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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	body_n	church_n	mystical_a	1,460	5	10.3110	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86138	A three-fold cord to unite soules for ever unto God. 1. The mysterie of godlinesse opened. 2. The imitation of Christ proposed. 3. The crowne of afflicted saints promised. / As it was compacted by M. Richard Head, M.A. and sometimes minister of the Gospel, in his labours at Great Torrington in Devon. Published now, after his death, for publike profit.	Head, Richard, Rev.	1647 (1647)	Wing H1277B; Thomason E410_13; ESTC R204453	37,489	56

There is a judgement of assession and witnesse of consent and allowance and this belongs to the whole company of Gods Elect. They shall judge the twelve Tribes of Israel All Israel not exempting Levi yea not onely all Israel but all the world and all the creatures therein though never so eminent and sublime in glory 1 Cor. 6.23 Know you not that the Saints shall judge the World Yea Angels Devils And how as members of the mysticall body whereof Christ is the head and Saviour Christ and his Church are one and therefore whatsoever is given to him is also given to her Christ the primary Judge shall passe the Sentence and the Saints shall approve it and rejoyce therein they shall triumph in the truth of divine Justice with the sweetest notes of praise and jubilation See here the glory and honour of Gods people their advancement and super-exaltation above the Starres of the morning they are Citizens of Heaven When God shall come to judge the world thousand thousands of Angels shall come with him but yet as his ministers and servants the Saints shall fit with him as his familiars and associates upon Thrones and that ever Thrones and all the glorious hoast of his noblest creatures their judgement as the Schooles distinguish is not condemnationis sed manifestationis they condemne none onely they shew forth the praise and glory of God in the justice of the Sentence on them whom Christ condemnes Here then is ground of support to all the people of God you are now troubled and molested by the Devill and his agents malicious adversaries you groane under unjust Censures and accusations bee content a day is comming wherein the Saints shall judge both the evill angels the Devils and all their malicious instruments Let our care be in the meane time so to live and converse here as to be worthy of that honour then farre bee it from them that are to judge the world so to live as to justifie the world by their prophane and impure conversation Thus they that follow Christ shall sit on twelve Thrones and judge the twelve Tribes of Israel But when In the regeneration when the sonne of man shall sit in the Throne of his Glory Wherein you have the determinate time of Glory Where observe First A Position in the regeneration Secondly an Exposition that regeneration wherein Christ shall sit in the Throne of his Glory The Position The regeneration that is the Resurrection or otherwise the redemption of our bodies A time is comming wherein all creatures shall be as it were new borne Mortality shall be swallowed up of life and this corruptible shall put on incorruption 1 Cor. 15. Our bodies now subject to many infirmities to hunger nakednesse thirst cold many diseases dull and heavie in the service of God shall then bee immortall and therefore needing no bodily refreshments immortality shall chuse death out of nature and command sleepe from the eyes then shall our bodies have strength to performe their owne actions Were such an Elixar to be bought your Chymicks talke of as would free us from all diseases and repaire the ruines of old age who would not give all hee hath to have it and such an one there is in the hands of God an Elixar of immortalitie 'T is better saith Christ Matth. 18.8 for a man to enter into life hurt and maymed then having two hands two feet and so all parts intire to be cast into hell fire True it is were it possible but of this we may be sure we cannot goe to heaven either imperfect or without glory Particularly First wee shall have all the parts of our bodies perfect and intire though now maymed or deformed yet than wee shall be perfect 1. Because then all things shall be reduced to their former estate of beauty and perfection that namely the body had in its first creation The Heavens saith the Apostle Peter Acts 3.21 must containe Christ till all things be restored 2. 'T is said Revel. 21.4 There shall be no more death If no more death to the whole man saith Tertullian then no more death to any part of man It 's better saith Christ Mat. 18. for a man to goe halt or maymed into Heaven then c. Understand Christ Ex hypothesi not that any shall goe to heaven maimed but that if possible i● were better so to doe then to goe to hell with all the glory of the world Neither doth Christ there speake of the body but of the soule and the conclusion would be this that it is farre better for a man to lose any or all his limbes for the saving of his soule then to lose his soule and so to goe into hell with all his members Feare not then to lose a legge or an arme or an eye for Christ every member then shall bee restored againe Hast thou lost any member for Christ or otherwise trouble not thy selfe remember he that gave Malcus his eare againe who was his enemy will much more restore to thee thy parts who act his friend Secondly our bodies shall not onely be intire but beautifull and lovely though now deformed much more when stained with the pale and gastly colours of death yet then we shall be exceeding faire farre beyond the most exquisite beauty of any that lived ever since Adam for wee shall then be as Adam in his innocencie on whose beauty and splendour the beasts of the field stood gazing Salomons Temple was full of beauty and glory the second Temple the former being destroyed by the Chaldeans was howsoever faire yet farre short of the former in respect of beauty but our bodies in that Day shall bee restored to greater beautie and lovelinesse then ever they had O what paines doe the crooked take to make their bodies streight or at least to app●are so or not so crooked as they are How farre send they for complexion and how deare doe they buy it and this at last makes them more deformed perfect beauty is not to bee had till the Glorious morning of the Resurrection and the way to have it then is to bee Religious now Thirdly our bodies shall bee full of splendour howsoever now darke and obscure yet then they shall bee as so many shining Starres Dan. 12.3 They shall shine as the Sunne in the Kingdome of their Father Matth. 13.43 Moses returning from God after his fortie dayes conference with him was so full of shining Glory in his face by the Reflection of the Glory of GOD that the people could not behold him How full of Glory shall our bodies bee when wee shall abide with God not fortie dayes onely but for ever and ever Fourthly our bodies shall be immutable and immortall subject to no change not needing the Elements or Elementary food God doth with us as the Goldsmith with his Gold or Silver first melts our bodies by death and then makes us up againe to a more glorious forme as Vessels of Honour to stand