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A81095	Jesus, Maria, Joseph, or, The devout pilgrim of the ever blessed Virgin Mary, in His holy exercises, affections, and elevations. Upon the sacred mysteries of Jesus, Maria, Joseph. Published for the benefit of the pious rosarists, by A.C. and T.V. religious monks of the holy order of S. Bennet.	A. C. (Arthur Crowther), 1588-1666.; T. V. (Thomas Vincent), 1604-1681.	1657 (1657)	Wing C7410; ESTC R231710	215,690	742

Mother of God and Man and entirely a pure and unspotted Virgin O News exclaims S. Bernard never before heard of A Mother and yet a Virgin A Virgin and yet a Mother Hail Mary 3. At her bringing forth without pain O You Blessed and the only Blessed amongst women says the same Saint who alone were exempt from the generall curse of all women But what wonder if he put his Mother to no pain at his birth who was born to take away all pain from the whole world Hail Mary 4. At the Angelicall Iubilation FOr She saw the heavenly Court rejoycing at her Sons Nativity and heard the alternate Echo's of their Glory to God on high and Peace on Earth to People of good will Hail Mary 5. At the vision of the divin Essence FOr if She frequently enjoy'd this priviledge in her life-time as is the opinion of many learned Fathers She now surely enjoy'd it in a most eminent manner when she brought forth Gods Son into the world Hail Mary 6. At the many benefits bestowed on Mankind by her Son's Birth TO wit The Exaltation of human Nature The Redemption of the World The satisfaction for sin The victory over Satan The Promotion of Man to vertu Sanctity Perfection The certainty of Faith The Erection of Hope The Encrease of Charity The conferring of an Eternall Life and Kingdom Hail Mary 7. At the multitude of miracles wrought then for his manifestation to the World FOr 1. A great bright unusuall Star invites the Wise-men to Bethleem stable 2. Three Suns appear in Spain soon after joyning themselves into one Body signifying says S. Thomas that the Flesh the Soul and the Deity of the then born Infant were united in one person 3. A golden circle encompasses the Sun in the midst whereof stands a beautifull Virgin with a child in her bosom which the Sybill shews to Octavian the then Roman Emperor with many other wonders declaring to the whol world the divin Majesty and glory of her new-born Son Hail Mary 8. At the Adoration of the Wise-men WHo exteriourly summon'd by the appearing Star and interiourly instructed by the Holy Ghost came and fell down at his feet full of Faith Religion and Devotion and there brake forth into Acts of Adoration and extasies of Admiration Hail Mary 9. At their mysticall offrings WHich were Gold as to a great King Frankincense as to a true God Myrrh as to a mortall man who was to dy for the worlds Redemption Hail Mary 10. At the Vocation Conversion and Salvation of the Gentills WHereof she saw a happy beginning in these holy Kings Hail Mary Glory be to the Father and to the Son c. These prayers Angelicall with bended knee c. Affections Elevations Petitions O Great Monarch of Heaven and Earth Is your Mercy your Compassion and your Charity to poor Mankind so excessive as that you should thus descend from your Throne of Majesty into a vale of misery for our salvation O Virgin-Mother the choyce Chamber Temple and Tabernacle of Gods Son the Queen of Heaven and Lady of the World Be you Eternally blessed who have been found worthy to bring forth the so long desired and expected of all Ages O Jesu My Lord and my Redeemer who were born of a poor Handmaid wrapp'd in poor Swathes hous'd in a poor Stable Bedded in a poor Cribb Give me true poverty of spirit and a perfect contempt of all worldly honours and greatnesses O sweet Saviour of the World who call'd the Kings to acknowledge and adore you in your Cradle and commanded them to return back by another way into their Countrey Call and compell my rebellious heart unto you by the powerfull light of your efficacious grace shining in my interiour and dispersing all darkness and indevotion in my soul that I may there find you feel you see you adore you and offer up to your divin Majesty the Myrrh of true compunction and mortification The Frankincense of fervent Prayer and devotion the Gold of ardent love and affection O grant that I may henceforth more faithfully follow your holy lights vocations and inspirations which will conduct me into the right way leading to my heavenly home out of which I have hitherto stray'd by my own wilfull malice negligence and sinfullness O my glorious new-born King Christ Jesu you were pleas'd to want a lodging upon Earth that you might lodge me in Heaven To be deprived of all worldly conveniences that you might heap on me your Celestiall comforts To embrace Poverty Humility self-contempt abnegation annihilation that you might inrich me with all the spirituall Treasures of vertu and