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

2. Likewise we may know it by our sympathy and Antipathy. Our sympathy with them that be good, and antipathy to that which is naught. There is a love of that which is good. So things, good things are connatural to a good man. There is a ¹relish in good Company, and good things. As there is sweetness in the best things, so there is something in the Children of God, that is answerable to the God whom they serve. He is never so out of taste, but he findeth his chief comfort in this thing; and he is never himself so much, as when he is conversant in these things, ⟨p. 146⟩though in different measure, sometimes more, and sometimes less. There is an inward antipathy to God in a proud carnal man, that hath not his heart subdued by grace, there is a contrariety to the power of that grace, which outwardly he professeth, and a sympathy with the world, and the spirit of the world. Take a good Christian at the worst, he is better then another at the best. I beseech you therefore, examine our dispositions, how we stand affected to things of an higher nature, then the things of the world, to spiritual things, how we can relish spiritual things, Gods Ordinances, & any thing that is holy; surely, if there be the life of God, and Christ in us, there will be a kind of connaturalness, & suitableness of taste to the sweetness that is in holy things.

2. Likewise we may know it by our sympathy and Antipathy. Our sympathy with them that be good, and antipathy to that which is naught. There is a love of that which is good. So things, good things are connatural to a good man. There is a ¹relish in good Company, and good things. As there is sweetness in the best things, so there is something in the Children of God, that is answerable to the God whom they serve. He is never so out of tast, but he findeth his chief comfort in this thing; and he is never himself so much, as when he is conversant in these things, ⟨p. 146⟩though in different measure, sometimes more, and sometimes lesse. There is an inward antipathy to God in a proud carnal man, that hath not his heart subdued by grace, there is a contrariety to the power of that grace, which outwardly he professeth, and a sympathy with the world, and the spirit of the world. Take a good Christian at the worst, he is better then another at the best. I beseech you therefore, examine our dispositions, how we stand affected to things of an higher nature, then the things of the world, to spiritual things, how we can relish spiritual things, Gods Ordinances, & any thing that is holy; surely, if there be the life of God, and Christ in us, there will be a kind of cōnaturalness, & suitableness of taste to the sweetnes that is in holy things.