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A02823	Partheneia sacra. Or The mysterious and delicious garden of the sacred Parthenes symbolically set forth and enriched with pious deuises and emblemes for the entertainement of deuout soules; contriued al to the honour of the incomparable Virgin Marie mother of God; for the pleasure and deuotion especially of the Parthenian sodalitie of her Immaculate Conception. By H.A.	Hawkins, Henry, 1571?-1646.; Aston, Herbert, b. 1614, attributed name.; Langeren, Jacob van, engraver.; Langeren, P. van, engraver.	1633 (1633)	STC 12958; ESTC S103886	142,987	288

as from the sea do flow great quantities of waters which it receaues againe not being kept so do graces flow frō the Sea of Marie in great plentie yet with flowings and ebbings through our ingratitude and not making vse therof But if after our neglect of her fauours we returne as we ought to beg them againe though we receaue no effectual benefits by her first offers which we refused yet doth she dayly offer them againe with this differēce from those flowings of the liquid seas that they go and come to and fro of course and at certain times with stints but she is readie euerie moment to communicate her fauours without limits so we wil but open the chanels of our harts to let them in As al Wels Springs and Fountaines deriue from the Sea the Sea virtually containes the nature and qualities of al Well-springs current fountaines and riuers By which waters are aptly vnderstood the three degrees of graces which through our Ladie flow into our harts to wit the Incipient or preuenient grace in the first beginnings of our conuersiōs the Proficient by which we proceed to vertuous actions through grace receaued the Perfect grace which is the ful consummation therof and is indeed a constant perseuerance to the end in al vertues This Incipient or commencing grace is signifyed by the Well or spring of liuing waters because these springs haue their waters secret hiddē vnder ground they suddenly arise and no man knowes from whence so preuenient grace is by vs not merited at al but springs and is powred into vs through a secret and hidden inspiration of GOD no man can tel how or whence but often comes through the intercession of the Incōparable Mother of mercie and the Sea of graces being called the liuing Waters for that by this grace are sinners dead in sinnes as viuifyed to life The Fountain-water is vnderstood to be grace Proficiēt wherof is sayd the Fountain of the Gardens which gardens of GOD are the good Proficients in grace vertues in whome are the hearbs plants of al vertues in a flourishing state which yet could not spring at al nor grow a whit much lesse seeme to prosper flourish vnles by this fountain they were watered with grace being a Fountain indeed ascending from the earth which waters the vniuersal face therof By the Riuer-water which flowes with violēce is perfect grace to be vnderstood which is sayd to flow with violence because such as are replenished therwith are very earnest and sollicitous in the works of vertue and proceed with feruour therin Looke where the force of the spirit leads them thither wil they go with a violence and impetuositie as it were The Sea is alwayes ful and neuer wasts and so our Ladie was announced by the Angel to be ful of grace as truly she was a vast and immense Sea of al graces Of whom the mellifluous S. Bernard sayth vpō those words of Aue gratia plena In the mouth truly was she ful of affabilitie in her womb with the grace of the Deitie in her hart with the grace of chatitie in her hand or work with the grace of mercie and liberalitie So likewise are the waters of the Sea exceeding bitter and our Virgin Marie was amarum mare that is a bitter Sea for diuers respects First for sorrow for the losse of her Sonne in the Temple Behold thy Father and I haue sought thee with sorrow Then was she bitter meerly of compassion in beholding the Spouses in the Nuptials to be abashed confounded for want of wine she had compassion of the Iewish nation while she saw them to be reprobate and forsaken of GOD She pittied the Apostles in seing them dispersed in the passion of her Sonne But especially was she bitterly sorie at the passion of her Sonne when the sword of sorrow trāsfixed her hart and lastly was she bitter for her tedious pilgrimage heer so long and therefore would she say Alas how my ●i●grimage is prolonged THE EMBLEME THE POESIE NO sooner was the infant-world disclos'd But that God's Spirit on the Sea