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

This may well be brought as a point of comfort, if there were any comfort in the world of sweeter efficacy then this, our Saviour would have sent it to his Disciples. Comfort being his main Office, and his main end, he would have the best comfort after his best Resurrection. And he picks this from amongst them all. Go tell them, I go to my Father, and their Father, to my God, and their God. And therefore it is a pregnant comfort, and indeed no heart can conceive the comfort of it, that we have interest together with Christ in God, and with the Fatherhood of God. And both these the Scripture joineth together, 2 Cor. 2. 6. I will be your Father, and your God.

This may well be brought as a point of comfort, if there were any comfort in the world of sweeter efficacy then this, our Saviour would have sent it to his Disciples. Comfort being his main Office, and his main end, he would have the best comfort after his best Resurrection. And he picks this from amongst them all. Go tell them, I go to my Father, and their Father, to my God, and their God. And therefore it is a pregnant comfort, and indeed no heart can conceive the comfort of it, that we have interest together with Christ in God, and with the Fatherhood of God. And both these the Scripture joyneth together, 2 Cor. 2. 6. I will be your Father, and your God.

¹To unfold the comforts more, God is said to be our God in Covenant in Christ. He is the God of Christ, and therefore of us; because he hath made himself over to us. A thing is said to be another mans, when the Title is ⟨p. 163⟩past to another man. Now God hath as it were, past over himself to his believing Children, and Members of Christ. He hath made over himself to them to be their God, as he was the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the Patriarchs, Prophets, and Apostles: so he is of every good believing Christian, to the end of the world. God maketh himself over to be theirs, and (as the Scriptures stile is) he is their portion and their Inheritance, a blessed portion, a blessed inheritance, more to us, then if all the world were ours, then if Heaven were ours, then if ten thousand worlds were ours; for he is our God that can create millions of worlds more then this, if it were needful. Habet omnia, qui habet habentem omnia. He hath all things, that hath him in Covenant that hath all things. And therefore when the Scripture saith, I go to their God, it implieth, I go to him, that is, all in all to them, that is larger then their hearts can be; for what heart can conceive the fullness of the comforts arising from hence, that God is our God. Many know they