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Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…
Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of Jesus as carrying on the great work of mans salvation from first to last / by Isaac Ambrose ...
London: printed for Richard Chiswel, 1680
Book 7 › Chapter 1 › Section 5: Of Christ's Apparition to Mary Magdalen.
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2. For the place where he appeared, it was in the garden, where Christ was buried; in a garden Adam first sinned, in a garden Christ first appeared; in a garden death first was threatened and deserved, and in a garden life is restored, and conferred upon us; Christ makes choice of a garden both for his grave, and resurrection, and first apparition, to tell us where we might seek him, if we have lost him, My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies, that is, Jesus Christ is to be sought and found in the particular assemblies of his people;1 they are the garden of his pleasure, wherein are varieties of all the beds of renewed souls, there he walks, and there he feeds, and there he solaceth himself with those fruits of righteousness, and new obedience, which they are able to bring forth to him. O there let us seek him, and we shall find him.
2. For the place where he appeared, it was in the garden, where Christ was buried; in a garden Adam first sinned, in a garden Christ first appeared; in a garden death first was threatened and deserved, and in a garden life is restored, and conferred upon us; Christ makes choice of a garden both for his grave, and resurrection, and first apparition, to tell us where we might seek him, if we have lost him, My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lillies, that is, Jesus Christ is to be sought and found in the particular assemblies of his people;1 they are the garden of his pleasure, wherein are varieties of all the beds of renewed souls, there he walkes, and there he feeds, and there he solaceth himself with those fruits of righteousness, and new obedience, which they are able to bring forth to him. O there let us seek him, and we shall find him.