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

the children of beggars count it not their misery that they are not Princes, but oh the grief when the children of Princes shall be turned to beggars! O my Lord, once I had thee, but now I have lost thee; yea, I have lost thee every jot, and piece, and parcel of thee; O ye Apostles, Where is the dead body of my Lord? O Sir Angel, tell me if you saw his torn, his macerated, crucified body? O grave! O death! show me, is there any thing of Christ's body (though but a few dead ashes) in your keeping? no, no, all is gone; I can hear nothing of what I would hear; death is silent, the gra•e is empty, the Angels say nothing to the purpose, the Apostles are fled, and they, (I know not who) have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him.

the children of beggars count it not their misery that they are not Princes, but oh the grief when the children of Princes shall be turned to beggars! O my Lord, once I had thee, but now I have lost thee; yea, I have lost thee every jot, and piece, and parcel of thee; O ye Apostles, Where is the dead body of my Lord? O Sir Angel, tell me if you saw his torn, his macerated, crucified body? O grave! O death! shew me, is there any thing of Christ's body (though but a few dead ashes) in your keeping? no, no, all is gone; I can hear nothing of what I would hear; death is silent, the gra•e is empty, the Angels say nothing to the purpose, the Apostles are fled, and they, (I know not who) have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him.

2. After this, Christ himself appears; but first as unknown, and then as known; 1. As unknown, She turned her self back, and saw Jesus standing, ¹and knew not that it was Jesus: Jesus saith unto her, Woman, Why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? she supposing him to be the Gardiner, &c. In this Apparition of Christ unknown, I shall only take notice of Christ's question, an• Mary's inquisition; his question is in these words, Woman, Why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? 1. Why weepest thou? This very question the Angels asked her before, and now Christ asks it again; sure there is something in it, and the rather we may think so, because it is the first opening of his Mouth, the first words that ever came from him, after his rising again. Some say that Mary Magdalen represents the state of all mankind before this day, viz. One weeping over the grave of another, as if there were no hope: and now at his resurrection Christ comes in with weep not; Woman, Why weepest thou? q. d. there is no cause of weeping now, Lo I am risen from the dead, and am become the first-fruits of them that sleep.