- Sermon If· OftheREsURREc TION. ~"''''''''''~'''''''''''''~''''''''''' iiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiii~iiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiii YER~_ XI~ 13utMaryflood b'i th~ Sepulcher~ 'Weeping: and 111 fhee_ -weptlh~~ c Jlooped, andloo{edmto the Sepulcher._ - - OFthe favoursvouchfafed this fame fe!ix peccatrix (as the Fathers terme berj this day, 1 Tofee but C a RIs r s Angells,• To fee <::all I sr at all,~ To fee him firll: of all, 4 But, more than all thefe, to be tmploycd byhzmmfo heavenly an errand;reafonwe canrende~ none~that h~lpedher to thcfe,bunhat,which , inaplace chrift Htmfelferenders,~ad1lextt mullum, becaufe fl1e lovedmuch. Luk. H1~ Sheloved much: we cannot fay, She beleeved much. For, by her[ttjlt~lmmt thrice repeated (the fecond, thirteenth,_ fifteenth ve:~es) it feemes, fl1e beleeved no more than jull: as much as the Htgh Pnefts would have had the world beleeve, that bew 4 ; tAken away 6y night. · · DefeCita fidei nm eft neg_andU~,ajftClmamDris noneft vitteperandU~ : It is origen.' We cannot commend herfait~ ; her love, wee ~annot but commend ; and fo doe: Commend it in her, commend tt to you. Much tt was,and much good proofe gave lhe ofit. Before, to him living: now, toHimdead. To Him dead, there are di. verfe: 1 She was !aft at His croffe, and firft at His grave : • Staiea longeftthere, was [ooneO: here: J Could not rell:, till lhe were up to feeke Him : 4 Sought Him~ whlleit was yet darke, beforeilie had light tofeeke Him by. !tl•t. ~~.~~~ · But,to take her as we finde her inthe Texr,and to looke nowhither elfe, There ·are, intheText, no leffe than ten, allargumentsofhergreatlove: all, as it were a commentary vpon dilexit multum. And ev-en in this firll:verfe, there are five of them. · The firft in thefe words ; flabat j11xta momtmentum, that ilie ll:ood by the grave.' 'Aplace, where faintlove loves not to ll:and. Bring Him to the grave, and lay Him inthe grave, and thereleave Him : but come no more at it, nor Hand notlong by ir, Stand by Him,while He is alive,fo did many; Hand, and goe, and lit by Him. Bur, jlansj11xta monumentum,ll:andbyHim dead; Mary Magda!en; lhe did it, and lhe only did ir, and none but fl1e. Amor flans juxta mo'nument11m. The next inthefe,Maria~tt~tem flabat. But Marieflood. In theaNtem, thebut i ~thathdpes us to another.) But Mary flood (that is as much to fay, as) othersdi:d not, But, !bee did. Peter and John were there but even now. Thitherthey came, vcrro s; but not finding Hitn, away they went. They went : But Mary went not, fl1ee flood -– j/i/1. Theirgoing away commends her flaying hehi11de, To the grave jhee cttmebe. fore them,from thegravejhee.w_ent to tell them, to the grave .fbeercturnes with them, at thegrave jhee ftayes behinde them. Ferttor eam jigehat ajfeClw, faith .Auguftine, a llronger affeCtion fixed her; fo fixed her, that lheehad notthe'powerro remove thence. Goe who would, lhee woul~ not, but flay jlill. To ftay, while others doe foe, while company ll:ayes, that ts the worlds love:: But Peter is gone, and lohntoo : allare gone, and we left alone; then to flay, is love, andcon!l:ant Love. l.Ah mor manenr, alii; recedenti6114, Love, that when others lhrinke and give over, ~~~ . , Thethirdinthefe, jheeftood, andfbeewept: and, not ateareor two; but /be111ept a~hod (as we fay; )that the Angells, that CaR r s ~ Himfe!fe pirie her, and both ~\e~, thefirRthingthey doe, they aske her,whyjheweptfo i' Both ofthem begin , tt t at quell:IOn. And, in this, is love. For if when C H R r s T ftoodat Laz.arm's loh.!J .;!i! zr 4 '11esfide Al'ldwept, ~he lcwe~ faid, s" huw He; lovedhun : may not wefay thevery fliiU'1
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