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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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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. verses. Now let the Adversaries show by the Scriptures that there is any place in them called heaven, that is able to contain a man of some four or five foot long, the space of ⟨p. 127⟩fifteen or sixteen hundred years; besides that, therefore, it must needs be that heaven without which is above the clouds and Stars.
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. verses. Now let the Adversaries shew by the Scriptures that there is any place in them called heaven, that is able to contain a man of some four or five foot long, the space of ⟨p. 127⟩fifteen or sixteen hundred years; besides that, therefore, it must needs be that heaven without which is above the clouds and Stars.
6. Consider, That heaven into which the Lord Jesus that man is ascended, must not contain him always for, saith the Apostle, 1 Thes. 4. 16. The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an Archangel. So that there is another descending from that heaven into which he is ascended; and his descending from that heaven is to this end, namely, to take his people to himself, as it is v. 17. so that it is clear, that it is not any heaven within thee, into which the Man Christ that was born of the Virgin Mary is ascended, but it must needs be that heaven without which is above the clouds. 1. If thou consider, that the place into which he is ascended, even the