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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B14373	The litle garden of our B. Lady. Or, diuers practicall exercises in her honour. Written in Latin, by the R. Father Francis de la Croix, of the Society of Iesus. And translated into English	Lacroix, François de, 1582-1644.; Wilson, John, ca. 1575-ca. 1645?	1631 (1631)	STC 15117.7; ESTC S103207	107,080	613

Speach or Colloquy IN the end of this Meditation you shall make your Colloquy thus First you shall giue thankes to the B. Virgin both in your owne all other creatures names for her exceding great mercyes towards vs. Secondly you shal lay downe your owne hart before the hart of our B. Lady which you may imagine to lye in the midst of the whole world wounded and pierced with darts of Loue by the most B. Trinity by all Angels Saintes by the Soules in heauen Earth and Purgatory For you are dearly beloued of all O Mother of God Mother of men Desire of the Eternal Hils Glory of humane nature Delight of the world I desire to offer vnto you a thousand and a thousand tymes multiplied all the prayses congratulations signes of ioy all the ditties songes and Canticles that euer any Creature made in your honour with them I also bequeath my selfe most straitly obliged vnto you by innumerable and these most iust titles This meditation exercise will be most gratefull to the B. Virgin and very meritorious also to your selfe wherin as it were in a great Pompe of all prayses you carry the name of our B. Lady in triumph as diuers Emperours did hauing obtained by her Intercession Victories ouer their enemies and in particuler Iohn Comnenus Emperour of Constantinople who after he had by the only ayde of the B. Virgin the yeare 1123. vanquisshed put to flight the proude Scithians inuading Thracia with their puislant army for thankes-giuing to this most glorious Queene he caused a most sumptuous Chariot to be made drawne by foure snow-white horses wherin he did place a faire Statua of the most glorious Mother of God riding in triumph The raines of the horses were managed by the chiefe Peeres of the Realme the Chariot was guided by his owne Kinsmen and he himselfe going on foote immediatly before carried a Crosse in his hands Nicetas in Annal Euen so let the Bles Virgin be honoured so let her triumph ouer you shining with no other pompe then the frequent Exercises of loue and carried in no other Chariot then in the seat of your owne Hart. CHAP. III. A Renewing of Lone and Deuotion towards the most B. Virgin to be made in the day time by a more briefe Recollection IT is not sufficient for a deuout Client of our B. Lady only to stirre vp himselfe in the morning by some long meditation to the loue of so noble a Queene vnles he also labour to renew it hourely by other though shorter Considerations all the day following For which kind of recollection it will not be amisse to practice this Excrcise following in imitatroÌ„ wherof you may forme to yourselfe diuers others to the same fastion First therfore laying a side for a while all other businesse and turning to your selfe you shal be hould with the eyes of your vnderstanding Saint John Euangelist with the most sacred Virgin placed at the foote of the Crosse hearing these words of our Sauiour Behould thy Mother and fulfilling that which is writieÌ„ of him And from that very houre the disciple of IESVS receiued her for his Mother Secondly you shall incite your selfe to imitate Saint Iohn and from that very houre to renew your affection vnto the Blessed Virgen insisting somewhat the longer vpon these words And froÌ„ this very houre making seauen meditations for the seauen dayes of the weeke First therfore begin with Sunday and say secretly to your selfe From this very houre wherinso many with filiall loue and affection do wholy deuote offer consecrate themselues to this their most louing Mother singing forth her praises in heauen and earth Put your selfe into the midst of them it is not possible but that the yee of your cold deuotioÌ„s wil therwith be thawed dissolued O Seraphicall Flames Ã´ singular deuotioÌ„s of all the holy Saints Angels vnto the most Blessed Virgin Where are you Where are you Why will you not send forth at least one only sparke of affectioÌ„ vnto vs who are so dull so colde so negligent in celebrating the praises of your most glorious Queene On munday From this very houre Before which tyme perchaÌ„ce you haue neuer serued the B. Virgin as it was fitting Good god Is it possible that you haue as yet rendred nothing vnto such a benefactrix so great a Queene hauing receiued almost euery momeÌ„t so many and so great benefits of so many howers as you haue liued neuer to haue spent one in the seruice of so deare a Mother Why are you so slow what hinders you that you do not euen now presently begin to offer coÌ„secrate vnto her seruice at the least this very Houre One Twesday From this very houre Wherein so many do perish for want of loue and recourse vnto the B. Virgin thousands perhaps thousads in this houre lying on their death beds being by the iust iudgement of