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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12816	The femall glory: or, The life, and death of our Blessed Lady, the holy Virgin Mary, Gods owne immaculate mother to whose sacred memory the author dedicates these his humble endeavours. A treatise worthy the reading, and meditation of all modest women, who live under the government of vertue, and are obedient to her lawes. By Anth. Stafford, Gent.	Stafford, Anthony.	1635 (1635)	STC 23123; ESTC S117798	76,554	344

whom he no sooner saw borne into the Temple by his mother who then resembled Modesty supporting sanctity but he snatcht this prertie Babe out of her Armes into his owne and not able to containe his joy in a divine Rapture Swanne like his death being then at hand sung this his sweetest Ditty Lord now lettest thou thy Servant depart in Peace for mine eyes have seene thy Salvation which thou hast prepared before the face of all Nations a Light to lighten the Gentiles and to the glory of thy people Israel And he blessed them and said unto Mary his mother Behold this Childe is appointed for the fall and rising againe of many in Israel and for a signe which shall be spoken against yea and a sword shall passe through thy Soule that the thoughts of many hearts may be opened And Anna a Prophetesse confessed the same to all those who looked for the Redemption of Israel If the viewing and embracing of Christ so dilated the spirits of the old mans heart and made him so sensible of this his great felicitie that he would expect here no greater but desired rather a dissolution then the fruition of any thing else on earth What may we judge her content to be who conceiv'd bore brought forth and brought him up Whose affectionate looks kisses and embraces he had by day the two later of which the night it selfe could not barre him of Her greatest detracters surely cannot imagine her so stupid as not to be apprehensive of the delight the Comfort the happinesse the honour his presence did impart nor so unthankfull as not to acknowledge and to her power expresse her gratitude Certainly her soule was in a heavenly Trance when she contemplated the grace and felicity she had in Gods owne house and before an Assembly of his elected people to acknowledge her gratitude for the inestimable benefits he had vouchsafed her but especially for this that in his glorious eyes she seem'd worthy though in her selfe undeserving in her owne name and that of his chosen to present him with such a sacrifice such a gift as exceedingly surpassed in excellency all Hosts Sacrifices and Sacraments whatsoever being indeed their onely scope and end Anna the Mother of Samuel is praised for her diligence in Prayer the fruit whereof she reaped in her dispair'd of Fertility And of our admired Virgin we reade that she carefully frequented the Temple of which being wise she knew the institution and being pious the custome which she most religiously observed Wherefore this day of her Purification and at all times else without all peradventure she much excelled Anna and her whole sexe in the fervency of her Orisons in the ardency of her love in purity and sublimity of minde in holinesse of life and divine contemplation We may boldly conclude that she pour'd out her prayers here in greater abundance than she did in Zacharies house where she could not suppresse the flame of her zeale from breaking out into the praise of God her Saviour in whom she rejoyced To this effect happily here she pray'd O eternall and gracious God! I am below other women in merit but above them all indebted to thy supreme Maiesty for making me the Tabernacle of thy onely Sonne the Temple of thy Spirit and for this speciall honour done mee in the Temple of thy Service the congregation whereof makes me the onely point wherein the lines of their affection and admiration doe meete If women be respected for their fertillity needs must I be in great esteeme with all men who by thy eternall Predestination and fatherly providence have brought forth thy onely Sonne their Redeemer With a bowed heart and bended knees I acknowledge that thou hast faithfully and mercifully fulfilled all those thy favourable promises made me by thy Angell Gabriel my Cousin Elizabeth and thy holy Prophets Thou who can'st neither deceive nor be deceived hast made me the vertue of thy Spirit operating a Mother my virginall integrity still preserved That long long'd for Emanuel than whom nothing greater or better could be given by thee or taken my me I have at length produc'd to save all those that beleeve in him This magnificent immense inexhaustible unvaluable Treasure this beloved Sonne of thine in whom thou art well pleased This Saint of Saints by whom all things in Heaven and Earth are re-establisht this Saviour of the world I here present to thee as a gift most acceptable in thy sight He whom all Nations and the Fathers themselves have so much thirsted to see The Angell of the new Testament the seed of Abraham the sonne of David the King of Israel in whom all generations are blessed the Lord of the Temple is here come to illustrate his owne house O mercifull Father open the eyes of the dimme sighted Israelites that they may see the glorious Light that now shines on them and not onely acknowledge but worship their Messias and imbrace him in their hearts as I doe in mine Armes Neither let the Rayes of this new borne starre reflect onely on them but on all those also who sit in darkenesse and the shadow of death that to them it may restore life and lustre So shall they acknowledge thee and him whom thou hast sent CHRIST IESVS and be made spirituall dwellings for thee to reside in there to receive due thankes and praise for ever and ever Betweene her Purification and Passion of her Sonne she is not often mentioned in holy Writ but when she is it is still to her praise and honour As when her care for the poor made her petition Christ for Wine to revive and refresh their drooping fainting Spirits And when she said to him Why have you us'd us thus your Father and I have beene to seeke you Whence all women may learne Humility motherly care and conjugall Faith She who was without blemish as being Gods owne Mother whose chaste bosome no carnall thought had ever entred who lookt on all men with the same innocency simplicity with which she beheld Statues deigned to call a poor rustical labouring man Husband from whose deare company no flight terrour travaile nor paines could separate her But what the Scripture omitteth must be supplied by our charitable imagination which cannot but conceive all those her Actions buried in silence to have beene of the same pure thred with the rest of her life The truth of which we finde confirm'd in her perseverance in goodnesse even to her sonnes end and her owne At his death wee reade she was present and there stood saith the Evangelist by the Crosse of Christ his Mother and her Sister Mary Cleophoe and Mary Magdalen When therefore Iesus saw his Mother and his beloved Disciple standing by he said to his Mother Woman behold thy Son and he said to his Disciple Behold thy Mother and from that time he tooke her for his His pardoning of the Thiefe is not a greater argument of his Mercy than