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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.
1Resol. Partly, we may know it by our former courses. Christ, when he was risen, all the Clothes were laid together in the grave, he left him behind, and rose with an Earth-quake, there was a commotion, and after his Resurrection he minded Heaven. So if ye be risen with Christ, your former vile courses lie in the grave, your Oaths are gone, profaneness and wickedness of life gone. Tell you me, you are risen, while you carry the bonds of your sins about you? your profane, ⟨p. 91⟩wretched, swearing, ungodly persons, filthy speakers, that have an heart more filthy, vile in body and soul, can they have any part in Christ? where is that, that bound you before, you carry it about still: therefore you be in the bonds of the Devil, you be in the grave of sin, there is no rising. Resurrection is with commotion, there was an Earth-quake when Christ arose, and there is an heart-quake when the soul riseth; can the soul rise from sin without commotion? In the inward man there will be division between flesh and spirit, without any ado at all; and therefore they that find nothing to do in their spirits, where is their rising again?
1Resol. Partly, we may know it by our former courses. Christ, when he was risen, all the Clothes were laid together in the grave, he left him behind, and rose with an Earth-quake, there was a commotion, and after his Resurrection he minded Heaven. So if ye be risen with Christ, your former vile courses lie in the grave, your Oaths are gone, prophaness and wickedness of life gone. Tell you me, you are risen, while you carry the bonds of your sins about you? your prophane, ⟨p. 91⟩wretched, swearing, ungodly persons, filthy speakers, that have an heart more filthy, vile in body and soul, can they have any part in Christ? where is that, that bound you before, you carry it about still: therefore you be in the bonds of the Devill, you be in the grave of sin, there is no rising. Resurrection is with commotion, there was an Earth-quake when Christ arose, and there is an heart-quake when the soul riseth; can the soul rise from sin without commotion? In the inward man there will be division between flesh and spirit, without any adoe at all; and therefore they that find nothing to do in their spirits, where is their rising again?