their full, perfect, and perpetual freedom from all heats, colds,
spiritual, not in regard of substance—but state and condition. Spiritual in the text is not opposed to visible—but to natural; for their bodies, though in a sense they are spiritual—yet they shall be as visible as the glorious body of Christ. When I say their bodies shall be spiritual, you must not think that I mean that their bodies shall be turned into spirits. Oh no! for they shall keep their bodily dimensions, and be true bodies still. Look! as in the restoration of old and broken vessels, the matter is the same, only the color is fresher and brighter, and the fashion newer and better— so in the day of glory, our bodies shall be the same for substance that now they are; they shall retain the same flesh, blood, and bones, and the same figure and members, that now is—only they shall be overlaid or clothed with spiritual and heavenly qualities and prerogatives; their bodies shall be glorious, of a due and lovely proportion, of an exquisite feature and stature, of a lively color, of cheerful aspect, and full of beauty and glory, splendor and favor!
1. Now the bodies of the saints shall be spiritual, first, in respect of their full, perfect, and perpetual freedom from all heats, colds, hungerings, thirstings, sickness, weakness, wants. Here on earth one cries out, Oh my back, my back! another, Oh my belly, my belly! with the prophet, Hab. 3:16; another, Oh my head, my head! with the Shunamite's son, 2 Kings 4:19; another, Oh my son, my son! as David for Absalom, 2 Sam. 18:33; another, Oh my father, my father! with Elisha, 2 Kings 2:12.
Everyone here on earth has some ailment or other, some infirmity or other, some grief or other—which fills his eyes with tears and his heart with sorrow. But when these natural bodies, these animal or carnal bodies, shall be made glorious, then they shall be fully and perpetually freed from all manner of miseries and calamities; they shall be as the angels, not subject to any sickness, weakness, or