CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

The third Benefit of Christs going to the Father is from one main end of it, which is to prepare a place for his Children; Indeed heaven was prepared for them from Eternity, yet Christ Joh. 14.3. saith He goeth to prepare a place for them in an allusive sense; It's therefore for our infinite Consolation that Christ is gone to the Father, for there he prepareth places of glory for us, and mark the word v. 2. In my Fathers house are many mansions, [Greek or Hebrew], that is spoken in opposition to ours here, where we are but Pilgrims and strangers; In the earth we have only Tabernacles, in heaven there are mansion places; They continue there to ⟨p. 292⟩all Eternity, and further he saith, many Mansion places; That they might not think there is not room enough, and withal it denotes the readiness of Christ to entertain us, as Rebekah when she invited the strangers said, We have straw and Provender, and there is room enough; So that Christ is gone to heaven to see that Thrones of glory he provided for his people; Oh the Godly man dying, if in his temptations, is ready to think, O my Soul whether art thou going? What will become of thee? where wilt thou lodge this night? To this Faith should answer, Christ hath prepared a place, he hath provided a Rest, and a dwelling-place, and though thy Soul cannot be always in thy body, nor thy body always in these houses we dwell in, yet there is a mansion-place, from which we shall never be removed.

The third Benefit of Christs going to the Father is from one main end of it, which is to prepare a place for his Children; Indeed heaven was prepared for them from Eternity, yet Christ Joh. 14.3. saith He goeth to prepare a place for them in an allusive sence; It's therefore for our infinite Consolation that Christ is gone to the Father, for there he prepareth places of glory for us, and mark the word v. 2. In my Fathers house are many mansions, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, that is spoken in opposition to ours here, where we are but Pilgrims and strangers; In the earth we have only Tabernacles, in heaven there are mansion places; They continue there to ⟨p. 292⟩