perfection And shall I gape after temporall goods and glories seek for fleshly solaces and satisfactions place my affection upon poor and perishable trifles No my dear Redeemer I will henceforth endeavour to imitate your most perfest Example And O that I were sincerely willing to abandon all truly content to be abandon'd by all and really resolv'd to submit my self and all to your sacred will and disposition that so I might be absolutely conformable to you my All and All O holy Virgin O happy Mother how sweetly is my Soul ravish'd in the contemplation of that unspeakable joy and gladness which your dilated heart felt when you first embrac'd the long desired of all Nations in your tender folds I congratulate this your happiness O glorious Mother of my good Jesus and humbly creeping in amongst the holy crew of admiring Angells Kings and Shepheards I affectionately present you with these my meaner Canticles of conjubilation We were the poor banish'd miserable progeny of our unfortunat mother Eve we were the wretched Bond-slaves of sin and Satan we were the forlorn lost and stray'd sheep wilfully fled away from our faithfull Shepheard We were the Prodigall children carryed abroad by our own concupiscences from our loving Father and by your Sons means O Blessed and most fortunate Mother we are disingaged deliverd redeem'd from all these miseries woes and disasters O the happy change of our unhappy condition O Eternally Blessed Tree and Blessed Blossom Blessed Womb and Blessed Fruit Blessed Mary and Blessed Jesu The fourth joyfull Mystery offer'd THe Oblation and Presentation of Christ to his Eternall Father in the Temple And the Purification of his Blessed Mother Luc. 2. The Virgin 's purifi'd her dear Son warm's Old Simeons breast presented in his arms Our Father c. The Blessed Virgin exceedingly rejoyced 1. At the carriage of her sweet Son Iesus FOr upon the fortith day after our blessed Saviours birth she cheerfully sets forth of Bethleem stable with her little Jesus in her armes and S. Joseph in her company towards Jerusalem to fulfill the Law of Moyses and to offer up her Son to his Eternall Father in the Temple And though she had just reason to dread King Herods cruelty yet she was more afraid to offend the divin Majesty The way says Ludolphus was five miles long yet she felt not the least

Virgin Mothers honour and the devout Propagator of her Psalter according to the institute and practise of his pious Father He dyed in the year 583. Item S. Bonitus Bishop of Auvergne in France commonly called the sacred Virgins Chaplain for that he was seen to celebrate the holy Mass by her command and in her presence in the Church of S. Michael where there remains even till this day an evident mark of this miraculous apparition imprinted upon the main Pillar of the said Temple against which the Saint leaned where also is reserved the admirable vestment of a colour Matter Contexture Softness and Lightness altogether celestiall and prodigious wherewith the Queen of Heaven adorned her holy Chaplain In the year 704. 22. The Feast of the Espousalls of the sacred Virgin Mary to S. Joseph instituted in France by Petrus Auratus a Dominican who compos'd the Office of this solemnity in the year 1546. 23. S. Ildefonse Archbishop of Toledo in Spain who for his singular integrity of life and for having happily undertaken the defense of the sacred Virgins Virginity against the Helvidian heresie which oppos'd it deserv'd to be styl'd one of her Doctors and Chaplains and to receive a most admirable white vestment from her own holy hands upon the Festivall day of her Expectation which he instituted in her honour in the year 660. 24. Upon this day is celebrated a Commemoration of the Patronage and Affection of the Sacred Virgin MARY towards the whol Order of Saint BENNET Which she hath been graciously pleas'd to testify from time to time by most rare and signall examples and which they gratefully acknowledging renew the Oblation Dedication and Recommendation of themselv's and their Order to her pious and powerfull protection FEBRUARY 2. THe Purification of the sacred Virgin MARY call'd by the Greek Church Hipapante Domini or the meeting of our Lord and his holy Mother with the Prophet Simeon Anna and others in the Temple of Jerusalem upon the fortieth day after his happy birth into the World where HE was presented to his Eternall Father and SHE was purified according to the Law of Moyses Levit. 12.6 22. S. Peter Damian a noble man of Ravenna afterwards Monk Abbot and Cardinall Bishop of Ostia was a most zealous Promotor of the sacred Virgins honour the Authour of the Primer commonly call'd Our Ladyes Office the Beginner of that pious custom of allotting Monday to pray for the souls departed Friday to commemorate our Redeemers Passion Saturday to the sacred Virgins prayse which custome the universall Church soon after approved received and continues to this day He dyed in the year 1072. MARCH 9. St. Francisca a Noble Roma● widow was frequently and familiarly visited by the sacred Virgin and amongst many other signall favours was by her cover'd with a golden veile in recompence of her fervent devotion She dyed full of Sanctity and miracles in the year 1440. 