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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.
Now this Relation of a Father teacheth us, as what we may expect from God, so what we ought to return to God again, and how we ought to carry our selves one towards another.
11. What we may expect from God, being a Father? We may expect whatsoever ⟨p. 115⟩a Child may expect from a Father. God taketh not upon him empty names. He saith, he will be a Father, not only called a Father; but I will be your Father, and you shall be 2my Sons, 2 Cor. 6. ult. All the Fatherhood, and all the kindred in heaven and earth, that is spiritual: the comfort of it cometh from God the Father, reconciled to us in Christ. The word in the original is so strong, that we cannot express it in English. Fathers on earth are but poor Fathers, and they be but beams of the Fatherly affection that is in God. God will let us see by these beams of compassion, that is in a Father to a Child, what real compassion he beareth to us. The true reality of Fatherhood is in God. And therefore when we hear of the name of Father, think of whatsoever lieth in the bowels of a Father to a Child, and that we may expect from God our Father, and infinite more. It is a great indulgence; 3as a Father pitieth his Child, Malac. 3. so God will pity us. Will a Father cast off his Child? Indeed he will cleanse the Child. So God will ⟨p. 116⟩4take away our abominations, and purge us when we defile our selves: it is because of an eternal relation he casteth us not off; we may expect from him indulgence, and it is an indulgence of indulgence. God needed no Son, when he made us Sons; yet he had his Son, and angels to praise himself withal. Can we pity and pardon a Child, and will not God pardon and pity us? why should we conceive worse of him then of our selves? will we give pity to a Father? and not pity to the Father of all bowels and compassion? and therefore think not that God will cast us off. God pardons us, and healeth our infirmities, and pitieth us, as a Father pitieth his own Child,