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spirit_n	ghost_n	holy_a	time_n	8,209	5	3.7442	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43113	An antidote against that poysonous and fundamental error of the Quakers denying the same numerical true and real manhood of Jesus Christ in heaven, a place remote from the earth : in two sermons preached at Hartford / by W.H. Christophilus.	Haworth, William.	1676 (1676)	Wing H1195; ESTC R514	18,456	23

things is either his giving gifts to his Church He is speaking of this in the 8th verse When he ascended be gave gifts to men it is spoke so generally here and universally all things because the Gentiles as well as Jews were now of the Church and all filled with gifts from Christ in Heaven Otherwise I answer thus fulfilled all things for so the word will bear he fulfilled all things that were written of him and that were required of him to do 3. Object Christ said to his Disciples Matth. 28.20 I am with you alway 〈◊〉 the end of the World How then can he be in Heaven Answ This he speaks in reference to the presence of the Spirit in the hearts of his People working in their Souls and giving gifts to his Minister by this Spirit and succeeding them in their Labours with his blessing but it cannot be spoke of his humanity for of that he had said Me you have not alwayes And in another place Do this till I come which implyes his bodily absence 4. Object It 's said 1 Cor. 15. Flesh and Blood cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven Therefore Christ is not there as to his Manbood Answ Flesh and Flood unchanged and so mortal corruptible cannot but changed and so immortal incorruptible may and can and so was Christs Flesh upon his Resurrection and so he entred into Glory The Qualities are changed but the very same Substance remains 5. Object It is said by Christ when here on Earth John 3.13 The Son of Man which is in Heaven By this it appears that Christ was in Heaven when on Earth and so every where when on Earth and so now Answ This is spoken by a communication of Properties that which is only proper to one Nature is spoken of the other Nature He was not in Heaven as to his Body it is only true as to his Deity but he attributes Omnipresence to his whole Person by this figurative way of speech as that Acts 20. The Church of God which he hath purchased with his own Blood How can Blood be attributed to God but by this way of speaking So likewise 1 Cor. 2.8 Crucified the Lord of Glory is spoken in the same way Reasons of this viz. Christ being now a Man in Heaven Reason 1. If Christ be not now a Man in Heaven then there is no Intercession for us and so there is no Mediator Christ is Mediator and Intercessor according to his Humane Nature as well as his Divine Nature take away the Humane Nature and he ceases to be an Intercessor Under the Law they had an High-Priest that was a Man like themselves who when he had offered the Sacrifice for the Sins of the People went into the Holy Place with the Blood to appear there in their behalf this was a Figure of Christ's Priesthood therefore the Apostle speaks thus in Heb. 9.24 For Christ is not entered into the Holy Places made with hands which are the Figures of the true but into Heaven it self now to appear in the presence of God for us Now as I said this Intercession is quite nulled if no Humanity remain'd so that all the Saints remain still full of Wants Weallnesses Fallings Infirmities and there is none to Advocate for them but they must Plead for themselves and how can we of our selves draw near to such an Infinitely Glorious Majesty and have not a Mid 〈…〉 all our Prayers would be lost and we should be utterly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 up Let it then be 〈◊〉 how sad a thing it would be to the Highest Ground of a Christians Triumph which is this viz. That Christ rather fits on the right hand of God That there is none now to bear our Names before the Father as the High-Priest under the Law bare all the Names of the Tribes upon his Breast The Faith of this hath been and is daily sweet unto the Saints and therefore the Church is brought in Praying Set me as a Seal upon thy Heart as a Seal upon thine Arm Cant. 8.6 Reason 2. If Christ be not a Man now in Heaven then is there no entring into Glory and Heaven for any as there was upon the Fall of Man a Church placed with a Flaming Sword at the Gate of Paradise so that there was no entring any more for Man Why so by reason of the Sin of Man there was no entring into Glory because of God's Flaming Justice had not the Man Christ entred in and made way for us all that ever entred into Glory entred by Virtue of Christ's entring as Man John 14.2 I go to prepare a Place for you his going thither did prepare the Place for us Heb. 10.19 Having therefore Brethren boldness to enter into the Holiest by the Blood of Jesus Ver. 20. By a new and living way which he hath consecrated for us through the Vail of his Flesh The People under the Law were not to enter into the Holiest only the High-Priests alone by the Blood Christ our High-Priest hath now entred into Heaven by his Blood and hath thereby made us a Royal Priesthood so that now we may enter into Glory therefore are we said Ephes 2. to be set down with him in Heavenly Places He being our Head and having entered we being united are entered also In him we have a pledge and first Fruits of Glory but if he be not entered as Man we have no hopes of Glory Reason 3. If Christ be not a Man in Heaven then is not the Spirit not any Gifts thereof upon any What ever is of the Spirit upon any it is by virtue of Christ as Man entering into Glory That pouring out of the Spirit that we read of in the second of the Acts was by virtue of Christs Ascending into Heaven in his Manhood Verse 33. Therefore being at the Right hand of God exalted and having received of the Father the Promise of the Holy Ghost he hath shed forth this which ye now see and hear As Christ is Man and so Mediator all things come first into his ha●●● 〈…〉 from him to us therefore he hath received and shed forth this The Prophets and Saints had the Spirit before his Ascension but they had it by Virtue of this his Ascension therefore when it is said The Spirit was not yet given because he was not yet glorified John 7.39 It speaks of a more plentiful beffosion of the Spirit this plentiful effusion was reserved till this time of his Ascension to seal up the fruits of his Death and Resurrection All the Gifts for the Instruction and Edification of the Church comes this way viz. by virtue of Christ's Ascension as Man into Heaven Ephes 4.8 Wherefore he saith when he ascended up on high he led Captivity Captive and gave Gifts unto men Which is taken from Psal 68.18 There it is he received Gifts He received them not for himself but on purpose to give them to his Church as Kings on their Coronation dayes bestow gifts upon their Subjects