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The mourner directory, guiding him to the middle way betwixt the two extremes, defect,…The mourner directory, guiding him to the middle way betwixt the two extreams, defect,…
The mourner directory, guiding him to the middle way betwixt the two extremes, defect, excess of sorrow for his dead to which is added, The mourners soliloquy / by Thomas Doolittle ...The mourner directory, guiding him to the middle way betwixt the two extreams, defect, excess of sorrow for his dead to which is added, The mourners soliloquy / by Thomas Doolittle ...
London: printed by J.A. for Tho. Cockeril, 1693
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3. They shall be raised Spiritual Bodies, not turned into Spirits, for then they would not be Bodies; Spirits have not material Eyes, with which Job said he should see his Redeemer at the last day with those he then had, and not with others; if it were not the same Bodies ⟨p. 169⟩in substance, it would not be a Resurrection, but a new product on. They shall then be Spiritual Bodies, in this respect, that their manner of Life, shall be like the Life of Spirits, having no need of Meat, or Drink, or Sleep, or any such things whereby our Natural Bodies in this Life are supported and maintained. In which respect Christ asserts that they shall be as the Angels, Mat. 22.30. In the Resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in Marriage, but are as the Angels of God in Heaven. This will be a great privilege of Bodies raised from the dead at the last day, for n•• we spend a great part of our Life in Sleep, for the refreshing of our Natural Bodies, ar• in that time we are not, nor cannot be taken up with Admirations of God, nor Contemplations of Divine things, but after the Resurrection there shall be no interruptions nor intermissions in our praising of God, in our Loving of him, and delighting in him. Our Natural Bodies now require time to be fed, in sitting at our Tables: when they are empty, we are pained with hunger, when they are full, we are indisposed for Holy Work, and Heavenly Praises; but a whole Eternity shall be filled with constant Hallelujahs, and Spiritual Rejoicings, when our Bodies shall be raised Spiritual Bodies, and such they shall be, 1 Cor. 15.44. It is sown a natural Body, it is raised a spiritual Body. There ⟨p. 170⟩is a Natural Body, and there is a Spiritual Body.
3. They shall be raised Spiritual Bodies, not turned into Spirits, for then they would not be Bodies; Spirits have not material Eyes, with which Job said he should see his Redeemer at the last day with those he then had, and not with others; if it were not the same Bodies ⟨p. 169⟩