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

Christ that hath satisfied for sin, biddeth us after satisfaction, to think of God as a Father, and to think of his ascension, even for this end, to appear before God for us as our High-Priest, to make daily peace for us. His blood is of everlasting efficacy. And ¹if Abel's blood cried for vengeance, the blood of Christ crieth for mercy. As the appearing of the blood of Abel ⟨p. 213⟩spake for vengeance, so the very appearing of Christ speaks enough for mercy to the sinner.

Christ that hath satisfied for sin, biddeth us after satisfaction, to think of God as a Father, and to think of his ascension, even for this end, to appear before God for us as our High-Priest, to make daily peace for us. His blood is of everlasting efficacy. And ¹if Abels blood cried for vengeance, the blood of Christ crieth for mercy. As the appearing of the blood of Abel ⟨p. 213⟩spake for vengeance, so the very appearing of Christ speaks enough for mercy to the sinner.

1. 1Heb. 12. 24.

It is a comfortable clause, that in Hosea 2. 19. where God saith, He will marry them in everlasting mercy: so that mercy is part of the jointure of the Church. God will marry them in mercy; in what mercy? in pardoning ¹mercy; as the Husband is to bear with the wife, the weaker Vessel, not to put her away for infirmities. Shall we attribute mercy to men, and not to God? Can a friend bear the infirmities of a friend, and a Husband of a Wife? & cannot Christ bear the infirmities of his spouse? and therefore never think that our infirmities may hinder our claim: you see it did not here. But, go to my Father, and your Father. This comfort we shall be