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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19691	A sermon preached at White-hall, on Easter day the 16. of April. 1620. By the Bishop of Winchester	Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626.	1620 (1620)	STC 611; ESTC S100178	16,735	46

that is the state of ioy and this the day of the first ioyfull tidings of it with ioy euer celebrated euen in albis eight dayes together by them that found Christ. In white and sitting As the colour of ioy so the situation of rest So wee say Sit downe and rest And so is the graue made by this mornings worke a place of rest Rest not from our labours onely so doe the beasts rest when they die But as it is in 16. Psalme a Psalme of the resurrection a rest in hope hope of rising againe the members in the vertue of their head who this day is risen So to enter into the rest which yet remaineth for the people of God euen the Sabbath eternall Sitting and in this order sitting at the head one at the feet another where His body had lyen 1 Which order may well referre to Christ himselfe whose body was the true Arke indeed In which it pleased the Godhead to dwell bodily and is therefore heere betweene two Angels as was the Arke the type of it betweene the two Cherubims 2 May also referre to Mary Magdalen She had annointed his head she had annointed his feete at these two places sit the two Angels as it were to acknowledge so much for her sake 3 In mysterie they referre it thus Because caput Christi Deus the Godhead is the head of Christ and His feet which the Serpent did bruise His manhood that either of these hath his Angell That to Christ man no lesse then to Christ God the Angels doe now their seruice In principio erat verbum His Godhead there an Angell Verbum caro factum His manhood there another And let all the Angels of God worship Him in both Euen in His manhood at His cradle the head of it a queere of Angels At His graue the feete of it Angels likewise 4 And lastly for our comfort thus That henceforth euen such shall all our graues be if we be so happy as to haue our parts in the first resurrection which is of the soule from sinne We shal go to our graues in white in the comfort and colour of hope lye betweene two Angels there they guard our bodies dead and present them aliue againe at the resurrection 1 Yet before we leaue them to learne somewhat of the Angels specially of the Angell that sate at the feete That betweene them there was no striuing for places He that sate at the feet as well content with his place as he that at the head We to be so by their example For with vs both the Angels would haue beene at the head neuer a one at the feete with vs none would be at the feet by his good will Headangels all 2 Againe from them both That inasmuch as the head euer stands for the beginning and the feete for the end that we be carefull that our beginnings onely bee not glorious O an Angel at the head in any wise but that we looke to the feete there be another there too Ne turpiter atrum Definat that it end not in a blacke Angel that began in a white And this for the Angels appearing VER 13. And they said to her Woman why weepest thou She said to them They have taken away my Lord and I know not where they haue laid Him NOw to their speech It was not a dumb shew this a bare apparition and so vanished away It was visio vox a vocall vision Heere is a dialogue too The Angels speake to her And they aske her Quid ploras Why she wept what cause shee had to weepe They meane she had none as indeed no more she had All was in error piae lachrymae sed caecae teares of griefe but false griefe imagining that to be that was not Him to be dead that was aliue She weepes because shee found the graue emptie which God forbid she should haue found full for then Christ must haue beene dead still and so no Resurrection And this case of Marie Magdalen is our case oftentimes In the error of our cōceit to weepe where we haue no cause to ioy where we haue as little Where we should where wee haue cause to ioy we weepe and where to weepe we ioy Our ploras hath neuer a quid False ioyes and false sorrowes false hopes and false feares this life of ours is full of God helpe vs. Now because she erred they aske her the cause that she alledging it they may take it away and shew it to bee no cause As the elen●h à non causà pro causà makes foule rule among vs beguiles vs all our life long Will ye heare her answere to Why weepe you Why sustulerunt that was the cause Her Lord was gone was taken away And a good cause it had beene if it had beene true Any haue cause to grieue that haue lost lost a good Lord so good and gracious a Lord as He had beene to her But that is not all a worse matter a greater griefe then that When one dieth we reckon him taken away that is one kind of taking away But his dead body is left so all is not taken from vs That was not her case For in saying her Lord she meanes not Her Lord aliue that is not it shee meanes not they had slaine Him they had taken away his life she had wept her fill for that already But her Lord that is his dead body For though His life was gone yet His body was left And that was all she now had left of Him that shee cals Her Lord and that they had taken away from her too A poore one it was yet some comfort it was to her to haue euen that left her to visite to annoint to doe other offices of loue euen to that Etiam viso cadauere recalescit amor at the sight euen of that will loue reuiue it will fetch life of loue againe But now heere is her case that is gone and all and nothing but an empty graue now left to stand by That S. Augustine saith well sublatus de monumento grieued her more then occisus in ligno for then something yet was left now nothing at all Right sustulerunt taken away quite and cleane And thirdly her nescio vbi For though He be taken away it is some comfort yet if we know where to fetch Him againe But here He is gone without all hope of recouery or getting againe For they but shee knew not who had caried Him she knew not whither laide Him shee knew not where there to do to Him she knew not what So that now she knew not whither to go to find any cōfort It was nescio vbi with her right Put all these together His life taken away His body taken away caried no man knowes whither and doe they aske why she wept or can any blame her for it The trueth is none had taken