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A37981 The watch-mans lanthorn being a summ of divinity in a short but very plaine exposition of the Ten commandments, the Lords prayer, and the Creed : fittest to the meanest capacity in a nature of a dialogue / by A.E. A. E., a servant of Jesus Christ. 1655 (1655) Wing E2; ESTC R25569 96,065 185

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highest degree of honour and dignity had descended to the basest estate of a Servant and to the reproach of condemnation and shamefull death should on the other side obtain most noble glory and excellent estate even the same which we had before That his Glory and Majesty might in proportion answer to his baseness and shame Which thing St. Paul also Phil. 2. 8. 9. 10. Eph. 1. 20. 21. 22. 23. Col. 1. 18. writing to the Philippians most plainly teacheth he became saith he obedient to the death even the death of the Cross And therfore God made him the head of the Church advanced him above all Principalities endowed him with the dominion of Heaven and Earth to govern all things exalted him to the highest height gave him a name that is above all names That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow both of things in Heaven Earth and Hell M. When thou namest the right hand of God and sitting dost thou then suppose and imagine that God hath the shape of a man S. No Sir but because we speak of God among men we do in some sort after the manner of men express therby how Christ hath received the Kingdome given him of his Father for Kings use to set Psal 110. 1. Mat. 20. 21 Eph. 1 22 4 15 16. 5 23 Co● 1. 18. them on their right hands to whom they vouchsafe to do highest honour make Lieutenants of their Dominion therefore in these words is meant that God the Father made Christ his Son the Head of the Church and that by him his pleasure is to preserve them that be his and to govern all things universally M. Well said Now what profit take we of his ascending into heaven and sitting on the right hand of his Father S. First Christ as he had descended to the Earth as into banishment for our sake so when he went up into heaven his Fathers Inheritance he entred it in our name making a way and entry thither Ioh. 14 2. 2 Cor. 5. 1. Ephes 2. 18. Heb. 10. 19 20. 22. Ioh. 17. 24. Ephe. 1. 22. 4. 15. Ioh. 16. 26. Rom 8. 34. Heb. 7. 25. 9. 14. 1 Ioh. 2. 1. and opening us the gate of heaven which was before shut against us for sin for sith Christ our Head hath carried with him our flesh into heaven he so mighty and loving a Head will not leave us for ever in earth that are members of his body Moreover he being present in the sight of God and commending us unto him and making Intercession for us is the Patron of our cause who being our Advocate our matter shall not quaile S. But why did he not rather tarry with us here in earth S. When he had fully performed all things that were appointed him of his Father and which belonged to our salvation Iob 14 31. ●7 4. 19. 30. he needed not to tarry any longer on earth Yea also all those things he doth being absent in body which he should do if he were bodily present he preserveth comforteth and strengtheneth correcteth restraineth and chasteneth Moreover as he promiseth he sendeth down Ioh. 14. 16 16. 26. 16. 7. 13. Rom. 5. 5. 8. 9. 16. 1 Cor. 12. 4. c. 2 Cor. 1. 22. Ephe. 1. 17. Rom. 8. 4 c. Col. 3. 1 2. Ephe. 4. 22. 30. his Holy Spirit from heaven into our hearts as a most sure pledge of his good Will by which Spirit he bringeth us out of darkness and mist into open light He giveth sight to the blindness of our minds He chaseth sorrow out of our hearts and healeth the wounds therof and with the divine motion of his Spirit He causeth that looking up to heaven we raise up our minds and hearts from the ground from corrupt affections and earthly things upward to the place where Christ is at the right hand of his Father that we thinking upon and beholding things above and heavenly and so raised up and of upright mind we contemne these our base things life death riches poverty and with lofty and high courage despise all worldly things Finally this may be Mat. 28. 18. Luk 1. 23. Ioh. 17. 2. Eph. 1. 20 21. Phil 2. 9 10. c. the sum that Christ sitting on the right hand of God doth with his Power Wisdome and Providence rule and dispose the world move govern and order all things and so shall do till the frame of the world be dissolved M. Sith then Christ being in his body taken up into heaven doth yet not forsake His here in earth they Judge very grosely that measure his presence or absence by hi● body only S. Yea truely for things that are not bodily cannot be subject to Sense who ever saw his own soul no man but what is more present what nearer what closer joyned then every mans soule to himself spirituall things are not to be seen but Ioh. 8. 58. 14 21. Col. 3. 1. Ephe. 1. 17 18. with the eye of the Spirit Therefore who so will see Christ in earth let him open his eyes not of his body but of his soul and of Faith and he shall see him present whom the eye seeth not M. But with whom doth Faith acknowledge that he is pecu●iarly and most effectually present S. The eye-sight of Faith shall espy him present yea and in the middest Joh. 14. 18. 21. Mat. 18. 19 20. 28. 20. whersoever two or three are gathered together in his Name it shall see him present with them that be his that is with all the true godly even to the end of all worlds What said I it shall see Christ present yea every godly person shall both see and feel him dwelling in himself Ioh. 14. 23. Ephe. 3. 16. 17. Col. 3. 11. ●uke 2 23. 17. 20 21. I●h 6. 15. even as his own soul for he dwelleth and abideth in that mans soul that putteth all his trust in him M. Hast thou yet any more to say hereof S. Christ by ascending and sitting on the right hand of his Father hath removed and throughly rooted up out of mens hearts that false opinion which sometime his Apostles themselves had Mat. 20. 23. Luke 24. 21. Acts 1. 6. conceived namely that Christ should raign visibly here in earth as other Kings of the earth and worldly Princes do the Lord would pull their Error out of their Ioh. 18. 36. minds and have us to think more highly of his Kingdome therefore his Will was to absent himself from our eyes and from all bodily sense that by this means our faith may be both stirred up and exercised Ephe 1. 18. Col. 3. 1 2. to behold his Governance and Providence that is not perceived by bodily sense M. Is there any other why he withdrew himself from the earth into heaven S. Sith he is Prince not of some one Land but of all Lands of the world yea Mat.