12. S. Gregory the Great Pope Doctor of the Church Apostle of England c. His fervent devotion towards the Queen of Heaven appears by that famous Procession wherein he carrying her sacred Image obtain'd a cessation of the raging pestilence c. vide infra page 144. No one says he can behold the greatness of Gods Mother but by beholding her Sons excellency 21. S. Bennet the great Abbot and glorious Patriarch of Monks in the Western Church was from his tender years a most faithfull honorer of the sacred Virgin-Mother by whose speciall assistance says blessed Alanus de Rupe he became the Author and founder of so divin a Monasticall institution Nor is the propagation of the Marian Psalter proceeds the same Author the least of S. Bennets prayses which sort of piety She was graciously pleas'd to approve by heaping many signall favours not only upon her Bennet as she was heard to name him but upon his whol Order in which she seems as it were to have fix'd her seat shewing herself upon all occasions to be its true Mother and Protectrice He dyed in the year 542. 22. Blessed Pope Gregory the ninth the sacred Virgin-Mothers most faithfull and affectionate servant order'd and commanded That the solemn Anthem Salve Regina should be publickly sung in the Church after the Canonicall hours As also That the Bells toling at certain set houres of the day should admonish all Christians wheresoever and howsoever employed of their duty and devotion towards the Queen of heaven by saluting her with the Ave Maria. He dyed in the year 1241. 25. The Annunciation of the most Blessed Virgin Mother of God A Feast of great Solemnity and antiquity in the Church as appears by the Orations and Homilies of the Primitive Fathers had upon this day in memory of that happy Embassy brought down from heaven to holy MARY by the Archangell Gabriel in which she was denounced and declared Mother of the Word Eternall and Incarnate Luk. 1.31 27. S. Rupert Bishop of Salisburg a glorious Doctor Champion and Chaplain of the sacred Virgin-Mother from whom he received the intelligence of holy Scriptures to whose honour he built and founded severall famous Churches to whose Name he dedicated the yet flourishing Imperiall Abbey and whose prayses he propagated throughout Germany and the adjoyning Kingdoms He dyed in the year 623. APRIL 20. St. Fulbert Bishop of Charters a speciall devote of the sacred Virgin To whose honour he erected the famous Cathedrall of Charters In whose praise he composed many pious Hymnes and Prose and who first ordained that Commemoration Sancta Maria succurre miseris juva pusillanimes c. to be dayly used in the Laudes and Even song He also first introduced the celebration of the Blessed Virgins Nativity into France And when in his las● Agony he lay gasping for breath and parch'd up with thirst the blessed Virgin-Mother was pleas'd O her wondrous Compassion towards her faithfull servants to appear to him to refresh him and to suckle him with her sacred Breast-milk whereof a drop falling upon his garment is reverently kept amongst the sacred Treasures of the Church of Charters even till this day as a perpetuall monument of this her signal favour and affection He dyed in the year 1028. 21. S. Anselm Archbishop of Canterbury another holy Doctor and Chaplain of the sacred Virgin-Mother a most zealous defender of her Immaculate Conception and the first Introducer of that annuall Feast of the Conception of our Lady into the Church He dyed in the year 1106. 29. S. Robert the first Abbot of Cistertium whom the Queen of Heaven espoused to herself whil'st he yet remained shut up in his Mothers womb in these words My will is that the child which thou O Erengardes bearest in thy entralls be betroathed unto me by this golden Ring Which she afterwards confirm'd 〈◊〉 the born Infant who after a long led holy life was translated to a happy immortality in the year 1098. MAY. 13. AT Rome The Dedication of the Church of Sancta Maria ad Martyres

