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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

Indiuidual Trinity at what tyme the B. Virgin likewise taught her the following Salutation as most gratful vnto herself Hayle O white Lilly of the euer resplendant and peaceable Trinity Haile o faire Rose of the celestiall Delights of whose Roote the king of heauen vouchsafed to be borne of whose milk he would be fed therby to nourish our soules with diuine Influence lib. 3. insin diuin c. 19. Euen so when you shall behold any Image of our B. Lady as if you perceaued some liuely purity therein say O B. Mary more fayre then the sun by thy purity in splēdour surpassing the starrs I haue Ioued you euē from my youth I am become a louer of your Beauty Another tyme the Blessed Virgin appeared to S. Clare of Monte Falco who though she were then but six yeares old did labour to obtaine this purity by despising althings for the most pure loue of Christ bearing in her armes her litle IESVS and so soone as the holy Child beheld S. Clare he desyred to go downe on the groūd to imbrace her as his beloued spouse Wherupon S. Clare comming to imbrace him he againe as in play sport ran from her and hid himselfe vnder his Mothers garmēts leauing notwithstanding in the heart of the little Saint a meruaylous sweetnes of his loue A particuler examen touching the practice of imitating the said Pūrity TO the practise of this Purity a particuler Examine is very necessary to be made at a certaine tyme and place as neere as may be obseruing these two speciall points 1. To Examine your greater sinnes if by chante you haue fallen into any making a firme purpose by the grace of God vtterly to forsake them 2. You must conceaue a great and most vehement desire to root out all sinne wholy For the first thinke often with your selfe how displeasing such offēces are vnto the B. Virgin being so pure thirsting so greatly after the diuine Honour and Glory and so extremely auerted from all sinnes especially mortall Of which her auersion we haue an example of one who comming vnto her House of Loreto on Pilgrimage burdened with a number of sinnes and of a life most impure was twice frighted frō entring into the sacred House by certayne terrible visiōs which the saw before him at the dore nor was he able by any means to enter before he had byn at confession and receaued absolution of his sinnes Tursell in hist. Laur. l. 5 c. 27. The like happened vnto S. Mary of Aegypt sometimes a grieuous sinner who was hindred by a celestiall force from entring into the Holy Sepulcher of our Lord at Hierusalem vntil by help of the Mercy and pitty of the B. Virgin she began seriously to amend her life Secondly whē you haue purged your self frō greater sinnes by the intercession of the B Virgin by the help of diuine Grace you are to proceed vnto the rooting out of veniall sinnes and first chiefly those which may incline you to commit greater more dagerous Crimes into which you do more ordinarily fall perswading your self for certayne that not only mortall but euen the least Veniall finne is greatly displeasing to the B. Virgin S. Catharine of Siena contemplating on a tyme a diuine Visiō for only casting aside her eyes out of curiosity was for that so litle distraction sharply reprehēded by the B. Virgin in such sort that it caused her to shed aboundance of bitter teares in eius vita As also a certaine Monke of the cistercians Order of an innocent life by chāce falling a sleepe one night after Mattins before an Altar in the Church was presently awaked by the Bles-Virgin telling him that was no place of sleeping but of praying How to begge the gift of Purity of the B. Virgin YOv must also begge often hūbly the guift of Purity of the B. Virgin to which end you may repeate these words of Holy Church in the Hymne of Aue Maris stella Grant vs pure life we pray And make our way secure That so behoulding Christ our ioy may alwayes dure And since that the first degree of Purity is the true knowledg of our selfe and of our owne defects you must frequently desire the same of the B. Virgin and that she would giue you so much light whereby to see and discouer all your sinnes and imperfections that so you may detest them make a ful confession therof at your first opportunity This fauour she once imparted to a youth of her Sodality in Germany who vpon a tymevery carefully examining his conscience of all thoughts words deedes humbly desiring of the Queene of heauen that he might leaue none of his sinnes vnconfessed behould suddainly there fell downe from aboue a paper of wonderfull whitnes iust before his face as he was praying wherein all his sinnes in a very small but curious character were written with this additiō that if he cōfessed all which was in that paper contayned and did but deuoutly say ouer his Rosary in the honour of the B. Virgin he should be in a very good state And that which incresed the miracle was that an other youth of the same Sodality as also his Father the Pastour of the parish many others endeauoring to read the same paper could neuer vnderstād one letter therof Annuae Soc. Iesu an 1588. Coll. Monast. Moreouer you are to cōecyue a most vehement detestation of all your sinnes as well of those you know as of those you know not or may haue