368 Chap. to. An E.vpofstion upon the Book of J OB. Verf 26. the fame nature in it gill: the graine remaines (till. Onely, there is an addition of beantie and gi eenneffe when it growes up. So the body that is catt into the ground is hke bare graire, ( the Apoftle u(eth that word ) it isaa bare body, a naked body ; but when it ¡hall he raifed ag .ine, the body thall have many great additions,it thaíl have a cloathing, and an excellency of glory put upon it. (7, Cor. 5. 4. ) We /hall be cloathed upon, yet Itiil it is a true body and the fame body. The Apoftle 'Paul loth not fay, that the body fhall be utterly call away or loft in Glory, but the body that dyes is uncloathed, and thofe bodies of Saints which live at that Great day , ¡hall be cloathed upon witha hot/re which is fromheaven. So that in the refurretttion there will be an adding fomewhat to that which was before, i.'aro szraDoti not a takingawayof that that was before ; the flefh (hall be re- veJ"rreffi° "em fined and purified, it fllall not be layd afide, or annihilated. eacem eft d p y ' d:ver(a ; eoieue The corne growes up, with foníewhat that it hadnot, but it Èef ca ura , iì doth not loofe any thing that it had ; 'cis (till a graine of wheat "e'!aPey Foan and better. Só the bodie layd downe in the grave is railed, not the fame in all things but better in many things; it will not lofe any thingofperfeftion which it had, but it will gaine many perfec'ions which it had not;.even the excellency and perfection ofglory. Secondly, It is objected, How can it rife rlefh, whenthe A- po(tle ( Cor. t 5.50) fayth, Flefh andblond cannot inherite the Kingdome of çod, neither Both corruption inherite incorruption ? Ifno flefhThal! inherite that (tate, how can it be affirmed, that the true fleth (hall be rayfed to enter upon that inheritance. I anlwer, by way ofgrant,that by fiefs andblond in that Scrip- ture, we are to under(tand natural! flefh and blond", not flefh and blond as it notes a finfull, or corrupt condition. In which fenfe it is alfo true, that flyfh andblondfsall net inherite the King- dome of Cod. But the Apoflle fpeaking thereof the refurreetion of the bodie, he meaner the flefh and blond ofwhich tie bodie is compofed and made up ; and ofthat he frith, It (hall riot en- ter into the Kine,dome of heaven.'Tis true, it ¡hall nor,in the flare wherein it is, flefh and blond as it is corruptible (hall not enter into heaven. Himfelfe feemes to expound that we are thus to conceive flefh ..and Moud in the latter daufeof the fame Verfe ; Neyther(ball corruption inherite interruption that is,corruprible fl.,íh
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