A proper looking glasse for the daughters of Sion or St. Augustines life abbridged, and reduced into points of meditation VVith meditations for a spirituall exercise at clothings and professions. By Thomas Carre their confessour.

THE II. POINTE. Of vvhom vve ought to learne Obedience

Consider that we ought to

learne this best of morall vertues of the best of Masters of moralitie Iesus Ch. Who is as well the Master, as the Disciple, of it. He was the Master of it: at his coming into the world; while he liued in it; and at his departure out of it. At his coming, S. Paule tells vs in his person: in the heade of the booke it is vvritten of me, that I should doe thy vvill: then said I: behold I come that I may doe thy vvill o God. His whole life was spent in the doing the will of his heauenly father who sent him, and in obeying his mother, S. Ioseph, and euen all creatures for his sake. At his departure, he vvas obe∣dient euen vnto death, and the death of the Crosse. And he

was the Disciple of it too; sithens, as S. Paule affirmes, though he were the sonne of God, he learnt obedience by the thinges vvhich he suffered; and vvas made the cause of eternall saluation to all that obey him.

AFFECTION and RESOL. O what an excellent lesson of obedience hath the sonne of God, left for the sonnes of men to imitate! He, who, as God, could be obedient to none, being God-man, be co∣mes obedient to all men for his heauenly fathers sake. All his life was a cōtinued obedi∣ence, till by his painfull death he consummated the great worke of mans redemption, for which he was sent. Father I haue consummated the vvorke vvhih thou gauest me to doe,

saith that intirely obedient sonne. The worke which we are to doe, my soule, (which is as it were our whole busi∣nesse) is, to obey God in our superiours commandes, and by such submission, and their care, to secure our blessed eternitie. By their eyes we best discerne: By their iud∣gements we most wisely iudge: by their directions, and orders, we most surely walke to mans beatitude.