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 ...

2. Point.

Consider that Pilate ha∣uing bene petitioned, giues vp the body to Iosephe: Iosephs care takes it downe from the Crosse, and bestowes à sydon, or fine white linen sheete: Nicodemus contributes many pounds of oyntments, to witt, mixed mirre and aloes: the body is imbalmed therwith, and wound vp in Iosephs syndon, according to the iewes rites. His mournefull mother Marie bestowes more hartie sorowe and compassion, then any tongue can speake. or any hart but her owne (that is the hart of a mother, and such a mother, the mother of a God) can con∣ceiue: who as in that name she farre surpasses all other creatures, in digni∣tie, consanguinitie and neerenesse to her sonne, so also in loue, and conse∣quently in compassion and sorrowe. The desolate louing Magdalene and her companions, their familiar tea∣res:

and Ioseph putts the adorable body in his owne new Monument, cutt in the side of a rocke, and shutts it vp, with a great stone.

[Affect.] Thus, my soule, haue we at length gott to an end of a wearisome procession. Thus haue our sinnes layd the God of heauen and earth, in the bosome of the earth. Thus haue our hard hartes lodged him in a rocke, at whose voyce the very rockes burst in sunder. Ah, my soule, this hard world, at his first entrie lodged him in a rocke, and a rocke too must receiue him at his going out. O deare Master! Let it be this rockie hart of myne, that may haue the happines, to afford thee this last lodging: or at least, may I be lodged with thee, be the rocke neuer so hard; that I may truly be according to the Apostles expression, consepultus cum Christo, buried togeither with Christ, neuer to ryse againe, but with him, in newnesse of life. O that my hart (as it sympathises too neerely with this Mo∣nument in hardnesse) had also the rest of its qualities. O that it were yet in its primitiue newnesse and puritie. O

that it had neuer bene prepossessed by any creature. But alas, alas! it fares not so. It hath bene too longe▪ and too easely prostituted to the worlds allure∣ments, to the Diuells suggestions. It hath bene but too too peruious to all approches, and remayned onely a rocke to thy holy inspirations, to thy heauenly instructions, to any true sense of thy excessiue torments and sorrowes.