that which our Saviour saith, _Salvation is from the Jews_, is the same that Paul says (_Rom._ i. 16, 17) _The Gospel is the power of God to salvation to every one that believeth: to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith_; from the faith of the Jew to the faith of the Gentile. In the like sense the prophet Joel describing the day of Judgment, (chap. ii. 30, 31) that God would _shew wonders in heaven, and in earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke; the sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord come_: he addeth, (verse 32) _and it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be salvation._ And _Obadiah_, (verse 17) saith the same, _Upon Mount Zion shall be deliverance; and there shall be holiness, and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions_, that is the possessions of the _heathen_, which _possessions_, he expresseth more particularly in the following verses, by the _mount of Esau_, the _Land of the Philistines_, the _fields of Ephraim_, of _Samaria_, _Gilead_, and the _cities of the south_, and concludes with these words, _the kingdom shall be the Lord’s_. All these places are for salvation, and the kingdom of God, after the day of judgment, upon earth. On the other side, I have not found any text that can probably be drawn, to prove any ascension of the saints into heaven; that is to say, into any _cœlum empyreum_, or other ætherial region; saving that it is called the kingdom of Heaven: which name it may have, because God, that was king of the Jews, governed them by his commands, sent to Moses by angels from heaven; and after the revolt, sent his Son from heaven to reduce them to their obedience; and shall send him thence again to rule both them, and all other faithful men, from the day of judgment, everlastingly: or from that, that the throne of this our great king is in heaven; whereas the earth is but his footstool. But that the subjects of God should have any place as high as his throne, or higher than his footstool, it seemeth not suitable to the dignity of a king, nor can I find any evident text for it in Holy Scripture. [Sidenote: The world to come.]