Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment

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.

4. Hence it follows, that their bodies will be most healthfull 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 feaver, nor gout, not stone, nor strangury, nor any distemper, no need of food to preserve health, nor physick to recover it.

5. The bodies of the righteous will be spiritual ⟨p. 157⟩bodies, I Cor. 15. 44. not absolutely spiritual; for then they would cease to be bodies; but comparatively, to what they are now, they will be spiritual, that is, I conceive they will be quick and nimble in their motions, like spirits; now they are dull, and slow, and heavy, and a clog to the spirit; I conceive that hereafter they shall be like Angels for quick and nimble motion; they may be so qualified, as in a moment to move many thousand miles; why may not they move so quick then, as well as the Sun and other Stars in the Firmament do so now, which are bodies of many thousand times greater magnitude.

6. The bodies of the righteous will be incorruptible and immortal,