...conspicuous in all his writings, " No one that cherishes this notion can be charged with weaknes» df superstition; and if it should be at last an error,...the will of Him who reserves for us such happiness • Leftures on the Gospel of St. Matthew, by Bishop Porteus, vol. ii. p. 82, 83. f See his admirable...

...angels and with God, and that survives the death of the body and lives for ever. Whilst " the dust returns to the earth as it was, the spirit returns to God who gave it." Though we fade like the leaf, still, unlike the leaf, the nobler part of us, the spirit, will still...

...capable of separation, we know how to conceive of it, upon the dissolution of the body. While "the dust returns to the earth as it was, the spirit returns to God who gave it." Mr. Taylor's description of body as applied particularly to the spiritual body, spoken of by the apostle,...

...that the dissolution of the body is not followed by the extinction of the mind — that, when the dust returns to the earth as it was, the spirit returns to God who gave it. And for what purpose does the spirit return to God who gave it? Our limits will not allow us to answer...

...for the spirit of a man goes upward Kecl. iii. 21. Does it die with the body? No: foi when the dust X. 5 mٲ L y m l@ ˋ+ W 7 + D fX Uǧ =? ? 俺 ӟ P Eccl. xii. 7. Is ¡•od then the Sovereign of the heart? Yes : for h has said, Behold, all souls are...

...liveth that made us this soul, Jer. xxxviii. 16. Does it die with the body ? No : for when the dust returns to the earth as it was, the Spirit returns to God who gave it, Eccl. xii. 7. Was man made after God's image ? Yes : God created man in his own image, Gen. i. 27....

...which sense it is used in Isaiah xxvi. 19, and Dan. xii. 2. Solomon explicitly says, that when the dust returns to the earth as it was, the spirit returns to God who gave it. And referring to what shall take place at the resurrection of the body, he says, " God will bring into...

...righteous hath confidence in his death, the wicked is thrust away in his baseness,"! that when the " dnst returns to the earth as it was, the spirit returns to God who gave it,'T and yet while taught that the righteous are conscious in the inter, mediate state, we have nowhere...

...generation" like our bodies. The human soul is the creature of God. He made it, and when at last " the body returns to the earth as it was, the spirit returns to God who gave it." But if it be that mass of corruption and depravity which the Calvinist represents it, then is God,...

...of man ; that, when he dieth and wasteth away, his nobler part still survives ; that when the dust returns to the earth as it was, the spirit returns to God, who gave it. This is a reflection, which must soften the pang of separation among pious friends, and sweeten the...