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

it was a general voice, no better title was then afforded, but woman; thou weepest like a woman; O woman, and too much a woman, why weepest thou? but now Christ comes nearer, and he singles her out by her very name, Mary! Oh this voice came home, he showed now that he was no stranger to her, he knew her by name: as sometimes God spake to Moses, thou hast found Grace in my sight, I know thee by name; so Christ speaks to Mary, thou hast found grace in my sight, I know thee by name. ¹Why how should this voice be ineffectual? Oh now it works! now she knows Christ; which before she did not; and indeed this is the right way to know Christ, to be first known of Christ. But now (saith the Apostle) after that ye have known God (and then he corrects himself² ⟨p. 428⟩or rather are known of God; for till he know us, we shall never know him aright. Now her dead spirits are rai•ed, which before were benumbed; and no marvel that wi h a word he revive her spirits, who with a word made the World, and even in this very word showed an omnipotent power. The Gardiner had •one his part (•aith one) to making her all g••en on a sudden. But even now her body seemed the hearse of her dead heart, and her heart the coffin of her dead soul; and see how quickly all is turned out and in: a new world now; Christ's resurrection is Mary Mag•alens resurrection too; on a sudden sh• revives, raised (as it were) from a dead and drooping, to a lively and cheerful state.

it was a general voice, no better title was then afforded, but woman; thou weepest like a woman; O woman, and too much a woman, why weepest thou? but now Christ comes nearer, and he singles her out by her very name, Mary! Oh this voice came home, he shewed now that he was no stranger to her, he knew her by name: as somtimes God spake to Moses, thou hast found Grace in my sight, I know thee by name; so Christ speaks to Mary, thou hast found grace in my sight, I know thee by name.