Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment

1. They shall be most glorious bodies, 1 Cor. 15. 43. They are sown in dishonour, when they die; they shall be raised in glory at the resurrection; some glory and Majesty is put upon the bodies of men now, in comparison with the bodies of inferior ⟨p. 154⟩creatures; but the bodies of the righteous shall then be made a thousand-fold more glorious; there is not so great a difference between celestial bodies and terrestrial bodies; between the body of the glorious Sun, and the body of the meanest fly or worm, as then there will be between the bodies of the righteous on earth, and in heaven: they will be celestial bodies; they will shine like Stars, Dan. 12. 3. Yea, like the Sun in the Kingdom of their father, Matth. 13. 43. their bodies will be transformed, whereby their dirty hue will be changed, more than if all the stones in the street were turned into Diamonds, Phil. 3. 21. Their vile bodies will be fashi•ed like unto the glorious body of Christ: Now their bodies are vile, being so frail, especially as they are the instruments of sin; they are earthy, as they bear the image of the earthy Adam; then they shall be glorious, because they shall bear the Image of the Heavenly Adam: the bodies of some do now shine with Gold and Pearls, and costly Apparel which are about them, and yet under all, their bodies remain vile bodies; but hereafter the bodies of the righteous shall shine with a marvellous brightness and glory through the qualities which shall be in them, beyond what the richest attire can give.

1. They shall be most glorious bodies, 1 Cor. 15. 43. They are sown in dishonour, when they die; they shall be raised in glory at the resurrection; some glory and Majesty is put upon the bodies of men now, in comparison with the bodies of inferiour ⟨p. 154⟩creatures; but the bodies of the righteous shall then be made a thousand-fold more glorious; there is not so great a difference between celestial bodies and terrestrial bodies; between the body of the glorious Sun, and the body of the meanest fly or worm, as then there will be between the bodies of the righteous on earth, and in heaven: they will be celestial bodies; they will shine like Stars,