that his very bones might be told and lots should be cast for his garment Is not this Jesus whose doctrine I preach unto you This is the Master whom David invites us to hear speaking in the person of God To day if you hear his voice harden not your hearts as your Fore-fathers have done in the desart where I was made angry against those who durst distrust my power and censure all my workes for the space of forty yeares Their infidelity shall not go unpunished I will make them know that I can revenge my self in my wrath I sweare they shall not enter into the place of rest which I had prepared for them Behold dreadfull words and you will doe well to be warned by their loss lest you be excluded also from that place of repose which is offered to you As it availed them little to give ear to the relation of those who returned from the land of Promise and informed them of the true state of it because they would not believe what was said so it is not enough to heare the Gospel preached it must be received humbly to the end you may obtaine by faith the fruition of that repose which is spoken of in the passage I alledged It cannot be that repose which God assumed after he had made the world that being no other thing then a cessation from work nor is it likewise the repose of the Sabbath whose institution was before the birth of David In summe it is not that repose which our Fathers tasted in the Land whereinto they were led by Ioshua for that long since is past therefore it must needs be that the Psalmist speaks of another repose more holy a Sabbath more excellent which appertains to the people of God and in which the Just do eternally repose from all their labours as formerly our Lord did repose the seventh day from all his works Moyses could not bring us into that place where this divine Sabbath is celebrated Jesus Christ entred there the first to open it to those who should receive his doctrine This is the Priest deserving adoration who to purifie heaven and earth and to reconcile man to God has not not made use of the bloud of goats and bulls but of his owne which he has shed to the last drop upon the Altar of the Cross The high Priest of the Law was obliged to offer Sacrifices for his own sins as well as those of the People Jesus Christ is the Sovereign high Priest pure holy unpolluted uncapable of any spot consequently needs not offer any victime for himself he hath not received his Priest-hood by way of a carnall birth and succession as the Priests according to Aaron did but hee has been established eternal Priest according to the order of Melchisedec as we learn by those words of the Psalmist which you confess are to be understood of the Messias Our Lord hath sworne thou art an eternal Priest according to the order of Melchisedec If the Levitical Priest-hood which the people received together with the Law guided to perfection that is to say gave true Justice what need was there that another Priest should come according to the order of Melchisedec and if the Priest-hood be transferred it then follows that the Law is also changed because these two things are inseparably linked together Now that there has been a translation of the Priest-hood 't is not to be doubted since he of whom that passage I alledged speaks was of the Tribe of Iuda and not of Levi out of which Moyses ordained that the Priests should be chosen Observe also that the Leviticall Priest-hood was not established by oath as is that which I treat and this circumstance shewes the sanctity and immutability of that thing unto which God has pleased to unite it There were to be many Priests according to the order of Aaron because they were mortal But the Priest-hood of Jesus Christ is eternall as well as himself he has alwaies power to guide those to eternall salvation who believe in him He is alwaies in the functions of his Priesthood that is to say in continual oblation of himself to God and in prayer without intermission for hee that sayes Eternal Priest sayes also Eternal Oblation The Levitical Priests stood during the exercise of their Functions Jesus Christ having once offered the Hoast of his body is seated at the right hand of God according to the words of the Psalmist The Lord said to my Lord Take thy place till I have put thy enemies under my feet Be not you of that number my deare Brethren you that are descended from Abraham the Father of the Faithfull you whose Ancestours have been so holy you to whom those promises were made and for whom Jesus Christ principally came doe not permit strangers to carry away the benediction due to lawful children and having hitherto born the heavy yoke of Moyses doe not fear now to submit your selvs to that of Jesus Christ which is so light and pleasing And in this you will even obey Moyses by whom as you know God promised That after many ages hee would raise a Prophet of your Nation to whom hee would have you attend as to himself The Apostle spake much after this manner his discourse raised great Disputes amongst his Auditours some blaming what others approved some believing others continuing obstinate S. Paul finding hee could gaine little upon them hee told them freely I know well that ye will fulfill the prophesie of Esay to whom God spake in these tearms Goe to the Children of Israel and tell them You shall hear with your ears but shall not understand with your mindes you shall see with the eyes of the body but not with those of the soule for the heart of this people is suffocated with fat they have heard with their ears against their wills being incensed have shut their eyes for feare they should