912. Book.IV .Part.V. Lookingunto1efm. Chap.2.Sett.7 forti, when J do but confider that Chrifi is fet down at Gods right hand ? why, now he . hath the keyes of heaven delivered Mar: ~s .t 8, inco his hands; aiL power u given unto him in heaven and in earth, and now he can do what he will ; God the Father h ~th given away (as it were) all his. prerogatives unto Jefus Chrift; 11/l' Job. f, ~1.. judgement is commitred tc the Sonne,for the Father jHdgeth no man. · Now he is in a capacitie ofacting out all his love, and the Fathers defire to me in the mofi glorious way ; he is highly advanced, and thereby he hath the advantage to advan-ce me, and to glorific me ; God ha.th given into his hands all the treafures and riches of heaven; in bidding him, fit down flt hu..right hand, he told him that he would have no more to do with the world, but that Chrifi: iliould have all, ·and that Chrift thould befiow all he had arnongft his Saints; and that this iliould be the reward of his death; and when once his Saints were come about him, and fate with him in his glory, why then Chrifi iliould refigne up againe ' hisplacc, ~tnd de/iverup theKingdometoGo?J., tventheFarher. 1 Cor.xs.24. • h' d d d"" r Oh what JOY may enter into t 1s poore arke ungeon, iJcon,oJoh.l-6,7. late foul of mine, whiles I but think over thefe glorious palfages of my Chrift in glory ? 3· How iliould it heighten my joyes, and fill me with joy unfpeakable, and full of glory,when I do confider that Chrift hath f~nt down his holy Spirit into my heart ? when forrow had filled the Apofiles hearts, becaufe he had told them, I muft go 11waJ; he comforts them with this, if I go not 11wa;, the Comforter will not come unto you, bur ifI dtpart, /.,ifl{end him untoyou. The Spirit. is the Comforter, and where he comes, he fills fouls with comforts; 0 what comfort is this, to know that the Spirit ofChrift is my inmate? that my foul is the Temple, the receptacle, the houfe and dwelling of the Spirit of God? that Chrift is in me of a truth, and that not only by the infufion of his grace, but by the indwelling of his Spirit? furely it is fome comfort to a fickly man that he hath a Phy!ltian alwayes in the houfe with rum; and to a woman tbat is neare bet traveile, that the mid- · wife is in the houfe with her; but what comfort is it to a poore . foul thatthe Spirit of (brill is alwayes in him? Jwi/lfmd you Job. 14• 16 • .mother Comforter ( faid Chrift) that he rpay abide withyou for ever. Chrift in his bodily prefence went away, but Chrift in his Mar>-2.8. to, Spirit continues frill; /o I am withyou a!wayes ~ even unto the md - of
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