Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

S 54 O f the ;oyes o f heaven. his onne eyes Jhould behold him. Finally, fuch as our Saviour Chas body was,fuch alto (hall ours be; but heehad a true, materiall,and phyficall body,con(fling of fle(h and blood, which might not onely bee feene, but alto handled ;; forfo Luk.s4.39. himfelfe fai th; Behold my hands and my feet,foritisimyfelfe; handle me and fee, for a fpirit hark not, fle(h, and bones, u you fee mehaue. Neither is that obie&ion ofany force, that we (hall be like the Angels in heaven, and therefore fpirits;feeing Maass. ;ó. the con trade rather followeth;we (hail bee like them, and therefore not the fame. And not like them in all Things, but in not eating and drinking, marrying, and giuing in mari- age,and fuels like. Whereas therefore the Apoflle kith, that we (hall haue fpirituall bodies, and oppofeth them to nan i- rall and phyficall bodies, it is not to be vnderfkood general- ly;of all natutallbodies,but offuch alone as wee now haue, which ae fubie&comortality and corruption. Neither is it his meaning, that they (hall bee fpirituall in regard of their fubf1ance,whichfhall be and the fame as now it is, but in diuers other rcfpe&s. As f nlI,becaufe they (hall bequit -. kt<ned:bythefpirit ofGod,and be preferued and 'continued in their hues, by the vertue and vigour of this fpirit, which dwelling primarily and above meafure in Chtifl our head, is fromhim communicated to vs who are his members; and flrall no more hue by their animali facultie,.nor need for the preferuationof;their'liues,meate, drinke, clothing,ileepe, phyficke and filch like helpes, which are altogether necefb ry in this (late of mortal ity.In which refpe &s they (hal ceafe to be naturall bodies,as they (Nall bee freed from thefe ani- mall faculties, of nourifhing, entreating and multiplying by generation; for nomore (hall they liueby vertue of meate and drinke thrice conco&ed ; fr(+ in the flomacke, turning it,to chylus;then in the miferaicke veines and liuer,conuer- ting it into blood ;and laflly in the feuerall parts,when it is turned into their fubilance, either for the augmentation or predferuation ofthe body ; but (hall be fpirituall and heauen- ly, l iui ng without all thefe helpes; by foie venue of Gods . ípirie, and that life which. they communicate from Chriff their head,andfo (hail is refpe &ofthis fpiritual quickening become