704 Book IV. Part+ Looking unto ]efm, Chap.r.Seet.3 Itom. 14. 9 . Rom ,6.g . Rev.x.xS. d]eth nomore; duah hath no more dominion ov er him_. Confonant hereunto is that of Chrift, I am he thllt liveth, and w.u dead, anJ behold I am alive for ever more, Amen. And herein the body of La:<;,arm and the refr, whom Chrift raifed, differed from his, ,for after they were ~aifed they dyed, againe, but Chrift dyed no more. 4· He had a powerful body, Luther could fay of the glorified Saints, that they had a power fo great as to toffe the greateft mountainesin the world like a ball; and Anfelme hath an exAnfrl ,lib.de preilion not much unlike, that they have fuch a power, 1s they are fimit,,ap . > z. 11ble to jhflky the whole earth at their p!eflfure. How J.tn.fch more could Chrift caufe that great earth-quake at the riGng of his body ? 0 it was powerful! ~. He had a fpirirual body; it needed not to meate, drink and refrefhings, as it did befon~; it is true, that the difdp!es g-av; Luk,l1•4.t ,43· him a piece ofabroyledji/h,rmd of lin hsney-cornbe, and be took)t, and , did eate before them, but this he did only to confirme their faith . that he appeared folidly, and not imaginarily; he ate out of power, and not out of neceffity, even as the Sun fucks up the water out of power, but the earth out of want; he ate not as ftanding in need offoode, but to fhew the truth of his being ri{en againe; as the Saints in heaven neither eate, nor drink, nor fieep, nor have Magiftrates, nor Mmiflers, but the Spirit ofGod is all in all to them ; fo it was with Chri.ft after his refurret'tion, he was full of the Spirit; he was enlivened tmmediately by the Spirit ofGod, which flowed into him, and that fupplied the abfence ofaH other thing~. , 6. He had an agil body; it ~.£._as in his pleafure to move as well upwards as downwards, as It may appeare, by the afcenfion of his body into heaven; which.was not caufed by coAflraint, or by any violent .motion, but by a property agreeing to all bodyes glorified ; Augufline hath an expreilion concerning the glorified Saints, that they jb.1!1 m&ve to any place they "ail!, and M foon M ·1~g. Iib: u.dc they will ; they fhall move up and down like a thought; czvJt. dez cap. how much more may jr be faid of the body ofChr ift ? ul z. 7 . He had a gi<ViQllSbody; this appeared in his transfigura- .Mat. 17, z. tion, when hu f acedid fh ine M the S 1m, and hu rayment w.u white M. light .; but efpecially after his refurret'tion, and afcenflon,when R~ v , 1 , Xi ,I r. his head And his haim wert w.hite lik,s wool!, M white M fnow, ahn~ . u
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