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VER.!!.
Ephe
fians,Ghapa.
Ii7
of;
For
they
did
expeét
in
heaven their redeemer, on whom
they
had
beleeved for
forgivenefTe
of
finne and life
:
Even
as foules now
expel
the
refurreftion
of
the
body,
the
fecund appearance
of
Chrift to
judge-
ment
;
in
regard
of
which thingsthey
are
not perfeéted.
Now'
hence
followed
a
want
of
much
light
and
joy,
which
on
the fight
of
Chrift,
God.man,entring
:the heavens,did
redound unto them
:
as
we in heaven
now have
not
the
fulneffe
of
joy
which then we
fhall
have, when
we
fee
the accomplifhment
of
the things we
expo& While
the Fathers
doe
fet out this
imperfeEtion
of
their
eftate;the
Papifts have fancied their
Limber
,which
never entred into their
:
hearts.
The
Vfe
of
this doctrine is, firft
to confute
filch
Academical! doub-
I
rte
r.
ting
fpirits,who
will
^ot fay where
theywere,
I meane
the
foules
of the
fathers before
Chrifts
afcenfion :
Certainely,
unlefl"e
we
will
be
as
fruit-
full in
multiplying
Heavens,
as
the Papift
is in his
Hels; we
mull
graunt
them
received
into
one onely receptacle
of
bleffcd perfeLed
fpirits.
Againe,it
fheweth
thevanity
of
the Popifh Lirabus
and
Purgatory;
z:
they
are
well
feene
in Hell
who
can tell
you
all
the ftories and chambers
of
it
fo
exa&ly
;
the truth
is,
they
are Marcionites
in this point,
who
did
hold
that the
fathers had refrefhing and eafe
from
paine,
but
not
falva
Lion
; and
the reward ofthem
was
not
in heaven.
Secondly,we fee,to
to
our
comforts,whitber we
!hall be taken
when
Tye
2.
this life
is
ended
;
this Tabernacle
diffolved,we (hall
have
another, not
made with hands,in the heavens.Aske, faith
God
to
Chrift,
1
wißgive'
thee
the nations
far
thineinheritance.
What
did
Chrift
aske
a
lob.
r7. Fa.
ther,where!
am,t here
let
theft
be,
that
they
may
fee theglory than
hafigiven
rue
:The
Theefe went from
the crofte
to
heaven,
to Chrifts Kingdome,
which
was
a
lhort one
if
it were
in
Limbus,which
was
to be
broken
up
within
a
few homes
fpace.
This
fhould make
us
defire
to
be diffolved,
feeing
we
(hall
prefently be
with
Chrift
in
heaven
:Should we
have
waited for
admittanceinto
heaven,as
longas
for
the
refurreâion ofour
bodies,there were not
that comfort;butto
fly
forthwith
to
thofebiefred
manfions, how willing
fhould
it
make us
to depart
Who
is
it doth not
willingly bid farewell
to
his
fmoakie
Inne, when he knoweth that he
(hall
come
to
his own=
houfe, every way contentfull
Thirdly,
feeing heaven
muff
finde
us
when we leave this earth,
let
us
fend
our treafure before
us.This earth
is
but Gods Nurcery,in which
God
cloth
fethis
tender plants,not that
they
fhould
grow here
ftill,
but
that
he
may tranfplant them
in
his
time,
and
fet
them
in
heavenly Para-
dire
,
where they
!hall
abide
for
ever.
W
by
then
feeing oureternal! man
-
lion
is
there,
what
fhould
we treafure here
below?
Men care
not
for
furnifhing
things
they mutt
leave
quickly, they
fend all
before to
the
places
wherein
they
meane for
their
times
to
make
abode.
In
whom alfa
we
have
been
chufen
to,
or
obtained, an inheritance.
Now
VERSE
-II.
he
commeth
to the
third
bleing,
even our Glorification. Having laide
downe our Juftiflcation,verfe 7. and our vocation,verfe
8.p.
r
o. he
doth
fet downe this
third
before mentioned,
in
this
z
r.
and
r
z.
verles.
We
are