Of EleBion. "-"_..., tafl memy of ours to be yet de(lroycd,) ro be likewi:e expreffed by that vuy BooK IV. word, , Cor.15. 43· It ujoW1Jtnw•ak11e[s, that is, it isfown ade,,d Body: l..il""r"'tJ viribm caffitm; utterly vmd ofall Orength; and oppofitely [Bill it;, razjtd i11 power] endued, filled, and furnifi1ed with all abilities of power, even !uch as the Angels have, who excel inj/re11gth: And ours lha\1 be made a Spiritual BodJ, (as 'ris there,) finding alfo Chri(l (our pattern) m his death en the Crofs, and his oppolite Life in Heaven; and his 1\xfurrection, to be fer out by the fame words, 2 Cor. '3· 4• Though he was Crt~ctjiedi!t wcak11ejs, yet he ltves by the power of God: And we ( fays the Apo(l\e there, as in conformi· ty to him) o;ho11gh we m·r weak, yet being zn IJim, we fiia\1 one day Jive wttb h 1 m; namely, in Glory, by the puwer of God: And ftoding, as all grant, and 'tis certain, that .the word here mour Text 1mporrsa renewal of llrength Spi· ritual in our fou\5 m fome degree ~n dus life, m Ol'Pofltlon to Spiritual weak– neffesof the foul, whtch ate our fuf!tnngs; therefore lthought,,.,hy might nor, or fhould not tlHS word of the Prormle here, reach unto that Perfection in power, and Glory, \1 hich He in fubllance all one, \\ ir h the import of this word here l And 'v.hcn further confidered, how this is moll proper, and pertinent unto the Apo(l\es Scope in the whole Paragraph; his dneet purpofe, being to hear– ten them again!\ all forts ofSttf[erings, whether fromTemptatzons, and l•ifir– mities in their Souls; or fromPerjewtio11s upon their outwardmau; again(\ which, there is not a (lronger Cordial, than thefe Promifes of that Glorious E(late, which both Body, and Soul !hall have in the other World : And feeing the body, and outward man bath a great fhare in fufferings for Chrifl's fake; we may well think, that among(! fo many words heaped up !or their comfort, one of them at \call, fhould be found to glance at that State; yea, more direct– ly to aim at the Reward, and reparations made to the Dody at the RefurreCli– on: And feeing that other Apoltle cloth give this very Title ofd~orH«, 111(ir. mities; unto that large Catalogue, and Jnventory of fufferings in his Bo-dy, in the Second ofCorittthians, the Eleventh, and Twelfth Chapters, again, and again; and at la!\ fums up the forts of them, in Chap. 11. 10. under that deno– mination; Therfore I t,1ke pleajttrt ilz itJjirmities, tu reproacbes, in 11tc~l]ities i11 perfatitiotls, i11 dzj/rtfJfS for Chri{l's fake :for whm I am weak, thnz m~ J{lroug: And that this.word here Tran(\ated j/rengthm, is the direCl: oppo· fire unto all fuch Infirmmes, we may I fay, very readily conclude, that it ex– tends to the qualifications of powtr, and glory; "hich the body !hall have at the RefurnCl:ion, in lieu ofthofe Infirmities, as a recompence of thofe Suffer– ings ; conlidering withal , how the RefurreCl:ion of the Body from death, is exprdfed in the fame words, I Cor. I5. 43: as harh been !hewn. . Beza menuons thl! ObjeClwn: That 1f the Glory of Heaven were a1med at, that one fir(l word had been fufficienr, [ wtJI makr .)'Oil perfeC!:] He need~ cd not have heaped upfomany more. I. A11Jw. Ifindeed that 6\ory in the perfection of it, had altoget)Jer, and a– lone been intended, this might have had fame force in it : But the Apollles (cope is ro comprehenol what is in this life, gradually a pcrlorming in us; and then at 'la(l to be confummared in the other: And there being many feveral forts ofSufferings, Temptaticns, and itifirmittes of foul in this life, there needed a multiplication of comfortable words, more thanone, for our more abundant Confolarion: Which comes in the next 0<_rjlto1t, to be fpo· ken to. 2, Anf<ll, Our Miferies, and Sufferings in this life, being many and various; the b\e[cdnefs ofHeaven it felf, is fer out to us by feveral words, oppofire to thofe miferies; and expreffed to be a freedom from them, ·fo to comfort us par· ticularly again(\ each; As when 'tis faid, All trarsjhalt be wiprdfrom o11r ~yes: Thtyjbatl hu11ger a11d thir{/110 more: Thr lrzhabitrmtjhatl 110t fay hru , (tck, and the like: and we ufe to comfort our felvcs wtth the privation of, and deliverance from fuch miferies, and therefore it IS termed RedemptioN, and S,JI. vatio11, Glory aud Immortalit;,jttlllejs ofpteafures, and the likt: And fohere, ~ a
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