Now I say, as we have in this world borne the image of our first father; so at that day we shall have the image of Jesus Christ, and be as he is. 1 Cor. 15:49.

To mount up to heaven, and to descend again with pleasure, shall with us in that day be ordinary.  If there were ten thousand bars of iron, or walls of brass, to separate between us and our pleasure and desire at that day, they should as easily be pierced by us as is the cobweb, or as air by the beams of the sun.  And the reason is, because to the Spirit, wherewith we shall be inconceivably filled at that day, nothing is impossible; and the working of it at that day shall be in such nature and measure as to swallow up all impossibilities.  “Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body”—­now mark—­“according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.”

Nay further, we do not only see what operation the Spirit will have in our body by the carriage of Christ after his resurrection, but even by many a saint before his death.  The Spirit used to catch Elijah away, no man could tell whither.  It carried Ezekiel hither and thither.  It carried Christ from the top of the pinnacle of the temple into Galilee; through it he walked on the sea.  The Spirit caught away Philip from the eunuch, and carried him as far as Azotus.

Thus the great God has given us a taste of the power and glory that are in himself, and how easily they will help us, by possessing us at the resurrection, to act and to do like angels; as Christ saith, “They that shall be counted worthy of that world and of the resurrection from the dead, they shall not die, but be equal to the angels.”

Salvation complete at the resurrection.

“Now we shall see him,” to wit, Christ in his glory.  Not by revelation only, as we do now, but then face to face; and he will have us with him to this very end.  Though John was in the Spirit when he had the vision of Christ, yet it made him fall at his feet as dead; and also turned Daniel’s beauty into corruption, it was so glorious and so overweighing a glory that he appeared in.  But we shall at the day of our resurrection be so furnished, that we shall with the eagle be able to look upon the sun in his strength.  We shall then “see Him as he is,” who now is in the light that no eye hath seen, nor any man can see till that day.

Now we shall see into all things; there shall not be any thing hid from us.  For the Spirit, with which we shall in every cranny of soul and body be filled, “searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.”  We see what strange things have been known by the prophets and saints of God; and that when they knew but in part.  Abraham could by it tell to a day how long his seed should be under persecution in Egypt.  Elisha by it could tell what was done in the king of Assyria’s bedchamber.  Abijah by this could know Jeroboam’s wife so soon as, yea, before her feet entered within his door, though he saw her not.  The prophet of Judah could tell by this what God would do to Bethel for the idolatry there committed, and could also point out the man by name that should do the execution, long before he was born.