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A sermon preached at White-hall, on Easter day the 16. of April. 1620. By the Bishop of Winchester
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Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626.
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away Her Lord for all this for all this while Her Lord was well was as shee would haue had Him aliue and safe He went away of himselfe none caried him thence What of that Non credens suscitatum credidit sublatum for want of beliefe He was risen shee beleeued He was caried away Shee erred in so beleeuing there was errour in her loue but there was loue in her errour too And giue me leaue to lay out three more arguments of her loue out of this verse to make vp eight towards the making vp of her multùm 1. The very title shee giues Him of Dominum meum is one My Lord that she giues Him that terme For it shewes her loue and respect was no whit abated by the scandall of His death It was a most opprobrious ignominious shamefull death Hee suffered such as in the eyes of the world any would haue been ashamed to own Him or say of Him Meum But any would haue beene afraid to honour Him with that title to style Him Dominum Shee was neither Meum for hers Dominum meum for her Lord shee acknowledgeth Him is neither ashamed nor afraid to continue that title still Amor scandalo non scandalizatus Another which I take to be farre beyond this That shee hauing looked into the graue a little before and seene neuer an Angel there and of a sudden looking in now and seeing two a sight able to haue amazed any any but her It mooues not her at all The suddennesse the strangenesse the gloriousnesse of the sight yea euen of Angels mooue her not at all Shee seemes to haue no sense of it and so to be in a kinde of extasie all the while Domine propter te est extra se saith Bernard Amor extasin patiens And thirdly as that strange sight affected her not a whit so neither did their comfortable speech worke with her at all Comfortable I call it for they that aske the cause why why weepe you shew they would remooue it if it lay in them Neither of these did or could mooue her or make her once leaue her weeping she wept on still Christ will aske her quid ploras by and by againe If shee finde an Angel if she finde not her Lord it will not serue She had rather finde his dead body then them in all their glory No man in earth no Angel in heauen can comfort her none but He that is taken away Christ and none but Christ and till she find Him againe her soule refuseth all maner comfort yea euen from heauen euen from the Angels themselues These three Amor super amissum renuens consolari Thus shee in her loue for her supposed losse or taking away And what shal become of vs in ours then That lose Him 1 not once but oft 2 And not in suppose as she did but in very deed 3 And that by sinne the worst losse of all 4 And that not by any others taking away but by our owne acte wilfull default and are not grieued nay not moued a whit break none of our wonted sports for it as if we reckoned Him as good lost as found Yea when Christ and the holy Ghost and the fauour of God and all is gone how soon how easily are we comforted againe for all this that none shall need to say quid ploras to vs rather quid non ploras aske vs why we weepe not hauing so good cause to doe it as wee then haue This for the Angels part VER 14. When she had thus said she turned her selfe about and saw Iesus standing and knew not that it was Iesus Alwayes the Angels wee see touched the right string and shee tells them the wrong cause but yet the right if it had beene right Now to this answere of hers they would haue replied and taken away her errour touching her Lords taking away that if she knew all shee would haue left her seeking and fit her downe by them and left her weeping and beene in white as well as they But here is a supersedeas to them The Lord himselfe comes in place Now come wee from the seeking Him dead to the finding Him aliue For when Hee saw no Angels no sight no speech of theirs would serue none but her Lord could giue her any comfort Her Lord comes Christus adest Adest Christus nec ab eis vnquam abest à quibus quaeritur saith Augustine Christ is found found by her And this case of hers shall be the case of all that seriously seeke Him This woman heere for one shee sought Him we see They that went to Emmaus to day they but talked of Him sadly and they both found Him Why He is found of them that seeke Him not Esa 65. 1. but of them that seeke Him neuer but found For thou Lord neuer failest them that seeke Thee Psal. 9. 10. God is not vnrighteous to forget the worke and labour of their loue that seeke Him Heb. 6. 10. So finde Him they shall but happily not all so fully at first no more then shee did For first to try her yet a little further He comes vnknowen stands by her and she little thought it had beene Hee A case that likewise falls out full oft Doubtlesse He is not farre from euery one of vs saith the Apostle to the Athenians But He is neerer vs many times then we thinke even hard by vs and we not aware of it saith Iob. And O si cognouisses tu O if wee did know and it standeth vs in hand to pray that we may know when He is so for that is the time of our visitation Saint Iohn saith here the Angels were sitting Saint Luke saith they stood Luk. 24. 4. They are thus reconciled That Christ comming in presence the Angels which before were sitting stood vp Their standing vp made Marie Magdalen turne her to see who it was they rose to And so Christ she saw but knew Him not Not onely not knew Him but misknew Him tooke Him for the Gardiner Teares wil dim the sight and it was yet scarse day and shee seeing one and not knowing what any one should make in the ground so early but he that dressed it she might well mistake But it was more then so Her eyes were not holden onely that shee did not know Him but ouer and beside He did appeare 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in some such shape as might resemble the Gardiner whom shee tooke Him for Proper enough it was it fitted well the time and place this person The time It was the Spring The place It was a garden that place is most in request at that time for that place and time a Gardiner doth well Of which her so taking Him Saint Gregorie saith well Profectò errando non errauit She did not mistake in taking Him for a Gardiner though she might seeme to erre in some sense yet in some other she was in the right For
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 coÌ„ceit 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 elenâ—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 coÌ„fort 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