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

The matter of the message is, Christ ascendeth to God, as a common Father, and God to him and them. He doth not say, I ascend to ¹the Father, that were no great comfort; for what were that to them? or to my Father only: neither doth he say, I ascend to our Father, for that is true in the order of it; for he is not in equal respect the God and Father of Christ, and the God and Father of us. And therefore he speaks of himself in the first place. I go to my God and your God. For he is first, and specially Christs Father, and Christs God, and then ours; as we shall see in the particulars. We have a common Father, and a common God, with Christ. God the Father is Christs Father, by eternal generation, as he is God and man: we have therefore the nature ²of Christ, ash is God and man.

The matter of the message is, Christ ascendeth to God, as a common Father, and God to him and them. He doth not say, I ascend to ¹the Father, that were no great comfort; for what were that to them? or to my Father only: neither doth he say, I ascend to our Father, for that is true in the order of it; for he is not in equal respect the God and Father of Christ, and the God and Father of us. And therefore he speaks of himself in the first place. I go to my God and your God. For he is first, and specially Christs Father, and Christs God, and then ours; as we shall see in the particulars. We have a common Father, and a common God, with Christ. God the Father is Christs Father, by eternal generatiō, as he is God and man: we have therefore the nature ²of Christ, ashe is God and man.

1. 1God is first Christs God and Father, and then our God & Father.
2. 2How God is the Father of Christ.