A65285:978
A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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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.
3. The Fruit of Christ's Ascension: Christ's Ascension to Heaven causeth the Descension of the Holy Spirit into our Hearts, Eph. 4.8. When he ascended up on high he gave gifts to men. Christ having ascended up in the Clouds as his Triumphant Chariot, gives the Gift of his Spirit to us: As a King at his Coronation bestows Gifts liberally to his Favourites.
3. The Fruit of Christ's Ascension: Christ's Ascension to Heaven causeth the Descention of the Holy Spirit into our Hearts, Eph. 4.8. When he ascended up on high he gave gifts to men. Christ having ascended up in the Clouds as his Triumphant Chariot, gives the Gift of his Spirit to us: As a King at his Coronation bestows Gifts liberally to his Favourites.
4. God hath exalted Christ in his Session at God's right hand, Mark 16.19. After the Lord had spoken to them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God. Eph. 1.20. He raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand, far above all principality, and power, and every name that is named.
Quest. What is meant by Christ's sitting at God's right hand?