Book IV. Parc.4. Lo~king UrJto 1efus. Chap.I.Seet.; - Chri fr s tombe for her heft home, and his dead corps for her chief comfort, fhc praifeth the dead more than the living, and having loft that light of the Sun of righteoufmjfe, fhe delircd to dwell in darlme!fe, in thefin dow ofdeath . . 2 . But J M ary ftood. q, d. others did not ,but fhe did: Peter and {obn were there even now, and when they could not finde Jcflls, away they went, but Mary went not,fhe ftood ftill: their going away commends her ftaying behinde; how many circumitance> may we obferve in c..Mary, fetting out her love to Chrift .above them a'!? to the grave the came before them; from the grave fhe went to tell them; to the gr~ve !he returne$ with them; and at the grave fhe ftayes .beh1nde th.em. Certainly there was in Ulfary a ftronger aftechon than e1ther in Peter or [ohn, and this affection fixed her there, that fhe could not ftir; go who would, {he woulcl not go, but fray ftill. BNt M,try flood withottt. 3• Bttt UW~trJ ft ood withoNt at the fepN!chre weeping: This was love indeed; fee bow every word is a degree of love. But Mary ftood there weeping . when Chrift ftood at L az,aru:ls grave Gde weeping , the Jews faid tben,beholdhow helovedhim, and may not we fay the very fame of Mm;, behald how fo eloved him, her very love runs down her cheeks, fhe cannot think of [efu~ as lofi, bur ilic weeps; fhe weeps for having loft him whomilie loved; at · firft fhe mourned for the depart tng of his foul out of his body and now fhe laments the taking ofhis bodyout of the grave; at'firil: - fhe mourm:d bccaufe fhe could not keep him alive, yet tqatforrow h11d fome folace, in that ilie hoped to have enjoyed him dead ; but when fhe contiders that his life was lq~, aop not fo much as his body could be found, oh fhe weeps, and w~eps-. The I aft office fhe could do , was ro annoynt his body, and to bewaile hisdeath; and to tha t purpoC: {he comes no1~ unto hisgrave ; as fometimes fhe had walled his feet with her tea res, nowfhe would ilied them afrefh upon llis feet, ar.d Lead, and hands, and heart, and all; but when fhe fa··r rhe grave O?en, and r.h.: body gone, and nothing pfChri ft POW left hQr to curne over, fhe weeps the more, £he w,eps rnofr bi£rcrly ; But lVfttry Jhod there weeping. .' 4. A nd M /he n-'pt,fo~ flocp·d kP-:11 tm.i lud~d intothe (ep:. k hre. She did fo weep ·as the dt9. kek wi th all ; her weeping hindred · not
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