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A18388 The garden of our B. Lady. Or A deuout manner, how to serue her in her rosary. Written by S.C. of the Society of Iesus Chambers, Sabine, 1560?-1633. 1619 (1619) STC 4955; ESTC S107949 68,766 292

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yea euen his death For hauing sayd It is consummated bowing downe his head he gaue vp the Ghost 2. Consider also with S. Chrysostome these words to haue bin sayd in regard of the power of those who had crucified him which was now consummated and ended Rom. 6. Mors ei vltra non dominabitur death shall no more insult ouer him He is freed from his laborious pilgrimage and brought againe vnto that glory which he most willingly left for our redemption The greatest sacrifice of all is now offered and consummated in which sacrifice the Priest was both God and man the Altar was the Crosse the Lambe the sacrifice the fire of this sacrifice was Charity and the fruite of it the Redemption of the world 3. Since we haue seene the exact fulfilling of the prophesies before Christ and that by this very word It is consummated all that was foretold was verified why are we so incredulous of those things which are to come and are foretold by Christ himselfe and his Prophets We haue heard of the generall punishment by water Gen. 7. and in the time of Nöe it was executed 2. Petr. We heare daily of the worlds consuming by fire at the later day and yet we liue as if we beleeued it not and with such greedines imbrace those things which if we liue to those times shal be taken out of our armes by consuming fire 4. As thou hast meditated before with holy S. Chrysostome that by this word It is consummated was vnderstood the consummation of that wearisome and dolorous pilgrimage of Christ So here consider that although it were most panifull yet it lasted but thirty three yeares a moment in regard of Eternity in which he shall possesse perpetuall ioyes The Iewes triumphed for an houre as it were ouer Iesus Iudas had an houre of content in his auarice Pilate enioyed for an houre the friendship of Augustus but how many yeares haue these already bin punished for that houres false contentment and yet their torments shal neuer end Let vs thinke them most happy who from their youth take vp the Crosse of Christ and seeke thus meritoriously to be afflicted as long they can in this life since the passions of this time so short transitory Rom. 8. are not condigne to the glory to come that shal be reuealed in vs. 5. By this word It is consummated is vnderstood the victory which Christ made ouer hell the infernall spirites when by his victorious death he tooke mankind out of the Diuels power arming vs with his grace against all assaults Since Christ our glorious Redeemer hath so vanquished our ennemy and as it were taken his sting from him why do we so often yeild our selues vnto one who is so weake hauing him on our side whose very name putteth him to flight Since so many by thy assistance of Christ Iesus our Captaine haue giuen this enemy so many ouerthrowes why should we feare why should we doubt but to be able to do the like hauing the like helpes 6. Conuince thine vnderstanding with this former argument Lib. 8. Confes c. 11. as S. Augustin did placing before himselfe many Saintes who had giuen this ouerthrow to the enemy and among the rest he set before him diuers tender Virgins and sayd vnto himselfe Why canst not thou do what these and these haue done These and these could not haue dōe these things without the help of their Lord and God Heere say vnto thine enemy It is consummated thou shalt haue no more power in me since all thy power proceedeth from my selfe no man receauing wounds but from his owne hands THE SEAVENTH VVORD Pater in manus tuas cōmendo spiritum meum Father into thy hands I commend my spirit CHAP. VII THAT our redeemer Iesus endured all these afflictiōs most voluntarily A meditation for Saturday not by constraint or violently forced is most euident since he needed not haue suffered vnles he would therefore if euer action were free this was it the which in no part was forced and the more free it was the more it bindeth vs to loue him to deale also more freely with him that dealt thus freely with vs. And that these sufferings proceeded out or a naturall propension he had to suffer for vs appeareth out of his manner of suffering for he endured most for vs in the end of his passion In finem dilexit nos Ioan. 13. he loued vs to the end there receauing more paines for vs then euer The condition of al naturall motion is to be greater in the end then in the beginning which proueth well to our purpose for the Euangelist here recordeth Luc. 23. that Iesus cryed out with a loud voice which before he was not wont to do Father into thy hands I commend my spirit and saying this he gaue vp the Ghost 1. Consider the literall sense of these words he saith Father and with great right because he was his obedient Sonne euen vnto death Into thy hands that is vnto thine vnderstanding knowing al things and vnto thy will able to do all thngs I do commend as it were giuing vnto thee as a depositum or pledge that it may be restored me when due time shall come My spirit that is my corporall life which I recommend vnto thee My Father that thou wilt shortly restore it to my body which now it leaueth 2. Consider why our Sauiour shewed this care of his body recommending vnto his heauenly Father his spirit that it might not long leaue the body destitute Our Sauiour was not sollicitous for his soule for he knew that was already most blessed and needed none to defend it he only had care of that which had need of care teaching vs to prouide and be sollicitous for that part of vs which requireth our care to wit our soule by often recōmending it into the hands of him who created it and without whose helping grace it would degenerate stray from that end vnto which it was created As for our bodies the least care is to be had since do we what we can they will fall into dust The end of pampering our bodies and the more we pamper them the greater banquets we make for wormes and perhaps fuell for hell-fire 3. Let vs contemplate vpon the wonderfull accidents which happened immediatly after these words were pronounced Matt. 27. And behold the Veyle of the Temple was rent in two peces from the toppe euen to the bottome by which was signified the opening of heauen vnto mankind the Veyle that tooke from vs the beholding of the Holy of Holies being rent in two and man made capable of the blessed vision of God It was rent from the toppe to the bottome to shew that this holy vision of God was granted to all from the highest to the lowest but as our Sauiour saith There are many māsions in the house of my Father Iohn 14. which signifieth the
