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A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soul of man With the…A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man With the…
A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soul of man With the several dignities and corruptions thereunto belonging. By Edward Reynolds, late preacher to the honourable society of Lincoln's Inn: and now rector of the Church of Braunston in Northamptonshire.A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man With the severall dignities and corruptions thereunto belonging. By Edvvard Reynoldes, late preacher to the honorable society of Lincoln's Inne: and now rector of the Church of Braunston in Northamptonshire.
London: printed by R. Hearne and John Norton for Robert Bostock, 1640
Chapter 35: Of the Honour of Humane Bodies by Creation, by Resurrection; of the Endowments of Glori…
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That Speech then, that the Body shall be a Spiritual Body, is not to be understood in either of those former senses: but it is to be understood first of the more immediate Union and full Inhabitation of the virtue and vigour of Gods Spirit in our Bodies, quickening and for ever sustaining them without any Assistance of Natural or Animal qualities, for the repairing and augmenting of them in recompense of that, which by labour and infirmity, and the natural opposition of the Elements, is daily diminished. Secondly, it shall be so called in regard of its Obedience & Total Subjection to the Spirit of God, without any manner of Reluctance and dislike. Thirdly, in respect of those Spiritual qualities, those Prerogatives of the Flesh, with which it shall be adorned, which are
That Speech then, that the Body shall be a Spirituall Body, is not to be understood in either of those former senses: but it is to be understood first of the more immediate Union and full Inhabitation of the vertue and vigour of Gods Spirit in our Bodies, quickning and for ever sustaining them without any Assistance of Naturall or Animall qualities, for the repairing and augmenting of them in recompence of that, which by labour and infirmity, and the naturall opposition of the Elements, is daily diminished. Secondly, it shall be so called in regard of its Obedience & Totall Subjection to the Spirit of God, without any manner of Reluctance and dislike. Thirdly, in respect of those Spirituall qualities, those Prerogatives of the Flesh, with which it shall be adorned, which are
First, a Shining and Glorious Light, wherewithal it shall be clothed as with a Garment: for the Just shall shine as the Sun in the Firmament. Now, this shall be wrought first by virtue of that Communion, which we have with Christ our ⟨p. 427⟩Head, whose Body, even in its Mortality, did shine like the Sun, and had his clothes white as light. And secondly, by diffusion and Redundancy from1 our Soul upon our Body, which by the Beatifical Vision, filled with a Spiritual and unconceivable brightness, shall work upon the Body, as on a Subject made throughly Obedient to its Power unto the Production of alike qualities.