446 Book IV. t!.-rotung unto jjefus. Chap.2.sea,;: forwardi;God's fcrvia, a~d-;h~u~r;b;b;.,,i?-.;-;1~dry~exp~<'left-t~b~ equ;l wtth rhe Angels, .and ar.t thou no;v fo far bdu d them? what, to be equal in rewud, and belund them m ferv1ce ? here • a meduauon able to ~heck thy !loath, and 10 fpur thee on ro thy duty, - - 5· Many of the bodtes of the Saws arofe out of their graves at his refurrecHon; as the Angel; mini!!red, fo the Saints waited on him. Jn this meditation trouble not rhr. felf whether D .zvid, · Mofos, Job, Abraham, J(acc, and Jacob were fome of thofe Samts, as fon1e conjeCture upon fome grounds; it is a better confiderauun to look upon them as the frutt of Chrill:'s refurredioN and as ~n e~rndl of thy own; the venue ,of Chrifi's refurreClion appears immediat~ly, and lt wdl more appear ~t the general refurrec'lwn day . As fure as thefe Saints arofe with him, ~nd went Into the holy City, and appeared to many; fo fure /hall thy bo– dy nfe agam at the Iaft day; and ( tf thou arc but a Saint) it /},all go with hi 111 into the heavenly Jem[alem, and appear before God, and his Son jefus Chrifr in glo– ry.---6. Chnfi rofe agam With a true and perfeCl body, with an incorruptible and powerfu_l body, wuh a fpiritual and an agile body, with a glorious body, brighter than the Sun tn Ius ut~oft glory_. On rh~fe thlllgs may the foul expatiate; 0 it is a wonhy, blelfed, foul-ravtflung fubJe<.'l: to tlunk upon : and the rather if we confider chat conPI.il. 3.w, ,,, formity which we believe, We lookJor a Saviour (faith the Apoflle) the Lord Je[tu Chrift, who )ball change our vdt bodtes that they may be f4hioned umo hu gloriom body. 0 my foul, that this clay of tl~me lhould be a partaker o! fuch glory! that this body of duft and eanh fl10uld Du_ne tn heaven ltke thofe glorwus fpangles ofthe firmament, that tillS body thlt i!Jall ·rot m dufl, and faJJ more vile tlun a carrion Dwuld rife, and Dtine like the glorious body of our Saviour on Mount Tabor; furely' thou oweft much to Chrifi's refurredion. 0 confider of it, ti!J tbou fee/eft the influence, and come/! to the alfurance of this blelfed cbange, 4· Confider of the feveral Applritions of Jefus Chrift, efpecially of thofe written by the Evangelift 1ohn. As-- r. Mufe on his Apparition to Mary Magdalen, Oh the grief before he appeared! and oh the joyes when he appeared!---r. Before, JIJC apprehended nothing, but that fome or other had took away her Lord; thefe were all the words /}JC uttered.before he appeared, They have taf<!n away my Lord, and I k_no!v not where they have laid him. fo lhe told Peter, and John; and when two Angels appeared in white, asking her, wo: man, why weepeft tho" i' fl1e give> the fame anfwer to them; They have raf<!n ~way my Lord. and I kpow not where they ha_ve laid him. A foul in defemon knows nor what to do burro weep and cry, Ohmy Lor{iugone! I have/oft my Lord, my Gild, my Jejiu, my King ; in this meditation, confider 0 my foul, as if thou hadfi been in Marie; cafe; was it not a fad cafe, when the Angels of Heaven knew not how to comfort her? fuppofe any fon of confolation had ftood.by , anJ had fuch a one perfiVaded, 0 Mnry _fupprefs thy fadnefs, refrejhthyh~artwiththu ble/fedvifion, thou didft feek_butone, and tholt haft fotmd two; ade~~d body WM thy errand, ""d thou haft light on two alive; thy weeping WM for a 711i"n, and thy tears have obtained Angels : obferve them narrowly, the Angels invite the; to a parley, it may be they had fame happy ne1vs to tell thee of thy Lord: Remember what they are, tmd where they fit, and whence they collie, and to whom they [peak,.; they are Angels of pMce, neither font withom ca11[e, 11ot feenbm offavour; they fit o~ the torr.b, to ji>CW they are no ftrangers to thy lofs; they co'l1e from heaven, from whence all happy news defcendeth; they [peak. to thy [elf a~ tf they had Jome Jpecial Em– bajfagetodelivenmto thee. No, no; thefe cord~als are m vam; netther man nor An– gel can do her good, or comfort her drooping foul ; either Chrifl himfelf mufi come in prefence, or lhe cryes, Miferable comforters are ye all. AIM! Jmal/ u the light, that a Star can Jield when the Sun is down; a forry exchange it isto go ad gather cwmbs after the lofs of the bread of life; oh what can thefe Angels do? they cannot perfwade me that my Mt~fter is not loft for my own eyes willdifprove. them; they can lefs tell me where he may be found; for they themfelves would watt upon htm, if they k_new bm where; I am apt to thin/zthey k!to1v not where he is, and therefore they are come to the place where he lafl wM, makf.ng thetomb their heaven, and the remembrance of hiS prefencethe fewelof thttr joy ; ala< ! what do AnKels here? I neither came to fee them, nor de(ire to hear them; I came not to fee A ngels, bm the Creator of Angels, to whom I owe more than both to mm 1111d Angels. . . . . 2. After he appeared flJC was filled With JOY ; forfo lt was, that when notht~g elfe would fatis£c, or comfart this poor creature, Jefus hlmfe!f appears; at lirft he Js un· known,
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