------------~--------------------·------------~ Chap.t.Se6ts Leckingunt,1't'fus. Bo k. IV. Part.4. -731 In the words we may obferve, firfr her miflake.; 2. Her fpeech ·upon her mifiake. ./ r. Her mi~ake, foe [uppc-Jing him to be the Gardiner; 0 M ar_t.! hath Chrift li-fed fo long, and laboured fo much, and fhed fo many fhoures of blood, to come to no higher preferment than a Gardin~r? this was a very ftrange millake; and yet in fome fenfe and a good fenfe too, Chrift might be faid to be a Gardiner.' As 1. It is he that gardens all our fouls, that plants in the~ the feeds of righteouffle!fe; that waters themwith the dew ofgrace, and makes them fruitful to eternal life. 2. It is he that railed to life his own dead body, and will turne all our graves into a garden-plot,thy dead men foal/ Eve together, with my . dead body fh.Ul they arife, awak!, and jing Je that dwell in duft, for I[;~ ; :.6 . 1.9• the dew u M the dew ofherbu, t~nd the Mrth foal! CP!ft out the dead. Befides,there is a myftery in her miftake; As 0dam in the ftate of grac~ and innocency was placed in a garden, and the firft office allotted-to him,was to be aGardiner.; fo Jefus Chrift appeared firfl: in a garden , and prefeats himfelfe in a Gardiners likenelfe. And as that firft Gardiner was the Parent offi.n, . the ruine of mankind, and the Authour of death ; fo is this Gardiner the ranfome for our fins, the raifer ofour runies, and the rett:orer of our life. In fome fenfe then, and in a myftery Chrift was aGardiner; but Maries miftake was in fuppofing him tne Gardiner of that only place; and not the Gatdinerofour fouls. Soul1 in Jefertion 11refull of miftA'<!t, though in their mift.tkes 11re fometimu MAX] r»:Jfterie.r. · 2 . Herfpeecb upon hermiftake; if th~H hMihornehim hence, &c. we may obferve.- · . r . That her words to Chrift are not much unlike the anfwer the gave the Angels ; only fhe feems to fpeak more harih to Chrifr, than the did to the Angels ; to them {he complaines of others ; they 'h1111e t11k!n t~way my Lord; but to Chrift the fpeaks as if the would charge him with the fact, asifhe looked like one tbat had been a breaker up ofgraves, 'a carryer away of corfes out ofcheir place of reft; Sir, if thou haft borne him hettce. But pardon love,. as ic ~eares where it peeds not, fo it wfpects very ofren where 1t hato no caufe · wlnn l8ve is at a torre • he or , ~· , ' lfnJ t/,at comes but inur way, hath diJne it~ hAt~ 111k.5n him 471MJ·. .J•: . Z z:z.z 2. That
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