Diretlionsfor denying Life. matter from which it gets a larger body, by a kind of Refur- reftion But it is another manner of body (I will not fay of flefh) which at the Refurretlion we fhall have. Not flefh and blood, nor a natural body, but of a nature fo fpirLual, fub- lime and pure, that it (hall be indeed a fpiritual body. And think not that this is a contradiftion and that fpirituali- ty and corporeity are inconfiflent. For [there is a Natural body and there as a Spiritual body] The root ofthe flefhly Na- tural body was the firfl man Adam who was made a living foul, to be the Root of Living foitls.TheRoot of the fpiritual Body is Chrift, who being a quick.nigg Spirit, cloth quicken all his members by his Spirit ; whichSpirit ofGrace is the feed of Glory ; and as from an holy and gracious Saviour we re- ceivean holy and gracious nature : fo from a Glorif:.?.d Sai lour we (hall receive a glorious nature:we are now changedfernGlo ry to Glory in the beginning,as by thefpirir of the Lord Eut it is another kind of Glory that this doth tend to. Howbeit that is not firfl which td fpiritual , bra the natural ; and afterward the fpiritual ; The firft man mu of the Earth Earthy : The fe- cowl man u the Load from heaven. And fromeach of them we partake ofan anfwerableNature. As is the Earthy, fuck) are they that are earthy, even all ofus in our flefhly flare, having earthy bodiesfrom an ear thy Adam, andnatural bodies from the natural Adam. And as is the heavenly, filch are they that are' eelvenly : for Chrift makes men like himfelf, even firfl gra- cious and then glorious,as Adam begets us like himfelf,that is, natural (and finful.) And therefore all thofe that have followed Chrifi in the Regeneration, (hall follow him into Glory, and having conquered by him, .fhall reign by him and with him : and having received the holy nature herewhich is the feed of glory,they (hall receive the glorious nature there which is the perfection ofthat Grace ;And fo as Chrift bath an heavenly [pi- tmal body, and not an earthy natural body, fo fhall his Mem, hers have, that they may be like him. And as we have here born the image of the earthy, in having firft a natural, flefhly body; we fl>all alfe bear the Image of the Heavenly Adam, in having a fpiritual body, that is not flefh. Now , left any doubt of it (faith the Spirit of God) I Pi, that Flea and Blood trANNOI inherit the Kingdom of C od,i, neither Joao Car- .p d,. 3 rortio,) 205
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