repos'd Borne on the waters did impart a heat By influence diuine a fertil seat He made that vast and barren Ocean's wombe T was fruitful when the Holie-Ghost was come The sacred Virgin was a Sea like this But darknes on the face of the Abysse Was neuer on her Soule that shined bright From her first being for GOD sayd Let light Be made the Word was in this Sea compriz'd When th' Holie-Ghost the waters fertiliz'd THE THEORIES COntemplate first that when the world was first created that the waters were diuided as it were by the Firmament while part was put aboue the Firmament and part beneath the waters beneath on the earth were called by the name of Maria or Seas and the Spirit of GOD as we haue it in Genesis did incubare super aquas couer as we say or ouershadow the waters Which was a work of the first Creation So in the work of our Redemption where the blessed Virgin Maria by name which signifyes the Seas also it pleased the Eternal Word leauing the delicious bosome of the heauenlie Father to descend into this Sea of human miseries to take them vpon him and the Holie-Ghost likewise to ouershadow her withal Consider then in the Temple of Salomon that as besides other riches and ornaments there as the Propitiatorie aboue the Cherubins and Seraphins of each side therof the golden Candlestick in the midst the Altars of Perfumes and of Propitiation heer and there with the lamps the Veyle the Ark and the like in their places was planted a great vessel of Brasse ful of water at the entrance of the said Tēple where the Priests were to cleanse themselues before they entred to Sacrifice and this Vessel was called Mare aeneum or the brazen Sea So ought the Priests in our Churches before they enter or approach vnto the dreadful Sacrifice of al Sacrifices the Sacrifice of the Masse to recurre to this Mare aeneum our Blessed Ladie to procure them a puritie of soule to assist therat or approch thervnto Ponder lastly that as GOD the soueraigne Lord of al things communicates his offices and charges to men according to his most holie and Diuine dispensation very suitable and agreable to euerie one as to Moyses the office of a Law-giuer to his people of Israel to Aarō the office of high Priest to Iosue of Captain Leader of them into the land of promise and consequently gaue them talents accordingly to discharge the same very punctually in al things So is it likelie that in choosing his Mother he vsed the self-same tenour in his fayre dispositiō therof to wit in appointing her so to be the Starre of the Sea he ordeyned her no doubt to be the Ladie of the Sea as her name imports Now then as in the Seas he hath drencht and plunged as it were

disposed she wil recreate herself whole nights and dayes and you shal likely neuer find them farre asunder When they are so in companie in the wood togeather where she is bred and borne they make an excellent enamel of blew and yelow but being by herself alone as in her celle she is a right Amethyst Had Iune been in quest to seeke her Bird as strayed in the woods she would easily haue thought these purple Violets had been her Argoe's eyes as shattered heere and there and dropt downe from her Peacocks trayne and so wel might hope to haue found her Bird againe as Deere are traced by their footing She is euen the Wanton among leaues that playes the Bo-peep with such as she is merrie and bold withal whom when you think you haue caught and haue now already in your hand she slips and leaues you mockt while you haue but her scarf only and not her self She is the Anchoresse sending forth a fragrant odour of her sactitie where she is not seen which she would hide ful faine but can not She is the Herald of the Spring wearing the Azure-coat of Armes and proclaiming sweetly in her manner to the spectatours the new arriuall of the wel-come guest She is the Primitiae or hastie present of Flora to the whole Nature Where if the Rose and Lillie be the Queene and Ladie of Flowers she wil be their lowlie handmayd lying at their feet and yet happely for worth be aduanced to lodge in the fayrest bosomes as soō as they as being the onlie Faire affecting obscuritie and to lye hid which other Beauties hate so much THE MORALS HVMI SERPENS EXTOLLOR HONORE VIrginitie indeed is a specious and glorious thing and hath somewhat of the Angel with it but yet nothing so happie as Humilitie is which hath in truth somewhat els withal as it were Diuine Virginitie and puritie inuited the Word to take vp his lodging in the Virginal womb but Humilitie was it