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

prayeth for vs to God for Mercy And it is no good kind of arguing to say God is the Father of Mercy therfore the Virgin cannot in any sense be so called For we read in Iohn 9. that Christ is called Lux mundi and yet Christ sayth of the Apostles Vos estis lux mundi Math. 5. Againe Christ is said in Iohn 1. to be plenus Gratiae And yet we read in Luc 1. Maria plena Gratiae in Act. 8. Stephanus plenus Gratiae Thus the same Titles may be giuen to God and men in a different relation without any dishonour to God Mariamastix Well to come to the last point of the foresaid Antiphone or Prayer How do you playster that ambitious Title of ealling Her Regina a Queene You see that she is content to call herselfe only a Handmayd according to her answere to the Angell Ecce ancilla Domini And yet you Papists will needes inuest her with the title of a Queene Mariadulus I answere The attribution of this title to her is most warrantable seing we read Be●ti panperes spiritu quoniam ipsoru● est reguum caelorum Blessed are the poore in spirit for theirs is the kingdome of Heauen Matth 5. And further more it is said Venite Benedicti Patris me● possidete paratum vobis regnum Come you blessed of my Father Possesse the kingdome prepared for you Matth. 25. Now then if all such a● do inherit Kingdomes may truly becaused Kings or Queenes why then should this title be denyed to our B. Lady Adde hereto that since she is the Mother of the King of Kings she then most peculiarly and pen excellentiam deserueth the Title of Queene And thus far touching the explication of the Antiphone or Prayer of the Salue Regina and how all those titles there may in a sober and reserued construction be iustly applyed to the Virgin Mary the sound of which Titles doth so much iarr in the eares of our new Gospelliers 〈◊〉 that the Dialect of their speach against the Mother of God is commonly deliuered in the black Notes of detraction and Obloquy Mariamastix I grant Mariadulus you haue playstered the Antiphone with some shew of probability I euer meane in a vulgar and vndiscerning eye only though to the iudicious it still remaynes as afore it was But to come to your Litanies directed to Mary and accordingly by you called Our Ladies Litanies You do by your titles therein ascribe such superlatiue and high prayses to her as that they stand not compatible with the Nature of any Creature Christ only excepted Vpon whose Honour you Papists by this your irregular proceedings seeme ouer neere to trench And therefore I could wish you to shew how you can apologize in her behalfe herein you therby much dishonoring the Sonne in ouermuch honoring the Mother Mariadulus You are Mariamastix far transported with a secret or rather most manifest sulluation and repining against the Holy Virgin her deare Sonne alter your mind But know you that the Prayses giuen to her are Relatine to Christ since they are giuen to her because she is the Mother of Christ And thus since the child is in some sort the Image of its Parents the Proto●●●on after an accustomed manner is here honored in behalfe of the Antitypon But to remoue the scales of preiudice and dislike if it be possible from the eyes of your iudgment I will as it were anatomize litle by litle the afore mentioned Litanies or prayers that so you may euidently discerne by what authorities we Catholiks are secured to imbalme her memory in the sweet ointments of such her due Laudes But before I come to that I must put you in mynd that since Gods vniuersall Church which cannot erre 1. Tim. 3. approueth the foresaid Litanies you ought to haue no reason to doubt of the warrantablenes thereof except you will aduance your selfe for Pry de of Iudgment is euer clyming being but one priuate man but competently learned and lately appearing aboue the Authority of Gods Church consisting of men in number many for literature most exquisite and for tyme most ancient Which if you do if you were in the Schooles among the graue and learned you would rather be thought worthy to be exploded from thence for such your procacity and petulant insolency then to be disputed with Mariamastix Such your Authorities are but the Words of men And we read Psalm 115. that all men are lyars And therfore I cānot hold it secure for me to entrench my selfe in any such doubtfull and vncertaine Proofes for one man illuminated by the Lord may as infallibly fynd out the Truth as seuerall other Hundreds Spiritus vbi vult spirat Ioan. 3. Neuerthelesse you may proceed to your Authorities Mariadulus Well seing you neglect the authority of Gods whole Church vpon whom Christ hath bequeathed his spirit of not erring Ego vobiseum sum vsque ad consummationem Mundi Matth. 