------------------------------------------------------ court on this !Jd~! heaven'; calld p.<tr.:tdi(e, or A )rah,lms bo{om e, and thither alfo Chrt!l: .v !nt WJ ~n h~ dyed, an f was attended with the blefl ~d thief~!. For my pm I flull not joyn: w:th fuchwho· think all fouls of Saints fh til go to PJ.radife, where they mull: re~ maine till the day of judgement, ani th:n, and not till · then mall: enter into that heaven, ca!led.the third heaven; or the ICing dam~ of heavm. Indl!d fo :n: ofche ancients m~ke heaven, and the· imm !diate rec'\)tacles of fouls co b: diil:inCl: places, both blelf~d, but hugely dtffcring in degrees; And a modern~ writer is very D:. Tayl. greac confident , that no[o!4l could enter ittto glory before our L?rd entred. Exemplar, by wham we hope to have accejfe; And to that purpgfe he cites thof~ texts, ?ohn I 4· 2, 3. Heb. I I .40. But I fee no ground ., why the ~~~~~~f;::Ut fouls ofSainti fh >uld be excl~ded heaven, either before, or afcer 4i(paru,[ed Chrift, A; forthat text of 1 o.h. If. 2. Chnll: .faith, in mJ F.fqtt£pluribus thers h1u[e are m.MJ 111-tnji?IJs, not m1ny outer coilrts; nor m1nr f~ffi.,iant, ac{i. different ll:ms; and as for the F.lthers m~:Jtioned, H:b. r r. 40, llu!ret H~~Pb1 furely they without eu /b.tll mt b;: m 1:b p?r(eCf, and WC' without un!,feJd~~np'61 "! them fhtll not be m1d~ p!rfeCl: tn fom! fenfe, u·1till the day of 1:t1am 11c1 u 11 , d B ti .a. · · · r .a. f ( loc"rnillic efJe. J~ ger.n!nt. _ur our p.er e<...1: :on 15 not ~n retpCi.:{ o a more~ oCalvin.in loc. rwus place,but m refpeCl:.ofthat perfeCl:tOn whereof all the faithful fhlll be m1de partakers as .vel! in body a> in foul, at there~ furrection of the ju(l:. Thus far I grant, th1t no foul ever entre(bnto heave (I but by the vertue and power of Chrifts afcenGon, and that no foul and body joyntly ever afcended (except Ch;ifts types) before Chrill himfelfe opened thofe doores, and • Hcb.,.lo. lead the way; and in this refpeClhe: is called .the f orm-mner of,hi+ pt•ple. 3.. That he might alfLJre us that now he had run through all thofe offices whic~ he w .1s to performe h ~re on euch for our H.b.4.Ic. redemption. Be that hath en•red into his reft, h.,~th a.l(o ceafed fror,n hiJ own work_r, as Gd Jid!,.om hit. He was firll: to execute· his offi :e, and then to entet into hts i:~:l:; tb? tg 1 ht were a Son, and fo theinherit~mce w.~re his own, pt he wtU tolearn obedier;ce, Hcb f• 8 ,9. by the thi11<~s which he fuffmd, before he '9M m~Cde perfect, and fo to become the aut hour of etern,1l falvation unto all them that obey bir,n. This w-as rhe arga:nent which Chri£1: n!ed .vhen he prayed to be glorified ag1ine with his Father, 1 h.tve gl1ri~ed thee on the earth; J oh. 17,.4.f, Jh,weft4ifbed the worlz, which thou g~tvejfme todo : a;¢dnow 0 Father glmfte thou me with th] OWi1 felfo, with the gl?rJ which I . . . bAd
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