Of the Election of the Mother to the Word Incarnate. And of her Prerogatives. 2. Part.
* 1.1COnsider 1. It was fitting that the Eternal Word should honour his Mother, and raise her above the common condition of Mortals, by special Priviledges. King Salomon made a great Throne of Ivory, and covered it with Gold exceeding yellow, &c. There was not such a work made in all Kingdoms. How much more sitting was it, that the King of Heaven should adorn his Throne, or Bed-chamber, where he was to lie for nine moneths together?
Consider 2. Several of her Priviledges. 1. San∣ctity, and that the greatest of any pure creature, communicated unto her from the first moment of her Conception; for it was not fit that the Mother