28. I can but commulerate your most dangerous state of soule which treads such different tracts not only to your owne learned (a) M. Fox Act. Mon. p. 999. D Bantroft in his Sermon preached anno 15●● The diuines of Genous in their Propositions and Principles disputed pag. 141. Brethren but euen to Gods Holy Writ assuring vs that the Church of God is the Pillar and foundation of Truth 1. Tim. 3. Yf then you will not obediently submit your iudgment to the iudgment of the Vniuersall Church make your shipwrack vpon that dangerous rocke of those Words Yf he will not heart the Church let him be to thee as an Heathen or Publican Matth. 18. But to recall my selfe and to shew how warrantable with sufficient authority is euery Article or Point of the Lita●ies of our B. Lady In the displaying whereof I will not be ryotous as I may say in alledging the Authorities of diuers ancient Fathers and Doctours but for greater breuity and only for some tast and delibation I will content my selfe with the authority of two Fathers commonly in proofe of euery particular Article or passage And to begin The Blessed Virgin is in the Litanies First thus saluted Sancta Maria. Of which Title we thus read Maria is interpreted star of the Sea And the as a remarkable star shynes brightly by the grace of a speciall Priuiledge among the waues of this wauering World So writeth S. Bede ad Euang in festo Annuntiat B. Mariae Isidorus Hispalensis de vita obitu Sanctorum c. 48. who liued in the sixt Century after Christ thus accordeth with S. Bede Mary it interpreted Lady and one that giueth light 2. Sancta dei genitrix Of which title the generall Councell of Chalcedon thus decreeth Act. 5. Holy Mary ●●●●dnes the mother of God Who bouideth not so is an Heretike Proclus Constantinopolita●●s who liued in the fourth age thus amplifieth of this point de Nati●itate Christi Who hath heard of the like God who cannot be contained in a place wells in a Wombe Whom

B. Lady they all though externally resting in the veneration of the Holy Virgin are by the mediation of her terminated in Christ And therefore they may be truly and vertually called the feasts and solemnities of Christ since they are instituted in honour of the B. Virgin only and not otherwise as she is the Mother of Christ our Redeemer Thus for example the Honour exhibited to any great fauorite of a Prince may be iustly said to be giuen to the Prince himselfe since the true Cause of the exhibition of the Honour is the Grace and Fauour which the Prince beareth to such a Worthy Personage Secondly I answere that if these seuerall solemnities of our B. Lady may not iustly and deseruedly be obserued then hath the whole Church of God fouly erred and this for many ages together both for the Institution and practise of them And such as you are Mariamastix only hould the truth in impugning of them the grossenes of which conceite to apprehend I refer to any man enioying but his fiue senses Mariamastix You seeke Mariadulus to beare me downe with the streame of many impertinent Words the refuse of discourse but with force of reason you do not And were it not I am loath to expatiate further in discourse then the particular subiect now disputed off would well suffer I could easely dissolue your argument drawne from the authority custome of the Vniuersall Church But this tyme and the present Occasion do not permit it But to giue the reynes to your owne desire and seeing you speake so highly and vauntingly of the seuerall feasts solemne dayes of Mary you may insist in them at your pleasure and produce your chiefest Reasons vpon which you anchour your iudgment therein Mariadulus I will satisfy your motion But before I must tell you that I do not labour to beare you downe as your phraze is with a streame of many impertinent Words No for I acknowledge that an ouercharge of needles words is but smoake of speach But to hasten to the seuerall feasts of the immaculate Virgin I will begin with the feast of her Natiuity then of the Annunciation next of her Purification lastly of her Assumption into Heauen As for the feasts of her Prescutation and Conception because they