The fourth Verse gives a genuine and sincere account, why a Christian doth thus groan, and that after dissolution it self, in order to this glory; which he sets out with an accurate distinction of their desires of dissolutions, in difference from like desires in all other men: First, Negatively, not for that being burdened we desire to be unclothed, or dissolved; that is, simply for ease of those burdens: nor out of a despising of our bodies we now wear (as their Heathen Wise-men and Philosophers did, and others do) No. But secondly Positively, For this, as the top-ground of that desire, That we would be clothed upon with that house (spoken of Ver. 1. and ⟨p. 5⟩that still taken in the sense, spoken of in the 2. Ver.) to the end that this mortal animal life which the Soul (though Immortal in it self) now leads in the body, full of sins, clogged with a body of death and miseries; (each of which hath a Death in it) and so it lives but a dying life; that this life may be exchanged, yea, swallowed up by that which is life indeed, The only true Life, the knowing God as we are known, and enjoying him: All which, as to our Souls, is truly performed at our Dissolution; although the final swallowing up the mortality of our bodies also, doth yet remain to be accomplished: which will be done at the latter day, at that Change both of Body and Soul, though in respect of the Body it will be completed as then more fully.
The fourth Verse gives a genuine and sincere account, why a Christian doth thus groan, and that after dissolution it self, in order to this glory; which he sets out with an accurate distinction of their desires of dissolutions, in difference from like desires in all other men: First, Negatively, not for that being burthened we desire to be unclothed, or dissolved; that is, simply for ease of those burthens: nor out of a despising of our bodies we now wear (as their Heathen Wise-men and Philosophers did, and others do) No. But secondly Positively, For this, as the top-ground of that desire, That we would be clothed upon with that house (spoken of Ver. 1. and ⟨p. 5⟩that still taken in the sense, spoken of in the 2. Ver.) to the end that this mortal animal life which the Soul (though Immortal in it self) now leads in the body, full of sins, clogg'd with a body of death and miseries; (each of which hath a Death in it) and so it lives but a dying life; that this life may be exchanged, yea, swalloed up by that which is life indeed, The onely true Life, the knowing God as we are known, and enjoying him: All which, as to our Souls, is truly performed at our Dissolution; although the final swallowing up the mortality of our bodies also, doth yet remain to be accomplish'd: which will be done at the latter day, at that Change both of Body and Soul, though in respect of the Body it will be completed as then more fully.
