MASTER

The body would by this means be put into the imitation of our Lord Jesus

Christ and of his body. It would stand in the communion of that most

blessed Body, which is the true temple of the Deity, and in the

participation of all its gracious effects, virtues, and influences. It

would live in the Creature, not of choice, but only as it is made

subject to vanity, and in the World, as it is placed therein by the

ordination of the Creator, for its cultivation and higher advancement,

and as groaning to be delivered out of it in God's time and manner, for

its perfection and resuscitation in eternal liberty and glory, like unto

the glorified body of our Lord and his risen Saints.

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