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

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 ⟨p. 164⟩need comfort of such a transcendent ²nature. The heart of man is so distrustful, so faithless, and the conscience is such a clamorous thing, and therefore he cannot think this is too much. I beseech you therefore, do not lose the comfort of it, that in Christ God is our God; though we can say of nothing else it is ours, perhaps we cannot say, great houses are ours, or great friends are ours, or Inheritances ours, that is no matter, we can say, that is ours, which is infinitely more then that. We can say, God is ours in Christ. Nay, being exhorted to say by the spirit of faith, that God is ours in Christ, all things in the world are ours. As you have it in that place of Scripture, All things are yours, why? because you are Christs, and Christ is Gods. Whether things present, or things to come, Paul, Apollos, Cephas, life, death, all is ³yours, you are Christs, and Christ is Gods, that is, all things must by a command from God, conspire to make us happy, affliction, or Satan, or death, or trouble of conscience, or desertion, or every thing to help us to