ss atIUO1 WOf 2tttt btt Z, Chá and confequent to his eating the fruit of the Tree of life. Therefore man after his fin was expelled ocn, s zz. from Paradife, that he might not eat of it and live for ever. By which it appears that eternal life in that happy Bate was not from the tempera- ment of the body, but to be preferved by the Di- vine power in the ufe ofmeans. From hence it fol- low that Adam in his natural (tate was not capable of the vifion ofGod, Heaven is too pure an Air for him to have lived in. The Glory of it is inconfiflent with fuch a temper'd Body. Flefh and Blood cannot inherit Cot. 15. 5 ° the KingdomofHeaven. The faculties would be con- founded with its overcoming brightnefs. Till the fen- fitive powers are refin'd, and exalted to that degree that they become fpiritual, they cannot converfe with glorified objeí`ts. Now the bodies ofthe Saints (hall be invefted with Celeflial qualities. The Natural (hall be changed into a Spiritual body, and be preferv- ed as the Angels by the foie vertue of the quickning Spirit. The life above (hall flourifh in its full vigor, without any other fupport, than the Divine power that firft created it. And as the body [hall be fpiritual, fo truly immortal, and free from all corruptive changes as the Sun which for fo many ages hath shined with an equal brightnefs to the World , and hath a du Eu . so. 36. rable fulnefs oflight in it. In this refpe& the Children of the Refurretlion, areequal to theAngels, who being pure Spirits, do not marry to perpetuate their kind, for they never die. And the glorified body (bail be cloathed with a more Divine beauty in the Refurreili- on, than Adam had in the Creation. The glory of the fecond Temple (hall excel that of the firft. In n Cor. 15. 47. (hors, the firft Man was ofthe Earth earthy, and could derive but an earthy condition to his defcendants : But the Lord Chrifi is from Heaven, and is the prin- ciple
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