Select Works of Thomas Chalmers, D.D. LL. D , Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Select Works of Thomas Chalmers, D.D. LL. D , Vol. 2 With such a harmony in our moral system as a soul all whose aspirations were on the side of holiness, and nothing to thwart these aspirations in the materialism by which it was encompassed, we see nought wanting to constitute a heavenly or an angelic character - nor do we understand why death should in that case interpose between our state of being upon earth, and our state of blessedness for ever. And, accordingly, we read that on Nature´s dissolution, when the dead shall rise from their graves in triumph, they who remain alive and who have never fallen asleep must, to become incorruptible also, at least be changed. The change on those who are alive and caught up to meet the Lord in the air, does for them what the death and the resurrection do for those who have been saints upon earth, ere they ascend as embodied saints into heaven. It is on the corruptible putting on incorruption that the mortal puts on immortality; and the reason why even those in whom Christ dwells have still a death to undergo is, that sin, though it no longer tyrannizes, still adheres to them - and the wearing down of the body by disease, and the arrest that is laid on all the functions and operations of its physiology, and the transformation of it into inanimate matter, and the mouldering of it into dust, and then its reascent from the grave in which it for ages may have lain - these it would appear are the steps of a refining process, whereby the now vile body is changed into a glorious one, and the regenerated spirit is furnished with its suitable equipment for the delights and the services of eternity. To the question then, why is it that though Christ dwells in us still the body is dead or liable to death - the answer is, ´be cause of sin;´ and from this very answer do we gather that sin is still present with every believer in the world, and as universally present too as death is universal. In regard to temporal death, there is one lot we know that falleth to the wicked and the righteous. And therefore though these two classes do not stand alike related to sin, yet both are so related to it as to partake in common of the mortality which, ere they are so changed as to become incorruptible, it appears that all must undergo. The righteous, we all see, die in common with the wicked; and the text tells us that the death of the body is because of sin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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