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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93249	A heavenly conference between Christ and Mary after His resurrection. Wherein the intimate familiarity, and near relation between Christ and a believer is discovered.	Sibbes, Richard, 1577-1635.	1654 (1654)	Wing S3736A; Thomason E1512_1; ESTC R209503	104,104	253

so dignified as to be called the Pillars of the world but these left him and yet for all that in this time of their desertion of him go tell my brethren Therefore be not discouraged go to Christ in our worst condition in our greatest temptations when our hearts misgive us most that we have used God most unkindly and Satan ply'd us most with desperate temptations yet own him for our brother who owned his Disciples when they dealt most unkindly with him I beseech you count it a comfort unvaluable which no tongue is able to express that Christ after his Resurrection should call brethren He might well call them brethren after the Resurrection because then all debts were discharged by his death He had paid their debts and now the acquittance was due to them because Christ as surety had payd all Now I am risen go and tell my brethren so If we can make use of the death and Resurrection of Christ and say Christ hath dyed for my sins and rose again for my justification I will interest my self in his death I will claim the vertue of his Resurrection then take the comfort of this In Popery they had much comfort in those dark times when a Company of proud carnall beastly men ruled the roast according to their own lusts these Clergymen made a great pother with fraternity and brotherhood And if they were of such a fraternity of Dominick or Francis or meerly in a Fryars Coule it was not only satisfactory but meritorious they could not do amisse away with these shadows Here is the brotherhood that must comfort Christians that Christ owned us for brethren after his Resurrection He payd dear for it alas are we worth so much that God should become man to die for us to rise again for us to justifie us and make us brethren That infinite love that God became man and dyed for us and rose again to own us for his brethren will satisfie all doubts Shall we doubt any thing of that love when he out of his free love will own us as brethren shall not we own him I confesse it is a marvellous thing in times of temptation it is difficult to make use of it Oh but pray with the good Apostle Lord increase our faith with the poor man in the Gospel I believe Lord help my unbelief So when any temptation cometh for our unworthiness and our undeserving then think Christ after his Resurrection call'd his Apostles brethren and he will be content to be my brother if I will believe he dy'd for me and I will cast my self upon him therefore away with all doubts There be many other observations out of the words Will you have the first words in estate of glory his first words after death go and tell my brethren Think in a desperate extremity think of the sweet message he sent by Mary Magdalen to his unworthy brethren that he had dy'd for and given his blood to make them his brethren Think of his free love to you it is not for your worthiness or unworthiness but of his own free love that he came from Heaven to take your nature it is his own free love that he came to die and therefore conceive not of worthiness nor unworthiness but consider the command of God to believe and if we perish perish there Cast our selves on our brother that will own us in our worst condition that is the grand use 2. Again if God owns us in his glorious condition shall we be ashamed of the Doctrine of Christ of the Children of God to own them what saith Christ It is a terrible Thunderbolt He that is ashamed of me and of my word before men I will be ashamed of him before my heavenly Father Take heed of being ashamed to stand out a good cause in matters of Religion Christ was not ashamed to call us brethren when we were at the worst and he himself in a glorious condition he was in glory and the Disciples drooping in consideratiof their guilt that they had forsaken him and yet brethren still And shall not we own him that owneth us in state of glory how shall we look that he will own us hereafter when he tru●teth us with his cause and glory and we betray all to pleasure such and such Can we look Christ in the face with comfort if we neglect his cause his truth and his Church 3. Again make this use of it Christ is our Brother and will not he take our parts Absolon was a disobedient Son yet Absolon would not let his Sister Tamar be abused he would be revenged of that And will Christ suffer his sister his spouse his Church to be abused long nay will he leave his Dove his love his undefiled one where he hath placed all his joy and contentment to the malice and fury of the enemy long certainly he will not Certainly he will be avenged on his enemies If nature that he hath put into the wicked sinfull men teach them to revenge indignities offered to their kindred will Christ suffer his Brethren his sister to be abused Saul Saul why persecutest thou me now he is in Heaven the Churches case is his own And therefore comfort our selves with that sweet Relation Christ hath undertaken to be our brother in state of glory what a comfort is it that we have a brother in Heaven what a comfort was it to the poor Patriarks when they thought with themselves we have a brother Joseph that is the second man in the Kingdom And so what a great comfort is it for poor Christians to think that the second in Heaven that sitteth at Gods right hand that is King of Kings and Lord of Lords and that ruleth all is our brother Is not this a main comfort yea beyond all expression if we could make use of it by faith answerable to our trouble Therefore go to Joseph that hath laid up comfort for us he hath comfort enough for us he hath treasures of comfort whatsoever is necessary for us we may have in Christ our elder brother And therefore go to my brethren I beseech you let us make a use of exhortation to be stirred up to labor by faith to be one with Christ and then he will be our head our Husband our brother our friend our all Say what you can Christ will be all in all to all his He hath enough in him of his fulnesse we shall receive and grace for grace Oh labour to be one with Christ Do not lose such a comfort as is offered He offereth himself first to be our Saviour and Redeemer and then our brother never rest therefore till we have part in Christ And then labour to make use of in all temptations catch fast hold of every thing that is usefull as it is the nature of faith to do like Benhadads Servants who made use of that word brother He is my

