Kingdom of JESVS and accordingly implores her Protection and Prayers LXXXVI To the same purpose speaks in this same devout Age (b) Omnes tibi advolvimur omnes te imploramus erue nos O Intemerata ab omni necessitate à canctis Diaboli tentationibus esto nostra Consiliatrix Advocata in horâ Judicii Libera nos à futuro igne tenebris tui Filii Gloriâ Virgo nos dignare S. Ephr. Lament Virg. ad Cruc We all prostrate our selves before Thee we all implore thy protection free us O thou unspotted Virgin from all want from all the Temptations of Satan be thou our Counsellor and Advocate at the hour of our Judgement preserve us from those future flames and darknesses and grant unto us O Virgin the Glory of thy Son. Vid. Orat. de Laud. Deip. St. Ephrem (c) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 S. Basil Liturg. Sanctifie our Souls and Bodies and grant that we may serve thee in Holiness all the days of our Lives through the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God. St. Basil (d) Vid. n. LXXX b. Where he calls the Mother of JESVS Queen and Lady super-eminent above all the heavenly Spirits then adds 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Naz. Trag. cit preserve us and free us from eternal fire and darkness St. Gregory Nazianzen (e) Vt efficax sit haec mea deprecatio Beata Mariae Virginis suffragia peto quam tanti meriti esse fecisti ut prima intar mulieres Novum munus offerret nulla praeter ipsam tam Novum acciperet S. Ambr. Orat. 2. ante Miss That this my Petition may be acceptable to thee I beg the Prayers of the blessed Virgin Mary whose Merits were so great through Thee that she was the First of Women who offer'd a New Gift and none besides her self receiv'd it St. Ambrose (f) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 S. Epiph. Serm. de Laud. Mar. Mary is superior to all God only excepted for she is the Mediatrice of Heaven and Earth St. Epiphanius (g) Haec est virgo quae sola interimit universam haereticam pravitaetem sola post Deum quae nos confirmet in omni veritate suisque commendet meritis precibus auxilietur Amate quam colitis eolite quam amatis quaecunque virgo tibi ab eâ optat praemium implorat auxilium debet imitari exemplum S. Hier. Ep. 10. ad Paul. Eustoch This is that Virgin who alone hath overthrown all Heretical Impiety she alone next to God is able to confirm us in all truth can recommend us to God through her own Merits and can aid us by her Prayers love Her whom you Worship worship Her whom you love what ever Virgin expects a Reward from Her and craves her Protection she must follow her Example and St. Hierom all eminent Doctors renown'd Saints and unreprovable Witnesses of Catholick Truth and singular Champions of the Prerogatives Veneration and Invocation of holy Mary the Mother of JESVS Sect. XXI Testimonies of the Fifth Age. LXXXVII THE Fifth Age of the Catholick Church supported by its own Grandeur under the Conduct of its Apostolical Pastors and Teachers against the Heresies of Vigilantius Nestorius Eutyches and other Enemies of the Mother of JESVS give us a conspicuous Continuation of the Sacred Chain of the Primitive Doctrine and Practices of Christians towards Her. The Council of Ephesus gives Her the transcendent Title of the Mother of God Ephes c. 13. from which time the Church salutes her with that known Prayer Holy Mary Mother of God pray for my Sinners now and in the hour of our death Coriolan Annot. ad Can. 8. Ephes And thus the Most Illustrious Mother of JESVS (a) Conc. Ephes c. 13. In tali sensu sanctos Patres fuisse comperimus ideoque non dubitârunt sanctam Virginem dicere Theotocon This we find to have been the Tradition of the Holy Fathers who for this cause doubted not to call the Holy Virgin the Mother of God. whose due Praises were envy'd by the treacherous Serpent was honour'd with more magnificent Titles and Addresses (b) Chrysost Liturg. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Accept O Lord this Sacrifice on thy heavenly Altar to the Honour and Memory of our highly blessed and glorious Lady Mother of God and ever Virgin Mary through her Mediation S. Jo. Chrys offers to God the Divine Sacrifice through the Memory and to the Honour of the most blessed and glorious Lady the ever-Virgin Mother of JESVS and begs Gods acceptance thereof through her Mediation Liturg. S. Chrysost And again He attributes the Reparation of Mans Spiritual Life to the Merits of Holy Mary Serm. de Lign vetit (c) Aug. Med. cit Sancta Immaculata Virgo Dei genetrix Maria Mater Domini nostri JESU Christi intervenire pro me digneris apud illum cujus