[22]: The bishop of Meux, who has been already quoted, does not fail to suggest some delectable additions to her titles. He speaks in one of his discourses of her "sacred body, the throne of chastity, the temple of incarnate wisdom," &c. but the whole paragraph shall be introduced, though perhaps it had better remain untranslated:--"Le corps sacrè de Marie, le trône de la chastité, le temple de la sagesse incarneé, l'organe du Saint-Esprit, et le siége de la vertu du Très-Haut, n'a pas dû demeurer dans le tombeau; et le triomphe de Marie seroit imperfait, s'il s'accomplissoit sans sa sainte chair, qui a été comme la source de sa gloire. Venez done, Vierges de Jésus Christ, chastes épouses du Sauveur des ames, venez admirer les beautés de cette chair virginale, et contempler trois merveilles que la sainte virginité opère sur elle. La sainte virginité la préserve de corruption; et ainsi elle lui conserve l'être: la sainte virginité lui attire une influence céleste, qui la fait ressusciter avant le temps: ainsi elle lui rend la vie: la sainte virginité répand sur elle de toutes parts une lumière divine; et ainsi elle lui donne la gloire. C'est ce qu'il nous faut expliquer par ordre;" and he _does_ explain these _trois merveilles_ in a manner well calculated to satisfy every Papist, and to sicken every Protestant. Vide _Serm. pour l'Assumpt. de la Vierge_, P. 2. [23]: Quoted by M. Pascal, in the ninth of his "Lettres Provinciales." Consult also "the Life of Melancthon," by the author of this work, chap. iii. [24]: Picart, Ceremonies et Coutumes de tous les Peuples da Monde, tom. i. [25]: Dr. Johnson [26]: Dr. Johnson. [27]: Gen. xxxiii. 18, 19, Josh. xxiv. 32. This place was the metropolis of the tribe of Ephraim. It was destroyed by Abimelech, but rebuilt by Jeroboam, who made it the seat of the kingdom of Israel. It was afterward called _Neapolis_; and Vespasian or Domitian having established a colony there, it received the Roman appellation of _Flavia Cesarea_. Herod gave it the name of _Sebaste_. [28]: It stood two hundred years. JOSEPH. Antiq. lib. xiii. cap. 18. [29]: JUST. MART. Apol. II.