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A14669	Rabboni Mary Magdalens teares, of sorrow, solace. The one for her Lord being lost. The other for him being found. In way of questioning. Wondring. Reioycing. ... Preached at S. Pauls Crosse, after the rehearsall, and newly reuised and enlarged: by Thomas Walkington, Doctor in Diuinity, and minister of the Word at Fulham.	Walkington, Thomas, d. 1621.	1620 (1620)	STC 24970; ESTC S119401	49,143	164

the Lord hath blessed thee hee hath deliuered thy soule from death thine eyes from teares and thy feet from falling henceforth shall I walke with the Lord in the land of the liuing Thus ô Lord thy mercy reacheth vnto the Heauens and thy truth vnto the clowds wherefore we will praise thy name yea our soules shall bee satisfied with marrow and fatnesse when our mouths praise thee with ioyfull lips These are the golden Cymbals that so much delight thy skilfull eares ô Lord Almighty O let vs all returne with Mary Magdalen with penitential tears vnto this blessed Rabboni who cries to vs for to returne Shuui shuui hashullammith shuui shuui Returne returne ô Shulamite returne returne Foure times Returne for God the Fathers sake returne for God the Sonnes sake returne for God the Holy Ghost his sake returne for the whole and holy Trinities sake returne And if so bee wee turne vnto the Lord hee will accept of our penitency for he bottles vp all our teares and hee will receiue vs into mercy the mercies of our God shall embrace vs on euery side Maryes penitency and so the repentance of vs all is the Asylum the Sanctuary of euery sinnefull soule the Birth-day of our regeneration the Super-sedeas of all our spirituall debts the heauenly Iordan to bathe and wash the leprosie of our soules and bodyes it is the red sea wherin the hoast of our spirituall Pharaoh and himselfe are drowned it is the swelling waters of the deluge that carries the Arke of the soule aloft and keepes it from drowning in perdition it is the casting out of the old leauen of maliciousnesse and the eating of the sweet bread of sincerity and holinesse it is the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an house of physicke for euery sicke soule the Hospitall or Inne of the good Samaritane the Physician of our soules where the wine and oyle of consolation is it is the source and spring the draw-well of Gods fathomlesse and infinite mercies one drop of which one mite one crumme is sufficient to wash away our crimson sinnes to feede our starued discontented soules withall O Lord thou Celestiall Almoner giue vs of the broken meat of thy mercies which thou hast layd vp in more then twelue baskets full for them that turne to thee turne vs ô good Lord with Mary Magdalen so shall we be turned vnto thee ô Rabboni for wee perswade our soules that if our sinnes were more in number by millions then those of Mary Magdalens yet thou in mercy wouldest race them all out of thy booke of Items And for this I beseech you read that heauenly comfortable booke of Fulgentius fore-mentioned to Venantia of penitence and retribution wherin hee hath bundled vp the places of the Scripture pregnant for this purpose saying Non est perfecta bonitas à qua non omnis malitia vincitur nec est perfecta medicina cui morbus aliquis incurabilis inuenitur There is no absolute goodnesse that ouercomes not all maliciousnesse nor perfect drug or true skill in physicke that leaues any malady vncured And hee shewes moreouer that if Iudas as hee legally repented had trusted in Gods mercy he surely had been saued The Lord hath his owne peculiar times and places of gathering together that which was scattered of bringing home the lost sheep vpon his owne shoulders to the heauenly fold of running to meet of falling on the neck and kissing the riotous Prodigall Hee hath a Tolle lege vnder the tree Take vp and read the 13. to the Romanes the three last verses For S. Augustine Not in surfetting and drunkennesse c. He hath a shining light from Heauen both to darken and illumine Pauls or Sauls eyes as hee trauelled to Damascus breathing out threatnings and slaughter against the Disciples of the Lord was their not a heauenly trap layd by this Rabboni our Lord and Sauiour Iesus to catch this Courtier in to make a Courtier a true Conuert A thing some will say something rare Yet surely there be many Courtiers very holy religious and deuout and God encrease the number of them But sure a chaine is sooner and fairer made of purest gold then of impurer mettall mixt with earth Christ Iesus with his