meruisti effici Templum O holy and spotless Virgin Mary Mother of God and of our Lord JESVS Christ vouchsafe to pray for Me to Him whose Temple thou deservedst to be made and Serm. 18. cit O beata Maria admitte nostras preces intra sacrarium Exauditionis tuae reperta nobis Antidotum Reconciliationis O blessed Mary admit our Prayers into the Sanctuary of thy Compassion and obtain an Antidote of Reconciliation for us S. Augustin in like Manner implores the Protection and Prayers of the blessed Virgin under most excellent Attributes of respect Med. c. 40. n. 5. And elsewhere He admires the Priviledges and Miraculous Operations of this Divine Creature in promoting Mans redemption acknowledges his own unworthiness to become her Petitioner and craving to be admitted to the number of her Clients he concludes with that Excellent and well known Anthem Holy Mary succour the distressed aid the timorous comfort the sorrowful pray for the People intercede for the Clergy mediate for all devout Women and grant that whoever honours thy Festivals may experience thy Favours Serm. 18. Sanct. then he calls her the Miracle of Gods power Serm. 34. and the Mediatrice of the World. Serm. 35. LXXXVIII Many other Holy Fathers of this Learned and Pious Age do in like manner dilate themselves in their Panegyricks on the Mysteries of the Holy Virgin and their humble Requests of Her Mediation to God for his super-natural Blessings as appears in the devout Monuments of (d) S. Proel Serm. de Nativit Christ Ecce terra Mare Virginem honorat donisque cumulat Hoc mitia Navigentibus dorsa substernens Illa Viatorum vestigia inoffense dirigens sacra Deipara Maria in unum nos coegit Behold how the Land and Sea pays Homage to the Virgin and heaps up their Offerings unto Her The Sea becomes smooth to our Ships and our Travellers find safe passage by Land Holy Mary the Mother of God this day calls us together St. Proclus of Constantinople (e) Cyril hom 6. contr Nestor Salve Sancta Deipara preciosus orbis totius Thesaurus inextinguibilis
Ripar Athan. l. Virg. fin Leont Dial. in Nic. 2. act 4. Dam. l. 3. c. 16. Sect. IX That the Worship of the Saints being Religious the Doctrine and Practice thereof in a Super-eminent degree in the Contemplations asserted to the Mother of JESUS is Pious and Just XXXV FRom these premises That the Worship of the Saints as such by Participation of Grace and Glory Imitation of Gods glorious State and Transfiguration into a Divine Being by reason of their beatifical Union is properly though not principally Religious It followeth evidently That the Praises Titles of Honour outward Signs of Worship and Forms of Prayer us'd by Catholicks according to the Rules of Church-Authority in their Saint-Servitude are Pious and Just Acts becoming and oblidging a Christian Not by reason of any Portion of the Deity or Divine Attributes inherent in the Saints as Pagans fancied in their Heroes they therefore worshipped as Gods but in Right of their super-natural Endowments of Grace and Glory whereby they incomparably transcend the whole Sphere of Civil Worship especially as they have under that consideration a special reference to Gods Majesty and Holiness which they thereby partake imitate and involve and this according to the true degree of each ones acceptableness to God in that their glorious State. XXXVI For in the first place the formal Motive of those several Actions imports an objective Honesty practically inclining a Christian to their use according to the Dictates of Reason and Faith which mov'd the Royal Prophet to cry out Psal 83.1 How amiable are thy Tabernacles of Virtues O God And when again Psal 138.16 speaking to God he sayes That his favourites are exceedingly honored and their Majesty confirmed The End also of the devout Christian Worshippers is not only an emulous Imitation of their Virtues for the advancement of their own Piety but moreover an Accumulation of Gods own Glory extended to and abiding in the Saints and therefore not only the Holy and glorious State of those Blessed Creatures but even our Esteem Love and Veneration of Them doth render Gods Glory more Magnificent and Illustrious And again these Actions are a just Debt all owing to those glorious Creatures by reason of their super-natural and Unifying State of consummated Happiness as acknowledgments of the Majesty and Glory they actually possess through Gods Bounty above the rank of the best of Mortals XXXVII All these Boundaries of a Christians Saint-Servitude to the glorified Spirits are exactly observ'd in all the Praises honourable Titles Expressions of Veneration