We must stir up ourselves to praise God with the consideration both of the reason and of the encouragement we have to praise him. › The goodness of his grace relating to our souls and the life that is to come.

12. For his ascension into heaven, and his sitting at God’s right hand there.

We bless thee that our Lord Jesus has ascended to his Father and our Father, to his God and our God; is ascended up on high, having led captivity captive, and hath received gifts for men, yea, even for the rebellious also, that the Lord God might dwell among them. John 20:17. Ps 68:18.

That as the Forerunner he is for us entered into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us, a Lamb, as it had been slain, standing in the midst of the throne. Heb 6:20; Heb 9:24. Rev 5:6.

That he is set on the right hand of the throne of the majesty in the heavens, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him. Heb 8:1. 1 Pet 3:22.

That he is gone before, to prepare a place for us in his Father’s house, where there are many mansions, and though whither he is gone we cannot follow him now, yet we hope to follow him hereafter, when he shall come again to receive us to himself, that where he is, there we may be also. John 14:2, 3; John 13:36.

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Pray now: a guided prayer in six parts, with the next heads each day.

Henry’s text is in the public domain. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, No. 265 Chestnut Street. Undated, about 1840 to 1860. The preface is dated Chester, March 25, 1710. From the Internet Archive scan. The KJV text is in the public domain.