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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55658	A president of female perfection Presented to the serious meditation and perusal of all modest women, who desire to live under the government of vertue, and are obedient to her laws. Containing an historicall discourse of the best and pincipallest [sic] for holiness and vertue of that sex. Illustrated with sundry poems and figures, pertinent to the story. By a person of honour.	Person of honour.	1656 (1656)	Wing P3199BA; ESTC R230777	76,647	337

her selfe It was charity that cheer'd her up and sent her on this congratulating Embassy Lastly it was Charity that invited sanctity it selfe enclosed in this happy Maide to hasten to the sanctification of the childe in the wombe of Elizabeth Having patiently passed the troubles and annoyances of her voyage she with joy at length arrives at her cousins habitation into which she no sooner puts her head but the reverend Prophetesse having no other revealer nor prompter than the holy Spirit immediately knoweth the Mother of her Lord to be there present and knowing doth acknowledge it and acknowledging doth magnifie her perfections professeth her house blessed in being graced with her vouchsafing to be in it She at first sight discernes in her so many and so great concealed vertues and mysteries that a man would judge she had beene present at the enterview of her and the Angell Nor did she conceale these her excellencies but did describe them with such skill and zeale that Fame was even proud to repeat them Could the domesticall servants thinke you having heard their Mistresse predicate her divine qualities and transcendent condition containe themselves from divulging a joy which a narrow humane bosome is not capacious enough to receive Could they abstaine from justly boasting that a beauteous blessed Maide resided then in their house which together with their soules were by her glorious presence enlightened But I can no longer with-hold my pen from setting downe the journey it selfe and their mutuall salutations in the same words wherein the Text commends them to us And Mary arose in those dayes and went into the hill-Country with haste to a City of Iuda and enter'd into the house of Zacharias and saluted Elizabeth And it came to passe as Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary the Babe sprang in her belly and Elizabeth was filled with the holy Ghost and she cryed with a loud voyce and said Blessed art thou amongst women because the fruit of thy wombe is blessed And whence commeth this to passe that the Mother of my Lord should come to me For loe as soone as the voyce of thy salutation sounded in mine eares the Babe sprang in my belly for ioy And blessed is shee that believ'd for those things shall be performed which were told her from the Lord. Then Mary said My soule magnifieth the Lord and my spirit reioyceth in God my Saviour for he hath regarded the lowlinesse of his handmaid for behold from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed Because he that is mighty hath magnified me and holy is his name And his mercy is from generation to generation on them that feare him Hee hath shewed strength with his arme he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts He hath put downe the mighty from their seates and hath exalted the humble and meeke He hath filled the hungry with good things the rich he hath sent empty away He hath upholden Israell his servant being mindefull of his mercy As he hath spoken to our fathers to wit Abraham and his seed for ever In this salutation of Elizabeth the springing of the Babe in her wombe at the sound of our sweetest Ladies voyce requires not only our observation but astonishment He that was greater than all the Prophets as yet not borne and enclosed in the narrow compasse of the Wombe no sooner heard the charming voyce of this heauenly Nightingale but he leaped for joy essaying then and there to exercise the office of the Fore-runner of his Master The asseveration of some that this was not an effec● of the Virgins vertue S. Bernard saies that if an Jnfant was so over-joyd at the sound of her voyce what will the joy of the Celestiall inhabitants be when they shall see and heare her Serm. 1. de assump Mariae but of the Word incarnate● may be admitted fo● good if we onely have an eye to her Vertue and exclude the aide and power of the divine Grace But all Wisedomes Children are by Truth her selfe informed that many things are lawfully attributed to secondary Causes the primary and efficient cause not rejected And this way we may impute to Mary what worke soever God with her co-operating hath wrought either in the house of Zachary or else where for the benefit and instruction of us poore mortals Neither will any sound and sollid judgement attribute any thing to the conspicuous merits of the Virgine Mary or any other Saint without the concurrence and predication of the divine Grace who by those Saints that serve and feare him distributes his gifts and favours to Mankinde That sentence of Christ is no way obscure Ioh. 14. He that beleeves in 〈◊〉 shall do the works that I do and greater By many examples the Scriptures do confirme the comming of Saints to any mans dwelling to conferre upon him both Grace and Happinesse Three Angels came to Abraham Gen. 18. whom he entertain'd taking them for pilgrims when the Patriarch forthwith with became fortunate in the obteining of that for which so long he had offer'd up vows to God namely a sonne his wife and he being by the course of nature past the generation of children Gen. 19. Againe two Angels came to Lot and lodg'd in his house at Sodome and sav'd their host and his two daughters from being reduc't to cinders with their City Iacob visited wicked Laban Gen. 30. to whom God granted a singular blessing for that idolater in so much that he himselfe confessed it saying I have learned by experience that God hath blessed me for thy sake Elizeus to expresse the kindnesse he received at the hands of his hostesse 4. Kin. 4. the Shunamite restored her dead sonne to life The Apostles themselues brought peace and felicity to all hospitable men whose dwellings they enter'd And shall the arrivall of Gods owne mother at the house of Zachary prove onely vaine and fruitlesse in bringing no divine consolation to her kindred Yes surely Elizabeth tasted the fruit of her all-gladding presence for she could not conceale the pleasure conceived in her heart but utter'd it in the best words she could Iohn himselfe also tellisht it and by his motion gave what signes he could of the content and worship he receiv'd and payd Neither could it otherwise be but the Mansion of Zachary and the adjacent countrey were both delighted and sanctified by the three moneths residence of her who bore not about but in her the Author and consummatour of all piety Their joy questionlesse was beyond imagination great in that they had never before seene Gods gifts and graces passing through so pure an organ of his Spirit But the aged Prophetesse her selfe doubtlesse was in a holy delitious Trance at the very first steppe she made over her threshold and thought her house but halfe blest till the other foot was in Their mutuall salutation surely was low and submissive which I cannot better expresse then by the supposition of the