Sixthly It Follows in the Song Et Iesum Benedictum Fructum Ventris Tui Nobis Post Hoc Exilium Ostende, That Is: And Show Us Jesus, the Blessed Fruit of Your Womb, After This Exiling and Banishing

If you will have her to show you Jesus, then must you first let him show you her in this misery and hear what she said, Luke in the first chapter, where it is written: He remembers mercy, and helps up his servant Israel. Even as he promised to our fathers, Abraham and to his seed forever. Here says Mary that to Abraham and his seed was promised salvation through Christ Jesus, which thing is plainly declared in Genesis 22, where God said to Abraham: In your seed shall all nations be blessed: and Abraham believing this was saved thereby. And Genesis 17, Isaac was promised to Abraham and Abraham believing the same likewise was saved thereby. To David was like promise made, 2 Samuel, chapter 7, on this wise: When the time is fulfilled that you shall sleep with your fathers, I will raise your seed after you. I will be his father, and he shall be my son, and will establish the seat of his kingdom forever. This did David believe, and was also saved. Behold, thus has now Abraham received his child says Mary, as it was promised to Abraham and his posterity. Will you now therefore be also saved, then must you let Jesus be showed to you, as Mary does show him here in the Magnificat: namely that he is the blessing of all nations, and so to believe and faithfully to trust in Jesus Christ only: for by this faith only shall you be saved. You must have this faith only in him in this vale of tears, and so see him here: and not let him be showed to you by other means after this miserable exiling, as it is sung in this song of praise. Thus must we have him showed to us in this vale of tears, as he was showed to the patriarchs and prophets, that we may know him in this mortal life and believe in him, as they have done: and then surely shall he show himself well enough after this exiling and banishment. If else his words be true that he has spoken, John 11: I am the resurrection and the life. He that believes on me, shall live, though he were dead already. And John 3: He that believes on me shall not be condemned. Thus must you then know Jesus Christ as one that takes away your sins, dying the bitter death for them. But if you know him not here, then may he not be showed you after this parting of body and soul, neither of Mary, nor of any body else.