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The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easy draught of the Christian…The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easie draught of the Christian…
The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easy draught of the Christian catechism in LII lectures on chosen texts of Scripture, for each Lords-day of the year, learnedly and perspicuously illustrated with doctrines, reasons, and uses / by that reverend and worthy labourer in the Lord's vineyard, William Ames ...The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easie draught of the Christian catechisme in LII lectures on chosen texts of Scripture, for each Lords-day of the year, learnedly and perspicuously illustrated with doctrines, reasons, and uses / by that reverend and worthy laborer in the Lord's vineyard, William Ames ...
London: printed by T. Mabb for Thomas Davies, 1659
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Doct. 2. Christ, when he left the earth, went up into the highest Heavens.
This is clear enough in the Text, compared with other Scriptures, where the Heaven of glory and of bliss is called the highest Heaven, and the third Heaven, which is all one.
Reas. 1. Because it is most fit, that his humane nature, which is now made immortal and glorious, should be seized and possessed of a place, that was convenient for it self, and its condition; and such was only the highest, or third Heavens: the other two being subject to corruption, or to a change.
Reas. 1. Because it is most fit, that his humane nature, which is now made immortal and glorious, should be seised and possessed of a place, that was convenient for it self, and its condition; and such was onely the highest, or third Heavens: the other two being subject to corruption, or to a change.
Reas. 2. As he opened that Heaven for us, which was shut upon us for our sins; so it was expedient, that by his own proper ascension and going thither, he should make this plain unto us.