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

1. The vast amplitude of the Heavenly Hades, in comparison of our minute spot of Earth, or of that dark Region (wheresoever it is) reserved for the just punishment of delinquents, according to such intimations as the Holy Scriptures give us hereof, which being writ only for the use of us on Earth, cannot be supposed to intend the giving us more distinct accounts of the state of things, in the upper World, than were necessary for us, in this our present state.

1. The vast amplitude of the Heavenly Hades, in comparison of our minute spot of Earth, or of that dark Region (wheresoever it is) reserved for the just punishment of dilinquents, according to such intimations as the Holy Scriptures give us hereof, which being writ only for the use of us on Earth, cannot be supposed to intend the giving us more distinct accounts of the state of things, in the upper World, than were necessary for us, in this our present state.

But it is no obscure hint that is given of the spaciousness of the Heavenly Regions, when purposely to represent the Divine immensity, 'tis said of the unconfined presence of the great God, that even Heaven, and the Heaven of Heavens cannot contain him, 1 King. 8.27. 2 Chron. 6.18. How vast scope is given to our thinking minds to conceive Heavens, above Heavens, encircling one another, till we have quite tired our faculty, and yet we know not how far short we are of the utmost verge! And when our Lord is said to have ascended far above all Heavens, Ephes. 4.10. Whose Arithmetic will suffice to tell how many they are? whose Uranography to describe how far that is?

But it is no obscure hint that is given of the spaciousness of the Heavenly Regions, when purposely to represent the Divine immensity, 'tis said of the unconsined presence of the great God, that even Heaven, and the Heaven of Heavens cannot contain him,