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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.
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Thus we should grow in assurance, exercising the increase and knowledge of our interest. I beseech you therefore let us use these and the like things to make God our God. And if any temptation for sin be joined, as Satan cannot but solicit to sin; so he laboureth when we have sinned, to tempt to despair for sin; for they be the two ways by which Satan prevails. Now 1fetch comfort against both from hence. God is my God, and my Father, and Christ teacheth them to call him so; and therefore notwithstanding sin, I may go to God, and call him Father. The Disciples, though their sin was great, yet on their humility they were to acknowledge God to be their Father, and their God. And ⟨p. 227⟩therefore answer Satan; I ought not to abuse and break off, and deny my interest in God, as my Father, and my God, for any sin, because the Disciples did not so; and Christ hath taught how to make use of God, and to acknowledge him for my comfort. We cannot have a better guide then God, and therefore never think of God, but as our God and our Father, and labour to answer all Satan's temptations in that kind from hence.
Thus we should grow in assurance, exercising the increase and knowledge of our interest. I beseech you therefore let us use these and the like things to make God our God. And if any temptation for sin be joyned, as Satan cannot but solicit to sin; so he laboreth when we have sinned, to tempt to despair for sin; for they be the two wayes by which Satan prevails. Now 1fetch comfort against both from hence. God is my God, and my Father, and Christ teacheth them to call him so; and therefore notwithstanding sin, I may go to God, and call him Father. The Disciples, though their sin was great, yet on their humility they were to acknowledge God to be their Father, and their God. And ⟨p. 227⟩therefore answer Satan; I ought not to abuse and break off, and deny my interest in God, as my Father, and my God, for any sin, because the Disciples did not so; and Christ hath taught how to make use of God, and to acknowledge him for my comfort. We cannot have a better guide then God, and therefore never think of God, but as our God and our Father, and labor to answer all Satans temptations in that kinde from hence.