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

I ascend to my Father, and to your Father. Father is here taken personally, not essentially, though it be true in that sense, to my Father, as the first person of the Trinity especially. Christ might well say, I ascend to my Father now; for he was risen again, and was mightily declared to be the Son of God, by his Resurrection from the dead. Thou art my Son, this day ¹have I begotten thee, that is, this day ²have I declared thee. It is said of things, fiunt, cum pate fiunt, they are done, when they be open, and declared to be done. Christ was the Son of God when he rose again, because he was discovered by his glorious Resurrection to be so indeed. And therefore Christ may well say after his Resurrection, I go to my Father, and your Father. Observe from hence, That God in Christ is our Father. We say, Relations are Minimae entitatis, they are little entities founded on others; but they are, maximae consequentiae, of great concernment.

1. 1Rom. 1. 4.
2. 2Heb. 1. 5.

I beseech you, before I leave the point, give me leave to go on a little further in this, to show that wonderful ⟨p. 132⟩mercy that admirable goodness, which the tongues and hearts of all the men in the world, and Angels in Heaven are not able to express, that love of God which is contained in the Relation he hath taken on him in Christ to be our Father.

I beseech you, before I leave the point, give me leave to go on a little further in this, to shew that wonderful ⟨p. 132⟩