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A02894	The mirrour of humilitie: or Two eloquent and acute discourses vpon the natiuitie and passion of Christ full of diuine and excellent meditations and sentences. Published first in Latine by the worthy author Daniel Heinsius, and since done into English, by I.H. Master of Arts in Mag. Coll. Oxon.	Heinsius, Daniel, 1580-1655.; Harmar, John, 1594?-1670.	1618 (1618)	STC 13039; ESTC S115181	32,739	106

many predictions of the Prophets and in them had read the storie of her selfe and knew it not Shee seeth many Prophesies fulfilled many promises performed many types and prefigurations accomplished Shee seeth a light and yet not borrowed from the rayes eyther of the Sunne or Moone She seeth a night whose serenity surpasseth the brightnesse of the clearest day Sometimes shee being as it were ouerioyed in her happinesse her eyes distil a sweete shower of cristall teares into her yuorie bosome Sometimes when shee thinks that shee is become a mother then a modest shame a probable argument of virginity and the tincture of vertue setteth in her snowy cheekes a pure vermilion Sometimes with a chaste and composed aspect shee beholdeth her Sonne and Gods and yet being solicitous for ●er Virginity shee putteth on the most tender affection of a mother which notwithstanding is frequently ●nterrupted with the conceit that shee ●● still a Virgin Now shee beginneth ●o nourish her Sonne and to bring him ●p whom she had now brought foorth ●●staining him by miraculous milke ●used in her not by the help of man ●ut produced by the efficaeie of the ●pirit of God The great Founder ●●d Architect of Heauen and Earth now resteth himselfe vpon the necke of his mother and Spouse and hee himselfe that feedeth all things deriueth nutriment from her sugred paps Sometimes our Sauiour with a pleasing countenance beholdeth his virgin mother and seemeth to know her Shee againe reflecteth a reciprocall Smile vpon him and confesseth that shee is his mother indeed and she parteth her loue which she imparteth to no man else between her Sonne her Uirginitie constantly acknowledging the one and still retayning the other Depart yee from this holy and blessed Spectacle yee vnchaste ones whatsoner yee are eyther actually or patronesses of lewdnesse You I say that parget and sophisticate your faces you that are so nice and curious in your gates you that with your itching and bewitching fascinating glances discouer the wantonnesse of your minds and lightnesse of your liues you that so adorne your heades with borrowed hayre and your neckes with laces and doe laye open your milke-white paps as most powerfull allectiues to attract the beholders eye and to intrappe the Spectators affection giuing him by this light taste of one or two partes hope to enioy the whole body You that by your sugered kisses and amorous embraces set your bodies in combustion you that by your wanton and venereous thoughts deflower your selues before you are linked to your husbands you I say depart from the blessed societie of our Sauiour For what else doe yee but that yee may bee espoused vnto the Diuell who as hee first cheated your grandmother Eue of her blessed estate so he continually attempteth by the like serpentine imposture to dispoyle you of your puritie and integrity For his sake and by his inducement do yee dispose the tresses of your haire burnish your faces consult your looking glasses And thus you giue way vnto the Serpent to creepe through the crannies of your eyes into the secrete angles and corners of your hearts If yee looke vpon the holy Virgin you shall finde that shee neuer fixed her thoughts vpō any thing but on God and so first giuing him a place in her heart afterwards shee most happily entertained him in her wombe Her soule was as it were diuulsed and separated from her body by an intentiue and serious contemplation of her Creator and the surrendering herselfe vnto him alone was no lesse wrapt in the bond and tyes of affection towards him then she was rapt in admiration of his loue towards her This is that that quencheth and extinguisheth all the flames of lust and exorbitant loue This was that that so rauished and extased the blessed Marie This was that sacred fire that so sacrificed her hart vnto her GOD. This was that that made her like a true and passionate Loue neuer to turne her eyes frō her Sauiour whom shee totally and entirely affected For indeed that soule which is illuminated by the reuiuing rayes of the Spirit is vniuocally made al eye all light all lustre all spirit no otherwise then combustible matter being set