Chap. 1 .Sect. S Looking unto 1efm. • I Boo.r JV,Parr.4 hearfe of her dead 'heart, . a-nd'her heart tha ·coffin ofL.her ·deadt foul . and fee how -quickly all is turned out and in ; anew world now~ Chrifts refurred:ion is-M..zry M41gda/e,;s refurreCl:ion too. mi a Iudden !he revives, raifed (as it were) from a dtad- anl dtoeping, to a 11vely and -chea~ful ilate. . . · . . 2. She (aid ttnto hzm,Rabbon1, . whu:h u tofay, !Maflet. , As file was ravi!hed.with his voyce,. fo Impatient of dday•fhe takes his .talke out of his meu~h, . and'to hi~ firfr and onl)' word, fhe an-· {wered but one other, Rabboni, which i5 to [ay,<Yvfafler. A won- · der that in thisverfe but two words flt~mld palfe betwixt them two . hut [orne give thisreafon, that a fudden jrJ rGu.z.ing all htr• plljJio~s ,fhe crmld nNther proceed in her own, r;or give him leave to . go f orward in hu [peech. Love would haveipokeo, but feare.in- · forced filence . hope framed words, but doubt melts them in the palfage; her inward conceits ferved them to come out, but then her voyce trembled, her tongue faultr~d, her breath failed ; why fucb·is the ftate ofthem that are fick w1th a furfet of fudden joy. her joy was fo fudden, that not a word more could be fpoken:.r }>ut R.1bboni, which u to{ay,Mafler. Sudden joyes are not with-· out fome doubts or tremblings; when Jacob heard that his fon 'fofeph was a live, bi-5 heart fainud, he was even aft.onifhed at fo Gen. 4f .1 6; ' aood a news. when-God reftored the Jews out of captivity they 19 ' t.- · r. b ' Pfal • l.6 1 could think ofit no oF:m:rWile t an as adreame; when Peter was . ·' · · · by an Angel dehvered out of prifon, he took it only for a1.•ijion ,A.a:.n9. ; or apparition, and not for truth; when Chrift manifefied his refurrecho~to his Difcip~es, it is {aid that for very joy they beleev- Luke ~4 4l• ed not; thetr feares · (as tt were) kept baclr, and qtJelhoned tbe· truth.ofrheir joyes. As in the fea when a fiorme is aver, tn·ere remaines ftill an inward working and_volntation . even fo in the mindeofman, when its feares.are blown over;' and there is a calme u·pon it, there is ftill a motm trepi-d.1tioni.J, a motion of . tr<mbling, or a kinde offolicitous jealoufie of what it cnjoyei. And this might be Mt~ry .lvfag;dalens cafe ; though !he fuddenly anfwered ~ hrift, upon the fi~ft notice of hi> voyce, · yet becaufe the novelty wasfo l'l:rang~, h1s pcrfon !,Ochanged his prefenc"c fo uuexpect:ed, and fomany miracles were layd at once before her · amazed eyes, flte found (as it were) a fedition in her thoughts . her hopeprefumed .heft, but. her feare fufpe~e~ it to be too good tQ. be tr~,~e; and whtle thefe mterchaoge obJechons and"anfwers. Z ~~~ 3 the c
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