The sum of sacred divinity briefly & methodically propoundedThe summe of sacred diuinitie briefly & methodically propounded

For where our Saviour saith, Mat. 28. 20. I am with you always to the end of the World: and a ^clittle before had said, Me you shall not have always among you; it appeareth, that the manner of his presence is to be distinguished: for he is present indeed always with his Church, but by the power and comfort of his Spirit, whereby he doth communicate himself, and all he hath, unto us, not in any corporal or bodily presence.

For where our Sauiour saith, Mat. 28. 20. I am with you alwayes to the end of the World: and a ^clittle before had said, Me you shall not haue alwayes among you; it appeareth, that the manner of his presence is to bee distinguished: for hee is present indeed alwayes with his Church, but by the power and comfort of his Spirit, whereby he doth communicate himselfe, and all he hath, vnto vs, not in any corporall or bodily presence.

1. cMat. 26. 11.

The time that he thus ascended both in Soul and¹ Body, was forty ^ddays after his Resurrection, during all which time he was conversant with his Disciples, teaching and instructing them aswell in all points of Christian doctrine, as in those that belong to the Policy and Government of his Church: whereupon the ^e