forasmuch as JESVS mediates as well by his Nature and Substance as by his Office and Operation being God and Man in One Person then because he pays a condign Price to the fullness of our Debt and not only prays for us also that he pleads in virtue of his own Merits not in right of Adoption but of Filiation whereas the Mediation of holy Mary is only by way of Supplication Conc. Chalced. act 11. Synod 6. c. 7. originally depending on her Adoption by preserving Grace through Gods free Gift and Christs foreseen Merits though with pre-eminence to all Pure Creatures and therefore to a most sublime degree of insuring our Hopes Protecting our Persons and obtaining Gods Mercies by the Efficacy of her Prayers according to the proportion of that Her pre-eminent acceptableness LVIII Neither doth Gods absolute Soveraignty over all Creatures unquestionable Power to relieve all their wants and Miseries and Fatherly invitation of All to come to Him and to plead at the Bar of his Mercies make void that Duty of Servitude all owe to their Betters according to the several degrees of their Civil or Sacred preference or restrain that charming force of the Mediation of the Saints in their sub-ordinate Stations of Glory which Christ allows to the Prayers of Sinners however detestable through their Crimes and Rebellions against God or absolutely interdict our Addresses to God by his Favourites considering on the one side the awfulness of Gods Majesty and mans unworthiness by sin and on the other all the due Qualifications of glorious Creatures to obtain of God what through the Merits of JESVS we petition by Them either from the reflection on our own Demerits or from the efficacy of our Communion with them in our Requests For which Reason the great Apostle of the Gentiles thought it not in the least to derogate from the Absolute Dominion of God the Efficacy of his Power or the condescendency of his Fatherly Care for us when with repeated Instances he begs his Converts to pray to God for Him Rom. 15.30 Eph. 6.19 Col. 4.3 1 Thes 5.25 Hebr. 13.18 Much less can it Eclipse the Majesty and Lustre of Gods Royalties that Sinners conscious of their unworthiness and dreading Gods Holiness humbly Venerate and Pray to Holy Mary to offer up her Requests unto Her so gracious Father Son and Spouse for our relief since Gods excessive Love hath so copiously qualifi'd Her with the most sublime Prerogatives of her Divine Maternity and a proportion'd Innocency and Holiness whereby to render Her Person and Petitions more acceptable to himself and her Devotes more active in their Addresses and more confident of success in their humble and reasonable Suits This is a Demonstration drawn from the Intrinsick Merits of the Cause and frequently insisted upon by the Holy Fathers in their Doctrine and Practice concerning this super-eminent Sacred and Religious Worship of holy Mary Though still with an indispensable subordination to and dependency on JESVS the Son of the eternal God our Soveraign Mediator and Peace-maker and the head spring of all our Hopes and of all Mercy Grace and Glory and also of the several sub-ordinate degrees of the acceptableness of the Saints in their Petitions to God for us and consequently of that first Rank the holy Mother of JESVS challenges thereby in the Hierarchy of our glorious Petitioners and of all those superlative Praises Titles of honour Marks of internal Worship and Mediation of Intercession asserted and practic'd in our Innocent Contemplations 1. as Pious in giving due Veneration to a glorified Creature of her Excellent Stile and Grandeur without offence to the God of all Grace and Glory 2. And useful by inviting all the Disciples of JESVS to worship God so glorious in the Queen of Saints and Angels and to seek Mercy from JESVS through the powerful Mediation of the holy Mother of JESVS Sect. XV. That the Exaltation of the Holy Mother of JESUS above all the Choires of glorified Creatures renders not the Contemplations useless to Christians LIX HAving clearly evidenc'd from the true Motive Rule and proper End of the Worship of the Saints That our Catholick Devotions address'd to Them and upon more pressing Arguments super-eminently due to the holy Mother of JESVS can no way prejudice the undispensable Right Measure and terminative Object of our Divine Worship due to God and to Him only and moreover that they are Pious in themselves due to the Saints and useful to the needy humble and confident Petitioner I shall finish this Apology with a further Illustration of two Material Points First