vnto ●he fire is turned into the nature of ●ire So Elias in times past after hee had often fasted and had giuen the fire of zeale residence on the golden altar of his heart was not long after rapt vp into heauen in a fiery Chariot Thus is the operation of the Spirit as well attractiue of what resembles it as productiue of that it would haue resemble it The Spirit is vnitiue and combining it makes ●s agree together and in it For as they that are married are sayde to bee one flesh so they that are linked vnto Christ are as truly sayd to be one in spirit And indeed the vnion of spirits is more neere and strict then the coherence and copulation of bodies Great reference had Christ vnto Mary in respect of his body but shee had more alliance vnto him in respect of the Soule and Spirit Come now yee chaste Matrons and pure virgins which hitherto haue scarce defiled your selues so much as in thought come I say according vnto the custome of women and visite this blessed Virgin-mother deliuered of so happy an issue Heere is nothing about her vnclean or menstruous nothing vnworthy your presence nothing that may not become a Virgine For this blessed Infant was not begotten in lust but in entire chastitie Not by the will of the flesh but of the Spirit Come therefore I say yee chaste maidens and matrons embrace this babe your Sauiour with the armes of zeale apprehend him with the hand of Faith Deuote your whole liues vnto his seruice and endeauour not so much how you may be fruitful in bodye as faithfull in soule Come draw neere cast your eyes vpon this blessed maide and mother of Christ in whom wee see childe-birth not to haue impayred her virginitie nor her virginitie to haue hindred her childe-birth O blessed virgin O happy Marie Embleme of virginitie patterne of Modestie For howsoeuer thou aboue all other women art crowned with honour and dignitie in that thou art a mother vnto thy Lord as thou art his handmaide yet such is thy pietie and humilitie that thou waxest not proud or insolent hereby Many were those gracious thoughts that she continually entertained many were those patheticall eiaculations which she sent vp vnto heauen Happy was Ioseph that had so gracious a woman espoused vnto him as Marie and yet more happy was hee in that the protection and tuition of his blessed Sauiour was deputed vnto him I doubt not but that hee was sorry that hee had no fit roome to receiue him that the place wherein they soiourned was so meane so vngarnisht so vnfurnisht so vnprouided both of meate and vtensiles How carefully did he ponder euery circumstance How cheerefully did hee acknowledge that onely faith must beleeue what onely God doth effect Now beloued

speake as inarticulately as man in his childhood and infancy Let no man therefore take on or thinke himselfe disgraced in that hee is not furnisht with the abilities of nature or not garnisht with the rules and precepts of art seeing that God that hee might disappoint those that were well seene in the points of learning made choyce to disclose himselfe vnto those that were but meane and simple It shall therefore bee best for vs not to soare too high into the mysteries of God lest at last we flag and flye low with a broken pinion Let vs beloued rather settle and rest our selues in a sober and safe ignorance which will not onely not preiudice vs but also bee much auaileable to procure our saluation Farther then this neuer aspired any of the learnedst Diuines that euer were The end of the first Homilie VPON THE PASSION OF CHRIST HOM. II. REuerend right worthy Auditors Wee solemnize a day whereunto neuer any former lge behelde the aike neuer any future time shall second it A day whereon the eternal Sonne of God hauing formerly assumed our nature that hee might thereby restore it vnto its prime and first state and as it were reimpatriate vs and inuest vs with the glory of a better Kingdome was not without the horrour and amazement both of heauen and earth most barbarously slaine and put to death by those for whose sake he came into the world by those to whom hee had often sent his Legates and Ambassadours by those whose saluation he had resolued to purchase by the effusion of his most precious bloud Such is the weight and grauity of this theame and argument which by my future discourse I determine to pursue that it may easily inaudience the Hearer and procure in him ready and fauourable attention a thing that Oratours vsually entreate in the Proeme of their Orations And therfore for my part I will not bee so prodigal of my breath or vnnecessary paines as to importune you to heare me for I am well assured