and Methods of Prayer us'd in the Contemplations on the Life and Glory of the Holy Mother of JESVS therefore they are Religious Pious and Just Nothing in the whole is given to Her which is either due to God only or which derogates from the infiniteness and independence of his Majesty Wisdom Love Power or Glory Nothing which is above either her Capacity as a glorious Creature or her super-eminent Priviledges as the Mother of JESVS or our Duty as we yet are banish'd Mortals and exceedingly oblidg'd to Her for that part she perform'd by her acceptableness to God and her consent and co-operation with the Holy Ghost in the Mysteries of the Conception Birth and Life of JESVS Wherein she seems preferrable above the highest Quires of Angels however glorious Coadjutors they be in the Ministery of the Elect so Religious Vertuous and Just are those Homages we pay to the Sacred Virgin above the troops of other glorified Creatures and therefore at all times have been perform'd with stupendious Advantages to the Devotes of Holy Mary Nor may we deny That the Practice of Christians is the true Interpreter of Divine Revelations and the most Faithful Conserver and Conveyancer of Christian Duties according to their Original Intent and purpose according to that so renowned saying of St. Basil What we learn'd from our Holy Fathers we teach our Disciples whence the great Vincent Lyrin l. contr profan Nov. who ever departs from the Communion of their Doctrine let thom hearken to the Voice of the Apostle we worship a God of Peace and not of Dissention 1 Cor. 14.33 Sect. X. That a Super-eminent Veneration is due to the Holy Mother of JESUS XXXVIII NOW as to the Degree of Honour due to and Confidence in the Protection and Mediation of Intercession of the Sacred Virgin and glorious Saints we must observe That as the personal participated super-natural Perfections of the Saints whereby they are Images of Gods Divine Life and transfigur'd into God by beatifical Vision and Fruition is the Motive of our Praises and our other acts of Saint-Servitude So the Disparity of those Perfections is the exact Rule and Measure of their dis-proportion For in all Moral Actions their Motive specifies them and measures their Perfection So that as the Majesty and Attributes of God being Infinite and Independent require such acts of Worship as are naturally in themselves or by the direction of our Judgment and Intention apt to express a Worship suitable to that Divine Grandeur So also the Excellency of glorious Saints being finite only and infinitely beneath that of God whereof they are only limited Idea's admit of such Actions only as are expressive of a respect to their limited Greatness according to the proportion of Divine Gifts wherewith God hath endow'd them Wherefore however Magnificent our Praises of the Saints be however Illustrious our Titles of Honour whatever outward signs we show of inward Worship of those super-naturaliz'd Spirits they may not transcend the exact Measure and proportion allowable to glorious Pure Creatures They must not be such Actions as by the Consent of All are Latreutical and specially appropriated to signifie and protest Gods Majesty Perfections and Soveraignty So neither may our Prayers to them exceed a confidence in their Protection and Intercession though assured enough as relying on Gods free Promise of relief for their sake supported by his own Truth and Fidelity as far as may be useful to us XXXIX Since then Holy Mary the Mother of JESVS by the Consent of All Church-Authority and of all Christians who duly apprehend the Prerogative of her Divine Maternity in its self and all its previous concomitant and consequent Perfections doth incomparably surpass all the Quires of Angels and Saints in the amplitude and stupendious Effects of Gods Love whereby she is the most Excellent Image holiest Sanctuary and choicest Favourite amongst all Pure Creatures we may rationally conclude That the highest Praises most Illustrious Titles of honour most excellent Acts of Religious Worship and the Expressions of strongest Confidence in her protection and Intercession which may be conceiv'd possibly due to a PVRE CREATVRE dearest to God may be addressed to the glorious Mother of JESVS above whatever can be claim'd by all the Saints and Angels next beneath what 's due to JESVS the Son of God. And all this without any strain of Imagination Figure of Rhetorick or Vsurpation on Gods unaccessible Prerogatives For
