t The Virgin may not be toomuch honored ofany, y,-,ndayinLent. Ser.t 8. 399 Nok t.Pfaij fc%cta*he:teat:0kAÇi àeaCet. Shoereckonsdtheeteasagreat bleffiagto the -Virgizt tfbe4vaatheuaothei~t fvch:aSon;r ,ishisan epitomeof all her praifes and ellencies. TheEuangelift''fay tro none; becaufeall that may befaid-chfher;iscontained inthis oneword, Mother: _ And becarafe;ibme h_lafphemous iterfemsbad taken+this name fromher, in. the general' Ephefine Councell; c¢lebraaediatheti efof Pope. Celefiineand 7heedafiur the Emperor, whereat were pre nt'two hundered Bifhops; it was concluded, -That the taufthlelTedVirgiafliouldbe.called7heatocöa; thasis, Themother of God ; for that ourSauiotrn.iasboth.GodsSonneandhers;hauinghis filiation from then both::'. The timewas iikew.iladefned iti tdme Calcedinnianceotmeell,.vnder Leo thetwelfth. Si that t he fainedrIoly-Ghbfi;which aflittedthere Councells, had prompted alfoxhiswomanS:totagite. Saint erzarddfaith;' That thixgreatname Theetocos is thegreaxift thisAáttiheladie hath,orcan haue.Andbecaùfe thename of Mother of.f.cidsmayfeànr idetractfomthing.from theföte omnipotencie ofGod, fromhisgoodneffe;fronihiswifedome, &all other his excellent and fxtgular artribittesrpleitraenmight finneici ouerpraifing her.,&giuing too'much .v:ntoherinthat itindEpiphiietito4tith, Itwasdfitthat Heauenfhould put a.raske and atye vponthisour tongues:#eaft it ihoul'tdlath out toe, farce. And therefore her.Sonne wneahe.was.upòathe Croffe; and tooke his lait farewell ofhis mo- ther,hePaidveto her,Woman;beholdehy f nne; giuing her thatname,rather than ofMotherileaft foalíuperítitious peoplemightattribute the Diuhenaturevn- taher,and forob-Godof hishonour. And the6ref s which then haftfuckt . Shepraifeth her wombeand her brefts.. Thereare two thingsentertaineaTweet correfpondencie ; awoman - concepti- oninherwónibe,andthe manifeftation thereof in, her brefts. Iuft. fa. doth it fucceed withtheSoule,init'sconceptionof God,and the,breftdithe iuft Man, .Who thereupondothmanifefi thegueftthat lodgeththere. Betweene the Vine and theWine there is that good correfpondencie, thatthe flouresofthe Grape participatingof it's fweetneffe, fendsforthamolt pleafantodour. So likewife when thefloures of Chrift beginne tobud in theSoule, the breft ofMan doth ftreightway thereupon breath forth amolt fweet andredolent odour. Beattcs 'venter, Bleffed is thewombe. . Thiswas Mans firnt Heauen; the 661 place wherein God beltowed this his greateft happineffeand bleflingvpon Man. Iris ahappineffe toMan when his Vnderftanding fees God, andwhenhis Willloues him, takingpleafure therein as.in,his chiefeft good. Now,the firft eyes thatlawGod, and the firnt will that foued God,and placedhis ioy&delight therein,was that of our Sagior Chrift; and Maries wombebeing the receptacle ofthis happineffe, it came tobee mans f rft Heauen. ThefrFt Adamwar earthly, becaufformedofearth ; thefecond,heauen- ly.beeaufefermedof Heauen. Before this time he had no Pet habitation For hee dwelt notin any houfefom theday that hebrought the Children of¡fael outof .gyps, c. His gloriewas reprefentedin Tabernacles &Tents, poore Pallaces,ywiffe; for God : Salomondid better it withhisTemple,which Fabtickwas the worlds wonder;but not foworthie God,that oureyes could feehim; we11 might our willbe good. Butthis moft bleffed Virgin had fitted and prepared fo rich a temple for him inher womb,that God himfelfcamedown todwel ehere.Some feemeto doubt,or rather wonder, why God fhould fo long deferre his cont- ra-Litwin the flefb. He ftayd fo long, that the Holy-Ghott might prepare and drell'e Chri as con- ception in the hea[ , is pre, featlydifo. tiered.
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