Chap. 2. Sect. 2. Book IV. 447 kno;vn, !he takes him for the Gardincr of rhe place, but within a while he utters~ v, cc that opens both her ears, and eyes ; And JrfuJfai!h unto her, Mary. It was rhe fweetefl: found that ever fhe heard; many a tirue had !he been called-by that !'ame, bur never heard llre a voice fo etfetl:ual, powerful, inward. feeling as ar rillS ume ; hereby the cloud is frarrered, and the Sun of Righreoufnefs appears; this one wo:d .Mary, ]iohtens her eyes dryes up her rears, chears her heart, relives her fpmts that were as o~od as dead. One word of Chrifl wrought fo flrange an alteration in her, as if ll1e bad been wholly made new, when ll!C was only named. And hence it is that being raviD1ed with his voice, and impatient of ddayes, fhe rakes his talk our of Ills momh, and ro hisfirfl and only word Mary, !he, anfwers, Rabboni] 1vhich ino(ay, .Majler, q. d. M after, i; it thou? with many a Talt tear have 1fou.~ht thee, and m't tho~t rm– expefled!y fo mar at hand! thy abfence WtU hell, and rby prefonce i; no !ef; than heaven to me: Oh hotv i; my heart ravijhed at thy found? if the babe leaped m rhe womb of Ehu– beth when Jbe bi<t heard the falutation of .Mary, ho:v Jlrould my heart bm leap .at thy fa– haation? J feel 1am exceedingly tr~nfported bc)'ondmy Jelf. Inflcad of my heavy heart arrd rro11bled (pirit, 1 feel now a fi•eet and delightful trMquility of mind; thou art my folace, and foul; delight; whom have 1 in heaven but thee? and whom defire 1 upon r::1.rth in comparifon of thee .? and )'et I am not fatisfir:d; not only fruition of thee, b11t ttnion with thee;, that which my for•! long; after; not on£v rhy prejince, but thy er~braces, or rny embraces of th~c cangive content; come then, and give me leave, n.y Lord, my God, to run to the haunt of my chief delightJ, to fall at thy facred feer, and to bathe them tvith my tcan of joy ; 0 my [efeu I mnjl needs dtu! with thee, M the Spoufe dealt with thee, r.owl h.1ve forend thee rrhowmy foul loves dearly, 1wd! hold thee, ~nd 1 wii! not let Canq. 4• thee go. I know not in all the B~ok of God a foul more depreiTed with forrow, and lifted up with joy: 0 meditate on this! if Chrill: be abfenr, al l is night, but if Chri(l ap– pear he turns ~11 again into a lighrfome day, there is no forrow like that which appre– hends Chrill:'s lofs, and therefore in hell it is looked upon as the greueft pain 1 of the two (fay Divines) it is a greater tormentto lofe God, and to lofe Jefus Chrill:, than ro eQdure all thofe flaming whips, unquenchablc fires, intollcrable cold, abominable Hench; and on the other tide, there is no joy in heaven like to that which apprehend> Chrirt's prefence, In thy prefence there i; fulnefs of joy, and at thy ~ight hand there are Pfa'. !{. 11 , pleajim; evermore. 1had rather be in hell with Chrifl ( faid one) than in heaven wirbollt Chrift. This is the very top of heavens joy, the quintelfence of glory, the higheft happinefs of the Saints ; 0 my foul feek with .Mary, yea feek and weep, ~nd weep and feek,and never re!l fatisfied tiil Chriflappear. If thou an bur in the uf~ of means, he will ap~e~r fooner or.later; or what if thou never fawefl agood day on earth, one fight of Chnflm heaven will make amends. Surely rf tbou knewe!l the joy of Chri!l's prefence, thou wouldfl: run through death and he!I to come to Chrifl, it was Pa11l's faying, J drfire to be diffolved, .and to be wzth Chrijf whrch u far bet) er; he cared not for death Phi!. r. 2 • fo he mtght go to Chrr!l, for th~t was better than very ilfe it [elf. 3 2. Mufe on his Apparition to the ten Dikiples, When the door; were Jhut for fear of John 20 • , 9 , the JC<VJ,. then came refm, and flood In the mzdft, fayzng IO them, peace be UntO )'Ot<. Before Ius Appamrons farrow and fear bad poffdfed all' their fpirits: fomet"rme they walked abroad, and were fad ; and fomeume5 they kept within , and lhur the doors upon them as being exceedingly afraid : In this condition J efus Chrirt (that knows befl the nmes and feafons of grace and comfort) comes and ftands in the midfl of their Af- , fembly; he comes in, they know not how; and no fooner be is in, but he falures [hem mrlus manner, Peace be 1mto yott. T~1is was the prime of all his wifhes; .no fooner is he rifen, bur he wifheth peace 10 alllus Apol1:1es; no fooner meets he With them, but the very opening of his lips was wnh thefe words; they are the firtl words l' at the firft meeting, on the very .firft day .---A fure fig~ tha~ peace was in the heart of Jefus Chrill:; howfocver it is with us, peace, or war; there ts a Commonweal where Chri!l is Ki~g, and there is peace, and nothmg bur peace; .come, lift, try, and examine; art thou, 0 my foul, a mem– ber of tins body? a fubJect of this Common-weal ? bath the influence of Chri!l's peace (wrought and declared at hrs refurreCl:ion) any force on thee? haft thou peace w,irh God?,and peace wrth1n? and peace without? doll thou feel that ointment poured upotJ Aaron ~head, and runnrng down to the skins of his garments? dofl thou feel the dew of 1-lermon, aud the dew that defcends upon Mount Sion, dropping (as it were) upon· th)'
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