A discourse concerning the Redeemer's dominion over the invisible world, and the entrance thereinto

And consider the manifest tendency of the Discovery it self. What doth it mean or tend to, but to undeceive miserable mortals, whom he beholds from his high Throne mocked with shadows, ⟨p. 54⟩beguiled with most delusive impostures, and easily apt to be imposed upon? Foolish, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures; feeding upon ashes, and wearying themselves for very vanity; sporting themselves in the dust of this minute spot of Earth; wasting their little inch of time, wherein they should prepare for translation into the Regions of unseen Glory. To these he declares he hath formed a Kingdom for all that cover to mend their states, and that his Kingdom is not of this World; that for such as will be of this Kingdom, he will provide better, having other Worlds, the many Heavens above all which he is ascended, at his dispose, Ephes. 4.10. But they must seek this Kingdom and the Righteousness of it in the first place; and desist from their care ⟨p. 55⟩about other things. He Counsels and Warns them not to lay up their Treasure on Earth— but in Heaven, and to let their hearts be there with their treasure. And what can withstand his power who having been dead liveth victorious over him that had the power of Death; and is alive for evermore possest of an Eternal state of Life.

And consider the manifest tendency of the Discovery it self. What doth it mean or tend to, but to undeceive miserable mortals, whom he beholds from his high Throne mock'd with shadows, ⟨p. 54⟩beguiled with most delusive impostures, and easily apt to be imposed upon? Foolish, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures; feeding upon ashes, and wearying themselves for very vanity; sporting themselves in the dust of this minute spot of Earth; wasting their little inch of time, wherein they should prepare for translation into the Regions of unseen Glory. To these he declares he hath formed a Kingdom for all that cover to mend their states, and that his Kingdom is not of this World; that for such as will be of this Kingdom, he will provide better, having other Worlds, the many Heavens above all which he is ascended, at his dispose,