Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…

5. He had a spiritual body; it needed not to meat, drink or refreshings, as it did before; it is true, that the Disciples gave him a piece of a broiled fish, ¹and of an honeycomb, and he took it, and did eat before them; but this he did only to confirm their faith, ⟨p. 418⟩that he appeared solidly, and not imaginarily; he Ate out of power, and not out of necessity, even as the Sun sucks up th• water out of power, but the earth out of want: he Ate not, as standing in need of food, but to show the truth of his being risen again; as the Saints in heaven neither eat, nor drink, nor sleep, nor have Magistrates, nor Ministers, but the Spirit of God is all in all to them; so it was with Christ after his Resurrection: he was full of the Spirit; he was enlivened immediately by the Spirit of God; which flowed into him, and that supplied the absence of all other things.

5. He had a spiritual body; it needed not to meat, drink or refreshings, as it did before; it is true, that the Disciples gave him a piece of a broiled fish, ¹and of an honeycomb, and he took it, and did eat before them; but this he did only to confirm their faith, ⟨p. 418⟩that he appeared solidly, and not imaginarily; he Ate out of power, and not out of necessity, even as the Sun sucks up th• water out of power, but the earth out of want: he Ate not, as standing in need of food, but to shew the truth of his being risen again; as the Saints in heaven neither eat, nor drink, nor sleep, nor have Magistrates, nor Ministers, but the Spirit of God is all in all to them; so it was with Christ after his Resurrection: he was full of the Spirit; he was enlivened immediately by the Spirit of God; which flowed into him, and that supplied the absence of all other things.

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