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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12816	The femall glory: or, The life, and death of our Blessed Lady, the holy Virgin Mary, Gods owne immaculate mother to whose sacred memory the author dedicates these his humble endeavours. A treatise worthy the reading, and meditation of all modest women, who live under the government of vertue, and are obedient to her lawes. By Anth. Stafford, Gent.	Stafford, Anthony.	1635 (1635)	STC 23123; ESTC S117798	76,554	344

and accomplishment of our Salvation did so familiarly communicate their joyes and wherein the most excellent Virgin Mary of the House of David and Elizabeth the most venerable amongst the Daughters of Aaron discours'd together The first of these had inclosed in her wombe the Creatour and Redeemer of us all the latter his Forerunner These Saints being made Mothers by a Miracle conferr'd together of the Divine benefits they had received The meeting of this worthy paire was most happie and illustrated with great and glorious testimonies of the divine Grace The one conceived by the cooperation of the holy Spirit the other by Myracle in her old Age and both their issues foretold by the celestiall Angell Iohn as yet imprisoned in his Mothers wombe doth worship his Lord borne to him in Maries Belly and Elizabeth fill'd with the Holy Ghost doth congratulate the Conception of the Sonne of God and the Saviour of Mankinde and prophecying declares her Cousen blessed in beleeving and contemplating the mysteries revealed to her On the other side Mary full of unutterable joy layed up all these sayings in her heart which before she had heard from the Angel and now from Elizabeth and breaks out into a Song of Thanksgiving to the Lord. Who can sufficiently praise so great Mysteries Who can declare those joyes to the full Iohn not yet borne rejoyceth Elizabeth is delighted with the arrivall of the Virgin Mary is extreamely pleased in the Mysteries the Saviour of the world is acknowledged by his Fore-runner not onely the Angels but Heaven and Earth resent the pleasure and the whole Trinitie is glorified with new praises Wherefore the greatnesse of these joyes is to be extolled with especiall commendations and with singular solemnities to be celebrated and the Lord in the wombe the Virgin that beares him the barren that conceives and the Fore-runner that it sanctified ought to be presented with all imaginable praises and honours With this pious and gratefull ordinance of the Church I conclude the visitation of our incomparable Lady and now proceed to her Deliverie We reade in holy Writ of three supernaturall Productions the one of Adam the other of Eve the last of Christ which as most miraculous we are now to treat of Here in his Nativitie as before in his Conception let us turne Inquisition into thanksgiving and with one spirit and voyce sing aloud The stone which the Builders refused is the head of the corner This was the Lords doing and it is marvellous in our eyes This is the day which the Lord hath made let us rejoyce and be glad in it This is our wedding-day wherein by the Sonne we are joyned to the Father This is the day of the new union wherein he who is God remaineth the same that he was yet for our sakes is borne and made what he was not wherein he that was every where without a Body is made present to us by a Body that what God hath by Nature men might receive by Grace This is a great a joyfull a fortunate a desired day the end of the Law the end of the Prophets the beginning of the Gospell nay the Gospell it selfe This is a day of State usher'd by the Angels follow'd by the Apostles Let our Mindes remove the distance of Time and place and dwell a while with our all-holy-Lord and blessed Lady lest we loose the pleasure of this day the least Accident whereof is Mysterious What a brave assembly of Visitants of all Conditions resorted this day to this place which then might rightly be called the Randevous of the Saints Would you see those who are above men but below him who is borne Behold the Angels singing his birth Do you desire to behold the married Here you have Zachary and Elizabeth The unmarried Here you have Symeon Widdows Here you have Anna. Priests Here againe you have Zachary Wise men Here you have them from the East Ideots You have here the Shepheards But here is to be noted that these keepers of Beasts heare the voyce of the Angels before any of the other first receive the Gospell and first divulge it And in this they were more happie then Augustus himselfe who though he had made a firme Peace by Sea and Land and had now the