"46 Oi"theREsuRRECTION. · S ..__ ~'_:_-~--=------:-'J _______________ er_m_on 15 • 2 ButonMd.ry .Magdaltns. MJtth.~8 g~ Luke 7-i~· ofNoli ; or > out ofMe : exparte tafli, or Ex parte ~angentu; His that was t~ or hers, that dtd touch htm., 'Touch me not, you wtll hu~t me, I am fore; Ex part' taEl1: • or, T~uch1J1f not, I fhall hurt you; I ~mhot or fharpe; Exparte tange 1 . ' Fire, Ilhallfcorch you: anelge-toole, I !hall wot11ul you: Pitch, I lhalldefiJe;;~; fomecentagzou.r thmg, I ihallmfeuyou. Every one of thefe cnes, '}1{£/i me taN But neither ofthefe hath pbce in C H R I $ T, , C H "- I S T rifing; WJS not no~:~·· fiate, to receive any hurt; and neither now, nor ever in cafe to doeany; topricke~n to burne the fingers of any that touch Him. r ... ,We refoive then; it was ~ot on CH ._ I s T;S part, this iouch me not. It ihould then a; orepr~perly have beenc_Nolo met~ngi :. But, it is,_Noli metang~re, andfoon hers. No let mHtm;but He mtght be touclred: the let, mher; lhemtght nottowch Htm. That it was nev~r .c H "-. Is T's meaning, after He was rifen, He would not be touched ofany at all,ttiS evident. TI11S very day, at even, appearing to the ele. ven, He not onely fulfered, but invited them to touchHim l nay more, Palpate me which is, tMch me thorowly. This very Chapter, at the XX V11. verfe, He cals t~ Saint ThomtM, Inferdigitmn, pminyourfinger: Nay, after m•num, hand andall: which is to touch, and touch home (I am fure.) Howthen~ would He haveMen touch Him,and not WomeTJ ? nor that neither• this is His fir£1: appearing: at His fccond, and next to this, cerraine Women~et Hi~ on the way: He [ulfcred them to touch Him, and take Him 6y thefeet, So.me verruous woma.nir may be: But, Nary Magdalm had beenea nororiousjinner, andfounwor. thy ofit, No, nor that: for that, ofthe w01tien that fo met Him;and fo touchtdHim; {he was one. See Matth.z 8. Mary Ma:~,dalcn touch,and MAry Magdalennotlmh.lrhe difficulties grow ll:ill. For I aske : if at the (econd appearing, why nor at the fir/1 ~ Why aftcr,and not now~ Why, there,tut~Gh and {pare not; and here, 1l.£!imelan. gere,.not comerhirher. . · Let me tell you what we have gained yet: Thcferhteethings. •TheProhibitien is not real!: the totlch, thething is not forbidaen: it is but perfonafl. • Nay,itot per· fonall neither abfolutdy ;not !he fimply, but not fhe,as now at rhis time.Shemight to11ch (it fe~mes) for fhe did,not long after. 0ft~ry Magdalen might: bur nor this <.Mary c..Magda!en. l And la£1:, that it is norfinal/; there is life, there is hope in it, Nor, never to touch ; bur nor, StandB in his termini<, ll:anding in the rcrmes, fl1e dotb, What termes arc thofe ~ And now (loe) wee are comerorhcpoinr, ·to rhatwcc fcarch for. Three fcnfes i will give you, and they have great t..A~ttlmm, all three, Chtf· Joffome, Gregorie, t..Augt~fiine. I will touch them all three; and ~ou may rate your choyce of them; or, 1f you picafe, take them all: for, they w1U fiand JVdl together. ~~.~~7~~.~~~ 0ne is (it is chryfoJiomes) That, all W3S riot weii; fo~ewhat ainifre; Ole Come: .,,.,,.", s.unt thing to blamein the manner ofher offer, which was not all, as it lhould. The malt c~f•fl•mrs wecJn rhakdhe failed in fomewhar. Not, that fhe did it in any iinmoddlor unde· fc "· cent manner: Go a forbid , never thinke ofthat. But one!y a littl~ coo fonv~rd, it maybe: notwirh that due refpechhat was meet. , Wefeebythatispa£1:; howtheworldwenr. CH a IST faid, Mary.-.She~nfwers Him, with her wonted terme, with aRabboni. And as fhe falured H1m Wtth her wonted rerme, fo after her wonted falhion, lhe made toward Him, t? have ION· chedHim: not infuch manner, as was fit to have beene obferved; nor wtth tharrc· gard, which His new glorified efiate afrer Hts refurre{/ion, might feeme ju!lly ro re· quire. ltisinMe: nor the fameMe, He was. That chat was enough to C 11 RI sr, a few dayes agoe, was nothing neere enough, ro day, for Him. He that three day~s ftnce endured fo much, the day is now come, Hewill be touchedafcer anorherfa~l·. !'!il·!·f; on: Propter hoc exalt4vit Eu~D sus, For,, lo!humdGo o {ohighly exaltedJI_t~· !tell you pla.inely, Id1d not ltkc her Jl,4bbun~ ·: lt was no Ea~!. ~-~·day-falucauo it
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