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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.
2. Consider, he was caught away in a cloud, yea and was caught upwards from them, as it is Acts 1. 9, 10, 11. and carried away into heaven, yea, and his disciples stood gazing or looking up after him into heaven, which heaven must needs be that above the clouds. 1. If you consider the posture of ⟨p. 125⟩the Disciples, they looked upwards after the cloud that did take him away. 2. Consider the manner of his going, it was in a cloud. 3. He was received out of their sight. 4. And so received up into heaven; which heaven must needs be above the clouds,1 where God is in his special presence. But further,
3. Consider, that those believers that are alive at this day in the body, are absent from the Lord, 2 Cor. 5. 6. but now, if the man Christ were ascended into that heaven within them▪ he would neither be absent from them, nor they from him; but in that he is absent from them touching his bodily presence, and they from him touching the same▪ it is evident that that heaven into which he is ascended, must needs be without above the clouds.