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THE
CONQUEST
OVER
DEATH.
[DISC.
r.
of
all
that
is
included
in
the name
of
LIFE. As
the angel
in
prophecy
lifts
up
his
hand,
"
and
swears
by
him
that
lives for ever and
ever,
that
time shall
be
no
longer
;"
Reza. x. 6. So
Christ Jesus,
the
Lord
of
angels, shall,
as
it
were,
pronounce
with
a
sovereign
voice,
that
death
shall
be
no
more.
He
shall send the
great
archangel
with the
trumpet of God
;
it
,shall
sound through the
deepest
caverns of the
grave,
and
shall summon
death
from its
inmost
recesses.
The tyrant
shall
hear and
obey,
and restore
all his
captives out
of
prison
;
"
'the
dead
shall
hear the
voice
of
the
Son
of God,
and
live
;"
John
v.
25, 28, 29.
They
that
have
done
good
unto
the
resur-
rection
of
life,
and
they
that
have
done
evil
unto
the
resurrection
of
damnation.
After
this our
Lord
has
no
employment
for death,
his
slave; the bodies
of
men shall
die
no
more
:
There
shall
be no
more
any state
of
sepa-
ration
between the
flesh
and
spirit;
Rev. xx.
'14.
And
death
and
hell,
or
Hades,
'were
cast into
the
lake
of
re
;
that
is,
there
shall be no more death, no
grave, no
sepa-
rate
state
of
souls,
all these shall
be
for ever destroyed.
1st
Reflection.
We
may infer
from
this
third general
head,
the great
power
and
glory
of our Lord
Jesus
Christ;
we
may
learn the honour
that
is
due
to him
from
mortals
;
it
is
he
that
hath subdued death, and
that
by his
Own
dying.
A wondrous method
of
victory
!
a
surprizing
conquest
!
and
he lives for
ever
to
destroy it
in
his
ap-
pointed
time.
'How great
and
honourable must
he
be
in
the
eyes
of
all mankind,
who
has vanquished
so
uni-
versal a conqueror
?
How desirable
is
his
person,
and
how
delightful
the sound of
his
name to every believer
!
for
he
suppresses all
their
enemies and shall destroy them
even to
the
last.
How
well does
he
fulfil
the great en-
gagement
?
Hosea
xiii.
14.
I
will ransom
them
from
the
power
of
the
grave
:
I
will
redeem them
from
death;
O
death,
I
will
be
thy
plagues;
O
grave,
I
will
be
thy
de-
struction ;
repentance
shall
be
hid
from
mine
eyes.
Let
us
salute
him
the prince
of
life,
Acts
iii.
15.
and adore
him
under that character. He
dispossesses
death of all
its dominions.
He approves
himself
a
complete Saviour
of
all his
saints, and
a Redeemer
of
his_,
captive
friends.
IId
Reflection.
We may learn
also from this
head
of
discourse,'the
power and excellency
of
the
gospel
of
Christ, for
it
discovers
to
us
how
this
great
enemy
is
van-