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

What would we give if a Physician were able to give us a potion to make our bodies incorruptible, that they should never dye? yet as they are now, it is hardly worth the desiring to have them incorruptible; but when they shall be glorified, and incorruptible too, that is glorious. They shall be incorruptible, not subject ⟨p. 514⟩to any suffering: as God is able to bind up the active power of a creature that it shall not be able to act, so he can bind up the corruptible power, that it shall not work to corruption: as in fire God can bind up the power of fire, that it cannot burn; so God can bind up the power of any creature that hath any corruptible power, that there should not be the least passion that tends to corruption. ^*All sufferings come from the prevailing of the stronger agent over the patient; and when any suffer, it comes from some kind of inability of the form of the patient, whereby it begins to leave the matter in some degree: now the bodies of the Saints shall be so formed with such an excellent form, and so filled with the glory of it, as that there can be no power external or internal, that shall prevail against this form to weaken it. And besides, the reason that is given why the Heavens are incorruptible, may be given why the bodies of the Saints shall be incorruptible: the Heavens are of so excellent a form, that the capacity of the matter is fully filled up; and there may be truth in that reason: so the bodies of the Saints being in their blessed estate into which they shall be raised, they shall have such full satisfaction with the form wherewith they are informed, that there shall not be the least propension to receive any other from.

What would we give if a Physitian were able to give us a potion to make our bodies incorruptible, that they should never dye? yet as they are now, it is hardly worth the desiring to have them incorruptible; but when they shall be glorified, and incorruptible too, that is glorious. They shall be incorruptible, not subject ⟨p. 514⟩to any suffering: as God is able to binde up the active power of a creature that it shall not be able to act, so he can binde up the corruptible power, that it shall not work to corruption: as in fire God can binde up the power of fire, that it cannot burn; so God can binde up the power of any creature that hath any corruptible power, that there should not be the least passion that tends to corruption.