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whether we wake OR SLEEP, we should LIVE together with him.'-1 Thess. v. 10.

'It doth not [yet] appear what we shall be; but we know that when he shall appear, [at the time of our resurrection to life and immortality,] we shall be LIKE HIM, for we shall see him as HE is.'-1 John iii. 2. The GLORY of the Lord shall be revealed, and ALL FLESH shall see it together.'Isa. xl. 5.

'We look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall change our vile body, THAT IT MAY BE FASHIOned like UNTO HIS GLORIOUS BODY; according to the Working whereby he is [thus] able to Subdue ALL THINGS unto himself.— Phil. iii. 21. 'WE SHALL ALL BE CHANged. The Dead shall be Raised INCORRUPTIBLE, and we shall be Changed,' that is, as above, 'fashioned in the likeness of Christ's glorious body,' in 'the image of the heavenly,' &c.-1 Cor. xv. 52, 49.

CORRUPTION CANNOT INHERIT INCORRUPTION.'-1 Cor. xv. "The dust shall return unto the earth as it was, AND THE SPIRIT SHALL RETURN UNTO GOD WHO GAVE IT.'-Ec. xii. 7. 'For OF Him, and through Him, and TO Him are ALL THINGS.'-Rom. xi. 36.

"Unto God, the Lord, BELONG THE ISSUES OF DEATH. And he shall wound THE HEAD of His ENEMIES, [the seed of the serpent,---see Gen. iii. 15,] and the scalp of such an enemy as goeth on still in trespassing,' [till 'the last enemy, DEATH, shall be destroyed."]-Ps. lxviii. 20, 21.

Those that are alive from the dead, YIELD THEMSELVES UNTO THE LORD.-Rom. vi. 13. 'Weep ye not for THE DEAD, [therefore,] neither bemoan him.'-Jer. xxii. 10.

'Because I live, [said Jesus,] Ye shall live also.'-John xiv. 29. 'He tasted death for Every Man,' 'the whole world.' And 'we shall be Saved, BY HIS LIFE.'-Rom. vi. 10. And he 'was made after the Power of AN ENDLESS LIFE.'-Heb. vii. 23.

'Christ is the first-born of EVERY CREATURE.'-Col. i. 15. "They which shall be accounted worthy [of all the animated species of the Lord's creation,] to obtain that world and the Resurrection from the Dead, cannot die any

THEY ARE EQUAL UNTO THE ANGELS; and are the children of God, [by adoption, also, as they were previously by creation,] BEING THE CHILDREN OF THE RESURRECTION.'-Luke xx. 34--36.

'That THE DEAD [i. e. all the dead,-,---none are excepted,] are Raised, even Moses showed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, [because. these Fathers had died.] For He is not a God of the dead, but of THE LIVING; [consequently, those Patriarchs must have been Raised, and living; notice, Christ said, 'the dead are raised;' the Bible does not teach a Future, Universal, Simultaneous Resurrection, any more than it teaches a Physical, Terrestrial one. 'But every man in his own order,' is advanced to the heavenly sphere.] FOR ALL LIVE UNTO HIM.'-Luke xx. 37, 38.

"This I confess unto thee, [said the Apostolic Preacher,] that after the way which they call Heresy, so worship I the God of my Fathers, believing all things which are written in the Law and in the Prophets, and have HOPE, [both expectation and DESIRE,] toward God, which they themselves also allow, [Partialists admit the resurrection of the sinful to immortality, but it is a revivification to endless miseries, and they cannot therefore HOPE for it as we, who contend with Jesus that 'the children of the Resurrection are as the angels of heaven,'] that there shall be a Resurrection of the Dead, both of the Just, AND OF THE UNJUST.'-Acts xxiv. 15.

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"The soul's inheritance,

Its birthplace and its deathplace, is of earth;
Until God maketh earth and soul anew,
The one like heav'n, the other like Himself.
So shall the New Creation come at once ;
Sin, the dead branch upon the Tree of Life,
Shall be cut off forever; and All Souls,
Concluded in God's boundless amnesty."
"Step by step, and throne by throne we rise,
Continually towards the Infinite,

And ever nearer,-never near, to God."-FESTUS.

Two passages will probably occur to the mind of the reader in reflecting upon the Scripture teachings concerning

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ity is a Universal Resurrection; but the awaking of those that slept, was only for 'MANY,' not all of them;' it was only for those who were 'in the graves,' and not for all that die in Adam, and bear the image of the earthy.---(5) The passages are understood by an examination of the phraseology, both of them being found to comprise proverbial expressions, common and peculiar to the times in which they were employed; such expressions as 'bowed down to the dust,' to 'eat' and to 'lick the dust,' to be as 'dust and ashes,' were well understood to signify a degraded, vile, humiliated condition; and thus the propriety of the usage of such forms of speech as arising, awaking, being lifted up, shaking one's self, 'from the dust,' &c. References might be abundantly multiplied to this point had we space. In illustration of the proverbial usage of the term sleep, as denoting a state of national and spiritual sloth, stupidity, and death,' and for a number of instances where an awaking from such a state is spoken of, see Isa. xxix. 10; li. 17; 1 Cor. xv. 34: Eph. v. 14. The proverbial expression in John v. 28, 29, is being 'in graves,' synonymous with 'the dead,' of verse 25; and it would seem that nothing else whatever is necessary for the perfect elucidation of those words than Ezek. xxxvii. 11--14, and the list of passages we quoted on page 160.--(6) Have not the Jewish people been suffering their ‘everlasting shame and contempt' for the last eighteen centuries? Is not the prophecy fulfilled, that they should become a reproach and by-word among all nations, and have no rest for the soles of their feet? When the 'orthodox' commentators come to this passage in Jeremiah, 'I will bring AN EVERLASTING REPROACH upon you, and A PERPETUAL (everlasting) SHAME,' they never pretend to refer that language to eternity. On this subject the Bible is clear; 'The Reproach of My people shall be taken away,' and 'the Shame of her youth shall be forgotten.'

PROPOSITION THIRTY-THIRD.

The PUNISHMENTS of God are never Retaliative Inflictions, nor Aggravated, Merciless, or Useless, but are the Necessary, Salutary Chastisements of an infinitely Wise and Good PARENT, and therefore do not tend to Perpetuate, but to CORRECT the Wickedness of Man.

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"Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself.'-Ps. 1. 21. 'Wherefore should a living man complain, a man, for the Punishment of his sins?' For the Lord will not cast off forever; but though he cause grief, yet will He have Compassion, according to the Multitude of His Mercies. For He doth not afflict willingly, [wantonly,] nor grieve the children of men.'-Lam. iii. 39, 31--33. Even the punishments of the Lord are tokens of His unfailing Goodness, because they are so wisely administered as to contribute to our welfare. Wherefore then should we complain of the just chastisement of our sins, seeing that the very sorest of God's Punishments are not without compassion, and shall finally turn to our benefit? But were His Punishment [Revenge] to be endless, having suffering alone for its object and end, should we not then have just cause to complain, of the infinite cruelty and injustice of our Tormenter?

Ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto CHILDREN; [yes, they have sadly neglected to think of the Paternal character of God :] My SON, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of Him: for whom the Lord loveth, He chasteneth,

and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth. If ye suffer chastening, [Punishment,---same word in the Greek,] God dealeth with you as with sons, [not as a severe, unrelenting tyrant;] for where is there a son whom his father chasteneth not? For if ye be without Chastisement, whereof [indeed] All are partakers, then must ye be bastards, and not sons; [they must be the offspring of some other Being, for our God punishes all His children: but this cannot be, for

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