The resurrection of the body : a discourse delivered in the Presbyterian Church in Georgetown, on Sun., Oct. 22, 1809

Samuel Stanhope Smith

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t^ $:/r^ r^w ^^vC^^m »-r.% -^_ ?^r !- ^.iA^- -5^...' :*?% ^^ ^Hf v> THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY,I | Princeton, N. J. w"'«9^ * Bequeathed by the Hon. E. BOUDINOT, LI^.D. DivisionCase. ., Booh\ ., 6 M B ,f Vol. 3 •"^^/ -y m.::. i ; DISCOURSE. I CORINTHIANS, 15. 53. For this corruptible must put on incorruption^ and this mortal mustput on immortality. THE hope of after the present lifeexisting A\'as not utterly lost, from mankind, even a-among midst the darkness and corruptions of paganism ; but theprospect wasso obscure and the hope so un- certain that it could afford but small consolation in their last moments to the wisest and most virtuous men of the heathen world. And, to all others, it was so blended with the melancholy phantoms of^ superstitious imagination that it servedratherto op- press than to shed any comforton the hour ofdeath. But, in the gospel ofour blessed Saviour, the doubt- ful expectations of nature are rendered clear and certain ; the obscurities ofreason are enlightened and to the thedoctrine of immortality ofthe soul, there is added a principle which the human mind had never dared before to conceive ; I mean, that of the resurrection of the body, and its future and eternal re-union with the soul in a happy state of existence.

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• Presbyterianism
• Résurrection

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• Nombre de lectures: 4
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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