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The blessednes of the Virgin Marie the mother of our Lord Iesvs Christ.
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Shaw, John, 1559-1625.
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highly fauoured the Lord is with thee Blessed art thou among women Thou hast found fauour with God and behold thou shalt conceiue in thy wombe and bring forth a sonne and call his name Iesus He shall be great and shall be called the Sonne of the Highest and the Lord God shall giue vnto him the throne of his father Dauid and he shall reigne ouer the house of Iacob for euer and of his kingdome there shall be no end Then said Marie to the Angell How shall this be seeing I know not a man And the Angell answered and said vnto her The holy Ghost shall come vpon thee and the power of the Highest shall ouershadow thee therefore also that holy thing which shall be borne of thee shall be called the Sonne of God And behold thy cosin Elizabeth she also hath conceiued a sonne in her old age and this is the sixt moneth with her who was called barren For with God nothing shall be vnpossible And Mary said Behold the handmaide of the Lord be it vnto mee according to thy word This most ioyfull wonder that God will dwell with man be man be borne of a Virgine is the first sweete Prophesie and gracious couenant that God made to man in Paradise Gen. 3.15 The womans seede shall bruise the serpents head that is Iesus Christ the seede and sonne of the Virgine Marie shall destroy the diuell that spake by the serpent and his kingdome and worke mans full deliuerance and eternall blessednesse This worke of God so strange and glorious is the fulfilling of the prophesie of Isaiah Isa 7.14 A Virgine shall conceiue and beare a sonne and she shall call his name Emmanuel for in the fulnes of time appointed by the Lord The word was made flesh Ioh 1.14 and dwelt among vs full of grace and truth euen he who is holy harmelesse vndefiled Heb. 7.26 separate from sinners and made higher then the heauens The holy God that of old declared himselfe from aboue the Mercie-seate in the Tabernacle Exod. 25.22 Heb. 1.2 hath in these last dayes spoken vnto vs by his Sonne whom he hath appointed heire of all things by whom also he made the worlds This rare miracle so wonderfull in the eyes of men Angels which had that due acclamation Luk. 11.27 Blessed is the wombe that bare thee and the paps that gaue thee sucke will more clearly appeare in the excellencie of it if we compare it with the conceptions and birthes that the worthiest women euer had or with this of the blessed Virgine Marie And to begin with the ancientest EVA the mother of vs all when she had conceiued and borne a son thankfully acknowledged Gods loue therein Gen. 4.1 saying I haue obtained a man by the Lord. Yet had she no comfort of him 1. Ioh. 3.12 For he was of that wicked one and slue his brother but Maries ioy was sound full and lasting for she did not onely obtaine a man of the Lord Act. 4.27.5.31 but a man which is the Lord. The holy childe Iesus A Prince and Sauiour euen the Lord of glorie 1. Cor. 2.8 of whom not onely Elizabeth a good woman and Gabriel an holy Angell gaue so honorable a testimonie but euen God the Father from heauen thus witnessed This is my welbeloued Sonne Mat. 3.17.17.5 in whom I am well pleased heare him Peter also auoucheth 2. Pet. 1.17 that He receiued from God the Father honour and glorie when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glorie This is my beloued Sonne in whom I am well pleased SARA when she was ninetie yeares old was made ioyfull with this comfortable promise of the Almightie I will blesse her Gen. 21.6 and will also giue thee a sonne of her yea I will blesse her and she shall be the mother of nations Kings also of people shall come of her If Sara praise the Lord saying God hath made me to reioyce all that heare will reioyce with me I haue borne to Abraham a sonne in his old age much more may blessed Marie say God hath made me to reioyce and from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed Luk. 1.48 for he that is mightie hath done for me great things and holy is his Name For I haue borne a sonne Reu. 17.14 who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords The Prince of peace the increase of whose gouernment and peace shall haue none end Isa 9.6 he shall sit vpon the throne of Dauid and vpon his kingdome to order it and to establish it with iudgement and with iustice from henceforth and for euer A King shall reigne and prosper Iere. 23.5 and shall execute iudgement and iustice in the earth in his dayes Iudah shall be saued and Israel shall dwell safely and this is the name whereby they shall call him the Lord our righteousnesse This King shall reigne ouer the Gentiles Rom. 15.12 Mat. 1.21 Reu. 1.5 and in him shall the Gentiles trust He shall saue his people from their sinnes and make all his redeemed Kings and Priests vnto God HANNA the godly wise of Elkana was barren a long time but when with earnest prayer and teares she had begged and obtained a sonne of God euen Samuel and giuen him to the Lord all the dayes of his life and had brought him when he was weaned to Silo that he might appeare before the Lord and there abide for euer she praised God chearfully and reioyced in his saluation 1. Sam. 2.5 and that the barren had borne Now if this holy Prophetisse gaue praises to God for such a worthy and gracious sonne 1. Sam. 3.20 euen faithfull Samuel the Lords Prophet much more had the blessed Virgine cause to magnifie the Lord that made her mother of such a sonne as is both the greatest Prophet and holiest Priest that euer was Of this Prophet thus Moses writeth and Peter reporteth Act. 3.23 A Prophet shall the Lord your God raise vp vnto you of your brethren like to me him shall ye heare in all things whatsoeuer he shall say vnto you and it shall come to passe that euery soule which will not heare that Prophet shall be destroyed from among the people He is the wisdome of God Ioh. 7.46 that spake as neuer man spake He that maketh knowne to vs all things that he heard of his Father Ioh. 15.15 He that taught with authoritie of a Lawgiuer Mat. 7.29 that with his gracious words giueth his Spirit Act. 10.44 opening powerfully bowing the heart making all his elect wise to saluation 2. Tim. 3.15 through faith which is in Christ Iesus This holiest PRIEST was after the order of Melchisedech Heb. 5.2 had compassion on the ignorant and them that are out of the way He in the daies of his flesh offered vp prayers and supplications with strong crying and teares and was heard and became author of