The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please…

3. They shall come forth out of their Graves, ¹like so many Josephs out of Prison, or Daniels out of the Lion's Den, or Jonahs out of the Whale's Belly.

1. 1Dan. 6. 23. Par est potestas Dei ad instituendos, & restituendos homines. Athenagor.

4. All the Bodies of the Elect being thus made alive, shall arise in that ^eperfection of Nature, whereunto they should have attained by their natural temperament, if no impediment had hindered; and in that vigour of age, that a perfect Man is at about ⟨p. 73⟩33 years old, each in their^a proper sex. Whereunto Divines think the Apostle alludeth, when he saith,^b Till we all come unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the age (or stature) of the fullness of Christ. Whatsoever imperfection was before in the Body, (as blindness, lameness, crookedness) shall then be done away. Jacob shall not halt, nor Isaac be blind, nor Leah blear-eyed, nor Mephibosheth be lame; for if David would not have the blind and lame to come into his House, much less will Christ have blindness and lameness to dwell in his heavenly Habitation. Christ made all the blind to see, the dumb to speak, the deaf to hear, the lame to walk, &c. that came to him to seek his grace on Earth: much more will he heal all their imperfections, whom he will admit to his glory in Heaven. ⁴Among those Tribes, there is not one feeble,