that strook-vp the bargain between the Immaculat Hostesse and the Diuine Guest And hence arose the source of al her aduancements The Angels are pure indeed but lower then their nature is they can not stoop since Lucifer himself euen after his fal retained his nature stil which he could not forgo t●rice happie they had they not aspired higher then they were indeed But the Eternal Word could stoop so low and really did to be lesse then Angels If puritie then be a glorious specious and Angelical thing Humilitie is a vertue more then Angelical as being Diuine The Angels would faine haue risen higher but could not they tryed their wings and with that Iearus that daring youth had a shameful fal But the purest of al Virgins in contemplation of the Eternal Word readie to stoop so low wheras she was to be truly the Queen of Angels stiles heer herself the lowlie handmayd of our Lord when creeping on the ground as low as might be she came to be exalted to the highest dignitie next her Sonne in human nature and might worthily say HVMI SERPENS EXTOLLOR HONORE THE ESSAY ONE would think the Authour of Nature had made choice of the Violet to couch his enamel and to make the delicatnes of his pencil shine therin and the fairest coulours of the world to border the mantle of the Spring withal There are some purple but with the finest purple some as snow fashioned into litle flowers like curdled milk and blazoned as with Argent leaues al sowen thick with little odoriferous starres Others are of Ore musked or of Violcts metamorphosed into most sweet gold cut into blossomes There are some deckt with a hundred and a hundred leaues neatly fitted togeather and al as grafted into one stemme which casting themselues into a round and folding within one another through a sweet oeconomie agree to frame and compose a very dayntie and delicious Violet as faire as sweet mingling with a gentle confusion a thousand coulours which simpathize exceeding wel and glad the eye Behold the Violet of March and April May and Iune haue theirs a-part being of a changeable coulour hauing the top and edge of purple white in the midst and guilded beneath in the bottome What a maruelous enamel to see the argent the purple the Ore and azure of the leaues which shade round-about al coming forth of a litle green tuft from a litle sprig with a string that serues as a pipe for Nature to distil her musks that breathe from thence The leaues are somewhat round in their peering forth and iagged and then after extend they in length and spread themselues Their great vertue comes from a litle fire wel tempered in them and a sweet heat which is the predominant qualitie of their complexion and makes them sweetly bitter To renew their forces againe when they are decaying they steep them in vinagre and it is incredible the vertues these little flowers haue for they mollify hardnes alay heats and extinguish inflāmations the iuyce softens the venter dissipates and euacuats choler sweetens the asperitie of the lights alayes the fire that burns the breast with infinit other things most soueraigne for vse THE DISCOVRSE BEHOLD now the Violet which after the Rose the Queene of flowers and the Lillie the honour of gardens I should think might follow wel in Our Ladyes Garden as an excellēt Type or Symbol of her It is flower wel knowne to al familiar and domestical with al Nations For where haue you a Garden that hath not store of them yea the woods togeather with the Primrose seeme to be as strewed with them as tapistryes they are so diapred al-ouer with those flowers And our glorious VIRGIN is as easie and familiar to approach vnto as it The honour of this Violet is in the Spring or rather is the Violet the honour of the Spring Because the hoarie horrid Winter now passed ouer and the rigid frosts and snowes dissolued the pleasant season of the Spring returning the Earth seemes to put forth the Violet as the primitias of flowers togeather with the Primrose her inseparable companion to welcome it with a hastie present indeed but yet a rare one The spring of Grace so appearing and opening the breast after so tedious a Winter ouerpast of horrid Sinne and frozen Infidelitie our MARIE the Violet or the Violet-Marie rather is put forth as a ioyful present to glad the time withal This flower I find now to affect the hils and mountains though there want no store and plentie of them in the plaines and vallies also and as gardiners vse to say it loues to be transplanted to and fro And so our Violet heer was no lesse transplanted in her Visitation when she Rifing vp went hastily into the mountains For loe this Violet sprung at first and grew in the vallies to wit of herself but was then transferred and remoued into the mountain of Perfection to the mountain of Glorie mountain of Fame Honour and Exaltation but

