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

Whence therefore, nothing is more obvious, than to conceive, that whosoever is adjoined to them, ascending out of our Wo•ld, presently hath his Station assigned him, is made to know his post▪ and how he is to be employed, in the service and adoration ⟨p. 149⟩of the Sovereign Lord of all, and in paying the most regular homage, to the Th•one of God and the Lamb. It being still to be remembered, that God is not worshipped there, or here, as an [Greek or Hebrew], or as though he needed any thing, since he gives to all breath and being and all things, Acts 17. But that the felicity of his most excellent Creatures, doth in great part consist, in acting perpetually according to the dictate of a just & right mind. And that therefore they take highest pleasure in prostration, in casting down their Crowns, in shrinking even into nothing, before the Original, Eternal, Subsistent Being, that he may be owned as the all in all, because they follow, herein, a most satisfied judgment, and express it when they say, Thou art worthy O Lord, to receive Glory, and Honour ⟨p. 150⟩and Power, for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are, and were created, Rev. 4.11. And worthy is the Lamb that was slain, to receive Riches, and Wisdom, and Strength, &c. ch. 5.12.

Whence therefore, nothing is more obvious, than to conceive, that whosoever is adjoyned to them, ascending out of our Wo•ld, presently hath his Station assigned him, is made to know his post▪ and how he is to be employed, in the se•vice and adoration ⟨p. 149⟩of the Sovereign Lord of all, and in paying the most regular homage, to the Th•one of God and the Lamb. It being still to be remembred, that God is not worshiped there, or here, as an , or as though he needed any thing, since he gives to all breath and being and all things,