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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
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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.
4 Consider, that that heaven ⟨p. 126⟩into which the man Christ is ascended, must contain him till the time of restitution of All things, as in Acts 3. 21. into which heaven he hath been ascended above sixteen hundred years by computation. And I am sure there is not a Saint that doth live in this world half so long, before he fall asleep, and be gathered to his fathers; so that that heaven into▪ which he is? scended, is not within, but must needs be that above the clouds. But,
5. Consider, that he that ascended from his Disciples, was a man, with flesh and bones, not a spirit only; for handle me, and s•e, (saith he) for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have, Luke 24. 39, 50, 51