that you expect not the enchanting flourishes or sugred blandishments of Rhetoricke being solely contented to entertaine a bare Discourse vpon the Passion of our Sauiour the remembrance of whom wil rather resolue vs into a stream of tears thē any way giue vs occasiō to wish for the fluent and harmonious straines of wit and eloquence For if wee duly consider all those tragicall Scenes and dolefull passages of his life euen from his cratch vnto his crosse wee shall finde them to haue beene nothing else but a Mappe of miserie or a sea of calamitie For hee was no sooner borne but hee endured the sharpenesse of a bloudy circumcision he was no sooner circumcised but by and by he was designed to the slaughter hee had no sooner published his heauenly doctrine but forth with hee was accused of sedition impiety blasphemie fury and not onely so but hee was tearmed euen a Diuell and that of those whome aboue all the Nations of the world hee had vouchsafed to stile his peculiar people Thus whither soeuer I cast mine eyes I can behold nothing but misery and reproches and pouerty and hunger and thirst and weakenesse wearinesse so that it seemeth that our blessed Sauiour vpon his Crosse made vp the full measure of that griefe and anguish with which hee laboured was perplexed all his life long then to haue sucked out euen the very dregges of that bitter cuppe which hee had but formerly tasted Insomuch that when wee meditate vpon those many troubles and torments with which he was voluntarily afflicted to the end that hee might pacifie his Fathers wrath and satisfie his Fathers iustice we may well imagine and bee ascertained that he alone is the absolute embleme patterne of patience and perseuerance The strict Stoickes that so pleased themselues in their obdurate indolency came very short of him Whom that yee may the more admire and wonder at I will endeauour with the pensill of a large and ample discourse the matter and substance whereof shall be borrowed from the Penmen and Actuaries of the holy Spirit to Limme out and Delineate him vnto you After that our Sauiour had sent vp many frequent and feruent eiaculations vnto God the Father in the behalfe of his deare distressed Church for whose sake no lesse willingly then valiantly he endured the weight of so many grieuous afflictions by and by after hauing retired himselfe into a shady priuate garden hee was most impetuously affronted by Iudas and a barbarous troupe of Souldiers And that nothing might seeme to bee done rashly or accidentally euen this very assault was prophesied by Zacharie Chapter 13. ver 7. Smite the Shepheard and the sheepe shall bee scattered And thus he being surprised by so violent a gust of furie was notwithstanding left alone by his Disciples and forsaken by all his familiars and acquaintance forsaken euen by those vnto whom not long before he had imparted the true Manna of his body and refresheth their languishing spirits with a cordiall of his most precious bloud Hee that had beene alwayes reputed his constant friend follower most basely prized him at thirty pence and as if he had beene a vile and infamous malefactour by a false and Syren-kisse deliuered him into the hands of his cruell and malignant enemies O grosse impudency O hainous impietie Now may yee behold him ledde away captiue his armes and hands being fast bound manacled Now may yee see his beloued gracious Iohn who had often leaned vpon his heauenly besome who had often learned from his sacred lippes many transcendent mysteries and oracles of wisdome and had formerly best vnderstood that the Word was in the beginning and that the Word was made flesh him I say may yee see lamentably deiected and ouerflowne with the waues of sorrow and pensiuenesse Now may yee see the blessed Saint Peter whose soule was as it were the mint of Heroicall and holy resolutions follow and pace aloofe off being much appaled and affrighted at the view of so doleful a spectacle As for the rest of our Sauiour his dependences those I meane whom he had eyther peculiarly instructed or any way releeued eyther by restoring of their sight or by staying the fluxe of a bloudy and menstruous issue or by reuniting and as it were cementing the crazed members of those that had beene possessed with a shiuering palsie All those I say whereof the multitude was almost infinite basely hide their heads and withdraw themselues cleane away Thus was our blessed Sauiour forsaken by those that should haue rescued and supported him Thus was hee exposed to so many perils and hazards By and by after hee that by the eternall decree of his Father was to become the vniuersal Iudge of quick and dead was conuented before the pettie punie Iudges of the earth being posted from Annas to Caiphas from Caiphas to Pilate from Pilate to Herod from Herod to Pilate againe O turbulent tumultuous

