bistovIlSE 1V. 107 by the arms of divine love, as brands out of the burning. Whatán affecting sight will it be, when we shall behold all the members of Christ united to their head, and complete in glory, and see, at the same time, a world óf vile sinners doomed to destruction With what adoration and wonder shall we cry out, And such there some of these happy ones, but they are sanctified, but they are justified in the narhe of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God ; 1 Cor. v. 11: Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but to God, our Saviour, be eternal honour: Ps. cxv. 1. In the seventh place, there is another glory and wonder added to this illustrious scene, and gives honour to our blessed Saviour, and that is, " That so many vigorous, beautiful; and immortal bodies should be raised at once out of the dust, with all their old infirmities left behind them :" Not one ache or pain, not one weakness or disease among all the glorified millions : As the Israelites came out of their bondage in Egypt, so shall the army of saints from the prison of the grave, and not one feeble among them ; Ps. el,. 37. This is the work of Christ the Cre- ator and the healer. Here I might run many sorrowful divisions, and travel over the large and thorny fields of sickness and pains that attend human nature, those inborn mischiefs that vex poor christians in this state of trial and suffering. But these were all buried when the body went to the grave, and they are buried for ever ; he that has the keys of death, shall let the bodies of his saints out of prison; but no gout nor stone, no infirmity nor distemper, no head -ache nor heart -ache shall ever attend them. The body was sown in weakness, but it is raised in power ; it was sown in dis- honour, it is raised in glory, through the power of the second Adam, and his gatickening Spirit; 1 Cor. xv. 43, 45. Rom. viii. 11, Then shall Christ appear to be sovereign and Lord of death, when such an endless multitude of old and new captives are re- leased at his word, and the grave has restored its prey ; when those bodies which have been turned into dust some thousands of years, and their atoms scattered abroad by the winds of heaven, shall be raised again, in glory and dignity, to meet their descend- ing Lord in the air. Surely Jesus, in that day, shall be acknow- ledged as a sovereign of nature, when at the word of his com- mand, a new creation shall arise, all perfect and immortal. It will add yet further glory to Christ, when we remember what fruitful seeds of iniquity were lodged in that flesh and blood which we wore on earth, and which we laid down in the tomb, and when, at the same time, we survey our glorified bodies, how spiritual, how holy, how happily fitted for the service of glorified souls made perfect in holiness: How did all the saints once comma plain of a law in their members, that warred against the law of
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