third time shut up the Temple of Ianus yet was he ignorant of the blessed Peace concluded on betwixt God and Man O how much sometimes Ignorance avails in Divine matters Kings Potentates the Rulers of the Earth and the wise of this world are asleepe while Christ is borne These most simple of Mortals and innocent as the creatures they tend watch all night and therefore are first made partakers of these joyfull news As their owne wooll not yet dipt in any dye readily drinks in any colour they please of bestow on it So their minds voyd of all humane wisedome greedily suckt in the Divine Faith is the Compendium of Salvation and humane knowledge of times the obstacle of Faith Aristotle having confined to Heaven the Maker and Moover of it would never have beleeved his birth here below Plato would have derided this miraculous relation who the more he attributed to God the lesse would he have expected his so humble comming into the world Neither would the Stoicks who held God to be a fire nor Hipocrates who thought him to be a warm'th ever have look't for him clad in flesh and bloud Wherefore they are here elected witnesses of this strange truth whose Science was of ability strongly to beleeve not wittily to dispute O what proficients in Faith did these rusticall Swaines prove in a moment What a profound secret is imparted to them Let us examine the verity of this by that infallible Touch-stone the text And there were in the same Country Shepheards abiding in the field keeping watch by night because of their flocke and loe the Angell of the Lord came upon them and the glory of the Lord shone about them and they were sore afraid Then the Angell said unto them Be not afraid for behold I bring you tidings of great joy that shall be to all the people That is that unto you is borne this day a Saviour which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a signe unto you you shall finde the Childe swadled and layed in a Cratch And straight way there was with the Angell a multitude of heavenly Souldiers praysing God and saying Glory be to God in the high Heaven and Peace on Earth and towards men good will And it came to passe that when the Angels were gone away from thence into Heaven that the Shepheards said one to another Let us goe then unto Bethlem and see this thing that is come to passe which the Lord hath shewed unto us so they came with haste and found both Mary and Ioseph with the Babe layd in the Cratch And when they had seene it they publisht abroad the thing that was told them of that Childe Here three things

passion tree Come blessed Virgin and receive thy Crowne Of full Renowne Where Death and Time have laid their Scepters downe There sing with us how three doe sit upon The glorious Throne One of which three is two yet all but one THus holy Virgin have I shadow'd o're Thy Picture in a rude unpollisht score That wish'd t' have limm'd it with as lively grace As ever Painter drew the sweetest face Yet would I not idolatrize thy worth Like some whose superstition sets thee forth In costly ornaments in cloaths so gay So rich as never in the Stable lay These make thy Statues now as famous be For pride as thou wert for Humility I cannot thinke thy Virgin bashfulnesse Would weare the Lady of Lorettos dresse Though farre more glorious robes to thee were given Meekenesse and Zeale on Earth Glory in Heauen Take then the honour thou hast justly wonne Praise above Angels but below thy Sonne Faults escaped in Printing PAge 74. line 4. reade glorious 101. in the margin reade not onely many Moderne 128. 14. for it reade is 161. 16. for penurious reade poore 182. 19. Lambertus 194. 14. in stead of for reade from 205. 6. Jdelphonsus 213. 17. for consent reade concent 246. for Christs r. Christ 247. for brought r. broughtst 248. 11. for silent r. a silent 248. 13. dele but. THE FEMALL GLORY OR The life of the Virgin MARY HIstory offers to our view Myriads of holy Virgins in Beauty and vertue equally attractive whose due praise the Catholike Church doth at this day solemnely sing but with a more elevated voyce as duty on our part and merit on hers commands the laud of that most excellent Princesse the Virgin Mother of God There be who affirme that what ever the Creator saw beautifull in heaven or earth he bestowed in the limming of this rare Piece not that she might be stiled the most faire amongst the daughters of women but by a heavenly prerogative the alone Faire the alone Lovely Looke how many parts so many arts you might discerne of the Celestiall Limmer And this is no way repugnant to reason it selfe for if Christ was faire above the sonnes of men should