That the transcendent Glory of the holy Mother of JESUS above all the Choires of Saints and Angels can be no just Plea against the use and benefit of the Contemplations Secondly That the Contemplations are only a Continuation of the Ancient Practice of the Catholick Church recommended unto us by the Consent and Tradition of the Holy Fathers through all past Ages LX. As to the first Position The Opposers of the Contemplations do allow first That the Saints in Heaven do pray for us here on Earth then That Sinners may also pray unto the Saints still their Fellow-Citizens in this World wherefore thirdly if the glorious Saints in Heaven can know by any Means the Requests we Sinners here make to them It will demonstratively follow That it is both lawful and beneficial to invocate those glorious Citizens of Heaven Gods Favourites and our Friends To the same intent that they now pray for us and after the same manmer we now pray to the yet living Members of Christ LXI Now That it is possible The Saints in Heaven should know our Petitions here made to Them seems easily enough conceivable without giving those glorious Creatures either a Divine Being or a Con-subsistence in a Divine Person or any Divine Attribute of All-presence or All-knowingness First from the Amplitude of Gods Power to which we must allow some Operations whose Means and Methods the most subtile created Capacity comprehends not especially Mans by Nature or Sin confin'd to sensible and sublunary Productions as is manifest in the System of the heavenly Bodies Generation of Winds Motion of Seas Convayance of Sounds c. which wonders of Nature Philosophy however clear-sighted could never discover to the satisfaction of All. Secondly From the successful Attempts of Art especially in this Ingenious Age in the discovery of Acustick Tubes and Ophthalmick Instruments for the convayance of very distant Material Objects to the Ear and Eye Thirdly From most certain Matter of Fact bearing proportion with our Lemma For Samuel knew the Secrets of King Saul Elizeus of his Servant Giezi and of the King of Syria Daniel of Nebuchodonozor St. Peter of Ananias and the holy Prophets of Persons Places and Times distant 1 Reg. 9.19 l. 4.5.25 cap. 6.9 Dan. 2.26 Act. 5.1 LXII Fourthly From the Manner How this knowledge of our Petitions may probably be convay'd unto or acquir'd
Council of Basil asserting as Pious Holy and according to Divine Revelation the Doctrine of the preservation of the ever Immaculate Mother of JESVS from all stain and liableness to Original Sin Conc. Basil Sess 36. And in recommending in a most special manner the Veneration and Invocation of Holy Mary as a most effectual Means for the obtaining of God the Blessings of Peace and Vnion between Christian Princes Sess 43. CIV The same Religious Practice is confirm'd (d) Jo. Gerson Colloq de Mendic Spir. p. 2. Virgo gloriosa spes certa Refugium singulare peccatorum tu Sancte Angele Dei Custos bone ac caeteri alii sancti caelestes estote adjutores defendite consulite associate propellite Canes illos Infernales O glorious Virgin my secure Hope and singular Refuge of Sinners and thou O Holy Angel of God my good Guardian and all the other Saints of Heaven be my Helpers defend me direct me be present with me drive from me those Infernal Dogs by the devout Chancellor of Paris who calls the holy Mother of JESVS The firm Hope and special Refuge of Sinners (e) Dion Carth. Serm. 4. de Omnib Sanct. Dion Carthus humbly begs the Protection and Prayers of the Saints (f) B. Laur. Justin Serm. Nat. Mar. Igitur ad honorem hujus Virginis praecinamus in Confessione Jesum veneremur in matre matrem honoremus in filio utrisque vota nostra fideliter exolvamus quatenus filium Genitrice interpeliante pro nobis vincamus mundum Therefore let us sing in Confession to the Honour of this Virgin Let us worship JESUS in his Mother and honour the Mother in JESUS Let us with all Fidelity pay our Vows to both that the Mother interceding to the Son for us we may conquer the World. Blessed Laurence Justinian having heaped up many Excellent Praises and Honourable Titles as an Illustrious Monumeni of his Piety to Holy Mary offers up his Vows of Fidelity to Her beseeching God that he may become victorious over his sensual Passions by her Mediation (g) S. Bernardin Serm. 15. de Fest Virg. Eo actu fidei obedientiae plus mercuit quam meruerint omnes sancti omnibus actibus ac meritis suis That act of Faith and Obedience wherewith holy Mary professing her self the Hand-maid of our Lord consented to become the Mother