seuere and impartiall iudge not as an indulgent Redeemer 6. Lastly returne with these disciples to Hierusalem and imitating their vnion in spirit expect the comming of the Holy Ghost If thou desire to know Gods holy will retire thy selfe as they did and in this inward attention vnto the voice of thy Sauiour perseuere praying to know his diuine will and no doubt but he will impart it vnto thee Luke 12. which when thou knowest put it in practise otherwise the imputatiō of knowing the will of thy maister and not performing it will lye heauy vpon thee The comming of the holy Ghost CHAP. XIII YOV haue seene in the precedent mystery what diligent preparation these holy followers of Christ made The third glorious Mistery to the end they might be more fit vessels to receaue the holy Ghost And besides the former points of their peace and vnity amongst themselues and retyring from the conuersation of the world it is moreouer specified in holy Scripture that the better to make this retirement of theirs Act. 1. They went vp into an vpper chamber Of which words I would haue thee a pious interpreter and to imagine this vpper roome to be the superiour part of the foure to wit thy reason in which thou must dwell whensoeuer thou desirest to know the will of God neuer staying below in the sensuall part which in such a busines serueth for nothing but to blind thine vnderstanding Let thy sense be commanded by reason and it will presently teach thee that God is to be serued before the world and the Creatour before the Creature 1. Consider at the comming of the holy Ghost There was made ● sound from heauen Act 2. as of a vehement wind comming by which noyse The povver of the holy Ghost thou mayest consider the power of the holy Ghost which as it oftentimes st rreth vp in vs great conflicts betweene our owne peruerse nature and Gods Grace that offereth to enter into it so also it maketh vs most valiant and constant in the seruice of Almighty God and the maintayning of his glory the sound pre-figuring vnto vs the difficulties which outwardly may arise by the constant profession of his holy name 2. Most fitly is the comming of the holy Ghost expressed by fier the signe of loue and charity the holy spirit proceeding from the Father and the Sonne by a feruorous act of loue Neuer resist this holy spirit which will breath diuine loue into thy soule separating thine affections from earthly things 3. No sooner had these fiery tongues lighted vpon the heades of these holy disciples but with the gift of tongues which was then infused into them they doe speake of the great workes of God Imitate the feruour of these and let neuer the grace of God be void in th e 1. Cor. 15. but put in practise those giftes which God hath giuen thee by vsing them sincerely in his seruice 4. Consider how vncapable of spirituall things those are who measure all things by the conceit of the world this gift of tongus is interpreted in the Apostles to proceed from madnes or from some excesse committed Let not the fond interpretation of the world hinder thee from the seruice of God for if the Crosse of Christ were as the Apostle saith to the Gentils a foolishnes and euen to the very Iewes a scand●ll 1 Cor. 1. neuer be detected if the world laugh at thy proceedings which it vnderstandeth not Matt. 10. for the disciple must not place himselfe aboue his Maister 5. The cooperation of these holy disciples with the grace of God was such as they were all replenished with the holy Ghost working miracles in the face of Hierusalem Act. 5. and their very shadowes were potent to heale infirmities At the gate of the Temple S. P●ter giueth an almes of health to a lame creature from his Natiuity Act. 3. Act. 2. He conuerteth three thousand at his first Sermon See of what great vertue the holy spirit is without which neither in thy selfe nor in others thou canst make conuersions 6. Beholding with thy selfe attentiuely how this spirit is attained vnto how necessary it is to haue it and how easily it is lost make resolutions in thy soule fit for one who hath this spirit knowing it giueth life vnto thine actiōs and abhorre sinne that expelleth it The Assumption of our B. Lady CHAP. XIIII The fourth glorious Mystery Cant. 8. BEHOLD this glorious Virgin ascending Flowing in delightes leaning vpon her beloued with all contemplate vpon our B. Sauiours tender affection towards his dearest Mother requiting as it were her loue who in his infancy was borne in her blessed armes and leaned vpon her now he assisting her in this glorious triumph beares her vp towards the place of her Eternal Happines 1. Thou mayst here consider the happy passage of this B. Virgin out of this life feare not by considering this death to fall back vnto sorrowfull mysteries since death is heere glorious how the Apostles dispersed through the whole world were miraculously brought togeather to be at this glorious departure of the mother of God Togeather with the Apostles were also there present S. Denis Dionys ad Timeth Damas de dormit Deip. S. Timothy Disciple vnto S. Paul and S. Hierotheus Ponder the excessiue ioy of these Saintes behoulding the troupes of Angels attending the instant of her happy soules departure ready to accompany it into heauen No griefe could heere enter since all things gaue arguments of ioy and those teares that fell from the Apostles when the B. Virgin made her last pathetical speach vnto them were teares of comfort and consolation 2. As S. Denis writeth the B. Virgin ending this mortall life and beginning an immortall Ep●st ad T m●th S. Thomas was absent and comming to Hierusalem three dayes after her departure all which time S. Denis saith that himselfe with the rest heard most melodious harmony of Angels and vnderstanding she was buryed in Gethsemani requested he might behold her dead whome he was vnfortunate in not seeing to dye 3. And to satisfy the deuotiō of S. Thomas they opened the monument ib d. which breathed forth most sweet sauours Consider the antiquity of this holy tradition and finding the body taken away they al firmely beleeued it was also by the hands of Angels carryed into heauen and reunited to her glorious soule this priuiledge being but cōformable to the rest with which she was indued in her life 4. As in this so in other verities reuerēce the authority of Traditions in the Catholike Church which hath deuoted it selfe euen from the Apostles time vnto this glorious mystery of the Assumption of the mother of God 5. Consider the true resignation of this holy company assembled at the blessed departure of the mother of God al of them bearing that respect vnto her liuing as they now doubted not to find her in heauen a most carefull