weakness nor weariness for she carryed him who strengthn'd her and afforded her a full aboundance of courage and comfort Hail Mary 2. At the compleating of former Prophecies FOr as she walk'd on her way she joyfully reflected upon that Text of Aggeus The desired of all nations shall come to this Temple in Jerusalem and I will fill this house with glory c. And that of Malachie Our Lord whom you seek shall come to his Temple the Angell of the Covenant whom ye delight in c. And such other Propheticall predictions Hail Mary 3. At the offering up of her Son FOr entring the Temple she puts her self humbly on her knees and places her Son reverently upon the Altar entirely bequeathing both her self and him to the Eternall Father in these or the like expressions Behold O heavenly Father yours and my Son yours Eternally begotten as the perfect Image of your substance Mine temporally born as clad with human nature in my womb Take both Mother and Son into your fatherly Protection I here freely offer up to your divin Majesty in your sacred Temple and upon your holy Altar this new oblation this God-man this great-little Jesus this pure and precious Sacrifice who will hereafter offer up himself to you upon the Altar of the Cross a more perfect and worthy Holocaust for the World's salvation Hail Mary 4. At her exemption from the Law of Purification FOr though she punctually performed each tittle of the Mosaicall Law paying five sicles of silver to the Priest for her Sons Redemption and a paire of Turtles or yong Pigeons one as a Holocaust for the Infant the other as an offring for sin yet she well knew to her unspeakable joy that both her self and her Son were absolutely free from any such Law He being far above it and she nothing concern'd in it Hail Mary 5. At the instruction and example of her Sons Humility and Obedience FOr by this Oblation she plainly perceiv'd that her Son came to serve and not to be served to fulfill the Law not to infringe it to do as well as to teach wherby she also understood her own duty and that she likewise was to be a pattern of Humility and obedience to the world Hail Mary 6. At the wonderfull Manifestation and revelation of her Son TO wit Not only to S. Joseph S. Zachary S. Elizabeth the Shepheards and the Kings but now also to S. Simeon and S. Ann in the Temple For she joyfully consider'd that her Son would therefore be reveal'd to Virgins to Widows to wedded people to all ages degrees sexes professions conditions because he came to redeem all Hail Mary 7. At Venerable Simeon's receiving her Son into his armes O the Jubiley of all the hearts there present and especially of the sacred Virgin-Mother seeing the good old Prophet so devoutly falling prostrate on the ground so faithfully adoring the divin Infant so ravishtly taking him into his embraces and so zealously proclaiming his prayses Hail Mary 8. At the Blessing of Simeon FOr applying his Propheticall discourse to the Blessed Virgin Behold says he O holy Mother of Jesus This Son of yours is set for the fall and rising of many in Israel for he shall be the ruin of the wicked and the reward of the righteous and for a Sign which shall be contradicted by the Jews Gentills Hereticks half-Christians yea and a sword of sorrow shall also pierce your own Soul so great shall be hereafter your compassion at the sight of his sufferings Now although these predictions of Simeon were in themselv's harsh to the tender-mothers senses yet they were joyfull to her resign'd soul in respect of the ensuing salvation of mankind Hail Mary 9. At the like Devotion Iubilation and Illumination of S. Ann. FOr this holy and ancient Prophetess the daughter of Phanuel of the Tribe of Aser who had dedicated the remainder of her days to the divin service and departed not from Jerusalem but persever'd in fastings and prayers night and day in expectation of this blessed time came also says S. Luke into the Temple at the same instant praysing our Lord and speaking of him to all that look'd for Redemption in Israel Hail Mary 10. At the signification fruit of this Oblation FOr it signifi'd that her Son Christ should one day offer up himself on the Cross for the Worlds Redemption and that he should procure a perfect Reconciliation between Man and his Eternall Father Hail Mary Glory be to the Father and to the Son c. These Prayers Angelicall with bended knee c. Affections Elevations Petitions O My Lord J●su who thus mercifully permitted your self to be seen ador'd embrac'd by your faithfull servant Simeon come also into my desirous languishing and greedily expecting soul Purge and perfect it O pious Redeemer and expell from thence whatsoever is any way displeasing to your divin liking Prepare it as you please for your own purpose and make it a fit temple for your self to inhabite Give leave O sweet and loving Saviour to your sincerely affectionate servant to embrace you in my Interiour with the two Armes of profound Humility and perfect Obedience and permit me not to depart this life before I there enjoy your happy sight and presence who are the only Fountain of true light and love the only desire and delight of my heart the only comfort and support of my Pilgrimage and the only Hope and expectation of my future bliss and felicity O Dear Virgin Mother I dare not presume to decipher the numberless affections which dilated your faithfull heart in this free oblation of your self and your son in the Temple O when shall I comformable to your perfect example consecrate my whol self with all