world and taken-vp in the Church for an admirable peece of that Art to vye with the Angels the Cherubins and Seraphins themselues to frame the like Nor yet was she so pleased to heare herself sing only as to listen to her Spouse the voice of her beloued knocking and saying My sister open vnto me to whom she would answer againe Behold my beloued speaks vnto me Oh let thy voice stil sound in mine eares and a thousand other affects of her Musical hart would she dayly sing besides to the Angelical troups which enuironed her round And lastly for her loue to wine that is to the Angelical Nectar she was dayly feasted with of spiritual gladnes as tasts before hand of her future ioyes which might appeare by the quantitie she tooke of those wines and the qualitie againe by the frequent extasies of loue she would breake into remaining in her Closet as we may piously beleeue being inebriated therewith THE EMBLEME THE POESIE TO Bethlem's sillie shed me thinkes I see The Virgin hasten like a busie Bee Which in a tempest subiect to be blowne In lieu of ballast beares a little stone As 't were with oares beats to and fro his wings Collects heauens deaw which to the hiue he brings Within that store-house lyes the daylie frait Le ts fal the stone Euen so of greater weight Cut without hands the Virgin now is gone To lay the prime and fundamental stone Heauens Deaw condens'd was in the honie-comb She was the Bee the Hiue her Sacred Womb. THE THEORIES COntemplate first how little soeuer the Bee seemes yet how great its excellencies and eminencies are and measure not the singular properties it hath with the outward shew it giues forth For though it seeme no more indeed then as raysed but a little higher then an ordinarie fly yet is it a miracle in nature an astonishment to men and a liuelie Symbol of our Blessed Ladie who being so singular and eminent in al prerogatiues and graces Celestial and Diuine made no greater a shew then she did in being so priuate in her Closet or Oratorie where she was as a Bee in her Cel a-framing the delicious honie of her admirable examples of life to sweeten the world with for after-ages Where you may note her stupenduous humilitie that seing herself elected the Mother of God and consequently the Queene of Angels and men yet held herself to be no more then as a seruiceable Bee to worke the precious honie of Man's Redemption in her Virginal Womb when she sayd Behold the hand-mayd of our Lord. Consider then that as one of the properties of the Bee is when it is on the wing and feares to be carried away with the winds of the ayre to take vp a stone to keep itself steadie therin through the poyse therof So our blessed Virgin in her highest contemplation of heauenlie mysteries which was frequent and ordinarie with her would take herself to her little Iesus the mystical stone for Christ was a Stone for feare of being carryed away with the wind of vanitie she would fly and soare aloft but yet hold her to her little Nothing which she euer tooke herself to be O admirable humilitie of our incomparable and industrious Bee Ponder lastly that if the Bee is so admired for its singular guists of Continencie of Policie and Industrie and especially so affected by al men for the benefit of the honie they receaue from it how admirable needes must the blessed Virgin be so chast as to be the first and onlie patterne of al Chastitie both Virginal Coniugal and Vidual so wise politick wel-gouerned in herself to haue Sensualitie so obedient to Reason and Reason to GOD as to haue no deordination in her either of the inferiour to the superiour part and so industrious withal as to work so exquisit a loome of al Perfection as wel Human as Angelical in the whole course of her diuine life Yea how ought she to be honoured and worshipped of vs al for the Celestial Diuine fruit she brought vs forth that mellifluous Honie of the Diuine Word Incarnate and made Man in her most precious and sacred Wombe THE APOSTROPHE O Great Monarkesse and Princesse of intercession in heauen most constant and immoueable in thy Virginal purpose who hadst rather not to haue been so great in the kingdome of God then to falsify thy promise vow of perpetual Virginitie if in being the Mother