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

2. That something she spoke now to Christ which she had not mentioned to the Angels. She said not unto them, tell me where he is, but reserved that question for himself to answer, Come, tell me where thou hast laid him, q. d. thou art privy to the place, and with the action of removing Christ my Lord; Oh how she errs, and yet how she hits the truth! Jesus must tell her what he had done with himself, sure it was fittest for his own speech to utter, what was only possible for his own power to do.

3. That the conclusion of her speech was a mere vaunt or flourish, And I will take him away. Alas poor woman, she was not able to lift him up, there are more than one or two allowed to the carrying of a corps; and as for his it had more than an hundred pound weight of myrrh and other odours upon it; sure she had forgotten that women are weak, and that she her self was but a woman; how was it possible that she should take him away? she could not do it; well, but she would do it though; there is no essay too hard for love; she exempts no place, she esteems no person, she speaks without fear, she promises without condition, she makes no exception, as if nothing were impossible that love suggesteth; the darkness could not fright her from setting out before day, the watch could not fear her from coming to the Tomb where Christ was laid; she resolved to break open the seals, and to remove the stone, far above her strength; and now her love being more incensed with the fresh wound of her loss, she speaks resolutely, I will take him away, never considering whether she could or no, love is not ruled with reason, but with love; it neither ⟨p. 427⟩regards what can be, nor what should be; but only what it self desireth to do.

3. That the conclusion of her speech was a meer vant or flourish, And I will take him away. Alas poor woman, she was not able to lift him up, there are more than one or two allowed to the carrying of a corps; and as for his it had more than an hundred pound weight of myrrhe and other odours upon it; sure she had forgotten that women are weak, and that she her self was but a woman; how was it possible that she should take him away? she could not do it; well, but she would do it though; there is no essay too hard for love; she exempts no place, she esteems no person, she speaks without fear, she promises without condition, she makes no exception, as if nothing were impossible that love suggesteth; the darkness could not fright her from setting out before day, the watch could not fear her from coming to the Tomb where Christ was laid; she resolved to break open the seals, and to remove the stone, far above her strength; and now her love being more incensed with the fresh wound of her loss, she speaks resolutely, I will take him away, never considering whether she could or no, love is not ruled with reason, but with love; it neither