see by their eyes take in by their eares consent by their hearts and wills and so work their conversion and their cure The incredulous Jewes were extreamly offended at these words and more which he added viz. That the news of salvation should be carried to the Gentiles who would imbrace it This discourse gave occasion of much dispute to the Audience who not being able to come to an agreement every one returned home possessed with different thoughts and opinions Hitherto we have proceeded securely following the steps of Saint Luke who ends here his story and leaves the Apostle in the Confusion of Rome where he saies he remained two years and during that time preached the Doctrine of Jesus Christ without any let Receiving with freedome all those who came to see him Hence what concerns the rest of his life we know little yet I will endeavour to ground what I shall adde more of this Subject either upon certaine traditions or from his owne Epistles In the second Epistle which he writes to Tymothy his dear
themselves very happy if the Apostles would receive the price which they brought and layed at their feet to be distributed amongst the poor Ananias and his Wife Saphira for having concealed the best part were punished with suddain death and thinking they had onely lyed to a man found they had lyed to the Holy Ghost There brake forth about that time some little murmuring amongst the Jews that were born out of Judea who to distinguish themselves from those who were born in Jury assumed the appellation of Greeks because they spake Greek and made use of that language in reading the Holy Scriptures that is to say of the Septuagint translation These complained that their widdows who served in the daily ministery were neglected that is there was not care taken to assist them in their necessities and that the publique Alms were not equally distributed amongst them or according to another opinion that they were not imployed in the exercises of Charity toward the poor as the widdows of the other Jews were The Apostles to prevent the danger which that discontent might cause assembled the faithful together and proposed the election of seven discreet men unblemished in reputation and replenished with the Holy Ghost who might distribute those necessaries to the poore holding it not meet for themselves to leave the administration of the holy word to which they attended without any interruption for this office of charity which was of much less importance The people followed this Counsel and chose Stephen Philip Prochorus Nicanor Timon Parmenas and Nicholas of Antioch The Apostles to whom they were presented laied their hands upon them and ordained them Deacons Stephen held the first place amongst them for the profoundness of his Doctrine the fervency of his Zeal and the purity of his life Saint Luke in the Acts calls him a man full of Faith and of the Holy Ghost He was not content to distribute the material bread but he also brake that of the word amongst them having care to nourish their souls as well as their bodies His Sermons were accompanied with miracles which served to overthrow what the other had shaken Every day he spake in the Synagogue or Schooles which were in Jerusalem against the Jews of divers Nations and against those of the Synagogue of Libertines which in my opinion is to be understood of those who were made Slaves in the precedent or in some other war betwixt the Romans and the Jews and had received their liberty in Rome whether they were originally Jews or Proselites of different Nations against the Cyrenians Alexandrians those of Cilicia and the lesser Asia These disputing against him could not resist the Holy Ghost who spake by his Mouth and notwithstanding they were confounded they would not be overcome but contrariwise their confusion stirred them up to animosity and wanting reasons nor yet willing to yeild to truth they resolve to have recourse unto calumny so to ruine him The pretence of Religion furnished them with an opportunity according to their desire They published by the means of some confiding and unsuspected persons that Stephen did frequently utter blasphemy against the Majestie of God and the Honour of Moses The accusers affirmed to have heard that which they reported whereupon the people who slightly examine things especially when it concerns their Religion presently enter into fury The Priests and Doctors instead of moderating encrease the flame In this heat Stephen was hurried away and conducted by those who had raised the tumult unto the Councel where matters of Religion were handled There they made him to be accused by divers false witnesses that he should say Jesus of Nazareth would destroy the Temple and change the traditions of Moses All the Judges fixt their eyes upon him and beheld a sparkling Majestie in his face like to that of an Angel without the least sign of emotion which was no small evidence of his innocency The High-Priest asked him if he had spoken those blasphemies whereof he was accused and then he answered after this manner Fathers and Brethren God who has no need but of himself to be happy and in whom is contained a perfect collection of all good at the time prefixt by his providence for that purpose appeared to our Fore-father Abraham whilest he yet inhabited Mesopotamia commanding him to leave his Country and betake himself to another which he would shew unto him promising him in exchange a better and more fertile Land a particular assistance against all kinde of Enemies and an extraordinary Blessing unto all Nations in his Seed This great Patriarch