Almighty God to be throwne in the next minute into the bottomeles pit of Hell wheras had they but once craued the aide of this glorious Virgin they should haue raigned and triumphed eternally in heauen What a thing is it to be damned eternally to perish eternally for al eternity to lye scorching and broyling amongst the blasphemous diuels for al eternity And how small a labour is it to call vpon MARY to loue and reuerence her See that you carefully performe this euen now that you may escape the other On Wednesday From this very houre In which on the one side three powerfull and dreadfull enemies the Diuell World and the Flesh do persecute vs being naked and vnarmed On the other side the diuine Iustice calleth vs to receiue punishment due vnto our sinnes Wee doubtles shal be ouerthrown with the violence of temptatioÌ„ we shall become a prey vnto our enemies vnlesse our B. Lady do assist vs vnlesse she make intercessioÌ„ for vs. Whosoeuer therefore thou be that readest this hauing thy conscience defiled with the least mortall sinne consider and ponder I pray thee thy owne estate in this sort following Thou being cast out of the protectioÌ„ of Almighty God in the which by grace thou didest remaine before bereaued of all the faire ornaments both of thy vertues and merits liker to a beast then a man and as another Nabuchodonosor feeding with wilde beasts in the desert of sinne all the Angels but chiefly thy good Angel bewailing thy calamity whose counsells hadst thou followed thou wouldest not now vnhappy wretch lye groaning oppressed with the weight of misery Thou liuest continually beaten with the whipps of thy guilty conscience all alone forsaken of thy frieds perhaps to morrow perhaps to day yea perhaps this very moment to be cited to the dreadfull Tribunall of the seuere iudge and canst thou yet liue in this estat Behold our Bles Lady the sanctuary refuge of sinners offering freedome security peace why the dost thou not fly vnto her On Thursday From this very howre In which so

to say but with a gratefull mynd he acknowledged this benefit of the sacred Virgin that he might more fully afterwardes dedicate himselfe vnto her he became a Religious Man CHAP. IX The ninth Exercise of ReuereÌ„ce is to deny nothing which lawfully and prudently may be graunted to those who aske it in our B. Ladyes Name WIth this Exercise as with a vitall bayte did the B. Virgin entice Alexander of Hales into the Order of S. Francis a man famous for learniÌ„g but more renowned for his rare piety and deuotion towards our B. Lady of which he gaue an euident argument when as he vowed he would neuer deny any thing asked of him in her Honour S. Ant. 3. p. hist. 24. c. 8. Â§ 1. One day a friar of S. FraÌ„cis Order meeting him fallyng into discourse of spiritual matters sayd vnto him And why do you not leaue a secular life in Religion bequeath your selfe wholy to God I beseech you for the honour of the most Bles Virgin to enter into our Order Alexander at first was amazed with a Petition so vnexpected yet calling a litle after his vow to remembraÌ„ce togeather also with the inspiration of God who still vrged him he promised he would performe what was requested and so for the reuerence loue borne to our B. Lady he enterd into that Order greatly gracing the same with the excellency of his learning Whosoeuer wil seriously labour in the rooting out of any vice or imperfectioÌ„ let him with great diligeÌ„ce fidelity attend vnto this deuotioÌ„ to wit that in the morning at his vprising let him feruently sincerely beg of himselfe for our B. Ladyes sake to abstaine froÌ„ such an imperfection for that one day or if he be accustomed to fall often into that imperfection let him aske but for the space of some few houres Afterwards that time being speÌ„t let him demaund it earnestly againe for one day or 3. or 4. houres more so abstaining day by day in this maÌ„ner vntil by the assistaÌ„ce of the B. Virgin he shall get a full conquest ouer himselfe And if at any time vpon occasion the temptation do oppresse him more grieuously let him vrge himselfe more feruently in this manner What wilt thou not heare the B. Virgin asking desiring beseeching thee to abstaine from this imperfection By the like practise S. Bernard mooued a Noble man of France to reforme his life For after applying many other remedies in vaine to recall him from a certayne vice well said S. Bernard if it be so that you cannot loÌ„g restrayne yourselfe yet for Almighty Gods sake for beare for 3. days which he did The 3. dayes being ended he vrged him againe that for 3. dayes more he would in honour of our B. Lady abstayne to which he also agreed After being desired to abstaine 3. other dayes in Honour of all the Saints in heauen he did so forth vntill at last coÌ„ming to S. Bernard he professed he would now make no more truce with God Almighty for 3. dayes but a perpetual peace being chaÌ„ged into another man De la Puent t. 3. de perf Christ. tract 2. c. 8. ex spec Exemp CHAP. X. The tenth Exercise of Reuerence to the B. Virgin is to dedicate all our good purposes vnto her IT is a thing of very