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An homilie of Marye Magdalene declaring her ferue[n]t loue and zele towards Christ / written by that famous clerke Origene ; newly translated ...
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thee Oure Lorde saith in the gospel If ye Ihon. 〈◊〉 were the children of Abraham ye wolde truly do the workes of Abraham Lo this is a woorke of Abraham do the workes which Abraham did but not with grief 2. Cor. 9. and sorrowe For God loueth a chereful geuer And if ye shal be thus readdy it shal be saied vnto you of God Clyme vp vnto this hygh Land and to the hill which I will shew thee there offerre vnto me thy son And offer thy son not in the deepe places of the earth nor in the vale of wepinge but in the great and high hilles Declare thou then that faith in the Lorde is stronger then any carnal affection For Abraham saith he loued Isaac his son but he preferred the son of God to his owne fleshly loue And so he was found not in the bowels of hys fleshe but in the bowels of Christe that is in the bowels of the word of God of truth and wisedome Abraham saith the text stretched forth his hand to take the sworde and kill his Sonne And the Angel of the lord called vnto him from heauen said Abraham Abraham And he answered Here I am And he said Lay not thy hand vpon the childe neither do any hurt to him For now I know that thou fearest God It is commoÌ„ly out of this place obiected vnto vs how god saith that he knoweth that Abraham did feare him as if he had bene ignorante there of before Wel god which in dede knoweth all thinges before they be done did also know this thinge and was not ignoraunt of it but it is thus writteÌ„ for thy cause for thou haste a faith in God and yet excepte that accomplish the workes of faith except thou obey yea all the hardest commaundements excepte thou offer vp sacrifice and shew plainelye that thou doest not set more by father mother and children theÌ„ by God it shal not be acknoleged that thou fearest God neither shall it bee said of thee F or now I knowe that thou fearest God And besides this wee may here consider that the Angel which is said here to speake these wordes to Abraham in processe afterwarde is euideÌ„tly shewed to be the Lord. Wherevppon I thinke thus that as amonge vs men he was found in his behauiuiour as man so among the Angels â—â—â— 15 â–ª he was fouÌ„d in his behauiour as an Angel And so the Angels in heauen following his exaumple are glad of one Sinner which repentith reioice greatly when men go forward in god lines For these Angels haue as it were the ouersighte of oure soules vnto whom as tutors Gal. 4â— gouernours wee whiles we are yonglinges are committed vntil the time appointed by the father be comme Therefore thei say now concerninge the goinge forward in godlines of euery on of vs that now I knowe that thou fearest the Lord. But for a plainer exaumple hereof Be it so that I purpose in my minde to suffer martirdom yet the angel can not save vnto mee that nowe I knowe that thou fearest the lord for God only knoweth the secret of the mind but if I abide tormeÌ„ts if I boldly publish a good coÌ„fession if I constantly beare what soeuer shall be doone vnto mee then the Angell as comfortinge confirming me may say Now I knowe that thou feareste the Lorde Thus theÌ„ these thinges were spoken to Abraham and hee so was pronounced to feare the lord And why Because he spared not his owne sonne But let vs compare these thinges with the wordes of the Apostle where he saieth Rom. 8. of god which spared not his owne son but did giue him for vs all Beholde here howe God contendeth with men in bountifull liberalitie Abraham offred to god his mortall sonn not yet like to dye God gaue his immort all son for al men to death What shall we say to theis thinges What shall we render to the Lord for all that he hath beslowed vpon vs God the Father hath not spared his owne sonne for vs. And which of you al thin kest thou at any time shall hear this voice of the Angel sayinge vnto you Now I know that thou fearest God bicause thou haste not spared thy son thy daughter thy wife or thou hast not spared thy wealth thy worldly honour and the pompe of the world but hast dispised them all haste couÌ„ted them as dunge that thou mightst gayne Christ but haste solde all and haste geuen it to the poore