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Some gospel-truths opened according to the Scriptures, or, The divine and humane nature of…
Some gospel-truths opened according to the Scriptures, or, The divine and humane nature of Christ Jesus, his coming into the world, his righteousness, death, resurrection, ascension, intercession, and second coming to judgment, plainly demonstrated and proved and also answers to several questions, with profitable directions to stand fast in the doctrine of Jesus the son of Mary, against those blustering storms of the Devils temptations, which do at this day, like so many scorpions, break loose from the bottomless pit, to bite and torment those that have not tasted the virtue of Jesus by the revelation of the spirit of God / published for the good of Gods chosen ones by that unworthy servant of Christ John Bunyan ...Some gospel-truths opened according to the Scriptures, or, The divine and humane nature of Christ Jesus, his coming into the world, his righteousness, death, resurrection, ascension, intercession, and second comming to judgment, plainly demonstrated and proved and also answers to severall questions, with profitable directions to stand fast in the doctrine of Jesus the son of Mary, against those blustring storms of the Devils temptations, which do at this day, like so many scorpions, break loose from the bottomless pit, to bite and torment those that have not tasted the vertue of Jesus by the revelation of the spirit of God / published for the good of Gods chosen ones by that unworthy servant of Christ John Bunnyan ...
London: printed for J. Wright the younger, 1656
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Answ. For answer, We do not say, (as I said before) that it is another that ascended, but the very same. That is, the very same Christ, that was with the father from everlasting, did come down from heaven. That same Christ also that came down from heaven did ascend up thither again: only, he descended without a body from heaven, and took flesh and blood upon him from the Virgin. And though he descended without a body, yet (he) the very same Christ, that descended without a body, the same did ascend again with a body, even ⟨p. 119⟩that very body that he took of the virgin Mary, 1See Luke 24. from 39 to the 51. verses. Now let me give you a Similitude, for it is warrantable; for both Christ and his Apostles did sometimes use them,2 to the end,3 souls might be the be•ter informed. The similitude is this. Suppose there come into thine house a man that is naked, and without clothing, though he go out of thy house again well clothed; yet the same man that came in without clothing, is the same man also that go•s out of thy house, though very well clothed. Even so it is in this case. The Lord Jesus came into the womb of the virgin, • Spirit, Mat. 1•. 18. but he came out of the womb clothed with a body, and went up into heaven again clothed with a body. Compare Luke 24. 39. with Act. 1. 11. and Act. 2. 30, 31.
Answ. For answer, We doe not say, (as I said before) that it is another that ascended, but the very same. That is, the very same Christ, that was with the father from everlasting, did come down from heaven. That same Christ also that came down from heaven did ascend up thither again: only, he descended without a body from heaven, and took flesh and blood upon him from the Virgin. And though he descended without a body, yet (he) the very same Christ, that descended without a body, the same did ascend again with a body, even