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A discourse concerning the Redeemer's dominion over the invisible world, and the entrance thereinto
A discourse concerning the Redeemer's dominion over the invisible world, and the entrance thereinto by death some part whereof was preached on occasion of the death of John Hoghton Esq, eldest son of Sir Charles Hoghton of Hoghton-Tower in the county of Lancaster, Baronet / by John Howe ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1699
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.
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 ⟨p. 64⟩for us, Heb. 9.24. is also veiled from us. As also the Glory of the other State is said to be a Glory as yet to be revealed, Rom. 8.18. And we are told, Job 26.9. The great God holdeth back the face of his Throne, and above, ver. 6. 'tis represented as a Divine Prerogative, that Sheol which is there groundlessly rendered Hell) the vast Hades, is only naked before him, lies entirely open to his view, and therein the dark and horrid part of it Destruction (by which peculiarly must be meant Hell) is to him without a covering, not mo•e hidden from his Eye.
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, tha 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 vail. 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 vail, Heb. 16.19, 20. alluding to that in the Temple of Solomon, and before that, in Moses's Tabernacle; but expresly signifying that the Holy places into which Christ entred, 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