Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment. By Thomas Vincent, sometime Minister of Maudlins…

2. And by consequence the bodies of the righteous shall be most Beautiful Bodies: they shall have a perfect beauty, beyond whatever eye did behold, in the fairest woman that ever lived upon the face of the earth.

Their bodies will have the most exact symmetry of parts; those which were misshapen here, shall then he healed of that imperfection in their bodies; the crooked back shall then be be made straight; the members which now are wanting, shall be supplied, and the parts which now are dissolved shall be put into the right place; and all joined so exactly together; especially the lineaments of the face shall have such a figure and composition as shall render their feature most lovely, and graceful, beyond what the greatest observers, and admirers of beauty, can conceive in their fancy.

Their bodies will have the most exact symetry of parts; those which were mis shapen here, shall then he healed of that imperfection in their bodies; the crooked back shall then be be made straight; the members which now are wanting, shall be supplied, and the parts which now are dissolved shall be put into the right place; and all joyned so exactly together; especially the lineaments of the face shall have such a figure and composition as shall render their feature most lovely, and graceful, beyond what the greatest observers, and admirers of beauty, can conceive in their fancy.

Moreover, the bodies of the righteous shall have a most sweet mixture of colours; there will be no black skin, no swarthy complexion, no pal• face, no wan look; their colour will be most lovely, without change or fading; there will be no wrinkles of old age but they will be always young fresh, and blooming; if the composition of these •lments, which are so dreggish, doth give forth in same such lvliness of colour, what will the more refined composition of the bodies, of the righteous do, and when the Lord will fashion their bodies after the pattern of his Sons body: and therefore I conceive further that the bodies of the righteous shall have a most comely stature, not dwarfish nor gigantic; but according to the measure of the stature of Christ: And lastly, to complete their beauty, I doubt not but they will have most graceful gestures and sparkling motions in their countenances; they will have no grief to deaden their beauty, to anger or envy, or the like, to change and transform their visage; But love and joy will continuall look out at their eyes, which will marvellously add to the lustre and sweetness of their beauty; they shall have most beautiful bodies.