418 Book lV. .1Lool\tng unto 'Jjcfn.S'. that he appeared f6lidly, and not imagina.rily ; he ate Out of power, and not out of ne– ceffity, even as the Sun fucks up the warer out of power, burrhe earth out of want : he ate not .. as ll:anding in n_eed of food, bm ro /hew the truth of his being rifen again ; a" the SllntS tn heaven netther ear, nor dnnk, nor Heep, nor !Jave Magl!l:rares, nor Mi- r nill:ers, but the Spirit of God i•all in all to them ; fo it was with Cl11 ill: after his !l.cfur– r«'lion: he was lull of the Spirit; he was enlivened immediately by the Spirit of God· which flowed into him and thatfupplied theabfence·of all other tlungs. ' 6. He hld an agile body; it was in his pleafure to move as weD upwards as down– \vards , a; it mly appear by the afccnfion of his 11ody into heaven · which was not eauf– ed by conllraint, or by any violen_t motion, but a property agrcei~g to all bodies glo– Aug.lib., 2 .J: rified. Augujfine bath an exprefhon concerning the glorified Saints, that they fha/1 mow c.v. Dd, cap. to any p/,ce they will, and affoon M they tvi/1; they Ota\J move up and down like a thought, ult. bow muchmoremaylt befatdofthe Body of Chrif\? 7. He had a glorious body; this appeared in his transfiguration, when hi1 face did Mat. '7· '· jl1i1Je a; the S1:n, andhuraymenttwuwhiteadight; bur efpecially after his Refurrecti– Rev. '·'•· I<. on and Afcenhon, when lii< headand hu hairstvere whitelik! 1vool, tU white "'fnU~v, and Fh;l. 3· 11 his eyes were M ;•Jl.•meof fire, a~d hu feet likE unto fine brafi, M if they burned in a furnace? the glonlied bodtes of Satnts whtch are fajhioned likE unto huglorio!U body, are faid to fhme ltkellars, Dan. 12. 3. or ltke the Sun it felf, Matth. 13. 43. 0 then how glo– rwus ts the S1mof righuoufnefi, from whence all thofe Suns and Stars do borrow their Light? It is true, that from his Refurrection, until his Afcenfion, his body appeared nor thus glorious unto them that faw it: But wherher l1is Glory was delaied, and he was not polfelfed of it during his forty daies abode upon the earth; or whether he fo far Thn ~ condefcended for his Difciples fake, as to keep in his Glory, that it might not dazle i.~ke ~~: :s: them, and therefore appeared fometimes in the form of a Gardiner, John 20. 15. and Mark t6., '· fomerimes in the form of afiranger, Luke 24. 18. and fomerimes in another form, Mark Joh.>o,>o,t7• 16. 12, and fomeJimes in his own form, in the fame form wherein he lived before he was crucified, /ohn 20. ;o, 27. is hard to determine. I am apt to think , that in fome fort he might draw in the beams of his Glory, and yet that he was not enrred into that ful– ntfs of glory, as after his Afcenfion; and fo fome expound rhofe words of Chn/l to Mary, Touch me not, for I am not yerafcendedtomy Fszher;q.d.fixnot thy rhougbts fo much upon my prefenc condition, for I am nor yet attained to the highefi pitch of my exaltation, nor fhall I until I afcend to my Father. From this RefurreC!ion of Chrifl:, how are we informed, that Chrifl: is the Son of R.o::~: 4 • God? Thus Paulfpeaks, he was declared to be the Son of God with potver, according to the Spirit of holinefi by the refurrellionfrom the dead.And how are we informed .rhat Chrifl: 1\om. '4· 9· is l-ord over all things that are? For to rhi& md Chrift both died, and rofe, and Cor 5 revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living. And how are we informed that 1 • 1 •• '"· Chrifl: rofe again for us, as one that fiood inf\ead and roome of all the Elect? but now is Chrijf rifen from the dead, a11d become theJirft-fruiti ofthem that Jleep. And how are we Rom. 4 . >f. informed that by his refuretl:ion we are jultified ? who was delivered for 011r offences, and 1 Pcc. 1, 1 • !VM raifed again for our juflification: and that by his refurrectio~ we are regenerated;for he hathbegotten"' ~gt<in unto ali'l!ely hope by the rejimellion of [efiu Chrift from the dead. And that by his refurrection we are fanctified? for M hnVtu raifed~<pfrom th; dead by the_glory Rom. 6. 4· of hu Father, even [owe alfo jhould walk_ innt~vnefs oflife; lnd rhat by Ius refurretl:ton at Rom. 8. 11 .; the !aft day we O~all be raifed ? for if the Spirit ofhim that raifcd up [ef"' from the dead jh. 1 /l alfoquick!n ottr mortal bodies; and that by his refurrectionfinally we lhall be faved? for after we are raifed,we Jhall never die any more, bm be equalllnto the.Angels, and be the Lu'<elo.-;r-. children of God, a; being the children ofthe refurrellionof Chrifo. Thus far of the pofition, Chrift rofe ~<gain the third day. Now for the proof. SECT.
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