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A81057	An apology for the Contemplations on the life and glory of Holy Mary mother of Jesus Shewing, the innocency, equity and antiquity, of the honour and veneration given to the blessed virgin mother by the Holy Catholick Church. By J.C. D.D. With allowance of superiours.	Cross, John, 1630-1689.	1687 (1687)	Wing C7249; ESTC R225379	82,720	165

that we sacrifice to any of the Saints but to the God of the Saints only though we erect Altars to God in remembrance of the Saints St. Isidore oft dilates himself in the Praises and Worship of holy Mary and shews that the Catholick Saint-Servitude derogates not from that Worship which is due to God only (d) Ildefons l. Virginit Mar. c. 12. Venio ad Te sola Virgo Mater Dei Procido coram Te humilior coram Te Rogo Te ut obtineas deleri facta peccati Mei ut jubeas mundari me ab iniquitate operis Mei ut facias me diligere gloriam Virtutis tuae ut reveles mihi multitudinem Dulcedinis Filii tui ut mihi des loqui defendere Fidei sinceritatem Filii tui Concedas etiam mihi adhaerere Deo Tibi Illi sicut factori meo Tibi sicut Genitrici factoris Mei c. I approach to Thee O only Virgin Mother of God I prostrate my self before Thee I humble my self before Thee I beseech Thee obtain the cancelling of all my sinful Works command me to be cleansed from the Iniquity of my Crimes make me covet the Glory of thy Virtues reveal unto me the Plenty of the sweetness of thy Son Grant that I may profess and defend the true Faith of thy Son and that I may adhere to God and Thee To Him as my Creator to Thee as to the Mother of my Creator c. And St. Ildephons prostrating himself before the holy Mother of God conjures her by whatever is Sacred and Mysterious in the Conception of the eternal Word to obtain of Him the Remission of his Sins to command his delivery from all Iniquity to render him emulous of her own transcendent Vertues and to give Him a relish of the delicious Treasures of the Love of JESVS XCI The Opposers of our Catholick Saint-Servitude as taught and used by Christians of all Ages and Nations of the Apostolical Church regarding more the rind and Criticism of Words than the Spirit and Truth of Christianity discover'd by the Holy Fathers are much offended at the Phrase of Command sometimes us'd in our Addresses to the Mother of JESVS in order to his Divine and Theandrick Operations appertaining to Mans Redemption and Sanctification by Grace as in this passage of St. Ildefons Thence inferring our manifest Idolatry in Worshipping and Invocating Holy MARY as the chief and absolute Soveraign over Souls and Author of Grace and Holiness Calvin l. 3. Instit c. 20. n. 22. Answer p. 25. Specul p. 17. XCII But as the erecting of Temples and Consecrating Altars therein under the Patronage and Protection of Holy Mary the Mother of JESVS and the Ordaining Priests to offer Sacrifice there upon Her Festivals or the Imposing her Sacred Name in Baptismal Regeneration or making Holy Vows of Evangelical Perfection in a Religious Society establish'd in Memory of some Excellent Mystery of her Life c. cannot be reputed Idolatry because none of these Acts are design'd immediately properly and absolutely to Holy Mary but to God only the Supream Lord of all Creatures though by Appropriation performed in Remembrance of Her or of some Mystery relating to Christ or of some signal Favour obtain'd of Christ by her more powerful Intercession and Protection as by a super-eminent Saint a more glorious Image of the Divine Perfections and most endear'd Favourite in the Court of Heaven gratefully piously and duely acknowleg'd by those our external Acts So neither can those sensible Marks of that great Confidence Catholicks conceive of the power of the holy Mother of JESVS within his Spiritual Empire in Requesting Her to bestow Temporal or Spiritual Gifts or even to command us to be cleansed from sin which cannot be done but by the power of JESVS only in the known sense of the holy Church he esteem'd an Invasion of Gods Imperial Power or a Giving to Holy Mary that Religious Worship which is proper to JESVS the Son of the eternal God who alone is the absolute Creator and Giver of Life Light Grace and of all Good Things Eph. 2.8 Jac. 1.17 And the Soveraign Lord of All by Essence and indispensably in whole and in part Levit. 19.4 Ps 23.1 Insomuch that although God covenanting with his Church to assist her Governours Eminential or Representative in Teaching all Truth to co-operate with her Ministers of Sacraments in Sanctifying well-dispos'd Believers and to give Life everlasting to Faithful Laborours in his Vineyard with proportion to their Merits in Christ by Virtue of his Fidelity whereby his promise and performance still run parallel Matt. 28.20 Jo. 20.23 Scot. 4. d. 1. q. 5. n. 12. 2 Tim. 4.8 Trid. Sess 6. c. ult Yet in Right of Gods Essential Supremacy over all Creatures and Independency on all no Creature of whatever Spiritual magnitude can claim any Gift of his Mercy or power over his Will upon any strict Obligation of Justice Alens p. 1. q. 39. m. 1. D. Thom. q. 21. a. 1. D. Bon. 4. d. 46. a. 2. q. 1. Scot. q. 1. n. 4. 11. Smif tom 1. disp 4. q. 5. n. 45. But as St. Aug. 1. Conf. 4. says he gives what 's due though Debter to none because as St. Anselm remarks Prosolog c. 10. God is Just not giving as due but doing what becomes his Infinite Goodness upon his promise passed in his Gospel of Truth and Grace under the Seals of his most tender Love to Believers XCIII Whence 't is manifest according to the Doctrine and Spirit of the Catholick Church First that Faith Remission of sins and sanctifying Grace are not the principal proper and Physical Gifts of any however glorious Creature Secondly that God is not rigorously subject to any power beneath himself as to the dispensing his Gifts and Graces to us Thirdly That therefore whatever the Forms of our Prayers are their design is only to desire Gods gracious and glorified Servants to pray for us and according to the amplitude of their participated super-natural Dignity and the acceptableness of their Prayers according to the Measure of that Dignity covenanted for in the Gifts of Grace earnestly and effectually to obtain of God those Gifts for us purely by their Mediation of Intercession with God according to the known Decree of this Sixth General Council under Pope Agatho c. 7. Vnusquisque Christianus solo Deo adorato invocet Sanctos ut pro se intercedere apud Divinam Majestatem dignentur Having given Divine Worship to God only let every Christian pray to the Saints that they would vouchsafe to interceed to the Divine Majesty for them Syn. Constant Gen. 6. c. 7. And according to the practice of the Fathers of the Fourth General Council under Pope Leo the Great act 11. Flavianus post mortem Vivit Martyr pro nobis oret Flavian though dead lives Let the Martyr pray for us Syn. Gen. Chalced. act 11. XCIV Wherefore although according to the true Spirit of the Gospel of JESVS Catholicks

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