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Fourthly, it is sown a natural body, and it shall be raised a spiritual body; not that it shall be turned into ¹a spirit: It shall remain a body; but the spiritualness consists in three particulars.

Fourthly, it is sowen a natural body, and it shall be raised a spiritual body; not that it shall be turned into ¹a spirit: It shall remain a body; but the spiritualness consists in three particulars.

1. 14.

First, that it shall be in a spiritual condition; they shall have no more need of meat, or drink, or clothes, ¹or marriage, or the like, that now the body stands in need of: the Angels themselves shall have as ⟨p. 518⟩much need of meat, and drink, and clothes as their bodies shall: so says Christ; They shall not be married, nor given in marriage, but they shall be as the Angels in Heaven.

1. 11.

Secondly, the spiritualness of the body consists ¹in the absolute subjection of the body to the spirit, as to be fully and absolutely serviceable to the spirits of the Saints, which here they are not. Here many times is a strife between the spirit and the flesh; the spirit is willing, when the flesh is not; but then there shall be an absolute subjection of the body to the spirit: As here the spirit of a carnal man is called flesh, because his soul is serviceable to the flesh, to make provision for the sins of the flesh, his soul is counted carnal, the wisdom of the flesh is enmity against God: As the soul now is as it were carnal, because it is serviceable to the flesh, so the body shall be spiritual, because it shall be serviceable to the spirit: for you to have such a body as to be serviceable to your souls, as you would desire, it were a great blessing, time will come when it shall be so.