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MOW
s,EçT.
1.;
.1
PROOF
OF
A
SEPARATE STATE.
Olt
spirit,
or
soul
of the saint,
lives
without
dying,
because
of
its
pardon of
sin,
and
justification, and sanctification,
is
the tenth
verse;
and the
body,
not
the
spirit
or soul,
shall
be
quickened, or raised
to life again,
by
the blessed
Spirit of God,
which dwells
in
the saints, verse
i
1.
2 Coy.
v.
1,
Q.
"
For
we
know,
that
if
our earthly
house
of
this
tabernacle
were dissolved,
we
have
a buildr
ing
of
God,
a house,
not
made
with hands,
eternal
i,
a
the
heavens.
For
in
this
we
groan,
earnestly desiring
to
be
clothed upon
with
our
house,
which
is
from heaven,
.Verse
4.
We, in
this
tabernacle, groan
being
burdened,
i of
for
that
we would
be
unclothed, but clothed
Upon,
that
mortality,might
be
swallowed up
of
life."
It
is
evi-
dent, that
this house from heaven, this
building
of
Gótl,
is
something,
which
is
like
the clothing
of
a soul
divested
of
this
earthly tabernacle,
verses
1,
2.
or
it
is
the
clothing
of
the
whole
person, body and
soul, which would
ab
or
gate the state
of
mortality, and
swallow
it up
in
life,
verse
4; For
though
in
verse
4.
the apostle supposes,
that
the soul
Both
not
desire
thedeath
of
the
body,
or
that
itself should
be
unclothed,
and,
therefore,
he
would
rather
chuse
to have
this
state
of
blessed
immortality su-
perinduced
on
his
body and
soul,
at
once,
without
dying,
yet,
in
the
first verse,
he
plainly means such
a house
in,
or
from;heaven, or such
a
clothing, which
may come
upon.
the
soul immediately, as soon
as
the
earthly
house, or
tabernacle of
his body,
is
dissolved. And how
dubious
soevei' this may
appear
to
those, who
read
the
chapter
only
thus
far,
yet the
8th
verse,
which suppóses good men
to
be
present
with Christ,
when
absent
from
the_
body,
determines
the sense
of
it,
as
I
have
explained
it;.
of
which hereafter.
Perhaps,
it
is
hard
to
determine, whether
this
super-
induced clothing
be like the shekinah, or
visible
glory, in
which Christ, Moses, and
Elias
appeared at
the .trans
guration,
and which
some
suppose
to have
belonged
to
Adam
in--
innocency
;
or whether
it
signify
only a
state
of
happy immortality,
superinduced, or brought
in
upon
the departing
soul
at death, or upon
the soul and body
united,
as in
this
life,
and with
which those saints
shall
be clothed,
who
are found
alive
at
the coming
of Christ,
according
to
1
Cor.
xv.
52
-54.
whicn
will
not
kill
the
body,
but
swallow
up
its
mortal state
in
immortal
life.