Chap. ig . An E.xpofìtion upon the Tsooke of J OB. Verf. 26. 367 Hence Obferve ; Firíts Thebody after tharefurreit ion ,thallbe true flcfb, or f a/l have truefielb. That opinion hath been condemned as herefie, which forne held long since, That`when the body rileth againe it (hall be a spirit fubtile, and thin, like the ayre or winade, not fubjec`} to Corpus nfirurn the touch ofthehand, or fight of the eye. To which one of the in ilia relurrec Ancients anfwereth well from (Luh, 24 ,3 9, 40.) where Chrift tiorisgioriae- when theDifciples were affrighted at his appearance, after his ih inpatpabile' rcfurrec`tion, thinking they had leen a fpirit, verf. 37. (forfo veatis aereq ; abfurdly they fake as if f irit could feene, Chrift, I fa lubti!Laser iu . Euc; Y Y P + P , Y) ch: C.or:Rant. to free them at once from that abfurditie, and feare, calls to Epic- them ; Why are ye troubled, andwhy doe thoughts ( that is, fuch. vaine thoughts as thefe)arife inyour hearts. Behold my bands and myfeet, that it ie Imy¡elfe (much in the language of ?ob whom I (ballfeefor myfelfe ) handle me andfee ; fer a spirit bath not flek andbones .0yefee me have. Mine is a true body, compofed of (loth and bones, it bath the dimensions and properties of a true' bodie, it may be feene and handled : Christ admitteth the tefti- mony of their owne fenfes, to affure them it was no delufion or phanfie which was prefented to them, but his reall body. But, faith not the Apostle (e Cor. 15. 37, 38.) treating of the refurre&ion ; That which thou fowft,thost fweft not that body, that /hall be, but bare graine, a perchance ofwheat, or home ether graine : but Godgiveth it a body as it pleafeth to every feed itsowne body. From this fmilitude fome argue, if that which thou fowef is not that body that Jhall be when thou reapeft.Then the body thrit dies, and is laid in the Grave,is not that body that fhall be in the Non dicirgrano refurretion ; and if it be not the fame, but fome other body, f d rat,{f de then it may be an ayereall body. adeffe good non I anfver; Itis true, corne, or graine which is fowed, doth erat ,qui ax:em: not rifeagaine in that manner, or after that likeneffe in which verü corpus re-v it was cafe into the ground. We Pow bare feed, but when it fu,geredenegar,. comes up againe, it comes with a (talk and an care, and (hoots crigachlli ood' up in much beautie, glory, and verdure. There is a great dif- dezrar ¡edcbea- ference between agraine ofwheat in the bufhell, and a ílourifh gi,ed,rar. ing ftem, or care ofCorne in the field. God gives it another Gpreg:in dif.- body in the growing ups but yet it is still a_ body, and` there is Q °C' `O °tra, the. touch.
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