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mercy_n	abel_n	blood_n	cry_v	2,397	5	9.4770	5	false

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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

but Christ ascended to Heaven that his departure from them might not be prejudicial to them but that they might have comfort through the God of comfort the spirit of comfort the Holy Ghost I will send the Comforter And though there was no losse by the ascension of Christ they might fear by losing of Christ that all their comfort was gone I but Christ telleth them I go to prepare a place for you He goeth to take up Heaven for his Church and then to send his spirit What a blessed intercourse is there now since Christs ascension between Heaven and Earth Our body is in heaven and the spirit of God is here on earth The flesh that he hath taken into heaven is a pledge that all our flesh and bodies shall be where he is ere long In the mean time we have the spirit to comfort us and never to leave us till we be brought to the place where Christ is This is great comfort and this is the main end why Christ ascended to the Father that he might send the comforter And comfort might well come now in more abundance then before because by the death of Christ all enemies were conquered and by the Resurrection of Christ it was discovered that God was appeased The Resurrection of Christ manifested to the world what was done by death and now all enemies being conquered and God being appeased what remains but the sweetest gift next Christ the Holy Ghost And that is the reason why the holy Ghost was more abundant after Christs Resurrection because God was fully satisfied and declared by the rising of Christ to be fully satisfied and all enemies to be conquered 4. One end likewise of his Resurrection was to make a shew of his Conquest There is a double victory over the Enemy There is a victory in the field and triumph together with it And then there is triumphing in Civitate Regia a triumphing in the Kingly City So Christ did conquer in his death and shewed his Conquest by resurrection but he did not lead captivity captive and make shew thereof till he ascended and then he made open shew of his victorious triumph in Civitate Regia 5. One special end likewise why he would have this Message sent that he was to ascend was that he might appear there in Heaven for us as Heb. 9. He appears for ever in Heaven for us and maketh intercession for us When the high Priest was to enter into the holy of holies which was a type of Heaven he carried the names of the twelve Tribes ingraven in stones upon his brest Christ our true high Priest being entred into the true Holy of Holies carried the names of all his Elect in his breast into Heaven and there appeareth before God for us He carrieth us in his heart Christ doth fulfill that which in John 17. he prayeth for appearing in heaven before his Father by virtue of his blood-shed and that blood that speaketh better things then the blood of Abel it speaks mercy pardon the blood of Abel crieth for vengeance justice but the blood of Christ saith here is one that I shed my blood for And when we pray to God God accepts of our prayers and by virtue of Christs blood-shed there is mercy and pardon and favour procured which is sprinkled by faith upon the soul God manifesting to the soul by his spirit that Christ dyed in particular for such a soul which soul praying to God in the name of Christ that blood not only in Heaven but sprinkled upon the soul speaketh peace there The spirit saith that to the soul which Christ doth in Heaven Christ saith in Heaven I dyed for such a soul the spirit saith in the soul Christ dyed for me and the blood of Christ is sprinkled on every particular soul As Christ in Heaven appears and intercedeth for me so the spirit intercedeth in mine own guilty heart that always speaks discomfort till it be satisfied with particular assurance Christ dyed for me and God is mine and Christ is mine Thus particular faith sprinkleth the blood of Christ upon the soul So that now my sins are not only pardoned in Heaven but in my soul There is not only intercession in Heaven but in my soul My soul goeth to God for pardon and for mercy and rejoyceth in all the mercies it hath and hopeth to have What is done in Heaven is done in a mans soul by the spirit in some measure 6. The last end is that he might shew that our salvation is exactly wrought that God is perfectly satisfied to the full else he should never have risen much lesse ascended to Heaven And therefore if we once believe in Christ for forgiveness of sins and yet say I doubt of salvation it is all one as if you should go about to pluck Christ from Heaven The doubtful distrustful heart till it be subdued by a spirit of faith saith who shall ascend to Heaven to tell me whether I shall go to Heaven or who shall enter into the deep to tell me I am freed from hell I am afraid I shall be damned saith the guilty heart till the spirit of God hath brought it under and perswaded it of Gods love in Christ Say not who shall ascend up to Heaven for that is to bring Christ down from Heaven And what an injurious thing is it to bring Christ from heaven to suffer on the Crosse This is a great indignity though we think not of it to doubt of our salvation and not cast our selves on his mercy For as verily as he is there we shall be there He is gone to take up a place for us he is there in our name as the Husband taketh a place for his spouse And if we doubt whether we shall come there or no we doubt whether he be there or no. And if we doubt of that we doubt whether he hath wrought salvation or no and so we bring him down to the Crosse again Who shall descend to the deep that is to bring Christ from the dead again such is the danger of a distrustful heart So that by Christs ascending into Heaven we may know all is done and accomplished all our enemies are subdued God is appeased and fully satisfied Heaven is taken up in our room and therefore labor for a large heart answerable to the large unchangeable grounds we have for faith to pitch and bottom it self upon Therefore make this further use of this ascension of Christ and thereupon his intercession in Heaven for us He is there to plead our cause he is there as our surety to appear for us and not only so but as a Councellor to plead for us and not only so but one of us as if a Brother should plead for a Brother and not only so but a favorite there too all favorites are not so excellent at counselling perhaps but we have one that is favorite in Heaven