great moment and much auayling to the attaining of true perfection eternal saluation if renewing daily your good purposes intentioÌ„s before an Image of the B. Virgin you resigne theÌ„ into her most sacred hands and lay them in her most holy lap as in a saÌ„ctuary or adde them to her Crowne as so many starres that so you may the more efficaciously be mooued by this Exercise to the accomplisshing of your purposes by reason of the reuerence dignity of our B. Lady may conceaue a more firme hope of obtaining help from her To this S. Bern. stirreth vs vp in his Sermon of the natiuity of our Bles Lady RemeÌ„ber sayth he to commend whatsoeuer you vndertake to the Blessed Virgin Mary And a litle after Haue sayth he a diligent care that you endeauour to giue that litle which you desire to offer into the most gratefull and most worthy handes of the Bles Virgin MARY Which if you doe you shall doubtles find the B. Virgin as fauourable to you in this spirituall traficke as she was at another tyme in a worldly negociation vnto a certaine Merchant Vincent Bellouac specul hist. lib. 1. c. 81. This Merchant hauing borrowed money at Constantinople of a Iew promissed the payment of it agayne at such a day vsing our Lady as a witnesse before whose Image he made this bargain Wherfore the Iew remaining satisfied he tooke his iourney with his money to AlexaÌ„dria negotiating there very prosperously When as now the day was at hand in which the debt was to be payd so neere that he could neyther returne by any meanes himselfe nor seÌ„d the mony by any messeÌ„ger what shold he doe He vndertaketh a strange course which was a peculiar deuotion into our B. Lady scarse euer heard of before suggested vnto him He closed the mony in a litle Chest which he sealed with his owne seale with this inscriptioÌ„ Receyue AbrahaÌ„ for that was the Iewes name the mony which I borrowed of you This litle Coffer he put into the sea a day before the mony was due huÌ„bly beseeching the B. Virgin that by her help it might safely be coÌ„ducted vnto Constantinople into the Iewes handes WheÌ„ behold the mony being miraculously carried through al the seas arriued to the shore of Constantinople where the same Iew walking on the banke side receyued it Neyther heere ceased the myracle for the perfidious Iew after the receit of this mony hid the Coffer demaunding after the merchants returne the debt before the magistrates and constrained thereunto because other testimony was wanting tooke his oath before the sayd Image of our Bles Lady that neuer any such mony came to his hands Scarse had he sworne but the Image with a loud voyce in the hearing of all replyed Thou lyest for thou hast receiued both money and box hast hid them The Iew astonisshed with the wonder amazed with the nouelty of the thing confessed his wickednes acknowledging the power mercy of the B. Virgin became a Christian Do you imitate this confidence in our B. Lady and representing your selfe before her make your desires of attaining to perfection Renew good purposes of amending your life and casting of ill habits and with greatest reuerence and submission of your selfe resign all to her and doubt not though many obstacles difficulties oppose themselues but that the Blessed Virgin executing the office of a good Mariner will direct your good intentions through flouds rockes saÌ„des and teÌ„pests conducting them to the safe hauen of a good and prosperous end With this loue and reuerence towardâ— the B. Virgin did holy Father Ignatius as with a most

he was saying this her Office according to his cuustome as she had very often done at other times gaue him in charge to cause the same to be diuulged in print Jn eius vita CHAP. VII How Saturday is to be obserued with reuerence in honour of the B. Virgin BEcause this day is peculiarly consecrated to the reuerence of our B. Lady you shall likewise obserue the same in a peculiar manner exercising your selfe in the things following hauing first euery Satturday morning coÌ„ceyued a firme purpose to fulfill them 1. You shall that day vndergoe some mortification eyther by keeping it fast or obseruing some peculiar abstinence or by recyting one of our Ladyes Ant-hymnes with your armes stretched foorth at length or on your bare knees or some other like deuotion at your pleasure Saint Nicolas Tolentinus did vse but onely once on the Saturday to refresh his body with meat after the imiration of the great S. Nicolas Surius in â—ius vita toÌ„ 5. Saint Antonius doth recount how that the B. Virgin appeared to S. Thomas of Canterbury and affoarded him her helping hand in mending his haire-shirt which in her honour he did weare not onely on Satturdayes but at other tymes also very often p. 5. t. 15. c. 2. Â§ 2. 