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god-like dominion over nature, and that he is now 

 in a state of death with the chance of recovering all he 

 has lost, and more. I am required to believe that man 

 in his perfect state must love his fellow man and his 

 God so as to be actually one with both. I am required 

 to believe that the God in whose image man was made 

 is perfectly good and true and just and loving, and at the 

 same time the eternal, immutable, omnipresent, omnis- 

 cient, omnipotent, self-existent, personal, I AM, in whom 

 man lives and moves and has his being, and by whom all 

 things consist. I am required to believe that man is 

 almost the exact opposite of what he seems to be : and 

 yet I dare not set aside the demand as unreasonable. On 

 the contrary, I can dimly perceive that man is more, 

 much more, than what he seems to be that he may be, 

 even as regards body, all that I am required to believe 

 him to be and that, in fact, no lower view than this will 

 apply exactly to the actual case. 



What has been already said about body makes it not 

 altogether unintelligible that S. Paul should say that 

 there is a body celestial and immortal as well as a body 

 terrestrial and mortal, the one in every way real, the 

 other comparatively unreal, the one " a house not made 

 with hands, eternal in the heavens, and present with the 

 Lord," the other an earthly tabernacle, burdensome in 

 every sense, naked, and " absent from the Lord," the 

 body terrestrial being something which is to be, not 

 put off, as by a process of unclothing, but clothed-tipon, 

 mortality being swallowed up in life. " For we know 

 that if our earthly house of this tabernacle be dissolved 

 we have a building of God, a house not made with 

 hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, 

 earnestly desiring to be clothed-itpon with our house 

 which is from heaven, TO oiKrjT^piov fiftwv TO ef ovpai'ov 



