Behold this shall be the evidence and first-fruits of your future conformity to Him in the Resurrection of the just. The ground and Reason is, because that blessed Transfiguration which shall conform the Saints to Christ, their Head and Husband in the Resurrection (and from thenceforth to all Eternity;) hath its beginning here in Regeneration, 1or the New Birth, wherein they are renewed in the Spirit of their minds, 2and do put on (habitually) the New man, which after God is Created in Righteousness and true holiness; Jesus Christ is formed in their hearts. And upon this very account, is the Resurrection styled also, the Regeneration, Math. 19.28. In the Regeneration ye also shall sit, i. e. in the Resurrection ye also shall sit, &c. And it is therefore called the Regeneration; ⟨p. 102⟩because the Resurrection shall perfect in the Saints, what the Regeneration begun, sc. Conformity to Christ their Head and Husband in Holiness. Yea at the Resurrection, the Image of Jesus Christ shall be completed; as on their Souls, so on their bodies also: because, that Image was begun upon their Souls on this side the Grave in their New Birth; accordingly as they were predestinated to both in the purpose of God, 3from all Eternity. The Resurrection to Grace here, and to Glory hereafter, is but one and the same Regeneration. Whosoever therefore is a Stranger to this Transformation of Spirit, in the Resurrection to Grace, shall never partake of that Transfiguration of body in the Resurrection to Glory. The bodies of the wicked shall be raked out of their Graves with all their defects and excesses; all their mis-shapes and deformities, which they carried with them to their Graves; in their perfect ugliness; which were the shame and curse of the fallen nature; an abhorrency to God and Angels, &c. Yea to the very Devils themselves, whom they shall have to be both their Companions and Executioners. The Saints of God were the worlds derided, persecuted Non-Conformists here; but themselves shall be Christs and his Saints Non-Conformists hereafter, when their Carcasses shall be cast out for a spectacle of shame and abhorrency unto all flesh for ever.4
Behold this shall be the evidence and first-fruits of your future conformity to Him in the Resurrection of the just. The ground and Reason is, because that blessed Transfiguration which shall conform the Saints to Christ, their Head and Husband in the Resurrection (and from thenceforth to all Eternity;) hath its beginning here in Regeneration, 1or the New Birth, wherein they are renewed in the Spirit of their minds, 2and do put on (habitually) the New man, which after God is Created in Righteousness and true holiness; Jesus Christ is formed in their hearts. And upon this very account, is the Resurrection styled also, the Regeneration, Math. 19.28. In the Regeneration ye also shall sit, i. e. in the Resurrection ye also shall sit, &c. And it is therefore called the Regeneration; ⟨p. 102⟩because the Resurrection shall perfect in the Saints, what the Regeneration begun, sc. Conformity to Christ their Head and Husband in Holiness. Yea at the Resurrection, the Image of Jesus Christ shall be compleated; as on their Souls, so on their bodies also: because, that Image was begun upon their Souls on this side the Grave in their New Birth; accordingly as they were predestinated to both in the purpose of God, 3from all Eternity. The Resurrection to Grace here, and to Glory hereafter, is but one and the same Regeneration. Whosoever therefore is a Stranger to this Transformation of Spirit, in the Resurrection to Grace, shall never partake of that Transfiguration of body in the Resurrection to Glory. The bodies of the wicked shall be raked out of their Graves with all their defects and excesses; all their mis-shapes and deformities, which they carried with them to their Graves; in their perfect ugliness; which were the shame and curse of the fallen nature; an abhorrency to God and Angels, &c. Yea to the very Devils themselves, whom they shall have to be both their Companions and Executioners. The Saints of God were the worlds derided, persecuted Non-Conformists here; but themselves shall be Christs and his Saints Non-Conformists hereafter, when their Carcasses shall be cast out for a spectacle of shame and abhorrency unto all flesh for ever.4
- 1Ephes. 4.23, 24.
- 2Beta referts [Greek or Hebrew]. unto [Greek or Hebrew] In the Regeneration, ye also shall sit upon twelve •n••nes.B•ta referts 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. unto 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 In the Regeneration, ye also shall sit upon twelve •n••nes.
- 3Rom 8.29.
- 4Isa. 66. ult.
