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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16758	Marie Magdalens loue	Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?	1595 (1595)	STC 3665; ESTC S104804	30,480	114

MARIE Magdalens Loue. AVT NVNC AVT NVNQVAM LONDON Printed by Iohn Danter and are to be sold in Gratious street nere Leaden Hall Gate Mary Magdalens Loue. Vppon the twenty Chapter of Iohn from the first verse to the eighteenth Vppon the first verse as fo●●oweth The Text. Now the first day of the weeke came Mary Magdalen early when it was yet dark vnto the Sepulchre and sawe the stone rowled away from the Tombe DEerely beloued in our Sauiour Christ In this first verse I find foure cheefe note● to bee well marked and kept in memorie First the person named who it was and of what condition Secondlie the time Thirdlie the place and fourthly what was there seene and done The person was Marie a woman and one that had bin a great sinner the time that she came was the first day of the week in the morning earely euen when it was yet darcke the place shee went vn o was the sepulcher and the thin● that shee saw there was the stone rolled awaye from the Tombe now touching Marie let vs note two especiall causes of her comming loue and sorrow loue that she bare him and sorrow that shee had for him I meane to liue without him who of manie thousandes are ignorant that the mistaken loue indeed which the wantons and wretches of this worlde are to much troubled with will keep their wits waking watching and continuallie woorking for the accomplishment of a moste wilfull or rather woefull desire and if then the deuill by the permission of God haue such power to blind the eyes and charme the senses of humane creatures with that lewd humor of mistearmed loue how much more warie effectuall and continuall carefull watch dooth the loue of God keep in the soules of his seruantes longi●● and looking both day and nig●● and thinking no time too earlie or long be it neuer so long so that at last they may come to the enioying of their souls comfort Let vs therfore consider a little what may bee spoken of Maries loue First that shee loued we cannot doubt for it was spoken by the mouth of Christ himselfe vnto Simon Luke Chapter 7. Verse 45. Many sinnes are forgiuen hir for she loued much But marke now the nature of this good loue what it wroght in her three excellent blessings Constancy Modesty Humility Constancy in the hart Modesty in the minde and Humility in the soule but of these wee wil speake more hereafter in their due places therefore touching the first words from whence I gather my first notes marke here what is saide by the ●olye Euangelist whom 〈◊〉 ●ameth Marie Magdalen a vv●●●n and one that had beene a great sinner out of vvhom vvere cast out seuen deuills but vvhen the foule spirits vvere gone there came to her that good spirit that in true penitence found especiall grace with her liuing Lorde not that she was then no longer a sinner but being a penitent sinner she had obteined mercie Now you see how Marie had beene a great sinner and receiued a great forgiuenes which begat in her faith so great a Loue as broght forth great fruits of repentance made of her as it were a new woman turning her from a sinfull seruant to the world to a louing seruant to Christ as in these wordes following shall appeare Nowe earlie in the Morning the first day of the VVeeke came Mary Magdalen he sayeth not the Disciples but Mary Mag●●len See here you blessed and welbeloued of God both men and women What a sweet example of care she hath left for your comfort that wil follow hir it is saide heere shee came the first day of the weeke An excellent note for good husbandes and huswiues to obserue not to ouerslippe their time till the latter end of the Weeke and then perhaps also be either idle or worse exercised as I feare too manie are in these dayes then another note of wisdome in the choosing of her worke to seeke Christ for beginne the Weeke with him and thy worke will thriue the better and continue the Weeke with him and thy wages wil be the greater and neuer worke but with him and thou shalt finde thy labour will bee the easier by the vnspeakable ●●mfort of thy reward Manie are 〈◊〉 earely and downe late as the ●●●fe about his robery the couetous about his misery the adulterer about his villanie and the Traytor about his ●reason but alas Mary had none of these thoughtes in her head shee rose earely to seeke Christ shee came earely while it was yet darke for as Dauid the Psalmist saieth in his hundred and thirtie Psalme and sixt verse My soule waiteth on the Lord more than the Morning watch watcheth for the Morning who then wilcome to Christ must wait for him as Dauid did and seeke for him as Marie did Earely in the morning and the first day in the weeke and though it be dark yet wee must watch till it be day and then by Gods helpe wee shall see that wee looke for Now let vs speake a little more of Mary shee found her self a sinn●r and therefore vnwoorthy to see her Sauiour any more but yet her sinnes were forgiuen her and she desired to sinne no more and novv did grace so woork in her looue that faine she would see her Lord a little more but alas her Lord vvas dead to other perhaps but not to her and see how faith vvrought in her affection her heart had light before her eyes shee vvent through the dark and came to the place ere it vvas day The diuell watcheth in the light to lead his followers into darknes and shall not wee watch thorough darknes to seeke Christ in the light Iudas watch all day to betraye his Master in the night but Mary watcheth all night to come to her Master in the day Oh sweete blessing of God where faith wrought loue and loue dutie and all came together to bring Mary to Christ and except with these we followe her wee shall neuer come to him but Mary was a woman and shal men follow women why her happines came from God and shall not wee follow her to her happines but Mary was a sinner and what flesh is righteous and Mary was repentant and what more proofe of election and Mary loued Christe and what more ioy in a Christian now not offending men let mee thus farre speake in the commendation of godly women if the first spokē off in the scripture offended God the last spoken off looued Christ If Heuah vvas an accursed vvife Mary vvas a blessed virgine If shee vvere full of sinne Marie vvas ful of grace If Eue vvas tempted by the diuel Mary vvas saluted by the Angell And if Eue bare a vvicked Son Cain Mary brought a blessed Son Christ novv though this vvas not that Mary that bare Christ yet this vvas she that loued Christ for a vvorld of such godly women as are lest examples to their posterities sex in