[1st.] That by “the powers of the world to come” in
that place is intended the joys of heaven, there is, indeed, no ground to
imagine. They are nowhere so called; nor doth it suitably express the
glory that shall be revealed, which we shall be made partakers of. It is,
doubtless, the powerful ministry of the ordinances and dispensations of the
times of the gospel (there called to the Hebrews according to their own
idiom), the powers or great effectual things of the world to come, that is
intended. But, —