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... question indeed of personal identity seems to be the great stumbling - block of his system . If consciousness with the powers of thinking cease at death , and the whole man becomes extinguished , it must require something more than the ...
... question indeed of personal identity seems to be the great stumbling - block of his system . If consciousness with the powers of thinking cease at death , and the whole man becomes extinguished , it must require something more than the ...
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... question here seems to be , not only whether the soul after death will be unconscious of the lapse of time , for if unconscious of every thing it must of course be unconscious of that , but whether when again endowed with intellect it ...
... question here seems to be , not only whether the soul after death will be unconscious of the lapse of time , for if unconscious of every thing it must of course be unconscious of that , but whether when again endowed with intellect it ...
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... question will not appear to us as no time at all , either before its commencement or after its termi- nation for how can we contemplate it in that light now , when we expect it to be a period at least of ages ; or hereafter , when our ...
... question will not appear to us as no time at all , either before its commencement or after its termi- nation for how can we contemplate it in that light now , when we expect it to be a period at least of ages ; or hereafter , when our ...
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... question rather is , whe- ther he believed what he wrote , in common with others , from whom he received it , and recorded that which , after due inquiry , he knew to be true . I omit other allusions in the Old Testament to the ...
... question rather is , whe- ther he believed what he wrote , in common with others , from whom he received it , and recorded that which , after due inquiry , he knew to be true . I omit other allusions in the Old Testament to the ...
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... questions of these things in their chambers , saying , How long shall I hope on this fashion ? When cometh the fruit of the floor of our reward ? " ver . 34 , 35 . Again the Angel says unto him , “ In hell ( in inferno ) the chambers of ...
... questions of these things in their chambers , saying , How long shall I hope on this fashion ? When cometh the fruit of the floor of our reward ? " ver . 34 , 35 . Again the Angel says unto him , “ In hell ( in inferno ) the chambers of ...
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alluded altogether annihilated Apostles appears Arabic Arabic versions autem awake believe the soul Bishop Law Bishop of Carlisle Book of Ezra brain cease at death cerebellum chap Christ conceive creed Crellius dead decomposition departed spirits distinct dreams essential particles Ethiopic etiam evocatis express extinction extinguished eyes faculties former Gehenna germ grave Greek Hades hereafter impressions insensibility intellect Jesus Jews lapse Lord Luke lying material materialist Matthew metonymically mind mortui Moses never notion Old Testament opinion Paradise participle passage perceive perception perhaps some thousands period personal identity Pharisees power of thinking Priestley proof prove Psalm putrefaction quæ reasoning remarked rendered resurrection Sadducees Samuel Saviour Scripture seems sense sensible separate existence Septuagint Sheol signifies sleep Socinian solid soul after death soul and body soul sleeps substance sunt supposed tense thee thing thou tion translated unconscious unto verb verses visible vitam Vulgate writers xvii
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Page 70 - How loved, how honoured once, avails thee not To whom related, or by whom begot; A heap of dust alone remains of thee : 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
Page 64 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago (whether in the body I cannot tell; or whether out of the body I cannot tell: God knoweth); such an one caught up to the third heaven. And I knew such a man (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth); How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
Page 71 - Vital spark of heavenly flame! Quit, oh quit this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, lingering, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife, And let me languish into life. Hark! they whisper; Angels say, Sister Spirit, come away.
Page 40 - These things said He: and after that He saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth ; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.
Page 14 - Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept On the bare earth, then wrought a tomb and slept ! And such is Man : soon from his cell of clay To burst a Seraph in the blaze of day ! HYMN FOR JUNE.
Page 68 - But has it not been shown to them, that, when to the receptacle of the dead their souls shall be made to descend, their evil deeds shall become their greatest torment? Into darkness, into the snare, and into the flame, which shall burn to the great judgment, shall their spirits enter; and the great judgment shall take effect for ever and for ever. 6 Woe to you; for to you there shall be no peace.
Page 33 - ... or affirm that the souls die with the bodies, and at the last day shall be raised up with the same, do utterly dissent from the right belief declared unto us in Holy Scripture.
Page 13 - CHILD of the sun ! pursue thy rapturous flight. Mingling with her thou lov'st in fields of light; And, where the flowers of paradise unfold, Quaff fragrant nectar from their cups of gold. There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky Expand and shut with silent...
Page 63 - In the grave the chambers of souls are like the womb of a woman: for like as a woman that travaileth maketh haste to escape the necessity of the travail: even so do these places haste to deliver those things that are committed unto them.
Page 52 - And Jesus saith unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this day, even in this night, before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice.