Excerpt from He Master's Word in the Epistles and Gospels, Vol. 2: Sermons for All the Sundays and the Principal Feasts of the Year As the final Object of the mission Of Our Lord Jesus Christ upon earth was to Open heaven for fallen man, it is only when He actually ascended into heaven as man that human nature entered into actual possession and en oyment Of its lost rights and privileges. Hence, though our divine Saviour had already given superabundant proof Of the divinity Of His mission and Of the infallible truth Of His promises not only on the occasion Of His resurrection but also on the many occasions on which He showed Himself alive after His passion, by many proofs, for forty days ap pearing to them, and speaking Of the kingdom of God, it was not till the Ascension that He accomplished the fact by actually leading into heaven with Him in glorious triumph the souls of all those holy men and women who had ful filled the law but who had been detained in the prison Of Limbo until the happy day Of their release by the Redeemer Himself in person. The circumstances Of this glorious and final scene in the life Of. Our divine Master upon earth are brie y recorded in to-day's Epistle. Although He had frequently told His disci ples that His bodily presence amongst them was to be Of Short duration - a little while. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."