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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.
1Now, what is the foundation of this, that God is our God in the Covenant of grace? we say it is founded on Christ, God is Christs God, and then our God, and that is the reason why Christ is called Emanuel, which is as much as to say, as it is expounded, God with us. Not only because when he took our nature on him, there was God and man in one person; but the meaning of the word is, Christ is Emanuel, God with us, by being God in our nature, and satisfying divine justice in our nature, hath brought God the Father, and us together into a sweet Covenant. So that God may be our God, and our Father, notwithstanding his justice; because all is satisfied by Christ, who took our nature to die for us. Christ is Emanuel, because he hath made God and us one. So that God is our God, and not only so, but our Father ⟨p. 161⟩in him. Thus you see how it cometh to pass, that God is our Father by Christ, who came to bring us again to God; as his whole office was to bring a few that had been singled out of mankind to God again, from whom they fell; for we all had communion with God in Adam, but we lost it, and now must be brought again to God, which must be done by Christ, God and man.
1Now, what is the foundation of this, that God is our God in the Covenant of grace? we say it is founded on Christ, God is Christs God, and then our God, and that is the reason why Christ is called Emanuel, which is as much as to say, as it is expounded, God with us. Not only because when he took our nature on him, there was God and man in one person; but the meaning of the word is, Christ is Emanuel, God with us, by being God in our nature, and satisfying divine justice in our nature, hath brought God the Father, and us together into a sweet Covenant. So that God may be our God, and our Father, notwithstanding his justice; because all is satisfied by Christ, who took our nature to die for us. Christ is Emanuel, because he hath made God and us one. So that God is our God, and not only so, but our Father ⟨p. 161⟩in him. Thus you see how it cometh to passe, that God is our Father by Christ, who came to bring us again to God; as his whole office was to bring a few that had been singled out of mankind to God again, from whom they fell; for we all had communion with God in Adam, but we lost it, and now must be brought again to God, which must be done by Christ, God and man.