[Consider] what Messenger is sent to call these poore sillie soules who are hardly held companie for other men. Noe lesse then an Angell, and he too, ac∣compaigned with whole multitudes of Angells. They were to find the lambe, their God, lesse then man: but they had an Angell before hand to assure them, that how euer they found him, he was noe lesse then both their God. Their simpli∣citie might haue bene surprised and scan∣dalized by his pouertie, whom the world would not know: but his heauenly Father acknowledged him for his sonne coequall to himselfe, and made one and the same Gloria be sunge to them both, by the mul∣titudes of his heauenly Quiresters, in the poore shephards hearing, assuring them and the world by them, of a great ioy in the birth of a sauiour, who was Christ their Messias. So that they were sent with a les∣son, taught by an Angell, to glorifie and
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 ...
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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A54916.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
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adore their God, in the forme of a poore infant swadled in clothes, and layed in a manger.
[Aff.] O how graciously heauen and earth begin to make acquaintance! O poore sillie man how happie thou art (wouldst thou but once diligently ponder and konw thyne owne happinesse) to see thy hart so courted by a Kinge? Who sends out his ministering Angells to call thee to his presence; who while he is humble and abiect for thy loue, he leaues not to be high to, but still mixeth his humilitie and mildnesse with Maiestie. He is in ap∣pearance a poore child; but is in verie deede thy God on high. He is lodged amongst beastes; but his carole is sung by Quires of Angells. Singe with them then, mysoule, Glorie to thy God; to him alone it is due, nor will he giue it to ano∣ther. Pay that dutie first to him, or noe peace will follow: Iustice and peace. Other∣wise we may crye peace, peace, as longe as we will, we shall neuer inioy it, while we remayne in that impietie and iniustice of robbing God of his Glorie.
[Resolution.] I will then Angellike, sing, say, worke, and doe all my actions to
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Gods honour and glorie, &c. that I may be partaker of his peace, which passes mans vnderstanding, &c.