hast followed the worde of God Which of you thinkest thou shall he are such a voice of the Angel Yea Abraham heard this voice againe the secoÌ„d time and it was said vnto him Because thou hast not spared thy beloued sonne for my sake c And Abraham saith the texte looking back saw with his eyes and beholde A ramme was holden by the â—ornes in the busshes of Sabet I suppose that we haue saied here tofore that Isaac â–ª bare the figure of Christ and yet notwithstandinge this ramm semeth to beare the figure of Christe also But how these two agree vnto Christ bothe Isaac whiche was not slaine and the ramm which was it is expediente to vnderstand Christe is the woorde of God but this worde was made flesh There is theÌ„ in Christ one thing which is from aboue and an other which is taken of the nature of man and the woombe of the virgine Christ theÌ„ suffered his passion but yet in his flesh he suffered death but yet in his flesh whereof this ramme was a figure according to the saing Iohâ— 1. of Iohn Behold the Lambe of God behold him whiche taketh away the sinnes of the worlde But the worde whiche is Christe accordinge to the Spirite did continew in incorruption whose Image this Isaac was So hee is the sacrifice and highe prieste after the spirite For he that offereth the sacrifice to his father accordinge to the flesh the selfe same is offered vpon the aulter of the crosse and lykewise as it is said of him Beholde the Lambe of God Behold him who taketh away the sinnes of the world so is it also saied of him Thou art a priest for euer after the order of Melchisedech Therfore this ramme is holden by the hornes in the bushes of Saber And he toke saieth the text the ram and offered him a burnt offeringe for Isaac his sonne And Abraham called the name of that place the lord sayth Here is a broade way of spiritu all vnderstaÌ„ding laied open for all them that ar skilful to hear these thinges For all that bee here done do â—ende to som spirituall vision bicause it is sayed The Lord seeth This vision of the Lord is in spirit that thou also mayst behold these thinges which are written in spirite as in the Lorde there is nothing corporall or grosse so also that thou in all these thinges sauour nothinge corporally or grosly but that thou inwardly in spirite beget to thy selfe a childe which
her selfe but for thy sake is out of her selfe why therfore saiest thou Why weepest thou whome sekest thou Doest thou thinke that she can say I wepe for the I seek the except thou first inspire her and say in her heart I am he whome thou we peste for and for whom thou sekeste Doeste thou thinke that she can knowe the so longe as it shal please the to hide thy self But she supposinge that he had ben the gardiner said vnto him Sir if thou hast caried him hence tell me where thou hast laid him and I will take him vp O sorowe miserable O loue vnspeakable This woman was so couered with a thicke cloude of wo and sorowe that she saw not the Sun that in the morning tyde arising shone by her windowes and by the eares of her bodye was now entred into the house of her heart But bicause she laÌ„guished in her loue of this languishinge the eyes of her heart became so dym that she coulde not se him whome she sawe For she did see Iesus but she knew not it was Iesus O Mary it thou sekest Iesus why doeste thou not acknowledge Iesus And if thou knowest Iesus why sekest thou Iesus Beholde Iesus commeth vnto the and hee whom thou sekest asketh of the Woman why wepest thou and thou supposest him to be a gardiÌ„er to shew thou knowest him not For Iesus is also a gardiner because he soweth all good seede in the gardin of thy soule and in the hearts of his faithful he planteth euery good Herbe and watereth it in the soules of his sainctes And it is IESVS himself which talketh with the. But therefore perhaps thou doest not knowe him bycause hee corporally talketh with ye. Thou sekest a dead one and therefore thou doest not acknowledg him as liuing Haue I not truly espied that this is the cause wherefore he went from the and why he appeared not vnto the For why should he appeare vnto the for whome thou doest not seke Thou verely soughtest for that which was not and soughtest not for the which was Thou didst seke Iesus and didste not seke Iesus and therefore in seinge Iesus thou didst not knowe Iesus O pittiful and sweete