The Christian's charter showing the privileges of a believerThe Christian's charter shewing the priviledges of a believer

1. They shall be agile and nimble: the bodies of the Saints on earth are heavy in their motion, and subject to weariness, but in Heaven there shall be no elementary gravity hindering, but our bodies being refined, shall be swift and facile in ⟨p. 189⟩their motion, and made fit to ascend, as the body of Elijah. In this life the body is a great hindrance to the soul in its operation, The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. The soul may bring its action against the body, when the soul would fly up to Christ, the body as a leaden lump keeps it down; 'tis vivum sepulchrum: but there is a time coming when it shall be otherwise; the bodies of the Saints shall be agile and lively, they shall be made fully subject to the soul, and so no way impede or hinder the soul in its motion.

1. They shall be agil and nimble: the bodies of the Saints on earth are heavy in their motion, and subject to wearinesse, but in Heaven there shal be no elementary gravity hindering, but our bodies being refined, shall be swift and facile in ⟨p. 189⟩their motion, and made fit to ascend, as the body of Elias. In this life the body is a great hindrance to the soule in its operation, The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. The soul may bring its action against the body, when the soul would flie up to Christ, the body as a leaden lump keeps it down; 'tis vivum sepulchrum: but there is a time coming when it shall be otherwise; the bodies of the Saints shall be agil and lively, they shall be made fully subject to the soul, and so no way impede or hinder the soul in its motion.

2. The bodies of the Saints shall §2be transparent, full of clarity and brightness; as Christs body when it was transfigured, Matth. 17.2. our bodies shall have a divine lustre put upon them: here they are as iron when it is rusty, there they shall be as iron when it is filed and made bright: they shall shine, tanquam Sol