of a fours awaking from fleep, and in a mo«
mient as it were recovering the ufc of all its
faculties ? Surely this cannot be the myfiery
yrhich the infpired writer Jbews us in this
chapter. But» according to our fenfe, the
^poftolical coipparifon is ^s apt and happj;
Z^ poilible. The bare grain isjawfi, di^folyes^
and appears agaiii under a new oiodiQcatioo^
§0 alfo is the refurreSiion of the dead. The body
is fown in corruptiony it is raifed in incorrupt'
tion. It is fown in difionour^ it is raifed in
glory. It is fown in weaknefs^ it is raifed iff
power. It is fown a natural body^ it is raifed
fi fpiritual body ; a body fubtilized and puri-
fied; a body difeDcumbered from ihzt Jlejb
find blood which cannot inherit the kingdom of
God, and, to adopt the high figuring of St.
Paul, clothed upon with an hufe from heaven^
ftnd arrayed with immortality. And, all this
while, in both cafes, God giveth a bodyjLS it
pleafeth him, and to every feed^ and to every
individual, his own body.
