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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88592	The souls cordiall in two treatises. I. Teaching how to be eased of the guilt of sin. II. Discovering advantages by Christs ascension. The third volum. / By that faithfull labourer in the Lords vineyard Mr. Christopher Love, pastor of Lawrence Jury, London.	Love, Christopher, 1618-1651.	1653 (1653)	Wing L3176; Thomason E1230_1; ESTC R211061	183,257	401

agile body and from being a weak body it shall be made a strong body Now before I come to the Application there are two Objections which lye in the way As in the primitive times there were the Saduces that held there was no resurrection and after Christs time there was Hymeneus and Philetus which said that the Resurrection was past already and the Church of Corinth was tainted with this Error if Christ be risen from the dead how say some among you that there is no Resurrection of the dead Now in the Primitive and Christs time there was this Opinion that there was no Resurrection of the Body and so made this meerly but a Poeticall fiction and to be no reall and undoubted truth That I might take off this The Scripture which they urge is this you talke of the Body being raised by Christ how can this be when the Apostle saith expresly the body is made of flesh and blood 1 Cor. 15.50 Now this I say Brethren that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdome of God neither doth corruption inherit incorruption Therefore if flesh and blood cannot come to Gods Kingdome how then can the Body come there this is the Opinion of the Photinians First I answer it cannot be the Apostles intent to impugne the bodies rising for the drift of this whole Chapter is to prove that the body shall be raised Therefore not imaginable that in one breath the Apostle should deny and affirme the same thing Secondly the Apostle doth understand by flesh and blood the bodies of Men as they have sinfull and fraile infirmities cleaving to them in this World the body as it is now a sinfull body an infirme body a weake mortall body the body as it is now shall never come to Heaven The generality of Interpreters run this way by flesh and blood is understood the bodies of men as lyable to sinne as in this World they shall not be raised up they shall not come to Heaven but wee shall be changed wee shall not all sleepe but be changed the Apostle proves this himselfe 1 Cor. 15.50 51. Now this I say Brethren that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdome of God neither doth corruption inherit incorruption Behold I shew you a mystery wee shall not all sleepe but wee shall all be changed Our corruptible Bodies they shall not come to Heaven as they are corruptible but come to Heaven by being incorruptible but we shall all be changed that is our bodies shall be changed from being mortall corruptible and being weake and sinfull to be made holy and Immortall so that flesh and blood as now it is sinfull corruptible till changed and made glorious and pure it shall not come to Heaven Second Text which they urge against the body being glorified and say it is but a fancy Job 14.7 8 9 10. For there is hope of a Tree if it be cut downe that it will sprout againe and that the tender branch thereof will not cease Though the roote thereof wax old in the Earth and the stock thereof die in the ground yet through the sent of water it will bud and bring forth Boughs like a Plant But man dieth and wasteth away yea man giveth up the ghost and where is hee A Tree saith Job if that dyes it may live againe because waters may be about the roote but if man dyes hee vanisheth away where is man on this they build that man shall never live againe To this take this cleare Answer That when Job speakes though a Tree dyes it lives againe but if man dyes hee lives not Job understands it by living againe in this World so there is more hope of a Tree then of a Man I but you will aske mee How doe you prove this for to be Jobs intent I prove it to you from Jobs words in the 12. vers So man lieth downe and riseth not till the Heavens be no more they shall not awake nor be raised out of their sleepe So that here Job speakes of a raising when the Heavens shall be no more when the World shall be burnt with fire then man shall be awakned And in the 14. vers If a man die shall hee live againe All the dayes of my appointed time will I waite till my change come Job speakes in this Chapter of the change of the body and of the raising of the body Tertullian and Austine say well that there is no Doctrine of Religion is more repugnant to sense and reason There is this reason that may seeme to be against the raising of the body How it is possible that the bodies of men can be raised when that they are so confounded together as they are in the Earth Suppose a Man be killed by a Wolfe a Lyon eates that Wolfe suppose that Lyon dyes and the Fowles of the Ayre eate that Lyon and Men eate those Fowles Therefore how can the bodies of Men be raised being thus confounded Suppose a Man be drowned in the Sea and the Fishes in the Sea eate that Man how can his substance bee gathered together at the last Day Answer it is the Answer of Perkins First much may bee done by Nature by Art First an Illustration from a Refiner put before a Refiner a masse of mettall and there shall be in that one Lumpe a veyne of Silver a veyne of Brasse of Gold of Tyn of Iron and the like and these Mettalls are all mingled and mixt together Now a Refiner by his Art hee can distinctly sever the Silver from the Gold and the Iron from the Lead Now can Art doe this and shall not the God of Nature sever this man from that man God shall sever them though they are heapes together Againe a Gardner soweth varieties of Seeds yet doe you come to the Garden and let one aske you what seede lieth in that Bed or in this Bed as it is rotting in the ground why you cannot tell But come to the Gardner and aske him what Seede is in that Bed and hee can tell you distinctly the Seede in every Bed And cannot the great God doe this Hee that made us knowes our shape wee cannot tell what Man 's dust this is in the Grave I but God that laid thee in the Grave hee knowes hee knowes which shall bee my dust and which shall be thy dust and which every mans dust hee knowes what body shall spring up thence Therefore labour to exalt Faith in the great Mistary of raising and glorifying your bodies I have now a practicall application to make of this The Uses First this is it so that Jesus Christ shall raise your bodies and receive them to himselfe at his second coming Then let this comfort you against your sufferings in the body Suppose thou art exposed to violent Sufferings to Torments Tortures to Racks Fire and Faggots Suppose thy body undergoeth this for the sake of Jesus Christ yet remember thy body shall bee raised and glorified by JESUS CHRIST Let it not