---------- --'--- . ---------~~- ______ ........;;.;......__ 434 Book IV. Locki11g rmto 1-efns. Chap.j.Sett.3 Jer. 9· 1. lying at meat, 011arJ had the convenience to weep on his feet, wb:ch be bad caB: behind his fellow ; .and 0 how {he weeps a maine! the teares fo trickle, that {he begins to wafh Cbrifi:s feet, fhe not on!y waters them, but wafhes them; that wh1eh 'jeremy wi!bed, Oh that my hectd were waters, and mine eyes a jount11ine &j tctms! Mary fulfills; for her head is waters, and her eyes are founta:nes; rivers of teares run down her ~eyes; Oh fhe bad pierced Chrifi: with her finnes, and now ilie weeps over hrm whom fhe had pierced ; crying out as we may irnag ne, 0 my - finnes ! and 0 my Ctri.Jl! 0 Joule finnes ! and 0 frmt {eftu ! 5. She wipes hu feet with the hairesof her head; her haire added to her beauty, fometimes in curling rings, or infeen. ly ihed,fhe made it a fnare for men 1 but now {he confecrates it to her Lord, and makes it a towel to wipe Chrifi:s feet wi 'hall: 0 here's a wortl1y fruit of ferious repent:tnce, the Apofi:le calls-it an holy 1. Cor. 7 , 11 • · revmge. 6. She kjJJed hi.sfee:; in token of her new choyce, and - new love, and new affcttions; her kiffes had formerly been to wantons, but now ihe befi:ows them on tl.e feet of Chrifr. . 7. She annoynted them with oyntmmt; which expreilion was fo great an extafie of love, and forrow, and adoration, that to annoynt the feet of the greatefi Monarch was long unknown and in all the pomps of R~mttr. prodigality it was never gfed till Orho taught it Nero. When Simon obferved this finner fo huGe in the expreffes ofher Religion, he thought within himfelfe that Chrifr was no Prophet, that he did not know her to be a !inner; for although the Jews Religion did permit harlots to live, and to enjoy the priviledges of the Nation, fave that their oblations were refufed, yet the Pharifees who pretended to a greater degree of fantl:ity than others, would not admit them to civil ufages, or to the benefits of ordinary fociety ; and hence Simon made an objettion within bimfelfe, which Jefus knowing (for he underfrood hi·sthoughts as well as words) firfr he makes her3pology, and then his own ; the fcope giving us to underfrand that Chrifi: wa~ not of the fame fupercilioufneffe with the Pharifees, but that repenting Gnners fhould be w~lcome unto him, and this welcome ver.47. ver. 48, ver· so. Vft. he publifh~th firfi: to Simon, her fins which ate many are f orgivtn; and then to the woman, th] fins are forgiven thee, thy faith hath Javed ther,go irJ peace, I have been long in the prcofe: but a word o(ufe, and I have done.
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