DISCOURSE 11.. 565 than confined, by having such a glorious instrument to assist its operations. So a loadstone naked will draw iron ; but when it is armed with steel, it will draw a hundred times as much as be- fore, though the steel without the loadstone has no attractive power at all. Tints may the sòul be in a glorified body ; and indeed were it not so in some measure, why,should the glorified spirits of the saints ever be united to bodies again ? '1'he resur- rection of the body would be no blessing, if it did not add some new powers and advantages to the saints beyond those ofa sepa- rate spirit. Our Saviour who once dwelt in flesh and blood is now in a glorified state, united to the most .perfect glorified body; and what vast additions may be made to his knowledge and power beyond what he enjoyed in the days of his humiliation and confinement to a mortal body, it is hard for us to deter- mine. When such a capacious soul is united to a glorified body, the extent of its native powers may receive an addi- tional increase beyond what common souls even in glory can ever arrive at, as much as its ennative excellencies are supe- rior to theirs. Thevery extent of, the power and presence of a glorified body itself may be prodigiously large in comparison ofour bo- dies of flesh and blood. A drop of oil may be contained in a pepper corn, and not extend its influence beyond it: But place this drop on aburning lamp, and the blaze will diffuse its parti- cles of light, when it is thus kindled, perhaps to two miles dis- tance in a dark night ; thence it is evident, that these diffusive particles of oil will fill a sphere of four miles diameter : A most a'tnazing enlargement of a single drop ! And why may not a glorified body, especially when it shall be called a spiritual body, as much exceed flesh and blood in its extentof powers as a drop of oil kindled into a blaze stretches itself beyond its own first or native dimensions ? Behold our blessed Lord after his re- surrection, even before he was fully glorified, comes with his body twice into the midst ofhis disciples when the doors were shut ; ° John xx. 19, 26. Much less doth a glorified body seem to be subject to the present laws, restraints and limitations of cor- poreal motion, What if we should suppose a glorified soul to have as sove- reign and immediate an influence over every atom of its own glorified body asOur souls at present have over our grosser limbs ? What if it be made capable of ranging and disposing the atoms, of which thebody is compounded, in what form it please, andof diffusing them through unknown spaces ? Hence would evidently s Whatever other senses may be put upon these words, I think our COW.' MOO translation is the most natural, and the text seems to intimate that it was miraculous.. n3
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