x_v S:ERMO N· PREACHEP BEFORE THE KINGS MA~ IEST IE A. T VV HIT E.-MA L L 0 N the I. of ilpri!, 4. 'D. M n ~XX~~ heing B .4S TB '1{.-V. ~ ~ ('\*) JoHN xx. v !!_ R; xyn.. Dicit ei I E sus~ Noli me tangere.' h sus faith unto her, Touch me not; 11. y Mttgdalen,becauCefbelO'I.Iedmuch,andgave good proofes of ir, had rhis morning di· favours vouchfafed her: To fee a vifion of verf< 1i: Angels : To fee CH RI s T Himfelfe : To fee Vcrf•••· Him before any other, firft of all: Hee fpake ro Verfe -~f, her, M ~try; !he fpaketo Him, Rabboni: Hitherto all was well. Now,here, afrer all this love,afrer all thefe favours, even in the necke ofthem (as it were) comes an unkinde word or two, a?{gli me and marres all ; curnes all our and in. the bell ofir, a repul(e iris: but a coldfalutation for anEaffer-day morning. . A little before He asked,Why foe wept. This var"1' 1Senoughto fer her on weeping afrelh. For if !heewept for fuJ!ulerrmt Dominum, thatothers llld taken away her L oR o :Much more, now, when her L oR o rakes awayHimfdfefrom her, that !hemay not fo much as touch Him. Wcobferved,rhat (this morning) CH" Is T came in two !hapcs ;:md ateither ofthem fpakc afpeech. At fir/1, he came unknowne,taken for aGardiner : thelatrer He fpakein His owne voyce; and became knowne to her. I know not how; bur,un– knowne, CH • 1 s T proves better to her,than when He came to be knowne: better f?r her, Hee had kept Himfelfeunknowne frill. For, then unknowne,He asked her kmdly, Why foe wept? as much to fay as weepe not Noli teangm, 11011 111eplangere: there is fomecoinfort intlm. But kno\~ne, Hee~rowesfomewhat ftrange on the · Ccc 4 fudden,
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