The sovereign and final happiness of man with the effectual means to obtain itThe soveraign and final happiness of man with the effectual means to obtain it

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 operations that respect Holiness, 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 Fastings its appetites are restrained, in Thanksgivings the Tongue breaks forth into the joyful praises of God. All the 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 ⟨p. 29⟩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 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. Of this we have an earnest in the Resurrection of Christ in his true Body, who is the first fruits of them that sleep. ¹He shall change our vile Bodies, ²that they may be fashioned like to his glorious Body, according to the working of his Power, whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself. A substantial unfading Glory will shine in them infinitely above the perishing Pride of this World, that is but in appearance, like the false colours painted on the feathers of a Dove by reflection of the Light, which presently vanish, when it changeth its posture, or the Light is withdrawn. Indeed what can be more glorious than to be conformed to the Humanity of Christ, the seat of all Beauty and Perfection. This Conformity shall be the work of his ⟨p. 30⟩own hands. And when Omnipotence interposes, nothing is difficult. The raising the Body to an unchangeable state of Glory, is as easy to the Divine Power, as the forming it at first in the Womb. As the Sun labours no more in the Mines in the forming Gold and Silver, the most precious and durable Metals, than in the production of a poor short-lived Flower.