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Human nature in its fourfold state ... In several practical discourses
Human nature in its fourfold state ... In several practical discourses. / By Mr. Thomas Boston, late Minister of the Gospel at Etterick.
United States : s.n. Printed for the booksellers., M,DCC,LXXXVII. 1787
State 4 › Part 3 › DOCTRINE. There shall be a Resurrection of the Dead.
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.
As to the Qualities with which the bodies of the saints shall be endowed at the resurrection: the Apostle tells us, they shall be raised incorruptible, glorious, powerful, and spiritual, 1 Cor. xv. 42, 43.44. ⟨p. 261⟩It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption. It is sown in dishonour, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.
First, The bodies of the saints shall be raised incorruptible They are now, as the bodies of others, a very mass of corruption, •ull of the seeds of diseases and death; and when dead, become so nauseous, even to their dearest friends, that they must be buried out of their sight, in a grave, there to rot and be consumed: yea loathsome sores and diseases make some of them very unsightly, even while alive. But at the resurrection they leave all the seeds of corruption behind them, in the grave; and rise incorruptible, incapable of the least indisposition. sickness, or sor•; and much more of dying. External violences and inward causes of pain shall for ever cease: they shall feel it no more: yea, they shall have an everlasting youth and vigour; being no more subject to th• d•s which age produced in this life.
First, The bodies of the saints shall be raised incorruptible They are now, as the bodies of others, a very mass of corruption, •ull of the seeds of diseases and death; and when dead, become so nauseous, even to their dearest friends, that they must be buried out of their sight, in a grave, there to rot and be consumed: yea lothsome sores and diseases make some of them very unsightly, even while alive. But at the resurrection they leave all the seeds of corruption behind them, in the grave; and rise incorruptible, incapable of the least indisposition. sickness, or sor; and much more of dying. External violences and inward causes of pain shall for ever cease: they shall feel it no more: yea, they shall have an everlasting youth and vigour; being no more subject to th ds which age produced in this life.