3go The fecondBooke ofDittinitie, C AP. 5.6, f iNattb,3oa. eo '.S.t9. g Aîts 2.i6, i7, i8. 1i Ice/ a<7.8. Mefah, bath the name of f The Kingdome of Heaven, becaufe therein {hineth the brightneí% of heauenly glo- rie : fira , in the perfonof Chriû and the bleflings vpon him ; then, in the good things which he belloweth upon his Church. All which are called heavenly things,Heb.B. 5, and9.23. Not íhadowes or figuresof heavenly things to come , but themfelues the true heauenly things which thofe veder the Lawwere Types and Samplers of. This bountieof Chria, to fill all things with the rich Graces of his Spirit the Scripture maketh an effe&of his Glorification, or fitiug at the right hand of God , Ephef. 4.7, 8. To every one ofvs is linen grace, according to the meafure ofthegift ofChrif1. 7berefore,fo ith he, 4f- cending on high, bee ledcaptiuitie captive , and game gifts unto men. So lam 7.;9. The holy Gho11yet was not,becaufe Iefus was notyet glorified. And,Aéls 2.3 3. Being therefore exalted 6y the right hand of God , and loaning received the promife of the holy Ghof, he hash powredout that whicbyou nowfee andheart. Not that Chrili did it not before : for he gave from the beginning all fpirituall bleffings to his Church and People. But it is fpokencomparatiuely, be_ caufe then indeed (vpon his Afcenfion or Glorification) hce fet open , as it were , the windowes of Heauen, to raine downe all the ihowres of his Graces in a far more excellent manner and meafure, then euer heedid before. As Peter, fi confirmethout of h Joel, applying it to thofe prefent times : It fall be in the latter dayes , that I will powre out ofmy Spirit vpon allfe/,4ndyomrfonnes¡hall prophecie, andyour daughters, andyour young men ¡hall fee jifrons, andyour old men(hall dreamt' Dreames : Tea veri- ly , vpon my menfiruants and maid_feruants will 1 powre forthof my Spirit , and they ¡hall prophecie. Which not- vaithflanding is to bee vnderflood of the common and ordinarie diípenfation of God in the general! gouern- ment of his Church , not of particular perfons ; feting among the Fathers there arc fo many tobe found , that went
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