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A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture…
A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture in two parts : part the first containing LXXIV sermons : part the second containing LXXVI sermons : with an alphabetical table to the whole / by ... Thomas Manton ...
London: printed by J. D., 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.
(1.) It is an incorruptible Body. Now it yielded to the Decays of Nature, and is exercised with Pains and Aches, till at length it droppeth down like ripe Fruit into the Grave; but hereafter it shall be clothed with Immortality, wholly impassible. What a Comfort is this to them that are racked with Stone and Gout, humbled with Diseases, or withered with Age, to think they shall have a Body without Aches, and without Decays, that shall be always in the Spring of Youth! The Trees of Paradise are always green.
(2.) It is a glorious Body. Here it is many times deformed, at least Beauty, like a Flower, is lost in Sickness, withered with Age, defaced by the several Accidents of Life; but then we shall be glorious like Christ's Body. The naked Body of Man at first was so beautiful, that the Beasts of the Field admired it, and thereupon did Homage to Adam, but we shall not be conformed to the first Adam, but the second Adam: When Christ was transfigured in the Mount, it is said, Matth. 17.2. His Face did shine as the Sun, and his Raiment was white as the Light: There was such strong Emissions of the Beams of Glory, that they could not endure the Shining of his Garments, but it astonished the Disciples: his Garments could not veil, nor their Eyes endure those Beams of Glory. Paul could not endure that Light that shined on him, when Christ appeared to him from Heaven, but was utterly confounded ⟨p. 120⟩and struck blind: Acts 9.3, 4. And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus, and suddenly there shined round about him a Light from Heaven; and he fell to the Earth, and heard a Voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? By this you may guess a little what the Glory of our Bodies shall be, for we shall be like him. Moses by conversing with God forty days, the Complexion of his Face was altered, so that he was forced to put a Veil upon it. In this low Estate in which we are, we must make use of these hints. If we lose a Limb or a Joint, he that healed Malchus his Ear will restore it again.