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

And though there was no loss by the ascension of Christ, they might fear by losing of Christ, that all their comfort was gone. I, but Christ telleth them, I go to prepare a place for you. He goeth to take up Heaven for his Church, and then to send his spirit. What a blessed intercourse is there now, since Christs ascension, between Heaven and Earth? Our body is in heaven, and the spirit of God is here on earth. The flesh that he hath taken into heaven, is a pledge that all our flesh and bodies, shall be where he is ere long. In the mean time we have the spirit to comfort us, and never to leave us till we be brought to the place where Christ is. This is great comfort, and this is the main end why Christ ascended to the ⟨p. 96⟩Father, that he might send the comforter. And comfort might well come now in more abundance, then before, because by the death of Christ all enemies were conquered, and by ¹the Resurrection of Christ, it was discovered, that God was appeased. The Resurrection of Christ manifested to the world what was done by death, and now all enemies being conquered, and God being appeased, what remains but the sweetest gift next Christ, the Holy Ghost. And that is the reason why the holy Ghost was more abundant after Christs Resurrection, because God was fully satisfied; and declared by the rising of Christ, to be fully satisfied, and all enemies to be conquered.

And though there was no losse by the ascension of Christ, they might fear by losing of Christ, that all their comfort was gone. I, but Christ telleth them, I go to prepare a place for you. He goeth to take up Heaven for his Church, and then to send his spirit. What a blessed intercourse is there now, since Christs ascension, between Heaven and Earth? Our body is in heaven, and the spirit of God is here on earth. The flesh that he hath taken into heaven, is a pledge that all our flesh and bodies, shall be where he is ere long. In the mean time we have the spirit to comfort us, and never to leave us till we be brought to the place where Christ is. This is great comfort, and this is the main end why Christ ascended to the ⟨p. 96⟩Father, that he might send the comforter. And comfort might well come now in more abundance, then before, because by the death of Christ all enemies were conquered, and by