributes so on the other part it is hellish and odious to God and good men either to forget her or which is worse to remember her with impure thoughts or vnbeseeming speech for the excellency of so deuine a Creature I confesse my selfe the meanest of men and most vnworthy of all to write of her that was the best of Women but my hope is that Charity will couer my faults and accept of my good meaning especially hauing endeuoured and striuen to doe my best So wishing all hearts to giue this holy Virgin such honour as may be pleasing to God which is that all should patterne their liues to her lifes example in lowlinesse and humility and then they shall be exalted where shee is in Glory with eternity Iohn Taylor THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE most blessed amongst all Women the Virgin Mary the Mother of our Lord IESVS CHRIST BEfore the Fire Ayre Water Earth were fram'd Sunne Moone or any thing vnnam'd or nam'd God was who nere shall end nor nere beganne To whom all ages and all time 's a spanne By whose appointment each thing fades or growes And whose eternall knowledge all things knowes When Adams sinne pluckt downe supernall ire And Iustice iudg'd him to eternall fire Then Mercy did the execution stay And the great price of mans great debt did pay And as a woman tempted man to vice For which they both were thrust from Paradise So from a woman was a Sauiours birth That purchas'd Man a heauen for losse of earth Our blest Redeemers mother that blest she Before the world by God ordain'd to be A chosen vessell fittest of all other To be the Sonne of Gods most gracious mother Shee is the theame that doth my Muse inuite Vnworthy of such worthinesse to write I will no prayers not inuocations frame For intercession to this heauenly Dame Nor to her name one fruitlesse word shall runne To be my Mediatresse to her Sonne But to th' eternall Trinity alone I le sing I le sigh I le inuocate and mone I prize no creatures glory at that rate The great Creators praise t'extenuate But to th' Almighty ancient of all dayes Be all dominion honour laud and prayse I write the blest conception birth and life Of this beloued Mother Virgin Wife The ioyes the griefes the death and buriall place Of her most glorious gracious full of grace Her father Ioachim a vertuous man Had long liu'd childlesse with his wife S. Anne And both of them did zealously intend If God did euer sonne or daughter send That they to him would dedicate it solely To be his seruant and to liue most holy God heard and granted freely their request And gaue them Mary of that sex the best At three yeares age she to the Temple went And there eleuen yeares in deuotion spent At th' end of foureteene yeares it came to passe This virgin vnto Ioseph spoused was Then after foure months time was past and gone Th' Almighty sent from his tribunall throne His great Ambassador which did vnfold The greatest ambassage euer yet was told Hayle MARY full of heauenly grace quoth he The high omnipotent Lord is with thee Blest amongst women by Gods gracious dombe And blessed be the fruit of thy blest wombe The Angels presence and the words he sayd This sacred vndefiled Maid dismaide Amazed mused what this message meant And wherefore God this messenger had sent Feare not said Gabriel MARY most renownd Thou with thy gracious God hast fauour found For loe thou shalt conceiue and beare a Sonne By whom redemption and saluation's wonne And thou his sauing name shalt IESVS