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

And yet we may wonder at the question, Why should Christ demand of Mary, why she wept? but a while since, sh• saw him hanging on a tree, with his head full of thorns, his eyes full of tears, his ears full of blasphemies, his mouth full of gall, his whole person mangled and disfigured, and doth he ask her, Woman, Why weepest thou? scarce three days since, she beheld his arms, and legs racked with violent pulls, his hands and feet bored with nails, his side and bowels pierced with a spear, his whole body torn with stripes, and gored in blood: and doth he ask her, Woman, Why weepest thou? she saw him on the cross yielding up his soul; and now she was about to anoint his body, which was the only hope she had alive; but his body is removed, and that hope is dead, and she is left hopeless of all visible help, and yet doth he ask her, Woman, Why weepest thou? O yes! though it may be strange, yet it is not a question without cause, she weeps for him dead, who was risen again from the dead; she was sorry he was not in his grave; and for this very cause she should have been rather glad; she mourns for not knowing where he lay, when as indeed, and in truth, he lay not any where; he is alive, and present, and now talks with her, and resolves to comfort her; and therefore, Woman, Why weepest thou?

And yet we may wond•r at the question, Why should Christ demand of Mary, why she wept? but a while since, sh• saw him hanging on a tree, with his head full of thorns, his eyes full of tears, his ears full of blasphemies, his mouth full of gall, his whole person mangled and disfigured, and doth he ask her, Woman, Why weepest thou? scarce three dayes since, she beheld his arms, and legs racked with violent pulls, his hands and feet bored with nails, his side and bowels pierced with a spear, his whole body torn with stripes, and gored in blood: and doth he ask her, Woman, Why weepest thou? she saw him on the cross yielding up his soul; and now she was about to anoint his body, which was the only hope she had alive; but his body is removed, and that hope is dead, and she is left hopeless of all visible help, and yet doth he ask her, Woman, Why weepest thou? O yes! though it may be strange, yet it is not a question without cause, she weeps for him dead, who was risen again from the dead; she was sorry he was not in his grave; and for this very cause she should have been rather glad; she mourns for not knowing where he lay, when as indeed, and in truth, he lay not any where; he is alive, and present, and now talks with her, and resolves to comfort her; and therefore, Woman, Why weepest thou?