I have and can entirely cheerfully resignedly to the divin Majesty My Creators Law and my own duty oblidg'd me to dedicate unto him not only the first but all the fruits of my life and love And shall I not bequeath to him at least the small remainder thereof by this my irrevocable will and Testament If the World the Flesh and the Devill have gather'd the fairest flowers of my youth and manly age may I not justly be asham'd to deny Him to whom all was due at least the leaves which shall hereafter fall from this old shaken rotten Tree O my past incivility disloyalty Ingratitude O my present confusion and self condemnation To reserve for my Soveraign Creatour the last and worst part of my lives Sacrifice yet since such is your divin goodness O my gracious Lord and maker as not to disdain the meanest offering when humbly heartily affectionatly presented to your sacred Majesty Accept I beseech you this little and alas too long delayd Oblation I now lay upon your Altar which is my Will to obey you my heart to love you and my life to serve you henceforth for all succeeding time and Eternity The fifth joyfull Mysterie And Found The finding of Christ in the Temple

disputing amongst the Doctors Luke 2. In Seas of joy the Virgins breast was drownd When Jesus lost she in the Temple found Our Father c. The Blessed Virgin-Mother exceedingly rejoyced 1. At the sight of her new-found Son FOr when the child Jesus was twelve years old his Parents went up with him to perform their Devotions in the Temple of Jerusalem where they lost him for three days space sought him up and down with many tears and at last found him amongst the Doctors O the Joy of their hearts at this happy sight For the sweetest comforts spring from precedent sorrows now their sorrows were proportionable to their loss and consequently their Joy was correspondent to the affection they bore their blessed Son first possessed then lost and now retriv'd again Hail Mary 2. At the Hearing of his Learning and Wisdom For they found him not playing idling sleeping but discoursing of the Law disputing with the Doctors proposing questions to the Priests and resolving their difficulties with such readiness and dexterity that all the Auditors were astonish't at so ripe an understanding in such tender years Hail Mary 3. At the fulfilling of that Propheticall saying I Wisedom dwell with Counsell and am present amongst learned cogitations WHich passage S. Vincent explicates literally of this prefence of our Lord JESUS amongst the Priests and Doctors Hail Mary 4. At her first conference with him after She had found him WHen with heart brim-full of Joy She brake forth into these expressions O my dear Son Why have you dealt thus with us not making me your so tenderly affectionat Mother acquainted with your stay which was no rebuke but a certain loving complaint for his long absence Behold your Putative Father and I have sought you out with sorrow fearing you might fall into the hands of Archelaus the Son of Herod and Heir of his cruelty as well as of his Kingdom Hail Mary 5. At his Mysticall Answer unto her FOr He mildly and modestly teply'd And why O Mother did you so carefully seek after me Know you not that I must be about my heavenly Fathers business whereof one part is to instruct the ignorant and instill into their hearts the hidden Intelligence of his Law Hail Mary 6. At the Instruction couched in his reply FOr though at first She understood him not by reason of the excess of Joy in having found him yet reflecting afterwards upon his words She well perceiv'd he was now even in his tender age setting forward that great work of mans conversion Redemption Salvation which he was in his riper age to compleat and perfect Hail Mary 7. At his return with her to Nazareth FOr he immediatly leaving the Doctors company and yeilding to his Mothers summons went down with his Parents to their dwelling-house in Nazareth Hail Mary 8. At his humble Obedience and Subjection FOr the sacred Gospell tells us He was subject unto them Hail Mary 9. At the consideration of her own happiness dignity and excellency TO wit That He should become thus voluntarily subject to her command to whose beck both her self and all creatures were necessarily subject and obedient Hail Mary 10. At the delicious conservation of all his words and actions in her heart FOr so the sacred Pen-man of the holy Ghost informes us His Mother kept all these sayings conferring them in her heart To the end she might by her daily and diligent study reflection and meditation dive into the meaning of what she yet understood not and take joy and comfort in what she understood Hail Mary Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost c. These Prayers Angelicall with bended knee c. Affections Elevations Petitions O Blessed JESU who for reasons best known to your own divin Wisdom and all-disposing providence would be thus lost