John Trapp on 2 Corinthians 5:1

CHAP. V. Verſe 1. For we know]

NOt we think, or hope only: This is the top gallant of faith, the triumph of truſt, this is as Latimer ca[illegible: 1 letter]s it, the ſweet-meats of the feaſt of a good conſcience. There are other dainty diſhes in this feaſt, but this is the banquet. The cock on the dung-hill knows not the worth of his jewel.

Our earthly houſe of this Tabernacle] Our clayie cottage. Man is but terra friabilis, 1 Cor. 15.47. a piece of earth neatly made up. The firſt man is of the earth earthy: and his earthly houſe is ever mouldering over him, ready to fall upon his head. Hence it is called, The life of his hands, Iſa. 47. becauſe hardly held up with the labour of his hands. Paul a Tent-maker, elegantly compares mans body to a Tent. Plato alſo in his dialogue of death, calleth the body a Tabernacle. [non-Latin text not transcribed].

We have a buiding of God] The Ark tranſportative till then, was ſetled in Solomons temple: So ſhall the ſoul be in heaven. As when one skin fals off, another comes on, ſo when our earthly tabernacle ſhall be diſſolved or taken down, we ſhall have a heavenly houſe. The ſoul wears the body as a garment, which when it is worn out, we ſhall be clothed with a better ſnit; we ſhall change our rags for robes, &c. Ita que non plangimus, ſed plandimus quando vitam claudimus: quia dies iste non t[illegible: 1 letter]m fatalis quam natalis eſt.