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Secondly, It notes precedency. He is our fore-runner, but he himself had no fore-runner. Never any entered into heaven before him, but such as entered in the name, and through the virtue of his merits. He was the first that ever entered heaven directly, immediately in his own name and upon his own account. But all the Fathers who died before him, entered in his name. To the holiest of them all God would have said as Elisha to Jehoram, 2 King. 3.14. Were it not that I had respect to the person of my Son, in whose name and right you come; I would not look upon you. You must back again▪ heaven were no place for you. No not for you Abraham nor for you Moses.

Secondly, It notes precedency. He is our fore-runner, but he himself had no fore-runner. Never any entred into heaven before him, but such as entred in the name, and through the vertue of his merits. He was the first that ever entred heaven directly, immediately in his own name and upon his own account. But all the Fathers who died before him, entred in his name. To the holiest of them all God would have said as Elisha to Iehoram, 2 King. 3.14. Were it not that I had respect to the person of my Son, in whose name and right you come; I would not look upon you. You must back again▪ heaven were no place for you. No not for you A•raham nor for you Moses.

Secondly, He ascended Triumphantly into heaven. To this good Expositors refer that which in the Type is spoken of David, ¹when he lodged the Ark in its own place, with musical instruments and shoutings; but to Christ in the Antitype when he was received up Triumphantly into glory,