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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 Timothy Green in Middle Street., 1711
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(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 o• the body they will be spiritual. And therefore (as an acute and deep searching Divine has rightly observed) There wil• be spiritual objects suited thereunto: bu• what these Objects shall be we know no• The Scripture speaks of a glory which shall be revealed in us, Rom. 8.18. Wha• a spiritual body is, and what the object are, which will be suitable for it, is a glory which shall be revealed: but thus mu•• we know that the carnal objects whi•• ⟨p. 149⟩are suited to the Natural body whilst it Lives an Animal Life in this World, are not suitable for the Spiritual body. Meat and Drink agree with the Natural body, and that body is for them: but it is otherwise with the Spiritual body. It is said, Meat is for the belly, and the belly for Meats, but God shall destroy both it and them, 1 Cor. 6.13. The belly, i. e. the Stomach craves for Meat, and God has made & appointed Meats suitable for the Natural Appetites of the body, but the Resurrection body is not for Meats, nor Meat for it. The Spiritual body will have no need, nor desire of Meat or Drink. It shall never hunger or thirst. One of our English Martyrs, a faithful Minister (his Name was Robert Samuel) after the Bishop of London (bloody Bonner) caused him to be cast into Prison, he there suffered much by hunger and thirst; The night before his Death, an Angel appeared to him in his sleep, saying, Be of good comfort Samuel, for after this day thou shalt never suffer unger any more: Nor did he, for the […] day he ws Martyred Thus in the Resurrection