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  1 Prol |   tremble, and striketh dumb the earth, which amazeth every inhabitant
  2 II   |        to the inhabitants of the earth!" Behold how each of these
  3 II   |        to the inhabitants of the earth!" Woe, therefore, to sinners
  4 II   |        to the inhabitants of the earth: "Woe, woe, woe to the inhabitants
  5 II   |        to the inhabitants of the earth!" The woe of those who are
  6 II   |     glorious a treasure than the earth, and rightly incorruptibility
  7 II   |        to the inhabitants of the earth!" First, there is the greatness
  8 II   |       others as Mary obtained on earth, so great a degree of singular
  9 III  |      having great power, and the earth was enlightened by the glory
 10 III  |      Angel of Great Counsel; the earth illuminated by the glory
 11 III  |        doth illuminate the whole earth? For St. Bernard saith . "
 12 III  |     Heaven, of the dwellers upon earth and in hell. She is, I say,
 13 III  |          Sovereign in Heaven, on earth, and in hell.~First, consider
 14 IV   |      made the Lady of Heaven and earth; and for all that she is
 15 IV   |          prayed so sedulously on earth, why should she not pray
 16 IV   |       that while we serve her on earth with suppliant ardor, she
 17 V    |           and the breadth of the earth, and the depth of the abyss?" (
 18 V    |           19.) Mary was also the earth which brought forth for
 19 V    |         same Prophet saith: "The earth hath given its fruits" (
 20 V    |         is a heaven, Mary is the earth, Mary is the abyss. Who
 21 V    |      heaven, the breadth of that earth, the depth of that abyss,
 22 V    |         whole world, so that the earth is full of her mercy; and
 23 V    |     created a new thing upon the earth, a woman shall encompass
 24 VI   |          such another woman upon earth in look, in beauty, and
 25 VI   |          such another woman upon earth, as Mary was, in her glorious
 26 VI   |      thou didst so often kiss on earth." (Serm. de Sanct., XXV,
 27 VI   |          choirs of angels, if on earth thou hadst not lowered thyself
 28 VI   |       kindness was so swift upon earth? For in the offices of charity
 29 VII  |     created a new thing upon the earth, a woman shall encompass
 30 VII  | plenitude we can truly say: "The earth is the Lord's." By the earth
 31 VII  |     earth is the Lord's." By the earth is signified Mary, of whom
 32 VII  |         read in Isaias: "Let the earth be opened, and bud forth
 33 VII  |         What more lowly than the earth ? What more useful ? We
 34 VII  |        useful ? We all tread the earth under our feet, and draw
 35 VII  |          of life except from the earth, and from the fullness of
 36 VII  |         from the fullness of the earth? What, therefore, is more
 37 VII  |        what more useful than the earth? In like manner, what is
 38 VII  |      Hear now the Psalmist: "The earth is the Lord's and the fullness
 39 VII  |    thereof." The fullness of the earth consists in fruits and divers
 40 VII  |  according to the Psalmist: "The earth is filled with Thy riches."
 41 VII  |         riches of this most full earth, Mary, are the works, the
 42 VII  |         The Lord looked upon the earth, and filled it with his
 43 VII  |          the heavens, God to the earth, who restored peace, who
 44 VII  |       high and elevated, and the earth was full of His majesty" (
 45 VII  |           none in the kingdom of earth, nor in that of hell; for
 46 VII  |        such a work in Heaven, on earth, or in the nether regions.
 47 VII  |          is said in Isaias, "The earth is full of His glory" (Is.
 48 VII  |         Full indeed is the whole earth, full is Mary of the divine
 49 VII  |           none in the kingdom of earth, nor in that of hell; for
 50 VII  |        such a work in Heaven, on earth, or in the nether regions.
 51 VII  |          is said in Isaias, "The earth is full of His glory" (Is.
 52 VII  |         Full indeed is the whole earth, full is Mary of the divine
 53 VII  |    overflowing in her exile upon earth? What wonder if both in
 54 VII  |         if both in Heaven and on earth her fullness was above that
 55 VIII |       how great? The Lord of the earth and of all things in general,
 56 VIII |        neither in Heaven, nor on earth, nor in all the infernal
