Three treatises of the vanity of the creature. The sinfulness of sin. The life…Three treatises of the vanity of the creature. The sinfulnesse of sinne. The life…

Lastly, he that hath the Son hath the Life of glory assured to him. For He ^ahath made us to sit together with him in Heavenly places: and ^bwhen He appears we shall be like him. He shall change ^cour vile bodies into the similitude of his Glorious body. When ^dHe comes we shall meet him, and be ever with him. ^eHe is ascended to his Father and our Father, to his God and our God, and therefore to ^fhis Kingdom and ^gour Kingdom: His by personal propriety, and hypostatical union; ours by his purchase and merit, and by our mystical union and fellowship with him. He is gone to ⟨p. 430⟩prepare a place for us. In Earth He was our surety to answer the penalty of our sins; and in Heaven, He is our Advocate, to take seisin and possession of that Kingdom for us; Our Captain, and Forerunner, and high Priest, who hath not only carried our names, but hath broken off the veil of the Sanctuary, and given us access into the Holyest of all. And he that hath the Son, hath this life already in three regards. First, in p•etio, he hath the price that procured it esteemed his. It was bought with the precious blood of Christ in his Name, and to his use, and it was so bought for him that he hath a present right and claim unto it. It is not his i• Reversion after an expiration of any others right (there are no lease• nor reversions in Heaven) but it is his as an inheritance is the heirs after the death of the Ancestor, who yet by minority of years, or distance of place may occupy and possess it by some other person. Secondly, He hath it in promisso, He hath Gods Charter, his Assurance sealed with an oath, and a double Sacrament, to establish his heart in the expectation of it. By