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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.
1It is a great violence that passion and opinion offers to truth, and to saving truth, and the hardest matter in the world for a distressed conscience to apprehend God aright, and to apprehend Christ aright. Secure persons apprehend God under a false notion, they apprehend God as a God all of 2mercy, and Christ, as if he were not judge of the world, as if he observed them not, nor their sinful courses, and therefore they care not whether they serve him or no. And Satan presenteth Christ, all of mercy, and Satan and their hearts meeting together, the mistake is dangerous. It is a great art of faith, and an excellent skill to apprehend Christ suitable to our condition that we are in. When we be in any sin, then think him a ⟨p. 9⟩Judge, then think of Moses, rather then of Christ, then think of Christ, as one that will judge both quick and dead, for their hard and wicked actions. But when we be humble, and broken-hearted, and touched with sense of sin, present him as a sweet Saviour, inviting and alluring all to come to him. Come to me all ye, &c. 3Present him as a gentle Shepherd, present him in all the sweet relations he names himself by in the Scriptures, lest otherwise we do Christ dishonour, and our selves wrong.
1It is a great violence that passion and opinion offers to truth, and to saving truth, and the hardest matter in the world for a distressed conscience to apprehend God aright, and to apprehend Christ aright. Secure persons apprehend God under a false notion, they apprehend God as a God all of 2mercy, and Christ, as if he were not judge of the world, as if he observed them not, nor their sinfull courses, and therefore they care not whether they serve him or no. And Satan presenteth Christ, all of mercy, and Satan and their hearts meeting together, the mistake is dangerous. It is a great art of faith, and an excellent skill to apprehend Christ sutable to our condition that we are in. When we be in any sin, then think him a ⟨p. 9⟩