forgottē such as S. Anselme conceaued when he said If quoth he on the one side I should see hel and on the other side a Mortal sinne must needs choose one of them I had rather go into Hell a thousand tymes then commit but that one Mortall sinne And he addeth That he had rather go to Hell free pure from sinne then to Heauen defiled with the filth and ordure of sinne Lastly you must most hūbly often begge pardon of your sinnes and amendment of your life euen frō the bottome of your heart through the mercy pitty of Gods Holy Mother who doth louingly receyue all those which fly vnto her for help like vnto that Cloud which God did once spread ouer the children of Israel to protect them in their flight out of Egypt and in their iorney in the Desart couering and shading them like a Canopy from the intollerable heate of the Sunne O how often had the ardor of diuine Iustice euen consumed al humane kind had not the B. Virgin interposed her praiers betwixt vs and the same like to another cloud and defended vs from the fury of his offended Maiesty In vayne should we seeke refuge against the reuengefull hand of God who with sword sulphure thunder most direfull flames daily menaceth the world hauing euery where so great enormous sinnes to punish for who could be able to persuade or mitigate his most iust wrath fury but only the

houlding the sayd Image in his hand protesting to dye for our Sauiours sake a Caluinist cōtēding by violence to wrest the picture from him gaue him three woundes in the brest and one in his head not being able otherwayes by force to take it from him he threw him clasping fast the Image headlong into the sea although the of bodyes of thirty eight his fellowes being all there martyred did presently sinke he notwithstanding hauing stretched out his armes in forme of a crosse was seene with admiration of al to swimme aboue water as far as the eyes of the behoulders could discerne him which vndoubtedly was by vertue of the Image he still carryed in his hand Jn vita P. Borgiae l. 3. c. 10. CHAP. V. The fifth Exercise of reuerence towards the B. Virgin is to honour Places dedicated vnto her ANother great argument of piety and Reuerence towards our B. Lady is to build Churches and erect Altars in her honor which notwithstanding we will omit because the performance of this is in few mens power neither do we determine to inferre any particular matter concerning the adorning thereof for that most of those thinges alleadged in the former Chapter may be reduced to the same point But by going on pilgrimage we may honour places dedicated vnto her and this may be done in two sortes First by vndertaking Iourneys to remote places as to the Holy House of Loreto Mont-serat Sichem Foy which pilgrimages with what deuotiō we ought to beginne them with what vertuous exercises cōtinue them with what fruite finish them may be gathered out of Father Richeome in his Booke intituled The Pilgrime of Loreto Neyther is it necessary to search farre Countries for examples of piety and deuotion in this kind when not long since we haue beheld the Example of Albertus the Archduke and Lord of all the Low Countries who as a patterne to all Princes for all the continuall affayres of his Princedome though very feeble by reason of the weaknes of his body was wōt yearly to spend nyne dayes in visiting our Lady of Sichem the Infanta his Lady accopanying him with the like deuotion which he performed also not many monethes before his death besydes other Holy places in Flanders dedicated to our B. Lady which he had wōt often to visit to adorne with votiue tapers and all sortes of ornaments performing such actes of piety towardes the B. Virgin as perhapes few ages can shew the like testimony of deuotion in so great a Prince Secondly we may make our Pilgrimages to some places nere at hand namely to some Chappell either in the same Towne or Citty or not far distant of which deuotion because it may be common and practised by all we wil heere propose two Exercises which euery one may vse as they will as occasion shall permit ¶ The first manner of visiting places dedicated to our Lady What is to be done in the Iorney FIrst you shall take vnto your selfe two Companions of this your Pilgrimage on the one side your Angell Guardian on the other some Sainte who was famous for deuotion towards our B. Lady Then shall you implore the assistance of your good Angel in the manner following I beseech thee O Angelicall spirit my faithfull keeper that by thy protection I may be securly cōducted in the way of peace safety and happynes and that no wicked temptations may oppresse me I desire also that thou beg for me thy poorest Seruant grace entyrely to serue the Blessed Virgin in this life that in the next I may sing her prayses with thee for al Eternity Amen To the other companion you shall say O Blessed N. most singular louer worshiper of the sacred Virgin obtain for me that I by thy imitation may truly reuerence and serue that Holy Queene and by thy intercession may be succoured in all perils tribulations of this life Amen Secondly In this Pilgrimage you may take vpon you diuers persons according to the diuersity of cōsiderations by which you meane euery day to stir vp your mind to deuotion recyting one of the Hymnes of the Blessed Virgin for exāple