5 46 The recoydd Booke ofDirsi.nitie, CH A P.9. So are Enoch and Elias both a!iueaílìimed thither. z, r d lude v(Y. z . x Htbar.. of this fweet and comfortable Do&rine. Secondly , Other there were that neuer dyed , but oncly changed their miferabl'e condition intoglorie and iinmortalitie , and fo were taken vp aliue intoHcauen. And this was the peculiar priuiledge of Enoeh and Elias : One , before the Law ; another, vnder the Law : both in moll corrupt and depraued times, wherein the fincere w'orfhip of God \N as no where tobce found the hope of etcrnall Life, and of theRefurreeîion tocome, vtter- ly loft and gone. God therefore , to leaue a plentiful) teflimonie ofa blaredRefurre6lion , till the cleerer ma- nifeflationof it by the riling of his Sonne , 2nd both to glue teflimonieof the Faithand Pietie of fuch men, and to convince the vvicked World of Infdelitie fuffered not thole two to goe the way of all flab , but by a (F- eral' fauour did affume them body and foule vnto him- felfe:thereby alfo to make them types and figures ofthe Refurre&ion of his Sonne by whole power they thus efcapcd death. OfEnocb,flrfl, it is recorded, Gen.5.24. That he wal- kingwith God three tboufandyeere.r(in which time,asulude the Apoille witneffcth, hee diligently executed the part ofa faithful) Teacher in Gods Church reproouing the corrupt world of (nine , and denouncing Gods feuere Iudgements againft them , euen to the extreme curfeof .Anathema Maranatba in the end , he was no morefiene: for God tookehim : that is,as the x Apoflle tó the Hebrews cloth expound it, did tranflate him that bee fhoaldnotfee death. And ofElias the fork is let forth at large,in the firfl and fccond Bookeof King: : How after long con- fli6s with Achab theKing of lfi-ael,and lefabel his wife, and with fourehundred and fiftie prophets, the priefis of Baal at once, being toiled (as wee fay) from poll to pillar, and driuen to flie for his life, hauingreflored the true worfhip ofGod,and reedified his Altars that before were throwne downe and deflroyed,and being now, as bee
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