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 I. Motiue. Of reuerence, and feare, &c. I. POINT.

CONSIDER the greatnesse of his Maiestie whom we are to receiue, whose essence or beeing is ineffable. It cannot be expressed by any definition be∣cause it transcends or outstripps all thin∣ges. He's a bottomelesse sea, and none is able to sound it, saith Salomon: His iudgements are incomprehensible: his wayes not to be found out, saith S. Paule, He's higher then the Hea∣uens, and what will you doe? deeper then Hell, and how should you know him, saith Iob. And yet he is that, then which nothing is either greater, or better concludes S. Augusti∣ne, with all the world.

[Affection.] If the blessing I am about to

receiue, from thy bountifull liberalitie; ô Lord, be so excessiue greate that workes cannot reach it, that words cannot speake it, that thoughtes cannot comprehend it, or euen arriue to it. If sight, taste, and touche be all deceiued in it, and bring in euidence of bread onely, what rests but in∣fallible faith which comes into our ayde, assuring that it is God indeede which we re∣ceiue, who is so the greatest that he is immensitie it selfe, and so the best that he is goodnesse it selfe, a vaste Ocean which can neuer be sounded, and so leaues vs (as it were) in that blessefully vnsatisfactorie satisfaction, that a Christian hart is capa∣ble of more happines, then it hath capa∣citie to comprehend. Prone layd then in our owne incapacitie, and miserie, let vs feare, reuerence, and loue that immense Maiestie, which we haue the happines to receiue into our breastes, but haue not power to comprehend it.