on Sunday you shall suppose your selfe the seruāt of our Blessed Lady bound and obliged vnto her by a iust strait bond going to prayse and glorify your most potent mistresse and Queene and you shall recite the Hymne Regina coeli your cōpanion shall be B. Father Ignatius who being by apparitiō in which the B. Virgin visibly represented herselfe vnto him called from a secular warre to a more spirituall cōflict in the Mount of Serrato begā his conuersion dedicating himselfe wholy to the seruice of our Lady hanging his sword at her Altar afterwards his whole and only imployment and endeauours were to augment both by himselfe and his sonnes the honour of our B. Lady throughout al parts of the world as much as possibly he could Orland in hist. Soc. l. 1. On Munday Imagine your selfe a pilgrime in the world exposed to a thousand errours and dangers going to salute your most faithfull Lady Choose with your good Angell S. Dominicke to accompany you in the way whome our B. Lady did with her particuler protection assist in defending her honour against the Heretikes called Albigenses and procuring her greater seruice by teaching the saying of the Rosary In the way say the hymne O gloriosa Domina One Twesday suppose your selfe loaden with an infinite weight of sinnes going to salute your most mercifull Aduocate in the way recite the Hymne Salue Regina and choose for your Companion S. Bernard who speaking as alwayes was wont most swetly of the Blessed Virgin his Aduocate sayth Filioli haec peccatorum scala haec meae maxima fiducia haec tota ratio spei meae My sonnes this is the ladder by which sinners must climbe to heauen she is my greatest confidence yea the only meanes of my hope With which inward feeling and affection whilest in the Cathedrall Church at Spire he recited the Salue Regina being absorpt with heat of deuotion he kneeled three tymes in three diuers places at those last words O Clemens ô Pia ô Dulcis Virgo Maria in the memory whereof three plates of brasse to distinguish those three places are nayled On Wednesday thinke your selfe a Scholler rude and ignorant yet desirous of true wisdome going to honour your most wise learned mistresse recite the Hymne Aue Regina caelorum and let S. Augustine accompany you who being placed betweene the wounds of IESVS and the brests of MARY as on the one side he was nourished with those ioyfull waters of heauenly doctrine flowing from the woundes of our Sauiour so from the other he sucked the sweet milke of eternall Wisdom On Thursday imagine your selfe a Spouse without any desert of yours one far vnworthy of such a mariage freely loued chosen by our B. Lady going to honour your most beautifull beloued Espouse You shall retite the himne

vnto the Name of MARY And for an example or patterne of this tender affection you may take Fa. Peter Faber of the Society of IESVS and one of the Ten first Companions of S. Ignatius who being presēt at Spire in a Church dedicared to the most sacred Virgin where he heard Euensong sung with as great pompe celebrity as possible could be vpon the eue of our B. Ladyes Assumption to heauen perceauing the Altar to be decked with flowers shining with cādels adorned with many holy reliques the wals hūg with Tapestry the Quiers sounding with variety of musicke was so rauished with inward ioy that he beganne to wish all happines vnto those who had rāked and lighted the candels in such good order who had adorned the wals with Tapestry had exposed the sacred reliques had gathered the musitians togeather In such affectuous manner did the signes of a mind reioycing in God and exulting at the Honour of our Bles Lady shew it selfe on euery side In eius vita The third point Of the internall Beauty of our Blessed Lady THat you may in some sort perceiue how great the internall Beauty of our Bles Lady is in very deede you shall consider first the beauty of a soule free from sinne indewed with vertues So great sayth S. Catharin of Siena is the beauty of a soule as that if it could be seene with corporall eyes there would be none who would not most willingly giue his life to conserue the same in so beautifull amiable estate Surius in eius vita For if all beauty grace comelinesse or amiablenesse whatsoeuer that shineth in any creature as in the Sunne Moone stars Gold Siluer Precious stones rich apparell gorgeous Pallaces rare Gardens curious Pictures or in the excellent feature and composition of body that either is was or shall be If I say all the beauty that might be gathered out of all and euery one of these should be amassed and put togeather to make one beauty although it seeme it would be almost infinite and incomprehensible yet would it not parallell that beauty which the least degree of Grace or of any vertue that commeth with it imparteth to a Soule Raise now your mind as high as you shal be able contemplate the beauty of the B. Virgin her soule endewed not only with one two or some few degrees of grace but with so many and those so great as that some Deuines renowned as well for piety as learning hould that she had imparted to her alon more grace in this life glory in the other thē all the rest of the Saints together as we sayd before in the Preface § 1. Affections of Loue. YOu shall admire praise these so great and singular perfections