A treatise co[n]teining certain meditatio[n]s of true & perfect consolatio[n], ... Written in the…A treatice co[n]teining certain meditatio[n]s of trew & perfect consolatio[n], ... Written in the…

Finally we must lift up ou• hearts on high, and ascend up to the mountain of mire to the spouse. This mountain is the Son of God Jesus Christ crucified head of all the faithful saints, Prince of all those that suffer, of whom many have written notable things, and altogether ⟨image 36⟩hath written all that ought to be written, and the memory of the same is recommended to the church, where it is said. Set me for a sign in thy hart, & as a butte or mark upon thine arm. The blood of the lamb sprinkled upon the enter of the houses, stayed the angel from striking. And likewise the spouse is praised, because her hairs be as the purple of the king, that is to say, her meditation is read by the remembrance of Jesus Christ. This is the wood that Moses cast by commandment into the waters of marah, that is to say. Into the bitter passions, and were made sweet. There is nothing but this passion, that can make sweet, that is to say death, as saith the espouse. His lips be as the distilling lily, drawing out sovereign myrrh, the which proportion of lilies and tips, signify the act of mystical things. For as the lily is white & the lips red, that is the words of the Lord Jesus be most white & most pure in the which is no ⟨p. 24⟩bitterness, nor bloody slaughter, but sweetness & pleasantness from whom distilleth sovereign myrrh: these lips most pure, & most sweet have power to put away the great bitterness of death, and to convert it into sweetness, purity, whiteness & sweet savour, as the excellent myrrh putteth away all stinkingness of sin, that is to say. When we hear that Jesus Christ the Son of God, hath cleansed and sanctified by his most holy sufferings, all persecutions and passions, yea the very death, he hath blessed the curse, he hath glorified the shame and ignominy, and enriched the poverty, so that death is constrained to be the gate of life, the curse is constrained to be cause of blessing, and the ignominy mother of glory. Now how can we be so ingrate and unthankful, that we do not earnestly desire, yea and love all these passions and afflictions, dipped and sanctified by the most pure flesh and most holy blood of the Son of God, the which