Cbap.l.Sect.j. Looking untofc(eu. Book. IV. Pa1t.V: 879 refifts the proud ; how 11rt thGu fallen from heawn, 0 Lucifer fovne of the morning ! even he that would exodt his throne abcve the ftar s ofGod, ,u brought down to hell; Come, come! a defire afcer Chrift and his afCenfion is the way to l~eaven if thou wilt afcend after Chrill, fet thy defires upon Chrift; if thou wile a-rrive at true glory , breath after Chrift a:cending up i_nro his glory; let o"thers afcend up into th<;ir heaven upon earth, but 0 my foul defire thy intereft inChrifts afcen!ion into theHeaven of heavens. Oh when will it once be that by 7.mtue of Chrifts af~ cenfion I fba!lafcenrf! is Chrift gone up, ana am I yet behind? is my , Huld, my Husband, my Lord in heaven, and am I a poor member of hu bod) grovling here on earth? -what, u Chrift gone up with a jhout , the Lord with thefound ofa trumpet ? are all the Angel.f founding hu pr11i[e, And bidding him welcome into glory? and am I finning here on e~trth, and by m; fins crucifying again and again rhe Lord of glory! 0 that I might afcend with Chrift! oh that I were ngw on the wing towards heaven! oh what u it that hinders m; afcen• Jion but thiulog ofcia;? fo long as this body remaines a natural! b~d] I cannot afcend; oh therefore that the change were come ! oh that thiJ natural body were JPirituai ! that thiJ corruptible had put on in· corruption, and this mortal had put on immortality ! then could I move upwards M 111ell M downwards; fuch is the[upernatural property of ll[lorified body, thnt it afcends or defcends with equal eaft; ~r if thu be mt po.J!ibic for my pre[efJt condition , if thu body ofmine muft firft defcmd before it n[t:end, ifit muff down into the grAve, / befgre it go up intoglary: why yet, oh that my better part were on the ~ing! oh that my foul 111ere mqunting upwards ! 0 wreuhed man tha( l~tm, whg foal/ deliver my foul from this body of death ? or if I the union be fo ftrong for awhile,th.t.t neitper foul nor body can really . tJr fubftantill!ly a(cend, yet 0 that I were flill afcending in 4 JPiri- Phil. I. 13, tu11l w11y ! 0 that my ajfeUions were fti/1 on things above, Andnot on thin,p beneath ! yea,!coHld wijh 4 nearer union even by A dijfolution; t~<hy, ChriH u afcmded, and I wouldfain be whereChrift is, though Eph~r.z.s,6. it ~oft me de11r; I defire to be dijfolved, I de [ire t~ depart , and to be with Chrift which u far better. 2. Let U§ fee Chrift fitting down at the right hand ofGod,& f~> defire to fit with him : when Chrift fate down, it was not in his own pure perfonal right £imply, as iris his inheritance, but with relation to hi$ Saints and members; he h11th 1uM:.;.:d us together with .
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