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A13641 Texeda retextus: or The Spanish monke his bill of diuorce against the Church of Rome together with other remarkable occurrances.; Hispanus conversus. English Tejeda, Fernando de, fl. 1623. 1623 (1623) STC 23923; ESTC S118367 21,226 44

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which inclosedst him in thy womb whom the heauens could not containe Pray for vs. Thou which onely didst bring forth without sorrow Pray for vs. Thou which didst breake the head of the craftie Serpent Pray for vs. Thou who firmely didst retain faith in his passion Pray for vs. Thou whose body saw no corruption Pray for vs. Thou who art assumed into heauen in thy glorified body Pray for vs. Thou that art exalted aboue the quire of Angels Pray for vs. Thou that sittest at the right hand of the Sonne of God Pray for vs. Thou that reconcilest vnto vs God angry with vs Pray for vs. Thou that art called on by a thousand attributes and titles Pray for vs. Be thou fauourable vnto vs Heare vs Lady From euill and the danger of euill Defend vs Lady We beseech thee by thy immaculate conception Defend vs Lady We beseech thee by thy holy Natiuity Defend vs Lady We beseech thee by thy comfortable Annunciation Defend vs Lady We beseech thee by thy ioyfull visitation Defend vs Lady We beseech thee by thy most pure purification Defend vs. By thy glorious Ascention Defend vs. By thy triumphant Coronation Defend vs. and afterward That thou wouldest bee pleased to grant concord and peace to thy whole Church We beseech thee to heare vs. And beneath O Daughter of the high God Defend vs. Thou that art the Mother of the Lambe that taketh away the sinnes of the world We beseech thee to heare vs. Thou that art the Spouse of the Holy Ghost We beseech thee to helpe vs. An Encomiasticall Letanie to the blessed Virgine the Mother of GOD gathered out of the sacred Scriptures and holy Authors First of all sung in the great Church of the Citie Valentia when as the holy Image of that Virgine named Del Puig famous and renowned for her frequent miracles both on Land and Sea in the time of Warre and Peace was brought in great state into Valentia at that time when as the inuincible Armada was sent to inuade England which was on the 17. day of Iuly being Sunday in the yeere of our Lord God 1588. VVEe beseech thee to heare vs sinners that thou wouldest obtaine true repentance for vs. We beseech thee that thou wouldest take care to preserue the Apostolicke See and all the orders of the Clergie in the true Religion We beseech thee that allaying all stormes thou wouldest conduct * What successe and effect this prayer had ●ide the Christmas hangings in the great Chamber at Thue-hall safely the Catholicke Fleet of the Catholicke King to the much desired and wished-for Hauen We beseech thee that thou wouldest grant victofry to the Catholicke Fleet of the Catholicke King ouer most barbarous and sauage heretickes We beseech thee to enlarge those Christians that are still oppressed with the yoke and tyranny of the English that they may freely professe their faith and conscience We beseech thee that thou wouldest astonish and smite the hearts of the stubborne and obstinate heretickes of England with feare and trembling We beseech thee that thou wouldest giue wisedome and courage to those faithfull souldiers that fight for the Catholicke faith We beseech thee that thou wouldest cause those holy Churches which are either vtterly ruinated or impiously prophaned to be re-edified and restored to the honour of God and to the honor of holy men and women That thou wouldest be instant with God by prayer that the kingdome of England the darkenes of blindnesse being dispeld may be reduced to the ancient and Catholicke faith and to the obedience of the Church of Rome We beseech thee to heare vs. That thou wouldest be pleased to preserue all Spaine from the contagion of euill especially this Citie most deuoted to thy seruice We beseech thee to heare vs. That thou wouldest be pleased to obtaine peace in loue for thy whole Church We beseech thee to heare vs. Moreouer This likewise excited me to detest Popery that it presumptuously dares contrary to the expresse commandement of God set before the people all sorts of Images to be worshipped and adored The ground of my dislike hereof was not onely because God hath prohibited it but because I very well knew and was certainely perswaded that this their adoring and reuerencing of such images is the Lacquy and Page of the grossest Idolatry wherefore I thought it most meete that these Images of Popery should be handled as we reade the Brasen Serpent was by Hezekiah for if Moses erected that Serpent in the Wildernes not without his especiall warrant frō God yet neuerthelesse because the people in long tract of time fell to the worshipping of this Image King Hezekiah detesting and abhorring this their Idolatry commanded it to be taken downe and cut in peeces with farre better reason should the Images of Popery set vp contrary to Gods commandement bee remoued and cut in peeces who haue for their author and maintainer not Moses the seruant of God but the Pope who is Christs enemy And experience shewes and their writings giue me euidence that they haue degenerated so farre as not onely to adore these Images but also to haue forsaken their Creator that they might settle and fixe their hope and confidence wholly on them as this ensuing Eglogue taken out of the fore-cited Spanish Booke will make it most plaine to the Reader A gratulation of this Sacred house to the blessed Virgin the Mother of God for her returne I Lay comfortlesse being destitute of thee my light most glorious ornament as a dead body deuoyd of life and motion me thought I heard euery one saying vnto me Where is that pretious gold which Princely hands haue laide vp in thee Where are these infinite riches Where is that bottomelesse depth of graces Where is the Ocean of miraculous cures Where is that louely Image of the blessed Virgin the Mother of God To whom I replyed she is gone she is gone that imparted wonderfull holinesse vnto me that hath made mee a most renowned Church shee is gone guarded and attended with Angels and Saints she I say who hath made me an euer flowing fountaine of miraculous cures a remedy against diuels the onely refuge to all that flye vnto me but she who seemed to be absent from me in body was present with me by her wonderfull miracles for shee which was manifested to our ancestors as with starre lights now by miraculous lights sent from heauen vnto me hath testified how much shee loues me All haile therefore my life light honour and ornament now comming vnto mee for in this thy most happy and fortunate returne there is sprung vp a new light to all the inhabitants of this Citie honour ioy and exaltation Welcome thou that art full of grace Welcome thou Sea of ioy Welcome thou only ease in troubles Welcome thou that art the onely salue for al the hearts sore Welcome holy Virgin through whose meanes alone we see the Kingdome of Valentia is brought and vnited to the Kingdome