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Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment. By Thomas Vincent, sometime Minister of Maudlins…
Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment. By Thomas Vincent, sometime Minister of Maudlins Milk-Street, London; ; [Three lines from Hebrews]
Boston: printed by Samuel Green for Benjamin Harris, 1690
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Christ's certain and sudden Appearance to Judgment. › Chapter 10
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
[…] it follows, that their bodies will be most Healthful bodies, they will be free from all pain, and disease, which may in the least weaken them; the temperature of their bodies will be so exact, that there will be no fighting of contrary qualities within them, no flowing of ill humours: In Heaven there will be no plague nor•ague, nor fever, nor gout, nor stone, nor strang••y, nor any distemper, no need of food to preserve health, nor ph•sit• to recover it
〈…〉 it follows, that their bodies will be most Healthful bodies, they will be free from all pain, and disease, which may in the least weaken them; the temperature of their bodies will be so exact, that there will be no fighting of contrary qualities within them, no flowing of ill humours: In Heaven there will be no plague nor•ague, nor feav•r, nor gout, nor stone, nor strang••y, nor any distemper, no need of food to preserve health, nor ph•sit• to recover it
5. The bodies of the righteous will be Spiritual bodies, 1 Cor. 15. 44. not absolutely, spiritual; for then they would cease to be bodies; but comparatively, to what they are now, they will be spiritual, that is, I conceive th•y will be quick & […] in their motions, like spirits; now they are dull, and slow and heavy, and a clog to the spirit; I conceive that […] they shall be like Angels for quick and nimble mati••• they may be so qualified, as in a moment to move many […] miles; why may not they move so quick then, as well as the Sun and other Stars in the Firmament do so […] which are bodies of many thousand times greater magnitude.