presently obeyed the Commandment of his Lord and with joy left his Country and Kinred first of all he dwelt in Charon with his Father and after his death he went thence to dwell in that Country promised to him where notwithstanding he lived as a stranger and had not there the possession of one handful of Land The accomplishment of the promise being reserved for his posterity God told him they should be ill used and live under a troublesome bondage in a strange Country for the space of four hundred years but in the end he would set them at liberty having first by a dreadfull punishment afflicted those who had oppressed them At that time Abraham had no Son which might make him beleeve that Prophesie concerned his posterity But when he lest expected a lawful Heir to his possessions in regard of his old age and the barrennes of Sara he beheld himself the Father of Isaac On the eighth day after he was born he circumcised him according to a command received whereunto also he had already satisfied in himself esteeming it a great honour to bear so glorious a mark of alliance with his Sovereign Isaac begat Jacob and Jacob the twelve Patriarchs Joseph whom his Father loved particularly was sold by his Brethren who thought they had dealt favourably in not sacrificing him to their jealousie after a more cruel manner God who was his Protector raised him out of prison to the second place of Egypt his unchast Mistress whose indignation he had incurred by his continency and fidelity was the cause that Pharao became rather his friend then Sovereign and made him Master of his Kingdom as well as of his Heart In those days there was an extraordinary Famine which wasted the whole country of Canaan And our Fore-fathers having no corn left in their country were forced to repair into Egypt where by the provident Oeconomy of Joseph the Kings Granaries swelled in great abundance Jacob sent his Sons thither and in their second voyage they knew him whom they had sold having before designed his death They were much terrified when they found themselves in the power of them they used so ill But he forgot their cruelty and shewed himself to remember onely that he was their Brother He wept with them and made them known to Pharao and his whole Court and returned them home laden with presents charging them withall
to bring his Father Jacob to him The good old man surprised with these glad tydings was overjoyed to think he should satisfie his eyes before he left this world with the sight of him whom he had often bewayled as dead he went then into Egypt and after he had lived there some years in great quiet and peace died in the arms of his Son Joseph Our Ancestors also died there and those that descended of them multiplied extreamly in a few years At last the time of the Divine promise made to Abraham drawing nigh there sate in the Throne of Egypt a Prince who had never heard the name of Joseph time having made him forgotten and seeing the daily increase of our Nation after an extraordinary manner he began to apprehend least those strangers should render themselves Masters of his country whereupon he imployed both craft and violence to work their extirpation To this end there is nothing horrid in Tyranny which he did not impose upon them But notwithstanding their labour and bad dyet they thrived so wel that it seemed rather to contribute to their increase then ruine Hence by an impious edict be commanded their Midwives to stifle all the Male Children of the Israelites and save onely the Female But this inhumane command was not obeyed and God abundantly recompenced the mercy shewed to those innocent creatures whom a barbarous Tyrant would have sacrificed to his jealousie Moses was born in this wonderful persecution His parents after they had concealed him three moneths in their house fearing least he might be discovered exposed him upon the River Pharao's Daughter coming thither to bath her self perceived the Cradle of Bull-rushes in which he floted upon the water she sent to take it up and by that means was the instrument of his preservation She was not satisfied in exhibiting an ordinary compassion towards him but tendered him with a Motherly care and of an Infant exposed she adopted him Son and Heir to a great Kingdom His Education was answerable to so high a fortune and by the progress he made in all the Sciences of the Egyptians by the excellency of his wit his solid judgement his generous courage his modest behavior and the greatness of his actions he shewed himself worthy of the Scepter ordained for him But God had other designs and would make use of him to destroy that Empire which he seemed to be chosen out to govern At the age of forty yeers God inspired him to visit those of his Nation in the places where they dwelt and there he found an Egyptian roughly treating an Israelite whence a just resentment transported him to revenge the Injury done unto his Brother by the death of him that abused him The next day seeing two Israelites quarrelling together he said to them you are Brethren why injure you one another But he that abused his Companion without cause askt him who hath made you our Prince and the Judge of our differences perhaps you will kill me as you did yesterday the Egyptian That discourse troubled Moses and by divine providence made him to fly into the Land of Madian where taking a Wife he begot two Sons He was fourscore years of age when in the Desarts of Mount Sina an Angel appeared to him in the middest of a flaming bush unconsumed This Prodigy astonished him and drawing neer to behold it at a less distance The