The four last things viz. death, judgment, heaven, hell, practically considered and applied in…

1. The Body shall be awak'd out of its dead Sleep, and quickened into a glorious immortal Life. The Soul and Body are the essential parts of Man; and though the inequality be great in their holy Operations, yet their concourse is necessary. Good Actions are designed by the counsel and resolution of the Spirit, but performed by the ministry of the Flesh. Every Grace expresses it self in visible Actions by the Body. In the Sorrows of Repentance it supplies Tears; in religious Fasts, its Appetites are restrained; in Thanksgivings the Tongue breaks forth into the joyful Praises of God. All our Victories over sensible Pleasure and Pain, are obtained by the Soul in conjunction with the Body. Now 'tis most becoming the Divine Goodness, not to deal so differently, that the Soul should be everlastingly happy, and the Body lost in forgetfulness; the one glorified in Heaven, the other remain in the Dust. From their first setting out in the World to the Grave, they ran the same race, and shall enjoy the same Reward. Here the Body is the ⟨p. 282⟩Consort of the Soul, in Obedience and Sufferings, hereafter in Fruition. When the Crown of Purity, or Palm of Martyrdom shall be given by the great Judg in the view of all, they shall both partake in the Honour. The Apostle assures us, the Bodies of the Saints shall be revived and refined to a spiritual and glorious Perfection. Flesh and Blood, the Body with its terrene Qualities, is mutable and mortal, and cannot inherit the Kingdom of Heaven; it cannot breath in so pure an Air. God tells Moses, No Man can see my Face and live: The sight of the Divine Glory is not consistent with such tempered frail Tabernacles of Flesh. Nay, the Body must be freed from the innocent Infirmities that were inseparable from Adam in Paradise: for he was made a living Soul, i. e. the Soul united to the Body was the Fountain of the natural sensitive Life, which was in a perpetual Flux, the vital Heat wasting the radical Moisture, from whence there was a necessity of Food and Sleep to repair the Substance and Spirits, and preserve his Life in vigour: but in the Divine World, the Body shall be spiritual in ⟨p. 283⟩its Qualities and the Principle of its Li•e: it shall be supported by the supernatural Power of the Spirit, without the supplies of outward nourishment, and exempted from all the low Operations of Nature: