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Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachi the…Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachy the…
Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachi the sixteen, seventeen and eighteen verses : seasonable for the times / by Thomas Watson ...Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachy the sixteen, seventeen and eighteen verses : seasonable for the times / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed by J. Astwood for Tho. Parkhurst, 1682
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. In that day the Saints Love will be perfect: Love is the Queen of the Graces, it out-lives all the other Graces. ⟨p. 192⟩In this life our love to God is lukewarm, and sometimes Frozen; a Believer weeps that he can love God no more: but at the day of death when God makes up his Jewels, then the Saints love shall be Seraphical: the spark of Love shall be blown up into into a pure flame: the Saints shall love God secundum actum (as the Schoolmen speak) as much as they are able: they shall love him superlatively, and indeficiently, they shall be made up of love. O blessed day of death! when God shall make up his Jewels, the Saints Graces shall shine forth in their Meridian Splendour.
2. God makes up his Jewels at the day of the Resurrection, then he makes the Saints bodies perfect: these like sparkling Diamonds shall shine in Glory. At the Resurrection God is said to change the bodies of the Saints, Phil. 3.21. How will he change them? not that they shall be other bodies than they were before: the substance of their bodies shall not be changed, but the qualities: as wool when it is died into a Purple colour, is not altered in the substance, but quality, ⟨p. 193⟩and is made more illustrious; so God in making up his Jewels will cause a greater resplendency in the Saints bodies than before. When God makes up the Jewels of the Saints Bodies at the Resurrection, they shall be perfect four ways.
2. God makes up his Jewels at the day of the Resurrection, then he makes the Saints bodyes perfect: these like sparkling Diamonds shall shine in Glory. At the Resurrection God is said to change the bodies of the Saints, Phil. 3.21. How will he change them? not that they shall be other bodies than they were before: the substance of their bodies shall not be changed, but the qualities: as wooll when it is died into a Purple colour, is not altered in the substance, but quality,