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On
the
Excellency
of
Chrifi,
14
if
you compare
that
place Juflified
in
the
Spirit
with
that
in
z
Pet.
3.z
8,
Put
to
death in
the fle(h
, but quickned
by
the
Spirit
,
that
is
by
the
power of
his
God-head
bee
was
quickned,
upon his
ReCurreeion;
now
that
that
one Apòftle
faith
(
quickned)
another faith
(jufti
fied)
to
thew
that
when bee was
quickned ,
that
is
rote again
by
the power
of
his
Deity
,
then
both hee, and
all
the
eleót ones flood jufl
in the prefenceof
God
,
acquitted
of
all their
fins
, and
this is the myftery
of gcdlinefs.
There
is
abundance
in
every one
of
there,
but
it
is
not
my purpofe
to handle
the
Refurréf}ion
of Chriíl
,
or
his
Afcention, but
meerly
to
give you
a
little glinpfe
of the
myftery
of godlinefs
that there
is
therein
, that
you
may
underfland
him aright ,
fo
as
you
may bee able
to
exercife
your faith
upon
him
,
not
onely
Dying and
Humbled ,
but
Conquering and
Rifing.
Chrifi
Wonderful
in
his Afcention.
And for the Afcention of Chrifi
into
heaven the
manner
of
it
was
wonderful. There
comes
a
cloud
and carries him
up, and the Difciples
(lands
gazing;
it
was
a
wonder to bee
gazed at , the Afcention
of
Jefus Chrift,
body
and
foul
into
heaven,in that glorious
way.
But efpecially
if
wee
confider
that
Chrifl
afcended
like
-
wife
as our
head , afcended into
heaven
as
the
High
Priefl
went
into the
Holy
of Holies:
And
it
is
faid,that
wee are
fet
together
in
heavenly places
together with Chrift
,
fo you
have
it in
Eph.2.6. And hath
raifd
us
up'
together
, and made us.
fit together
in
heavenly
places
in
(hri
fl
Jefus
:
For
Chrill
went
as
ïñ
our names
to take
pofieffion
of
heaven,
this
is
tile
myftery,
of
godlinefs
in
Chrifls Afcention Hee
went
up
to
..-leaven ,
but hee
went in the naine of the
Elul
to
take
poffe
+.lion,
as
a
man
that bath
bought houfè
and
lands,.,
may have
one appointed
by
him
to
go in
his
name
to take
poflediion
of
the houle
and
land,Jefus
Chrifl
in
the
name
of
the
elea
from the.beginning of
the world
to the
end,wene°
up