Of the true Ascension of the Lords body, that arose a body and no Spirit, and of his place whether he went to be in.Of the true Ascension of the Lordes body, that arose a bodye and no Spirite, and of his place vvhether hee vvent to be in.

CHAP. 6. Of the true Ascension of the Lords body, that arose a body and no Spirit, and of his place whether he went to be in.

CHAP. 6. Of the true Ascension of the Lordes body, that arose a bodye and no Spirite, and of his place vvhether hee vvent to be in.

Moreover, it shall be expedient to know, to what ⟨p. 30⟩place the true body of the Lord was carried or came: whether it was laid in the earth again, or vanished away, or turned into the nature of the Godhead, or otherwise changed into a sprite. In this point, we affirm thus: The right old Christian faith, the upright holy scripture, & the ancient Doctrine of the Christian church, doth teach, hold, and confess, that Jesus Christ, very go• and man, hath not laid away, no• mixed together, nor yet put of hi• natures, the godhead & the ma• hood: but that he keepeth still both natures in their properties v• blemished, & that he ascended v• to heaven very true God & ma• ⟨p. 31⟩For so we knowledge and confess in the Creed: he ascended up to heaven. We find also in the gospel of Mark: so then, when the Lord had spoken unto them,¹ he was received into heaven, & sitteth on the right hand of god. Item Ruffinus an old writer (who hath declared the articles of the faith) saith:² he ascended into the heavens: not thither where the word, that is God, was not afore (for he was ever still in heaven and continued in his father) •ut thither where the word, that became man, sate not afore. Yet il we declare this more plainly out of the gospel of Luke,