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 POINTE.

CONSIDER, how our sweete Sauiour to animate poore sinners to pennan∣ce, doth not onely admitt them into his companie, eate with them, and pleade their cause against the Scribes and Phari∣sies; but doth further make appeare vnto them, by a familiar example (common to them, and all the world) of a shepharde that leauing ninetie-nine, that is the whole heard, seemes to imploy his greatest care to finde out, the poore sheepe which had strayd from the rest (he makes appeare I say) that this proceeding of his is so litle lyable to censure, that contrarily, it is

h••ld most laudable, and is ordinarily vsed by euery one.

[Affection.] Take courage then, my soule, and all Christian soules, and approche confidently to our good Iesus. He comes not now a Iudge, but a Sauiour, a com∣panion, an Aduocate, to pleade the poore sinners cause against the proude. God sent not his sonne into the world to iudge the world but that the world may be saued by him. He lea∣ues the ninetie-nine iuste, that is, the whole troupes of the Angells, to seeke after poore man who had strayed, who had pro∣digall-like deboistly spent his substance in a forraine land, and without so strange a mercy had bene lost for euer.