not she be so above their Daughters since from her alone he received his flesh Gregory Nazianzen proclaimes that she surpass'd all women in lovelinesse Andraeas sayes that she was a Statue carved by Gods own hand Others of those first and purer times not without admiration observe that God was almost fifty Ages in the meditation of the structure of this stately Pallace And truely our beliefe may easily digest this that his omnipotency would make her fit to be the Mother of his Son Empresse of this lower world and the blessed Conduit through which should passe the mystery of mans Redemption Yet finde I a ridiculous description of her in Epiphanius a Priest of Constantinople who affirmes that her Face was of the colour of Wheate her visage long and her nose sutable her haire yellow and her eye-browes blacke But what authority he hath for this neither I nor I thinke he himselfe can well tell for surely simple Antiquity was not either curious or skilfull to deliver it by tradition or picture to posterity I verily beleeve he had it from his owne dreames or rather fancy Mopsa is as much beholding to our incomparable and inimitable Sydney for a delineation as is my divine subject to this curious Impertinent Whether her beauty chiefly consisted in colour in Symmetry of parts or both I know not sure I am the streame of other more judicious pious Authors carries me not into an opinion but a strong beleefe of her heavenly forme Cardinall Cajetan and Galatinus with what truth I cannot say certainely with more probability then he maintaine that her excellent temperature her conformity of members her firme and constant Complexion free'd her from all contagion and diseases And Dyonisius goes further affirming that she was no other then a walking Spring Such variety of sweet odours her very pores breath'd out on all that came neare her as we reade of Alexanders living body and the Aegyptian Carkasses which by a thin spare dyet observed in life even after death sent forth a most sweet perfume Sylvanus Razzius recounts a pleasing story of a certaine Clerke who by many prayers implor'd and obtain'd the blessing of her sight but with this condition that he should see her but with one eye and that one he should lose He willingly embrac't it but when she appear'd drest in all her Beames not being able with one eye to take a full view of her he opened the other also chusing rather to forfeit his sight for ever then to loose one minute of the inconceiveable content he enjoyed in the sight of so glorious a spectacle Were this true it would make a brave example of a devout soule ravisht with the view of a divine object If the Inne was so splendent so sumptuous what may we thinke of the amiable guest that lodg'd in it her minde beset with thoughts cleare and radiant as her owne eyes He that dares attempt the expression of these her internall gifts is ignorant of her sublimity he who dares not knows not her humanity her sweetnesse As no stile can ascend so high as her exalted worth so on the other side none can descend so low as her Humility Encourag'd therfore by her meeknesse not my owne sufficiencie I shall endeavour to limme her soule in little since in great neither my time nor ability will let me which will appeare an enterprise as hardy and vaine as his who should strive to limmit the light or circumscribe the Ayre Know then modest Reader and receive this knowledge with the same extasie and zeale I write it that her internall luster was farre greater then her externall like in this unto the Tents of Kedar as soone cover'd with dust and almost burned up with the heat of the Sunne as soone beaten and shaken with tempestuous weather but in the meane time inwardly all glittering with glory and magnificence O ye Angels to you it is onely given not to sinne but on her is conferr'd what you cannot merit to beare and the reparation of mans ruine The Apostles those holy Tapours of the primitive Church sometimes burnt dimme and were obscur'd with the fogge of sinne but her brightnesse nothing vitious could lessen much lesse utterly extinguish She was indeed vertues prime and great example and all the accomplisht women of the Ages past present or to come have grace and happinesse to the full in being called her imperfect Coppies Here my Invention treads a Maze and my heart is divided betweene an earnest desire to praise her to the height and a holy feare lest in that praise I should trench on Gods own peculiar Attributes That she was no way inferiour to her Sonne according to the flesh I dare not with some avouch who magnifie her in a phrase that violates her modesty and makes