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Chrifi
his Af-
fill
continued
his
prefence, but did truely
and
really
afcend
:
for the
eenfion
wag
re.
other
Both
butdelude the
fenfe and turne this
att,and
not
Article
into
a
tricks
of
onelya
va
i-
t
ht.
juggling.
Thing
out of
B.
He
did
Afcend
vifibly,t
ltï.
t.g.While
they
beheld,he
was taken
up,
and
a cloud
received
him
out
oftheir fight.
3.
Locally,
fo
as
he
left thefe places, and was taken from
being
prefent with
us,
in
regard
of
his
body
and
foule.
...
as
1.
to.
While
they looked
fledfafllytoward
heaven,
as he
wenttip;
Luke
24. pz.
While
he bleffed
them,
he was
parted from
them,
andcarried
up
into heaven.
Yfe
I.
W
rich
fhould teach
us
to
have our converfation
in heaven
;
if
a
Vi. gin
be
contraäed
to
a
man,
fhould
the
man
goc from her,
and take
a
houfe where
they
fhould live
together, how
would her
hear
follow
Cohn
t*'
='
after him
[
the Lord
Infus
is
our conrraded husband, and
is
gone
to
heavento prepare aplace
for
us,
how
fhould our hearts be lifted
up to
him
yf
2.
It
is
a
pledge
to
us
of
our
afcenfion
into
heaven; where the
head
is,
there the body mull
follow,
our
flefh
and
blood
is
already
poffeffed
of
heaven.
We have
our
The
2.
thing
is, What
great
benefit
we
have
by
Chrifds
tel
fcending,
enemies tip_
even the
triumphing
over and holding
downe
all
our enemies
in thevillory
Chfrett
by
of
Chrtft.
We
may obferve here
4. der rres.
centon.
I.
He
did
tight for
ir, and
ttrike
the
la
ft
flroake, wherewith
he
did win
the
day
on
his
mire,
2.
He did
feife
on the
fpoyles, and take into
his
hand thofe
whom
he had fubdued
his refurreetion,
3. He returning whence he came, led them
captive,
in
his
Afcending,which
is
the continuing
of
his
victory
atchie-
ved
over them.
4.
He
doth
apply
this
in
all his
members, trampling them
un-
der the
foote
of fuch
as
beleeve on
him.
All
this
he
doth
fitting
at
the right
hand
of
God,
and raigning
glo-
rioufly over all
his
enemies:
like
as
Captaines when they
make
any
warlike expedition,
they
firft bid
battell
to the
etiemies, till by fight
they have
fubdued
them.
t.
They
found
a
recreate.
2. Take
the
booty
and
multitude
of
Captives.
3.
Returning home, they
leade
them
viElorioufly.
4.
Now
come home, they yeeld them
up
to the power
of
their
Country.
Yfe
r,
And this confideration,
that
Chrift
bath taken
and
doth
hold captive
all
our enemies,
doth
teach
us
our duty
:
for why
have we peace
from
the
world,
finne,
death, the
devil!
;
but that
we
fhould
(erne the
Lord
in
reghteoufneffe
and
true holine/fe,
all
the
dayes
of
our
lives! Thus
in
the
From
whom
a
Sam.
7.
1.
when
David
had peace
from
his
enemies,
he made this
being freed we
ore
of
it;
he refolved to
build
up
a
houfe
for the
fervice
of
God.
So
are the more
i
Neely
co
[erve
let this
(litre
us
to
ferve
God confidently;
for why
are wee delivered
God.
from
our enemies,
who
arc
fpoyled,
but that we might
ferve the
Lord
Ephefians
Chap,
q.,