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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.
11. Those that belong to God, the spirit of God witnesseth to them, that they are Sons. They that are adopted, have the spirit of adoption in some degree, God sendeth his spirit into their hearts, that assures them, that they be Gods Children. And howsoever this is the first, yet God giveth some intimation by his spirit, that they look to God in another familiar manner then before, and he looks on them in a Fatherly manner, so there be some intimations, and insinuations, and hints, though the spirit of adoption witnesseth not fully, and gloriously to the soul always, because we are not fitted for it; but sometimes in great afflictions, and desertions. Where the spirit of God is, there is Communion with God in the spirit ⟨p. 143⟩of adoption. And when the voice of the spirit of adoption speaks not loudly, yet there is a work of the spirit: there is something in us renewed by the spirit, there is something of the new Creature. When a Christian cannot hear God say to his soul, I am thy salvation, yet a man may see a work of grace: there is a love to God, to the Ordinances, to the people of God, a mourning because 2he cannot mourn, a sighing, because he hath not an heart pliable. He is discordant with his condition, when he is disconsolate, so that there is a work of the spirit helpeth him in his worst condition.
11. Those that belong to God, the spirit of God witnesseth to them, that they are Sons. They that are adopted, have the spirit of adoption in some degree, God sendeth his spirit into their hearts, that assures them, that they be Gods Children. And howsoever this is the first, yet God giveth some intimation by his spirit, that they look to God in another familiar manner then before, and he looks on them in a Fatherly manner, so there be some intimations, and insinuations, and hints, though the spirit of adoption witnesseth not fully, and gloriously to the soul always, because we are not fitted for it; but sometimes in great afflictions, and desertions. Where the spirit of God is, there is Communion with God in the spirit ⟨p. 143⟩