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 ...

That Iesus ought to be sought with pietie. II. POINT.

CONSIDER that as the Kinges vn∣dertooke their iorney with much diligence and punctualitie; and pursued it with great patience and resolution; so they conclude it with noe lesse pietie and religiousnesse. They haue left their King∣domes, wiues, and children, with hopes to find a Kinge, a Sauiour, a God: and in the end of their iorney they onely meete with, to the eyes of flesh, a poore stable, a poore manger, and a poore mayde, with a poore sucking child at her breastes. But to the eyes of their pietie, with which they looked vppon him, they discouer a Kinge, a God, vnder the forme of a seruant, a man, and falling downe they adore him.

[Affection.] O happie Kinges. great is your faith which leaues all the world euer

after to admire it, as we worthily doe this day! But ô the goodnesse and mercie and power of God, whose free grace it was which wrought in their hartes both the will and performance, of this great acte of faith! They were not the keepers of the law & Prophetes as were the iewes. They had not seene and heard the admi∣rable workes and wonders of his life and passion, wherby he proued himselfe both God and man, as we haue; and yet falling downe they adore him. O my soule, let neuer the excessiue, and almost incre∣dible, greatnesse of the benefit, discre∣dite, as it were, the bountifull benefa∣ctour, but by how much more his loue doth exinanite him, and make him ap∣peare lesse then himselfe in his life and passion, let vs by so much more beleeue, blesse, loue, and adore him for euer: because for vs it was that he was so lowe layd, for vs the cribbe, the manger, the hay, &c.