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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.
To be a God, is to be all-sufficient for every Creature, to be all-sufficient, ⟨p. 158⟩when nothing else can be sufficient. And to be self-sufficient, to be sufficient of himself, and therefore to reduce all back again to himself. Now God is a God of himself, for himself, and by himself. God is all-sufficient, self-sufficient, sole-sufficient; and whatsoever the Creature hath, it hath it from him. There is (in a word,) in God, a sufficiency for all good and happiness, and an efficiency to apply that sufficiency for the good of the Creature. And in particular to be a God to any, is to do that for a Creature, that no Creature in the world can do but God. To make it of nothing, to free it from misery, that it is beset withal, when no other can free it, to recover it again. God is Jehovah, that hath a being of himself, giveth being to the Creatures, that can make the Creature of nothing, and being something, can make it nothing.
To be a God, is to be all-sufficient for every Creature, to be all-sufficient, ⟨p. 158⟩when nothing else can be sufficient. And to be self-sufficient, to be sufficient of himself, and therefore to reduce all back again to himself. Now God is a God of himself, for himself, and by himself. God is all-sufficient, self-sufficient, sole-sufficient; and whatsoever the Creature hath, it hath it from him. There is (in a word,) in God, a sufficiency for all good and happiness, and an efficiency to apply that sufficiency for the good of the Creature. And in particular to be a God to any, is to do that for a Creature, that no Creature in the world can do but God. To make it of nothing, to free it from misery, that it is beset withall, when no other can free it, to recover it again. God is Jehovah, that hath a being of himself, giveth being to the Creatures, that can make the Creature of nothing, and being something, can make it nothing.
Now, if God be a God to any, he is not only to give being to us, in a certain rank of Creatures, as we are advanced above other Creatures, as to have a being, or a life of growing,