Yea, it shall have an
additional glory to adorn and make it yet the more capable of being
serviceable to and with the soul in its great acts before God in
eternal glory.
If a man receive the mercy of the resurrection of the body, what a
bundle of mercies will be received as wrapt up in that. He will
receive perfection, immortality, heaven, and glory. And what is
folded up in these things, who can tell?
As to the manner of the change of the body in its rising, this
similitude also doth fitly suit: as, 1. It is sown a dead corn, it
is raised a living one. 2. It is sown dry, and without comeliness;
it riseth green and beautiful. 3. It is sown a single corn, it
riseth a full ear. 4. It is sown in the husk, but in its rising it
leaveth that husk behind it.
Further, though the kernel thus die, be buried, and meet with all
this change in these things, yet none of them can cause the nature
of the kernel to cease; it is wheat still. Wheat was sown, and wheat
arises; only it was sown dead, dry, and barren wheat, and riseth
living, beautiful, and fruitful wheat. "God giveth it a body as it
pleaseth him; but to every seed his own body."
All the glory that a glorified soul can help this body to, it at
this day shall enjoy. That soul that has been these hundreds or
thousands of years in the heavens, in the bosom of Christ, it shall
in a moment come spangling into the body again, and inhabit every
member and vein of the body, as it did before its departure.
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