Twenty Realmsfor denyingLife. 211 thenbe loathforne and troublefomeno more. It (hall be hun- gry,or thirfty,or weary, or cold, or pained no more. As the mars of heaven do differ from a clod of earth, or from a carrion in a ditch , fo will our glorified immortal bodies- differ from this mortal corruptible flesh. If,askilful! workman can turn a little earth and afhes into fuch curious tran- fparent glaffes, as we daily fee : and if a little feed that bears no thew of fuch a thing,can produce the more beautiful! flow- ers of the earth; and ifa little acorn canbring forth the great- en Oak ; why fhouldwe once doubt whether the feed ofever- lafting life and glory'which is now in the bleffed fouls with Chrift, can by him communicate a perfeftion to the flesh that is diffolved into its elements ? There's no true beauty but that which is there received from the face ofGod: And if a glympfe made Mofe.f face to thine ; what glory will Gods glory com- municate to us ,whenwe have the fulleft endlefs intuition ofit? 7-here only is the itrength,and there's the riches, and there's the honour,and there's the pleafure;and here are but the thadows, and dreams, and names,and images of thefe pretious things. And the perfedlionof the foul thats now imperfeft ' will be fuch as cannot now be known. The verynature andman- ner of Intelleftion, Memory, Volition and Affeftions, will be unconceivably altered and elevated , evenas the foul it felt will be, and muchmore, becaufe of the change on thecorrup- tible body, which in thefe ads it nowmakes ufe of But of thefe things I have fpokefo much in theSaints Reft,that I ihall fay no more of them now,but this ; that in a Believer that ex. peas this bleffedchange,and knows that he fhall never till then be perfeft, there is much ,unreafonablenefs in the inordinate anwillingnefs and fearsof death. 12. You know that fears and unwillingnefs can do no good but much increafe your fuffering and make your death a double death. If it be bitter naturally , make it not more bitter wilfully. I fpeak this .of a violent death for Chrift as well as of a natural death ; For as the one cannot be avoided if we would, fo the other: cannot be avoided when Chrift calleth us to it , without the lofs of OW Salvation : and therefore it may be calledNeccifary as Ec z weld
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