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 excessiue loue of God, shewen to man, in sending the holy Ghost. I. POINT.

CONSIDER with S. Augustine: that God the father moued by meere mer∣cie, sent his sonne to redeeme his seruants: he sent also the holy Ghost to adopt the sa∣me seruants into children. He gaue his son∣ne, for the price of their Ransome; the holy Ghost, for a pledge and assurance of his loue, and reserues himselfe all whole, for the inheritance of the adopted. So much did he desire mans saluation, that he imployed not only what was his; but euen himself also, to that effect.

[Affection.] Doe we beleeue this ô my soule? but doe we beleeue it indeede? That such a sonne was sent for such seruants? That seruants, and such seruants, were adopted into sonns? into coheires? into

the participation of the diuine nature? By the meere mercy of the Father? by the bloud of the sonne? by the loue of the ho∣ly Ghost? Doe we beleeue it, I say? yes yes, we beleeue it, my soule. We dare not we cannot deney it. Credo Domine, we be∣leeue it, ô Lord, yet helpe our incredu∣litie in this behalfe. We beleeue it in words, and in hart too; but our actions, our gratitude, our loue, speake it not, confirme it not to the world. For to whom should all the redeemed slaues actions be∣long, but to his deare Redeemour? Vpon whom should all his loue be sett, but vpon one that so loues him? And to whom should he reserue himselfe wholy, but to the God of heauen who reserues himselfe wholy for him?