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

In this, our excellency consisteth, that God is our God in Christ, who was God, and that he might bring God and us to good terms together, that he might make God our God, he was Emanuel, God with us, to make God with us in favour and love. The God-head is nearest the humane nature ¹of Christ, of any Creature, it is nearer to Christ then to the Angels; for God hath not taken the Angels into hypostatical union to be in the same person; but God in Christ is so near our nature, that there is an hypostatical union, they make one person, our nature being taken into the second person. By reason of this ⟨p. 176⟩near union of the God-head to our nature cometh that comfort and near union between God and our nature, whereby God hath sweet communion with us in Christ. God by his spirit, though not hypostatically, yet graciously is one with us, and hath communion with us now as his Children: so that sweet intercourse between God and us now, is founded upon the nearness of the god-head to our nature in Christ, in whom it is nearest of all, in whom it is advanced above the angelical nature. And therefore our blessed Saviour might well say, I go to my God, and your God, to his God first, and then to our God.

In this, our excellency consisteth, that God is our God in Christ, who was God, and that he might bring God and us to good tearms together, that he might make God our God, he was Emanuel, God with us, to make God with us in favour and love. The God-head is nearest the humane nature ¹of Christ, of any Creature, it is nearer to Christ then to the Angels; for God hath not taken the Angels into hypostatical union to be in the same person; but God in Christ is so near our nature, that there is an hypostatical union, they make one person, our nature being taken into the second person. By reason of this ⟨p. 176⟩near union of the God-head to our nature cometh that comfort and near union between God and our nature, whereby God hath sweet communion with us in Christ. God by his spirit, though not hypostatically, yet gratiously is one with us, and hath communion with us now as his Children: so that sweet entercourse between God and us now, is founded upon the nearness of the god-head to our nature in Christ, in whom it is nearest of all, in whom it is advanced above the angelical nature. And therefore our blessed Saviour might well say, I go to my God, and your God, to his God first, and then to our God.