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 ...

The 3. Christian ioy. THE I. POINT.

CONSIDER that our best friend, our pious Lord, the dearest husband of ourhartes, who out of a goodnes beyond all comparison, died ignominiously these dayes past for our loue, is this daye glo∣riously risen: The newes is certaine; The best beloued mother, the mournefull maides, the fearefull Apostles, haue all seene him. ••e is risen, he is truly risen, Alleluya. O what ioy! what ioy! the poore innocent lambe that we saw barbarously treated and butchered, and slaine, to take awaye the sinnes of the world, with laying downe his life, is risen with peace and re∣concilement to the world. Alleluya, Alle∣luya, Alleluya.

[Affection.] Ah, my soule, the spouse of thy hart, who spent his harts blood for thy saluation, is risen againe, and appea∣res to manie for thy consolation; which though thou seest not, as they (the Apo∣stles &c.) did, with thy bodily eyes, yet

faith makes thee as sure of it as they were, that thy best friend, thy most pious Master thy dearest spouse is risen, liues, and rai∣gnes. If then thou hast indeed the hart of a friend; the dutie and tendernesse of a child, the ardent loue of a spouse, reioyce. my soule, reioyce and with exultation pay benediction and honour, and glorie, and power, to the tender lambe, who was slai∣ne for thy loue, for euer and euer, Amen.