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

With this design it is apparent our Lord Redeemed us, and by his Redemption acquired these Keys. Nor are we to doubt, but in the use of them, he will dispense exactly according to this just and merciful design. And ⟨p. 62⟩what a perverse distorted Mind is that, which can so much as wish it should be otherwise? viz. That he should save us to the Eternal wrong of him that made us, and so as that we should be nothing the better, i. e. that he should save us without saving us?

And hath this no pleasant comfortable aspect upon a lost World? that he who hath these Keys, will use them for such purposes, i. e. to admit to eternal bliss, and save to the uttermost all that will come to God by him not willing to be everlastingly alienated from the life of God) because he ever lives to make intercession, or to transact and negotiate for them, (as that word signifies) and that in a rightful way▪ and even by the power of these Keys!

8. That there must be some important Reason why the other World is to us unseen, and so truly bears the Name of Hades. This expresses the state of the case as in fact it is, that it is a World lying out of our sight, and into which our dim and weak Eye cannot penetrate: That other state of things is spoken of therefore as hidden from us by a veil. When our Lord Jesus is said to have passed into the Heavens, Heb. 4.14. he is also said to have entered into that within the veil, Heb. 16.19, 20. alluding to that in the Temple of Solomon, and before that, in Moses's Tabernacle; but expressly signifying that the Holy places into which Christ entered, not those made with hands, which were the Figure of the true, but Heaven it self, filled with the glorious presence of God, where he appears