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Ephefians,Chap.t.
V
E
R.20.21.
and
dignity ; He
is
at the
right hand,
in
the
heavens, before
and above
all things
;
This
is
plaine,
that
this
his
foveraignty
is
a confequent
fol-
lowing on
his afcenfion
into
heaven
:
It
is
plaine likewife that
he
is
fo
afcended into heaven,
that the
heavens muff containe him
till
he
come
to
judgement,
AStIS
3.
Looke
as
Kings are
crowned
in
the chiefe
Ci.
ties of
their Kingdomes,and
keepe
their
refidence
in
their Palaces
neere
unto
them;
So it was decent
that our
Saviour fhould be crowned
in
this heavenly lerufalem, and
keepe his refidence
as
it werein
his hea-
venlymanfion.
Yfe
x.
This
fhould
draw
up our hearts
to
heaven, whither our
Saviour
is
entred,where he now
fttteth
in
Majefty. Should
wehave fome
friends
highly
advanced,
though
in
parts very remote from us, we would
long
to
fee
them,
and make
a
journey to them.
This
doth
afire
us
that
all we
who
are
Chrifs,
(hall in due time
be
brought
to heaven,where
he
is ;
the
head and members muff
not
ftill
be
divorced:befide
that,he
prayed
that
where he is,there we fhould be
alto,
labn
r7.
3.
We
fee
Ubiquity
and all reali prefence (as reali
is
oppo
fed
to
fpiritu-
all,
not to
be
an
imaginary prefence)we
fee it
overthrown.For
if
he
fit
in
heaven at
Gods
right hand, thenro
fit
at
Gods right
hand
is
not
to
be
made every where
prefent;
forhe could not be
faid
to be made
every
wherein the
heavens,without
a
contradiétion,no n.ore
thento
be
made
infinite
within limited bounds
of
being. I take it for granted,
that
the
heavens can
frgnifie
nothing but
a
place limited
for the extent
of
it
;And
it
is
againft
the
Papifts a
fufficient
reafon,
He
is
afcended
and fitteth
in
Heaven.Ergo, he
is
not
here, according
tothe
Angels teafoning,Mattb.
z8.6.He
is
not here,
for
he
is
rifen
:
they did not know this
new Philo-
fophy, that Chrift might be
rifen from
that
place,
and
yet
be corporally
prefent
in
it
too.
Doíb_
Laftly,
marke
the
diftindtion
of
worlds.
Obferve, there
is a
world
to
come,in which
Chrift,and thofe who
are
Chrifts,
(hall reigne
for ever:
This world
waxeth
old,the
fafhion
of
it
paffeth,it
is
called
the
prefent
e-
vili world
;but
there
is
a
world to come
in
which
all
things
(hall
be refto.
red,which God hathmade
fubjeEl
to
his
Chrift,asthe
heyre
of
it,Heb.i.
8.in
which
we
fball
be
ioynt- heires
with him. Abraham
had
a protnife,
not
onely
of
feed
,
but that
he fhould
beheyre
of
this world
, a type
where-
of
the land
of
Canaan
was ; even
as
the
firlt Adam, and
all
that
came
from
him,had
a
world, this
in
which
we are, prepared for them
:
So the
fecond
Adam, and
all
thatare.his,
have
a
world alto
belonging
unto
them.
y
¡e.
Let
us
then comfort our
felves
in
this, though
in
this
prefent
evill
world we
fuffer
many
things,there
is
a
worldwhich
(hall lafle for
aye,
in
which
we
(hall reigne
with
Chrift, bltffèd for
ever
:In
this
world
to
come
fhall all
teares be wiped
from our
eyes,and
all
our
finnes be
fo
forgiven,
that there 'hall
be no fiep nor print appearing
of
them
:
for-
given,
not
in
regard
offentence
onely interloquutory, but in
regard
of
full declaration and
execution,
to which that
place
in
Mast
betv
feemeth
to