The body when it ariseth will be so swallowed up of life and
immortality, that it will be as if it had lost its own human nature.
You know that things which are candied by the art of the apothecary,
are so swallowed up with the sweetness and virtue of that in which
they are candied, that they are now as though they had no other
nature than that in which they are boiled. Just thus, at the last
day, it will be with our bodies. We shall be so candied by being
swallowed up of life, that we shall be as if we were all spirit;
when in truth, it is but this body that is swallowed up of life.
The body is also gathered up into glory, but not simply for its own
sake, or because it is capable of itself to know and understand the
glories of its Maker, but that it has been a companion with the soul
in this world, and has also been its house, its mantle, its cabinet,
and tabernacle here: it has also been that by which the soul hath
acted, in which it hath wrought, and by which its excellent
appearances have been manifested; and it shall also there be its
copartner and sharer in its glory.
In this world the soul of the regenerate is a gracious soul; and in
that world it shall be a glorious one. In this world the body was
conformable to the soul as it was gracious, and in that world it
shall be conformable to it as it is glorious.
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