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Meditations on the glory of the heavenly world. I. On the happiness of the…
Meditations on the glory of the heavenly world. I. On the happiness of the soul of believers, at the instant of their separation from their bodies. II. On the glory of the bodies of God's children, in the resurrection world, when they shall be as the angels of heaven. III. On the glory of both soul and body in the heaven of heavens, after the day of judgment, to all eternity. / By Increase Mather, D.D. ; [Six lines of quotations]
Boston in N.E. printed: : Sold by Benjamin Eliot, at his shop in King Street., 1711
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But the Resurrection body will be as strong and vigorous after it has lived Millions of years, as it was when first raised in Power. The bodies of […] and Elijah, ⟨p. 148⟩which have been in heaven for thousands of years are as full of Celestial vigour as they were when first translated to glory. So shall it be with the Children of the Resurrection.
But the Resurrection body will be as strong and vigorous after it has lived Millions of years, as it was when first raised in Power. The bodies of 〈…〉 and Elijah, ⟨p. 148⟩which have been in heaven for thousands of years are as full of Celestial vigour as they were when first translated to glory. So shall it be with the Children of the Resurrection.
(4.) The Resurrection body will be a Spiritual body. 1 Cor. 15. 44. It is sown a Natural body, it is raised a Spiritual body. This is a Marvellous Expression. Luther says of it, Est sermo plane inauditus. Since Body and Spirit are of quite differing Natures, a Spiritual body is a wonderful body. The Resurrection body will have a spiritual Eye, and a spiritual Ear, and spiritual Hands, and as to all other parts of the body they will be spiritual. And therefore (as an acute and deep searching Divine has rightly observed) There will be spiritual objects suited thereunto: but what these Objects shall be we know not. The Scripture speaks of a glory which shall be revealed in us, Rom. 8. 18. What a spiritual body is, and what the objects are, which will be suitable for it, is a glory which shall be revealed: but thus much we know that the carnal objects which ⟨p. 149⟩