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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.
1Let it therefore raise up our souls to labour after our God, and never rest till we have some interest in this great portion of God, to be our God. When we can by faith go out of our selves to Christ, and lay a right and just claim to God to be our God: this is a comfort that reacheth from everlasting to everlasting. It giveth us forgiveness of sins, when we had lost our selves, because we are in Christ he hath forgiven us. In all extremities and troubles, when no creature can comfort us, it is his glory to show himself a God. It reacheth to the Resurrection of the body; God is Abraham's, and Isaacks, and Jacobs God, when dead, because he was the God of whole Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and therefore of soul and body. And it reacheth from all favours of this world, so far as is for our good, to all eternity, being our God, he will protect us from all extremities in ⟨p. 169⟩this world, he will speak comfort to our souls, which nothing can do but God. When we be dead, he will raise up our dust, because he is our whole God, the God of our souls and bodies, and we shall be for ever with the Lord. It is a comfort of wonderful extent.
1Let it therefore raise up our souls to labor after our God, and never rest till we have some interest in this great portion of God, to be our God. When we can by faith go out of our selves to Christ, and lay a right and just claim to God to be our God: this is a comfort that reacheth from everlasting to everlasting. It giveth us forgiveness of sins, when we had lost our selves, because we are in Christ he hath forgiven us. In all extremities and troubles, when no creature can comfort us, it is his glory to shew himself a God. It reacheth to the Resurrection of the body; God is Abrahams, and Isaacks, and Jacobs God, when dead, because he was the God of whole Abraham, Isaack and Jacob, and therefore of soul and body. And it reacheth from all favours of this world, so far as is for our good, to all eternity, being our God, he will protect us from all extremities in ⟨p. 169⟩this world, he will speak comfort to our souls, which nothing can do but God. When we be dead, he will raise up our dust, because he is our whole God, the God of our souls and bodies, and we shall be for ever with the Lord. It is a comfort of wonderfull extent.