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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64371	A sermon concerning the cœlestial body of a Christian, after the resurrection preached before the King and Queen at White-Hall April 8, 1694, being Easter-day / by ... Thomas Lord Bishop of Lincoln.	Tenison, Thomas, 1636-1715.	1694 (1694)	Wing T713; ESTC R20713	11,700	32

Cloud into the Heavens has told us in his holy Word which shall not pass away though this World shall that at the end of it the Righteous shall shine forth as the Sun in the Kingdom of their Father That they who shall be accounted worthy to obtain that World and the Resurrection from the Dead shall be equal with the Angels That if our earthly House of this Tabernacle be dissolved we have a Building of God a Divine Frame an House not made with hands eternal in the Heavens That there is a natural and a spiritual Body and that as we have born the image of the earthy we Christians shall also bear the image of the heavenly Adam All this is further confirmed to us by the Oeconomy of the Gospel That sets forth Christ as the Person who on Earth was transfigured in so admirable a manner that his Face did shine as the Sun and his very Rayment was white as the Light who bought both Body and Soul with an incorruptible price who died and rose again That he might be Lord both of the dead and living who rose as a publick person as the Head of his Church in order to the Resurrection of the members of it who rising from the Dead became the first Fruits of them that slept who both to accommodate himself to these Regions and to prove beyond contradiction that it was he himself and not a Spectre Took again his body with flesh bones and all things appertaining to the perfection of Man's nature and ascended through the starry Heavens into a Region still more pure and had that body made Coelestial and still lives in that most heavenly form and will come again and receive his true Disciples into that thrice happy Ierusalem where he now is and will change their vile bodies and fashion them like to his own glorious body not abolishing the substance of them but exalting the meanness and earthliness of their present frame into Coelestial agility and lustre And indeed Philosophy such as is not vain though much is especially when it refines upon sacred Mysteries does plainly shew us that a heavenly body is only fit for a heavenly Region That a pure body is not in its element unless it lives and moves in pure aether Upon which account I suppose Saint Paul himself observes that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God above neither doth corruption inherit incorruption It must be changed into a body that cannot corrupt or die if it is to subsist most happily for ever in an heavenly place and such is the place prepared for the Children of the Resurrection All this being considered it becomes us not to be faithless but believe that this mortal shall put on immortality For it is full out as absurd to refuse to believe when there is a reason for our Faith as to believe with a forward credulity when there is none The consequence of this Belief is very comfortable for great and many are the advantages derived to Christians by being cloth'd with a Coelestial Body and that is the 2 d. Head which I proposed to discourse of The very nature of the thing speaks aloud the benefit which will accrue to them by the renovation of this Body There is scarce a comparison to be admitted betwixt this earthly body and that which shall be at the Ascension of Christians They differ more than the least and dimmest Star and the brightest and greatest Luminary in the Firmament of Heaven Of this St. Paul takes notice in the fortieth verse of this Chapter and those which follow it saying There are Coelestal bodies and bodies Terrestrial but the glory of the Coelestal is one and the glory of the Terrestrial is another There is one glory of the Sun and another glory of the Moon and another glory of the Stars for one Star differeth from another Star in glory So also is the Resurrection of the Dead It is sown in corruption it is raised in incorruption It is sown in dishonour it is raised in glory It is sown in weakness it is raised in power It is sown a natural body it is raised a spiritual body Happy are the people who are in such a Case But to descend to a more special consideration of this matter The happiness derived from the change of a natural to a spiritual body consisteth in a deliverance 1. From the grossness of the former as it is a body of this flesh and blood 2 dly From the disorderly motions of it as it is a corruptible body 3 dly From the perishing nature decay and fall of it as it is both a corruptible and mortal body The first advantage which Christians obtain by changing an earthly for an heavenly body is deliverance from the grosness of the former as it is a body of this flesh and blood And this is a very valuable priviledge upon three Accounts 1st Vpon the account of natural case 2dly Of Divine Contemplation 3dly Of Piety and Devotion 1 st Christians have a priviledge by being freed from the grosness of this body upon the account of ease which is so naturally desired For as the Book of Solomon speaks agreeable to its title the corruptible body presseth down the Soul And in that load and heaviness there is little comfort Seneca says of the body that it is the weight and pain of the mind and a kind of Bond round about its Liberty Our Office for the Burial of the Dead calls it the burthen of the Flesh. St. Paul also makes this acknowledgement in 2 Cor. 5. 4. we who are in this Tabernacle do groan groan earnestly v. 2. being burdened By this great change that which was formerly a heavy and uneasie weight becomes as wings and as the Antients speak a Coelestial Chariot to the Soul 2 ly Another priviledge enjoy'd by Christians upon deliverance from the grosness of this body is freedom from a mighty impediment of Divine Contemplation The ScripScripture teacheth us That this visible World shall be renew'd The Heavens and the Earth which now are shall Perish not in their Being but with reference to their present Frame which as it is is a glorious Structure but He who made all things can and will Build it better This Earth and these Heavens shall be folded up as is a Vesture and be marvellously changed Upon which there shall be new Heavens and a new Earth That Phrase is in some Places metaphorically used in setting forth a New and Excellent State of the Church But in St. Peter it is to be literally understood of a New Frame of Nature after the Old reserved unto Fire against the Day of Iudgment shall be by such means dissolved as the Earth was once overflow'd by Water But the Change in Noah's time was from better to worse this will be from worse to much much better Doubtless it will be a glorious World