Chap.l.Sect,) LfJokinguntoJ't"fru. Book. IV.P:11't 4• 713 milfe (hrift, firft (ee/z_ ;,he. King dome of .God and his, righ- Mar.6.3J. teo1ljm[Je, and then (f;;uth <- hn!l:) t~ll other thmg1 foal! be adaed unto yeu, 2. For the place where he appeared, it was in the garden, where Chrift was buried; in a garden A Jan~ firft finned, in a garden Chri!l: firft appeaJ;ed; in a garden death fir!l: was threaten· ed and deferved, and in a garden, life is refiored, and conferred upon us; {'hri!l: makes choyce~~ a garden both for his gr~ve, and refurrecl:ion, and firft appantton, to tell us where we mtght feek him, if we have loft him, my be laved i1gone down into his gJ~r- c1m,6 ;. den to the beds offpice1, to feed in the gardem, lind to gather lillie1, tha~ is, Jefus Chn!l: is to be fought and found in the particular atfemb!ies of his people; they are the garden of his pleafure, wherein are varieties of all the beds of renewed fouls, there he. walks and there he feeds, and there he follaceth himfelfe with thofe fruits of righteoufneffe and new obedience, wh~ch they are able to bring forth to him. 0 there let us feekhim, and we !hall finde him. 3. For the perfon to whom he appeared; it was Mary Magdalen, the that fornerimes Jived a finiull ife, that was no better than a commoncortizan,now is firft up to feek her Saviour. Let never any defpaire ofmercy, that but heares ofthe converlion of .lV!arJ c.Magdtden; 1Jionifcim tells us, that /he 1 h,H was loofe and diJTolu•e in heryouth, betoof<.hfr felfe in her old rlge to amofl fc!it, try life ; tb. .tt foe feq ::eftredher felfe fr~m all worldly pleafuru in the mountaineJ of lJalma; full thirtyyears; in 11/l which time foe gat·e her (elfe to meditation, fafting, and .prayer. The text tells us, that much wa.~ forgiven her, and foe loved much. Her love to ·Lu!r. 7 • 47 Chrift appea~esat tbis time, lJ~~t Mary flood without at the fe- ' pulchre weeping, and M foe wept,jheftooped down, and look.ed into Job. to, I r; thefepulchre , this Scripture?'e maycatl afong of loves, or if you will a (ong of degren; every word is a fiep, or degree of love more than other . As --- r. M .;ry, ft~od at the fepulrhre; fhe ftood by the grave of Chrifi i~ lignifies her great love to Jefus Cbritt; many would ltand by htm whtle he was alive, but to thnd by him dead none w~uld do ir; thofe.':"e l~ve mo£1: we will waite on them .living, or tf they dye, we wul brtng them to the grave, and lay them in the grave ~but there weleave them :-:::-~nly Mary choofeth !_ yyy - Chrifts
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