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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.
A gracious Christian never wanteth arguments of assurance of salvation; It is the dead-hearted Christian, the careless Christian: therefore labour, as to be in Christ, so to grow up in the knowledge of Christ.
A gratious Christian never wanteth arguments of assurance of salvation; It is the dead-hearted Christian, the careless Christian: therefore labor, as to be in Christ, so to grow up in the knowledge of Christ.
And so to know God in Christ, labour to see the face of God in Christ, for in him are all the beams of his love, as the beams of the Sun in a 1glass are gathered, so the beams of all Gods love meet in Christ. So lovely is God in Christ, whatsoever we have in Christ, it is from God in Christ. And whatsoever we have from God, it is through Christ, therefore grow in the knowledge of Christ, in faith in Christ. To this end are the Sacraments, that we might grow up in ⟨p. 224⟩him, and be fed into Christ. And then we may make right use of it, as the Ordinance that God hath sanctified for this end. And as God doth take us out & set a stamp upon us, so labour to make choice of God more & more, & choice of God in Christ; for there be the 2. objects of our faith & love. Choose God 2for our God, & esteem him above all, and renounce all other, and resign our selves wholly to him, for all is ours, when God is ours. He setteth us apart from other men, taking us out, and appropriateth us to himself, chooseth us for his Jewels. I beseech you labour daily to choose God to be your God. If we say, we are Gods, let us make choice of him at the same time, and appropriate him with our choice. He is mine in particular, there is renunciation of all others. I have served other Gods heretofore, the world, and the flesh, and the favour of man have been my God, but they shall be my God no more: If we choose him not, and appropriate him as ours, and renounce all other, and give our selves to him, we cannot say he is our God: this we should practice every day: In the solicitation of sin, or despair