In like manner then as the husbandman (James v.) waits unconcernedly for the time when his seed sown in corruption shall spring up, so must we not be saddened if these our corruptible bodies waste and decay, but must commit them unto the faithful Creator, remembering the words of Habakkuk, _Rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble.… Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation. The Lord God is my strength, and He will make my feet like hinds’ feet, and He will make me to walk upon mine high places._ Lection II. Of the identity of the risen with the present body. Proposition 1. The two bodies are essentially _one_. The resurrection is one of the flesh, not of the soul only. It is a resurrection of substantial flesh, not of an aerial phantom. Job distinctly says, _In my flesh shall I see God, whom I shall see for myself and not another_; in the same skin and flesh, not in other skin and flesh; with the same eyes. Example of Eutychius of Constantinople confessing this truth when dying. Corollary. From this we see what dignity belongs to the human body, with what reverence man should treat it, and how it is worthy to be guarded carefully by angels (Jude 9). Proposition 2. Although the risen body is identical with the natural body in substance, yet it differs from it in accidents. For the risen body has four dowers— 1. Impassibility, or incapacity for suffering pain, disease, or corruption. 2. Glory, being made resplendent as the sun, after the fashion of Christ’s transfiguration 3. Agility, or capacity for following every impulse of the will. 4. Subtlety, or capacity for penetrating every where. Of these four conditions of the body the Apostle speaks (1 Cor. xv. 42-44), _It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption_ (impassible); _it is sown in dishonour, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power_ (agile); _it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual_ (subtle) _body_. St. Paul takes the figure of a grain of corn, which is sown in corruption, decaying in the earth, but rises in incorruption; and shows that in like manner will the body rise free from corruption. The body is sown in dishonour; however noble and illustrious it may have been in life, it becomes an object of loathing in the tomb; but it will be raised glorious, radiating light. The body sown in weakness, unable to resist the attack of decay and the worm, will be vigorous and free on the Resurrection morn, capable of performing any act which the mind can devise.