Moses his choice with his eye fixed upon Heaven, discovering the happy condition of…

Now thirdly, let us consider it positively; now in this positive consideration, these things are to be followed: First, the perfection of their natures that they shall be raised to: Secondly, the glory that shall be put upon them at the day of Judgement: Thirdly, the possession of Heaven: Fourthly, the having God to be their Portion: Fifthly, their blessed communion with Jesus Christ: Sixthly, their communion with the Saints and Angels: Lastly, the eternal Sabbath that they are to keep in Heaven. Under these seven heads, all that we have to say concerning the positive reward of the Saints, may be contained; First, the perfection that their natures shall be raised unto; and in that consider these three things: First, the perfection of their bodies: Secondly, the perfection of their souls: Thirdly, the perfection of the whole man. First, the perfection of the bodies of the Saints is no little matter; and because so long as we are in the flesh and live by sense, ⟨p. 513⟩they are bodily things that do affect us; therefore I will show a little the perfection of the bodies of the Saints: they shall have much of the recompense of the reward in their bodies. In the general, their bodies shall be made like the glorious body of Jesus Christ, Phil. 3. 21. Certainly the body of Christ is very glorious; in the transfiguration of Christ, which was but a little glimpse of his glory, how glorious was the body of Christ? In Rev. 1. Saint John had a little glimpse of the representation of Christ, and how glorious is it set forth? the body of the meanest Saint shall be like the glorious body of Christ: What is that? I will go no further then that I find in 1 Cor. 15. 42, 43, 44. and there are four things that set forth the glory of the bodies of the Saints, when they come to attain the recompense of reward: First, it is raised in incorruption: Secondly, it is raised in glory: Thirdly, it is raised in power: Fourthly, it is raised a spiritual body. First, every Saint of God shall have an incorruptible body, there shall be no more death: it shall be made incorruptible in regard of that fullness of the presence of God with it: If spices, & embalming of dead bodies can keep them so long as they do sometime from smelling; surely the glorious presence of God with the body, shall have infinite more power to keep the bodies of the Saints incorruptible.