b 1f 1 have ſpoken to you plain things, and in a plain Style, hum- bling my Phraſe to your Apprekenfions ; and illuitrating Sublime, ſpiritual Miſteries, which in their own Nature are more remote from your Apprehenfions, by plain, and obvious Similitudes and Pa- rables, and ſpeaking thus, you underſtand and believe not : 'c What would you do, it I ſhould Diſcourſe ro you ſublime and ſpiritual things, without theſe advantages for your underſtandings ?
*Ch. 5.62 13 And* no man hath aſcended up to heaven, but Ez. + 2 he that came down. from heaven d, even the Son of man which 1s in heaven e.
d No man hath ſo aſcended up ro Heaven, as to know the ſecret Willand Counfels of God, ( for of fuch an aſcending it muſt be meant ; otherwiſe, Elijahaſcended up ro Heaven before our Savi- our aſcended ) thus the Phraſe is ſuppoſed to be uſed, Prov. 30. 4 | None but Chriſt, ( whoas to his Divine Nature came down fro Heaven ) hathever fo aſcended thither, e even the Son of Man, who was 1n Heaven, (we tranſlate it, z5 ) bur the Particle @y, is of the Pretermmperfect tenſe. as well as the Preſent tenſe; or who 4 in Hea- ven, by virtue of the Perſonal union of the rwo Natures in the Re- Ocemer, as Acts 20, 28. weread, The Church which he had purcha- Jed with þ3; on blood. By re3ſon of the Perſonal union of the two Natures in Chriſt, tho' the properties of each Natures remain di- ltinct ; yet the properies of each Nature are ſometimes attributed to the whole Perſon. The Lutherans have another notion, aſcribing an Omnipreſence, evento the humane Nature of Chriſt, becauſe ot irs Perfonal Union with the divine Nature ; and fo affirm that Chritts humane Nature while it was on Earth, was alſo ſubltanrially in Heaven ; as on the other ſide, they are as {liff in maintaining thar, alrho' Chriits hamane Nature be now in Heaven, yer it is allo on Earth really and eilentially preſent, wherever the Sacrament of rhe Lords Supp*ris adminiitred ; bur this is to aſcribe a Body unto 74 __ indeed isno Body, according to arry notion we have Ol 4 DOOMY.
14 J Andas Moſes litted up the ſerpent in the wil-
derneſs f, even fo mutt the Son of man be lifted up g.
F The Hiltory of rhe lifting up of the Serpent in the Wildernels, we have, Num. 21.8.9. the people being {tung with fiery Serpents, 43a righteous Judgment of God for their fins, as a merciful Remedy, God commanded Moſes, wv. 8. {Hake thee a fiery ſerpent, (chat 1s,the Image or Repreſentation of one of thoſe fiery Serpents } and ſet it upon a poie, aud it ſhall come to paſi, that every one that s bitten when he looketh upon it ſhall live This brazen Serpent in the Wilder: