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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.
So that that heaven into1 which the Man Christ is ascended,2 is not into his Church on earth;3 but into heaven without above the clouds and the Stars. And this David doth prophe•ie of, Psal. 47. 5. where he saith, ⟨p. 129⟩God is gone up with a shout, the Lord with the sound of a Trumpet. Now Christ, as God merely could not go up, being no less in one place then in another; but as God man, or in his humane nature he went up; as will clearly appear, Epes. 4 8, 9, 10. where he speaketh of his triumph over all the enemies of his people at his resurrection and ascension into heaven above the clouds.
So that that heaven into1 which the Man Christ is ascended,2 is not into his Church on earth;3 but into heaven without above the clouds and the Stars. And this David doth prophe•ie of, Psal. 47. 5. where he saith, ⟨p. 129⟩God is gone up with a shout, the Lord with the sound of a Trumpet. Now Christ, as God meerly could not go up, being no lesse in one place then in another; but as God man, or in his humane nature he went up; as will clearly appear, Epes. 4 8, 9, 10. where he speaketh of his trium•h over all the enemies of his people at his resurrection and ascension into heaven above the clouds.