Institutions of Christian religion framed out of Gods word, and the writings of the best diuines, methodically handled by questions and answers, fit for all such as desire to know, or practise the will of God. Written in Latin by William Bucanus Professor of Diuinitie in the Vniuersitie of Lausanna. And published in English by Robert Hill, Bachelor in Diuinitie, and Fellow of Saint Iohns Colledge in Cambridge, for the benefit of our English nation, to which is added in the end the practise of papists against Protestant princes.

What must be vnderstood by ascension?

Not a changing of one condition or estate into another, or a vanishing out of sight, but properly 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 that is, a motion from one place to another, and that from the lower to the higher. For they are said to ascend, who remoue from a lower place to a higher. 2. King. 2.12. And Elias ascended by a whirlewind into heauen. And Psal. 139.8. If I ascend into heauen, thou art there.

But figuratiuely (〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, or attributing that to God which belongeth to man) it is spoken of God. Gen. 17.22. God went from the sight of Abraham. And Psal. 47.16. God is gone vp with triumph, euen the Lord with the sound of the trumpet. But also Iohn. 3.13. in the first part of the verse, to ascend into heauen, signifieth allegorically to be endued with the light of spi∣rituall vnderstanding.