The great exemplar of sanctity and holy life according to the Christian institution: described in the history of the life and death of the Ever Blessed Jesus Christ the Saviour of the worldWith considerations and discourses upon the severall parts of the story; and prayers fitted to the severall mysteriesIn three parts; with many additionals . arnation of thine eternal Son;futme^ by the afsijlances of thy Divine Grace, into jtich holy difp of lions, that Imay never impede the event andeffe£l of thofe mercies^ which in the counfels ofthy Predeflination thou didH defgn for me. Give meapromptncfs
The great exemplar of sanctity and holy life according to the Christian institution: described in the history of the life and death of the Ever Blessed Jesus Christ the Saviour of the worldWith considerations and discourses upon the severall parts of the story; and prayers fitted to the severall mysteriesIn three parts; with many additionals . arnation of thine eternal Son;futme^ by the afsijlances of thy Divine Grace, into jtich holy difp of lions, that Imay never impede the event andeffe£l of thofe mercies^ which in the counfels ofthy Predeflination thou didH defgn for me. Give meapromptncfs to obey thee tothe degree and femblance of Angelical alacrity ^ give me holy furity and piety ^prudence andmodefly, like thofe excellencies which thou didst create in the ever-hle^ed Firgin^the Mother of God- grant that my implo^ment be alrvayes holy^unmixt with worldly affeCiions^ and as much as my condition of life will bear, re-tired from fecularinterefls and dijlurbances^ that 1 may converfe with Angels^entertain the holy ^ESUS^ conceive him in my Soul^ nouripj him with the ex-freffes of mojl innocent and holy affections^ and bring him forth and publifh himin a life of piety and obedience^ that he may dwell in me for ever^ and I may forever dwell with htm in the houfe of eternal pleafures and glories world withoutend. Amen. Part I. Sect. II. The bearing f E S V S in the womb of theblcjjed Virgin. Lthough the bltlTed Virgin had afliithas prompt andready as her body was chaft, and her ibul pure, yetGod, who ufes to give full meafure, fliaken toge-ther, and running over, did by way of confirmationand fixing the confidence of her aflentgivean in-ftance of his omnipotency in the very particular of anextraordinary conception: For the Angel (^id^Bcholdlh) confm Elizabeth hath alfo conceived ajon in her olda^e^andthii is the (ixt tnoneth with her that ivas called barren : for mth Godno-thing Ihall leife argument would have fatisfied the necefliry ofa faith wl
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