Downame - Houston-Packer Collection BT70 .D75 1628z

CHAP. 9. of Wiredome,(34c. 5 rifevp upon the dull. Thereforeafter, Ifhallawake,and the Wormer haws digged thorow this' , yet inmy fiefh¡hall Ifee God : euen1, the (elfefame that I am , and not aoranger, fhalfee formyfelfe,and that mine owneeyetJhal behold,after that my reines,withmy bofomeffhalbe cëfmned.Elfe it could be norefurreion,vnleffe the veryfame bodies did arife. Fourthly,Two things are to bec confideredproper to theEle& : for Firft,They (hall rife glorious, like to the glorifiedbo- die ofour Sauiour Chritf. In which refpeá it is Paid, They ¡ball °Thine as the Sunne. And the Apoflle faith, * It isTowne a bodie,fubie f tocorruption,it is raifcd interrupt:it [wne difhonorable,it is raifedgloriotu:it isfogneweake, it ss railedpowerful. And afterwards, P Thefirfl manfrom the Earth, the fécondMan , the Lord from Hearse?: : fucb as the earthyenema , fuch alfo are the earthly men: andfisch as thebeaueny one is frccla afoThal the heauenyones be. And as wehaue carryed the image of theearthy one , foelfo fhall we Barrie the Imageofthe beauenly One. Coloff, 3.4. When ChrifgAid be mansfefled,which is ourlife,thenIlia' yealfo be wanifefled with himglorious.Phil.3.2 r.Who wil transforms this our bafebodie,t hat it maybefaJhiorsed like tohisglorious body ,whereby heWable tofubic l all things vnto hirufelfe.So os they fhal not any more be quickned by meat or drink, or the víe ofoutward things,but by the onelyparticipa- tion ofthe power ofChrifls Spirit : whereupon they are called q Spirituali bodies , lining onely by the power of Chrifls Spirit imtriediately quickening them for euer : as thofe we carry now about vs,arccallednatural! bodies, becaufe they line by naturali meancs, and thepower of the foule that quickeneth them, which is another thing, wherein our {late is bettered in Chrif}, about that it was in Adam ; whole bodie , though it were comely and beautiful!, yet was not glorious, as ours fhall be being glorified through Chrif}. Secondly, This is done by the fpeciall power and velue of his Relurredion, whole members they are, L 1 2 and glorious, o Matt.t3.43. .sr.ror.1 S4z343 p Ycrj'e47,c q r.Gor.tf.4:4o

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