Cbap.x.Sect.3 Looking unto 1efm. Boo.idV,Parr.4 70 3 not Chrifl called 11 quickf;ing Spirit.~ how then fhould be but C quicken an his Jllembers? when.a man i.s call into the fea, and all I or.J 5 H his body is under water, there Is nothmg to be looked for but prefent death, but if he carry hts head abo'i'e. the water, there is oood hope then of a recovery; now '. hnll: 1s the head unto his Church, and therefore he being raifed, all his members mull: follow in their time; no fooner did Chrill: arife, but many of <he bodyes of the Saints arofe; not all that were dead, but only fome to {hew the refurreCl:ion of all to come, toe time for the who]~ Churches nling being not yet till the great ref.1rrection day. It is a quefhon what became of thofc bodyes which now arofe? fome thmk they dyed againe, but it is more probable, that feeing they rofe to manifefl the quickning vertue ofChrifis refurrechon, that they were alfo glonfied with Cbnil:; and as thcv rofe with Chrift arifing, fo they afcended up into heaven with Chdl: afcending. 6· That Chrifl rofe againe with a true , perfect , incorruptible , powerful , fpiritual , agil , and glorious body. 1. He bad a true body. confifling of flefh, and blood, and bone; fo he told his difciples when they fuppofed him a fpirit, handle me, and fee, (faid he) for afpirit hath notfiejb and bones, ru Luk.~4.3 9 • . ye fee me have, I know this body after his refurrection was com-- • parativcly a fpiritual body, yet for all that he neverlayd alide the ell~ntial properties of a true body, as length, and breadth . and vifibility, and locahty, and the like; he frill kecpeth thefe: becaufe they ferve to the being ofa .true body 2. He had a perfetl: body ; however he was cut, and boared, and mangled before his death, yet after his rcfurrection all was perfeCt:; Eufebius tells ofone ofthe children of the Machabees that were put to death for the profefilon ofthe truth;- and when they cut off his members, fayes be, I have receivrd thcfe from heaven, and now I do give them unto the God of heaven,and 1 hcpe 1 foal! have them againe. Not a member of Chrifl was wanting not a bone out of joynt, butall wasperfeCl:: ' 3 .He had an incorruptible immortal body.• To this end(faid1 the Apoftle) Chrift both dyed, and rofe, and revived: and why revived, but to fhew that he rofe, never to dye againe ? the Apoftleisyetmoreexprelfe, Chrift being r,tifed from the dead, dyerh
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