A30200:130
The resurrection of the dead and eternal judgement, or, The truth of the resurrection…The resurrection of the dead and eternall judgement, or, The truth of the resurrection…
The resurrection of the dead and eternal judgement, or, The truth of the resurrection of the bodies both of good and bad at the last day asserted and proved by Gods word : also, the manner and order of their coming forth of their graves, as also, with what bodies they do arise : together with a discourse of the last judgement, and the final conclusion of the whole world / by John Bunyan.The resurrection of the dead and eternall judgement, or, The truth of the resurrection of the bodies both of good and bad at the last day asserted and proved by Gods word : also, the manner and order of their coming forth of their graves, as also, with what bodies they do arise : together with a discourse of the last judgement, and the finall conclusion of the whole world / by John Bunyan.
London: printed for Francis Smith, 1665
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Now, I say, as we have in this World born the Image of our first Father; so, at that Day, we shall have the Image of Jesus Christ, and be as he is. As is the Earthly, such are they that are Earthly; and as is the Heavenly, such are they that are Heavenly; and as we have been the Image of the Earthly, we shall (at our Resurrection) bear the Image of the Heavenly: It is so in part now, but shall so be in perfection then, 1 Cor. 15. 48, 49.
To mount up to Heaven, and to descend again at pleasure, shall, with us, in that Day, be ordinary. If there were Ten Thousand Bars of Iron, or Walls of Brass, to separate between us, and our pleasure and desire, at that Day, they should as easily be pierced by us, as is the Cobweb, or Air by the Beams of the Sun: And the Reason is, Because to the Spirit, wherewith we shall be unconceivably filled at that Day, nothing is unpossible, Mat. 10. 27. And the working of it at that Day, shall be in that nature and ⟨p. 44⟩measure, as to swallow up all impossibilities. He shall change our vile Body, and fashion it like unto his glorious Body; Now mark, according to the working, whereby he is able to subdue all things unto himself, Phil. 3. 21. As who should say, I know that there are many things, that in this World hinder us from having our Bodies like the Body of Christ; but when God shall raise us from the Dead, because he will then have our Body like the Body of his Son: He will stretch forth such a power to work upon, and in our Body, that he will remove all impossibilities and hinderances.
To mount up to Heaven, and to descend again at pleasure, shall, with us, in that Day, be ordinary. If there were Ten Thousand Bars of Iron, or Walls of Brass, to separate between us, and our pleasure and desire, at that Day, they should as easily be pierced by us, as is the Cobweb, or Air by the Beams of the Sun: And the Reason is, Because to the Spirit, wherewith we shall be unconceiveably filled at that Day, nothing is unpossible,