Sermon I1· Ofthe R ESURR Ec T 1 oN. rude multitude to rhroTJg and to thru!l: Him. What fpeake we ofthat :when,not three dai~s lince, He fuffered o:herrnan~erof touches and twttches both. The?, Noli me . 54) ewould have comemgood nme; would have done well onGood-frtday. Whv ~;ree:d He them then~ why futferedHe not her,now ~She(! dare fay for her)wouid : ~rdoneHimnohurrthe. T{oli,istoher: Notlhe: Not c..MaryMagdalen. She Ma,<r, 4 :l'; h~dtouchcdHimbefo~enoy;; touched ~is hed, touched His f:et; ano;ntedthem Luk•?·'lf, both: what was dooe, the mtg~tnot,now: She bath eve~ now; thtsmormng,brought odors in her hand ro em~al'!'e Htm :an~ wuh thefe,and With no. other hands,doth lhe Marko ,,,!.: tfertoto 11 chHimatthtsnme: lhe rntght havcbeenbornewtth. Itwasearly .· as ~arly as ir was, the had this morning givenmany good proofcs of her love. ' That lhewas Coear!yup; •came to theGravefir!l:: l !l:ayed.therclA/1: -t had beeneat fuch cljl: f had taken fuchpaints : 6 had wept fo many tears : 7 would not he comforted, no nor byt..4ngels, tilllhee had found Him ;And,now lhe bath found Him; not to tgucb Him~ All thefc might have pleaded for as much as this comes to. For all thefe,one poore to11ch had beene but an eafie recompenfe. Ofall other,this prohibition lay not againfther: ofall tim~, not at this. The more we looke into it, the further offwe finde it, tobe fpokeneuherby Htm, or to her, But ifwcgoefurther,and looke the R.eafon,we lhall findeit yetmorefirange : it It will increafe thedoubt. Touch menot,for 1 am notyet afcended: What areafon is 'Tbc.~tt•for1 this! As who lhould fay: when He was afcended, lhe lhould, then. But,thenwhen He was afcended,onewould thinke, lhe lhould be further off, then now. Si flans in terd. tampropc nontangitur, receptm inc<EI~m quomodo tangett1r.? If!l:artding on earth byHim, He is not tobeto11ched, when H~ IS tak~n up into heaven, no arme will then reach Him : pafi t~uthing, then. That tfnot t>ll then, never. Thereafonmakes it yet further from reafon. No rernedie,but we muft pray aron{NltAtion (as they call. it) uponthisProhibition. . . . . lt can·not bee denied, but for ~lime, there is a time and place~ Itisworrll the noting : the world began witha 'l(gli me tAngere ; both the worlds. The old world: the firfiwords (in amanner) GoD fpakethen, wereakindofa 'l{gll me tangere; 'Ioach not the Forhiddm fruit. And as in the old, {o here at the be" ginning this new, (for, with C a R J s -r s rijittg, began theNew creAture) it is C H R r s T s firfi fpeech, we fee• .C a R r s T riling, it is His firfi precept: His firll: Law ismgative :it is the fitfi thing He f~rbiddeth us : the firfl:, He thought good-to warne us of. OfHis firfi words, we will have fpeciall care, I trufi• The rule is: Things that will hurt us, bell: nott,ou~. Bell:, not touch~ nay, found and good was t:Ar(miii.rtheEremitehisadvketouchingthofe: Impert: Evtt& CAv.eSe~,oentem, & luttu eris : Tutior aut em, fi arborem non aj}exeris. Can you command Ew,can you fo$ and can you beware tlleSerpent? well :doefo then, and you lhall befafe :But (heare you) Tutior, you lhall be yet more fafe, ifyoufeenot, loukenot upon,comenot within the reach; nay,not within tjJe fight oftheforbidden tree. ButC a 11. 1sT is not the Ioh.IUr: fo;bidden tree: t~e tree of life rather; to be touchedand tailed, that we may liveby · ·--- · Hun. No placemC H a 1s T for a 'l{jli me tilngere. . Ofrhofethat hurtus,fomewehave no fenfe ofat the firfl:. Such are allthings un: .lawful! and rorb!dden .: which, though for the time they feeme pleafam, yet they havethetrftmgs mthmtatle :fooner, or later,we lhall finde,they will hurt us; any ftrutofthe forbidden tree. h Other thi_n~s we feele hurt us,weforheare ealily; An angry injiAmmAtiM there is, V<•lC>t:! t e!lailleofi:tsa2'(g!i metAngert; and not that onely, but any bi/eorforeindures ijotthetouch111g. What~ had C a at s T any fore place about Him,fince His paf- ~~n! ~o: for Saim.II"hom~&~ put.hisfinger, nay, his whole hand into the pl~ce of Hi~ , un s, ~ndput Him to no pame at all, No place in C a 1\ 1 s T forthts N1l1 me ~ngere, netther, Not tohold you long: N1l~ ~~~~#Anger~ c~~ebut o~eof~hefe wayes ~ £it het o;f ~·~·~br!d~
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