subiect vnto Passion But Oh more blessed and happie day was that whereon our Flesh being ioyned to the Deitie so died in Christ as that wee not suffering death were notwithstanding restored vnto life For as CHRIST tooke vpon him our nature in the wombe so hee vndertooke our death vpon the Crosse For whatsoeuer he suffered as man he suffered for man from whom he can be no more separated or divulsed then from his Deitie with which he ioyned our humanitie that he might saue and secure it from the hazzard of eternall death and damnation c. Oh infinite loue Oh incomprehensible mercie Oh blessed happie day wherein the head of the Serpent was brokē the Leuiathan wounded the vast Behemoth ouerturned the powers of Hell subdued the Graue conquered the sting of Death rebated Oh blessed and happie day wherein the force and guilt of Sinne was taken out of the world and the sinner taken vp into heauen O blessed and happy day wherein by our Sauiours passion the gates of heauen were opened wherein it so came to passe that wee that were once exiled and banished from the celestiall Paradise may now againe bee freely therein instated and reimpatriated Now there is no Cherubim to hinder vs no flaming sword to affright vs. Now may wee all bee easily admitted and bee made free denizens of that heauenly Ierusalem O let not our impenitent insolencie and insolent impenitency bee the cause of our exclusion Let vs consider that the incredulous and proud Pharises that challenged vnto themselues so much purity and piety were the first that were reiected their Synagogue neglected and euen theeues malefactors preferred before them And this was that that so discouraged the Diuell when hee saw those that had beene his slaues and vassals to bee rescued and absolued from death by one that was condemned to death when hee saw that Christ was more powerfull in his death then euer any Emperour was in his rule and soueraignety when he saw not from stones but from the gallowes euen from hell it selfe children raysed vp vnto Abraham When hee saw the Sonne of God after his buffets and his bonds last of all euen in his death to erect the glorious building and edifice of his Church when hee saw that blessed inheritance of Christ being but a little part and moytie of Mankind still to flourish as the Palme-tree vnder the burden and weight of its afflictions when hee saw the Church of Christ which was created by his power now redeemed by his bloud vnited by his Apostles instructed by his Prophets comforted by his Euangelists and freede from that heauy yoake of ceremonies with which it had beene long oppressed When hee saw it howsoeuer diuided in body yet combined in spirit Hauing nothing and yet possessing all things in Christ which is all in all In whose passion it gloryed whose patience it imitated Which Church of his although it seeme to wither by the heate of persecution yet doth it still grow waxe greene by the dew of grace and sappe of consolation True it is that the Saints on earth are frequently perplexed with variety of exquisite torments and yet these are not of force validity to diuert their zealous and constant resolutions to separate them from their grand-Captaine Christ Iesus whom they follow not as beeing confirmed in their purposes by the irrefragable peruersenesse of the Stoickes nor as beeing induced thereunto by the Sophistrie of Logicke or by the inchantments of Rhetoricke but as it were beeing bound by oath and deepely engaged vnto their Sauiour by whose bloud they are refreshed by whose flesh they are nourished by whose Spirit they are reuiued by whose promises they are inuited by whose precepts they are directed The chiefest scope they ayme at is that they may bee one with Christ as Christ is one with God For thou sweet Sauiour art our head and wee thy members Thou our shepheard and wee thy sheepe thou the Vine and we thy branches By thy death wee liue by thy life are we raysed from death And although wee are here sorted and mixed with the world yet our cogitations and our conuersations are in heauen whither our Sauiour is gone before Oh that wee could follow him that wee could waft our selues vnto that Hauen of ioy vnto that secure rode of felicity But seeing that as yet wee cannot follow thee sweet Iesu with our bodies yet wee pursue thee with our desires with our sighes with our affections with our teares In this interim whiles wee