in the most Bles Virgin saying with Prouerb 31. vers 29. Many daughters haue gathered heaped vp riches yet haue you exceeded thē all You surmount the Patriarkes in Fayth the Prophets in knowledge the Apostles in zeale the Martyrs in patience in humility the Cōfessours and in purity the Virgins You being decked and trimmed vp with Iewels of inspeakable worth draw the heauenly Spirits to behould you You are as it were a most cleere Sunne voyde of Eclipse a Sunne displaying his beames from earth vpon heauen from heauen vpon earth euen a Sunne dissoluing the very cloudes of our iniquities After this you shall be sorry that hitherto you haue esteemed so lightly the admirable sanctity of this diuine Virgin and say O if she with the sweet pēsill of her singular mercy would but with the first ground or colour of diuine grace paynt my soule forth vnto her owne likenes O if she would clēse adorne it with such vertues as might make it acceptable vnto her selfe herdeare Sonne Then do you aspire with burning desires after that true beauty which only deserueth to be sought for and this to no other end but only that you may loue and be beloued of the most glorious and B. Virgin The Speach or Colloquy YOu shal adioyne to these Contemplations Affections of Loue thanks giuing to the most B. Trinity which hath beene pleased to set forth the most pure Virgin with so many gifts rare vertues which hath enriched her with so great perfection made her amiable in the eyes of all and therfore shall you also honour Her euen with the whole powers of your soule body prouoking with great and most liuely affectiō all Creaturs to doe the same Lastly you shall beseech the most B. Virgin that she would shoote one only dart of her Loue into your soule and grant you this only fauour that you may liue and dye her most true and Faithfull Seruant Then say Pater Noster Aue Maria. CHAP. II. The second contemplatiō to stirre vp loue in vs towards the B. Virgin is the remembrance of her mercyes benefits to vs. YOur Preamble shal be the same as in the former meditation THE FIRST POINT Of the greatnes of the mercyes of our B Lady by reasons he is the Mother of God THe second incitement to loue the most sacred virgin after the cōtemplation or her Perfectiōs Beauty is a pious consideration of her Mercy Liberality and Care of vs humane creatures The which that in some sort you may cōceiue how great it is remember her to be the Mother of God whose bowells doubtles were wholy turned into Mercy since therein shee bare for nine monethes togeather Mercy it selfe Whose hart breast were throughly enkindled with the fire of charity since she often imbraced and fostered in her bosome Fier Charity it selfe She well knew into what plight the loue of vs lost Sinners had brought euen God himselfe her dearest sonne she heard his words in which euery syllable was an argument of his loue to vs. Lastly she both saw felt how great the torments griefes molestatiōs were which he suffered onely for the redemption of makind And is it possible that she should not most vehemently thirst after our good and saluation who heard on the Crosse her dearest Sonne though all his body were torne and mangled with whips and scourges and his handes feete pierced with hard nayles yet notwithstanding more mindfull of vs then of himselfe cry out I thirst For if this voyce of our most beloued IESVS vnderstood by Fayth and distilled into the eares of the hart by meditation did mooue and incite those Apostolicall men those Paules those Dominickes those Francis'es those Ignatius'es those Xaucrius'es to so noble and heroicall attemps for the Saluation of their neighbours what did it not worke in the Bles Virgin who in the stage of Mount Caluary in that Scaffolde of diuine loue heard saw and euen felt the wonderfull loue her Sonne bare to mankind Affections of loue YOu shall proceede further beginne to tast and see how benigne and sweet our B. Lady is Then shall you congratulate with her for her most singular mercy wherby

her head which was not only found whole vncorrupted but also full of a most fragrant odour which like oyle distilled from thence in great aboundance Sur. in eius vita 15. Octob. S. Edmund Archbishop of Canterbury did vse another kind of signe or token to put him alwayes in mynd of the vertues perf●ctions of our B. Lady and chiefly of her Chastity which vertue aboue all others be practised and had in most high honour veneration It was this After he had by the instinct of the Holy Ghost solemnly espoused himselfe to the B. Virgin in memory of this his betrothed fayth he put a ring vpon the finger of a certayne Image of the Blessed Virgin and made another most like vnto it which himselfe did continually weare on which afterwards as often as he did look he seemed to see the most amiable Virgin his spouse there present before his eyes and in her a liuely excellent patterne of all vertue and perfection In this Ring was engrauen the Angelicall Salutation and that miraculously as by the relatiō of diuers of vndoubted fayth sincerity was affirmed In eius vita 16. Nouemb. Others haue inuented and vsed other signes memorials to the same end CHAP. V. The fourth Help to the Imitation of the B. Virgin is to implore her ayd and assistance often ALl that industry which hath byn