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…

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.

2. It shall be a glorious body, it shall rise in honour, saith Paul; and what glory shall it have? verily it shall be like unto Christs glorious body, Phil. 3. ult. which when Paul saw, Acts 9. did shine brighter then the sun: ⟨p. 317⟩and therefore here shall be no imperfection of limbs, scars, or maims, natural or accidental deformities; but as the third heaven it self is most lightsome, Gen. 1.1, 2. so their bodies that inhabit that place shall exceed the light and glory thereof, these being more compacted, and thence shining out in greater lustre, that the eyes of all beholders shall be infinitely ravished to see such clods of earth as now we are, advanced to such incomparable beauty and amiableness of heavenly glory.