Chap. r 9. An Expofition span the Bookof J O B. Verf. 26. 369 fleth andblond, or flefh and blood that bath the feeds and prin- ciples ofcorruption in it, !hall never enter into the Kingdome ofheaven : fuch fleth andblood is unfit to weare the garland of glory. As our foules muff be changed before they can be fit for glory, foalto muti our bodyes. Meere natural! flesh and blond are tooweake to bear theweight ofGlory. Winch the Apoftle intimated (Verf. 44.) It ulowen a naturali body,it u rayfeda fpi- rituall body. As if he had laid ; Such a body as man laiddown in the grave will not ferve his turne, when he riíeth againe. Mari layes downeonely a natured body, or as the Greeke ftridly fpeakes, an Animalbody,or aSoule body ; that is,abody quick- ned andmaintained onely by a living foule, fuch as Adams was in the Creation, whole body being formed out of the duft of the earth, and theLord breathing into him the breath of life, He became a living Soule (Gen. 2. 7.) yet fuchwas his foul that it could not maintaine his bodily life without heipes from without. And fo his (asalto ours who are defcended from him) was but ameere naturali body ; but when man is rayfed from the drill, he (hall be providedand fitted with a fpirituall body. TheApoftte fayth not that the body (hall be changed into a fpirit, but it (hall be rayfed a fpirituall body, which yet force urge thongly toprove that the body (hall be attenuated into a fpirit; But for the removingof that objectionand the clearing of the Scripture ; I anfwer, that thebody railed to glory is called fpirituall there three wayes. Fir(i, Becaufe the body (hall ever be fubjed and ferviceable to the fpirit ; foras the fpirit ofa man while it is fubjed to and ferveth finful fleth, iscalled carnali in the languageofScripture; fo the flefhof man when it is purely fubjed to the fpirit, may, by the fame proportion, becalled fpirituall. Secondly, Itnay be called a fpirituall body in regard of the great frength and activity, with which it (hallbe endowed Spirits are ftrong, and fo isevery thingwhich is fpirituall. Spirit isoften in Scripture oppofed to Refit, todenote ftrength. When theProphet wouldhave the Jewesknow that the /Egyp- tian Hodeswere to weake to be trufted too, he fayth , Their bads are flefhand notfpirit, (Ira. 3 r. z.) TheDevil! iscalled a ;j iriruall wickedneffe, to thew that he isa thong anda powerful! wickedneffe ( Eph. 6. i 2. ) In this reference alfoour bodyes af- Bbb ter
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