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…

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, ⟨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 wayes.

1. In Amability or sweetness of Beauty. Here the Bodies of the Righteous are oft deformed; Leah hath her blear Eyes, and Barzillai his lameness; but at the Resurrection the bodies of the Saints shall be of unspotted fairness: and no wonder, for they shall be made like Christs Glorious body,