Soul and is a most powerful Advocate for Sinners at the Tribunal of his Mercy Cant. 4. 12. 13 Bern. Epist 174. Aug. Serm. 11. Nativ Dom. Anselm Libr. Conc. Virg. c. 18. Damian Serm. Assumpt Ildef l. de M. Virg. Ambr. l. 2. Virg. Aug. Medit. c. 40. n. 5. The efficacy of her Merits soaring above the Quires of the flaming Seraphims and approaching the Throne of the Eternal Trinity Greg. in 1. Reg. 1. XLIV Thirdly These two most Excellent Prerogatives of Holy Mary Her Divine Maternity and her super-seraphical Innocency lead us to the consideration of the stupendious Treasure of Super-natural Gifts of Original Justice Sanctifying Grace and of the whole Train of Moral and Theological Virtues transfus'd through Her Illustrious Soul with that fullness intensively as to its own Perfection in its self and extensively as to all its Operations of Holiness in this World and blessedness in the state of Glory That therein she incomparably surpasseth the Holiest and Happiest of all the Glorifi'd Saints and Angels as far as is possible for the most perfect amongst Pure Creatures Cant. 4.8 All which seems con-naturally to follow from the eternally pre-design'd priviledge of her being over-shadow'd impregnated and enrich'd by the Virtue of the Holy Ghost of her Conceiving the Holy of Holies Gods Consubstantial Word within her Chaste Bowels of her bringing forth into this World that stupendious Light of the Divinity inclosed in our Nature prepar'd for the Glory of Israel and the enlightning all Nations to Truth and Grace Luc. 2.32 Jo. 1.17 Sect. XII That these Three most Excellent Priviledges of Holy Mary do challenge a Super-eminent Servitude from us as they are Her Super-natural Perfections XLV THE Practice of the Saints and the Authority of Divine Oracles are most un-resistable Rules of our Christian Faith and Duty not only as to all radical Truths and Precepts but also as to the con-natural consequences of both so that if Majesty Innocency and Goodness be aimable and honorable they exact a most passionate Love a most profound Veneration where they are in their highest Meridian possible to a Pure Creature such they are in Holy Mary such likewise should our Love and Reverence be towards Her as a Just Homage due to her for these Her charming Grandeurs To train Christians up to these sublime Acts the Holy Ghost hath set us a most exact Copy when he proclaims Her blessed above All and to be blessed by All Luc. 1.41.48 49. Blessed above All because she shall crush the Serpents head as the Mother of JESVS shall be free from all sin by Gods preserving Decrees and shall be full of Grace for the dignifying the Temple of JESVS and for these her Excellencies All shall bless Her by celebrating her Praises by giving Her magnificent Titles by venerating this Her Majesty Purity and Holiness and by imploring Her Protection and Prayers Now and in the Hour of our Death by whom we have aceess to JESVS says S. Bern. Serm. ult de Assumpt and for the confirming us in this Belief and Duty The Holy Church in her sacred Councils pronounces an eternal Curse against all those who confess not Holy Mary to be the most excellent above all Visible and Invisible Creatures Synod 2. act 5. XLVI In pursuance of this great design of the Holy Ghost That all Generations should confess the Grandeurs and bless the Name and Power of the Mother of JESVS The venerable Pastors of the Church Holy Fathers and great Masters of our Christian Schools and Pulpits have through all Ages studiously pen'd lofty Panegyricks full of her Praises with the most Illustrious Titles of Honour possibly to be given to the most Excellent of Pure Creatures asserting Her fullness of super-natural Gifts the swiftness and clearness of her Intellectual Operations with those Gifts her undoubted Right to all those sensible Marks of internal Worship possibly due to their Chief in the most exquisite Prerogatives of Nature Grace and Glory and her surpassing Acceptableness to her Son JESVS for the effectual obtaining of whatever Favours fit for us to beg and God to grant through the Mediation of the Best amongst Pure Creatures Hence these burning and shining Lights of the Catholick World frequently entitle this Divine Creature The Miracle of the World Ark of the living God Abyss of Grace and Glory the Immense Treasury of Holiness stupendious Master-piece of Gods Omnipotency transcending the whole Sphere of the Elect in the Gifts of Grace and Fruits of Meritorious Actions And thus acknowleding her Right to the Worship of Hyperdulia or Super-eminent Saint-Servitude they stile Her our Advocate and Mediatrice and do with a most enflam'd Affection beg her Protection and Intercession Chrysost Orat. in Hypapant Epiph. Serm. de Laud. Deipar