are not kept with so generall a Solemnity of the Church as the former are I will passe them ouer Now touching the feast of the Natiuity of our Blassed Virgin which falleth vpon the eight day of September Yf we will take into our consideration who she is whose Natiuity we do celebrate and to what end she was borne we shall easely giue allowance of that festiuall Tyme The Arke we read was curiously wrought only to the end to keep within at the Law of Moyses And shall not then She be of an extraordinary Perfection and consequently the tyme of her Birth worthy all due veneration within whose most chast Wombe was enclosed the Sauiour of the World who abrogated the Law of Moyses Againe this feast is the Birth day of Her who being a Virgin is the Mother of God and of her Creatour Gen●isti qui ●s feci● sayth the Church of her 〈◊〉 aeternum permanes Virgo in officio B. Virg. And hereupon it came to passe that the Ephesin Councell being one of the first foure Councells consisting of two hundred Bishops was chiefly assembled for determining that it should be houlden as a Catholike Verity and an Article of Fayth that the most Glorious Virgin Mary was the true Mother of God And thereupon she is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is Deum pariens Now what honour is due to Her is partly knowne by this Axiome in Philosophy To wit that there is such a neere inter-linking betweene the Effect and the Cause as that if there be no rust hinderance the one doth participate of the others worth and Perfections Therefore it followeth that with what accidentall Perfections of Wit of Beauty c. Christ was indued the same did the B. Virgin though in a lower proportion enioy Haue we not then iust occasion to say that only such a Mother deserued to bring forth so worthy a Sonne and only such a Sonne deserued to haue such a Mother For as she gaue to him the Humane Nature so he gaue to her Fulues of Grace Thus the Glorious Virgin for his humane Nature was his Mother and she in respect of Grace his Daughter And thus the Mother is become the Daughter the Sonne the Father Thus who will truly confider and ponder the dignity of the B. Virgin shall fynd he hath iust reason to say with the Catholike Church Natiuitas tua Deigenetrix Virgo gandium annuncianit vniner so mun●o Ex te enim ortus est Sol Institiae Christus Deus Noster in offie B. Virg. And thus far in Apologizing for the feast of the Nat●uity of the Holy Virgin Mary Only I will conclude that we see it is the custome and most laudeble that Princes will haue their owne Birth-day or the Birthday of the Heyres apparent to be kept yearly with all Royall Pompe and Solemnity And shall then the Natiui●y of Her who brought into the World the King of Heanen and earth in compare of whom all terrene Princes are but poor wormes of the earth be wholy contemned Such is the blindnes of Innouation in matters of Religion To descend to the feast of the Au●●●nciation of the Glorious Virgin being the 2● of March And heare we may well call to mind that temporall Potentates do vse to send some one or other of the chiefest of their Nobility as Embassadour to other Princes according to the greatnes of the subiect of their Embassage And by the worth of the Embassadour we may make a coriecture of the Worth of the Prince to whom the Embassage is sent Yf then the Angell Gabrial being the second among so many Millions of Angells and Celestiall spirits was sent by God to bring the B. Virgin the comfortable Salutation of her future being the Mother of the Redeemer of the World doth not this most lowdely euen trumpet forth to all Christians both the supreme dignity of the Virgin to whom the Angell was sent as also the insinite worth of the Embassy And may not then the remembrance of so Great an Embassage he year●● kept with solemnity It being Great for the Person from whence it came being God Great for the Person to whome it came the most blessed and Holy Virgin Great for the Person by whom it was sent the second Angell of the Celestiall Court and lastly Great for the busines and subiect which it concerned to wit the Redemption of Mankind But to proceed further The Reasons which do warrant the solemnity of her Natiuity do also warrant the institution of the feast of the Annunication Since the chiefe Mysteries were perfected in her Annunciation fo● the accomplishment whereof she enioyed her Natiuity And therefore heere we may with exulation and ioy