Chapter

 1 I    |           of the excellence of her Child. How pure Mary was because
 2 I    |           by the excellence of her Child, is well expressed in the
 3 I    |      excellence and utility of her Child, it is fittingly said to
 4 II   |          Woe to them that are with child and bring forth in those
 5 IV   |            His Mother: Behold this Child is set for the fall and
 6 IV   |          the house, they found the child . . ." (Matt. II, 11.) So
 7 IV   |           marvelous manner. By her Child she was approved, by her
 8 IV   |           she was approved, by her Child she was ennobled, by her
 9 IV   |           she was ennobled, by her Child she was enriched. By thy
10 IV   |           she was enriched. By thy Child, O Mary, thy virginity was
11 V    |            eternal death, by whose Child, I, being lost, was recovered
12 VI   |         whom, when He was a little child born of thee, thou didst
13 XI   |            and might bring forth a child without the usual travail."~
14 XI   |       without iron, made Mary with child of the Holy Ghost; and He
15 XII  |            at the same time in her Child the flower of humanity and
16 XIV  |            majesty of her heavenly Child, because of the blessed
17 XIV  |      blessed because of her Divine Child. Blessed, I say, by the
18 XIV  |             by man. Because of her Child she is indeed blessed by
19 XIV  |            the Lord because of her Child, who Himself is and gives
20 XIV  |          is blessed because of her Child, not only by the Lord Himself
21 XIV  |          creature, but also as the Child is with her who is to bring
22 XIV  |          Him forth. Because of thy Child, thou art blessed before
23 XIV  |           delivery; because of thy Child, thou art blessed in bringing
24 XIV  |     bringing forth; because of thy Child, thou art blessed after
25 XIV  |          hast so brought forth thy Child that before His birth, and
26 XIV  |          is blessed because of her Child, not only by the Lord Himself
27 XV   |        bringing forth so blessed a Child. "From her," saith the Lord, "
28 XVI  |           useful excellence of her Child, the Fruit of her womb is
29 XVI  |       Virgin! "The nobility of the Child was in the virginity which
30 XVI  |         was in the Divinity of the Child." Again, this Fruit is well-born
31 XVI  |           fruit of the vine is the Child of the Virgin. But what
32 XVIII|         For St. Bernard says: "The Child lies in the manger, that
33 XVIII|            been redeemed, by whose Child I am delivered from eternal
34 XVIII| generations of the angels is by my Child filled up, restored, and