In these Wordes the B. VIRGIN discouereth the manner of our rejoicing in God, * 1.1 nothing fiue Conditions of this Ioye to make it pure, and perfect. For first, [ 1] wee are not to place our principall Ioye, and Alacritye in corporall thinges, but in things spirituall: [ 2] nor so much in giftes receiued, as in the giuer of Giftes who is God himselfe. [ 3] And allbeeit we are to rejoice in God, as he is our Creator; yet principally as he is our Sauiour, and Sanctifyer: for in this sorte he is the fountaine of spirituall Alacritye, which is founded vpon the Saluation of the Soule sanctified by Gods grace. [ 4] And this loye is principally to consist in the Spirit, or superiour parte of the Soule, that it may be the more pure from all, that tasteth of fleshe, as the sensuall Ioye of the Bodye vseth to doe: allbeeit some∣times the Ioye of the spirit redoundeth likewise into the fleshe, * 1.2 according to that of Dauid: My Hearte, and my Fleshe reioiced in the liuing God.
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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Finally, [ 5] our Spirit is not to reioice in itselfe, as if it had thorough it owne merites those giftes for which it reioiceth, but our Ioye is to bee in God our Sauiour, who gaue them vnto vs, and vpon whome our ioye is to rest, as saithe the Prophet Dauid: My Soule shall reioice in our Lorde, * 1.3 and shallbee delighted in our Sauiour. Such was the Ioye of the blessed VIRGIN, who at this instant behelde our Sauiour whome shee bare in her Wombe, and rapt with his exceeding Loue, shee saide: My Spirit hath reioiced in God my Sauiour.
O my Soule, exalt thyselfe aboue thyselfe in Spirit like the VIRGIN, and reioice purely in Christ thy Sauiour, placing in him only all thy Alacritye. * 1.4 If thou desirest Ioye, reioice in God, and hee shall fullfill the desires, and petitions of thy hearte, that thy ioye may bee full, and that none may depriue thee of it, vntill at last thou maiest enter into the eternall ioye of thy Lorde.
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* 1.1
The man¦ner of re∣joicing in God.
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* 1.2
Psal. 83.3 & 15.9.
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* 1.3
Psal. 34.9
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* 1.4
Psal. 36.4 Ioan. 16.32.24. Matt. 25.21.23