Father by vertue of Christs satisfaction to justice and conquest over all our enemies The God of peace saith the holy Apostle Paul in the Epistle to the Hebrews in the conclusion of that excellent Epistle that brought you from death to life through our Lord Jesus Christ How cometh he to be the God of peace to us which brought us from death to life by our Lord Jesus why the Resurrection of Christ makes him the God of peace Who raised him He raised himself But who together with himself The Father raised him And could the Father raise him if he were not reconciled But now he is the God of peace for peace is made by the Crosse and blood of Christ the great peace-maker of heaven and earth now we may conceive of God under the sweet relation of a Father Now this Relation of a Father teacheth us as what we may expect from God so what we ought to return to God again and how we ought to carry our selves one towards another 1. What we may expect from God being a Father We may expect whatsoever a Child may expect from a Father God taketh not upon him empty names He saith he will be a Father not only called a Father but I will be your Father and you shall be my Sonnes 2 Cor. 6. ult All the Fatherhood and all the kindred in heaven and earth that is spiritual the comfort of it cometh from God the Father reconciled to us in Christ The word in the original is so strong that we cannot express it in English Fathers on earth are but poor Fathers and they be but beams of the Fatherly affection that is in God God will let us see by these beams of compassion that is in a Father to a Child what real compassion he beareth to us The true reality of Fatherhood is in God And therefore when we hear of the name of Father think of whatsoever lieth in the bowels of a Father to a Child and that we may expect from God our Father and infinite more It is a great indulgence as a Father pittieth his Child Malac. 3. so God will pitty us Will a Father cast off his Child Indeed he will cleanse the Child So God will take away our abominations and purge us when we defile our selves it is because of an eternal relation he casteth us not off we may expect from him indulgence and it is an indulgence of indulgence God needed no Sonne when he made us Sonnes yet he had his Sonne and angels to praise himself withall Can we pitty and pardon a Child and will not God pardon and pitty us why should we conceive worse of him then of our selves will we give pitty to a Father and not pitty to the Father of all bowels and compassion and therefore think not that God will cast us off God pardons us and healeth our infirmities and pittieth us as a Father pittieth his own Child Psal 103. It is a name under which no man must despair What despair under the name of a Father despair of mercy when we have a Father to go to The poor prodigal when he had spent his patrimony his body his good name had lost all and nothing left yet he had a Father and I will go to him And so when we be at the last cast and have spent all we have a Father therefore go to him What saith the Church Isaiah 63. 64. Doubtlesse thou art our Father when the Church was in a poor condition Though our righteousnesse be as a menstruous Cloth and we be defiled yet thou art our Father we are the Clay thou art the Potter c. So that it is a name of indulgence You have his disposition set down by the Father of the prodigal The Sonne saith he will go to the Father the Father runneth to him and meeteth him when he was coming God runneth to us and is ready to meet us when we begin to repent of sin and are sencible of our faults He is more ready to pardon then we to aske pardon I touch only some principal things that you may remember against the evil day and hour of temptation He taketh not on him the relation of a Father for nought but will fill it up to the uttermost It is no empty Relation 2. It is a name likewise of comfort It is the speech of a natural man a little punishment is enough from a Father he knoweth whereof we are made he remembers we are but dust he knoweth we are not Iron nor steel he knoweth our making and therefore he will deal gently with us when he doth correct us it is as necessary as our daily bread to have gentle correction to wean us from the world yet he doth it gently A little punishment will serve from a gratious Father 3. It is a name likewise of provision that we may expect from God that he will in all our exigencies and necessities provide for us whatsoever shall be needful What saith our Saviour Christ to the poor Disciples doubting of want It is your Fathers good will to give you the Kingdom what then fear not little flock he that will give you a Kingdom will not he give you daily bread viaticum provision for a Journey He that intendeth us Heaven certainly he will provide for us here And therefore in the Lords prayer before all Petitions as a ground of all he putteth in our Father and therefore give us our daily bread our Father And therefore he will give us grace to sanctifie his name and do his will and forgive us our sins Expect all from our Father which is the ground of all Christ had much adoe to perswade his Disciples that they should not want necessaries and therefore he makes whole Sermons to strengthen their faith in this your heavenly Father knoweth what you stand in need of The Sonne cannot aske but the Father can interpret any sigh any groan and knoweth what we would have And therefore being Gods Children we may fetch provision from him in all conditions 4. And with provisions protection likewise and therefore make this use of it In the temptations of Satan lie under the wings of our Father We have a Father to go to make use of him make use of his protection that God would shield us that he would be a Tower as he is a Tower and the righteous man may fly to him Lie under his wings he is a gratious Father and he hath taken this sweet relation on him for this purpose that we may have comfort in all conditions You see then what we may expect from God by this sweet relation he hath taken on him in Christ to be our Father 2. This word it is a word of Relation it bindeth God to us and us to God We are to honour him as our Father This one word is sufficient to expresse our duty to a Father and that is a word