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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12816	The femall glory: or, The life, and death of our Blessed Lady, the holy Virgin Mary, Gods owne immaculate mother to whose sacred memory the author dedicates these his humble endeavours. A treatise worthy the reading, and meditation of all modest women, who live under the government of vertue, and are obedient to her lawes. By Anth. Stafford, Gent.	Stafford, Anthony.	1635 (1635)	STC 23123; ESTC S117798	76,554	344

fathers to wit Abraham and his seed for ever In this salutation of Elizabeth the springing of the Babe in her wombe at the sound of our sweetest Ladies voyce requires not only our observation but astonishment He that was greater than all the Prophets as yet not borne and enclosed in the narrow compasse of the Wombe no sooner heard the charming voyce of this heauenly Nightingale but he leaped for joy essaying then and there to exercise the office of the Fore-runner of his Master The asseveration of some that this was not an effect of the Virgins vertue but of the Word incarnate may be admitted for good if we onely have an eye to her Vertue and exclude the aide and power of the divine Grace But all Wisedomes Children are by Truth her selfe informed that many things are lawfully attributed to secondary Causes the primary and efficient cause not rejected And this way we may impute to Mary what worke soever God with her co-operating hath wrought either in the house of Zachary or else where for the benefit and instruction of us poore mortals Neither will any sound and sollid judgement attribute any thing to the conspicuous merits of the Virgine Mary or any other Saint without the concurrence and predication of the divine Grace who by those Saints that serve and feare him distributes his gifts and favours to Mankinde That sentence of Christ is no way obscure He that beleeves in me shall do the works that I do and greater By many examples the Scriptures do confirme the comming of Saints to any mans dwelling to conferre upon him both Grace and Happinesse Three Angels came to Abraham whom he entertain'd taking them for pilgrims when the Patriarch forthwith became fortunate in the obteining of that for which so long he had offer'd up vows to God namely a sonne his wife and he being by the course of nature past the generation of children Againe two Angels came to Lot and lodg'd in his house at Sodome and sav'd their host and his two daughters from being reduc't to cinders with their City Iacob visited wicked Laban to whom God granted a singular blessing for that idolater in so much that he himselfe confessed it saying I have learned by experience that God hath blessed me for thy sake Elizeus to expresse the kindnesse he received at the hands of his hostesse the Shunamite restored her dead sonne to life The Apostles themselues brought peace and felicity to all hospitable men whose dwellings they enter'd And shall the arrivall of Gods owne mother at the house of Zachary prove onely vaine and fruitlesse in bringing no divine consolation to her kindred Yes surely Elizabeth tasted the fruit of her all-gladding presence for she could not conceale the pleasure conceived in her heart but utter'd it in the best words she could Iohn himselfe also rellisht it and by his motion gave what signes he could of the content and worship he receiv'd and payd Neither could it otherwise be but the Mansion of Zachary and the adjacent countrey were both delighted and sanctified by the three moneths residence of her who bore not about but in her the Author and consummatour of all piety Their joy questionlesse was beyond imagination great in that they had never before seene Gods gifts and graces passing through so pure an organ of his Spirit But the aged Prophetesse her selfe doubtlesse was in a holy delitious Trance at the very first steppe she made over her threshold and thought her house but halfe blest till the other foot was in Their mutuall salutation surely was low and submissive which I cannot better expresse then by the supposition of the encounter of two shades softly creeping ore the face of the earth The Evangelist delivereth onely the Compendium of their conference which could not be but as long as serious They treated surely of deepe miraculous Mysteries as of the incarnation of the Word of the persecution of her and Gods onely Sonne as also of his passion and the salvation of Mankinde And here it will neither be a thing impious nor impertinent binding our selues strictly to the substance of their short discourse to ayme at the amplification thereof by which happily it may come to passe that the supposition of what they might say may turne to a Truth of what they said indeed This then or like to this was or might be the speech of the holy Matron to the more holy Virgin What looks shall I put on What words shall I assume what entertainment shall I finde out O Princely Virgin to give thee a welcome answerable to thy merits who art Superiour to the Saints in Heaven and the prime glory of thy Sex on Earth I am wholly transformed into shame when I consider every way thy Excellency and my unworthinesse Alas what is there in miserable me that should invite the mother of my Lord to afford me a visit who am the meanest of his Creatures What equality is here Thou who art full of Grace comest to mee void of it Thou who art famous for thy Fertilitie to me who have beene 〈◊〉 long time infamous for my Barrennesse Thy Charity and Humility made thee forget thy sublime and my low estate and conducted thee to my poore Cottage no way fit to receive thee Most of thy Sexe having attained to thy supreame condition who did'st conceive and nourish the Creatour and Redeemer of the world with that thy clearest bloud of which he was made would have advanced their heads above Mortality and disdaining all inferiour Conversation would have demanded as their due to be assumed into the imperiall Heaven But in thee one heat hath expelled another the flames of thy zeale have utterly consumed those of thy Pride if any thou ever had'st and thou art so farre from vaunting that thou by all meanes seekest to conceale that daintie Fruit of which all Posterity shall taste and never be satisfied and for which all Generations shall call thee blessed But from others thou mayst hide it from me thou canst not to whom the Spirit hath reveal'd it and the springing of the Childe in my wombe hath testified it and if the Children of Israel should be so dull and unhappy as not to apprehend it God would give the stones an articulate voyce to proclaime it The Lord of mee and all things else hath firmely seated himselfe in thee and chosen thee for his mother to the end that the seed of Abraham may breake the head of the Serpent and the Sonne of David bring reliefe to his forlorne and distressed Church streightly beseiged by the Prince of Darknesse and his infernall Troopes True it is I am above thee in yeares but in desert infinitely below thee and therfore ought to have prevented this thy painfull journey by comming first to thee to congratulate thy happinesse and not onely in the behalfe of my selfe my kindred and Nation but in the name of Gods selected people to tender thee most