Lord spake unto him in these words I am the God of thy Fore-fathers the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob put of thy shooes for the earth thou treadest upon is holy I have beheld the affliction of my captive people their complaints have reached my ears I am descended to deliver them from this cruel bondage and upon this occasion I will send you into Egypt Fathers and Brethren observe here that this Moses whom the two Israelites rejected with disdain saying who has established thee Judge and Prince over us was the Prince and Redeemer of the Jewish people with the assistance of that Angel which appeared to him in the burning bush Egypt wondered at the miraculous things of his Rod the Sea divided it self to make passage for the multitude he led in the Desart The rock yeilded him water for the space of forty years a celestial Manâ—◠〈◊〉 every morning from Heaven to 〈◊〉 our 〈◊〉 And a thousand other wonders â—â—â—…ered his govâ—rnment faâ—â—us May not we here behold an admirable figure of the Saviour which you have rejected notwithstanding that he came to deliver you from a more cruel captivity and more miserable then that of our Fore-fathers But this same Moses whose Doctrine you accuse me to condemn did not he promise to you him whose Gospel I now preach and whose name is so odious to you when he said God will raise from the middest of you a Prophet whom you shall hear as you hear me certainly you heard him as our Ancestors heard Moses and whilest Moses was conversing with our Lord upon the Mountain those ungratefull people inforced Aaron to make molten gods which should conduct them not knowing as they saiea what was become of Moses They adored the Golden Calf and gave that honour to the work of their hands which was due onely to their Creator This horrible Idolatry so incensed God that be exterminated this great multitude by divers punishments Two only of them that remained besides those who were born in the Desarts entered into the Land of Promise under the conduct of Joshua The assistance of our Lord ceased not with the death of this great Captain Our Ancestours alwayes found him favourable so long as they continued faithfull to his service The divers servitudes they were under so long as the government remained in the hands of Judges were onely caused by their Idolatry and prostitution to all sorts of wickedness Ease and plenty corrupted those whom the perils of Warre and feare of Enemies had kept within the bounds of fidelity They contracted unfortunate marriages with the daughters of their neighbours and that conjugall union occasioned their separation from God for by little and little they followed the manners of their Wives and to make themselves good husbands they were not afraid to become wicked men They left the God of Heaven for the stars which he had fixed there and the purity of his sacrifices for the abominations of Moloch Their ingratitude was not left unpunished for our Lord at severall times raysed Infidel Kings against them who made them know their sin by the rigour they used towards them The yoke of the Philistins was the longest and David delivered them entirely from it He was the man according to Gods heart It was he whom God placed in the Throne with a solemn promise that his Posterity should reign for ever This Prince who was as godly as valiant desired to build a house to our Lord that might be stable and firm for since they left Egypt they had adored him in a
there in the world any thing comparable to the glory of her Temple All Nations acknowledge this and these things being without dispute you need not fear any can attempt against the honour of that Divinity which you serve therefore take heed you undertake nothing rashly It is certaine these men whom you have brought hither to destroy are not guilty of any blasphemy against your Goddess Wherefore if Demetrius and those of his trade which follow him have any dispute with them why should you for their particular interest make this a generall cause Are there not persons ordained to decide causes and Magistrates who have power and ought to determine such differences But if there be question of any other thing you must remit the clearing of it to a lawfull Assemby and not treat of it in this which seemes to be altogether seditious Consider therefore well that we are responsable for the evill which may happen upon this and we run the hazard to be accused of sedition since we can give no good account of this dayes tumult This discourse appeased the people and happily saved the disciples of the Apostle who took resolution to leave this City that he might execute his former design of visiting the Churches of Achaia Macedonia and goe to Hierusalem from whence he proposed to himselfe to goe to Rome but without doubt in another manner then we shall see him conducted thither He left his dearly beloved Timothy to governe the Church of Ephesus whom Eusebius will have to be the first Bishop of that place He remained with them near three years and during that time Apollo of whom we have spoken came to Corinth to preach the Gospel the which he performed with so much eloquence as many taken therewith and judging of things only by apparance beâ—an to despise the Apostle who had taught them the same verities but in a more plain way accommâ—dated to their weakness Those who loved the memory of their first Master and remembred his holy waâ—… of struction defended him with a little too much heat insomuch as their Church began to be in some danger of Schisme the sequel whereof might have proved very dangerous Besides this disorder