A65285:1583
A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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1. The Bodies of the Saints, when they arise, shall be comely and beautiful. The Body of a Saint in this Life may be deformed: Those whose minds are adorned with Virtue, yet may have mis-shapen Bodies; as the finest Cloth may have the coarsest List: But this deformed Body shall be amiable and beautiful. This beauty consists in two things. 1. Perfection of parts: There shall be a full Proportion of all the Members: In this Life there is oft a defect of Members: The Eye is lost, the Arm is cut off; but in the Resurrection all parts of the Body shall be restored again: Therefore the Resurrection is called the time of restoring of all things, Acts 3.19. Malcha's Ear cut, restituit. 2. Clarity and Splendour: The Bodies of the Saints shall have a graceful Majesty in them; they shall be like Stephen, whose Face shined as if it had been the Face of an Angel, Acts 6.15. Nay they shall be made like Christs glorious Body, Phil. 3.21.
1. The Bodies of the Saints, when they arise, shall be comely and beautiful. The Body of a Saint in this Life may be deformed: Those whose minds are adorned with Virtue, yet may have mis-shapen Bodies; as the finest Cloth may have the coarsest List: But this deformed Body shall be aimable and beautiful. This beauty consists in two things. 1. Perfection of parts: There shall be a full Proportion of all the Members: In this Life there is oft a defect of Members: The Eye is lost, the Arm is cut off; but in the Resurrection all parts of the Body shall be restored again: Therefore the Resurrection is called the time of restoring of all things, Acts 3.19. Malcha's Ear cut, restituit. 2. Clarity and Splendor: The Bodies of the Saints shall have a graceful Majesty in them; they shall be like Stephen, whose Face shined as if it had been the Face of an Angel, Acts 6.15. Nay they shall be made like Christs glorious Body, Phil. 3.21.