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 FIRST MEDITATION FOR THE SECONDE SVNDAY IN LENT.

He brought them (to wit Peter, Iames, and Iohn into a high mountaine, and was transfigured before them. Matth. 17.

THE FIRST POINTE.

CONSIDER, that as all, who are alreadie saued from the be∣gining of the world, or shall be saued to the end therof, were to be saued by faith in Christ, it was most necessarie that the said faith, should be most firmely established. His huma∣nitie, was alreadie made too too credi∣ble, by his natiuitie, by his teares, by his bloode in his circumcision, by his suf∣fering of heate and cold &c. It onelie rested then, that his diuinitie should be made good by some conuincing argu∣ments: And to demonstrate this, he as∣cends into the Mount Thabor with Pe∣ter, Iames, and Iohn, and is transfigured

in their sight; that is, he takes another forme vpon him (his face appearing as resplendant as the sunne) to giue them, and vs, a scantling, or foretaste of his glorie.

[Affection.] Must we not needs confesse then, ô my soule, that the good Master of the vineyard, leaues nothinge vndone to his vineyard, which might conduce to its aduantage? We haue found him man, he hath conuersed amongst vs, like one of vs. We haue heard his cryes; we ha∣ue seene his teares, we haue beheld his blood: But now we see the face of the same man, as bright as the sunne, trans∣porting the harts of the three Apostles with heauenly rauishments. We must needs then with the Apostles, firmely beleeue in hart, and professe with our mouthes, that he is truly the sonne of the li∣uing God, whom we hartily adore.

THE SECONDE POINTE

CONSIDER that the prouidence and goodnesse of God, euidences this most important truth of Christs diuini∣tie, beyond all exception, by causing it to be testified by all kinds of most re∣prochlesse

witnesses. By the whole old lawe in the person of Moyses the Law∣giuer. By the prophecies in Elias, that diuine Prophete. By the new lawe or Gospell, in Peter Iames and Iohn: fi∣nally by God almightie himselfe by a voyce out of à bright cloud which ouer∣shawed them (the Apostles) saying (with much terrour to them, who fall downe vpon their faces) This is my belo∣ued sonne, in whom I am well pleased.

[Affection.] If, according to S. Paule, My soule, in the mouth of two or three witnesses euery truth shall stand: how firmely and inuiolably ought this truth to stande engrauen in all Christian hartes, which hath such clouds of witnesses to attest it; where young and old; heauen and earth; God and man conspire togei∣ther to putt vs out of all doubt that our Iesus is the beloued sonne of God the Father, in whom he is well pleased. And therfor with our whole soule, we ioyne with the whole Court of heauen, and adore that onely begotten, who dyed for vs, and esteemed it noe stelth to be equall to his heauenly father.