Damasc Orat. 2. Assumpt Anselm l. Excel Virg. c. 8. Greg. in 1. Reg. 1. Ephrem Serm. Laud. Virg. Gregor Neocaes hom Annunc Ambr. in 2. Luc. Chrysol Serm. 143. D. Th. p. 3. q. 25. Bern. Serm. Nativ Mar. sup Signum magnum Innocent 3. Serm. 2. Assumpt Mar. Bern. Serm. 2. Adv. Ephrem Orat. ad B. Virg. XLVII Upon the Authority of these Illuminated Oracles of the Church some Catholick Doctors of an eminent Rank do piously conclude That the Gift of Sanctifying Grace infus'd into the Immaculate Soul of Holy Mary in the first positive Instant of her passive Conception was more intense than the Beatifical Grace of the holiest and happiest of all other Pure Creatures But if the first Beams of her Grace were of that prodigious Beauty and Lustre how much greater were they at the last Moment of her Holy Life Since her whole Life was intensely apply'd in actuating her Illustrious and Flaming Soul with Divine Affections and Ravishments of Love to a most sublime Degree of Acceptableness to God and addition of new Lights of Grace and streams of Merits even to the comprehending of all those Graces which through all the Moments of time have been and shall be dispers'd amongst Pure Creatures And farther since all Divines agree that the Glory of the Holy Mother of JESVS is proportion'd to her State of accomplish'd Grace as a bountiful Gift and just Reward of a holy Life is suitable to the Merits and Right thereof therefore is she before the universal Resurrection of All to each ones Happiness deservingly Assum'd to Glory and exalted above all the Choires of Saints and Angels to a super-excellent Fullness of the Vision and Fruition of God in his full Splendor communicable to Pure Creatures and to most copious Dowries of Clarity Agility Subtility and Impassibility which irradiated from the glorious Lamp of her flaming Spirit through her Immaculate Body compleats her Intensive and Extensive Happiness above All only beneath JESVS XLVIII These three Excellencies the Maternity Innocency and Sanctity of Holy Mary thus Illustrated by the Holy Ghost and the Authority of the great Lights of the Christian World consider'd precisely as Perfections inherent in Her and raising her
Soul to a most sublime Degree of Majesty and Holiness through Gods over-flowing Bounty We may justly conclude First That the holy Mother of JESVS is worthy of the most super-lative Praises which the Tongue Pen or Spirit of Man or Angel can express or conceive In Emulation whereof the Holy Catholick Church doth at special times set forth Her Majesty Glory and Magnificence in her sacred Liturgies Offices and Litanies even all Generations of Believers have ever conspir'd by a secret but most wonderful Instinct with a constant Zeal and Fervour to proclaim Holy Mary Blessed above all Pure Creatures Secondly That the Sacred Virgin hath an undisputable Right to the most Illustrious and most Magnificent Titles of Majesty and Honour which may be possibly conceiv'd due to Any of whatever Stile Rank or Dignity amongst pure Creatures and this with a most lofty pre-eminence above all the glorious Trains and Pomps of Men and Angels in their richest and most beautiful Stations of Glory Thus is she by the Holy Catholick Church in her Hymns Anthems and Canticks of Honour and by the holy Fathers and Doctors in their Panegyricks Entitled Lady Queen and Empress of Men Angels Heavens and of the whole World Mother of Mercy and beautiful Love The Hope Trust and Safeguard of Mortals amidst the tempestuous Seas and Hurricans of their foaming Concupiscences The Palace of the Eternal Light and most magnificent Gate of Heaven and Glory Thirdly That Holy Mary is more Worshipful than the loftiest and most Illustrious created Potentates of Earth or Heaven in the highest Altitudes of their Majesty Power and Pomps and this by most Cordial Acts of Internal Esteem Love and Submission and by the most expressive sensible Marks of this inward Reverence which may most fitly testifie a real and sincere acknowledgment of her super-eminent Grandeur above all Pure Creatures in Right of the most incomparable Priviledges of her Maternity Innocency and Holiness Whence St. Anselm well acquainted with the Doctrine Practice and Stile of the Catholick Church resolutely affirms That the whole Body of Christianity is agreed That the Holy Mother of Jesus is exalted in Glory above all the Choires of Angels 1. Excel Virg. c. 4. Therefore if any Worship be due to Creatures our Saviours Rule directs us to the true Meridian when he tells us That the least and lowest of the glorious Courtiers of his Kingdom are incomparably