A treatise of self-denial. By Richard Baxter, pastor of the church at KidderminsterA treatise of self-denial. By Richard Baxter, pastor of the church at Kederminster

we have now a drossy l•mp of flesh, an aggravation of the Elements to a seed of life, which out of them forms it self a body, by the Divine influx. Like the Silk-worm which in the Winter is but a seed, which in the Summer doth move & attract that matter from which it gets a larger body, by a kind of Resurrection: But it is another manner of body (I will not say of flesh) which at the Resurrection we shall have. Not flesh and blood, nor a natural body, but of a nature so spiritual, sublime and pure, that it shall be indeed a spiritual body. And think not that this is a contradiction, and that spirituality and corporeity are inconsistent. For [There is a Natural Body, and there is a Spiritual body] The root of the fleshly Natural body was the first man Adam, who was made a living soul, to be the Root of living souls. The root of the spiritual Body is Christ, who being a quickening Spirit, doth quicken all his members by his Spirit; which Spirit of Grace is the seed of Glory; & as from an holy and gracious Saviour we receive an holy and gracious nature: so from a Glorified Saviour we shall receive a glorious nature: ⟨p. 255⟩we are now changed from glory to Glory in the beginning, as by the spirit of the Lord: But it is another kind of Glory that this doth tend to. Howbeit that is not first which is spiritual, but the natural; and afterwards the spiritual; The first man was of the Earth, Earthy: The second man is the Lord from heaven. And from each of them we partake of an answerable Nature. As is the Earthy, such are they that are earthy, even all of us in our fleshly state, having earthy bodies from an earthy Adam, and natural bodies from the natural Adam. And as is the heavenly, such are they that are heavenly: for Christ makes men like himself, even first gracious and then glorious as Adam begets us like himself, that is, natural (and sinful.) And therefore all those that have followed Christ in the Regeneration, shall follow him into Glory, and having conquered by him, shall reign by him and with him: and having received the holy nature here which is the seed of glory, they shall receive the glorious nature there which is the perfection of that Grace; And so as Christ hath an heavenly spiritual body, and ••• an earthy natural body, so shall his Members have, that they may be like him.

we have now a drossie l•mp of flesh, an aggravation of the Elements to a seed of life, which out of them forms it self a body, by the Divine influx. Like the Silk-worm which in the Winter is but a seed, which in the Summer doth move & attract that matter from which it gets a larger body, by a kind of Resurrection: But it is another manner of body (I will not say of flesh) which at the Resurrection we shall have. Not flesh and blood, nor a natural body, but of a nature so spiritual, sublime and pure, that it shall be indeed a spiritual body. And think not that this is a contradiction, and that spirituality and corporeity are inconsistent. For [There is a Natural Body, and there is a Spiritual body] The root of the fleshly Natural body was the first man Adam, who was made a living soul, to be the Root of living souls. The root of the spiritual Body is Christ, who being a quickning Spirit, doth quicken all his members by his Spirit; which Spirit of Grace is the seed of Glory; & as from an holy and gracious Saviour we receive an holy and gracious nature: so from a Glorified Saviour we shall receive a glorious nature: