Mount Pisgah, or, A prospect of heaven being an exposition on the fourth chapter…Movnt Pisgah, or, A prospect of heaven being an exposition on the fourth chapter…

Zanchius resembleth it to the motion of birds in the Air, ¹that the body being hatched (as it were) in the Resurrection, shall be able to mount up into the Heavens, and as lightly fly through the skies, as if it had wings. David shall then need to wish no more for the wings of a Dove, but be able to contend with fouls of the swiftest flight. Augustin hath an higher strain, and saith, that, ²The body shall move from place to place with what celerity it listeth: and (after him) Luther expresseth it by the swiftness of a Thought, as instantaneous as the Lightning, which in the twinkling of an eye passeth from one end of Heaven to another.

Zanchius resembleth it to the motion of birds in the Aire, ¹that the body being hatcht (as it were) in the Resurrection, shall be able to mount up into the Heavens, and as lightly flie through the skies, as if it had wings. David shall then need to wish no more for the wings of a Dove, but be able to contend with fouls of the swiftest flight. Augustin hath an higher streyn, and saith, that, ²The body shall move from place to place with what celerity it listeth: and (after him) Luther expresseth it by the swiftness of a Thought, as instantaneous as the Lightning, which in the twinkling of an eye passeth from one end of Heaven to another.

1. 1Zanch. De Operibus Dei.
2. 2Miraceleritate

Likewise the operations of the body shall then be all spiritual operations: It shall then be abased no more to any of the servile drudgeries of this present state: it shall work no more, toil no more, sin no more; the Offices of the body shall be as far above its present functions, as the work of a King transcends