116 Ephefians,Chap.r. VElk .io. ted &laid in the Temple;fo it is withus;either we arefquaring and fitting here, or elfe we are,by glorious conjunction, laid on Chrift thecorner Stone in the heavens.But fome whowil grant, that when Paul did write thefewords,which was many yeares after Chrifts Afcention, that then all were in heaven ; but theywill not yeelde that foules were there from the beginning,but onely fithenceChrift his entring thither. For anfwer, I fay, that the contrary doth feeme cleare tome ; for they were taken to glory and faved as we ; now fuchas are taken toglory, are taken to heaven, for the Scripture knoweth no place in which God doth ordina- rily difplay his glory, but in heaven. Againe, they were received into e- verlafling tabernacles,Luk.r 6.Now ifthegodly at themutant departed, were bellowed in any placebut heaven,they then did goe to maniions, which theywere to leave within ayear or two,cven then whenChrift was to afcend ; theywhole Pilgrimag , >:I fojourning ceafed with this life,they couldnot butbe in their Corì"Myat home,afrer this life. Hea- ven is the Country ofSaints ; o ourfather which art in heaven :Ybi Pater, ibi patria. Thofe whowalked asftrangers hereonearth, becaufe they looked for a heavenly Jerufalem, a Citie whole maker was God, they leaving this earth were eranflated thither, neither wasthereany thing to hinderit : Not their firmes; for they which could not hinder them from fanóification,. fluting them for heaven, could not hinder, them from heaven:Not want offaith,who now hath that faithwhich A-' braham and many of them. had : Nowant ofef icacie in Chrift, hewoe i yeflerday, to day, andfor ever : his death was effeEtuall tocaufe them to finde pardon offinne, and the fpiritoffanEtification:Not any priviledge g ofChrift,fornot limply toafcend intoheaven in foule, was Chrifls pre- 'rogative, but to afcend foule andbody, as heire ofall things, and the author of falvation to all that obey him. Finally, the tranflating ofE- noch, Mofes, and Elio, kettle to figure out no other thing ;wherefore, though Davidbefaid nottohave afcended into heaven, AR. a.it is fpo- ken in refpeít onely that hewas not raifed in body, and gone into hea. ven bodyand foule; as the heire ofall things, andperfon who was to fit I at Gods right hand : and thoughHeb. 9.the way into heaven be faidnot to have beene opened,and then tobe new ; the meaning.irnot,that none went thisway, but onely tofhew that the waywas not really entred by the true high Prieft after the order ofme/chifedech, as the repealing of Sacrifices did fhew that yet remiffronoffinnes was not obtained,thae is really received ofour furety, uponperformance ofthatfatisfaCtion un- dertaken,not that beleevers foundnot pardon oftheir fins,under the for- mer teftamtnt.Againe,it isone thing fora waynot to have beene traced at all,another not tohave beene fully manifefted; the latter was notun- der the old Teftament.To conclude,thoughitbe faid,they received not ithe promifes,fay in their reali exhibition,and thattheywere not perfe i- 1 edwithout us, the meaningofwhich is not, that they were not taken toheaven, nomore then to deny that they had not forgiveneffe, or the Jfame fpirit we have ; but to teach that they had not before Chrift that {perfect (late in heaven, which nowlwe and theyare prefently potleffed of;
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