Sweete thovghtes of Iesvs and Marie, or, Meditations for all the feasts of ovr B. Saviovr and his B. Mother togeither with Meditations for all the Sundayes of the yeare and our Sauiovrs Passion : for the vse of the daughters of Sion : diuided into tvvo partes / by Thomas Carre ...

2. POINT.

[Consider] that all the names we reade, intimate either power and Ma∣iestie; or grace and mercy: according to that of the Royall Prophete: I haue heard these thinges: Power is Gods, and mercy is thyne, ô Lord. According to his Maiestie his name is holy and terrible: But this new name, IESVS, which is giuen to him in earth, signifies nothing but mildnesse, mercy and saluation: for the name of IE∣SVS, saith your holy Father, is a sweete name, a delightfull name, a name of deare consolation, and blessed hope to the sin∣ner. Nay, it doth not so much speake comfort, and confirme our hopes, as euen disclose the bowells of the heauenly childs mercy, while he lays downe his bloude to take vp a name of mercy: For

the day was come that the child should be cir; cumcised, and his name was called IESVS.

[Affection.] When I heare those great, and dreadfull names of power and maie∣stie, I am euen strucke with astonishment, and I am readie to hide my selfe, with Adam, from the face of Gods wroth. Marrie when I heare of a milde Emmanuel, an innocent Lambe, a meeke, tender, young child, Iesus the sonne of Marie, that honie-name, that oyle powred out, my feares vanish, and my hart conceiues a strange, and strong confidence, and boldly and ioyfully I approche to my younge brother. For in him, I discouer Maiestie and mildnesse matched togei∣ther, in the same seate or subiect: I ob∣serue Iustice and Peace mett togeither in him, and giueing each other mutually sweete kisses of reconcilement. And my hart can harbour no other thoughtes, but of peace and reconcilement togeither with them; and still it pronounceth with heauenly ioy and Iubilie.

Liue Iesu liue in my poore hart, Liue Iesu there, and nere depart.