Maister I can not altogether excuse this thy disciple I can not frely defende this her error And yet for all that shee erred bycause she soughte the for suche an one as once she had seene the and for suche a one as she had lefte the when thou wert laied in thy graue For she had sene thy body taken downe dead from the crosse layed in a tombe and so greate sorowe had taken hold of her for thy death that she coulde not hope of thy life And suche sorowe had possessed her herte for thy buriall that shee coulde thinke nothinge of thy resurrection To conclude Ioseph put thy body into a tombe Mary had buried there her spirite also so vnseparably ioyned it as it were vnited it with thy body that she could more easily seperate her liuing soule froÌ„ her liuing body theÌ„ her louing spirit from thy dead body for the spirite of Mary was rather in thy body theÌ„ in her owne body and when she eaftsones soughte for thy body she did then also seeke for her own spirit and when she lost thy body she lost with it her own spirit what meruaile theÌ„ if she had no sense which had lost her spirit what maruail was it if she knew not the which had no spirite where with shee shoulde knowe the Restore therfore vnto her again her soule which thy body hath within it selfe and shee shall recouer furthwith her sense againe and forsake her error But how did she erre which did so sorowe for the and did so loue the Truly if she erred I speake without doubtinge that she wyst not she erred and so her error proceded not of error but of loue and grefe Therfore O mercifull and iuste Iudge the loue shee bare to thee and the sorowe she toke for the may excuse her before the if perhaps she erreth of the. And marke not the error of the woman but the loue of thy disciple whiche did not wepe of error but of sorowe and of loue and said vnto the Sir if thou hast borne him heÌ„ce tel me where thou hast laid him and I will take him vp O how skilfully is she ignorante how learnedly doth she erre To the Angels she said They haue takeÌ„ him away and they haue layed And she said not Ye haue taken him and Ye haue layed him because the angels neyther tooke the out of thy Tombe nor layed the in any place but to thee shee said If thou hast borne him away where haste thou laied him bicause thou indede didst beare thy selfe out of the Tombe and laydsâ—e thy self in the place where thou arte To the angels she said not Tell ye me bicause thee Angels coulde not tell wholy what had ben done of the nor howe it had bene done of the but to the shee saith Tel thou me bycause it is not vnpossible for the to tel that which was possible for the to do for thou rosest againe by thyne owne power that whiche was done of the thou diddeste it thy selfe But what is this Lorde that Mary so often speaketh repeteth this worde Where haste thou layd him For shee had said to the Apostles firste of all where haue they layed him The selfsame answer she spake vnto the Angels Wher haue they layed him And nowe speaketh to the of thy selfe Where haste thou layd him This word wax eth exceding swete in her heart that so abouÌ„deth in her mouth Lertes thy swetenes maketh it more sweete and she dothe this for thy loue sake bycause shee remeÌ„breth that thou saidst once Ioh. 11. of her brother Where haue ye laid him for sithens that she heard this word of thy mouth she hath kept it diligently in her heart and hath delighted to vse it in her speache O howe dothe shee loue thy person that so loueth thy voice O how moch doth she desire to see thy countinaunce which so desirously pronouÌ„ceth thy worde And howe gladlye wolde she kisse thy feete whiche so gladly vseth thy sayinges what is this also O good Iesu that she speaketh to the of the And I will take him vp Ioseph feared and durste not take doun thy body from the Crosse but in the night and but askinge it of Pilate but Mary abydeth not Ioh. 19. for the night nor fereth Pilate but boldly pronounceth saying I will take him vp O Mary putte the case that the body of Iesus were layed in the palayce of the high Preist where the cheife Apostle did warme him selfe at the fyer what woldeste thow doe I wolde take him vp O wonderful woman in boldenes O woman no womaÌ„ and what if the Dam sell the dore keeper should askâ— the what wilt thou do I wil take him vp O vnspeakable loue of this woman O meruailous audacitye of a