(3.) Another Property of the Resurrection-body, is, That it will be endowed with Marvellous Strength. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in Power. What weak things, what poor Creatures are the best and greatest of men? Psal. 39. 5. Verify every man at his best estate is altogether Vanity. Not only some men, but every man: Kings as well as beggars, and this at their ⟨p. 146⟩best, are not only vain but vanity it self, and altogether so. What can can be said more to set forth humane frailty! But the Resurrection will make a blessed change. Whilst in this World, the Bodies of Gods Children as well as of other men, are subject to manifold weaknesses & infirmities. How many hundreds of diseases do Physicians tell us that the body is subject unto? But the Resurrection body shall not be subject to any disease, nor to any grief or pain. God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, Neither shall there be any more pain, for the former things are passed away, Rev. 21. 4. Nor can it easily be imagined how great the Strength of this now weak body shall then be. How great was Samson's Miraculous Strength, When he took the doors of the gates of the city and the two posts, and went away with them bar and all, Judg. 16. 3. But what was Samsons bodily strength, compared with that of the Resurrection body? The Angels are called Mighty Angels, and they Excel in Strength, Psal. 103. 20. When the Children of the Resurrection shall be as the ⟨p. 147⟩Angels of Heaven, they will Excel in Strength. Anselm, Luther and Mr. Burroughs think that they will be able to remove Mountains, and to make the Earth to shake, as sometimes Angels have done, Math. 28. 2. Their Strength will be wonderful. And that which adds to the wonder, is, that this Strength will never decay with Age. It is said of Moses that when he was an hundred and twenty years old, his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated, Deut. 34. 7. This was Miraculous. And Caleb could say, I am this day fourscore and five years old, as yet I am as strong as I was in the day that Moses sent me, (when he was but Forty-two years old) as my strength was then, so is my strength now. This also was Extraordinary […] commonly if men through the strength of Nature live to Fourscore, their decayed strength is full of Labour and Sorrow through the Infirmities of Old Age.
(3.) Another Property of the Resurrection-body, is, That it will be endowed with Marvellous Strength. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in Power. What weak things, what poor Creatures are the best and greatest of men? Psal. 39. 5. Verify every man at his best estate is altogether Vanity. Not only some men, but every man: Kings as well as beggars, and this at their ⟨p. 146⟩best, are not only vain but vanity it self, and altogether so. What can can be said more to set forth humane frailty! But the Resurrection will make a blessed change. Whilest in this World, the Bodies of Gods Children as well as of other men, are subject to manifold weaknesses & infirmities. How many hundreds of diseases do Physicians tell us that the body is subject unto? But the Resurrection body shall not be subject to any disease, nor to any grief or pain. God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, Neither shall there be any more pain, for the former things are passed away, Rev. 21. 4. Nor can it easily be imagined how great the Strength of this now weak body shall then be. How great was Samson's Miraculous Strength, When he took the doors of the gates of the city and the two posts, and went away with them bar and all, Judg. 16. 3. But what was Samsons bodily strength, compared with that of the Resurrection body? The Angels are called Mighty Angels, and they Excel in Strength, Psal. 103. 20. When the Children of the Resurrection shall be as the ⟨p. 147⟩Angels of Heaven, they will Excel in Strength. Anselm, Luther and Mr. Burroughs think that they will be able to remove Mountains, and to make the Earth to shake, as sometimes Angels have done, Math. 28. 2. Their Strength will be wonderful. And that which adds to the wonder, is, that this Strength will never decay with Age. It is said of Moses that when he was an hundred and twenty years old, his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated, Deut. 34. 7. This was Miraculous. And Caleb could say, I am this day fourscore and five years old, as yet I am as strong as I was in the day that Moses sent me, (when he was but Forty-two years old) as my strength was then, so is my strength now. This also was Extraordinary commonly if men through the strength of Nature live to Fourscore, their decayed strength is full of Labour and Sorrow through the Infirmities of Old Age.
