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A01368	The vviddoves mite cast into the treasure-house of the prerogatiues, and prayses of our B. Lady, the immaculate, and most glorious Virgin Mary, the Mother of God. With reasons why we are to haue great confidence in her prayers. Whereunto is annexed, A prayer, for the loue of God, made in contemplation of the passion of Christ our Sauiour.	A. G., fl. 1619.; Matthew, Tobie, Sir, 1577-1655, attributed name.	1619 (1619)	STC 11490; ESTC S118624	73,100	210

age speaking in the first booke of the first Century of the life of our B. Sauiour tooke occasion therby to taxe most boldly blasphemously the immaculate Mother of God to say that when she lost her Sonne in the Temple she committed so great a sinne as that they tremble not to compare it with that first most grieuous sinne of Eue and so doubt which of the two sinnes were the worse CHAP. IX THE beliefe and practise of the Holy Catholike Apostolike Roman Church is very different from that of these men and hath beene most expresse in this point for it hath throughout the whole course of so many ages decerned and applyed the highest honours vnder God to our B. Lady by giuing her most glorious titles by erecting in memory of her most sumptuous Temples by enioyning Christians to keep in contemplation of her most solemne festiuityes and by powring out before her continuall supplications and prayers that by her intercession of meditation the intercession of Redemption which was performed by Christ our Lord and could only be performed by him may be applyed to the sauing of mans soule When I name the Catholike Apostolike Roman Church I meane not by Roman that Congregation of Christians only which is comprehended within the walls or diocesse of the Citty or Sea of Rome as some would fayne impose vpon vs and thereby inferre an absurdity vpon that proposition as if the same Church whereof we speake were both vniuersall in being Catholike and particuler in being but of the Citty of Rome but when I say the Catholike Roman Church I meane the Church of Christ which is spread into all the corners of the earth but yet communicating euery where in the same fayth and Sacraments doth acknowledge the Bishop of Rome for the visible supreme Head therof vnder Christ The dignity and eminency whereof if it be considered be weighed withall how deuout it hath euer beene in tenderly honouring religiously praying to our B. Lady I think there is no man of modesty and euen common sense who will not be induced not only to an excuse but euen to an imitation thereof August confess l. 6. cap. 11. Non vacat non estinane quod tam eminens culmen authoritatis Christianae fidei toto orbe diffunditur It is no trifle it is no matter of smal importance that the Christian fayth hath obtayned ouer the whole world such a sublime top of authority These are the wordes of S. Augustine which he spake being yet no Christian and the same weight which that kind of discourse had against Paganisme or Manicheisme in his tyme the same hath it at the least in fauour of Catholike Religiō concerning the honour and inuocation of our B. Lady amongst and aboue all the other Saints of God against Caluinisme or whatsouer other such Innouation Non vacat non est inane it is no toy it is no contemptible thing which the whole Body of Catholikes hath so long and so deuoutly practised concerning the honour of our B. Lady and the need which it findeth mankind to haue of her helping hand Yea and a Protestant that is either morally wise or discreetly modest as S. Augustin was before he was a Catholike Christian will thinke and speake reuerently of this Church though he shall abstract from this beliefe That it is the only true Church of Christ and do but confesse which no body in his wits will deny that it is a congregatiō of great Order Wisedome Vertue Learning Extent and Continuance Though indeed whatsoeuer may be pretended by our opposits it is both more true and more euident then the Sunne is bright That either Christ hath no Church at all That the prophesyes of the old Testament were false and That the promises of the new Testament were feigned or els that this church is the true and only true Church of Christ since all those markes and plaine tokens which were deliuered as belonging thereunto do clearly apply thēselues to this Church and to no other For what other but this can without the impudent face of an harlot pretend Tertull. l depraes haer Vita B. Bern. l. 2. c. 7. Beda in 6. Cant. Ambr. epist 13. Ose 2. 1. Tim. 3. To haue conuerted Nations To haue beene fostered and nursed by a longe series of Kinges and Queenes To haue imbraced euen the very ends of the world To haue beene espoused to the Messias with an indissoluble bound of Matrimony as was fortould by those men of God in the old Testament Or what other then this can with any colour affirme That it is the piller and ground of Truth as S. Paul did witnes That it is but one That it is and hath euer beene and is to be euer Visible That it hath beene and euer must be Infallible as is clearely to be conuinced by that one direction which our B. Sauiour gaue Dic Ecclesiae Tell the Church And Si Ecclesiam non audierit sit tibi tamquam Ethnicus Publicanus let him be to thee as a Pagan and Publican if he obey not the orders of this Church For vnles this Church were euer to be indued with Vnity with Visibility and with Infallibility impossible it were either for that counsaile of our Sauiours to be followed and this were to impute folly to him or els though it were followed it would be impossible for men to be saued by meanes therof and that were to lay a worse note if worse may be vpon the fountaine of all Wisedome and goodnes Or what other Church then this Ephes 4. can apply to it selfe that Legacy which S. Paul to the Ephesians affirmed to haue beene giuen to mankind by our Sauiour Christ when he ascended vp to heauen namely Doctours and Pastours to continue from that tyme till the end of the world that so the body of Christ might be built vp and Christian soules be kept by the ancker of true fayth from floating after the fashion of Heretikes by the windes or waues of phantasticall and foolish doctrines No other congregation then the Catholik will so much as pretend to many of these true marks of the Church at least none but she can proue that they any way belong to theirs or thē who therfore by a miserable necessity are constrained to hide themselues in certaine castles of the aire whilst they talke of Scripture wherby they meane nothing els but that interpretation or conceipt of their own which the interest either of their profits or passion doth suggest By al which I infer that since we make so faire a claime to be the true neuer erring Church of Christ which euen our moderate Aduersaryes will confesse to be of great appearance that doctrine which it teacheth from whence the honour inuocation of our B. Lady proceedeth ought not in any reason to be so blasphemed euen by them who will not yet imbrace it This Church hath also further being inspired and guided