2. You shall on that day exercise for the Blessed Virgins loue some worke of Mercy whether it be corporall as giuing almes visiting the sicke c. Or spirituall especially by godly pious speaches exhortatioÌ„ to stir vp your neighbours to vertue to more feruent honoring of our B. Lady 3. You may performe also that day some exercise of deuotion by visiting some Chappell or Oratory of the B. Virgin which pious custome of many deuout Christians hath beene very often approued by mirales from heauen Nauar Manual de orat c. 19. n. 189. It is reported also that in the valley of Ronca in Spaine Angels are accustomed euery Satturday to sing the Salue Regina at a Fountain there which for that cause is called the FouÌ„taine of Angels This peculiar thing that I will now recount is no lesse gratefull to be heard then in tymes past was admirable to be seene At Constantinople there was an Image of our B Lady which was couered all the weeke with a veyle excepting that vpon Friday after Euensonge it was allwayes miraculously lifted vp no man touching the same was drawne backe from the picture to the full view of all the Be houlders so remained vntil EueÌ„song on Saturday which being ended it was drawne againe before the Image couered the same as before Spinel c. 29. n. 17. Who vnderstandeth not by this miracle that euen from Heauen it selfe men were inuited to Honour the B. Virgin with peculiar deuotion specially vpon Saturdayes 4. With diligence you shall make your recollection before the Image of the B. Virgin and exactly examyne what you haue done the whole week past whether you haue gone forward or backward profited much or little adding new desires and purposes against the next ensuing weeke still committing commending the same to the Virgin Mother with all confidence submission 5. The same day in the Euening you shall examine your selfe whether you haue performed the thinges which you promised to do that day in honour of our B. Lady or no. CHAP. VIII Of honouring the Feastes of our B. Lady HOw ferueÌ„t euen profuse hath euer bene the deuotion of the louers of our B. Lady towards the celebrating of her Feastes with due piety and respect appeareth many festly out of almost innumerable histories Let this one serue insteed of al the rest which is recorded of S. Margaret Virgin Daughter to the King of Hungary This deuout Soule as the Author of her life writeth whilst on the Vigils of the Natiuity of our Sauiour and the foure Feastes of the B. Virgin the solemnity of the festiuall day following was denounced in the Chapter House she alwayes vsed to shew a wonderfull ioy and deuotion prostrating herselfe on the grouÌ„d and praying with teares gaue thankes to God On those Vigills bread alone was her meate and water her drincke tasting nothing els all day Moreouer in all the festiuityes of the B. Virgin and within their Octaues she offered vp vnto her a thousand Angelicall Salutations at euery of them did prostrate herselfe on the ground In cius vita To the end that with greater deuotion you may pursue follow this holy example with hundreds of others and obtayne also a more copious reward in heauen you shall well ponder the aduerisements following and endeauour to put them in practice 1. First of all the day before any Feast of our Bles Lady you shall performe the same that we haue coÌ„mended in the precedent Chapter to be obserued on Saturdayes On the Festiuall day it selfe first you shall recite the whole Rosary that is to say three Crownes after the manner aboue prescribed as opportunity doth serue you shall adioyne therto eyther the Office of the B. Virgin or her Psalter or at least her Letanyes 2. You shall visite some Chappell Oratory or Image of hers shall put in practise the things which before we haue expressed in the first Bed of this Garden Chap. 5 3. You shall receyue the holy Communion in the honour of the B. Virgin and to the end you may more duely and deuoutly performe the same the Exercise set downe in the 5. Bed Chap. 9. will direct and guide you as it were by the hand 4. You shall reade or heare read somewhat of the present Feast or somewhat treating of the life prayses of our B. Lady or at least some other spirituall matter in her honour when you haue fit occasion to frame any familiar speach or talke of her life your good wil must not be wanting These are to be obserued generally vpoÌ„ all her feastes and these which follow shal be proper peculiar to euery one On the feast of the Conception of the most B. Virgin you shal recite the Office of her immaculate CoÌ„ception and for the eight dayes following continue to recite the same so assigning to euery feast an Octaue to be particulerly kept by your selfe although the Church shal not obserue it On the Feast of the Natiuity of our Lady you shall honour the B. Virgins Name by reciting of the fiue Psalmes throughout the octaue in her Honour beginning with the letters of her Name spokeÌ„ of before in the first Bed and 3. Chap. On the Feast of the Annunciation you shall frequent throughout the Octaue the exercise of reuerence which we deliuered also in the first Bed ch 7. by exhibiting by way of many kneelings the worshippe of Hyperdulia that is most high Seruice or reuerence to the B. Virgin On the Feast of the Visitation and throughout the Octaue you shall obserue the Exercise of Reuerence which is mentioned before in the 1. Bed c. 5. by making of some station or visiting some

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