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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11368	An admirable method to loue, serue and honour the B. Virgin Mary With diuers practicable exercises thereof. Al inriched with choice examples. Written in Italian by the R. F. Alexis de Salo, Capuchin. And Englished by R.F.	Salo, Alessio Segala de.; R. F., fl. 1639.	1639 (1639)	STC 21628; ESTC S100011	150,784	636

Queene of this Vniuerse hath ouer it an absolut command and that al are to obey her and render her that honour and obeissance which from Vassals is due to those who are ouer them And in admiration of this power of hers was that deuout exclamation of holy S. Bernard O blessed Mary sayes he al power is giuen you both in heauen and earth do as you can do al that you desire Among al the title of Greatnes which our Mother the holy Church honours her with that of Queene of heauen she vses most frequently Lady of Angels Reginacaeli Domina Angelorum c. Now the greater the extent of ones Dominion is the greater euer is their power and magnisicence so as if one could attaine to the Dominion ouer al the world how absolute and vnlimited should their power to be and yet what is al this world to the Heauens amplitude which she is Lady of and where her subiects are perpetually honoring her so as we may say of her The Heauens declare the glory of Mary and the heauenly Courtyers take it for honour to obey her commands To conclude it is but litle we can say of her greatnes how great soeuer that litle may seeme to be and arriuing euen to admiration which euer there takes vp where humane knowledge leaues And so is it not an admirable thing that the whole roundour of the earth in comparison of the Heauens should be but as the center point compared to a mightie Spheare who can imagine then the immensity of that when the earth which containes Empires Kingdomes and Prouinces is so meere a nothing in comparison thereof Some are of opinion that the element of water is ten times bigger then the land the aire ten times bigger then the water the fire then that and so with proportion each heauen bigger then another c. And to giue you some dimme light of its magnitud the Moone which in lesse then a moneth surrounds its Orbe would be incircling the starry heauen according to the most expert of the Mathematiciens thirty sixe thousand yeares and more which notwithstanding compared to the Coelum empyreum or habitation of the Blessed is but a poore litle Circle for magnitud not worthy the speaking of For which reason some Authours are of opinion cited by Philip Diez that if a milstone were throwne from thence it would be a thousand fiue hundred yeares in falling down Who admires not in hearing this and cries not out with him O Lord I haue considered your workes and remaine astonished and out of my self with wonder One of the ancient Prophets in consideration of the greatnes of this glorious Pallace of Alm. God exclaime O Israel how great is the house of God how mighty great is the place of his possession he is great and hath no limits he his high and cannot be measured And we may wel imagine it to bee great since euery Saint shal haue a habitation a part and a place proportioned vnto its merits And this we haue from our Sauiour Christ himselfe in comforting his afflicted Disciples for his departure where he sayes Let not your harts be troubled for in my fathers house are many mansions And S. Vincent of S. Dominiks Order speaking of these Mansions sayes that each of the Blessed in heauen shal haue assigned them for their habitation a larger circuit them is betwixt the east and west Now there being incomparably more Saints in heauen then there be men on earth I leaue it to you to imagine how infinit great the heauenly Kingdome is Now the B. Virgin being Queen of this so immense dominion hath al the Blessed there consequently for her subiects Courtiers who being in due Order rankt about her Throne alwayes make tender vnto her of their seruices and obsequiousnes and if as S. Iohn Chrisostome sayes while she was yet on earth she was attended vpon by such an infinity of Angels to defend her against al the assaults of hel and conserue vnto their king this faire tabernacle of his Inuiolat how much more gloriously attended is she now in heauen where she sits crown'd in possession of so highe a dignitie It is impossible to imagine the number that waytes vpon her there which the Prophet endeauouring to speake of sayes Ten thousand serue thee and a hundred times ten thousand assist before thee setting downe a finit number for an infinit And S. Denys sayes that the number of Angels by many parts exceeds the number of al Corporal and material things And for those we know how the sublunary bodies yeild in greatnes to the celestial bodyes and they vnto the tother the more high they are in so much as not a starr of the least magnitud but is farr greater then al the globe of inferior things together We know besides that euery man from Adam to the Consummation of the world hath had and shal haue an Angel Guardian to attend vpon them be they good or bad al equally participating of this benefit whence it followes as we haue sayd before that the number of Inferiour Angels deputed to that charge exceedeth the number of al men that euer were are and shal bee which being so how innumerous must the superiour bee since as we haue formerly deduced they increase in proportion the more superior they are Certainly more easy it were to number al the starrs in heauen the drops of the Sea the leaues of trees the plants of the earth and the Atomes of the Sun then the multitud of Angels knowne only to God himselfe Let vs add moreouer the better to sett of the glory of our soueraigne Queene a second wonder in traine of this to wit That al the Angels as infinit as they are haue each one yet a diuersity among themselues and if it be such a delightful sight to see a Garden al planted with variety of flowers how much more delightful must it bee to see these Angelical flowers adorning the heauenly Garden with each one their seueral species according to their seueral dignity and merits And heere our Imagination hath a spatious feild to exercise it selfe in deuout conceipts of the B. Virgins perfections and excellence for if the Courtiers striue with so much splēdor how much more splendid must needes that Maiestie bee on whom they al attend For so these B. Spirits are perpetually attending before her Throne adoring her and ready at the least twinkling of her eye to execut her commands which are commonly for the good and saluation of man This is the opinion of S. Augustine where he sayes S. Michael and al the other Angels haue an eye in heauen vnto the B. Virgin to see where shee would Command them any things for the good of soules on earth Let vs conclude then that her Greatnesse are vnspeakeable and incomprehensible not only by men but euen by the Angels themselues and that next to God she hath the most soueraigne command in heauen as being Queene of