of God the same had been put in the least danger O help me then to guard this inestimable treasure of Chastitie in my state of life by that sweetest Honie-comb thou hredst within thee and broughtst into the world thy deerest Sonne Ah let me not be perfidious disloyal or a breaker of my faith nor rash in my good purposes made to His Diuine Maiestie For that O soueraigne Ladie displeases him highly and offends thee likewise deare Princesse of Virgin-soules THE VIII SYMBOL THE HEAVENS THE DEVISE THE CHARACTER THE Heauens are the glorious Pallace of the Soueraigne Creatour of al things the purple Canopie of the Earth powdred ouer and beset with siluer-oes or rather an Azure Vault enameld al with diamants that sparckle where they are And for that there is aloft aboue this seeling they make a pauiment likewise for the Intelligences and Angelical Spirits strewed as become such inhabitants with starres It is a Court where those blessed Spirits as Pensioners stand continually assisting in the King's presence with the fauour to behold him to face in his greatest glorie while the Starres as Pages attend in those spacious Hals lower roomes If al togeather should make vp the bodie of an Armie ranged and marshalled in the field the Spirits themselues would make the Caualrie and the Infanterie the Starres S. Muhael General of the one and Phoebus of the other where euen as the Foot that are as the Corps of the whole Batallions make a stand so remaine the whole multitude of Starres al fixt in the Firmament while the Planets which are as the Collonels of the rest with the speedie Coursers of their proper Orbs fly vp and down to marshal the Legions and to keepe the Companies in their due squadrons If they shoot their shafts and darts they send are but their influences they powre on mortals and terrene things good and bad some sweet of loue as those which Venus shoots from her Regiment headed with gold some with steel as those of Mars and his troups and some againe as more malignant dipt in venome as those of Saturn and the Caniculars As the Earth hath beasts the Heauens haue their Lion and Beare the great and lesse Where the Sea hath fish the Heauens haue theirs and waters enough as wel aboue as vnder the Firmament As the Ayre hath birds the Heauens haue Angels as birds of Paradise And if the vpper Region of the Elements be of fire the Seraphins are al of amourous fires of Diuine loue and the

each country almost hauing their kinds There are Ships Pinaces Hoyes Barkes Ketches Galleyes Galeons Galleasses Frigots Brigandines Carackes Argoseyes for the Seas to say nothing of Lighters Barges Tiltboats Lighthorsmen Oares Canoas Gundeloes for the Riuers The Ships do fly and swimme togeather with the help of ●ayles only the Galleyes and their like as Swans do sometimes fly and sometimes paddle with the oare They haue maine masts crosse sayles top top gallāns they haue stern poop rudden ancker cable decks tacklings gunnes andigun-holes where they haue Canon Demy-canō Saker Culuering not to speak of the smal shot as muskets harkebuses firelocks and a thousand more And so much for the sensles bodie of this bulk in it-self But then to speak of the soule or policie and oeconomie of this admirable artificial creature or mouing world it is a busines no lesse to set them downe For as for the Officers which are simply necessarie either in the Admiral or Vice-admiral of a Fleet or Royal Armado at the seas there is a General a Lieutenant General a Captain a Pilot and the Pilot's mate a Maister and the Maister 's mate a Marchant a Marchāt's mate the Maister of the Ship-boyes a Secretarie a Chirurgion a Boatswain a Purser Dispensers Cooks Canonier his mate with vndergunners ship-boyes and marriners without number The Captain commands absolutely in al things the chief marchāt hath power ouer the marchandize and commerce only They double so the principal Officers that one may supply the others want The Secretarie sets downe the marchādize the Ship is fraighted with takes accompt of goods vnladed The Pilot hath no other commād but in what concerns the nauigation The Maister hath cōmand ouer al the Mariners and saylers of the Ship of al the prouisions and victuals he places remoues the Officers at his pleasure The Maisters of the boyes are the ablest of al the marriners and haue the care of the cordages sayles and tacklings the like and command the yong marriners and do only giue correction to the Ship-boyes THE DISCOVRSE Bvt now come we to our mystical Ship whose wayes in