Cbap.x.Sect.5 L1okingttnto1efus. Book IV.Part-4. 719 ya I have loft thee every jot, and piece, a,nd parcel if thee; 0 ye .Apoftles where u the dead body ofmy Lord? 0 Sir eAngel,tell me if you Jaw hu torne,hu macerated,cr~tcified body .?0 grave!Odtt~th!foew me, u there any thing of Chrifts body (though but a few drad afoes) in your kfepint.? n~, m, all u gone; ! can heare nothin,r, of what I would heare, death u jilent, the grave u empty , the Angels fay nothing to the purpa(e, the Apifi'les are fled, and they, (I know not who) have taf<!n away my Lord, 11nd I fet1ow not where they have layd him. · 2. After this Chrift himfdfe appeares, but fidl: as unknown, and then as known; r. As unknown, foe turned her jelfe br:ck__ ·,Joh.1o. r 4,, ). and Jaw {efm ftanding, and k__new mt that it WM [efm : {efm faith unto her, Wf!man ll'h) weeprft thou ? whom feekfft thou? foe , fuppojing /,im to be the gflrdiner, &c. In this apparition of Chrif'c unknown, I !hall only take notice of Chrifis quefiion, and Maries inquifition ; his quefiion is in thefe words, woman, why weepefo thou? whom feekfft thou? I. Why weepeft thou? this very quefiion the Angels asked her before, and now Chrifi askes it againe; fure there is fomething in it, and the rather we may ' think fo, becanfe it is the firfi opening of his mouth, the firft words that ever came from him, after his rifing againe, fome fay that hfary Magdalen reprefents the fiate of all mankinde before this d~y, viz_. one wetping over tke grave of another, as if there were 110 hope : and now at his refurrection C hrift comes in with weep not ; 'JvonMn, wh) weepeft thou ? q. d. there is no caufe of weeping now, lo I am rjfen from the dead, and am become the firfi.fruits of them that fleep. And yet we may wonder at the quefiion, why fhould Chri£1: demand of u'vfflry, why fhe wept ? but a while fince fhe faw l,im hanging on a tree, with his head full ofthornes, his eyes full ofteares, his eares fnil ofblafphemies, his mouth full of g~ll, his whole perfon mangled ;;nd disfigured, ttnd doth he ask her womar;, why wecpe ft thoa .< fcarce thre:e dayes fince {he b..:~e!d his armes, and legs racked >':ith violent pults, h;• bands and feet bored wi.h nayles, his !lde and bowels piercecf \'J .h a fpeare, hts whole body torne with firipes, and gored in ~lood: a1~d doth he ask her, wcm.:11, why weepeft tho#, ? {he faw liirn oa t:,e croffe yeelding up his foul; and now ·frie was about to annoynt h:s boGly~ ,
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