Their activity, and aptness to action, exceeds what we can well conceive; all the Saints in Heaven are such as Pharaoh enquired after, Gen. 47.6. persons of activity. Much is the activeness which at times God hath been, and is pleased to give to Mortal bodies, Elijah (the hand of God being upon him) runneth, and out-runneth Ahab's Chariot, making haste (as is likely) that the rain stopped him not, 1 King. 18.46. Asael was as light of foot as a wild Roe, 2 Sam. 2.18. They in their immortal estate shall be like the Sun, in respect of its brightness, why not in respect of its motion? which the Learned allow to move a Million, and one hundred sixty thousand miles in an hour; if so swift may be the motion of Natural Bodies, how swift the motion of Glorious Bodies shall be, we shall know when we come to make use of it;1 out of the Scripture it appears, that Angels in their assumed Bodies have moved very swiftly; Elijah when departing out of the Disciples sight toward Heaven, not by assumption, that is, by extrinsical help, as ⟨p. 352⟩in fiery Chariot; but by the ascension (according to the inherent Principle, and virtue of his glorified Body,) Luke 9. goeth up to the cloud easily and quickly, and Christ is quickly out of their sight, Act. 1.9. As is their condition, so also is their strength; Sampson yet in a Mortal body, makes no more of Cords about his arms than of Flax burnt with fire; takes the doors of the Gate of the City, and the two Posts, Bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of the hill, Judg. 16.3. breaks the Withs as a thread of Tow is broken when it toucheth the fire, ver. 9. goeth away with the pin of the Beam, and with the Web, &c. May we not well conclude, that the weakest in glory shall be stronger than Sampson in his great strength; the Bodies subjection to the Soul is its exquisite aptness, and readiness, as an instrument for the Soul to operate by, with all dexterity and promptness, without all retarding and hinderance.
Their activity, and aptness to action, exceeds what we can wel conceive; all the Saints in Heaven are such as Pharaoh enquired after, Gen. 47.6. persons of activity. Much is the activeness which at times God hath been, and is pleased to give to Mortal bodies, Eliah (the hand of God being upon him) runneth, and out-runneth Ahabs Charriot, making haste (as is likely) that the rain stopt him not, 1 King. 18.46. Asael was as light of foot as a wild Roe, 2 Sam. 2.18. They in their immortal estate shal be like the Sun, in respect of its brightness, why not in respect of its motion? which the Learned allow to move a Million, and one hundred sixty thousand miles in an hour; if so swift may be the motion of Natural Bodies, how swift the motion of Glorious Bodies shal be, we shal know when we come to make use of it;1 out of the Scripture it appears, that Angels in their assumed Bodies have moved very swiftly; Elias when departing out of the Disciples sight toward Heaven, not by assumption, that is, by extrinsecal help, as ⟨p. 352⟩in fiery Chariot; but by the ascension (according to the inherent Principle, and vertue of his glorified Body,) Luke 9. goeth up to the cloud easily and quickly, and Christ is quickly out of their sight, Act. 1.9. As is their condition, so also is their strength; Sampson yet in a Mortal body, makes no more of Cords about his arms than of Flax burnt with fire; takes the doors of the Gate of the City, and the two Posts, Barre and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of the hil, Judg. 16.3. breaks the Withs as a thread of Towe is broken when it toucheth the fire, ver. 9. goeth away with the pin of the Beam, and with the Web, &c. May we not wel conclude, that the weakest in glory shal be stronger than Sampson in his great strength; the Bodies subjection to the Soul is its exquisite aptness, and readiness, as an instrument for the Soul to operate by, with all dexterity and promptness, without all retarding and hinderance.
- 1Ubivolet Spiritus, ibi protinus erit corpus. August. Haec igitur Dos erit facultatis quod potuerunt facere see movere momento quodcunque & quocunque volunt. Paraeus in 1 Cor. 15, 43.Ʋbivolet Spiritus, ibi protinus erit corpus. August. Haec igitur Dos erit facultatis quod potuerunt facere se movere momento quodcunque & quocunque volunt. Paraeus in 1 Cor. 15, 43.