of JESUS she merited more then all the Saints did by all their Acts and Merits Serm. 61. Oportuit ut sic dicam faeminam elevari ad quandam aequalitatem divinam per quandam quasi infinitatem perfectionum gratiarum Non timeo dicere quod in omnem gratiarum influxus Jurisdictionem quandam haebuerit Quandam Jurisdictionem habet in temporalem Missionem Spiritus Sancti It behoved If I may so say that that Woman should be exalted to a certain degree of Divine Likeness as to a kind of resemblance of an Infiniteness of super-natural Perfections and Graces I may presume to say that she had granted to Her an Exuberant Power over the Influences of Grace and that she had a Kind of Jurisdiction in the temporal Mission of the Holy Ghost The devout St. Bernardine in his sublime Panegyricks frequently exhorts his zealous Hearers to a super-eminent Esteem of the Excellencies of Holy Mary and specially to confide in her Protection and Prayers as being singularly priviledg'd above all PVRE CREATVRES the most powerful Advocate Patroness and Mediatrice of Christians The holy Sanctuary of Propitiation and the most indulgent Refuge and Safe-guard of penitent Sinners 'T is very remarkable what he affirms Serm. 15. de S. Mar. That the high acts of Faith and Obedience which this Divine Creature used in her assent to the stupendious Mystery of the Incarnation were incomparably more Meritorious and acceptable to God than the Collection of all the most inflam'd Operations of the Saints And again Serm. 61. That she was endow'd with a kind of Immenseness of Sanctity Grace and Perfection and with an almost unconfin'd Jurisdiction over the Treasuries of heavenly Grace (h) Thom. à Kemp. Petr. de Alliac S. Vincent Ferrer Alphons Tostat S. Jo. Capistr Nicol. Cusan S. Antonin Nicol. Orbâ—ll Heur Harph. Biel. Trithom Bapt. Mantuan To these we might add an Immense Catalogue of Illustrious School-men Controvertists Preachers and Historians of this flourishing Age of the Church who oft repeat this Primitive Doctrine and Practice and with exemplar Zeal do humbly Venerate and Invocate the holy Mother of JESVS as their most potent Advocate at the Throne of her Son JESVS for the Blessings of this and the next Life Sect. XXXII Testimonies of the Sixteenth Age. CV IN this Age the Fathers of the Illustrious Council of Trent manag'd by a special Providence of God for securing the Ancient Doctrine and Customs of the Catholick Church receiv'd from above against the Innovations of Schism and Heresie by monstrous super-fetations invading Gods Sanctuary and polluting whatever is Sacred with their unclean private Spirit (a) Trid. Sess 25. Decret de Invoc Mandat Sancta Synodus omnibus Episcopis caeteris docendi munus curamque sustinentibus Vt juxta Catholicae Apostolica Ecclesiae usum à primavis Christiana Religionis temporibus receptum sanctorumque Patrum consentionem sacrorum Consiliorum decreta fideles diligenter instruant Sanctos una cum Christo regnantes Orationes suas pro hominibus Deo offerre bonum atque utile esse suppliciter eos invocare ob beneficia impetranda à Deo per filium ejus JESVM Christum Dominum nostrum qui solus noster Redemptor Salvator est ad eorum orationes opem auxiliumque confugere The Holy Synod commands all Bishops and others whose Office and Care it is to teach That according to the Practice of the Catholick and Apostolick Church receiv'd from the first Ages of Christian Religion the unanimous Consent of Holy Fathers and the Decrees of Sacred Councils they diligently instruct the Faithful that the Saints who Reign with Christ do offer to God their Prayers for Men that it is Good and usefull humbly to Invocate them and to have recourse to their Prayers Help and Assistance for the obtaining Benefits from God through his Son JESUS Christ our Lord who only is our Redeemer and Saviour Again Sanctorum corpora quae viva membra fuerunt Christi templum Spiritus Sancti à fidelibus veneranda esse per quae multa beneficia à Deo hominibus praestantur Imagines porro Christi Deiparae Virginis aliorum Sanctorum retinendas eisque debitum Honerem Venerationem imperiendam That the Bodies of Saints which were the living Members of Christ and the Temple of the Holy Ghost are to be worshipped by the Faithful and that thereby God bestows many favours on us Also that the Images of Christ of the Holy Virgin Mother of God and of other Saints be retained and that due Honour and Worship be given unto Them. do with great earnestness
