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 ...

II. POINT.

CONSIDER her againe in qualitie of the Mother of God, and as such you will find that God is truly caro ex car∣ne eius flesh of her flesh: That Word which in the begining was with God, and and was God, was in this tyme made flesh of her flesh. So that as God the Father can onely say, thou art my Sonne, this day I begott thee by an eternall generation: so this B. Virgine alone can onely say, I am thy Mother, this day I brought thee forth by a temporall birth.

[Affection.] Good God to what a high flight doth this call the thoughtes of man. What strange relations and connections-hath this Virgine Mother, in qualitie of Mother of God with God himselfe? He in eternitie had a Sonne without a Mother! She in tyme, a Sonne without a father! He a Sonne consubstantiall, or of the same substance with him selfe; she the same Sonne of her substance. I, saith S. Au∣gustine, God gaue that verie onely begotten Sonne to Marie, who as being begotten of hi

owne hart equall to himselfe he loued as him∣selfe, that God and Marie might naturally haue one and the same Sonne God, who made all, made himselfe of Marie, to restore all that he had made. He who could of nothing make all thinges, would not without Marie reforme the thinges that were deformed. Ah, my sou∣le, what an ineffable dignitie is this: what helpes may not we expect from one so neere to God by so singular prerogatiues?