This Worde Ecce. Beholde, the Scripture vseth to denote, or to signifye some greate thing worthy of much Consideration, and the Angell vsed it in the beginning of his Embassage, saying: Ecce concipies, Be holde, thou shallt conceiue a Sonne. And therefore also would the most holy VIR∣GIN vse the same in her aunswere, saying: Ecce Ancilla Domini. Beholde the Handmaide of our Lorde for as the Angell had greate Desiers, that our blessed LADYE the VIRGIN should ponder the Greatenesses, which hee promised her from God: so the Virgin had as greate Desiers, that the Angell should ponder how meane, and lowely a Handmaide shee was of herselfe, and how feruent longings shee had to obey, whatsoeuer God commaunded her. For the Humble, when the giftes they haue of God are published, doe very earnestly desire that the miseries should bee knowen, which they haue of themselues: that those Giftes bee not attri∣buted to their owne merittes, but to the bounty of him that gaue them, to whome they desier
Meditations vppon the mysteries of our holy faith with the practise of mental praier touching the same composed in Spanish by the R.F. Luys de la Puente ... ; and translated into English by F. Rich. Gibbons ...
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- Meditations vppon the mysteries of our holy faith with the practise of mental praier touching the same composed in Spanish by the R.F. Luys de la Puente ... ; and translated into English by F. Rich. Gibbons ...
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- Puente, Luis de la, 1554-1624.
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"Meditations vppon the mysteries of our holy faith with the practise of mental praier touching the same composed in Spanish by the R.F. Luys de la Puente ... ; and translated into English by F. Rich. Gibbons ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/B15418.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 5, 2024.
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to bee very thankefull, and therefore very obedient.