Soul to a most sublime Degree of Majesty and Holiness through Gods over-flowing Bounty We may justly conclude First That the holy Mother of JESVS is worthy of the most super-lative Praises which the Tongue Pen or Spirit of Man or Angel can express or conceive In Emulation whereof the Holy Catholick Church doth at special times set forth Her Majesty Glory and Magnificence in her sacred Liturgies Offices and Litanies even all Generations of Believers have ever conspir'd by a secret but most wonderful Instinct with a constant Zeal and Fervour to proclaim Holy Mary Blessed above all Pure Creatures Secondly That the Sacred Virgin hath an undisputable Right to the most Illustrious and most Magnificent Titles of Majesty and Honour which may be possibly conceiv'd due to Any of whatever Stile Rank or Dignity amongst pure Creatures and this with a most lofty pre-eminence above all the glorious Trains and Pomps of Men and Angels in their richest and most beautiful Stations of Glory Thus is she by the Holy Catholick Church in her Hymns Anthems and Canticks of Honour and by the holy Fathers and Doctors in their Panegyricks Entitled Lady Queen and Empress of Men Angels Heavens and of the whole World Mother of Mercy and beautiful Love The Hope Trust and Safeguard of Mortals amidst the tempestuous Seas and Hurricans of their foaming Concupiscences The Palace of the Eternal Light and most magnificent Gate of Heaven and Glory Thirdly That Holy Mary is more Worshipful than the loftiest and most Illustrious created Potentates of Earth or Heaven in the highest Altitudes of their Majesty Power and Pomps and this by most Cordial Acts of Internal Esteem Love and Submission and by the most expressive sensible Marks of this inward Reverence which may most fitly testifie a real and sincere acknowledgment of her super-eminent Grandeur above all Pure Creatures in Right of the most incomparable Priviledges of her Maternity Innocency and Holiness Whence St. Anselm well acquainted with the Doctrine Practice and Stile of the Catholick Church resolutely affirms That the whole Body of Christianity is agreed That the Holy Mother of Jesus is exalted in Glory above all the Choires of Angels 1. Excel Virg. c. 4. Therefore if any Worship be due to Creatures our Saviours Rule directs us to the true Meridian when he tells us That the least and lowest of the glorious Courtiers of his Kingdom are incomparably more Glorious than the brightest Majesty that ever shin'd amongst Mortals Matt. 11.11 All allow a civil Worship even to the empty Thrones of earthly Kings and Princes and shall the adoptive Children of JESVS refuse a Sacred Worship to his own Throne full of Majesty Innocence Grace and Glory Sect. XIII That the same Excellencies of Holy Mary as most sublime Images of the Divine Attributes confirm Her Right of Super-eminent Servitude XLIX BUT if these super-natural Endowments of the holy Mother of JESVS be consider'd not precisely as Absolute Perfections intrinsically adorning and beautifying Her Soul and rendring Her Illustrious Holy and Glorious above all Pure Creatures but moreover as they are Relative Excellencies refining the Souls Natural Image of God into a Divine by an Imitation of the Infinite Rays of his Majesty Holiness and Glory communicated ineffably by the Signet of Beatifical Grace together with a stupendious Representation of the Divine Production and Glorious Operations in the Order of Grace and Glory whereby she is dignify'd with the Capacity of a Religious Worship in a most sublime manner transcending the precise Terms of Civil and Sacred Thus the Divine Mother of JESVS being the highest Signet of the Divine Similitude amongst all Pure Creatures by her surpassing fulness of Grace and splendours of Glory hath an unquestionable Right to our most profound Respects Homage and Veneration even under the notion of a Religious Obligation and Duty L. And first by amplifying the Theames of her Praises according to the several Forms approv'd by the Authority of the Church and recommended to our use by the Practice of her pious and prudent Devotes who know how to distinguish betwixt God and the Holiest of his created and Glorious Images Secondly by elevating her Dignity and Perfections with most Illustrious Titles of Honour suiting to the Excellency of this Chief of all the Glorious Images of the Divinity amongst all Pure Creatures Thirdly by acknowledging our vast distance beneath her by reason of that transcendent Image of Gods Majesty Attributes Productions and Operations wherewith she is dignifi'd by her special Prerogative of Beatifical Grace above all Pure Creatures though still infinitely