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A heavenly conference between Christ and Mary after His resurrection. Wherein the intimate familiarity,…
A heavenly conference between Christ and Mary after His resurrection. Wherein the intimate familiarity, and near relation between Christ and a believer is discovered.
London: printed for John Rothwel, 1654
A heavenly Discourse between Christ and Mary after his Resurrection.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Let us take a scantling of our dispositions from hence. There be many that think it good to be here always, they never think of ascending. If they could live here always, they would with all their heart; but it is not so with a Christian, it is his desire to be where his happiness, his Saviour, his God, and Father is, where his Country and inheritance is; and therefore he mindeth ascension, and things to come. When any thing is done, he thinks, that what is done, is not yet enough. 1As your great Conquerors in the world, they forget what they have conquered, and remember what they have yet to do. So Christ, having got conquest over death, he thinks now of ascension, to conquer in the eyes of all; for it is not enough to conquer in the field, but he will conquer in the City, he will conquer ⟨p. 90⟩to Heaven, and make show of his Conquest. I ascend to lead captivity captive, to make a show, as it is expressed, Colos. 2. 15. While any thing is to do, or receive, our souls should not be satisfied, but still stretched out to desire further and further still, more and more still, till we be there where our souls shall be filled to the uttermost, and there is no place of further desire, as Heaven is the place to satiate, and fill all the corners of the soul.
Let us take a scantling of our dispositions from hence. There be many that think it good to be here alwayes, they never think of ascending. If they could live here alwayes, they would with all their heart; but it is not so with a Christian, it is his desire to be where his happiness, his Saviour, his God, and Father is, where his Country and inheritance is; and therefore he mindeth ascension, and things to come. When any thing is done, he thinks, that what is done, is not yet enough. 1As your great Conquerours in the world, they forget what they have conquered, and remember what they have yet to do. So Christ, having got conquest over death, he thinks now of ascension, to conquer in the eyes of all; for it is not enough to conquer in the field, but he will conquer in the City, he will conquer ⟨p. 90⟩