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lord_n	aaron_n	according_a	holy_a	151	3	4.8746	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

displayd such skil as euen stupifyes the human reason to enter into it Where the Hart as the Fountain of life is placed in the midle for the more equal communication of the vital spirits the Eyes seated aloft to comprehend the greater circuit in their view the armes proiected on each side for the vse and commoditie of reaching Briefly the place of euerie part is determined by the vse Wherefore the principal chambers of delight as Studies and Libraries should be towards the East for the Morning is a friend to the Muses Al offices requiring heat as Kitchins Stil-houses stoues and roomes for baking brewing washing or the like would be Meridional Al that needs a coole fresh temper as Cellars Pantries Butteries granaryes to the North and so likewise al Galleryes appointed for gentle motion especially in warme climes to the West THE DISCOVRSE THe chiefest grace splendour and glorie of a house is that the Maister therof who dwelles therin be markable illustrious for singular eminent vertues since the chiefest ornament of a house is the vertue of the Lord therof Now then the blessed Virgin being eternally ordayned to be a House and habitation of the Diuine Word Incarnate and wherin the Holie of holies for nine months and the endles Fountaine of al sanctitie was corporally to inhabite this sacred House must borrow needs so great a splēdour dignitie as no other nor the Empyreal heauen itself might anie wayes cōpare with it What more Howbeit the glorie of that ancient house and Temple of Salomon were great yet can none deny this defect in it for being incapable to hold the greatnes of GOD in its ample galleries spaces euen by the genuin confession of Salomon himself If the Heauen and the Heauen of heauens can not containe thee how much lesse this house which I haue built But the golden house of the blessed Virgin more capacious then the heauens themselues did close in and encōpas the greatnes of GOD on euerie side as Ieremie sayth A woman shal encompas a mā And the holie Catholick Church itself sings Whom the Heauens can not containe hast thou held in thy Lap. Besides that which highly aduanceth sets forth the glorie of a house this same prerogatiue is of no smal moment to haue been deciphered delineated plotted and contriued euen raysed and built from the first foundatiō by a skilful exquisit Architect Behold GOD himself the Supreme Architect not only designed this House but euen finished it himself brought the same to that eminent perfection it is of I haue been eternally ordayned Behold the plotting cōtriuing designing of our House The Highest himself hath founded her where note the foundation I know how Ouid in his Metamorphosis describes the house of the Sun very elegantly in this manner The Pallace of the Sun on pillars highly placed With burnisht gold did shine and Pyrops stone And seeling roofs with purest Iu'rie graced But who sees not how this House heer wherin the Sun of Iustice dwelt did farre exceed the same whose ornaments surpasseth those by infinit degrees for whose golden pillars were the Guifts of the Holie-Ghost erected in her for whose Pyropus or Carbuncle which euen glowes like a burning cole her most ardent Charitie abundantly supplyed for the white purest iuourie her inuiolable immaculate Virginitie Whence while the most blessed Virgin Marie more plētifully abounded with the guifts of the Holie-Ghost she burned more ardently with Charitie and in virginal puritie was more neat then the heauenlie Spirits themselues surely more strong and statelie Pillars sustained this house more precious Carbuncles enriched it purer Iuourie adorned it then those others did the Ouidian Pallace of the Sun I haue sanctifyed this House which thou hast built to put my name eternally therin sayd GOD to Salomon not being yet as I suppose affected so to that material house as he pretended thereby rather to shew the loue he bare to his spiritual house yet corporal both of his Incomparable Mother whom he hath so sanctifyed with his eternal predestination before and enriched so with his personal presence to put his name eternally in her For that saying can not so wel be verified of the house built by Salomon which was afterwards demolished razed but rather of Marie heer who shal be sayd preached for euer the Temple of GOD the holie House where al glorie hath entred in as to a chast Bower which hath neuer been ruined like that of Salomon for that her foundations haue been planted in the holie mountaines as Dauid sayth that is to say by the Diuine Persōs of the Holie Trinitie while the power of the Father hath confirmed her in goodnes the Sonne hath illustrated her with Wisedome the Holie-Ghost preserued and established her in his grace Material houses which are built but of frayle matter trāsitorie stuff diuersly fal to rubbage are soone demolished quite as Iob sayth Who dwel in clay houses haue a terrene foundatiō But the bodie of Marie howbeit otherwise framed of a frayle matter is neuertheles so consolidated cōfirmed through the fire of the Holie Ghost as she is subiect to no demolishment or dissolution at al as she sayd in the Canticles that leaning or resting on her wel-beloued she was strong as the mountaine of Sion hauing such confidence in him So as truly the prophecy of Aggeus was fully accomplished in her That the glorie of the latter house should be greater then that of the former For as in the building of the first was heard no noyse or the least stroke of anie hammer so heer in this House of Marie could not be heard so much as the least sound or touch of Original Sinne so built by the Diuine Wisedome who was a more expert Architect by far then Salomon was of whom is verifyed that which Dauid so long before had prophecyed foretold That glorie and riches should be in the house of the Diuine Wisedome and its iustice shal be perpetual THE EMBLEME THE POESIE HAu Who dwels heer A Virgin What are you A Paranymph sent far am come to sue For one that pilgrime-like would lodge this night Vnder your roof and be a mortal wight Comes as a Bride-groome Heer 's no harbouring seat But h 'is a Monarch Then for me too great H 'is GOD. He now euer lodg'd with me Would be a child your Sonne How can this be By th' Holie-Ghost you shal be shadow'd ore You let him in by keeping closd your doore Then be it donne One Fiat banisht night And now an other brings from heauen the Light THE THEORIES COntemplate first that as in euerie House wel built and orderly disposed there is a Dining-roome at least and a hansome chamber for some principal guest to lodge in so this gol●ē House the Mother of GOD which he had so eternally prepared for