An Abridgment of the prerogatives of St. Ann, mother of the mother of God with the approbation of the doctors at Paris, and thence done into English to accompany The contemplations on the life and glory of Holy Mary, and the defence of the same, with some pieces of a like nature : to which a preface is added concerning the original of the story.

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An Abridgment of the prerogatives of St. Ann, mother of the mother of God with the approbation of the doctors at Paris, and thence done into English to accompany The contemplations on the life and glory of Holy Mary, and the defence of the same, with some pieces of a like nature : to which a preface is added concerning the original of the story.

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London :: Printed for Ric. Chitwell ...,

1688.

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Anne -- (Mother of the Virgin Mary), Saint.

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"An Abridgment of the prerogatives of St. Ann, mother of the mother of God with the approbation of the doctors at Paris, and thence done into English to accompany The contemplations on the life and glory of Holy Mary, and the defence of the same, with some pieces of a like nature : to which a preface is added concerning the original of the story." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A23680.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 29, 2025. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• THE PREFACE.
• TO THE Queen Regent.
• The Epistle of the French Publisher, to the Christian Reader.
• THE PREROGATIVES OF St. ANNE.
  • CHAP. I. The Silence of the Evangelists concerning the Merits of St. Ann.
  • CHAP. II. The External Perfections of St. ANN.
  • CHAP. III. The first Reason of the Prerogatives of St. ANN.
  • CHAP. IV. JUSTICE. The second Reason of the Prerogatives of St. ANN.
  • CHAP. V. The Obedience of the Virgin to St. ANN. The third Reason of her Prerogatives.
  • CHAP. VI. The Glory of JESUS CHRIST. The fourth Reason of the Prerogatives of St. ANN
  • CHAP. VII. The Internal Perfections of St. ANN
  • CHAP. VIII. Her Prayers.
  • CHAP. IX. Her Humility.
  • CHAP X. Her Generous Confidence in God's Providence.
  • CHAP. XI. Her Credit and Power in Heaven.
  • CHAP. XII. The Imitation of her Virtues,
  • The Prayer to St. ANN.
• Approbation.
• The Approbation in English.