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He took his disciples with him into the mount of olivet, and bid them there farewell he departed bodily from them as there eyes bore them record, and à cloud received this body that it could no more be seen yet what became of this body after that it passed there sight that no question afterward ⟨image 61⟩should be where this body was become, Luc saith. Ferebatur in coelum, capit. ultimo. This mutation of place to ascend from the earth only his humane nature suffereth, concerning his God head it is every where, and can nether ascend nor descend such as say that heaven and the right hand of God is in the articles of our faith taken for God's pore and might which is every where, they do wrong to the scripture and unto the articles of our faith they make à confusion of the scripture and leave nothing certain the darken the simple and plain verity thereof with intolerable sophisms the make heaven: hell: and hell heaven torn up side down and pervert the order of God: if the heaven and God's right hand whether our Saviour's body is ascended be every where and noteth no certain place as these uncertain men teach, I will believe no ascension ⟨image 62⟩what needeth it seeing Christs body is every where with his goded. I will interpret this article of my crede thus: Christus ascendit ad dextram patris, patris dextra est ubique, ergo Christus ascendit ad ubique. Se what erroneous doctrine followeth there imaginations. As concerning the right hand of God it is taken sometime for God himself and his omnipotent pour. Psalm. 117. dextra domini fecit uirtutem, dextra domini exaltavit me. thus his right hand taken for his poor it is every where. But it is not so taken, when when say Christ sitteth at the right hand of God. As mark saith. capit. ultimo and as Stephen said, Act. 7. Video Jesum stantem à dextris Dei. But it signifieth ascertain place of Joy where as the souls of the blessed saints rest. thither hath God translated the body of Christ to be in as much Joy, as it was in contempt here in ⟨image 62⟩the earth as Paul saith Philip. 2