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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.
Come to him boldly therefore, under the name of a Father, that he may move his bowels, and surely will hear us. For as in Psalm. 27. when all forsook me, my Father and Mother forsook me, but the Lord took me up: Fathers in the flesh, and Mothers die; but the Lord taketh us up, he is an eternal Father, and therefore a ground of eternal boldness with God, and of everlasting comfort. He was our Father before we had a Father in the world; and he will be our Father, when we shall cease to be in the world. They be but Instruments under God, to bring us into the world, God is our true Father. Our other Fathers are but under God, to give us a being, to fit us for Heaven. He provideth the best inheritance and paternity for us in Heaven. And therefore 1never be disconsolate, but remember, I go to my Father, and your Father; which is a word of eternal comfort. He was our Father from eternity in election, he will be our Father to eternity in glorification. Can a Mother ⟨p. 123⟩forget her Child? yea though she should, 2yet can I not forget thee, thou art written in the palm of my hand. God hath us always in his eye. A mother cannot always think of her Child, she sleepeth sometimes; but God is a Father, that never sleepeth. 3The Keeper of Israel neither slumbereth nor sleepeth. And this is our comfort in all times, and for eternity. And therefore we ought to carry our selves to God reverently, and go boldly to him, and always make use of him.
Come to him boldly therefore, under the name of a Father, that he may move his bowels, and surely will hear us. For as in Psalm. 27. when all forsook me, my Father and Mother forsook me, but the Lord took me up: Fathers in the flesh, and Mothers die; but the Lord taketh us up, he is an eternal Father, and therefore a ground of eternal boldnesse with God, and of everlasting comfort. He was our Father before we had a Father in the world; and he will be our Father, when we shall cease to be in the world. They be but Instruments under God, to bring us into the world, God is our true Father. Our other Fathers are but under God, to give us a being, to fit us for Heaven. He provideth the best inheritance and paternity for us in Heaven. And therefore