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r Oftbe iayesofheareee. 857 whether thismotion (hall be equal in fwiftneffe to our foule Auguf.de Spi. and thoughts,and whether our bodies (hall be able in an in rit.& anima fiant to pail`& front place to place,as force do iudge; or whe- lib.cap.óc. ther they (hall onciy moue with great and extraordinarieEruntgaippe f eeçi aílîn w hither they wil, though it bee in great di °hla co:porn zt p s}) £ y animuagilia, flance,in a very (port time, wee cannot determine; howfòe -vt Tel; erfpicua. uer I thinke this latter much more probable. Finally, our AuguiLde cog- bodies being freed from their earthly grofneffe, Thal bee °it.verævitæ. fubtil and of a much more fine and pure fubilance not Thom. Aquin;: by diminution of their. quantitie, for in this refpeót it (hall Supplem. retaine al his dimenfons, not by reafon of any rarefaótion,as quæß.83, water is made fabtill,in the mills and clouds; for then ourarr.t. bodies could not be felt,as our SaviourChrifts was after-his refurre&ion; but in refpe& of the complcate perfetion of it, initeffenèeand kind, which perfeótion it hath from the dominion ofGodsfpiric dwelling in ir, and of the glorified foule which Both informe it, vnto whichit is-fubie &;and by reafon of this perfe&ion which it hath from them, is fit and able for the performing of all a &ions and motions of the foul& wherein it will imploy it; for otherwife it would Hill be aburthen and hinderance to the foule as it is inthis life. And in xefpe& of this fubtility,wher..eby it is fittedto be fub- ie&,andasitweretheready intirument ofthe foule, it can- not bee hindred in it motion by the oppofttionofanyfolid , body, nor yet included,imprifoned, or violently detained in any place. Of which weehaue an example in our Saviour. Chrifis body after his refurre &ion, which by reafon of the fubtility thereof did fuddenly appeare veto his Apolkles, and prefently againe difappeared, and alto did come atnong(tLOg' `3a them into the roome where they were, the doores being Ioh.to.rg. Phut; not by penetrating their fubfiance, which is againfi the nature ofa body, confiftingof flels and bones; but by their inuifible yeelding to glue paffage to this moil perfe& body, that it might herebybee imployed in filch a &ions as his holy fpirit,and mofi diuine foule thought fir. Finally; to this fubtiltie wemay alto referee that mo(i acute,quicke,and exquifite perception and comprehenlion ofthe fenfes ,which the$lorifted body fba1 haste, and the puritie of the affes%- onsa' ,