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A07964	Maria triumphans Being a discourse, wherein (by way of dialogue) the B. Virgin Mary Mother of God, is defended, and vindicated, from all such dishonours and indignities, with which the precisians of these our dayes, are accustomed vniustly to charge her.	N. N., fl. 1635.; Anderton, Lawrence, attributed name. aut	1635 (1635)	STC 18331; ESTC S102869	83,816	338

and hauing a thirsting desire to see the dead Body in regard of his absence at her death intreated the other Apostles to open the Graue vnto him that he might see the dead Body and do honour and reuerence vnto it At his request they opened the Graue but foūd there no Body at all but only the linnen within which the said sacred Body was infoulded and withall perceaued a most sweet sauour and smell in the same place Vpon the wounderfull and vnexpected fight wherof all the Apostles concluded that our Lord who had taken flesh of Her would grant her the Honour of rising before the day of the Resurrection and that she should as well in Body as in Soule presently ascend vp to Heauen I will add hereto what Iunenall the foresaid Bishop sayth to wit That this stupendious Wonder was not seene by the Apostles only but also by Timothy Bishop of Ephesus and Dionysius Areopagita both of them being Disciples of Saint Paul and both being present thereat as also by Hierotheus and diuers others Saints witnesses thereof These Premisses are the ground whereupon the Catholike Church resteth for the beliefe of the B. Virgins Assumption into Heauen both in soule and Body before the Common day of the Resurrection And to the former proofes I may adioyne these following The Centurists do witnesse Cent. 5. c. 10. col 1127. that S. Austin did write a Booke entituling it De Assumptione Virginis mariae The opinion of which doctrine was so anciently receaued that the Emperour Mauritius more then a thousand yeares since celebrated a festiuall day thereof as Nicephorus l. 17. c. 28. recordeth Yea the certainty of this doctrine is further proued from the authority of S. Ierome in a notable Sermon styled De festo Assumptionis Mariae though some others ascribe it to Sophronius in tyme his equall In regard of the great Antiquity of which Feast we fynd Dretserus the Protestant to reprehend Pope Damasus herein thus saying de festis diebus p. 148. Damasus ordayned the feast of the Assumption of Mary in the yeare of Christ three hundred sixty foure with an vngodly Vse that thereby Honour might be giuen vnto Her and Prayers offered vp c. Thus this Protestant But I will conclude this point with one most conuincing argument taken from S. Bernard who thus disputeth hereof Seing God hath discouered and reuealed the Bodies of many Saints which lay hid in diuers places that they might be honored of faithfull Christians it then ineuitably followeth that if the sacred Body of the Blessed Virgin had beene still on earth he would in like manner haue made knowne no doubt ●n what place or Countrey it did lye For it not being certainly knowne where that Body or any part thereof is in any place of the World allthough there be found and knowne some relicks of her garments it may be irrepliably concluded that her Body is not to be found in earth but only in Heauen And this is S. Bernards demonstration in this Point Thus much in proofe of the certainty of the Assumption of the B. Virgin Mary Now it being once granted that her Body was assumpted vp to Heauen how much reason hath the Church to record her Assumption by instituting thereof an yearly feast And to read in that her Honour Hodie ●aria Caelor ascendit gandete quia cum Christo ●●gnat in aeternum Exalt●ta est Sancta Dei Genitrix supra Choros Angelorum ad c●lestia regna I will conclude this Point only saying that if most Countries do yearely obserue with honour the day of the Coronation of their Prince May not then we Christians keep with a more speciall Solemnity the tyme when the B. Virgin who brought forth him who is the King of Heauen and Earth first by her Assumption enioyed not a temporall Crowne but the Eternall Crowne of Heauen Thus far Mariamastix and the rest of you Auditours here present for the iustifying of the Catholiks their keeping all the former foure yearely feasts and solemnities of the B. Virgin Mariamastix Well to let all this passe touching the former feasts as inough if not too much discoursed of I would haue you Mariadulus to take notice that I haue beene a Trauayler and haue breathed the ayre of your Popish Countries And indeed these eyes of myne haue beene witnesses that you Papists do there giue vndue veneration not only to Mary herselfe but euen to her Image and Picture How often haue I seene to my great disedification but strenghtning me in the Gospell an Image of Mary placed either in a Church or in the corner turning of a Street To which some haue kneeled downe and prayed whether to the Image of her or to her I know not Others as they passed by haue made a knee and put their Hat off Yea I haue seene some of those Images cloathed as it were with fyne Vestments wax●n Candels burning before them I haue further obserued how in most great Townes the chiefe Church is dedicated to Mary whereas all Churches are to be dedicated to God alone And therfore it seemes Idolatry to performe that worship to Mary which ought to be performed to God alone Againe in most townes of Note there is a certaine Sodality or Company of Men and Women who are called the Sodality of the B. Virgin Now to what end is this Sodality if Mary be to be worshipped of all since this may be effected without making any peculiar Sodality or Confraternity To be short I haue obserued that three seuerall tymes euery day at the ringing of a Bell to wit at six of the Clork in the morning twelue in the day tyme six at the night ech Man ●s to fall downe on his knees yea if it be in the streets to say some Aue Maria's O manifest and grosse Idolatry in you Papists Mariadulus O manifest and grosse Ignorance in you Professours of the Gospell Touching your trauell it may be you haue beene in Catholike Countries And if you haue reaped no profit thereby being on all sides incompassed with the sight of deuout Religious Men and practise of Vertue thanke your selfe seeing it should seeme that during your stay in those places you laboured to vnite your owne forces more strongly together and so your pertinacy sti●nes in iudgment increased in it selfe as I may say per 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Now touching the Worship which you say you haue seene in Catholike Countries exhibited to the Image or Picture of the Blessed Virgin I can but grieue to see how Ignorance is masked vnder the veyle of Satyricall Reprehension and that the shew of Reason should produce in Man the Effects of the wāt of Reason Therefore though the handling of this Point toucheth vpon a new Question to wit the worshipping of Images Yet for your Instruction though it seemes you can hardly brooke this word obserue what the Cartholike Church teacheth therein First it teacheth that the honour is not done to the