...... A.,...,_ _ ~--· ··--- - Chap.r.Seet ,I. Lookingtmto1efru. Book. IV. Part.V. 823 with them in a way of blcffing; As raco6 leaving the world, >blelfed his fons; fo Chrifi: leaving the world hleffed his Apofiles, .and all the faithful Minifi:ers ofCbrifr, unto the ertd ofthe world. Some adde that in thefe .(\pofrles,not only Minifi:ers, but all the .EleCl: to the end of the world are hlelfed ; The A poftles were :then confidered as common perfons receiving this bleffing for all us and fo thofe words uttered at the fame time .are ufually inter- - ' d · h l h d ,/' h l'J Th' Mat.zS.~o. ;prete ., lo, I am wzt JOU a ~ay ~ven to t een 0; t ewor "'· !s · was the !aft thing that Chnft dtd on earth , to 1hew that by hts .death he had redeemed us from the curfe of the law, and that nowgoing to heaven he is able to /Jlefs .IN with all fPirituni blejfings Epb , in heavenly pl11cu. · q . 2. Heafcended vifihlyintheviewofrhcApofHes; while tbey l\a. 1 ; 19 , -beheld he wao t~n up; he was not fuddenly fnatched from them, as E_lijo~h was~ nor fecretlyand privily t.aken away, as Eno~h yvas; .J>ut m the pretence of them all, both hts Apofiles and Dtfctples, he afcended up into heaven; but why not in the vi-ew of all the Jewes, that fo they migbt .know .that he was rifen againe, and ~ gone to heaven ? furely this }Vas the meaning ; God would rather that the maine poyntsoffaith 1hould be learned by hearing, tha-n by feeing; however Chriftsown Difciples were taught the .fame by fight, that they might better teach ochers which 1houlcl ,not fee, yet abe ordinary .meanes to .come by faith is hearing ; ·how foalt they /Jeleeve in him of whom they have not hem·a !---{0 Rom. To. r 4 ,then,faithcometh6y hearing; and hearing by the Word ofGod.· And 1 7, tS.. ' ~s for the Jewes (f.1ith the Apoftle) have thq not heArd? yu veri- _Jy, their foundwwt into eO the earth, and their words unto the end of the world. 3· Heafcended principatlybythe mighty power of his God- !head ; thus never any afcended up into heaven but I efus Chrift; for ·though Enoch and Elijah ·wereaffumed into heaven, yet not by their own power, nor·bythemfelves, it was Gods power 'by which they afcended, and it was by tlie help and Minifi:ry of Angels, there 11ppeare~t1 c~aret offire, and horfu of fire; and Elijah t.Kina. ~, u . ''nttnt up bJ a whwle-wmdmto heaven, .. . 4· He afcended in acloude, while tbq beheld, he waJ tak§n up, Aa, 1 . 9 , Rnd a cloud received him out of their fight. Hereby he 1bewes that ·heir Lord of all £he creatures; he had a-lready trampled upon ·ttlte ea-rth, walked upon the fea, vanljluith-ed hell or the grave, and now
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