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+76
pteframs,
Chap,
+.
V
ER.9,
true there, but much
more here, that
to know
that
we have
no
ftrength,
to be nothing
in
our felves, but
all
things
in
Chrift,
is
our
viétory.
We
tnuft fay
therefore
with the Apoftle,
1
can
doe
all
things
rhtl.4,
t.
I
Cor.
If.
57.
g
J`
J`
lren
through
chri
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thenin
,
me
:
Thanker beta god,
who
path given
us
$
viaory
through
our
Lord
lefus
Chrifl.
The
z. benefit
cloth
follow,
ofgiving
gifir;
which
giveth
us
to confider,
Dolt.
Whence
it
is
that
we
have theft fpiritaallgraces,
even
fi
cm hence,
that
We are
en-
Chrifl
is
glorified and
afcendedinto h
ricked with
eaven.
Ioh.
7.39
Ir
is
Paid,
The
Spi_
gifts
by
and
rit
war
not yet
gt
Yen,
becaufnChrift
wad
not
yet
glorified.
Looke
as
Cap.
upon ChriMs
taines, after
they
have prevailed againft
the
cncmie, when now
they
etæaüon.
are
returned
home,
doe
deale
part
of
their booty here and there:
So
Chrift
t
p
led his
hisfvourstort
h
hofe that are
riches of
glor,
as
two
perfuns
contracted, when they
have left one
another,
doe then
fend each
the
other tokens;
fo
Chrift
now
afcended
doth
by
us
:
Or
as
a
King at
his
coronation doth give liberally here
and
there;
fo
Chrift
afcended
into
his
Kingdome,
doth
fend
downe into the bofome
of
his
Church
a
more abundant
and plentiful) effufion
of
his
graces.
Tie z.
So that
we
fee
here
that
we
Rill
have
Chrift
ir,
fome
fort
preferir
with us, though
he
be bodily abfent.
z
z.
We
fee
how that this
abfence
in
the
flefh
is
beneficiall to us, it
Chrias
bodily
occafioneth
us
themore abundant
refence
of
abfence.is be-
p
Spiritual)
gifts.
Ioh,
16.
ncficiall
unto
7.
It
is
expedient
for
you
that
i
got
away:
for
if
Igoe
not away,
the
Com-
forter
will not
come
unto you; but
if
1
depart,
I
will
fend
him
unto
you.
If
we had
Chrift
in
body
prclent,
we
fhould fo hang on him by the
eye
of
the
body, that
the
eye
of
faith would
not
be fo cleare
as
it is,
our hope would not be
fo
lifted
up
to
heaven
as
it is.
3.
3.
We
fee
what
we
muff
labour to looke at by faith,
even
Chrift
glorioufly afcending intoheaven; then wefhail
get fomething,
force
z
zing.
:.931Cpirituall
gift
(hall
drop
from him upon
us.
It
is
raid
of
Eli/bah, that
o
if
hefhould
feehit
merrier
afcending, then
he
fhonld
have
hit
fpirit
doubled,
but
it
is
no
leffe
true
of
all us,
that
if
we
by
the
eye
of
faith fee
Chrift
afcended
in
glory,
his
Spirit
(hall
in
force meafure come
upon us.
Vors
s
9.
V
E
x
S.
9.
Now
in
that
he afcended
, what
is
it
but
that
he
alf
de-
fcended
firli
into the
lowe/I
parts
of
the
earth
Now
followeth the
declaring
of
the teftimony
againft
a
double
exception
:
z.
That
whereas
Chrifts Afcending
was
a
locall moving,
Af
cending
in
the
Pfalme
was nothing
but
manifefting
glory,
as
God
is
faid
to
Afcend
on
high, when he dorh execute
judgement.
z.
That
the
PfalmiJl fpeaketh
of
the God
of
ifrael,
not
of
Chrift
as
the Apofiledoth
confier
it
:
The
Apoftle there-
fore
lctteth downe
magifiraliter two conclufions again('
there Exceptions.
Firft,
that the
afcending on
high
in
the
Pfalme
is
fpoken
in
regard
of
defcending,