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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

first came vp so to surmount the lesser Hils and lower vallyes or whether Nature intended them first or no. If so how came she partial if not how came they to be so and a thousand other diuels they rayse besides which no ordinarie Coniurer can lay But such would I haue to aske the Vallyes how they came to be so beneath the Hils or higher Mountains which if they satisfye I vndertake the Mountains shal as much But the truth is he that puts generositie in some aboue the rest and made not al of the same euennes and tenour of mind and so in other things he made a Cedar and a shrub a Pine and a bramble an Alexander a Diogenes a Caesar and an Irus a Giant and a dwarf so made he Mounts of Pelion and Ossa and the vales of Mambre and Iosaphat These frō the first were so created mountains vallyes vnles perhaps as with the Angels al were once as mountains til Lucifer and his Complices aspiring higher then they should were throwne headlōg and made the vales of Hellish feinds So such as wil aspire to be so wise to search into the secrets of God's hidden Architecture shal be rankt in the number of the sillie vales in punishment of their daring follie to presume so much THE DISCOVRSE BVT then to speake of the Mount of Mountains placed in the Garden of the Empyreal Heauens where al are Mounts and this the Mount paramount aboue them al is a work of a higher nature the Incomparable Virgin MARIA I meane that admirable and mysterious Mount so like in name and qualitie to that of Mo●nt-Moria a certain hil in the Cittie of Ierusalem For as on that Mount-Moria Salomon first founded his Temple the house of GOD so in this our Montain Maria was the heauenlie and Celestial Temple of the true Salomon raysed indeed which he sayd within three dayes should be re-edifyed againe in case it were ruined to wit the Temple itself of the humanitie of IESVS CHRIST Moria signifyeth the land of vision what land more worthie to be seen thē Marie the Mother of GOD Moria is sayd to be a high and statelie land and next to GOD and there is nothing so high and sublime as Marie is no not the Angels nor Archangels nor yet the Cherubins or Seraphins themselues Moria is interpreted shining o● illuminating and Marie being clothed with the Sun illumines Mortals and truly shines as being truly the Starre of the Sea Moria as some Authours say is deriued of the Hebrew Mori which signifyes my mirrh and Iah which is GOD as much to say as GOD is my mirrh And was he not truly her mirrh indeed when she stuck him so in her bosome as he lay in her lap being taken from the Crosse according to that my beloued to me is a bundle of mirrh and she herself no lesse then mirrh if we look into her name which is Marie quasi amarum mare a Sea as bitter as mirrh itself of whom is sayd As a choice mirrh haue I yeaded a sweetnes of odour Maria is deriued also as some wil haue it from the Hebrew mereh which is teaching and iah GOD teaching who taught indeed when being seated as Salomon in his Throne or rather Wisdome it-self in its Scholastical Chaire in the Womb of the Virgin-Mother for so manie months he read to the world such a Lecture of humilitie patience charitie and al vertues particularly in his Incarnation but especially in the Crib and armes of his Mother when teaching both Iew and Gentil in the Shepheards and Magi at his Birth Manifestation he so taught them the Ghospel It is finally interpreted the Rayne of GOD where you may iudge what a showre of grace by this our Marie was powred into the world when Anna as a dry barren clowd for manie yeares before was at last deliuered of her and she powred into the world as a showre of rayne after a tedious famine to fertilize and fructify the earth Nor is Marie our Mount restrayned to Moria only but Sinaj also seemes to represent her no lesse in regard that Hil is accompted the Mount of mercie promise as wel as she This Sinaj is scituated in the prouince of Madian wherof Oreb is a part where our Lord appearing to Moyses in a bush and taking compassion on the affliction of his people promised to free them from the bondage of the Egyptians through the power of this mightie hand as we haue it in Exodus And so was the Blessed Virgin Marie as the Queen of mercie promised and prefigured in the same Bush wherin our Lord appeared to Moyses and for the rest were the promises likewise performed in her of the Redemption and deliuerance of the Human kind from the thraldome and slauerie of the Diuel while the Sonne of GOD tooke flesh of her for our ransome and deliuerie Our Lord descended on mount Sinaj c. That mount was likewise as the Rendeuous haunt of our Lord for there the Angel appeared oftē on behalf of our Lord spake familiarly to Moyses therefore it is said of him in the Acts He appeared to him in the desert of mount Sinaj in the flame of a fierie bush And so was the Blessed Virgin saluted and as frequently visited by the Angel and instructed no lesse of the Word of life Sinai was a Mount of rayne Deaw so was the Blessed Virgin in conceauing the Sonne of GOD according to that He shal descēd as rayne on a 〈◊〉 Sinaj was the Mount of the Diuine habitation for so according to Iosephus was the cōmon opinion in those dayes And the Blessed Virgin was truly the habitation and dwelling of GOD. She was the mount in whom GOD took much delight Sinaj was the Mount of wisdome aud learning for therin was the Law deliuered to the people by the hand of Moyses so likwise the Blessed Virgin-Mother brought him forth to the world who is the Word Wisdome of the Father who is our Captain Law-giuer through whō do Kings raigne the giuers of Lawes decree iust things She was a Mount distilling the oyle of mercie a Mount of peace alliance a Mount of pastures to feed on a Mount where it pleased GOD to inhabit as Dauid sayd the Mount of GOD the fat Mōut the holie litle Mount which Esay fortold of which should be prepared to which al the world should resort for pleasure and repayre for sweet consolation the Mount familiar to the Angels in their frequent visits THE EMBLEME THE POESIE AGaine is rays'd while Mortals feigne and erre The Statue of Nabucodonozer Heresie on feet of Clay and Iron stands Which haue no Vnion Lo cut without hands A stone falles from a Mountaine Sh' had a Sonne Who hauing vow'd sayd How can this be donne I know no man 'T was then the work alone Of th' Holie-Ghost Thus without hands the Stone Fel