more Glorious than the brightest Majesty that ever shin'd amongst Mortals Matt. 11.11 All allow a civil Worship even to the empty Thrones of earthly Kings and Princes and shall the adoptive Children of JESVS refuse a Sacred Worship to his own Throne full of Majesty Innocence Grace and Glory Sect. XIII That the same Excellencies of Holy Mary as most sublime Images of the Divine Attributes confirm Her Right of Super-eminent Servitude XLIX BUT if these super-natural Endowments of the holy Mother of JESVS be consider'd not precisely as Absolute Perfections intrinsically adorning and beautifying Her Soul and rendring Her Illustrious Holy and Glorious above all Pure Creatures but moreover as they are Relative Excellencies refining the Souls Natural Image of God into a Divine by an Imitation of the Infinite Rays of his Majesty Holiness and Glory communicated ineffably by the Signet of Beatifical Grace together with a stupendious Representation of the Divine Production and Glorious Operations in the Order of Grace and Glory whereby she is dignify'd with the Capacity of a Religious Worship in a most sublime manner transcending the precise Terms of Civil and Sacred Thus the Divine Mother of JESVS being the highest Signet of the Divine Similitude amongst all Pure Creatures by her surpassing fulness of Grace and splendours of Glory hath an unquestionable Right to our most profound Respects Homage and Veneration even under the notion of a Religious Obligation and Duty L. And first by amplifying the Theames of her Praises according to the several Forms approv'd by the Authority of the Church and recommended to our use by the Practice of her pious and prudent Devotes who know how to distinguish betwixt God and the Holiest of his created and Glorious Images Secondly by elevating her Dignity and Perfections with most Illustrious Titles of Honour suiting to the Excellency of this Chief of all the Glorious Images of the Divinity amongst all Pure Creatures Thirdly by acknowledging our vast distance beneath her by reason of that transcendent Image of Gods Majesty Attributes Productions and Operations wherewith she is dignifi'd by her special Prerogative of Beatifical Grace above all Pure Creatures though still infinitely inferiour to the infinite and independent Majesty and Perfections of the Deity the absolutely Immense Abyss Original Cause and unparallel'd Exemplar of Hers and of all others participated finite and dependent Perfections of whatever Stile Lustre or Magnitude even in the most sacred and transcendent Order of Innocency Grace and Glory LI. Fourthly Upon the same Motive of Dei-forme Grandeurs of holy Mary the Mother of JESVS she is Religiously address'd unto by Her pious Devotes struggling against sinful Concupiscences in this their Earthly Exile with an humble Confidence in her Acceptableness to God as a chief Favorite in his Courts of Requests a powerful Mediatrice at the Bar of his Justice and a most efficacious Advocate in all our Claims at the Throne of Gods Mercy for protection against the Powers of Darkness and Communion with the Children of Light. For by virtue of her transcendent supernatural Perfections whereon the clearness of this participated Image of the Majesty and Perfections of the Deity is grounded she more intimately receives the Irradiations not only of the Beauty of God and the delights of his Glory but also of his Knowledge Will and Power as to the Merits of Christ the efficacy of Sacraments the Operations of interiour Grace and Communion of the Saints especially as to all the Concerns of Gods Servants relating to their blessed State. For all Divines agree in this priviledge of the glorious Saints Conc. Senonens Decret fid 13. Greg. l. 2. Mor. c. 2. Aug. l. 20. civ c. 21. 22. c. 29. Anselm l. Similitud c. 57. Greg. l. 2. Dial. c. 35. D. Th. 2. 2. q. 180. art 5. ad 3. Bon. Soliloq c. 4. Smising tr 1. â—â—6 n. 220. Less l. 2. Sum. Bon. c. 9. which therefore must be allow'd super-eminently to the Queen of Saints as to her perfect knowledge of all the Petitions of Her Devotes And Gods marvelous Bounty to Her abundantly convincing us of her wonderful Acceptableness to God for the confirming this our Confidence of succeeding in those Prayers we offer by Her through Gods gracious condescendence to our Requests accordingly made for us LII Wherein we are further confirm'd from Gods Sacred Promises graciously to harken to the Prayers of the Saints and actually granting many Favours to their Clients upon their account Gen. 26.5 Exod. 32.13.3 Reg. 11.12 4. Reg. 19.34 Isaiae 37.35 Eccl. 44.24 Apoc. 5.8 But we