Chap.x.Se6t.5 Looking unto :fefU~, Booi IV.Part.4 717 femblances reprefent their Lords invifible pleafure ; £hadowing t-heir {ha pes in the drifts of his intentions? As for inftance, wben God was incenfed, they brandifbed fwords; when he was appeafed they ilieathed them in fcabbards ; when he would de- - fend, ~hey refembled Souldiers; when he would terrifie, . ,t~ey took terrible formes; and when he would comfort, they earned mirth in their eyes, fweetneffe in their countenance, mildneffe. in their words, favour, and grace, and comelinelfe in(their prefence: why then doll: thou weep, feeing us to rejoyce .~_ doft thou imagine us t~ degenerate ~rom oHr nature, or to forget any duty whofe ll:ate 1s neither fubJect to change, nor capable of the !eaft ~!fence? art thou more fervent in thy love~ or mor.e pri, vie to the counfel ofour eternal God; than we tbat are dayly attendants at his throne ofglory ? 0 wormtn, why weepe{l1hou ! Thus for paraphraze. 2. For her anfwer; jhf faith unto them, becaufe-they have ta- Joh.:o.t s~ , k.fn ti'WdJ my Lortl,11nd I k,.r.~ow not where thry have l.1id him: Here wasthecau[eo[Maryes teares;. I. They-have tak..en away-my Lord. 2. I ~nownotwheretheyhav.e!Ai(ihim, q.d. Heisgone without all hope of recovery : for they, but I know not who. have tak$n him awa}f but I know not whither; and they have laid hirn, but I know not where; there to do to him, . but I know not. what. 0 what a lamentable caf~ is this! £he knpws notwhither to go to finde any comfo~t; her Lord is gone, hi~ life is gone, his foults gone, his bod:y ts gone,yea.gone, and earned £he knows not whither; and do they aske-her;woman,»>hy weepeft thou.?why, here's the caufc, they have takfn away my Lord, ( i) the dead body of my Lord, mJd I ktzow 1tot where they have laid him. Where a little &j Chrift ioleft, and that u lo/1 it u a /{fmrntable loife. Marr had fomt'times a.pof:f~ffion of whole Chrill: , £he had his prefence {be heard his words; flle faw his·divinity in his miracles and in cafting feven devils out ofher own body; but now fh; had· loft all_ Chnll:; -~is . prefe~ce loft, his prea·ching loft,_his divinity loll:, his humamty.loft, htsfoulloll:, and !aft of all his body loft, Oh what a lamentable lolfe was this! 011ary would now have been glad of a little of Chrift ; 0 ; e Angels fill but her armes with the dead body ofhet: Jefus, and fhee>Je weep no more. one be;~.me of that Sun ofrighteoufnelfc would fcatter ali the ciouds o.f Mar)Cs g~ief Yyyy 3 Buc
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