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Discourses, or, Sermons on several Scriptures
Discourses, or, Sermons on several Scriptures by ... Ezekiel late Lord Bishop of London-Derry.
London: printed for Nathanael Ranew, 1691
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.
Answ. I answer; This is so expressed, to denote the free Access and Admission of those into Heaven, who are careful to obey the Commandments of God upon Earth: Such as these are free born Citizens of Heaven; their whole Estate, their whole Traffic, all their Treasure and Livelihood is laid up there; they are free Denizens by the Charter of the New Covenant, they may challenge Ingress as their Right ⟨p. 60⟩and Due; and he who hath the Keys of David, 1who openeth and no Man shutteth, and shutteth and no Man openeth, opens the Door to these, and lets them into those Eternal Mansions, which he hath purchased and prepared for them.
Answ. I answer; This is so expressed, to denote the free Access and Admission of those into Heaven, who are careful to obey the Commandments of God upon Earth: Such as these are free born Citizens of Heaven; their whole Estate, their whole Traffick, all their Treasure and Livelihood is laid up there; they are free Denizens by the Charter of the New Covenant, they may challenge Ingress as their Right ⟨p. 60⟩and Due; and he who hath the Keys of David, 1who openeth and no Man shutteth, and shutteth and no Man openeth, opens the Door to these, and lets them into those Eternal Mansions, which he hath purchased and prepared for them.
- 1Rev. 3▪ 7.
The Fourth and last Query to be enquired into, §IV