Human nature in its fourfold state ... In several practical discourses

As to the qualities of the bodies of the wicked, at the resurrection, I find the Scripture speaks but little of them. Whatever they may need, they shall not get a drop of water to cool their tongues, Luke xvi. 24, 25. Whatever may be said of their weakness it is certain they will be continued for ever in life; that they may be ever dying: they shall bear up howsoever unwillingly, under the load of God's wrath, and shall not faint away under it. The smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever. And they have no rest day nor night. Surely they shall not partake of the glory and beauty of the saints. All their glory dies with them, and shall never rise again. Daniel tells us, they shall awake to sham•, and everlasting contempt, chap. xii. 2. Shame follows sin, as the shadow followeth the body: but the wicked in this world walk in the dark, and often under a disguise: nevertheless, when the Judge comes in flaming fire, at the last day, they will be brought to the light; their mask will be taken off, and the shame of their nakedness will clearly appear to themselves and others, and fill their faces with confusion. Their shame will be too deep for blushes but "all faces shall gather blackness," at that day, when they shall go forth of their graves, as malefactors out of their prisons to execution; for their resurrection is the resurrection of damnation. The greatest beauties, who now pride themselves in their comeliness of body not regarding their deformed souls, will then appear with ghastly countenances, a grim and death-like visage. Their looks will be frightful, and they will be horrible spectacles, coming forth of their graves like infernal furies out of the pit. They shall rise also to everlasting contempt. They shall then be the most contemptible creatures, filled with contempt from God▪ as vessels of dishonour: whatever honourable uses they have been employed to, in this world; and filled also with contempt from men. They will be most despicable in the eyes of the saints, even of those saints, who gave them honour here; either for their high station, the gifts of God in them or because they were of the same human nature with themselves. But then shall their bodies be as so many loathsome carcasses, which they shall go forth and look upon with abhorrence: yea, they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh, Isa. lxvi. 24.