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The blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the Great God our Saviour, Jesus…
The blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the Great God our Saviour, Jesus Christ. Opened & applied, in several sermons. / By Increase Mather, president of Harvard College in Cambridge, and preacher of the Gospel, at Boston, in N.E. ; [Nine lines of Scripture texts]The blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the Great God our Saviour, Jesus Christ. Opened & applied, in several sermons. / By Increase Mather, praesident of Harvard Colledge in Cambridge, and preacher of the Gospel, at Boston, in N.E. ; [Nine lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by Timothy Green for Nicholas Boone, 1701
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The Blessed HOPE, And Glorious Appearing of JESUS CHRIST. › Sermon 1
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like that which was on the face of Moses when he had been with God in the Mount And like that which was on the Face of Christ, when transfigured in the Mount, and His Face did shine like the Sun. Their bodies shall have no Impediment to the operation of their Souls. Now their bodies are a great hindrance to the operation of the Soul. They will not be so after the Resurrection. Yea, and they shall be Immortalized bodies. 1 Cor. 15.52, 53. The Dead shall be Raised incorruptible and we shall be changed. For this Corruptible, must put on Incorruption, and this Mortal must put on Immortality. In that respect also, they shall be more happy then Adam in his first Estate was. Luk. 20 36. They shall be Equal to the Angels, neither can they Die any more. This is more then could be said of Adam. His body was not so immortal that it could not dye, for it did dye after he ⟨p. 17⟩sinned. But as for Believers, at the Appearing of Christ, their Bodies shall be made like to that Body which Christ has now in Heaven. Phil, 3.21. He shall change our vile bodies, that it may be fashioned like unto His Glorious Body. Therefore it is said, they shall bear the Image of the Heavenly: 1 Cor. 15.49. As we have born the image of the Earthly, so also we shall bear the image of the Heavenly. As we have born the image of the Earthly Adam in respect of the Mortality of our Bodies, we shall bear the image of the Second Adam in respect of Immortality as to our Bodies.
like that which was on the face of Moses when he had been with God in the Mount And like that which was on the Face of Christ, when transfigured in the Mount, and His Face did shine like the Sun. Their bodies shall have no Impediment to the operation of their Souls. Now their bodies are a great hindrance to the operation of the Soul. They will not be so after the Resurrection. Yea, and they shall be Immortalized bodies. 1 Cor. 15.52, 53. The Dead shall be Raised incorruptible and we shall be changed. For this Corruptible, must put on Incorruption, and this Mortal must put on Immortality. In that respect also, they shall be more happy then Adam in his first Estate was.