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Ephefians,Chap.r.
V
Elk
.io.
ted &
laid
in
the Temple;fo it
is
with
us;either we arefquaring and
fitting
here, or
elfe
we
are,by
glorious conjunction,
laid on
Chrift the
corner
Stone
in
the heavens.But fome
who
wil
grant, that
when Paul did write
thefe
words,which
was many yeares
after
Chrifts
Afcention,
that
then
all were
in
heaven
;
but they
will not yeelde
that
foules were there
from
the beginning,but onely fithence
Chrift
his
entring thither. For anfwer,
I
fay,
that the contrary doth
feeme cleare
to
me
; for
they
were taken
to glory and
faved
as
we ;
now
fuch
as
are
taken
to
glory,
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 ifthe
godly
at
the
mutant
departed,
were bellowed
in any place
but
heaven,
they
then did goe to maniions,
which
they
were to leave within
a
year or two,cven then whenChrift
was
to
afcend
;
they
whole
Pilgrimag
,
>:I
fojourning ceafed with this
life,they could
not butbe
in
their
Corì"Myat
home,afrer
this life. Hea-
ven
is
the Country
of
Saints
;
o
our
father
which
art
in
heaven
:Ybi
Pater,
ibi
patria. Thofe who
walked
as
ftrangers here
on
earth,
becaufe they
looked
for
a heavenly
Jerufalem,
a
Citie whole
maker was
God,
they
leaving this earth were
eranflated
thither,
neither was
there
any
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
of
faith,who now hath that faithwhich
A
-'
braham
and many
of
them. had
:
No
want ofef
icacie
in
Chrift,
he
woe
i
yeflerday,
to
day,
and
for
ever
:
his
death was
effeEtuall
to
caufe
them
to
finde
pardon
of
finne, and
the
fpirit
of
fanEtification:Not any
priviledge
g
ofChrift,for
not
limply toafcend into
heaven
in
foule, was Chrifls
pre-
'rogative,
but
to
afcend foule and
body,
as heire
of
all
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
David
be
faid
notto
have afcended
into heaven, AR. a.it
is
fpo-
ken in
refpeít onely that
hewas
not
raifed in
body,
and gone into
hea.
ven
body
and foule;
as
the
heire
of
all
things,
and
perfon
who
was
to
fit
I
at
Gods right
hand
:
and
though
Heb.
9.the
way into heaven be
faid
not
to
have beene
opened,and then to
be new
;
the meaning.irnot,that
none
went
this
way, but onely to
fhew
that the
way
was
not really entred
by
the true
high Prieft after the order
of
me/chi
fedech, as
the repealing
of
Sacrifices did fhew
that yet
remiffron
offinnes
was
not
obtained,thae
is
really received
of
our furety,
upon
performance
ofthat
fatisfaCtion
un-
dertaken,not that beleevers foundnot pardon
of
their fins,under the
for-
mer
teftamtnt.Againe,it
is
one thing for
a
way
not
to have beene traced
at all,another
not to
have beene fully manifefted; the
latter
was
not
un-
der the old
Teftament.To conclude,though
itbe
faid,they
received not
ithe promifes,fay
in
their
reali
exhibition,and
thatthey
were not
perfe i-
1
ed
without
us,
the meaning
of
which
is
not, that they
were not
taken
to
heaven, 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
they
are prefently
potleffed
of;