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 ...

He commends his mother to S. Iohn, and S. Iohn to his mother.

2. Point.

Consider, that though the waters of bitternesse; and a sense of in∣ward sorrow had possessed his hart, yet did mildnesse, filiall care, dutie, and dearenesse still raigne therein: for with blubbered, bloodie, and dyeing eyes, espying his mother and the Disciple whom he loued, he said to his mother, pointing at S. Iohn, behold thy sonne, and then to his Disciple, behold thy Mother. O how heauenly loue is able to liue and raigne amidst our greatest anguishes! And where loue liues and raignes, what anguish is able to make vs faile of our dutie?

[Affect.] Obserue my soule, the order and dutie of charitie: Christs greatest care is his heauenly Fathers honour, and consequently he feeles the greatest tor∣ment where he findes it violated: and thence his first praiers are imployed for pardon for those that violate it, and his first pardon is granted to the good

theife that acknowledged him with a repentant hart. In the next place, he paies the honour which hee owes to his parents, and the loue which he owes to his friends, Mother behold thy sonne: Disciple, behold thy Mother. Thus are vve taught, my soule, to loue God incompa∣rably aboue all things, and to seeke his glo∣rie, euen before, and aboue the loue of our parents. Next vve are to loue and honour those authors of our beeing; and lastly to loue our friends and our neighbours, as our selues, &c.

[Resolution.] Zeale of Gods glorie &c. and loue of our parents.