-----:----:-:----··~------ Cb_ap. T.Sect.5. LrtokJng tmt~ 'le{r11. Book.IV.Pa.!J:.1t. 7r5 not her feeking, fhe foughr and fought; to what pnrpofe? tl1at Chrifl is not in the tomb her own eyes have fe~n; the DiL: p .s hands have felt, the empty winding-ilieet, doth plain:y avouch; Pmrand 'fohn had looked in before, nay,they went inro thefcpuf- Joh :o.6,7, chre, andfarv the linnm cloath; lying;, and the napkjn that w.u about his head wrapt by it [elf; and yet for all this_ fhe will be ftooping down, and looking in ; fh.e would rather condemn her own eyes oferrour, and both their eyes and hands ofdeceit, fhe would rather fufpect all tdl:imonies for untrue, than not to look after him whom fhe had loft, even there where by no diligence he could be found ; it i1 mt emugb for love to look)n once. You know this is the manner of our feeking, when we feek fomething feriou!ly; ·where we have fought already there weele feek againe; we are apt to think we fought not well, but )f_we feek againe we may finde it where we fought: And thus Mary fought, and when fhe could think of no other place fo likely to finde Chrift in as this, {he fought againe in this , fhe will not beleeve her own fen!es, fhewould rather think that fhe looked not well before, . than fhe will leave off looking. When things that are dearly affected are _gone and loft, loves nature is never to be weary of fearching ,. even the oftenefr fearched corQers; they muft i'l:ill be an haunt for hope. Oh love thinks it hath never looked enough, in the firft verfe fhe looked, and Jaw the fi~ne tak_en aJM1 from th1 fepu!chre ; and nqw againe foe ftooped down and look.!d i;;to the fepnlchrr. 4· For the manner how he appeared; ic was firfr by his An· gels, and fecondly by himfelfe. I, There was an apparition ofAngels, fhe feeth two Angels in ]I h ~~ , '!l'hite,fttting,the one at the he.zd, and the other at the feet where the 0 ' 'u11 ~· bod; of ref m had lay en, I will not fray here, only for the opening of the words I £hall anfwer thefe queftions; As I. What'means the apparition of Angels ? I anfwer, it is only a preparation to Chrifts apparition. Maries lolfe muft be reftored by degrees; though fhe faiV not Chrift at firft, yet fhe faw his Angels; ill often pleafeth Chrill in tbe defections ofhis people, tO come to them by degrees, and not at once, he comes firll by his Angels, fo it was at his birth, and fo it is at his refnrrection.-But: 2. What do Angels in a fepukhre ? it is a place fitter for wo.rmes than Angels: we never reade ofAngels being in a gra~e. befor.~ ¥_yyy~ ~~~
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