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The sound believer, or, A treatise of evangelical conversion discovering the work of Christs…The sound beleever, or, A treatise of evangelicall conversion discovering the work of Christs…
The sound believer, or, A treatise of evangelical conversion discovering the work of Christs spirit in reconciling of a sinner to God / by Tho. Shepard ...The sound beleever, or, A treatise of evangelicall conversion discovering the work of Christs spirit in reconciling of a sinner to God / by Tho. Shepard ...
London: printed for R. Dawlman, 1645
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.
Secondly, consider of the glory of the bodies of the Saints in this place; the Lord shall change our vile bodies, which are but as dirt upon our wings, and clogs at our feet, as the Apostle expresseth it, Phil. 3. ult. Paul was in the third heaven, and saw the glory doubtless of some there; see what he saith of them, 1 Cor. 15.42, 43, 44.
Secondly, consider of the glory of the bodies of the Saints in this place; the Lord shall change our vile bodies, which are but as dirt upon our wings, and clogs at our feet, as the Apostle express•th it, Phil. 3. ult. Paul was in the third heaven, and saw the glory doubtlesse of some there; see what he saith of them, 1 Cor. 15.42, 43, 44.
1. It shall be an incorruptible body; it shall never dye, nor •ot again, no not in the least degree tending that way, it shall never grow weary, (as now tis by hard labour, and some time by holy duties) nor faint, nor grow wrinkled and withered. Adams body in innocencie potuit non mori, we say truly; but this non potest mori, it cannot dye: and hence it is, that there shall be no more sickness, pains, griefs, fainting fits, &c. when it comes there.
1. It shall be an incorruptible body; it shall never dye, nor •ot againe, no not in the least degree tending that way, it shall never grow weary, (as now tis by hard labour, and some time by holy duties) nor faint, nor grow wrinkled and withered. Adams body in innocencie potuit non mori, we say truly; but this non potest mori, it cannot dye: and hence it is, that there shall be no more sicknesse, paines, griefes, fainting fits, &c. when it comes there.