This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 edition. Excerpt: ...been curiously compounded, be separated from each other, and perhaps scattered to the four winds of Heaven. And who will pretend to trace the wanderings of these particles, into what other substances they may enter, of what other bodies they may form part, so as to appear and disappear many times in living ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 edition. Excerpt: ...been curiously compounded, be separated from each other, and perhaps scattered to the four winds of Heaven. And who will pretend to trace the wanderings of these particles, into what other substances they may enter, of what other bodies they may form part, so as to appear and disappear many times in living shape, before the dawn of the great Easter of the Universe? There is manifestly the most thorough possibility, that the elements, of which my body is composed, may have belonged to the bone and flesh of successive generations; and that, when I shall have passed away and be forgotten, they will be again wrought into the structure of animated beings. And when you think that my body, at the Resurrection, must have at least so much of its original matter, as shall be necessary for the preservation of identity, for the making me know and feel myself the very same being who sinned and suffered and was disciplined on earth, you must allow that nothing short of infinite knowledge and power, could prevail to the watching, and disentangling, and keeping duly separate, whatever is to be again builded into a habitation for my spirit, so that it may be brought together from the four ends of the earth, detached from other creatures, or extracted from other substances. This would be indeed a wonderful thing, if it were true of none but myself, if it were only in my solitary case that a certain portion of matter had thus to be watched, kept distinct though mingled, and appropriated to myself whilst belonging to others. But try to suppose the same holding good of every human being, of Adam, and each member of his countless posterity, and see whether the Resurrection will not utterly confound and overburden the mind. To every individual in the interminable...
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