expressed in the former Chapters will produce but little or no fruit at all vnles it be watered with the plēteous dew of the diuine Grace therfore we must humbly and often implore and begge the same with a great distrust of our strength and no lesse confidence in our B. Sauiour and his Holy Mother To which end insteed of Iaculatory prayers we may vse certayne Versicles approued by the Holy Church in crauing now this now that vertue of the Bles Virgin As for Example in crauing of Chastity Meeknes these words of the Hymne Aue Maris stella will be most proper O Virgin singular in mildnes passing all Make vs both meek chast deliuer'd from sins thrall As likewise in crauing of sincere and ardent Charity out of the Hymne Stabat Mater Dolorosa these words thus Mother Fountaine of true louing Mee to feele thy Sorrow mouing Cause that I may mourne with thee Let my Hart with feruour burned Towards Christ with Loue be turned Which to him may pleasing bee The B. Mother of God herself gaue vnto S. Ioane Found resse of the Annuntiates three most wholsom documents wherby she attayned vnto great Perfection The first was that she should say ten Aue Maries in memory of those ten Vertues wherin the Bles V. so greatly excelled to wit Chastity Prudence Humility Fayth Gratitude Obedience Pouerty Patiëce Piety and Constancy in affliction The second was that she should salute with 5. Pater Nosters 5. Aue Maries the 5. most pretious wounds of our Sauiour IESVS-Christ in imitation of that deuotion with which the B. V. saluted and contemplated them whilest he hung vpon the Crosse The third was that daily in honour of the fruit of the B. Sacrament she should recite twelue Aue Maries Vnto which threefold deuotion the Popes of Rome haue graunted many pardons and Indulgences In Chron. Annunciat That you may styr vp in your selfe and more and more enkindle in you both a firme trust in the B. Virgin as also feruour in demaunding the gift of the imitation of her vertues it wil be necessary that you often practise these following Exercises and the manner of begging her help ayde CHAP. VI. The practice of begging of our Blessed Lady IN crauing of grace and ayde you must with as great feeling as may be acknowledge your own wāts and the liberall graces and fauour of the Mother of God And first you shall imagayne your selfe to be in a threefold state 1. As one sicke and wounded for so indeed spiritually you are through your sinnes vnbridled passions and inordinate affections so as from head to foot there is no sound part in you 2. As one poore and in extreeme want of all vertues merits and diuine graces 3. As one hungry longing and thirsting after Iustice perfect vnion with God in this life and Glory in the life to come desiring to be healed of your infirmities and relieued in your wants nakednes still looking about you if by chāce you can espy any rich and mercifull person who may bestow an Almes vpō a Soule so miserable so poore so diseased so hūgry as yours Secondly you shall imagine that you heare within you the B. Virgin calling of all mortal men vnto her who want or seeke for help offering them ayde and assistance in these words Blessed is he who watcheth daily at my doores waiteth at the entrance of my gates He that findeth me shall find life and saluation from our Lord. Prou. 8. Then thinke vpon the Motiue which may perswade you with humility confidēce to haue recourse vnto this Lady and Queene As first how that she is replenished with all those graces which you so much need 2. That she is so pure as neuer taynted with the least blemish of Veniall or Originall sinne 3. So holy that she excelleth in all kind of vertue Many daughters haue gathered togeather riches for thēselues but you haue surpassed them all 4. That she is so vnited with God that there is no pure creature eyther in heauen or earth who enioyeth him in greater perfection Lastly cōfider both the meanes the will she hath to do you good For she is called the Queene of Mercy sayth S. Bernard because she can when she will how she wil and to whome she will open the Treasure of diuine Grace in so much as no wicked sinner can perish to whom the Saint of Saintes doth lend a helping hand Serm. 1. in Salue Reg. Thirdly being now stirred vp with these cogitations resolue to approach neere to the B. Virgin like as a poore needly begar And to the end you may the better obteyne what you desire help your selfe with the intercessiō of your Angell Guardian of all the other Angels also of the Patriarchs Prophets Apostles and the rest of the Saintes in Heauen of all whome you must earnestly intreat to begge an Almes for you of her Then present your selfe before that sacred Queene and Lady humbly saluting magnifying her laying open your owne miseries begging redresse with no lesse earnestnes and affection then beggars vse to do whē they cry out for pitty in the streets lastly make a firme purpose to be more feruent in honoring her heerafter and humbly say as followeth I salute you humbly O most sacred Virgin I prayse and glorify you O most Clement most Pure most Holy most Happy Lady most powerfull Queene of Angells most glorious Queene of Patriarches Prophets and Apostles most potēt Queene of Martyrs most wise Queene of Cōfessors most vnspottēd Queene of Virgins most faithfull Queene of