1. How Almighty God can (in the Resurrection) as easily raise up thy b•dy out of he grave, from the sleep of death, as he hath this Morning wakened thee in thy bed out of the sleep of nature. At the dawning of which Resurrection ⟨p. 140⟩day Christa shall come to be glorified in his Saints, and every one of the bodies of the bthousands of his Saints (beingc fashioned like unto his glorious body) shall shine as bright as the dSun. All the Angels shining likewise in their glory, the Body of Christ surpassing them all in splendour and glory; and the Godhead excelling it. If the rising of one Sun makes the Morning-Sky so glorious, what a bright-shining and glorious Morning will that be, when so many thousand thousands of Bodies, far brighter than the Sun, shall appear and accompany Christ as hi• glorious •ra•, coming to keep his general Sessions of eRighteousness, and to judge the wickedf Angels, and allg ungodly Men? and let not any transitory profit, pleasure, or vain glory of this day, cause thee to lose thy part and portion of the eternal bliss and glory of that Day, which is properly termed the Resurrection of the Just. 8Beasts have bodily eyes to see the ordinary light of the day; but endeavour thou with the eyes of Faith, to fore-see the glorious light of that Day.
1. HOw Almighty God can (in the Resurrection) as easily raise up thy b•dy out of he grave, from the sleep of death, as he hath this Morning wakened thee in thy bed out of the sleep of nature. At the dawning of which Resurrection ⟨p. 140⟩day Christa shall come to be glorified in his Saints, and every one of the bodies of the bthousands of his Saints (beingc fashioned like unto his glorious body) shall shine as bright as the dSun. All the Angels shining likewise in their glory, the Body of Christ surpassing them all in splendor and glory; and the Godhead excelling it. If the rising of one Sun makes the Morning-Sky so glorious, what a bright-shining and glorious Morning will that be, when so many thousand thousands of Bodies, far brighter than the Sun, shall appear and accompany Christ as hi• glorious •ra•, coming to keep his general Sessions of eRighteousness, and to judge the wickedf Angels, and allg ungodly Men? and let not any transitory profit, pleasure, or vain glory of this day, cause thee to lose thy part and portion of the eternal bliss and glory of that Day, which is properly termed the Resurrection of the Just. 8Beasts have bodily eyes to see the ordinary light of the day; but endeavour thou with the eyes of Faith, to fore-see the glorious light of that Day.
- a2 Thes. 1. 10.
- bJude v. 14.
- cPhil. 3. 21.
- dMat. 13. 43. 17. 2. Luke 9. 31.
- eAct. 17. 31.
- f1 Cor. 6. 3.
- gJude v. 15.
- 8Luke 14. 14.
