The Practice of Piety

5 The bodies of the Elect being thus raised shall have four most excellent and supernatural qualities. For 1 They shall be raised in power, whereby they shall for ever be freed, ¹from all wants, and weakness, and enabled to continue, without the use of meat, drink, sleep, and other former helps. 2 In incorruption, ²whereby they shall never be subject, to any manner ⟨p. 156⟩of imperfections, blemish, sickness or death. ³3 In Glory, whereby their bodies shall shine as bright as the Sun in the firmament ▪ and which being made transparent, ⁴their souls shall shine through, far more glorious then their bodies. Three glimpses of which glory was seen. First,⁵ in Moses face: Secondly, in the transfiguration:⁶ Thirdly, in Stephens countenance. Three instances, and assurances of the glorification of our bodies at that glorious day. Then shall David lay aside,⁷ his Shepherds weed, and put on the robe of the Kings son ⟨p. 157⟩Jesus, not Jonathan. Then every true Mordecai, who mourned under the Sackcloth of this corrupt flesh, shall be arrayed with the Kings royal apparel, ⁸and have the Crown royal set upon his head, that all the world may see: how it shall be done to him, whom the King of kings delighteth to honour. If now the rising of one Sun makes the morning so glorious, how glorious shall that day be, when innumerable million of millions of bodies of Saints and Angels, shall appear more glorious, then the brightness of the Sun? the body of Christ in glory