Concerning the place wherein men shall enjoy that eternal life which Christ hath obtained for them, the texts next before alleged seem to make it on earth. For if as in Adam all die, that is, have forfeited paradise and eternal life on earth, even so in Christ all shall be made alive; then all men shall be made to live on earth; for else the comparison were not proper. Hereunto seemeth to agree that of the psalmist (_Psalm_. cxxxiii. 3) _upon Zion God commanded the blessing, even life for evermore_: for Zion is in Jerusalem upon earth: as also that of St. John (_Rev._ ii. 7) _To him that overcometh I will give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God_. This was the tree of Adam’s eternal life; but his life was to have been on earth. The same seemeth to be confirmed again by St. John (_Rev._ xxi. 2), where he saith, _I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband_: and again (verse 10) to the same effect: as if he should say, the new _Jerusalem_, the paradise of God, at the coming again of Christ, should come down to God’s people from heaven, and not they go up to it from earth. And this differs nothing from that, which the two men in white clothing, that is the two angels, said to the apostles that were looking upon Christ ascending (_Acts_ i. 11) _This same Jesus, who is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come, as you have seen him go up into heaven_. Which soundeth as if they had said he should come down to govern them under his Father eternally here, and not take them up to govern them in heaven; and is conformable to the restoration of the kingdom of God instituted under Moses, which was a political government of the Jews on earth. Again, that saying of our Saviour (_Matth._ xxii. 30), _that in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven_, is a description of an eternal life, resembling that which we lost in Adam in the point of marriage. For seeing Adam and Eve, if they had not sinned, had lived on earth eternally in their individual persons; it is manifest, they should not continually have procreated their kind; for if immortals should have generated as mankind doth now, the earth in a small time would not have been able to afford them place to stand on. The Jews that asked our Saviour the question, whose wife the woman that had married many brothers should be in the resurrection, knew not what were the consequences of life eternal: and therefore our Saviour puts them in mind of this consequence of immortality; that there shall be no generation, and consequently no marriage, no more than there is marriage or generation among the angels. The comparison between that eternal life which Adam lost, and our Saviour by his victory over death hath recovered, holdeth also in this; that as Adam lost eternal life by his