 57 VIII |         the Church militant upon earth. For truly both in Heaven
 58 VIII |      truly both in Heaven and on earth the Mother of the Creator
 59 VIII |          testifies, saying: "The earth is the Lord's, and all that
 60 VIII |          in it." Not only is the earth and its fullness the Lord'
 61 VIII |        Heavens, and thine is the earth, because "the heaven of
 62 VIII |         of this Lord, Heaven and earth, bodies and spirits, all
 63 IX   |          the Gospel: "Heaven and earth shall pass away," etc. Behold,
 64 IX   |         testifies: "Kings of the earth, and all ye people, princes
 65 IX   |         and all ye judges of the earth, young men and maidens,
 66 XII  |          Savior." This desert of earth flowered like a lily by
 67 XII  |           we find flowers in the earth, and in the bed. The earth
 68 XII  |       earth, and in the bed. The earth is the mind of the active (
 69 XII  |      mind of contemplatives. The earth, I say, is the mind bearing
 70 XII  |           how flowering was that earth, how flowering was the bed
 71 XII  |         neither in Heaven nor on earth is there found another one,
 72 XIII |       the heavens fear, what the earth is astonished at, all this
 73 XIV  |     Truth has sprung up from the earth." The Truth is Christ, who
 74 XIV  |      Blessed, therefore, is this earth, because of its blessed
 75 XIV  |     blessing in the midst of the earth, whom the Lord of hosts
 76 XIV  |           etc. The middle of the earth which the Lord blessed can
 77 XIV  |   salvation in the middle of the earth." Of this middle of the
 78 XIV  |            Of this middle of the earth, St. Bernard says: "With
 79 XIV  |         called the middle of the earth; for towards her, as to
 80 XIV  |       this blessed middle of the earth, therefore, blessed is Israel,
 81 XIV  |          things on Heaven and on earth, so that the angels as well
 82 XV   |         in Heaven, from below on earth, that in Heaven she might
 83 XV   |        blessing of glory, and on earth that of grace; and thus
 84 XV   |    blessed both in Heaven and on earth, according to what St. Bernard
 85 XV   |        thou wert blessed also on earth by the Angel, and art rightly
 86 XV   |        rightly called blessed on earth by all generations."~Secondly,
 87 XV   |      Cain: "Cursed art thou upon earth, which has opened its mouth,
 88 XVI  |          give benignity, and our earth will give its fruit." Commenting
 89 XVI  |       the virginal womb. And our earth will give its fruit, because
 90 XVI  |        who had her body from the earth, brought forth a Son, co-equal
 91 XVI  |        the heavens are above the earth. O truly wonderful and unheard-of
 92 XVI  |       and a sublime fruit of the earth"; in magnificence, because
 93 XVI  |          in Heaven, beautiful on earth, beautiful as the Word in
 94 XVI  |       the fruit of thy works the earth shall be filled" (Ps. CIII,
 95 XVI  |        coming of the fruit." The earth which is filled with this
 96 XVI  |          nature, which, like the earth, is ever ready to germinate
 97 XVI  |       thoughts and desires. This earth, I say, is filled with the
 98 XVI  |         peoples praise thee; the earth hath given its fruit" (Ps.
 99 XVII |        this fruit, and from what earth it was produced, and thou
100 XVII |       Mother, the fruit from the earth" O happy ones, who in the
101 XVIII|         peoples praise thee: the earth has given her fruit" (Ps.
102 XVIII|    Heaven and those which are on earth." Therefore, this fruit
103 XVIII|  testimony to this, saying: "Our earth will give its fruit, because
104 XVIII|        who had her body from the earth, brought forth a Son in
105 XVIII|        can be said of her: "That earth is uncultivated, it has
106 XVIII|        blooms of this uncultured earth are the flowers of heavenly
107 XVIII|       God indeed judging them on earth," etc. "Them," that is,
108 XVIII|       will judge the unjust upon earth, while at the judgment the
109 XVIII|      unjust will remain upon the earth, because they preferred
110 XVIII|        just has borne fruit. The earth is the virgin, because truth
111 XVIII|        has sprung forth from the earth."~Sixthly, the blessed fruit
112 XVIII|          not die. Blessed is the earth of this fruit; blessed above