The golden legend - 1900 Author:Jacobus Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The as well for his beating that he suffered, as for the Concep- great jov tnat ne was wont to have on thaj. day 0£ our Lady ' Nicholas. And when he had long ... more »prayed and sighed he fell asleep, and when he awoke he found himself in the chapel of his father, whereas was much joy made for him. Let us then pray to this blessed saint that he will pray for us to our Lord Jesu Christ which is blessed in secula seculorum. Amen. Here follo'weth the Conception of our Blessed Lady. Of the feast of the Conception of our Blessed Lady. Maria invenisti graciam apud Domimim. Luce primo capitulo. When the angel Gabriel had greeted our Lady for to show to her the blessed conception of our Lord, for to take from her all doubts and dreads, he comforted her in saying the words aforesaid : Mary, thou hast found grace at the Lord. There be four manners of people, of which the two be good, and the two be evil. For some there be that seek not God nor his grace, as people out of the belief, of whom may be said as it is written: Who that believeth not on his Lord God shall die perpetually. And other there be that seek God and his grace, but they find it not, for they seek it not as they ought to do, as covetous men that set all their love in havoir and in solace of the world. Such people be likened to them that seek flowers in winter: well seek they flowers in winter that seek God and his grace in the covetise of the world, which is so cold of all virtues that it quencheth all the devotion of the love of God. And well is called the world winter in holy scripture ; for hs evils and vices make men sinners The and cold to serve God. And therefore saith the Con Holy Ghost to the soul that is amorous, Canticorum cap. ii.: Arise up thou my fair soul, the winter is past. Jam enim hiems transiit. For th...« less