transmitted by Mary (p. 127); that all gifts, virtues, graces are dispensed by her, to whomsoever, when, and as she pleases (p. 128) ; tliat from her the world receives ever}' good (p. 128) ; that she is the Helper of the Re- demption (p. 133) ; that she and her Son redeemed the world (p. 133) ; that she is the Co-operator in our jus- tification (p. 133) ; that the way of salvation is open to none otherwise than through Mary (p. 135) ; that God says, " Go to Mary," when we seek for grace from him (p. 136) ; that the salvation of all depends on the favor and protection of Mary (p. 136) ; that the other saints intercede with her (p. 138) ; that she is a tender Advo- cate ; that all power is given unto her in heaven and earth (p. 145) ; that God obeys the command of Jlary (p. 146); that Mary is omnipotent (p. 146); that the whole Church is under the dominion of Mary (p. 140); that what she wills is necessarily done (p. 147) ; that her praj'ers have something of a command in them (p. 151) ; that Jesus Christ is under an obligation to her to grant all she asks (p. 152) ; that she is the singular Ref- uge of the lost (p. 156) ; that she is the Advocate of the whole human race (p. 161) ; that her chief office in the world is to reconcile fallen souls with God (p. 107) ; that she is the great Peace-maker who obtains reconcilia- tion, salvation, pardon, and mercy (p. 105); that in her is established the seat of God's government (p. 179); that she delivers her clients from hell (p. 183) ; that her clients will necessarily be saved (p. 184) ; that she has sent back many from hell to earth who have died of mortal sins (p. 188) ; that she consoles, relieves, and suc- cors her clients in purgatory (p. 195); that she delivers her clients from purgatory hy applying her merits (p. 195) ; that she carries away from purgatory all who wear the Carmelite scapulary on the Saturday after they die, provided they have been chaste and have said her office (p. 190); that she does not suffer those who die clothed in the scapular}' to go to hell (p. 185) ; that Mary leads her servants to heaven (p. 198); that she has the key of the gate of paradise (p. 199) ; that she is the Way of our salvation (p. 200) ; that it is for the love of Mary and on account of her merits that God is more merciful under the New than under the Old Dispensa- tion (p. 214) ; that her powerful intercession sustains the world (p. 214) ; that she is the Throne of grace to which St. Paul bids us tly (p. 215) ; that Christ has promised that all who invoke the holy name of 3Iary with confi- dence shall have perfect sorrow for their sins, atonement for their crimes, strength to attain perfection, and shall reach the glory of paradise (p. 226), etc.
We will also cite for the benefit of our readers some passages from the writings of Liguori bearing more di- rectly on the field of doctrinal tlieology. Mary is not only titled by him " Queen, Mother, and Spouse of the King : to her belongs dominion and power over all creat- ures" (p. 12) ; " She is Queen of Mercy, as Jesus Christ is King of Justice" (p. 13). "If Jesus is the Father of souls, !Mar}' is also their ]\Iother. On two occasions, ac- cording to the holy fathers, IMary became our spiritual Mother. The first, according to blessed Albert the Great, was when she merited to conceive in her virginal womb the Son of God. This was revealed by our Lord to S. Gertrude, who was one day reading the above text, and was perplexed, and could not understand how Jlar}-, being only the Mother of Jesus, could be said to have brought forth her first-born, (iod explained it to her, saying that Jesus was Mary's first-born according to the flesh, but that all mankind were her second-born accord- ing to the Spirit The second occasion on which
]\Iary became our spiritual jMother, and brought us forth to the life of grace, was when she offered to the eternal Father the life of her beloved Son on Mount Calvary with such bitter sorrow and suffering" (p. 23). "Thus it is that in every engagement with the infernal powers we shall always certainly conquer by having recourse to the jMother of God, who is also our Jlother, saying and repeating again and again,' AVe fiy to thy patronage, O holy Mother of God ; we fiy to thy patronage, O holy
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