heere suruiuing seriously ponder those trāscendent afflictions of thine which for our sakes and yet not for our deserts thou sufferedst vpon thy Crosse whiles we meditate vpon those griefes and torments which were as propassions vnto thy passion how are we rapt into admiration of thy loue Then doe wee abandon all our fruitlesse and friuolous cogitations then doe wee discard all our ambitious Babel building thoughts then do wee disclaime the insolent selfe-conceites of our owne abilities then doe wee deepely lament our supine and stupid negligence then doe we grieue that wee haue beene so prodigall of our precious houres and that we haue not embarqued our selues in those actions which most of all procure our safety and indemnity Then are our eyes become fountaines of teares then cry wee out and say O Lord thou hast ascended on high thou hast ledde captiuity captiue Then crie wee out O Lord what is man that thou art so mindefull of him or the Sonne of man that thou so regardest him Oh good IESU what is man that thou so regardest him Thou hast cloathed mee with skinne and flesh and hast fenced mee with bones and sinewes sayth Iob Chapter 10 11. Remember I beseech thee that thou hast made me as the clay and wilt bring mee into the dust Hast thou not powred mee out as milke and crudled mee as cheese Chapter 10. ver 9. and 10. Am I not to bee consumed as a rotten thing and as a garment that is moth-eaten How then can it be that I being of so abiect and corruptible a constitution should bee saued from death by the death of the Lord of life O strange and admirable loue as farre beyond comprehension as end and measure I haue sinned thou sweet Iesu hast suffered nay and I haue also suffered in thee which sufferedst for me Thus by thee am I lyable neither to death nor punishment My nature which I had corrupted thou hast refined that that happinesse might re-accrew vnto mee which I had lost by the fall of my first parents What now therefore shall I say How shall I sufficiently eyther admire thy power or prayse thy goodnesse Thou that art infinite thou that art neyther confined to time or place thou that art subiect neyther to death or passion didst out of thy most entire and intensiue loue vnto vs cloathe thy selfe with our fraile flesh incident to both Which flesh of ours maugre the Diuels malice and malignity thou hast highlie exalted it and placed it aboue the Angels the Archangels aboue all the glorious Hierarchies of Heauen euen at the right hand of thy Father where is the fulnesse of ioy and pleasures for euer more But before thou couldst ascend vnto that verticall point and Meridian of thy glorie with what massie loades of calamities wert thou oppressed What Hunger what Thirst what Nakednes what Iniuryes what Reuilings what Spittings what Stripes what Wounds what contumelyes what disgraces what Death and Crucifying didst thou most mildely and patiently endure for vs And therfore Oh sweete IESU giue vs grace that as thou dyedst for vs so wee may liue heere to thee and hereafter with thee Graunt wee beseech thee that thy Passion may be our perpetuall Meditation Oh let vs alwayes reflect our Eyes vpon thee and let thy sufferings take a deepe impression both in our Memories and in our affections And graunt Oh sweete Sauiour that wee may put not the bodily finger with Thomas but euen the finger of Faith into thy side and into thy wounds and with the hand of Faith apprehend thy merites Graunt that we may crucifie all the inordinate Lusts of the Flesh all our wanton and Lasciuious cogitations and that wee may be like thee in sufferings that we may be like thee in glorie That wee whom thou hast reconciled vnto thy FATHER we whom thou feedest with thy Flesh we whom thou refreshest with thy Bloud wee whome thou perpetually reuiuest by the celestiall influence of thy grace may hereafter bee one with thee as thou art one with the Father To whome with thee and the Holy Spirite bee ascribed and rendered all power might maiesty dominion and prayse both now and for euermore AMEN Gratias tibi Domine IESV FINIS LONDON Imprinted by Bernard Alsop and are to bee solde at his house by Saint Annes Church neere Aldersgate 1618. Gen. 1. 4. Gen. 27. 23. Ioh. 1. Iohn 1. 13. Cant. 3. 4. Cant. 1. 4. Esay 9. 6. Ioh 1. 1. Psa 118. 22 Ver. 14 Ver. 16. Z●p 3. 14. Iob. 11. 3. Num. 24. 17 Ps 18. 14. Iob. 1. 11. Esa 40. 12. Deut. 32. Luc. 20. 12. Cant. 2. 5. Heb. 12. 18. Luk. 1. 13. Luc. 2. Luk. 2 10. Mat. 25. 21. Ioh. 1. 29. Mat. 2. Mat. 2. 21. Mal. 4. Iohn 6. Mich. 6. 7. Iohn 4. Esa 5. 34. Ierem. 9. 1. Esay 16. 9. Esa 57 1. Ier. 2. 6. Psal 78 24. Deut 32. 10 Ier. 2. 12.