A93249:171
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.
Again, the Son in other Generations comes of the Father, and is like the Father, taken out of his substance, but of a different substance from the Father; but Christ and the Father, both the persons are in one substance, in one essence. The essence of the Father differeth not from the essence of the Son. We must remember this to give Christ the prerogative, and preheminency, that God is his Father in another manner then ours. He is his Father by nature, ours by adoption. What he is by nature, we are by grace: though Christ was intent ⟨p. 113⟩upon his ascension, yet he forgetteth not this grand difference here, but mentioneth it. Go to my Brethren. We must not call him brother again, we may think of him as our Brother; but my God and my Lord, as Thomas saith. 1If the greatest person should call us Brother, yet it is most behoveful for the inferior to say, my God, my Lord, to acknowledge Christ as a great person, and to make use of his love to strengthen our faith, not to diminish our respect to him in any way. It is his infinite mercy to term us Brethren; but when we go to him, we must have other terms.
Again, the Son in other Generations comes of the Father, and is like the Father, taken out of his substance, but of a different substance from the Father; but Christ and the Father, both the persons are in one substance, in one essence. The essence of the Father differeth not from the essence of the Son. We must remember this to give Christ the prerogative, and preheminency, that God is his Father in another manner then ours. He is his Father by nature, ours by adoption. What he is by nature, we are by grace: though Christ was intent ⟨p. 113⟩upon his ascension, yet he forgetteth not this grand differrnce here, but mentioneth it. Go to my Brethren. We must not call him brother again, we may think of him as our Brother; but my God and my Lord, as Thomas saith. 1If the greatest person should call us Brother, yet it is most behoveful for the inferior to say, my God, my Lord, to acknowledge Christ as a great person, and to make use of his love to strengthen our faith, not to diminish our respect to him in any way. It is his infinite mercy to tearm us Brethren; but when we go to him, we must have other tearms.