according as he had chosen us in himself before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy, free from vice, and devoted to virtue.

for he has discover'd to us the secret of his will, that out of his meer good pleasure, he had purposed in himself,

It is by him, that we have a share in the inheritance, which was before allotted to us, in consequence of his design, who executes the whole plan, as he himself had contriv'd it:

for he hath made us a-new, and form'd us by Christ Jesus to do good works, for which God had before prepared us, that we might live in them.

now his having ascended, what does it mean, but that he had descended into the lower parts of the earth?