2. For our body, it shall be raised in power, in incorruption, a
spiritual body and glorious.
It is compared to the brightness of the firmament, and to the
shining of the stars for ever and ever. It is compared to the
shining of the sun. It is said that then our vile body shall be like
the glorious body of Jesus Christ. Their state is then to be equally
glorious with angels.
And now when body and soul are thus united, who can imagine what
glory they both possess? They will now be both in capacity without
jarring to serve the Lord; with shouting, thanksgivings, and with a
crown of everlasting joy upon their head.
In this world there cannot he the harmony and oneness of body and
soul that there will he in heaven. Here the body sometimes sins
against the soul, and the soul again vexes and perplexes the body
with dreadful apprehensions of the wrath and judgment of God. While
we are in this world, the body oft hangs this way, and the soul
quite the contrary; but there in heaven they shall have such perfect
union as never to jar more. The glory of the body shall so suit with
the glory of the soul, and both so perfectly suit with the heavenly
state, that it passeth words and thoughts.
Oh sinner, what sayest thou? How dost thou like being saved? Doth
not thy mouth water? Doth not thy heart twitter at being saved? Why,
come then.
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