Fourthly, It is raised a spiritual Body. This is the last particular, and is indeed the reason of the other three; it is an incorruptible Body, because it is a spiritual one; it is a glorious Body, because it is a spiritual one; it doth rise in power, because it is a spiritual Body. When the Body is buried, or sown in the Earth, it is a Body corruptible, dishonourable, weak and natural: but when it ariseth, it doth rise incorruptible, glorious, powerfully, and Spiritual. So that so far as incorruption is above corruption, glory above dishonour, powerful above weakness, and spiritual above natural: So great an alteration will there be in our Body, when raised again. And yet it is this Body and not another, this in nature, though changed into a far more glorious State; A thousand times further, then if a Hoggard was changed to be an Emperor. Mark, It is sown a natural Body: a very fit word; for ⟨p. 41⟩though there dwell never so much of the Spirit and Grace of God in it while it liveth, yet so soon as the Soul is separate from it, so soon also doth the Spirit of God separate from it; and so will continue while the day of its rising be come. Therefore it is laid into the Earth, a mere Lump of Man's Nature: It is sown a Natural Body: But now at the day, when the Heavens shall be no more, as Job saith, Job 14. 12. Then the Trump shall sound, even the Trump of God, and, in a moment, the Dead shall be raised incorruptible, glorious, and spiritual, 1 Cor. 15. 52. 1 Thes. 24. 16, 17. So that I say, the Body when it ariseth, will be so swallowed up of life and immortality, that it will be, as if it had lost its own Humane Nature; though, in truth, the same substantial real Nature is every whit there still. 'Tis the same [it] that riseth, that was sown; it is sown, it is raised: it is sown, it is raised, saith the Apostle. You know, that things which are candied, by the Art of the Apothecary, they are so swallowed up with the sweetness and virtue of that in which it is candied, that they are now, as though they had no other Nature, than that in which they are boiled: When yet, in truth, the thing candied doth still retain its own proper Nature and Essence; though by virtue of its being candied, it loseth its former sourness, bitterness, stinking, smell, or the like. Just thus, at the last day, it will be ⟨p. 42⟩with our Bodies;
Fourthly, It is raised a spiritual Body. This is the last particular, and is indeed the reason of the other three; it is an incorruptible Body, because it is a spiritual one; it is a glorious Body, because it is a spiritual one; it doth rise in power, because it is a spiritual Body. When the Body is buried, or sown in the Earth, it is a Body corruptible, dishonourable, weak and natural: but when it ariseth, it doth rise incorruptible, glorious, powerfully, and Spiritual. So that so far as incorruption is above corruption, glory above dishonour, powerfull above weakness, and spiritual above naturall: So great an alteration will there be in our Body, when raised again. And yet it is this Body and not another, this in nature, though changed into a far more glorious State; A thousand times further, then if a Hoggard was changed to be an Emperour. Mark, It is sown a natural Body: a very fit word; for ⟨p. 41⟩though there dwell never so much of the Spirit and Grace of God in it while it liveth, yet so soon as the Soul is separate from it, so soon also doth the Spirit of God separate from it; and so will continue while the day of its rising be come. Therefore it is laid into the Earth, a meer Lump of Man's Nature: It is sown a Natural Body: But now at the day, when the Heavens shall be no more, as Job saith, Job 14. 12. Then the Trump shall sound, even the Trump of God, and, in a moment, the Dead shall be raised incorruptible, glorious, and spiritual, 1 Cor. 15. 52. 1 Thes. 24. 16, 17. So that I say, the Body when it ariseth, will be so swallowed up of life and immortality, that it will be, as if it had lost its own Humane Nature; though, in truth, the same substantial real Nature is every whit there still. 'Tis the same [it] that riseth, that was sown; it is sown, it is raised: it is sown, it is raised, saith the Apostle. You know, that things which are candied, by the Art of the Apothecary, they are so swallow'd up with the sweetness and vertue of that in which it is candied, that they are now, as though they had no other Nature, than that in which they are boiled: When yet, in truth, the thing candied doth still retain its own proper Nature and Essence; though by vertue of its being candied, it loseth its former sourness, bitterness, stinking, smell, or the like. Just thus, at the last day, it will be ⟨p. 42⟩with our Bodies;
