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 ...

I. POINT.

CONSIDER that vnder the humble weake and young members of this tender babe, the power of a Diuine Ma∣jestie is shrewded. It is God that lyes sucking at this Virgine mothers breastes. He is vayled indeede with the pouertie of vile clothes, and endures the hard and narrow manger, but it is mercy which moued him humbly to it, to thend the lost world might be redeemed. He vseth the strikes of a child, but it is to thend that by them we might auoyde eternall lamentations and gnashing of teeth. He is wrapped in poore clothes, but they serue to wipe away the filth of our sinnes. Hes layd in a manger as the meate of brute-beastes; but he is indeede the fatninge foode of men and Angells.

[Aff.] Yes my soule, the place wherin thou stands is holy. It is the very Maiestie of heauen which is here: It is the verie God

which made thee, who lyes before thee. This stable is his holy temple, These poore apparances which may seeme to hide him from thyne eyes, deliuer him more tenderly to thy hart, for whose loue he lyes thus vayled. So that by how much he descendes lower, by so much, doe thy hopes ascend higher. For what mayst thou not confidently expect from an alpo∣werfull Lord so humbléd for thy sake? Flye to him with an humble loue, and a perse∣uerant confidence, and thy redemption is euen at hand. O what mercy doe not these abiect postures speake? what conso∣lation doe not these teares giue? What man can despaire for whom a God weepes?