284 LECTURES AND ESSAYS [1870-1874] 



visibly complete, and shall be testified not only by the 

 regeneration of man, but by the restoration of the harmony 

 of the whole creation. This, I say, is clear without any 

 ignoring of the principle already laid down that we must 

 not confuse the mere setting of prophecy with the sub 

 stance of the predictions themselves. For the visible 

 glory of God on Zion, the visible signs of his reconciliation 

 with His people in the New Earth, are not modelled on 

 anything that was part of the prophets own circumstances. 

 The ever openly visible glory of God above His people 

 had no parallel since Sinai, the regeneration of the earth 

 had no parallel save in Eden. These were new things- 

 things essential in every way to the whole conception of 

 the full Theocratic Glory. And these very things are 

 ensured to us in the New Testament, not merely by the 

 word of the whole New Testament, but by the cardinal 

 New Testament fact, by the resurrection of our Lord in a 

 glorified body which is at once the pledge of that physical 

 regeneration which Paul calls the liberation of the creature, 

 the &quot; redemption of our bodies,&quot; and the actual constitu 

 tion of that indissoluble bond between heaven and earth, 

 which ensures to the glorified theocracy the unending 

 bodily presence of its King. 



