Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment

3. The bodies of the righteous shall be most strong, that they may be suitable to their great soul, and fit for such works as in heaven they must be employed in; were they weak as now they are, they would never endure such works and motions, they would tire and faint, their spirits would quickly be spent; but in Heaven there will be no lassitude and weariness; no fainting, or failure of spirits; all their motions, though never so great and continual, will be sweet and delightful; and therefore their bodies must be strong that they may be suitable hereunto: Moreover the glory of Heaven, which they shall have in their eye would sink a weak body, and the ravishing joys and love, the transports of their souls in the visions which they shall have, would crack a weak vessel to pieces; they must be strong to bear the glory of the place; and when besides they must endure unto all eternity; and all this without reparation, by meat, or drink, or sleep; I conceive that no bodies visible to us are made so strong, as the bodies of the righteous will be made at the last day.

3. The bodies of the righteous shall be most strong, that they may be sutable to their great soul, and fit for such works as in heaven they must be employed in; were they weak as now they are, they would never endure such works and motions, they would tire and faint, their spirits would quickly be spent; but in Heaven there will be no lassitude and weariness; no fainting, or failure of spirits; all their motions, though never so great and continual, will be sweet and delightful; and therefore their bodies must be strong that they may be sutable hereunto: Moreover the glory of Heaven, which they shall have in their eye would sinke a weak body, and the ravishing joyes and love, the transports of their souls in the visions which they shall have, would crack a weak vessel to pieces; they must be strong to bear the glory of the place; and when besides they must endure unto all eternity; and all this without reparation, by meat, or drink, or sleep; I conceive that no bodies visible to us are made so strong, as the bodies of the righteous will be made at the last day.

4. Hence it follows, that their bodies will be most healthful bodies, they will be free from all pain, and disease, which may in the least weaken them; the temperature of their bodies will be so exact, that there will be no fighting of contrary qualities within them, no flowing of ill humours: In Heaven there will be no plague nor ague, not fever, nor gout, not stone, nor strangury, nor any distemper, no need of food to preserve health, nor physic to recover it.