sought and found by your Parents in Jerusalem amongst the Doctors in the Temple Grant that I may never lose your Grace Favour and Friendship by following my own irregular appetites passions and affections by yeilding to wordly vanities allurements enchantments by consenting to Satans suggestions temptations delusions But if through Ignorance negligence carelesness or any other motive whatsoever I shall unhappily chance to be depriv'd of your sweet presence in my interiour Excite me O mercifull Saviour to seek you out diligently speedily mournfully during the three days space of this my lives Pilgrimage by perfect Contrition pure Confession entire Satisfaction that so I may at last joyfully find and see you in your Celestiall Jerusalem sitting on your Fathers right hand amidst your Angels and Saints in the Temple of your Eternall Glory O Jesu The rare Patern of perfect Obedience Humility and all vertues you are the All-powerfull God and you obey poor man you are the Soveraign Creatour and you submit to your own Creature you are the Supreme Monarch of both worlds and you are subject to your Handmaid Mary And shall any Christian remain any longer rebellious refractory disobedient to his Parents to his Superiors or to any other just authority Be asham'd proud dust and ashes God humbles himself and wilt thou exalt thy self He obeys men and dost thou desire to domineer over them Is not this directly to prefer thy self before thy soveraign Lord and Maker But o sacred Virgin Mother How singular is your Priviledge To have him subject to you whom all human and Ang licall nature reverences and adores O my soul Admire both and make choyce of which thou wilt chiefly admire Either the Sons stupendious condescention or the Mothers excellent dignity Both are mervailous both miraculous That God should obey a Woman is a Humility beyond all Example That a woman should command God is a Height beyond all comparison O good Jesu How doth my Soul languish when I have lost you and how reproachfully doth my conscience cry out unto me Where is thy God And yet Alas I seek you not with due sorrow and diligence because I love you not with true fervour and devotion O loving Mother of Jesus Had I the least spark of that sincere affection you bore your blessed Son How sensible should I be of my sad loss How seriously should I seek to retrive it But ah my misery That is lost without much grief which was possess'd without any great joy and therfore I find not my loss because I feel no love and finally I feel no love because I reflect not faithfully upon my Redeemers reall worth and value And yet what is there considerable or desirable in Heauen or Earth in comparison of sweet Jesus O my Lord my love my lot and my portion for time and Eternity Dart one Efficacious beam of your divin light into my dull dark and desolate Soul that I may see your greatness to the end I may love your goodness and that truly loving you I may willingly leave all to look after you contentedly forfeit all to find you and having found you I may be more faithfull

thought proceeds that it would much redound to the honour of Christ our Lord and Saviour and conduce to the encrease of devotion in the hearts of all pious Christians If as according to the very ancient institution and generally receiv'd custom severall godly people use to recite sixty three Angelicall Salutations with our Lords Prayer seven times interpos'd in honour of the most blessed Virgin Mary according to the number of years which she is esteem'd to have liv'd upon earth which kind of prayer is call'd the Virgins Crown so they would also inure themselv's to recite thirty three Lords Prayers interposing four Ang●lical Salutations in the honour of our Redeemer for a commemoration of the years in which he convers'd upon earth amongst men which would be as it were our Lords Crown c. We whom it behoves to promote the honour of our Lord Jesus Christ as farr forth as he shall enable us and to add fewell to the devotion of his faithfull flock Do approve and confirm the aforesaid manner of Prayer invented by that ancient and recluded Hermit and will have it call'd the Crown of our Lord c. Given at Florence the 18 of Feb. in the year 1516. The same Rosary or Crown of our Lord was afterwards confirm'd by Pope Gregory the 13. and endow'd with more and greater Indulgences vide Augustinum Florentinum Lucam Eremitam Bucelinum in Annalibus Benedictinis c. The Crown therefore consisting of 33. Pater Nosters or Lords Prayers consonant to the number of years in which our dear Redeemer convers'd with men in his human flesh upon earth to merit for us a happy Crown of Glory in Heaven and of four Ave Maries or Angelical Salutations with one Creed added for a conclusion is divided into four parts whereof the three first parts are Decades or Tens there being in each of them a ten-times-repeated Lords Prayer and one Angelical