Two very learned sermons of M. Beza, together with a short sum of the…Two very lerned sermons of M. Beza, togither with a short sum of the…

otherwise it should not be an ascending, but a vanishing away for the time. Certainly,¹ no man can truly be said to come or go up thither, where he now was, or to go away, descend, or be absent from the place where he remaineth. Look therefore in how many places these things are spoken of Christ, according to his flesh, and that without any figurative kind of speech by so many most strong and invincible testimonies, there is confirmed unto us the true taking away of the body of Christ from us, and also that real dotage of the presence of Christs flesh upon the ⟨p. 91⟩earth, that is to say, this opinion which the Dokits & Marcionites maintain sufficiently confuted.² As for that that they urge against us,³ saying: How absurd is that, that Christs flesh is now in heaven and no where else? It is easily answered, that we speak no otherwise than Peter,⁴ yea than the angels themselves have spoken. And though they say further, that by this means we shut up Christ, as it were in a prison, where as yet notwithstanding the right hand of God (that is to say, his heavenly power and authority) whereat he sitteth is every where. What for all this? Answer us this, and tell us whether that being on the earth, & absent from heaven (for he had not ascended thither where he was then present) or whether that being in the virgins womb, or wrapped up in swaddling clothes, lying in the crib, he was shut up in prison? Yea sith every body is contained in his own place, yea & things without bodies, are yet notwithstanding included in the propriety of their nature (for only the Godhead is infinite) what can follow else of this their most absurd argument and reason,⁵ than that all things are full of prisons and prisoners? And ⟨p. 91⟩though we should say, that under the terms of sitting at the right hand,