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CRY TO THE WHOLE EARTH.

LUKE X. 42. "Mary hath chosen that good part which shall            not be taken away from her."

AS Christ did shew himself loving to        Lazarus and his sisters, in that he rais- ed Lazarus from the death of the soul: So did his sisters here shew their thankful minds unto Christ again; the one by re- ceiving him into her house, and the other by entertaining him in her heart. As he      was God, he was entertained by Mary, and as he was man he was received of Martha. They both desired to entertain our Savi- our, as Jacob and Esau, Gen. xxvii. de- sired to please their aged father: but Mary made choice of the better part, and was preferred before her sister, as Jacob sped