Salutation and in the fourth part there is only a Thrice-repeated Lords Prayer with one Angelical Salutation and the Creed and may be recited as it is here distinctly set down with an additionall point of Meditation upon some of the pious Mysteries of our Saviours life and a short Aspiration which may easily be dilated with more affections and resolutions according to each ones Spirit of devotion The first Part of the Crown of our Lord. Of Christs coming into the World 1. OUr dear Redeemer descended from his royall Throne from his eternall Fathers Bosom from his happy Heaven into this vale of misery and cloath'd himself with human flesh in the holy Virgins Womb. O Jesu how excessive is your Mercy how infinit your affection how stupendious your condescendency to undeserving man Ah! that my heart were perfectly free from all that displeases you that so it might deserve perpetually to harbour you Our Father 2. HE being conceiv'd inspir'd his sacred Virgin Mother to take a journey into the Mountains of Judea there to visit salute and serve St. Elizabeth her Kinswoman O Jesu that my soul were alwaies pliable docible obedient to correspond to your sweet and sacred impulses motions and aspirations how cheerfully should I then serve your soveraign Majesty and how charitably should I assist my necessitous neighbour Our Father 3. AFter he had been carryed nine months in his Mothers chast entralls he was born in a cold Stable wrap'd in poor raggs cradled in a hard Cribb O Jesu make me in love with poverty humility and mortification which you have made so amiable by practising them in your own divin person Our Father 4. THe Angells congratulate his happy birth with their heavenly Canticles and the shepheards humbly joyfully and admiringly adore him O Jesu let my tongue incessantly sing forth your Prayses let my heart perpetually breath forth acts of gratitude for your Mercies and let my soul sweetly melt away in her reciprocall affections Our Father 5. UPon the eighth day after his Nativity he was circumcis'd and call'd Jesus O Jesu O sacred and sugred Name O Jesu be unto me a Jesus O that my tongue heart and hands with all my senses powers and faculties of body and soul were truly circumcis'd from all superfluous curious vitious inclinations passions and affections that so I might never more think speak or act any thing offensive to your divin will and liking Our Father 6. HE was diligently sought out by the Eastern Sages humbly ador'd by them and highly honoured by their royall Presents and Oblations O Iesu let me never leave seeking till I find you the only belov'd Object of all my affections and strengthen me sweet Iesu to make a totall Oblation Consecration and Resignation of my whol self to your holy will and pleasure entirely irrevocably eternally Our Father 7. HE was carryed to the Temple in his sacred Mothers arms to be presented as her first-born to his eternall Father shewing himself in all things subject to the Law O Iesu shall not I humble my self and submit to all men for your sake Our Father 8. HE to avoid Herods cruelty sustain'd a tedious banishment in his tender years O Jesu give me patience in all my persecutions temptarions and troubles and let not my grievous sins banish me from your sweet grace and presence Our Father 9. HE return'd from Egypt after his seven years sufferings O Jesu let your efficacious grace recall me from vice to vertu let me return into you my first Origin and let me repose in you my only center and security Our Father 10. HE dwelt with his Parents in t he City Nazareth O Jesu dwell in my soul here by your grace that my soul may dwell with you hereafter in your eternal glory Our Father O Sacred Virgin-Mother who having conceiv'd your divin Son without sin and brought him forth without sorrow serv'd him so diligently during the time of his minority appease him I beseech you in my behalf by your powerfull Prayers and intercession Hail Mary The second Part. Of Christs Conversation amongst men 1. OUr dear Redeemer being twelve years old went up with his Parents to Jerusalem to perform his devotions where he was lost sought and after three day's found in the Temple O Jesu replenish my heart with solid devotion that sincerely seeeking you I may happily find you and having found you I may faithfully keep you company in my interiour for evermore Our Father 2. HE return'd with his Parents to Nazareth and was subject unto them O Iesu break my rebellious will that I may promptly obey you and my Superiors according to your most perfect trample Our Father 3. HE being thirty years old was baptiz'd by St. Iohn in the river Iordan O Iesu permit not my sinfull soul to pass forth of my body till it be baptiz'd in a river of tears and restor'd to purity by the Sacrament of Penance Our Father 4. HE fasted forty dayes and nights in the Desert and was tempted by the Devill O Iesu give me courage to subdue all