heauenly gospelling his powerfull preaching caught this notorious sinner Mary Magdalen Penalty alwayes followes not immediately nor fals vpon the necke of impiety Thus many by the vnspeakable mercies of him that wholly is composed of mercy who in their April and prime of youth haue greeuously sinned in their yeeres of more maturity were happily reclaimed of Apostata's became Apostles of Sauls persecuting were made Pauls diuinely preaching of Succisores were made Successores to vse Bullingers words of Cutters and Swash-bucklers and prophane persons were made Captaines ouer the Host of Israel Successours of that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the cheefe Shepheard RABBONNI 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c Who hath measured the waters in his fist and counted Heauen with his span and comprehended the dust of the earth in mea sure waighed the mountaines in a waight and the little hils in a ballance Esay 40. O sweet Iesu my braine is a broken cisterne to contain thee the water of life the euer-flowing springs of Lebanon my carnall reason but like a blinde Bartimae my tongue like dumbe Zacharies locked vp in my mouth when I should runne descant on thee ô Rabboni O let my tongue be the pen of a ready writer to treat of thy wisdome thy mercy thy greatnesse thy goodnesse my pen that like a cursed Israelite ranging like a poore pilgrim in a wildernesse of secular obiects often nay too often lothing that Celestiall Manna surfetting on pleasancies calling rather for the cucummers the onions the garlicke the flesh-pots of Aegypt wherein is naught but Mors in olla Death in the pot ô thou man of God I say my pen is too vnfit a pensill to limbe forth thy praise to describe thy glory excellency and perfection O neither is it safe for pollution to enter into the holy Tabernacle without washing at the golden lauer no more then a weake blemisht sore eye may gaze vpon the Sun-beames O therfore purge me ô Lord with hysope that my hand my heart my tongue may appeare before thy glorious presence as white as snow in Salmon that so thou graciously mayest accept of this my meaner sacrifice in my thought and speech of thee O Lord Rabboni wishing my very heart and soule were made an Holocaust burnt in feruent deuotion vnto thy most sacred seruice Rabboni O my deare Lord and Master En amo te si hoc parum est amem validius Loe I loue thee and if this my loue be too little ô giue mee power to loue thee more Dothi li vaani lo. And Ani ledothi vedothi li harogneh bashoshannim I am my Well-beloueds and my Well-beloued is mine who feedeth among the lillies

this our loyall duty cancell all our debts create in vs cleane hearts support and vnder-shore vs with thy diuine and gracious hand from future further lapsing binde vs vp all in the bundle of The booke must bee beholden to the courtesie of the Reader there be so many mis-prints or misprisions for words accents poynting As Page 10. line 15. orizon for oraison pag. 13 lin 21.22 That was I and yet is pag. 20. lin 5. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 21. Rabbi Dauid in the margin ouer against Thammyz p. 24. l. 22 watcheth p. 25. in marg vicant for Cant. 6. p. 22. l. 13. beards ibid. l. 19. of whom our help standeth p. 41. l. 10. dreads p. 42. l. 2. pamphlet p. 43. l. 11. Lady as some write Prostibulum p. 46. l. 6 7. read shee thinking this that to despaire of mercy was p. 48. l. vlt. in peeces Like a c. p. 59. l. 1. Quot membra p. 96. marg Lachman dimhar hablan iomanah Syr. p. 106. l. 17. now for thou p. 111. l. vlt. to liue with thee p. 121. marg 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 132. l. 10 11. a Non-Hierarchy It brings not in a Gauel-kinde c. p. 138. l. 6. adde c. p. 139. marg Ezech. 10.13 p. 141. l. 18. venashuua p. 149. l. 19. Cheirograph p. 150. l. 14. read for that ibid. l. 16. read wee shall bathe and drench our selues RABBONI IOHN XX. XVI LOE heere is the little Clowd that arose out of the sea no bigger then a mans hand out of which did fall a great raine Loe here is the little Well that grew into a great riuer flowed ouer with great waters Loe heere the Iliades of Homer in the shale of a nut a very curt and a concise speech the stile and word of Mary Magdalen vttered to him who is the Word at or betweene God and man the Man Christ Iesus So Gen. 32. vaieauech ●sh gnimmo And there wrastled with Iacob a man vnto the breaking of the day So Exod. 15. