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Three
Irea-
vens.
In
which hea-
ven
Cheifl
is.
John.
1.7.14.
Chrift doe,
fill his
whole
Church with
gifts.
But
not
all
places with
his
bodily
pre-
fence.
Objec.
vinr
Doli.
C
hods
Afeen-
Gon
locali.
Epheßan.r
Chap. 4.
VBR.
9.1
For the words,
above all thefe
heaven, Heavens are
fome
times
put
for heavenly creatures, the
place
for the inhabitants, but
not
fo
taken
here.
z. For the
heavens
themfclves, the upper parts
of
the world
:
you
mutt
know there are 3. heavens.
r.
The
Ayre
fo
called.
2.
The
Starrie Firmament.
3.
The
Spirituali
ones,the
Seatesof
the
bletfed.
Now
the meaning is, he went above
all
thefe
vifible heavens,
into
thole
heavenly manfions, where
God fheweth
his
glorious
prefence,
where the Angels
and
the Spirits
of
the
juft have
their aboade.
But
betau
fe
it
is
faid
above all
heavens;
here
is
a
Queftion propounded.
rtefl.
Whether Chrifi
be
in
or
upon
the
vaulting
of
thole
uppermofl
heavens
v1nfw.
Heis
in
chem,for where we
(hall
be,
there
heis; lobo r7.24.
as
one may be
Ma
houle or
on
the houle toppe. Father
(faith
Chrift)1
willthat
they whom
thou
hall
given
me
be
with
me,
even
where
Iam; Where
his
Father
is,
there
is
he;
our Father
is
in
heaven.
The
fourth thing to be opened
is
chofe
words
in
the
ro.
verfe,
that
he
might
fill all
things :
two
fents
mutt
be chiefely marked,
the
one
falle
;
to
fill all
places
with
his
body
:
the other true; to
fill
all
his
Church
with
his
gifts. For the firft,you muft know that
it
concludeth
more
then
the textlayeth downe. Chrift
fifleth all,
therefore
with
his
bodily prefence;
It doth
not follow. z. Again, Chrift did not
afcend
to
fill all
places,
but
to
be contained in
the
heavens.
vic1s
3.2
r. Whom
the heavens mull containe
till
all
be
reflored,
3.
He
afcended to
fill
all,
but with the holy Ghoft. 4. He
fhould have faid,
Chrift
diffufrd
himfelfe, or became omniprefent,
that
he might
fill
every
place.
To
lay
he
[afcended]
which is, left
a
lower
place and went
intoa
higher,
that
he
might
be
in
every place,
is
to
fay heleft
a
place, that he might
be
in
every
place,
it
is
to fpeake
contradict
ion.
The
true
fente is,
that
he
might
fill
all with
his
gifts,
he afcended,
gave gifts
as in
the verfe
following.
Bu:
they
except
that then
he
would not have
faid,
to
fill
all
things,
but
his
Church.
The
word
[all]
doth note
all
the members
of
his
Church
in
hea-
ven and
earth,
as Chap.
t.
so.
That
he
might
gather
together
in
one
all
things
both
which are in heaven,anel which are in
earth,
even
in Chri
17;
and
to
you have it
in
the
laft verfe of
that chapter,
the
fulneffeof
him
whichfifleth all in all
things.
Hence we mutt
fiat marke,
that
the
Afcenfton
of
Chrift
is
not a
manif
Elation
of
glory,
but alocall
moving from
place
to
place :
for this
feemeth to
be it
that the Apofilewould
prove
in
this place,
viz.
to
(hew
us
that
we muft
not
conceive
of
Chrifts Alcen
lion,
as
of
Gods
afcending;but fuch
is
his
afcendiog
as
was
his
defcending
ro
the
grave;
now this
was
a
defcending without
figure.
Which