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, that the holy Ghost comes to be the Soule of our Soule, and to furnish vs with all things necessa∣rie to the perfection of our spirituall life, euen as the soule of our bodie giues force to the great diuersitie of the functions and actions of the senses, and faculties of the said soule, as farre as is necessarie to our naturall life; for what want wee which this Spirit brings not? If light and knowledge of truth. He is truth it-selfe. If strength. He is power itselfe. If heate. He is a con∣suming fire. Are we sicke? he is the Phi∣sitian and the Phisicke. Is the cause of our eternall reconcilement to be pleaded be∣fore the dreadfull Tribunall of Gods Ma∣iestie? He is our Aduocate. Are we op∣pressed with temptations and tribulations? he is our comforter, our Deus & omnia, our God, who is to vs, all things.

[Affection.] It is not, it is not from this body of ours, that the same body hath

life, motion, action, and vigour, but from the soule, without which it remaynes an vnprofitable bulke of corruption. Nor is it from the soule, that the soule liues, re∣members, vnderstands, wills, but from God who is the life of the soule. Nor doth it euer liue, vnderstand, or will any thing profitably, but by his grace diffused into our hartes by the holy Ghost. Come, then oh come then, thou holy Spirit, and be our light, our truth, our fortitude, our fire, our salue, our Phisitian and cure. Proue our second Aduocate to the hea∣uenly Father, togeither with that deare Lord of ours, who both merited thy sen∣ding, and graciously sent thee. Proue our comforter in our tribulations, tempta∣tions &c. Proue finally our God, and our all.