Delaware inquirer. (Wilmington, Del.) 1859-18??, 1860-03-31

| the worst, but We want none Of them.
Gods laws make these difficulties. Don't
| pretend that his power will go against his own
laws to help you out of absurdties, Butsome
say, Christ raised his body and SO he did. But
! his body was from the first different from ours.
| li0 was a Divine man, and his body had no hui
man father it had IL Divine seed in II from the
Everlasting Father, and in this respect was the
Son of God, though as to its covering it was
/ the son Of Mary. The outward part could lie
| seen by men, and suffered and died; but with
in, the Divine nature was spreading itself dur
| ing his life, as he conquered in temptation, UNI
| Ill he rose with glorifed body, NIL mortal
! properties put away. In this body nc now
| governs heaven and earth. lie came in abody
to redeem heaven and earth; he still lives to
redeem and to preserve heaven and earth and
therefore he took his body, made divine; with
him. We have only an earthly and corrupt
Bile body, which we do not want after death,
and therefore we leave ours behind u.s.
Daniel says =" Many of them that sleep in
the dust shall awake; some to everlasting life,
| and some to shame and everlasting contempt"
xii. .. The Jews slept in the dust when they
were in captivity, (Sec Ezek. xxxvii, lid,
and Isa. | Ii. 81 and the Prophet assures them
they should return. We sleep in dust, when
we arc in sin. "Awake, thou sleepcst and
arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee
light" Eph v. IA The passage has nothing
to do with earthly bodies rising out of earthly
dust, or what does amany Of mean?
Marvel not at this, for the hour is coming,
Christ sad in which all that are in the graves
shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they
that have done good TO the resurrection of life,
and they that have done evil to the resurrec-
ton of damnation. But surely, all that are
in the graves are those who are called dead,
two verses before. And there he says, " Verify,
the hour is coming and now is, when the dead
shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and
they that hear shall live" John V. %. The
voice is the voice of the Saviour in the Gospel
the dead are sinners, and the graves are the
corruptions in which they live. aye" said
Jesus to the scribes and Pharisees, "arc as
graves which appear not, and the men that
walk over them are not aware of them" Luke
XII A. Think of those graves, and come out
of them, and sit in heavenly places in Christ
Jesus. Let the earthly dust go where it may.
The passge in Job which is used inthe burial
service, 'tFor know that my redeemer liveth,
and that he shall stand at the latter day upon
the earth; and though after my skin worms de-
stroy this body yet in my flesh shall see God,
(chap. xix. %, 26) appears to refer to the res
direction of the body because of the words in
italics, which do not really belong to it, and
ought to be left out These words are, worms,
body and day. Leave these words out, and
then the passage simply declares Jobs conf
dence, that though lie was worn by disease
and wretchedness, and might be more so, yet,
while he was still in his flesh, thus before he
died, he would see God. This hope was full
filled; and before he died he exclaimed; when
God had redeemed him, Z" / have heard office
by the hearing of the car; but now mine eye
secth thee" Chap. xiii. 8.
The mortal body that is to be quickened
from. viii. II J and the corruption which will
put on interruption Il Cor XIV. $50 are the sin
ful spiritual body defiled by nature, and which
must be born again before we can enter ieay-
en-. This is the vile body phil ill., 2l.) the
Lord will change in those who obey him.
Phil. iii. 1918. When the judgement is de-
scribed by st. John which takes place in the
spiritual world, Mt the end of each church, he
says "'rhe sea gave up the dead which were
in it, because the sea denotes the worldly
minded. The wicked are like the troubled
sea. lisa. lvi. 20. "Dcath and hell gave up
the dead which were in them" The dead, in
hell, were surely not dead bodies but death
and hell mean the inwardly wicked, who were
in the death of inward sin, and the hell OF in-
ward falsehood. These were all judged and
cast to their like, into the lake which burns
with hatred malice, rage, and passion and
where the smoke Of false malignity makes the
utter darkness of mad folly and insanity, 1t
is appointed unto men once to die, anu after
death the Judgment" Heb, tx ~, Judgment
is done not in this world, but in the spirit
world; not on bodies, but on souls. The last
day ola church is when it gives place to
better; the last day of a mans life is when he
finishes his probation, and enters the eternal
world. Think of this when you read of the
last day in Scripture.
And now, beloved reader, live for heaven
You are forming your heavenly body by your
Christian life, or your internal body by an evil
life. Arc you becoming an angel or deyilE
II the beauty of the Lord your God is already
within you, and its holy rays beam through
your earthly form, rejoice that the kernel is
ripening, and the shell will soon break; the
caterpillar life will soon end and the life i'm
aged by the butterfly will soon begin,