the vast seas the Oraculous Salomon admired so much This had for Architect and Shipwright no lesse then the Blessed Trinitie it-self wherin the Diuine persōs bestowed their chiefest Architecture For the Heauenlie Father employed his Omnipotēcie therin as farre as the subiect was capable of the eternal Word made vse of his wisdome in preseruing so entire the seale of integritie the Holie-Ghost shewed his Loue by infusing such a plenitude of grace into her The matter she was framed of tels vs she was of herself of wood doubtles most sacred mysterious As the Cedar am I exalted in Libanus and as the Cypresse in mount Sion as the beautiful Oliue in the fields am exalted as the Planetree neer the waters in the streets This Ship then was made of the Cedar of virginitie in that the Cedar is odoriferous and incorruptible therefore signifyes her virginitie which made her grateful and odoriferous to GOD kept her flesh immaculate incorrupted It was made of Cypresse which is a wood so strong solid as shrincks yealds not with anie burden being qualities most apt for shipping nor would the charitie of the blessed Virgin permit her euer to shrinck vnder the weight of tribulations For Loue is strong as death She was made of the Oliue of pietie which alwayes flourisheth looks green in that her pietie neuer fayled any either in the Spring of their youth in the Autumne of their age in the Winter of tribulation or in the heat of inordidinate concupiscences She was further made of the Plane-tree of humilitie for the Plane is a most spacious ampletree humilitie made the Virgin most ample illustrious because thereby she receaued him into her womb whom the Heauen of heauens was not able to containe since S. Bernard sayth She pleased with her virginitie but conceaued through Humilitie Her stern is her wisdome discretion her Oares most sacred and holie affects the Mast high sublime contemplation the Galleries pure chast conuersation the ropes tacklings the cords of loue vnitie and concord the Anckor firme hope confidence in GOD the deckes hatches external holie example edification the sayles cleanes puritie of bodie ioyned with the blush of shamfastnes The Pilot or Maister of the ship the Holie-Ghost which steered guided directed her in the whole nauigation of her sacred life For if they be led by the Holie-Ghost who are the sonnes children of GOD how much rather shal she be gouerned by it who is acknowledged to be not only the Daughter but likewise the natural Mother of GOD The forme figure of a Ship we know to be open aboue close beneath streight in the beginning narrow in the end broad in the midst very deep And this ship of ours the Incomparable Virgin according to the superiour part of the Soule was open to receaue Celestial guifts but as for the inferiour wholy shut vp frō terrene affectiōs moreouer so strict in the beginning of her Cōception as Original sinne could find no place to stayne her in She was narrow in the end of the Passiō while for the death of her Sonne she was put to diuers streights in the midst she was most capacious or broad because as we sayd Whō the heauens could not hold she held cōtained in the lap of her wōb Lastly she was deep through humilitie when being raysed to the top of the highest dignitie of being the Mother of GOD she calles herself his lowlie hādmayd saying Behold the handmayd of our Lord. But for the M●st indeed and tree of this Ship it was CHRIST Our Lord the verie same who called himself green wood saying If this be done in green Wood what shal become of the dry Erected also as S. Paul sayth Being made higher then the heauens raysed in and born of the Virgin Ship Of which tree or mast we haue this in Exodus They took out a Cedar from Libanus to make be no other then Christ erected in this Ship of our Virgin heer The Ships are made for burden and for as much as Nations oftentimes stand in need of each other they serue for transportation of commodities to and fro and especially corne from the fruitful to barren countries with the abundance of the one to supply the necessities of the other And therefore the blessed Virgin as we haue in the Prouerbs was made as a Marchants ship bringing her bread from farre remote parts For euen from the fertile and most fruitful soyle of the Celestial Paradise brought she indeed that supersubstantial bread into the barren coasts of this world which bread sayes of itself I am the liuing bread who descend from heauen wherewith the faythful are fed and nourished Whence appeares how farre off