Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…

4. And as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the Sepulchre. She did so weep as she did seek withal; her weeping hindered not her seeking, she sought and sought; to what purpose? that Christ is not in the tomb her own eyes have seen; the Disciples hands have felt, the empty winding sheet doth plainly avouch; Peter and John had looked in before, nay, They went into the Sepulchre, and saw the linen clothes lying, ¹and the napkin that was about his head wrapped by it self; and yet for all this she will be stooping down, and looking in; she would rather condemn her own eyes of error, and both their eyes and hands of deceit; she would rather suspect all testimonies for untrue, than not to look after him whom she had lost, even there where by no diligence he could be found. It is not enough for love to look in once. You know this is the manner of our seeking, when we seek something seriously; where we have sought already, there we will seek again; we are apt to think we sought not well, but if we seek again we might find it were we sought: And thus Mary sought, and when she could think of no other place so likely to find Christ in as this, she sought again in this, she will not believe her own senses, she would rather think that she looked not well before, than she will leave off looking. When things that are dearly affected are gone and lost, loves nature is never to be weary of searching, even the oftenest searched corners; they must still be an haunt for hope. O love thinks it hath never looked enough! in the first verse she looked, And saw the stone taken away from the Sepulchre; and now again she stooped down, and looked into the Sepulchre.

4. And as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the Sepulchre. She did so weep as she did seek withall; her weeping hindred not her seeking, she sought and sought; to what purpose? that Christ is not in the tomb her own eyes have seen; the Disciples hands have felt, the empty winding sheet doth plainly avouch; Peter and John had looked in before, nay, They went into the Sepulchre, and saw the linnen cloaths lying, ¹and the napkin that was about his head wrapt by it self; and yet for all this she will be stooping down, and looking in; she would rather condemn her own eyes of error, and both their eyes and hands of deceit; she would rather suspect all testimonies for untrue, than not to look after him whom she had lost, even there where by no diligence he could be found. It is not enough for love to look in once. You know this is the manner of our seeking, when we seek something seriously; where we have sought already, there we will seek again; we are apt to think we sought not well, but if we seek again we might find it were we sought: And thus Mary sought, and when she could think of no other place so likely to find Christ in as this, she sought again in this, she will not believe her own senses, she would rather think that she looked not well before, than she will leave off looking. When things that are dearly affected are gone and lost, loves nature is never to be weary of searching, even the oftenest searched corners; they must still be an haunt for hope. O love thinks it hath never looked enough! in the first verse she looked, And saw the stone taken away from the Sepulchre; and now again she stooped down, and looked into the Sepulchre.