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 ...

CONSIDER, that heauen is not fur∣ther remoued from the earth, then the wayes of the world are distāt from the wayes of God, and mans cogitations from Gods. Men thinke their greatnesse will be mistaken, vnlesse they testifie it by the ma∣gnificence of their garments, and their vast traynes of horse and men. The sonne of God, contrarily, comes in the name of our Lord with two or three poore fisher∣men, mounted vpon an Asse, in the onely day of his tryumphe, and in that abiect∣nesse finds his glorie, and euen in that is ackdowledged to be the true Messias or kinge.

[Affection.] If our desires be honour and glorie; my soule, let vs not feare to pur∣sue them; so it be by the way which our Sauiour taught vs, not by those of the world which leade quite contre, and seduce vs. The world seekes honour by high and

glorious wayes; and the more he pursues it, the more it flyes him. Christ walkes on in humble and abiecte wayes, and it co∣mes to meete him. He is saluted with noe Hosannas in Ierusalem till he haue first humbled himselfe to ride vpon an Asse; nor will he enter into his birth-right in the heauenly Ierusalem till he haue humbled himselfe to death, and that, the infamous death of the Crosse. Let abiectnesse then, my soule, be thy honour; foolishnesse thy wisdome, and the infamie of the Crosse thy glorie.