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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.
If God be not ours, it is no matter what else is ours. Alas, all things must be taken from us, we know not how soon, and we taken from all things else. What if we ha d a Kingdom, as Saul had, if we be forsaken of God, as he was. What if we had Paradise, if we offend God, we shall be cast out? What if we had the dignity to be Apostles, if with Judas we have not God, what will all come to? What if a man should enjoy all the world, if out of Christ, it would ⟨p. 167⟩yield him no comfort. As the Emperor said, I have gone through all varieties of conditions, Et nibil mihi prodit: but it hath done me no good. If we had all what is it, but vanity of 1vanities, and not only so, but vexation. Now when we have God to be our God, he is able to fill the soul. He is larger then the soul, and he is able to quiet the soul, he is the rest of the soul, the soul is quiet, in him is the Centre, as the place of quiet. If God be ours, then the soul resteth in it; for God filleth the soul, and quiets the soul, and hath always fresh comforts for the soul, infinite still to all eternity. There is nothing in the world, but we do as it were deflorare, take away the flower of it by use, and it becometh stale. Though a man continue many thousand years in the world, yet he will be weary of all things in the world, because there is no freshness in them. It is finite, and the soul is larger then the comforts of the world. But in God is a spring of fresh comforts to everlasting. Consider the things that enable him to be our God, to fill the soul, and to ⟨p. 168⟩be larger then the soul, to quiet, and calm the soul in all the troubles of it, and then to have fresh springs of comforts, what a comfort is this to have God, for our God?
If God be not ours, it is no matter what else is ours. Alas, all things must be taken from us, we know not how soon, and we taken from all things else. What if we ha d a Kingdom, as Saul had, if we be forsaken of God, as he was. What if we had Paradise, if we offend God, we shall be cast out? What if we had the dignity to be Apostles, if with Judas we have not God, what will all come to? What if a man should enjoy all the world, if out of Christ, it would ⟨p. 167⟩