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 ...

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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 ...
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Carre, Thomas, 1599-1674.
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Printed at Paris :: By Vincent Dv Movtier,
1665.
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Jesus Christ -- Meditations.
Mary, -- Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Meditations.
Jesus Christ -- Passion -- Early works to 1800.
Meditations.
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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A54916.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.

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COnsider that as Christs loue, and the iewes malice, goe on and increase euen till death, so rest

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they not there, but euen out-liue death it selfe. He is now subiect to noe more paines, his soule being departed, yet he is subiect to more iniuries; his dead body is capable of more wounds, markes of more malice in them, and more dearenesse in him, to whom nothing happened by accident. Yet thy malice profits thee not. ô cruell Iewe. since thou hurtest not him, and thou profitest me. All thinges concurre to the aduan∣tage of those, that loue him whom you hate.

[Affect.] Ah, deare Lord, thy charitie is boundlesse. It leades thee with ioy to death (for ioy being proposed vnto him, he sustayned the Crosse, saith S. Paule) It victoriously raignes in death, and ouer death. It out-liues death. Ah was it not enough to haue payd the first droppe of thy pretious bloud, which was more then sufficient to haue redee∣med a thousand worlds, vnlesse thou payedst the laste droppe too? O too too plentifull a price! O too too diui∣nely deare, and prodigall a loue! which payes an infinitie of millions more then is due; prouing Christs loue, to be in∣comparably

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greater then the Iewes ma∣lice; and his mercy, infinitly out-spea∣king mans miserie.

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