there was a man amongst them who had abused the wife of his Father They differed also much in opinions about the use of meates offered to Idols and there was some abuse in the banquets which they call Agapes that is to say Charitable where they took irreverently the Holy Eucharist There was moreover a great division amongst them by reason of Sutes of Law pleaded before Judges that were Gentiles these brought a scandal upon the Doctrine of the Gospel which recommends to the Professors nothing more then charity and the contempt of worldly goods These disorders obliged Saint Paul to write his first Epistle to the Corinthians There he fulminates excommunication against incestuous persons even to the terrour of the most confident and to let them know what they were to expect for it was neither out of the heat of zeale nor interest or compliance but to vindicate the honour of the Church and to save him whom for a time it was necessary to put into the hands of the Devil to the end he might not for ever remain so He rebukes the Corinthians who by their bitterness in Law-Sutes dishonoured the name of Jesus Christ And told them It was very ill done to plead one against another but much worse and more considerrable to doe it before Judges who were Idolaters That they ought rather to choose the meanest persons of the Church to accord their differences who would be capable enough to judge of such temporall things the Faithfull being onely to judge the World and the Devils He put them in minde that before Baptisme they were soyled with abominable ordures but by their spiritual regeneration they were become the Temples of God and the members of Jesus Christ therefore this glorious quality obliged them to be pure and that their bodies were not given to serve fornication it being not their part to dispose of them but our Lord and that God would raise them again He instructs married people also to use marriage as a holy thing and permits them to separate themselves that they may be vacant in prayer which he means should be done but for a term of time and then to return to their conjugall society as an innocent remedy against incontinence Notwithstanding he protests that he permits it them by indulgence because the severity of Christian Lawes in marriage allow the use of it onely for the generation of children but mans infirmity requires it that he might resist temptations so that as Saint Augustine hath since said the sanctity of Nuptials render pardonable that which properly appertains not to marriages From this Subject he passes to treat of Virginity which he councels by his example and by reason in that it does perfectly withdraw one from the tye of creatures and cares of the World Those who are of opinion that S. Paul was married should doe well to blot out the words he sets down in this Epistle if they will defend so new and ill grounded an opinion Notwithstanding he leaves this Angelical rather then humane forme of life under the bare terms of Counsel and protests there is no precept of our Lord for it that he onely counsels it as believing it better and of more advantage to the Corinthians He exhorts Widows to continue in their widowhood and if they cannot keep the purity of that state to espouse themselves to our Lord that is to say with a Christian intention and with such as believe in Jesus Christ and not for sensuality Concerning meats offered to Idols he teaches them that the use is indifferent in it self but yet they ought to abstain from them lest the simple people who conceive them forbidden should be scandalized to see them eaten and they themselves may thereby take occasion to eat them after a superstitious manner To confirme this Document he represents unto them That in delivering them the Gespel he would not suffer them to furnish him with necessaries for his subsistence although he had right to receive nay indeed to require it That he seemed to be a Jew amongst the Jewes and not to observe the Law amongst those that knew not the Law In fine that he made himselfe all things to all to gaine all men to God But there is nothing he reproves with so much fervour as the irreverence which they committed before their approach to the Holy Table He shewes the institution of the Eucharist and sayes That as often as we eat it we announce the death of our Lord untill his comming again that is to say this Sacrament is the lively commemoration of the death of Jesus Christ and so a participation of his body and blood offered upon the Cross He concludes That he who drinks and eats this unworthily is guilty of the body and bloud of our Lord
pleased both in Heaven and Earth could doe nothing he desired in our will without wounding the liberty of it he I say who has created it free and who knowes best how it must be moved It is just we should be careful of our will but it is more reasonable we should be careful of the honour and power of him that hath bestowed it upon us and who healing its infirmity contracted by sin communicates this liberality unto us for the glory of his grace and not for the satisfaction of our vanity we must not stop at verity because it is harsh and humbles our humane understanding it is sufficient that it is an Evangelical verity which will have us to captivate our reaâ—on to the yoak of Faith and will not suffer that man should believe himselfe to have the greatest part in the work of his salvation The portion properly due to him is falshood and sinne and when God crownes his good works with the Crown of justice 't is after he has given him those good works as the Father of mercies We hold