U'C' would intleed rather chu(e to be cloathed upon; _that mortality mightbefwat1owed up oflife,tbat the · £loathin]t of Glory mit,ht come on our whole Nature, ·'Soul and Body~ without Diffolutlon. But if this may · not be,. yet ·thev do believers fo conquer thio Inclination hy Ft~ith. and View~ of .the Glory of Chrifo, m · to attain a· dejire of thil Dijfolution. So the Apoflle · -teftifies of himfelf, I have a defire to depart, and ·· to be with Chrift, which is far better than to abide _there, Phil. r. 23. faith be, £.,.J9u~fttv ~x~. Not ar~ wdinary dejire, not that .which 'JI.Jorketh in me now and then; but a conftant habitual Inclination work- "ing in vehement ·Affs and Defiru. And what doth he fo dejire? It i.r tlvt~.AV'fld.l, t:o depart, fa.y 'Jve, out of thio Body, from· thu ·T-abernacle, to leave' it for a foafon.. But it io (uch a departure m conjijls in the Diffolution of the prefent ftate of his Being, that it fhould not be ·what it it. But how io it pojfwle that a man Jhould attain fuch a11- Inclinat ion unto, fucb a Readinefs for, fuch a vehement dejire of a Diffolurion ·? It ii from a View by Faith of Chrijf and hio ·Glory; whence the Soul is {atirfied, that to be with ·him ir incomparably better than in its prefent flat: and condition. . . ,· HE therefore that would die comfortably, mufl b~ .able to /ay withirt himfelf and to himfelf; Die the,n -thou frail and Jinful flefh; Duft thou art, and un- ·tO dufi: thou fhaft return. I yeild thee up unto the righteou,s doom of the holy One. Yet therein alfo I give thee into the hand of the great Refiner, who will hide thee i.n thy Grave, and by thy confumption purifi.e thee from all thy Corruption and Di!pojition tb ev:l.
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