can say this is mine so that every Saint can say of God he is mine in solidum though he were alone he may say God is mine If ten thousands have him yet God is his God god careth for all as if there were but one and for one as if none but he God offers himself not only to his whole Church but to every one in particular and therefore of every one he ought to be apprehended This is founded in all the great points and mysteries of Religion As for instance what is the ground of all the Petitions in the Lords Prayer Our Father What interest have we to all the Petitions and to every Article of the Creed if there be not a particular application I believe God the Father to be my God Jesus Christ my Saviour the Holy Ghost my Sanctifier remission of sins and life everlasting is mine We do no more then the Devils Now every truth in Scripture is written for our comfort and shall it be no more comfort to us then to the Devils doth the Scripture intend us no more comfort then the Devils yes but the Devil may say for the Church there is remission of sins and a God and Saviour but not for me and that is his torment he cannot come to particulars So the Sacraments are to seal a particular faith as every one in particular taketh the bread and wine so by a particular faith every one may say Christ is mine his death is mine blood-●hed mine remission of sins and interest of Christ is mine It doth not seal a general faith in the Clouds but a particular assurance that it belongeth to every one And so in the words of the Catechise the ministerial questioning of sinners is intended that every one that believeth should apply it If thou believest and if thou believest thou shalt be saved and thy sins shall be forgiven thee So that if we regard prayer and faith if we regard the Sacraments or the use of the Catechise all inforce a particular faith If we have not particular faith we lose the vertue of all So it is for the Commandements put case no man is named in particular yet every one ought to ply in particular that they ought to abstain from such a sin and perform such duty if they do so they shall be glorified if not they shall be punished And there is the same reason in faith as in obedience A man is condemn'd in Law though not named in Law because the general is set down here and every man ought particularly to apply it I ought not to have done so and so So that it overturneth the end of all if a man labor not for a particular faith To go farther Now if I disablethis interest of particular faith of Gods love and Christs love ● loose the comfort of weak faith where it is true What condition were they in now when Christ biddeth them go had not some of them denyed Christ and had they not all forsaken him and yet notwithstanding go tell Peter and tell them all I go to their Father and their God So that the interest that a soul hath in Christ who hath true faith though a weak faith joyned with many infirmities the interest he hath in Christ is not broke off as you see by the example of the Apostles And therefore I beseech you let us comfort our selves in this labouring for a particular faith and then labor to maintain our interest notwithstanding our infirmities and faults notwithstanding our sins past Let not Satan rob us of our claim that God is our God and Father in Christ Let us learn of Christ we cannot have a better pattern What doth Christ on the Crosse when he had the sins of all the believing world upon him and had there been ten thousand times more it had been all one to so infifinite a person God-man he had made full satisfaction to Gods justice But having so much upon him did it take away his claim of God as his God It did not but still he said my God my God Was it a claim that did him any good was it a useful claim yes for it was made good by his Resurrection and Ascension and therefore he might well say I go to my God and your God I have overcome the wrath of God due for sin and therefore when I that had all the sins of the world upon me acknowledged God to be my God and underwent the burden of Gods wrath and satisfied for all sin you may well say my God not only from the pattern of Christ because he did so but as a cause I may say so now because Christ said so then for he hath fully satisfied his Father who had laid that burden on him you therefore that have particular burdens of your own sins and have not that other but have a conscience troubling you it is for good because if you believe that is taken away But put case you had the guilt of your own sins and of many sins beside what is that to this of Christ who had the guilt of all sin And therefore let no guilt hinder you from a spirit of faith to say my Father and my God Is Christ ascended to Heaven to be a mediator of intercession to appear before God for whom is it not for sinners what work is there in Heaven for a mediator if we were not daily sinners Christ that hath satisfied for sin biddeth us after satisfaction to think of God as a Father and to think of his ascension even for this end to appear before God for us as our High-Priest to make daily peace for us His blood is of everlasting efficacy And if Abels blood cried for vengeance the blood of Christ crieth for mercy As the appearing of the blood of Abel spake for vengeance so the very appearing of Christ speaks enough for mercy to the sinner It is a comfortable clause that in Hosea 2. 19. where God saith He will marry them in everlasting mercy so that mercy is part of the joynture of the Church God will marry them in mercy in what mercy in pardoning mercy as the Husband is to bear with the wife the weaker Vessel not to put her away for infirmities Shall we attribute mercie to men and not to God Can a friend bear the infirmities of a friend and a Huband of a Wife cannot Christ bear the infirmities of his spouse and therefore never think that our infirmities may hinder our claim you see it did not here But go to my Father and your Father This comfort we shall be driven to make use of sometime or other therefore make use of it now But you will say this is not comfort for common sort of Christians it is not and I intend it not for them It is Childrens bread and it must not be cast to Doggs therefore they that have not God for their God and live in any sin