Of our B. Ladies Child-birth. [Chap. 13.
SAint Bonauēture, in a holy cō∣templation of this sacred my∣stery, conceaueth the B. Virgin being come to Bethleem, and en∣tred into the stable, to haue byn
The mirrour of created perfection. Or The life of the most blessed Virgin Mary Mother of God. Written by the R. Fa. I.F. of the Society of Iesus
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- The mirrour of created perfection. Or The life of the most blessed Virgin Mary Mother of God. Written by the R. Fa. I.F. of the Society of Iesus
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- Falconer, John, 1577-1656.
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- [Saint-Omer :: English College Press],
- Permissu superiorum. 1632.
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- Mary, -- Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Early works to 1800.
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excessiuely replenished with ioy that the long desired houre of her Diuine Sonnes Natiuity so neerly approached: and whilest prostrate on her knees in prayer, she delighted her soule with holy apprehensions thereof, and lon∣ging to behold him, he miracu∣lously ascended out of her vn∣opened pure wombe, into her blessed armes, ready to imbrace him.
This high priuiledge (sayth S. Bernard) of being a mother, yet remayning still a Virgin, ha∣uing byn for her singularly re∣serued, whose child was God & Man personally vnited, able in his power, & willing in his loue to preserue his Mother from all payne, impurity, and corruption: in so much as learned Suarez con∣ceaueth the pure Nest, in which this diuine Phenix and heaueuly
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Bird of loue was hatched, and ri∣pened for his birth, to remayne entirely yet preserued, as it was at his going out from it, that An∣gells intellectually, and Saintes corporally also may transparent¦ly in all eternity, and delighte∣fully behold it.
Insteed of midwife, & women to help her, Angels in their kings birth, gladly became his Ado∣rers, and her Attendants; so that a poore stable, by the happy birth of this diuine Babe therein, was sodainly cōuerted into an Empy∣riall heauen; a hard crib in which she layd him, became this hūble Kings bed of State to repose in; poore cloutes in place of purple robes serued to inuest him; and the papps of a poore maiden, fil∣led from heauen then, as her wombe had byn before, serued to giue him sucke, who fed the
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birds of the ayre at that instant, and attyred the flowers of the field in their fayre and various beauties; neuer greater, then in being so lessened; neuer more glo∣rious then in being so obscured; neuer more exalted, then in be∣ing so humbled; neuer more lo∣uely, then in humane beauty as∣sumed; neuer more powrefull, then in our infirmityes sustay∣ned. Mercy moued him to vn∣dertake the painefull taske of of our Redemption, Wisedome guided him, Fortitude hartned him, and Charity moued him ar∣dētly to imbrace whatsoeuer he saw needfull, or expedient to be done, or suffered therein for vs.