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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.
It is against the pleasure of God that we should be disconsolate: therefore we wrong our own souls, and sin against our own comfort, when we let the rains loose by inordinate and extreme sorrow. We lose that sweetness that we might enjoy by giving way to discomfortable thoughts. Indeed if a man examine his life from the beginning of his conversion, to the ⟨p. 105⟩end thereof, he may thank himself for all his trouble. The sin against the holy Gospel is a kind of rebellion against God, though we think not so, when we will not be comforted, nor embrace grounds of comfort, when we have them. The comforts of God ought not to be of small esteem to us, the sweet comforts, large, exceeding, eternal comforts of God, we ought to esteem of them as they be, and therefore our Saviour Christ sendeth to them speedily.
It is against the pleasure of God that we should be disconsolate: therefore we wrong our own souls, and sin against our own comfort, when we let the rains loose by inordinate and extream sorrow. We lose that sweetnesse that we might injoy by giving way to discomfortable thoughts. Indeed if a man examine his life from the beginning of his conversion, to the ⟨p. 105⟩end thereof, he may thank himself for all his trouble. The sin against the holy Gospel is a kind of rebellion against God, though we think not so, when we will not be comforted, nor imbrace grounds of comfort, when we have them. The comforts of God ought not to be of small esteem to us, the sweet comforts, large, exceeding, eternal comforts of God, we ought to esteem of them as they be, and therefore our Saviour Christ sendeth to them speedily.
All Scripture is to this end, for consolation, even the Scripture that tendeth to instruction, and direction, that so men may be in a state of comfort; for Cordials are not good, but where there is purgation before. So 1all Scriptures that are purging, to tell us our faults, they be to bring us into a comfortable condition. Other Scriptures that tend to instruct our judgements, and settle us in faith what is the end of all, if we walk, not comfortably towards God, and strongly in our places? Therefore when we look not to comfort, and joy in all conditions, we abuse the […]