7'l6 Joh.I6 7 ; Boo~ IV. Part,.q.. Chap. I .Se6t.s {he:vic:ws Iiim better, but fort~ prefe-nt . cannot fpeak a word more fave this, Rabbmi, which is to [i~y,Mafter. S· forthe confc_quents afr..enhis apparition, Jefus faith unto her, toHch me not, for I am not yet afcendedJo my Father, 6ut go to my brethren and fay unto them, 1afcend H.nt.q my Father and to your Father; find to fn.J. God, a~ your God. .. • - ·· ; In thefe words we may ohierv.e, a prohibition and a commanq.' the prohibition tout·h 'me not; the com~aqd1 bH; gr. tri my bre: thren,arrdf"J untp them, &c. · x. Touch me not. It feems M.try was now fallen at h' . facred feet, {be was how ready to kilfe wnh hft tips hi" .vll! · times grievous, but now mofr glorious wounds. S11ch u thr nat11re of J,ve,that it covet! not onl7 to be united. but if it wo c polfible, to be trantformed out of itfelfr, into tkerhing ~r loveth,Mary is not fatiffied to fee her Lordy nor 1s {be f·nisfied c·1 heare her Lord, but {be muft touch him, embrace his f.e~ t, and klfic them with a thoufand kiffes; Oh how{he hang3, a!'.C ditlgs a bunt h1s fe¢t ! or at leaft how {be offen to make towards him, and t £>htll upon bim ! -- but on a .fudden he checks ·her _ fonvarJn~Ift: , touch me not. What a tnifl:ery is.this! Mary a Gnner touched hi11 and lbe beingnowaSaint,mayilienct 'd:o fo much? {be 1yas onccad• mttted to <tnoyot bi-s,head, and is fhe no,w unworthy to touch his feet ? what meantChrifutb debar her of fo defired a dutv? the had the firftftght ofChrift,~ •• ~nd heard ~he -fidl: words of Chrift afi er his refurred:10n, and mull !he not have the pciviledge of his firft embracing? there is ilimething of wonder in thefe words ; and it puts many to a !land; and many an-interpretation is g:ven to take offthe wonder; I fhaH tcll you of fome of them, though for my part ,I {ball cleave only to the laft. , , x•: Some think that Mary not only effayed .Ij0,ia nomlum {a11Cl!!m fpiriwm mi{- fcral ideo ataflu fuoMariJm prohibe· bJt, diccnr no11d11m a[ceudi in cce 'um~ unde.ipfe per me fpiriwm [.1 '1f1 11m ad vos 111ittet. Ciril.l.u.-in Joba' 5o. to kifle.his feet, but to <:ie!ire the fulfilling of the pramife ot the Spirit ofCbrift, this p:·omife Cbrift made to his Dircipks at his !aft Supper .,.!•will fend you the Cemforter; and the exped:ed it to.be now,performed afler his refmred:ion: to which Chrift anfwered,that he wonld not then"givethe Spirit unto her, for rhat as yet he was not afllended into heaven . whellL'e the Spirit {bould come, q, d. ' , torbeare
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