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 in
triumph to heaven.
Consider those glorious circumstances that accompany his approach to
the gates of the everlasting habitation. The everlasting gates are
set, yea, bid stand open: "Be ye open, ye everlasting doors, and the
King of glory shall come in." The King of glory is Jesus Christ, and
the words are a prophecy of his glorious ascending into the heavens,
when he went up as the High-priest of the church, to carry the price
of his blood into the holiest of all.