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A man of warre A man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for excellency the second person in Trinity Angelus Domini and Dominus Angelorum The Angell of the Lord nay the Lord of Angels for so in two neighbouring verses is Christ termed The Angell of the Lord and the Lord Acts 7. Vriel the God of light Gabriel the God of strength Raphael the curing God and Michael who is like our God one man of whom as it was sayd of Heraclitus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 One man to mee as three thousand they that are numberlesse as no man to mee Vnus homo nobis moriendo restituit rem This man has restored saluation to vs by so louingly and mercifully dying for vs that we for euer might liue and raigne with him and this is this Rabboni Secondly one woman a woman O mulier non mulier twice that Father cries out as admiring her great worth O woman no woman Non mulier ô Dea certè more fit to make a Goddesse in Heauen if Heauen admitted any such then a woman on earth Mary Magdalen a noble woman one of the bloud-royall of the Tribe of Iudah sister to Lazarus and Martha which three diuided the Inheritance from their father Syrus Magdalum castrum the Castle Magdalen fell to her share which castle was neere vnto Naym from which shee had her name To Martha fell Bethanie not far from Hierusalem where Lazarus was raised out of his graue by Iesus where Christ out of the Mount Oliuet ascended vp to Heauen to Lazarus their brother fell many possessions at Hierusalem a woman of nobility nay of diuinity a heauenly Saint a Conuert she cries Rabboni Thirdly vnum opus one action one singular affection in them both the vnprizeable loue of the one to the other To let that passe many sinnes bee forgiuen her there was Christs loue to her for she loued much there was her loue to Christ But this to the poynt Christ Iesus his loue appeared to her in this In first appearing to her after his resurrection To Mary alone not to the Disciples but to Mary first To a woman as a woman was Nuncia mortis in Paradiso The messenger of mortality of death in Paradise So this woman Mary was the messenger of life new begun by Christ his resurrection And to this woman as being most memorious and mindefull of all the mercies and benefits wherewith Iesus her deare Sauiour had enriched her soule Maries loue to Christ in running to and fro to the Sepulcher and from the Sepulcher to tell the Disciples and euen to preach like that blessed Cohêleth a shee-Preacher the resurrection of this Rabboni in so soone returning staying standing at the Tombe in weeping and wailing and howling for his losse in vigilantly looking and searching her lost Lord neuer linning vntill shee had found him whom her soule loued His loue to her in calling her Mary her loue to him in calling him Rabboni 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wee may terme them Nobile par a paire of sweet Turtle Doues true Louers indeede Louers in life and Louers in death their Loues as strong as death This two-fold cord cannot easily nay can neuer be broken Two Louers that onely in number yeeld to the three graces In whom there is a rich Exchequer of all heauenly graces In one of them especially of whose fulnesse we all haue receiued grace for grace Maries enamoured soule was Vbi amauit non vbi animauit Where it liked not where it lodged not in her owne but in Iesus his blessed bosome who loued her so incomparably she loues him with a most vnfained vntainted and chaste affection but heere is the difference of both their loues In Maries to Christ it was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 due debt for her to loue him In Iesus his loue to her it was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Grace and fauour and mercy a free gift in him Hee loued her and so he loues vs first 1 Ioh. 4. And here is that pugillus farinae in hydria The widdowes handfull of meale in the barrell which the Lord God our heauenly Eliah or El-iah increase to the feeding of all our soules vntill as in that Text the raine doe fall that is some others sweeter and selecter doctrine doe drop on you as the deaw as the showre vpon the herb sing of Christ and sing of Mary sing of Mary and sing of Christ Christ sayes to her Mary shee answers him Rabboni First of Mary who heere cryes Rabboni The winged Quiristers of Heauen the Birds vnto whom God has granted the large patent of the whole aire as his glorious Chappell to sing their sweet notes anthymnes their shrill praises vnto God Almighty in In winter time in drizling clowdy weather and when the day is shut in they silly soules as all