inferiour to the infinite and independent Majesty and Perfections of the Deity the absolutely Immense Abyss Original Cause and unparallel'd Exemplar of Hers and of all others participated finite and dependent Perfections of whatever Stile Lustre or Magnitude even in the most sacred and transcendent Order of Innocency Grace and Glory LI. Fourthly Upon the same Motive of Dei-forme Grandeurs of holy Mary the Mother of JESVS she is Religiously address'd unto by Her pious Devotes struggling against sinful Concupiscences in this their Earthly Exile with an humble Confidence in her Acceptableness to God as a chief Favorite in his Courts of Requests a powerful Mediatrice at the Bar of his Justice and a most efficacious Advocate in all our Claims at the Throne of Gods Mercy for protection against the Powers of Darkness and Communion with the Children of Light. For by virtue of her transcendent supernatural Perfections whereon the clearness of this participated Image of the Majesty and Perfections of the Deity is grounded she more intimately receives the Irradiations not only of the Beauty of God and the delights of his Glory but also of his Knowledge Will and Power as to the Merits of Christ the efficacy of Sacraments the Operations of interiour Grace and Communion of the Saints especially as to all the Concerns of Gods Servants relating to their blessed State. For all Divines agree in this priviledge of the glorious Saints Conc. Senonens Decret fid 13. Greg. l. 2. Mor. c. 2. Aug. l. 20. civ c. 21. 22. c. 29. Anselm l. Similitud c. 57. Greg. l. 2. Dial. c. 35. D. Th. 2. 2. q. 180. art 5. ad 3. Bon. Soliloq c. 4. Smising tr 1. â—â—6 n. 220. Less l. 2. Sum. Bon. c. 9. which therefore must be allow'd super-eminently to the Queen of Saints as to her perfect knowledge of all the Petitions of Her Devotes And Gods marvelous Bounty to Her abundantly convincing us of her wonderful Acceptableness to God for the confirming this our Confidence of succeeding in those Prayers we offer by Her through Gods gracious condescendence to our Requests accordingly made for us LII Wherein we are further confirm'd from Gods Sacred Promises graciously to harken to the Prayers of the Saints and actually granting many Favours to their Clients upon their account Gen. 26.5 Exod. 32.13.3 Reg. 11.12 4. Reg. 19.34 Isaiae 37.35 Eccl. 44.24 Apoc. 5.8 But we
Luke 2.35 Her super-eminent Holiness Merits and Acceptableness to God even to a degree of Astonishment of the Angels at the marvellous application of Gods Liberality and Power whereby to enforce and heighten Them. (h) All hail thou who art full of Grace our Lord is with Thee Blessed art thou above all Women Luke 1.28 Thou hast found acceptance in the sight of God. 30. Thou art the blessed amongst Women 42. God hath regarded the Humility of his Handmaid wherefore behold all shall henceforth call me blessed 48. For he who is Almighty hath done wonderful things for me 49. Blessed is the Womb that bore Thee and the Breasts that suckled Thee Luke 11.27 Luke 1.28.30.42.48.49 11.27 LXXVIII Then as to the Amplitude of the Spiritual Power of holy Mary the Mother of JESVS in the Empire of Grace and Divine Favours suiting to those her Illustrious Prerogatives Virtues and Merits there be two convincing Demonstrations recorded by the holy Evangelist St. Luke first the stupendious Efficacy of her single Fiat Be it done for as Gods Fiat in the beginning of Nature was a demonstrative Mark of his proper Omnipotency in extracting the whole Fabrick of the World with all its Moveables and Ornaments out of a meer Nothing Gen. 1.3 So Maries Fiat in the beginning of Grace as an evident token of her appropriated plenitude of Power proportion'd to her fullness of Grace co-operating with the Almighty Source of all Goodness gives a Being with all con-natural Parts and Perfections to JESVS That ineffable and most Divine Compound of God and Man con-subsisting in the One Person of Gods co-eternal Word (a) Mary said behold the Handmaid of our Lord be it done to me according to thy word Luke 1.38 Luke 1.38 Secondly The miraculous Activity of her super-naturaliz'd Voice assum'd as a special Instrument of the Sanctification of St. John Baptist as yet in his Mothers Womb. (b) Behold no sooner did the voice of thy Salutation come to my Ears but the child leap'd for joy in my Womb. Luke 1.44 Luke 1.44 LXXIX The efficacy of her Mediation of Intercession to God for Mortals appears manifestly in her sollicitous Request to JESVS at the Marriage Feast in Cana of Galilee (a) The Mother of JESVS said to