714 Book.IV.Part-4- Looking unto '!fe{us. Chap. I. Se~. 5_ felfe fpeaking that word at another time; Ma7 .beard che,Word of the Lord by an Angel, womtm, why weeprft thou ? but her teares , ·drorped fiill; !be heard againe the Word of the Lord by Chrifl: himfelfe, wo~an, why weepef/ th~u? and yet £he weeps, and.will · not be comforted; but now Chrill: fpeaks, and he fpeaks with power, u'vfary ! and at this word her tea res are. dried u f'~ no . more tear~s n<;>-w;, unlefle they be teares for joy; And yet again, ohferve the way how you may know and difcerne the effectual voyce of Jefus Chrift, if it be effectual, it ufually fingles a man . out; yea,though it be generally fpoken by a Minifier,- yet the . voyce ofChrift will fpeak particularly to the ve~y heart of a man,· with a marvelous kinde of Majefty and glory, ftampt upon it, and £hining in it; take an humble,--broken, dwoping fpirit, he heares of the free offer of grace, and mercy in J efus Chrift , but - he refufeth the offers; he heares of the precious promifesofGod , _in Cbrifl: , but he cafts by all promifes as things tha.t are generally fpoken and applyed by man; but.when the Lprd comesin, he fpeaks particularly to his very.heart, he meets with all his objecti. ems, that he thinks, thu u the Lord,and thu u to me. Thus Mary before heard the voyce of an Angel, and the voyce of Chrift -spoman, why wupeft thou r it was a general voyce, no better tit!~ was then afforded, but woman; thou weepeft Jjhe a woman;. (-) , -woman, and too much a woman, why rmpefl thOU? but .Qow Chrift · comes nearc:r, and hefingl~s her out by her very name, Mary! Oh this voyce came home, he ihewed now that he was no ftra.nger to her, he knew her by name: as. fometimes God fp:~ ke to. c..Jf/lo(u, thou haft found grace in my jig.bt, I know thee by nat)'Je.. fo Chr.ift fpeaks tq Mary, thou haft feundgrace in my fight, l&Bw· . thee by nam~:. Why how £hould this voyce be ineffectual?- Oh now it works! now £he knows Chrift; which before £he did not· · and indeed this is the right way to know Chrift, to be firft know~ .. of Chrifl:; But now (faith the Apofile) afrer th11t ye have b.._nown- . God. (and then he correcrs himfelfe ) or rather are b.,.nown of God.- fortill he kn()W us, we £hall neYer know him a right. Now he; . dead fpirits are raifed, which before were benummed; and no . marvel that .with a word he revive her fpirits, who with a word made the world, and even in this very word £hewed an omnipotept power. The <Jardiner had done hu p.m (faith one) in mak_- inJ,her 111/g1i!.N ~n a {11ddm. But even, now her pody teemed the, · hearfe
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