to the E PH E S I AN S. 47 .A/;rahamfrom Heavm, Gm. 22. 1), 16, '7· whereas he conferred with .Adam ~ but on Earth, fignifying that place fr?m whence that bleiliog was to come, and Serm.l'l. in which to be enjoyed. ( Even ~s m the hke m~fltcal mtendmenc, H~avm ts ~ faid tohave opened, when tl)at vo1ce came to Chnft at h1s Bapttfme, Thu u my we/J /;e/oved Sou i1t whom I am wett pltafed, Mat. ~·) as from whence that bleffed feed(in whom all are bleffed) was to come. Chrift the Lord from Heaven, 1 Cor. 1 5. and fo he to raife us to the fame ftate and place. II. ]iJ Heavmties,] was added to Spiritual, in a further diftintl:ion yet of the bleilings wherewith in Chrift we are bleffed lrom thofe wherewith in .Adam in our firlt Creation we and all his pofterity were bleffed of God ; for bleffed we arc in him, as you read, Gm. 1. 27? 28. .Adam beingrilade as there verf. 26. accor– ding to the Image of God; wh1ch was the foundatton of that Charter of bleiling him and his poflerity,he w"' in that refpetl: a fpiritual man (for fuch is the Image of God, his graces were all Spiritual, and his lite arid communion with God was Spiritual, and fo of him it m1ght be faid,that he was bleft with Spiritual bleffings, as well as in thofe Earthly, and fo in refpetl: thereof we in him , that were to come of him, being all to receive the fame Spiritual Image from him; but yet ftill he (and fo we in him) but bleft with all thefe as a man that wasto live on Earth only, and to enjoy God, though in a fpiritual way, yer but as flelh and blood can in an Earthly condition be capable of, which whilft remaining fuch,can– not fee or enjoy God, (as in Heaven he is to be feen or enjoyed) and live. For fidam when in his beft condition was but flefh and blood and an Earthly man,as he is termed in diflintl:ion from Chrift, 1 Cor. 1 )· 47• and fuch as that Earthly mart was, aoo fuch lhould we that are of him that wa.s of Earthly Generation have been, and neither he nor we advanced higher, ver. 48. but our Lord Chrift being the Lord from Heaven, ve>'. 47· an Heavenly man, ver.48. Therefore we being bleft in and rag"ether with hi'l', we are bleft in Heavenly things, or with Heaven– ly blellings, and railed up to Heavenly places with him; for as is the Heavenly (man Chrift,) fuch are (and is the condition) of thofe in him; even Heavenly as himfelf is. Heaven is his native Country, he is tire Lord of it, and we being married to him, and he our Lord in that refpetl: as was faid, the fpoufe muft be· where the Husband is, and partake of the fame good things which he is partaker of, and therefore he takes us,and carries us to his own home,to his Fathers houfe, which being Heaven, we thereby come to be bleft in Cluift with all Heavenly bleffings, and notfpiritualqnly, which Adamin his primitive condition was; and this notion will tidy bring in that other fupplelllent which interpreters have added in Heavtn!y thitJgs, as that other took intoitfelf in Heavmty ptaas. All the graces we have are not only fpiritualto fit us fll>r communion with God as ori Earth, but they are preparations, and making us more fit for the inheritance iri light to fee God face to lace. And they all tend to lead us in the way to Heaven; and to bring us to Heaven at !aft; and have all the promifes of things Heavenly, annexed to and en~ailed upon them. Follow mt, aud thot~jhalt have trea{itre in Heavm, fays Chnft; and amore endutmg fobjlance m the Heavens, as He6. 10. Pattl fpeaks, even all things whatever that are in Heavert, and are found grow– ing there,are ours, and we have an intereft in them,as they in Cmuiau had to all the Earthly things that Country afforded and abounded with ' and for the en– joyment of th~f<; things there in that world, out very bodies a;the refurretl:iori. Wlll be made fpmtual and heavenly ( wluch Adam's was nor,) fo in that 1 Cor. 1 )· it israifed a fpiritual body. There is a fpiritual body ( namely that received at the ReftJrretl:ion, ) and there is a natural body , that which Adamwas crea– ted in ver. 44·• alledging for rroof of it in the 45. v. And fo it is written, the firft Adamw~s.made a living lOul,an Earthly man, v, 47· but Chrift an·d his Saints arc made f!'tntual, heavenly, fo v. 48. and he evidently there applies .th1s, to the State ot the body. And accordingly look as that naturnl body of Adamwas framed wtth fuch inlets and capacities of outward fenfes as were fuited to take in all the good things that God had made and provided in this world on purpofe for him.; meatsfor the belly, and the belly for meats , fitted e.ach to other; fo he i cor.6.•l' havmg provided, and filled that other henvenly world, both w1th variety of heavenly places, and of heavenly thingsifl..thofe habitations, ( as, more i!oflro, the Scri·
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