Secondly, it is raised in glory, and that consists in these two things: First, in the admirable beauty of it: Secondly, in the wonderful lustre and splendour of it: First, in the admirable beauty of it, having all parts in proportion and exact temper, whatsoever can make one beautiful shall ⟨p. 515⟩be in the bodies of the Saints; if we could extract all the beauty of all the men and women in the world, and put them into one, it were but as a deformed thing in regard of the meanest of the bodies of the Saints in Heaven; and much of the beauty will be not only from their exact temper and comeliness that God shall put upon them; but likewise from the excellency of their souls within them, and from the unspeakable joy, and cheerfulness of the heart; And then the splendour and the lustre of their bodies, says 1the Scripture, They shall shine as the stars in the Firmament: look what splendour is in the stars, such shall be in these clay bodies of ours, Daniel 12. 3. Yea, they shall be in greater splendour then the stars, they shall be as the Sun, Matthew 13. 43. He that hath ears to hear let him hear, and believe this, that it shall be so, that the bodies of the Saints shall shine more glorious then the Sun in its strength. You will say, How is it possible that this should be? yes, this is but according to that expression in Phil. 3. 21. Who shall change our vile bodies, that it may be fashioned according to his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able to subdue all things unto himself. It does not require a greater power to raise from the least degree of glory to the highest possibility, as it is to make a thing out of nothing; and therefore the making of the least creature out of nothing, will argue more power, then making the bodies of the Saints to shine brighter then the Sun in the Firmament. Now certainly, God in the glorifying of the Saints, will manifest that power that he did in the creating of the world; and if it does not require so much power to raise their bodies into such a glorious ⟨p. 516⟩condition, as to create a creature out of nothing; then there is no reason why we should not believe this. We know when Moses had been but forty days on the Mount with God, when he came down among the Israelites, his face did so shine, that they were not able to behold it:
Secondly, it is raised in glory, and that consists in these two things: First, in the admirable beauty of it: Secondly, in the wonderful lustre and splendor of it: First, in the admirable beauty of it, having all parts in proportion and exact temper, whatsoever can make one beautiful shall ⟨p. 515⟩be in the bodies of the Saints; if we could extract all the beauty of all the men and women in the world, and put them into one, it were but as a deformed thing in regard of the meanest of the bodies of the Saints in Heaven; and much of the beauty will be not onely from their exact temper and comeliness that God shall put upon them; but likewise from the excellency of their souls within them, and from the unspeakable joy, and cheerfulness of the heart; And then the splendor and the lustre of their bodies, says 1the Scripture, They shall shine as the stars in the Firmament: look what splendor is in the stars, such shall be in these clay bodies of ours, Daniel 12. 3. Yea, they shall be in greater splendor then the stars, they shall be as the Sun, Matthew 13. 43. He that hath ears to hear let him hear, and believe this, that it shall be so, that the bodies of the Saints shall shine more glorious then the Sun in its strength. You will say, How is it possible that this should be? yes, this is but according to that expression in Phil. 3. 21. Who shall change our vile bodies, that it may be fashioned according to his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able to subdue all things unto himself. It does not require a greater power to raise from the least degree of glory to the highest possibility, as it is to make a thing out of nothing; and therefore the making of the least creature out of nothing, will argue more power, then making the bodies of the Saints to shine brighter then the Sun in the Firmament. Now certainly, God in the glorifying of the Saints, will manifest that power that he did in the creating of the world; and if it does not require so much power to raise their bodies into such a glorious ⟨p. 516⟩condition, as to create a creature out of nothing; then there is no reason why we should not believe this. We know when Moses had been but forty days on the Mount with God, when he came down among the Israelites, his face did so shine, that they were not able to behold it:
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