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Ammon
Ephefra,u,
Chap.
4.
V
iE
R.
8.
Spirit was
not
yet given,
Chrift
was
not yet
glorified.
Yet further
for
underftanding
Chrifts attending,
we mutt know, that
Chrift
is
after
a
fort
a
compounded Perfon
of
the Divine
and
Humane
Nature,
and
Chrift
afeen-
ded
bout
t
therefore we mutt
fee how
[afccnding
]
cloth
agree
to either of
thefe.
in
natures,. and,
Know then, that the Divine
Nature
may be
Paid
to
afcend
in
regard
how?
.
of
condition,:fo
farre.forth
as
the glory
of
it was manifefled, which
aftera fort the
vaylcof
weake
fiefh
did
cover:
for though the God-
headbath
no
change
in
it
fc
Ife,
yet
in
regard
of
manifefting without,
it
is
not
alwaycs
alike
:
As
a
bright
candle
in a
Lanthorne,is
the fame,
whether the
La
nthorne
be
covered, or be
clean
wiped, yet the light
is
not
alike revealed
in
the one
as
it
is
iti
the
other.
Secondly,
as
God
may be
faid
locally to afcend, inafmuchas
he
caufedthelocali afcent
of
his humane
nature: Chrift-
man 'afcended
in
regard
of
flare, by receiving
glory
he
before
had not
in
regard
of
place, properly leaving
thefe lower
feates, and going to
thofe
upper
manfions
above thefe heavens.
3.
What
iris
to
leade
captivity captive r
vinfw.
Captivity
fignifyeth
What
is
the
either
the.adt
of
captiving,
or
the
(late
of
being captive;
or by
a
figure
leading
of
tap thofe that
take
us
captive,
or
thofe
that
are taken captive.
civicy
captive.
Hence
grow
3.
Interpretations.
a
,
Chrift woke
captivity captive,
that
is, he altered the
captive
eftate
of
his
children,
as
that
phrafe
is
not
much
unlike, He
zCor.s;44.
_
fwalowed
tip
dìátbinvit
ory;butthis
conítnldtion
Both
not
anfwere
the
nature
of
the Hebrew phrafe which this
Grecke
one
Cb
µxu
er
user]
here
doth interpret.
z.
A fecdId
Conftrudiion,
be
led captivity captive;
that
is, hee
tooke away
his
children who were
taken
captive;.from
un-
der the power
oftbedevil!
:
butthis cannot
be
the
meaning,
for Chrift,
if
it had beetle
in
regard of
us, fhould
not
have
Beene faid
to
take
as
captive, but
to
refcue and deliver
us
being
captive
:
and
thefetwophrafes
have great
difference,
át
.cxTmnttr,e
átyf
<xT.ead0r
&
ótrsgl5
e
citxpxTWsfxr,
is as
the Hebrew
ones
ro
which they anfwere.
3.
The
third therefore
is
to be taken,
He
toike
Captive thofe
powers which
did
hold
us
captive, the
World,
Sinne,
the
Flefh,
and
Devil!.
Giving
gifts
to
men]
Is the beftowing
all fpirituall bleffings on
his
Church.
Here
is
one thing onely faftened falfely on this thefe. (viZ.)
The
taking
the
Fathers
out
of
Limbo:
to
which
we Anfwere.
z.
The
thing
it felle
is a
fable,the
fc
ules
of
the Fathers
being
in
hea-
ven
with
Chrift.
2.
It
being
a
dreame without warrant
of
Scripture,
which
is
not
apparently
mif-
interpreted.
3..
If
Chrift
fhould have
freed the
Fathers out
of
Limbo,hc
fhould
not
have beene fayd to have
taken
them captive, but freed them from captivity.
The
fcope of
the Verfe
is,
to
prove
Chrift
the
diftributer
of
all
graces.
The
fumtne
of
it fetteth downe Chrifts Afcenüon,
and the
fruits
The
raking
of
the Fathers
our
of Limbo,
whichwere be-
'fore
Chri(t,is
a fable.