of him both our will and our acting as he begins in us 't is fit he should prosecute and bring to an end the designs of grace and love which he sets on foot for our eternal salvation The Apostle was resolved to take the way of Syria but the Jewes way-laying him enforced him to lengthen his journey and to turn back to pass by Macedonia Sosipater of the City of Beroe Aristarchus Secundus Caius and Timothy all of them Thessalonians Tichycus and Trophymus went before to expect him at Troad Thither he came with Saint Luke the Historian of his life After the Feast of Easter he abode there seven dayes during which time without intermission he announced unto them the Mysteries of God Upon a Sunday towards Evening the faithful being assembled together to receive the Eucharist he made them a long discourse the which if we consider his divine instructions we may suppose was much after this manner This action we have now in hand fills me with joy beyond expression for certainly our Master could not leave us a better testimony of his extream love then in giving this Bread which we break and this Cup which we bless For in eating the one doe we not participate of his body and in drinking the other doe we not participate of his bloud And could he close up his life better then in the institution of this adorable Mystery by which he continues amongst men to the end of the world 'T is he himselfe who has vouchsafed to reveale unto me that in that night when Judas delivered him into the hands of his enemies he took bread and giving thankes to his Father brake it and gave it to his Apostles saying to them Take and eat this is my Body which shall be delivered up for you Doe this in remembrance of me Likewise he took the Chalice after he had supped and said This Chalice is the new Testament in my bloud Doe this in commemoration of me every time you drink of it So that as often as you eat of this Bread and drink of this Chalice you declare the death of our Lord until his comming again But what doe you think Commemoration is and unto what in your opinions does it oblige you I will tell you in few words You must not onely call to minde the death of Jesus Christ but you must make it shine in your affections in your desires in your words to be brief in every passage of your life You must become Preachers of the Cross without speaking and by the Sanctity of your examples you must make that to be honoured and loved which to the Gentiles is a folly and to the Jewes a scandal If you be animated with this Spirit like persons grafted on the Cross of Jesus Christ you will produce fruits answerable to the root from which you sprung up If you hate the world which the Cross condemnes and which the Cross shall one day judge If you have shame ignominy reproaches poverty hunger thirst torments persecution of strangers displeasure of Parents deceits of Servants treason of false Brothers All which are fruits of the Cross of Jesus Christ I say if you be thus disposed and in the practise of these things then believe you are well prepared to eat the bread of which I speak and to thrive by its nourishment But if contrarywise you love the world and are wedded to Honours Riches Reputation Pleasures and other things of the Earth either by enjoying them or by an inordinate affection to them In a word if you eat this bread unworthily know that you are guilty of high Treason against the Body and Bloud of our Lord. God will not have the Kings of the Earth to be touched and declares that he will revenge their injuries because they are his anointed though onely by an exteriour and material Unction How severely then may ye think he will punish those who shall pollute the Body and Bloud of his Sonne whom he has established King upon Mount Sion to command over all the Kings of the Earth and who is his anointed by the ineffable Unction of his Divinity which inhabites corporally in him You abhor those Executioners who fastned him to the Cross pierced his feet and hands spit in his face and crowned his head with thornes But if you approach unworthily to his Table to eat his flesh and drink his bloud you are the greater offenders for they were Infidels and took him for a Criminal But you profess to believe in him and know that he is the Holy of God and the Source of the Sanctity of men Therefore try your selves diligently without flattering your selves in your evil customes Make a strict scrutiny against your selves enter into the bottome of your soule to discerne there the difference betwixt a lively and dead Faith betwixt a firme and a faint languishing hope betwixt a true and a feined Charity betwixt your love of Jesus Christ your love of creatures and your selves Notwithstanding this examine doe not think your selves so saintly disposed as is requisite to be altogether worthy of this heavenly bread for so long as we live in this world we cannot our selves be free from many defects and frailties But there is a great deal of difference betwixt faults which spring against our will from the corruption of our natures and the love of those defaults or our obstinacy to continue in wickedness For I speak not here of dogs that live in filth and often turn to their vomit biting their neighbors with their slandering tongues I have often told you that netiher Fornicators nor those who commit other villanies which I will not so much as name to you nor Theeves nor covetous persons nor envious nor slanderous nor proud shall enter into the Kingdome of Heaven Now all those who are excluded from a Heavenly Kingdome must be also banished from that which God has upon Earth