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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.
This is the way to maintain assurance, that God is our God. For men may be led with a spirit of presumption, and say, God is my God. But if Conscience telleth them, they live in sin against Conscience, and the motions of the spirit, and suppress them and kill them, as births that they would not have grow in their hearts, then they cannot say, God is my God, but conscience telleth them they lie. And therefore I beseech you, labour for an holy life. That faith that maketh this claim, that God is my Father ⟨p. 229⟩and my God, is a purifying faith. 1It is a faith quickening the soul, a faith purifying, a faith cleansing. Faith is wonderfully operative, especially having these promises; what promises? I will be your God and your Father. Having such promises, let us cleanse our selves from all filthiness of flesh and spirit, and grow up in all holiness in the fear of the Lord. And therefore labour for that faith that layeth hold upon this privilege. God is our Father, and our God; make it good by this, that it be a purifying faith, an operative faith, that worketh by love, that showeth it self in our conversation. The more we labour, and grow this way, the more we grow in assurance of salvation.
This is the way to maintain assurance, that God is our God. For men may be led with a spirit of presumption, and say, God is my God. But if Conscience telleth them, they live in sin against Conscience, and the motions of the spirit, and suppress them and kill them, as birthes that they would not have grow in their hearts, then they cannot say, God is my God, but conscience telleth them they lie. And therefore I beseech you, labor for an holy life. That faith that maketh this claim, that God is my Father ⟨p. 229⟩and my God, is a purifying faith. 1It is a faith quickening the soul, a faith purifying, a faith cleansing. Faith is wonderfully operative, especially having these promises; what promises? I will be your God and your Father. Having such promises, let us cleanse our selves from all filthinesse of flesh and spirit, and grow up in all holiness in the feare of the Lord. And therefore labor for that faith that layeth hold upon this priviledge. God is our Father, and our God; make it good by this, that it be a purifying faith, an operative faith, that worketh by love, that sheweth it self in our conversation. The more we labor, and grow this way, the more we growe in assurance of salvation.