Preached at S. Pauls, upon Easter-day, 1630

              preachedat preached Preachedar edat at S pauls upon easter-day easterday 150 jyo 1600 MAT 28.6 286 286 386 HE IS NOT HERE FOR HE IS RISEN AS HE SAID COME SEE THE PLACE WHERE THE LORD LAY HESE ARE words spoken by an angel of heaven to certain THESE Tdevoutwomenwhonotyetconsideringtheresurrectionof christ came with a pious intention to do an office of respect and civill honour to the body of their master which they meant to embalme embalms in the monument where they thought to finde it how great a compasse compassed compasse god went in this act of the resurrection here was god the god of life dead in a grave and here was man a dead man risen out of the grave here are angels of heaven imployed implored imployed in so low an office as to catechize women and women imployed implored imployed in so high an office as to catechize the apostles I1 chose this verse out of the body of the story of the resurrection because in this verse the act of christs rising which we celebrate this day isexpresly is expresly men- tioned surrexit Surrexit enem for he is risen which word stands as a candle that shews chews it self and all about it and will minister occasion of illus- trating your understanding of establishing your faith of exalting your devotion in some other things about the resurrection then fall literally within the words of this verse for from this verse we must necessarily reflect both upon the persons they to whom and they by whom the words were spoken and upon the occasion given I1 shall not therefore now stand to divide the words into their parts and branches at my first entring entering into them but handle them as I1 shall meet them again anon springing out and growing up from the body of the story for the context is our text and the whole resurrection