Chap.l. Se&:.z .f:.ogkJng unt~ 1tJus. Book. .IV. Parc.4. 763 I. Mufe on his apparition to c...Mary Magdalen,Oh the grief before he appeared ! and oh the joye5 when he appeared!- 1 . Before, fhe apprehended nothing, but that fome or other had took away her Lord; thefe were all the words fhe uttered before he appeared, they have t<~k..cn away my Lord, t~nd I ~ow not where thq have !ayd him; fo {be told Peter, and rohn; and when two Angels appeared in white, asking her, woman, why weepeft thoH ? {be gi\'es the fame anfwer to them; they have tak§n awa) my Lord, and I k..now not where they have layd him. A foul in defet:- tion knows not what to do but to weep and cry, oh my Lord is gone ! I. ha vel oft my Lord, my God~ my 'fefm, my J(i~g; in this meditation, confider 0 my foul, as 1fthou hadl.l: been 10 Maryes cafe . was it not a fad cafe, when the Angels ofheaven knew not how'to comfort her? fuppofe any fon of confolation had il:ood by; a~d had fuch a one perfwaded, 0 Mar] fuppref[e thy (Adnefr, refrtjh thy het~trt with this blef[ed vijion, thou didft feel{_ but one, and thcu haff found two,a det~td body wM thy errand, and thou haft light on two t~tlive; thy weeping w.u for aman, and thy teares h~tve obtained Angels: obferve them narrowly, the Angels invite thee t§ a p;~rle], it may be they hadfame happy news to ull thee of thy Lord; Remember what they are, and where they fit, and whence they come, 11nd to whom they JPeal{.; they are Angels of peace, mither font without ct~ufe, 11or (een but of jii".JOUr; they fit on the tombe, to jhe~ theyarenoftrangers to thy !of[~; they come from heavm, from whmce all happy news defcwdeth; they JPeal{_to thy fdfe ,u if they h~d Jome fPecial EmbaJJ~tge to deliver unto thee. No, no; thefe cordials are in vaine ; neither man nor Angel can do her good, or comfort her drooping foul ; either Chriil: himfelfe mul.l: come in prefence, or !becryes, miferable comforters 11re yea/!. A lao! fm~tll is the light, that aftar can yeeld when the Sun is down; a forry exchange it is to go and gather crummu after the lof[e of the bread of life; oh what ctln the{e Angels do? thry, ct~nnot perfwade ·me that my Mafter is not loft, for my own eyes will difprove them; they can lef[e ttl! me where he may be found, for-they them(elves would waite upon him, if thq k..new but where; I am apt to think they k..nownot where he is, and therefore they are come to the p!aa where he laft w.u, making the tombe their heaven, and the remembrance ofhis prefence the Jewel oftheir joy; al.u ! . what ao Angels hm ? 1 neither c~me to fee thew, nor defire to hearu,hem ; I came E eeee 2 · · not
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