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. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ... Section 6. Consoling And Practical Considerations In Prospect Of Soon Entering On The Separate State. We will now endeavour to make a practical application of the awakening fact of our spirits being called to exist in a disembodied state in a world of spirits, and amidst scenes and associations of which we ...
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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. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ... Section 6. Consoling And Practical Considerations In Prospect Of Soon Entering On The Separate State. We will now endeavour to make a practical application of the awakening fact of our spirits being called to exist in a disembodied state in a world of spirits, and amidst scenes and associations of which we can have scarcely any adequate idea while here. Who that has thought upon it has not exclaimed--"0 the hour when this material, Shall have vanished like a cloud; When amid the wide ethereal, All th' invisible shall crowd. In that sudden strange transition, By what new and finer sense; Shall I grasp the mighty vision, And receive its influence." We know not what locality we shall go to, nor the conditions of this transitional state of being; hut this we know that it will be a spirit world, a world inhabited only by souls and disembodied spirits. We have, hitherto, only had experience of an existence in a material organization, and amidst physical and sinful things; but there how different will everything be! We doubt not that in the ultimate state of the saved there will be something more than ethereality; there will then be the existence of matter sublimated and refined, and exhibited in grander forms, and more glorious hues than we have now any idea of, but it may not be'so in that place where the souls of the righteous will dwell. It may be a reconciling thought as regards what will be to us an abnormal state, to remember that "God is a Spirit" in the highest and truest sense, and that Angels too, though in a lower sense, are spirits; so that a disembodied state will be after all no anomaly. We shall not be unfitted by it for higher things, but rather be more fitted for fellowship/with God, and His holy Angels. It may be that.this is part of...
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