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

And it is for our comfort that it is so, that Gods love is to Christ first. There is a firm foundation, when God loveth us in his Son, and we are Children in his natural Son, in whom we are adopted, then our state is firm. O•r first state in the first Adam was not firm; but now our nature is taken into the unity of the second person, it is firm. So that the love and ⟨p. 149⟩care, and Fatherly disposition of God towards us, it is sweet to us, because it is tender to his Son. It is eternal to us, because it is eternal to him. He can as soon cease to love his Son, as cease to love us. For with ¹the same love he loveth all Christ mystical, head and members. There is not the least finger of Christ, the least despised member of Christ; but God looketh on him with that sweet eternal tenderness, with which he looketh upon his Son, preserving the prerogative of the head. Oh this is a sweet comfort, that now all the excellent privileges of a Christian are set on Christ, and then on us: and therefore we should not lose them; for Christ will lose nothing. When the favour of a Prince is founded on his Son, whom he always loveth, the affection is unalterable on the Son; and therefore the case is good. So Gods favour to us is founded on his love to his Son, & therefore unalterable, and eternal: we should therefore look up to God in his son, put up all our Petitions to him in his son, expect all from him in his son. He is in Heaven for us, ⟨p. 150⟩to do that that belongeth to us. Expect all from God through Christ, and do all to God through Christ, love God in Christ, and Christ in God, our selves in Christ, and our selves in the love of God. Christ is in God, and God is in Christ. God, and Christ are in us, there is a marvellous sweet relation, and communion between God and us, and Christ and us. It is a sweet communion, and mysterious to us. How sweet is the communion between the soul and the body, the soul being so spiritual, and the body a piece of earth. But what is this to the mystery of mysteries, when God takes clay and dust into unity of his person, and all ²this is for this union. The great and glorious union of Christ to our natures, is, that he may take us into his mystical body, and so make us one with himself, and one with the Father. He took our natures, that he might convey his Fatherly goodness and love, and spirit to us.