15:49.
To mount up to heaven, and to descend again with pleasure, shall
with us in that day be ordinary. If there were ten thousand bars of
iron, or walls of brass, to separate between us and our pleasure and
desire at that day, they should as easily be pierced by us as is the
cobweb, or as air by the beams of the sun. And the reason is,
because to the Spirit, wherewith we shall be inconceivably filled at
that day, nothing is impossible; and the working of it at that day
shall be in such nature and measure as to swallow up all
impossibilities. "Who shall change our vile body, that it may be
fashioned like unto his glorious body"--now mark--"according to the
working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself."
Nay further, we do not only see what operation the Spirit will have
in our body by the carriage of Christ after his resurrection, but
even by many a saint before his death. The Spirit used to catch
Elijah away, no man could tell whither. It carried Ezekiel hither
and thither. It carried Christ from the top of the pinnacle of the
temple into Galilee; through it he walked on the sea. The Spirit
caught away Philip from the eunuch, and carried him as far as
Azotus.
Thus the great God has given us a taste of the power and glory that
are in himself, and how easily they will help us, by possessing us
at the resurrection, to act and to do like angels; as Christ saith,
"They that shall be counted worthy of that world and of the
resurrection from the dead, they shall not die, but be equal to the
angels.
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