Him They have no Wine Jo. 2.3 Jo. 2.3 For the Insurance whereof to all Intents of our protection by holy Mary and of her effectual Mediation to Himself for us our blessed Lord formerly gave a most ample Instance in his voluntary subjection and obsequiousness to her Commands from the Age of twelve years to thirty (b) JESVS went down with Mary to Nazareth and was subject to Her. Luke 2.51 Luke 2.51 LXXX No wonder now if the Angels of Heaven become Subjects to the Mother of JESVS and that the Inhabitants of the Earth be Her Devotes and Petitioners unto whom the Soveraign Lord of Heaven and Earth vouchsafes to make himself a Son and Subject Hence it was That the Royal Prophet reporting to Posterity a Magnificent Vision wherein God show'd Him the future Majesty and Prerogatives of this Divine Creature tells us (a) Astitit Regina à dextrin tuis in Vestitu de aurato circundata Varietate Ps 44.10 Ps 44.10 That he saw Her Clad in a Mantle of Cloth of Gold imbroider'd with Jewels of an infinite rich Variety standing near to the Almighty himself even at his right hand for St. Athan. Serm. de Deip. and St. Greg. Naz. (b) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Empress of the heavenly Orders Lady and Queen of All. Naz. cit Tragoed de Christ patient Explains this Prophesie as an Essay of the Grandeurs of holy Mary in her Glory and Power and therefore the same holy Prophet to mark out unto us that Veneration and Intercession we owe to this Glorious Queen of Angels expresly foretells guided by the Spirit of Prophets (c) Filiae Tyri in muneribus vultum tuum de precabuntur omnes divites plebis Psalm cit v. 13. Ps cit 13. That the Gentiles and all the Potentates of the Earth shall pay Homage to this Divine Mother and shall become Her Petitioners LXXXI To these Irrefragable Authorities of the Great Oracles of the Gospel of Grace and Founders of our Christianity agreeing with the Prophets of the Old Law evident enough to convince this mis-believing World of the super-eminent Excellencies of the Glorious Mother of JESVS and of our Obligation to Worship and Petition her Grandeur and to silence all bold Invaders of her Rights and violators of Christian Duties we may add the honorable Testimony of St. Andrew the Apostle who stiles her an Immaculate Virgin and proper Instrument of Mans Redemption (a) Necessarium fuit ut de Immaculatâ Virgine natus Christus vitam aeternam quam omnes perdîderant repararet S. Andr. cit It was necessary that Christ should be born of an Immaculate Virgin since he was to restore life everlasting which was lost to all Alois Lipoman è Presb. Achaiae S. Peter the Prince of the Apostles expresly asserts the wonderful Advantages of praying to the most Glorious Mother of JESVS and craves Mercy of God and freedom from all Evil through her Mediation (b) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Liturg. S. Petr. Receive O God this most sacred Hymn from our lips and through the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God grant us thy Mercy and Compassion Deliver us we beseech thee O Lord from all evil now and for evermore by the Intercession of our Immaculate and Glorious Lady Mother of God and ever Virgin Mary Liturg. S. Petr. med But S. James the younger more plainly stiles Holy Mary the most Holy most Immaculate and most Glorious Lady of all Believers and through her Mediation begs of God his Divine Protection and the Blessings of his Mercy (c) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Liturg. S. Jac. Min. Commemorating our most Holy Immaculate and most glorious Lady Mother of God and ever-Virgin Mary with all the Saints and Just let us recommend our selves and each other and our whole Lives to Christ our God. Let us make a Commemoration of our most Holy Immaculate most Glorious and blessed Lady Mother of God and ever-Virgin Mary and of all the Saints and Just that by their Prayers and Intercessions we may obtain Mercy The same Form of commemorating the Excellencies and Merits of the Holy Mother of JESVS is to this day continu'd in the Roman Liturgy Communicantes memoriam Venerantes in primis Gloriosae semper Virgiuis Mariae Genetricis Dei Domini nostri JESV Christi Ord. Miss Rom. Communicating with and worshipping the Memory in the first place of the glorious ever-Virgin Mary the Mother of God and our Lord JESVS Christ Liturg. S. Jacob. Min. med And S. Denys the Areopagite in the brief report he gives of the Illustrious Funerals of the Mother of JESVS calls her the Mansion-house of the Divinity and the Beginning of Life and brings