716 Book. IV. Part+ Looking unto 1e{us. Cbap.x. Se6t.; R ev.I4.' 3· PfaL 1 16 .1 ). Ecclef. 9· q. Mark·9·3· R>v 7 · 9· this time ; they are bl~ifed' creatures, and is the grave a fit place for them ? 0 yes ! Gnce Chrill Ia yin the grave, that very place is a bletfed place; Bl rjJed ~re the dead, ~·hich dye in the L ord f rom hence f orth. Preciom in the fight of the f:urd .u the death of his Saints.-But, 3. Why are the "Angels tn wh1te? Solomon an. fwers,that white is the colour ofjoy. L et thy garment.r be alwap white, and let thy head lac I( no oyntment. When Chrill was tranffigured, his rflymmt w~ all white,._ no fu?er i,n the ea:thcor:ld~me near it . and the Samt~ In heaven are fa1d to walk! 111 wh1te rolm. And h;re the Angels are in whiu, to Ggnifie the joy they had.of Chriil:s refurreetion from the dead.-But, 4 · Why are they one at the head, and the other at the feet where the body ofJe.fus had layn ?. Some &nfwer, that aSJVlary Magdalen bad anoynt. ed his head and feet, fo at thofe two p!aces the two Angels fit, as it were to acknowledge fo much for her fake. Others think it fpeaks comfort co every one of us ; if we are but in Chrift, we fliall go to our graves in white, and lye between two Angels, who are faid to guard our bodyes even dead , aud to prefent them alive againe at the d;~.y of the. refurreCt:ion. But in this appariti0n we fee further, :t quefiion, and anfwer . I. The Angels queftion Mary, woman why weepefl thou ? may I paraphraze upon the[eword~; it is as ifthey had faid, 0 Mar)'! · whatcaufeis thcreforthefe teares? where Angels rejoyce, it . agrees not that a woman fhould weep ; thou could'ft before with a.manly cou~age arme ,thy feet to run among fwords when thou cameil: to the grave, and art thou now fo much·a woman that· thou canft not command-rHine eyes to forbear teares? 0 woman why weepeft thou? if thy Chriil:were here in his grave, under thi; Tombe-il:one, we might think thy fom~w for the dead enforced. thy teares, b.ut now that thou findelt it a place ofthe living, why doft thou fiand here weeping for the dead ? if thy teares be tea res oflove, as thy love is acknowledged, fo let thcfe teares be fuppreifrd; if thy tea(es.be teares of anger, they iliould not here have been ilied , where all anger was buried;if thy teares be teares of forrow and duties to the dead, they are beftowed in vaine where the dead is now revived; and therefore 0 woman, why weepeft thou? would our eyes be dry, if fuch eye.ftreams were b5h01)v~full for usl di4 not Angels alwaycs in their viGbie refembJ.ances
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