1 --1-.-14-6 Creation. rufnExpofition 1 lingofthe pmstherof.For it i<inotfaid bo,._-' ASacrament.But ifitwere c~eryjwherc;tf,t; hell ' lyrhatGod is a Creatour;butparticularlythat thould be inheauen, which no man\'lill f.ty: hee is a Cr6ator ofheaum ttnd i.1rth: of'borh but heauen indeed is aboue thefe vifi:ble heawhich we will fpcoke inorder:and lidt ofthe uens which we fee withonr eies: fo the A:po- Eph, 4 ,1s creation ofheauen. ···· lHe flith, Chrift afi,ndedon high [twr'e ab6u~al1 Heauen J in Gcds word fignificth all that is he.uem,&c. Andagaine, it is faidof·Snum, ·. aooue the earth:foi· theaire wherin we breath that being fitll ofrhe holy Gho!l:, Hi /,.k/d vp All,y !! ' is called heauen.Andaccordingrothis accepfied[af!!J into tbehe~Htn.l, <mdfow th:mop;n, 4 nJ S 6 • tation ofthe word,thereare three he:mens,as· the Smn! ofman jlandmg 4t th: right hand of 1 .c 0,, Paul faith,He ''"u tali!n vp intoth<thirdheaum. !]0 D. Thirdly, it may beedemanded; why The fir!l: ofthefe heatiensisthat fpace, which God croated this third heauen? An[: God is from theearth Vpwardvnt<Hlie firmament~ made_itfor this caufe., that ~here might be a where the ftarrcsare. Thusthe birds which certatnephcewhereJnhemtght make m:mi.. Aye in the ayre oetweenc the earth and the fe!l:hisglorie and ma.ie!l:y to ~is eleCl: Angels ftarfes;are caik:9 thtfowles ofheailen:and wheA and men ;for the winch caufe Jt wascreated a Gen.pt God knt the flood to drowne the old world, thoufand- fold mo~eglorious t:·.erhe rwo forMojiJ f.lith tho~ihd(;wes ofhedlum were o;toed: B mer heauens are, and in this refpett is c:died meani1\g, tltat Go_d powred down r;tinc from Faradife,by reafon ofrhe ioyand pbft~re ari- Luk •l theclobdes abundantly, for the making of a fingfromGodsglorious prefencc. Aod qur 4 ;. ' Jloocl to drowne the world. The fccond heaSaniour Chrifr calleth it the h'"fe of Cjod his !oh.••·• uenis that which tontaineth the Sunne. the Farher t becaufe into it mufr beegarhCredall Moone, and the ~tarres: fo Mofit faith, thJ! Gods childrcn.Iriscalled the k!,ngdome ofh'"- God inthe beginningcreated the Sunoe, the tten,becaufc God is the King thereof, and ru0'"·'·'4 Moone, and the St:rries, and placed them in leth therein perfctl glory, True it is, God thefirmament ofhtaue. Bcfides thefcn.Vohea~ hath his R.ingdomehere on earth : but hee ruuens,there is a third \Vhich is iuuifible:and yet leth not fo fUlly and gloriou!ly here,as he !hall it isrhe workeof Gods hands : andids that in heauen: forthisisthe kiugdome of grace, glorious place where Chri!l: euen in his man, but that is the kingdome o(his glory , where hood Gtteth at the right hand of the Father: he fa reignerh, that heewillbe all in all,fir!l: and whether the foules of the f<~itnfitll deparin Chrif!, and then in the ele8: both Angels tedare carried and placed:and iri which at the and men.- · end ofthe world (h~ll all the elctl both inb~· Now follow th.eduties whereunto we are Du6es, dyand foule,haue perfect ioy and'bli!fe in the c moooed principally in conftdcration of the glorious fight an!l-prefence ofood for euer. making ofthe third heauen.Fir!l:,ifGod crea· Butfotthe berrerconceiuing·the truth,we are tedit efpecially for the manife!l:ation ofhis to skau and confider diligently j t que!l:ions. glory vnw men, that at the end ofthe world, Fir!l:,whether this third heauell be a creatur'e; by the fruition of Gods mofl gloripus prefor many haue rhongRt'ic was neuer created, fence , there they might'lllue perfect ioy and bUt was eternal! with G'od himfelfe: but it is a fdicity:we haue occafron here to confider the groffe errour contrary to Gods word.For the wondertilil madncffe and forgetfitlneffe that Heb.r 1 • Scripture faith, Abr~th4m/cok[dfor:4 city (meareigncth euerywherc among men, whichonly uing theheaueu!y lerufalem , this third heahaue regard to the cf!ate ofthis life,& caf! all .uen) btming"joundrition "Wh1fo 6t,Uder andm•.Ztr their careon this world,and neuer fo much as is God.i'urther,ifir beet-=rnal,it mull:either te Ollce dreameofthe ioyfirllaud bleffed t!l:.tte acrcarour,or a creatUre: bt1t it is no creatour which is prepared for Gods children in the for >hen it 010uld be God,anr:hherforeir mu!t highc!l: heauen. Ifa manhauing two houfes; neede~beeacreature. Butfome wi!l fJy,the one bur ahomely cottage, and the other a Lord is eternal!, and this third heauen hath princely pallace, thould leaue the better, and alwaits beene the place of the Lords aboade, D rake all thecare and pains for the drefsing vp and therefore iris alfo~tern:lH. An[. Tme it i... of the firfr 1 would not euery man fay,he were indeed that God doth thew his glory andmaa madde man/yes ..-ndoubtedly. And yet this ieftie in the thirdheauen : but yet that cannm is the fpiri~uall madneffe that takesplacc,euepofsibly conraine his Godhead, as S•lomon ry where among men :forGod hath prepared I.King. (tith;B~h~/d the hMuens, and th~ he.ttumofhe~- for vs twohoufes,one is this, our body which a. 17 • mm ~re r.ot able ro conraine th!r. Wherefore we beare aboutvs, which is anhoufe ofclay, tho'ngh God cloth manife!l: his eternal! glorie as lob faith,W' dlt'e/1 in h•ufts of ci•J who(e founl~b 4:;9, inthisthirdheaucn-, yet cloth it not follow, dationisd11}1, whichfbaUbeedeflro)'td before ihe thauhcreforc this pLtce C10nld be cfernal:.for moth: and as Ptttr faith, a t11bern~de or tent, z..P:t.I. he nccdesnO habitation todwell in, he is euewhich we muf1:n1ohly takcdowneiand wher14. ry where,filling all things with his prefence, in wee abide but aspilf.rimes mtdftr.tngers. A- :~Pet·%. excluded from no place. The fecoudque!tion gaine, the fame Godof his wonderful! good- 1 · is, where this third hcauen is? AHf. There are ntffe hathprouided for vs a fecond houfe in {Jmc Protefbnts f:ty, it is cuery where: and the third heanen, wherein wee rnuft not abide 1 theyhold this opinion to maintaine the rcall for a time and fo depart : but for euermore I prtfence of the Lords body in or about the enioy the blcfled felicity of his glorious prefc: __ nce. I:Z.,:..
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