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

Now as he sent her in all hast, preferring it before any Complement to his own person; so it is a constant love: as it is a quick love, that God bears to his Children, so it is a constant, invincible love. They had dealt ¹most unbrotherly with him; for every one had forsaken him, and Peter had denied him: yet go, tell my Brethren. ⟨p. 70⟩One would think this water would have quenched this fire, this unkind, and unbrotherly dealing would have quenched this love in Christs breast. It is true, if it had been the mere love of man, it had been something; but it was the love of an infinite person, that took our nature out of love, and therefore it was a constant and invincible love; nothing could conquer it, not the thoughts of their unkind dealings, no not their denying and forsaking of him. But still, go, tell my Brethren. Love is strong as death. Death could not hold Christ in the grave, but love held him on the Cross. When he came to the work of our Redemption, love then held him on earth; but when he was in the grave, it brake through all there. Indeed, it was stronger then death in Christ.

Now as he sent her in all hast, preferring it before any Complement to his own person; so it is a constant love: as it is a quick love, that God bears to his Children, so it is a constant, invincible love. They had dealt ¹most unbrotherly with him; for every one had forsaken him, and Peter had denyed him: yet go, tell my Brethren. ⟨p. 70⟩One would think this water would have quenched this fire, this unkind, and unbrotherly dealing would have quenched this love in Christs breast. It is true, if it had been the meer love of man, it had been something; but it was the love of an infinite person, that took our nature out of love, and therefore it was a constant and invincible love; nothing could conquer it, not the thoughts of their unkind dealings, no not their denying and forsaking of him. But still, go, tell my Brethren. Love is strong as death. Death could not hold Christ in the grave, but love held him on the Crosse. When he came to the work of our Redemption, love then held him on earth; but when he was in the grave, it brake through all there. Indeed, it was stronger then death in Christ.