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And lastly; the body shall then be Spiritual, because it shall be endued with Spiritual Affections; it shall not be liable to weariness, sickness, pain, or external injuries, no more than a Spirit is. It shall not indeed be an Aerial and Spiritual body, as the Socinians and others do (inconsequentially) infer from this and other Scriptures; but it shall be no more capable of a stroke or wound, or any other violence, than the Air or Sun, or the Heavens themselves. It shall be a true, real body, but no more vulnerable or penetrable, than if it were a Spectrum; an imaginary body, a mere Apparition. It is true, Flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God: but the meaning is not, that in the Resurrection, the bodies of the Saints shall cease to be flesh and blood, ¹but that they shall be devested of all the defects and infirmities of flesh and blood. This is the mystery of it, ²We shall be changed. The fire of the last Judgment (that only Purgatory of the Saints, that we dull Protestants know) shall not consume the bodies of the Saints, but their corruption only; it shall not destroy the substances, but refine their qualities, as the Goldsmith maketh a new Vessel of old Plate; not by altering the metal, but by changing the form and fashion. The furnace of the Resurrection shall purge out all the slime, and dross, and filth, and imperfection out of the bodies of the Saints, and refine them into a body that shall exceed the Celestial bodies, of the Sun, Moon, and Stars, in clarity and purity.

And lastly; the body shall then be Spiritual, because it shall be indued with Spiritual Affections; it shall not be liable to weariness, sickness, pain, or external injuries, no more than a Spirit is. It shall not indeed be an Aerial and Spiritual body, as the Socinians and others do (inconsequentially) inferr from this and other Scriptures; but it shall be no more capable of a stroke or wound, or any other violence, than the Air or Sun, or the Heavens themselves. It shall be a true, real body, but no more vulnerable or penetrable, than if it were a Spectrum; an imaginary body, a meer Apparition. It is true, Flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God: but the meaning is not, that in the Resurrection, the bodies of the Saints shall cease to be flesh and blood, ¹but that they shall be devested of all the defects and infirmities of flesh and blood. This is the mystery of it,