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 reign in the celestial world. His impure state will not allow him to approach the celestial city, or to look upon the splendour of its light. His impure state draws around him beings as impure as himself, and with them he rushes headlong to the regions of despair and perdition, where cunning, deceit, malice, revenge, and all manner of wickedness, in which he himself is principled, carry on their eternal reign, to the misery and torment of the whole. "These shall go away into everlasting punishment."

HE JUDGMENT, and the final state of man, appear to be so closely allied to the doctrine of the resurrection, that it is necessary to state that the resurrection of man is not to be viewed as though it were a great distance off; for the truth is, that it takes place upon the death of the earthly body; it is then that the immortal soul—the real man, rises from the dead, and enters upon an eternal state. We know not how long we are to remain here below. Who can answer for another hour? Before the sun shall again appear above the horizon, many will be called out of time into eternity, to give an account of their stewardship; and then, will be accomplished their resurrection either to life or death. After the death of the body man's life is continued in the spiritual world; and in that world our judgment will take place,