Chap. [. Stet. 5. Book IV. 423 3 . But M~ry flood withou(m the fpulchre weepin.g : This was love ind~ed; fee how every word iso degree of ]o,e. Bur /14My flood there weepmg, when Chn(t ftood at Laz.arm's grave-lide weeping, the Jews foid then, Behold horv he loved htm, and may nor we fay the very fame of Mary, Behold how jheloved him, her very love runs down her ch<eks, Jhe cannot think of .J efus as loft, but ll1e weeps ; fl1e weeps for havmg loft him whom Jl1e loved . at firll Jl1c mourned for the departing of his foul out of Ius body, and now Jl1e \>~mems' the raking of his body out of rhe grave; at lid\ Jhe mourned be– caufe JJ 1e could nor keep him alive, ye• rhor for row had fame folace,' in that Jl;e hoped ro have enjoyed him dead ; but when JJ,e confiders that his life was loll, and nor fo much as hi> body could be found, oh lhe weeps, and weeps. The !all office fl1e could do was ro anoint his body, and to bewatl hts deJth ; and to that purpofe ll1e comes no;., unto his gnve ; as fomerimes Jl<e hod wa01ed his feet with her rears, now lhe would lhed them af:·efh upon his feet, and head, and hands, and heart, and all; but when Ote faw rhe grave open, and the body gone, and nothing of Chrifl now lefr her to mourn over, ll1e weeps rhe more, l11e weeps mofr bitterly; But Mary flood there n-ecping. · _ 4· And M foe wept, foe floopecl dorvn and looktd into the (cpulchre. She did fo weep 2s the dil feek wirhall; her weeping hindred nor her feeking, (he fought and fought; to wlm pU!·pofe? rhat Chrill: is nor in rhe tomb her own eyes have feen ; the Difciples hands have felt, rhe empty winding JlJeer, dorh plainly avouch; Peter and John had looked in before, nay, They wen} imo the fep~<h-hre, and f.11v the linnen cloaths lying, Jor.n ·o. r., 7• and the napk:n that WM aboM his head wrapt by it [elf; and yet for all this l11e will be !looping down, and !Joking in; l11e would rather condemn her own eyes of error, and both their eyes and hands of deceit; ll1e would rather fufpect all teftimonies for untrue, rhan nor ro look afrer him whom ll1e had loll, even there where by no diligence l1e could be found, It i4 not enough for love to look_ in once. You know this is rhe manner of our feeking, when we feek fomerhing_ f~rioully ; where we have fought already rhere we will feek again; we are apt to rhtnk we fou~ln nor well, bur if we feek again we may find ir where we fought : And rhus Mary !ought, and when l11e could rhink of no orher pbce fo likely to find Chrift in as this, Ore fought again in this, fhc will not believe her own fenfes, ll1e would nttler think that l11e looked nor well before than OJC will leave of looking. When rhit:gs-rharare dearly.affeded are gone and loll, loves nature is .never robe wea:·y of f.arcb;,g, even the ofrenell fearchcd corner;; rhey mull: ftill be an lxmm f{)r hope. 0 love thtnks it horh nerer looked enough, in the firft verfe 0Je looked, .And fawthe j/one ta/(sn a!VtlJ fron the {epulchre; and now again jhe ;loopedt!own m~d look._ed into the fepulshre. 4· }or the manner how he appeared ; it w~s firfl by his Angels, and fecondly by himW I I. There was an ,apparition of Angels, JlJe foet!t two Angols i" white,_ (iuing, the one John , o. 1 ,, atthe head, ancl the other at the feenvhercthe bocly of {e[>u hadla)'en, I w1l! not flay here 13 • only for the opening of rhewords Iflrallanfwerrhefe~ef\ions· As I. Wharmean~ · the apparition of A,,geJs? I anfwer, it is only a preJHration 'ro Clirifr's apparition. Mari:s lofs mull be reftored by degrees ; though lhe faw nor Chrif\ ar firl\ ; yer fl1c fJ"'hrs Angels; tt ofren pleaferh Chnft \P rhedefenions of his people, ro come to them by_ degrees, and nor ar once, L1e comes fi:·ft by his Angels, fo it wa.· ar his birrh, and fo tt rs ar l,tS refurre(tion. ---But 2. What do Angels in a fcpulchre? iris a place fitter for worm• than Angels: we never read of Angels being in a grave before rhis 11me; theyare ble!fed creatures, and is the grave a fir place for rhem? 0 yes! lince !=lmfl: lay m the grave, that very place is a blefled place; J]i<jfedare the clead, which Rev. 14.;~: die_ "' the Lord from henceforth. Precioeu in the fight of the Lord i4 the death of hu 1'1•1. 1 1~. r "' Sm•ztsBur, 3. Why '-"the Angels in white? So!omo11- anfwers, that white is rhe · colour of j~y . . Let thy gttrmems be aitva;res white, and let tl1y head lac/z. no oiutmcnt. Ecdef. 9· ~.. When Chnn was trJnsfigtired, his Ra.. ment tvas all white, )JO Fuller in the earth cotlld Mark 9· ~come nc,'!r it;* and rhe Saints in Heaven a~e faid rO waltz.. in l'll'hite robes:;· And here the An- l\.cv. 7 ' 9~ gels are in white, ro fignifie the j{)y they had of Lhrifl's refurrection from the dead. ---Bur, +·Why are they one at rhe head,and rhe orher ar rhe feer whet< rhe body of Jefus had layn? Some anfwer, tbar as ?..!m-y J',.fagdalen had anointed his head and feet, r, at thofe two P.laces the tWO Angels fir; as it were to acknowledge fo much for her fake. OtLers thmk tt fpeaks comfort ro every one of us ; if we are bur in Chri!!, we Orall go to our graves itl white, and lye betwee:tl rwo AngeL who are faid to glllrd our
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