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The fourth Meditation. Of the Life of our blessed LADIE vntill the Incarnation: VVherein is treated of her Natiuitye: her Presen∣tation in the Temple: and her Be∣trothing to S. Ioseph.
The first Pointe.
FIrst, I am to consider, how the nine Mo∣neths after the Conception of the Virgin beeing accomplished, shee was borne in the house of her Parents to the ioye of the whole Worlde; according to the saying of the Church; Pondering the ioye of the most holy Trinitye in seeing the birth of this his beloued Childe, by whome hee intended to worke things so glo∣rious for his owne Glorye, and our Benefit. And therefore it is to bee beleued, that vpon that day hee communicated to the Angells of heauen, and to the Righteous on earthe, and to the holy Fathers in Limbus a newes of accidentall Alacritye, (allbeit all knewe not the cause there∣of) as a Prognostication of the Ioy that they should receiue by the comming of God into the Worlde, whose Mother that Childe was to bee: as the birth of the Morning causeth a certaine kinde of ioy, and solace in liuing Creatures, because it is a token of the rising of the sun. For if many reioiced at the natiuitye of S. Iohn, because hee was the Day-starre, and fore-runner of Christe: many more doubtlesse reioiced at the Birth of the blessed VIRGIN, who was to bee his mother. And with this consideration, I will