The Practice of Piety

Meditations for the Morning. Then Meditate.

1 How Almighty GOD, can (in the resurrection) as easily raise up thy body out of the grave, from the ⟨p. 303⟩sleep of death: as he hath this morning wakened thee in thy bed, out of the sleep of nature. At the dawning of which resurrection day, Christ shall come to be glorified in his Saints:¹ and every one of the bodies of the thousands of his Saints, being fashioned like unto his glorious body, shall shine as bright as the Sun. All the Angels shining likewise in their glory, the body of Christ surpassing them all in splendour and glory, and the God-head excelling it. If the rising of one Sun, make the morning sky so glorious; what a bright shining and glorious morning will that be, when so many thousand thousands of bodies, far brighter then the Sun, shall ⟨p. 304⟩appear & accompany Christ as his glorious train, coming to keep his general Session of righteousness, and to judge the wicked Angels, ²and all ungodly men? And let not any transitory profit pleasure or vain-glory,³ of this day: cause thee to lose thy part, and portion of the eternal bliss and glory of tha• day, which is properly termed the resurrection of the just. Beasts have bodily eyes,⁴ to see the ordinary light of the day: but endeavour thou, with the eyes of faith, to foresee the glorious light of this day.

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