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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
grace_n	help_n	jesus_n	row_v	30	3	16.3986	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B04950	The Virgin Mary misrepresented by the Roman Church in the traditions of that church, concerning her life and glory; and in the devotions paid to her, as the mother of God. Both shewed out of the offices of that church, the lessons on her festivals, and from their allowed authors. Part I. Wherein two of her feasts, her conception and nativity, are considered.	Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707.; Patrick, John, 1632-1695.	1688 (1688)	Wing P863A; ESTC R19085	135,709	190

c. 2. citante Novarino a great Author with them who lived above Four hundred Years ago makes this Observation That at least three times this Question is asked in the Canticles in the Person of the Angels Qua est ista Who is this And he imagines the Reason to be That they are desirous that the sweet Name of Mary may be answered to that Question For says he Angels desire that her Name should be mentioned and discovered and that it should not only be renowned in Heaven And if this Concern of theirs does not move us yet Gratitude to her when she her self is also concerned in it will not fail to do it To which Purpose they tell us That her beloved Hermannus whom she married m Barthol de los Rios Hierarch Marian. l. 5. c. 40. ex Surio vit Hermanni Apr. 5. Gononi Chron. Deip. p. 242. being distracted and hindred by Business and Cares of his Monastery grow more negligent and remis● in reciting her Offices and Hours that formerly to whom she appeared in the Shape of an old wither'd wrinkled Woman chiding him that now her Memory was grown old with him whereas formerly he named saluted and praised her a Thousand times Upon this Rebuke he resolved by commemorating her Joys and reciting her Ave's to make her young again which he did The Name of Mary says another n Barthol de los Rios ib. l. 6. c. 11. 20. is the best Image of her and more venerable than all her Reliques and Images He that does invoke her by this sweet Name attending to the Etymology thereof thou recite compendiously great Litanies of extraordinary Merit and Efficacy Poza o Elucidar l. 2. trac 17. c. 5. and others think that the Name of Mary as far as is expedient for our own and others Salvation does confer the Effect ●n opere operato by the Work done just as the Churches Exorcisms do and as many say the same of the Sign of the Cross and of the Name of Jesus From such Principles as these they fall into those heathenish Battologies and vain Repetitions which our Saviour condemns Matt 6.7 and their Prayers become in the Phrase of the Son of Syrach p Ecclus 7.14 much babling consisting of a nauseous Repetition of one and the same Name over and over again Of this the Reader may take a shameful Instance how they abuse in this manner the blessed Name of Jesus in that which they call Jesus Psalter q See Manual of godly Prayers at the end which consists of Fifteen Petitions with the Name of Jesus ten times or rather Thirty times reiterated before every one of the Petitions The Manner of reciting the Psalter of Jesus is as follows The First Petition 1. Jesu Jesu Jesu 2. Jesu Jesu Jesu 3. Jesu Jesu Jesu 4. Jesu Jesu Jesu 5. Jesu Jesu Jesu 6. Jesu Jesu Jesu 7. Jesu Jesu Jesu 8. Jesu Jesu Jesu 9. Jesu Jesu Jesu 10. Jesu Jesu Jesu Mercy The Second Petition 1. Jesu Jesu Jesu 2. Jesu Jesu Jesu 3. Jesu Jesu Jesu 4. Jesu Jesu Jesu 5. Jesu Jesu Jesu 6. Jesu Jesu Jesu 7. Jesu Jesu Jesu 8. Jesu Jesu Jesu 9. Jesu Jesu Jesu 10. Jesu Jesu Jesu Help me Third Petition 1. Jesu Jesu Jesu 2. Jesu Jesu Jesu And so on as before Strengthen me Fourth Petition 1. Jesu Jesu Jesu 2. Jesu Jesu Jesu c. Comfort me Fifth Petition 1. Jesu Jesu Jesu 2. Jesu Jesu Jesu c. Make me constant stable Sixth Petition 1. Jesu Jesu Jesu 2. Jesu Jesu Jesu c. Lighten me Seventh Petition 1. Jesu Jesu Jesu 2. Jesu Jesu Jesu c. Grant me Grace to dread thee Eighth Petition 1. Jesu Jesu Jesu 2. Jesu Jesu Jesu c. Grant me Grace to love thee Ninth Petition 1. Jesu Jesu Jesu 2. Jesu Jesu Jesu c. Give me Grace to remember my death Tenth Petition 1. Jesu Jesu Jesu 2. Jesu Jesu Jesu c. Send me here my Purgatory Eleventh Petition 1. Jesu Jesu Jesu 2. Jesu Jesu Jesu c. Grant me Grace to fly evil Company Twelfth Petition 1. Jesu Jesu Jesu 2. Jesu Jesu Jesu c. Give me Grace to call for Help to thee Thirteenth Petition 1. Jesu Jesu Jesu 2. Jesu Jesu Jesu c. Make me to persevere in Vertue Fourteenth Petition 1. Jesu Jesu Jesu 2. Jesu Jesu Jesu c. Give me Grace to fix my Mind on thee Fifteenth Petition 1. Jesu Jesu Jesu 2. Jesu Jesu Jesu 3. Jesu Jesu Jesu 4. Jesu Jesu Jesu c. As many times as the First Give me Grace to order my Life to thee Here you see an Hundred and Fifty Rows of the Name of Jesus which being Three in a Row make up Four hundred and Fifty which must be all pattered over before those few Words that make up the Fifteen Petitions are concluded There is no Atheist or Infidel who if he had a Design to turn Prayers into 〈◊〉 could more effectually do it than by such a Prescription as 〈◊〉 But we have not the worst of it yet For you must know that it is not the Petition and the Sence following this oft rep●…ted Name that is necessary but the N●… 〈◊〉 oft used without any thing else adjoined is that which they lay much Stress upon and which makes acceptable Devotion with them For thus I find in that Book of the Jesuit P. Barry r Le paradise Ouvert p. 166. The Author of 〈◊〉 is so fond of the Virgin 's Name that instead of Paul Barry he desired to be called Paul of S. Mary which contains an hundred Devotions to the blessed Virgin and is bought up for common Use as our Practise of Piety or the Whole Duty of Man for I observe Seventeen Editions of it in less than Thirty Years he gives this for one Often to pronounce the Name of Mary in imitation of a Japan Woman Concerning whom the Annals of the Jesuits report That in honour of a Deity which that Country worships called Amida she used to repeat that Name an Hundred and forty thousand times daily rising very early every Morning as she had need to perform this Task and being assisted by a familiar Spirit that awaked her This Woman was baptized An. 1621. And after she was a Christian changed this Superstition into Devotion and obliged herself in gratitude for her Conversion to pronounce every day as many times viz. a Hundred and forty thousand the sacred Names of Jesus and Mary and because now the Devil would come no more to awake her in the morning her Angel Guardian succeeded in that Office so pleasing to God says the Author was her Simplicity and Devotion This Worship so Japan and unparallell'd cannot he says be practised the Number is so great unless God give some special Grace However he advises his Philagie so he calls the devout Person he instructs to chuse a good round Number of Maries to repeat as a way to get Comfort