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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
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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.
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.
6. The bodies of the righteous will be incorruptible and immortal, 1 Cor. 5. 42. It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption, And v 52. 53. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last temp the dead shall be raised incorruptible; for this corruptible must put on incorruption, and th mortal must put on immortality, And v. 54. Then shall come to pass the saying which is written, Death is swallowed up, in victory. Now death is unavoidable, and unto some is very terrible; death hath all the Children of men in the chie, and shoots his arrows at the righteous, as well as the wicked; and though they be delivered from the sting […] death which is sin, yet they are not delivered from the stroke of death; but however death play the tyrant here on earth, and spare none; yet he will have no footing i Heaven; the bodies of the righteous when raised up aan will be impassible and immortal; immortality wil be swallowed up of life, and the life of the body, as well as of the soul will be everlasting.