466 Life and Immortality. 
at His coming.” Here it is obvious that the apostle is not 
writing of all the individuals of the human race, but only 
such that become the subject of @ pardon of life. It is true 
that all men do die, but it is not true that they are all the 
subject of pardon. Those who are pardoned are “the 
many,” who are sentenced to live forever. The sentence to 
pardon of life is through Jesus Christ who in pouring out His 
blood upon the cross, was made a sacrifice for sin. “He 
was delivered for our offences, and raised again for our justi- 
fication,” that is, for the pardon of those who believe the gos- 
pel. As itis written, “he that believeth the gospel, and is 
baptized, shall be saved.” Hence, “ the obedicnce of faith” is 
made the condition of righteousness, and this obedience 
implies the existence of a “ law of faith,” as attested by that 
of Moses, which is “ the law of works.’ Having believed 
the gospel and been baptized, such a person is required to 
“walk worthy of the vocation,” or calling, “wherewith he 
has been called,” that by so doing he may be “ accounted 
worthy” of being “born of spirit,” that he may become 
“spirit,” or a spiritual body, and so enter the kingdom of 
God, crowned with “ glory, honor, incorruptibility and life.” 
From all the above, it must be obvious to the unbiassed mind, 
that all will not arise to newness of life, “ for as many of you, 
as have been baptised into Christ have put on Christ, and if 
ye be Christ’s, ¢rex are ye the seed of Abraham, and heirs 
according to the promise.” When they have been thus bap- 
tized, then they have received the spirit of adoption, or have 
been elected into God’s family, and then they can address 
God as their Father who is in heaven. 
Thus adopted into God’s family through faith in Jesus 
Christ, it must not be supposed that they have attained to 
that perfect condition of knowing all that is to be known. 
New glories will continually open up to their admiring vis- 
ion, and new facts be revealed through the eternity of futu- 
rity. Man will carry his earth-acquired knowledge into the 
other world, and little by little will he add to his fund. Those 
