Summary
John Bunyan argues that Christ's ascension and glorification—marked by His triumphant ride to heaven accompanied by angels, trumpet sounds, and the resurrected saints—demonstrates that He has fully satisfied God's justice and paid the complete price for sinners' redemption. The magnificence of Christ's exaltation proves that His atoning work accomplished eternal redemption for believers, as God would not have honored His Son with such glory had the debt for sin remained unpaid. Bunyan's exposition underscores the objective nature of Christ's satisfaction and the certainty of salvation purchased by His blood.
For God to adorn His Son with all this glory in His ascension, thus to make Him ride conqueror up into the clouds, thus to go up with sound of trumpet, with shout of angels and with songs of praises, and let me add, to be accompanied also with those that rose from the dead after His resurrection, who were the very price of His blood-this does greatly demonstrate that Jesus Christ, by what he has done, has paid a full price to God for the souls of sinners, and obtained eternal redemption for them: HE HAD NOT ELSE RODE THUS TRIUMPH TO HEAVEN.
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