Christian Theology - Media Sabda Org
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something to be done. I have not lived to or for myself. I am not conscious to myself that I have ever passed one such day. It is a good antidote against the fear of death, to find, as the body grows old and decays, the soul grows young and is invigorated. By the "outward man" and the "inward man," St. Paul shows that he was no materialist. He believed that we have both a body and a soul; and so far was he from supposing that, when the body dies, the whole man is decomposed, and continues so to the resurrection, that he asserts that the decays of the one lead to the invigorating of the other; and that the very decomposition of the body itself leaves the soul in the state of renewed youth. The vile doctrine of materialism is not apostolic. The nearer a faithful soul comes to the verge of eternity, the more the light and influence of heaven are poured out upon it: time and life are fast sinking away into the shades of death and darkness; and the effulgence of the dawning glory of the eternal world is beginning to illustrate the blessed state of the genuine Christian, and to render clear and intelligible those counsels of God, partly displayed in various inextricable providences, and partly revealed and seen as through a glass darkly in his own sacred word. Unutterable glories now begin to burst forth; pains, afflictions, persecutions, wants, distresses, sickness, and death, in any or all of its forms, are exhibited as the way to the kingdom, and as having in the order of God an ineffable glory for their result. Here are the wisdom, power, and mercy of God. Here, the patience, perseverance, and glory of the saints! Reader, are not earth and its concerns lost in the effulgence of this glory? Arise and depart, for this is not thy rest. What do we know of the state of separate spirits? What do we know of the spiritual world? How do souls exist separate from their respective bodies? Of what are they capable, and what is their employment? Who can answer these questions? Perhaps nothing can be said much better of the state, than is said Job x, 21: "A land of obscurity like darkness, and the shadow of death;" a place where death rules, over which he projects his shadow, intercepting every light of every kind of life: "Without any
order," having no arrangements, no distinctions of inhabitants; the poor and the rich are there, the master and his slave, the king and the beggar; their bodies in equal corruption and disgrace, their souls distinguished only by their moral character. Stripped of their flesh, they stand in their naked simplicity before God, in that place. "Where the light is as darkness:" a palpable obscure. It is space and place, and has only such light or capability of distinction as renders darkness visible! It is a murky land, covered with the thick darkness of death: a land of wretchedness and obscurities, where is the shadow of death, and no order but sempiternal horror dwells everywhere: a duration not characterized or measured by any of the attributes of time: where there is no order of darkness and light, night and day, heat and cold, summer and winter. It is the state of the dead! The place of separate spirits! It is out of time, out of probation, beyond change or mutability! It is on the confines of eternity; but what is THIS? and where? Eternity! how can I form any conception of thee? In thee there is no order, no bounds, no substance, no progression, no change, no past, no present, no future. It is an indescribable something, to which there is no analogy in the compass of creation. It is infinity and incomprehensibility to all finite beings. It is what living I know not, and what I must die to know; and even then I shall apprehend no more of it than merely to know that it is ETERNITY.
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something to be done. I have not lived to or for myself. I am not<br />
conscious to myself that I have ever passed one such day.<br />
It is a good antidote against the fear of death, to find, as the body<br />
grows old and decays, the soul grows young and is invigorated. By the<br />
"outward man" and the "inward man," St. Paul shows that he was no<br />
materialist. He believed that we have both a body and a soul; and so far<br />
was he from supposing that, when the body dies, the whole man is<br />
decomposed, and continues so to the resurrection, that he asserts that the<br />
decays of the one lead to the invigorating of the other; and that the very<br />
decomposition of the body itself leaves the soul in the state of renewed<br />
youth. The vile doctrine of materialism is not apostolic.<br />
The nearer a faithful soul comes to the verge of eternity, the more the<br />
light and influence of heaven are poured out upon it: time and life are fast<br />
sinking away into the shades of death and darkness; and the effulgence of<br />
the dawning glory of the eternal world is beginning to illustrate the<br />
blessed state of the genuine <strong>Christian</strong>, and to render clear and intelligible<br />
those counsels of God, partly displayed in various inextricable<br />
providences, and partly revealed and seen as through a glass darkly in his<br />
own sacred word. Unutterable glories now begin to burst forth; pains,<br />
afflictions, persecutions, wants, distresses, sickness, and death, in any or<br />
all of its forms, are exhibited as the way to the kingdom, and as having<br />
in the order of God an ineffable glory for their result. Here are the<br />
wisdom, power, and mercy of God. Here, the patience, perseverance, and<br />
glory of the saints! Reader, are not earth and its concerns lost in the<br />
effulgence of this glory? Arise and depart, for this is not thy rest.<br />
What do we know of the state of separate spirits? What do we know<br />
of the spiritual world? How do souls exist separate from their respective<br />
bodies? Of what are they capable, and what is their employment? Who<br />
can answer these questions? Perhaps nothing can be said much better of<br />
the state, than is said Job x, 21: "A land of obscurity like darkness, and<br />
the shadow of death;" a place where death rules, over which he projects<br />
his shadow, intercepting every light of every kind of life: "Without any
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