A heavenly conference between Christ and Mary after His resurrection. Wherein the intimate familiarity,…

First Mary Magdalen a woman, a sinner, is used in the great work of an Apostle, to be an Apostle to the Apostles. I would there were that love in all men to teach what they know, and that humility in others to be instructed in what they know not. It were a sweet conjunction, if it were so. She was a mean person to instruct ¹the great Apostles. But beloved, where there is a great deal of love, there they will teach what they know: and where there is humility, there they will be taught what they ²know not, though they be never so great. And God will humble the greatest, to learn of the meanest sometimes: therefore he sendeth Mary to the Apostles.

1. 1Love teacheth what it knows.Love teacheth what it knowes.
2. 2Humility will be instructed in what it knows not.Humility will be instructed in what it knowes not.

I beseech you in matters of salvation stand not on terms. Let us take truth from Christ, let us see God and Christ in it, see our own comfort in it, not stand upon persons. Aquila and ⟨p. 60⟩Priscilla teach the great men knowledge. And so it is; sometimes mean persons are honoured to be instruments of great comforts to persons greater then themselves. She is to go to the Apostles under the name of Brethren, Go tell my Brethren. And she must go to the Apostles that were Christs Brethren, and owned to be so, now when he was in glory, when he was risen, and exempt from all his former abasements of the Cross and grave, where he was held captive, three days under the dominion of ¹sin; when he was freed from all enemies of salvation, and had triumphed over all. Go tell my Brethren. So you see there is a sweet affinity and nearness between Christ and his. Christ took our nature on him for this end, he became flesh of our flesh, and bone of our bone, that we spiritually might be flesh of his flesh, and bone of his bone. It is no comfort at all, an inducing comfort it is, but no actual present comfort, that Christ was incarnate for us; for all the world might have comfort in that, Turks, Jews, Pagans, that had the nature