Chap./6. An Expojtion upon theBookof J O B. Vert 19. 37t from thedead Then Chrift [hall refign up his Kingdom (as Mediator) to his Father, then God(hall be all in all, in All : that is, There will be no more need of a Mediator between God and Man ; there will be no more needofPreaching, nor ofmaking prayers, nor of ufrng Seals All the glaffes through which we faw God, and'eheoutward Ordinances, in which we enjoyed God in this life (hall be laid alide, when we fee him face to face and thenGod will be King, and Teacher, light and life, glory and happinefs, to his Saints, immediately, and for ever. 'Tis granted, That Heaven is nothing to us without God, yet God is fornething, yea he is infinitely more then Heaven. Solomon befpeaks God thus in his prayer at the dedication of the Temple (a King 8.27.) Behold the Heaven, and the Hea- ven ofHeavens cannot continue thee ; how much left this houfe that Ihave builded: It Heaven, even the Heaven of Heavens cannot contain God, then, it is not God. That which loth containa thing, is not the thing contained, much lets is that Which cannot contain a thing, the thing which it cannot con- tain. Again, that which yob calls heaven in one part of theverfe, he calls high in theother, My witnefs is in Heaven, my retordis on high. God dwells in the high and holyplace, Ift.57. 1 5. And Chrift after he had finifhed the work of mans redemption is faid To fit down on the right hand ofthe Majejty on high, .Pleb, 1.3. This high place is the high (t place,, all that we"call Heaven is high, but all that wecall Heaven is riot alike high. Heaven is a building of three Stories. The air is called heaven, The fowls of the air are fail to file above the earth in t!e Fir.. marnent of heaven, Gen'. .2o, The Clouds are called Heaven, Lev.z.i9. I will makeyour heaven as Iron, rxndyo r ??árt i ás P,rafs : That is, j will make the clou $s .ch arer,.`like Sponges hard like Iron, they (hall not yield á ..:rop ofwater,-to refrefh the wearied earth. The fecund Story is the f#arry Heaven, . where ene Sun dnd Moon move, and where toufe, Other glori.;u5ligl isare letlike golden luds to adorn, comfort, and (Area the vttor;:d;" plir goingforth isfrom the end of Heaven, 'and his circu ÿ unto the ends ofit, Pfal. 19.6. The third is calledThe habitat ion ìof God, the heáv,a of beá_ 13 b b z vent-,
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