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Matthew Poole
3 quotations · Works cited: Annotations upon the Holy Bible
Christ
He hath also hereby taught us, that the blessed virgin is not to be preferred before her Son (as the papists do).
Church & Worship
This phrase, Behold the handmaid of the Lord, doth not speak her the lady and queen of heaven, (as the papists style her), but it speaketh her humility and readiness to give up herself to the Lord's pleasure, her assent and consent unto God.
Much less as one to whom we should pay a greater devotion than to her Son, and speak to her that she should command her Son, according to the blasphemous devotion and idolatry of the papists. Mary is very careful of giving succeeding generations any occasion from her expressions for any such superstitions.